SENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MFFLLTrOVVN.
tTedaesday, March 8Q. W
B. F. SCHWEIER,
IDITOt ASTD riOPKIUCm.
Righteous Decision of the Su
preme Court of Louisiana.
I)owd in Louisiana, the Slate Re
furuing Board has power conferred on
It by Stale aici, to reject euch district
returns as it may deem proper, where
frani, or intimidation has been prac
tioed on the Toters. Daring the late
Presidential campaign a systematized
plan of terrorizing or intimidating voters
was carried on in some of the election
districts in Louisiana. The Board, in
the exercise of its lawful power, reject
ed several of the districts mentioned
when the count for Presidential electors
was made up, whereupon the old Con
Jederale element set up the cry of fraud,
though it was clear that the Board had
noted within the limits of State laws;
and ever since the Presidential elec
tion the country has been GUeJ with
their cry of fraud. It was aot hard to
excite the bitterest feeling against the
Board, in Louisiana. That feeling was
excited. The Board was dragged inio
Court, with packed juries, and under
manufactured charges, that were not
directly involved in the case, the mem
bers of tlie Board were convicted and
sent to prison, and the ex-rebel ele
ment Sited the country with loud ex
clamations :" Look ! Lookf What a
sight ! A Republican President in
Washington, aud the Returning Board
that sent bim there in jail." The uu
righteous, outrageous proceedings of
the Lower Ourt were carried up to 'he
Supreme Court of the State of Louisi
ana, and dispatches indicate, as we go
to press, that there is yet virtue it the
Upper Court oi Louisiana, and that
the Returning Board bas been released
from the false imprisonment that wa
brought abont by hate, and false
charges. Particulars will be given
next issue.
Through mails far cities, but give people
in the Juniata Yallev mail ou mav trains.
The Brain of the Chimpanzee Sim
ilar to that of a Baby. Special
Creation Quite Pronounced by
the Bible.
A chimpanzee died irt a 6bow in '
New York a few days ago. It was
not the first time that an animal of
that kind died in a show. But what
is a chimpanzee ? Well, the chim
panzee is a member of the monkey
family, and is one of the kind of mon
keys that a certain set of men declare
is a near relation to man. The death
of the monkey in question caused a
great sensation in New York, or
rather the dissection of the thing
with the caudal appendage caused
the sensation. They dissected it to
find out how near the animal comes
to being a man. They dissected it
to demonstrate that man is sprung
from a monkey. Perhaps it is put
ting it a little loo strong to say that
the objed of the dissection was clearly
Ike oljrd just stated. By drawing it
in more general language, and saying
that the object was for the promo
tion of science, it will relieve the gen
tlemen from the suspicion of a desire
to claim relationship with monkeys.
There is no accounting for taste, how
ever, and some men may really wish
that a monkey ancestry may be
proven for human kind. It is a pity
that tails cannot be attached to such
gentlemen. But the dissection is not
to be sneered at, no, for it was made
by such distinguished surgeons as
Hammond, Mott, Ssiyre, and others,
and they report that the 6rai of the
dead chtmpmzee is similar to the brain
of a baby. That announcement stir
red New York quite a good deal,
nearly as greatly as the Beecher-Til-ton
scandal, and now they ask each
other whether a labt is a moxeet. Of
course these eminent men used the
word "siMiALR," and tliat mar save
the babies of New York. If it does,
it was a close shave for the babies.
What a narrow escape ! If the doc
tors had said, exactly similar, what
would have been the result? Per
haps Darwin, at some future day
when the dissection of a second chim
panzee takes place, can get the word
"esactly" to fit It would be a con
sonsolation doubtless to Mr. Darwin
and all others that are in love with a
immkey pedigree. If the doctors were
to disembowel a hog and a bear, it is
possible that they might say the in
ternal arrangement of the hog and
the bear are similar, and then the mo
mentous question might arise, is a
hog a bear f and is a bear a hog T or, if
that is not satisfactory, they might
subject the hog and the bear to a
chemical process, resolve the two ani
mals into their original elements,
into oxygen, nitrogen, &c, and say
they are similar, and then raise the
question, is a hog a bear . or a bear a
hog? Of course there is oxygen,
nitrogen, &, in both hog and bear,
but the proportion is different, and
that is the reason why one is a hog
and the other a bear, and the law of
nature that compounds the hog is a
fixed law and cannot compound a bear,
ntid the law of nature that com
pounds the bear is fixed and cannot
compound a hog. There are a great
many similar things in the world.
The physical machinery of the mon
key, even to the constituent elements
of the brain, may be similar to the
lthvfcienl jvinsrmrtion at rliA tinman
f.unilv, und Mill the monkerand man '
. i
In.- a fcoparate Wing, each nmving with
in the limits of a special creation, gov
erned by fixed laws, through whfeh a
monkey can never be changed into a
man, or a man into" a monkey. How
do the monkey pedigree advocates
get around the special ceeatiox clause
in the Bible, Gen. 1: 25, "And God
made the beast of the earth after his
kind, and cattle after their kind, and
everything that creepeth upon the
earth after his- kind." There is no
room for the theory of development
from the monkey in that verse.
Through mailt Tor cities, but give coun
try people, in the Juniata Valley, mail on
way trains.
