THE REPUBLICAN. • t:DSW: 'HOLCOMB. I Puornwrons. 'Cli AS. L. Titi-ICY, t'DSON HOLCOMB, Editor • • R- I lsimatdc tares, hoiwst Erix•natiarel I, COM.- j'fl 4 lo Qiikers, Harper: IVeckiy: I;itterckt4tt the rest Mitre at Yolanda as SECOND CLASS MATTEII. THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1882. REPUBLIC 43; CO rxrr tOMMITT.E.E. FOB isse trrtmAN--W• J. YouNG T6wanda. Alba-George H. Webb. • ` Albany-Benjamin Ayers. t' . . i. ~Armenia -D. D. - Alexander.; :•__ .... • .Asylum-A L: Thomas. - - . --- Athens Boro, Ist Ward- - -Dr. Mellen. " - • 2nd Ward-Geo. E. Davis. ..itheus Twp.,lst District-Frank S Morley. - o tad District-Hiram Sibley. 3rd District-,Clarence Blood. Batclay-C. H. Johnson. -- I Burlington Twp-Y. L. Morgan. Burlington BoroC. A. Ford. ' .--.., Burlington, West-Isaac 3leKean. ' _Canton Tivp-Daniel Danes. - Canton Boro-F. A. Owen. :. • Columbia-James H.. Strong. , t Franklin-gl. B. Kilborn. • • -_ Granville , -Satanel Manley. • Herrick-gienry Blocher. • Leßayeville-Geo. W. Brink. Leßoy-Lcßoy Holcomb. • ' . Lit - chileid-Chester Meltiuney. Monroe Boro-11. W. Rockwell, Twp-J. D. Cummings. New Albany-Daniel Brown. • .. Oiwell-Wm. Pickering. Overton-A. Strcvey. • , . . Pil:e —a: E. Warner. 11idgebury-E. A. Cooper. , : . - Rome Boro-Alemander K . -ride... 7 " _ Twp-Charles Dougherty. .. Sueshequin-U. E. Horton. 4-•„t 51:, .Smithfield-E. E. Chamberlin. .•!-.: South Creek- S. B. Pettenuill. ' 1 Smith Waverly- t ; ' . Springfield-Fiuley Hubbard. 1 1 .' Standing Stone-Geo. A. SteveW , .; ' . S% Ivania-W. L. Scoutin. d Terry-L-J. it-Schoonover, I Towanda Bobo., Ist Ward-74. Me - Ohersoti. 4 -" 2nd Ward-C. Hs` Allen. 3rd Ward-L;Elsbree. Towanda Dv() _c,,). H. Fos. Towanda, North-D. T. Foster. Troy Boro-O. P. Adams. " Twp -William Verbech. Tuscarora-William ShumwayL • . i ! Ulster-G. 8.. Rockwell. - I . . Warren-Howell Howell. ': I Welles-G. H. Grinnell. - WilMot -Geo. P. Ingham. .• , Windham !T. E. Weller. Wyalusing-James Donahoe. ' Wysom-S, J. Ross: , . Congress has before it a bill for the relief of Nathan Buttler. !it would no doubt afford Na t than greitt relief if Congress would pOlitely grant his request and pass the Butter.l . The water in the Susquehanna at Wilkes-Berre on Thursday last twenty-one feet:". above lo+ wafeit mark in consequence of an ire gorge. below Kingston. L• -One hundred and two shoe mann facturers and leather dealers were burned out by the disastrous fire at Haverhill, Mass. i on Friday night last, and parkny thousand op2raties thrown out of employ. - 'General - Sherman , has invited Generals Sliefidau, Hancock, How ard and Terry - to be present at the Garfield obsequies in the Capitol on the :ll•th inst. These officers are all entitled to the privileges of the floor onithat occasion by reason of - having received the thanks of COngress for public sevices. The three leading candidates for the appointment to succeed ex- Justice Hunt,, of the Supreme court, are Judge Blatehford, of , 4N:ew York; Judge Andrews, of New York, who succeeded Secretary Folder .as chief justice of the New York. Judge Blatchford is of these three the most prominent, although some opposi tion is made to him on account of his age Mrs. Scoville ha's written a letter to: Mrs. Garfield imploring her to intercede for the pardon of GuiieOu, the murderi;r of her husband; asking the ,striaeU widow of • the .martir President to consider her brother insane. - Mrs. Scoville, in her desire to save her motherless, wicked broth• er from the gallows, does 1. of stop to consider the impropriety of such- on intrusion. It seems piti that Mrs. Garfield cannot be let nlone_ in her harrowing sorrow and saved horn all attempts to drag her into the Ouse of the assassin now condemned to death for his crime. Up to the present time there has been less of party politics displayed in the deliberations of the present Congress, than in any preceding Congress for many years. There was a little exhibition of party spirit in the discussions on the apportion ment bill, but aside from that there has been:little of party politics dur ing the present session. Evidently both parties; before the close of the session will evolve new issues and develop new departures upon impor tant political questions, which will become prominent party questions. The independent men of Phila delphia have entered upon a vigo;rorts effort to wrest the control of t the city government from the hand of ring thieves and plunderers; i •A large and enthusiastic 'meeting of representative independent citizens was held at Horticultural Hall on Saturday evening last, presided over by Chas. Emery Smith, editor of the Press. On taking she chair he 'de livered a stirring and forcible address, announcing himself "a soldier in the ranks of municipal reform:" The meeting was also addressed by Col. Wm. McMichael, Col. ,McClare, and other prominent '° citizens of Phila delphia. The movement contemp -late4 the.success of the citizens re -forth ticket at the approaching city election, and good men of all parties are enlisted in the fight against cor ruption in the city government. WASHINGTON ;FITTER. Editor ial Correspondence. • 4PPONTIMIENT. After Tt struggle.of four Weeks, the House on Friday last passed the Con gressional apportionment bill: The bill, if it shall beep* a law, fixes the 'num ber of representatives under ithe' list census at 325, an increase of 32 over the present nunabei, which i 5293. lt enacts, that after the 3d of. March, 1883!, the HoUse of Representatives shall be composed of 325 memberi,- to be apportioned among the. several states, as followS: 7 Alabama,: 8; Arkansas; 5; California, 6; Coloiado,l; Connecticut, 4; Delaware, 1, Florida, f 2;; Georgia, 10; Illinois, 20; Indiana, 