SENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFPLINTOWN.
Wejawday, Ccctwbr 6. 1ST6.
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F. SCH WE I EU,
rorroa akd rsopanrroa.
The Situation in South Carolina.
Within the past week the situation
in South Carolina has not been a plea
sant one to look at. The appearance
of affairs there indicate that bad men
are at tha bottom of the movement,
anl if it ha J not been for the pres
ence of Unite-1 States troops, a Woody
conflict most probably would have
grown out of the frauds and out
rages that have been committed in
that State.
Tuesday,' the 2Sth yesterday a
week was the day for the assem
bling of the Legislature of South
Carolina. The Governor, being fear
ful of an outbreak on that occasion,
La-1 aked the President Grant to
send United States troops to keep
the peac'j. It was a wise step or pre
cautionary measure.
For cn that d.iy serious division
took place between those who stood
by the ai'tion of the Board of Can-
Tassers, and those who stood by the
action of the Supreme Court The
Bi'wtrd of Canvasiiers said these are
the legally elected members of the
Legislature. The Supremo Court
eaid, not so, but these other people
are the legally elected members for
Laurens and Ed0'Seld counties. The
streets of the city of Columbia, where
tha State House is located were
crowded with people.
The time came for the Legislature
to meet. Troops had been p3:iced as
sentinels and to preserve the peace
around the State House, with instruc
tions from Governor Chanilx'rlain to
admit no one but those who were
known to be members of the Legis
lature.
The entire membership of the
lTouse is 124, but the election of 8
members having been illegal in con
test the membership as not dispu
te d, or in doubt, is 116.
Inside the building, at the door to
the room of the House of Represen
tatives a corporal and twelve soldiers
were stationed.
The entire Democratic member
ship was collected in a body, and the
contesting members, with the certifi
cates issued by the Supreme Court
in their Lands marched up to the
door and asked to be admitted. The
Supreme Court certificate members
were not admitted, whereupon the
whole body turned about, marched
out of the State House, and in front
of it one of the party read a pretest
to the assembled crowd. Thit being
done, the members withdrew to a hall
ia tlie city, and there organized with
Bis'.y-six, all told, contestants in
cluded. After the secession of the Demo
crats the Republicans organized in
the Legislative chamber, with fif ty
sii members, all told.
There was no division in the Sen
ate. On the 301h Thursday the Dem
ocrats came back to the State House
and took seats in the chamber, at 11
o'clock. - The Republicans entered
the chamber at noon, and then the
split House sat with two sets of offi
cers, and debated the situation. And
thus the double-headed Assembly sat
duy fcTi'jr dsy up to iloniLiy, when
the Supreme Court branch again with
draw. Excitement to a high degree
proTMied among tue respective par
ties, and both were desirous of hav
ing the first place alongside of the
military of the United States, which
hj far has 6tood as a restraining in
fluence against violence between the
parties.
At this writing, Tuesday morning,
there is no satisfactory result. The
General Government can only recog
nize the Government that exists there
and maiutain it against all attempts
of violent overthrow.
Letter from an CM JacVsonian Democrat
of Greenwood IcnusUip.
JfEAH Seven Stab Taverx, )
December 2, 1876. J
My De.ir X'r. Ldilor : When I
cloned my loot letter I thought snow
deeji enough to sleigh in wonld fall that
night, and I know that many of the
boys who were out parking their girls
thought so too when they hurried home.
That was a wsek ago, and we htvo't
Lad tmow enough yet to sleigh in. Snow
always makes eourtirg lively, just why,
I can't ay, bat it is so. Yon may fig
ure it oat if yon can. Old Andy Jack
son knew little of the fun in a sleigh or
sled rule, bavicg all Lis days lived
where little snow fell; bat still, with
the. absence of mow, they manage to
court in the South. ludeed it is said
the courtships of that section are
warmer than in the cool North, i"ou
know bow men who claim to koow, tell
Low much warmer the love of the peo
ple of the South is than the love of the
people of the North. They say they
have a deeper hate too ; bnt I guess
that love and hate are things or spirit
ual feelings that neither old or beat
can control, unless you freeze or burn
tbe people who are possessed of them.
The one is a heavenly quality ; Heaven
is ad line. The other is a hellish qual
ity ; Hell is all Late. That's the cor
rect view as Leld by Oid Hickory.
Audy was always orthodox. He wasn't
quite a Puritan, but be was the nest
Uiog to it j he was a Scotch Irish man,
quite a good kind of stock, a kind of
people that had a heavy per centsge of
ortboxy in them, that gave them a sort
of digiitty that is bardly found outside
of tho stock, I guess they got it by
their contentions with the aristocracy
in the Realm. Their quarrels with
Royalty sobered them, aud made them
an intensely earnest people. But if
Andy was a Scotch Irishman, be must
have got a streak of higher stock, as
tbe European aristocray understand it,
in his veins by ancestry somehow, un
known to himself, for when be took it
in Lis bead to do so, Royalty itself
could hardly improve on bis polite
manners, or freeze by independent
co iduct. I'd give something for tbe
unknown history of bis tore-fathers.
