The Somerset Herald. EDWARD 8CCXU Eitor and Proprietor. tVEDWESDAT.... ..May ,1SSI The literary as well as the relig ious crent of the day is the revised New Testament. A hill has passed both branches of our State Legislature, granting pensions to the surviving veterans of the Mexican war and to the widows of those deceased. The Vnited States Senate ad journed tine die on Friday afrernoon last after confirming all the appoint ment sent to them except that of W. E. Chandler for Solicitcr of the Treasury, which was rejected. The appointment ot ex-Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, to be Register of the Treasury, in connection with that of Frederick Douglass, as Re corder for the District of Columbia, are valuable and pointed recogni tions of the colored Republican cle ment The prosecution of Kenward Philip, who it will be remembered was implicated in the Morey forgery, has been 'abandoned, and there is now very little room for hope thai the rascal will be hunted do wn. Bat if the criminal is not to be found, the people who profited by his crime are well known, and the public will not soon forget them. There has been a good deal of merriment at one time and another at the expense of Venor, the Can adian wcathcr-Drophet, but he Las the laugh all to himself this year. His various prognostications in re gard to the climatic changes to be anticipated have since January last been verified one after the other with surprising regularity, and with j results which can hardiy have been satisfactory to any one but the prophet himself. He announced the sudden access of hot weather which set us all perspiring and complaining a week ago, and those who read his almanac were fore warned of the very remarkable me teorological revolution which has taken place since then. It ma' liave been all luck, but anyhow derision is no longer in order. The new revised version of the j lViblc is commented upon with con siderable severity by some of the leading journals of London. '"When no material change in sense cr sub stance," says the London Standard, "has been shown to be required by the revisers for the proper construc tion of the original, they have, never theless, thought themselves justified in mending the English and improv ing the grammar of the passages which have struck deep root in the hearts and memories of the English people. The system upon which the revisers appear to have acted, in our judgment, is altogether erroneous and deplorable. Passages that have been known and read and loved by English speaking people, for centuries, have been rashly and recklessly changed in the attempt to harmonize them with the correctness of self-opinioned scholar ship. Evcd the Lord's Prayc, which every English speak ing child learns to lisp at its mother's knee, Las not been spared." There are many and many among the readers of the New Testament espec ially who will concur with the Standard in its exceptions taken to the work. Is there no danger of one's faith in the inspiration of the Scriptures being shaken by this chaaging of the text and altering of the testimony of the Book ? Colonel Thomas A. Scott, for many years President of the Penn sylvania Railroad and Assistant Secretary of War under Lincoln, passed away peacefully Saturday evening, at Lis country residence near Philadelphia. Few Pennsyl vania have achieved equal distinc tion in the business world. ' It was a rare combination of re markable qualities of mind and heart that enabled Colonel Thomas Scott to accomplish so much. Few men have possessed that enormous power for work for which he wa& famous. The rapidity and accuracy with which he dispatched his busi ness was 6imply marvelous. His clear insight and quick judgment enabled him to grasp in a moment all the elements of a question, the solving of which to other men was accomplished after great study and .application, if then. His quick de cision, his keen perception and his unflinching courage thoroughly quipped him for any emergency. He seemed to always have all his resources at band. His gifts were as varied as they were remarkable, and he would have gracefully filled and adorned any walk of life. United with his rare business quali fications was a kindly and benevo lent disj)osition always tempered with justice that, aside from those more munificent gifts to public in stitutions, led him to do many acts of kindness of which the world knows not Tk e fool friends of the President are seaiously laboring in their vo cation. If the growlers' gossip, with which they hare been flooding the newspapers for the past tso weeks J was venerea to rellect the sayings and doings of the Executive, for whom they profess to peak, instead of exalting him in public estimation, ( tthey would damn him irretrievably. For Snstwice it was telegraphed ?graj throughout the land that the Presi dent had declared, the Republican Senators who voted against the con firmation of Robertson would there- after be treated as strangers and re quire au introduction at the White House. And again it was widelv published that, 6iuc the resigna tion of Senators Conl.Iing and Piatt the Administration is bending its every power to prevent their re election. Certainly nothing more unwise than this could be attributed to the President. A Senator of the United States lias as clear a right to carry out his convictions in regard to the confirmation of officials, as has the Executive in nominating them. The President ''shall nomin ate, and by the advice and consent of tho Senate, shall appoint, tc, Ac," says the Constitution. The right to ''advise and consent'' is as clearly defined as is the right to "nominate," and the attempt to coerce Senators into the views of the President or to resent their in dependence of action, would be lamentable indeed. Again, Sena tors are chosen by the Legislatures of the resjKxlivcs States, the mem bers thrcof being resionsiblj to their immediate