SENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
51IFFL1ST0WN.
WHaeda?, January 9, 18T8.
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Can any ono toll wby there were
110 Mexican troubles along the bor
der during the war of the North and
the South ?
The failures in New York city dur
ing the month of December amount
to $S,000,000. To meet that large
Bum, the broken parties claim to have
4,000.000. If they have the half of
4,000,000 they will do well
The South Carolina HepublicaEB
contemplate reviving their organiza
tion. The recent unexpected victor
ies in Beaufort and Sumpter coun
ties have convinced them that they
can reorganize with good prospects."
Is consideration of having turned,
and proposing to still further turn
States evidence, and give up such
stolen property as yet remains in his
possession, it is proposed by New
York authority to relieve and pardon
Boss Tweed.
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Is the coming political campaign a
Legislature will be elected that will
elect a United States Senator. A
Governor is to be elected, Lieutenant
Governor, Secretary of Internal Af
fairs, and Chief Jubtice of the Su
preme Court
The defidrations of the broker
Bonner, of New York, have opened
to view one of the methods by which
euch so-called monied men raise
fundi One of the favorite ways that
he employed, was to pledge the secu
rities, such as bonds, notes, &c, that
were left with him, for money that he
borrowed.
England worked to get her hand
in at mediation between Turkey and
Russia. She would have liked to re
ceive the conditions on which Russia
will end the contest Russia, how
ever, cut the proposal to mediate
quite short The answer was, that
just so soon as Turkey herself asks
for terms it will be time to consider
the question.
There is time between this and the
nest Presidential election to change
the manner of electing a President.
There is a general feeling that a
change should be made. The wran
gle of a year ago has intensified the
feeling. There is an opportunity for
some Congressman to put himself in
accord with the people on the ques
tion. Who will do it ?
The world is fairly started on its
career for the year 1S7S. It will be
h great year. An indefinite oppres
sive consciousness posseses the mind
that great changes are about to take
place in Europe. Great and old
families are about to pass out of
the active and prominent places
they now cccupy, and great and
old families are to be made
greater still, while at the same time
the civilization of Europe, which is
founded on the Christian faith, will
be greatly strengthened by the
changes. What effect the great
changes about to be made will have
upon this country, or how this coun
try will affect the changes now to
take place, will be subjects of inter
est for the intelligent observer, and
of the deepest, though nnthought-of
interest to the people generally. How
will it aiTct Mohammedanism ? How
will it affect- Roman Catholicism?
How will it affect'Protestantism t
Last Thursday afternoon two tramps
entered the bumble boose o' a family
near Csiaden, New Jersey, while" the
husband and wife were awaj pickiu
rags, by which tbey made a Jiving.
Finding no one ir. the bouse bat i!VP
little girls, aged 9 and 12 yeart of age.
the tramps, after eaticg such things as
they found in the bouse, and desired,
bouud the children to chairs, and rob
bed the building. Ttiey fonnd $200 in
gold and silver in a trunk, wbicb tbey
took, and then returned to the little
girls and violated their persons, retied
them, and left. In the evening the
parents returned. No description can
do justice to the sense of outrage that
fell upon the pareuts when tbey wit
nessed the outrage of their little girls
The people in troop are still locking
for the tramps who committed the out
rage. If caught and identified, there
should be a sudden and quick en a with
the court left out
Famine In Russia
It would appear that Russia bis to
contend with launne within its own bor
ders as well as with the Turks in Bul
garia and in Aimenia. Dearth is re
ports J to prevail to a serious extent in
the Province of Kazan in Eastern nus
sia, the Froviuce lying to the northwest
of and adjacent to the Province of Sam
ara, wbicb suffered sd disastrously
from faniino a short time ago. Tbe
city of Kazin is said to be crowded
with famine-stricken persons who have
flocked into it in search of food, and
tbe peasantry in tbe outlying districts
a e reduced to great straits. An Im
perial commission has been appointed
to visit the Province and organize tbe
meant of relief. A public subscription
Las, moreover, been opened, to which
tbe Tartar merchants bare subscribed
liberally. lined.
Tbe colored men of lUleigh, N. C,
celebrated ,ne anniversary of tbe Em
ancipation JZ"J lst- GoY' ,Vnoe
told them that be e,d not celebrate
this day with them bee? h hftd
done all that mortal man coulu
prevent tbe occurence of this day ,,n
history of this country, and that be and
Lis party did not believe that the re
construction cts were constitutional,"
and therefore the negroes were not
properly freed. Other Democrats re
fused to attend on the ground that tbey
would do violence V their conscience.
THE LEGISLATUBE. . 1
SENATE", '
iiXZARl 1, 18(8.
The Senate met at noon and was
called to order bf Lieutenant Gover
nor LuttS ; prayer by Rev. Dr. Judd.
Forty-seven Senators were present
llr. Lawrence moved tliat an elec
tion be hold fur Presideut pro tem.
Mr. Newmver, Republican, nominated
Thomas V. Cooper, of Delaware
countv, and -Mr. Dill, Democrat nom
inated David A. Nagle, of Philadel
phia. Of the votes cast 31 were for
Mr. Cooper and 15 for Mr. Nagle,
and Mr. Cooper was declared elected.
The Senate then took a recess for
fifteen minutes. Upon reassembling
Mr. Cooper was escorted to the chair
by Senator Newmver, and returned
thanks for the renewed evidence of
the confidence placed in him. The
oath of office was administered by
the Hon. John J. Pearson, President
Judge of Dauphin county.
The usual resolutions appointing
committees to wait on the Governor
and on the House of Representatives,
informing them of the organization
of the Senate, were adopted.