.You niinJ how that one of bis Cabi
net officers called on biro in bis private
room one day to say to him, that be bad
a distinguished lady dowa stairs in the
parlor that be wished to iutrodace. The
lady bad been in almost every Court in
Europe, and was quite well acquainted
with tbe dignity and courtesy of tbe
Aristocracy of that country. This was
all told to Old Hickory by the Miuis
tcr. Andy at that time was alone, and
not fixed up. Tbe man who wished to
introduce tbe lady was afraid that be
would go down to receive in that plight,
and be took the liberty to say that Lis
appearance in that plight would not be
becoming in the chief ruler of a nation.
That raised Jackson's dignity, and be
quickly dismissed the familiar friend,
by telling bim to go, that be once knew
a man who got rich by simply attend
ing to his own business.
In duo time the Hera of New Or
leans put in an appearance. Tbe lady
afterwards pronounced Andy the best
mannered man she had met in America.
It wasn't everybody that could get
Andy's attention, but when be gave a
lady attention it was with the polite
ness of a 1'rince and tbe same honesty
of purpose that he brought to the at
tention of Lis country. He was the
best combined specimen of honesty,
pluck aod politeness that the Presiden
tial chair baa Lad.
Grant Las Andy's honesty of purpose,
and his pluck, but he isn't quite as
smooth caturally.
You culit to have heard how they
gave it to Grant down here, under the
lead of such articles as are printed in
the Now Tork Herald and the Phila
delphia Times. If tbe papers that 1
have just mentioned are true, Grant is
trying to overthrow this country. Tbey
say that be d'd a great wrung in send
ing troops to South Carolina. ' They
say that he should be impeached for
doing that, but 1 tell you, my boy, that
if Old Andy were alive he'd eay,
" Grant, you are right j" and he'd go
farther, he'd say that the men down
there who are trying to throw the coun
try into a state of war, helped by such
fellows as Bennett of the Herald and
V-C!!nrA nf tri Timn. are cruiltv nf
. , e j
treason. 1 bat's what be called tbe
work of Calhoun and Hayne.
They were trying to fire the heart of
the people to war, and that is what the
fellows I just spoke of are trying to
do. They haven't a single good word
for all Grant has dune, and yet be
hasn't done as much to be bowled
against as Old Hickory did.
They are telling the country that
Grant Las do riht to send troops into
South Carolina. They tell that much,
and then they go on aod abuse him and
say that when be does that he is taking
away tbe liberty of the people, and if
be dare seud troops into South Caro
lina, he dare send them into Pennsyl
vania or any other State ; aod they talk
in such a way that those who believe in
them and don't know any better, are
misled, are made to believe that Grant
has done a great wrong, and that the
wrong is so great that if the people
would rise up and inaugurate a war
against the soldiers, that would be
right.
Bennett and McClure both koow that
they are preaching false doctrine, when
they preach sum stuff as that. You
see they are trying to make tbe people
believe that the President scut the
troops down there of his own accord.
That tin 7 true. When the Devi! ap
peared to Eve in the garden and told
bcr, "Eat of the fruit of this forbid
den tree and thou shalt not die," be
did not tell a bigger lie. Tbe Devil
knew that he was not telling the truth,
and these fellows know as well as be did
that they are cot telling the truth.
They keow that Grant did not send tbe
troops down there of bis own accord,
or on bis own Louk, as we say down
here. But Old Andy did send troops
down there on his own book, and in de
fiance of the Governor of South Caro
lina, to preserve the peace. The good
old fellow is dead, but that act is one
of the brightest that he ever did. It
is even brighter than licking theEntUh
at New Orleans, and that was consid
ered quite aa achievement.
President Grant, and every etber
President who succeeds him, is bound
by Lis oath to give protection to a re
cognized State government, whenever
such protection is asked by its Legis
lature or the Governor. See United
States Constitution, Art. 4, See. 4 :
"The United States shall guarantee to
every State ia this Cuion a Republican form
ot government, and shall protect each of
tbeiu against invasion, aud on application ol
the Legislature, or or the JCxetulive the
Governor against doinettic violence."
He did not rend troops down to
South Carolina without being asked,
though that is just what Bennett and
McClure are trying to make people be
lieve be did. No, be did no such thing
But be was asked to do 60 by Gover
nor Chamberlain. Tbe Governor called
on hi in in the r.gular way, saying that
tbe state of society is in such a state
of fermentation that, if be would at
tempt to settle it with one class or other
there would be a war among themselves,
and that's wby he called on the Presi
dent for troops.
President Grant could get troops into
tbis State in the tame wsy, on a call
from the Governor, if we were so Mex
ioanized as to be ready to fight each
other every time an election came
aronnd.