constituents, and any attempt of the President or any other person, other than a citizen of the State, to influence the choice of those highest representatives of the people, would le a crime against the citizens of the State. We believe President Garfield to be too self poised, too wise, t patriotic to have ever given . utU ranee to the sentiment, or to have conceived the thought of coercing Senators, or of dictating to a State Legislature. To believe otherwise, would la to hold him a mere vulgar tyrant, attempt ing to substitute his will for the desires of the jeople. lie may well pray to be saved "roni Lis 'Tool friends," who in the excess of their folly, and the blindness of their 7.eal :re placing him in an attitude that would arouse a storm of indignation throughout the countrv, were their declarations accepted as truths. Tj.K CHANT ON UAItFHXn. EX-mESf IjEXT EX i'KKSSKS VIEWS. HIS Washington, May IS. The fol lowing letter lias been received by Senator Jones, of Nevada, from General Grant, enclosing one from the ex-President to Mr. Garfield: "Cm- of Mexico, April 21, 1SS1. My Dear Senator: I see by the latest dispatches received here from the capital of our country that the dead-lock in organizing the Senate is not yet broken, and that nothing has been done by the President to alia v the bitterness which must be engendered by his most recent ap- pointmer.ts. V hen the first batch of nominations for New York was sent in I was delighted. I believed then the President had determined to recognize the Republican party, and not a faction. But his nomina tions of the next day convinced me that the first act was but a part of a deep laid .scheme by somebody to punish prominent leaders for being openly friendly to me. I cannot belive that General Garfield is the author of that policy. I give him credit for being too big a man to descend to such means for the pun ishment of men who gave him a hearty support in his election and who are disposed to give him the same support now, for the offense of having had a former preference for some one else for the cilice which he now holds. But Garfield is Presi dent and is responsible for all the acts of the administration. Conk ling and Piatt are the cliosen Sena tors from the great State of New York, and that, too, against all the opjosition of an administration cre ated by the same party that elected them. This should give them all the stronger claim to be consulted in the matter of appointments in the State. When it comes to filling the most influential office in their State without consulting these Sen ators it is a great slight When he selects the most offensive man to be found it becomes an insult and ought to be resented to the bitter end. I sincerely hope the President will see this and correct his mistake himself, and restore harmony to the party. He owes this to himself and those without whom he could not have been elected. Nobody be lieves that he could have carried the State of New York, without the active fupjort of her present Sena tors. Their passive sujjort would not have answered. Without the State of New York General Garfield would not now be President. His rewarding Robertson is not only offensive to the New York Senators, but it is offensive to New York Re publicans. "The. change of Badeau and Cra mer, the two appointments in which I felt a strong personal interest, was very distastef ul to me ; the first, be cause of our personal relations and my wish that his office would sup port him until he finishes some work he U engaged upon, and which he could do without interfering with Lis public duties. The ond, because it was at the ex- pense 01 removing 1110 son 01 my .old Secretary of Stato, who probably never had his superior certainly never for moral worth in the department It is true Fish re signed. But he did this from a sense of honor, supposing it to be the duty of representatives abroad to give a new administration the op portune of saying whether they were wanted or not "Very trulv yours, "(J. S. Grant. "Hon. J. P. Jones, United States Senator, Washington, D. C. Ars-Ntio fa ibe Czar's Salad. Paris, May 17. According to the dispatches published in La Lantern this morning, the extraordinary prer cautions taken at Gatschina to pro tect the Emperor from the Nihilist arc utterly useless. The Emperor is sajd to have nearly perished by x)Lson on the 12th instant One of the palace scullions, who has been arrested Bince, had sprinkled arsenic over a bowl of salad, of which Alex ander is known to le very fond. As the dish did not figure on the menu, the attempt was fortunately detected. The LarUeme savs that on the day previous the Emperor received an invitation to his own funeral. 6ttWt Hr KiTaL Denver, CoL, May 19. A special to the Ilantblican eavs : 'At Neder- land, Col., on Monday night, Miss Nettie bUH shot and latally wound ed Alpharetta Ray, thirteen years oia. i ne cause ot the ueeti was i jealousy." THE CLIMAX. Ti3 t:d La a Sx.itisl Washington", May -17 Senators Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Piatt, of New York, have resigned their seats in the Senate. Gov. Cornell was notified of the resigna inr.s hv mail vestcrdav. and the Senate and the country was inform ed of the fact this morning by the Vice President This is the culmin ation of the unhappy controversy between the President and the New York Senators over the nomina tion of Judge Robertson to be Col lector of the port of New York. Saturdav las:-Mr. Conkling, at the request of ilr. Piatt, hurriedly drew up a letter to the Governor explaining the reasons which prompted them to resign, and it is expected that this letter will bo laid before the Legislature to-morrow morning. What will be the outcome of the matter is n t known. If the legis lature of I he State of New York aj proves the course that her Senators have taken, they will undoubtedly be re-elected, and their conduct will be approved by