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    SENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFFLIXTOWN.
Wednesday. June lO, 1974.
B. F. SCHWEIE1L,
editor aud rBorairroB.
Baxter has bad a number of Brooks
Seen arrested for trial for treason.
Tes Republican primary election in
Crawford county will be held on the
18th inst.
TriE Presbyterian General Assembly
at St. Louis has adjourned to meet at
Cleveland, Ohio, next year.
Gineral JJristow, of Keutnckj has
been appointed and confirmed as Sec-
rotary of tbe United States Treasury,
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It is said that the aunual income or
, ti- , i-nruin .,i
tbe Prince of ales is V4jO,000, and
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with .11 that be bas contracted debts to
.1 f ftSrtft flOfl
Last Veduedy the Board of Di-
rectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad ; doubtless it would have been some
Company elected Thomas A. Scott j wuat differently worded, but its de-
Prssident of said Company. votion to the jingling coin could not
""""! i i :i ! have been more definitely expressed.
CALtrORMA.ss say they hare coal oil . u",c "lc
u, ,. . ' . . The President's po cy, if put into
enough to give light to the whole world. 1 ue J
w . . i ... nn practice, would bankrupt half the coun-
L-)i Anzelos and vicinity is the section ' .
, I : try. Space will not permit of a review
of country where the supply exists. )' P r .
' . - J of the "Mtmorsnda of jews" in this
Mr. M. LIall Stanton, President ! jiSBe .
of tbe Board of Public Educatiuu in To UuX j r juS,. United Sutcs Sen
Philadelphia, has friends" who are nrg- ste.
or him for the Republican patty nom- eo.asi.a or v.ew, estebta.sed o tbe
iug u.u. ' r . I si uxci or iesieabi.k uumirw.1 us ri-
iDation of Lieutenant Governorship.
Tn estate of Oikes Ames i bank
rupt. Tbe Union Pacific Railroad
would have been a failure but for bis
daring spirit. Its success was bis ruin, j as- a gf-p iudispensablc to lasting na
nd death, and the first ercat cau5e of j tional prosperity. I believe, further,
the bankruptcy of bis estate.
Thi National Brewers' Conzress was
in session last week in Boston. The'duy luau at any future time. After Caine l0 Philadelphia first in 1847 as
., ... : j .u. I resort has been had to unstable audi. rt ,,, .,iu.,.. ir
prtsiaeutoi me couveuuon usicu ui
witbin the two years en
8,009,909 barrels of fermented liquors
bad been brewed in the United Mates,
ClTT papers say the high price of
coffee is owine to a combination ot ru-
ropean dealers, who bought all put into
market, and beld it for profit. Iluu
dreds of thousands of sacks aro en their
hands. A crash is expected among the
dealers.
Mr. James Sill, of Erie county,
has been formally presented by the Re
publicans of trie cuunty as a candi-1
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data for the Lieutenant Governorship of
by the next Republican State Conven
tion. Other gentlemen are named in
connection with the same office.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
at St. Louis expressed by resolution,
'that the Asstaibly express no opinion
ai to the Scriptural view of women's
right to speak or pray in public meet
ings, 4c, aod leaving the question in
tbe hands of tbe pasters and elders."
The project of cheap transportation
by the rivers in Pennsylvania is again
being brought before tbe public.
Steamboat navigation in the Susque
hanna and J ubiata rivers may be made
practicable by erecting dams at ptoper
intervals. It may be years in the fu
ture, but such a system of transporta
tion is surely approaching iu Pennsyl
vania.
The President thinks of repealing the
legal-tender act, and paying the $382,000,
000 of that kind of luoory in coin by the
1st of July, lb7S. If tbe United SUtes
Treasurer would hoard erery dollar of gold
that enters the Treasury between this date
and tbe 1st day of July, 11-75, be would
not have hail enough coin to redi em the
iegai-tender currency now in circulation.
Tbe Guvenimcut wonld hare to go to Eu
rope to borrow gold to pay them. That ia
only one luint ot the President's Mem
oranda of Views the others are as faulty.
"The latest about the Meunoni'es is
that their emigration purposes were con
ceived under mistaken impressions, and
that the Czar has sent General Tod tie
ben to ak them to stay, and explain
that the officials stupidly misunderstood
him ; tba. they are to be especially ex
empted from the workiugs of bis new
military law, and be subject only to
duty in hokpitals. And we may not
have any Mennouites at all.''
At a meeting of tbe Anti Secret
Association at Syracuse, X. Y ., on the
3rd in et., Professor Blanehard reported
an act of incorporation under the laws
f Illinois. The name adopted was the
National Christian Association The
objects werd declared to be tbe ex
posure, resistance, and extermina
tion of all secret societies, Ftee
masonry particularly, and all other
anti-Cbristian and aBti-ref nblican agen
cies. The report was adopted and of
ficers elected. A report in favor of
organising aa American party, to carry
rut tbe object at the polls, was report
ed." 'A strange disease prerails among the fish
nf river and lake at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Their flesh under the microscope, is found
to be alive with animalcule. Millions ot
dead fisb are floating upon the surface of
the iw, and dealers have been forbidden
to sell any."
"Three young ladies by the name of Welsh,
whose ages range from sixtven to nineteen,
bv purchased a piece of land eight utiles
west of Dallas, Texas, aad inteod cultiva
ting it themselves. Not a man, old or
young, good or bad looking, is permitted to
come on their premises."
Some kind f a small black insect, much
resembling a flea, has attacked tbe young
corn in some parts ot Greene count-, and
is devouring it with a rapidity tbat threat
ens to prove very disastrous to that crop."
