The Somcreet Herald. KOWAXD 8CCTX. Editor and Proprtator. WEDNESDAY ... , W The President yesterday nomina ted Judge Blatchford, of New York, for Supreme Judge and John Ruseel Young for Minister to China. It ia reported from Washington that the cancer of the tongue, with which Senator Ben Hill ia suffering, is developing rapidly and that he cannot lire long. - - ' . . Hon. Simox Cameron celebrated his eighty-third birthday last week in Florida, where he is now on a vieit The venerable statesman is as hale as most men at fifty. The Republicans of Lycoming county last week elected delegates to the State Convention, and in structed them to vote for General James A. Beaver for Governor. Official statistics show that since last March 769,919 bushels of pota toes, Valued at SS.iGl have been imported into this country from Ire land, Scotland and Nova Scotia. Bcttee is now being imported into the United States from Holotein in large quantities. It is said to be a most excellent article and can be sold cheaper than fancy dairy is now rating. Farmers and ranchmen through out the West say that the present winter was the best for stock of any; experienced for the last generation. But little feeding was necessary, and ile stock is in fine condition. Keen' eyed prophets see a war cloud on the European horizon that will soon envelop Russia and Aus tria, and probably the balance of Europe. War between the two first named powers is said to be inevita ble. Mr. Johs W. Garrett, for about the fortieth v time, has announced that the Hempfield road, leading from Connellsville to Wheeling, will be finished in the near future. When the near future arrives well make a note of it A kind-hearted old lady once said that the devil ought to receive praise for his perseverance, and the remark applies to the "independ ents" in this county, who fancy they are holding the Republican party out by the tail. Reports from the lower Mississip pi country show that suffering and Jobs there is very great, and that the situation is growing worse every day. Thousands of families are utterly destitute and on much of the over flowed land it will be impossible to make a crop this year. Coxklixg has declined to accept the appointment of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and now all the great editors of the country who were standing on their heads for fear he would accept, have again landed on their feet and are abusing him for not speaking out sooner. It appears that MacLean, the man who 'shot at Queen Victoria, has been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, and was, at one lime at least, undoubtedly insane. Never theless, he has been commitU-d for high treason, and as the proof is clear, will unquestionably be con victed. . v The American people are now eating butter, Bauer kraut and pota toes from Europe. There must be something wrong in the manage ment 'of our farmers, or this thing couldnt be.- This country has the capacity to feed all the lialance of the world, and here we are import ing prime articles of food. News of the death of the R?v. Henry Highland Garnet, our Minis ter to Liberia, has been received. The dead Minister was one of the most eminent colored men of this country, and was an honor to his race. He was much esteemed by his white brethren where known, and his death will be widely regretted. - f , .. . . It is reported from Washington that the vacancy on the Supreme Bench has been tendered to Senator Edmunds, and his friends have hopes of inducing him to accept it. While he would make a most ad mirable and acceptable Judge, al most any other Republican could be better spared from the Senate than the very able and level-headed Senator from Vermont Under the new Congressional Ap portionment bill the Electoral Col lege will consist of 401 members, instead of 269, as in the old college, and the next successful Presidential candidate must have 201 votes in stead of; the memorable 183. In case Dakota becomes a State the college will contain 404 members, and if Washington is also admitted, it will consist of 407 members, and it will require 204 votes to elect Serge axt "11 asos, who ".shot at Guiteau through his cell window and missed him, has been sentenc ed by the Court Martial that tried him to be dishonorably discharged from the V. S. Array With the loss of. all pay,, and.' to be confined at hard labor in prison for eight years. This appears to be a severe sentence, but it must be remembered that this was an outrageous attempt to mur ler a prisoner in confinement While Guiteau deserved no tyttipathy, yet the Jaw must bo vindicated,, as ft will W h-n he is bung. ' ) . Drum the firet four months of the present fiscal year, there was a large inc-ase in the receipts from internal revenue. Latc.y there has been a perceptible decrease, which. is attributable to the action look ing to a reduction of Co taxes on spirits atd totacco. Dealers in these articles will not invest tul it is definitely settled what the rate of taxation is to be. The longer Con gress dawdles over the matter the greater will be the loss of revenue. The Democratic Governor of Ar kansas has bad hard lock: It was discovered that he was about $150,- 000 in debt to the State, and he, with a great show of indignation. demanded "an immediate and searching investigation. r He got it, and the committee by whom it was made report that the charge is true, and show by a system of double entry book-keeping that the Gover nor has expended 'something over $100,000 that be cannot account for. Geseral N. M. Ccbtis, of New York, has been indicted by George W. Curtis and other leading " Inde pendents" for collecting campaign funds from the Federal office-holders during the la.t election cam paign. General Curtis has been a reformer and has fought Mr. Conk- ling and President Arthur in con ventions and at the polls, and has always declaimed stoutly against campaign assessments. But in the mutations of politics he found him self at the head of the campaign committee in New York. There he discovered how necessary money was for the conduct of a campaign, and at once he began to assess the Fet'eval office holJt. - This out raged the finer feelings of his reform brethren and they have had a pros ecution commenced against him. Over four hundred witnesses have been summoned, and altogether General Curtis is having rather a warm time of it This a clear case of dog eating dog. GLEAXIXGS. We wonder if there is anything Roscoe Conkling can do short of