BUTLER CITIZEN.
JOHN H. 4~WTC. MEBLEY. PBOP'BS.
Entered at the Postoffice at Butler as
second-class* matter.
Bepublican National Ticket,
FOR PRESIDENT, 1880.
GEN. JAMES A. GARFIELD,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT. 1880,
HON. CHESTER A ARTHUR.
im -ywrn*.
Republican State Nomination*.
FOR JUDGE SUPREME COURT,
Hon. Henry Green,
OF NORTHAMPTON OOrHTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
Hon. John A. Lemon,
OP BLAI* COCKTY.
Republican County Nominations.
CMgr«M>
/. D. McJTJNKIN, &Q-. of Batter Comity.
Senate.
JOHN X. GREEK, Ewj., ot Be tier borough.
(flob)ect to the District Conference )
iawßblj.
WTLLIAM V. BBAHAM. of Men*r townehip.
SYLVESTER D. BELL, of Millemtown borough.
Of Mr let Attorney.
A. M. CUNNINGHAM, Emj., of Botier borough.
Aaaoeiale J ndge.
A pmnm MOCAKDLESS, of Butler townehip.
Coanij Hurreyr.
NATHAN M. BLATOB. of Batter boroogh._
SIXTEEN out of a Committee of
some fifty, were all who could be got
to vote for sending Congressional Con
ferees to Greenville.
TH* Willard House of this place,
kept by Mr. George W. Campbell, and
which was lately enlarged and repair
ed, has now been finely painted upon
all its outside walls and presents a
very fresh and pleasant appearance.
BY tbe new apportionment, under tbe
census of 1880, Allegheny, Armstrong,
Butler, Clearfield, Dauphin, Fayette,
McKean, Northumberland, Philadel
phia and Westmoreland counties will
each gain one member of tbe Legisla
ture.
WE bare received from Mr. E. U-
Painter, a former resident of this
county, and now of tbe University at
Lewisburg, this .state, a copy of bis
oratfon before tbe Alamai of that insti
tution, on June 21, ult., for which he
baa our tbanks.
M*. ALEXANDER C. DUNCAN, form
erly of Cranberry township, this
county, removed about the first of
April last to Dunbar, Payette county,
this State, where be engaged in mer
cantile business and is doing well.
His address is, Dunbar, Pa.
THE time is near for tbe fall elec
tions. Alabama leads off, August 2nd,
and tbe otber States follow in this
order; Arkansas, September 6; Ver
mont, September 7 ; Maine, Septem
ber 18; Colorado, October 5; Indiana,
Ohio and West Virginia, October 12.
AT an Argument Court held on
Monday, matters in connection with
tbe First National Bank of this place
were acted upon. Tbe Court discharg
ed on common bail Messrs. Cullum
and Campbell in tbe cam of Thomas
Robinson against them for libel, on tbe
ground that plaintiff's cause of action
was not legally set forth, but refused
to quash tbe proceedings.
TEE County Committee having now
disposed of tbe question of "fraud"
raised on tbe Congressional nomina>
tion in this county, it now becomes
the duty of tbe Eagle to raise to its
bead tbe full Republican county ticket.
Thus far it has not done so, and further
refusal will be in direct disregard of
tbe action of the people at tbe prima
ries and of two meetings of tbe County
Committee, and if presisted in will
lead to further trouble. We hope for
harmony now in this county.
WHERE, O Where, are those Demo
cratic votes at oar primary that Mr.
Robinnon so continually asserted Sher
iff Hoffman bad procured ? His cry
was, "Sheriff Hoffman did it." "Sher
iff Hoffman," "Sheriff Hoffman." Vis
ions, as of dreams, appeared to possess
him of thepower of "Sheriff Hoffman,"
as of that of a giant. He should now
apologize to the jolly big Sheriff, and
thna secure undisturbed slumber. The
Sheriff is good natured and will not
eat bim up.
11l another place will be found the
letter of General Hancock accepting
the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency. It will be seen that it is
general in its expressions and reads
very much like one who did not want
to commit himself distinctly on any
thing. Mr. English, the candidate
for Vice President, on the other hand,
in bis letter makes a complete Demo
cratic stump speech, of the old Demo
cratic style. He is evidently a bitter
partisan. His letter is too lengthy for
insertion.