X recent Algiers telegram says : "A train
arrived here from O.-an six boors behind
tiro owing tu the rails being covered witb
s thick layer of gralmpp?r.-,"
President Grant's Financial
Policy.
President Grant has at last toll tlie
I . . .1
country what bis policy on the ques-
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tiob of finance is. lie does not define
or explain himself to Congress or tbe
people ia an ai' dress on the subject,
but in a way of b:s own be submits
what be calls a "Memoranda of Views"
on the question, to Senator Jones, of
Nevada, and Mr. Jones bas bad tbe
President's " Memoranda of Views"
published. Tbe Senator to whom tbis
precious piper bas been confided is re
puted to be a very wealthy gold and
si!er Diiner. The 44 Memoranda of
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lews euow now cowpicieij iuc i ics-
I ident Las vaulted into tbe position of
! B severe contractionist and bard money
jmao. It will be hard tossy ' fare thee
' well" to President Grant. It was said
,
i to abler men, and men as honorable as
he. It was necessary to say it to
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H necessary tu uavo it ia iu u.u. ;
If James Buchanan bad written it,
ace.
I believe it a high and plain duty to
return to a specie basis at the earliest
practicable day, not only in compliance
H,;sa,jvc atI(i rartT pladfes, but
that the time bas come when this can
be done, or at least begun, with less
. embarrassment to every branch of in-
.. o temporary expedients t stimulate uu-
ding June 30th,!rc J, aod epecU,ion on
j:,j ... u,
, baes other tl an coin, the recognized
j medium of exchange throughout the
j commercial rorld, the particular mode
selected to bring about a restoration of
tbe toccie stanaara is not oi so mncu
consequence as that some adequate plan
be devised, the time hied when cur
rency shall be excbaugeable for coin at
par, and the plan adopted rigidly ad
j bered to. It is not probable that any
legislation suggested by me would prove
acceptable to botn blanches ot ton-
gress, and, iudesd, full discussion might
shake my owu faith in the detail of any j
P' ""S"1 - - .
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venture to siaie me cenerai icaiures oi
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tbe action which seems to me advisable.
the financial platform on which I would
stand, any departure from which would
be in a spirit of concession and har
mony iu deference to conflicting opin
ions. Fifit. i would like to see the legal
tender clause, so called, repealed, the
repeal to take effect at a future time,
say July 1, IS75. Tbis would cause
all contracts made after that date for
wages, sale, &o., to be estimated in
coin. It would correct our notions of
values. The specie dollar would be
tbe only dollar known as the measure
of equivalents. hen debts after
wards contracted were paid in curren
cy, instead of calling the paper dollar
a dollar, and quoting gold at so much
premium, we should think and speak of
paper money as at so much discount.
This alone would aij greatly in bring
ing the two currencies nearer together
at par.
Second. I wouU like to see a provi
sion tbat at a fixed day, say July 1,
1870, the currency issued by the United
States should be redeemed in coin on
presentation to any assistant treasurer,
and that all currency so tedeemed
should be cancelled aud never reissued.
To effect this it would be necessary to
authorize the issue of bonds payable in
gold, bearing such interest as would
command par in gold, to be put out by
tbe Treasury only, in such sums as
should from time to time be needed for
the purpose of redemption. Such leg
islation would insure a return to sound
financial principles in two years, and
would, in my judgment, work less hard
ships to the debtor interest than is
likely to come from putting off the day
of final reckoning. It must be borne
in mind, too, that tbe cieditor interest
had its day of disadvantage also, when
our present financial system was brought
in by the supreme needs of tbe nation.
1 would further provide tbat from
and after the date fixed for redemption
no bills, whether of national banks or
of the United States, returned to the
Treasury to be exchanged for new bills,
should be replace 1 by bills of less de
nomination than ton dollars, and tbat in
one year after resumption all bills of
less than five dollars should be with
drawn fn-ru circulation, and in two
years all of less than ten dollars should
be withdrawn. The advantage of this
would be strength given to tbe conntry
against time of depression lesulting
from war, failure of crops, or any other
cause, by keeping always in tbe bands
of tbe people a large supply of the
precious metals. With all smaller
transactions conducted in coin many
millions of it would be kept iu con
stant use, and of c Qrse prevent it from
leaving the country. Undoubtedly a
pooler currency will always drive the
better ont of circulation. With paper
a legal tender aod at a discount gold
and t-ilver become articles of merchan- i
disc as much as wheat or cotton. Tbe
surplus will find tbe best market it can
witb small bills in circulation. There
is no use for coin except to keep it in
the vaults of banks to redeem circula
tion. During periods of great specu
lation and apparent prosperity there is
little demand for coin, and then it will
flow ont to a market where it can be
made to earn something, which it can
not while lying id!e. Gold, like any
thing else, when not needed becomes a
I surplus, and. like vry other surplus,
it seeks a market where it can find one.
By giving active employment to coin,
however, its presence can. it setns to
me, be secured and tbe panics aud de
pressions which have occurred periodi
cally in times of nominal specie pay
ments, if they cannot be wholly pre
vented, can at least be greatly mitiga
ted. Indeed, I question whether it
wonld have been found necessary to de
part from tbe standard of specio in the
trying day which gave birth to the first
Icgil-tender act bad tbe country taken
he rrouud of no mall bills as early as
1850.
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A IT Sill A WUU1U ITUT1UQ Btl VI
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; revenue over current expenditures I
would do this by rigid economy, and by
a
tazation where taxation can best be
borne. Increased revenue would work
constant reduction of debt and inter
est, and would pi o vide coin to meet de
mands on tbe Treasury for the redemp
tion of its notes, thereby diminishing
the amount of bonds needed for that
purpose. All taxes after redemption
begins should be paid in coin or United
States notes. This would force re
demption on the national banks. With
measures like these, or measures which
would work out such results, I see no
danger in authorizing free banking
without limit.