Tm election in New Hampshire
has been a complete Republican vic
tory. A Republican Governor was
elected, and the Legislature is largely
Republican. The Greenback ques
tion entered somewhat into the can
vass, and, as was perfectly proper for
the Democracy to do, they in many
places supported the Greenback can
didates. There is no use of Republi
cans agitating the greenback ques
tion, for they are the fathers of that
favorite kind of currency ; the proper
thing for them to do, is to so watch
the question that too great an issue
of that kind of money does not take
place, for in that event repudiation
would follow, which would be a dread
ful financial disaster.
Through mails for cities, but give coun
try people, in the Juniata Valley, mails on
way trains.
Income Tax to be Eevived.
A dispatch from Washington says :
The Committee on Ways and Means
have completed the bill reviving the
tax on incomes. It is provided that
all incomes below two thousand dol
lars shall be exempt from taxation ;
above two thousand dollars, and not
exceeding five thousand, the tax will
be two per cent. ; above five thou
sand dollars, and not exceeding ten
thousand, three per cent, and all
alove ten thousand dollars four per
cent Rents and taxes paid are to
be excluded in the estimates of in
come presented by taxables. Penn
sylvania, New York, Illinois, Ohio
and Massachusetts will pay nearly
three-fourths of this enormous tax.
Through mai's for cities, but give people
in the Juniata Valley mai's on way trains.
"A eiix was hastily rushed through
the New Jersey Legislature last week
and signed by the Governor, prohib
iting college and theological students
from voting. The township election
was held on Tuesday, and two theo
logical students were arrested for
violating this law. The penalty for
thus voting, according to the bill, is
$500 fine or one year's imprisonment
Six college students voted and were
not molested."
About which the JVorM American
says : It seems to be a cardinal prin
ciple of the Democratic faith that
young men who have intelligence and
ambition enough to seek a collegiate
education are dangerous men to be
trusted with a ballot But perhaps
the fact that about nine-tenths of the
whole number vote the Republican
ticket is the prevailing reason for
their disfranchisement At any rata
the New Jersey Legislature hurried
through in season to affect the town
ship elections a bill declaring the
votes of collegiate and theological
students illegal. Such legislation as
this does not appear to the disinter
ested spectator to be the best method
of winning converts to the party of
retrenchment and reform, but they
know best. Seminaries and colleges
are bad training schools for the Dem
ocratic party.
Through mails for cities, but give people
In the Juuiata Valley mails on may train.
The decline in United States bonds
abroad and the pressure to sell has
developed a market here, and has had
a bad effect upon savings banks. Cin
cinnati has ordered a quarter of a
million in New York this week, and
Chicago and St Louis even mora
Boston bought a million in New York,
and the result of large withdrawals
from savings banks to buy United
States bonds at so slight a fraction
above par has started a run upon the
strongest institutions in Boston. All
day yesterday the Five Cent Savings
Bank was besieged, although it has
an honorable record for a generation,
and a surplus by examination the past
week of over half a million. Even
the Provident, with deposits of fifteen
millions and a charter half a century
old, has had a steady run of deposi
tors asking for their money. The
Five Cents sent a protest to Washing
ton against the passage of the Silver
bill, but its trustees never feared that
disaster would come in this shape.
.Worth American, March 16.
Locis Alexander, a German prince
of the reigoing house of Hesse, is
the man proposed by the Russian
government for King of the new king
dom that is to be constructed out of
the territory that Russia has wrested
from Turkey.
New Hampshire has been taking a
firmer anchorage on the Republican
side these later years, and even W.
E. Chandler has been unable to stir
the Granite State this year. Gover
nor Prescott is re-elected by a larger
majority than before, on a hard mon
ey, straight-out Republican platform.
This is the first gun for 1878, and it
is as effective as if thousands had
been spent in powder, as has been
usual .Vorth American.
Dkhocbatic control
means free trade.
of Congress
Enterprising Postmasters
Bom Tktf Increase Their Salaritt at tin Ex
pense of the Government
The Harrisborg Telegraph says -Fourth-class
postmasters are Kww
perplexing the Department by their
skill in trade. Among those just re
ported is J. E. Watkins, of Parsons,
Luzerne county, who also has had an
eye to business. Geographically
Parsons is situated a few miles froia
Wilkesbarre, and financially Watkins
has been driving a brisk trade in post
age 6 tamps, to the serious diminu
tion of the Goverment revenues, The
dealings of this enterprising official
shows that he has been laying in a
liberal supply of stores in the shape
of fresh meats, hardware, lumber,
Sic, in exchange for postage stamps,
contrary to the rules of the Depart
ment By this means he has run the
sales of his office up to two hundred
dollars per quarter, when the agent
reports that the legitimate cancella
tions do not exceed fifty dollars per
quarter. Postmasters of Watkins'
class receive commissions from fifty
to sixty per cent on the sales ; there
fore the Government is the loser to
the amount of about three hundred
dollars, or fifty per cent of the excess
($600) of the ligitimate sales. These
stamps, it appears, were used by resi
dents of Wilkesbarre, and therefore
should be purchased at that post
office. Watkins will find himself
fundus officio before long.