Messrs. Grady and Roebuck offered
resolutions that the rules of the
Senate and the joint rules of both
Houses, adopted at the Inst session
of the Legislature, be adopted for
tius session, and continued in forc'e
until otherwise ordered. Adopted.
Mr. Herr That n5 bills, resolu
tions or other unfinished business
peuding at the close of the last ses
sion be considered at this session,
unless reintroduced as new business.
Agreed to.
Mr. Stone That the sessions of
the Senate begin at 11 a. m. and ad
journ st 1 p. m., except on Friday,
when they shall begin at 10 a. m. and
adjourn at 12 h. Agreed to.
Mr. Gazzaic That the President
pro tem. be authorized to appoint all
standing committees of the Senate.
Agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Gazzam the Sen
ate at 12.50 adjourned.
There are but few changes in the
Philadelphia appointments of the
Senate. John Lockhardt, formerly
Assistant Sergeant at-Arms, has been
transferred to the transcribing room;
George Leatherberry, formerly Post
master, transferred to the place va
cated by Mr. Lockhardt and Joseph
iatem appointed Messenger, nee
Samuel jlekenntin resigned.
Jaxcart 2, 1S7S.
Memorial from the Pittsburg Cham
ber of Commerce, praying for the
appointment of a special committee
to investigate the causes of the Lite
riots.
A resolution was offered to the ef
fect tlmt, if the House concur, when
the Senate adjourn to-day it be to
meet on luesday evening nest
Adopteu.
Four thousand copies of the Gov
ernor's message in English and one
thousand copies in German were or
dered printed. On motion a concur
rent resolution was adopted that
three thousand five hundred copies of
the report of the Municipal Commis
sion be printed for the use of the
Legislature, one thousand for the Sen
ate and two thousand for the House
and five hundred for the commission.
The House subsequently concurred
in this action.
A resolution was offered to the ef
fect that if the House concur, the
Legislature will meet in joint session
in the hall of the House of Repre
sentatives on Thursday, the 10th, for
the purpose of counting and publish
ing the returns for State Treasurer
and Auditor General Adopted.
A numler of nominations were
sent in and confirmed ; among the
numl er the following to be notaries
public for Philadelpliia : N. R. Har
ris, J. N. Holland, 1L E. Hindmarsh
and L. F. Benson.
Adjourned until Tuesday evening,
the bth, at 7 o'clock
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 1, 1878.
The Honse met at 12 o'clock, and
was called to order by Speaker Myer;
prayer by Rev. Mr. Clark.
The Deputy Secretary of the Com
monwealth presented the credentials
of two new members, viz : M. Edgar
King, in place of David M. Jones, of
Blair county, deceased, and Benjamin
Dorrance, in place of Hugh Young,
of Tioga, resigned.
The new members were then sworn
into o.JHce by Judge Pearson, of Dau-
pliji couilf V. The usual committees
were, on motion of Messrs. Potts and
Graham, of Allegheny, appointed to
notify the Gorernor Senate that
the House was organize.!
Mr. Long present J letter resigna
tion from three AlleghetiJ county em
ployes of the House, vil : Richard
Jones Janitor ; John F. White, Door
keeper, and John Williams, Assistant
Postmaster. These three were obliged
to resign under an agreement made by
tbe Allegheny county delegation with
tbe House last winter that Jbcir terms
of office should only last for one year.
The resignations were accepted, and
tbe places of the three retiring officials
were filled by three new men from Al
legheny county.
A memorial from tbe CLaraber of
Commerce of Pittsburg was presented
by Mr. Long, of Allegheny, asking the
Legislature to appoint a committee to
investigate tbe riots in tbe western
counties of the State, and announcing
various conclusions, among others tbe
following, viz : That the railroads had
been entitled to the protection of tbe
State ; that bad there been no riot, nor
interference with established rights, nor
attempts to overthrow authority, there
would have been no need of troops ;
that tbe State bad been bound to inter
fere, and that no single county onght
now in equity to be beld liable fur
damages incurred under such circum
stances. Tbe memorial was laid on tbe
table for future reading.
Ic reference to tbe death of Mr.
Jones, of Blair county, a committee
was appointed to draft resolutions of
condolence.
A notice was received from the Gov
ernor, saving that bis Message would
be sent to both Houses on Wednesday
morning.
The House then adjourned until the
2nd.
January 2, 1878.
Th question of considering tbe 207
bills left od the files of tbe House at
tbe close of tbP session of 1877 came
up.
Mr. Sherwood offered resolution
that no bill, resolution or other business
HUHMSaittUaM
pending al the close of tbe session of
1877 shall again be considered at this
session unless again introduced, except
reports of special committees appointed
last session.
As snbstitnte Mf. Billingsly offered
a resolution (if tbe Senate concnr) that
tbe business of the General Assembly
rema ning unfinished at its adjournment
on March 23, 1877, be taken up and
disposed of in regular order.
Mr. H'jbn argued against consider
ing the old bills, bis- principal points
being that if they were taken up it
would require until tbe 20th of March
to dispose of them, even without debate
or amendment ; that the session would
thus be prolonged for one hundred and
fifty days, and that there were impor
tant measures, such as tbe reorganiza
tion of the National Guard, the discus
sion of the riots and the consideration
of tbe report of the Municipal Com
mission, which would suffer by confin
ing tbe attention of tbe House to tbe
old and, in many cases, unimportant
bills ef 177.
Mr. Potts replied that scores uf local
bills had been lost last winter by the
dilatory conduct of tbe House. Tbey
affected vital iuterests in different coun
ties, bad been properly advertised and
should now be taken up and disposed
of. He was thoroughly in favor of
giving the people tbe worth of the
money which tbey paid their legislators,
did not believe in receiving pay for
session of one hundred days and actu
ally working but eighty,one, as bad
been done last winter, and insisted (hat
the actiou, advertising and progress al
ready made with the local measures
should not be wasted.