DOCTOE ROBERTA, one of the Craw
ford county contestants for the Con
gress nomination of that county, pro
duced and showed to the conference at
Mercer the names of 32 of the commit
tee of 00 of tbatcounty, being a majority
in his favor of the same, and recogniz
ing bim as the rightful and proper
nominee of that county. We under
stand that a report is circulated in this
county that some of those names are
Dot genuine. We have every reason
to believe and say, that any such re
port Is groundless snd gotten up
through improper motives to injure
Mr. McJuokio here.
WE are indebted to Mr. McKee,
County Superintendent of Common
Schools, for a copy of the last annual
Report of Mr. Wickereham, State Su
perintendent of Public Institution, for
the year ending June 1, 1879. From
it we learn the number of schools in
this county is 262 ; average number of
months taught, 5.61; number ot male
teachers, 197, females, 181 ; average
salary per month, males, $33.82, fe
males, $28.54; whole number scholars
in the county, males, 7,505 ; females,
6.633 ; number mills levied for school
puposes, 6.14 ; building purposes, 4.4 7;
total tax levied in the county for all
school purposes, $64,437.89.
THE Democratic papers were assert
ing that Col. Henry B. Hays, of
Pittsburgh, had pronounced for Han
cock, but the following letter from Col.
Hayg to the Pittsburgh Chronicle of
July 28th, ult., rather settles the ques
tion the other way. He is for Garfield
and writes as follows:
PITTSBURGH, July 28, 1880.
I most heartily endorse James A.
Garfield as the nominee of the Republi
can party. I think he is tbe best and
strongest man that could have been
chosen under tbe circumstances. I in
tend rendering bim all the support in
my power to insure his election, and
when the day comes for voting I shall
add one to his majority. I thank my
Democratic friends for this opportunity
to express my sentiments.
HENBY B. HAYS.
It is now hoped that nothing will
be done at the meeting of Dick and
Miller Conferees at Greenville to-mor
row. That meeting is nothing more io
truth than the meeting of the Confer
ees of one county, to wit: Mercer. Mr.
Dick's right to have conferees at any
place has never yet been investigated.
His refusai to have an investigation
was what made the trouble in the Mer
cer Conference and gave his competi
tor, Dr. Roberts, a right to a seat in
the same. How Mr. Miller, the undis
puted candidate of Mercer, wag blind
enough to ally himself and bis county
to the one contestant from Crawford
county who bad refused to bare bis i
claim beard before his own and the I
Butler Conferees, the then only right
ful powers to bear tbe same, still re
mains a mystery. If be bad any doubt® j
on the subject, what is taking place in j
Crawford now, and since tbe Mercer
Conference, should remove such
doubts. It looks as if matters there
will soon be settled in favor of Roberts.
I Of what use then will be a nomination
obtained at Greenville ? And this look
ing to Crawford county matters only, j
DOES it not appear to our friend of
tbe Mercer Dixpatch as now out of
time to be further arguing the claim of
Mercer county to the Congressional
nomination ? That claim was admitted
to be fully equal to that of any other
county previous to and at the Mercer
conference. Why then did Mr. Miller
take the course he did to destroy that
claim ? That is the question. Why
did he prevent bis conferees from fully
carrying out with Butler conferees bis
own agreement made for tbeui, and
under which, by his own letter, Dick
and Roberta, the contestants in Craw
ford county, came to Mercer for a bear
ing f Butler could not of herself have
harmed Mercer in any way, nor Mer
cer harmed Butler. But he could have
kept tbe Butler conferees there for a
month, at expense, and he at none,
or but little. Once in conference, as
agreed upon, there could not have been
an adjournment without the consent of
Mercer. Mr. Miller'H course cannot be
justified, and be and bis county should
therefore ratify the nomination then
and there made.
"OBEDENTIALS."
In the Committee meetiug last Sat
urday one of the speakers in referring
to the trouble in Crawford county,
said he understood that one (Dick) of
the contestants of that county at the
Mercer Conference bad tbe 'credentials'
of tbe Crawford county Republican
Convention in his favor. This was HO
great a mistake that Capt. Pillow im
mediately corrected him. Both parties,
Dick k Robert!, bad 'credentials' there
to any amount. Their convention had
split into about two equal parts,and each
bad credentials from bis own part. But
Roberts had a certificate with the
names of thirty-two of the sixty Re
turn Judges or delegates who com
posed the convention, saying he was
tbe rightful nominee of Crawford
county and should be admitted to the
conference. Besides, he bad a majority
of the votes of the people, which is
generally considered about the strong
est "credentials" a candidate can have
in this country. This majority, bis
friends affirmed, bad never been prop
erly taken from him. But tbe Butler
conferees listened to no outside state
ments from either party. Their posi
tion was to admit neither, but to hear
and determine with the Mercer con
ferees the cases of both the Crawford
parties on equal terms and equal foot
ing. That was tbe agreement upon
which all went to Mercer, and had the
Mercer conferees fully carrieu it out,
there would probably be no trouble in
the district to-day. We have stated
this matter before and it has not been
denied in any quarter that we have
seen, and only refer to it again in or
der that the Republican party of this
county may fully understand it, and
that no one may be hereafter misin
formed on tbe subject.
