The Somerset Herald. EDWARD 8CULL, Editor nd Proprietor. WEDNESDAY. . March U.V. It is said that the Republican ?Ute Committee of California is in frvor of Mr. Blaine for President. Secretary of the Treasury, J udge Feltrer. is f poken of as likely to sue- holat Mr. Hunt as Minister to Russia. One of the members of the Dem oeratic Congressional Campaign Committee is Mr.Caine, the Mormon Delegate fmm Utah. Gks. Grant ha gone to Old Point Comfort, Virginia, hoping by change of climate to find relief from the ef fects of his injuries. The prohibitionists of Ohio, by resolution, solemnly recognize God as the author of the government of roan Letter late than never. The House has passed by a vote cf 227 to 40, a bill placing all sur-.;.-;n,r .nlHitrn nf the Mexican war o on the pension list. The bill has apparently a good chance of becom ing a law. Tiieke is a remarkable unanimity of opinion among the friends of all the other Republican candidates for President, that .Secretary Lincoln was specially created for the office of Vice President. The Republicans ot Louisiana are the first in the field with dsle-j gates to the Chicago Convention. Ex-Governor Kellogg leads the dele gation. Their first choice is said to be Arthur; second choice, Logan. Theke is now a bill before the legislature of Rhode Island, with every prospect of becoming a law, that no HCtion shall lie for liquor drank upon the premises. This would insure "cash in advance-' for the dealers. Gen. Bkavek is spoken of as a candidate for Congret-sman-at-large before the coming convention at Harrisburg. Certainly, a better or more popular candidate could not be selected. We hope ta see the day when the General will be order ed to "co up higher." Watterson, the great free trade editor f the Louisville Courier Journal, says: "If the Democrats beat ttie Morrison free trade bil 1 the Democratic party will go the way the old Whig party went." We can assure Mr. Watterson, there will be few wet eyes at the funeral. At a meeting of the lawyers of Philadelphia last week, a resolution was adopted requesting the Judges of our Supreme Court to hereafter wear gowns when on the bench, as it the custom in England, and aho of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. If General Iogan should be nom inated for President, of course, Mr. Lincoln, being from the same State, could not be placed on the ticket for Vice President. It is said that Hon. Ievi Morton, of New York, now Minister to France, would make a good running mate for Ixgan. The New York Herald, an una dulterated free trade iournal, says that Randall will carry fifty Demo cratic votes against the Morrison free trade bill now before Congress, and it thereupon reads that gentle man and his followers out of the party, and turnB them over to the Republicans. The legislature of Iowa has pass ed, and the Governor has signed a prohibitory liquor law. believied to avoid all Constitutional questions. The experiment will be watched with great interest, particularly by the people of other States, where similar laws have been tried with doubtful success. The Trustees of the Presbyterian Hospital at Philadelphia, have re fused to accept a donation of J2,500 rent to them by the managers of a ball. This is "looking a gift horse in the mouth' with a vengeance. They will have none of the money of wicked dancers. With them charity does not cover even one little sin. The Democrats in Congress recog nize the necessity of "going slow" on the tariff question, by pruning down their free trade bill and cutting off the entire free list, with the excep tion of salt, coal and timber. When the coal operators and miners of this State get after them about elec tion time, they will wish they had let the duty on coal alone. There is a suspicious eagerness shown by a certain class of politi cians, to persuade the public into the belief that neither Blaine, Ed munds or Lincoln are candidates for the Presidency. We feel it safe to assure the voters, that neither of these distinguished gentlemen will refuse a nomination, if tendered by the National Convention. Mr. Converse, of Ohio, last week undertook U redem the Ohio Dem ocratic pledge to the wool growers of that Stale, by calling up a bill t re- etore the tariff on wool. The Demo- cratic majority in the House took me glance at the bill, and straight vray bolted like frightened sheep over a wall. A seedy adjournment was voted, and the Ohioans who were fooled into voting the Demo cratic ticket last fall, by a promise to restore tho duty on wool, were left iu the lurch. The politicians of Ohio are claim ing that as an October State she will point the way to victory or defeat, and that therefore she should have as important a say iu the selection of a Presidential candidate as New York, with her controlling vote. Ohio was always noted for the mod esty of her politicians. . . i - - . ....- It looks now as if your Uncle Randall was going to have a practi cally solid delegation from this Stato for President in the Democrat ic National Convention. Wallace's idea of relegating the control of the party to the South and West, does j not appear to take with the uon hearted" Demotracy of Pennsylva- i ma. Mr. Whaktox Barker, one ot Philadelphia's rich men, who amus es his idle time by running a news- paner and to whose good offices we ! are largely indebted for our present Gubernatorial blessing, has again forged to the front, and has taken charge of Ge -col r.n iinrriKnns rim " i campaign in this State for President There are few better men in the country than Harrison.but hischan ees will not be visibly improved in this State, by the advocacy of Whar ton Barker. Delegation aiter delegation of the renresentatives of the working men of the country, have been visit ing Washington to protest against the natsatre of the Morrison free I r? trade bill, but all the same, the Dem ocratic majority of the Committee has resolved to report it to the House, and pass it if they can. This pertinacity of purpose on part of the tree trade Domocracy, clearly fore shadows what is in store