The wisdom of sending troops is
found in the simple fact that tbey have
kept two sets of men from going into a
deadly fight.' The very fart that one
set of Slate officers tbe Return Board
of Canvassers and another set of
State officers tbe Supreme Court ol
that Slate so far disagreed that they
issued certificates of election to differ
ent parties, and these parties and their
friends, each organized two separate
Legislatures for the Lower House of
Legislature, is proof beyond all ques
tion that tbe Governor could not have
managed tbe situation without bringing
about a conflict, a war atuorg them ;
and 1 tell you the people of the coun
try are not agoing to Lave war. They
will hold tbe Government at Washing
ton responsible if tbey let those rascals
get at each other, either in South Car
olina or anywhere else. Yes', my boy,
if ( bambcrlain would not bave called
on the President for troops they would
be fighting there now. The Govern
ment troops bave kept tbe peace, and
now tbey must settle the trouble in a
peaceable way. They no doubt have
enough fraud to curse all who are en
gaged in the work, but they are not to
be allowed to curse the country deeper
by bringing on a strife in which free
government would be destroyed. Tbe
couutry to-day, outside of Rebel and
Rebel sympathizing circles, tbank Pres
ident Grant from their inmost hearts
for preserving the peace aod saving the
country from second Rebellion.
Old Hickory saved the country from
one Rebellion, and if he'd been in
Buchanan's place he'd have saved it at
that time from Rebellion, and we'd
still bave slavery. What crazy people
they were to make war. Their slaves
would bave been safe to them, a cen
tuiy at least, perhaps longer, for they
could not have beeu taken from them
by legislation excepting by amendment
of tbe Constitution, which would bave
required a three fourth vote of the
States, and to obtain that under the
slow growth of popular opinion would
bave taken a long timet How blind
they wete. Old Andy saved the insti
tution in 1S32 by scndicg troops into
South Carolina. It was not Lis love of
slavery, but bis love of country, bis
abhorrence of civil strife. And now
whenever you bear a bad man or an
ignorant man denounce Grant for rend
ing troops into South Carolina, tell bim
that Grant sent them there to preserve
peace, at the call of the Governor of
that State, aod that Andy Jackson sent
troops to preserve the peace in tbe same
State in 1 832, when the Governor ot
tbe State said that he did Dot dare to
do so. But Andy did it anyhow, and
tbe Governor only escaped being tried
for treason by the intercession of mu
tual friends. That is a historical fact,
and no man who is read in the history
of those times will say it is not correct.
You know tbe State cf South Carolina
bad set itself up through a State Con
vention above the authority of tbe
United States Government in 1832.
Oid Hickory issued a proclamation
telling them of their unlawful acts, and
warned them that be would ue the
power entrusted to bim fo compel obe
dience to tbe Constitution and laws of
tbe Union. Governor Hayne replied to
Andy in a proclamation, and called on
the citizens of the Slate to disregard
the proclamation of the President, and
to stand by tbe State with their lives
and fortunes. He organized troops
and collected military stores, and bid
defiance, as it were, to Old Hickory,
and that was enough for Andy. He
immediately despatched General Scott
with a large body cf troops to South
Carolina to occupy Charleston,' aud also
ordered such naval vessels as be thought
sufficient to help keep tbe peace, to
Charleston harbor.
You will notice how cunningly Cal
houn and Hayne worked it. Tbey first
got their State through a State Conven
tion to set up against tho Government,
and then Hayne dared Andy to enter
his State without being called iuto it
by him. Andy -as not called there to
settle the trouble, be wcut there with
out being called, and he believed that
be was preserving the Constitution that
be was sworn to protoct, and tbe coun
try to-day believes that be saved tbe
Constitution that time. Grant sent
troops to South Carolina only when be
was asked to do so by tbe Governor,
that's the difference. If Grant has
done wrong, ADdy Jacksou did a thou
sand times worse. When you look at
Grants actions, ycu see them starred
all over with Jacksonism. Good night
aod may you dream that Andy's spirit
is guiding Ulysses in the way be trod.
Yours truly,
BARTON SPEAK.
The Empress of Germany and tbe
Princess Bismarck t'e two plain, borne
ly bodies. Tbe first is not uufrequent
ly seen driving out in a calico dresa,
and tie second, fresh and comely
though past C2, sopei intends ber farm
work, goes aboat tbe bouse with a great
bunch of keys at ber girdle in the good
old style, and her bedrooms are filled
With knitted q lilts and such articles,
evidences of ber own skill aod industry.
John Ledrn, a lad of sixteen, was
killed at Mid way, Washington couDty,
on Saturday a week by a runaway mule
he was riding. Being thrown bis feet
caught in tbe harness, and tbe animal
dragged him at a furious rate around
the stable-yard, bis head striking a cor
ner of the stable, fracturing hi skull.
The Terror in Lcm'siaoa.
A Thrilling Scene at the Session of the
Returning Board The Outrages De
ncunud by Northern Democrats
Gen. John ,W. Palmer 't Wrath Ter
rible J'arratiee of a Wilnesr. .
5HCIA1 DISFATCa T . T. TIXCS.
New Orleans, Nov. 28. A start
ling scene occurred before tbe Return
ing Boaid to-day. Four witnesses were
examined. All bad been wantonly shot
because of their Republican principles.
Two were brought to tbe eity on oots.