13; 'lowa,ll; ; EBansas, 7; Kentucky, 11; Louisiana, fi; Maine, 4; Maryland, :6; Massachusetts, 12; Michigan, 11; Minnesota, 5; MissisSippi, Missouri,' 14;' Nebraska, 3; ,Nevada,' 1; New Hainphire, 2; New Jersey, New York, 34; . iiterth California, 9; Ohio, 21; - Oregon, 1'; Pennsylvania, 28; Rhode Island, 'South Carolina; 7; Tennessee, lb; Texas,ll; Vermont, Virginia,: 10; WeSt Virginia, 4; 'Wisconsin, 9. Analyzed, the „bill pre sents the following features: `Eleven Republican States—California, lowa, Kansas, - Massachusetts, Michi gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, Penn sylvania and - Wisconsin; gain nineteen members. Ten DemocrStiO States— Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississ ippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and 'West Virginia, gain fifteen members. Three Republican ' . States—Maine, New Hampshire and V,ermont, lose three, leaving the sum total of gain to the Repiiblican States sixteen, and to the' Democratic States fifteen. New York will therefore be the .pivot that will settle the question of gain or loss between.the respective parties under this bill. : if the one member gained ';by that state be apportioned to Brook= lyn or New York City, the Democrats will probSbly elect him and neither party will reap any political advantage from this re-apportionment.' 'ln so far as it effects the electoral college the advantage will be.slightly in laver. of the Republican States—The atire number being 401 7 -necessary to :elect 201. The sure Republican States will have 189—The sure Democratic States 153—leaving to the doubtful states 59. j In ordci to elect a President the'Di-m -' ocrats must carry at least three of the doubtful Ststes of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California. The bill will be antagonized in the - Senate by the Senators frOm Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island and Florida, but - fib doubt is entertained of its ultimate • passage. _ • - Pennsylvania must call the LegiSla ture in extra session for the purpose of redistricting the State prior to the next election; or otherwise, there will be one member to be elected by the State at The Republicans. being largely in the majority in]the present Legisla ture; tbey will, if :Called together take .good care, that the additional district is made So as to be'surely Republican. SUSPECTED POISONING Washington is becoming the • centre of sensational happenings. In our last• letter we chronicled the tragic . affray in the office: of the Na.lional Republican, resulting in the death of A'. M. Soteldo. Ou Friday last two sisters died in the eastern section of the city at:nearly the same hour,lthe symptoms in both cases being precisely the satrie„ and indicating poison As the cause Oideath. A postmortein examination and chem ical analysis of the contents of -; the . stomach in both cases revealed: the presence of arsenical poison, , and a verdict was tendered by a coroner's jury in accordance with the facts. No arrests have yet been made, Gut the police are on the watch for suspected parties. The two sisters - Were under the will of their father, who' -died two .years since, heirs to quite /an estate; which in case of their death .descended to i other relatives. It is supposed that in this fact is hidden the key of their mysterious death.. There are now thirteen prisoners to the District jail on the charge of murder, and hardly a weett passes that dOes not chroicle some new excitement. .:Washington is get ting up something of a reputation as the place where cranks' and criminals most do congregate; • - COL. A. E. MEACHAM, who will be recollected by Towanda people as having, four years since, de liyered an interes,ting lecture on Indian Affairs in Mercur Hall, died suddenly Of apoplexy in this city on Friday last. He was a member of the Modoe com mission appointed by General Grant, and in'an attempt to negotiate peace with Capt. Jack's bade in the Lava Beds, he and his colleagues were treach erously betrayed and : he was severely wounded, while one of his -colleagdes was brutally murdered. His' last public service was on the- Ute Indian commission, of which he : was a member when he died. Ile leaves a wife and son,- now in Oregon. The "Twin Relic of Barbarism"-- pelygarliy, is being dealt with by 'the present Congress in 'a 'minim: that cannot fail, in case the bills now" pend ing become lair, to abate that plague spot on our . Ameitican escutcheon, The Edmunds anti-polygamy bill, which passed the Senate on Thursday last, contains provisions so stringent that it enacted, polygamy must surrender at discretion, or else attempt to carry' out their' threatened revolt againahaational authority. The bill vacates all the registration and - election offices of the Territory of Utah, and devolves their duties (until provision is made by the Legislative Assembly to be created as provided by the bill) on a board of five persons; to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, all of whom shall not be membersof the same political party. It disfranchises, and ,makes ineligible to office, or to sit upon juries, any polygamist or bigamist, and declares the practice a misdemean- . or, punishable by - fine and Imprison, ment. •- The bill . will probably pass the Houseand _become n law. tinder , - its enforcement polygainy must; go to ' the 2 wall. - • - ?lA. BLAME AS A PpLITICAt LEADER. As Secretary of State of Geßerni Garfield's Cabinet, lion.. }Tames G. , Blaine inaugurated with the full ctrd of the late Presided, an advanced and it tnay be termed an.