BUTLER CITIZEN.
lOHN H. t W. C. NE6LEY. PROP'RS.
Entered at the Poatoffi.ce at Butler ait
seeond-elass* matter.
Republican National Ticket,
FOR PRESIDENT, 1880,
GEN. JAMES A. GARFIELD,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT. 1880,
HON. CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
Republican State Nominations.
FOR JUDGE BUPREME COURT,
Hon. Henry Green,
OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
Hon. John A. Lemon,
OF BLAIR COCNTT.
Republican County Nominations.
Conferees.
J. D. MoJUNKIN, ESQ.. of Batler County.
Senate.
JOHN M. GREER, E«Q-, of Butler borough.
(Subject to the District Conference )
Assembly.
WTT.I.TAIf P. BBAHAM. of Mercer township
SYLVESTER D. BELL, of Millerstown borough.
Itlstrfet Attorney.
A. M. CUNNINGHAM, Eng., of Butler borough.
Associate Judge.
ftttßAHAlf McCANDLESS, of Butler townahip.
Connty Surveyor.
NATHAN M. BLATOB, of Butter borough.
COIJHTY COMMITTEE MEET-
The members of the Republican County
Committee are requested to meet in the Arbi
tration Room, in Butler, on Saturday, July
31st, at 1 o'clock P. M.
A. L. CRAIG, Chairman.
Bctleb, Pa.. July 20,1880.
REPUBLICAN MEETING.
There will be a Republican meeting
at Centreville, next Monday evening,
Aug. 2nd, in the I.'O. O. P. hall, base
ment story. Col. J. M Thompson and
others will speak and fully discuss the
issues of the day.
IF matters are let alone in this coun
ty, and nothing further done to divide
or distract the party, It will not be
three weeks until every Republican in
the county is at work for the whole
ticket.
As matters now stand Mr. M'Junkin
will not lose fifty Republican votes in
this county at the election. A few men
in this place are not friendly and they
will be equal to just their own votes
and no more.
THESE are a few men in this place who
affect great anxiety as to the election
of a Congressman in this district, and
yet these are the men who are planning
and conspiring to put a second candi
date in the field. What hypocrisy!
A riw personal enemies of Mr. Mc-
Jnnkin In this place are all that have
so far made any opposition to his nom
ination for Congress. The Republi
cans of the county are satisfied with
it, and no complaint has come from any
township or district it
THI oft repeated blowing in the Ea
gle, that Sheriff Hoffman took part at
our late primaries at the instance of
friends of Mr. McJunkin, is all bosh.
The trouble seems to be that the Sher
iff and Mr. Robinson are not on good
terms, arising out of the fact that the
Sheriff does not give the Eagle all the
printing it wants.
THI Parker Phoenix of last week
says: "Politics are growing warm and
dangerous in Batler county. If the Re
publicans do not speedily get to work
and nominate Mr. McJunkin unani
mously and pull together, why their
friends of the opposition will walk off
with the cake. Stop fooling and get
down to business."
THI members of the County Com
mittee, at their meeting on Saturday
next, should be on their guard as to do
ing anything that may endanger the
success of the party in the county this
lall. If a man is defeated at the pri
maries for nomination they should tell
him he must submit to the will of the
party. It is a good rule to let well
enough alone.
A MISTAKE. —We have received a
line from Charles Hoffman, Esq., of
Saxonburg, correcting the Millerstown
Herald, in its assertion that be was for
Hancock. He says he is "for the pro
tection of the industries of Pennsylva
nia, and is and has been since the nom
ination of Gen. Garfield for him, and will
remain so." Will the Millerstown
Herald correct its mistake ?
THK Senatorial Conferees of this
State Senate district, Armstrong and
Butler counties, met in Freeport last
Wednesday, and after some ballots
given by each of the counties for their
respective candidates, adjourned to
meet in the same place on Aug. 11th.
Armstrong county claims the present
nomination as her right, Butler having
had the last one, and it is said her can
didate, Mr. Meredith, intends to insist
upon the rights of his county.
BUTLER county now has the candi
date for Congreßs in this district, the
nomination being obtained by the ac
tion of two out of the three counties of
the district Let our county stand by
her own man. His conferees have
acted and the matter is now in his
hands. If the other county sees proper
to put another candidate in the field,
that will be a matter to be arranged
hereafter among the candidates, who
we have no doubt will bring about a
satisfactory settlement in the end. The
aiattor has passed out of the bands of
the County Committee, and is with the
candidates now.
THOMAS ROBINSON, ever since the
primary election, has been asserting
that he was defeated by Democratic
votes, whereas the truth and the fact
is, he made every effort to get all the
Democratic votes he could at the pri
mary, and those who know best say
that he received two to Mr. M'Junkin's
one of that kind. We cautioned and
protested in the CITIZEN, before the
primary, against Democrats voting,
while not a word was found in the Ea
gle on that subject. He expected them,
and it is and has been our opinion that
he received at the primary two to one
of irregular and improper votes. The
only trouble with him is he did not re
ceive enough, and therefore bolts the
nomination of his competitor.
THE population of the leading cities
of the United States is to be learned
from the census just taken. New York
contains 1,209.561, an increase of 24
per cent, on 1870 ; Philadelphia 842,-
000, increase 24 per cent.; Brooklyn,
554,693, increase 40 per cent.; Chicago,
477,500, increase 90 per cent.; St.