Their names are Ben James, Eaton
Long wood, II. W. Buirell and Eiiza
Pinkston. During tbe latter' pitiful
recial of her wrongs ber husband
emasculated and then killed before her
eyes, of ber babe, whose throat was cut
in her arms, of bef own gashed breast
and limbs, and finally the outrage of
her persou by two white Democrats
ex-Gov. John M. Palmer, of Illinois,
leaped from bis chair and taid in wrath,
" If this story be false, those that pre
pared it for tbis poor woman should be
banged ; but if, as I firmly believe, it
is true, the wretches who can perpe
trate such atrocities should be executed
without mercy. I will spend ten thou
sand dollars to ferret out this case. It
looks true. ' Tbis poor woman has cer
tainly been crneliy wronged. Tbe ques
tion is broader now than President
making it is one of humanity. If ebe
has told tbe truth, Sheridan should
come back at once and hold with a grip
of iron a people who can see such in
famy without remonstrance even in their
public prints." Governor Palror was
greatly excited while making these ro
marks, and astounded the Louisiana
Democrats, who tried in vain to pacify
bim.
Gen. George B. Smith, of Wiscon
sin, also exhibited much excitement and
turning upon local Democrats, said :
"You bave deceived us." Subsequent
ly Lyman Trumbull, who was absent J
from the room duriog the woman's re
cital, flatly concurred with Gen. Palmer.
The demoralization of tbe Democrats
here is cjmplcte, not only because of
tbe facts disclosed, but because cf the
names of leading Democrats who are
exposed in detail as tbe murderers and
tavishers. Other witnesses, men and
women, who bave cruelly suffered, are
yet to take tbe stand.
To-night the Chief of Police has been
compelled to station a force around tbe
domicile within which Mrs. Pinkston
lies prostrate on a bed. A turbulent
Democratic crowd is assembled, and
tbey are loud with menaces. At last
it is evident'that even Northern Demo
crats cannot return bome and sneer
down Southern Democratic outrages as
myths. The testimony which Hon.
John Sherman, Gen. Garfield, Eugene
Hale, Gen. White, Courtlandt Patker,
E. W. Stoughton, and Judge Keller
witl furnish the North will startle the
whole country. Tbe following is in
substacce Mrs. Pinkston' statement :
On Saturday bight, the 4th of the
montb, Henry Pinkston, a respectable
colored man, who was known iu tbe
island district of Ouachita parish, Went
to his csbiuafter, as id stated, having
beld a consultation regarding the elec
tion wiib a cumber of Republican lead
ers. He was known in the parish as a
steadfast and somewhat demonstrative
Republican, but, fearing for his' life, be
bad recently joined a Democratic club.
According to the sworn statement of
bis wife, Eliza Piokston, which is now
before me, be went quietly to bed on
tbe night in question, not fearing or
apprehending any danger. At about
three o'clock the next (Sunday) morn
iug a cumber of men, who from their
voices were known to be while, came
to the cabin aud, knocking on the door,
soid, "Come out here, Pinkston, your
Yankee friends want to take you to
Monroe.
To tbis Mrs. Pinkston, who thought
she recognized the voice of the speaker,
replied, "You are no Yankee ; you are
Dr. Young." A man named Gogari,
who was afterwards recognized by Mrs.
Pinkston,nmmediately answered, " Dr
lcune is not in the parish." Alter a
few words more of no importance had
passed between the terrified woman and
tbe men on the outside, Gogan broke
down the door of the cabin, and a duk
ber of armed white men, among whom
Mrs. Pinkston recognized Dr. Young,
Billy Parks, Gogan, Frank Durham,
"Buck" Baker and others, rushed into
tbe room. They went up to tbe bed
where Pinkston was lying, and, drag
ging him out on the floor, cried, " You
will vote no mere Radical tickets
here." "Buck" Baker said, "We must
'tend to the woman, too."
They then commenced firing tbeir
pistols' at Pinkston. He fell. His
wife screamed, and one of them struck
Lcr over the bead with bis navy revol
ver. She was cut and shot in several
places ; ber jaw was broken, bnt she
did not die. When she had been
" 'tended to," the men took her hus
band, tied a handkerchief over bis
mouth, and carried his bleeding body
out of tbe bouse. Then they killed
bim. Before be died he "oegged tbem
to spare bis life, raying, " I will voto
the Democratic ticket, rare." " No,"
said one of tbem, " your Dig
ger heart, you bave fooled us long
enough ; now you must die." Having
killed tbe husband tbe men next turned
to tbe wife. Her infant lay at ber side.
Tbey cut its throat from ear to ear and
threw the dead body into a pond near
by. Tben tbey left tbe cabin, and the
bleeding childless widow of tbeir vic
tim saw them no more. There aie 2,
167 Republican voters in tbe parish
where Henry Pinkston lived, but only
781 of taem went to tbem went to the
poll on election day.
