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EAS
FRED'K
rn
SNE. VED [.
NEW
Fooattioned
hun-
NMAUTION.
C All p
against the pus ht fa note ton one
dred A RIS fre dollars. miven by
to Joseph Rishel, du {in June, 18H,
ayahle ip nin )
Not having rece
refuse to Pav Xx.
and
W wit interest.
same, |
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KEEN,
Penn tw,
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Ved Yi hae
niles
yor the
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aplo3t,
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14
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Fo Farmer:
and Reaper
Kirby. Send
or call on —t
SHORTLI
apli'es:
J
he Best Wood and
be ha ag. Al thi Be
"Hei Let i He Mi Hoshy
lees. Weare the tral
Cenn’a. who burn Patent Blame Nila,
which produces tl White Wash a
Plasterine Lime offered o the trade
The 1 Sh anokin and
Anthrecite Con
Ix for family
at the
. Who are
will do Wid
1 for a deseript
DGK
il
AND L
J tole
the
onhy es In entry
at
in
¢ hest
Wes!
ail sizes, ii
Hist nla Nil
lowest prunes
of firs
Fak, paling i,
1 ¢ Che Ry
ard, near Routh
ley R. R. De
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shingles nna
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He
: ys
PPOs, Gis
: ERPLATING.
for bhugeics executed in the fin
durabie stvle. Give hun
Bian ro ;
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GET THE VALLEY C1
'
fips,
Y
est and most
a call His ¢! t
api G8 1.
RS, LOOK HER
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PER & MOWER
Cruker,
rain or grass n
lodged.
debrated Reaper & Mon
y
pH wil
5 4 . "a?
> O matter how
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at Li red enc
if Walls store,
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Hh will be
ind a Trea-
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ei to ive satis-
1 in she
Call aud see his stock of Buggies be-
purciins;
aplirt
RY RST X
-
BANK
Thiz Bank is now «
pose of Banking under ti
ied Stags,
Certif files 1==sned Ly Hw
Hale & Co.. will be paid at
Checks ott pif Th Sigh 18 Hsu
Bg ibafion atthe connteroft?
tional Han] K,
P freicy ir alte: fion given toil 10 pred
and = rar Sociritios
E. TT MES,
Preside
£43
nat
rw *
e said First Na
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wile Of
a 4
aplo Ha,
BROUKE RIOF) F,
Vv resident.
SHUGER
Cashier.
HENRY + DP. ’
iin HOOVER & CO.,
ENTI OUNTY BANKING CO.
RECEIVE DEPOSITS,
And Allow Interes L,
Discount Notes,
»ove ed Buy Sand
Government Secnrities, Gold a;
ons, aploos,
WIN(
b KE
J OUN Db. TATE,
3 NT
1) fice on Nathves
, “OTe st At heme
fst two. yr: ry MIGYLiE
“AT bo extracted without pain,
Bellefonte, Pa. ap lO 68 if,
P2100
D.
I
D8
‘ (rne
except, perhaps; the
eks of exe
iP D. NEFF, 3f,
FF, simi
Otfere his pe
ens of Potter towns hip.
Di: Nefl has the experience of
the active practice of Medicine and Sur-
gery. Hplros,1y
véician and
Pa.
‘ofessional services to the citi-
JAMES A.
A
BEAVER.
vol
BEAVER
ATTORNEYS-AT-1.. 117;
Bellefonte, Centre Ce., Penna,
PP A THORN EY Y
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law, Belle forte,
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Attorney-at-law,
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Bellefonte,
Pa,
MHOY—
Moe
ATTORNEY
AW
on Hi rly Street Uy Hf
ATI
NE nte
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plo GEL
|
HALL
and Proprietor.
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
24th, 18S,
FRIDAY,APRIL
VOACRATIONTATRE NOYINA TIONS
DITOR GENERAL:
BOY LI,
Al
PEIN yt
CHARLES Ek.
FOR SI'RVEYOR GENERAL!
WELLINGTON H.
Fy. } oh & wnt
TOWERS Lhe. CEE eee Mea TAG A ERT SE
"ny }. 52} 1353 Foy . "
ers I'he subseription neice
ris, SAO per year,
. ay. 8
ol thts
Nearo Suffrage “Going Up.”
rm $+
} via 0 8 ra
i { Le
of "the
W necro suwilaee
ReparTER
‘went up” in
- the
to a0).
re that
other state
seen ho
hettire oct
detore ast
jority against it being from 25
(0),
1.