Louis, 375,000, increase 21 per cent.;
Boston, 355,000, increase 40 per cent.;
Baltimore, 330,000, Cincinnati, 255,-
804, San Fransisco, 227,350, increase
of 51 per cent.; New Orleans, 207,328-
The other six-figured cities, making 18
in all thus far, are, in order; Wash
ington (160,000), Cleveland (157,000),
Buffalo (149,000), Newark (136,000),
Milwaukee (130,000), Detroit (119,-
000), Louisville (112,000), and Provi
dence (104,000).
WHILE Mr. Thomas Robinson en
deavored by all manner of dirty work
and tricks to prevent our county from
getting the candidate for Congress in
this district, although our county had
an equal claim to said nomination ; yet
he is now the chief engineer, it is said,
in trying to get for the county the Sen
ate nomination, which it is well known
we cannot rightfully claim, according
to party usage. This kind of work
won't do, gentlemen, and we wonder
you have not learned it by this time.
There must be fair dealing all around
and if the events of the past six mouths
have not taught anything yet, you
are destined to further disappointment.
We announce this not only as a de
mand for fair play, but in the interest
and for the harmony of the Republican
party of this county, which we deairo
much to promote, but which has been
outraged for some time past through and
for the selfish ends of a few. We know
that a majority of the Republicans of
the county are heartily with us in seek
ing a relief from the tricksters who
have been thus using them and the
party for their own advantage.
So GREAT has been the contempt ex
pressed here and elsewhere for a man
who would bring suits in another
county against his neighbors here, and
for matters of a political character hap
pening here at home, that Mr. Thomas
Robinson found it necessary to come
out and make some apology for the
same in the Eagle of last week. So far
as we were concerned we cared noth
ing about it and declined to notice so
disgraceful an act. At Mercer where it
was done, and as soon as the circum
stances in which it was done became
known, it had the very reverse effect of
what he and the three persons who
had gone there with him expected. The
little recognition of any kind they had
received there was materially lessened
after that, and many were outspoken
in their expressions of contempt for a
man who could be guilty of such low
spite work. Many so expressed them
selves and we were told shunned him
thereafter. The very reason that he
gives for slipping off into another
county, to wit., that he had no confi
dence in the Courts of his own county,
where he lives and is best known, is
very clear proof that it is not justice
he seeks but justice he is afraid of. He
is like that other son of "ould Ireland"
the story is told of, who, when on trial
for some offence and was assured by
the Court he should have justice, ex
claimed "and be dad and that is just
what I'm afraid of." There are two
things that have become a mania with
Thos. Robinson. One is to attend polit
ical Conferences or Conventions and
be whispering and winking around,
and the other is the mania for bring
ing suits. As to his bringing suits, if the
records of our Court here were ex
amined some interesting cases would
probably be found in which he was
personally a party. It is not likely
that our Judges and Courts here will
suffer much by the loss of confidence
in them by Mr. Robinson. Their ways
may not be his ways of doing things,
but if they allow him to confidentially
whisper to them at the Bar occasionally,
we still believe and hope that they can
yet get along with him.
BUTLER COUNTY AND BORO.
The completed census of this county
makes the population now, 51,792. In
1870, it was only 36,510, showing
an increase in the past ten years of,
15,282. This is a much larger increase
we notice than that of any of the sur
rounding counties, and being nearly
42 per cent.
In this Borough the population was
now found to be, 3,164. In 1870,
1,935, or over 50 per cent, of an in
crease. There are 14 farms within the
Boro. limits; 40 manufactories ; 6 boot
and shoe makers (who manufac
ture over SSOO. per year) ; 1 tannery,
1 brick yard, 2 grist mills, 32 deaths
happened within the past year, from
June 1, '79, to June 1, 'BO, being just
the same number as in the year 1870, by
the then census. There are 32 pauper*
or indigent persons; 10 prisoners in
jail; 1 blind; 3 insane, and 3 idiotic.
QUije 2S» 1SS0»
THE CRAWFORD COUNTY CASE
EXPLAINED.
As some of our Republicans of this
county would like to understand the
merits of the trouble existing, or grow
ing out of the late Republican Conven
tion of Crawford county, we give the
following from a statement made and,
appearing in Crawford county papers. It
will be seen that the point in the case
is as to whether there was an unfair
or illegal vote at the primary in the
city of Titusville that county. Dr.
Roberts and S. B. Dick were the can
didates for the Congressional nomina
tion. Roberts beat Dick in the county
by 113 votes, and Dick's friends dis
covering this, made an attempt, in the
meeting of the Return Judges, to
throw out two wards of Titusville,
but failed to have the same done. The
Convention divided and each was de
clared the nominee of the county. Dr.
Roberts' and his conferees appeared at
Mercer at the late district conference
and there acted with the conferees of
this county, as was noticed by the
proceedings of the conference, and that
led to the nomination of Mr. McJun
kin of this county as the Republican
candidate for Congress in the district,
the nomination being made by two
counties of the same. But, as we have
said, the following will show to the
Republicans of Butler county which
side in Crawford was right aud also
show that Dr. Roberts was the fair
nominee of that county.
