famburn 3nurit;m. H. b. K ASSLR, E. W1LVERT. .UXDURY, tlii inters. FEBRUARY 4 A Bill has bceu reported by Mr. Morri son of the Wnys and Means committee, in Congress,; which if passoJ is calculated to bankrupt our woclcu auJ cotton facto ries, uud to reduce the internal revenue. TLe duty is maintained on raw wool in the interests of agriculturists, and reduces the tariff on manufactured wool to the detri ment of those eugnged in spinning and weaving. There is a general reduction in cotton goods. It is claimed that the present tariff is prohibitory on some things, and that the reduction of rates will increase importa tion and enlarge the revenue. Suppose the revenue docs increase by this reduc tion. We shall buy more goods abroad and get deeper in debt to Europe, and will take all onr gold to pay the balance of trade. It is further proposed to put a duty on tea and coffee, which we do not raise in this country. That is the way Democra cy works it, destroys the laborers1 means of livelihood, and increases the cost of his food. If the Democratic House is going to reduce our expenses 210,000,000 we do not seed an increase of revenue unless they calculate to furnish new spoils for their party if they come into power. We have enough complaints of the extravagance of the Government, and now these Democrats want more money to excite politicians to new schemes to squander it. IM u econo mize first and see. "Tub Centennial appropriation passed the House on Tuesday. The vote stood 148 for it and 130 against it. Mr. Stenger voted against it. Packer forgot all about it and wasn't there !" klinsyrove 2'imes. The reason that Mr. Packer "was not there" was, that he was engaged at that j Chairman of the Republican Natioual Coin time in arguing a very important case be- j mittee. W M. E. Chandlek, fore the Supreme Court, in Philadelphia, j Secretary. Had he been there, he would have voted ! m for the bill, as would any other liberal j UEMJtAL SEWS ITEM. minded, patriotic and intelligent man. Even the Southern Democrats, the intelli gent Confederate membtis of Congress, in a spirit of forgiveness and forgetfulucss of the past voted for the bill. But Weirick, of the Timts, will never forget or forgive the defeat of bis confederate friends, and to this day imagines himself the worst whipped rebel in the Union. There seems to have been some pecu liar Democratic manipulation at the recent election for United States senator in Ken tucky. The caucus lasted upwards of six hours, and the Williams men openly ac cused the Beck party of attemping to buy voters. One man, who said he would not support Beck, was hissed, and left the caucus. Mr. La Rue, when the chairman refused to entertain a motion to adjourn, rose in the caucus and withdrew the name of Williams, lie said : In view of this new departure in parli amcntary law which we have witnessed, that has been adopted by this body and its chair man ; in view of the fact that parties are voting in this caucus who, by their own declaration, are no Democrats ; in view of the fact tbat voices, " sit down," "go on" in vie w, sir, of all these things ; in view of the shameless tyranny that has characterized the rulings in this body and the oppressions exerci sed over a minority , in view of the unblushing oversteping of all rules of propriety ; in view of the fact that members have been denied the privileges of the floor; in view of the fact that the caucus will insist upon organizing and run Ding upon one principle aud supporting oue man in view of the fact tbat the result has been tkrust upon us ; in view of all these facts and outrages, I take it upon myself to announce on the part of General John S. ilhams, the gentleman whom 1 had the honor to name for the position of sena tor, tbat he is no longer a candidate for that position, neither here or before the general assembly. The Democrats may nominate whomsoever they please. Wo will no longer remain on the track to be inrouieuana cneatea out or inengnis oi , jreemeu ana uemocrais. This is certainly a very line send off for a Kentucky Democrat to give his party. Mr. Bevk will probly go into the sen jte feeling proud of his creat "reform" victory. The Storm on W edn ida v. The high winds on Wednesday last, appears to have done much damage in different parts of.thc country. At Philadelphia the Centen nial buildings were greatly injured. Sever al of the towers on Agricultural Hall were Wowu down, the New York State building was levelled to the ground. Tlie French Restaurant was badly injured, the Ruloff Hotel which was raised nearly to its in tended elevation was levelled to the ground, and other damages done throughout the citv. The removal of the State Capitol to Philadelphia, is again being agitated. A bill has been introduced in the State Sen-j ate for the removal with the consent of the voters of the State. The robbery of the Northampton, Mas sachusetts, bank, of nearly seven hundred thousand dollars, in securities, is one of the most astonishing on record, and should cause bank officers to adopt every available means of security against organised gangs if burrlars. The annual question ef furnishing cop ies o f Purdon's Di&ctt to members of the legislature has been up at Harrisburg al ready and, strange as it may seem, the house has decided that each member shall not have a copy of that valuable work. This decision will save an item of several thousand dollars to ths State. It is stated that "the slaliou houses of New York city are crowded nightly by many who have been brought up in refined society." If this be true, and we have no reason to doubt the statement, it indicates a lamentable condition of society in the metropolis of the country. Meeting of the Republican Ntnte