Charles Tid well,
of Ouachita, a witness in rebuttal to
tbe testimony of Mrs. Eliza Piukstoo,
testified in substance as follows : Hare
known Eliza Pinkston for eighteen or
twenty years ; character is very bad ;
knew ber in Alabama ; she belonged to
my family ; I knew Henry Pinkston ;
I did not know much of him ; I bave
known bim for about two years in a
general way ; be was a very quiet ne
gro ; bis wife came to my bouse about
fife o'clock on Sunday morning and told
me four or five negroes bad come to ber
bouse and killed ber busbiod and beat
ber nearly to death and killed ber child,
and after it got daylight I went down
there and saw him ; be was dead , I
asked what bad been done with tbe
child ; she raid she Lad laid it in tbe
cradle, but the child was not there; 1
don't know anything about threats
having been made by henry Pinkston
only what tbe niggers said ; 1 bad a
conversation with Mrs Pinkston as to
the murder of ber husband ; she told
me there were fare or six niggers came
to the bouse and took Pinkston out aud
killed him, aud tried to kill her and the
child ; she was bleeding pretty smart ;
I supj ose it was about two hours from
tbe first to tbe second conversation ;
she tben told me that if it was not
Brooks' friends from Ouachita she
thought it was Parks' or Posey's nig
gers ; that tbey were Radicals and she
was a tabid Democrat, and thought they
came there for the purpose of kilting
her ; that was the idea she wanted to
give me j I sent for a doctor, who came
aod waited on ber ; Levi Parks and a
man named Armstrong came to my
house after dinner, and we went up to
see her ; I ashed her ia too presence of
them if she knew who killed Pinkston
and who iLn her, and she raid there
were about fifteen or twenty white men
who came there and attempted to kill
him ; she went to other places and told
a different stcrv ; 1 understood that she
says William Parker was one of tbe
killers, and he has been dead for three
months. ' Mr. Pinkston took very little
part in politics and stood very well with
the white people ; he sometimes got
drunk, but I never saw bim intoxicated
to such an extent as to make bim impu
dent ; 1 never beard him mention pol
itics iu my life, and I never mentioned
politics to him ; 1 took very little part
in politics myself. After she received
tbe wounds she walked three quarters
of a mile to my bouse, and after the
Doctor attended her, Mr. Parks, I and
the other man went up to sea Ler iu
tha evening ; she said she was pretty
we!!, and the oexi day she was down at
my bouse. 1 don't think she was ever
coufined a day ; the body of the 'child
was found, but I saw no marks cf any
kind on it except one or two little
places on the check, which looked as
though the black part bad been cut off;
the body was found about two hundred
yards from tbe house, in tbe lake ; as
soon as I attended to Eliza, between
daylight and sunrise, I went down to
ber house and found Henry Pinkston
lying about twenty steps from the door ;
be was naked, except that be bad on
bis undershirt, but it was slipped up
about Lis back ; I found he had a ball
through the side of bis bead and one in
tbe thigh and one in the stomach, two
in tbe legs and one in the forehead ; be
was dead ; be wasnot mutilated ; there
was not the slightest scratch upon bim
except the marks ; I Lad clothes thrown
over him, and went to see if we could
not get somebody to go and see some
thing about the matter; cf course 1
bad bim buried. Tbe cross examina-
! tion was continued at great length.
Official Vote of Pennsylvania.
The following is tbe official vote for
President in all the counties of tbe
State :
Tilrft. Uayet. Cooptr. Smith.
Adams 3,4;9 2,y2l 11 I
Allegheny. ..19,248 28.729 769 117
Armstrong... 4,613 1 19
Beaver 2,'JGO 3,!iS 8Gt 89
Bedford ?M'2 8.210 ... 1
Berk 15,tilJ 8,1119 834 2
Blair Z.KM 4,752 7 28
Bradford 4.19 8,008 69 40
Bucks 8,023 7,722 2 11
Butler 4,ftiO 6,643 21 67
Cambria 4,267 2,99 92 13
Cameron..... 648 672 5 6
Carbon 3.106 2.758 90 6
Centre 4,0fi5 3,2i6 17 8
Chester 6,21 9,715 10 41
Clarion 4,159 S,Uiit 3 14
Clearfield .... 4,220 2,318 24 2
Clinton 2,974 l,f09 60
Columbia .... 4,31U 2,n;9 34 6
Crawford .... 6,637 7,345 lti8 2
Cumberland.. 6,OG2 4,151 45 6
Dauphin 6,474 7,45 397 3
Delaware .... 3,2-0 5,4S ... 2
Elk 1,330 o'i4 50
Krie 6,179 8,724 61 34
Fayette 5,594 4,397 213 6
Forest SF5 464
Franklin 4,620 4,e97 ... 9
Fultou 1,19.) r-21 ...
(Jrecne 3,719 1,9V ...
