The Democrat.
FUID\Y, OCTOBER 11 1889.
Tin, Cross of a Commander of
l ae Legion of Honor was bestowed upon
homos A. Edison at Paris last week. M.
t'puller, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in
conferring the decoration upon Mr.
"dison, said it was given in honor of the
services rendered by him in science, and
'>r the part taken by him in the Paris
Exposition. M. Spuller also said that
imerica was spledidly represented at the
Exposition, and that the presence of her
exhibits testified to the indissoluble
'<onds which bind France and America
together.
A DISCRLMNATING BIOGRAPHY.
Not any too soon for the truth of his
tory, but on the principle better late than
• aver, we are to hear something approx
i mating a true story of the man who is
. istly described as first in peace, first in
• ir and first in the hearts of his country
? .on. Iu justice to his human nature, as
•c all as to his real life, we are glad to
i: ike uotc of the fact that one eminently
•: lafified by years of research is at work
• i the true history of Washington's life
i om his boyhood to his death.
vVeems and others who have written
bifil up deal so largely in fiction, that
ley have invested him with a character
holly at issue with the nature of
a real human being. From the little
'* dlciful hatchet instance on down or up,
you please, through his whole life, they
ive asoribed to him attributes that have
'•moved him from the ranks of humanity,
> that he looms up not as a man, with
■ issions aud impulses like mankind
issess, but as little short of a demigod.
With a real, instead of a poetic charac
r, such as the author proposes, he will
i brought nearer to us than ever. His
<anly attributes when made konwn will
ly him to us, so that we can feel he was
ftesb of our flesh and bone of our
't >ne. " There is enough real material
'(his life, as a citizen, a soldier and a
.atesman, to make it not only unneces
ry but foolish to lay fancy and fiction
odor contribution, as all his biographers
ive done who have copied so largely
om Weems' highly fictitious writings.
1880 METEOROLOGICALLY CONSID
ERED.
Exceptional as this year has been in its
lanifold and terrible calamities, it has
s counterpart in its sudden and severe
cmospheric changes, as well as in its long
S>ells of bad weather. With the excep
on of a few warm days in June and
ong in the last week of July, we did
ot have enough of warm weather in
one, July and August to entittle them to
•i called *rmmer months— they being
ore like the changeable and muggy,
...id cold ones of a disagreeable spring.
The weather, from early in March to
le present, has shown a perverse incli
itionto jump suddenly from one extreme
• another, so much so that the weather
.iresji, n t Washington, with all its tele
•aphicjids;iind facilities, was constantly
sffled in trying to fore-cast it for even
'enty-four hours. Though at times all
e conditions North, South, East and
i eet were favorable to a settled state
good, pleasant weather, a few
■urs would usher in a cyclone, or
. rain-storm that devastaed whole
- ctions of the country, or that
ept homes, and even towns out
existence. The imaginary weather
<rk seemed to revel in the work of sur
f ises.
Oic few warm, pleasant days of a week
so since were suddenly succeeded by a
• ell of shivering, chilly weather that
night winter wraps and heavy over
its to the front, and made December
ib a necessity; while the drizzling,
d, dismal rains created a sufficient
antity of mud to necessitate the cou
nt use of rubber foot wear. Now that
re is a little let up in this kind of try
; weather, it is devoutly hoped that
t pleasant falls we read about, and
licli used to be referred to under the
etic name of Indian summers, may
-/or us with one of their best specimens.
DEFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE
Every once and a while men are dis
'Vering how little they know, and how
'Je of what they think they
aow has anything like a truthful basis
.'which to rest. While this is true in
, I professions and beliefs it is sadly so in
e medical world. The marked changes
at have taken place in diagnosing and
eating diseases during the past half
mtury •or so, and the conflicting opin-
B of the different schools of medicine
>w prevailing, clearly demonstrate that
ie practice of medicine has not yet
vched a point where it can be called a
nance, Though, like every other pro
iasion, its history is a continuous one of
tudy, research, experiment, and partial
< uecess, and frequent splendid achicve
-nentsj it is as yet only in its teens. Ma
turity awaits it in the far distant future.
