IHB CHKSTIAL'S .CHESS. 0 M>s or BKAJna as ay : THK CMTNESm How ft Differs From (he Corresponding* American Oume-How the Board Ix Laid Out and What the Powers of the Various Pieces Are—Stakes Always Played For. ■ _ In Chinatown, Now York, there aro gambling houses where tho prluoipal at traction for players is the Celestial game of ohess. In Boston thore aro not nearly | so many of the almond-eyed descendants of Confucius and the littlo Chinatown 1 there could not support a gambling house of that sort, for there are not more than twenty L. vetcrate Chinese chess players there. These players do not oall their game chess, however, but the name they use cannot well be spoiled in English. Like the game played by other nations, how ever, it is played entirely by intelligent > people, only tho doctors, philosophers j and scholars of Chinatown being adopts in the art of moving the figures success fully over the board. Knowing an old Chinaman named Wing Leo, who was said to be an expert at the game, and who Is looked upon as a very intelligent man by his own pee- j pie, a newspaper man, by dint of much ] argument and many visits to Wing Lee's j . voritablo under- [ K X ground abode (for v 'g\ ho resides In on-- s .- yL of the dark st / * ■-- ©_v cellars in China -v*;' . - Ft town), got into (\ ' Y M ''' B good graces, a and one day, 'ft M while visiting. \\ '?•? a said: "Do you \\ know how to play V o)W chess, Wing?" V: "Oh, me play f*\ him litty bitteo, ' said Wing, in an off-hand manner, as though playing chess were nothing ot v more difficulty than eating his dinner. "Did you ever see an American game of chess?" ventured the writer. , "Yes, me see him two or tlee time, replied Wing, "but him not be so goud likeo Chinee way. Chinee way heap best; him be two big army an' great gen erals; they fight, havee big war, and him man what have biggest blain," said he, tapping his forehead with his fore finger, "him be the man what win nil the battle." He paused a moment, and on, as if it wero his intention to have 1 in- writer think that he was possessed or a remarkable quantity of brain, he -aid: "Me win lots games, me beat al! Chinee boy in Bloston." ■Have you a chessboard?" queried the writer. ■•'Hi, yes, mo got him sure," replied Wing, with emphasis. "You likeo see him?" Upon being answered in the affirm ative, he proceeded to rummage in wha' was to all outside appearances a pile of rubbish, which was under his bunk, and in a moment he had brought to light a curious looking Chinese box, which, on being opened, was found to contain all of the paraphernalia of a Chinese ch>->-* • player. The Chinese have been playii thi - game of chess since about tho y"s- 1 ;M , and tho rules for the game iod v a- exactly the same as those set d< wn ;-• it by the inventor, Wu Wang, H.OliO •i i ago. They vary vn- ly, however, i the rules set down for the En:-1- pen game. hero are sixteen pieces on the boa: < . ad for these sixteon pieces there ■ euty-six more positions than in ti. - American gaum. ;: , not possible, ii- wover, to make so many combi- / nations, although a great deal of ( r'A exportness eat I \ I be and Is shown H) j by players. 'V I /'I I "The board is 1/ (, - cut into scanty- •• Ft \ I two squares, eight of which in %/ the center are |z?y k j run together and V supposed to be the river, while -r.jV. the four squares near each outer edge aro the headquar ters of tho general, or, as he is called by tho Celestials, "Islagor." Each general has two aids or secretaries ami these < throe figures are not allowed to move out of their four squares, where they aro supposed to romain, like real army "gen erals, and direct tho movements of the troops in front of them. Two elephants, two chariots and two ! horses are stationed on each side of the | headquarters, their power being some thing similar to that of the bishop, knight, and castle In our game, although these Chinese figures are restricted as to the ground they oan cover. In front are five soldiers or pawns, j whose duty it is to guard tho river, i When they once cross, however, in pur suit of the enemy they are obliged to stay across, and they do not gain any thing in value when they reach tho last row. bach piece is put down in the square where it captures its man, ex cept in the case of e.