Science on the Advance.
C. H. Gutelius,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
who is permanently located in Aaronsburg
in the office formerly occupied by Dr. Neth,
and who has been practicing with entire
success—having the experience of a number
of years in the profession, he would cordi-
ally invite all who have as yet not given
him a cadl, to do so, and test the truthfulness
of this assertion. pay~Teeth extracted
without pain. may22 O8tf
HENRY BROCKERHOFF, J D SHGERT,
President, Cashier.
NENTRE COUNTY BANKING CO.
(Late Milliken, Hoover & Co.)
RECEIVE DEPOSITS,
And Allow Interest,
Discount Notes,
Buy and Sel
Government Securities, Gold and
aplO'68tf Coupons,
J Bellefonte, Office
nold’s bank. may 14860
AS. MI MANUS, Attorney at Law,
Bellefonte, promptly attends to all
iness entrusted to him, juld, ost
D. NEFF, M. D., Physician and Sur-
o goon, Centre Hall, Pa., offers his
professional services to the citizens of Pot-
{er and adjoining townships. Dr. Nett has
the experienee of 23 years in the active
practice of medicine and su rgery. apl0 68
JA MES A. BEAVER,
Pa.
H. N. M' ALLISTER,
MPALLISTER & BEAVER
: ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Bellefonte, Centre Co, Penn'a. apO8tf
Chas. H. Hale,
Attorney at Law, Bellefonte. dec25 6otf
Nf ILLER'S HOTEL, Woodward, Pa.
Stages arrive and depart daily.
This favorite hotel is now In every respect
one of the most pleasant country wtels in
contral Pennsylvania. The traveling com-
munity will always find the best accommo-
dation. Drovers can at all times be accom-
modated with stables and pasture tor any
number of cattle or horses. ; :
july3d'ostf GEO. MILLER.
OK'S HOTEL, 312 & 314 Race street,
) 2 3.3
a few doors above 3rd, Philadelphia.
1t« eentral locality makes it desirable for
all visiting the city on business or pleasure
A. BECK, Proprietor.
21)
ap 68 (formerly of the States Union hot !
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B*
WAM. IH. BLAIR, H Y STITZER,
LAIR & STITZER,
Aitorneys at Law, !
Offic », on the Diamond, next door to Gar-
man’s hotel. Censultations in German or
Enel sh feb 1 69t
o oD : : ———————————
CALES. at wholasale and retail, cheap,
by IRWIN & WO 1LSON.
23 00TS, large stock, all styles, sizes und
Borices. for men and boys, just arrived
at Wolf well known old Stand.
— TVA .
EATHER, of all descriptions, fre
ex f skin, spanish sole leather, moroc-
Linings. Everything
l to give satis-
& THOMAS,
.
Jellefonte,
em————
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il
cos, sheep skins,
in the leather line warrante«
faction, at BURNSIDE & THO.
[NE TABLE CUTLERY, including
plated forks spoons, &e, at
api 68 IRWIN & WILSON.
I> ARCMETZRS and Thermometers, at
B IRWIN & WILSONS.
FYOFFIN TRIMMINGS, a large assort-
J ment at IRWIN & WILSONS
FF AND BELLS and Door Bells, all si-
zes and kinds at a
aplo’ Irwin & WILSONS
ACOB RHONE, Attorney at Law,
¢J) Bellefonte, Penn’a., will attend promp-
lv to all legal business entrusted to his
cate. —Office with J. F. Potter, near the
Court House. Consultations in German
or English. 16sep70y
J. B. Kreider, M. D.
Office at Millheim, Centre county.
Offers his services to all needing medical
attendance. Calls prompily attended to.
Early settlement cordially requested, when
a liberal discount will be allowed. Inter
est charged on unsettled accounts after six
months. 21jantf
{. E. CHANDLER, M. D,,
HOMMKEPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SUR-
Grox. Bellefonte, Penn’a. Office 2nd Floor
over Harper Bro's Store. Residence at the
Office. References—Hon. C A Mayer,
Pres't Judge, Lock Haven, Pa. Hon. L.
A. Mackey, Pres't 1st National Bank, do;
Harper Bros, Merchants, Bellefonte, Pa.,
and others. 19n0v69tf
OHN F. POTTER, Attornoy it Law.