Convention. Headquarters Republican State Conmittee, Harihuburo, Feb. 1, 187G. In pursuance of a resolution of the Re publican State Committee, adopted at a meeting held in Harrisburg this day, a Re publican State Convention, lo be composed of delegates from each Senatorial aud Rep resentative district to the number to which such district is entitled in the (legislature, is hereby called to meet in the city of Har risburg at 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, day, March 29th, 1S7G, for the purpose of nominating an Electoral Ticket and of electing Senatorial and Representative delegates to represent the Stale in the Re publican National Convention to be held ai Citicinuati, Ohio, on the fourteenth day iS June, 1S7G. By order of the Committee Henry M. Hoyt. Chairman. A. Wilson Norbis, S-cn-tnry. j ! Address t Hip I'onntrj. Ti e next Union Republican National Coventiou for the nomination of Candidates for 1'nwiUcut and Vice President of the United Siatos will be held in the city of Cincinnati, on Wednesday the 11th day of June, 187G, at twelve o'clock, noon, and will consist of delegates from each State equal to twice the number of its Senators and Representatives in Uongress.and of two delegates from each organized Territory aud the District of Columbia. In calling the couventiou for thu election of delegates the committees of the several States are recommended to invite all republican elec tors and all other voters without regard to political difficulties or previous party affilia tions who are opposed to reviving sectional issues and desire to promote friendly feel ing, and permanent harmony throughout the country by maintaining aud enforcing all the constitutional rights of every citizen including the full and free exercises of the right of suQrage without intimation and without fraud ; who are in favor of the continued prosecution and punishment of all amcial dishonesty and of economical administration of the Government by honest, faithful and capable officers ; who are in favor of making such reforms iu Government as experience may from time to time suggest ; who are opposed to im paring the credit of the nation by depre ciating any of its obligations and iu favor of sustaining iu every w&y the national faith and financial honor ; who hold that the common school cystem is the nursery of American liberty, and should be maintain ed free from eectariau control ; who be lieve that for the promotion of these ends the direction of the governmeni should continue to be confided to those who adhere to the principles of 1770 and support them as incorporated in the Constitution and the laws, aud who arc in favor recoguiziug and strengthening the fundamental principles of natioual unity in this Centennial Anni versary of the birth of the Republic. E. D. Morgan, Anybody who knows the new senator from Iowa knows that Kirkwood never wears a red flannel shirt at a dinner party, and some of the papers allege that he once did. Ben Hill claims that when his party went out of tho union, they look the con stitution of the United States with them. I Floyd and company took the guns and the money. - t It 'A that rrinrrf T!ImnTrk ha Tiro- poed io the German Federal Council that the decree of last spring, prohibiting the export of horses, be annulled. The strike among the shoe operatives at Rochester, which has lasted several weeks, was ended, lately, by the employees agree ing to resume work at reduced wages. The new apportionment bill in Louisiana based on the State census was sent to Gov ernor Kellog, on Monday, and immediate- : ! ly signed. The bill leaves the Senate as it l- i was. but gives to Republican parishes seven or eight additional Representatives iu the lower house. Everybody will be Republican by the next fall election if only the Democrats keep at it a little longer. Some foolish Philadelphians think that because Mr. Moody has not "apostolic suc cession" he ho s no right "to call sinners to repentance." If this "apostolic succes sion" idea is to prevail, how many of our religious denominations are there whose clergymen would be aathoriEed to labor with sinners ? In these enlightened days, all such nonsense should be disre garded. Let men labor to do good, and to j live righteously, and they have promises higher than apostolic successions that their labors and their lives shall be blessed. Ltlamm Courier. A young man and a female once upon a time 8t d at a couulry tavern. Xijeir , . awkward appearance excited the attention of one of the family, who commenced a con versation with the female by inquiring how far she had traveled that day. 'Traveled !' exclaimed the stranger, iudignantly; 'we didn't travel we rid I The bonded and floating indebtedness of the city of Allentown is $470,750,14. Of this amount 3455,857.54 is funded. There is besides a school debt of over four hundred thousand dollars making a total of nearly or quite a million. While we are experiencing a winter with out snow, the south of Europe hat been sub jected to one of the other extreme altogeth er. On the 10th ult, there was snow a foot deep in Madrid, a circumstance almost un precedented. At the same date the town jofMcnde,, in the Department of Lozere, France, was completely surrouded by it , and all access was cut off for three Java. Thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars in cash was rcently raised by a fashionable New York church for foreign missions. When we think over the power of sin is our own land, and read the daily record of murder, arson, adultry, outrage, gambling, theft and druukenuess, it is sometimes as much as we can do to feel sorry for those foreign heathen. Pittsburgh Commrrcial. The Lcd'jtr says : Hotel accommodations in Philadelphia