-tnaonler. It is iro possible, according to the rules, to cup- | ture the general, so of necessity it | becomes the object of each player to | oheckma o him if possible in his head quarters, by preventing him from mov ing except in check. Wing Lee Informed the writer that in all his experience he had never seen a game of chess played unless there was a f stake of some kind en the ta ble, for all China- , mon are inveter ate gamblers, and do not care to ex ert thomselves unless there is something put up i to make an ob- Ihe ohess board seen by the writer is a fine specime of inlaid work, and the figures aro elaborutcly and artistically carved, all of them being made of solid Ivory, and often a ohess board and men ► will bo handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years; indeed, Wing Lee litformod the writer without u wick that the set iie had just brought out was something like 000 years old. Some of the figures resemble in form and ap pearance the ordinary Chinese idol, while others are warlike looking men on horsos and brandish broadswords in their hands. Others aro mounted on ivory elephants, and others, which take tho place of our bishop, have a delicately carved fringe ol whiskers around the.r v chin, which is supposed to give them a dignified look.—Boston Globe- 4 CEKTmfT AST) A < ti lit TV i Johnny JltiiUen, I lie v-ijeit Wonder of Oxford, Me. Johnny Mullen is by all odds the old est man in the region about Oxford, Ma., and perhaps in the country, and some | faots in his long life will be of Interest. He wus born in Gowdoffe in the parish of Moville in tho north part of Ireland, : about 130 years ago. Ills parents were I Charles and Bridget Mullen. He was one | of four children, ono brother and two I sisters. His paronts wore quite well to ' do. They were also linen weavers. As j soon as Johnny was strong enough to ! stand alone and tall enough to reach tho I weuving harness, ho wus put to work ! weaving. He toiled at tho loom until a : liitlo over '2l years of ago. Then wonderful stories camo to North ern Ireland of a now and marvelous country beyond tho seas, whero land more fertile than a farmer's dream was free to all who came. Lured by this golden vision the Mullens sold out and crossed the ocean to St. John, N. B. Johnny got a job in a saw mill in St. John. He thinks he stopped here about thirty vears, for a little boy he first got ! acquainted with grow up into manhood, married a: id ha several children before he cam" away. He worked in tho saw mill summers and along Hie coast win ters when tho mill did not run. Finally he got, tired of St. John and with two friends hired out on a coaster 1 and camo to Maine. He remained in Cape Elizabeth some yours. After living in Capo Elizabeth for awhile he went to Portland. Ho next j "huffed" it to We tbrook where ho was i so fortunate ac to -••• -i-re -i job lugging new wot brick iii Hawue's brick \ urd This was such a nice job ho kopt it seven years. Having saved up a'little money he wont to llaymond and bought a farm on whicli he settled down. Soon aftoi this he ma Hod Miss Lizzie Bryant and became tho father of five little Mullens Mr, Mullen's farm .-mull, poor and iceky. He could not get a living off i; and was obliged to gu digging ditches fo. other men. Ho was an oxpert at this, and soon his fame as a ditch digger spread abroad in the land. For tho next twenty-five years ho followed this ancient anil honorable occupation in Bayinond, Bridgtou, Cu .o, Naples, Harrison and all the country round Finally, about thirty years ago, ho sold out in llaymond and went to Oxford. His first work was in excavating for tho foundation of the oolen factory. When the factory began operations, Mr. ltobinson gave him tho position of a \ Wl 1 M Sa p. f' Jl? Miy i a>/ r •- JOHNNY Mt'LIiEN. night watehuiar. He used to smok strong tobacco "iiko a steam engine" n , night, to keep himself from going :■ -ieep. By this time Mr. Mullon was probably over 100 years old. It was natural to •oppose that his irregular habits, :hi alaria of swamps, sleepless nights an :ic rank poison of tobacco would begi •o get in their deadly work. UTtt no; the most marvelous part of his long life I was yet to come. About five years ago | he begun to fail a littlo. Not from sick ! ness or disease, but from a gradual | weakening of all his physical powers In personal appcarauco he is about I medium height, very spare and sinewy, with not an ounce of surplus flesh on his body. His eyesight is koen. He com plains of defective sight on verv near tilings, but has never used spectacles. His hearing is gotting detective. His only complaint is of a "tired feeling" after working a short time. When young ho went to Now Yoik city. Ho knew .John .Jacob Astor in his prime, and relates many Interesting stories of New York In "ye olden time. Ho was one of tho first gung that wen: to cooporing in Virginia, and tho on. • ono who stood tho climate without mm— - ness. After a wandering life he iv ) turueii to Maine. He carries on a farm of fifty-three acres in Harrison, doin ' most of the work himself. He has al ways livod on a very plain diet, and his habits aro remarkably regular. His only