CURRENT NEWS.
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New York uses 9,000,000 eggs a week.
Kansas will cultivate gva}>es extensive
ly this season.
Cincinnati expended, in 1868, for street
cleaning purposes, 8184,000.
Prof Bond, a wire-walker, fell oft' and
broke his neck lately at Charleston, Mass
A married man in Pittsburg lately ran
away with two widows.
Why are elections like*tcnts? Because
the canvass ends at the JMJIIS.
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Beautiful extract. —A handsome lady just
helped ont of a mud hole.
A Eutaw (Ala.) editor, takes dogs in
payment for subscriptions.
Horace Greeley is to lecture on poultry
culture. Horace is posted on foul subjects.
"An Ohioan lias sent Grant a segar six
feet long. What offiee would he like?—he
can take his choice.
The presiding'burgomaster of the free
eitv of Hamburg was, in his youth, a dry
goods clerk in a Philadelphia store.
A.dog in Portland has learned the human
aiiiUsement of sliding down hill, and draw
his own sled up, mounts it and rides alone.
Wendell Phillips is reported as saying
that his lecture on "Lost Arts" needn'tcon
•eern the Lubes, they not having lost any !
Mudd having been released from the
I)ry Tortugas, can bo seen at any time
anywhere rdong Main street
"Washington correspondents noto that
Grant's father tumbled down staire while
his son was tumbling up.
The contract price for the granite required
fbr the new Masonic Temple, in Philadelphia
is J?;*OU.ooo.
The bridge proposed to unite New York
and Brooklyn, will, if built, have the enor
mous span of 1,600 feet.
T>r. Mudd has returned from the Dry
Tortugas, where he was sent for setting the
broken leg of a sufferer.
Ia New South Wales horses sell for two
cents apiece. This" knocks velocipedes
higher than a kite.
Wood is so scarce in France 5 that they
save their sawdust, mix it with glue and
press it in moulds, making, it is said, very
good imitations of carved wood.
TRAVELER. —"Show me to a room with a
good fire, waiter, I'm so duced wet; and
then bring me a glass of ale, for I'm awful
dry."
Forney thinks "the appointment of
Lougstreet is a d—d pretty way to make
treason odious." Forney has not yet got
au office.
The methodist church at St. Jose, Cal
ifornia, was burned recently because the
paster taught and attempted to convert
Chinese.
There are two inconsistencies in this world
that arn hard to understand. Everybody is
anxious to get to heaven, but no one is m a
hurry about it,
A young lady iu Outagamie county,
Wisconsin, was charged with putting on
"airs" because she refused to go to a ball
barefooted.
Josh Billings says one live man in a vil
lage, iz like a ease of itch at a district
school, —he sets everybody scratching at
once.
An Erie(Pal damsel was recently crimp
ing her front hair with a hot fiat iron. It
slipped and crimped a strip of cuticle off
the full length of her face,
Mr. DonnPiatt claimß to lie a Republican,
but a Radical paper thinks he had better
take in his sign. That advice will do the
whole Radical party.
There is an old English statue which pro
lubita people from getting married after a
certain hour in the day, because such a
solemn obligation ought to be entered into
only when the parties are duly sober!
A printer's apprentice says that at the
office they charge him with all the pi they
do find, and at the house they charge him
with all they don't find. He does not un
derstand that kind of logic.
Nearly fifty bodies have been washed
ashore near the scene of the Mittic Ste
phens disaster, in lied River, Louisiana.—
One lady was identified by 2 wedding rings
on her fingers, each bearing her name.
Governor Brownlow's pardons last year
number over three hundred. The old rep
robate will soon need some one to pardon
him, put the keeper into whose hands he
will fall, never pardons.
A New England publisher has just issued
the the life of St. Paul, a volume intended
to sell among Christians. That publisher
will never get his money back unless he
follows it with the life of Fred Douglass.
MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY. —Married at
Sun berry, Mass., by the Rev. Mr. Cran
berry, Mr. Nehemiah Blackberry, to Miss
Catharine Elderberry, of Daubury, We
hope the desendonts will not prove to be
gooseberries.
Mr. Gilpin, of Colorado, has written a
letter to prove that under the Rocky Moun
tains, "solid masses of gold of incalculable
magnitude and weight." All that is wanted
ia an eligible hole, and gold will soon be a
drug.
* BRISTLE SPLITTING. —On the 9tli inst.a
prisoner was being tried at Independence,
Mo., on au imlictmontfor stealing "a pig."
The Judge decided that "a hog" was not "a
pig." ami as the animal stolen was proved
tola- "ahog " the Judge ordered the prison
er to be discharged.
Alas, Alaska! It is proposed to make of
our new territory a home for transported
criminals. What has that poor country
done to be thus outraged? Or is it the de
sire of the Radical party to secure homes
in this world as far removed from their
homes iu the next as possible?
In St. Joseph, Mo., a few nights ago,
several cliaps bored their way into a celler
to reach some barrels of whisky there stored.