the only tribu nal to which they are directly re sponsible. If, on the contrary the Legislature refuses to again commit the high honor of representatives nf th Strife to the National Legisla ture to their hands, tho people of New Yerk Stite cannot complain that their senators nnsrepresemeu the wishes of their masters and de fied public sentiment by clinging to a sullied.trust. The news of the intended resig nations was known to only a few trusted friends of the two Senators before its, public announcement The secret was admirably kept, and when the clerk of the Senate read the formal notice signed by Mr. Conkling and Mr. Piatt that they had resigned. THE EXCTTKMEX'f WAS INTENSE. Telegrams were sent flytng to the Executive Department and to every part of the country by Senators. The intelligence was spread through out the city, and it appeared of such an improbable character that peo ple generally refused to believe it There was a larger attendance at the Senate this morning than usual, owing to the presence ot an excur sion party at the eapitol. The Vice President was a little late in reach ing the chamber, and as he took his seat and rapped the Senate to order he laid upon the tible two largo en velopes. During the prayer, Mr. Jones, of ' Nevada, who knew all about tiic track taken by his friends, stood by the central doorway talk ing with a friend from the Pacific coast To him he communicated the secret, and they chuckled over the audacity and "brilliancy of the stroke while the petitions for peace and harmony in the Senate lell Irom the Chaplain's lips. Then the prayer closed, and in the crowded gallerj' and on the lloor arose the hum of voices, tho rustling of papers, the buzz of business. No one noticed thcibsencc of Messrs. Conkling and Piatt, who are not always in their scats at 12. The Vice President, who looked very much as he has for the past eleven weeks, laid be fore the Senate a long communica tion from Marshal Lewis, of West Va., about the conduct of affairs in his district, which was read amid the inattention of the Senate. Then he handed the reading clerk a little sheet of note paper containing these words : THE REMOXVTIOXS. 'asiiin;tus, P.O., May liliii 1SS! . Sib : Will you pk-ase announce to the ckiiutc that my rcM.nution as Senator of the I'nitol Suites has li-eeii forwartli.il to the Governor uf the State. I have the honor to lie. preat resjcet, Vuiir olelicnt serv ant. K ostXE CoXKLtNii. To Hon. C. A. Arthur, Vice IVraMcnt. He read it in the monotonous sing-song, uninflected way of which he is master, but before he had finished all eyes were upon him and all cars were open to receive his announcement Astonishment 3et on every face ; each man looked to his neighbor in questioning wonder. A murmur of surprised comment crent around the chanvxr. men some incredulous Senator demand ed a second reading of the moment ous missive. Once more the clerk chanted its contents, while the in credulous ones, convinced against their will, dmnk in the simple state ment of the startling fact Then the Vice President handed the clerk an other i.ctt of Jiki; tenor, reading thus : Senate Cham tins. May I'i'.U ISM, To t!m Hon. C. A. Arthur, Vit-e President of the I'niteJ Kates : Sir: I have forwanleJ to the Governor of the Slate of New York inv. resiirnation as Senator of the I'nitetl States for the State of New York. Will yon pleae announce the fact to the Senate. " ith -Treat nfjtect, your obtlient servent. 1 11021 as C, Ixatt, This was read amid the increasing hum of astonishment in the galleries and the lloor, Hill, of Georgia, had the cruelty to suggest that oflicers ought now to bo elected. Then Burnsidc, endeavoring very harfl to ljok as though nothing unusual had occurred, rose nervously and presented the report of the Foreign Affairs Committe, recommending tho adoption of the Morgan-Monroe doctrine resolution, which he gave antice he would call up to-morrow. His carefully-prepared report was read. Nobody paid the slightest attention to it 411 were absorbed in the consideration of the step taken by Mr. Conkling, iU moaning, and it probable effect No public allusion was made in the executive session to tho resigna tion of Messrs, Conkling and Piatt, bat the Senators gathered together in little groups and eagerly discuss ed the situation. Neither Mr. Conk ling nor Mr. Piatt visited the Capi tol, and the latter loft the city on the 5 p. m. train for New York. Mr. Conkling passed the afternoon in his apartments on Fourteenth street He received many callers, who came to congratulate him upon thebold and manly position he has assumed. The Senator from New. York seemed to bo in excellent epjrii. "JIow I pity you," he exclaimed, as a Sena tor of much prominence entered the parlor. "You are obliged to rise early in the morning, attend com. mittee meetings, join in caucus, and be confined in many other respects. I am enjoying the liberty of a pri vate citizen. I had a good sleep this morning. Tomorrow I shall try to clear up my 'coxfesjjQndence, attend to a little private business. , have my horse 6eut up to U tica, ana then I will shake the dust of this beautiful city from my departing feet, and try to get beyond the are na of politics for a time." itL t SWING'S POSITION. is clearly defined in ths statement to the Governor. The Senator baa 6oduously refrained from making any statements heretofore regarding the controversy between himself and j General Garfield. The most atro-j cious lies have lx-cn published con cerning him, and he hr.s refused to deny iLeni. The most persistent appeaij have been nmdo in the Send j to 'tho Senator to state his case m oicn session, out he uecun ed to do so for the reason that it might embarrass his friend who had big .'tied their intention of vot ing to 1 -ct Robertson. The course which l...srs. Conkling and Piatt have seen fit to adopt is warmly in dorsed by their friends as honora ble and. just. The