As an illustration, and about as amus
ng one as could be conceived, take the
allowing wise official conclusion reached
fter much discussion by a body of
utaned physicians in the year of 1835.
he Royal College of Bavari n Doctors
demnly and seriously resolved,
" That travel in cars drawn by a loco
'Otive ought to be forbidden in the inter
< ,t of public health, as the rapid raove
>ent cannot fail to produce among
passengers the mental affection
aown as delirium furiomm. Even
travelers are willing to run this
dt, the Government at least should
aMct the public. A singlo talgance
a locomotive passing rapidly is sufficient
to cause the same cerebral derangement,
consequently it is absolutely necessary to
build a fence ten feet m height on each
• side of the railway."
How far those grave M. D's., each the
1 possessor of a nicely executed diploma
setting forth bis skill and medical
1 knowledge, missed the mark, we leave
the fifty years of railroad history to say.
> As to anything like accurate knowledge
■ of the thousand and one diseasas to which
i human flesh is heir, and sure remedies
' for them, the impossibility lies in the fact
: that we are so "fearfully and wonderfully
made," with so many delicate nerves,
! tissues, bones, arteries, and organs rend
ering us subjectlto derangements, diseases
and complications, that human knowledge
and human skill can neither accurately
diagnose or successfully treat. Until the
limits of human knowledge and skill are
reached, every will laugh at
the follies of its predecessors, as this cen
tury laughs at the folly of the Bavarian
doctors of a half eentury ago.
HILLED IT WELL.
Johnstown Tribune.
The DAILY DEMOCRAT to-day entered
upon its second volume. It has had a hard
row to hoe, but has hilled it well, and we
are glad to read its own utterance of this
morning that it Is " a permanent fact."
AT HENDERSON'S MORGUE.
Two More Bodies Found on Saturday—A
Death at the Red Cross Hospital.
On Saturday morning a body was found
in the sand on the bank of the Stonycreek
at the foot of Walnut street. The descrip.
tion at Henderson's Morgue is as follows :
No. 477.—Male, hight five feet seven
inches, brown hair cut short, smooth
shaven face, two teeth out of upper jaw,
one right side, one or two out on each
side of lower jaw, white cotton under
ware, black pants, black coat
and vest with small bar cloth
covered buttons, woolen shirt, has evi
dently been blue, pockets on left side,
black overcoat with rubber buttons, scull
cap in pocket.
On Saturdry evening a body was found
buried in the saud on the banks of the
Stonycreek at the foot of Union Street.
The morgue description is as follows :
No. 479—Female, height, five feet five
inches, brown hair, wool dress, mixed
goods, pleated front on waist, belt of
same goods as dress, wine color lining to
collar and back silk facing, metal but
tons, with square figure in centre, black
ribbed hose, spiral garters, cream color
ribbon around neck, button shoes, size
4J or 5. The above body will he sent to
Grand View on Monday.
Richard Weldon died at the Red Cross
Hospital on Saturday, aged about forty
yeir". !7c his no friends in Ill's country
and is supposed to be from Liverpool,
England. His body was taken to Hen
derson's Morgue and will be interred at
Grand View to-day. It will be numbeied
478. '
Mr. Dana 1 . Three Score Years and Ten.
Tlio Saturday Globe, New York.
The greatest man that ever lifted a pen
to make a newspaper in this or any
other country, is Charles A. Dana. We
speak of him purely as a genius and a
journalist, and with no reference to cur
rent political discussions. Cobbett and
Greeley wrote downright English, and
made a sort of popular newspaper with a
clear purpose aud some degree of consist
ency. But Mr. Dana writes English in
greater purity and strength than any
newspaper man ever wrote it, and he has
made newspaper editing a profession, a
science—not quile exact to be sure, but
with canons which arc inviolable. It is
by reason of this achievement that his
large shadow will eventually project over
the world and down the ages.
The Boston Pilot —John Boyle O'Rielly
—big enough to apprehend bigness, says :
" Mr. Charles A. Dana, editor of the
New York Ban, was seventy years of age
on the Bth inst. We congratulate him,
not on his years, but his achievements
and his sympathies. We have known men
of seventy who were only more insignifi
cant and destable than when they were
thirty. Life cannot be measured by
muscle. We know lumps of animated
muscle that are older than Mr. Dana;
that eat and drink carefully, selfishly, in
dulgently, but they have not lived two
noble days in their whole existence.