• aggressive diplomatic polioy, having for its object the promotion and enlargement of com mercial intercourse. with the South Anierican States, At the time General • Garfield's death the prelimi nary steps only had been taken tow - Ards convening a Congress in be composed of representatives of the South- Ameri cnn republics and `:of our own govern- Men!, in the City nt Washington for the purpose of conferring in relation to establishing and building up a navy and a commercial marine by, substan tial government aid. It is very gen erally conceded, upon good evidence that President Arthur, while Mr. Blaine Al:pained a member of his Cabinet, gave his unqualified indorsement of Mr. Blaine's South American policy. Since Mr. Blaine's retirement and the appointment of Mr. 'relinghuysen, his instructions to the diplomatic repre sentatives of our government in the Sputh American republic,s contain Marked modifications of the Blaine pplicy, and the President it is said has revoked the order for the convening of . a commercial, congress. This 'action has raised an: importunt issue between Mr. Blaine and the friends of his cpm mercial policy and the Administraticn of President Arthur and is the subject of animated discussion in political cir cles. It must be noted that this is not a new 'Subject with Mr. Blaine. His speeches in New York and Phila delphia two and three years, since, upon the subject of Amer:can ship-building interests and the. strengthening and promoting American commerce, outlin ed the policy entered upon by . the Garfield Administration. It was! ap plauded by the friends of protection- of American industries everywhere, and vehemently opposed by the free traders of Great Britian and their' American allies, allies, the Democratic party."' This is what. was meant by the tariff for reVenue only" plank of the Democratic National pbitform of 18801 To Mr. Blaine, more than to any other public man .of the Reptiblican party, belongs the credit of producing. that condition of affairs that the Republican . - party to make a successful issue with the Democrats upon the question of" protection in the last Presidential campaign. • , lie is pre-eminently a representa tive of a well defined and pronounced American protectiVe policy, and if an issue is raised. within : the Republican party by his opponents .purelY out of motives of personal opposition to him, it will only tend to rally his friends to an aggressive and vigerous personal sup port. In this view - a wise precaution must be exercised by the opponents ''of Mr. Blaine-that in topposing him they do not plaice the-RepubLierin party in a fqlse,;position before the. • country upon the paramount political issue between .Republicanism and Democracy, and upon which it must succeed? if it sue 'ceeds at. all in the next Presidential J. H. - campaign, Trial of Sergeant Mason. . WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—'The court martial to ,try Sergeant Mason, who tried to shont Guiteau, met to-day, lenry Wisner president. J. G. Bigelow appeared for the prisoner and Lieut. E.P. Brown as - Judge Advo cate. .The prisoner's counsel suggested the propriety of the court securing an absolutely neeurate diagram of the jail `and its surroundings. The Judge Ad 'vo2ate wasinstrticted tty plioegre such diagram. After a se* . t Session the pvlsoner was formally-larraig,ned, and the charge's, and speCifications read. Sergeant Mason' had nothing to say. The President directed a ;plea l of not guilty to be entered. AdjOurned:until Tuesday. One Nepa of the South: What the South want now to firth-. cr its development, :to clUcate its peo. plc to the new ideas,' to' place it oila par. With the rest of the world, is . a num ber of large, widely circulated papers, not the mouthpieces of. a few men, but able and cutspokep, giving all the news, national as well as local, working fer the material and political prosperity of the country, and enterprising,: and not preaching. the doctrines .exploded by the war. -:-.Wew Orleans Ippfs bemocrat. • - . . liississippi is the only State in the Union without a national bank. . Twelve hundred new housei were erected in Erie in 1881; Wages are lower and food is dearer in Germany than in England. Third. crop potatoesare'common in the market of Montgothery, Ala. ' 'Valuable deposits of limestone hive been discovered near Sharon, Itfereer county. _ The shops of the 'Pennsylvania Rail road Company at Altoona have been nearly completed. A dying Paris woman requested that none of her female friends be allowed to attend Per funeral. She said they would gossip about the fash ions with the coffin before them, Some small Missouri towns are try— ing high license fees for sidoons. At Maysville the figure is $l,OOO, laid the eight saloons have paid it,twhile other towns demand $5OO or $250. A_ widow in Taunton, Mass., who found a twenty-three-year-old note among her husband's papers, has taken a more favorable view:of . humanity since its maker promptly paid it and offered to pay interest for the whole time besides. ,Secretary Lincoln is talked of as a *publican Can - didfite: for. UhrIOIS,-to succeedXlarid Davis., . , , The New ;fork. Her ao cries out that the college rowdy must and shsll be suppressed. Kansas newspapers are ltaviug brass bands marred- after them, , This is fame, we believe. Mr. Guiteau feels bad beeau4: be is ke,pt all alone—no one to love,libne to Caress. The Salem (Ala.) TintPs nominates Bayard for Democratic candidate • for President in 1884. It's a little too soon :to begin to fatten the lamb (or old ram) for the sacrifice.