Dividends to Creditor*.
WASHINGTON, July 29.—Tho
Comptroller of tbe Currency, has de
clared a dividend of twenty five per
cent, in favor of the creditors of the
First National Bank of Franklin, Intl.,
making in all ninety per cent.; also, a
dividend of ten per cent, in favor of
tbe creditors of the Firßt National
Bank of Wichata, Kansas, making In
ail seventy per ceut. j
fife* Wnth4, tSSO.
COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING. |
THE NOMINATION OF MB. M'JCNKIN
SUSTAINED IN COUNTY AND IN DIS
TRICT —BUT 16 MEMBERS FA
VOR SENDING CONFEREES
TO GREENVILLE.
The re-assembling of the Republican
County Committee last Saturday was
on event looked for with some interest,
from the fact that a defeated candi
date for Congress, Mr. Thomas Robin
son, had alleged frauds at the late pri
maries and had asserted both in this
countv and out of it, that if he was al
lowed the opportunity he would show
that he was defeated by frauds. Con
sequently, after much solicitation on
bis part, the Chairman of the County
Committee was induced to call the
same together. He therefore had am
ple time—had been working at it for
the past month, and during all of the
previous month of June it is said be
had access to the papers of the late
primary. Something therefore of these
alleged frauds was looked for. But
nothing came. Not a single fraudulent
vote against him was shown in any
district or place in the county. But on
the contrary be sent a long letter to the
Committee, repeating about what he
has been saying in the Eagle for the
past two months, and ending by coolly
asking the Committee to send confer
ees to the Dick and Miller meeting at
Greenville. The Committee heard his
letter read, and then laid it on the ta
ble. Several motions were made ; then
a resolution offered by one of bis
friends requesting Mr. McJunkin to go
to Greenville, which after debate was
withdrawn ; then finally a direct reso
lution was offered that the Committee
should send conferees to Greenville.
On this resolution a full discussion of
the situation took place, and when a
vote was reached but sixteen, out of a
committee of fifty-four, near fifty of
whom were present, could be found to
vote for it.
And thus ends this matter. Those,
both here, at Mercer, and elsewhere,
who listened to the story of Thomas
Robinson will now see their folly in
doing so. It is not necessary to ever
use fraud against bim. His competitor
is the one who has to look out for
frauds.
JUST WHAT WE DIP.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch, of Mon
day this week contains an able and
lengthy editorial upon the situation in
this Congressional district and in it
we find tbe following:
"There was no doubt about the le
gality of the nomination of cither Mc-
Junkin or Miller and these gentle
men should have united upon the com
mon ground of indisputable titles, and
their conferees should have discussed
the Crawford county contest in a ju
dicial manner and decided it according
to the rules of evidence," etc.
If tbe Dispatch read the proceedings
at the time of the Mercer Conference
itdoubtless overlooked, or has forgotten,
that tbe above was precisely the posi
tion taken by the Hatter conferee*.
It was in fact the ■ wry petition Mr
Miller had previously agreed with
them should be taken, but which, for
some unaccounted cause, he so changed,
or wanted to change, that when the
Butler conferees reached Mercer he
desired to admit one side alone (Dick)
of tbe Crawford paptlea into the Con*
ference at the very outstart. And this
led to the subsequent proceedings on
the part of Butler, in order to carry
out tbe agreement, that resulted in the
admission of tbe Roberts conferees
and the nomination of Mr. McJunkin,
after frequent, full and fairjjoticp to nil
parties. Tbe ground stated by tbe Dis
patch was the true and only ground
for deciding tbe Crawford contest ;
was the one agreed on, and on which
all parties bad assembled at Mercer;
was the one adhered to tenaciously by
the Butler con fere vs, and was the one
broken by the Mercer conferees. What
tbe Dispatch advises "should" have
been done, was exactly what the IJut
ler conferees did do. Will the Dinpatch
please examine and correct itself in
this matter'(
CONGRESS.