promise to be ample for the demands to be made upon us duriug the Cenlenuial Exhibition, aud it is not likely that prices will bu increased beyond present rates. One of the new hotels with in a square of the Centennial buildings has already published its scale'of prices for lodging. A single bed will be furnished for oue dollar per night, and meals can be procured at restaurant prices, either in the hotel or elswhere, as the guests may desirp. A freight train ou the Pennsylvania Rail road was robbed near Waverley, N. J., ou Friday night, of&WOO worth of goods con-f signed to western merchants. The iroods were thrown off the cars in boxes and bales, j A similar robbery was perpetrated near the same place a week ago. A man named Cohill has been arrested as one of the j thieves What beggarly wages boys received in New York, and how brutally they are treated, are shown by the following from a New York papr : Tho boy employed in the buckle fartory at Lincolon st., on the Hights, were given notice a few days ago that their wages would be reduced 10 jwt cent. Saturday, when they received their pay, they coin plained about tho reduction, as they only average about $1 a week for their work. Francis Weiss, the foreman, told them to go into an adjoining room and he would give them their wages in full. They retired, and shortly afterwar ds he appeared with a leather strap, and beat Ihrm in a severs manner. Iouis Webber, who was badly cut about the bead, complained before justics Davis, and Weiss wns arrested and held in bv!. The city of Lancaster is said to be bank rupt. Its debt, after deducting the sinkiug fund, amounts to 553,953, while its prop erty is valued, by what is reported to be a "most liberal estimate," at $.533,400. There was a horrible murder Saturday afternoon near Lyndoch, Norwalk county, Ontario. Samuel Hopkins, contractor for a bridge, was noticed by the workmen to be bleeding from a cut in tho neck. They re paired to the house where they found his wife lying ou the floor, stabbed with a butcher knife and her skull smashed in with a hoe. Hopkins was immediately arrested. The Philadelphia Ttntts, speaking of the discord among the Democrats at Washing ton, says : "We have had lbs sheet-lightning and low mutterings of this tempest in our our Siate for a year past, aud now we are about to have a healthy shiudy among the Democratic magnates, and probably a better atmosphere thereafter. Certainly the Democrats can't make its leadership any worse by a row, no matter how it ter minates ; and we. rather like to see it com ing." A large number of citizens of Omaha have left during the pat week for the Black Hills, and many persons are al route from the East. Much trouble is anticipated with Iudians in that section this summer. The Arrapahoes, who have been South this winter, say they are all determined ou war for the possession of the Black Hills country, and are prepared for it. It is not thought that the Government will interpose to keep miners out, but may leave them to protect themselves. Four men, while filling a lime kiln at Columbia, Pa., recently, were overcome by gas and fell into the pit. Only one of them was secured alive. - - - - - A lilow at Protection. Washington, Jan. 30. Hon. W. R. Morrison, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has filially decided to revise the tariff aud make it a revenue measure and strip it of its protecive features. INCOME tax. He also favors a return to the income tax, exempting all small incomes, but creating a five per cent, tax ou all large incomes. These features, he thinks, will be very popular in the southwest, in whose interest the present House seems to be desirous of acting. He takes the broad ground that the West must be allowed to but where they can get the cheapest goods. A WORD OF WAHNING. The managers of industries which are re- i cciving any bcuifits from the present tariff ! j will need to keep a sharp lookout, as this movement is assuming very lormiaaoie proportions. THE GREAT BASK ROBHEKY. HOW THE BURGLARS OPERATED. Boston, Jan. 27. The robbery of the Northampton Bank, at Northampton, Mass., on Tuesday night, was accomplish ed by seven men who had been hanging about the town for at least a month. It would seeiu that they entered the house of Cashier Whittlesey and bound, gagged and guarded for hours seven peo ple. They compiled him to give them the combination of the safe vault, waited unlil they knew the night watchman had gone home, and then, gettiug into the vault aud safe with only one of the four keys needed, took a large amount of the securities. Wheuce they came aud whither they went up to date is a riddle. An expert had to be summoned from New York, aud the lock was not opened until an early hour this morning. Cashier Whittlesey, when asked to give the three combinations to the vault for the outer, inner ami chest doors, gave them wroug twice and thrice, but the burglars wrote them down and made him repeat them ; of course they caught him in the attempt to mislead them, and the exhibition of a pistol com pelled him to tell the truth, though he told them that four keys were necessary to open the patent Jock, three of which were all at the houses of the other bank officers. At four o'clock, A. M. Whittlesey was taken to a down stairs bed room. The whole family were gagged, and four of the burglars withdrew to operate on the bank. Three hours after Mrs. Whittlesey suc ceeded in freeing herself aud giving the alarm from a window. The whole party were speedily liberated, and the cashier, still wearing the handcutls, went to the bank. A workman soon after tilted a key and all the persons handcuiled were releas ed. An examiuatiou of the bank showed that the thieves had unlocked