- John Kelly, the Tammany leader of New York, has gone to Florida for the benefit of his health, and it would bene fit New York immensely if he was to remain there forever. . Clarence Barton, the Washington editor who figured in the Soteldo affair is a nephew. of Barton Key, who& General Sickles killed many years afro: !Arexander H. Stephens, Viee.Presi dent of the Confe4rate Government passed his.seVentit,th birthdays lust week. The Confederate government died of "cholera infantum," although it got - t6 be a pretty big boy. The. Union of the_ National . Benefit Association of the State of New York, represiliting tissocia,tio.ns• having a tnembership'of 400,00, has deeidhd to oppose the _repeal of the prescint law relative to eorporatiVeinsuraneeprgan. izations. A teacher in Virginia City (Nevada) school is - charged with instructing his pupils that there was no apecial pause for regretting the death Of PreSident 7arfield; that he was a bad man any how; and a thief in the bargain. 1 They should hang him with Guiteau.. Mrs. Garfield recently received a letter from . .Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau, asking her to interfere in his behalf. Mrs: Garfield replies, that she cherishes no, malice towards the slayer of her husbdnd, but that lie must an swer only to God and the American people. She has profound, pity for all the members of the family. • - A sharp . pegro recently - constructed a rude figure of a devil and placed in side the figure a phonograph. • By. touching a spring he can make the cylinder revolve and the phonograph give forth .sounds. _ The inventor is tra-Zreling through South Carolina mak ing. . money out of ignorant begroes who really - -think • that the fortune teller's devil.is able to talk. • There is a great' scramble for seats in the House, for the '27th, when ex- Secretary Blanc delivers hiS address on President; Garfield. There are one thousand seats in the galleries, and one thousand five hundred tickets' are to be isued. The extra five hundred Are to entitle', holders to seats .on the steps in the galleries arid to standing room.. A Mr. Burdette; the lecturer, Aback' a large. audknce the Other - evening; When he begen h sentence as followi: "I_believe Colonel Ingersoll's argu ments are sound—" There was a fearful pause, during which startled glances were exchanged.,, : ‘'Yes," 'con tinued .Burdette, •"but that is the trouble with Ingersoll; he is all sound, liks a bass drum." * Theri the audience A. remarkable wedding_ occurred in Somerset county, Md.; a - few - days ago, when" Ella Shores, a girl of fourteen married her st.vond luisband H.l-E. Whyte, youth of seventeen: " Two years ago "Ella was married, a month after. her • mother's death, to 'her step father, a farmer of i l3 iity-fivc, hut , the bridegroom was soorr l 'arres'ted i convict ed and sent,ito.jaihi • The'young bride secured a divorce and has now married a lover nearer her own age. One Marcus P. Morton, a lawyer of Troy, N. seems to have struck .a good - thing. He purchased of one Bixby an inventor, the patent Lir the Application of a valve now .in use on cylinder steam fire engines, ond is now suing cities using the patent for':,royal ties back to .186`.3. He began with his tiWn city of Troy, which settled the suit for $53,000. He brought suit against New York, and got judgment for a sum to be. hereafter determined. He sues Boston for, about half a million of dollars. General Butler : is hip coun sel, and he is said - to have retained all the leading patent lawyers in the country, ready to sue all the citieti. in :their order. Leading citizens of. Titusville have Subscribed $125,000 towaras another bank in that place. , George K. Baixt, a prominent Mason in the western part of the State, dropped dead in Meadville on Sunday last. The farm of John and Thomas _B, Schall, near New York, his been sold for $14,500, or about - $240 per acre. A coach factory to _employ thirty hands has been nearly .eompleted in Reading by J. Calvin Roffeditz. The proposed new building of the Penn Hardware Company, Reading, will coder three acres of ground. Large numbers of Hungarians and Germans are ,seen daily _tramping on railroad leading — to the anthracite coal regom* s. • • Mrs. Susan Phelps died in Harris burg on Monday, aged 78, years. - She had lived for seventy-fiie years in the house in widely she died. • 4 DE$l7;l7Ol7tE FIRE. Tel= *amiss or - ,Puorrxeri awn* rzi a z!ztai liNveum t.r„,dass., Feb. 1.8. .• —A little tongue Of flame, no, bigger than a : rnan's hand, was seen last night, a few min 7,: ntes before inidninght,An the leather store of E. B..Wentwortb, one of the largest at IlaverNll: .Thenee the fire, crept from building - to building,,, like - a powder train, and, fanned by a stiff ocean lireeie, the 'rows of Lercantile ' houses ,on Washington street, until it reached Essex street and" Washington square, and there - the flames met an chstaele the broad Merrimac rivet!, In the other direction the conflagration spread back to NYin7i ,gate. street and the station of the Boa• ton : ;and 'Maine •Railread, 'Khe fire covered ten. acres of land:and destroy ed the Cadre-business 'toortion . lof ierhill;T:filty buildings were laid in ashes', over 200 firms. burned out; and nearly 3000 persons thrown. out of employmolt. The loss will amount nearly to $3,000,000; and. it is . not known how many leather firms will.• be ruined. • . TILE LOSS OF LIFE It is feared.that the bodies of a score or. more proininent buSiness : men fire burned , in the ruins.. Thus far there are four known to be : dead-John St. German and Joseph Pratt, : firemen;, George Whitier and an unknown man whose body-h not been taken - from the ruins. Albert Carr, who, was em : : ployed in - J.. B: Farras' factory, went into; the shop to save his tools, and the fire cutting 'him off, jumped out of -the second-story window -And . was fatally; injured. J. M. Stsivey and 8.. Foster, were in. the south block when the . roof fell in, but manage to escape. 