Charles A. Dana, from first to last, has
been a living, throbbing, helpful, kindly,
large-hearted, wido-souled man. He
has united the two qualities, dreamer
and practical manager, in an extraordinary
degree. He lias been a great suc
cess, because his heart kept him in the
right drift even if his heud led him into
passing flights of error. And the healthy
man who is in the right drift will iyin in
the end; he has only" to wait. The ab
normal success of the man who builds on
an accidental rock outside the human
current, does not count. There must be
exclamation points; but their work and
influence die with the surprise of their
life. The two greatest tilings about Dana
are his perfect Democracy and his perfect
journalism. He is a Democrat as soundly
as is a stone. He stands on the ground,
with the people, all the Mine. No right
could go down unlielped while such
a man was within hailing or
striking distance. He has made
the model newspaper of America
and the world. Other men may have
pushed their papers to higher circulation,
but they were publishers, not editors.
Greeley may be mentioned with him, and
Bowles, of Springfield, and Watterson, of
Louisville; but they nowhere equal Dana
in the precise, scholarly, orderly, humane,
cosmopolitan, practical and picturesque
school of journalism which he has
founded. All successful daily papers in
the future, not only In America but in
Europe, where journalism is still besotted
with heavy conventionalities, are sure to
follow the methods illustrated by the New
York Bun. More power to you, Mr.
Dana i You are a good Democrat and a
great editor, and you were both long
before you were seventy,"
t WASHINGTON LETTER.
' Some Interesting News from the Capital
for Our Readers.
1 To the Editor oj the Johnstown Democrat:
President Harrison is still wrestling
3 with the problem of trying to find a man
1 tor Pension Commissioner who can sat
* isfy the applicants for pensions without
3 creating a financial deficiency. The
* thing is impossible, but of course its none
9 of our business, if the administration
1 wants to wear itself out in that way let it
9 go ahead. The latest man named as
t likely to have an opportunity of declin
f ing to occupy Corporal Tanner's shoes is
. Ex-Go v. Hartrauft, of Pennsylvania.
■ Two men stand ready to occupy the po
i sition, Brown, of Ohio, and Campbell, of
> Kansas, but their readiness makes Presi
' dent Harrison shy of them.
> Mr. Elaine is at last President, not of
> the United States, but of the Three Amcr
t ica's Congress. He was elected to tho
' position Wednesday when the Congress
met and organized. Ex-Senator Hend
erson of Missouri was elected President
pro tempore. Mr. Blaine's speech of
welcome to the members of Congress
was a model of its kind, and is highly
praised here by members of both parties.
Immediately after adjourning to Novem
ber 18th, the Congress called on the Pres
ident with whom the members took
lunch. Thursday morning they left on
a special train for a lour of the North,
East and West. They are certain to be
impressed by what they will see and will
return to Washington prepared to discuss '
more intelligently the matters brought
before them. It is thought at the State
Department that the Congress will sit
about three months.
Democrats here express considerable
dissapointment over the result of the
elections in the new states. They had
been led to expect somthing different.
Secretary Tracy's difficulty in getting a
Naval officer to command the Kearsage.
which started from New York Tuesday
for Hayti, with Fred Douglass, our min
ister to that country as a passenger, has
been the subject of a great deal of joking
around Wshington this week. As soon
as it was known that ilie commander's
cabin had to be given up to Fred, nobody
who knows the personal habits of that in
dividual, blamed the naval officers for
getting out of the dilemma in any way
possible. Secretary Tracy got very mad,
but I'll bet a big red apple Tracy would
not entertain Douglass five or six days at
his private residence for a year's salary.
Douglass is a very brainy man, but he is '
a negro for all that, and no white man
who respects himself, will care to be
closely associated with him in a social
way. lam inclined to believe with the
Kentuckian that '-there's as much in the
blood of people as of horses."