EXTRACT FROM STATEMENT.
"It appearing from Secretary Hurd's
report that W. B. Roberts had re
ceived 2,721 votes for Congress, and
S. B. Dick 2,608 votes for Congress
and that Stewart 11. Wilson, C. W.
Tyler, H. D. Lowing and D. V. D' r
ickson had received the hignest vote
for the Legislature, they were de
clared the nominees of the Republican
party at the coming election. •
After passing the usual resolutions,
endorsing the Chicago nominations,
pledging support of nominees, anthor
izing Dr. Roberts to name the Con
gressional conferees, electing a chair
man of the County Committee, ad
journed.
It may be interesting to compare
the vote of Titusville at the Primary
Meetings in 1878, for Mr. Dick, with
that cast for Dr. Roberts in 1880 :
VOTE OF 1878 —FOR DICK :
Ist ward 252
2nd " 213
3rd " 08
4th " 205
Total ......... " c 8
VOTE OF 1880 —FOB DICK !
Ist ward 15
2nd " 9
3rd " 8
4th " 3
Total 35
VOTE OF 1880—FOE ROBERTS :
Ist ward 221
2nd " 206
3rd " f 109
4th " mt..»197
Total 703
By a comparison of the votes of 1878
and 1880 it will be seen that Mr. Dick
received but twenty-live votes less in
Titusville in 1878 than Dr. Roberts
did on the 17th day of June, 1880.
The vote of Meadville in 1878, upon
Congress, was as follows.
FOR DICK :
Ist ward ...•••140
2nd " -121
3rd " "8
4th " 107
Total 446
The vote upon Congress in Mead
ville in 1880, was as follows:
FOR DICK :
Ist ward 164
2nd " 107
3rd " 143
4th •' 105
Total 039
FOR ROBERTS :
Ist ward 41
2nd •' 83
3rd " 31
4th " 41
Total li' 9
The names of the 29 Return Judges
that retired for consultation were, Jas.
Graham, J. F. Odell, M. V. Sperry,
Norton L. Gleason, F. 11. Nichols, A.
P. Marshall, William Titus, A. J. Mc-
Kee, A. E. Amsden, J. L. Seek, I. M.
Kerr. C. N. Smith, John Burch, J. R.
Kerr, W. W Sterling, J. P. Griffith,
Wesley Swoop, William Hayes, J. 11.
Wade, D. A. Kerr, John J. Carter, A.
H. Steele, W. Lowrie, John Lee, H.
B. Herrington, O. R. Skclton, James
Stelle, C. W. Knerr and F. S Mellon,
making 29 in number, as shown by
their signatures upon the tally sheet,
reported by Messrs. Strauss and Hurd.
Since then Mr. W. E. Dennis, from
Pine, who was not in the Convention
when the vote was taken upon the 4th
ward of Titusville, has added his name
to said tally list, making thirty.
most immediately after the adjourn
ment of the Convention, S. P. War
riner added his name to the list, ac
companied with a statemeut in these
words:
" To whom it may concern:
"As the Return Judge from Con
neaut township upon the 18th and 10th
inst. (June), I voted yes upon the mo
tion to throw out the vote of the 4th
ward of Titusville, but was satisfied
with the result of the vote of 30 (thir
ty) to 29 (twenty-nine), and the tally
that refused to throw out said vote
and was then and now am of the
opinion that the Chairman of the Con
vention should have announced the
result, which would have retained the
Titusville vote."
Following such statement of Mr.
Warrincr, upon the back of said tally
list is the certificate of George A.
Goodwill, the Return Judge from Steu
ben, in place of David Munn, iu these
words :
"I fully and cheerfully concur iu the
foregoing statement of S. J\ Warrincr,
Return Judge from Conneaut township,
and agree with his conclusions."
Added to such statements of Mes
srs. Warriner and Goodwill, is that of
Mr. A. B. Barton, of Troy township,
and is in the following form :
"I was the Return Judge for Troy
township to the Republican Conven
tion upon the 18th and 19th inst., and
was at the time and still am of the
opinion that it was the duty of Chair
man Reisinger to have announced the
result of the vote when called upon by
Col. Carter and others, to declare the
result of 30 against throwing out the
Titusville vote, to 29 rejecting it, al
though I voted yes upon that vote,
which was in favor of throwing it
out."
Upon attaching tie names of such
there Return Judges, Warriner, Good
will and Barton, to the original 29 that
refused to submit to the tyranny, and
unfair ruling and domineering of Chair
man Il<-isinger. we tind thirty-two out
of the sixty Return Judges in the
countv who refused to countenance a
system of unfairness that the party
cannot tolerate and prosper."
LETTER FROM MERCER.
July 16th, 1880. *
Hon. John //. Neijlet/ :
DEAR SIR: —I was rejoiced that
your conference at Mercer nominated
Mr. McJunkin. He was altogethtT the
best selection you could have made.
He will be most cordially supported
by all the voters of the Republican
party in this County who desired to
have our Congressional district rep
resented once more by an able, honest
man, who would not be influenced by
the corrupt dynasty, known as the
Cameron ring, that has long dis
graced the State by its methods and
management.
Do not permit Mr. McJunkin to
make any compromise with Miller or
Dick by which his name would be
withdrawn, for he will get the support
of all the honest Republicans of the
district, let the result be what it may.