Senators from New York feci keenly the false ac cusations that they are engaged in a simple struggle for Patronage. Dur ing the eight years that General Grant was President, Mr. Conkling made one personal request for an appointment, and only one. HOY.' IT WA3 RECEIVED. Washington, May 1G. i'hc news of the resignation of Messrs. Conk ling and Piatt was imparted to the President before the Senate met As soon as the information was -eri-tied from the Senate, Secretaries Windoni and Blaine were called from their respective Departments to the White House, -and they re mained in consultation with General Garfield for a long time. At this time the cily was alive with the wildest roumors. It was reported that Vice President Arthur, Post master General James, Attorney General McVeagh, ami Secretary Lincoln had resigned, and corres pondents rujhed from one ti the other for verification, or denial of the reports. Thev were of 'course all false. While the sympathy of the ice President is entirely with Mr. Conkling, his resignation would be supremely ridiculous. The first ollkial information that the President received was u dis patch from the Capitol received about 12:20, containing tho letter of resignation of Conkling. Ihe Presi dent read and believed. Up to this time he had been a doubting Thom as. He immediately dispatched a messenger for Blaine, and the latter arrived in a few minutes. He dis played some excitement, for the move was aa much a surprise to him as to 'others. The President's room was closed, and the two en gaged in private consultation. CAJJINET COLNCII.. The President also sent for other members of the Cabinet, who soon arrived, and there was a sort of impromptu Cabinet meeting in which the affair was talked of. The result of these deliberations are unknown, but it is not apparent tbat the Cabinet Ministers are much disturbed. After the Cabinet meet ing Secretary Windom refused to talk for publication, or in fact to say any thing on the subject It is said that he regards it as more serious than the other members. Postmaster General James said : "This is an i unfortun Ue complication, and I re ! gret it i he reiort that 1 am to re I sign has not the slightest foundation in fact I suafl remain in my pres ent position and attend to the pos tal business and star route frauds. I shall have as little as possible to do with the New York difficulty." Immigration. Washington, May 18. The Cheif of the Burea ot Statistics furnishes the following information in regard to immigration into the United States : There arrived in the Cus toms districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Key West, Minne sota, New Bedford, New Orleans, New York, Passamaquoddy, Phila delphia and San Francisco during the month ended April 30, 18-31, 'X),)o2 passengers, of whom 0",C0O were immigrants, 2.7G0 citizens of the United States returned from abroad, and 4.7'J3 aliens &ot intend ing to remain in the United States. Of the total number of immigrants there arrived from England and Wales, 7,33J ; Scotland, 1,3C2; Ire land, 9,583 ; Austria, 1,8 12 ; Belgium, 4!0; Denmark, 1,454 ; France, 44(; Germanv, 38,8'.)8; Hungary, 338; Italy, 2",S11; Netherlands, 2,015; Norway, 2,5t)2 ; Poland, 2,4(V ; Rus sia, C5lj; Sweden, 0,305; Switzer land, 2,0G:; Dominion of Canada. 12,300 ; China, 1,523, and from all other countries, 418. The number of immigrants arrived in the above named districts during the ttn months ended April, 30, 1881, was as follows: From Germany, ; 140.090; Dominion of Canada. 99,i03; Eng land and Wales, 47.101 ; Ireland, 42,017; Scotland, 10,353; China, 0,0-38, and from all other countries, 100,154; total, 410,812. Life lusnrnncc Murderers. L!:banox, pa., May IS. Two weeks previous to their execution Josiah Hummel and Israel Brandt, the Rabcr murderers, made confes sions which they requested their spiritual adviser, Rev. Mr. Talbot, to keep from the public for one year. The time having expired, the con fessions appeared in print to-day. Hummel confesses to have been in the company of Wise and Brandt tvher. the latter spoke about insur ing a it.an, and W'La said he had a man to work him away and suggest ed various wavs of doinsr it At the time of Raber's death he and Wise' were at Johnstown. Brandt confess es that he first obtained his knowl ed of the conspiracy to murder Ra bcr from Wise. He admits that ho had $11,000 insurance on Rabcr, but that one iolicy was worthless. He pronounces the testimony of Ixna Peters and the confession of Wi-ti falg. He says George Zech man was the most active in Tarry ing out Wise's plan, and declares the testimony of Mrs. Drews, that Zech man had been &t her house before the murder, fnlso, and that she was bribed to testify in his favor. Robertson ConflirmeJ. Washington, May 18. When the Senate, went into executive tesaion this afternoon the nominations re ceived from the President to-day were read and referred to proper committees, and a message was also read- announcing a withdrawal by the President ot the nomination of General Adam Badeau as Charge d'Afrairs to Denrnark. Immediate-K- after ward Senator Cnhrrrr f.i!!rd ritt to be Consul General at Lon don, and it was instantly- confirmed without debate and wilfiout any ut tered manifestation of diseent from any Senator, the confirmation being effect ''by common consent in the absence of chieetion." The nomination of William II. Robertson as Collector of Customs for the port of New York was then called up and confirmed in precisely the same manner, without a de mand for a vote of any kind or a word of discussion. During the remainder of the executive session the. Senate eonSrrngd many other nominations. Dlmresslog Suicide. New York, Mav 17. Miss Effie Person, fourteen j' cars of age, shot herself through the bead to-day, .dy ing instantly. Investigation by the police seems to establish the fact that the child committed suicide un der peculiarly