Tue President, Tlce President
and General Manager of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Since the death of Mr. Thompson,
President of tbe Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company, attention bas been
more closely than ever directed to the
men at the head of the organization or
corporation. A brief sketch of the
three officers above named, as produced
by the Prett, will be read with inter
est :
The board of directors of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company met on the
3rd inst., in special session, to perfect
its organization by tbe election of a
successor to the late president, Mr. J.
Edgar Thompson. Thomas Alexander
Scott was unanimously elected to the
presidency. He is just in the prime of
life, not yet fifty years of age, and is a
man of wonderfully preserved physical
and mental vigor. He was born on the
28 lh of December, 1824, in Loudon,
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, aud
after enjoying tbe advantages of tbe
rude common schools of that day, first
started life on his own account as clerk
for the collector at Columbia, Pa. He
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(Columbia Railroad, and in 18a0 be be-
I w-' - "
came general agent of the eastern di
vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Subsequently he was transferred to the
management of tbe western division,
and soon after be was promoted to gen
eral superintendent of tbe entire line.
In 1859 he succeeded William B. Fos
ter as vice president of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad, and has continued tbe
secoud officer of the company by suc
cessive annual elections until the late
election, when be was unanimously
chosen Mt. Thomson's successor. Du-
ring tbat time bis labors have been her
culean. He has been president of the
Pennsylvania Company since its organ
ization in March, 1871, a company that
controls all the western lines owned or
leased by the present company ; presi
dent of the Pan Handle Railroad da
ring the same period ; was president of
the Union Pacific from March, 1871, to
March, 1872 ; bas been president of
the Texas Pacific Railroad since its re
organization, besides being an active
director in a number of other roads.
He was Assistant Secretary of War
from tbe outbreak of the war until May,
18G2, and has but recently declined the
presidency of the New York and Erie
Railroad Cempany. Now tbat he bas
accepted the first railroad position on
the contiuent, he will of course con
centrate bis whole energies in the man
agement of the vast trust committed to
his care as chief executive officer.
George B. Roberts, the first vice
president, is of Philadelphia Quaker
stock, but little over forty years of age,
having graduated at Renssellacr Poly
technic Institute, New York, in 1849,
and devoted himself to engineering.
He entered tbe service of tbe Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company in 1851, and,
with but a brief exception, has contin
ued in tbe service of tbe company until
now. He was tbe chief officer, under
Mr. Thompson, who reared that finest
monument of civil engineering to be
found either in this or any other coun
try the construction of the road over,
and tunuelling through, the Alleghany
Mountains, and has for years stood con
fessedly as one of the most accom
plished aud efficient engineers we have.
In 18G2 be was made assistant to Pres
ident Tborcpson, which position he held
until he was chosen fourth vice presi
dent in 18G9. In 1873 be was made
second vice president, and continued in
that position until the late election,
when be was unanimously made the first
vice president, and tbe sccoud execu
tive officer of the company. Durirg
bis whole connection with the company
be has been in most iutiruate and trust
ed relations with President Thompson,
as bis thorough capabilities as an engi
neer and his very methodical and care
ful business habits made him a most
faithful counsellor ; and the president
never ventured upon any enterprise,
ce a after after all questions of mere
policy were settled, without calling to
his aid the judgment of bis engineer,
Mr. Roberts.
Tbe general manager, Mr. A. J. Cas
salt, is etiil younger than Mr. Roberts,
having graduated in 1859, at the same
institute at which Mr. Roberts gradu
ated, with the degree of civil engineer.
In 18G1 be entered the office of the
resident engineer of tbe Philadelphia
division of tbe Pennsylvania Railroad,
and in 18G3 became assistant engineer
of the Connecting Railway. In 18G4
he was made resident engineer of the
middle division of tbe Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad, and in 1SGG he became
superintendent of motive power and
machinery of tbe same railroad. The
year following be was transferred to
the Pennsylvania Railroad, as. superin
tendent of motive power and machinery
of that line and all its branches. In
1870 he was promoted to general su-
pcrioteodent of the Pennsylvania Rail- j
road and all lines controlled by it in
Pennsylvanian, and he is now general
! manager of all the lines and branches
of the Pennsylvauia Railroad Com
pany from Pittsburg and Erie to Phil
adelphia. Thus in but thirteen years,
at the age of 34, he has risen solely by
his merits, from a subordinate of a resi
dent division engineer, to tbat of gen
eral manager ot tbe great trunk lines,
and all tributaries, from lbs Ohio and
the Lakes to the three great commer
cial cities of New York, Pennsylvania,
and Maryland. He is a gentleman of
singular keenness of perception and
! promptness of action in his official
duties, bas boundless energy in all that
comes within the scope of his manage
ment, and is second to none in bis
breadth of appreciation of our wonder
ful aud still progressive railway system.
His immediate executive duties are of
tbe most exacting nature, requiring
complete capacity, with great aptness
in administration, but tbe direction of
thousands of miles of railroad, most of
it our chief arteries of trade, witb the
precision cf clock-work, and witb a
degree of method and safety that chal
lenges criticism, marks Mr. Cassatt as
fully equal to the duties imposed upon
biui, aud points to him as one of tbe
J first railroad men of our country.
News Summary.
Wednesday, June 3.
