mL Cs. TTnrohl h ambhion merely lor the sake of ; The fcOmerSet iieraiU.tt;ngup g quand jn h5s own j r I camp. Mr. Randall can only be put ; EDWARD 8CTLL. Editor and Proprietor. WEDNESDAY. Mwh,M Kepokts come from Iuly that the I'ojw talks of leaving Rome. The value of the cattle now in Colorado is estimated at 1 10,000, OX). The Rhode I?land Republican Hate Convention on Tuesday last nominated the present dovernor and other State officers. Gkn. Grxt is spending a few days at Washington. His health is fairly good, but he is still com pelled to use crutches. The friends of Carl churz are at tempting to raifea purse of ? 100,000 for him. What Carl has done to so enthuse them, his friends do not say. When Jefferson Davis, in a little jxH-ch to the Mississippi legislature the other day, announced that he was still unrepentant, he was cheer ed. This is a pleasant way of brightening Jeff's declining 3-ears, and afford;" a little hartnlcs amuse ment to the audience. i t in Ohio they have just parsed a law to giye common .ense a show. Hereafter, instead of challenging men who are called to serve on ju ries, because they have road accounts of the crime for which the prisoner is about to be tried or discussed the evidence with their neighbors, the' will be permitted tu sit in the cases provided their minds are not so prejudiced by w hat they hxvt read or heard, as to make them incompe tent. It is announced that Cambria county republicans have declared for James G. Blaine for President. Thi practically settles the status of the delegates to Chicago from this Congressional district. Blair coun ty Republicans at their recent con vention pronounced for the "Plumed Knight,1' and the sentiment in Bed ford county is known to be stronglv in hi favor. The delegates to the Chicago convention will be selected in his interests. Shall or shall they not be men true to the party ? This is yet to be settled. The repeated declarations of a number of Democratic politicians, among them a would-be Congress man from this district, that "they are in favor of relieving the heavy burdens of the people by wiping out all internal revenue taxes, save those on whisky and tobacco,"' are rather absurd and far-fetched in view of the fact that the only internal reve nue taxes now collected are on whis ky, tobacco and the circulation of National Banks. The "burdens of the people" would not be mightily relieved by repealing the tax on batik circulation. If the Democratic party does not revise and reform the present iniouit- i'us lann, n suouiii give way to an organization that will do it. W r e'.V H',7. The New Testament tells of a par ty who oil'cred to give uway all the kingdoms of the world, with appa' rently no more thought as to wheth er they were his to give than the Democratic party has as to whether it hits anything to give away. It has already given away any chance it may have had of electing the next President by its war on the tariff, and about the only thing it has left to "give away" is a worthless major ity in Congress and a few tidal wave Governors that nobody would take as a present When, two years since, the Inde jtendent leaders were going up and down the county pr?achin a cru sade against the election of General Beaver, they declared that his defeat would purify the party and make it all the stronger and more firmly un-ted in the Presidential election of lsv4. ..rii, me j -ui v got iia oapusm 01 ..11 Ik. ...... 1 A - 1 A f puri.ication in the election of a Dem- oc-rutie Governot and Legislature- the election of ls4 is ut.on us. and .1. ij ....J fame imiepcnueni leaders demanding that, as evidenue j any particular candidate; and in of unity, thev be permitted to name stead of appointing delegates to the the delegates to the State and Na - tional Conventions. This is the kind I have done it rather preferred to of unity supposed to exist between ' incur the expense and trouble of a the lion and the lamb, when the lat-' primary election, that all Republi ter finds itself in the belly of the jcans might express their preferences, tormer. 1 1 ' News comes from Washington around by the way of the Phi'.adel-1 announced the namee of Messrs. ; ujct raged withvigor, the brute leap phia Timtt that a great row is about . Livengood and Cover, two as warm j ing from wall to wall, clinging to to take place in the Democratic and true supjKirters of James u. camp, and that Randall will kick J Blaine as those whoso loudly pro ovtr the traces. The programme as ! fess to favor his cause, and at once outlined by Colonel McClure is that the malicious lie was sent forth that Watte r m will try to drive the Mor-j these men were lor the nomination rison fr- c trade bill through the par-1 of Arthur and against Blaine, and ty caucus under the lash, and that rather than swallow it, Randall will Lick over the party traces and join the Republicans in defeating it The rdy thing to mar this pleasing, from a Republican standpoint, polit ical arrangement, is Col. McClure 's well known reputation as a false prophet Usually the opposite to that which he predicts, is liable to happen. Mr. Randall's ability to oiake trouble is not doubUd, but ag a politician he is nothing if notcon' eervative. That he will enter into a struggle that will end in putting him in opposition to the Democratic party, ie not to be seriously consid ered. He is ambitious, and while he is the most conspicuous figure of the protective element in the Demo- cratic party, is not likely to sacrifice ' in opposition to the Democratic par- ! ty by' beinc read out of that party, : I and that is more than the free trad- ers will attempt to do. Whek Chairman Scott announced , Messrs. Livengood and Cover as : candidates, one of the two great In-1 dependent leaders of this borough, immediately commenced prancing around town declaring, "these two delegates were regularly set up in ! the interest of a certain individual in this place, and I, for one, won't stand it.'' Means were at once taken to stir up his late Independent fol lowers; pow-wows, long and fre quent, were held ; efforts were made to induce a couple of regular Repub licans to suffer themselves to be used as against Livengood and Cever, and, this failing, a regular caucus