Collections pron: ptly ma le ind special
attention given to those having lands or
property for sale. Will draw up and have
acknowledged Deeds, Mortgages, &e. O-
fice in the diamond, north side of the
court house, Bellefonte. oct22' 60tf
CLOTHING —Overcoats, Pants, Vests,
and Dress Coats, cheap, at Wolf's.
R. J. THOMPSON BLACK, Physi-
1 cian and Surgeon, Potter Mills, Pa,
offers his professional services Lo the citi-
zens of Potter township. mr26,69,tf |
ie nia —— ]
THE BELLEFONTE
Boot & Sho Store!
Next door to Pos: Ulflice.
We have always on hand.
GENTS CALF AND KIP BOOTS
A larger assortment of Ladies and Chil-
dren’s Shoes than any other place in town.
Gum Shoes, every style, make and size.
We ask an examination of our goods,
before purchasing elsewhere. .
octltf. - GRAHAM & SON.
ORSE COLLARS, if you don’t wha
your horse's shoulders galled and
madesore, get good herse collars at
BURNSIDE & THOMAS.
HE ANVIL STORE is now receiving
a large and well assorted Stock of
Hardware, Stoves, Nails, Horse Shoes, Sad-
dlery, Glass, Paints, Sheet, Bar and Hoop
Iron also Buggy and Wagon Stock of
every description.—Call and supply your-
selves atthe lowest possible rates at
apl(y 68. RWIN & WILSON
A Tremendous Stock of Goods
at Burnside & Thomas,
Whitman's celebrated confections,
Whitman's celebrated chocolate,
Bulker's che colate, Smith's chocolate,
China Ginger, English Pickes,
American Pickles, at
] BURNSIDE &« THOMAS’
Chas. H. Held,
Clock, Watchmaker & Jeweler
Millheim, Centre co., Penna.
Respectfully informs his friends and the
public in general, that he has just opened
at his new establishment, ®bove Alexan
der’s Store, and keeps constantly on hand
all kinds of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
of the latest styles, as also the Maranville
Patent Calender Clocks, provided with
complete index of the month, and day oi
the month and week on its face, which is
warranted as a perfect time-keeper.
XE. Clocks, atches and Jewelry re-
paired on short notice and warranted.
gepll'68;1y
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Editor.
NEW FIRM at
. Centre Hall.
J. B. SOLT.
A 1. 1. N E W.
New Store.
New Goods.
The undersigned 1espectfully informs the
citizens of Centre Hall and Potter town-
ship, that he has opened a new store
at To woll known stand formerly occupied
by OC. F. Herlacher, where he is now
offering
A Full and Complete Stock of
SPRING & SUMMER G00DS
cheap as anywhere,
His stock is entirely new, and the publie
are respectfully invited to call and exame
ine for themselves; Goods will be offered
at the lowest possible prices, and by a gen-
eral system of fair dealing they hope to
Call and Examine our Stock
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GODS,
g&> Ouly Give us a Fair Trial.
ER
We have a full and complete assortment
of the latest Styles,
Dry Goods,
Groceries,
Gentlemen and Ladies furnishing Goods,
Ladies Cloaks and Circulars, in Silk and
Cloth, all kinds of Groceries, the finest
Syrups, the best Coffee, Tobacco, Paints,
Byestufls, Oils, Fish, Salt, Stationery, and
everything else that is to be found in a well
stocked country store.
The highest market price paid in
Store Goods for
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Don't forget the New Store, at Centre
Hall. where goods are now offered at a bar-
gnin. Call and sce us.
J. B. SOLT.
apy
Furniture Rooms!
J. 0. DEININGER,
respeettully informs the citizens of Centre
makes to order, all kinds of
BEDSTEADS,
BUREAUS,
SINKS,
W ASHSTANDS,
CORNER CUPBOARDS
TABLES, &c¢., &¢
HoME MADE CHAIRS ALWAYS ON HAND
His s‘ock of ready-made Furniture is large
and warranted of good workmanship and 1s
all made under his ownimmediatesuperyi-
sion. and is offered at rates us cheap as else
where. Thankful for past favors, he solic
its a continuance of the same.
Call and see his stock before purchasing
elsewhere. apzi us, ly.
[SHING TACKLES, rodslines, hook
1 flies. sea hair baskets, ete. Rig you
out to catch trout at °
BURNSIDE & THOMAS
A\PANNED TOILET SETTS, AND
¢). other Japanned ware, atthe Anvil Store.
aplO 68. IrwiN & WILSON.