Through mails fur cities, but give coun
try people in the JuuuU Valley mails on
way trains.
Fight Dead Men.
"There seems to be no end to Tweed's
troubles. An insurance company
claims that bis little sea voyage with
out its permission bas vitiated his pol
icy and refuses t pay. Ex. That in.
surance company should have a medal
for its manliness in fighting a man be
fore he dies. They generally wait un
til he's in bis grave, and tbey have on
ly tbe widow and orphans to contend
against."
m
Come Back.
"AH the students concerned in tbe
recent disgraceful rows at Princeton
CoIlge( aud who were suspended, have
been notified that tbe question of their
restoration will be considered on tbe
22d inst , and tbey are directed to be
present then. All failing to do so will
be suspended indefinitely."
The new silver dollar is quite pop
ular, but just what the bird that has
been engraved on it looks like, is a
: question that people differ on in their
opinion.
There is a bill in tbe Legislature to
prevent tbe burning of dead human
bodies.
Yellow feveb is reported as prev
alent in Havana and Rio Jeneiro.
Philadelphia medical colleges grad
uated 400 new doctors last week.
The most corrupt thing in this coun
try is its business.
The war clouds in Europe are again
gathering.
DISPATCHES.
Hanover, N. il , March 13. Haz
ing was revived at Dartmouth College
on Monday night. Early in tbe even
ing the sophomores intruded upon tbe
freshman. About two o'clock in tbe
morning tbe freshmen broke into a
room in Thornton Hall, occupied by a
sophomore and bis brother, a senior,
both were unmercifully beaten with
bottica and disfigured. Two of tbe
freshmen have been arretted for as
sault with intent to kill, and are iu
custody. Search is being made for tbe
others.
Readi.no, Pa., March 13. Peter
Rotbenberger was arrested yesterday
and bad a bearing before Alderman
Scboencr, of Reading, who required
bim to give bail in $1000 for a further
bearing. Rotbenberger was tax col
lector for State and county, tax for
Muhlenberg township, lkrks county,
and embezzled the funds collected by
bim. Tbe suit is brought by parties on
his bond.
Shebma.v, W. T., March 13. At
midnight on tbe 7th instant a stoiin of
snow and wind set in continuing until
Sunday last, covering tbe entire coun
try from Green river, Wyoming to
North Platte, Nebraska, a distance of
550 miles. A number of men and cat
tle were found dead, one ranchman
lost 10,000 sheep. Tbe railroad tracks
bave been cleared and tbe blocaded
trains released.
Washington, March 13 The com
missioner of loteroal Revenue last
night received tbe following telegram
from Collector Brayton, at Columbia,
S. Information is just received from
Special Deputy Collector Hafman that
on tbe 9tb instant the three illicit dis
tillers arrested by bis force and com
mitted to jail at Pickens Court House
by Commissioner Tbornby were released
by an armed mob supposed to be led by
tbe outlaw Redmond. Tbe Sheriff,
who surrendered tbe keys to save bis
life, refused to aid in recapturing tbe
prisoners. Deputy Collector Jillson,
at Greenville, telegraphs he bas advices
that an armed crowd last night sur
rounded tbe honse of William Gary,
wbo aided the revenue officers in ar
resting tbe released distillers, for tbe
purpose of hanging him. When satis
fied that he was absent with tbe officers,
tbe mob started in pursuit, threatening
to capture Gary and drive the officers
from tbat section. Tbe danger of the
officers being overpowered is imminent.
Redmond's mob is organized and des
perate. The Commissioner telegraphed
Collector Brayton to employ 100 men
if necassary to aid as a posse in enforc
ing the laws and making arrests, to call
npon the Marshals and Deputy Mar
shals to act at enee, and leave nothing
undone to vindicate the majesty of tbe
law.-
Pittsbcho, Pa., March 14. Last
night Ella Sloan shot her husband,
George Sloan, in a saloon on Fifth av
enue. Sbe was ineenicd at hint for
spending bis money in such c place rn
stead of grring it to ber. Tbe ball en
tered bis left eye and, it is believed,
lodged ia the brain. Mrs Sloan is in
custody.
London, March 14 A special from
Corfu to tbe Times reports that the
Turks bave devastated eight Christian
villages in the district of Delvrao and
massacred tbe male inhabitants. Tbey
also killed 100 fugitive women and
children on tbe sea shore. Tbe En
glish Consul bag gone to investigate
the outrages. Tbe Tbessalian insur
gents claim tbat tbey bavo defeated the
Turks near Pbarsala, killing and wound
ing 400, but tbe accounts ars conflict
ing. Wheeling, W. Va., March 14. The
heaviest storm ever experienced in West
Virginia passed over Jefferson oounty
on Monday night. A number of bouses
were unroofed. Hail stones larger than
eggs fell for an hour, breaking glass
and killing cattle, bogs and sbeep. Tbe
heavy rain which followed washed out
tbe growing wheat, inflicting heavy loss.
The damage is estimated at from $75,
000 to $100,000.