Mr. Long declared that tbe Attorney
General inclined to the opinion that if
a bill bad last session been properly
advertised sncb advertisement wonld
sustain the reintrodaction of it during
the present session. The formal opin
ion of tbe Attorney General was quite
accessible.
The proceedings were interrupted by
tbe entrance of Secretary of tbe Com
monwealth Quay, wba presented the
annual message of Governor Hartranft,
wbicb was read.' At tbe conclusion of
the reading the recommendations con
tained in tbe document were, on motion
of .Vr. Huhn, referred to the appropri
ate committees.
Tbe House concurred in various res
olutions of the Senate, viz : Printing
tbe report of pe .Municipal Commis
sion (both majority and minority); or
dering a joint meeting of tbe two Houses
to open tbe vote for State Treasurer,
and permitting tbe senate to adjourn
over from to-day until next Tuesday
evening. (This action of adjournment
affects the Senate only, and not the
House.
.Vr. Waller (of Delaware) asked per
mission to offel a resolution, prefacing
it with tbe remark that be desired that
"the rights of individuals might be de
termined and that justice might be
done." He then presented the follow
ing :
I MTttrtat, It is alleged that O. F. Bullard,
, member of this House Iroio Delaware cotin
i ty, is detained Ironi his seat under arrest in
. violation ot the second article of tbe Cun-
stitution and of the privileges of this House ;
I therefore,
Rtsolrtd, That tbe committee on tbe ju
diciary are hereby instructed, with all prac
ticable dispatch, to inquire into the circum
stance of the case and report to this House
whether any breach of its privileges has
been committed, and what action should be
bad thereon ; that the said committee hve
power to send for persons and papers, to sit
during the sessions of this House and to
report at any time.
.Vr. Sherwood did not believe that the
House was prepared to shield any crim
inal under tbe cloak of its privileges.
Tbe charges against .1r. Bullard were
those wbicb involved a dastardly injury
to widows and orphans, and whether be
was innocent or guilty of those charges
it would be wise and proper for the
House to leave bis case in the bands of
justice.
Mr. Huhn deprecated any attack
upon .Vr. Bullard before he bad been
proven guilty. .Meanwhile it was no
part of the duty of the House to pre
suppose bis guilt, but simply to con
sider that one of its members, being
charged with a crime, had asked for an
investigation by tbe body of which be
was a component part. While the Eng
lish authorities bad held that the privi
leges accorded to Parliament were no
shield against a criminal act, tbe pre
cedent afforded by our own Congress in
tbe Culver case, in 18GC, was a safe
one, and he desired the House to follow
this precedent and refer the subject to
its committee for an investigation. The
matter of guilt or iunocence did not
now enter into the case, bat simply the
question whether any breach of the
privileges of the House had been com
mitted.
.Vr. James said that a member (.Mr
Bullard) being absent and tbe House
having no official knowledge of the rea
son fur such absence, and being unable
to take any proper action without such
knowledge, it was plainly its duty.
through a committee, to inquire into
tbe ability or disability ot the member.
Tbe resolution of .Vr. Walter was
then adopted.
Adjourned until Thursday morning,
tbe 3rd.
JaSUart 3, 1877.
The House was called to order at 11
o'clock.
Tbe Speaker announced tail the nnflnish-
cd business before th House was tbe amend
ment of Mr. Billingsly, to commence busi
ness where it was left off at tbe last session.
Mr. Long announced that he was author
ized by the Attorney General to say that he
had given no decision at all in regard to re
advertisement of local or special bills un
acted upon at the last session ; " that the
requirements of the Constitution had been
complied with if the bills bad been adver
tised previous to introduction but session,
and could be again introduced without fur
ther advertising," such decision having
never been given.
Mr. Spang spoke in favor of the amend
ment and quoted as a precedent for action
by this House the custom of Congress in
taking up unfinished business at the begin
ning of an adjourned session, and besides
this, to begin de nova would entail great
expense on the State because the large cal
endar of bills now printed would be useless,
and another expense would bave to be met
in printing new ones.
Mr. Jackson said if this House was com
petent to vote on its business ol last session,
it was entirely competent to finish this ses
sion its unfinished business of a year ago.
Mr. Morgan (Laurence) offered the fol
lowing! '-That, in the judgment of tbe Sen
ate and House, a bill defeated at last session
can again be re-introduced this session," as
an additional amendment.
Mr. Schnatterly opposed resuming the
old business. He bad no bill that would be
aHectcd by beginning anew or resuming the
old calendar but, after a careful examina
tion of the subject he bad concluded to
rote to commence dt novo. He beld that ft
would be unfair to resume the old business,
because moat of all these bills wer of a
local or special nature, and would interfere
with general legislation for the public food.
All the old bills could be reintroduced and
referred to committees, and if, on their re
port to the House and when on their final
passage, satisfactory evidence of advertise
ment was given, the Speaker could decide
sueb bills properly before the House, and
no one could bave the right to revise tbe
decision.
After a few remarks by Mr. James, who
said the special legislation came from aluall
communities, and as all .were desirous of
having the raws passed that now remain a
unfinished business, to commence dt mora
would throw them back six or eight weeks
to re-advertise.
The amendment of Mr. Morgan (Law
rence) was lust.
On the amendment of Mr. Billingsly to
resume the unfinished business ot last year
the yeas acd nays were demanded and re
sulted 110 yeas to 71 cays.
Tbe House then adjourned until Friday
morning.
Jakuabv 4, 1878.
Tbe House met at 10 o'clock A. m.,
Speaker pro term. Mr. Long, of Alle
gheny, in tbe chair.