(0) Our readers are al:o0 awa
© fut to hs met it in ev oTY
‘ $ 1 . I= fini
in which a vote wa upon. t
making it ¢ evident
qi es{lon,
that
ople in every
learly
an overwhelming majority of the
section, {
some of
mular
ire onposed {0
ii
ye. i
measure the radicals
unn oro suthrace
i
ne
none fee
the white people, now
4
cong back” unon “the man and
" ‘ 3 .
athe tha NCO anit
mi
:
neero saffrao
Spl inefield Re andl!
giving up |
the
an able repub-
.
1 $
INK
aneoe,
a
Qrouan, speaks us follows
as the fact may be, |
that the enfran
colored race in the
i! have to wit ove:
ent season. The |
mm Conneciient and Mi- |
Tonday last,
that the rank A {
bi: an party,
are vet 20 im
“ Bacroditable
dent
the
tates w
ony
“rh
hidieata
HT
that ary of
from being
favor of mapartial suf: |
the nu immediate infer |
construction miol
ahi
foreine the 1s
re
8] jeapar
CENTRE
on Linpeachment,
Sam, Carey, representative in
Congress from Cincinnati, and the on-
l who
Republican member
hq
oives his reasons for his vote :
I will now give you briefly my re:
sons fi
In the first place it has, in all the his
| tory of this government,
recavded as the
his
dhs 4 . :
viministration, and to
(ington down, been
1s
select (‘abinet
| officers in ever
remove them at his pleasure. You re-
member when Duane was Seeretary of
Treasury, and he was ordered
eral Jackson {O remove the de pos-
of (
Jackson said:
its, contrary to the law
He refused, (
ir: I will iind some one who will.
{ Applause.]
Yes n
uniform practice, and has been regnrd-
11rd
Ie
out 8
1 countrymen, it has been the
edd as indispensible to the wise and le-
(rovern-
1d A
shou! ave
citimate admimstration of this
ent, that the President ;
hould he his Con.
Ain't
men,
Cadinet officers who s
advisers and friends.
? Yoo and these
AL
se very judees who are sitting to-day
fidentia
thal rent Very
impeachment thought
When Mur.
the United States
Lincoln was Pr
It was osed
spy
that one member of his (
-
Blair. Senators, including Wade
of Ohio,
hipye fs to) t!
TY aa "J
“ a lot uf to Mr.
nd Sherman, and Sumner,
Massa
tv-four, o
Lar I.in-
4 this language:
“The President of the United States
should be aided by a Cabinet council
nel
cand all
ne the result of their combind wisdom
and deliberations.”
That's cood sense ixn'f 7 ?
1G that Mr. Monteomery
that
0 on
SAN
not enteriain rein
Mr.
vinpathy
r de
I fregh i—that he is not
v him
FOWL rds
full =
n aud then
acre constitution
Mich 1s FOI On
fi! teen t
The
pon 1
Jdonday was defeated by from
thousand votes. liquor
im Coubt
S maj
It is
- Gt . in '
fotty to v {hou
} ‘
Goo
20.000. fore evident that
Olt
Radicals
* Democratic views on the negro
from sand 0! |
nuicty-six - thousand
~OINKe
fue Sin
ere mee tfanttnfe e
The Radicals admit that the n egroes
of the South ar mized and armed
for mu ual the
Where is
iy gi
dofonse,
auch
to touch
an
these
Griiure
oreaniza- |
hoy
then
lil DD
CX six or
There
ganization
Drospect of
thes e dan- |
anizations
th
i= no war or
unless ricrinates with t
and secret armed ore
are gy
I Armv of the
Our
4
1561
at war, is Is
republic, y the |
ps . . . Az!
01 stitutions, No such |
needed for any emereency
1 i §
ONT wWiao.e theory of TrOVerh-
rests upon their condemnation as
wd anti-dem- |
Evrior
Freedmen’s Affairs, has made a report
MR from the Committe on |
to the House which shows how many |
money have |
for the manufacture of n Caro
votes tor
set the white votes Radical; ism has Jost
New Hq ampshire, Coniaectient, Mich-
igan, Ohio)” Kansas,
York, and other
in, California, New
Northern States. By
taw this expensive outrage expires Ju-
ly 16, 1868, and ceases to be a drain
But
Committee directs that a bill ‘shall be
reported to the House “continuing the
the
‘lurcau for another year , Wnless before
‘that time, when States have been re- |
stored and their representatives in Con-
“gress can speak and act for them, it
“shall be found safe to suspend its ac-
“tion,” “Found safe,” This
shameful recommendation a4 still
more shameful confes€ion that this Bu-
reau, ostensibly for the benefit of the
colored” brother, is an
agent to Radical success ‘another year,”
or through the Presidential campaign,
that without it the Radical party
ineloed !