Utica, N. Y., March 15 Hiram
Bargy, tbe leader of tbe Frankfort
(Ilerkimea oounty) fire bugs," was
yesterday found guilty of being an ae
complice before tbe fact, for firing bis
hotel at Frankfort, in March. 1877.
fie was convicted on tbe evidence of
Eugene W id rick, an aceomplice, who
was sentenced to imprisonment for life
and pardoned. He was sentenced to
imprisonment for life in tbe Auburn
State Prison, lie leaves a wife and
children.
Kashville, Tenn , March 15. The
Rev. Brown Coble, colored, was hanged
at Winchester, at 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, for tbe murder of Felix
Gardner, also colored, on June 23,
1876. Nearly 10,000 persons witness
ed tbe execution. Tbe culprit's neck
was broken in the fall and he died with
in seven minutes.
STATE ITEMS-
Mrs. Sinclair, of Fayette county, po
scsses a Bible 135 years old.
Over 200 applications bave been re
ceived for space at tbe Allegheny ex
position next fall.
There are fifty-seven prisoners from
Northumberland county in tbe eastern
penitentiary.
Eleven hundred tickets for the west
were bold at tbe Harrisburg depot of
tbe Pennsylvania Railroad last montb,
double the number sold in February
1377. The largest number were for
Kansas.
A residence in Pittsburg, erected at
a cost of $127,000, was sold recently
for $10,000, subject to a morgage of
$17,000.
Nearly 1200 cars of freight were
shipped east from Pittsburg in one
day recently.
Seven thousand silver dollars were
sold at par for gold at the Philadelphia
mint on Thursday.
In Carlisle, a little ten year old girl,
named Reilty, was detected in tbe act
of picking a lady's pocket, in the post
office a few eveuings since.
Henry E. Minuich, Assistant Post
master at Landisville, Pa., bas been ar
rested and held in $1000 bail to an
swer a charge of embezzling, secretin g
or destroying a letter containing $15 in
greenbacks.
A Lebanon firm has manufactured
9000 pounds of bologna sausage this
wiuter.
A Pottstowo grocery retailed 400
dozen of egijs last week at 15 cents
per dozen.
Henry E. Minnich, assistant Post
master at Landisville, Laucaster coun
ty has been arrrested ou the charge of
embezzling and destroying letters.
James W. Weir, for many years
Cashier of tbe Harrisburg National
Bank, died last Friday from tbe effect
of a stroke of paralysis.
Joseph Walkar ,an Allegheny coun
ty farmer, crazed by the loss of $13,
000 deposited with S. B. W. Gill, tbe
absconding lawyer of Pittsburg com
mitted suicide on Friday. -
Joseph R. Lacey, of Birdsboro',
Berks county, was found dead on Fri
day night, in a sink bo'e into which be
bad jumped from bis bed ro)m wiudo w
in a tit of insanity caused by a fever.
Pennsylvania College, at Gettys
burg Pa., has recently received a be
quest of $20,000 from the estate of a
Miss Adaline Sager.
J. Wr. Gray, a constable of Cambria
county, has disappeared and with
him about $1,009 belonging to the
county.
The State fair will be held in Eric,
commencing September 23. The
State Diarymen's Association will be
asked to take part
Over 16,000 persons visited the Rail
road Men's t bristian Association rooms
at Altoona last year.
Chester is getting up a proud repu
tation for elopements. Tbe Eddystone
Print Words furnished tbe last fugitive
pair, Mr. Edward Quinn and ML Til
lie Rigby.
Orlando Shaffner, tbe monstrous boy
baby, whose parents reside in VVest
Pikeland, Chester county, is to be
placed on exhibition. His height is 32
inobes, and be measures 32 inches
around tbe waist. His head is 21 inches
in circumference and wrist 5 inches.
He weighs 65 pounds and is not yet 13
months old.
Martiu Birgen, a Molly Maguire and
one of tbe alleged murderers of Pat
rick Burns, arrived at Pottsville, on
Friday, from Canada, iu charge of
Pitikerton's detectives. Burns, who
was a mining clerk was shot and in
stantly killed at Tuscarora on tbe
morning of April 15, 1870. He bad
in some way gained the ill-will of tbe
Mollies, and tbey conspired to put him
oat of the way.
Trade Hisses.
BarntstilU (IK. Va.) Enterprise.
A curious divorce case ia on the tapis
in Harrison county. A wife wbo was
greatly in need of a mess of cabbage
made a bargain and sale" with a
neighbor, trading three kisses for three
beads of cabbage. Tbe irate husband
accused her of the act; she acknowl
edged the circumstance and added that
she thought she bad made a good bar
gain. Tbe husband did not care much
for the loss of the kisses, but was fear
ful tbat tbey indicated more than was
apparent on " the face of the returns,"
and so bas filed his petition for divorce.
About twenty-five thousand war
claims, involving millions of dollars,
await adjudication in the differ ant offices
in Washington.
FOREIGN.
Russia continues war preparations.
Six thousand persons bae been at
tacked with measles a. Lyons.
A dispatch from Vienna says it is
certain- tbst tbe Porte, at (be instigation
of Russia, bas decided to oppose tbe oc
cupation of Bosuia and Ileriegovinia.
Tbe Crown Prinoe of Austria wilt
shortly visit the United States aud
Brawl.