for the cauntry if the Democracy succeed at the approaching .Presidential elec tion. It is becoming more evident every day, that all the Republicans need do to win, is to select as their candi date, an honest, pure, capable man, who will earnestlv carrv out their principles when elected. It matters not what his name, or from what part of the country he hails, so that he is a representative man, thor oughly in accord with the funda mental truths of Republicanism. Of course, individual preferences large lv divide public opinion, out in the ' vi- presence of an overwhelming mentthat Republican ascendency is necessarv for the preservation of our Votmnal timrw-rit v all personal de-! i ' sires and aspirations will be subor dinated to the common good. The majority for Funston, (Rep.) at the late election for Congress, in the Second Kaaas district, will reach nearly l'.,(XX. The fight was squarely made on the tariff ques tion. The Democrats nominated a free trader and the Republicans a thorough protectionist, and both took the stump. The contest was clearly defined, and the issue ably argued before the peopie. with the result that free tradeent down, be fore the American system of pro tecting home industries against for eign cheap labor. This proves that the West is not wild for free trade, as the Democrats claim, and that her farmers have not been misled by the cry that they suffered from protec tion to other branches of industry. The district was Democratic last year. IIox. Samlel J. Randall, the prospective candidate of the Demo crats of this, his native State, for the Presidency, is subjected to the fol lowing bit of bulldozing by the great free trade Democratic journal, the New York Herald : Will Mr. Randall bolt the caucus ? The polnician in Washington have had an exciting day over the discovery (announced yesterday in the Hcrald'n dispatches) that Mr. Randall was prepared and intended to form a coaiititu with the Repub licans to defeat the Morrison bill. The latest news is that the tariff re formers will summon a caucus as soon as the bill is ready to report to the House, and have it formally adopted there as a party measure, which every Democrat must either the majority, and believe in aquah support or leave the party. fication to limit th suffrage. We That, in our judgment, is the best limit itany way. I believe it a mor way to bring this matter to a Equare ! al obligation to" get rid of the Inder issue. Mr. Randall has been sulking ' pendents, even if they are in a raa ever since his defeat in December, jjority, and that opinion is shared by The Democratic defeat in Philadel-1 the good white people. That was phia the other day fias not improv ed his temper, apparently, liut a man who. at the last session, voted with the Republicans and against his party could scarcely expect to be elected Speaker by the party he had tried to defeat. He has now come to what a western man called "the prevarication ot the roads," and the country sees what the Herald con stantly foretold last summer, that Mr. Randall on this, the only live question in our politics, is not a Democrat, but a Republican. Undoubtedly Mr. Randall with his followers will leave the caucus rather than be bound by its decision. x a .,1,1 i,. . that he has been playing a huee but i empty game of blunter and bluff. It yluTat Halstead gives it as the re will be a solemn moment for Mr. ,B1,if (tr h observation in W.-ishln-r- Randall when he severs his connec - tion with the Democratic party ; out his abandonment of it will be, un der the circumstances, the best tiling that can happen to it. ThE Democrats started out in this campaign with the theory that, with a Solid South, they only need the electoral votes of three or four Northern States to ensure the suc cess of their candidates. As the South was heretofore the hot-bed of free trade, and as that was tho princi pal factor in the calculation, it was a first step to elect a free trade Southern Democrat Speaker of the House, counting that afterwards, all things would be added thereto. A free trade committee cf Ways and Means did follow, by grace of the , j , ' 7 ,. Speaker, and a free trade bill, care- fully eliminating all protective prin- ciples, was speedily evolved by a majority of the committee. So far. all was plain sailing, but so soon as the people became aware of the prin ciples of the bill, they began to pro test, and to the dismay of the tree traders, not a few, and not the least vigorous of the protestanta were found to be in the Solid South. While the Baurbons have been dreaming dreams of the olden time, when capital owned labor in th South, her industries have been stimulated by Northern capital, factories and mills have sjtrung up within her borders, and from thence comes up the voice of sturdy free labor, calling a halt to the free trade dreamers. Reluctantly and ungrace fully retrogressive steps had to be taken, and the sweeping free trade bm ,ich at fiRft Jt WM contem . to hag been gQ amen j. , , ... , , . v w.ir rprnrmizable bv its author, and the free trade list has been almost entire- E3 K eliminated, with the hone of snueezine the bill through. But the end is not yet. Northern Democrats 1 " have taken the alarm since the peo ple have been heard from, and hedg- t : . i .1 t J .ing is going on all arounatne uoaru lvnnsvivaniamai was luiucni.wiu ously told to go to the Devil with her protective tariff notions, is found, with her votes in the HouFe, to be a lion in the path ; Ohio, New Jersey and New York find their interests mi endangered, and it now looks as if the bulk of the Representatives of these States, regardless of party af filiations, will be found against this fr.