And if Miller and Dick should still
persist in placing one or the other in
the field they will be responsible for the
loss of a Republican member from this
district if Mr. McJunkin should there
by be defeated.
Yours Respectfully, ***.
The above letter is from one of the
oldest and most highly respected
publicans of Mercer county, one whom
the Republicans of that county have
honored and trusted in the past with
positions of the highest responsibility.
It is but one of the many evidences
coming to our knowledge as to how
Mr. McJunkiu's nomination is received
in Mercer county, aud we speak know
ingly when we state that he will re
ceive a large Republican vote in that
county in November. In Crawford
county, as against Dick or Miller, if
either of them should be put into the
field against him, we also speak
knowingly, and what we have every
reason to believe as true when we say
that Mr. McJunkin vyill hqye wore
than the half of the Republican vote of
that county in November. In this,
Butler county, there is in truth and
iu fact no dissatisfaction with his nom
ination among the great mass of the
party and we do not believe there are
a hundred Republicans in the county
who would refuse to support him- All
the opposition to him comes from a few
men here in Butler and which is made
from personal motives alone. Being an
honest man he would not answer their
purpose, and hence the hostility of Mc-
Candless, Robinson & Co., to him here.
It remains to be seen what their bolt
ing and defection can accomplish-
GE.V. PURVIANCIE contributes the fol
lowing to" the press of this county
which Is of Interest at the present
time, when taken in connection with
the recent Census of this county and
certain provisions of the New Consti
tution of this State :
I am frequently asked the question
lately whether vye are eqtitlo(j to As
sociate Judges if our county shall con
stitute a separate Judicial district.
The question is raised under the last
enumeration of tie inhabitants, under
the sth Section of the Judiciary Article
of the Constitution The provision by
this Section is "that whenever a
county shall contain forty thousand in
habitants it shall constitute a separate
judicial district, and shall elect one
judge learned in the law ; and the Gen
eral Assembly shall provide for addi
tional judges, as the business of the
said districts may require.—Counties
containing a population less than is
sufficient to constitute separate dis
tricts shall be formed into convenient
single districts, or, if necessary, may
be attached to contiguous districts as
the General Assembly may provide.
The office of Associate Judge, not
learned in the law, is abolished in
counties forming separate districts, but
the several associate judges in office
when the Constitution shall be
adopted shall serve for their unexpired
terms.
It is provided by tho schedule, Sec
tion 14, that "the Geueral Assembly
shall, at the next succeeding session
after each decennial census, and not
oftner, designate the several judicial
districts, as required by this Constitu
tion."
It is further provided by the sched
ule, 16th Section, that "Associate
Judges not learued in law, elected
after the adoption of this Constitution,
shall be commissioned to hold their
offices for the term of five years from
the first day of January next after
their election "
And it is farther provided by the
25th Section of the schedule that "All
oersons in office in this Commonwealth,
at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution and at the first election
under it, shall hold their respective of
fices until the term for which they
have been elected, or appointed, shall
expire, and untill their successors shall
be duly qualified, unless otherwise
provided in this Constitution."
The populatk n of Butler county ac
cording to the returns of the enumera
tors is about 51,792. This then is one
of the counties to which the Con.;titu
tional requirement applies, and is de
clared by thi! Constitution to be a sep
arate judicial district; though declara
tory legislation may be necessary to
give effect to it so far as relates to the
attachment of Lawrence county. Hut
no legislation can make it otherwise
than a separate district unless the pro
vision in the sth Section, relating to
counties containing a population less
than forty thousand may attach it
to contiguous districts.—may apply as
to the counties situated as is the
counties of Butler, Mercer, etc.,
oach containing a population of over
forty thousand, and consequently,
each constituting a separate judicial
district. The population in Lawrence
county in 1870 was 27,298, and from
proportional increase of other largely
manufacturing and mining counties,
may contain a population of 40,000
and so become a separate district, in
which case the law judge of this dis
trict would be the judge in that county
until the expiration of the term for
which he was commissioned.
And as to the Associate Judges of!
this county, the Judge elected at the j
next November election, if comtnis- ,
sioned before the re-districting of the 1
State, would hold the office for the pe
riod of five years.—Though no elec
tion of Associate Judges would occur
thereafter.
My purpose, however, in this com
munication, is more to awaken inves
tigation than to express an opinion.
P.
♦
National Greenback Labor Party
Convention.
The members of the National Green
back Labor Party of Butler county arc
requested to meet at the places of hold
ing elections in their respective dis
tricts on Saturday, August 7th, be
tween the hours of 1, and 7, P. M , and
elect delegates to a County Conven
tion to be held in Butler, Monday, Au
gust 9th, at 1 P. M., for the purpose of
making such nominations as the Con
vention may deem advisable.
S. 11. PEIRSOL, Chairman.
BUTLER, July 21st, 1880
Messrs. Editors of liutler Citizen :
Our party being destitute of that
highly essential if not ornamental ap
pendage known as an "Organ," it bo
comes necessary to ask our friends of
the press of the two old parties to
publish our call for us, hoping for the
time when we may return the compli
ment under similar circumstances. We
would like to remunerate you for so
doing had not the exchequer long since
been drained and no "barrel" appear
ing on the political horizon ready for
tapping. Yours Respectfully,
S. H. PEIRSOL.
THE VOTE IN NOVEMBER.