An atrocious murder occurred be
tween two gipsies, in their camp, near
the boundary line of Newtown and
Long Island City, this morning, at half
past eleven o'clock. The parties con
cerned in the tiagedv are an old wo
man, a fortune-teller, and a man and a
boy. The old woman bad been dcriv-
! ing a considerable income from fortune-
telling for some time past, and this
morning the old mac, who is the leader
of the band, demanded a share of the
money. It is snppo&ed that the old
woman firmly refused to divide the
money, when tbe old man, being en
raged, struck her a violent blow. The
son resented this insult to bis mother
by jumping upon her assailant and
kuocking him down. The old man
arose furiously, aod drawing a heavy
horse pistol discharged it several times
at the boy, two shots taking effect in
the left breast. The boy then stag
gered toward the gipsy captain, and by
a strong effort made a desperate plunge
at him aud stabbed him in tbe arm.
The gipsy then fired the remaining bar
rel of the pistol, the bullet piercing
the boy's heart, and he fell at his feet,
giving a single cry : " Mother ! I'm
killed." The gipsy leader, seeing that
the boy was dead, and fearing the in
terference of the authorities would
cause him trouble, ordered tbe goods of
the whole party to be packed np, and
in less than ten minutes the caravan,
three carriages in number, and eight
horses, were beating a hasty retreat.
The whole of the shocking affair was
witnessed from a neighboring bouse, the
occupants of which were too horrified to
give an alarm. The body of the un
fortunate boy, who was killed in trying
to save his mother, was thrown in the
bottom of a cart, and the teats and
other luggage piled npon him. Six
mounted aud armed men started in pur
suit of the murderer at three o'clock
to-day.
William Corne, about fifteen years
old, a resident of Steamburg, N. Y.,
confessed to killing bis stepfather by
chopping him to pieces with an au axe.
While at dinner tbe cunviuts in the
Missouri State prison revolted on ac
count of poor food furnished them.
Tbcy were driven to their cells by
armed citizens.
Many villages have been swept away
by flood in Hungary.
About one hundred members of the
Presbyterian General Assembly, tbat
met in St. Louis, started on an excur
sion to Colorado.
TncasDAr, Jlxe 4.
Tbe Pope's health is alarmingly
poor.
A fire at Susquehanna depot destroy
ed twenty wooden buildings. Loss,
$50,000 to $75,000.
Eight arrests were made in Bliir
county for selling liquor in violation of
law. Nearly all the parties entered
bail for tbeir appearance at court.
The Ninth Annual Reunion of the
Pennsylvania Reserves, held in Belle
fonte, was never surpassed by any
former meetings of the Association.
A man named Leghorn accidentally
shot a man named Brown, while care
lessly handling a revolver, at Benning
ton, Blair county.
A gala day in Bellefonte, it being
the occasion cf tbe Ninth Annual Re
union of the Pennsylvania Reserves.
Tbe procession wrs nearly a mile long.
A bountiful repast was served in the
Court House Square by the ladies of
Bellefonte. Tbe oration was delivered
by Col. II. A. McCoy, " which was a
most creditable effrL He stated one
fact not generally known, to wit, that
while tbe Pennsylvania Reserves fired
the first shot of tbe Army of tba Poto
mac, the flag of truce received from
Lee at Appomattox was through the
pickets of the Reserves."
The National Brewers Congress at
Boston appointed a committee to pre
pare an address to the public to state
their position as brewers, aud to influ
ence public opinion in favor of the use
of malt liquors.
A mad dog in Newburg, N. Y., bit
four persons, and was then shot.
Two Chinamen were lynched in Del
norte county, Cal., by a mob, on the
confession that tbey had murdered a
number of people in tbat county.
Tbe Pope is better again. His phy
sicians want him to quit tbe vancaa a
while fcr hit health.
Tbe Anti-Secret Association, in scs-
sion at Syracuse. N Y.. turned into a
! political party. President Blanchard,
of Wheaton College, submitted a pre
amble and resolution for tbe formation
of a national political party opposed to
secret societies. The report was adop
ted. Tb6 party is to be called tbe
''American," and a convention is to be
called to nominate candidates for na
tional offices. A warm debate took
place on the proposition to embody tbe
name of God ia the Constitution as a
plaiik in the platform, which was finally
adopted. Tbe convention to-day adop
ted resolutions declaring that in all se-
eret oa'.h-bouud fraternities, including I
granges and secret temperance socie-
ties, this convention recognizes a con
spiracy against all who do not belong
to them, aud a standing menace to the
religion of Jests Christ, expressing op
position to speculative Freemasonry,
and refusing to vote for Masons fur
civil office. Adjourned to meet in
Pittsburg to hold the next annual con
vention. The owners of the Durham collieries,
England, have turned bunlreds of fam
ilies of miners who took part in tbe
strike ont of their houses. Between
two and three hundred families are
camping in fields.
Louisiana people are talking about
repudiating all State debts.
A man at Bell's Mills was arrested
for forging a note.
The news from Oregon indicate tbe
election of the whole Democrat is ticket.
Thomas Morrissey, at Exter line,
N. H., murdered his wire while she lav j
in bed, and then Is J down himself to
sleep eff tbe drunken spree through
which he was ccin?.
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A man went into the Ilarnsbnri 1
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Post Office to get a $20 note changed !
into smaller ones. A clerk gave bim .
the desired amount, and forgot to take
np the $20 note. Tbe stranger walked
ont, and has not been heard of since.
"The counterfeit plates captured in
the west were received at Washington
yesterday, and are said to be ejual!y as
good in many respects as the genuine.
It is believed tbis capture will stop
counterfeiting in the west."
Collector Ilaticlow, a deputy United
States marshal, made a raid into Chat
tanooga county, Ga., capturing seven
prisoners and five illicit distilleries.