the outer door, but were apparently balked by the safe lock, lacking three of the requisite four keys. They tried the metal of the doo: with bars, and wrenched off two dials which served as an idex for working the combination, hoping thus to tamper with the lock. They were entirely unmolest ed the watchman having gone home. riM , . . mere is every inuicaiion mat six or perhaps all of them left on the six o'clock train. Five of them had tickets previous ly bought and one paid his fare. Many of their appliances, it was remarked were "home made." The gags were children's rubber balls, pierced with a stiff wire. The masks were drawers legs, some with one hole and some with two for the eyes. When the robbers uoticed that Whittle sey was watching them carefully for some marks of identification they blindfolded him. But he observed that one of them was of very commanding stature. The two or three robbers left to guard the premises at the house took their depar ture in season to catch the Springfield train. At the latest ad view? no information had been received of the robbers. Despatches have been sent to all the cities. the loss. The total amount stolen from the North- aml,l11 -o"al Uanic is 5720,000. Of ltiln ,u""t S l-.WO lalls on the bank. experience of a williamsport lady with the burglars. The Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin of Saturday contains the following further particulars i The great bank robbery at Northamu- ton, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening is probably one of the most daring on record. j A young lady of this city, Miss Mattie C. j White, who was visiting in the family of j Mr. John Wbiulesvy, the cashier, writes j to her brother, Mr. E. L. White, an ac I count of her experience with the burglars, i She says : j APPEARANCE OF THE IiUROLARS. About twelve o'clock, or a little after, five burglars entered our peaceful home with all the violence that we have often had pictured to us through the papers, and such as is hard to believe, and can only be realized through experience, such as we have now had. The first intimation Laura had of what was going on was that a man was entering their room, over the sitting room, and he had a dark lantern in his hand and immediately sprang to their bed, while both screamed. They were then held by their throats, two men then being there, and at once handcuffed and held them down. I had not been asleep over ten minutes, for I heard the town clock strike twelve, and at half past twelve we were all under their entire subjection, their being a man, or two men in my chamber at once. The first I knew a man entered my room and the dark lantern wakened me, I suppose, i streamed, thinking it was John, and that the house was ou lire, and sprang out of bed. He put me back and choked me, and theu told me he would treat me kindly if I would keep perfectly quiet. He said I was caught "You are all caught, and you may as well :ive up." lie then told me 1 must get up. I begged him to let me lie there, but he said "No," and pu'led me up and led me into the hall aud then handcuiled me. He thou took me into Laura's room no, not quite yet. After gettiug me into the hall he said I would take cold without more clothing and I told him I would take my death of cold that way. and he led me back into my room, when I obtained more clothes, and he took me with them. Very shortly after Maria. Aunt Hattie and her husband walked i;i the same room, and the girl was brought in with us. After they had got us all in that room they made us all gel up separately and dress. DKKSSINO THE PRISONER!?. Of c urse we were ringed iu each other's clothing, and soi&u were half dressed. They kept hurrying us up, and we were all won, derfuliy possessed. I was very calm and acted accordingly. They opened L's bu reau drawer and took out her handsome violet cloakand handed it to her sayiug, "I guess this is what you want She put that on with her balmoral skirt, and then I was fixed up and they fell short of handcuffs. HANDCUFFED, TIED AND GAGGED. Then Laura and I were joined by one handcuff, and they took us off into the front room and put ua iu the bed aud then tied our hands and feet with leather straps, buckled as tight as possible. Then they took heavy ropes and slipped through these and brought the rope under the bed, and fastened it with extra ropes besides. They served us all this way. They treated John cruelly ; also Aunt Hattie. The last opera tion was to gag tis with rubber gags. John was blindfolded and tied in another posi tion. They then dragged him in the low er bedroom, and he was almost dead when found. HOW HIE GOT LOOSE. j Laura and I extricated ourselves first by ! mc greatest euori, ana we uragged our- selves, oed and all, to the window, about st ven o'clock in the morning, and with one free hand opened the window and alarmed the neighborhood. We had to have our handcuffs filed apart, and it was about nine o'clock when Laura and I were sepa rated. We are alive and well, only that we are scratched and bruised, and John's chest is black and blue. They held a pis tol at his head after they got him iu the bed room, when they demanded the keys and combination. We were guarded by policemen last night, and will be for several nights, not because there is auy danger, for a sort of comfort to us. The shock has been terri ble. 1 am very lame, bruised, and have a black eye as a certificate of the affair. There is much that is ludicrousabout the affair after all, but it is awful in the ex treme. Our house was a perfect bedlam. They did uot touch the silver, but took John's watch and chain. L grabbed, hers and flung it uuder the bureau and they missed it. Correspondence. Ol lt IIAKKIwni'KU