dying that would please his ene mies. They were very toad when he was nominated as Associate Jus tice on the Supreme bench, and now they are mad because he does not accept the place. Queer world queer people in it The Vicksburg Herald says: "State rights, that is, the right of Southern States to put their, shoul ders to the wheel and help them selves out oi a difficulty, is knocked higher than a kite by piteous ap peals for Government assistance." There is true pride for you, but all citizens should take an equal pride in seeing that the wants of suffering humanity are so relieved that such piteous appeals need not be made. It is a mistake to say that the Democrats learn nothing. X. Y. Tribune. It is safe to say the Democratic party learned in 1S72 just what the Republican party is learning in 1SS2 that the New York Tribune is better as an open enemy thai as an unwise pr pretended friend. A friend by profession and a traitor by practice is about the attitude of the Tribune toward the Republican par tv. InUr-Octnn, Investigations by the Kentucky Legislature disclose , a barbarous state of affairs in the convict camps of that State. It is stated that in one camp only thirteen out of fifty convicts survived a year of excessive labor at lumbering, for want of food, clothing and medical attendance. The ' lash and thumbscrew were used, and deliberate murders were committed by the keepers under a plea of enforcing: discipline. In a coal-mining camp, where the men were driven at the point of the re volver into a dangerous tunnel, a fall of earth three hours afterward killed eleven of then. If the state ments published are true, the cruel ty practiced upon Kentucky con victs exceeds that of anv other State thus far reported, and for the sake of humanity we trust they are exag gerated. Speaking of Stalwarts reminds me that I have a letter from a citi zen of the Fifteenth ward of Phila delphia asking me to define the meaning of the word stalwart as now j used in politics. As I see it by com ing in contact here with the repre sentative men of all parties, a "stal wart" in politics is a man who is honest and frank in his opinions, and is not afraid to assert them, no matter what the circumstances may be. He is a man who hates hypoc risy and despises a person who is a fraud. As I saw it pouatedly put the other day, "a stalwart is a man who is always true to his convictions, honest in his devotion to principles, bold and candid in the expression of bis views, manly and open in his an tagonisms, and unswerving in his fidelity to his friends.n Washington Carremondence PhU&. Star. ; . ' j OOXBXIXG8 TREASON. It is bard to restrain one's impa tience at the silly and disgraceful attacks on Senator Conkkng. in which he is charged with being re sponsible for the assassination f General Garfield. "The man wL reflects upon such a charge and can not see its injustice is, unconsciously j or otherwise, an enemy to rcpubh- can institutions. This is not a "question of whether j Mr. Conkling is a good man or a bad one, a superior lawyer or an ordina j ry pettifop-jeT; it involves tbe liber- j ty of opinion, tbe right to diSerlthat time without food or r'r. from the rrea4ent,a privilege which if denied to the nfeanest citizen in tbe land woul.i provoke a storm of! over one hundred's nd 'twenty-five. ickSfroatMNL ' ' (Nothing on the bodr to iisrtt What sensible men mean by I ltbusmar.into a great crime the opposition of a Senator to the Executive ? Do they want to rke it high treason to 'speak T ' fd against him who happens t be President? Are his acts to I cred ? 4s be divir12-e the ax iat tings, anJ in cap le of rrong t f It seems in dib .that ch a 'no trine shou 1 be announ A and ip r 3rted ia this countr, and j X a thousand' mouths' are" cryingscty day, " Crucify this man who dared to oppose the will of a President'' "Ah, but" says one, "we may oppose a President when he is wrong, but not when he is right" And who is to determine when be is right and when wrong? There will always be those to insist that the Executive is right . Who shall be the umpire ? " ' "' There never was a difference of any moment Letweed the Senate or House and the President when the hitter was so slightly assailed as in the Conkling-Garfield controversy. Indeed, not one word against the President was spoken by Mr. Conk ling until the letter was published giving his reasons for tendering bis resignation, and that only 'Stated, without exhibition of temper or abuse, the simple facts. When Schurz and others opposed Grant in the Senate, their denunciation was bitter in the extreme, and he was arraigned as a despot and tyrant whose removel in some ' manner would be the salvation of the coun try ; but nothing of this character appeared in the late quarrel It was the long-continued strife at Al bany that engendered excitement and bitterness, and that was brought about by the course of the half breeds, who refused to go inte a Re publican caucus and abide by the result Why, on January 9, 1875, there appeared i;i the New York Tnbune a shan denunciation or President Grant tor favoring Kellogg against the Kuklux of Louisiana, which closed with these words : " If he insists on fighting it out on this line, some one will play Brutus to his Crcsar without fail, which, by the way, would be a great blessing to the country." :- The man who published that ad vice to murder Grant is now whining about Conkling being responsible for the assassination of Garfield. This whole performance is a re proach on the good sense of the American people, and a libel on the memory of the man these slanderers pretend to honor. When the news of Conkling's defeat was brought to Garfield the latter expressed sympa thy for him, and stated he would appoint him to any office in his gift But these mahgnants seek to hold him responsible for a crime which they ignorantly helped to precipitate themselves, and abuse the memory of the President to gratify their own hate and personal spleen. - It is time that such twad dle and rank injustice be denounced as it deserves. If Mr. Conkling is personally unfit for the office to which he has been nominated, let him be opposed openly and square ly on that ground ; but let us cease to encourage the idea that, in this land of republican freedom, opposi tion to any man in office, high or low, shall constitute high treason to the state. Inter-Ocean. - Slapplsa d'TTmn' Face. Pittsbvrgh, March t. At Greens burg. Pa., to-night a prominent pro fessional man spat