was held, and Spangler and Harrison were set up, aRdannounc - ! ed as for Blaine. That the whole thing emanates from the one ma lignant Independent leader who "wasn't going to ttand it,"' is a well known fact, and the attempt to sus tain it by using the name of Rlaine, is a mere dodge. Not a Blaine man outside the little caucus held on Saturday night was consulted, and no one was taken into counsel ex cept the rebels of two years since. If these plotters had been sincere, they could have learned on inquiry that Livengood and Coyer, while regular Republicans, were for Blaine's nomination ; but the truth was not what they wanted, and so they gave circulation to the lie that they were pledged for Arthur. "Bai:kis is willin,' " was thought by Charles Dickens sufficient offer of heart and hand in marriage, and "Barkis is willin", "' or "I'm in the bands of my friends," has been con sidered sufficient declaration that a man was a candidate for any office for these many year" past and gone. This vear witnesses a new departure in politics, however, and now the persons dsiring to be candidates, instead of frankly acknowledging that "Barkis is willin", '' think it necessary to declare "your candidate I can not be." About once a month some reporter or politician calls on Mr. Tilden and comes away with the same old story : " Yourcandidate I can not be."" The noticeable feat ure about these interviews is that they are always held with some ar dent supporter of the sage of Gram- ercy 1 art, ami result in booming him. The other candidates are catching on to the racket of the "great defrauded," and now the Standard Oil Company, through its representative Payne, blushes, re treats, and, ogling an ardent Democ racy, says : "Your bride I can not be." Hancock and Hoadly both ostentatiously decline, the former by joining a New York Tilden and Hendricks club, and the latter by ustily howling for Payne. The whole situation has been reversed, and from the position of the most ar dent of suitors, the candidates have become the most retiring and bash ful of maidens, until a bewildered and be-deviled Democracy are say ing, "can such things be and not o'trcome us as a summer's cloud." Though Caser twice refused the purple, some of the ambitious Dem ocratic leaders will be left if they expect a Presidential nomination to go around begging in a sim ilar mant.er. The Stewart-Pattiion Republicans of this county have been loud in their denunciations of the Herald because it pointed out the fact that the gentlemen who are posing as the Blaine leaders in this county were ; distanced them all and vaulted over the same men tln.t labored fcr the .the school house fence with the apil defeat of General Beaver and the su-1 il-v an acrobat and escaped. At premacy of the Democratic party. The readers ot this paper will bear witness that its course has been most conservative; that it has avoid - okron t;,ii,l..nro...nr .-.ir,.-, , ... ,, , ... .'ed to fly and be married at Buffalo, create strife in the party; that it Thdr have dan(eg. gave no editorial expression of sen-1 ti:e but fronuent. Mrs. Griffin has timent on the question of the Presi - dential nomination ; that it lent itaelf to helping the boom of no can didate, but attempted to lay before its readers as fair an expression of public - 8"""-' " i-. , i - t n B , t M.n f ii Klt 4. n..4 k... it from all parts of the country. Ihe,,noug wildcat in his bedroom last county committee pursued an I equally conservative course, it : 1 .,- - J .....m.fc tate Convention, as it might ianu mat there might not oe the i sliehtest ground for complaint. The ! Chairman of the Countv Committee the authors of it entered into consul tation with their long time ally General Coffroth as evidenced by his remarks to the reporter of the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette to devise means to compass their defeat. The gentlemen named desired true Republicans to represent the district j in the Chicago Convention, but this part of their action it seems was not satisfactory to the Pattieon-Stewart j contingent, and they had the naaies of Messrs. Harrison and Spangler ! annouaced, hoping that by putting j forth the claim that they were Blaine men, to mislead enough Republi cans into voting for them to secure their election, and thus bave the Re publicans of Somerset county repre sented in the State and National 1 Conventions by men who, two years ago, attempted the life of the party. Thi is the whole case. They have forced the fighting, and it is now for the Republicans oi Jr-omersei county to say whom they prefer to represent them : men who are and have been ; tru to the party's best interests, or i men u-hr havft reneatt-dl V tried to uh u lQ death in what ghould have hn fje ,10Uge of jtg friends. - j- Copiah County. The lashion is to cry "bloody shirt' when any reference is made f the political situation in the South which kills those who refuse to vote the Democratic ticket. The New York Herald is among the newspapers that was quick with the cry, but the recent investigations have wrung from it the following, which is commeuded to the dudes in politics : "Many Southerners insist be tween campaigns that the colored people vote as they please and are not disturbed for exercising their political rights. A few days ago, II . ?:. - oV3 - Z W outrace committee that "if you should send your biggest man Gen. Grant down into our country to organize the negroes he would be killed at once,'" and this expression of sentiment was applauded by a crowd cf Democratic listeners. As organization is absolutely necessary jto men who expect to work together politically, the rights of colored vo ters appear to amount to notning in Ceniaii countv, unless this witness is a mere braggart, more fond of the sound of ins own voice than ot the truth. The tame witness laid all the troubles of last autumn to the Independents, and said of this fac tion, "We would have taken human life if it had been necessary in order to cet rid of them. Yes, we would do it if they had a majority of the votes." It will do no good to wave the bloodv shirt over this statement, for the wituess and those who be lieve with him cannot be disfran chised or punished further