A second cable has just been success
fully laid between Jamaica and Santi
ago de Cuba by tbe steamship Investi
gator. A dispatch to Renter's telegram from
Trieste says: -Tbe Austrian Lloyd
steamer Sphinx, from Cavallo, with
twenty five hundred Circassians on
board, caught fire and went ashore near
Cape Elia. Seven hundred lives were
lost. Tbe remainder were saved."
A Berlin despatch to tbe Daily .Yews
states that Germany bas accepted tbe
proposition for a congress. Austria,
Russia, Turkey, and Italy, have also
acoepted. It is certain tbat the con
gress will meet, whether Franoe and
England accept or not.'
Saturday's intelligence from the East
caused considerable commotion in Ijoo
don, depreciaticg consols and advane
ing breadstuff's. Some of tbe news
papers consider tbe situation as very
alarming, and assert tbat the congress
will not be held, and that a peaceful
settlement of the differences between
England and Russia is very improba
ble. Gen. Grant entertained the King of
Greece on board tbe United States
steamer Yaodalia at Athens on the
14th inst.
English war preparations continue
and Russia does not scare worth a
cent.
People who delight to stigmatize the
Russians as seiui- barbarians evidently
overlook tbe fact one of tbe oldest
newspapers of the world is published
at St. Petersburg. The Vedemosfe, of
that city, was established there one
hundred and fitly years ago.
Tbe accoucts of tbe warlike prepara
tions of England and Austria cause
but little excitement. Tbe conviction
tbat peace will be maintained is very
general.
The Grand Duke Nicholas' vist to tbe
Saltan bas been postponed until after
tbe treaty of peace is ratified.
The Italian peasants believe that soon
the Pope and tbe King are to be one ;
there is a prophesy to tbat effect.
The King cf Greece visited and took
luncheon with General Grant at the
American Legation, Athens, on the 11th
inst. Tbe Geneial sailed on tbe even
ing of tbat day for Naples.
In Russian military circles it is con
sidered probable tbat Prince Batteo
burg will be chosen Piince of Bulgaria.
Tbe damage by tbe fire in Dunville's
distillery, at Belfast, Ireiand, on the
night of tbe 13th inst., was $500,000.
Maich 31, tbe day upon wbieh it is
thought tbe Congress ot European Pow
ers will meet at Berlin, comes on Sun
day. A Constantinople dispatch reports
that the Russians have occupied Tekre
keni near Buyukdere on the Bospborus
aud a majority of tbe villages around
Constantinople. Tbe troops continue
advaucing toward the city.
Kangaroos bave become such a nui
sance to farmers in Queensland, Aus
tralia that a "Marsupials Destruction
act" bas been passed, and is being ao
tively euforeed in some of the districts.
Drives" are organized, at which tbe
farmers and their employes uuite to
gether and drive tbe kangaroos into
"yards" in droves of from one to two
thousand at a time. The animals are
then slaughtered, and their (kins are
tanned into a very fair article of leather.
Tbe only wreath laid open Victor
Emmanuel's coffia wben it was walled
up in tbe Tribune of tbe Pantheon at
at Rome was tbat sent by (Jueen Vic
toria. Tbe others were buug around
the walls of tbe chamber.
CISCKCII.
Rev. William Lloyd, pastor of tbe
Reformed (Dutch) cburcb in Madison
avenue, New Vork, bas beeu dismissed
by tbe consistory of his cburcb for iu
leuiperate habits.
The Roman Catholic Church bas pur
chased a tract of 7,000 acres of laud in
the vicinity of Chase City, Va., cud
proposes to colonize and educate the
freedmen npon tbe industrial farm plan.
Fifteen hundred clergymen of tbe
Cburcb of England bave signed a rein
nnstrauce agaiust a war with Russia.
Tbe .Methodist thinks tbat "tbe la
bor problem arises as soon as 120 men
are candidtates for 100 places."
Revival meetings in Zanesville, Ohio,
are carried on in a circus tent, with a
choir of 200 singers and a band of music.
A Home Missionary Convention of
tbe General Synod of tbe Evangelical
Lutheran church will be held in Omaha
in May.
The health of Mr. Spurgeoo, tbe great
English preacher, is completely broken
down, and be bas been compelled to
abandon tbe ministry.
The Reformer and Jewish Times re
cently asserted tbat scarcely any re.
spectable Jews bave been converted to
Christianity, and backed np its asser
tion by offering 100 to any person who
would present twenty-five such converts
in the United States. Now tbe Inde
pendent takes np tbe challenge and
prints a list of forty-two converted Jews,
claiming all to be members in good
standing in recognized cburcbes, and
til of whom reside witbin tbe limits of
New York and Brooklyn.
In the Wilmington, Del , Methodist
Episcopal Conference, on Friday, tbe
Preachers' Aid Society reported modi
fications to place it on a sounder basis,
by requiring annual payments of $10
for twenty-five years, which would en
title tbe family of tbe member to $50
if death occurred after one year, in
creasing to tbe tenth year, wben tbe
premium ceases to increase after reach
ing $500. It was referred co tbe com
mittee. A cburcb congregation in Ohio bas
been sued for compelling a man's wife
and children to desert bim. Abont
three years ago James Leicbty, a mem
ber of the Mennonite CLureb at Bryan,
was excommunicated, and bis wife and
children were direoted to leave bim.