11 The fire literally burned •itgielf out. ~,, G 1 4T rFLO,ODS THE MISSISSIPPI BITER. 'Warms, Tenn., Feb. 2:1.*- 7 At many point's between here and Vicksburg the river is twelve - inches higher.than ever belote known. The water • extends back from either shore fifteen miles. Much live stock has been drowned. . • TIIE 01110. CmorxNATT, Feb.' The Ohio river is now higher than'since the great flood of 1837. At .noon it was fifty eight:feet andj six inches high, and was rising half Anlinch an) hour. Railroad embankments have been injured, tele graph wires . - dOwn, and all freight is practica4 suspended. DAMAGE IN THE SOUTH AND *EST The Governor of Mississippi- lids been requesSed to ask /lid - for sufferer's froni the . floods. Lancreebtirg,. Iridj, at last :ac counts was entiroly surrounded by*a ter, and the people were flocking . tolhe Court House for safety.. • Marietta, Ohio, is partially flooded out. . One thousud horses,' rpules and cows . have been drowned along the lower• Mississippi, and the damage to plantations is immense. • At Louisville, - Ky., every - buihling along the xi ver front is untier water!. War Against Polygamy. SAiT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 17.—At a meeting of. prominent Gentiles of Utah last night the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: !.Whereas, the Legislature of Utah, now in session in this city, to"-day adopted a concurrent resolution protesting against the pas sage by .Congress of any bills disfran chising polygamists, and praying Con gress to send a committee to investigate the condition of things in Utah : 'Re solved, That such action is merely a. polygamous bluff—,L. a trick to gain time —and that if it wins these very men will claim it is a divine interposition in faVor of polygamy and use it to excite the masses of the Mormon people against the just authority of the national goy eminent; that the fact that three-fourths, or the Legisl•ture andthemselves prac tical polygamists exposes the condition of things in Utah without the interven tion of an investigating committee ; that their action is this ease betrays the fear that the disfranchi4ing of polygon)• ists will ; break up polygamy, and there. fore indicates precisely what Congress ought to do; that we most ,respectfully urge Congress not to be deterred from perfecting the good work on whi"ch it is engaged by the protests of men who are acknowledged polygamists them selves, and who adopt this 'differential attitude only because their ordinary at titude of defiance will not, Apparently serve them In a mortal emergency; that. that there need be no fear of convulsion or disturbance if Congress now adopts effective measures to 'settle Utah affairs, but that if it .does not the sim plest duties of statesmanship will have been disregarded, as they have too long .been, and the chance of peacefully set tling Utah affairs will by this . much have been placed'in jeopardy. An. Unnatural Dategfiter. Asy SIBLEY, la., Feb. 10.4—Anna, sa da - FigTiter of John Lenahan, who -was myiteriously murdered the other night. confesses that the father was shot by his daughter Maggie. because he op posed-her marriage to a certain you - rig man.: The cOnfession implicates • the mother, sister and the latter's lover in the murder of the father. They have all been arrested. The coroner's jury found: Maggie tenahan guilty of- the murder of het father, and that her mother, sister and Herbert Birch are aevissaries. All *ere held for the grand jury. Statistics show that women commit suicide most frequent on Sunday. An tight-year-old boy has died .at Point St: Charles, Quebec, from exces sive use of liquor, and the Coroner's jury in his ease has rendered a verdict of wilful murder against 8011:10 person or persons unknown. A4 I ,ERRIBLE EXPLOSIOX •- - - ruonAloisaitam ucustiN's PTaOTBou=, LAICAL ESTABLISUM MT CATCHES WIRE AND - .awns A DOUBLE EXPLOSION TEAT CREATES A DEiDLY —EMU. 'I'EM.,VERSONS E.11414ED AND scouzs Dutrara. - Chester has long 4431 'askance' Pro fessor Jackson's pyrotechnic manufac tory at bedand and Welsh Sir ets. Its master hi known the ,coritry over tut posessing arjertile mind for thoproduct tion of strange and - brilliant fireworks. During' the Centennial his displays amazed the -foreigners Who . witnessed thetn. But his, makiug of explosive beauties in Philadelphia's - limits watt , natjiked, and wer.l publioly denounced,: • when on- March :29, 1862, his factory' , int:6'oV exploded and killed seven teen persons. So the Professor some year ago . went down to Chester and dial his dangerous work in the - old Porter Mansion. Chester • folks thottght Jae' was a dangerous neighbor, bnt 'then the building wail onthe edge of . the townawl had no structikes adjoining it on, any side.. itist Friday' morning, shortly aftet , e.even.o'clock, an alarm of fire came from the Potter !nape. Au eniployce, while kindling a' lire, had been : driven from the building by flames and smoke. The firemen - hur, ) , tied to the scene. The sight presented' was a gorgeOus one. It might be 'thought theta pyrotechnical display in the daytime would not be vtry.brilliant, tut the dark smoke i presented t heavy background, and through the: murky vapor bright stars and:brilliant balls of every imaginable•hue , flashed in rapid succession. It was beautiful to beheld, but suggestive of danger. Ttle firemen boldly attacked the enemy, however, until a slight explosion- warned, them back. Meanwhile seven or eight kegs of Powder that had been. stored in a rear addition to the building were re moved by Chief Bligineer Dalton to a magazine fifty feet away. . .The firemen asked if tIWy might. again approach in • safety, and. those employed