PITTSBURGH, July 13, 1880.
MESSRS. EDITORS :—Owing to the
amount of noise the Democrats are
making about their candidate, it will
not be out of place to present to the
consideration of your readers some cal
culations on the chances of the respec
tive parties in the coming Presidential
election. Therefore, I present the fol
lowing table, showing the States which
will undoubtedly go Republican, aud
those which will undoubtedly go Dem
cratic, together with the doubtful
States:
REPUBLICAN. DEMOCRATIC.
California 6 Alabama 10
Colorado 3 Arkansas 6
Illinois 21 Delaware 3
lowa 11 Georgia 11
Kansas 5 Kentucky 12
Maine...,,,..,,,, 7 Louisiana S
Massachusetts 18 Maryland 8
Michigan' 11 Mississippi 8
Minnesota 5 Missouri 15
Nebraska 3 North Carolina 10
Nevada 3 South Carolina 7
New Hampshire 5 Tennessee 12
Ohio 22 Texas 8
Oregon 3 West Virginia 5
Pennsylvania 29
Rhode' Island A Total 123
Vermont 5
lb;
Total 166
DOUBTFUL.
Connecticut...... 6 New York 35
Florida 4 Virginia 11
Indiana 13
New Jersey 9 Total 80
California, Oregon and Nevada may
be safely set down as Repqblicaq. Al
though Qarfield opposed the Chinese
bill in Congress, the people of these
States will bo satisfied when they read
his letter of acceptance. He will, of
course, lose some votes (pr incipally in
California), but not enough to endan
ger the States. The Republicans car
ried the late election in Oregon, gain
ing a Congressman, electing their Su
premo Judges by over one thousand
majority, and obtained possession of
both braßfhps of tha I,e#iui«>uv-o. In
18f <> Hayes carried California by 2,805
majority, and Oregon by 547 majority;
and in 1879 the Republican candidate
for Governor of California was elected
by 20,408 plurality. Florida is doubt
ful for the reason that it is a Republi
can State, as are also several other
southern States, if a fair and honest
election could be had. New Jersey is
doubtful because the Republicans have
carried both branches of the Legisla
ture and made large gains throughout
the State. In Virginia there is a spir
ited struggle going ou between the two
rival factions of the Democratic party,
the Re-adjusters and Debt-payers. Each
party has put up a separate electoral
ticket, and if they do not settle their
troubles, the Garfield electors will be
chosen. The following is anothiii l cal
culation leaving New York alone
doubtful:
REPUBLICAN. I'M K ILATH - .
California 6 Alabama 10
Colorado 3 Arkansas i 6
Connecticut 6 Delaware 8
Illinois 21 Florida 4
lowa 11 Georgia It
Kansas 5 Indiana 15
Maine 7 Kentucky 12
Massachusetts.,.,,,,.. 13 Louisiana 8
Michigan 11 Maryland.. 8
Minnesota 5 Mississippi 8
Nebraska .'{.Missouri 15
Nevada 3 North Carolina 10
New Hampshire 5 South Carolina 7
New Jersey • 9 Tenmssce 12
Ohio 22 Texas 8
Oregon 3 Virginia. 11
Pennsylvania 29 West Virginia 5
Rhode Islaud 4 ——
Vermont 5 Total n153
Wisconsin 10
DOUBTFUL.
Total 181, New York 35
It will be seen by the above that
GarfieiJ will lack but four votes of a
majority, giving Indiana and Florida
to the Democrats, but it is very doubt
ful as to their carrying the former
State. Provided tho Democrats carry
New York, they will not necessarily
elect their candidate. The Republi
cans can lose New York and still bo
successful l>y carrying Indiana, Florida,
Virginia or West Virginia, which is
not improbable. But should they car
ry New York, they will have a large
majority of the 369 votes in the Elec
toral College.
Yours respectfully, READER.
IF one can believe that Dr, Tanner
is not humbugging—and for the last
ton days he has been very well
watched—his fast may have a relative,
if not an absolute justification. Tho
doctors and newspapers are taking
more interest in the matter, and are
trying to show that some good may
conic of it. The physicians, at least,
have now a chance to urge with re
newed force their protest against over
eating, aud certainly thero seems to be
good ground for their opinion. The
New York Herald is greatly in I -ve
with the fasting Doctor, and tells its
readers that the human body is made
up of eighty per cent, of water, and
that Tanner is proving that that much
abused liquid is the mainstay of life.
As a matter of fact Dr. Tanner in
creased in weight as soon as he took
to water drinking. The Doctor himself ,
attributes his success to "will power," j
and says that he has so trained him- ;
self that be can successfully stifle "the ;
keen demands of appetite." If men
with strong wills are said to be able to
postpone death when suffering from
diseases that send weaker minds to the
grave, the same ability must be cred
ited to a man possessed of great men
tal energy when slowly dying of star- ,
vation Tiluscillv Herald.
THF HUDSON F.IVER HORROR.