-e trade folly of the Bourbons. There will be" a fierce struggle to carry the emasculated Morrison bill through the House, and it may be successful, but there is no danger of its passage bv the Senate, or of its being approved by the President. The proposed "Solid South free trade1' campaign is "busted," the Democratic rators and journals are beirinnitm to sins verv small about it, and before long we will have these fellows who roared so loudly in the index, vowing that all such talk was an attempt on part of the Re publicans to get up a tariff care. The snake, however, is only scotch ed, not killed. It will drag its wounded length along, more quietly for some time to come, but look out for its venomous fangs, whenever it thinks a safe opportunity to strike has come. (iMMXIXGS . Congressman Morrison should rend up the history of Noah's Hood, i bat jJt.c:imtt 0f the fellows ho were unprotected. The leaky tub in which lie is eailin nothing but an old oyster can for bailinsr. won't be useful when the r:iins descend and the fountains of the great deep are broken nn. All that will remain of statesmen like Morrison will be the bubbles where they go down. Inter-Ocean. A cargo of eggs from Copenhagen were brought to Philadelphia hist week, and the price was brought down 10 cents, or from 42 to ofi cts. per dozen. One thousand hogsheads of saur-kraut were also imported from Germany this winter which sold at Slo" per cask, containing CO gallons. This will give our farmers an idea why it is that there is such frequent falls in the price of their products in the large cities. Estab lish free trade and we can procure all such articles cheaper from for eign countries than our home pro ducts. Do you understand it, farm ers ? Telegraph. Some of the Democratic brethren of the North w ho have been ridicul ing the investigation of the political murders in Copiah County, Missis sippi, and declaring that it was for political effect, should read honestly the testimony. For instance, the following from a "rising young law yer by the name of Dodds," who took occasion to say that "I Jam no Bourbon, but a Conservative Dem ocrat."' This was part of his testi mony, which is worth repeatinsr : If you should send your biggest man, General Grant, down into our country to organize the negroes, lie would be killed at once. Ail our trouble last fall was among the county supervisors. We were de termined to elect our men and get rid of the Independent. We would have taken human life it it had been necessary in order to get rid of them. Yes, we would do it if they had a majority of the votes. In some plac es 1 denv the rid.t of franchise to the cause of our troubles last fall. rUKSIDKXTIAFi STRAWS. Cincinnati Commercial Gtizelte (Re publican) : The drift of the Repub lican undertow seems to be toward Blaine and Lincoln. They would make a toleiably frtrong team. Emory A. St-.irrs, of Chicago, eives it as the result of his observation in I New York, that there is a strong un Idertow in that State in favor of Ed i munds.' The Independents and the miaiwaris, ne save, ooin iavor mm. i . i i . . c t : : ton that Senator Sherman will be the Republican Presidential nomi nee and Senator-elect Payne the Democratic nominee. Each nomi nation forces the other, he thinks. The Atlanta Constitution took ad. vantage of the 4th of March to come out in a double leaded article favor ing Tilden's nomination. That pa per predicts that Tilden and Blaine will be the opposing candidates, and it looks forward to a brilliant, excit ing and aggressive campaign. Pittsburg Commercial Gazelle (Re publican : The great nsass of Repub licans would cheerfully support Ed munds if he were nominated, but the select few who are just now in ! tne soarcl of ideals are careful to iu",c ,lU!M"i7 'ersee the party defeated than to j PUCCeed under the leadership of j Blaine, Arthur, Logan, or Sherman, 'To say who shall not be nominated ,s D0.ul' 89 presumptuous as lo.pomt out who shall but if the idealists stick to Edmunds, and their choice is ratified at Chicago, everything will be lovely and success assured, Denver Xewt (Rep."): Mr. Chaffeo will take five other delegates to the Chicago Convention from Colorado, and the six votes will be cast by Chairman Chaffee for John A. Logan for President. The kickers may as well place this announcement in their hats and get used to thinking it over. Colorado will give tho first solid vote for Logan that will be cast in the Convention. Ode County Press (Rep) : Thero can be no questioning the fact that President Arthur s caretul, laithiui administration of the affairs of State has done much to break down the wall of preiudice which existed among a largo olass of the people when he entered upon the discharge of the duties of the Presidency. And to-day many are quietly asking themselves: "Can the country get a better man for the place ? Washington correspondence Phil adelphia Times: The report that Grant and other StalwartB are for Logan is rot true. Grant has always had a kind word for Logan as a ioldir, and Logan has made an earnest though as yet an unsuccess ful effort to get Grant on the retired list, but there is nothing between them concerning the Presidential nomination. Logan himself will not venture to claim Conkling; and n for Don Cameron, he being in Europe and taking no part, the re tiort has no foundation. Minnesota Tribune (Rep.) : With out being invidious and without by any means exhausting the list, it is not out of place to mention among the nublic men who would honor the Prestdential office: Blaine, of Maine; Edmunds, of Vermont; Ev- arts and Arthur, of New ork ; tox of Ohio; Harrison and Gre.ham, of Indinana: Sherman, of Missouri Harlan, of Kentucky; Fairchild, of Wisconsin ; Windom, of Minnesota ; Allison, of Iowa, and Miller, of Lali- fornia. Nith any ot these as its Standard bearer, the Republican party could look the country in the face and confidently ask to be per mitted to furnish "for the seventh consecutive time the helsman for the shin of state. It is next to an abso lute certainty that the Republican candidate will be chosen from the list here given. Exeter (N. II.) Neus Letter : There is a steady turning of Republicans in New York to President Arthur. The New York Tribune no longer opposes him, and the Albany Journ al and Utica Herald, two of the pa pers which less than three years ago charged him with complicity in the murder of Garfield, speak of him with respect and as the