{ANNED FRUITS, peaches, tomatoes
/ pine apples, and peas in great varie
ty, at BURNSID THOMAYN
I OOKING-GLASS PLATES efallsizes
J for sale by Irwin & WiLsoN.
apl0'68.
TTNION PATENT CHURN, the best
in useat Irwix & WILSON'S,
aplO’ 68.
Philadelphia Store,
In Brockerhoff’s block, Bishop Street,
Bellefonte, where
KELLER & MUSSER,
have just opened the best, cheapest, larges
as woll as the best assorted stock of Good
in Bellefonte.
HERE LADILS,
Is the place to buy your Silks, Mohairs
Mozambiques, Reps, Alpacas, Delains,
Lans, Brilliants, drs Calicoes, Tick
ings. Flanels, Opera Flanels, Ladies Coat-
ing, Gents’ Cloths, Ladies Sacques, White
Peltiy, Linen Table Cloths, Counterpanes
Crib Counterpanes, White and Colorec
Tarlton, Napkins, Insertings and Edgings,
White Lizee Curting, Zephyr & Zephyr Pat.
terns, Tidy Cotton, Shawls, Work Baskets
I's
SUNDOVWNS,
Notions of every kind, White Goods of
every description, Perfumery, Ribbons—
Velvet, Taffeta and Bonnet, Cords anc
Braid. Veils, Buttons, Trimmings, Ladies
and Misses Skirts,
HOOP SKIRTS,
Thread Hosiery, Fans, Beads, Sewing
LADIES AND MISSES SHOES
and in fact every thing that canbe though
of, desired or used in the
FANCY GOODS OR NOTION LINE
FOR GENTLEMEN,
they have black and blue cloths, black and
fancy eassimeres, sattinetts, tweeds, mel-
orns, silk, satin and common vestings, in
short, every thing imaginable in the line ot
gentlemens wear.
Reedymade Clothing of Every Dis
scription, for Men and Boys.
Boots and Shoos, in endless variety
Hats and Caps, CARPETS, Oileloth,
Rugs, Brown Muslins, Bleached Mus-
lins, Drillings, Sheetings, Tablecloths,
&c., cheaper than elsewhere. :
Their stock of QUEENSWARE & GRO
CERIES cannot be excelled in quality or
price.
Callin at the Philadelphia
vince yourselves that KEL
SER have any thing you want, a
siness on the principle of “Quick Sales and
Small Profits.” aps0,69
___ GRAIN AXD PRODUCE ARE TAKEN __
ORN BLANKETS AND SLEIGH
BELLS, at low prices, at
apl0’68. Irwin & WILSON
OALTS for Buggies and Carriages all
sizes in use; Fire Bolts, ditto, at
pl0’68 Irwin & WiLson’
Store and con-
LER & MUS-
, and do bu-
‘
TERMS. Tur Cexrtre Hann Reron-
inadvance; and $2,00 when not paid in
advance. Reporter, 1 month 15 cents,
Advertisements are inserted at $1,560 per
square (10 lines) for 8 weeks, Advertise-
ments for a yoar, half year, or three month
at nn less rate,
All Job-work, Cash, and neatly and ex-
peditiousiy executed, at reasonable char-
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
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Centre Harn, Pa., Ocroser 14th, 1870
HARPERS FERRY HORROR.
Shenandoah Flood— The Rushing of
Streets —Strong Houses Swept away
and Whole Families Drowned— Bas-
Adventures on the Stream.
The scene at Harper's Ferry on Sat-
urday was one to be remembered.
Shenandoah street and the low grounds
lying between it and the Shenandoah
river were entirely submerged, The
edge of the street is washed by the ca-
are three islands, separated by ditches.
The upper island 1s called Overton,
thenextHall’s, and the next the Island
of Virginius. On the inuer side of
Shenandoah street is a precipitous
ledge perhaps five hundred feet high,
which formed a barrier to the flood
down the street all the more violently
and swept away or greatly injured all
the building on the water side. Among
them was the government stable, with
though they had been sand.
the inmates barely escaping with their
lives, and ten were badly damaged,
river, on which were several stone and
brick houses. On Friday evening the
water suddenly rose six feet, filling the
the inmates to the npper stories.
Webb family were in the greatest peril
the water constantly rising and the
foundations of their house giving away.
