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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
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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.
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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'
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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
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