Cougress should pass a law prohibiting this,
else some jxTson, in a fit of dryness, com
mence boring some of the members of that
body, iu their anxiety to obtuiu whisky.
A young married woman, whose husband j
was "gone to the war," heard the remark j
that the government wanted more cavalry I
and infantry. She replied, tliat she knew I
nothing about cavalry, but added with a
sigh, that if more infantry wero needed
tlx* government had better send some of
the volunteers home agaiu.
(Tl)e pemotrat.
HARVEY SICKLER, Editor.
TUN KHAN NOCK, PA.
Wednesday, Apr. 7, 1869.
4Sy-Oeorge S. Twitcheli, the Philadel
phia murderer, is have made a con
fession in which he declares that his wife
killed her mother, Mrs. Hill. He after
wards helped to throw the laxly out of the
window.
THE BLUNDERING PRESIDENT. —And now,
Attorney General Hoardecidos that Grant's
action recalling certain pordonß granted by
Johnson, was illegal, What with the A. T.
Stewart blunder in asking for the repeal of
the Act of 1789, and this blunder in rela
tion to pardons, Grant begins his adminis
tration in a poor way to gain the confi
dence of the people. But what better
could be expected of a man who accepted
the office of President without fear ?
• GRANT DR.FRATP.N. —Both houses of Con
gress have passed the amended Tenure-of-
Officc bill. It merely differs from the old
bill in this : that it gives Grant the power
to make removals from office without tlio
consent of the Senate but retains the privi
lege to the Senate to interpose objection if
it chooses. So Mr. Grant is tied to party,
and if he should become unruly on the
hands of the Bumpers they can readily
"shut down" on him !
*®-Sp ecial elections were held, ou Tues
day last, in forty-six counties of Indiana
for members of the Legislature, to fill va
cancies caused by tho resignation of the
Democratic iucumbents to prevent the
Radicals from forcing the XVth Amend
ment upon the people against the will of
the majority. In nearly every county the
resigning members were renominated, uud
-in all they were renominated, and in all
they were elected, the Radicals not even
dan ug to muke a fight iu defense of their
legislative scheme. It is now fully proven
that the people are against the proposed
action of the majority in the Indiana Leg
islature, and the Democrats should defeat
it by the use of all -just aud allowable
means.
8)c&~ Let us see how sensibly the Mongrel
press can talk about the negro when they
are not trying to use him as a voter to keep
themselves in power —the following is from
the Albany Evening Journal, which is polit
ically as dark as the black hole of* Calcutta :
"Tho repugnance to certain associations
and affiliations is perfectly natural. * * *
There are physical and mental differences
| between the two races which separate them
[by an inexorable law of repulsion, and
which can be overcome by no amount of
humanitarian philosophizing or philan
thropic legislation. The white does not ac
cept the black as a congenial fellow and as
j sociate. And he never will. * * We be
lieve that sensible colored people will agree
with us on this point. They see that nei
ther their own happiness nor their position
in society will be improved by ignoring the
differences which the Almighty lias created.
No black man with a proper sense of self
respect would seek to crowd himself into
society where he was not wanted, and
where he must be conscious that all around
regard him as an inferior."
Take notice, ye niggers, that you will do
to vote for Mongrel party, but you are not
good enough to attend one of its balls.
When your vote is wanted you are a ' 'man
and a brother," but when you want to
dance with your white friends von are only
a "nasty nigger."
Let the Fifteenth Amendment be Ex
tended to Africa.
Just now, says the Lancaster Intelligen
cer, when the Radicals are in such a hurry
to enfranchise the negroes that they refuse
to wait long enough to allow the people of
Pennsylvania to express tlieir opinion on
the subject, it might be well to take a look
at Sambo in his own home. There, in a
climate peculiarly suited to him, iu a land
the most fertile under the sun, the African
race has lived for about six thousand years.
He has had opportunities for advancement
equal to those which any of the white race
ever on joyed. How has he improved them ?
Let the following extract from a periodical
answer. The article in LippincoWt Maga
zine for April, entitled 'Our Globe in 1869,'
sums up the advances made in civilization
during the year 1868. This it says is the
state of Africa.
"The West coast of Africa presents no
new discoveries. The suppression of the
slave-trade seems to have had a baneful in
fluence on that unfortunate land, for the
wars continue, but the captives are now
more generally eaten than sold. European
sailors and merchants are often forced to
witness horrible scenes-of wholesale canni
balism ; and the enmity of the natives
against foreigners, including missionaries,
has only been increased by the loss of for
mer profits."
Here is a subject which demands the in.
atant attention of Cougress. Wouldn't the
XVth Amendment reach this case ? We
are gravely told that it is calculated to lift
the barbarian negroes of this country to a
condition of perfect e quality with the white
race, and, if it has such virtue, it ought to
be able to do something for their relatives
who are eating each other up at home. Let
a resolution be passed extending it to all
Africa. It will do just as much to elevate
the negro there as here. If the right of
suffrage be the great elevator as is claimed
to be, its application ought to l>c made
universal. Let it be at once extended to
all Africa.
The Public Enemy at Hai riaburg.