distressing circum stances. Her f.ttlur, Aaron I). Per son is a bookkeeper in Dielman's piano lactory. lio Jives witn a family, consisting of a wi.e and two daughters, besides the dead child. Of late he had been the victim of mysterious robberies, and on Satur day he said ?50 were missing from his drawer, which must have been stolen from the house that morning. This morninj he made the state ment to his family that he had again been robbed this time of $70 and insisted that tho money had been taken by some one in tho hofise, and by some one of his own family. He rushed from the house, shouting that he would not return till the money was brought to light. Mrs. Person hurriedly wrote to the po lice, and asked for a detective to come to the house. Soon after she went with one of her daughters into the front room, to look tor the re turn of her husband. The child Elbe was in the back kitchen alone. Suddenly the report of a pistol was heard, and the mother, rushing into the kitchen, found the child'on the floor, writhing in the agony of death. She said she had shot herself be cause her father had accused her of stealing the money, and the next moment 6he was dead. This is the story told by the police as the re sult of the investisation. Mr. Per son said calmly that the shooting wrs an accident, the girl having found the pistol in a bureau drawer. It is considered probable that the girl, fearing arrest, shot herself. Alarming rumors of a fight in the family, in the course of which the girl was shot, we.'C sifted by the po lice, and the story told above ac cepted as the true state of affairs. Another ICnoch Artlen. RoeiiESTF.n, N. Y., May 19. Pat rick Ivcns, in 1872, left his wife and I two children in Auburn and went to j Dakota to seek a fortune. Three j days after Mrs. I vens got a telegram that her husband was dead. She sold her property, came to Roches- ter and by hard toil supported her- sen and cnnurcn, securing every body's respect by ; her conduct. In 1878 she married John A. Hughes, book-keeper in a larce dry goods house. On Tuesday Ivens arrived here hunting his family, and was astonished at the state of affairs. He held a conference with his wife, both calmly canvassing the whole subject. Mrs. Hughes refused ab solutely to live with him, but said so with no ill feeling. Ivens, con vinced that she was happy and con tented, said he would never disturb her again, and returned West. Ivens said he never sent the notice of his death, but during the entire absence wrote every week and for years regulady sent ten dollars every week. Mrs. Hughes' friends doubted this. Others believe Ivens, because, when he came East, he went to Auburn, thinking hi3 wife still there, and was astonished to find her sor.e, and when he left Rochester he was completely broken down. They believe some rascal gave Mrs. Ivons the telegram and subsequently received and ojcned Ivens' letters. A Conflagration. Nashville,' Tknn., May 17. A fire, causing a los3 of $500,000, oc curred here at 10 o'clock a. m. tak ing in the Western Union Telegraph office, in the Noel block, among the first buildings destroyed, and cut ting off all communication by wire. The fire commenced in Warner Brothers' paint house, igniting and consuming Philip Schneider's fur niture store, Atwell Snced, furni ture, and II. Niller, mattres.es ' p. Blumenthal, china ware : Noel block, northwest corner of Church and College streets, valued at 870,000; American office, partially burned; Cheatham & Pierce, whiskey house; penitentiary warerooms ; George A. Dickel, whiskey house ; Ryan & Rvan. whisker house; N. S. Ilvar, rag house, and a arge number of smaller buddings, including oner half of each of four squares.' 1 Stubborn Rlajse, New York, May 17. The Flem ing Oil Works, at Fewtown Creek and Neserole street, Brooklyn, took fireearly this morning through spon taneous combustion of gas, and the flames spread very rapidly. The works were very extensive, and are owned by Sone & Fleming. The flames communicated from one still to another until there were fifteen burning, AU the fire engines in Williamsburg were called in requir sition, but it was necessary to call on the Brooklyn and Western dis trict departments to send them aid in protecting adjoining property. The vessels in the creek were re moved to the East River. The stills contained 9000 barrels of oil, and a portion is still burning. The loss is estimated at $30,000. 41&4tjanf.' PiEhRE, D. T., May 10. Thomas I Jackson, James Halstcad and Blank Roberts, who arrived here on the eleventh, and were arrested on sus picion of being horse thieves, have been identified as the party who at tacked a rancfie, killing one man and wounding another and after wards fired upon a party of sol-! diers sent in pursuit of them, killing a lieutenant and seriously wound ing a priyaif. -'f Ialjtead is aso rec ognised as the murderer qf a Nexi cun teamster at Mead's ranche, two years ago. Roberts js dangerously wounded ond jt is pupposed a fourth member of thp gang was kill ed. There are many threats of lynch ing. Constantinople, May 17. Dis. patches from the sanitary adminis tration in Mesopotamia" stato that the mortality from the plague in Xedjct was oO per day for the week ending Nay 2. Four thousand in habitants are dispersed in camps 'iompjetely isolated. These camps 'are' pow quite frcp from the plague, as are also tl;e localities of Lhayaq and Djora, whence the disease was originally propagated. The remain ing inhabitants of Nedjef will leave shortly, when the oflicjaji . will be able to completely destroy all the latent germs of tho epidemic. Boy Stabbed. Kount Gfi-En, Uhip May IS. A furious fight took place lairt Satur day night between Samuel James, a farmer, and his Eons, in which the old man stabbed his eldest eon James with a pitchfork, it is feared fatally. i Washington, May 20. A counter- j feit silvtr certificate of the denomina- j lion of ?20 has been