Mrs. Webb stepped to a window with
an infant in her arms and held it up,
appealing for its rescue. A young man
suggested
A BASKET FERRY,
and forthwith a large clothes-basket
was procured, a rope drawn through
the handles, and one end thrown to the
window of the house. A small rope
was tied to cach of the basket handles,
and the free end of the one held by the
men on the bridge and the other by
Mr Webb at the window. The basket
was drawn over, the passenger tied in,
and then drawn back. In this way
seven persons, including two twin ba-
bies, were rescued. Three other fami-
lies, the Williamses, and the Reeveses
and Andersons, who had taken refuge
in Mr. Williams’ house, a strongly
built stone structure, concluded to re-
main rather than risk the perils of the
basket ferry. AH night long they
waited and watched while the flood
raged without, and rose inch by inch,
until finally they retreated to the at
tic,
THE LAST PLACE OF REFUGE.
The house remained firm until morn-
ing ; then the foundation wall next the
canal gave way, then the rear wall fell,
but the imprisoned souls still clung to
the front. When morning came they
were wildly signaling for help, but the
distance was so great that no man could
throw a rope across. At last, after
many trials, a ball, to which a twine
string was attached, was thrown to the
window of the falling house, and by
means of this string a rope was drawn
across and a basket ferry rigged up as
before, by which fifteen persons were
safely brought to land. One chubby
little fellow, two years old, was put in
the basket without being tied, and was
being pulled across when he began to
make the most lively efforts to” elimb
up the sides and jump out. He was
hauled back to the window and tied
and his little legs bound firmly to-
gether, and with these fetters en his
sturdy limbs he was taken over the
gulf.
A HEROIC WOMAN.
In one of the brick houses on Herr's
[sland lived the Rev. Dr. Dutton, pas-
tor of the Presbyterian church, his wife
and two colored servants. On Friday
night the foundations of his house be-
gan to give way, and stepping out into
the hall he was struck by a falling tim-
ber and knocked senseless to the floor,
Mrs. Dutton signaled to the house im-
mediately opposite, a strong building,
and from the second story a rope was
thrown to her. She tied this around
one of the servant girls, and she was
drawn across the street to the next
house through the water fifteen feet
deep. The rope was returned, the
other servant sent over in the same
way, then the still unconscious hus-
band, and at last the heroic wife her-
self crossed the perilous flood after she
had seen all her household safely over.
The house proved to be a strong house
of refuge, and although the winds blew
£
#
| 20 the floods eame, it fell not, On
| Saturday they were taken off the
island,
EFFORTS OF A YOUNG IUSBAND TO
SAVE HIS WIFE
James Shipe lived with his wife, to
whom he had been wedded about five
months, on Overton's Island, When
the flood swept away his house on
I'riday night, he stripped himself for
a mighty swim, and, taking his wife
on his back, plunged out into the raging
water, hoping to strike a tree or some
of the strong houses that had not yield
ed to the waves, He bravely struggled
along holding to his precious burden,
and seizing one object after another,
only to find it give way under his
grasp.
At last he caught on the water tank
on Hall's Island, and at least ten times
he endeavored to gel hold of it, but
was as often beaten back by the waves
that surged around it, His wife ens
treated him to let her go, and save
himself. “You are not prepared to die,
my dear husband, and I trust that 1
am,” were her words, fle next caught
the branches of a floating tree, on which
he supported himself for a few minutes,
and lifting up his wife's head, which
he had been unable to keep above the
water, he found that
SHE WAS DEAD.
The beloved form which he had |
and lifeless dropped from his grasp
and disappeared beneath the yellow
waters,
An excited multitude were gathered
on Bolivar Heights on Friday evening,
watching with agonizing interest the
fearful scenes. The moonlight was
not sufficient to see distinctly, but they
heard the crash of the buildings, and
CRIES OF MENTAL AGONY
of their inmates. Bofore Shipe's house
too truly that a human being was |
is now known that this was Samuel |
His wife had gone to the mainland, |
force. Ile was swept away and drown- |
ed.
A WIIOLE FAMILY DROWNED,
A large brick house of the group
he had escaped in time, was next over-
Anold and
Harris had fled to it with. his family
from his own house, which was much
tgmallerand of course more liable to be
destroyed. When Mrs. Overton's house
disapoeared Harris was heard to moan
piteously and pray, and soon he and
his family, with the house in which
they had sought refuge, disappeared in
the angry waves. There were five of
this family drowned—Harris and his
wife, daughter and two grandchildren.