Tbe following bills were introdnced :
Mr F razor, to prohibit tbe pedling of
fruits vegetables, etc , in cities or sec
ond and third classes without a license.
Mr. M'Elroy, to repeal an act to ex
tend the Penn township road in Alle
gheny couuty.
Mr Long, to provide for tbe current
expenses of tbe Ohio river improve
ment commission ; supplement to an
act entitled An act to prevent frauds
npon travelers ; la repeal an act au
thorizing the county commissioners of
Allegheny to select lour morning papers
for official county advertising.
.Vr. Lockwood, supplement to an
act to provide for the incorporation and
regulation of curtain corporations and
to extend tbe provisions of tbe same
to the transportation and storage of oil.
.Vr. Edge, for tbe repression and
punishment of the willful adulteration
of food drinks and drugs.
.Ar. Tyler, providing for the filling
of the office of judge of a Judicial dis
trict pending a contest.
.Vr. Fulton, relating to tbe practice
uuder the sheriff' interpleader laws of
this Commowealtb.
.Vr. .Viller, of Allegheny to amend
an act authorizing the election ot ad
ditional officers, eto., in township of
Robinson and .V orth Fayette in Alle
gheny county.
.Vr. Kiersted, to provide for the di
vision of counties of this Commonwealth
and the erection of new counties there
from. .Vr. Kimble, making an appropria
tion to tbe Home for tbe Friendless of
Williamsport.
.Vr. Gross, to amenJ an act to sup
press vagrancy, so as to prohibit pay
ment of fees for arrest to constables
and police.
.Vr. Stewart, to permit the voters
of the State to vote every two years
upon tbe question of granticg license
to sell intoxicating drinks.
.Vr .Vorgan (Lawrence), an act in
regard to the boundary monuments be
tween the States of Pennsylvania and
Ohio; substituting a poll tax fur taxes
on trades and occupations.
.Vr. Garman (Juniata) to provide ad
ditional appropriations to school dis
tricts in certain cases, in which mis.
takes in reports occur.
.Vr. Wise, prohibiting killing of
squirrels between the first day of Jan
uary and tbe first day of July.
.Vr. Schnatterly, to repeal the sec
ond section of an act for the better
protection of passengers upon railroads.
Mr. Englebert, fixing tbe amount of
bounty on fox scalps.
Mr. Stewart, to provido for tbe selec
tions of jurors by county commissioners.
Mr. Magtll, to establish a recorder's
court in cities of second class.
Mr. Billingsley, requiring hotel
keepers to provide means of escape in
case of fire.
Mr. Nisley, appropriatin g$25,000
to tbe State Lunatic Asylum at Itarris
burg. Hospital.
Mr. Black, appropriating $25,000 to
Ilarrisburg Hospital
Mr. Kapsher, to facilitate tbe prompt
collection of taxes.
Mr. Jacksonf of Sullivan, supplement
to an act to amend and consolidate the
game and fish laws.
Mr. Rrpsber, enlarging tbe rights
and liabilities of married women.
Mr. Roberts, an act to establish new
counties in this commonwealth.
Mr. Morgan, of Schuylkill, to estab
lish boards of arbitration to settle ques
tions of wages, etc., between capital
and labor.
.Vr. Larrabee, of Potter, to encour
age tbe construction of steam engines
for use on public highways.
Mr. Sbantz, providing for making
and improving public roads; appropriat
ing $100,000 to Jeffrson .Vedical
College of Philadelphia.
.Vr. Snyder, relative to the election
of an additional law judge in Northum
berland county.
.Vr. Sherwood (Northumberland), to
remedy the evils arising from taking
more than tbe legal rate of interest.
.Vr. Richardson, suppement to an
act regulating boroughs.
Mr. Petroff, to prevent frauds npon
hotel keepers; further supplement to an
act regulating elections in this Common
wealth. .Vr. Hubo, supplement to an act re
quiring auditors to publish an annual
statement ; appropriating $15,000 to
Philadelphia House of Refuge.
.Vr. Hall, appropriating $10,000 to
the Women's Hospital of Philadelphia:
to facilitate the extension of passengor
railways in cities ; appropriating $3,000
to Philadelphia Society for Alleviating
the .Miseries of Public Prisons.
.Vr. Huhn, to secure a strict account
ability of certain publio officers.
Mr Larrabee, of Potter to facilitate
the collection of debts contracted for
the construction of pnblie roads.
JVr Billingsley offered tbe following:
Resolved, That the daily sessions of
this House shall begin at 10 A. v. and
close at 1 p.m. Adopted.
Mr Ringold offered the following,
which was adopted :
Resolved, That tbe Superintendent of
Publio buildings and grounds be re
quested to cover with wood and place
railing on tbe stone steps at entrance
of the Capitol Adjourned until JVonday
evening.
January 7, 1878.
A number of petitions were present
ed, among them several praying for the
enactment of a local option law.
Tbe following bills were inUoduced :
An act fo abolish tolls in certain
cases.
License engineers of steam engines
and boilers of over 25-horse power.
Repeal au act to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors in certain boroughs
and townships in Allegheny county.
Fixing the salaries of judges of the
supreme court (chief justice $10,000
ond assistant judges $9,000 each).
Facilitating tbe transfer to the United
States of the title to Antietain national
cemetery, in the state of Maryland.
Permitting tbe filing of petitions,
answers, motions and points in the sev
eral courts of the commonwealth, and
making them part of the record.
Prevent fraud in the manufacture
acd sale of commercial fertilizers.
Repeal an act relative to the pay of
jurors in Cameron couuty.
. . n i . . t
Supplement to an act oi lo-id auuor
izing holding of special courts of com
mon pleas.