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Oonld •we spare the space, we would cite
the various emphatic denunciations of the
Radieal members of this Legislature, in
which even the Radical press have lieen
constrained to join with Democratie and
neutral papers. Such a set of vidians as
most of our present legislators probably
never before bartered and sold the interest
•of the people. The few decent men among
them sometimes join iu opposition to
| schemes too barefaced for any excuse ; but
i the opposition has been, we regret to say,
too often ineffectual. On Saturday last,
i our Radieal eotemporary, the Inquirer, in
J commenting on the disgraceful conduct of
two Radical members, added some just re
marks of wider application :
"These are the men our citizeus have
gravely gone to the polls and chosen to
represent our great Commonwealth. To
such triflers and speculators we have en
trusted the making of our statutes, the
framing of our laws, the regulation of our
trade, the care of our sacred rights and
franchise. They hold the States, its gra
vest interests, its power and progress, in
the hollow of their hands ; they hold, also,
the citizen, vested right of property ; also,
measurably, his liberty, for to them it is
given to say what shall, or shall not, be
telonous or criminal—what shall be right
in law itnd what "wrong."
The Morning Post says it wero better to
have no Legislature than such a Legisla
ture :
"The Pennsylvania Legislature is a body
of men, some of whom have been known
to spend throo or four thousands of dollars
for the privilege of serving the State at
three dollars a day. Its duties are ironi
cally said to be to make laws for the good
of the jieople, to provide sufficient revenue,
to take care of the great agricultural, man
ufacturing and commercial interests of the
State. In this fiction our grandfathers
were weak-minded enough to believe, but
now anybody who should mention such
olisolete ideas at Harrisburgwouhl be hoot
ed out of the town."
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"Tlie people of Pennsylvania have long
looked upon these proceedings at Harris
burg with fear and disgust, but have nev
er been able to correct them. Year after
year they elect the same class of men to the
Legislature, aud groan under the abuses,
extravagance ami corruption of their ty
rants. It seems'impossible for them to re
form tho character of their so-called repre
sentatives."
It is thus tliat tlie Itadicai editors cry
out when they feel, in their own pockets
tire Hitching lingers of these legislative job
bers. Why are our Radical eoteniporaries
silent, when the same polluted hands are
thrust into the ballot-box, and the votes of
thousands of onr"citizens are dragged out
aud cast aside like waste paper ? These
are the men—corrupt beyond measuro or
denial—who have now undertaken to give
this city its judges, and who are higgling
and caucusing over a scheme to give us a
police of tlicir kidney. They do, indeed,
as the Inquirer says, "hold the State in the
hollow of their hand ;" and, in the same
itching palm, lies this great eitv, with all
its interests. It is to Harris burg, to the
foul purlieus of the State Capital, that a
party in our midst transfers the conduct
of our municipal affairs, tlie review of our
municipal elections, the choice of our local
judges! All to bo managed, out of the
sight of Philadelphia, by hien whose knav
ery nobody denies—they do not deny it
themselves ! They advertise it—to draw
business ! Judge Green bank is probably
not the only victim. It is even easier to
blot out a district than to upset an election
There is a bill now in the Senate to destroy
the judicial district of Lycoming, because
the transactions of certain prominent Rad
icals there have been brought into the
Court for examination. The llarrisburg
P'llrint MIX A :
"We solemnly make the appeal to honest
men of all parties in the good Common
wealth, Look to your judicial districts !
If this infamous oiil can lx' retained, not a
judicial district in the State is secure from
the polluted grasp of the bandits of the
Legislature and lobby. Judges and court
will be driven to the necessity of purchas
ing the forbearance of the ring to maintain
their existence, or a deeply wronged and
insulted people will be compelled to rise
and lash the mercenaries out of the legisla
tive lialls. Railroads and mining corpora
tions, it seems, do not furnish a sufficient
amount of plunder; and the ring, in raven
ous hunger for spoils, has begun an attack
on the courts, which have been hitherto
deemed inviolate. If this Lycoming job
be not defeated, there is not a court in the
Commonwealth safe from the assaults of
the ring."
The Radical party that elected the ma
jority of this Legislature is responsible for
its infamous character. Especially respon
sible are those who carry up to that corrupt
and incompetent body the municipal af
fairs of Philadelphia. To Harrisburg fly
the kindred spirits of the "Ring" of this
city to bemoan their loss of power and to
plot its restoration. The people of Phila
delphia made one vigorous effort, last fall,
to free themselves from this horde of plun
derers. We rescued the city from them.—
This full we must rout them out of their
last stronghold at Harrisburg.—Philadel
phia Aye.
Cm: AN orr MI: HAUEIIS. —A Radical la
dy, who is employed in the Treasury De
partment at Washington, has written a let
ter to the Independent, in which she mokes
very serious complaints in regard to the
morals of many of the female clerks. .She
concludes with this indignant appeal :
We (/uylit not to he insulted hi/ hariny the
paramours ami mistresses of members of
CoiV/ress forced uj/on ns, and he Miyed to
loh-rale their society day by day.