The dreadful accident in the Hudson \
River Tunnel last Wednesday has no
parallel in the history of sub marine
tunneling. The Thames Tunnel, the
first considerable work of the kind, was
twice interrupted in its construction
bv the breaking in of the water, aud
the consequent filling in of the tunnel
with sand and mud, but on the first
occasion all the workmen were got out
alive, and on the second only one
man was cut off by the fallen earth
and drowned. No sub marine tunnel,
whether intended for travel or for
water supply, as at Chicago, has been
completed, if of any great length,
without difficulty and embarrassment
on account of the unequal character of
the material through which the exca
vations were made, and the consequent
tendency to crush in the roof or sides
with the immense pressure of water.
By great good fortune, however, these
disasters have cost little more than an
noying delay and additional expendi
ture of money. In the New York case
there has been a loss of twenty-two
lives, making it one of the most fatal
of engineering disasters in the history
of the country.
The Hudson River Tunnel was pro
jected several years ago and work was
commenced upon it in 1814. The ob
ject was to connect the system of rail
roads on the Jersey City side of the
river with the lines In New York and
with the Underground Railroads pro
posed to be built. The general direc
tion of the Tunnel is from the foot of
Sixteenth street in Jersey City to
Canal street in New York. The main
shaft on the Jersey side has been com
pleted and the great arch carried
toward the river a distance of thirty
feet. From this point the tunnel is
divided into two passages; with a brick
partition wall The work on the con
nection between the main arch aud
the double'unnel had not been com
pleted, and it was here the disaster
occurred.
The men were changing shifts at the
time and there seems to have been
some little carelessness during the pas
sing in and out of the connecting
chamber, by which some of the com
pressed air escaped. This reduced the
outward pressure relied upon to aid
the iron roof or shield at the unfin
ished connection in resisting the pres
sure of the sand and water. A break
occurred, the roof gave way, and with
it the brick partition between the two
smaller tunnels. Eight men at work
on the top of the main arch time
to escape before tho water reached
them, but twenty-two on the other
side of the broken connection were
caught and either suffocated or
drowned. One of the eight who es
caped gave additional horror to the
story of the disaster by stating that
the foremost of those left behiqd w**
caught by fcjosiug iron door and
held hist. Half in and half out, he
was unable to escape himself and
and barred the way against the escape
of his unhappy comrades, and in this
position, pinned fust to await the ris
ing of tho fatal flood, he died a death
(ff excruciating bodily and mental tor
ture.
iUvvnisT ~
FRIRND—Jaue Sttb, 1880, in Butler town
ship, this county, Mr, J jswpti Pneuil, aged 72
years.
McUElßY—July llth, ISSO, in Jcflersou
township, this county, Miss Mirths Eunua
McGeary, daughter ol Mr. William McGeary,
aged 14 years, 3 months and 23 days.
DUNW<"*ODy—At his residence in North
Liberty, Mercer county, July Bth, ISaO, Gilbert
Dunwoody, nged (iO years.
About a year ago he became alHicL .1 with a
cancer. Every etfort was made to remove the
disease, but nil remedies were abortive, lie suf
fered severely but bore it patiently until the
Master called him houie, where pain, sickness
aud death are felt and lea'ed no more. He was
a citizen of Mercer coqufy fpr forty years. His
home was within one mile of llarrlsville, hav
ing spent the greater portion of his life there.
He was highly ret peeled by all who knew him.
He leaves a wile and seven children to mourn
the loss of a kind husband and nu indulgent
father. T ey have the sympathy ol a cir
cle of friends in their sud bereavement.
THOMPSON—JuIy 20, 1880, in Clinton town
ship, Bailor county," Capt. Bobert Thompson,
in his 80th year, fte was bom March 17th, 1792.
Capt. Thumpaan onlisleu March Ist, 1812, un
der command of Capt. Martiu, this county, and
j.lined a Brigade of Iteaver county, under Gen.
MoCulley. Through the ill health of Capt. Mar
tin he resigned his commission and that posi
tion fell upon Capt Thompson, who took com
mand of tl.e Division and tillod the important
station, untill the closo of the war. Mr. Thomp
son was one of our oldest and best citizens,
living for over fifty years on his quiet rural
farm, aud is now gathered like a shook of corn
that is full ripe for that glorious harvest on
high. His remains were oouveved by a large
concourse of friends aud relatives, to the West
minister burial ground the churoh of which he
had been, for over forty-five years a consistent
member, and amongst the very first to establish
for the probation of precious truths in tuo lone
wilderness, and rests from his labors, there to
await the morning of the resnrection when tho
dead shall be called forth to reap the unfading
crown of righteousness, w'jich the Judge will
give to his faithful followers. W. It. T.
Capt. Thompson was the oldest of a larg»
aud respectable family of this county. Hio
youngest brother was the late Chief Justice of
tho Supreme Court of this State, Judge James
Thompson. His brother John Thompson, of
Middlesex township, this county, yet survives,
as well as a sister, Mrs. Gillitand, widow of the
'ate Robert Gilliland of Middlesex township,
dee'd. Mr. John Thompson is one of tho most
active and influential citizens in his section of
the count v.
Audilor'N Report,
Financial statement of Fail-view township
School District for the fiscal year ending June
1880. Dr -
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
Balance on hand from last year..,,,,,,, 1 ?! 502 20
Ree'd from State appropriation 2,02i> 7.5
From Col., including all kinds taxes.. 7,114 50
From all other sources 8 50
Total receipts $9,711 93
C'r.