Tbe Titusville Herald of Monday
sjwraks as follows of the effect of tbe
action of tbe Republican Committee of
this county on last Saturday :
This knocks the laut prop from un
der tbe position assumed by Mr. Mil
ler, of Mercer county. lie first ap
pointed a Conference with McJunkin,
fierceiupon time and place, but
when tbe time came, finding that Dr.
Roberts had carried Crawford county,
he refused to go into conference with
McJunkin ami try the Crawford county
contestants' cases on their merits.
What will be do August 6th, when lie
meets in solemn conclave with his
three conferees and tbe three gentle
men, who represent General Dick's
pretentions'( There is but one plain,
sensible thing for bis eonfomjs to do,
and that no doubt his sense of justice
and right will prompt bim to advise,
and that is to declare that Hon. J. I).
McJunkin, of Butler, shall be the
Standard-bearer of the Republicans of
Crawford, Butler aud Mercer counties
in the Congressional campaign now
soon to "open upon us. Upon Mr. Mil
ler rests tbe responsibility of having
this district represented by a Republi
can for tbe two years ending March 4,
1883 1 Not only that, but upon bim de
volves the responsibility of promoting
or endangering the interests of the
whole ticket in these counties, State,
Legislative aud Local. Will be lie
equal to the occasion? Will be rise
above petty Jealousies that surround
bim, take a broad, comprehensive view
of all tbe great issues at stake and
tfive aid and comfort to tbe great army
•if Republicans who are mustering for
the conflict and who desire that there
should bo no breaks in their own lino
where the enemy may gain an advan
tage?
THE LETTER AT LAST.
FROM HANCOCK—THE HEAD OF THE
TICKET IS DECIDEDLY NON
COMMITTAL.
GOYEBNOB'S ISLAND, N. Y.,>
•July 30. )
GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of July 13, 1880, apprising me formally
of my nomination to the office of Pres
ident of the United States by the Na
tional Democratic Convention lately
assembled in Cincinnati. I accept the
nomination with grateful appreciation
of the confidence reposed in me. Tbe
principles enunciated by the Conven
tion are those I have cherished in tbe
past, and shall endeavor to maintain
in the future. Tbe thirteenth, four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to
tbe Constitution of the United States,
embodying tbe results of the war for
tbe Union, are inviolable If called
to tbe Presidency, I should deem it
my duty to resist with all my power
any attempt to impare or evade the
full force and effect of the Constitution,
which in every article, section and
amendment is the supreme law of the
land. The Constitution forms the
basis of the government of the United
State. The powers granted by it to
tbe legislative, executive and judicial
departments define and limit the au
thority of the general government.
Powers no*, delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor pro
hibited to tbe States, belong to the
to the States respectively or to the
people.
The general and State governments
each acting in its own sphere, without
trenching upon the lawful jurisdiction
of the other, constitute the Union.
The Union, comprising a general gov
ernment, with general powers, and
State Governments, with State powers
for purposes local to the States, is a
polity the foundations of which were
laid in the profoundest wisdom. This
is the Union our fathers made, and
which has been so respected abroad
and so beneficent at home. Tried by
blood and fire it stand# to-day a model
form of free popular government, a
political system which, rightly admin
istered, has been and will continue to
be tbe admiration of the world. May
we not say nearly in tbe words of
Washington, "The unity of government
which constitutes us one people is
justly dear to ua. It is the main
pillar in the edifice of our real inuo
pendence, tbe support of our peace,
safety and prosperity, and of the lib
erty, we so highly prize and intend
at every hazard to preserve." But no
form of government, however carefully
devised, no principles, however sound,
will protect tbe rights of the people
unless 'the administration is faithful
and efficient.
It is a vital principel in our system
that neither fraud nor force must lie al
lowed to subvert the rights of the peo
ple. When fraud, violence or incom
petence controls, the noblest constitu
tions and wisest laws are use/ess.
The bayonet i* not a fit instrument Un
collecting the votes of freemen. It is
only by a full vote, free ballot and fair
count that tbe people can rule in fact
as required by the theory of our gov
ernment. Take this foundation away
and the whole structure falls.
A public office ij a trust, not a
bounty bestowed upon the holder.