medicine is wormwood, which ho steeps Into a strong tea and drinks when "out, of sorts." He is quite a natural philosopher in his way, and has studied in an original way the habits of all na ture's living things. Trick* of Sm uggler*. In the days when high-heeled boots wore tho prido of fashion there was H shoemaker in London who made u for- I tune by the sale of tho best Paris boots ! at a price which all his fellow-tradesmen ■ declarod ruinous. He undcisold lb trado and obtained troops of ouatoan-ir "Those boots must, be stolen," said hi rivals; but thore was no evidence thin they were; certa illy they wore not smug gled boots, for any one could satisfy him self that the full " duty was paid upon them at the Custom house. The shoe maker retired from business with a for tune, and it was not until some time af terwards that his secret was accidentally discovered. It was then found out that although ho had paid duty for the boots he had not paid it for everything that was in them. There was a heavy duty payable on foreign watches; and every boot con signed to him from Paris had contained in its high heel a cavity exaotly largo enough to hold a watch. The great profit obtained by the trade in smuggled watches made it possible for this trades roan, when he had filled up the heel, to sell his boots under prime cost. This was worth while again, because, of course, by th- extension of his boot trade ho increased his power of import ing watches duty free. The dispute as to whether the Calhoun- Williamson duel took place in Goorgia or Alabama has been settled in favor of Ala bama. Tne ground where it was fought belongs to an Atlanta poticoman. Crowds of visitors are rapidly stripping it of its wood for mementoes. Two memorial brasses of the Wash ington family have been stolen from the parish church of Sulgravo, near Ban bury, England. The family of George Washington sprang froiu Sulgravo, and the uhureh is much visited by Ameri cans. A aoirrnn AKKCUOTB, ||| &try of tile Qflraca Thinker nod Writer. TBe following littlo story, whioh la amusing and characteristic of grout woethe in his laat years, will interest that largo portion of our cultured publlo which cares for the great Gorman thinker and writer. Goethe was for many yoars intimate with fiofrath and Professor Dr. Fr. bigmund Voigt, and with the profes sor's v. ifo, born V. Loenlch. The doctor and his wifo lived at Jena, which is somo nine or ton English miles distant from Weimar; and whon Goethe visited the university city, ho commonly spent his evenings with the Voigts. Goethe was, of course, the central point of at traction, and an object of the groatost reverence in the little circle which gath ered together in the rooms of tho pro fessor. In the seventh volume of the "Goethe Jahrbuch" Edmund Stengel narrates this littlo story of the groat man—an unocdote communicated to Stengel by T'hoodor Voigt, a son of tho Jena professor. Tho probable date would l)e 1830. In his last years Goethe had become monosyllabic and serious, and was also, at times, very forgetful. One after noon a Hussar from Weimar came rid ing rapidly into John, and drew bridle at tho door of the professor. This Hussar was the bearer of a noto from Gootho to Voigt, In which the doctor was pross ingly invited to come to Goethe that same evening, and it was added that a carriage would come for Voigt in about an hour. Voigt, naturally, gladly obeyed tho summons, and was driven to W' .niar to wait upon the poet. Arrived in U out he's well known room, Voigt found there,in addition to Goethe himself Rlemer, the poet's secretary, Eckormann, afterwards the poet's Boswell, and one o: two other men, whoso names are un recorded. They were all sitting round a table, and Goethe wore n green shade over hi* eyes. No one spoke a word, but each man'had before him a bottle of rod wine. Voigt wished to announce him self, and to inquire what were his excel lency's commands; but lleimer whis pered to him softly, "Hush! Excellency is thinking." Silence again settled dowu upon tho party; tho men sipped tholr wine noiselessly. At last, at 10 p. m., the party broke up, Goetho dismissing his friends with his usual formula, "I wish my friends a good night." The next morning Excellency could remember nothing about tho invitation of Voigt. Somo idea must have crossed the poet's mind which made him desirous of seeing and speaking with the professor, but tho idea had vanished, and had loft no trace; so that Voigt re turned to Jena without having learned why ho had been so suddenly and need lessly summoned to Weimar.— London Athene urn. Tho Harmon igrupli. An Invention hails from Now Orleans for v ! .'