For purchasing grounds.. ...$ 20 00
For building houses 971 40
For teacher's wages 3,080 oo
For rent an 1 repairs. 96 14
For fuel an 1 contingencies... lt>s 39
Fees of Treasurer 129 o9
Salay of Secretary, Ac 5o oo
For debt and interest paid,,, 1,978 oo
For all purposes, Siu 93 9o
Total money paid out .$0,583 92
Cash on hand JfvJ, 12W ol
Amount due district 1,70tS 06
Tiie a'»nve account lias been duly audited by
the Auditors of this district, aud certified by
them to be correct.
ii". w'J AVISO'N, ( AU,I,UM -
State Normal School,
INDIANA, PA.,
Huildhig, the best of the kind In the United
States.
Accomodations for 100 boarders.
School, tirst-ol.iss in all respects.
Departments—Normal, Classical. Commercial,
Musical.
Tne Kail Term of 15 weeks w ill open on
Monday, September tilli, 1880.
Expenses, as low as those of any other school
affording eipial advantages and accomodations.
For Catalogue, address
JOHN H. FRENCH, LL. D.,
June2B-2m PIUNCH'AL, ,
WYOMING Atlantic Citv, X. J., nearly opposite tin l West Jfr>fT Mil Atlantic
i; 11. T'< [•<>(. w ill tjna tlii- House the nw-t convenient t<> stop at in the < ity,
as it i • w i'hin a short distance of the ix-ean : ro-mis large, airy ami comfortable ; table excellent
and t -riii~ i : M-naMe. Parties desiring to engage rooms before leaving home, should address J.
M. I) incalt'f. proprietor, I*. <>. It. 4
'•"Cut
EBTA
11. Childs & Co.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
B ()TS & SHOES,
133 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Strictly first-class quality Goods at bottom prices. Send sample order.
SATISFACTION GUAUA\TEE I>.
Groat Success of Low Prices,
AT
BOSEIADI & CO.,
Mammoth Trimming and Millinery Stores,
Nqs. *i£, H4 and! 116 Market Street,
Corner of Lil)orty Street, PITIXBURGH, I»A.
Klegant Silk Fringes, 45, -A), tio, 75c, $1 to $2.30 Gents' Fine Unlanndried Shirts, our own make,
per yard. 75c, sl, $1.12.
Klegant Possementerle Trimmings, :;50. to .-2. Gent*' Fine Dress Shirts, sl, $1.16, $1.50 to $2.
Trimmed lints at >l, >1 -•»*', ''l' to >2O. Gauge I'nderwear, Muslin I* nder wear all prices.
1 mil rued \\ alkmg Hats, .0, W aud , ~e. Handkerchiefs, large sizes, 10c. up.
Sundowns, 20c., up. ; Full Regular Half Hose, 18, 25, 37c.
Leifhorn Hats, .>O, /-»c. f s1 ; r aval Hats, cheap. r *• , i n n • ~
Fine Parasols, 20, 22, 24, 2<», 28 in., from t!2Ac ? g r' " a " >r, Kf fan " (>sc '. aoc
to > » > » » i - Cnilarens and Infants Hose, Booties, &c.
•Lisle and Laee Top Gloves. 34. 45, 50, GO, 75c. Ma,i " Fa - V ' B and Dr ' Warae r'B Coweta.
Mohair Mits, st), (J2, 75c, -1, 4,1.25, *1.50, to $3. Agents for Flexible Hip and Bray's Remova-
Kid Gloves, 2. 3, 4, 1; buttons, at all prices. ble Corsets, al! sizes and prices.
Foster Laced Gloves, 3 and " hor.ks, in black. Ribbons, all widths and colors, wholesale aud
Lace Fichus, Laee Ties, iOc, up to retail.
• OKDERS BY MAIL WILL HAVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
BARGAINS ISUMMER GOODS ! !
Lawns- Chintzes. Madras Ginghams, Toile de Alsace. Organdies- &c,>
Freshest and Newest Styles.
LACE BUNTINGS ! | Colored Dress Silks!
At less than market prices for l«*st quality and At no, GT>, 75,900, $1 and up.
designs, strictly All-wool Coods. Largest lice and best values ever
Plain and Fancy Buntings, shown in this market.
Black and Colors, i2'4c to si perpard ;3jto 24 Having recently made an extra large purchase
Incites wide. of the best make of
JDIriESQ GOODS Pure Colored Dress Silks,
I'mni s to ov>_ii-r.r.,inv coming inio the port of New York, and at less prl
. , ~ i cesthaw ever l.efore sold, we he K to say it.wlll pay
< hoice Imported <>oods. 2..e o«.soa yard, for anv , from Maine to California,) to ask for
Dress and traveling S:uts, liestvalues over sold, samples of these goods before making her iiur-
T AT? ftp TrNTFQ T AWN <2 chases. Our customers aud friends, who daily
l_t ii CIVJ .D ijl!i l o IjaVVLXO; visit our counters, attention is specially directed
CV», 10 and 12i?c. to these goods. We also wish to add that these
Utile*' Lawn and White Suits. are flite grain, lustrous goods. vvr.v different from
Misses' and Children's Suits ,h *" usual heavy cord and "weighted goods, which
. , , , .1 ... . ■ . "weiirht" is principally dressing.