LETTER. Harrisburg, Pa., ) Feb. 2, 1876. J The reception given by the Governor on last Thursday evening far surpassed any thing of the kind that has been given in this city for years. The parlors were fill ed with the elite of this and neighboring cities, and scattered through the room were many distinguished personages, all wear ing smiling Centennial faces. The cos tumes of the ladies were of the most costly, and elegantly gotten up style, whilst the gentleman with their swallow-tail coats, and various colored gloves added much to the beauty of the occasion. Dancing was the prominent feature of the evening, which was participated in by old and young. Business in the legislative halls is smooth ly going on, with fair indications that au early adjournment is one of the many things unknown iu the category of Demo cratic legislation. The Senate passed a resolution to adjourn early in March, but when the same was offered by the Republi can side in the House, the Democrats with almost one accord shouted, uo. There is ceriainly no occassiwn for a long session, but the idea has agreeably struck a few Democratic members that by remaining their fifty days allotted to them by law, al the rate of ten dollars per day, they can make five hundred dollars, which by going home they aver they certainly could not do. This extra time will cost the State an additional expense of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and by the very party who prate so much of reform and retrench ment. "The "Conspiracy Bill" passed third reading in the Senate, its provisions are such that laborers, workimimec, and jour neymen from certain prosecution indict ments for conspiracy, under the criminal laws of this commonwealth, and places a construction that lawful orpeaedful means shall not be regarded as hindering those who desire to labor. The act confirming additional favors up on the boroughs of this commonwealth, gives in addition to the powers already granted the right and authority to regulate license, or prohibit theatrical cxhibitiouB, concerts, circuses, shows etc. -within the limits of said boroughs, aud also gives them discretion to regulate the erection of frame or wooden buildings. The power for the enactment of such laws is vested iu the councils of said boroughs. This act has already passed the Senate and meets with much favor on nil sides, with assur ance of becoming a law. The Board of pardons met yesterday noon, but transacted no business owing to the absence of some of the members of the Board. There appears to be a desire on the part of some of the officers constituting this board, to absent themselves at the prescribed time designated for a meeting. Mauy people come here from various parts of the State to plead for some poor unfor tunate, who has gone to his prison cell, and are detained several days, by reason of men absenting themselves, whose duty it is to be on hand. The Anti-Monopolists, in which Nor thumberland countyis represented by J. C. Sylvius of Sunbury are holding a session in this city. An appeal in their behalf was made to the members of the Legislature last evening by Hon. Samuel Calvin, but his tale was but a re-hash of old political speeches, mixed occasionally with an abuse of the present national administration, and I am fully convinced he himself frus trated his own project viz., an act for a one years stay of execution, as many mem bers left the hall long before Mr. Calvin made even an effort to stop his harangue. The case of the Suubury Fire Insurance Company was heard before an examiner, last week, and from tho evidence given, there is no doubt, but that a receiver will bo appointed, and thus will end a swind ling concern that should years ago, have had a veto inscribed upon its charter. The Insurance Commissioner aud the Deputy Attorney General are both auxious to get rid of the annoyance they have been sub jected to by this Company, and you can look for speedy extermination of the Com pany. The Republican State Central Commit tee metyesterday at the Lochiel Hotel and fixed upon the 2'Jth day of March next as the time for holding their State Conven tion, and selected this city as the place. II. ouii i:n l'oitit LtirrKit. THE WOES OF THE POOR AN INCIDENT SPRING FASHIONS - MONEY ON REAL PROPERTY A FLORAL WEDDING THE END OF AN ACTOR DEFALCATIONS KCSINESS. New York, Feb. 1 lS7'i THE WOES OF THE POOR. Why do not the poor of New York get ou better? Why is it that a man on a salary of 15 a week cannot support his family decently ? SI5 a week would be a very comfortable subsistence in a country town. It would support him and leave him something over to lay up for a rainy day. True it would, but in New York it is the merest nothing it means starvation which is uot even genteel. Why is it V The answer is easy enough. The poor artisan or laborer ou $15 a week might live on it and save money, if he could get what he lives on at any decent price but he don't. If potatoes are worth, we will say, S 1.00 a bushel, by the bushel, what do you suppose the laborer pays for them ? He can't buy a bushel at once, for his little 5?15 won't go far enough. He has to pay 7 for rent of his rooms, which is nearly half of his income, for a place for him to live aud sleep, leaving him SS a week for food and clothing. This would answer it he could on'y buy his food in such quanti ties, and at such places as food can be pro cured at reasonable prices. But he cannot do this, for he has not money enough. A barrtl of potatoes costs, we will say, 3.50, should he buy a barrel he would have nothing left for other articles of food. So he buys a half peck of potatoes, for which he pays forty cents, or at the rate of 3.00 a bushed, instead of about a dollar. His coal would cost him only about SO a ton, if he could buy a ton, but he can't ; he can buy a bushel, though, just enough to last him a day or two, aud for that the dealer makes him pay 40 or 50 ceuts, and when he has to get a peck instead of a bushel, the ex tortion is still more. And as it is with his coal and potatoes, so it is with everything. He never has money enough to buy any thing in quantity he lives from hand to mouth, nod is con sequently, compelled to pay four prices for everything. It is a decent fortune to have a retail store in a poor neighborhood, for the profits made from poor people are im mense. And as there is no credit given, the trade is sure. There is no such thing as getting up in the world for a laboring man in New York, unless a streak of. luck comes. 