in tbe face and slapped the cheeks of Rev. B. J. Jennings, of the Episcopal Church. It seems that at the Sunday School, of which the professional man's wife is a teacher, Mr. Jennings yesterday made a remark to the effect that the lady was untruthful. To-night her husband heard of it, went to. the reverend gentleman's room, in the Zimmerman House, and made the assault. Mr. Jennings has been in "warm water" before, but this is the first open outbreak. He had re signed from his charge and his res ignation was accepted on Saturday. In the early part of his ministry there he nearly involved himself in an altercation at the open grave of a dead member of his Hock, and ever since he has been losing ground. The chastisement received .to-night is conceded on all sides to have been merited. ' ; ' Wife Murder. Lancaster, Pa., March 7. James Thaw, an Irish farmer, aged about 52 years, shot and instantly killed his wife, of about the same age, this morning, on their farm, near Bart ville,a little village in the lower end of this county, eighteen miles south of I-ancafcter. For several years they have been quarreling because she refused to reconvey to him the prop erty, a piece of twenty-two acres, for which he had made her the title some years ago when financially embarrassed. This morning he was taking away from her house ' his clothes and a gun which she said belonged to one of the boys. She followed him to the barn and tried to take it from him, when he step ped off a few paces and fired at her, killing her instantly. Only their three little children witnessed the crime, the oldest a girl of 13. They gave the alarm, and neighbors col lected, but the murderer had fled. and thus far has evaded arrest A Kentucky Tragedy. Mount Vernojc, Ky- March 8. On Monday night Mary Segman, of ltoundstone, and her mother, Khoda Segman, were assassinated by an unknown person. They lived about seven miles from here. - The assas sin entered the little cabin about midnight, and shot first at Mary, with an instantly fatal result - tie then went out and consulted with some one and presently returned and killed the old woman. Mary's little children gave the alarm to the neighbors, when the assassin was gone. There were nine wounds on tbe body of Mary Segman, any one of five of which was fatal. The as- sissin fired fifteen shots in all. There is no doubt of bis having had a confederate. James Bishop, whose brother was killed a year ago at this house, has been arrested on auspi- cian. - -i A Btarvias Tnunpt Tafcea. a Box- . Car ia Time to Die. Uhrichsvujje, tramp was found .March Ma A in . a Panhandle Kaurcad box car when .opened to- day in the yard here, in a feeble and famished condition, and he died soon after taken out, and has bees buried in our cemetry. It is supnoeed that he was locked in the car probaUy week po and the poor kZlzw,' hot being able to make an alarQ or to be heard tram without, has iia2n til He was a small man, h&i LL eves ai.d hair, and would not vcLJi him. not a paper or letter bans 'found. , . - I BTZZSfVlt SOUTH ERX FIjOOD. Aa aX Resort of tbe Dtst arjr uTa Fa mil' Encape. Lr xi Rock, Ark., March 9 . M. fl 7! -ri arha wn sent (L Deskl cour f ly order of Gov. Churchill U aid i attributing Uoverpm' at sup plier t persons rendered CJetitute by"tueT . erfiow, returned yesterday. In an ii crview with a reporter he said thai along the river front of Desha county, 100 miles in length, the destituticn is beyond descrip tion.. ,,.Tbe, water,, has reached an unprecedented height. Scarcely a farm house or residence on the bot tom have escaped' the inUdation. The people have been compelled to build false floors in their houses, or to seek Safety 'on' higher ' lands, where, in rudely constructed camps of brush, boughs and cane,' they sit and wait for- starvation and death. It is appalling, and, without govern ment aid liberally and quickly be stowed, there is no telling where it may end.: Many ' persons have been feeding on carcasses of drown ed cattle. Personal j investigation, at well as the assurance of respecta ble gentlemen,' convinced Mr. Har ris that not fewer - than 600 families averaging six' persons: to erch, in Desha county alone, are dependent upon the charity of the Government He believed it no exaggeration to place tie "gross number, old and young, : at 3500. The indications point to a long continuation of the overflow, the most sanguine hardly daring to look for its subsk! : .oe be fore next May. ' ' New Orleans, March 9. A dis patch from Captain M. L. Scoville, of Shrevcport, reports that the weather at 9 a. m., was clear, but that previous to that time rain had fallen for forty hours and the river was rising rapidly. '- A dispatch from Bayon Sara re ports that two bad breaks have oc curred in tbe Point Coupee levee, between Red Store and Red Church, endangering a large district of valua ble sugar plantations. ' New Orleans, March 9 A dis patch from Alexandria, La., says that the levee gave away there this morning at 4 o'clock: ' " A Nashville special reports that the Cumberland and ' its tributaries are rising rapidly, indicating a rep etition of the January overflow. The horses were removed from the race course again to-day on ac count of the " encroachment of the water, and families in the lower portion of the city are moving out" The Time-Democrat' 9 Bayou Sara special says: "The Point Coupee levee, three miles above here, on the west bank of the river, gave way last ; night .This is a new levee not yet finished.1 Yesterday citizens cut the old levee in front of the new, work for the purpose of letting the water against the new levee. No danger was apprehend ed, but the cut became 200 feet wide, and the water rushed with such forceagainst the new levee that about fifty feet was swept away. The break in the new levee to-day was three - hundred feet wide and widening. It would be a waste of money to try and Btop the crevasse. This will flood a portion of the False River country and will affect the best lands of West Baton Rouge. The cutting of the old levee was a fatal mistake.' Chicago, March 9. A special dispateli from Little Rock, Ark., says that Governor Churchill was found this morning in his private office examining letters which had been received from sufferers by the recent floods, and dictating dispatch es in response to telegrams for imme diate aid. "The extent of the disas ter can hardly be measured," he 6aid, in answer to an inquiry, "and I feel greatly depressed over the situation. I