Friday, Jtse 5.
The House of Representatives passed
a bill admitting free of duty all goods
or articles intended for the " Centen
nial Celebration" in 18. 6.
Two buffaloes escaped from the cir-
eiw Rsr.da in Inrliananolis. ..nd rushed .
r r .
into a crowd. Tbey knocked down and
seriously injured Mrs. Sarah ilarjlJ, j
and an in Ian t in uer arms, netore tjey
were recaptured. The child will prob
ably die.
The newly appointed minister from
Venezala Mr. Dolla Costa was pre
sented to the President by the Secre
tary of State. The usual speecb-
! making of course followed.
A colored boy, aged 18 years, named
Charley Shadoey, was drowDed at liar
risburg, in the canal, while bathing.
The Apache chief, Cochise, is re-
; ported insane. He raves and declares
that the spirits of white men murdered
by him are tearing his flesh.
SHORT ITEMS.
The current value ot a woman iu Eastern
Africa is two cows.
Forest county has instructed for Harry
White for Congress.'
Eleven counties of Illinois have ladies as
superintendents of schools.
Culpepper, Ya., boasts that it has not had
a case of consumption for more than forty
years-
The deepest hole in the world is an arte,
xian well at Pottsdaiu, Mo., which goes
down ooOO feet.
A story is on the rounds that the ghost
of Wirz, the Andersonviile prison murder
er, haunts the dome of the Capitol at Wash
ington. West Lamjictcr, Lancaster county, comes
to the front with a ca.f having eight leg
and two tails. The animal is alive and do
ing we'd.
A petition is being circulated in Wash
ington couuty, calling on Uon. George V.
Lawrence to become a candidate for the
Legislature.
Hon. J. L. Shuman, the member of the
Legislature from Lancaster county, who
was recently shot by a drunken man, is re
covering from his wounds.
The Chinese in California are being con
verted to Christianity. At a recent prayer
meeting in San Francisco as many as eigh
ty were preseut, and very devotional.
The Schuylki'.l county delegates to the
Republican State Convention are instructed
to support Surveyor General Brath for nom
ination as Secretary of Internal Affairs.
A letter fioru Munich states that the
town of Wasserburgh, Germany, contain
ing thirty -live hundred iuhabitauts, with the
Hotel de Yille and the church, ha been
entirely destoyed by Are.
A wild cat shipped by Mrs. t!cn. Cnstar
to Central Park, New York, escaped from
its cage iu the United States Express oflice
at St. Paul, the other day. A sponge filled
with chloroform subdued tho beast.
On Monday night a week, a slight fire oc
curred at the State Lunatic Hospital, at
Uaniaburg. The doors were thrown open
and lour hundred of the patients rushed
out, twelve of whom escaped from 'he
grounds and six are still at large.
The unfortunate painter who was carried
near the falls at Niagara, an Monday a week,
was rescued, when nearly exhausted, by a
brave fellow named Tom Conroy, a guide at
the Cave of Winds, who swan: to him with
a rope.
At the last grand ball at Wyoming, Miss
was attired in a bmTgrosgrained buck
akin dress, witb army blanket ovrrskirt,
bottom looped np with buckskin strings cnt
bias. Hair dressed a la Red Cloud, in which
was twined a few sprigs of sage brush, the
bole secured behind in a bunch with a
handsome pin made wi th a pine splinter sad
a boffalo's ear. '
SOORT ITEMS.
i u V M ta,wt ru"!r
UslUia m It 'J WHL v van. M.
Tliirty-seven f Connecticut's savings
banks have 142,000,000 on deposit.
On Monday a week a pony trotted before
a sulky the Watford (Ont.) coarsa 81
miles in 11 hours and 20 minutes, iu one
continuous straight heat.
Four persons from Smitbfield. Pa., while
crossing the railroad in a wagon, near El
ruira, N. Y., on the 3rd inst., were killed by
the locomotive striking the vehicle.
Very little jewelry L now worn in Paris;
the slender "pnrte bonhenr" bracelet, a lit
tle broader than a good, coarse thread, is
the only ornament fhit is decidedly fashion-
able.
I A divorce case has recently been attract
'. l l :. ...
inr attention in London, in which it ap
peared that the respondent had obtained an
introduction to his wife throngh the agency
of a matrimonial club, which was instituted
for the purpose ct providing the members
with opulent wives. In this particular cue,
somehow or other, the club was at fault, for
the wife's fortune did not turn out so large
as the committee hid been led to believe.
Hence domestic uuhappiness and an appeal
to the courts.
An enterprising superintendent of one of
our city Sunday Schools was engiged the
other Sunday in catechizing the schola's.
varj-inf the usual method by beginning at
the end ot the Catechism. After asking
what were the prerequisites for the Holy
Coninnmion and Conlirnation, and receiv
ing very satisfatory replies-, he asked :
"And now, bovs, tell uie what must pre
cede Baptism V Whereupon a lively
urchin shouted out, "A baby, sir." Fact ;
tollowed by sensation and laughter.
In Brooklyn, the other day, a Mrs. Mi
chael Devine struck her husband on the
head with a cooper's adae, indicting inju-
riei which .m prohablv prove f;lUl. Whiie
he was absent having bis wound dressed
she took a large tiit-iron and beat out the
brains of her three children. The woman
is nndoubtedly deranred, as she said she
.. .. Jt . j .
was "gom' to Heaven, and she wanted ncr
chiMn.n to go with her . ravine has been
nas been on a strike for some time, and this
is said to have led to the wife's insanity
Acip Atlcertinenient.1.
PUBLIC SALE OF
REAL ESTATE!