probable choice of a large majority of the Re publicans of his own State. Senator Miller and Congressman Skinner, two of the most conspicuous and earnest half-breeds in the State, have practically given in their adhesion to his candidacy. In truth, all the influential leaders in the revolt of 1SS2 are Arthur men now, and this New York demonstration represents nothing more than the impotent movement of 1SS1, which was laugh ed out of existence before the elec tion. The republican party has dared 'through a committee of Senators to investigate why Print Matthews was shot down last November as he de posited his vote in the ballot-box. And all along the line we hear the derisive shout. "Oh, you want to wave the bloody shirt, do you?" Why not wave it? The proof is pos itive that Mathews was killed be cause he dared to vote the Repub lican ticket Democrats had warn ed him that death would be his fate unless he taved awav from the polls or voted the Democratic ticket. But that no one might misunder stand the situation, while the wounds of the murdered man still dripped Wood, the Copiah County Democrats held amass meeting, and indorsed the murder and honored the assassin. More than this, they thought they had done a brove vet, and published their resolutions in the local Democratic press; and for fear the mourners might not under stand the matter, copies of the reso lution were served upon the stricken family of Mr. Matthews, liut we are told "people want peace" so they do. We are told tltev "wish to let bygones be bygones" so they do. We are told, "they are sick and tired the bloody shirt" so they are. But they will be cowards, and not men, tired as they are, if they refuse to take note of crimes that strike at the very heart's blood of the repub lie. The people must not only take note, but demand redress and pun ishment. The crime itself is not greater than those committed in other sections. The atrocity con sists in a great partv standing bv and holding the clothes, furnishing the implements of death, and then de fending the murderer and honoring hiua as a benefactor. Liter Veean, WHAT UARKELS WEKE TAPPED It is not a week asro that several prominent Democrats let out the s e cret of Democratic defeat in 1SS0. Thev said it was want of money The Republicans had all the patron age and most of the money. As, according to one of the interviewed, it was purely a question oi money, the Republicans won. We had some doubts of this at the time. It was not in accordance with the views people usually take of the de termination of national conflicts of this kind. It is said that monev will do everything, but that is to be taken as an Americanism. At last the public is properly in formed. 1 he roster of contributors in aid of General Hancock's election or so many of them as did not give less than g jOOO is furnished the bublic Six men, Tilden, Barr num, W. L. Scott, the Paynes of Uhiu, and . J. Gordon, contribu ted the sum of $190,500. And still Hancock was hot elected. It is safe to say that not less than SSOO.OOO was contributed in aid of General Hancock's candidacy. And still he was notelectpd. How much money would it have taken to elect General Hancock? Would it have taken a million? Of course we know nothing about the sums expended by the two par? ties. It is not likely that either party will ever reveal the expendi tures made. But when six men con tributd nearly two hundred thous and dollars, and thousands were struck for a percentage upon the salaries attached to the positions they were promisod if Handcock succeeded, it is too late to attribute the defeat to wan of money Gen eral Hancock was defeated because he was not sound on the tariff, and not even a million could have saved him from defeat Each party had money in adundance each spent too much, more than was necessary and the tariff did the work. North American. NOW YOU SEE IT AXD.NOW YOU DOVT. There is such a surprising unan imity of sentiment in the Democrat ic ranks just now as to the course necessary to ensure success that we cannot resist the temptation of quo ting the following extracts from two leading Democratic journals in their respective States. The first from the 'Indianapolis Sentinel may be taken as an expression of opinion from tho mouth of Senator McDon ald, who is quite a promising candi date for tho head of the ticket. It says :' "Wo now say, as we have said be fore, that if the Democratic party, as a party, go into the Presidential can vass with the avowed admission that it is absolutely essential to car ry New, lork in order to elect, us President, and if tho managers of the canvass direct their energies and the means at their disposal to that end, sure and certain defeat awaits the party. While we would not abandon New York, but would adopt and use all reasonable means for carrying it, we would mafce sucn a light in certain Western States as would satisfy the tricky manipula tors of New York votes that that State can vote the Republican ticket and still a Democratic President be elected. The htock in trade must be taken out of the hands of the New York tricksters." The other comes from the South which will furnish the bulk of the Democraticelectoral vote, and possi bly if the present dissentions contin ue, all .that the Democratic candi dates will receive. The Raleigh (,N. C. AVim navs : One of the ridiculous rumors of the day is the suggestion that New York shall be cast loose to drift into the Republican camp while the Democrats are seeking to carry Il linois, Iowa, and other Republican States out West. Some of the Western members of Congress are fit subjects for the lunatic asylum" "You pays your monev and takes your choice. " Hamburg graih. Tele- The Kaunas Warning. Right here comes a warning voice from Kansas, which last Saturday elected a Congressman to succeed the late Dudldy C. Haskell, Kansas has seven Congressmen, but at the last election thare were only three districts ; consequently Saturday's election was in the old district and covered more than one-seventh of the voting population of the State -in