Huntingdon.. 2,92 3,49-i 39 11
Indiana 2,248 4,'i4 3 42
Jefl,-rson .... 2,4-59 2.340 44 13
Juniata 2,013 1.6.50 ... 4
Lancaster.... 9,638 17,425 U 35
Lawrence.... 1.764 3,429 210 ' 72
Lebinon 8,028 4,552 1 4
Lehigh 7,757 5.5t6 5
Luzerne 18,396 14,919 600 107
Lycoming.... 6,423 4,110 718 1
MoKean 1,320 1,427 12
Mercer 4,587 6.5U8 405 146
Mifflin 1,892 1,716 ... 6
Monroe 3,2S0 774 ... .. j
Montgomery . 8,654 9,28 68 40
Montour... . 1,728 1,133 48 6
Northampton. 9,271 6,311 12 3
Korthuuiber'd 5.064 4,263 88 9
Perry 2,789 2.684 24 .. j
Philadelphia.. 62,138 77,Oh8 10 23
Pike 1,387 443 1
Potter 1,280 1,621 16 2
Schuylkill ...10,457 8,677 1246 a
Snyder 1,59 1.922 ... 1
Somerset .... 2,336 8,784 4 5
Sullivan 879 602 24 - 3
Susquehanna. 3,885 4.823 81 23
Tioga 2,729 6,892 IV 5 4
Union 1,489 2,154 7 1
Vena.igo..... 8,471 3,40 133 183
Warren.' 2,365 3,151 19 82
Washington.. 6,323 6,86 199 8
Wayne 3,680 2.760 " 4 6
Westmoreland 7,466 6,217 265 10
Wyoming.... 2,020 1,679 ... 3
York 10,403 6,827
Total .....366.204 384,148 7,204 1,818
Anti-Maaonjc Ticket Allegheny 8 ! Arm
strong, 1 ; Bradford, 22 ; Butler, 2 : Cam
bria, 1 1 Chester, 1 ; Crawford, 7 ; Frank
lin, 6 Indiana, ! JenVrson, 2 ; Lehigh, 2 ;
McKean, 1 ; Mercer, 16 ; Susquehanna, 0 ;
Venango, 71 ; Wyoming, 1 ; York, 1.
Ne ws Items,
The angar crop of Louisiana this year is
20O,tXl0 hogshrada.
Seven nmn niarrU-d for the fourth time In
New York last year.
At the State lair, Lincoln, Seb., the fe
male braoa bond won the prise.
A one of the strange events of tha day a
family recently bad a marriage, birth and
death in one week.
The Kansas Insurance Company, of Lea
venworth, has made an assignment. LUbil
Hiea estimated at $500,000 j assets, $100,
000. General Wade Hampton Is a widower.
Colonel Fred. Grant U under $4'K) bail
for a heaxiHg to-day lor assaulting a Chicago
repo- ter.
Great apprehensions are fe.t th.itthe Egyp
tian horae ilague niay spread by the car
avan routa into Syria, and thence Into Asia
and Europe. The multitude of festering
corpses o( horses which have died ol the
plague and been thrown into tbe Kile or
into eanala or ponus nave couiamiuaicu
tbe water and the atmosphere, aud cholera
is imminent.
Petroleum has been discovered in the
neighborhood of Parainid Lake, in eran.
Two springs are said to nave oeen iiiumi
from which flow about eighty or ninety gal
lons ol crude petroleum a day The oil is
almost colorless.
Patrick Medially, a near sighted oid man,
walked into a iuo.ire dy-wheel on Monday
a week at the rolling will ot the Lacka
wanna Iron and Coal Company, at Scran
ton. In au instant bis body was torn to
pieces and scattered about the wheel-pit.
His head waa found several Hours after tbe
accident.
A lew days ago a litsle eight rear old
girl at Butli-o played suicide. She fasten
ed a tovre! to ber neck aud a book in th
wall, and tben knocked the chair from uu
der her feet. She waa choked uutil her
face resu rubied a black mask, when her pa
rents discovered her.
Misa Ella Lay cock, daughter of Mr. B. T.
Lay cock, of Blooiusburg, Luierne county,
being thwarted in love, resolved to become
a nun. e o sue uea to scranwn io ai. Ce
celia's convtuL Her lather would have
none of it, so he telegraphed to an officer,
wh iutercej-tcd her aud look ber home.
Mr. and Mrs. Brattoo, of MiQiu
couuty, celebrated their golden wed-
din" on the 4th ult. Mrs. Uratton's
father, Exra Grunian, when fourteen
years of age, carried the first mail ever
seut from Philadelphia to Pittsburg,
the letters being wrapped in a red silk
handkerchief.
Mrs. JusUce, a widow of sixty, com
mitted suicide at .New Bedford on
Tuesday-morning a week, by banging
herself iu a baru. The old lady had
been deranged for svaie time.
There was a slight row in tbe Frank
lin school on Monday a week. The
Priucipal, County Superintendent and
all the Directors wete sent for and be
tween the-ji tbey nanaged to expel
one small boy.
The handsome wife of a Pctrolia
physician went around the other day
to every saloon in that bottugh, called
for pen, ink and paper, and wrote ost
a notice warning each vender of spirit
uous liquor not to sell to ber liege loH
aud master.
A four year old Pottsville chill cot
drunk the other day chewing Jiiuson
weed, and did not sober up for eigh t
or nine hours.
Pitbole, the place which but a few
years ago bad ten thousand inhabi
tants, polled but six votes last election.