F.x-Reprofcntative Hnn-is. of Virginia
who has just made a trip through that ,
State, says the Democrats will have a
walk-over, and that Mahone will never j
again be heard from politically. I have ,
it on good authority that several members
of the administration have given up all
hope of Mahone's election. ,
Senators Hampton, of South Carolina, ]
and Harris, of Tennessee, are very wide ]
apart in their ideas of a correct solution |
of the race problem. Senator Hampton |
has for a long time advocated tho pur- ,
chase of land in Mexico, or of an island ]
and the colonization thereon of the j
negroes of the Southern States. Senator ,
Harris being asked what he thought of ,
such a scheme replied : "I do not con- ,
sider it practical at all. The negro ,
doesn't want to be colonized; if the devij |
only had those who are trying to make ,
political capitol out of him there would be (
no trouble to speak about." Senator Harns ,
is one of the large number who believe j
that the business of Congress has grown ,
to such dimensions that continuous ses- i
sions ought to be held. 1
Representative Breckenridge, of Ar- '
kansas, thinks all the Republicans' talk (
about ,i.i rules of the House is intended ]
to work tue courage of the weakened Re
publicans up to the point of seating all
eighteen of the Republican contestants.
Charges have been filed at 'the Depart- '
ment of State against Reed Lewis, of (
Pennsylvania, Consul Agent at Morocco. 1
He is accused of having attempted to 1
extort a large sum of money from a Vice 1
Consul as the price of his retention in "
office. Mr. Reed is one of President
Harrison's appointments.
The Knight Templars are beginning to
arrive for the Conclave. They will re
main here ten days.
Not Correct.
Ebensburg Freeman.
Gibbs Hasson, the heretofore Demo
cratic postmaster at Ebensburg, refuses to
recognize President Harrison's commis
sion to Mr. Barker, and declines to sur.
render the office to his appointed succes
sor.— Johnstown Tribune.
The above is not correct. Mr. Barker,
the new postmaster, was ready to move '
the post office before he had any author,
itv to take it, and as a consequence Gibbs
Hasson declined to hand it over until he ,
had such authority. Gibbs commission
does not expire until the 28tli of next
April and he would have to be .
removed, suspended, or resign be
fore there could be a job for a •
new postmaster. Although perfectly
resigned to being removed or suspended,
he had not resigned, and had received no (
notice of his suspension or removal. Mr.
Barker telegraphed to the department .
for the necessary document which he re
ceived on Tuesday, presented to Gibbs
Hasson on Tuesday evening, when the '
office was promptly turned over and re
moved the same night. Gibbs Hasson ]
did not refuse to recognize President 1
Harrison's Commission, but he expected 1
President Harrison, to do business in a |
business way. I
ASIA'S ABLEST SOLDIER.
John Hinton, tho Ameer's Favorite a Penn
sylvania Country Boy.
From the Somerset Democrat.
Nearly forty years ago, in Bouth Hun
tington township, Westmoreland counlyj
lived John Hinton. He was an orphan
boy, rude and uneducated, and had
wandered there from the neighborhood of
Masontown, Fayette county. With no
known relatives, he was kicked from one
family to another till manhood, enlisting
then in the war. At tho close he
helped to escort the Cherokees
beyond the Mississippi. From Indian
Territory he went to New Orleans
and shipped as a common sailor on a ves
sel bound for tho East Indies. At tho
Bay of Madras, en the western shores of
the Bay of Bengal, he deserted and en
listed in a British regiment. He served
many years, and during the memorable
Sepoy rebellion was noted for his daring
bravery. At his discharge he was pre
sented with a gold medal by the Gov
ernor-General himself.
He is next heard of traveling in a cara
van from Delhi, westward across the
Indus River, through Afghanistan and
Persia, to Turkey and back. In time,
from trading, he became Immensely
[ wealthy and was the owner of five cara
vans, containing 13,000 horses and camels
and fifty elephants. In 1873 he visited
Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan, for
copper, great quantities of which are
there mined and smelted. His magnifi
cent retinue attracted the attention of the
Ameer, and was invited to an audience,
an honer never before received by a Chris
tian. A present of 100 of his best horses and
a three-tu-ked elephant made tho Ameer
his eternal friend. When yearly it was
followed by similar presents, besides
camels and merchandise, John lliuton
gained the monopoly ot trade from the
summit of the Aindoo Kosh Mountain to
the confines of the Bellochistau, and in
real power is second only to the Ameer
himself.
About 1880 he was made Military Com
mander of the District of Herat, and in
1876 suppressed a local rebellion to the
great satisfaction of his sovereign.
Trained in the arts of war among the
savages of North America and among the
superstitious natives of India, where he
became thoroughly familiar with British
soldiers and the resources, together with
his years of service as the idolized com
mander of the Mahometan tribes, to lens
of thousand half civilized men, he is to
day the ablest soldier in Asia.