received at the j Treasury Department, it is pen i maac and its execution la such that an ordinary judge of money should detect the fraud on sight Thepa- ter is of ordinary bank note quality, icing thinner than that upon which the gencine certificate is printed in 11 color darker. The counterfeiter has imitated the' distinctive paper of the Government by drawing two parallel lines throughout the length of tho note. There are so many defects and omiisions in the spuri ous certificates, when compared with the genuine, that it would be futile to enumerate them, seetng they are the product of a pen and not the plate. It is sufficient to stata that the Treasury number can be wiped off with the aid of asjnmge. Tho diamond-shaped figure between each letter of the word certificate on the hack on which tho genuine is geometrically exact in its dupli cation is on the counterfeit utterly destitute of uniformity cither in shape or size. "Engraved and printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing-,1' appears under tire word certificate, on the back, also cut on the side bonier at the right end of the face of the note. It dot's not appear at either place in the counterfeit, yet as the forger can and and diminish at pleasure, it would be useless to indicate further omissions. It is believed the coun terfeit certificates have a very limit ed circulation in the South and Southwest. Any person who be.ng onco advised of these spurious cer tificates who should receive them as genuine; would deserve little sym pathy, for the reason that with or dinary scrutiny the counterfeit may be detected. Huiied in a 3!ine. Dkapwoop, I). T., May 10. A I "cave" occurred at the ( iolden Ter- j ra mine, Terraville, at 7 o'clock last evening. Thirteen persons were in the mine. The night shift of sixty men were just coming on, but only ; 1 A 1UI I . I 1 I .1 A I aooci o nau cmereu ine uinnei, when a large mass of earth fell in the distance of nearly 2l feet from the mouth, tearing and throwing down the timbers at a fearful rate for one or two hundred feet. One man was thrown by the compress ion of theair nearly 80 feet out of the tunnel against the side wall of the open cut, and instantly killed. Two others were blown right through the tunnel toward the Highland mine, at Icad City. One escaped unhurt, the other was struck by a timber and died last night Eleven were buried under the debris. The "cave" is supposed to be about 2O0 feet long, 100 feet wide and 50 feet deep, and it occurred directly over a large ore chamber. Hunderds of miners were at once set to work from Lead and Central Cities, and shifts were changed every fifteen minutes, only five or six being able to work on each side of the cave at a time. Several escaped, with no thing more serious than a few bruises.. Nine miners who had been imprisoned in the mine since 7 o'clock last evening were all res cued this afternoon, none of them sustaining any injuries. A ShoekiHK Xragedy. Tf.kue IIaite, May 19. A terri ble domestic tragedy occurred this morning in lloneycreek township, Vigo county. Alexander McPhe ters, Jr., killed his wife and sister-in-law, Ellen Bloxom ; shot at his mother-in-law, and then killed him self. Domestic troubles and dissi pation led to the deed. McPhcters and his wife Alice had been married about three years, and they leave a child two months old. The couple had frequently quarrelled, and Mrs. McPhcters had applied for a divorce. Both McPhekrs family and his wife's are prominent and respected, and own fine farms. The murderer and suicide is supposed to have been deranged. Sale ofShort Horns. Pout Hcron, Mini., May 19. The auction sale of the largest and finest herd of short horns ever offer ed commenced yesterday on the farm of Avery, Murphy !: gtebbins. near this city. About two hundreq cattle breeders were present from Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Kentucky. Among the highest fricc paid were $7,525 for Airdrie )uchess the Tenth, calved 1S-80," by the twenty-third Duke of Airdrie"; S3;000 for Airdrie Duchess the Fifth, calved 1874; $7,000 lor Airdrie Duchess the Second, calved 1871 ; and $5,055 for Airdrie Duchess the Eleventh, calved 1831. Mnrtlerer?. Shrevei'ort, La., May If). Last Tuesday night in Marksville, La., Mr. James H. Bell, whilst passing in front of the residence of Mr. A. Dlanchard, stopped, and after a few words, fired at a son of the latter, who was with his mother and sister on the gallery. After filing he ran off and was followed and killed. Three shots penetrated his body, one fctriking bis right Bide, gpin through and breaking the left arm. The two others struck him in the abdomen. Emanuel Planchard and Arthur I'arbarin delivered them selves to the authorities for the kill ing. JIow to Save. All men and women who work hard with mind or body are subject to periodical attacks of biliousness, which may end in disordered kid neys or liver and dangerous illness. A 5Qct or $1.00 bottle of Parker's Ginger Tonic will kpep these organs active, and by preventing the at tack save you muih sickness, los of time and great expense, Many families arc kept in pcrfecthealth by using the Tonic when Soring or Fall sickness threatens. Delay at such time means danger. J)rtt;ll See other column, Full ol a lUiiwor llriilgo. Wheeling, May YX Yesterday afternoon, alout four o'clock, the main iortion of the Baltimore and Ohio freight bridge, over Wheeling creek, adjoining the passenger de po't in thi t-jty. sddnly gayo way while a heavy freight ttain va3 up on it, and the engine, tepder and two box car full of Hour were pre cipitated into the water, 23 feet below. The engineer, named Vm. Clark, received injuries which will proba bjy prove fatal. A Cashier &cutnccl. TiiKNTON, X. J., May 10. James A. Hendei-son, oaihLr of the t'ir;t National-bank of Newark, who was convicted of misapplying the funds of the bank, was to-day sentenced to seven years in the