Prescribing manner in which tbe
courts may divide boroughs into wards.
Authorizing cities of the third class
to lew tax for park purposes.
Revise and codify the school laws of
this commonwealth.
Supplement to an act to exempt
property of tbe value of $300 from levy
and sale.
Prohibit the sale of liquors by sam
ole without license.
Provide for tbe collection of borough
taxes and county and township rates and
levies.
Supplement to an act regulating tbe
rate of interest-
To prevent deoeption in the sale of
butter.
Prescribing the mode of electing
connty superintendents of common
schools.
Provide for the purchase of school
books ont of district sccooi tuoas.
Appropriating $15,000 to the Lack
awanna hospital of Scranton.
Prohibit tbe running at large of do
mestic animals.
Relative to replevin.
Repeal an act to regulate stay of ex
ecution, approved March 28 1877.
Prescribing tbe conditions under
which tbe state treasurer shall pay
money appropriated to eertaia institu
tions in this commonwealth.
Prevent the adulteration of and traf
io in impure milk.
Appropriating $5,000 to Orpans'
Home, of York.
An ct to enable voters of any bor
ough or township where a prohibitory
law exists to determine where tbey will
bave license or not.
Provide for tbe compulsory edae
tion of tbe children of this common
wealth.
Relating to cruelty to children in this
commonwealth.
Compensate parties whose property
may be destroyed in consequence ot
mobs cr riots.
Providing for the payment by the
state of tbe adjudicated claims for looses
in the border counties by rebel raids.
Mr. Billingsley offered the following:
Resolved that is the sense of this
house that tbe bill now pending it; tbe
Uutted States senate, known as the
Bland silver bill, providing for the free
coinage of silver dollars of the weight
and fineness to be a legal tender for
any amount and all purposes should be
come a law.
Mr. Faunce moved to refer to the
committee on federal relations. Agreed
to by a vote of 106 yeas to 3" nays.
Mr. Richardson offered the following.
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
houc that tbe bill to repeal tbe third
section of the resumption act now pend
ing in congress ought to become a law,
and that duties on imports ought to be
payable in greenbacks.
Mr. Quirk moved to adj.mrn. The
yeas 31 nays 110.
Mr. Salter moved to refer Mr. Richard
sou's resolution to the committee on
federal relations.
Mr. Schnatterly called for the yeas
and nays, which resulted yeas 83,
nays 58.
Aj urned until Tuesday morning at
ten o,clock.
An Ing-enloiiM Escape.
From the Philada. North American.
The authorities of the Eastern Pen
itentiary mouru the loss of an inmate
named Clarence Boyle, a "Mollie Ma
guire," who escaped from the iustitution
in an ingenious manner. He was one
of tbe first whom M'Parlan tbe detect
ive ferretted out and bad been assigned
to ten years in State prison, about four
of which be bad yet to serve. He was
well behaved and won tbe confidence of
the warden and keepers, who allowed
him to work in tbe bakehouse. There
be found himself free from a great deal
of restraint, having an opportunity to
converse with his fellow prisoners. A
plan was concocted by Boyle and two
others by which through their conni
vance he was to escape. It was necess
ary for the conveyance of material from
the bakery to use hogsheads, which
were hauled away in a wagon. Tbe
trio conceived tbe idea of placing one
of their number in an empty hogshead,
after first enveloping him in salt bags,
and then tbe head of tbe bogsbead was
fastened on a binge, so that tbe occu
pant only need to raise it to emerge in
to freedom. Whether tbe three con.
victs cast lots for their liberty or wheth
er tbey mutally agreed to let Boyle go
free does not seem clear, but anyhow
Boyle was doubled up and thrown into
the barrel on Monday and was placed in
the wagon. Tbe ruse was not noticed
by tbe gate-keeper and the wagon and
its load passed out. When tbe driver
reached his destination he found the
hindcrmoBt hogshead in bis wagon emp
ty, and when be returned to the prison
be stated tbe fact, and then Boyle was
not to be found. The friends whom
Boyle had left behind were taken into
custody, and a few hours in tbe dark
dungeon urged them to tell all tbey
knew about tbe escape. It is singular
how Soyle passed through tbe city
without detection, as be was dressed in
bis prison garb. The officials are now
in search of him, but without any pros
pects of success.
According to a record kpnt K r.
ident of north Lebanon, snow fell on
twenty-aye days during last winter.
Tbe first storm occurred on th litt. r
October, covering the ground one-half
men. up to December last year
there were ien snow storms Tha l.t
snow of the winter fell on the 29th of
.March. Tbe total snow fall of ths sea
son aggregated 57! inches.
News Items.
The Sultan is despondent.
A wooden bowl factory is to be start
ed iu Crawford eouuty. -
A Lawrence eouuty turkey, weigh
ing fi'ty pounds.
The temperance movement makes
but little headway iu Berks.
An eye and ear hospital bas been or
ganized at Baltimore under Presby
terian auspices.
Liver pudding boiled in a copper
ketttle, bas poisoned twenty-three per
sons at White Haven, New York.
Silk stookings, with lace medallions
on the instep, are $30 a pair.
A young prodigal at the Black Hills
telegraphs bis father, ' Fatted calf for
one I"
Tbe "Big Injun" well, in Bullion,
Warren county, started off at 3000
barrels. Now it yields but forty.
Two Jersey City children bave been
poisoned by eating fancy confectionery.
A young minister of Kbensburg for
sook the pulpit for a clerkship in a shoe
store.
After making $100,000 in tbe segar
business in San Francisco, Bun Yon
bas returned to China.
A New York J udge bas decided that
wedding presents belong to tbe bride,
if tbey are given before tbe marriage
cermony.
A congress of the railroad president
of tbe United States and Canada is to
be held in New York city during April.