received this morning a number of letters from prominent men in the overflowed district in Ar kansas, who draw a gloomy and graphic picture of the death and suf fering around them. I am also in receipt of numerous telegrams every day appealing for aid. The situa tion is appalling. It will be many weeks before the sufferers will be able t' help themselves, and the threatening aspect of the water indi cates that the worst has not yet come. It may be that the generous people of the whole country will be appealed to for aid. No one without experience of such disasters can form any correct conception of the present trouble. . General D. McRae, Assistant Sec retary of State, said to-day that the overflow has set Arkansas back ten years. . It would be impossible, he thought to raise crops on the over flowed land this year other than cotton, and that could not be done unless the water subsided shortly and allowed tbe ground to dry out some !. at in time for spring plant ing. General McRae also said that tbe effect of the overflow would be to drive hundreds of people from the State; that colored people in the overflowed districts were already be srinninsr to mizrate to Tennessee and Missouri in large numbers, and that others would lollow whenever they could get a boat to take them away. The city ia thronged with refugees from Desha and . Chicot counties. nearly all of whom have interesting accounts to give in connection with their pilgrimage. .,. One of these. named John McElyn, said : ;'I lived near what is known as Cypress Bend, in Desna county. X nad a certain cabin situated on an elevation which has never been , overflowed, and I thought never would be. Some days ago the Mississippi began to rise and I stopped my children from going to school, fearing they would be drowned in the bayous with which thnt county abounds. ; had several head of cattle further down the river, and I, brought them home for a like reason. Mv wife trot very uneasy, and suggested that we had better go to Arkansas City or Little Rock, as she felt in her, bones, that there would , be a big flood. I laughed at her fears, but it was not long before I felt that I had better hare followed, her advice, for in a short time the rising' water cut off communication in every direction. One night over a week ago we went to bed oppressed with dread, though I still thought the watr would fall. L had secured a dug-out and lrdend ed to make an effort to reach Arkan sas City , with, my. family unless there was . a change by the next morning, it began rammz earlv in the evening and by . the time night set in the rain was comins down in torrents. luuuk.Uaa about 10 o clock when my wifecried out "Jack, the house is giving away," and, sure enough,: it was. The cabin slowly Went to pinoefi, the water pouring ii at every jcrevice. while mv wife and chjiuVea ahxieed and crijwL , Look ing out you could see notivnc jjtf a wide expanse of witer, and I fcne? that we would- a brngtrtljed in n abort ti me, and so took the 1 bed' cord of an iild-fashmn.! Uihi and tied some 6f tbe Iocs which had fallen in from one end of the cabin together, and on this raft I placed my family, taking only a few limits and leaving everything else. With a fence rail, which had been intend ed for fi re-wood, ,: I v fashed out tbroh the opening in the t use. and Use next moment, we Ldated awar; I nave been m food many scrapes, but that i adventure surpasses "thera all. f Fw'we escap ed, bow we got tangled in tree tops, how we were picked up late the next da not far irom' Arkansas City, 1 can hardly telL It is enough to know that we all were saved, but I lost everything cattle, horses, farm ing tools everytari ' I y f ' f 5 Life ia the AroUo tianda. .. . Washington, D. CL, March 7. Mr. W. W. Danenhower yesterday received two letters from his son, Lieutenant John Danenhower, of the Jeannette Arctic exploring expedi tion. The first one is dated at Bulun, mouth of the Lena, November . 9, 1861. , There is added a postscript dated at Yakoutsk, December 17. The trip up tbe river from Bulun to Yakontsk. occupied thirty-six days and was made on sleds with dog, reindeer and horses. : Lieutenant Danenhower describes tbe journey as one full of severe hardships. There were stations at intervals on the way constructed of logs. He describes the last one of these, seventeen miles from Yakoutsk, the best one of the lot, as a small log building with a cow shed attached. It con tained one room, in which were about twenty people when his party arrived. In the center was the body of a horse that had been killed for food and brought into the room to thaw out During the night that the party stopped at the but Jack Cole, the boatswain, while laboring under aberration of mind, got up and started out to walk to New York to see his wife. The thermometer was six degrees below zero. It re quired all of Lieutenant Danenhow er's persuasive powers to induce him to come back into the hut At Yakoutsk, Lieutenent Danen hower says, he found a man who understood French, and was taken to the Governor, who treated him with great kindness and considera tion. He detailed a lieutenant with instruction to give the wants of the party special attention. They were quartered at a small hotel, conducted on the American plan. . Lieutenant Danenhower spoken of his stay in Yakoutsk as having been exceedingly pleasant and comfortable under the circumstances. . ". On December 24th the Governor sent an officer to Lieutenant Danen hower to ask him at what time the Christmas festivities usually begin in America, and when informed it was usual to commence on Christ mas Eve, he sent his sleigh for the party to come to his residence for supper and to spend the evening. ; ' In speaking of the terrible voyage of the party, Lieutenant Danenhower says they had to travel 700 miles over the ice from the ship to the mouth of the Lena. They landed in 6hoal water, and were compelled to wade two miles to land. They were forced to travel 100 miles further before they reached shelter, and he 6ays he was up five days and four nights without sleep or rest He mentions the fact that out of the tnirty-tnrce comprising tne crew and officers of the Jeannette, only thirteen are known to be living and one is known to be dead. v;- Two Buckeya Farmer Fight a Dnel . . Not According to the Coda Cincinnati, Mar. 8. In Brown County, Ohio, north of Ripley, in the backwoods, isolated from rail ways and i the telegraph a des perate encounter took place, notable