fact, more than one-fifth. The sig nificance of the contest lies in the fact that it was fought on tariff ground that very ground on winch we are told that we can win. i ne Republican candidate, the Hon. Ed ward II. Funston, of Carlisle, was a Prwtectionist. The Democrats, Greenbackers, Anti-Monopolists aitd Knights of La bor all combined on the Hon, Sam uel A. Riggs, of Lawrence, one of their best men, an effective cam paign orator. The issue was stpuare lv between protection and "revenue reform," and the Republicans them, selves are surprised at the magni tude of their victory. The vole was thv heaviest polled for years. In 1S82 the Democratic and Greenback candidates bad together more votes than Haskell ; now Funston has more than 5,000 majority. No won der the majority is a surprise to everyone. It shows what we shall witness on a large scale if the Presi dential campaign is fought on tnat revenue reform ground. Wa.ihburn 8 Opinion. Minneapolis, March 0. The Hon. W. D. Washburn, who is now in this city, was asked to-day what he thought of Arthur's chances of nomination for the Presidency. He replied "He h;s no chance at all. If he ever had any boom it has died out, and I don't think he lias a pos sibility of the nomination." "What will the Login boom amount to?" "He probably could get a pretty solid support in Illinois and a little out of that State, but nothing like a general backing. At Washington there is some talk of Edmunds, and he would probably get about half the New England votes, with a few out side, probably New York. The same could be said of Blaine, who has quite a following, in spite of himself. Probably some man of whom little has been said will get the nomina tion." CunvaKH ofXew Jersey. Princeton, N. J., March 7. -A short time ago the Gazelle sent postal cards to a few Republicans and In- dependents m each county asking for opinions as to the prevailing sentiment as to the choice of Repub licans for Presidential candidates. "The responses," says the Gazette "show a rather surprising unanimity in favor of James G. Blaine as the first choice of the Republicans of this State. Reference an given from eighteen out of twenty-one counties, and every county that indicates a choice and all do so but one or two expresses a very warm first choice for Blaine, while Edmunds seems to be a good and solid second. There seems to be no difference of opinion as to the choice of Lincoln for the second place on the ticket." FuNier ou the Campaign. New York, March 6. Ex-Governor Charles Foster, of Ohio, said to-day that he thought that State would go Republican this fail, al though it hud fixed on no Presiden tial favorite yet. The Ohio delegates would go to Chicago absolutely un pledged. Blainej Sherman and Lo gan were favorites, with Logan in tne lead, lor 1 resident, and with no particular favorite for Vice-President. Governor foster denied that he :s a candidate for any office, and said the Republicans suffered last year from both the wool and the liquoi agitation. The Democrats now have the responsibility, which they will not be able to meet. The campaign, he said, would be fought pn the Southern question, the Dan? ville and Copiah outrages. Gunning For Randall. Washington, March 5. The Car lisle Morrison wing of the democra cy, finding themselves routed in Jheir frei-trade programme, are now turning their attention to ex;Speaker Randal, whom they hopeto demol; ifh on account of his opposition tq their schemes. The cbanoes are largely in favor of the Speaker. Ad journment on Monday as a means of preventing Mr. Converse from getting in his wool tariff bill is not regarded as a test as the free trader and pro tection Democrats voted for adjourn ment, desiring not to precipitate a discussion until the whole subject is before tho bouse. Allegheny County Declares for Ran dall. Pittslrg, March 5. The Fifth Legislative District Convention to elect delegates to the Democratic State convention was held here to day. Resolutions favoring a tariff for revenue but not fostering mon opolies, and favoring the revenue system and indorsing Randall as a candidate for the Presidency, were adopted. These resolutions were indorsed by the other conventions to-night, giving Randall the unani mous support of tho Democracy of Allegheny county. Naked in the Snow. Cincinnati, March 4. About two weeks ago Andy McDevitt caused the arrest of Rev. Father O'Boylan, of the Catholic Church of Corning O., for permitting tho use of a wheel of fortune at a Fair then in progress for tne benefit ot the church, f atb er O'Boylan gave bond for his ap pearance at Court, and officiated at the church on Sunday last as usual. In the course ef his discourse he commented in the severest terms on his recent arrest, and denounced McDevitt as a villain and a murder er. That night a party of eight men went through a blindingsnow storm to McDeviu's drug store. Finding McDevitt in the store alone they drew revolvers and marched him to the door. They brought him mile west of town to a secluded spot and then compelled him, at the muzzle of a revolver, to strip to the skin. As fast as the carments were handed to thera they cut them into shreds with tiieir pocket knives and cave the tatters to the winds. When he was entirely naked the leader of the pitiless mob ordered him to kneel in the snow. Thev made him swear never to return to Corning and left him. It was feared by many that McDevitt would perish in the storm, but he renched New Straitsyille last night. Ha had se cured clothes and was heavily arm ed. To-dav he left for New Lex ington. A special from Corninj states that a warrant has been issued for Father O Boylan'a arrest. The for ces and sentiment are pretty evenly divided between O'Boylan and McDevitt, and trouble is feared between the church people and those who are not members. Sheriff Crossbie, with a posse of twenty-five special constables, has arrested the persons who made the assault on McDevitte and taken them to Lexington. There is much excitement A Commercial Gazette special says Father O'Boylan denies that the McDevitt