Chicago bas run nearly mad over the
silver question.
Sitting Bull and bis band have worn
ut their welcome in Canada, and are
coming back. Wby don't tbey ever
imagine tbey bave worn out their wel
come here1
An Erie woman has been arrested as
a common scold.
Johnstown young men are Cued for
loafing around church doors.
It has been discovered that some of
the Schuylkill county tax collectors,
who sje heavily in arrears gave forged
bonds.
Four persons were bitten by a mad
dog in Coatesville and vicinity recently.
The lather and not tbe husband of a
Russian wuman bas supreme authority
over ber. In ail but tbe upper classes
wife- beating is allowed.
Scarlet caudles fastened in red rows
of wax are the newest taper.
A Hartford, Connecticut, newrrsper
proposes a bachelor show, the prizes to
be awarded by ladies.
A Texas dog, which was taken to
Missouri, found bis way back, eight
hundred miles, to bis old master's
home.
Kentucky farmers are still harvest
ing their corn. The crops of hay, to
bacco and cereals bave been larger this
season than any other since tbe war.
A fashionable London dressmaker re
cently kept ber eight girls at work from
8 o'clock one morning until five the
next. She was fined JLi for each em
ployee. Four buffalo hunters bave contracted
with a firm in Comanche, Texas, for
the delivery within tbe next six months
of 20,000 buffalo bides.
At Cincinnati, Louisa Weber, wife
of Oscar Weber, cut tbe throat of her
infant, thirteen months old, and then
cut ber own throat, in a fit of insanity.
The infant will die, but tbe mother is
expected to recover.
On Saturday forenoon a prize fight
was commenced at Pottsville by Billy
Madden and Mart Eraser. After
twenty five rounds bad been foubt
the police arrived, broke up the fight
and made about twenty five arrests.
Pittsburg is agitated about tb re
moval of ber oil refiineries to Baltimore
We bate to see industries moved from
this State, but then Pittsburg is a lo
cality Pensylvanians have not been
proud of for tbe last few months.
Four persons were burned to death
by an incendiary fire near Central City,
Cal., last Friday.
Ann M'Cullum, arrested at Boston on
Monday for brutally maltreating a little
girl named Emily E. Harmon, who af
terwad died bas been held in $10,0000
bail.
John Desmond was murdered by
William Powers during a drunken
quarrel in an Albany saloon on Christ
mas morning. Powers bas been jailed.
Cincinnati is trying to raise a fund
of one hundred thousand dollars for a
grand exposition next year.
"Murder will out. Facts cannot be
concealed." A man named Sharp has
been arrested in Wanamie, Luzerne
county4 Pa., for a murder committed
fourteen years ago.
A farm hand in Central Italy gets
ssren cents a day for harvesting, and is
glad to find employment even at that
rate.
M, Pu Cbailln concluded a lecture
with a descriptios of how the cannibals
cooked human flesh. He said they
preferred to eat women of about 16 to
21 years of age, and invariably roasted
that delicacy, but people over 50 were
generally boiled.
Two deer bave been chased into Le
high river by hounds and stoned to
death by citizens at Penn Haven Jnno
tion within two weeks. Three others
were killed in the same manner this
season.
In Washington, on Friday, a youth of
sixteen put a pistol to his bead, sup
posing it to be unloaded and pulled tbe
trigger, saying be wondered how it
would feel." He pulled the trigger,
a second time, and fell dead with a bul.
let in bis brain.
John II. Nissly Harrisburg man, is
reported to be on Lis farm near Iriquois,
Illinois. His accounts, as clerk of tbe
Treasurer of Dauphin county, are found
to be correct.
The Pennsylvocia rai'road company
is rewarding all tLc employees who
stood faithful to it during the July
troubles. Several of the employees
residing at Pittsburg bave already re
ceived presents of one hundred or two
hundred dollars, accompanied by an
autograph letter of thanks.
Fine American carriage horses bring
good prices in London A Kentucky
horse worth $125 ean be transported
to Liverpool for $60 and then sold for
$300.
It cost the Pennsylvania railroad
company $65000 to build the new
Union Depot at Pittsburg and the
sheds over the platform.
One hundred and fifty dollars were
stolen from under tbe pillow of H. W.
Johnson, of Chester, while he quietly
slept on Sunday night.
Joseph J. Mallia, cried for the mur
der of Michael Walsh, at Dunmore, Pa,
about a year ago, has been fonnd guil
ty oi muroer in tbe second degree.
News Items
The Pop a bas s bad cold. '
Princeton bas a doll fair.
Spurgsoo suffers much from gout.
The Pope's only remaining relative
is annn.
Stanley's African explorations cost
$150,0000.
The war paty seems to be gaining
ground in England.
Tbe snow is proving a very formid
able foe to tbe Russians.
Two breweries in England consume
as much water daily as would supply a
of 45,000 inhabitants.
The last bridge across the Danube
bas gone ; tbe Russians cannot conveni
ently tako tbe back track now.
They are getting ready at tbe mints
to produce the Dollar of the Dads as
fast as tbey are needed.
A cloth made from tbe down of all
kinds of demestie fowls and sea birds
is quite the rage in Paris.
The Modocs are developing into
good citizens on the reservation to
which they bave been sent.
Pittsburg's fire department last year
cost orer $20,000.
Very little strong drink was set be
fore Chicago callers on New Year day.
There are ten men to one woman in
southern l aliforuia. Female servants
there get $ W per month.
Forty prominent citizens of Lexing
ton, Ky., bave been indicted for sard
playing. They are all married men.
Fifteen years were consumed aud
$1500 expended in deciding tbe own
ership of a yoke of oxen, in Uregon.