IS
indispensi ale
the South,
we Cabinet ding bo excel
“Ti
‘'omposed of Fi
veively
en who are the cor
ers of the principles and purposes
President of the United States.
Iie charoe
oft hi
1
re, then they
being guilty sh crime,
this that he wanted a t Mi inister
who was in full ho
nf iatraron These men
«aay he ought to hs ave it,
President oy fo have it,
[t docsen’t matter
Demoerat or Republican, the contiden-
with the
and ey
and 1
ory
20).
in sympathy and harmony with him,
that is
hostility to h
does not speak to him;
im, and will
and ke wanted to gel him out, [A voice
Yes,
Wits
im out.”]
If General Jackson in
would touch him with the toe of
[Cheers.]
Think of the precedent weare setting,
4 z
Democratic
moeratie
the D
“There 1s no use in
me of these days, and
drould +
trying to do
™
sy
anything; with this
i?
“Oh Well”
you get up against him?”
Out
¢an
some one says, “what
they can “what did they have
say
agaiast Mr,
“that’s it.” ]
one President
Johnson?”
And if you can impeach
and turn him out under
the present charges, what President is
hereafter safe when the majority in Con-
[Cheers]
had a man
gress in opposed to him?
1"
ik
It is no matter to me how
Andrew Johnson i=. I am not his apol-
ogist and defender, A
“Ah CO
John=onized.”
man
to-day, rey, “on have heen
But have 1 oo
=
ne over
he or any other man shall be frotidied
by the laws of the country. [Cheers]
Mr Carey contintied by saying that
Andrew Johnson could only remain in
office a year Yonaar. Stanton had Jost
self-respect by acting as he’ «lid ; and
remain in the War Office had a con-
tempt for his action in so doing. He
referre ul ‘to Ber. Wade's sitting on the
, Mr.
Wade had no right tq vote in ee
| by the letter of the Cons stitution
, atin
JUSTICE A
FRIDAY APRIL,
yg
HALL, PA,
{ Mr.
i 10 ong chit to bet spit
ili ed
Impeachment,
by the whole CI Vi rid.”
* > *
The Impeachment.
pixgEortTar“lHign
ARE VIiewED ABROAD.
London Morning Post, Marvel
20.]
Count”
he
simply asked ih mselves wheth-
X Yi.
King
to then
zood King
particular notions of what 0
should be, If Charles im-
posed taxes without his
i
4
|
|
24TH, 1868.
th a vl
furnishes the
tL) the
Tr he other conveyaneer
definition of the knw
contrary.”
the fol.
and prac-
of ten the
that is
pives
“Tn nine eases out
i
limps
purchgser pay: {or th
law. The pre tice in Chester o unty
Wrother
ay
and may
termed! criminal, nor ( what
Nir.
plained
helt codtiratio charact rv 1s called
Johnson's ease the
but when
of fre ceria nly novel,
in question it must not be forgot tl by
{ the
Arose
Th
cannot
those who de dermine this P unt tl
which they
arallel
Sate
Ww ithout a4]
supreme power the
mn
commit an unconstitutional act, bhe-
: 1s
can aws or decrees are emanations
from which the
Bt
House of ( ONETess, nor both together,
the
power in the
the same source
Constitution springs, as neither
without President, the sue
» J 1
vO)
i
Chief Mogi
tneonstitution
American |
that /f the
of
preme
lie, it follows
ian Le
NO) «alxo
The
ty
fq
ssf
they
acts,
Frese,
Can on
however, l
le viol; :
e Houses,
evils
1
Constitution,
Ho
any }
provi les io redress for ria
Y
a aer-
gry
[his
President bein y
ing from sucl
—-
of
and the
daty on their part.
. »
DCE RO, SE
juired to wield the Executive power in
to law, and best calculated to protect
Y
the inter
he
felfow-citizens
. ar
nen ’ ii) J f
gud gm i: ON 14.
t Wa HE, hin
Svs sisonn #3 i | ! .
ature time do =o clrewhiore,
/ J f
) y of .