1 bis season has been exceptionally bard, for labor has been scarce and wages correspondingly low. How they live at all is more than 1 can understand. AN INCIDENT. The lives of the poor are hard enough, but they are sometimes followed by so miserable a death tbat it appears the crown ing mockery of a relentless destiny. ho realizes the pitifulness of the short and simple annals of the poor ? Short and simple ? Long and bitter rather, for the hours of toil are thrice as loug as those ease, aud lite weighs heavier as it drags its years along. Oue of th se sad cases which often happen was told last night at a happy lea taDie oy a city physician. A poor woman who bad ocen a servant, wcut to doctor for help when far eoue iu consump tion. He gave her medicine and told her lo come again the next day. She came with the rest of his poor patients, but while waiting was tkeu with hemorrhage and died in the hall. The doctor kue nothiug of her but her name, not eveu her family or where she lived, and the policu man seut for to take charge of the remains decided, with the astuteness of his class, tbat it was a case for the corouer, and the body must be left where it lay, uutoucheu, till the next day. There the poor ghastly blood-stained creature lay in the rigor of death, oue would think not the object tor a pleasant home, lhinkofit! rhe corpse lost to recognition, the womau's friends, if she had any, unconscious of her fate, she lying an unwelcome and horrid spectacle, the very spectre of poverty thrust upon the kindness and comfort of a well-to-do house hold. One cannot forbear sympathy for the housekeerter whoue (lining room will always be haunted by so shocking a mem ory. Aud yet oue ot the physicians called in to see the poor creature, looking at the corpse, said, with a burstof genuine feeling "Poor woman, I can't pity you ; you are better oft than I am." He was happy and successiui too nappy to maKe sucn a speech out of idle feeliug. Yet uo one who heard it could doubt he spoke the siucere felling of his soul. SPRING FASHIONS. With the mild days about tho first of February, the counters show light Cam brics and wool goods, for prudent people who take lime by the forlock in matters of dress. They must do so, for iu these days it takes, by moderate computation. two weeks for a woman working all the time to make a dress. This is the allow ance by the most skilful dressmakers, aud it uot seldem lakes that time to do the trimmings alone. For the comfort of ladies who do their owu work, I am happy to say that the old style of dress, with long plain skirt and waist attached to it, will be worn the coming spring. Such models are on display in the windows as leading styles. The prettiest fabric out, is a fine check in black and white, crossed by a single bright color, which gives it a fresh spring-like look, while it is quite modest enough for the street. As it comes iu soft wool goods, plain woveu, both light and durable, and very wide, it will be a favor ite with ladies, as it is sure to be with men because it is so bright aud pretty. MONEY ON REAL PROPERTY. To the man iu the western pari of New York, who wrote to me, aakiug the address of the old lady told of iu these letters, who cried because she didn't know where to invest her money, that he might get her to lend him some money on his farm, I would say, tnal he could hardly get money on such a mortgage, if his farm were iu Cen tral Park, instead of Chemung. Their is more mouuy iu the banks and in private bauds now than ever before since the war, aud it is harder lo get a loau on the best security. Eveu town property is looked on doubtfully, for the prices are go ing down so, it is uot safe to leud on il. v alues are chaugeiug, credit is unstable, banks are fickle, and the unfortunates who have money have nothing better to do with it than to hold it, and In; glad if they can keep it safe without getting interest on it. A FLORAL WEDDING. If I tell the girls about a wedding that came off this w-ek, they will all be dissat isfied if tliey can't have one junl like it. But they will lie sure to find fault now it they don't hear ab;ut it, so here goes. The times are not good, and money is not easy, but Iheir was a pet daughter to be married, aud it was for once iu a lifetime so no expense was spared. On the returu of the bridal party from the church, they found the sidewalk, steps and hallway strewed with flowers, lillies of the valley iu the height of their season just now, roses and azalias, trodden uuder foot to the door of the drawing room. There the marvel began. The girl had always been passion ately fond of dowers, and they surrounded her in lavisbness ou this the happiest day of her life. The back drawing room were the bride and groom received the congrat- ulations of their friends, was a great bower of foliage aud blossoms, nearly as high as the room, and lare as an ordinary parlor itself, where 8 bell of brida! dowers loaded the air with odors. The