Iron and Steel Trade Boom.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says: Tho
boom in steel and iron rivals the memor
able advance of 1884. Even when com
pared with that time, other things con
sidered, the advance in products of steel
and ir.i L ii. jrj . imuhablt. oU-.-.l mil.,
cannot to-day be bought for less than $32
per ton, and manufacturers are quite in
dependent ou those figurest, for it is confi
dently believed the price will yet reach
$35.
In the last few days Bessemer pig has
stiffened from $18.70 to $10.50 and a
heavy consumer said to-day he doubts if
he could buy 100 or 1,000 tons ror less
than S2O. This is an advance in the past
five weeks of between $5 and $6. At the
office of Carnegie Bros. & Co. it was
learned that the advance is caused by the
increased cost in raw materials. " If,"
said the authority, " Bessemer pig ad
vances to S2O, rail aim other products 1
must cost just so much more. As 4 ad- '
vance on pig means ass advance on the i
finished product, tor the shrinkage is 1
estimated at 25 per cent., and in addition '
to that is the sliding scale under which
our men work. In England Bessemer :
pig has risen from 40 to 5G shillings, I
which cost, with the duty added, makes 1
the price of this foreign product in this t
couutry far abo o our price of S2O.
Moreover, our advices tell lis that prices
will still go higher iu Englyid, and of
course that has an important bearing upon
prices in this country."
Will Have a Place of AimniiHcmoiit.
It is authentically asserted that Messrs, .
McCann aud Flynn have leased the Parke
Opera House, and propose to open it to
the public in a few weeks. It is their in
tention to book traveling companies of
the better class, and will possitively
allow no low variety companies to play
in the house. This being the only theatre
in the city these gentlemen propose to
conduct it in first-class style. The famous
orchestra from the Johnstown Opera
House has been engaged which Is a guar
antee of good music. The entire force
from the above named theatre will man
ipulate the scenery. The house will be
brilliantly illuminated with electric 1
light. The great amount of knowledge
these gentlemen possess of the business,
coupled with their liusteling ability, it is
safe to predict that success is suie to
crown their efforts.
•Seriously 111.
Mr. E. J. Hoar, of Philadelphia, who
escaped from Johnstown to the hills at i
the time of the great flood, is lying dan
gerously ill at Atlantic City. He is the
author of "The Legion of Honor," a
book on the foremost Irish leaders, and I
was prominent in the Land League i
movement with Mr. Parnell. After be
ing in an Irish prison for a year under
the Foster Coercion < act, he came to
America and is now a naturalized citi
zen.
A Phenomenal Hotel Man.
The Travelers' Age,
Johnstown hasaphenominal hotel man,
Mr. P. L, Carpenter. He charges the
same price to commercial travelers that
he does to the farmer or any other white
man- Wo bad as good a supper there for
twenty-five cents as we ever had in the
town. This ad. is gratis.
THE FLOOD COMMISSION.
What Secretary Kromer Has to Say About
Paying Out the Money.
Saturday Secretary Krcmer handed
us the following letter concerning the dis
truhution ot the money intended for the
flood sufferers. It is not as definite an
announcement as the people would like
to hear, and just when the paying will
commence, is not stated. Mr. Krcmer
says :
To the Editor of the Johnstown Democrat
Sib : Earnest inquiries having repeat
edly been made as to when tho Commis
sion will begin paying the $1,600,000 ap
propriate I at their last meeting for the
sufferers in the Conemaugh Yalley, it
seems proper that I should make the fol
lowing statement :
The Committee of Inquiry have made
their recommendations, except as to a
few cases, concerning which they are
wailing further information, as to the
claims now comprised under classes 1, 2,
and 3. These recommendations have
been in every case examined, in connec
tion with all the papers filed, and either
approved or changes suggested by mo.
I tie sheets have been referred to the
members of the Commission, anil as soon
as 1 learn that the work has received their
approval, payments to the persons in
these classes will be mane; dclay'from
this cause cannot exceed some days.
The Committee of Inquiry have been
working day and night and have about
completed the first paper distribution of
classes 4 and 5. In figures as large as
those under their consideration, both as
to losses and appropriations, the totals
could not be expected to be correct, and
their first trial sheet will require their
careful revision. When this is completed
the Commission will at once pass upon
it, and payments will be made without
delay.