That there arc many such creatures oc
cupying the position and receiving the sal
aries of clerks without doing any work is
well known in Washington. Radical mem
bers of Congress have converted the de
partments into harems, and their de
bauched and petted beauties are supported
at the expense of the tdx-payers of the
country. To such a condition has the par
ty of great moral ideas brought us.
to?" "On to Washington," is now the
cry of the grand army of office seekers.
Senator Sprague on the Situation.
GOT. Sprague of Rhode Island, hereto
fore, one of the most radical of ndicals,
begins to show sign* of returning reason.
Even he, begin s to see that everything ia
not lovely. His assertion, that he has
spent his money more freely, than any of
co-conspirators, in order to bring the Coun
try to its present ruinous condition ; shows
on what the party "of great moral ideas"
base their claims to honors and preferment;
and shows how deep must be his shame and
eoutritiou when he shall see himself as
others see him.
Read what he says :
"Sir, I have been deeply interested in
the success of the Republican party, In
means I have contributed more than any
other member of this body, and in charac
ter quite as much to the furtherance of that
success. In point of means, I think my
contributions in that direction would offset
tho contributions of all the other members
of the Senate.
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And what position do wo occupy to day ?
Is there peace at the South ? Is there a
spirit of linrmunious influence here in this
Senate toward those people ? Is there
government among those people ? Do
their occupations prosper ? Are they not in
a state of chronic revolution ? And have
you not had four long years in which to as
sure peace among that people ?
I have called to the individual attention
of Senators, and I have called to the atten
tion of the body, the fact of the loss of
nearly all—l may say, to-day, all of your
industrial interests ; but the apathy which
seems to have been inoculated into every
nerve and into every vein of this body and
of tho country, will not allow them to be
lieve it until the mischief is upon them.
Your immigration fell off thirty thousand
last year from the year before. Why ia
that so ? Is it not a clear case that it must
be so ? Where can these people obtain
employment by coming here ? If they
take possession of the farms at the West
can they produce sufficient to supply them
selves, at the cost of everything now, with
the necessaries of life ? Sir, it cannot be
done. They cannot come here ; and is it
not a shame and a disgrace to all your leg
islation that it should be so ?
You have lost your commerce. You
ask the reason for it; and there is
man in this chamber that gives a satisfac
tory reason for the loss except and l>ecanse
we are not paying specie for our bill. The
reason is plain and simple that the con
struction of your treasury is such that you,
in common with the capitalists of this
country, aro speculating upon every indus
try and upon every laboring occupation.
That is the reason, and there is no other.
I told yon the other day that the condition
in which the crops of the South were
placed consequent on high prices was the
most dangerous and disastrous position
that it was possible to place them, for
tho apparent high prices here give a
stimulous to the operations in and the pro
duction of cotton in Eygpt, in India and
in Brazil. It Is my deliberate judgment,
and nobody can gainsay it, that in five
years you will be clamoring here for a tar
iff' to keep out foreign cotton. How are.
you going to pay your debts with that
state of things ? Send more bonds to Eu
rope, send more of your capital away from
the industries of the people !
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There is a paralysis throughout this
body and throughout the country. I have
pointed to Mexican society, I have pointed
to Spanish society, I have pointed to Ital
ian society, and if I have read anything I
find that when they, powerful, civilized, re
fined, commenced the demoralization and
loss of honor and virtue and prosperity,
they occupied a similar position to that in
which this country is placed to day.
I favored the election of General Grant
in opposition to the aspirations of one con
nected with me by family ties. I did that
because I felt that Grant had not learned
the practices of those who had hail charge
of the government, that he would have ca
pacity to see through the intricacies of the
things about him, and would judge more
correctly of the exact condition in which
things were, unbiased, unprejudiced, unin
fluenced. I watched his inaugural with
anxiety. I listened to every word that he
uttered. I watched his countenance. I re
sponded to the words wherein he professed
himself to be the champion of freedom and
liberty : that he should be independent and
fearless in the discharge of his duties ; but
I went away with a sorrowing heart when
I heard that clause in his inaugural that he
would protect the government debt. I saw
that the canker that had possessed the
body politic of the American nation had
got to him. I went away disheartened,
sorrowing, alarmed. Sut, sir, I will not
give up the ship, even with that impres
sion. I hope he will discover the error in
to which he has been led by bad advisers,
and will retract, retrograde, turn away, as
he would from a charnel-house."
lted"The refusal to permit the people of
Pennsylvania to vote upon tho adoption or
rejection of the Negro Suffrage Amendment
is the grossest outrage that was ever perpe
trated. When the Radical members of our
State Legislature decided to force the mat
ter through without discussion on their
part they admitted their utter inability to
defend the course they decided to pursue.
They knew they could not stand up and
discuss the proposition to submit the ques
tion to the people- The white men of this
Commonwealth will read the proceedings
with proper feelings of indignation, and
when the next election comes they will be
reaily to choose a Legislature which will re
tract the ratification as promptly as it was
endorsed. The issue is made up, and the
result is not doubtful. The Radicals can
not shirk the discussion before the people.