opinions, but the testimony will keep emi erants and capital horn entering Copiah comity. No man of proper ty or self respect will trust himself in a community that believes in overcoming majorities by murder." A Strange Infatuation. Erie, March 19. A sensation was created here to-night by the elope ment of Mrs. Georcrianna Grilliu with Charles Holmes, a colored hod carrier. Mrs. Gnfhn is a young woman of twenty-three, highly con nected, being a relative of Judge Cross, formerly on the bench of Erie county. Five years ago she married (ieorge Griffin, an artist, who, after the birth of their little eirl, treated her so badly that a separation was insisted uunn by her mother. For the last tbree years Mrs. Griffin has been living with her mother, a lady ot considerable means. Three months ago Charles Holmes, an intensely black negro, of splendid physique, was employed as a hod- carrier repairing tne house opposite. Observing that he attracted the at tention of the Jady across the way, lie found means of communicating with her, and an acquaintance began which ended to-day in both being seized on board a train when about starting for Buffalo. The elopement was partially frus trated iy a railroad conductor tele phoning to Mrs. Martin that her daughter was at the depot in suspi cious company and had bought tickets for two for Buffalo. The mother jumped into a hack without stopping to don street attire and dashed into the depot just before the train pulled out. The lady was dis covered in the car, with Holmes in the next seat masquerading as her servant. The otlicers had great dif ficulty in removing her. She shriek ed and called upon her colored swain in endearing terms to prevent her removal. Holmes declined. Had he made the slightest attempt to in terfere a score of excited citizens aboard the train would have effect ually suppressed him. Mlicer Dud-detik-oeiier firmly but kindly led Mrs. Griffin towards her mother. Suddenly she wrenched herself free and darted up Eighteenth street with the tleetness of a deer. The officer pursued her, followed by ful- , ' lrt.d ' le Mrs. uritnu this writing she has not been lounu by the police. Her black lover w'anted to leave the train, but was forad to go out of town on it. He j toltl our correspondent that .Mrs. iGrillin loved him and had consent- 1 no divorce from her husband r.attlinK with a Wildcat. Hosespale, March 18. Levi La- ! ' as-catch-can ' battle with an enor night. A large window-pane which ' had been broken was closed up with i a piece of cloth- nailed to the sash .,, n,:lln:ilL flf:r T,liar retired to bed, he heard a strange noise in the room. He jumped from the bed to make an investigation, when a sharp unearthly yell from a wildcat made tne very air jing!e. He seized a stick of wood and, with out stopping to mrke u light prepar ed for combat. The animal sprang upon his ehoulders, but Labar shook it off and delivered a stunning blow with his club. For fifteen minutes the con- the paper with its sharp claws and then bounding upon its opponent, screeching with fury and with eyes shining like coals of fire. At last Labar dealt the cat a death blow just as it was obout to leap on his head from the top of an open door It measured eight feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. Labara was severely lacerated about the face and arms. Ixwerii Take Poison. Indianapolis, March 19. W. M. Dane, twenty years old, of Benton ville, became enamored of a girl of thirteen, Ada Swift. Her parents ob jected to a continuance of the man's attentions to their child, on account of her extreme vouth. On Saturday night Dane purchased two ounces of laudanum, giving Ada one half and swallowing the other half himself. The poison failed to have a fatal ef fect in either case, being an over dose. Yesterday the father of the girl had Dane arrested on a charge of attempting to poison his child. Iiost night Dane procured a pistol and shot himself. He died. The girl may recover. She Kept Her Word. St. Lovis, March 23. A crowd of boatmen out enjoying the fine weath er this afternoon found the body of a young girl floating along with the tide. They brought it ashore and had it conveyed to tbe morgue, where it was soon identified aa the remains of Mary Weilde, a young girl of 17, who disappeared from her home, No. lS'J South Second street, a few days ago. She was in love with a baker named Theodore Steb er, and it seems that he decoyed her from her home, betrayed her and then placed her in lodgings of his own, where she remained for quite a while, he promising right along to marry her. One day the girl reap peared at her father's home. She was in great distress, crying as though her heart would break, and telling her mother, between sobs and tears, that she had been deceived and then deserted. She said she had nothing left to live for, and that she was go ing to the river bank to drown her self. Before the girl's mother had time to render a word of consolation, the unfortunate turned and fled from the house. The mother ran after her. crying out to her daughter to stop and come back to her old home. Several took up the cry and there were soon fifteen or twenty enlisted in the chase. It was just after dark, but the girl was to be seen running full speed down Poplar street. The crowd followed and were catching up with her when she crossed the railroad tracks just in front of an en gine which was pulling a long freight train. The latter shut out the girl's pursuers, and when it had parsed sha was nowhere to be seen. Some thought Ehe had carried out her threat, but the girl's parents hoped that she still lived until to-day, when the river gave up its dead. Since she disappeared nothing has been heard of Steber, and his friends say ho. upon hearing of the girl's act, seemed overcome with remorse and threatened to make away with himself. His continued absence con firms the theory of suicide. A Bigamist's Suu-itle. Dayton, March 20. About two years ago E. M. Eberhardt, a rich farmer near Arcanum, married a young and cultured girl. He lived with her but a few months when he suddenly went to Hamilton and married another aristocratic young lady under the assumed name of E. Easton. Day before yesterday Eber hardt returned