What has seemed to be a delay in the
distribution lias been only, on the part of
the committee engaged in the work, a
conscientious care that there should ap
pear in the final result as few mistakes as
possible. J. B. Kkkmeu,
Secretary.
BIL S STILL PRESENTED.
The Pittsburgh Relief Committee Subject
to More Delay**.
Treasurer \V. R. Thompson, of Pitts
burgh, has recently checked over $400,000
to the General Fund of the Johnstown
Flood Commission, retaining only enough
to meet certain small bills which are con
tingent in nuture. It is a remarkable fact
that bills supposed to have no existence
are springing into view almost every day.
Sevetal came iu last Friday, ami upon
tliem the local committee will shortly pass
judgment at another meeting. That bills
of any nature should be withheld for
months after having been due is what
puzzles some people. It may not be long,
however, before the final accounting wil
lie made to the public by the Pittsburgh
Relief Committee.
Governor Beaver's offer to pay for the
1 tools iu lieu of returning the $125,000 is
still said to be open consideration at
tue hands of the Relict Committee,
CAPTURE fit' FIVE TOUGHS.
They Were In Binding for a Month, but
Finally Were Run llorvn.
Tiie DKMOCKAT contained a full account
of the riot that the following named
toughs weie engaged in while ou the
Johnstown Accommodation: John Ruff
ncr, John Cairnes and Pat Cairnes, of
Crab Tree, and Joseph McCormick, of
Latrobe, and Elmer Johns, of Braden
ville, were Saturday captured by Special
Agent, 11, Houghton, of tlic Pennsylva
nia Railroad, and charged before 'Squire
Morris, of Greensburg, with assaulting a
conductor of the Joliustown Accommoda
tion on the 4tli of September. They be
gan to fignt on the train between Greens
lmrgh and Crab Tree, which terminated
in nn incipient riot.
Warrants ivere sworn out for their ar
rest, bat when search was made for
them, they bad disappeared,and bud been
in hiding up to Saturday,when tho detec
tives succeeded in locating them. They
were held for trial at the November
term of court at Greensburg- Johns is a
brother of the girl who was shot by her
father on September 3d.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
The Following llnve Been Granted Since
Our Last Report.
(W. W. Healtm Delaney
\EUzabetli Gains Delaney
(William Blake Johnstown
(Sadie Harrison Jackson twp
f Andrew smith Mtllvllle
I Bridget O'connell MUlvllle
JBenJamln Kager Jackson twp
(Jennie Dearmln Jackson twp
I Edward Santord Johnstown
(Bella Kutledge Johnstown
IJohn Yurt Johnstown
(Chrlstena Young Johnstown
A P. R. K. Employe Killed.
William Shelian, an employe of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at the Blairsville
Intersection, while at work on the line
Thursday evening near Gray's station,
was struck by a freight train and almost
instantly killed. He was taken to Deny,
where his body was prepared for burial-
He claimed he had a son on the Pliila del
pliia police force.
Tho Fourth Victim Dies.
Harry Connell, aged twenty-six years,
one of the men who was buried at the
Braddock blast furnace, died at the Mercy
Hospital, Pittsburgh, at 12:10 Friday morn
ing. The doctor said his death was caused
by exhaustion occasioned by the injuries he
received a* the time. He was married but
four moi .In md resided in Braddock,
where the body was sent Saturday. The
funeral took place Sunday.
A Coal Miner Killed.
Andrew May, a coal miner, living in
Mansheld, near Pittsburgh, was killed on
the Panhandle road near that place, Fri
day afternoon. He was walking on the
tracks, when he was struck by the cars
and killed almost instantly. Coroner Mc-
Dowell visited Mansfield Friday evening
and held an inquest on the remains Satur
day morning.
GLEANINGS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Flthy Paragraph! of Lata Maw* In Con
denned Form. ,
I A school organized specially ror the ed
ucation of woincnj In the legrl profession
has been opened in New York under the
most auspicious encouragements of sue
i cess.
Admiral Porter is lying very ill at his
summer home at Johnstown, Rhode
Island. His family regard his illness as
most serious, and are apprehensive as to
• the result.
A pumpkin weighing 180 pounds took
the first prize at the Westchester County
i Fair a few days ago. On the closing of
the exhibition it was promptly purchased
by a large New York hotel.