Outrage by a Negro Man in Franklin
County, Followed by an Attempted
Mob.
From the Chumbersbqrg Valley Spirit, of
Wednesday last, we obtain the following
particulars of a beastly crime and its dis
graceful consequences r
On Thursday, about noon, a negro went
to the house of Mr. Wm. Oliver, in Guilford
Township, about 2 l a miles •from this Boro.
Mr. Oliver and his wife were both away
from home. A step-daughter of Mr. Oliver,
named Ida Reinhart, who is about thirteen
years of age, had also been at aneighboriiyg
house, but at noon went home to feed the
pigs. She was in the house getting the
necessary feed when the negro went there,
and had the door locked. He came to the
door but she .refused to admit him. He
pretended to be hungry and demanded
bread threatening to burn down the house
if she would not let him ia. Terrified at
these threats, she opened the door, when
"the black seouudrel seized her, threw her
upon the floor and outraged her person.
The little girl is protty badly injured. The
negro then took with him from the house a
razor and a small sum of money which was
lying on a mantel. Mr. Oliver's house lies
in a south-easterly direction from town.
The negro then left and, crossing roads
and fields, got round to the road leading
from this Borough to Scotland in a north
easterly direction from town. About a mile
from here, a gentleman resides by tho name
of John Landis. The negro accosted a lit
tle boy whom he saw there and asked him
if there were any men about. The boy
said no. Just then a young lady named
Lydia DetwiLh-r was seen passing through
afield some <li ! tanco oil, and the negro
went over towards her, and caught up to
her about two hundred yards from her fa
ther's house which is in Green township.
He attacked her at once and accomplished
his purpose, the young lady resisting lnm
to the best of her ability. .
From there ho went in the direction of
Mr. Jacob Fry's houw, and when within a
couple of hundred yards of it ha met a
young lady named Miss Leah Lehman. He
attacked her also and a most terrible strug
gle took place. He struck her on the back
of the head with a club, and on the face, so
that it is covered with black marks, and
choked her so as to leave tilack and blue
marks upon her neck. In the struggle he
took a razor from his pocket and drew it
close to lier throat, threatening to kill her.
Sile grasped the razor and broke the handle
off, which she still has in lier possession.
Notwithstanding tnis heroic resistance, the
black scoundrel succeeded in accomplishing
his purpose with tins lady also. We under
stand she is still confined to her bed from
the injuries received.
Mr. Oliver has since seen the handle and
blade of the razor used in this last struggle,
and indentities it as his own.
On Friday, a negro answering the de
scription given by the little gill ami the la
dies, was seen in this town, und was arrest
ed by Mr. Frederick Householder and Mr.
Nicholas Uglow, under the direction of
Sheriff Fletcher. His name is Cain Norris.
and his residence is "Wolffstown:" H
was taken to jail.
On Friday night, lietween seven and eight
-o'clock, the"lire bell tapped and a rush was
made for the jail. In about ten minutes no
less than eight hundred, perhaps a thous
and people, were gathered about the build
ing. The crowd seemed wild with excite
ment and anxious to obtain possession of
the prisoner. But Sheriff Fletcher refused
to give him up, and expressed his determi
nation to protect him. Several of our citi
zens made speeches urging the crowd to
desist from tho undertaking, but the Sher
iff, still fearing an attack, called upon
Capt. George W. Skinner, of the "Housnm
Zouaves," to come to his assistance. Capt.
Skinner brought up some of his men with
their muskets in obedience to the Sheriff s
requisition, and after the Chiefliurgess had
interposed his authority also, the crowM
left and went to their homes. On Satur
day and Sunday nights similar attempts
were apprehended, and the Sheriff, in con
sequence, had the jail guarded.
THE QUESTION* OK NEGRO EQUALITY. —The
negro Legislature of Louisiana recently
passed an act to do way with all distinc
tions on account of color, in that State, hy
imposing heavy fines and imprisonment on
any hotel keeper, saloon proprietor, thea
tre manager, railroad conductor, steamboat
captain, director of a public school, that
should refuse accommodation to a negro
the same as to a white person. The Gov
ernor of the State vetoed the bill. Wheth
er, upon the ground that Heaven had
marked an eternal barrier between the two
races, and fortified it by natural antipa
thies, it is not stated. |
JAMES HARPER. —Ex-Mayor Harper, of
New York, met with an accident on Thurs
day hist which caused liis death on Saturday
evening. While riding with his daughter in
his carriage on Fifth Avenue, the horses
were alarmed and ran away. An obstruc
tion in the street overturned the carriage,
and both Mr. Harper and his daughter
were thrown on the pavement, he receiving
a severe contusion over the left eye. He
was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where he
remained unconscious to the time of his
death. Mr. H. was the head of the great
publishing house of Harpers & Brothers—
his age was about 75 years.