mob was under his sanc tion. The committee was not ap pointed to eject McDevitt, but to investigate the statement he had published concerning him. O'Boylan says further that McDevitt had threatened to take his life. Kobbini; an Express Company. ' St. Louis, March 3. Prentiss Til ler, money clerk of the Pacific Ex press Company here, disappeared at about three o'clock yesterday after noon, taking with him one or two valises full of money packages, the total amount being nearly 875,000. It is the custom of the company to keep tht. money clerk and day watchman on duty in the office on Sundays, the doors beingsecured by chain locks and no one being ad mitted except messensjers, who arrive on morning trains and haye money packages to deliver. Yesterday af ternoon Tiller was on duty and the watchman remained in the back room attending to the door, the front door being locked. About two o'clock the watchman went out to lunch, leaving three messengers sit ting by the stove. While he was gone Tiller went out and returned with a stranger, who, the messengers thought was a new clerk or messen ger. Tiller and the stranger went into the front office, and were thought no more of. An hour later Tiller came into the back office and remarked to the watchman, who had returned, that he believed he would go out and get some luncheon. He then re-entered the front office and was not seen again. Half an hour afterward the watchman went into the front office to get something and was surprised to find the front door unlocked and Tiller tbsent. He spoke of it to the messengers, who were sitting by the stove, in the rear, and they told him of the stran ger. This alarmed the watchman and he summoned the superintend ent, who soon discovered that about a bushel of money packages were missing. Tiller, who is believed to have had either one or two accomplices, is j about twenty-five years old, and was formerly with the American Ex- press Company at Louisville, Ky. No clew has been obtained as to his whereabout. The company has of fered reward of S7,000 for the ar rest of the man with the money. A Constable Guilty of Murder. Johnstown, March G. Michael Smith, the constable of Prospect Borough, which adjoins Johnstown and who has been on trial at H bens burg for the murder of John Mina han,was covicted in the first degree. The trial began Tuesday and clased last evening. The jury was out less than two hours. On August 25 last Smith was in Cambria City, where he met Minahan, when some trouble took place. Smith, being a consta ble, threatened to arrest him, but did not say what for. Smith had been drinking that day. and became very much excited, as he always did when in liquor. He left Minahan for a few minutes, then returning said he would arrest him, and pulled out his self-cocking revolver. Minahan attempted to take it, when Smith shot, the bullet entering his right eye. Minahan was unconscious un til the fallowing Monday, when he died. Minahan left a wife and one child, and Smith has a wife and seven very young children, who haye been on the county for some time. Punishing Both Living and Dead. Indianapolis, March 3. A special despatch from Lafayette says : Some time ago a young man named Geary shot himself, and it was thought to have been a case of sui cide. The authorities of the catho lic Church, of which the deceased was a member refuted (under direc tion of Bishop Dwenger) to allow the body to be buried in the church cemetery. ' The father, of young Qeary sought redress in th,o courts and defeated the Co uroh authorities. The body of theyoung man was inter? red in the cemetery and yesterday the elder Geary was officially ex communicated, and the ground des ecrated so long as the oody of young ered with bruises, and had been Geary remained in the cemetery. A ; starved to such an extent that noth strong guard is patrolling the cem- ling whatever was found in its intos etery,as threats have beea made to tines or stomach. Bobbinson is in remove the reeeains by vio-'jail a warrant has been issued for lence, - I the arrest of his wife. An Adroit Escape. I.enoir. N. C. March 0. One of the naostidroit escapes known in i . ....tiJ rlttf criminal nitiory wus tueti j by Lucky Joe Wilson,, a famous chief of a gang of desperadoes inff st ing this State. Wilson was, aiier many fights, caught and after a trial sentenced to ten years in Penitentia ry. Ou Tuesday'his counsel obtain- Ail tin nnnuu v1- f-' " r ; Early this morning the warden oi the jail entered his cell and found Lucky Joe lying on his mattress, which was suffused with blood, as was the prisoner's shirt and mouth. His eyes were wide open and starias, his jaws fallen and his limbs cold. Help was summoned and the Douy was carried from tho cell into an outhouse and laid out for burial and placed in a plain coffin. The moth er and sister of the deceased stood by the coffin and wailed bis untime ly end. At dusk this evening, when every one had left the apartment save his sister, she was horrified to see the corpse rise from the coffin, put his hands ominously on his lips and bolt from the room into the night. She screamed and fainted. The ruse was not discovered until an hour after and Lucky Joe had suc ceeded in eluding all pursuit. A visit to his cell showed how artfully the escape had been planned. Wil son had kiiled a chicken and cover ed himself with the blood and rip ping open the mattress concealed the chicken in it. Ho had scraped in a lot of snow and ice from the cell window and kept his hands and feet well frozen in it up to the time when he heard footsteps in the corridor, when he had thrdwn it in a buctet. Therefore, when the jailer entered he found the man's feet and hands so cold as to leave no doubt of the prisoner's death. Kansas Alarmed. Topeka, Kas., March 7. Govern or Glick returned to dav from Wood son county, where he had been in vestigating the mouth and foot dis ease among cattle, and says he found the situation bad enough, indeed. In answer to a reporters inquiry, the Governor said an immense meet inr of citizens was held Wednesday