Next went the remainder of Shipe’s
house.
Of the people living between She-
nandoah City and the mouth of the
river, thirty-three have been lost.
SEVENTY MILES ON A RAFT.
Ou Sunday morning an old and very
corpulent negress was picked up from
the river at Weverton, about three
miles below Harper's Ferry, She was
sailing down the river on a piece of
roof, and was composedly smoking a
short pipe. She hails from Page coun-
ty, some sixty-five miles up the valley
and had a ride of nearly seventy miles
in all,
THE SCENE AFTER THE FLOOD.
Shenandoah street and the islands
beyond present a melancholy spectacle.
There are the unsightly ruins, the great
heaps of foul rubbish, the desolated
homes, and, worse than all, the homes
that have been blotted out. All up
the street are weeping women standing
in the oozy mine looking steadfastly at
heaps of sand which now mark the
spots where late all their affections
clustered. They have no place else.
They are homeless, without shelter,
without food, without clothing except
the water-soaked garments they wear.
md li
Horrlble Affair.
The Zanesville Signal says: A cor-
respondent, endorsed by the Courier,
as reliable, furnishes that paper vith
the details of a horrible affair which is
alleged to have taken place on Monday
Creek, Perry county, on the 6th inst.
The account is as follows: Mr. Ruffler
was about to raise a log house, and in
the morning killed a sheep by cutting
offits head with an axe, on a block.
Two of his children watched the oper-
ation : and when their father aud the
other hands were busily engaged in the
raising of the building, one of the littie
boys, about seven years of age, said to
his younger brother, about five years
old, “Lay your head on the block antil
I show you how father Killed the
sheep.” “The little fellow did so. The
elder one drew the axe and went thro’
the motions, and severed the head of
his little brother almost from the body.
The mother of the children hearing the
poise of the children went to see what
had happened. Finding her child dy-
ing she gave a scream which startled
the hands on the building, who were
up very high, and in the act of putting
up a large log, which they let fall,
killing five men, the father of the chil-
dren and four others.
pi
A chap says that if “time is money”
Le is willing to exchange some of his
WRN
Astonishing Aziee Ruins — Altar
Fires and Skelctons.
Advices from Santa Fe state that |
Governor Arny, the special Indian
agent for that territory, has found the
Canon de Chelley, which was explored
for twenty miles. The party found
canons whose walls tower perpendicu-
larly to an altitude of from one thou-
sand to two thousand feet, the rock
strata being as perfect as if laid by the
skilled hands of a mason, and entirely
symetrical. Among these ruins ewere |
found deserted ruins of ancient Aztec
cities, many of which bare the evidences
of having been populous, to the exteitt
of many thousands of inhabitants.
In one of these canons, the rocky
walls of which rose not less than 2,000 |
fect from the base, and whose summits
on either hand inclined to each other,
forming part of an arch, there were
found, high up hewn out of the rocks,
the ruins of Atzec towns of great ex-
tent, now tenantless, desolate. In each
of these rocky eyries there remained
in a state of good preservation a house
of stone, about twenty feet gquare, con-
taining one bare and gloomy room,
and a single human skeleton. In the
centre of the room were the evidences
that fire at some time had been used.
The only solution of this enigma thus
far ventured is, that these solitary
rooms were the alter places of the At.
zee fires: that from some cause the peo-
ple at a remote period, were constrain-
ed to abandon their homes, but left
some faithful sentinel in each instance
to keep alive the flame that, according
to Indian traditions of these regions,
was to light the way of Montezuma
again to his people—their hoped for
Messiah and their Eternal King. A
close examination of many of the ruins
proved that the builder must have
been skilled in the manufacture and
use of edged tools, masonry, &e. Who
these people were, whence they came,
or whither they have gone, is now,
probably, one of the mysteries to re-
Some of the
: ar pris d mn raven
the Moguis Indian.