No incomjietent or dishonest person
should be intrusted with it, or if ap
pointed they should promptly be eject
ed. The basis of a substantial, prac
tical civil service reform must be es
tablished by the people in filling the
elective offices. If they fix a high
standard of qualifications for office, and
sternly reject the corrupt or incowpe:
tent, tbe result will be decisive iu
governing the action of the servants
whom they entrust with the appoint
ing power.
The war for the Union was success
fully closed more than fifteen years
ago. All classes of our people should
iihare alike in the blessings of tfop
Union, and are equally concerned in
its perpetuity and in the proper ad
ministration of public affairs. We are
in a state of profound peace ; henceforth
let it Im our purpose to cultivate sen
timents of friendship and not of ani
mosity among our fellow citizens.
Our material interest, varied and pro,
gressive, demand our constant and
united efferts.
A sedulous and scrupulous enre of
the public credit, together with a wise
and economical management of our
expenditures, should Is; maintained in
order that labor may be lightly bur
dened, and that all persons may he pro
tected in their rights to the fruits of
their Own industry. The time has
come to enjoy the substantial benefits
of reconstruction as one people. We
have common interests. Let us en
courage harmony ami generous rivalry
among our own industries, which will
rpvivc oi|r languishing merchant ma
rine, extern! our commerce with foreign
nations, assist our merchants, manu
facturers and producers to develop our
vast national resources, and increase
the prosperity and happiness of our
|ieop!e.
If elected 1 shall, with Divine favor,
labor with what ability I possess to
discharge my duties with fidelity ac
cording to my convictions, and shall
take care to protect and defend the
Union and to see that the laws be
faithfully ami equally executed in all
parts of the country alike. I will as
sume the responsibility, fully sensible
of the fact that to administer rightly
the functions of government u to dis
charge the most sacred duty that can
devolve upon an American citizen,
1 am, very respectfully, yours,
W INVIKLI> 8. HANCOCK.
To Hon. John W. Stevenson, Presi
dent of the Convention, Hon. John I*.
Stockton, Chairman, and others of the
Committee of the National Demo
cratic Convention.
A Beaver County Farmer's Suicido
By Hantrtnjr.
For many years Mr. Adam Stein
bach, a farmer, has resided in Marion
township, Beaver county, a short dis
tance from the "Hurry" Church. He
has been in poor health, and gave a
good deal of anxiety to his family by
his irascible conduct, Not long ago
Dr. Cunningham, of Zclienople, re
moved a polypus from Mr. Ntcifibach's
nostrils, but the operation did not
seem to relieve the farmer's mental
distress. Monday evening a week ago
he retired us usual, and on the next
morning, as he did not get up, one of
his son's, with some diffculty opened
the door, in doing SO, the son was hor
rified to see his father's body hanging
fly a rope fastened over the doorway.
Life was extinct and the deed evi
dently a premeditated one. Mr. Stein
bach was about 72 years old and (
leaves a small family. A Coroner's in
quest resulted in a verdict in accord
ance with the facts.
Long Litigation.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.—Tbe Or
phans' Court has finally adjudicated
the estate of Robert Morris, just sev
entv-four years after his death. Morris
was the great financier of revolution
ary times, who voted against tbe Dec
laration of Independence, but signed it
after its adoption, who raised the
means to feed and pay the colonial
army, who issued his own notes for a
million and a half when the infant na
tion was exceedingly embarassed for
funds, and redeemed every dollar of
them, and who, by a series of land
speculations, died with a great num
ber of debts clinging to his estate. On
December 1, 1873, tbe heirs agreed
upon Henry Phillips, Jr., as the trus
tee, and be preceeded to settle the es
tate. Last month he submitted his ac
counts to tbe Orphans' Court, show
ing fliat a final division of the estate
had been made by him. $069,250 go
ing to the lleyburn estate and $969,049
to Robert Morris as next to kin. The
court has approved the report.
Dow and Weaver in the Same Boat
With Hancock and Qarfleld.
The Titusville World is authority
for a startling exposure of the moral
turpitude if the Prohibition candidate
for President. It has learned that Mr.
Neal Dow was through that country,
during the flush days of Oildorn, and
organized a stock company, called the
Temperance Petroleum Bonanza As
sociation, with a capital stock of seven
million dollars and seventy-five cents,
he kissed his fingers to the Oil Region
and opened a saloon in Guernsey
township. Two days after the formal
opening of his dive, be sent a boy
back after the seventy-five cents. It is
needless to state that the plucked and
plundered stockholders roasted the
young man alive. The same veracious
journal has ascertained that the Green:
backers have made a great mistake in
nominating their man Weaver for the
Presidency. "General Weaver, we all
remember, passed through here iu 1865
and gathered a bottle of crude petrole
um from the surface of Oil Creek.