This they did, sltbougb be begged them
to remain. A strong cburcb influence
was brought to bear npon tbe wife, and
she refused to live with her husband,
dreading tbe same ban, which, accord
ing to their creed, would bave consign
ed ber soul lo everlasting damnation.
Mr. Leicbr breugbt suit against tbe
church authorities for compelling his
wife to leave his bed and board, with
out his fanlt or eounsel, and demand
ing $10,000 damages. Tbe ease was
on trial for nearly a week, and on Toes
day of last week tbe jury rendered a
verdict of $2,500 for tbe plaintiff.
KEW9 ITEMS.
There are 250,000 Hebrews in
America.
Three families in North Carolina poll
thirty-five Democratic votes.
Bcno Pitman says tbe entire cost of
cremating bis wife,- including railroad
fares, was but $75.
At Pilot Grove, Mo., Luke Taylor, a
negro, was detected in the act of at
tempting to ravish a little six-year-old
girl and was shot dead.
Dr. Edward Tallman, a notorious
abortionist, was sentenced at Pougb
keepsie, N. Y., on Saturday, by Judge
Barnard to fonr years in Sing Sing.
D. T K. Rhine, the noted temper
ance lecturer, was arrested at Micbell,
Ontario, Canada, for an alleged inde
cent assault on Elixa Gibbio, a young
English maid-servant in the bonse
where tbe accused was stopping.
A dispatch from Bismarck says the
storms of last week extended over tbe
npper Missouri Valley, lasting three
days, and the snow on the stage road
to Fort Buford was ten to fifteen feet
deep.
Governor Holliday bas issued a proc
lamation offering $100 reward for tbe
arrest of eacb of the parties concerned
in the lynching of the negro woman,
Charlotte Harris, in East Rockingham
county, Vs., on tbe night of the 6th
instant.
On Saturday afternoon, tbe Lechmere
National Bank, of East Cambridge,
M !., was robbed of $3,000 in money
and $13,000 in Government bonds and
securities. A man and woman drove
np to the bank after business bours and
calling tbe President to the sidewalk,
engaged bim in conversation a few min
utes. On bis return be missed three
trunks containing tbe above amount of
property.
1 be designer of the new dollar, Mr.
George Morgan, is a young man of 27
years, and is said to receive tbe mite of
$250 per week for bis serviees, or $12,
000 a year. He explains tbat the face
of tbe female on tbe coin is bis idea of
tbe true type of American beauty of
the gentler sex, and was not mere fancy's
imagiuings.
During a meeting in tbe town ball,
at Harrison, Ohio, on March Sfih, a
gasoline machine, which was being
tested by unskilled bands, exploded,
killing a councilman nam id Rapp, and
a little girl, and injuring many others,
two seriously. Tbe flames spread and
did some damage to tbe building.
Tbe wooden bridge across tbe Rari
tin river, at New Brunswick, N. J.,
was destroyed by fre on March 9tb.
It was about 2000 feet long. Tbe loss
is estimated at $100,000. Until the
structure is replaced, the Pennsylvania
Rai'road will convey its passengers to
New York by connecting with the
Bound Brook route.
At the funeral of the late Larz
Anderson, of Cincinnati, there was
seen a thing both touching and beau
tiful; eight of his nine sons tenderly
bore their old father to his last resting-place.
Three sons cf Matthew Lynch,
aged respectively 14, 12 and 2 years
were fatally injured at Fort Wayne,
Ind, on March Cth, by the explosion
of a railroad torpedo with which they
were playing. The two eldest died
The number of buildings destroyed
by the recent fire in Hot Springs Ar
kansas is stated at 150, and the loss
is estimated at 300,000. About
1000 people are homeless and desti
tute. Ons Johnson, tbe murderer of tbe
negro ferryman, Alfred, was banged in
Rome Ga., on Friday. Tbe execution
Was public and a larg'e crowd was pres
ent. Johnson showed no sign of fear
and ascended the scaffold with a cigar
in bis mouth. He confessed to four
murders. He died in seventeen min
utes, of strangulation.
Massachusetts detectives made a
raid on tbe town of Tewksbury, where
they arrested a number of men who
are cbareed with living ta open polyg
amy. They were held in bonds for
trial in tbe Superior Criminal Court for
Franklin county. It is alleged that
many others will be arrested for tbe
same offence an attempt evidently hav
ing been made to establish a Mormon
ettlemeot at Tewksbury.
A terrific earthquake shock was felt
at Columbus, Ky., at 4 o'clock Mon
day morn in?, creating great eonsterna
rion. Bedsteads were rolled across
the room' people were tumbled out of
bed and bureaus thrown down and
broken. A portion cf the Mississippi
river bank caved in near the bluff. Tbe
movement caused tbe bells on locomo
tives to ring. The shock lasted only a
few seconds.
Powell and Millett both desired to
escort a girl home from a Louisville
ball. Powell had tbe prior claim, be
cause he bad taken her there and paid
for the ticket; bnt sbe gave Millett tbe
preference, and started from the ball
with him. Powell mustered his friends,
waylaid the eouple, stabbed Millett
eight times, and would have killed bim
if the girl bad not fonght desperately
in bis defense. Sbe is going to reward
Millett by marrying him if be recovers.