from tbe character of the cobatants and the circumstances of the fight The actors were Peyton Stout and Henry Brown, respectable farmers and neighbors. Both were in Rip ley last Monday, Stout with his bug gy, and Brown on foot Stout invit ed brown to ride home . with him and the latter accepted. Both were sober, and they chatted ' pleasantly until near their homes, about eight miles from Ripley, when ; Brown drawing a dirk-knife, suddenly re marked, "I've had an old grudge against vou, Stout and you've got to settle'it here." They both got out Stout deliberately hitched his horse, and stepping back to his bag-, gy, got an axe handle, and the duel began without witnesses.. Brown closed in on Stout and inflicted two stabs in his side, one of them very dangerous. Stout disengaged him sell and used the axe handle so vig orously on Brown's head that he had to be hauled home in a wagon, where he lies at tbe point of death. T mragel jr Attacked bj a Hone. Plaixfield, N. J March 10. Henry Jackson, a colored . man em ployed by . Mahlon Vail at New Market near this city, lies in a crit ical condition from injuries received yesterday in an encounter with a youns stallion the property of Mr. Vail. Jackson was leading the ani mal to the barn when it suddenly sprang upon him knocked him down, ana, kneeling upon his body, Degan to tear his ; clothing and flesh. ; feeveral bystanders went to Jackson's aid, but were unable to drive off the horse until a blanket was thrown over his head. - This bowildered him so that Jackson was enabled to get away and start for the barn, but the enraged ; animal made another rush at him, and knocking him down again endeavored to tram ple upon him. The bystanders at tacked the stallion with clubs and stones, and finally stunned him and rescued Jackson. ; ,j h r wsmw"""'" i ....-ill A Shooting AJtiray Between Editor. Kxoiville, Tenn., March 11. -A shooting affray occurrd this ' morn ing between James W. Wallace, Ed itor of The Tribune, Democratic paper, and. William Rule, Editor of The Oironkle, a Republican paper. The Chronicle this morning con tail ed an article charging ,Tlu Tribune with publishing a sensational arti cle and then Jieing out of it, It also branded fhe editors of The Tribune as "cowardly puppies.?' ?,WaJhice met Rule on etreejt this evening and demanded a , retfactipn. This Rule refused to make, and fie tiien struck Wallace oyer the 'ea1 with a cane. - Wallace drew a revolver and shot at Rule twice. Rule 'fell, but was net hurt Wallace walked away, and afterwards surrendered himself and gave bonds to appear. , ' " ' Snow Storm. . l ' "'' Milwaukee, March 9 The mmi .severe snow storm of the season prevailed here all afternoon and to night and will cause great delay to trams through 'the' horthwest. if iad reached at times a inlzaitvrJ forty-foor miles per how, V i A MYSTEKY SOLVED. A Wealthy Ucraiaa Farmer by Two Women. Killed Milwaukee, March 9. A tragedy has jurt been unearthed at Ahnapee, Viscc sin. In 1S73 the remains of ohn (ioetticser, a wealthy German, were Lund burned in his bouse :: A young" man named Jacob Kozins now conies forward and Utilities as follows : ? The last tiiae I saw Goettinger alive was in Blalinck's meadow, on Saturday evening. July 20, 1S78, about 7 or 8 o'clock. There were present at that time Mrs. Blalinck, LlrsJ Goettinger, Goettinger and my self. Just before this Blalinck and a hired girl had gone home. We were raking hay. Goettinger was talking with his wife and daughter, but I do not know what was said, as I did not understand the German language. . '"X was raking hay and did not stop work. When they were quar reling I saw Blalinck's wife stick a pitchfork into Goettinger about tbe belt While she bad the pitchfork in him, Mrs. Goettinger struck him on the head with a fork. They held him down and covered him with hay. , I was so frightened that I be came unconscious. I was only 15 or 20 steps from them .at the time. Nothing was said to me about the murder, and in about half an hour we all went home. After arriving home Blalinck came to me and threatened to kill me if I ever told of it That night I saw Blalinck and his wife go into the meadow. The following night I saw them go toward Goettineers house and soon after I saw the house in flames. I swore to a lie at the inquest when I said I kaew nothing of the affair, because 1 was in fear of Blalinck." , A Novel Salt for Damages. Laxcastee, March 10. A suit for damages was entered in the Com mon Pleas Court of this county to day, by B. Frank Echleman, Esq., who. represents Mrs. Lydia N.John ston, a widow, living in Paradise township, this county. The widow alleges that Daniel Esbenshade, a man of means, has damaged her reputation to the extent of $5,000. Both parties are members of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Esben shade being a vestryman. One of his duties was to take up the collec tion, and on one occasion, recently, after he had passed the plate to Mrs. Johnston, he alleged that she had taken a twenty-five cent piece from it He told several members of the church that she had taken the mon ey, and it finally came to the ears of the pastor, who, after service, went to thejlady and told her of the charge, She denied the charge and demand ed that they search her, which they did not do ; and now, having previ ously borne a good reputation, she demands damages in the sum of $5,000. - : Fiicht With Indians. .Santa Fe, N. Mn Mar. 7. Gov ernor Sheldon received news from Taos Pueblo yesterday, which, il substantiated, is serious. It is to the effect that, lour days ago some Taos . Pueblos became drunk, and were arrested and placed in jail. They escaped, and Deputy Sheriff's Mien and Martinez started to the Pueblos town to rearrest them. They and their posse were met by fifty-nine Pueblo Indians, and a fight ensued, in which Deputy Sher iff Miers was killed and Deputy Sheriff Martinets was mortally wounded. The murderers are not yet captured. The Taos Pueblo is one of the richest and largest in the Territory, and heretofore the best feeling has existed between the Pue blos and surrounding Mexican towns. Of late too much whis ky traffic has been going on, which the United States authorities should stop. Governor Sheldon has sent to Taos for the latest information, and news is hourly expected. Washington Territory. Washington, Mar. 8. Mr. Aid rich, of Illinois, was instructed by the Committee on Territories to re port favorably the bill for the admis sion of Washington