(6° py’ Hiex 0 /
J
{ fd
dey
Hore Cong N
impartial person would think of deny
fo ce
i=
Lenten HH J oh were not ju tif
“
WE ROTIONS
.
of )
exclusion {from
Cloner 2 of the FCPICS niatives
Lie
‘ ‘
~ 3 5 . . .
southern SALES Was an act so erosshy
unconstitutional, that beside it the high
and misdemeanors charged
oniih-
rainst M~. Johnson «ink mio in:
The :
$4
. 3
enilt of HNOeene Li
. a Ay!
* f
LOK
grounds and this the case
Lettig
(et "=
uncer which
Jf Mr.
charged with a bros:
he act d
he iemored,
‘hoof the constitu
$y i
sottinz at defiance sn Act of
Congress, it is open to Lim to show {hat
in the HI ceptance of the American
''
ren the wef m question Wis
} MSR i .
Dh
reyy .
100 Louisiana Eleetions.
La
A letter received here to-day 1
relative to the clee tions
is woe nk,
that
X
La
the main contoversy will be as to the
already three tickets
Creal
OU T=],
IH
Black Republican” ticket: the Talli
of “White
Cutler, or ©?
aferro,
the I. King Nobody's
lican ” The 3 policy ( { the Democrats
will he, so far as kno wn, to vote for the
Tallio ferro ticket, the Democrats wiv-
Nate fo
and the [after giving the ty
ing up the the Hep cans,
of
Orleans to 6 the Bir pitofies
pee rep
Wiio Pays FOR
fer of the title to real estate, but many
escape difficulty by stipulating in the
seller shall pay the stamp duty.
Village Record, West Chester, has Been
prompted hy a corre espondent to look
the matter up, and after consulting a
lawyer and two real estate agents, i it
has given thir opinions. —The lawyer
says that the seller pays for the stamps
unless there is an agreement to the con-
trary. One of the conveyancers says :
“The universal practice is that the pur- |
chaser pays for the deed. The seller |
‘the stamp law was en-
the ol virtue of the cost
of the stamps,
Litig
Supreme Court decided that the seller
nected, by
hecame a matter of CO
ations arose, and the
was bound to make a deed, and a deed
IY ner
stamps er worthless, the
celler wos bound to furnish them.’
bens
The i
op A
hire ¢ rimes,
EASTERN TALL.
a 4+ TTT aM #)
Hamed Andallah waqan
of a grotto on*one of the slopes of Mount
Olympus. When he stood at the en-
{
“I will grant your request,
on condition
that yau perpetrate some erime which
may diminish your overweening pride
Do not interrupt
or I will kill you upon the spot ;
hing, listen,
three most heinous erimes which I can |
i You shall either violate the
of concious virtue.
[ give you your choice of |
maging,
fill of gop wine ; or you shall murder |
vapr yeperahle old father; or you
shall curse the name of that De ity |
wors hipy Choose between |
these three Crimes
The Nn Ha
met was
to
very sorrowful, |
the heart |
of the, eyll Oe but 411 his prayers |
unay
to
melt
EVO
oiler
mason within |
were
Ii rly began
nll the terri-
| by Osman,
embrace with one {
origina vy
lang
po: wits aM
of the Ottoran
empire
and, as he five times a day offered up
upon the head of Solyman the Magnifi-
cent, the reigning Rul; an in whose time
Iudee d. Abdallah
nowned for his anefity § and the in-
habitants of the vicinit
he lived. va
“of his dwell-
ing treated him with the most marked
respect
He was pot howeyer,
cessive vel
{ { eration by his age |
had sear ely attained his fortieth year
when thei meident of ‘thistale took p lace
His venerable fathe Tr, W ho was himself
a de "MY 150 of’ rent
with him in the same grotto ; and for-
tunate was deemed the individual who,
on his way along the sloyes of Olym
pus, was allowed to join the prayers of
the two dervises, kneeling upon the
around at the entrance of the caye, and
turning their countenanoes toward
holy eities of Mecea and Medina.