This he took to a monastry in Michi
gan, and representing himself as a
holy friar, sold it to the Sisters of
Mercy for hair oil"
To Cousus Enumerators
The appending circular has been is
sued from the Census Office :
The following instructions are issued
with the approval of tbe Secretary of
the Interior, for the information and
guidance of Enumerators in connection
with the settlement of their accounts
for due.
1. At the eurliest practicable mo
ment after the receipt of the enumera
tion schedules, consolidated daily re
ports of service, [for 1-363,} ami Su
pervisor's statement of compensation
due, [form 7-401 or 7-432,] accounts
will be made ont tit fjp's ofyVe on form
>-4£j 1 and forwarded to the address of
the enumerator, as furnished by the
supervisors on form 7-401, for signa
ture.
11. The accounts will be taken up
for settlement only when presented or
returned to this office by the enuiqpra
tora tin niaeU-eg, or, in caee of the
death of un enumerator, by the heirs.
111. Persons representing them
selves to be acting for the enumera
tors us agents or attorneys will not be
recognized.
IV. The accounts will l»e paid by
tbe disbursing clerk of the Interior De
partment, who will forward a U. S.
Treasury draft for the amount to the
aii<irc»(» of titu enumerator,
FRANCIS A. WALKER,
Superintendent of Census.
juatico Swayne'a "Alle^ocT'Declßijii
A Democratic Explanation.
WASHINGTON, July —Three lead
ing Democratic |»u|M-r.s have bci n se
lceted an the yehicjeH for reditu
lie a statement that .Justice Swayne,
of the United States Supreme Court,
in panning upon the I>c Golyer con
tract caw;, said in an opinion: "The
agreement with General Garfield, a
member of Congress, to pay him $5,-
000 UH A contingent he for procuring
a contract which was itself made to
depend upon a future appropriation by
Congress, which appropriation could
only come from the committee of
which he was the cbuitmnn, was a
sale of influence which no veil can
cover against the plainest, principles of
public policy," <fcc. This paragraph
is now going the round of the Demo
cratic newspapers, aqtj ia made the
text of leading articles In which (Jen.
Garfield's candidacy for President was
deplored as a sort of national disgrace.
As might have been expected by those
who arc familiar with Democratic
campaign methods, no such language
was eycr iised by .justice Swayne on
the bunch or elsewhere, and ho never
had an opportunity to deliver a judi
cial opinion upon the matter, because
the case in question was never taken
before the Supreme Court. The mat
ter is finally set at rest by so promi
nent a Democrat as ex-Senator Doo
littlc, who to-day publishes the follow
ing card he™ ;
"A serious error has been made by
some newspapers in supposing that the
DeGolyer case ever went to tin; Su
preme Court, or that Justice Swayne
used the language attributed to him in
commenting upon it. In the brief
submitted to Judge Harwell, in the
circuit Court here, another case—
Burke against Child—decided in the
Supreme Court, was cited, and Justice
Swavne's opinion staled. Hut the
mistake has been this—that a part of
the language of the brief which fol
lows the citation of the case of Burke
vs. Child is attributed to Justice
Mwayne, language, which he never
used, for the case was never before
him, and as I was the counsel who
submitted the brief it is just to (Jen.
Garfield, to Justice Swayne, and to
myself that I should at once correct
this mistake "
TIIK Massachusetts Supreme Court,
has just interpreted an old Sunday
law of the Commonwealth with a
rigid deference to its ancient orthodox
spirit that would have filled the heart
of the most devout early Puritan with
gloom. A statute whose origin may bo
traced back through colonial times to
the reign of Charles I. declares that
"whoever travels on the Lord's Day,
except from necessity or charity, shall
be punished by fine not exceeding ten
dollars for every ofTonoe," The plain
tiff in a recent civil suit has been made
to feel that neither the letter nor the
spirit of this ancient edict has become
obsolete. He had accompanied a
funeral from Boston to Mount Auburn
on Sunday afternoon. Instead of re
turning to Boston by the same road
be drove around by the way of
Charlestowu, to enable the lady with
him to call on a friend in that city. Go
ing through Somerville he met with
an accident and sustained per
sonal injuries by reason of a defective
thoroughfare. lie sued the town for
damages, and now the Supreme Court
holds that the action cannot be main
tained because the pluintiff was travel
ing in violation of the law above cited
when the accident occurred. The Court
did not wish to be understood as de
ciding that attending a funeral on Sun
day is neeessarillv unlawful or ungod
ly iu Massachusetts. In this case the
plaintiff had not violated the laws of
the Commonwealth iu going to the
cemetery, because he had properly
taken the most direct road. Nor would
he have been guilty of any offence if
he had fortunately observed the same
propriety and returned bv an equally
direct line. But his going a mile or so
out of the way for the wicked pur
pose of making a friendly call was, in
the eve of the law, a worldly devia
tion which was "most tolerable and
not to be endured."