Territory as a State. The Republicans all voted for the report except Dawes, of Ohio. He wa9 not satisfied that the Terri tory had sufficient population for a Sta te. "and further, he thought that the Dakota bill would bejeopardized by the introduction of this measure for the - admission of Washington. All the Democrats voted against it Aldrich's report on the bill contains an elaborate statement of the re sources of the Territory. Its popu lation, according to the census of 1SS0, was 75,116 ; tbe vote in 1S80 15.823 ; the taxable property in 1881 $23,708,000. It is free of debt The present taxation is but 2 mills on the dollar ; the amount of poll tax for 1881 was 8107,971. ' A Village Destroyed. Baltimore, March G. The vil lage of Prince Frederick, the county seat of Calvert county, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on Friday night last only a few dwellings re maining. The new Methodist Church and parsonage, the Court House with all the records, the Jour nal (newspaper) office with all the type and press, the hotel, the store of J. W. Shemwell & Bro., offices of J. A. Wilson, John P. Briscoe and John B. Gray, with all their books and papers, were entirely consumed, as also (he records and papers of the County Commissioners office and the office of the Register of Wills. The fire originated by accident in the Methodist church just complet ed, which had not been dedicated. The total loss is propably not less than $50,000. ' : . ; i Lawless Acts. .. ALKGQUERQUE, N. Mn Mar. 9. At Los Lunos, yesterday. Charles Shel- ton, John Keymond and Harry Erench were taken from jail and anged to adjacent trees by'mayked men. " Sheltdn murdered Foreman Woodruff laU fklL Revmond killed James McDermott in January last at Gallop, on tbe Atlantic and Pa cific railway. French, alias Samp son, was one of a band of despera does who ; killed Deputy Sheriff Jones at Cranes. - The mob algo took fwo negroes from the jail, beat them unmercifully, and then turned thein loose. , : ' " ' ' '' .' . I'." Patat KiplosloB. . '"'"j'-. Malototte,' Mich.,' March 6. The Lake Suiwrior Company's pack-l ing house blew up this morning, killing four'" men Peter Doyle; Cbartes Hatch,1' Herman Eckstrom and another, name unknown.' Noth ing 'remained ' u 1 show where tbe building stood. ' It'contained about; Ooe'flhd'a-hBli ton's f powder. Twd j iCfuls of the reniains of the men illed flavfe' been found. ' ' A Baak tooaea $70,000 bjr tbe DUTi jn . esty of a Traated Clerk. : New Yori Mar. 9 The officers of the Fc .ih National Bank, of this c''ji' while examining their books last Friday afternoon, discov ered thut some of their neotiabl bonds were missing. The clerk m whose chance the necuritie were was in PI ni afield, N. J., having gone home sick, tie was telecraphed to at once, and replied that the seeuri-: ,1'J Mexico. 1 he river bank. on tirs were in the hand of certain par i both silt were liued with enthusi ties. Oil asVinirfrtr further rrtir-n. as-tic iectitor9. The party was lars he requested that tiw cashier j cluperoued by Superintendent Jo might be sent to him. On Monday i" !'1' Kernn, of the International, the cashier went to 1'lainfield, and!"'1 consisted or Gen. . 1 . &her there the clerk confessed that he had i '"an. (en- Ioe, Col. Morrow, visit approprialed $40,000 of securities ort- Major Sumner, post commander, which he had hypothecated, and' 1111,1 wife and attendants, including that by false entries on his account j tbe Mi-ses Teal, of Syracuse, N. Y, book making it appear that sc me j atlJ Hughes, of Bridgeport, Conn, person owed the bank money who j The A merican interest were repre- really did not he had appropriated several thousand dollars of other bonds and securities. He also told where he , bad hypothecated the securities which comprised city bonds, Union Pacific and Lake Shore bonds, etc, ' Upon the cashier reporting at the Jbank, measures to redeem the securities were immedi ately put under way. The were fi nally redeemed at the cost of $70, IX JO to the bank, which is theamount of the bank s loss. The Comptrollci of Currency Knox was immediately notified, and the clerk will be arrest ed and prosecuted as soon as he is recovered from his illness. His name is R. H. Cornwall. He is sixty-five years old, and is the father of eightjchildren, some of whom are married. He has been in the bank for eleven years, and ali confidence was put in his honesty. He was formerly with George S. Robbins ti Sons, brokers, and was afterward in business for himself. Poisoning Case. Dora Avery, the servant girl who is charged with the attempted poi soning of five persons in Providence, K. L, in revenge for a notice to leave, has been committed in default of baiL The grand jury has five sep arate bills of indictment againt her. If all the reports cow afloat are true, she has been a perfect BoJa in the use of poisons. At one time she was housekeeper for an invalid who died" very " suddenly, but the girl disappeared and no investiga tion was had. On another occasion she was one of a paity who went sleighing in Connecticut. During supper at the hotel a bottle of wine was opened,' and in some mysterious manner arsenic was dropped into the glass of a young physician, who however, detected the drug before he had taken the draught She is also reported to have drawu a revol-' ver on two of her male admires for the purpose'of extorting money. She aamits having had arsenic in her possession at her place at Provi dence, but says it must have got in to the coffee ana tea bv accident She was arrested in New York and transferred to Providence. Policy Holders Alarmed. Reading, March 9. Quite an ex citement prevails in graveyard in surance companies in eastern Penn sylvania, owing to the fact that a large number of suits are to be en tered against policy holders in the defunct mutual aid companies that have recently appointed receivers. Receiver McCarroll, of the defunct World company, of Lebanon, is go ing to sue all responsible policy holders who failed to pay their as sessments on deaths prior to the failure of the company. It is in tended that the assessments shall be collected under the contract entered into between the company and the assured, and accepted by the ansi gnee of the policy when taki.ig the same. It id believed that McCarroll has the sanction of tbe highest legal authority in the state, and that this example will be ppeedily followed by his contemporaries in charge of the other defunct associations. If this