Commodore Robert F. Pinkney died
of paralysis yesterday at bis residence.
Baltimore, in the sixty-seventh year of
nis age. At tbe outbreak of the civil
war deceased was a captain in tbe United
States Navy, which be resigned and
entered tie Confederate service. He
distinguished himself in several naval
engagements.
July 3, 1778, Colonel John Butler,
commanding 1100 British provincials
and Indians, summoned Forty Fort, in
tbe Wyoming Valley, to surrender.
Col. Zeb. Butler replied by attacking
tbe aggressors at tbe bead of 300 men,
but was repulsed, and returned with a
loss of 200 ; and tbe fort surrendered
on tbe 5tb. During tbe whole hostili
ties the loss to tbe settlers was not less
tban 300 souls, many of whom were
massacred after tbey bad surrendered.
In 1943 a monument was erected on
tbe field to commemorate an act Eng
lish numbers have immortalized. A
week ago a party of fifty persons eom-!
meoced collecting lnmber to reconstruct
the old fort, and great interest is felt at
Wilkesbarre and in all the adjacent re
gions in the centennial of tbat event,
that will be celebrated this year with
signal henors.
Legal Notices.
COUNTY BONDS.
Commissioners Notice,
T7"E offer to sell and renew Bonds for a
short time, at 6 per cent.-, to meet
the demands of Bonds falling due during
April. Said Bonds to run two years.
James Mclaughlin,
David b.- cox,
wm. u. gronisger,
Ctmmuriemerm.
atarcfc 20, 1878.
Notice V. 9. Inieraal-Reenae
Special Tas.es.
UNDER the Revised Statutes of the
Coiled States, Sections 3:32, 32J7,
3"J38, and 8239, errry person engaged in any
business, avocation, or employment, which
A-nHur, him linhla to a RDecial tax. is re
quired to procure and plots and keep ton'
wpicnom-919 tm .'..' f "j
a stamp denoting thti payment of
said upeciul tax for the special-lax year be
ginning May 1, 1878. section 8244, Kevia
ed Statutes', designates wbo are liable to
special tax. A return, as prescribed on
Form 11, Is also required ty la of every
pirson liable lo special las as abve. Sewtrt
penalties are prescribed Xuf non-compliance
with the Inregoing requirements, or tor con
tinuing in business alter April 30, lb8,
without payment of tax.
Application should be made to
C. J. BKCXER,
Collector of Internal Revenue,
Snnbnry. Northumberland Co., Pa.
March 13, l78-4t
TRIAL LIST TOR APRIL
TERM, 17.
1. Mrs C Cox vs T P Cochran. No.
April term, 1878.
2. John Kinder vs Michael Umholts No.
22, Dec. term, 1S76.
8. John Balsboch vs J English West. No.
141 September tetm, 1871.
4. The People's Fire Insurance Company
for use, vs Thaddeus F Parker. No. 170
September term, 1874.
6. Thomas W Kirk, administrator of Wil
liam W Kirk, dee'd, for us of Oeore Ja
cobs, M iry F Lockxbort (formerly Mary F
Jacobs) and Robert Jacobs, vs James M
Beale and Samuel M Beale, ezecntors of
Jonhua Beale, deceased. No. 19, February
term, 1870.
6. James S Marsh vs Paul Cos. No. 83
April term 187l.
7. Wheeler West vs Stewart McCul
loch et al. No. 147, April term, 1876.
8. Win T Mount vs John Ealsbach et al.
No. 57, Dec. term, 1876.
9. Sam Del Hoflman vs George W Gorton.
No. 68, December term, 1876.
Id. John Vaufhin, lor use, vs W H
Dougherty. No. 107, December term, 1876.
11. Speaker &. Panl vs Adam Wilt et al.
No. 181, December term, 1876.
12. Abraham Lei tor vs Jacob L Swartz.
No I, April term, 1877.
13. Martin Gruhb vs L W Sieber. No.
76, April term, 177.
14. John McLanghlm va John Koons.
No. lltt, April term, 1S77.
15- John Haonaman and wife vs David
Phalorand wile. No. 118, April term, 1877.
16. John S Sible vs Edmund S Jamison.
No. 163, April term, 1877.
17. J M Bunnell vs Wm II Patterson and
R V Patterson bis wile. No. 116, Seyt 7,
1877.
18. Adam Sponhower vs Amos II Martin.
No. 185, September term, 177.
19. Edward V Hibbs vs Williaic G Thomp
son. No. 193, Sept. term, 1877.
20 Win C Powell, James F Pennington.
Samuel Beaver and M.iry W Beaver, vs
Noah Hertxler. No. 200, Sept term, 1377.
21. Saiuuvl Sleminons vs John CbUholin
and Clinton Bowers. No. 202, September
term, 1877.
22. Wm Wbitmer it Co., vs E Tilten.
No. 207, September term, 1877.
23. C A Lauver, for use or P J Rum
bangh, vs O P Kothcrman. No. 2, Decem
ber term, 1877.
21. Daniel Colliuao and Adam FUher vs
Andrew Patterson and Mary Patterson his
wife. No. 53, December term, 1877.