3. V. Van Inwegen, a tax collector
in Pike county, bag been sentenced to
eighteen mouths at bard labor and soli
tary confinement, en tbe charge of em
bezzlement. Mrs. Mary Adams, who died in Pitts
burgh last week, left George F. Bur
dett, a newsboy on the Pennsylvania
road, $2,500 in money, and a farm of
125 acres in Ohio.
Mr. Gladstone is fond of chopping
wood and a Sheffield firm bas sent biin
a fine axe of tbe American pattern re
ceiving in return a note commending its
work.
About one hundred and fifty men
employed at chopping wood on tbe
Piue Grove estate. Tbey receive 23
cents per cord. BloomJitlJ Times.
"The Lutheran Church in Beaver
City, Pa., bas oil well on its premises,
and the flow is sufficient to pay all tbe
church's expenses."
An Englishman recently arrived in
Boston bas distinguished himself by
biting a man's thumb off.
A receut assessment of taxables in
New York city shows a declioe of 32,
600 as compared with last year.
Hereafter no person can vote in
Main uule.'s he has paid a poll tax
within two years of tbe time when he
offers bis ballot.
Tbe culored school teachers of Mis
souri beld a convention in St Lout
last week. Tbey demand tbe same ed
ucational facilties that tbe whites bave.
John Grubber, aged 20 years, son
Richard M.Grubber, of North Heidel
berg. Berks county, disappeared from
bis home Christmas day aod has not
since been iieid of.
Three men entered the bouse of
George Mingle, near Attica, N. Y.,
on Monday morning a week, knocked
him down, draped out bis wife, aged
50 years, and brutally murdered her.
Two men have been arrested on suspi
cion. All bovs under eighteen years of age
except apprentices in skilled labor, are
to be discharged from the employ of
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. This actiou is regarded as a re
sult of the loss of a suit brought against
the Company recently by a boy in its
employ, who was hurt, and gained $20
000 damages.
Two men boarded tbe through train
on tbe Fort Wayne Railroad, near
Pittsburg, recently, knocked down tbe
porter of the Pullman car and attempt
ed to rob the passengers. The alarm
being given, the thieves pulled tbe bell
rope, tbe train slowed up and tbey es
caped. A son of Abraham Mayer, proprietor
of tbe Deliuoiiico botel, of Auburn,
Schuylkill county, while celebrating the
last of tbe old year, shot part of his
face aud head away by the accidental
discbarge of a gnn. Strange to say tbe
boy still lives, though suffering terrible
agony. Tbe case bafflus scientific abil
ity, aud the spectacle it presented of a
human being living with half a head.
Mr. Henry RosenfielJ, proprietor of
tbe Rising Sun Hotel, in Lancaster,
was found hanging by tiie neck, in tbe
garrett of the botel, on 1 bursday after
noon. Domestic troubles doubtless
caused him to take bis life. His wife
left him some time ago, and an action
for divorce was pending.
A callitbuuipian party in Monrocville,
Indiana, met with a very unpleasant
reception. They were serenading a
man named Martz, who Lad been new
ly married, when some one from tbe
house fired into them with a gun. Nine
persons were wounded three of whom
were dangniously hurt. Tbe punish
ment was severe, but the provocation
was severe a!.o.
Mr Peter Ritner came near losing his
house by fire on Tuesday morning a
week about 9 o'clock. It is supposed
a piece of meat fell down upon tbe coals
in tbe smoke hou?e attached to the
dwelling-house in a few moments the
smoke honse was consumed. By tbe
wisdom and energy of the ladies of tbe
bouse aided by the proximity of the
cistern, a dreadful connagration was
avoided. Carlisle Volunteer.
Information comes to us from Upper
Allen township, of tbe depredations of
a party of ttiiav.es, which outstrips any
tbiog of the kind that bas yet been
brought to our notice. After ransack
iag tbo barn on Moses BrickerVs farm
and cutting tbe throat of a calf and
letting it ho upon the barn floor and,
removed the four shoes from a horse.
Such conduct as this is certainly out
rageous, and every effort should be
made to ferret out and pnnish these
rascally vlllians. Carlisle Volunteer.
Two barns were bnrned in Bern
township, (whiob, by tbe way, is approp
riately named), Berks connty, last
week. One belonged to Lewis Scb
mehl, and contained everything except
stock. The loss is $2500. The sec
ond barn belonged to Reuben Shock,
and was used by a tenant, the combined
loss being abont $4000. These build
ings which are bat three-quarters of a
mile apart, were burned within a few
hours of each other, the cause being on
known in each case, though ineegdiar
ijm is supposed.
PRIV ATE SALES.
VALUABLE FARM FOB SALE. 173
acres, more or less, one hundred and twenty-five
or thirty acres of which are cleared
and under cnItivat:on, situated in Tuacarora
Valley, Jnniata county, Pa., seven mile
from MifHintown, the connty seat of said
connty, and four miles from the Pennsyl
vania Railroad at Port Royal, bounded bv
lands of Mrs. O. V. Thompson and others,
having thereon a Good House and Burn,
and all necessary outbuilding, food never
failing running water at both honse ami
barn, an abundance of fruit of different
kinds. Will be sold for "g00, and if de
sired, $2o00 may remain in the property.
For particulars inquire of tbe undersigned,
residing on the premises, or by letter at
Port Royal, Juniata Co., Pa.
J. 9. G. LONG.
A VALUABLE FAR OF 120 ACRES,
nvire or less ; 1U0 acres cleared and in
high state of cultivation, belonging to the
Heirs of John Yoder, deceased, is herebv
ITered at Private Sale. The Farm is situ
ated in Fermanagh township, about three
miles northeart of Miffiintown. The im
provements are a New Frame House an J
Bank Barn, and other outbuildings. There
is a spring of never-failing water at the
door. A stream of water traverses the
farm. An Orchard of fruit in variety, inJ
eluding grapes in bearing condition, is con
venient to tbe buildings. Fur further in-
I torioatkm address
D. A. YODER,
Port Royal, Juniata Co., Pa.