.eh very remarkablo powors are claimed. Thie device ombodies mech anism by means Of which music, as it i* played on the piano or similar instru ment, may ho indicated on paper so that it may be reproduced as desired, thus enabling one improvising music to have tho music written a* it is played in such a manner that it may be read and trans lated into the characters ordinarily em ployed in writing music. The invention is said to consist in ttie combination in the Jiarmonigraph of the markers and con'teetlng rods arranged lor engagement by the keys of the piano or other similar instrument, on the key and may be transmitted to the maiker. In the combination is also embodied a tone marker and a measure marker. Some of the finest ideas of the impromptu player on the piano appear to bo the most evanescent. What composer, while abandoning himself to the flow of happy extemporization, has not longed for some mean* of catching the exquisite melody or the superb orchestral effect, and recording it before its form and beauty have become impaired and lost? If file harmonigraph can do this, it is truly a wonderful invention, anil one which will bo received with gratitude by tho whoic musical world.—Exchange. Recognition in Birds. A correspondent writing to "Nature" from Canea, Crete, records a curious in stance of instinct in birds, which is by no means singular. A gardener living in Zukaleria, three iqjles ft out Canea, caught a young but fully-lloiiged sparrow in his garden, which ho brought to the house of a friend, with whom he and his family are staying in Canea. lie presented the bird to one of tho children in the house, it was put in a cage and hung in the window, and after u few hours it lost its flight and became placid. It was early in the morning when It was caught, and late in the afternoon an old bird was noticed fluttering about the cago, apparently trying to get at the littlo one, whilo tho young ono was mak ing frantic efforts to got out to the old one. i was evidently the mother of the young bird, as tho recognition was too cordial to have been owing to the Inter est of a strange bird. On the cago being opened they both flew off rapidly in the direction of Zula keria, from which tho old bird must have traced its nestling by some instinct, a* i; is Impossible she had followed the gurdener, or she would have been ob served earlier in the day. Mind Destroying Drugs. An insanity specialist, in a recent con versation as to the number of young men ami women at present in asylums from the use of opium, morphine, cocaine and kindred narcotics, stated that the sub jert had given him more trouble than all other forms of insanity combined. He said that among his patients were those whose minds nod become unbalanced through drink, family affections, bus iness ioHses and from other causes; but the worst eases were those whose minds w ere destroyed through the use of nar cotics. The number of patients from this cause is rapidly increasing, and there have lieen more men and women com mitted during the past six months suffer ing trom dementia ocoasloned by drugs than there were from the same cause during th* ten previous years. It is be yond quest ion that narcotics are amo>e prolillc source of insanity than all other causes combined. —Exchange. FrtiiircN Sinking Fund. The "Eli;, i •iceriug and Mining Journal" describes u long series of observations that lias been carried out all over France since tin- year 188* for the purpose of de tecting any variations of level of the sand. Those observations show that a depression from south to north is in pro gross. While on the coast of the Gulf of Lyons no alteration of level has boen noted on the line between Marseilles and Lille, a stretch of 820 kilometers, the ground is sinking toward the north at the various rate of three centimeters yoarly. Should this rate of depression continue, northwestern France would, in the course of a few centuries encounter a calamity similar to that which, at the end of the thirteenth century, befell the Netherlands.—Exchange. GENERAL Election Proclamation. GOD SAVE TBE COMMONWEALTH. WHEREAS, BY AN ACT OF the General Assembly of the common wealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to regulate the General elections within the Com monwealth," It Is enjoined upon me to give pub lic notice of said election (and to enumerate In said notice what officers are to bo elected.) 