eveninj, at Meosho Falls and a com mittee of six men wa3 appointed, with Lieueenant Governor rinney as its Chairman, who were instruct ed to adopt quarantine regulation at once, establish a dead line and s"e what can be done towards raij- injr money enough to buy up all the diseased cattle and kill them. The Governor further stated fie made a nroposition at the meeting that if Lieutenant Governor Finney, their .State Senators, legislators and prom inent stockmen would give their names as secretary he would exe cute a State note to them for the amount of money required, with the understanding that he would recom mend at the next session of the Leg islature the amount be appropriated by the State. He also advised the commissioners of Woodson county to make a similar note and appro priate it out of the money in the county treasury. The committee was t' have met yesterday, and his Excellency felt confident they would act upon his suggestion. As yet the disease is confined to one neighbor hood, a locality about five miles square, and one -hundred head of cattle are afHicted, but itisepreoding very rapidly, and unless checked soon is likely to become a serious epidemic. Housed by a Somnambulist. Lovkland, O., March 9. At mid night last night a lady yisiting at the house of Mr. M. Vandervort, of this place, jumped out of her bed room window in the second story while asleep, and went along the railroad track in her night-clothes, where she met two railroad watch men. .She told them that Mr. Van dervort !8 entire family had just been murdered and that she escaped by jumping from the window. She was barefooted and bareheaded, and looked frightened, but was uninja ed and talked rationally. The watchmen returned with her to the Vandervort house, and saw at the window a man with a revolver in his hand, who inquired what they wanted. The watchman then routed the town, and the people went to the Vandervort house in force. The family were found safe and sound, and explanations followed. The family had been tilking about mur ders up to tha time of going to bed that night, and this seemed to have settled deeply into the mind of their guest, bhe had never been subject to somnamnuiism. In ISanger. Paris, March 1). Legitimist cir cles are excited over a reported plot to assassinate the Comte de Itris. The report is based upon the fact that on tnday last a package hand ed in at the railway parcel oflice at Lyons and addressed "Comte de Paris, at his hotel, Uua Varenne, Paris," was found, upon examina tion, to contain an infernal machine. The package was oblong in shape, being seventeen inches long and twelve inches wide, and the otlicials were led to examine it by finding that the wrapping had become un done. They found in it a flat metal box, containing a clock movement and a quantity ot dynamite. As the Comte was absent from his Paris residence, having gone to Cannes, had the package reached its destina tion and exploded, the domestics would have been the sufferers. The Straw From Kansas. Washington, Maroh Senator Ingalls said to day if the returns from the rural districts keep on coming in, with the gains indicated, the majority for the Republican can didate in the Second district will he unprecedented. The Senator said that he would not be surprised if the majority would reach tve thous. and. He sai d he did not expect such large gains in the country dis tricts, as tho free trade Democrats made extra exertions among the farmers. Mr. Funstan, the Republi can Representative-elect, is a farmer by occupation. Starved and Beaten to Heath,. IsniANAPoLis March 3, A special despatch from Martinsville, Ind., reports an unusual case of murder which occurred there on Sunday morning. A stepson of James Bob. binson died under suspicious rlr. cumstancea and a post-mortem ex amination was ordered. The inquest developed the fact that the child had been beaten until its body was cnv. We announce without hesitation, and without fear of diction that our assortment of Goods this season wyX UXSUKPASSED in i MJTT X J ' variety, - Furnishing Goods! .NECK-AYE AE! HATS AND CAP In these Departments we have the pren' Line of Goods ever offered to the public visit is sure to aflord both pleasure and a faction. You should not fail to call and see Stock of boys' school and Childrens' Everything new and attractive is represent T. . - , . . il,n 1 w 1 l A , 11 i 1' 1 1 i t ILtT muni) mat uuiiuv; in uuu ltuiIii' comes to our immense establishment to ply themselves and little ones. L. 1SI. WOOLP 77 One-Price Clothier Hatter, Fnrnixhfr. 3TE"W STOKE, Johnstown, J?a, Canle Disease. F.rie, March 0. A terrible cattle disease has broke out in the eastern part of this country. The disease which has confined itself so far, to our neighborhood, has the form of carbuncular anthract-a blood diseaso rnd was superinduced by too much food. While the general condition of the animals remained good, they were affected with a distressing swelling and bloating. At the joints there were large path- erings, which were very sensitive, The result so far has been fatal, as the hoofs came off, taking theia at the first joints, ana therefore the animals had to be killed. Upon l I'll.! T advice of the best authorities the disease has been met with a mnde of treatment which it is believed will be successful. The treatment consists of a purgative of sulphateof soda and moiasses. after the purga tive the dose is repeated daily in small quantities. The swollen parts are also bathed with htt water several times daily to encourago eirculation, after which the parts are bathed with equal parts of tinc ture of rodine and soap liniment. A solution of water seventy five parts, glycerine twenty five parts, and carbolic acid two parts, is applied to the feet. The stable floors are disinfected with a solution of a pound of vitriol to twelve gal lons of water. Miininutive lepe radoe. Oil City, March 9. A band ill i i wouia-oe eowoovs. wnose memners do not average 10 years of age, has been broken up in rranklin by the spanking process, liberally adminis by tered parental hands. The bovs hadfixedtheirplansinamannerthat would have aone credit to the worst desperado of the west. They held their meetings, matured ttieir plans, and a lew days ago had everything in readiness for their departure, Their captain, familliarly called ueauwoou Jim, gave Uie tinal command. In ordr to have no cause to return he said each mem- her of tho band must poison hid mother. He promised to produce the poison and have it on hand me next day, wiien it would he di- v'ded. All the boys were to poison their mothers in the evening, and mom- ing wa3 to find them far away. No doubt they would have carried out their diabolieal plot but for one small, seven-year-old youngster, who was afraid his mother would sutler too much. The captain,, to satisfy him, agreed to apply the poison oil the servant girl firt, and, if she died easilv. then thn r.mihcr mnci f,ill.o.