can be done there will be a very lively scramble among policy hold all over the state. : Trading on Guiteau s Crime. Washington. Mar. 7. Colonel Parker, Chief of Post Office Inspect ors, has been informed of the arrest of,R. Scudder, at Burlington, Iowa, for a fraud through the mails. It appears from the report of the spe cial agent who made the arrest that Scudder had been sending out circu lars calling for money to be used in defense of Guiteau.. He claimed in this circular that Guiteau had been but a tool in the hand3 of a political ring, and that if money enough was forth coming this fact could be woved and would lead to the down all of the party in possession of the uovernment Ihe circulars were signedjwith an assumed name and the money received was appropriated by Scudder to his own uses. He was examined by a United !States Com missioner and placed under bonds for trial. Killed by a Mob. Denver, Col., March 7. On Thursday Arnold Howard and Frank Young, charged with stealing cattle, were arrested and lodged in jail at Del Norte. Next day an at tempt made by the prisoners to break jail was foiled. Oh Saturday night 100 masked men, said to be stock men from Rio - Grande and San Luis Valley, rode down on the guards, the jail was broken open, and the prisoners again attempted to escape. Howard was fired upon and killed outright, and Young was mortally wounded. Howard had been arrested twelve times, charged ed with cattle stealing, and had been cleared in every instance. The Mississippi Overflow. Memphis, Tenn., March 8. Pas- sengcrs who arrived from below this mormng report that at Austin, Mis- dav night The house of John Tay sissippi, between Memphis and He- for was burned at Meadqw Lea. some lena. the river had cut through the miles west of Winnepeg, and bis towu destroying the principal build- wife and . three daughters were ings, among the number the Mason-1 frozen to . death from ' expos ic Temple. The Centennial block, a i ure. Taylor himself was badly fro large brick building, w almost de- zen and Miss Beldon, who was on a aiolished, , the water being twenty j visit to the family, had her finders feet deep all around it Several i and toes severely frozen. One of one-story houses and dwellings were j the daughters is missing and is sup washed away and carried a dis-1 posed to have been buried in the tance of half : a . mile. The loss of i drift while endeavoring to find a stock continues, and the situation is neighbor s house. ' ' hourly growing more desperate. . , Arrested In the Pnlpif. . RocsyiiXE, Me.. March 8. Rev. , of Vponset, JJas ; in Nortli Ilaven, Mut was arrested .'it hist evening, on a charge of crimi- niuiij wiui me wne o a rtsiue ni oi , peven men to tike mm to the hog Thomas ton. Both parties Ix-Iong to j pita I, no violent was his delirium, highly reispecteil fuinines. Ellis Uj On'Fridao the d on which he lay U Baptist clergyman. nJ h keen : brote down, and it was only after s hoMine rerival meeting in thi ec-1 (sreat struirvle that fi wn nnt in tton of the State the'pa.t two Vcars. ; lc SBSsiipicu in nic ,mii u iiiii.ji addressing a large meeting. ACROSS TBE RIO URAXUM An Erent ia the Hist or of American Railway Enterprise. Laredo, Texas, March 9. The most important event in the r lway history of A merica took place here yesterday. " The first International and Great Northern train cromed the Ilio Grande river. This is the hi!t standard gauge track to eutt-r seaieu vy me railway aau iovai oiu- cials of this city and county. A large number of Mexican officials and dignitaries were in attendance. Among the congratulatory messages sent was the following : Laredo, Texas. To II. 31. Hoxie, General Manager, Si. Ijouis, Mo.: Was very lucky to reach San An toiiio last night in time to accom pa- i n)' Mr. 11 era in to Jaredo. W e mve crossed the Rio Grande on the new bridge, and I congratulate you all on this most important interna tional event Signed W. T. Sherman, . General. Hunter, Seruple & Wells have occupied thirty-six miles of the road beyond and have 300 teams at work and have 300 more en route to the front for the next thirty-six miles. 4.-,000 Dcetltut People States. in Three Memi'His, March 7. T..e river continues stationary here, with thirty-six feet on the gauge, the highest point reached this season. There is no cessation of reports of great suf fering by the people in the over flowed districte. In reply to the in quiry of the secretary of War as to thenumher of dtstk-ite people iu his State, Judge Magnum. Commission er of Arkansas, replied he had infor mation of about 20,000, but the num ber is daily increasing. Commis sioner Hemingway, of Mississippi, in reply to the samequestion, claim ed 18,000 as being in a needy condi tion in MissippL Add to these the 15,000 in Tennesee makes an aggre gate of 43,0iX) persons whese condi tion is such as to demand prompt attention at the hands of the Gov ernment The charge in the weatt- er has mcrased the sunenng, and many lives must be lost from ex Fonnd Murdered. Charlottsville, Va., March 8. John A. Massey and his wife, an old couple living on buckeyeland creek, it Unit six miles from this place, wre found murdered this morning in " their house. Their bodies were discovered in the pas sage near the door of their bed room, mdicatins that thev had been dragged from their bed and there murdered. Ax axe of Massey's was found on the bed, but with no blood upon it. ihe victims, who owned some property, doubtless had money in the house. The drawer in which they usually kept it, was found on the floor and ransacked. No one slept in the house last night except the deceased and a small colored girl. There is as yet no clue to the murderer. . Quarreling oTr a Coffin. Ekie, March 8. Linesville was a scene of sensation on Tuesday. The congregation of the Methodist Church progered the ue of their church for holding the funeral exer cises over the body of Mrs. Manee- ly. a spiritualist 1 he minister ar rived at the last moment and for bade what he called a sacrilege in permitting Moses Hull, a spiritual infidel, to deliver the oration. A row followed, but the minister gain ed his point, and the church doors were closed against the corpse. The body was then taken to the Liberal League, followed by hun dreds of all denomination. The deceased was highly esteemed. An Old Laity's Horrible Death. Readixg, March 7. The wife of Peter Goodhcart, aged sixty years of this city, was instantly killed here this morning. The old ladv intended visiting