"1 he fifteenth annual convention of the
i Woman's Christian Temperance Union of
■ Pennsylvania will be held in Association
Hall, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets,
Philadelphia, 9th, 10th, and 11th of Octo
ber.
A paragraph is going the rounds of the
press stating that when church members
in Chicago are particularly pleased with a
good point in a sermon they whack the
pew in froDt of them with a hymn book
and snort.
An umbrella-maker of Birmingham,
England, has perfected a transparent um
brella which will allow the bearer to see
what is directly in front and escape be
ing run into. It is a sensible as well as
novel improvement.
To-day Connecticut will vote on the
Prohibition Constitutional Amendment.
Leaders of the old political parties say its
defeat is a foregone conclusion, predict
ing that it will be defeated by not less
than 20,000 majority.
Washington society is interested over
the addition shortly to be made to its
numbers by the arrival from Europe of
Lady Pauucefote and her daughters.
They have already sailed from Liverpool *
with the British minister.
The French government announces
that so far as the American exhibitors at
llie Paris Exposition have been awarded
53 grand prizes, 199 gold medals, 271 sil
ver medals, 218 bronze medals and 220
honorable mentions, and the list is not
nearly completed.
There is a curious little museum in
Berlin in which no relics are kept excep
r °yal garters. It is run in conjunction
with the Hohenzollern museum and was
fouuded by William I. Garters from the
legs of all the princesses who have been
married since 1817 are to be found in this
unique collection.
The Faculty of the University of Penn
sylvania have by a decided vote agreed to
admit the sexes to coeducation in that
institution, a movement which cannot at
once be fully appreciated in importance,
but which is bound to have a command
ing iu".;,e:ce oi, other souls of learning
in this country.
The largest suspension bridge in the
world is the Brooklyn bridge; the largest
fortress in the world is Fortress Monroe;
the largest university in the world is that
of Oxford; the largest tunnel is the St.
Gotlnird; the largest head belongs to Rus
sell Harrison, and the competition for the
largest mouth is still waxing hot between
Tanner, Foraker and Private Dalzell.
Black Bart, who is known to fame at
" the lone highwayman of California," ,
has, it is thought, gone to China or Aus
tralia. Over thirty robberies of stages
and express trains are attributed to this
Napoleon of the stand-and-deliver game.
Evidence to convict him was obtained
onlv in two or three cases. When he was
caught, in 1883, he pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to prison for seven years.
He was a good prisoner, read devotional
works and was liked by the authorities at
San Quentin. During the last year his
robberies have been very numerous.
Miss Carrie Meyer, a fifteen-year-old
girl, is now frescoing the walls of theSmith
ern Hotel in St. Louis, Mr. She has de
signed and executed the frescoing for a
large number of the finest rooms in tho
hotel, and is regarded by her employers
as an able and accomplished fresco paint
er. The child is a musician as well as an
artist, and plays with skill upon a number
of instruments, including the bass viol,
orgau, flute and violin. Her father wishes
her to devote herself to painting pictures,
but she enjoys fresco work better. She
is described as very pretty and graceful,
and exceedingly shy.
An Interesting Visitor.
Ebensburg Freeman.
The Johnstown DAILY DEMOCRAT has
entered on its second volume aud although
it lias hnd more than ordinary hard luck,
is prospering and going to stay. The
DEMOCRAT is a welcome and always an
interesting visitor to our office and we
hope witli each succeeding year its pros
perity may be increased.
Will Never Die.
Meyersdale commercial.
The Johnstown Daily DKMOOBAT com
menced its second volume on Wednesday.
It has had a hard road to travel, but looks
bright and regards itself a* permanently
fixed. We sincerely hope so. A paper
that survives tho storms it did will never
d'e and should not.
Long anil Prosperous.
Altoona Indlpendent.
The Johnstown DEMOCRAT has cntored
its second year with encouraging success.
It's advertising patronage is very fine and
this is the life of journalism. The paper
passed through the great flood and sur
vived. We wish it a long and prosperous
life.
ilrave and Newny.
Huntingdon Local News.
The JOHNSTOWN DAILY DEMOCRAT has
entered upon its second volume. It is a
hrave and newsy journal, and is destined
to live and prosper, notwithstanding the
reverses it has undergone in its brief
career.