about . the ,factoiy assured them that no dangerexisted anknot plosion of any consequence could occur. A.ladder was boldly placed against a wing to the building, and the men mounted it It waS.not fully manned . when the entire attnccure was swept away like chaff - before the wind, and in this terrible hurricane were carried every human.ohstacle in its path. Men were sent flying through the trees that surrounded the building, and even yet their clothes can be seen hanging to the topmost branche's. Eight brave firemen .met with .death,.and ten of the spectaT tors paid their lives as the• penalty of their Leuribsity. • The forms . of some of the . dead were mangled almost beyond recognition: The tornado spent its `breath out Second street, which faced the hnrning building. • It shattered the windows for squares -around, and, in ,many instances, .even shivered the sashes; The report of the explosion. I • was heard a mile away. When tt,e smoke cleared away the sight presented aronua the struelure_ was one that any -description of would invite aieharge of deliberate exaggera tion. Bloodwas sprinkled around as though the spot 'had been visited _ by - a crimson shower, rithlets forming. .and cent - ring in great pitsl4,' Human limbs mire scattered about. 'Everywhere were heard the shrieks ofthe wounded. Aid was instantaneous, and sOOO the town was transformed into one great hospital. The stores and great factor ieii, and even John Roach's busy ship yard; were closed, and knots of people gathered on the street corners an i talked in subdued tones of the -;ealamity. A jury of inquest was promptly surlmon T ed, and an investigation begun', but the matter was looked into ;only'' deep enough . to render . the . mystery i more Unexplainable, Fireworks; as explo sives do not possess 'the stength dis played by the force that(vented` its rago in the little stone' staucture adjoin ing the Fprter tirnsion. The power that was "displayed was sirnt4 marvel ous, and it could only haye had its (Agin in some one o the , mihy explo sive compounds that are net , allowed, 1 to be brought withiorthe limits of most cities. The fact—which is denied by' Professor Jackson—that the formida ble looking cartridges used in_ Spring-, 'field rifles were secreted sointiwhere 'in the building is suspectible of proof. Eighteen persons I were killed out right, several iojurerfatally and over fifty were wounded, etime - of them in a frightful manner. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. - The. West ;Chester effersonian re vives Robert.E. l v-Monniiiin as a earidi for Govt-rnoV. _ • • The wicked Williamsport Gazelle dud Bulletin suggests that Mrs. Hayes' pie :tare be pat in the White House . wine cellar, which itt now well stocked. The New York uSun says that Mr. Tilden averted war in 1876. It would appear' from this that your Uncle Sam uel would have been a valuable man to have bad around in 1860:—Atla n ta (Ga.) Constitution. Nothing will so thoroughly and speedily bOak np the Manion despo tism as•an example of t be authority and power of Ithe Government punishing the leaders'for crime, and showing the ignorant dupes the futility of their. bravado and the extent of their mends; city.--Providence Journal. It is not a good plan. after the Amen ican eagle has had'an airing, to put th' bird in a bag. We may not Want the eagle,to soar. 'immediately to the son, and scream his della* beyond the but the bird most at least sit upon the topmost bough of the Ameri can apple-tree.— Cincinnati Commer cial. • The Apportionment Bill, es it passed the House, was' adopted Tuesday by the Senate without arPendment. It will now go to the. President, - ,' . and will undoubtedly receive his signature. Frank Sampson, a; colored man, has been arrested at Pittsburg for robbing the pawn-shop of Nathan MeDOwell in Allegheny; City of $5OO worth ;of jewelry. A w4shwotnan living . in .Franklin,. Venango county ; is' reported by. the Oil City .filerrick to. have Overity 7 eight children. *She is .not yet 50_ yearn old - " CONDENSED NEWS. • Tlio Goiter4in; of Virginia has vetoed the auti-dnehng bit!. ',i4Tudge „Cox is 4oir trying Smaller cases than tbut :Guitean, . and ho is much happier tban be was. - 4:rumor is current that cx.Governor Morgan, of New York, has donated $20,000 to Williams College. The production of tea in Japan is Steadily incthasinfr, atid now reaches over 90,000,000 ponnds au unally. - The New York. Young MeiN Christian Amocsiation gnet in State Con vention last week. . . There were 172_buiiiiess firms ip the .trefied States tailed during the week en'aing Feb.:l4. , Hire. Kate. Sprague has bejil granted a diioree from her husband, ex-Senator Sprague, at K.p4ston, It. I. flue rate of State taxation in 'Massa chusetts is lower than anyarber9 vise in ttic coutiry. ' ".$. Gen., (Irma / is expeetoi ktt We White hiinsa.awn god . st of the Pres,ident for ow du' ye, übont ttio*end of the month. Heart' B ilzer,, while examining an electric on Tuesday, at Pittsburg,• Pa., i•lacad hie hand on:the wire, and lA+Bl3 killed by the shock. Mr. and Mts. Tom Thumb celebrated the nineteenth anniversary of their marriage in St. Louis on Friday eve ning Opt of 34.574 nelvspapers and period ical. 4 published in the world, 15,500 ate in English; Of the rest half are in. per-_ marl, and a fourth iu French. f' -I • ' All the New Jersey Senator — sand Rep resentatives, Republicans and Demo crats alike, join in, an appeal to the President in behalf of Fitz John POrter. Prosident Arthur haslnade 530 nomi nations since the beginning of his ad- Ministration, thirty-five of them from New York. Mrs. James K. PO is not wealthy . On the contrary;' 'B' he has - outlived all her means, ,but like a true lady that she is, she has -never thrn4t her pecuniary 'troubles upon the"-public attention. 