friend iu the country and proceeded to the depot oy a short . cut . A lengthy coal train standing between her and the depot iiieded her progress, and rather than miss her train she made an effort to crawl under the coal cars. v hen beneath the bumpers the train started and tbe unfortunate woman was knocked down and cut in halt Her husband is a weatlhy resiueiuoi uaupbin, near Harm burg. A number of persons have been killed at the same spot The Him oric Drntrgist Has Last. to go at Obf.rlix, O., March 8. Bronson, tne urnggist, wbo fought such a bat tle with the temperance peoDle in aeiense oi his right to sell liquor on the prescriptions of physicians, and who was burned up in the re j ... .. . . . cent fire, cannot find another house here in which to resume his business and will hfve to leave. He seems to have intended that however. since he was orderec to vacate the premises lie was in at the first of April, and when tbe fire broke out e removed his showcase locked the door, and made nq effort to save anytning else. A Mother and Three Daughter PeriNh. Wixxei-eu. Man ' MiwK R i sad disaster has follow! in'ihp (train of the ?evere blizzard of Satur- A Hose Victim of Small-pax. Pitts jji ro, Mar. 7. David Na- varro, who is known as the-'fat bov" a nmueura fa thia city died to-day the niftll-Dox hwnitl f tht jd isea.t. It required the efforts of ain.thcr W He was twenty vears aj;e. SHU II, U al WdgtieU UU, pound St. Tai l, March uti i n. .. . . . " i M Polar nvtr. Muntin:. ti. .. ealey. ut now in l!.e liauus of Tl... 1 ..if t.. i nil I ir , " 11 ureei3 are oti.'ii from the British t'rers n.-i are n'w in ennm om i,IV ri 'I ifss tliiil iro..r sent from Fort Astinibome to r 'H e inarriai reports that "ia men naa made a de,. i L" , , .,mu?SIl'ng half-br. mm uau levieu ou a lot of sniu Kuuua auu rooea on this side ot I.'.. it. t. 1 uuo io iue vaiue ot SiS,UU0. engageu in making these 6euur, and his men were seized bv half-breeds and their Indiana and they are now held bv sur A. a L . a. . U lorcc mat two companies of cum imaiiirjr in me cam loiar river, under Captain are not strong enough to cope iiiuimw, n ure armed ao sume a hostile attitude. It derstood at Helena that a force has been ordered out Vn T-fr laoiniliAma I. T .1 snai anu ms men and to enfc l-tll. . " ineir seizures. A sharp conU:( aiiiiiia.iru ftuu grave compiicatj mav result. - War Inevitable. Lo.NDox, March 9. A Con is learea m omcial circles thit between Russia and Austria i liable, the question of callin tne reserves is being senouslv cussed. It has at last been d-i in principle that some preiiara-, measures should be taken. Th. aggerated apprehensions of the j ace party cause them to look fori ble on a rappronehment wi'h tria. Gelt ln Vsed to it by TUUTinie. Acro.v, Mass, March fsr noise of the explosion of the I, Works yesterday wa3 heard twer miles. No one was killed, 1 Frank Wilson, an einilovp blown 100 yard?, alighting unin;ur ! . U 1 1' t . i . . J m me cauai. i ms is me lourtt-tt explosion in the same mill, and t only one in which no lives were! POSITIVELY CURED BY Benson's Capcina Porous Plasters B-estons Waj thvj aro ?nrrrrril ts V Other Porous Piasters or Exltnul r.cmrd'.M-. First. Bscsdm they possess a!l tha merit cf i; strengthening porupn plxntr, sail contain in dition thereto ths iwwlr ftiM-orcm) powerful m rtj TeKftshleconibiu.it ion whits mi wits it eressed rnhefscirnt, stiuralsting, sevsttrs it. counter irritsot effects. Second. EaBStheTSrSF!nniiiepbnntcfnt!c)j)rr;H WN mi rwiuijiseu Vj UK protCMloS. Third. Because they aro i::e on!; f httcn that nlk psia at once. K'oarth. rtrcscne they trill positively cnred'jrssetwliki other remedies wiil uut cTeii nmie. FKth. Hecmamr oxer fOOO physician and dnurftti h. voluntarily Untitled tiist they are superior toe 'ther plasters or swilicinis tur external use. Sixth. Bccstrss ths icannfsrtnrcrs hare referred tiJ oniy medals ever given fur puroos plasters. Bran's Cap Porous MA SEABURY& JOHNSON, Mannfaerqniig Chemists, ew Tort 1 CI KE KE.MUDV AT LAST. Price WcU. H MEAD'S Kadlcaied CGPNacd SUttlON PUSTES. For Sale by C.X.BOYD, Somerset, Pa. March 1. LOWEST PRICES PCWEllS PREPARED CHEMICALS f10 sFanreresnfcoys FORMULA far vPl(520lbs;of POVELIS PREPARED CHEMICALS This .wbefl mitiat Kt--me makes OndTon cf SUPERIUii VAtKVV.AlE, qcaJ in plant -life and as ccrita of suecetftful crop production as many hih priced Phosphates. TA EXTRA f N trouLIc o i-EXPENSE.l Full direction. Powtix's CH3XICAL3 hart br en tfcorcuVy trwrtJ, give universal laiU.ctlon, and wc of-: fcaiia firmer ti trxrrj Stare as fxferrre. Sen I fur lunphlct. Lcware of imiiixu. Brown Chemical Co SOLE PJUr"!F.TOES, MWUctorer. cf ltiuu. lis. Powell's Tip Top Eone Fertil iser. Price only 335 a Ton, net ash. Con a Meal. Dissolved Cone. Pctash. - Ammonia. Ajd ail ftii--r'e r'ertUijio; iix.amU. IOBACCOMGETMES THE WUBLD-FAHEH BURDETT ORGAN IS FOR SALK OXLY BY I. Jf . IIEFFLEY, MUSIC DEALER. SOMERSET, PEHX'l mm BjTDiu m the bum i IT 13 THE BFJST I"' n ds Cdsnna n mi. bz&u & Ths aopertorttT of ths Bonlett Orssas It nmt, nitwi M4 scknowlsdssd br ths hiuhest bo!'- authorities, sad ths densnd tr them Is itsadll? tnersssiu ss tfesir merits are beeoniliut mors i tcnetraly known. Wast sverybudy wsst Is tor RES r OBa AN Ibr Us Issst amount of mmej i nsniors ersryDouy wsnta us nujtuz.ii. ErnvT Obsas OrassirrsKD Five f isaa. Sold ts Eaiy iMtftlj Piywsttt asd tow for CAS VIOIJNS. GC IT AILS, ACCORDKOS. UANJOH. CIjAIlIOXtnT!. PIC COIAM. FliL'TES, KIFHH, And la M smmthln ra ths BSafiesl tins. Th' Is teet sad BMSt dselrsMs InKnaetloa 0wks br all kemrasMnts oa ssls. Bi.uik Msak Buuks aiM ra psr sf sll stsss sad kinds. SHEET MUSIC & T10US STEI53S I Onrsns Tansd sad Repaired. Masiesl Loatnk- IL .li imt iinArTee Mmilur estAloaraea. 4 ' Uaaiesl L'as," 1 am. Yuan Rssveetrally, I. j. Mim-EY. fehtft-tt Soaersst. Peso's Solicit Ins rvar oners lor -r-reryinin is i. GOLD, nremt ehsoests Bisks SHis- T. Thoss who slsr tsks sdTsaU of the (noil 3 tiuu srs oirered. seosrslly beeoSM wostthy. whtl tbo bs s aot tstprsvs sack easawes masla pnmtr. Ws wsat sway an, Rlrls. to work far as rtabt la taebr swa k''-' lay sas es do ths work propsrly from stsrt. The hselnene will pa j BKirS tfeas oTdlasry wssss. Ei7atT. l''ZJ .ehiM so tasks bkost Toa esa dswats yoar wools ts only year spars awateao.' ""JDf?JIi su G4'is assdsd seat fras. A!dtWs ? iSAoss saetamn iw iw i p . taw work, oi ttlOS SBO Snssos s Oft", -Pottlsad, M aiafc Emk Ache 3 cQODS .. -.. ..- . ..... ;. . . .