The Deseret News says that the
Maquis eceupy six, villages, located
of the Colorado
river. The number of inhabitants is
about three thousand. Valpie is the
name of the principle village, They
differ fidth ‘Indians ‘generally; having
dark brown hair and eyes instead of
black, andh dark £kin, but not eopper-
colored, Their religion cannot be
strictly ealled: idelngreus; as they do
not worship images, but consider them
the representations of ideas, Their
religious rites and ceremonies appear
to be simple and at least. harmless in
their tendencies, They call their dei-
ty “Taw-wange-nnt or Sun Father.
and has the dispensing of his blessings
of light and heat. This god is repre
sented by an image, made of wood
and stone, of a favorite cheif, who
died more than three generations ago,
This personage now resides in the
heavens, from which he dispenses the
blessings of life, and especially those
of rain and fruitful seasons, upon the
(aithfol. If hi= children are not hum-
ble and obedient he punishes them by
withdrawing his blessings. The “How-
we-ona,” or sacred temple, is the head
workshop of the village, but at the
time of religious ceremonies it is vacu-
ated by. the laboress and used exclu-
sively for sacred performances, The
representative of their deity sits en-
throned on a rude pedestal in the
north end of the building. Its head
and breast are gdecorated with costly
beads and. feathers and strings
of sacred sea shells, which were worn
by their fathers, who came from the
seashore. + The eyes of the image are
directed to the middle of the floor,
where are placed wooden images of all
kinds of domestic fowls, such as
doves, chickens, &e, These images
aro painted and decorated with feath-
ets iu imitation of nature. By the
side of these images of fowls are placed
ruins are reported to be mere stone
i
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planted against the walls. Round
houses, twenty et in diameter, built
in the niost substantial manner, of cut
found in excellent preservation. Ass
tonizhing discoveries have been made
in gold and silver regions, richer than
yet known on this continent. They
are supposed, by well informed persons,
to be the east mines, of which tradition
has handed down the most marvellous
tales, and the mines themselves dis-
cover unmistakable evidences of hav-
ing been successfully worked ages
ago.
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The New Stamp Law.
On Saturday the first of October
there will be no stamps required on
any receipt for money, Ww hetherf for a
large or small amount. All sight
checks drawn on any bank, banker or
trust company, whatever the amount,
will require a two cent stamp as here-
tofore ; nll sight checks or money or
ders drawn on any private individual,
or company, or corporation, not in the
banking business, will also require a
two cent stamp, if the the amount ex-
ceed ten dollars. All notes of hand,
and due bills of every description, for
a less sum than one ho dollars
will requireno stamp. All promissory
notes amounting to $100 and over are
to be stamped as hervatofcre, And all
mortgages transferred, sold or assigned
after October 1 will require no mew
stamp if the original has been once
duly stamped when it was execated.
All taxes on sales, except such as are
now paid by stamps, and except the
tax on sales of tobacco, snuff, cigars,
spirits and wines, will now cease, The
returns for September are the last to
be required under the law as it stands.
Licences and special taxes assessed by
the year will run to May 1, except the
tax on brewers and dealers in distilled
spirits and tobacco. The inquiry has
heen made as to what shall be done with
the two cent receipt stamps hereafter ?
That stamp is used in common for res
ceipts, checks and whatever else might
be covered with the same amount.
Those who have bought them to be
used solely for receipts can use them
for any other purpose requiring a rey
enne stamp. Ten of them, with a five
cent stamp, would cover a power of
attorney, and in various ways they
may be utilized until the stock is ex-
hausted.
Ammen srt
em A .
Nashville, October 1.—A few nights
ago masked marauders in Henry coun-
ty took a number of negroes from their
cabins and whipped them, assigning as
the reason that they had been voting
wrong. They were industrious and
peaceable men, but had voted Deno
cratic tickets.
em etia domtostee
Memphis, Oatober 3,— Mrs, McMinn,
residing near Milan, Tennessee, while
temporarily insane, cut her throat on Hun-
day night, resulting in her instant death.
She leaves nine children.
R. J. Jennings, of Sardis, Mississippi,
last Saturday shot Frank Williams four
times, and then stabbed him to death, for
outraging his wife, who was insane. Jen-
nings surrendered and was acquitted. A
portion of Jennings’ wife's jewelry was
found on Williams.
Cornelius Brumley, formerly of Ottawa,
Marshal county, committed suicide by
shooting himself on Friday, white laboring
under temporary derangement.
A shooting affray occurred at Jackson,
on Saturday, between Robert McKnight
and Thomas Harrily, railroad hands, du-
ring which Harrily was shot through the
heart and instantly killed, McKnight bas
the skins of ‘wild beasts, hung on a
pole of the musical plant; among
these that of the fox predominates, as
that animal is considered more sacred
than others. Corn and water are
placed before the fowls. In worship:
ping their deity, the men form in rows
in front of the image, and speak and
sing in his praise, accompanied by the
music of rade instruments, among
which was a curiously constructed
flute, which had descended to them
from their forefathers. There was but
one religious ceremony in which the
women joined the men. The head
workshop is the great centra: place of
worship in a village, but there are al.