H met Al
dst
y ' Q
wislah was one
morning
the rove
N and woods,
he mountain
above Lis grotto, and ponde: upol
been perusing but a short time previ-
Lis foot
ACHINST SO me thin o hurd 1
—
I $s,
Gaciny
. v war} . : }
ously, ach SU SUUCK
P onthe gr: Mn nd.
hil a 1
WHICH Wis It
i+ mic]
Ih, a
10 a sqitfre of stone
1}
WC,
pulse of « UT
hand to the ri
fis force After many
th
ded to his
awards with the sudden
{1 brass 1 siren
i
and h
and i
<hoe k,
1
Before he raid time to raise and ex-
. R
the
at
the
Ha-
1 as ye a
the aperture thus laid bare
dense volyme of smoke issued from
air
eral thousand {oct
craze Fost
hole, and ps cend wl i i the to
1rhit of soy
ne appar ition : but how much i more
hs wonder excited when
® ko eradually become more and
id
vaipable «1 and at
y Yar
] APelLY,
the
. s 1 ~
with ; ne
w A!
me nse
whit S$:
pine iree in
» . hd
ume tor of an un
fluttering r
|
and a trewrsndous
3s 1 yoy
244Y 2 4
Hamet f
about to put up a \ privel
cht hand,
eit upon his knees,
to heaven
apparition
him a voice of thund
“Nav
in er.
mention not the name of the
*"
“Who art thou ?"
vising from his suppliant postive,
victorious power shut up in that copsed
hole, where I haye languished for two
It is an evil day for
thee that roid thee hither,”
“And wheretore, proud Genie 2” Je-
manded Hamet,
“Because, |!
In
ay
x shout to kill thee, in
oe In vself Upo some one
for this long enpivity,”
trembled
At these Was, Hamet
Vb
iv
] besough
Very mich. ane gl
to spare his life,
Gente
For a long time the
kein and ordered
him to prepare for immediate death
but at length he suffered himself to be
moved by the prayers and entreaties
of the virtuous dervise... «!.
“Hark ye,”
was
said the Genie; “I am
cried Hamet, his heart
| le apn: r with jov.
“Name it,”
said he, “1 assassinate my fa-
“en
ther, no contrition can wipe away my
the law will ov-
vengeance, If]
great Allah, I!
future happiness
crime, and moreover
ertnke me with its
sigh in vain for {
in the gnpe dens of Par adige.
become inebriate with the juice of the
grape, I can ¢ Xpinte
vere mortification, penitence, and re
newed prayer.”
Then, turping his countenance > |
AR rou
fountain of all evil! I have A
"”
upon this injury.
“Name the object of that choice.”
: J
ne,
“I will get; drqnken with wine, as
answered the dervise.
the Genie: “this |
pose,”
“Be it 50,” cried
a jar of Cyprus-wine upon |
table, whe thy; father has retired |
acl],
nen; but woe unto
to rest in hi ¢ Wij Thou mayvest
thy pr omis
The {ao nie vag ally bec ane. le Re
spoke these words ; and |
i
Ng menace is-
. s
from his lips,
131
7
he had vanished al-!
. |
amet reiraced his Steps
the crottn, with »
but he woujd not, Oe his
towards sor
rrow i ul
The day
the
and |
and his sire
passed rapidly away ; :
Hamet
evening,
the door of "the
Ch
ca
with their faces towards the |
their
VOICES in. praver
1
were concluded,
10 rage
CDR
\ xy:
emihyraced his son tender-
{
4
i
l nan
1
. an l retired to the inner part of the |
As spy as Hamet knew that bjs. fa; |
ther } pt, he lichted a lamp ; and, as
ble. The unhappy. dervise raised it
0 his lips, and dgank deeply of the
A glow of fire |
seemed. fo electrify his frame, and he |
mtoxicating drancht.
Again he drank; gud |
reckless nnd careless of the eon-
|
AE
he felt
He drank a third time ;
vhs ald empl eck t
the door
and. when hy he mea- |
: hy Po |
ne ran oud vo of the |
3
He
the monytain ; then, heard i
ine aloe, he laughed with oy
Ag he turned to a |
«aw hiz fither stand-
as
cerithable ie h.
he
"said the old man,
ke slum-
bers, and F rise to find my well belov-
Alas! :
“the nojse
from my
ii an me
gies ; ond hove I now awakened to the
Tread truth of thine impiety, for the
Alas! thon hast east ashes
npon the gray head of thy father!”
[Tamet epuld not brook this accnsa- |.
tin, and the implied suspicion that he
first time ?
whilst his father slept. He felt suds
sire, and eried, “Return to your couch,
old dotard! Thou knowest not what
thou sayest!”