TIIK undersigned, Overseers of William
Kauifinan, will otIVr at public sale, on
the premises, between the hours of I and -o'clock
P. M., on
Friday, June I9th, 1S7I,
The following valuable real estate, in Fay
ette township, Juniata county, about one
mile south east of Browu's Mill and Store,
viz:
FORTY ACRES OF LAND,
Thiity Acres of which are cleved and the
balancc well timbered, having thrreou erec
ted a
GOOD DWELLING HOUSE
and BAK.N", with necessary outbuildings a
never-filling Spring ot water, a iiOOl OH
t'HAhD, containing the best variety of
..fruit. Tt rtus niadu km
i known on day of sale
by
rETKR S I1ELLA BEU'JER.
ABItAM BK.VNKK.
Juaa 10, 1h74.
I'crmanu;h School District,
Juniata County.
Receipts and Expenditures for tbe year
ending J unc 1 , 1 M t .
Tax rate 5 mills on the dollar of valua
tion tor school purposes aud 5 mills lor
building purposes.
Rtctipis.
Balance on hand from lust year...$ 1 43 P3
From State appropriations lit UU
From collector, including taxes of
all kind3 2-300 93
$2074 76
EiptU'liturt.
For building and furnish
ing house $1776 f'3
Renting, repairing, tc
23 13
10O0 (X)
138 23
173 U
201"!
27 3?i
lo 59
Teachers' waxes
Fuel and contingencies ..
Fees of collector ?11'..51,
aud treasurer, $3 .57. . .
Salary of secretary or dis
trict superintendent....
Debt and interest paid . . . .
1 Other expenses
Amount due trcxMircr
Cash on hands
Liabilities Amount borrowed and
unpaid on debt of district
560 22
Liabilities in excess of resources. . $ 2Sj 70
We, the Auditors of Fermanagh town
ship, have examined the School Treasurer's
accounts, and find them correct and as
above stated .
KLIAS HORNING.
JOHN F. ALLEN.
Attest : Jnditor:
Jons Siosta, Clerk.
June 10, 1874.
To Whom It May Concern.
June 1, 1874.
Tbe School Board of Walker township
stands financially as follows :
'iroas amount of Duplicate $2Wi 24
State appropriation 244 DO
Anit. of orders paid $2113 f5
Exhonerations ...... .... lol2 t
Percentage 12-5 2
Cash on hand 70J 30
2091 11
$ 59 13
. 126 02
Order bo'd by Van Ornicr
$ IS? 15
DAVID DIVEN, Pres't.
N. D. Tas Drar, Sec'y.
Juno 10, 1374.
C ACTIO 3. AH persons ore hereby
cautioned not to purchase a certain
promissory Dote; the face value of which is
$ti7.', given by tbe undersigned to Chris
tian Benner, payable January 7, 1S75, as we
will not pay said noic, not having received
value therefor.
JOHN PPADE.
KEMtY D.CONRAD.
June 3, 1S74 It
"jV"OTICE is hereby given that sppliea--Lv
tion will l made to Hon. lnj F.
Juukin, PreMdeat Judge at Chambers, for
tbe charter of an intended corporation to
be called "The O ld Fellows' Hail Associa
tion of McCoysville. Juniata County," the
character and object of which is to bnild a
hall tor tbe use ol the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows at McCoysville, in said coun
ty, as provided by h-' act ot Assen-hly ap
proved April 29, 1S74, entitled "An act lor
tbe incorporation and regulation of certain
corporal io us."
WILLIAM T. THOMAS.
SAMUEL MACOAUGHET.
WILLIAM A. MILLIKEN.
J. miller .Mcdonald. .
JOHN D. MILLIKEN.
JOSEPH L. DEAR1NU.
May 77, 1874.
Sotlce to Tax-payers.
NOTICE is hereby given that ail persons
paying tbeir Mate and County Tax on
or before the 1st day of September, 1874,
will be allowed an abatement ot six per
cent, on the same. By order of tbe Com
missioners. JAMES DEEN, Clerk.
Commissioners' Om, iiilflm- )
town. May 13, 1S7I.
Sew AdrertiMiHents-
"WE AiND OUR
NEIGHBORS"
is the latest and raciest work by
HarrlSt Beecher Stowe,
Anthor of "CueU Tom'i Cabin,"
"Tht mutiT'i Wooing," "Ju Htftadl,
and other powerful stories, each the liter
arv sensation of its period ; an.l tin story
promises a like genuine and wholesome
sensation. It bears directly on social topics
of interest, embracing the romance ol
vouthlul conipi:iion!iip the brightness or
happy home-i'te, the spicy complications or
neighborhood associations, and stich tollies
aud prof.i iiid domestic miseries as have led
to the widespread temperance movement ol
the day. , .
I Sirs. Stows- is now in tne prime u mi.
genius which wrote "Uncle Tom." ripened
I b- vears of study r.t observation. Her
! novels aro immensely popular, "Im-le
Tom's Cabin" alone e-iit-selling by hundreds
j ot f.ousands any edition ot any original
work ever published save'the Biile. Her
book two vears ago, fy Wife aud I," out
i sold everv conteiurary. Such a pure and
; ennobling story as We and Our Neighbors
; hon!d be read iu every home. This new
Serial is now running excttitrry in the
Wtekly Fumily .ewspaptr,
THE CHRISTIAN UNION,
HEXRY W.1RD BEECHER,
EDITOR.