very doors when opened wafted sweetness iuto the street, the house was so full of flowers, tea roses, jasmine and baskets of violets hidden in corners. The bride was dressed in silk, trimmed with flowers, a wreath of orange buds and half opened blossoms tailing in a long spray ou her shoulders ; a slender cor don of jearly buds festooned to the wrist and caught to the cull of the same flowers that finished the lace of her sleeve. The bride had elegant preseuts iu plenty, but the cost of tho flowers alone at her wedding would be a marriage portion for most of the girls who read this. THE END OF AN ACTOR. Poor George Fox, the great pan torai mist now in a lunatic asylum in Stockbridge, Mass., has been pronounced hopelessly in sane, and in danger of dying any moment. Poor Fox I He has delighted more people than any man living, and this is his. end ! He labored for the public all his life, aud he dies in an asylum, without a dollar, his family depending for their subsistance ou the charily of the profession, the members of which are generally almost as poor as himself. This is the regular endiug of an actor. A miserable, starved life, and death in an alms-house or an asylum. Edward Eddy, an actor of as much reputation as Edwiu Forest twenty years ago, was bu ried last Sunday by the masons, and at their exjKinae. His family have not a dol lar to live on and they are eating the bread of charity. It pays belter to debauch the people than it does to either amuse or in struct them. The actor dies poor, the teacher -tarves on a s ilary of SfjOO per year, the author lives iu a garret, but the whiskey-seller, tho gambler and the keeer of prostitutes roll in carriages, and are clad in purple and fine linen. The times are never too hard to support a vice. When times are close, men stop their newspapers but were the times ever so hard as to com pel them to quit whiskey and tobacco V Not much. No matter what other busi ness languishes, the bars thrive, DEFALCATION. Defalcations are as common as paving stones. Winslow ran away from Boston with 200,000 of other people's money. Babbitt's cashier steals 500.000. and now a young banker abscounds with all his cus tomers' money. This last case is a liitlo pec all that sue is a very handsome widow, forty has a passion for fashionable life. The young man, her son, is a weak, good fel low, who loves his mother as very few sonsdo, and can refuse her nothing. When into business for himself, she emerged from the humble boarding-house where they had lived, and took an elegant house uptown, and commenced living in the s'.ylo of wealthy people. She set up a carriage, she had the house full of servants. she gave elegant entertainments, she bought diamonds, and camel's hair shawls, and in short, she lived at a rate that made all her old friends turn green with envy. The son, all this time was furnishing ber with the means for all this extravagance, know ing that the eud was ruin, but his mother liked it and he was too weak to say no. She probably knew that she was living beyond his means, but the madness was on her, and she could not stop. The end came last week. The young man aud his mother sailed for Rotterdam, taking with them every dollar that was iu the concern and all that could be borrowed, begged or stolen. It is supposed that the abscound ing, like all the rest ot it. was the inspira tion of the mother, for all who knew the young man beleive him to be honest, if left to himself. The loss to depositors will foot up 000,000, and there is as much more owing on notes ou the street. This vast sum of money has beeu spent within five years, and lhat it was speut their can be no doubt, for as near as can be ascer tained they had mighty little to take away with them. The tine house was disman tled, though they had sold quietly, all that they could without exciting suspicion. Curious case ! Men have been ruined by woman, times enough, but whoever heard ueiore or mat woman a being one s own mother. BUSINESS Is looki ng up a little, and appearances in dicate a permanent improvement. Money is getting plentier at the West, and the merchants are buying a little more freely. May the improvement continue. PlETRO. Dr. Pierce's Plesant Purgative Pellets are so compounded from concentrated prin ciples extracted from roots and herbs, as to combine in each small granule, scarcely laryer than a mustard seed, as much cathar tic power as is contained in any larger pilin for sale in drugstores. They are not only pleasant to take, but their operation is easy unattended with any griping pain. They operate without producing any constitu tional disturbance. Unlike other cathar tic, they do not render the bowels costive after operation, but. on the contrary, they establish a permanently healthy action. Being entirely vegetable, no particular care is required while using Ihem. 2oU0 Reward is offered by the Proprietor to any one who will detect in these Pellets any calomel or other form of mercury, min eral poison, or injurious drug. They are sold by Druggists. j ilclu Mbbcrliscmtnts. involution of Partnership. NOTICE u hereby -riven lhit the co-parlucr. fhip between Win. S. Rhoads and John I'. Unas, trading nmlcr the firm nr.me of W. S-Khoad.