to his first wife and pleaded to be taken back, but she refused. He then threatened her, when she called on hired help, and he left the premises. Last night, while she was in the house alone he returned and after repeating bis threats, threw her vio lently to the floor and whipping out a knife slashed her across the throat. When found several hours afterward she was unconscious, but not fatal ly injured. A posse of citizens or ganized at once and Fcoured the neighborhood lor Eberhardt, finally after midnight finding him hanging to a rafter by u halter. On his breast was the following note addre-s-to his wife and friends : "I have made up mind to kill my self and am in my right mind, I do not belieye my soul will be lost, and I will meet my dear, kind wife Mollie in the land of rest." A Hi MortjjaKe Itecorded. Uniontown, march 19. The lar gest mortgage ever recorded in Fay ette county was entered in the recor der's office here yesterday. It was for one million dollars and was given by the Chicago and Connelsville Coke and Iron Company, of which Judge Ix-isenring, of Mauch Chunk, is president, and whose works are located at East and West Leisenring this county. The company own eight thousand acres of coal land here, which they are developing with eight hundred coke ovens. The mortgage is given in favor of the fidelity Trust and Sate Deposit and Insurance Company of Phila delphia to secure bonds to the amount of $1,000,XX) issued by the coke company. The bonds bear six per cent, and are redeemable in five or fifteen years. The document was executed in Philadelphia March 14. Burglar Shot Dead. Boston, March 19. At five o'clock this morning James Donovan was discovered by Officer Kendall in the basement of a house on Boylston place which he had entered with burglarious intent. The officer se cured Donovan. On the way to the station-house the prisoner tripped Kendal and getting possession of the officer's club beat him brutally on the head. Kendall succeeded in drawing his revolver and shooting Donovan the ball entering his mouth and taking elfect in his head. Do novan died fifteen minutes later. While Officer Burnett, who assist ed Officer Keudall in carrying Don ovan to the station, was cleaning the biood from his coat he wat ac cidentally shot through the calf of his leg by his own revolver, which fell from bis pocket. Maryland Marriage fees. Annapolis, March 18. The House of delegates to-day, after a protracted struggle, passed the fee for marriage license from four and a half dollars to six cents. Heretofore the revenue to the State from this source has averaged $27, UOO annually, the State receiving four dollars and the Court clerk issuing it fifty cents for each license. The determined opposition to the bill was because of this reduction of revenue. Under the new law, while the fees of the clerks will remain as before, the State will receive but ten cents for each license. The mar riage license in Maryland has been higher than in any other State in the Union. Killed by aTreeTop. Portland, March 21. Yesterday Joseph Fish, living near Stone Church, met with a singular death. He was engaged in felling trees. He climbed into a tree and cut off the top. He then descended to the ground. The top had lodged in falling, and while trying to dislodge it, it careened and the butt fell on the unfortunate man, crushing in his chest and killing him. He wag 70 years old. Awful Death. Bkainerd, March 19. Last night a freight train came in dragging by ! a brake rod the mangled remains of! a robust man. above tbe medium ' ( size who cannot be identified. There I was a trail of blood along the track j j extending back a distance of four j miles. It is supposed the man lell, 1 between the cars. Peculiar Trance. Reading, March 23. Nellie Him melrich, a pretty, dark haired girl of fourteen, is now lying in a semi-unconscious condition at the house of Frederick Reinhold. At intervals her mind is sufficiently rational to admit of her speaking intelligently. The liirl was baptized in the icy wa ter of the river here last Sunday, and since then has been laboring under much religious excitement. Her pastor is the Rev. Mr. Musselman.of the Evangelical Mennonite church, who is almost constantly in attend ance. He says: "I have no doubt but that she is in tbe same condi tion as was SL John when he was a witness of the wonders of heaven, described in the book of Revelation. It is given to but few people to ex perience such a manifestation, and I believe the girl is divinely favored. She is given a glimpse of the great beyond so that she can tell us, her j friends, of what she saw. To the preacher she said : "I am in heaven. I can see Jesus ad many beautiful angels. I don't want to come back. The angels have crowns on their heads and trumpets I in their hands. I heai the grandest j music. The streets are all of gold.l and everything is beautiful and j bright. The angels' crowns are made of lilies and stars, and they are all dressed in white." The girl gives graphic description of what she sees, and relates biblical facts which, it is asserted, she never knew Wetore her present condition. Her language is far above that which she customarily uses. Large num bers of people call. When in a t ranee her body becomes perfectly stiff, and she is apparently uncon scious. Victims of Tricliinosia. Latisohe, March li. A family named Shulthers (Germans,) con sisting of husband and wife and two brothers, formerly residing in Wash ington county, where they lost their home and suffered severely by the recent floods. In their destitution they secured borne fresh pork, of which they ate greeedily without cooking, and with no other condi ment than salt. This occurred about three weeks ago. In the meantime they removed to Loyal Hanna, and the men went to work in the coal mine there. A few days passed when all of the family were taken ill with symptoms of trichinosis. The woman, Mrs. Maria Shulthers, died and was buried yesterday, and her husband's death is hourly ex pected. The two brothers are grad ually getting worse and in ail proba bility will die. Italtlmwre and Olilo 1.1 ne. F.steurttuK II Washington, March 23. The Bal timore and Ohio telegraph company is rapidly extending its lines in the west, northwest and southwest. Large gangs of men are constructing between New York and Chicago and St. Louis and Texas. It is estima ted that the wire-mileage of the com pany will be more than do vble by midsummer. It is a notable fact that the Western Union is reducing its rates just in advance of the Balti more ami Ohio extension, and is using the Mutual Union with which to cut rates, hoping thereby to so lessen the revenues of the opposition as to compel consolidation. This dodge is fully understood by the public, who are also alive to the fact that the Baltimore and Ohio is an opposition, founded on bed-rock and intended to be lasting. Therefore, business men are giving it a hearty support. Tn Brothers Hanged lor Murder. Louisville, March 21. Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick were hanged this afternoon at Columbia, Adair county, in this State, a place twenty five miles from a telegraph station, for the brutal murder of Miller Brewster. The execution was wit nessed by live thousand persons. The condemned men seemed re signed to their fate. The scaffold was a double one and so arranged that the drops fell at the same mo ment. The execution passed ofi" quietly. When the men were pro nounced dead the bodies were turn ed over to their friends. The crime for which the Fitzpatrick brothers were hanged was committed at Nashville on August C, 1833. The brothers and their victim had been employed on the farm of James Perry, who made a favorite of Brews ter. This fact gave rise to jealousy ai:d hatred on the part of the Fitz patricks and led to the murder. Diack Desperades. St. Louis, March 20. Three ne groes named Lewis, Freeman and Anderson, boarded several freight trains near East St. Louis late lat night and to-day, and with drawn revolvers overawed the conductors and brakemen anil robbed the cars. At noon to-day a posse headed by Alderman Green, St. Louis, attacked the negroes six miles from the city. After an exchange of over forty shots the negroes were arrested and placed in jail. Anderson received a load of bu' kshot in his side and arm. Alderman Green was shot in the knee and was brought back to the city in a wagon. A Laver Klllrrt. CiiattanooijA, Tenn., March 21. A masquerade ball was given in this city last nijrht. Handy Singleton and Calvin Young were paying at tentions to a woman. About mid night Singleton and the woman left the ball room together and were fol lowed by Young, who overtook them near the Stanton House. Young drew a pistol and shot Singleton through the heart, killing him in stantly. The murderer escaped and the woman was arrested. H is be lieved the murder was the result of a conspiracy on part of the woman and Young to get rid of Smgleton, who was at one time her lover. Died While in Prayer. Chicago,. March IS. At a prayer service at the Little Mission House in South Ilalsted st., last evening Mrs. Georgian Miller a widow, sank to her knees with others in prayer; and when the people lifted their voices a worship, the widow's head bowe,' slowly oyer her bosom in an attitude of reverence, When the expected moment arrived for the woman to pray, there was a deep! hush In the little hali. the devo- tions ceased and the worshipers filed slowly outof their seaU. The lonelv suppliant, however, remained fixed ia her position, and a cry of horror escaned from all oresent when thev ! found that she was dead. Tender hands bore the body to the house of a friend, and the Coroner decided ther heart disease was the cause of the death. Kailroad Accident. PirrsrscKG, March 20. Official reporta to the Pennsylvania Rail road Company says; The eastwarp bound Chicago limited express was coming down the Franklin grade, three miles east of Salem, Ohio, at the raiB of forty miles an hour this morning, when the engine struck an obstruction of some kind, and, jump ing the track, went over the embank ment, thirty feet. The entire train left the rails, but only the basrgage and smoking cars were upset. When the engine overturned the boiler exploded with terrific force, and James Richards, the engineer, and Charles Rhoees, the fireman, were blown 400 yards distant and instantly killed. Baggage-master Beisel and Brakeman Landis were slightly injured. A train was sent out from Pitts burg immediately after news of the accident was received to which the passengers were transferred. Thev were all able to go through to their destination. This is the first seri ous accident that has happened to theNew-lork and Chicago limited express since it began running near- ly three years ago. As yet no definite cause can be assigned for the accident, but the opinion is expressed that an ob struction had maliciously been pla ced on the track in such a way that the engineer could not notice it in time to avert the disaster. The combination smoking and baggage car followed the engine over the embankment when the accident occurred, and landed on the boiler with such violence as to force the driving wheels through the floor, the car being demolished completely. The dining car was thrown over on its side and slid down the embank ment and was completely wrecked. The remaining two cars were forced from the track and the trucks of the forward car were thrown a distance of twenty feet. Both cars were bad ly damaged. For a few moments after the explosion the interior of the sleeping car was a scene of inextri cable confusion. The screams of the lady passengers were heart-rending, anil the eries of strong men could be heard above the diu, calling for help Some little time elapsed before any attempt was made to ascertain the extent of the accident, owing to the excitement and to the fact that ev ery person was either unconscious or imprisoned. 1 he firt person to emerge from the wreck was the col ored porter, who, although badly bruised, succeeded in breaking the windows of the sleeping car, which afforded an avenue of escape, and one by one the passengers crawled out. It was soon ascertained that none of them had been seriously in jured, although eleven were more or less seriously cut or bruised. Hulstiiie Cattle. John Mitchell, owner of Meadow Brook Farm, six miles from New burg, N. Y., is the possessor of two three-year-old Holstine heifers (with calves) that have beat the milk pro ducing record of that class of cattle, and tor one of which with her calf he has just refused an offer of 1-3.