state prison. Counterfeit. Col. Scot Doatl. Piiir.AUKLi iiiA, May 21. Thomas Alexander Scott, of the Pennsylva nia and Texas Pacific Railroad, is reported to have dinl this morning. Kitten lm tt-t iirilftl from Europe, whither ho went for his health, he has not . been in sufficiently good health to attend to hi business, and finally gave up his Presidency of the Pennsylvania Railroad, but still retained an office in the com tmiiv'j lni!iliii".j. where he enter tained his friends. The third and most serious attack of paralysis which Col. Scott endured, took place about three weeks ago. His phy sicians had warned him to be care ful, but always cheerful and in good spirits he made light of his infirmi nn.l determined to attend the weddinz of the son of Theodore Cuyler. He was driven in his car riage from his own home to Mr. Cuyler's house on Rittenhouse Square. When the foolman open ed the door of the carriage he was shocked to sec Col. Scott reclining in the carriage with a deathly pal lor spn';d over his countenance, lie was immediately driven back to his home, carried up stairs and at tended by several physicians. He rallied slowly at first, then rapidly, and was removed to his country seat near Derby. Thursday nigh' it became evident that he was aboui to suffer from another stroke. Everything was done to relieve him, but he sank slowly. All day vesterday (Friday) his death was lioiir'y expected." His mind re mained clear up to last evening, when his memory began to fail. All through the day he remained cheer ful ami laughed and joked with his attendants. He was surrounded by his warmest friends, his wife and son, James P. Scott. An Kxplottion. NoKiusTOWN, May IS. This morn ing employees at Boone & Co's., roll ing mill poured water on a mass of red-hot cinder just removed irom a furnace on a "buggy," which caus ed an explosion terrible in its con sequences. Fire was set to the wood-work of the mill, but was speedily extinguished. The bu-jrry was torn to pieces. A piece of cin der struck John Powers, an em ployee, in the head, causing an ug ly gash, and T. McDermott a pud dler, was so scalded from the steam arising from the fiery cinders and burned from fire communicated to his clothes by flying cinders that his skin peeled off from head to foot. His recovery is pronounced doubt ful by the attending physician. Star llome. Washington, May 15. The fol lowing is a statement in detail of the net annual saving in the cost of Star route and steamboat service under the administration of of Postmaster General James : For the month of March, $215,490; for the month of April, $81,531; irom Mav 1 to 13, 8112,013; total, $112,034. "This sav ing has been effected without in any way cripplinz the service or cur tailing its efficiency, and has leen made on exact information gather ed by inspectors of the department who have carefully examined the various routes. Woman's Wituloru. ftne insists that it is more im portant that her family shall be kept in full health, than she should have all the fashionable dresses and styles of the times. She therefore sees to it, that each member of her family is supplied with enough Hop Bitters, at the first appearance of any symptoms of ill health, to pre vent a fit of sickness with its attend ant expense, care and anxiety. All women should exercise their w;sdom in this way." Xew Hartn Palladi um. Fatal Leap. Si'RiNOFiEi.D, Mass., May 20. Mrs. Cooley, a widow about thirty six years ofae, who had been in tins city only a week, committed suicide this morning by throwing herself from a third story window in her boarding house on Water street. She was instantly killed She said last niht that if anything happened to her to give $50 of her money to her sister, Jjridset Hughes, of Adams. Over $lo0 was found on her person. Bought a Vjfe. GiiEENsniKG, Ind., May IS. A singular story comes from Jaekson township of a bachelor who bought a neighbors buxom wife of her im pecunious husband for a hundred dollars, with the understanding that the latter was to retain the two children. He then sol4 his farm, and went west It u reported that the woman has also disappeared. Jews in Russia. London, May 17. The Daily Xetcs St. Petersburg, despatch says : "Fresh riots directed against the Jews have occurred in Smela, in the government of Kief, and at Odessa, where the Jews- houses were wreck ed." The Di'tly JYrV Vienna de spatch says i "It is reported that the populace of Tartova" threw a Jew into the flames of a burning house." Found Icad. XorsKOLK, May 19. John McDon ald, a citien of Pictou, Xova Scotia, a ship carpenter, who came here by the direction of the owners to superintend the repairs on the Pritish bark Condor, which was so bad iy damaged at the fire on the Boston' wharf several weeks ago, was found dead in bed at a boarding-house here last night. lie leaves a wife and daughter in Pictou in comfortable circumstances. lawlessness. Four F.wpij,, Tex., May 20. Mr. M'G'oy and two of his laborers, Jas. Moore and one Pettit, were assassin ated by Wright and his party on Tuesday last! The latter have long been a terror throughout this section. San Antonia, Texan, May 20. Patrick Lyons, a railroad laborer, was found near here diad from a gun-shot wound. . Welch and P. M 'Glace are siippoi'ed to be the assassins. . An Oil Train on Fire. Allentow.v, May 10. An oil train on the Ihigh Valley railroad broke sn axle at East Penn Junc tion at 5 o'clock this morning, and the train was Eet on fire. Four tank" each containing 3,.r00 gallons of crude oil, were burnect. Nine freight cars were also burned, and the track was destroyed for a dis tance of one hundred feet. "'. ' . .v T. Vv TklI t rif 11-" U lull Lonpo.v, May 21. In--- rcvuM-a; edition of the New Testament pub- j J5 lished on Tuesday was awaited with . jj tv .?: , v, keen interest, and w:w received v.ilh an almost unbroken rhort.s "1 Ci.i- 1 approval. The public are iistniiid-j cj at the number and ch;;ir:l':f' r f t;ie ctiange3 in the authori''! text. : fheki'op of Gkuctt( r, mi pre senting the worx 10 tae t. .oiivoca-. tion announced that 1:1 the ('o.