-i : Co., and Haas & Khouds iu the whole- sola and retailing of coat, was dissolved on the flit day of January, 170, by mutual Consent. WM. S. RIIOADS, JOIIX P. HAAS, fur.lmry, Jan. 21, "Tfl. lit. PUBLIC SALeT" Will be sold by Public Vendue, in Point town ship, Northumberland County, three miles north or Northuinblerland, Ou Tliurday, Febuury 17, 1H76, The following pergonal property, lo wit : FOUR G00DFARM HORSES, gome of which ore Kood siuir'.e drivers, 1 three yearling 6 Cows, il with Calves by their side ; 4 Heifers, 2 of which are springing ; 2 young Steers, 1 young Bull, 1 lull bred Alderney IBul 1, 3 years old, 2 breeding Sows with Pigs, 1 sow and niae Piirs five weeks old on day of sale, 1 Cheater White Hoar, 13 Sheep, good 6tock, 1 Buck and 13 ewes ; 1 four horse broad wheel Wagon and Box, 1 good Spring Wagon wiih pole and shafts. Hay Ladders, Hay Kake, Grain ran, Corn fcheller, Hay Cutter, Hay Hook. Rope and Pullies, Land Roller, 1 Good Reaper and Mower, 5 Plows.l Patent Corn Cultivator, large Cultiva tor, 4 Shovel Harrows. S Spike Harrows, 2 long Sleds, Log Sled, Grind-stone, Emery Grind Stone, Grain Cradles, Mowing Scythes, Disrsring Iron, Gruhing Hoe, Pick, Shovels, 3 Ox Yokes, SO feet of Leather Belt nearly new, larire Manure Fork, 2 pair of Spreaders, 4 Plow Double-trees, ot of Single-trees, Log Chains, Fifty Chain, Cow Chums, Brest Chains, Butl Chains, H SV.TS OF OOI II A k:fss. Collars, Bridle, Lines, Halters, Wagon Saddle, Jraiu Bags, rorks, rakes, and a variety of nr- iclc too numerous to mention. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock. A credit of eight mouth will be eiven. THOS. BAUMOARDNER. Isaac S. Longackk, Actioneer. l'oiut twp, Jan. 21, IS 70. are the best the world produces. They are plant ed bj a million people in America, and the ie snlt is beautiful Flowers and Vegetables. A Priced Catalogue seut free to all who inclose the postaee a 2 cent stamp. Viek's Floral Guide, Quarterly, 25 cents a year. Vick's Flower and Vegetable Gardeu, So cents; with cloth covers 65 cents. Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. Dec. 31.-21. uliar. the young man squandered it styles ot substantial rood?, and that everv size and shane ia nrnvidod fnp upon a woman, but who doyou suppose j Wh fnn nn.1 TWo T L : . : l xi. - i A . woman was V Why his own mother ! 04V A JJ T "TJl? '"" " on W0m This will Notify the Public of our intention to jut now and lower prices on much of cur Stock. Tlio voor's flnsincr out P.ilfi will rrmTnpnrf i 1inlfnoaf e?- r. -ni.i-o oiA u uiock, eucu week-da v morning,and CONTINUE UXTIIdTJR FALL and WINTER STOUfv IS kSOLD THE MAJNT PACT IS: Wo have made up too many overcoats aud Buits forthi3 year, aud to transfer onr Stuck into Cash needed for preparation for 1876,we will make certain sacrifices which will be apparent on aud after WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER FIRST, when we shall have gone through our Salesrooms and cut oft Profits, and even a part of the cost, from many of our present prices. To he very exact in stating this matter, as we do not intend that auy advertisement or custom of our house shall mislead the public in the lea3t particular, we think it proper to say, that this Mark Down, whilst itap plies to A THOUSAND AND MORE OVERCOATS, A THOUSAND AND MORE BUSINESS COATS, HUNDREDS OF DRESS COATS, SEVERAL THOUSAND VESTS, SEVERAL THOUSAND FAIRS OF PANTS, and extends throughout tur house, yet there are some lots in which (as they have already been marked at close prices,) we shall make no change. We desire to annouuee that this is OUli FINAL and ONLY MARK DOWN THIS SEASON, So that none need wait for lower Prices. The step we take will wonder fully aid those who feel like economizing. THE TERMS OF THE SALE ARE THE USUAL TERMS OF OUR HOUSE: 2. Cash from All, to wan-ant Low Prices. 3. The contract on our part, to return money, is a part of the bargain in each case (provided goods are returned unworn.) 4. A full Guarantee for each garment. The Stock we ofter is all new, and 13 not "bought" or "wholesale"' stock, but our own Carefully Made Clothing. It will he remembered that our stock always embraces the choicest j - - - Him, 1.-3.10 mv; lunai il SIXTH SIXTHSIXTH SIXTH SIXTH and MARKET Streets. Hoping for a visit from each reader, and that our friends will pass this announcements to all their friends in tho country. We are Very Truly, ANAMAKER & BROWN, Philadelphia. OF FALL Al WINTER Hats, Caps & Gents' : (o) Has just returned from the eastern city with the largest stock of Clothing, Hats, Caps and Gents' Furnishing Goods ever brought to thi3 place, and at the lowest hard-time prices. Clothing of every Descr iption. Overcoats in endless variety, from the cheapest in prices to the verv best make in styles and quality. MIENS' StUIITO Ot every styles and quality to suit the times, and at such low prices that every body can afford to go well clothed with very little money. CLOTHING FOR MEN YOUTHS' BOYS' AND CHILDREN. Xow is the time to buy, when you can get just what you want with a very little money. Hats and Caps of every description, all of which is of the latest styles and at prices that can not be undersold. Gents' Furnishing; Goods. Under Clothinsr in abundance of evirv rmnlitv RtvToa anTri.Tw. -"" v . SHIRTS ! SHIRTS I SHIRTS ! From the finest white Shirt made to the cheapest. Woolen Shirts of all kinds and prices Gloves of all Description. Kid, Buckskin, Driving, Sheepskin, show ISAAC Sunbury, Xov. 5, 1875, prices to suit all. bocks, Suspenders, Collars, .Neckties, Bows, Jewelry, ic, &c, and anything to le found in a first-class furnishing good store. A specialty in Clothing, Hats, Caps and Gents' Furnishing Goods, all of which we defy eomietition both in quality and in nricc. "Xo tronblp to jroods. When you visit Philadelphia, call and see SAIffl. HEIIaKIER, WITH 4 XL. O rJl CD eg o so SO o X n mi U Q ml X a. WHO SELI WALNUT MARBLE TOP f SOLID Parlar Suits in Hair Cloth cr ' Fair Suits h P Walnut Dressing Best Wire Wove ALL OTHER GC Feathers in Pillo Iu Large (Inantlti GIVE J Sept, 17, 1375. -ly- CLOTHE. 1 Finishing Goods. : Woolen and Mittens of all kinds and rURIHAET, 9L Market St.. SUNBURY, PA 4 MM0TME n
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