A FIRST-RATE FARM, CONTAINING
One Hundred and Sixty Acres, in the bust
wheat-growing district in the State of Ohio,
situated one-half mile from Amanda rail
road station, in Fairfield county, and one
mile from a good pike. The improvements
area large two-story BRICK HOUSE (13
rooms, hall and cellar). Double Log Barn
and Stable, and other buildings, and a wel!
of good water. A stream of spring water
traverses the centre of the farm. There is
a large orchard on the premises. Will tako
$70 per aero, part cash, rest in payments.
A fartn adjoining sold for $100 per acre.
Tbe reason for selling, is the desire to invest
in city property, in CirelevUlt. For all in
formation address J. SWETER,
Pickaway Co., Ohio.
A FARM OF 75 ACRES, 55 ACRES
clear and in a good state of cultivation, the
balance in timbvr. in Spruce Hill tottn.-thip
Juniata county, Pa., one-half luile from Ih -proposed
railroad from the Juniata to tlij
Potomac river, six miles from Port Royal
Tbe :nrjTTTemrts are a Large S tone Dwel
ling Honse, 28x30 feet, with a well of gool
water at the door. Bank Barn, Corn Crib,
and other outbuildings, a larjre A pplo Or
chard, and a great variety of fruit. Alio,
tbe right to quarry lime stone on a tam
about a halt distant. The farni has been
limed recently.
Tikvs ' hie-half cash, balance in twu
annnal payment.
Fur further particulars addre
S. A. HOFFMAN,
Spruce Hill, Junhvta Co., Pa.
A FARM OF SIXTY ACRES IN DELA
ware to-vnship. Land of good quality,
having thereon erected a L:Xi HuUSE,
weather-boarded, BANK BARN, nearly
new, and other outbuildings. Convenient
to churches, schools and mills. Situated Y
miles Dortbof Thmupsoutown, 4 miles north
of Thonipsuntoffn railrusJ station. For
mor definite particulars cafl n or address
SA5ICEL J. KURTZ,
East Saleui, Juniata Co., Pa.
TWENTT ACRES GOOD TIMBER
LAND 2J miles from Patterson end Port
Royal, one-half mile from Saw Mill. Other
tiruberland adjoiuin;? this can be bought.
Apply to B. F. BURCHFIELD,
Office, Bridge St., Mitllintown, Pa.
.Vfir Advertisements.
A GREAT GFFER for EGLEDAYS !
We will dnrins these HARD TIMES and
the HOLIDAYS dupe uf UIO NEW
PIANOS and ORGANS, ot rJrt-cLis-makers
at lower prices for ca-h, or Inst ill
metit.t, than ever before otfVred. tVATEKS
PIANOS and OKG.ANS are the BKST
MADE, warranted tor 5 years. Illustrated
Catalogue mailed, (treat inducements t
the trade. PIANOS. 7-oeUve, $.40 ; 7 -octave,
SI " ; OK'iANS, 2 stops. $18; 4
Stops, $.V ; 7 Stop, $.; ; Stop-. $70 ;
tops, f ; 1 stops, $'JO ; ia perfect order,
not stj a ftar. Sheet music at halt price.
AOKACE WATEh-S 4. M)NS, Manufac
turers and Dealers, 40 East r'uurteenth St.,
New York.
AGENTS
WANTED.
FOR PARTICULARS ADDRESS
wilson sewis mm co.,
8'.'3 Broadway, New Y'ork City ;
Chicago, III. New Orleans, La. ;
Or, Sin Francisco, Cal.
"TCURE FITSir
When I say 'cure," I do not mean merely
to stop them for a time, and then have them
return again I mean a radical cure. I am
a regular physician, and have made the dis
ease of
Fits, Epilepsy or Failing Sickness
a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to
cure the worst cases. Because others have
failed is no reason for not now receiving a
cure from lue. Send to me at once for a
Treatlweand a Tree Bottle of ruy
infaihble remedy. Give express and post
office. It costs vou nothing for a trial, an 1
I will ense you. " Address Dr. H. G. ROOT,
183 Pearl St., New York.
"WORK FOR ALL,
In their own localities, canvassing tor the
Firisipi Visrroa. (enlarged) Weekly ami
Monthly. Largest paper ia lite World, with
mammoth Chroinos tree. Big commissions
to agents. Terms and outfit free. Address
P. O. V1CKERY, Augusta, Maine.
rT i'XTOCI Retail price t'W.onlv
lil.ll JJ $2W. Parlor Organs,
price $:ilt onlv $;5. Paper free. DAN
IEL F. BEATTY, Washington, N. J.
UflMfQ m "est Virginia Cheap. Send
IlUiliLlJ stamp for circular to J. H. Bris.
torj Martinsburg, W. Va.
1)ITI jrtV 4 i a certain remedr lor
U LiJlU -i. co w H .HPT lO 31.
Ask your druggist for it. Circulars tree.
Address O. O. MOS ES, 18 Cortlandt St.,
New Yorti
KANSAS.
All about its Soil, Climate, Resources.
Products. Laws, and its People are given iu
the KANSAS FARMER, a 10-page weekly,
in its 15th year. Post paid, 3 mus., 50c.
Address J. K. HUDSON,
Topeka, Kansas.
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"We have considered it among the best of
our exchanges, and a worthT representative
of the West." Practical Farmer, Philada.
.... "Our Kansas friends should feel much
pride in the high character and sterling
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