"Thou art gone, never to retnra "
Wm. Moore was shot and it is fearec
fatally wounded a few nights ago while
attemptiug to cut down a political pole
near Saleru church, in Congruity town
ship, Westmoreland county.
Mr. J. F. Thompson, of Shippens
villc, went out to tiain a new bird dog
recently, and while patting tha animal
on the bead in commendation of its
aptness it jumped up against bim.
Iu doing so it struck the hammer of
bis gun and discharged it, the load en
tering the pit of Mr. Thompson's arm
and corning oat at the top of bis shoul
der, making a very ugly and painful
wound.
A mouse got into he drawer of the
City Hotel, at Reading tbe other day
aud chewed up into fine bits two $5
bills, ose $2 bill, one $1 bill, and a
quantity of fractional currency.
Tbe Scotch farmers are being mined
by mice. Weasels, hawks and owls are
treated with a respect which astonishes
these long persecuted animals.
Mr. Wolf recently killed four wild
turkeys at one discbarge of bis double
barreled gun while bunting on tbe side
of the runuctain, above Harrtsborg.
Mary F. Gilmore a young lady re
siding near Pittsburg, was recently so
scared by tbe entrance of a burglar in
to ber room that she lost bcr reasnD,
and is now the inmate of an insane asy
lum. Mr. Wamp'er, of Adams county,
lately fired at a pheasant, missed the
bird and lodged a charge cf bird shot
in the breast and neck of Mr Eppelman,
a companion. He was seriously, but
not dangerously hurt.
Tbey bad been ecgnged a long time
aod one evening were reading tbe paper
together. "Look, Jove !" he ex
claimed, "only fifteen dollars for a suit
of clothes !" "Is it a wedding suit ?"
she asked looking naively at ber lover.
"Ob! no," be replied, "It's a busi
ness suit." "Well, I meant business,"
she answeied.
Mrs. Johanna Fox has been arrested
in New York, at tbe suit of ber step. .
daughter, who charges her with bavins
slandered ber to ber betrothed, so tbat
tbe engagement waa broken.
Mr. and Mrs. Kapp were divorced in
Hartford, Conn, on tbe 19ih. At noon
on the 231 Mr. Kapp remarried, and
on the same evening Mrs. Kapp married
Mr. Kapp's brother.
An intelligent-looking colored man
walked into a Buffalo office the other
day with a slate in his bands, on which
be wrote " I am deaf aud dumb , please
help me." But there happened to be
a sharp-pointed tack, end up, in the
chair on which be was invited to sit, and
as be jumped about five feet into the
air, bis speech was suddenly restored,
aod be went out uttering language to
tally unfit for publication.
A party of railroad car robbers, con
sisting of Michael and George Meisen
belter, John Steckly, Leonard Zim
merman and George J.Thompson, were
arrested by Detective Franklin. Ser
geant Cilley and Detective Boat, at
JJaupbin, Pa., on Thursday morning a
week. . These parties are charged with
stealing 3,000 pounds of butter, a quan
tity of eggs and otber articles from a
freight ear of the Pennsylvania Rail
road at Dauphin, on the night of No
vember 11. Twenty eight casks of
butter were found secreted in a bay
mow of a stable attached to a butcher
shop on the premises of tbe Mciseobel
trs. Tbe Meisenhelters entered bail
for $800 for their appearance at court,
while tbe others were jailed in default.
William and Edward Seidel were also
arrested at tbe same time, bnt were dis
charged, tbere being nothing to show
ueir connection with the robber.
Kew3 Items.
A medical journal saya an orange
sucked before breakfast will cure the
appetite fo whisky.
(Wer in 1874 carried off more than
I nnn nurmni in England
'it ia stated one half of New Tork
if i tnrrtsa?cd.
The British wheat ercp was 22 per
cent, below the average.
TK.AVflatPrn Penitentiary has 635
inmates.
Mr. Stanburv. living in Tork county
. .uia menaurio? seven feet
" . '
across tbe wings.
New Tork has sixty-eight corset
factories, which shows bow our Indus
trie are running to waist
Georee Emerich gathered over one
thousand bushels of apples on bis farm
in Scbuvkill eountv, this year.
Tbe most terrible outb.eak of small
pox ever known in the history of the
Northwest is desolating Gembic, an
Iceland io and Meunooite settlement of
about seven thousand souls on tbe east
aide of Lake Winuipeir. Tbe death
averace H0 daily-
The Philadelphia & Reading K. R.
Co., are dispensing wito repress agents
A bog disease is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Berks county.
The apple crop in England and
France has been a failure this year.
Max Henry Stem, of Williamsburg,
lately deceased, directed bis remains to
be cremated,
Wild geese shooting by night is
tbe popular amusement at Harrison
lake near M'Minville, Oreeon, where
recently one sportsman bagged 25
geese at four double shots.
Io London a Jew bas been charged
with tbe murder of a Jew. It is said
that tbis is tbe first time such a tbii-
bas happened, and that tbe last Jew
hanged in England was banged 200
years ago for forgery.