¢o other minor ones. The principal
religious ceremonies take plice in the
month of February.
In the centre of this village is a
public square, where there iz a wide
stone alter about two feet high and
three square. ‘On this, sacrifices of
food are laid on sacred days. Among
these offerings is a small buckskin
sack containing holy meal. Around
this altar men dance in rotation. Du
ring the ceremony the aged men and
women of the village take a pinch of
the holy meal, breathe or it, sprinkle
a little on the backs of the dancers,
and throw a little to the west, east,
north and south. This is the signal
for the dance to break up. “The. ideas
and principles of their religion are em-
inently Utilitarian, = They dictate all
the relations of life. They religiously
abhor an indolent man, and order is
the first law of every household and
mony.
RY Ia id
The Great Flood in Virginia.
Wheeling, October R.—A_ corres-
pondent at_Harper's Ferry gives the
following details of the great flood in
Shenandoah : The greatest flood that
has been known for thirty-five years is
now raging in the Shenandoah river.
The damage to property at Harper's
Ferry immense. Some twenty
buildings, mostly large stone and
brick edifices, have been swept away,’
and forty six persons in the immediate
vicinity alone have lost their lives,
and as many more are in imminent
danger. Shenandoah City, a mile
above the Ferry, is entirely pene
The big flour mill still stands, but the
machine shops have been washed
away. Nearly a'l the families of the
island are still in their houoses, and no
rescue can reach them. Some of the
houses, however, will doubtless stand,
and the islanders are endeavoring to
get into the strong houses.
Last night a family of seven were
rescued by a rope thrown through the
window. A few minutes thereafter
not a vestige of the house remained.
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clinging to a tree in the midst of the
seething water, where she had all
nicht. Bolivar Heights are crowded
with anxious spectators, who are com-
pelled to witness what they cannot
avoid. The Winchester Railway tres
tes care completely gone, and the
bridges are destroyed as far up as the
Shanondoah Valley. The Baltimore
and Ohio Ratbroad is intact,
- & wo
A voung lady of Massachusetts was re-
contly offered five hundred dollars for her
hair, which lacks bat half an inch ot being
six feet long, but refused. “The offer was
increased to one thousand dollars and then
rejected.
A man in Oxford, Illinois, was bitten by
a rattlesnake seventeen years ago, and is
still taking whiskey to cure the bite.
The New York Commercial translates
the Good Templars “L 0. G. T.” as * 1
Only Get Tight.”
Vienna, Sep., 99. The naturalization
treaty with the United States has been
' for cash,
been jailed,
signed by the Austrain government.
Vol. '3.—No. 25.
HRP = a
Wars of the Century. -
The following interesting resume is fur-
nished by the Philadelphia Ledger; ?
After perusing the history of mankind
one is almost led to the conclusioh that war
is the normal state of the race, and peace
the exception. In barbarous and semi-
civilized times this certainly was the case,
and perhaps was the necessary. vent for
those flerce passions, which without. ig
would have preyed upon the slaves ofthem
and wrought anarchy inthe world. But in
civilized times, when so many vents are
open to human energies, there ought not
to be the same desire for the excitement
which war yields. Yethowmuchingenui-
ty hasbeen expended upon forging weapons
of destruction! All the resources 6f mod-
ern science have been called ‘ipto_ play to
invent machines which shall kill human
beings with rapidity, and now wesee whole
nations transformed into armies, where but
a hundred years ago it was thought a great
thing to bring 100,000 men into the field.
Turning over the annals of this century,
only, we find that not a single year out of
the seventy entire peace. Somewhere or
other there has always been war, and ithas
I-een the most civilized nations who have
done by fur the greatest part. of the fight-
ing.
Thus England alone has waged forty-
nine wars since 1800. Of these there have
been three with France, two ,with Russia,
five with Chins, two with Denmark, two
with Holland, two with Turkey, two with
Birmah, tyo with Persia, one with the
United States, one with Prussia, one with
Spain, one with Sweden, one with Portu-
gal, and one with Egypt; the others were
with the Peishwa, the Mahrattas, the Great
Mogul, Nepaul, Algiers, the Wahabees,
the Pindarees, the Ashantees, Caffres
Hottentots, Baers, Sikhs, Afghans, Cana-
dian rebels, Paraguay, Scinde Sepoy muti-
neer., Mauaoris, Japan and Abyssinia.