-jcIs-the changes average nine to v.vr ry five verses, and Pi the Lpistlcs three; ehanws to each verse. Elaborate: capricious, opinionated scholarship of the motly combination of theologians and professors which has disfigured, mangled and made unrecognizable some of the noblest passages in the plain of the childish pedantry of! the revisers, and describes the new version as sadly inferior to the old Bible. Jhe balnrtlit'i unuw coni- in general vigor and in beauty of language. It predicts that it will never come into general use. The other papers express in similar terms regret, grief and astonishment at the revisers" wanton disregard of the reverence and love felt by the English people for the existing text saying that the revisers may know Greek, but not English, and pro-, testage against defacing the noblest monument of English prusr. It is understood that an act of Parlia ment is required to enforce the use of the new version by the English church. The Government have no intention of proposing such an act. Meantime 2.00",')0 copies have been sold. The Cambridge and Ox ford Univrsitics, who oxn the copyright, are competing with each other in a rather uii'lignihed man ner ; but both ar: at present unable to supply the or-l.-rs received after April. The Testament is published in various styles, at prices from one shilling to two po,...ds. Mrs. Garfl id I lei ter Washington. May 22. Dr. Roy ton says that Ms. Garfield's mind has lM-en perfectly clear to-day fur the first time since her sickness. Her fever is about the same, but her nervous prostration has improved. Though still in a precarious coadi tion, she is almost certain to recover. Tfie report, that she is to go to her home in Mentor, Li not tru.'. She will soon lie removed to the Soldier's Home, and possiMy to smth.; quiet summer resort 0:1 probably in Maine. ProhleBt'ri Appoint iiiciit. Washington, May li The lrc.-v ident's appointments to-day were in some respects unfortunate. Itoss Wilkinson, appointed Lnilcd states Marshall for Louisiana, !i;is been dead some time, and Jcre lluslc, ap pointed Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay, had already declined and will not take the place. Smallpox. Wn.KKsn.vnnE, Pa., May 11). The smallpox at Snrar Notch and Wa naraie is increasing, ten new cases having been reported today. A committee of citizens called upon the county commissioners for aid arid protection to prevent tlsc di.-ease irom spreading. L.C Hue ISounieU. Washington; Mav 1'.). Not with standing the fact that the President has frequently hinted fur General Le Due s resignation, it was not tendered until the last moment, to day, when the President made a formal demand for it. Gil EAT SALE OF SHORT HORNS. ATII4XXASTOW i'ABH. Thrxi nilM 5rlkMl f limitligrr WnlatnteitrMitT, Pa. OX WEDNESDAY, JIWE 8th, FORTY-EIGHT HEAD OF FE MALES and FIFTEEN HIGH BUEED LULLS' 'AND BULL CALVE?. k?lrKDiatirui oi the following k-!.wo fjoiiitj, CONSTAN'CE,IXViITAS. PHY LUTES, OX FORDS, OWYNNIS. DU I1ESSE3, OF OAKLAND, IVCHESOFGOOI!TES5, BELL 1UCHESSE3. The mle U mlc on parpoe to rr litre thr hrnl which by lt mctiul lacinuw earri-l it ttroml lim txcnt oi the farm to maintain an. Id upter to mke snob an a; tractive list, nucr lavurita anl Bials ar inclinlerl. For farther particular eatal ace which will be larcitbed n .lit!on. &aie iu emuiDeoce firuupt at 1 m-ki-x r m. CIT. P. V.KWDi Au;:timecr WILLIAM STEEL, (KEEXSIU'RW . u. Mart,t Wm'. A. 2VKW OPUXIG, In the EuXliug iaowa as the. NATJQLI! HOTJSE, l!Y ALBERT RECKE, F JX Z aoJ CQMMOX O AN D I ES. C It AC S E. CASES AND BREAD, QROOEEIES, F1JTE CIOAKS, S?.UKIX1 AISUCUEWIXll TOBACCO, FOREK.N AND DOMESTIC FBUITS, A A'- Parties anl P:nt..fl mr.nMnl 4K r.ii... fjfk'S'ra"" Grape n nylke. All BUII BVf U Mb A LOW FIGIKE. Call and see lor yonrjelvM. Iw.llo,.., nnt with a full Use of the abov. &Mdt. Ma Win. Hot ftajraat ft Eafrsjiisg ef Perfcro l?a, 2? eta.; Larga Ec'ilea. 75 eta. AMlmiaDiaFafaaur. tvlgcaluo oflU. F PARKER'S TONIC t The Medicine far Cwcrv FAvd!. if-a.?iey?R INTOXICATES. od ether of ths best vecbte rcunlK-i luicwn. raKu s t-uc&r Toxic ta rrniMli.it! narit,! 1 The Best Msdiciiia Yen cin IT: i i lorKeatormgHealtli&Strorytli i ItceBnencesto act frmn tlie fint t!mc. snm ha -3 t um weut orpine and . . ... ....- . . ? t Sr' V"WT' V m'"rlr -11 1 :ats of i T: '.m:;y ro"-"Ti sct. 4 L 77 : 6 - vu:s:cc nr;v:. ri!cox i A MV I . . tarsi al3jj la Ouyts ' rs Har Calasm mrs-.. . . ,- . "I"1 SOW by !...., M , c ' - ' - i.s-. l:(.,l,is la fOB SAl.K Vf C. N. E0YD, . ' Duuduisr, Mwmersrf, Pa. cnticisms appear m most or the tiaiiy . V;l I Vf$'Z papers, all condemnatory, and eon-1 Wfatick victing the revivors of disregarding ''YrJ& their pledges to introduce the fewest J 5s",'. " alterations possible. These articbsj rftop.VVii'Si1 quote scores of examples where the j f, Tj5f fj thanzes were purely frivolous nml h lk jr 1? W ? .-. , 1 .1 1 - t. .- ft rti rj m t c i j t ana denounce me sen- -".jsoa-jj 3 S.pt .tnlr I. 1', ':--':.-;- . Dackzckn, Sorsnot; cf fJf. Srsilr'l-. "' ":"7 rein s r . .i. r-. j t, Feoi end Em, end c.7 5;;,' rau;i cr3 f,cf::s. Jrt Pri. : r 1-1 t-..-t-t f.()11;, . a ,U.,.U '... !. A t.i.i mth f-T rV r,C, triliii.c rtUr i-t .",) ' at.' ; r,-Y ' v Ti'li iiiit-iu 1. iv i-;-.-4j, i;-j , ... , y- ECID 21 ill d2t;co:;-?3 a: A. VOGELER & cn --"'"fr.i.l DOES ! WONDERFUL CURES! I ad fcllOh t at l.i wnf li., f Swans it elem-iaeo tie syn-a of Um I A pfttton. 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SA.v.l -,A ,,-,0'H April 3 - ' Xfoxici:. 1 lieMy warn t li rn''"-' pruml f-ry .tf wr.i.n i jjrf tB!..ber 1. !1 1. the other ''1 nteive any h1 for the".; .Ja rt-S eatliTouU iLisifprtMDtation jn them. , u i A3BE1
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