In relijriotts matters this paper is Evan
gelical and nnseetarian : in political attains
I independent and outspoken. It contains
I the best articles, and both short and sri il
I stories. Iroro the foremost writers ; it aims
I to naintain the highest standard ia Reli
gion. LitiTature. Poelry, Art, Mu.ic, Sci-
enco. News, Politics, Household and Fam
ilv Atlairs, witn Stories, Khyines, Pnxzie
for the Children, etc. Nothing; is spared to
make it a complete Newspaper lor tli.? Fam
ily, pure, attractive, widc-iwake, and up
with the time a journal interesting to ev
erv one in the household, young or old.
It is
A MIRTEL OF CHE I PS ESS.
C7"For less than one cent, a day, it itives
every week reading matter enough to B.l an
on I i nary $1.23 book of over 3nU pages;
and in a year 52 such volumes, i. t, tixty
Jire dollars' worth of matter! To each is
thus aunnally
PRESE.STED
The form of the pnp"r. 21 pages, Ia-ie
4 to, pasted and trimmed, commends it to all.
The well-eirned popularity of this piper
is now such that of iis class it has the
Largv"t Circulation iu the World,
and has readers by hundreds of thousands.
An lllustratedVfuxuber,
Containing the opening chapters of Mrs.
Stowe's admirable story, will be
SE. T FREE
to every new and redeving subscriber.
If yon a-e not already a subscriber send
at ouca and secure it auder the now otTcred
LIBERAL TERMS.
The piper mar be had either wi'U or
without the attractive premiums offered :
viz., the
CHRISTIAN IX10X,
OHE YEAS. ONLY $300.
Or, with premium pair French Oleo
graphs, "Oar Buy," (size 11x13
iai bes earn,) tnarming in design
aud execution, mount. -tl, sizd,
varnished, readv for framiug. Ve-
xlirertJfrtt . $-7.50
Or, with large premium, French Oil
Chromo, TA : Lord it flwi " a
bcantll'ul Cross and Flower-. i.!ce,
whirh sells in art stores for S.W.
(ize, 1IJ!HJ inches.) mounted,
sized, varnished, reidy tor fram-
ir.r. Dtlinrtdfrtr 3.50
Specimen copies sent post paid on re
ceipt of 10 cents.
CryMoncy must be sent by Pokt.il Money
tlrler. Cheek, Uralt, or Kejri.dered Letter.
Oliicrvi it is at Ike under't ritk. Address
J. B. FORI) fc CO., PutMish.-rs,
27 Park PI we, New York.
GOOD ACEXTS"WAXTEI).
The immense circulation of the Christian
I'uion has been built p by urtire raf.rmsrri.
No other publication compares with it lor
Unlet au I protttuol returi'.s. Tli public
eagerness ll Vrs. Stowe's new st.ry, the
i popularity of the taper, the friendly sup-
poit of thousands of old subscribers, the
artistic premiums lor immediate deltrrry.
light outtit and complete instructions" to
beginners, assure pwati-d success to ag-nts,
and offer active, int ll:ent persons unnsaal
chances tn nuke money. All who want a
sate. i;leK.n:ient business write at one
for tt-rtns, or send $ J tor chromo ottttit t-
J. li. FOKD A CO., New York, Iio.-ton,
Cincinnati or San Francisco.
.1EiT AXO ATTRACTIVE
LI2nTE of goods
JlT KECCIVEP V TITK
PATTERSON DRUG STORE.
Auiong the uiany ni.-e goods may be found
the lollowing :
Two Dnzi Fixk Pocxrr Bibles, Lakck
Lot or PnoTocKAru Aiains, 1;eac
TirrL Ai'ToGBAm Albimh, F.x
tba Fi.tc Ksivss roii Ladiks,
Fix a Pocket Boozi,
E.sotcii to Sipplt
Tub CorsTT. A
Gbeat Ya-
hi ty
or Fix? I.xi-
TIll I'lPEK AND
EsvFLr-rs, fur
I'eistoi BoAKn Carps,
I'lv.tks, Li air Lot it Blvsk
Books, Fill Bursa Day-Books,
ASD ALL OTIIKB Klin A.ND SIZES.
Uabmonicas, Extba Quality Accordeoxs
AID YlOLISS, FlK llAlB BaCStltS 1Kb
Coxbs, Ciuab Cases, Gca Tobac
co PolCHKS, PwBTOLIOS,
Cues Boakds, beai
SOES, Cuecklss asd
C n a c c c a
Boards,
Puoto
o R a r b
Fbamcs, Base
Balls, Spectacles
aud Eib Gla.s, Best
Assortment W TUB CorsTT.
The Pcruc abb Ijtited to Call
.isd Exahixb the Uoods. Remk
beb the Place. Pattsesos Dbco Stors:.
P. C. RUNDIO.
Patterson, May 13, 1874-tf
1776. o 1876.
AMERICAN CKSTOPCIAL-
JEROME IIETRICK,
AT TUE CANAL STORE, MEXICO,
Keeps constantly on band and for sale at a
small proflt, a well selected assortment ol
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
QUEENSWARE,
WOOD & WILLOW WARE,
FISH, SALT, PLASTER.
Also, FLOUR and all kinds of PROVI3IOV
od MILL FEED.
TOP PRICES paid for Country Produce
and all kinds of GRAIN, particularly for
choice lots of wheat.
' Mrxicn, Pa., May , l73-5m
" Am Atleertisementa.
AGENTS WANTED FOR
Prof. Fowler's Great "Work
Oa Manhood, Womanhood, aid their
Mutual Inter-relations ; Love, Its Laws,
Power, ete.
Agents are selling from 15 to 25 copies
a day. Semi for specimen psges and terms
to agents, and see why it sells faster than
anv other book. Address, NATION KL
PL'BLISIIIXJ CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
The American Loan and Trust Cc.
Or LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS,
CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.