France figures in thirty-seven wars, viz;
four with Austria, three with Rassia, three
with Prussia (including the present war),
three with England, four with the Arsb
tribes, two with Mexico, two with China,
two with Spain, two with Holland, two
with Turkey, cne with Portugal, one with
Hayti, one with Switzerland, one with
Denmark, one with Sweden, one wi
Algiers, one with Morocco, one with Japan,
and one with the Roman republic. Russia
shows u list of twenty-one wars, viz; three
with France, three with Turkey, two with
England, two with Poland, two with Persia,
two with Khiva, two with Bakhara, one
with Sweden, one with Hungary, one with
Egypt, one with China, and one (very long
and bloody) with Circassia. Austria figu-
res in twelve, viz; five with France, three
with Italy, one with Prussia, one with
Hungary, one with Denmark, and one
with Egypt, Prussia comes last, seven, viz;
three with France, twowith Denmark, one
with A: stria, and one with England.
So much for the leading powers of the
Old World. But to the desolating wars
above enumerated must be added the
numerous revolutionary movements in Ita-
ly and Spain, invariably suppressed with
great bloodshed; the dynastic contests of
the Carlists and Christinos in Spain, which
are not extinct yet, and of the Miguelites
and Pedroites in Portugal, all of which
occasioned great misery and loss of life.
Then there was the war of independence in
Greece. which Tasted morethan seven'years,
and was ai last terminated by the interven-
tion of Brgland, France and Russia, and
the battle oF Navarine. On this continéht
war has been the chronic state of the sotith-
ern portion of it ever sinee the Spafish
colonies threw off thie yoke of the mothe,
country. Tncessant revolutions constitute
the dreary history ot Mexicoand the South
Afmeriean Stdtes, but we have not been
Without ourtroubles. We have had sev-
oral Tndian wars, a war with England, ot®
with Mexico, and our great civil war,
Cuba, Hayti and San Domingo have suf-
fored at intervals from the same scourge {
Brazil has recently eoncluded a long and
costly struggle with Paraguay, and, in
short, it is difficult to call to mindja single
nation in the world which has not been in-
‘volvéd in war of some kind or other, do-
méstic or foreign, in the course of the press
‘ent century. ih =
Asin has scen an enormohs amount of
blood:hed during the past ‘seventy years:
There have heen the incessant wars earried
on by the English in India, Birmah, Negre
and China; ane by the French in Cochir
China and Annam ; al:o by, the Russians
with the Circassinns and the'wild tribes of
Asin, and with Turkey sud Persia ;alse by
thie Turks with the Persians and the Egyp-
tiahs ; by the Persians, with the Beloochees,
Afghans and Tartars ; and there have been
the continual domestic wars among thé
Afghans, Sikh, Mahratta and other Hin=
doo chiefs, for supremacy. For the first
iifteen years of this century there was War
all over Europe, and it extended even to
{his continent. During the next {en years
it spread all over Mexico, Central and
South America (excepting Brazil). Then
Asin ard Africa came in for their turn,
with the French in Algeria, the English at
the Cape and on the west coast, and Egypt
on the east ; the Russians in T irkey and
Circassia; the English and the French in
India ahd China; this lasted for twenty=
five years, whenthe scene shifted toEarope
ence more, and the Crimean war, the War
in Hungary, Italy, Danmark, Germany, and
lastly, France, have filled up the remaif-
| der of the time.
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This State elects Hon. John J.
1 Kdley U. 8. Stutes ‘Senator ih place of
Mr. Willisms, Radical. Mr. Kelley was
{ born in this State, and studied and prac-
toad Taw in Teewistown, Mifflin county.
‘He emigrated to Oregon ih 1851, ‘Where he
| ras obtained a high reputation as a lawyer
nd. an honest man. So much for the
Demoeracy of Oregon.
Oregon.
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Powder Mill Explosion.
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, ‘October 2.=
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Powder Company, abott three niles from
Pottsville, exploded at noon yesterday,
destroying several buildings, belonging to
{he works, and instantly kifling two men,
The amount of powder exploded wasabout
seven hundred kegs, and the shock was
heard for sixteen miles.
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