&aF*The Radical majority in the House
I of Representatives have covered themselves
with infamy. Let the people of Pennsyl
vania remember that on Thursday night,
March 25th, 1869, the so-called Republican
members of the House of Representatives
i in the Pennsylvania. Legisleture voted to
force Negro Suffrage upon the people of
the old Keystone State, against the will of
their constituents, and in defiance of num
erous petitions and remonstrances against
the iniquitous act from both Democrats
and Republicans.
fcfa*"" Prentice says hereafter one of tho
necessary inquiries in regard to every Rad
ical candidate for the Presidency will lie :
Has ho relations enough to fill all tho of
fices ?
Gift Swindles and Lottery Enterpriaes
There are over two thousand of these
swindling establishments in New York.—•
Thap-c are'- about thirty heavy concerns,
which do theheffv Un-siuesa, 'JBfcese ohange
their k>oatiou and their names often, By
a flourishing concern the ntunber < >f letters
received daily is from two to Ave hundred.
These letters eomemainly from the oouutry.
The swindles are based upon some pretend
ed benevolent scheme, sucli as the "Asylum
for Sick and Wounded Soldiers ; or "Uu
iou Jewelers' Society ;or "Soldiers' and
Sailors' Hrmie j" or ' 'Orphans' Institute. '
fcometmics these concerns run a newspaper
una offer h gift to every subscriber. Thous
ands of letters ure. received at the lieud
spmrters trf tlm police from victims- asking
redress ; sending fur the prizes ; exposing
imposition ; pointing out the locality where
the swindlers do their business, aud askiug
the police to break up the den of sharpers.
Why the police do not do it, and put au end
to this roblwry, will lie seen iu smother
place.
Frojn'b jyfle den in the city, or for some
store fitted up for the occasion, a scheme
is got up in aid of the "Orphans' Institute."
By the sud of direotorioc, post office lists,
and other menus, t! t-> iismWof hbardrods-of
persons are obtained troip all parts of the
country. Circulars are " sent to each of
these persons, containing a list of prizes to
be drawn, the numbers, etc. Each is to
sell tickets. Each is to keep quiet, s a
knowledge of the promised prizes to one
party would create dissatisfaction amoug
the rest. But ill every case ten dollars must
be mailed before the prize can be seut ou.
The party is enjoined to state whether the
prize shall be sentiu draft oriu greenbacks.
Ten or fifteen days, at most, are allowed to
respond. As the prize is supposed to be
worth one hundred to five hundred, the j
parties catch at the bait, scuds ou ten dol- !
lars, and of course that is the last of it.
Another favorite mode of swindling is
carried on by men whose "sands of life j
have nCirly run out." The party re pre- ;
scntjj himself as a retired clergyman—one ;
who liiis suffered long from asthma, or one j
nearly dead with dyspepsia, or wasting I
away with consumption. Through a re
cipe from an old doctor, or an old nurse, or ]
an Indian, the, party obtained relief. Out I
of gratitude for the recovery, the healed ,
clergyman or individual gives notice that |
he will send the recipe "without charge" j
to any sufferer who may desire it. Cireu- |
lan; by iho thousands are .sent to the ad
dress, of }s r.sons.in all parts of theconntry. !
Each person is required to put a postage
stamp in his letter, for the transmission of
the recipe. Thousands of letters * come
back in response. The recipe is sent, at
tached to which is the notice that care
must be taken iu securing.the ;
medicine. Not one apothaearv in a bun- j
dred in the country has the medicine j
named. The benevolent holder of the re- |
cipe adds to other things, that should the j
party not be able to get the medicines, if j
he will enclose Si or So as the ease may be |
the New York party will make the pur- j
chase aud send it on by express. Dream
ing of 110 fraud, the money is sent as diree
ted. If the medicine is sent at all, it costs
about fifty cents to the buyer, and a hand-!
some busyiess is done. If the swindle
takes, the party will pocket from twenty to
fifty thousand dollars, break tip the con
cern, and lie. out of the way before the vic
tim can visit New York.
The thirty huge gift establishments re-'
ceive nbont five' hundred letters a day.- - 1
Full three-fifths of these letters contain i
money. Some of the letters detained by :
the authorities were found to contain sums
as high its three hundred dollars. Direct
ed to different parties, they are taken out ,
by the same persons. The medicine swin- ■
die and gift enterprise* are run by the
same parties. This advertising for parties
is worthy of special notice. A man with a
capital of from one hundred to live hun
dred dollars is wanted. He can make one !
hundred dollars a day and run no risk.— j
The victim appears. He has a little mon- i
ey, or his wife lias some, or he has a little
place he cau mortgage.. The gift swindle
is opeS to him. The basket off' letters is j
opened in his presence. He is offered a
share in the dazzling scheme. He pays his
money, helps open the letters for a day or
two, and then the scheme dissolves in the !
night. Almost all these swindles have
smaller ones that go along with them.
The names of the parties who are carry- 1
iug on these gigantic swindles are well
known to the police. The managers have
been arrested a dozen times. Broken up
iu one place under a new name they open
again. Thousands of letters are sent to the
police headquarters from victims asking
for redress, But one of these . letters is a
complaint. Without acomplaint the police
are powerless. The victims lielong to the
country. tVhen they sent their tern dollars
to secure the prize, they knew it was a
cheat 011 their part, for they had bought
no ticket and ifthere was a prize they were
not entitled to it. They dare not com
mence a suit against these parties. The
swindles understand this well aud defy the
authorities. If gentlemen from the rural
districts love to be swindled and will be
parties to the cheat they must take the
consequences.