In Turkestan, Asia, the food of tbe
higher classes consists of stewed kid
neys and mutton chops, liver fried in
the fat of lorg-tailed sheep, peaches
and plums, excellent grapes of two
kinds, and d'licious purple figs,
A Hayes and Wheeler pole one hun
dred and fifty feet bigh was put up
dming tbe campaign at St. Joe. in the
oil region. An inch gat-pipe was run
up tbe entiro length of the pole, and
ted from a natural gas wel. near bv
Tbe gas was ignited at the top of the
p?le and has been burning brightly ever
since.
A Valuable Book.
ni'tory of the I'nitod States from the Ab
original Tiroes to tbe Present Day. ity
John Clark Kiilpath, A. 31. , Profesaor of
llistoi-y and lirlles-Letrres, Indiana As
bury L'niver.tity. Royal Octavo. Iilus
traled with Alaps, Charts, Portraits and
Diagrams. Sold only by subscription.
Price $3.00. Jones Brothers & Co., Phil
adelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati.
The circumstantial detail of S3 4
Jars tbe years that bave opened a
tint world aud created a mighty nation
was never given in better ntyle thau
iutbis work. When we look through
thifcaiky volumes of Bancroft we won
dcitl.at one man should attempt to
wrws all the history of our couutry
wbq the preliniiuary portion of it takes I
up a much space. But me cannot see '
thatl.rofe.sor Kidpath has omitted
sing! material fact that is contained io
tfaiiioft, white he has avoided tbat
tcdio detail which unfits the work of
the liter for popular use. Tbe ia
trigneiof the English Court aad Cabi
net, tb petty squabbles of tho House
of Coupons, tbe rise and fall of parties
in Enghd, which are supposed to bave
bad an iGueoca on American affairs,
these ar indeed omitted from Prof.
Ridpatb'ork ; but ia their slead is
given a bt;f ind masterly summary of
tbe causes.hich led to the American
KevolutioDtrhicb wo venture to say
convey a tier understanding of the
matter to nbty-nine in every hundred
readers, l ie for lestance the folio
ing extract :
Another ce leading to the Revolu
tion was lonnd tthe natural duponl ion amd
ciuruir of tht colcmntt. They
""i iwri, republicans in pol
un.. ui-wiiia m religion. I be peo
ple of England w-e monarchists and llieh
vuuiiumii. ueoiomais Da.1 never seen
akitifr. The A Utic lav between them and
the British nihiisr. Their dealings with
the royal officers W been sncb as to enzen-
.1 j- . r ....
ucr m maiiKc luvnonarcnial institutions.
The people ot Anjc bad not forgotten
" mr" net the circumstances
under whic h their teestors had cume to
tne .icw n oria. r nx generalion, the
colonists na.1 mat-d tbeir own attain;
and their methods f government were ne-
ceasarily republicat The experiences of
tnv x reiicu ami man War bad shown that
Americans were fuUbte to defend them
selves and tiieir eoaxy."
As one iuiporta cause, is not that
more satisfactory n a volume of com
mentary ?
The author's ratability to condense
a vast aniouDt of iife-mation into a sin
gle paragraph is shD to any of bis
numerous, graceful aigraphies. Take
the following on IMmin Franklin :
Bkimam in FiAsaii the author of the
first treaty between lMited Statea and a
foreign nation, was boSn Boston on the
17th of January, lT'Hi.jj, f4,ber was a
rnanii-acuirer oi soap aicandic. jo tbis
humble vocatio-i the yn, Roniamin w
devoted by bis parents ;at the walls or a
candle-shop were too naiw for bis aspir
ing genius. At tbe agef twelve be was
apirenticed to his brth4o learn tha art
ot printing; but the two r beat him, and
he ran on to New York. There he found
no employment. In 17 he repaired to
Philadelphia, entered a litiug ollice, and
rose to distinction. Htsiil England ;
returned ; founded tne firlirckting libra
ry in America ; became laii of science ;
edited Poor Rickard'$ jiliLjc; originated
the American Phiiosopba .Society ; dis
covered the identity of elr,-ity and light
ning; made hiicself know a, both hemi
spheres ; espoused the cause the patriots
and devoted the unimpairei,Tgleg Df D
om age to penecung me Al-ican Union.
1 ue name oi i raiiklia is on the oright-
In this work Prof, liid, Da, tur
mounted one difficulty wll confronts
all historians; to set forth! the facts
who uiiing comments, wica on the
oue hand making bis work k volumi
nous for common use, or olbe otber
making it a mere outline ldry and
uiscouoecieu facts.
A series of Charts show
cotem
colored lolitioal
These
porary men and events, a
maps illustrate tbe changes
boundaries from time to ti
are of creat assistance to
eader.
In short it is difficult to find
articu-
lar in which tbis History i
t meet
a trio t.
every want oi tne eituen ai
It is the work of a cultured
careful historian, and must
1 and
rank
oited
as tbe best History of tb
States yet published.'.
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000, and tbe wonderful voyage ben.
The earth is far below tbem, the awoj
is only 300 miles away a passing eoo
et nearly dahes tbem to pieces. Lj
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charming reading, and i!s proton M(j
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