A few choice Punting Suits to close, at *ls. j *lines Suiumer Silk:-, V. to GOC and up.
worth Bi>. " Equal liargalns in
Black Satin d'Lyon Jackets hlackhilks,.
and Mantles, at about onc-lialf price, to close the 5,1 <: cu<s to sl.
lot. Lines of Rlack Silks at sl, $1.25,41.30, ft.73 and
New Button* and fringes. <*•'.sui>erior values.
New Gloves aud Lues. I Large line Brocades and Satins.
boggs"&"buhl,
118 and I'2o Federal Street, A.llojrh.erLy.
N. II. —Large lines New Hamburg*, Swiss and Nainsook Floutocings and Edgings, and While
Goods daily opening. Ne# Laee Mitts, Blacks and Colors. New Fans Hosiery and Neekwear.
Xo More Hard Times.
If you will stop spending so much on line
clothes, rich food and stylo, buy good, healthy
food, cheaper and better clothing ; get more real
and substantial things of life every wav, and
especially stop the foolish habit ot employing
expensive, quack doctors or using so much ol
the vile humbug niediuiue that does you only
harm, but put your trust in tiiat simple, pure
remedy, Hop Hitters; that cure* always at a
trifling cost, and you will sec good times and
have good health.— Chroniclr.
S4O Reward !
Stolen from the place of the subscriber in Pine
township, allegheny county, Pa., on the night
of the 21st of April, last, a J>ark Bay Horse,
weighing about 1,100 or 1,200, a large star in
forehead, one hind foot partly white, sprung
or bow kneed, a scar on upper part of nostril
caused by cut which stands open so that you
could lay your finger in, wears bit n.ider
tongue, and "sear in upper part of tongue above
bit. The above reward will be paid for h ; s re
turn iu as good condition as when taken.
ROBERT KENNEDY,
jun3o-tf Wexford P. 0., Allegheny Co., Pa.
Tl»t Cheipr'ti Purest mil lint Family
Medicine In the world I
For DYSPEPSIA. CONSTIPATION. Jaundice.
I illious attacks. SICK lIiiADACIIK, Colic. De
pression of Spirit*, HOUlt STOMCH. H art I'.am,
&c &c.
This uiuiCalled Southern Remedy is warranted
not to contain a single particle of MEIJCUUV, or
any injurious mineral substance, but is
PURELY VEGEABLE,
containing tin>sc Southern Bo,>U and lietbs,
which an all-wise Providence hits placed iu coun
tries where I.lver Diseases most p.evall. It will
cure Diseases caused by Derangement of the Liver
and Bowels.
The SYMPTOMS of I.lver Complaint are :i bit
ter or bad taste in the mouth ; Paiu In the ISji'-k,
Sides or Joints. often mistaken for UlicumaMsni;
Sour Stomach ; Lots of Appetite; ISowels alter
nately wstive and lax ; Headache ; l>»ss of mem
ory, with a painful sensation of having failed to
do something which ought to have been done;
Debility. IXJW Spirits, a thick yellbw iippearanee
of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough often mistaken
for Consumption.
Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the
disease, at others" very few ; hut the l.iVKlt. the
larges organ in the holy, is generally the seat of
the disease, and if not Kegulalcd in time, great
suffering, wretchedness an I death will ensue.
I can recommend as an ellleacious r. inedy f >r
disease of tic Liver. Heartburn and Dvspepi i,
Siuiliions' Liver Regulator. LKWIK <l. \V|!.\J»K;I,
tfiii MASI I.K STKKKT, ASSISTANT I'<>ST MASTKU,
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'"We have tested its virtues, personally, and
know that for Dvsiiepsla, Hiliousiiess, and Throb
bing Headache, it Is the best medicine the world
ever saw. We have tried forty other remedies
before Simmons' Liver Regulator, but none o
them have us more than temporary relief; but
the Regulator not only relieved, hut cured us. -
Kt>. I'KI.KCUAIiI A S|l Mi- N«i Kit. Mac< n. lla.
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Price, 91. Sold Uy nil DrufgUu,
apr«-lyr
CAMPJHGN FLA^sf&C E ic.
Reantiful Campaign Badges of the Republi
can and Democratic Candidates.
<.. AHKIEI.I) /vl\ HANCOCK
and < I Iv and
AKTIII I;, ' *ll ESOLI»N.
Containing life-like Photograph* of the Can
didates; encased in pretty Mmai.itu.e Gilt
Frames, with pin foi attaching to coat or vest.
Active ageu's c.ui make $lO a day selling them,
and city and country merchants can make a
handsome profit. Price 10 cents e#t h ; 2 lor 15
cents ; 10 lor 50 cents, or 100 lor $4.80, Photo
grap 9 same price i.s Badges. Crayon Portraits
on tinted plate paper. Ileroi • sire 22 by 28, ,
lor 25 cents. Flags all d/.e., kind- and price*.
Now is the Harvest time for agents, and deal- i
ers. Scud lor samples and full particulars to '
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iuu3o-3ui '
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wering this adv.. and i nclosing 4 ;i-et. stamps to
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Pensions increased. Bounty and new dlscliarpn
procured. Those who are in doubt as to whether
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