Will negotiate Loans ox Improved Kfal
Est at i worth t least twice the amount
loaned thereon.
Interest l'J per c. per Annum.
Collictiua of Priurip'il aad IxUrtst Caor
ezttfti. Principal and intire.it payabio in New
York it desired. Send for circulars. Ad
dress i;F.O. A. MOORE, SerV,
Leavenworth, Kansas.
Tlie Last Sew Hook Out.
The subject is all-iti:port.int, yet a puz
zling one. It replenishes the doverniueut
Treasury and mpoveri-hes t.ie people; it
ni'ikes the rich poor and the poor rich;
makes fool of wise men; exhausts tlm
wisdom of Legislation; umkes men run
mad and woiir c tei-l sad. The crusade has
K-im i on to victory. Men or women
wauled to canvass cerv town. Address
HENRY Ilo"WE, Chicago, 111.
FI.OKK.X'Ia.lSF
Th' Lofg-fontrnted Pnil of the
FI.OKFM'K J.LWING MACHINE CO.
ai:aiit the Singer, Wheeler Jt Wilson,
aud tlrovcr Jt Baker Companies, in
volving over
$'2 30,000,
It finally dtcided by the
Supreme Cunrt of the United State
in lavor of the FLORENCE, which
aloue bas Broken the Monopoly
of UilIi Prices.
THE XEW FI.OUEXCE
' h the U.L wad me thai rirs back
ward and forvard. or ta right and left.
Simple! Cheapest Best.
. Solo roa t'sii Only. t-prciAi Ti:axs
, ToCI.l'HS axdDEALKKS.
Jyril, 1.
t'loreiwe. Mast.
7'is Sfirmg Machine eires the bust satis
faction the nier, is pai l far most readily,
and is the best uf all to sell If there is no
"Domestic" asrt in o fntrit, appl to
DOMESTIC S. Jf. CO., Xew Vork.
Ladles Send for r.lcsxnt Fashion Rook.
LATEST IMPROVED
HOUSE POWERS,
C.K4IW TfiKESniXU
in
WOOD SAWING MACHINES,
Manufactured nnd sold by
A. IV. CT II A Y V SO X Ss
MIPPLETOWX, VT.
Parties who wish to pnrchase machine
that have proved to be superior to all others,
ill do Well t.) send fir cin-ul.ir and de
scriptive price list, w liich w ill be forwarded
upn application, free.
BUY J. & P. GOATS' BLACK
THEEABforjGirMlCME.
$25
A DAY GUARANTEED asmg or
WELL AUGER & DRILL i a good
tssvitOTyu Eadonsd by Govorvovw
f IOWA, ARKANSAS & DAKOTA
CstaUcutr. V.SILXS.St.talt.lts.'' .
4 !)TL'RT1CI1S send 2". cents to
Gio P. l;..m Si. Co., 41 Park Row.
N. V., lor their Eiht-page I amphlet, show
ing cost of advertising.
NEW OPENING
.IT PERRYSVILLE.
("t S. MILLS takes this method of ri
T turning tuaiiks to citizens of Perrrs
viKe and surrounding country for past t
vors. s.nd. having lorm-d the tirm of G. S.
MILLS 4. SON", they nope to merit a con
tinuance ol piln.n.iee. They can now bet
ter serve the public, having just opened out
a regular business of Merchandising in all
Goods usualiy kept i.i a country store,
such as
DRV COODS, GROCERIES,
QUEE-MSiriRE, AOTIO.VS,
HATS, HOOTS A. SIIOKS,
ANo.. a lull li-.e ..f Shoe tinkers' Findings.
OaK and Hemlock Stle Leather, .Morocco,
Anurxiin a:id French Calf Skins, all of
wh.ch we will sell at the lowest prices for
cash and coi::itrv product'.
Al.-o, a lull' line ot READY-MADK
CLOTHING. Also, a
Merchant Tailoring Department
in the store, stocked with CLOTHS and
CASSIMKh'KS, which we wiil nuke up to
onW or sell by the yard to customers.
Cy All woolen goods cut to order.
Call ami see us. We mean to pleaso oar
cistoim rs, preferring the nimble s.s-penco
to the slow i.bi!iini-.
Store opposite Mi-.Manigle'a hotel, in tho
Stevenson propcrtv.
O. S. VIMS A. SON.
Perry mile, Mir-h 13, 1K74.
co.ox
Branch Office aud Factory :
50G Tf EST ST., JEW YORK.
THE BEST PAIHT in the WOULD
Jsjf Shade Jrom Pure White to Jet Black.
A combination of the purest paint with
India Kubber, forming a smooth, olosst,
rip, era able, clastic an.l beactiecl
Paint, unattested by change of temperature,
is perfectly water-proof, and adapted to ail
classes of work, and is in every way a bet
ter paint for either inside or oursi lo paint
ing than any other punt in the world. Be
ing trom one-third to one-fourtb cheaper
and lasting at least three times as long as
the best lead and oil paints.
Be snrt that our TIUDE 31.1RZ, (a fox
simile of Schick is given above,) is on
every package.
Prepared ready for nse and sold br this
gallon oaly. There has never been a "paint
ollercd to tbe public that has become s-
popular fin the same time) and given as
perlect satisfaction as the Kubber Paint.
luarltm
gOLOMOX SEIIllItt,
Will visit Mifrlin and t'mt n
Tuesday, Thursday ard Saturday mornings
nu win lurnisn too citizens 01 these
bur
O'l-rhs wit i the best of
BEEF, VEAL, MUTTON, PORK.
at tba very lowest prices, fto respectful!
boih-iis me pt'ronage or th. public .
April 3, 1721 y.
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