'The Chicago lieter-Ocean has taken up work the police &Axed, and pub lished a two-page list or gamblers' ad •lresses whose places nre'protected by 'Mayor Harrison. • The Senate on Tnesd•ty confirmed John C. New us Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Piukney B. Pinch hack, as Surveyor of Customs at New Orleans. The Maryland penitentiary is Ott a self-supporting basis. The , prisonern were clothed and fed last year out of their own earnings, and the SIT Li of $1,993 wa. left over for the State treasury. The rag warehonie of Bergess Meyer 8r05.,'. , the sail loft of R. H. Parker, the .Albion paint works and the warehouse of Gairett Bros,,lin Phila delphia; were damaged by ere on. Mon day to the extent of 5.150,000 Hiram Watkins, Wm. Artlod, and a number of miles,. were bloA. to fragl, ments to-day in the, Sloari - shaft near' Scranton, Pa., by the .explosion of one hundred pounds' of powder. A spark wa4 let in by a small briy. . Representative-Kelley en Monday in troduced a bill in Congress appropria ting $966,010, or an much as May be found 'due to the soldiers, seamen and marines of AdmiralTarragnt'a fleet, for the.captnres made at New Orleans op April 25, 1862. • The Hoosse Tunnel cost fourteen times the original estimates. This is a handy fact to remember, novr l that Con gress is asked to half cut the Isthmus, or put a railroad - over it, or a canal to help Baltimore, or another to aid Chi cago. , Bev. George el Barnes, the mountain evangelist, has been doing missionary work at Louisville. He has made 2,473 conversions in seven weeks; Many afflicted people confessed to him their faith in prayer for their restoration to health. Hyatt's Military College at Chester, Pa.. was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday afternoon last. It bad - 143 studenth. The losi is s2oo,ooo;•insur fince, $75,000. The building waa 150 feet long and 60 wide, fedi. stories high, overlooking the city, aqd ,was built at an outlay of .6125,000 by a stock com pany in 1865% I -Col; Madison Drake 'has bean ac !.-- quitted, in the main, by the. court Mar tial, of the charges of cheering for Gen. Arthur and rejoicing at the time of the. death of President Garfield. He intend to carry the case to the Supreme-Court of New Jersey, 'on the ground that the court martial had' no right to try him, as lie-wtri not,on military duty. ,The- Grend Jury of the District of COlumbia have indicted the following peraons for complicity in the Star- Route frauds: Es-Assistant Pastmakter- Genital, Thomas J. Brady; Senator Stephen W. Dorsey;-'his brother, J. W. Dorseyr his private secretary, M. C. Berdell; Mr. John B. Miner, of the firm of Miner, Vale dc Co.; Captain W. H. Turner, formerly- a clerk - in the Postoffice Department, and Mr. J. W: Peck; a brother-intlaw of ex:Senator Dorsey. • A Penalty for Polygamy. WASIMIGT(II 4 4 Feb. 16---One of the provisions of the Anti-Polygamy. bill passed by the Senate to-day is that any man living in `a. State or Territory with in the United States who is found co habiting witto mer i t) than one woman shall be deemed guilty of a misdemea -04. __The penalty is fixed . at $3OO fine, or in:kprisonmen tior six months or both. The bill further prcivides that no po lygamist -or bigamist shall have the . rig,ht to 'vote in any election, or to bold_office under the Government, even if he be elected. The) teacher of a public .schooi.at Hammond's Corners, Ohio, : whipped the largest girl in his -school severely a few 'days ago, and so offended her fath er that be had the offending teacher ar rested. When the 'case was called for trial i the prosecuting attorney an nounced that the case had• been ami cably adjusted. The teacher had not _only persuaded the, girl, that her. pun iti ishment ad been deseived, but had al so indictw d her to risk his futnie'disei- One se his wife. Gen; M.. 0. 'Wigs, who lias . filleiV.the °Mei, Quartermastfs ,, General, since hia designation to that poet by Presi dent Lincoln, in nay, 1861, received notice of hie retirement from, the army atlo o'clork, .1?", b.. 6. lie mule fewly at , once to iscate.his aftet spending some time in artangitig his paraurs, hertan at noon •to • rec-ive-the clerks and etny'oyes of bureau. ThPre was' a emitinnal prOces4On to his office, whore the' employei took leave of their eb.t Chief. The scene was very effecting, as eteployes of the office .are_ very much attached to (1 n., The. leave taking was'yery informal. New Advertisments. FARM FOR SALE , . A farm of fifty acres. located In the 'ysox val ley, five minutes drive from Boma borough. For full particulars, address JAMES C. FORBES. . • Towanda. FII '23feb4 w* ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Estate df Anna Bill, deceased, late of the town ship of Smithfield, Bradford county, Pa, Letters of administration having been issued nut of the Orphan's Court of Bradford county to the undersigned upon the estate of the above {tamed decedent, notice is; therefore "hereby given that- all persons indebted to the estate above named must insite' immediate payment. and all persons having claims against the same must present them duly authenticated for set- Alement to me: • • • N. P. IfIdES, Administrator. Toeands, Pa.. Feb. 22, 1882. .DR..JOHN CORES • • VEGETABLE MEDICINES • FOR MAN AND -BEAST. FOB MANKIND—Dr. Jan Con's Liniment of Oils, price SO cents 0 bottle; Healing 'Vegetable Gum and Oil Balsam, 50 cents a bottle; Vegetable Healing Salve and Sticking Plaster, l2fi cents a roll; Speedylnelief or Pain Remedy, price 40 eta. FOR ANIMALS— Horses, - Cattle, Sheep, Swine. also Poultry, Dr. John Con's Veterinary Oil Liniment. Llch bottle contains one.balf pint. Price, one -dollar a bottle. Prepared by John Corr, Doctor of Pharmacy, Towanda, Pa. Dr. Con will attend to or take charge of pa tients, especially chronic cues, when -requested to do so. Vegetable remedies only used. [thl6-3m nRNA,MENTAL JOB PRINTING specialty at th• lizposucait = A. N. NELSON 0_ - c tDEALER IN /At ' l l4 . WATCHES, 'CLOCKS, '. -- FINE GOLD AND PLATED .A 16,-: - -- -- -- JEWELER Of every variety, and Spectacles. ita- , Particular attention paid to repairing. Shop in Decker & Vouglit's Grocery Store, Alain Street, Towanda. Penna. a ep9.80 And . had One of His 25 OENT DINNERS feb2C-Gm HOTEL FOR SALE.