25. Dennis Kennedy vs Ueorge McCul
loeh and Samuel Walker, partners, doing
business in the name ol McCulloch 4c Walk
er. No. 1 13, December term, 1877.
26. E D Dev'nny vs Joseph Musser. No.
135, December term, 1877.
JACOB KE1DLER, Prothonolary.
Prothonotary's Oltice.
Mitniotown, March 9, 1878. $
Court meets April 22, 1878.
Administrator's Katlce.
Ettate of Joseph Given, deceased
NOTICE is hereby given that letters of
administration on the estate of Joseph
Given, late of McCoysville, Tuvraroru town
ship, deceased, have been granted to the
undersigned. All persons knowing them
selves to b indebted to said estate will
make immediate payment, and those having
claims will present them properly authenti
cated for settlement to
SEAL M. STEWART,
Feb. 27, 1878. Administrator.
Administrator. Xotice.
r.su.' of Mary Hevntr, deed.
WHEREAS Letters of Administration
on the estate .f Jlary Hrpner, late
ot Fayette township, deceased, hiving
been granted to the undersigned, all per
sons indented to haid estate are requested
to make immediate payment, and those
having claim will please present them
wiinvui aeiay 19
JOFIX HEPNER,
Feb. 27, 1878. Administrator.
HOTICE.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned
against trespassing npon tbe lands of
the undersigned, either in Walker or Dela
ware township, by tUhing, hunting, or in
any otner way.
John N. Van-Ormer. J. W. Levder.
Henry M. Miller. Solomon Manbeck.
George S. Smith. J. 3. Lnkens.
William Manbeck. Luke Davis.
H. D. Long. John F. Smith.
XOTICE.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against
trespassing, for hunting, or other pur
poses, on the lands of the undersigned, in
arawo lownsuip, Juniata countv
HENRY GROXIXGER.
JOHN CL'XXIXGHAM
Dec 10, 1877-tf
CACTIOX NOTICE.
4 LL persons are hereby cautioned against
trespassing on tne lands of the under
signed either in Delaware or Walker town
ship, for the purpose ot Ashing or hunting,
vr tor any otner purpose.
L. E. Atkisso.
N. A. Lfke.vs.
ect31-tf G. S.Lcksxs.
JUNIATA VALLEY BANK,
OF MIFFLISTOW", PA.
WITH
BRANCH AT PORT ROYAL.
Stockholders Individually Liable.
J. NEVIN POMEROY, President.
T. VAN IRWIX, Cashier.
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alBKCTOIS :
J. Nevin Pomeroy, Joseph Kothrock,
GeorrA Jaeoba. Philm M K
Amos G. Bonsall, Louis E. Atkinses.
w r. i
rrocuoLDias 1
J. Net In Pomeroy,
James B. Okeson,
Wm. Van Sweringen,
H. II. Bechtel,
Jane H. Irwin,
John Heckmao,
Mary Kurts,
Samuel M. Kurt,
J. Holmes Irwin,
T. V. Irwin,
F. B. Frow,
Philip M. Kepner.
Joseph Sot brock.
beorge Jacobs,
L. E. Atkinson,
W. t. romeroy.
Amos G. Bonsall,
Noah Hertxler,
Daniel Stoulfer,
Charlotte Snyder,
Sam! Uerr's Heirs,
Interest allowed on twelve months' cer
tificates of deposit, five per eent. ; on six
months' certificates, four per cent.
jan23, 1878-tf
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Arrangemest vf Passenger Trains.
Xovembis 5tb, 1877.
Trains tears Hxrrisbnrg as follows :
For Xew Tork at 5 20, b 10 a. m., and 20O
and "7 55 p. m.
For Philadelphia at 5 20, 8 10, 9 45 a. n ,
2 00 and 3 57 p. m.
For Read in? a' 5 20, 8 10, 9 45 a. m., 2 0
3 57 and 7 5i p m.
For Pottsville at 5 20, 8 10 a. m., and 3 57
p. m. and via Schuylkill k. Susquehanna
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For Autmrn via S. & S. Branch at 5 10 1 m.
For Allentown at 5 20, 8 !0 a. m., 2 UO,
3 57 and 7 55 p. m.
Tbe 5 20, 8 10 a. m. and 3 57 and 7 55 p m.
trains bave through cars for Nsw York.
The 5 20, 8 10 a. m. and 2 00 p. m. trains
bave through cars for Philadelphia.
For Xew York at 5 20 a. m.
For Allentown and way stations at 5 20 a. m.
For Reading, Philadelphia and way stations
at 1 45 p. m.
Trains for Harrubnrg leave as follows :
Leave Xew York at 8 45 a. m., and 1 00,
5 30 and 7 45 p. ui.
Leave Philadelphia at 9 15 a. in., and 3 40,
and 7 20 p. m.
Leave heading at f4 40, 7 40, 1 1 20 a. m.
1 30, 6 15 and 10 35 p. ni.
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p. m.,and via Schuylkill aud Susquehan
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Leave Allentown at t2 30, 5 50, 9 05 a. m.,
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Leave Philadelphia at 7 20 p. m.
Leave Reading at 4 40 aud 7 40 a. m. and IV
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Via Morris and Essex Railroad.
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