Another Massacre of British Troops
in Afghanistan.
Lord Ilartington spoke with prudent
fore-thought when he declared on
Tuesday last in the House of Com
mons that th<? uncertainties of Afghan
politics were so great it would be pre
mature to conclude that the recogni
tion of Abdurrahman had brought or
der out of chaos. Twenty-four hours
afterward he was compelled to an
nounce an overwhelming disaster.
While the skies were brightening in
the north a war cloud bad been gath
ering in the south. No sooner is Ab
durrahman proclaimed Ameer of Cabul
than a British column is cut to pieces
in the Candahar District. The horrors
of Isandula arp repeated. The cam
paign which has been twice closed is
reopened. Instead of retiring to the
Indian frontier i>t their leisure, the
troops will have to remain among the
Afghan bills Indefinitely, and recon
quer what has already cost so much
blood aud treasure.
The lessort of this terrible defeat is
plain. Government bj proxy cannot
succed in Afghanistan. The Beaeons
field Administration sel up a king ifl
Cabul, dictated a trpaty with him, left
a llcsident Aircnt in the capital to re
mind him of his pledges, and ordered
the troops to march out The massa
cre followed, the pupet king was de
throned, and the troops had to fight
their way back to Cabul. In Candahar
another sovereign was established up?
on a throne of Afghan force
fr.om tue west menaces him with at
tack. He hastens to the front to de
fend bis frontier. There are signs of
insubordination, and be telegraphs to
the British commander for reinforce
ments. A sovereign whose \m\ei>pwV>
ence has been only a few
[yonLiia before with flourish of trum
pets and high-sounding proclamations,
was unable to stand alone. When the
British forces came up his infantry re
fused to join them, but marched off in
the direction of the enemy. Treachery
among his own fcinaqiPW, who were
p|utt|pg Ms downfall, and the revolt of
the troops which he bad himself re
cruited in his own capital, left this sec
ond pupet king as powerless as the
first had been, and led to the final ca
tastrophe.
Hysterical Preaching.
A case of insanity is just now at
tracting considerable attention in
Brooklyn. A bright and promising
young lady atteuUed several weeks ago
the (exciting revival meetings of an
evangelist known as "the boy preach
er." This person is tolerably old boy,
being about thirty years of age; yet he
is somewhat boyish in appearance
and is possessed of youthful alacrity in
his movements. lie is withal SOH\OJ
what d r( VH^ti< J 'M action and capa
ble of exercising a strange magnetic ef
fect over his audiences. When in this
city, several months ago, this "Hoy
Preacher" was the means of adding
about five hundred person to th'J will
of one of the churches with
which be labored for some weeks.
His recent Brooklyn campaign resulted
in the gathering in of over six hun
dred converts. His manner b eccen
tric and his methods are the subject of
frequent, and severe criticism even
from those who approve the end he
lias in view and who believe in his
kind of revivals. His habit is to
stamp up and dowu ill* s aisles of a
proved meeting house and with
shouting and gesticulation warn sin
ners that if they do not at once re
pent they will be sent to hell. His
picturings of hell are in vivid colors
and redolent of brimstone. On the ex
cited imagination of a young woman
given to hysteria and kindred mental
and nervous ailments such evangeliz
ing cannot but have a pernicious ef
fect. The girl who is now a raving
maniac was evidently crazed by the
evangelist's terrific appeals. Her mind
is no longer under control and her
physical faculties are quite as uncon
trollable. Several tiroes she has at
tended to tal»e her own life, as well
as to do violence to her relations. Ad
mit that such cases are rare; the ex
istence even of this one ought to be a
hint to this evangelist and to all «th
ere who are in the same lino of effort.