Iu almost every case gift enterprises are
carried on under an assumed name, and
when arrested the parties prove that they
: are not the men who curry on the business.
I When goods are seized an owner appears
• not before named, to replevin the stock.
For the first .time since 1830 tho
Democrats have carried the City of Port
land, in the Radical State of Maine. As
passion subsides, the eyes of the masses are
being opened, and the light which now
breaks in the East will spread over the
whole horizon before long.
I 1. F. Wiuaus has been appoiuted
postmaster at Newport, Kentucky. Rec
ommendation —wedded a niece of General
Grant,' • • '
|ESH pbrHsfiiiEitls.
CAUTION.
Having thia day jmrchaaed of David, Nelson ~,
Stlai Atnaiek, the grain now arowlni; on th.; fara
occopiod by tbe Mild Silas Auuiick ; and lur: c . ye
| with the aabl Silas Aumick, a team of Horn* k.
I wagon, and a et of Harness, to bs used by hlnTs..
| in k onr will and pleaiure, this Is to forbid all
! purchaaina or in any way interfering with the
property, at they wfli do to at their peril,
DAVID JAYXF
vBnM-w3 J. M. BRUNOiSs.
WOK I>S OF WISDOM.
FOB YOUia ME.V,
i ON the RULING PASSION in Youth and Ijr!
! Manhood, with SELF HELP for the Errlne aai
I unfortunate. Sent in sealed letter envelopes, free r.-
\ charge. Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION li.,
i P. Philadelphia, I'a. vvou
IJCBMP NOTICE.
; Notlee is hereby given, that the following named
persons have ilfedJhelr petitlont, and wili apply f O .
Tavern Licensee, at the next Court of Quarter Set
j slonS, to be hebl at Tunkhannoek, Wyoming County
! Pa., and will be heard on Tuesday, April th lii
at 2 o'clock, P. M.
I APPUCAJtTi. TOWSSHIPt
John D. Laßarre, Braintrim
S. Bristol,
C. Mathewton, Clinton
D. N. Mathewson, '•
Nathaniel A. McEown, Forkston
Peter McQueen, "
H. W. Conner, Falls.
John Ketm, "
John Anderton. Meshoppt-n.
Burton L. Keency, '•
Wm. Jennings, Mehoopariy.
O. L. Vaughn, '•
James Burnett A Chug. W. Lee, Jlonroc.
Reuben Parks.
Wm. O. Gay lord. NorthmerelanJ
J. D. Hewett, Nicholson.
. John Niver. "
Charles A. Sisk, "
Thos. B. Wall, Tunk. Boro.
H. Hufford,
Philo Baldwin. ••
Fisher G. Osterhout.
* E. J. KEEXEY, Clerk
Tank., March 30th 'O9.
DISSOLUTION.
The Copartnership heretofore existing between
Wilber Gardner and Charles Gardner, is dissolved
by mutual consent. W. Gardner having sold his in
tereet to A. J. Gilmore, retires from the business
and in doing so, tenderers hi* thanks to his friends
and patrons (Y>r the liberal patronage extended to
him and the various firms, with which he has been
connected for upwards of twenty years past, und U
stieaks a continuance of the same to the new firm.at
the old stand of W. Gardner's Exchange, where can
be found a complete stock of NEW GOODS, and 1
desire to serve the public better than heretofore-
One word before closing up.
All those having unsettled accounts, or notes, due
the old firm, arc requested to settle WITHOUT PLLAI
as the senior member of the firm proposes to go West
as soon as the books and accounts are settled. He
wishes to avoid the necessity of leaving them with
other parties for settlement.
W. GARDNER &. SON.
Factoryville. Mar. 23d 'O9. vSn33.
REGISTER'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given, that the following Ac
counts and Widow's claims, have been filed In the
Register's oliice in and lor Wyoming County, and
will bu presented to the Orphan's Court of sail
County, to be held at Tunkhannoek, on the nine
teenth day of April next, for confirmation and al
lowance :
Final account of Mary Motiger. Admr'x of the es
tate of Casper Mettger. dee'd
Final account of A. O. Lutes. Executor of the last
will and testement of O. W. Mitchell, dee'd.
Final account of A. O. Lutes, Executor of the las
will and testament of Lewi* Whitlock, dee'd.
Final account of Jane E. Peckham. Executrix 0!
the last will and testament of A. K. Peckbam. dee d
Final account of C. M. Manvllle, Executor of the
last will and testament of A. K. Peckham. dee'd.
Widow's claims in the estate of Syl vestor < 'arisen
ter. dee'd.
Widow 's claims in the estate of Almanza R. Tyr
rel. dee'd.
Widow's claims in the estate of Ezekiel Mowry.
deceased.