— ` I offer the American Hotel property for sale-at a great bargain. _The Hotel maybe seen on the corner of Bridge and Water streets,in Towanda Borough. It Is one of the best and moat central locations in the place. There is a good barn connected with the property. The tree bridge and new. depot near-to it make this Hotel desirable for any one wishing to engage in the ,business. A good active man with a small captal can pay for the property in a short time from the profits. It was papered and painted new last spring and is now in excellent condition. JOSEPEI G. PATPON, Tov. - anda, Pa., Sept. 22. 1881-tf. , . 20TEI TZARThe original and only, the • favorite national family.pa per. The SEan SPANGLED ttANNEIt, begiallits 2uth year, January, 1862, Established 1863, Theßan can is the oldest and most poprilar - paper of its class. Every numbar contains 8 large pages. 40 long columns, with many Comic; Humorous and Attractive Engrayings. It is crowded full of the best Stories, Po tter y , Wit, Humor. Fun, - --making a paper to amuse and instract old and young. It exposes Frauds, Swindlers and Chests and evary line is amusing. instructve or entertainicg. Ev erybody needs it; 50,000 now read it, and at only 50 cents a year, it is by far-the best, cheapest, most popular' paper printed. For 75 cents six fine silver teaspoons are sent with the BANNER one year. Fifty ether superb premiums Send ten cents for 3 months trial trip, with full pros pectus; or 50 cents for Biwxan a wholelyear.--- Specimens FREE. Send sow. Address, BANNER PUBLISHING CO., Hinsdale, N,H, tint trational Vault, TOWANDA PA. CAPITAL PAID IN $125,000 SURPLUS FUND • 0,000 This Bank offers unusual faeilitieS for the transaction of a, general banking ,business. N. N. BETTfi, ' JOS. POWELL, - Cashier. President • feb. 1..7R. PATENTS. (U. S. AND FOREIG9. Frank A. Fonts, Attorney4t-Law, Lock Box, 356 Washington, D.C. Ifitil'on years' experience. I make vo cmanoz folk, my services' unless a patent be granted. Preliminary examination in the Pitent Office as to thli patentability of an in - ventien yaws. Said sketch or model of the ,do 'rice and's) report will bo made as. to the probe pally of obtaining a patent. Special attention given to rejected applica tions in the hands of others. =MO U. S. Senators Hon. Geo. F. Edmunds, of Vermont ; lion. David Davl, and Gen. John A. Logan, of Illinois ; Hon, BOW. IL Hill, of Geor gia; Hon. L Q. C. Lamar. of Mies; lion. 8 H. Cullom: Gov. of Illinois; the Hon. Comtnissioner of Patents and Corps of Examiners and the pro.. prietor of this paper. • Write for circular and instructions. • • tinovtf CANCERS CURED • CRANE'S CANCER INFLR MARY,•- ADDISON ; N. Y. • HUNDREDS OF PERSONS from ail parts of the world have been cured of this much dreaded disease and are now living witnesses that they have been rescued from a terrible and untnnely death.- Doctors. Ministers and the *Poor treated Free. Write fors Circular giving full partkulars. Address Drs. GEO. CRANE & ROSH-BROWN Addison, N.:F. Sept.3o.lyr.OPllace. KENDALL'S SPAITIN CURE . Is sure in its effects, mild in its action'suin does not blister, yet is pekoltrating and powerfal to reach every deep seated pain or to remove any bony growth or other enlargements, such as spavins, splints curbs, callous, sprains, melt isms and any lameness -and all enlargements of the joints -or limbs, or for rheumatism in man and for any purpose for which liniment is used for man or beast - It- is now known to be the best liniment for mail ever used, acting mlld and yet certain in its effects. Send address for - Illustrated Circular which wo think gives minim) proof of its virtues. No remedy has ever met with snob unqualified nc cess to our knowledge, for beast as well a man. Price $1 per bottle. or six bottles tor $5. All Druggists have it or can get it for you,. or it will be sent to any address on reaMpt of prico by the proprietors, Dn. B. J.' ERNTDALI. & CO.. Enos burgh Falls. Vt. Sold by all Dram,,lsts. 66a week in your own town.- $5 Outlit treo. No rise. 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IL Drake. tag., Detroit, Michig-An, ru.l-rs,l beyond all deseriptiod from a skin dis,A 4E , appeared on hi hands, head and face, and Dear!? destroyed his eyes. the moat carefal duct,nny faded 'to' help him, and after all had h; used the Cuticnrs +Resolvent (blorxl paritlm ;h . ternally, Cuticura and endear& ficAap ilye grf4t skin cures) externally, and• was cured, and tau remained perfectly Well to this day, • SKIN RUMORS. Mri. S. E. Whipple) Decatur. Michigan, irrnt, that her face, head and 1101110 parts of Ler trAy were almost raw. Head covered with cabs am sores, _suffered fearfully and tried evarythi Lg permanently cured by Cuticura Resolvent (1)1m purifier) and Cuticura and Cuticura . cap ;tb . „ great skin cures.) CIITICURA Rol:Oodles are for sale by all druggists!' p r i c ,„ ot.enticrirs;* Medicinal Jelly, usual oozes, large boxes, $l. CIITICMIA ILLSOLVErr, the :14 Blood Purifier, $1 per bottle. Ccmulct Buz. ism. 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