-000. They are named Jamaica and Ethelka. Mr. Mitchell is a retired New-York merchant, having been for many years previous to his pur chase of the Meadow Brook Farm, connected with the firm of W. fc J. Sloan. They were purchased from J. N. Bobbins, of Beacon Farm on Long Island. Jamaica's production is, according to a member of Mr. Mitchell's family, nearly twice as much per day as the highest record heretofore made by a three-year-old Holstine, that of Swith & Powell's Clothilde, at Syracuse, which was sixty-four pounds per day, or, esti mating two pounds to a quart, thirty two tjuarts. Jamaica, however, has far exceeded this, by giving in one day ihe remarkable quantity of 103J pounds of milk, or about fifty-one and a-half quarts. Ethelka, though beating Clothilda's best record, does not approximate the production of her mate. He best yield of any one day has been eighty and one-half pounds, or about forty quarts. Young Mr. Mitchell says an accurate iccount has been kept of the produc tion of these two Holstine heifers, and that the milt of both is rich and of fine flavor. Jamaica's milk has also produced in one week the unusually large quantity of twenty six pounds and three ounces of fine unsalted butter. Both developed their prolific qualities after the birth of their second calves. $1.1.HM for a Jersey Bull. Allextown, March 21. T. S. Cooper, of the Linden Grove Stock Farm, at Coopersburg. has sold the Jersey bull "Black Prince of Lin den," to Mr. S. M. Shoemaker, of Baltimore, for 815,000 cash. "Black Prince" was bred by Cooper & Mad dux, at Reading, O., and was born June 4, 1S82. He is not quite 2 years old, isdarkgray in color, with deep shadings on face and sides. He is the son of "Black Prince of Hanover" and the celebrated cow "Marjoram II," which drew second prize tit the Pennsylvania State Fair in 1-SS0. He is a descendant of the famous bull "Rioter," whose stock is among the most highly prized in this country and England.- Mr. Shoemaker is the owner of some of the finest stock in America and within a jear has bought two cows for which he paid $5io0 and S l&oO, beside other cattle less high priced. For three animals he paid $24,950, or an average of over $S,300 apiece. The price paid for "Black Priuce of Linden"' is one of the high est ever given for a 2 year old bull in this country. Graveyard Insurance Prosecution. Harrisburg, March 21. Sheriff Sheesly to-day served notice of as uit ii equity on Q. Milton Bair, Secre tary of the defunct Southern Penn sylvania Mutual Relief Association of Hanover, York county, one of the graveyard concerns which wa3 root ed out in 18S1 by the Dauphin County Court. Receiver Weiss, in his petition to the Court, alleges that the officers of the company appro priated to their own use 805,993,90 which did not belong to them and which ghould be handed over for distribution, and the Court is ask,ed to issue a decree compelling the insurance officials to, disgorge, all money unlawfully taken. The of ficers have fourteen days in which to answer. Fatally Shot. Greenville, March 20. While constable O'Donnell was trying to J arrest George Malone, of Highland i townshit.. an illicit distiller, the criminal drew an" ax atd attacked the officer, who shot Malone in the left breast, eausing a fatal wound, Malone is colored and has frequently ! defied arrest. Narrow Kscope from Death. New Yokk, March 21 Marcus Gerberand his family, consisting of wife and a year-old child, had a nar row escape from being burned to death at their residence, No. 137 Ludlow street, this morning. The family occupied .i part of tho fourty floor "in the building, which is a six- j story tenement. At about half-past j 2 o'clock this mominir Mrs. Gerberl was awakened from sleep bv hearing i the babv cry. She saw that an j apartment was in flames, and awoke her husband, who tor a tew mo ments was bewildered by the horror of the situation. To escape into the hallway it was necessary for him to Dass lrom the bedroom through the room which was on fire. He picked up the child and wrapped a shawl around its head. With his wife and ohiM hs rnnnurrpil in m:ik( hl way ! from the bedroom to the door of the livinsr room leadine into the hall- way. 1 he distance he had to go was o . about three yards. They succeeded in getting out ot the room. ir. Gerber's hair was almost burned off and his wife's hair was also badly singed. The eight families Hying on the two floorj above and the three living on the same floor, who were aroused from their slumbers by the outcries of the Gerber family, mana ged to make their way to roof amid the binding smoke which filled the hallways. The eight tamilies Hying on the second and third floors and the two families living back of the stores on the ground floor made their way to the street, many of them in their night clothes. For a time there was considerable excitement in the house and a panic prevailed. One of the inmates ran to the house of Engine Company No. 17, at No. 91 Ludlow street, and gave the alarm. That company extinguished the fire in about an hour. Mr. Gerbers loss is about $300. The damage to the building is only about 100. Tne AVrong Mao Hanged. Jackson Ga., March W. Four yeara ago two negroes were arrested in Hall county charged with assault ing a white woman. They were tried and found guilty. One was hanged and the other snt to the chain gang for life. Since then enough evidence has been found to satisfy the community where the crime was committed that the con victed negroes were innocent. As the negro now in the chain gang was a citizen of Jackson county the resi dents of that county placed the mat ter before the last grand jury, and after an investigation "they decided to request the grand jury of Hall county to ask the governor for the negro's pardon. There is of course no doubt he will be freed. The Jackson county authorities are also believed to be in possession of facts which will lead to the con viction of the criminal, who has been living all these years within a few miles of the scene of the crime a id the