And, ss he uttered these words, he,
pushed his father violently into the
T he old man resisted, and,
again remonstrated with Hamet. The
quor ; and a sudden dread of exposure
to. the world entered his mind. With |
4
furiously against the stone walls of the
orotto, The old man fell with his tem-
ple agai int a sharp flint—one groan
emanated from his bosom—and his
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Suddenly concious - of the horrid
| erime of which he. had been
| Hamet tore his hair, beat his
‘and raved like a maniac.
the midst of his. ravings, La |
his voice againgt the majesty of hea-
ven, and. eursed the Deity whom he
had so long and fervently worshipped !
b upd the instant a terrible din echoed
tpind about-ithe thunder rolle e
tal} trees shogk with an earthquake—
and, amidst the poar sofithe conflicting
| cloxmepts,« were - ‘heatd shouts of infer-
nablnsghter. All hell seemed to re-
Juice the fall of a good man, whom
| noother vig had ever tempted away
from the paths. of virtue, tintil; drun-
| kenness presented itself. The rage of
the stern inargnsed —the, trees were
torn ajpsh 7 their roots—and fragments
of the xocky parts of Olympus rolled
(down theill with the fury of an Al-
| pine avalanghe. (Then suddenly, the
| Geng appeared before the wretched
Hamef, and exclaimed, “Fool! by
| choosing lo commit the erime. avhich
guilty,
bre
asasl
the.other . two. likewise!
cup than insany other. means of temp:
tation presented hy Satan to mankind 7”.
Aud the last wordsgof the, {yenie
mingled-with the redoubled howling of
the stores, as Hamet was borne down
the slope of the mountain by the folk
bottom.
: or we Tun
How They Live and Die in New
York.
Dr. Elisha Harris, Registrar of V'-
tal Statistics has just madea report for
the year ending Oct. 1. 1867 of the
| births, magriages and deaths in New,
York.ard Brooklyn. - The returns in
| regard io the last named item are com-.
and marriages. axe only. approximgte,
be secured. # ’
Birts. Of thg 12,569 registered
births itv: this. city. 6,397 were! Lmeles
and 6,164 females; 8,047 were born of
foreign, and 2,291 of native parents.
+ The birth rate, in New York is about
39,8 in 1,800, which is equal to the
rates elsewhere in this country and in
This is so far ‘enconraging.
Makgraces. Ofthe 15,026 persons,
| marriel in N Now. Xopk last very Bh
2 we were under 20
cep 20 and 30 years
of age, 4.661 were men.and 4 521 were
women;
Kur: ape. £0
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Mia
men and 1,26
ears of ace; betw
between 30 and 50 years, 2.-
440.men.and 1,204 women. Three of
the brides were over 70 years of age;
wives, ren rarried at the age of 81. The
was 3ly3 years; the average agetof the
women was 23,6 years, The tendehey
to second marriages seems to be about
equally divided between the sexes,
with a slight preponderance i in favor f
men. :
Dears. Tt has been est! mated that
a nominal death-rateldm a population
living under complete sanitary control,
would be mhout: seventeen in one thou
sand. All bavend this held to be ab-
solutely “presentable The death-rate:
in 1867 wes 31 A%41:1,000.! Tt hang
a decrease of dedths equal to 5,03 in
1,000 inhabitants as compared with the
previous.year. This shows the value
of the reforms brought about by the
present Board of Health, . ay ii
Notwithstanding. this gain, says the:
Evening Post, teva melancholy fact
that the mumber of children ir one
year offage who diedi.during the past
year was about equal.to one-fourth of
the > ole number born iu the same pe-
riod. .- The rate of mortality in young
children is ‘evérywhere acknowledged
to be the most sensitive test of sanitary
conditions; and when we remember
that the dex ath-rate among childeen un-
der five years of age in New. York is
greater than in any.eity from: which
we have accurate statistical returns, is
becomes evident that the mass of our
people are living under circumstances
which give rise to the most deadly in-
fluences.
More than G0,000 people live in less
wee WA,
»
the cellars of these houses dwell hbbubt
fifteen thousand meré. This half ef-
the population yields more than two-
thirds of the number of deaths. It i B-
in the packed and over-crowded: tamest
ment houses. that children aresatis
apt to die, and it is there alan that
those who survive are most apt to be
sickly.
Clergymen neglect to obey ‘the la”
whieh requires - threws. to register a
marriages performed hy them, ¢ and phy
sicians neglect their. duty respectin:
the registry of births,
> +
The culaiion of Pennsylvania Su-
preme Judges increased to $7,500.
Fourteen and a half feet of snow
fell in Central Park, New York, fram
January 1 to March 7.
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