- Th Hurviint in'r! 1,-...,...,) ... hear the agreement and informed the bovs' parents. The result was that each particular member of the gang wad interviewed with a strap iu the wood-ihed. I, South Carolina Outlaws. U)LCMbia, March .Bopan Cash nas escaped to the swamp, but Col onel Cash, father ot Bogan, is a cap tive. Lust night a nosse of turK- armed men, commanded by Chief State constable Richburg, left the fitv nnilur nrrLm fm... . num mw viu vei nor to proceed to Chesterfield county and canture W. B. Cash, who kil'ed W.H.Richards, Town Marshal of Uieraw, and whom the Governc had proclaimed a fugitive from jus. tice. The posse arrivui at Gash's place early this morning and sur rounded the residence. Col. K. B. Cash, father of the fugitive, was arrested. Bogan Cash, sleeping in an outbuilding, escaped in the swamp which is now being searched. E. B. Cash discovering the picket at day light, armed himself and attempt ed to escape. He ran against a memoer oi tne POSSe. who levplftil h a rifle and compelled Cash to drop h18 weP Fine Flate-qiaw Windows Smashed. New York, March 8. Nine of the plate-glass windows in the d rv cmni N store of 4Me3srs. Ridley Son. in Grand street, and which were val ued at S.J00O, were smashed this morning io a very mysterious man ner. Cobblestone and brick wrap ped in paper and handkerrhitf.. tne weapons with which tho smah- ing was done. Although there was a police officer and two wotxhmon on the block, tho parties who did the work were not . u;ai., & Son blame the Early Closing As- sociation for the work, and have c icwara ior tne arrest and conviction nf tKa -r, ..4 r.L. Style, Cheats HVlAXINr STREET, Kailroad l.ahorors on a Sirit, CiiAMiiEKSiiua;. March Hungarians, Italian- ai,d ,-.. employed at the eastern nnl of lilue mountain tur.nei. o." ti: Pennsylvania railroad, hare receiving S1.2-J a day. Ther : demanded SI. .")) which w;n rt: them bv the contract!, Mr. lw Yesterday ab mt one huti-lr-! eighty refused to return t Mr. Keating at orce telerui.:.. New York for liborer, : are expected to arrivs on M . or Tuesday. There areor.lv one hundred hands at w.'rk i, thev beinir principal lv n r .- .i ' lear of an outburst i.- The exployes at tiie wfi-ro ei.-l, and those of the Kitt.itiuiiv ta'. are still at work. Irfens or MarniouiMn Washington, March 0 Mr. J T. Caine, Delegate from I'tah. m an argument before tli Ho committee on Territories t--dav. which he criticised the Ennui bill and the Casciday bill in rl:! to polygamy as unconstitiuiji inent to punish polygamy as a cr: if it desired to do so: but. r.tvvr less, the Mormons believed tii.it was right. He cited the ex.ua; ! the patriarchs in support vi t belief. Utah was a barren w. until the Mormon" came ami c verted it into its present state fertility. Thev had hIiel : of Government hold California ! .- in? me .Mexican war am , "-rv consideration from the G,ver.;:u Furious jinow Slnlr Salt Lake, Utah. March. 'X 0:) on Friday nilit a smw s! half a mile wide, extending : summit down, at Alta, swept a the works ot the new Emma in: killing twelve persons. The bodies were all recover! cept one. It was the wor.t ever known on the LittieCottuiiW' the snow pilinir fortv frpt lii'h. T damage to the mine is SI '.'' . storm was too bud t brinu the ies down. Of the killed seven! i tamilies. Geo. Culling. Superintr: entofthe mine, emne down t "! bringing the first news of the '. aster, jj Grant tin Crutches. New YtiKK, March C Grant, accompanied by Mr-... ' and by Miss Bessie Sharpe, i niece, drove to the lnr.sy!v:i: Railroad Depot this boarded Directors' car -I. 1 1 Philadelphia. Wilinini'tun ami 1 "more Kailroad, which was attai. to tle Washington train. Tiie''; eral waIied with the aid ot'cru'.c. aml dragged his left leg. Hi.- t. w.as ,,u'l aRd florid and exc-i'i his lameness lie seemed to I good health. He expects t re Hi' at Old Point Comfort. Va., fur " time if the c!i mate agrees with Mr. I'attuit Oil'i. .Altooxa, March i On Fel-rtir; 2ti last, Hon. Jdm Patton. oil;.' wensville. (.'le.irfiuhl i-ii'.iiitv. a . ' ,, dressed a letter to the School U' of tliat 1rouo'!l. acconjpai;ii'-' th a draft of SliJ.UiiOto i-a- the erection of anew ii-hoi L "u: ing. In his fetter to the -i Board, Mr. Pulton savs : "I li-4' with the mnot if r.nf :M of vnll. k 1 the want of school advanUi:? OUr YOUth. Xr.ar lot better advantages for those vh ! to follow, and do what we can provide fr them." A Paymaster's Care!esne f ? u tf rut f riU T A hoti v. .4 t? ...i... ii . : liar- l,u of u,e Chic, Burlington ' (Jui'ncy Railroad? left hia office I lunrh without rhwirr the sa.'e eo bination. The othr"attache oft office had also left for lunch, t V Ii:.rt luttVi rvlnrn it VI-.IA fitlind I"- 27,UUO had been abstracted from t: safe. So far the investigation def ops no clue to the thief, but .!" that there was an utter lacs oi ordinary precaution againt tiiettu Cluutl Burst in CnliforniA. San Fha.nci.sco, Cal., M-n - p Mmid.hnmt ne.ir Calicote. at U- o'clock last night, covered in an it uia t), .mi-tr of ih SuthriH'i eific Railroad for a distance of sJ al hundred feet with twe feet oi and water, tiunaicgs u".tA .i ,i4.th of eig&lcrn
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