execution. The publicity of the present discovery has caused great excitement, especially among the negroes, and there is little doubt that lynching will follow if the citi zens learn the name of the real cul prit. The crime was an exceedingly brutal one, the victim making a des perate fight with her assailants. She was finally left for dead in a small patch of wo ds. The unfortu nate negro who was hanged died protesting his innocence, but the circumstantial evidence against him was so strong that his story was dis credited. The negro now in the chain ganghas always protested his innocence. Sabiii s View. New York, March 20. Senator Sabin, chairman of the republican national cemmittee, is in town, en route to Chicago, to attend a meet ing of that committee on Saturday next when arrangements will be made for the national convention In an inti rview to-day he said that lie was in favor of nominating any candidate for the presidency who will carry the state of New York ami the country and the delegates from Minnesota will doubtless take the same view. He believed the nation al committee would open its head quarters for the campaign in this city next month. Young Disciples of Jesse James. Boston, Ma:ch 20. A gang of fifteen boys was arrested at South Dot-ton last night, and three of their leaders held for examination. Ma ny small larcenies are charged to them, their raids beinc planned in an old cellar, which they called their "den." Coleman O'Donnel, a leading spirit, sixteen years old, had recently been released from the reformatory institution. Their ages range from twelve to fifteen. They had a peculiar langi age, known only to tiie members of the g?n and for hours they mystified the oflicers of the station with their conversation. Married a Negro. Erie, March o0. Mrs. Georgean Griflin.the widow whose elopement with Charles Holmes, a colored hod carrier, created a sensation here yes terday, was found this morning con cealed in the house of a colored man named Saunders. Holmes, when the elopement was intercepted by the woman's mother, fled the city to escape a coat of tar and feathers. He got off from the train at a way sta tion, and returning met Mrs. Griffin, who had run away from a policeman. They went to the house of a minis ter and were married. Mrs. Griflin had been put in jail by her relatives. Andrew Peterson Tried. Salt Lake, March 19. Andrew PetersoD, a delegate to Congress in 1SS2, and an. avowed Polygamist, who was indicted tinder the Ed munds law fur registering and vot ing, is now on trial. Chief Justice Hunter allowed seven Polygamist Mormons to sit on the jury. One of them has three wives. All seven swore that they believed the Divine law superior to the law of Congress, They believed polygamy was right, and revealed from God, and would obey God,ra:her than Congress. The defendant admits marriage accord ing to the Mormon law, but says, the marriage was by proxy for eter nity, and not far a time. Great Hide on Thick Ice. Escaxaba. Mich., March 17. March 1(1 Captain B. D. Winegar came by team from Washington Island on the ice, thirty miles, a feat never accomplished before. He reports the ice to be thirty nine inches thick, blue, and solid. There is open water nearer Escanaba than five miles south of Hock Island. There u twenty inche9 of snow in the woods, which is melting fast Weather clear and pleasant SPRING ! 1SS4L-. SEEING We announce without hesitation, and without fear of cn, diction that our assortment of Goods this season will i T; UNSURPASSED in Quality, Variety, Style, Ch2n5ss Furnishing Goods ! ISTECIv - HATS AND CAPS' In these Departments we have the prettKv Line of Goods ever oilered to the pnblir. visit is sure to aflortl both pleasure and sui. faction. You should not fail to call and see Wl Stock of boys' school and Children.' Everything new and attractive is reure-entt,! Evcrv family that believes in true ecoimmv ov comes to our immense establishment to mi;. ply themselves and little ones. Li. m:. wools The One-Price Clothier, Hatter, Furnihr. NEW STORE, Johnstown, Sometliiiiir fur all the l'reaehers. Rev. II. H. Fairall, D. D., editor of the Itirn M thodUt, says editorially, in the November (lba;) number of his paper: We have tested the mer its of Ely "a Cream Balm, and believe that, by a thorough course of treat ment, it wili cure almost every case of catarrh.- Ministers, as a class, are afllicted with head and throat troub les, and catarrh stems more preva lent than ever. We cannot recom mend Ely's Cream Ualiii too highly ." Not a liquid nor a snuff. Applied to nostrils with the finjer. A Ti'iiippraiioe Victory. Altoona, March 19. President Judge Dean and Associates Fitchner and Stewart have been hearing ap plicants for licence and remonstrants against them for the last tvso days and a half in Hollidaysburg. The temperance people contested every license, except five in Altoona and succeeded in having the Court re ject nineteen in the county, fifteen of which were from Altoona. This is considered a victory for the temper ance people. Counterfeit !llai-H. On. City, March IS. Dangerous counterfeit silvtr dollars are in circu-1 lation in this section. The Mead-j ville Merchant's National Hank took three of them without hesitation j until the money was examined at: night, when ha true character was discovered. The coins are of the Bland variety of different date and although a litt!t lighter in weight than genuine dollars it requires a close scrutiny to distinguish them. Deadly Kxplosioii. Clevklaxk, March 1'.). A still at Merlam fc Morgan's oil works, in this city, exploded this morning. The escaping oil instantly submerg ed August Fisher and August Guen ther, employes, and the oil taking fire, the men were quickly burned to death in sight of a horrified crowd, who were unable to assist them A rushing stream of oil over took William Stahlman, another employe, as he fled, and he too was burned to death. Merriam & Mor gan's loss is 815,000. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Cheap Marrying. Annapolis, March 10. The House of Delegetes to-day, after a protracted struggle, passed the Sen ate bill reducing the fee for marriage license from four and a half dollars to sixty cents. Heretofore the rev enue to the State from this source has averaged 827,000 annually, the State receiving 84 and the clerk is suing it fifty cents for each license. A Train Wreeker Arrested. Mount Carmel, Pa., March 21. Michael Torry.ated lo, was arrested last night near Watson town while in the act of changing a switch for purpose of wreckingaa approaching train on the Philadelphia and Erie Itailrood. He was placed in jail at Sunbury. Torry confessed that he has before attempted to wreck trains On one occasion he asked his associ. ates to assist him to wreck a t?ain andplundrthe wounded passengers. Cars Wrecked. Eiue, March 21. A Lake Shore train was wrecked at AngO!a to-day, after wnich the tanks exploded, set ting fire to the entire train. A wost bound train ran into the wreefc and was also set on fire. William Fraw ley.of Derby, N. Y., and N. Selvius, of Fernham, were caught in the wreck, each having a leg and arm broken. Both were covered with burning oil, and it is feared, are fa tally burned. Twenty-seven valua ble cars were burned. NOTICE. 3o j w llhe ma-leio the 6oTern..r ol Pennvanl, at IT""? ()m ta Mr ot HarVlsburi on tuej h. lay f April, A. D., IMi at 10 ocl," v.'.i'J TV.' I'a""t Inenrpuratlna THE SVW V lKk AND PfcNNS I LVANIA COAL IKOV AN U .:iKK COMPANY. Tbe arposeVf M MTV1'- lruu Iron. ti,e, and other Min U.elu.Ied In the proTi.lon, of Ulauw Ei Seotiun Two, of tbe Aet ..r Assembly ot ii-h of April lT. ,n, , Supplement anl that the ,, ,, "A 'a CBTM. JOH C. MlOKT . . JJtw York ril. WEAB! JVTAXlSr STREET, galesmen Wanted On Salary. KKL1ABLK MEN liavirit it-! n:i'u-:.! i! . , ami li:-k. to sell N' I l;tl;Y s l'i it K. v; men are sure to 8u-reeJ an! earn liuim: : - v" r.iiw ir'Wi the start. Mmatk-ns rtu'ii'M Write lr terras: CLEN BROS. Nurserymen, A UDITOIVS NOTICE. LM.teut Al-r. (I. Walter, tl.-i-M. h; Twp. . S.meret i Havintf teti appointe.l tr t he trA ni s.t:i.eriet Countv tu ili.-trV-utt- M,e haixisi'l Silas A. U'alkeran.l (rtliuu A lmuii.-trat rs of Abr. (f. Walker, Lit Tw.. tteeense!, t'i and :imnif il ir ti'k'il therot'i, noth-e is heret-y yiwn atte::l t" th tluii" ol my ajv ii.ir::u-: tn-e n S.imeri.--. I'a . nn Vliur. i .v. A. when aii-1 where all iierA'ti-1 i;.;er--; temt. '.V. Ii. i;i marl'.'. i-i - , A. V. . t'.r i' r n I i i'l' 1. r. . : - Assignee's Sale. 1Y virtue of an onlrr -if sale !.-.-u ! it Court ofCumuion Fleas 01 S"iu r-: i. Pennsylvania, t the mMer-num- i A."i-:;-reeteil. there will Neexpose.l t'a:e l-y i'u:.;. cry, un toe premises, on I Saturday, April 12, 1 P51 at 10 oVlock in the lYrfni.n the f.ilK.winjf leil real estate, formerly the pnierj vl ii J bl:u.-k. the Auitfrior. n.inn-ty : No. 1. iU'lnic ih H -ineUjaJ ot vii I rfur.ee.!. Klalc, con.iistitikf ot two lots of ifruiui'! siiu.ii ;i ihu 13 rouich ot Neyersititle, S jim r-- :. . ,: 't Pennsylvania, known as lot .Vs. lus l- t (.n the phtoot the Ol .nicer Addition to - til Mfu.it on (he South we-1 corner "HX-nr mi Hnt. Street earh lo Irontinic o le t tn r-'a : Street. ani extending hick 1J !, an 1 un h s erecteil a large, two-st-jry irame DWELLING HOUSE, with ft basement kitchen and rfiainic -ro"iu : -i t house contain eleven larxe rooms. There arc alv derevteon saM premlies a staMu ;m i urher if -sury outbuildings, and on the preuii"e! i- a wil excellent, never-tailing water, and y'ii!i truit trees, srane vlnea etc. No. U. Two certain lots or ground Mru-if in'l.t Rirouitdi, Omnty and State utorenaid. kn -wn t-lot-i Ni. 64 and 67 on the plan ot the (Mincer A : dirion to naid Borough, sltuite on the corner Kruadway and Sixth atreet. and having tn ' ereoled a POTTERY ESTABLISHMENT A.M TILE WOTS Kir, Ineludlnir two kilnn, a nhop. erifine. r .il. r. nr.: the latet Improver mnehln-ry Inrttie main:.' -nre ot Water 1'lpe. Drain Tile. Kirtheo Wir. etc. The Hnlto. a (Hit.. K:iilr..u. (fifsoura ! i iMon) pasne within M feet ol the rh-p. o. X Six certain lots of xroun-I M-.u:i;e rn I5i'ri'uih, L'onnty and State atires:iM. kc. wn j- lots Nus. cn the plan ! th - Him : ly addition to said BomaKb, and r-ontaiCM ta 1 ; one acre and twenty. six perehe?. and ! in:: lands now or formerly id t'atharijie W.iik t. the I'orth, a twenty-lo-.t allev on th-E.i-t. I ' 1 n'.w or f. irmerly ol I". 1). Kro'nrher n '! S and lam's now or lormerly of lanl. I Bea-1- ' the Wen. The aaid io eonr-iin execll-tn ' tT the manafactaruol Water I'ipe. Iir.u-i ! a- TERMS OF S. 11.11 One-third nrtlie parchn.-e munfy in h.tnl: thir l In six mouth, an lne-third In oi.e ye.ir :.- n diite l -Mntlrijiarionor ,le. with inter-V. -n ' ferred payment Iroiu d. 'e of e,.nlirin!ii n - -'V. T. H'MII.1 i Zt.U. niarl'J. Attigtwe of i eri(e J . 1 Financial Statement Somerset Borough For the Year Emling March X, lsl. RECEUTS. W. H. Pl at. Uulle..tor ' -1 i ' w. II. Weilley, - : ( Wiu. frlloert, - . .. V. Olllian Lint, " " " . 171 U Al. Hi.-', i.io: ; Taxes oat I tn on Irvin duplicate ! ! ' IVmiOjih s.'tlr. -.t . Hue and Ul -eases m i Sale ol Lunler.a,- m : hXPEXblTVKKS. ADTl'l pd. plwv X laftJAp liicbt-r l ' lor iur-eU ajid road.-..... y4 ' ' material & mearcnun- dle 4;m Dtl " utl-wllaneous. includ- treiKht, pr min, at.. "2 " salary ol lurite...i, clit. and an Irwr ir: " " pi.l on old orders, l-d -J J L.I ABILITIES OF THE BUIlf if.'i i . i . Total am't issued dnrbin Tear. .Ji.lT'J W Aim. of unpaid orders at lart settlement i 'Jl i ' ' ' Of which has bieapaid - -, Present Uabilitie 1 RESOt'RCtS VT IHEIIOIi'll'iili. W. H. lt. Collector 51' Wm. Ir-.liwri, " ) la. M. HlCKS, - o Am't due ou sale oflamhsr 41 w !- UK. U M. HICKS. C "LLEUTi K. Whole m. ant of duplicate..... 12" Cll. By exoneration and com. . ',r- 16 By an.t pai l in treu.'ury lua ! - Balance uncollected v-li WM. GILBERT, Collector (In -a 'luplicate. 'Z 1)R Raliinc lion on dunlicatrv. 14 ' 7 1 K. Aiui.oaidin Balance uncollected WM. H. PLAT'S, COLLECTOR, PR. Balanwdne at but setteui't I K. Amt. -al.iin V ' i l . Balance uncollected 1 - We. the nndersiime-l Auditors f S-imer-wt H-t oujth, do hen-hy certlly that we have e viunnc and audited the accounts and ' era of the :reoin statement, and h ire low them correct. Witneiour hands an-! !. M.J. PK1TTS. B"-I , W.M. HIX.-HsrtTLtK. -Li J. N. S.NYUfcK, mrl. A..WTOL-
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