The blood-and-thunder, brimstone and
pyrotechnic style of appeal to the un
converted will oauily soai« a certain
class of people into sudden flight from
the wrath to come. In proportion to
the mechanical energy of style and the
vapidity of matter is the number of
backsliders from the so-called conver
sions resulting from this sort of labor.
Possibly this high-pressure method of
yon verts han Its advantages,
but it is diffiult for thoughtful people
to say what thev are. The churches
which work industriously and earn
estly for steady growth will grow
larger and better ami more healthy,
and with more salutary effects on the
outside world, than those which work
on the passions and Imaginations and
and fears of the weak and nervous.—
J'h ilmlrlp/iiii Tims*.
MAIIKIAUMt.
CAItOTUKKH WOI.f'OKH At till- rc*i
(lt'tKM* of ih« bride'* parent* In Cherry town-
NIII |>, flutter county on July .'With, IH*O, by
.lauica W. KHIIV, ivKi., Mr. Martin (BROTHER*
and Mi*« Amy Wofiord, both of ftutler county,
Pa.
BNVDKR lIAUNKT On Friday evening,
July 30, IMSO, at Fornntvllle, by T. I). K»l
--ly, K*u., Murtin Luther Snyder, of liutler (Jo.,
and MIM If attic K. Unmet, of Merocr Co., L'a.
HA lilt July UO, IHSO, in <)rMil>«rry township,
this county. Mm. Ntncy (i lUrr, wife of Mr.
Andrew liiirr, and daughter of Hon. Hftiuuel
Marnlull, aged 03 yown. I
WYOMING HOI'SK, Atlantic Citv, N. J., nearly <>p|>oeite the West Jersey and Atlantic
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Black and Colored Lace Bunting,* at attractive l arge new importations Hamburg. Hwiss and
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AiiHucr Iliis.
Did you ever know iiuy person to he ill, with
out Inaction of Iho stomach, liver or kidneys,
or did you ever know one who was well when
either was obstructed or inactive; a«d did yon
ever know or hear of ftUl' ease of the kind that
Hop Hitters would not cure ? Ask jour neigh
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JjjilO iCewurri !
Stolen from the place of the .subsorilxr in Pine
township, ullcghcuy county, Pa., on the night
of the 21st of April, last, a Dark Hay Horse,
weighing about 1,10!» or 1,200, a large star in
forehead, one hind foot partly white, sprung
or l»ow kneed, a sear on upper part of nostril
caused by cut which stands open so thut you
could lay your linger in, wears bit under
tongue, and wear In upper part of tongue above
bit. The above reward will be paid for his re
turn in as good condition as when taken.
KOHEItT K KNNKDY,
jun3o-tf Wexford I*. <)., Allegheny Co., Pa.
ASK the recovered
lere'rs,' victnns of fever
ague, the L.ereurial
(owl appetite ; they
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Medicine In the world 1
Cor I>YSrKI*SIA, < ON'STI CATION, Jaundice,
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ju-cssloit of Spirits, SOIJR STOMCH, Heart iturtt,
fills unrivalled Southern Remedy Is warranted
not to contain a single particle of MF.io l'ti V, or
any Injurious mineral milistanee, hut Is
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which an all-wise Providence has placed In coun
tries wheri" l.lver Diseases most prevail. It will
cure Diseases caused by Uerttngenn. nl of the Liver
and liowels.
The HYMITOMH ol Ijver Complaint are a hit
ter or had taste in the inonlh ; Cain 111 the liaek,
Sides or Joints, often mistaken (or Hlieiimatlsni ;
Sour Stomach ; l<oss of Appetite j liowels alter
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110 something which ought to have bcon done j
Debility. I.OW Spirits, a thick yellow apjiearauce
of the Skin and Kyes, a dry Cough oltcn mistaken
lor Cousiimptloii.
Sometimes many ol these syiiiptnius attend the
disease, at others very few ; hut the I.IVKU, the
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the disease, ami if not Itcgulutcd in lime, great
suffering, wretoheducas and ileatli will ensue.
I can recommend as an efficacious remedy for
dlteasc ot the l.lver, Heartburn ami Dvsprpsla,
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"We have tested Its virtues, personally, a'ld
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ever saw. We have tried forty other remedies
before Munitions' l.iver Itcgulaior. hut non« of
lliejn have us mofu than ieiunarary reliel ; hut
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