Widow's claims in the estate of S. G. Harding,
deceased.
fSS?SSI i " I-. Hi KISH, Rob-r.
~ SHERIFF'S SALE.
BY Virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias, to uie di
rected, there will be ex{>osed to Public Sale it
the Court ITouse, in Tunkhftr.nock. Wjo. Co P.i ,u0
SATURDAY, APRIL. 17, at 1 o'clock P M
All the right, title, and interest of the Defendant,
in nod to that certain piece, parcel or tract of Und
situate and being in the Township of Monroe. Coun
ty of Wyoming, and State of Pennsylvania ; Buuoi
eid and described as follows, to wit :
Beginning at a post corner, being the XorthiYi-rt
corner of land latelv owned by Curtis Harding ;
Thencn South. 67} degrees West along the E-u!
line of Simon Simpson, Survey, One Hundred and
Sixty Perches to a Beach Comer ;
Thence North. Thirty-two and one-half Degrees
East along the South line of William Wilson. sur
vev to Bowtnans Creek, thence down said Creek to
said South line of Win. Wilson survey,
Thence North, sixty-one ar.d one-half degrees
East along the South line of said William WiUm's
Survey to a corner on line of land lute of Curtis
Harding ;
Thence South two and one-half degree' East
aloog line ol said Harding's land, Ninety Four
Perches ta the place of beginning ;
Supposed to contuin about Fifty acres of Und the
same more or lets, being all of that part of the Sam
uel lloyt Warrant laying South ol Bowman's Creek
all unimproved.
Seized and tnxen in execution at the suit f Geo.
U. Fox, vs. Geo F. Fox
Aud wilt be sold for cash only, bv
M. W, HEWITT, SherlJ,
Sheiitf'e Office, Tank. Pa Mar 22, '69.
SHERIFF'S SALE
BY Virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to me di
rected, there will be exposed to public sale. *t
the Court House in Tunkhannoek, Wvo Co , l*a
On SATURDAY APRIL !7tb at 1 o'clock P M
All tbo right, title and interest of the defondaa'
In and to that certain piece, parcel or tract of Uni
situate and being io the Township of Windham,
Wyoming Couuty und State of Pennsylvania
bourded and described as follows, via :
On the North by lands of K. Sharpe ; West by
land of Phillip Berne ; South by land of Willi in:
Riley, and East by land of 0. B Sbarpe ; Conuiniuj ■
abou Fifty -one and a half acres of land, m•a '
less, with about Tweuty five acres thereof improei
and one frame oue log Barn, and suns loci
; treei thereon, with the appurtenances.
Seized and taken in execution at the suit si
; Elisha Sharpe, rs Thomas Coyle.
' Au't will be sold for cssh onlv, by
M. W. HEWITT. Sheriff
Sheriff's Office. Tunk , Mar. 22, '69.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
, T3 Y Virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias, to me dire
JL f ted. there will be exposed to public sals. *'
the Court Home in Tunkhannoek, Wyo. Co. Pi
On SATURDAY, A.PRIL 17 at 1 o'clock P
All the right, title, and interest of the Defend" ; -
in and to that certain piece, parcel or tr.i t •>! l nJ
situate and being in the towniiiip ol William,
Wyoming County, Pa. Bounded and described "
follows, viz :
On the North by land of K Sharp ; West bv i-i'-i
of John Cari . South by land of Phillip Beroe. urn
East by Sharp's Pond ; Containing abou: I '
acres of lanj, to be the same more or less, itli ut
body if a plank bouse thereon, with the a,fure
•ances.
Seized and taken In execution at the suit uf El - c "
oharfie, vs Patrick Cru ?e
Aud will be sold for cash only, by ,
M. W'.DEWITT, Siietifl- ■
Sheriff's Office. Tunk., Mir. 22, 69,
Sheriff's Sale.
BY Vi rtne of a writ of Fieri Facia* l ft •
reeled there will be sold At puhli • sue a'
I Court House, iu Tuukhannock, Wvu. Co l'
On SATURDAY. APRIL 17, at 1 i.Vloek i' v
All tho right, title an I interest of the ll
! in nnd to that rertdin piece, piira'cl or tnu't ct
j situate uni being in the township of Falls. N v
1 Counly Pa Bounded and described a follow'.' '
On the North by lauds of Edward Hunt, t
j lan J sot A". Compton. South by the Sasqio' o
I river, and on the West by lands of John """ t
Ackerson ; contaiuing 11 bo at Twenty-two llcre ' Vi
land with about Ten acres thereof improve 1 "
dwelling house, log stable, with souie applo. I' c> ,
and other fruit treus thereon, with the '•j* ''
nances. y.
Seized and taken iu execution at the
waid Hunt, v, Lydi i Oakly anl Byron w
And will be sold lor cash onlv, by I
M. W. I)EW ITT. Sb*" 5
| Sheriff '4 Office, Tunk.,Mar. 22. '69. i
. tJjryWILL purchase a pair of Kaatui ic '
!Qp I proof Boots, certaiuto keep any uix •• ■■
[ drjr who wearsthciß, for a iwelro uionta.