1, C. Stlneman, High sheriff of the County of Cambria, In lhe commonwealth of Pennsylva nia, (lo hereby make known and give notice to the electors of the county aforesaid, that a Gen eral election will be held In the said county of Cambria, on the STH DAY OF NOV. A. D. 1889. (the same being the Tuesday next following the first Monday of said month), at which time State, and county officers will be elected as fol lows: ONE PEItSON for the office of Treasurer of Pennsylvania. ONE I'liliSON for the office of l'rothonotary. clerk of Quarter Sessions and Clerk of Oyer and Terminer of Cambria county. ONE PEHSON for Ihe office o( Register of Wills, Recorder of Deeds and clerk of the Orphans' court of Cambria county. ONE PERSON for the office of District Attor ney of Cambria county. ONE PERSON for the office of Poor Director of Cambria county. ONE PERSON for the office of coroner of Cambria county. ONE PERSON for tlio office of County Sur veyor of Cambria county. ON E PERSON for the office of Auditor of Cam bria county. I ALSO HEREBY MAKE KNOWN AND GIVE NOTICE that the places for holding the afore said elections In the several wards, boroughs, districts and townships within said county, are as follows, to-wlt: The electors of the district composed of tho borough of ASlivtlle, to meet at the house of 1). G. Myers, In said borough. The electors of tho district composed of the township of Allegheny, to meet at Bradley's school house, in said township. The electors of the district composed of the township of Adams, to meet at the house of Daniel Dunmlre, in Adamsburg. The electors of the district composed of tho township of Blackllck, to meet at the house on the property of Simon Adams, In the village of Bclsauo. The electors of the district composed of the township of Barr, to meet at the house of John Solssong In said township. The electors of the district composed of tho township of Cambria, to meet at tho office of Abel Lloyd at Lloyd Springs Hotel, In said town ship. The electors of the district composed of the borough of Cambria to meet as follows : Ist ward, at school house In said ward ; and ward In the borough lock-up In said ward. The electors of the district composed of tho township of Carroll to meet at the house of John Eltek In said township. The electors of the district composed of the borough of carrolltown, to meet at the school house In said borough. The electors of the district composed of the township of chest, to meet at the school house No. 9 In said township. The electors of the district composed of the borough of chest Springs, to meet at the house of Jacob Wagner In salu borough. The electors of the district composed of the township of cieartleld, to meet at school house No. a. adjoining the village of St. Augustine, In said township. The electors of the district composed of the township of conemaugb, to meet at the school house at singer's In said township. The elect ore of the district composed of the borough of Conemaugb to meet as follows : Ist ward, at the house ofPeter Malzl In said ward, 2nd ward, at the house of John Swnrtzman In said ward. The electors of the district composed of the borough of coopersdale, to meet at school house In said ward. The electors of the district composed of the township of croyle. to meet at the office of J no. Ton", in the vintage of summerhlll, In said township. , The electors of the district composed of the township of Dean, to meet at Richmond school house In said township. The electors of the district composed of the borough of East Coutmaugh, to meet at the school house In said borough. The electors of the district composed of the borough of isberasburg, to meet as follows: East ward, at tho office of Richard Jones, Jr., In said ward: West ward, In council room. In said ward. The elect ore of the district composed of the , •township of Eder, to meet at the school house in the village of St. Boniface In said township. The electors of the district composed of the , borough of Kranklln, to meet at the school | house In said borough. The electors or the district composed of the , borough or south Eork, to meet at school house ; No. 2 of said borough. The electors of the district composed of the | township "of Gallitzln, to meet at Mountain , school house In said township. The electors of the district composed of the j borough of Gallitzln, to meet at school house In , said borough. . , The electors of the district composed of the j borough of Grubbtown, to meet at public school , building In said borough. , The electors of the district composed of the . township of Jackson, to meet at the house of ] Henry Roger, In said township. I The electors of the district composed of the , borough of Johnstown, to meet as follows: Ist t ward, at the office formerly occupied by Thomas , & Waters., Market square ;2d ward, at tne or- ; lice of J. 8. Tittle, Esq,, on Market street In said ward; :',d ward, to meet at the Mansion House, corner ot Franklin and Broad streets In said ward; 4th ward, In school house In said ward); i sth ward, at the office of Irvlnßutledge.Esq., In 1 said ward; Gtli ward, at the Johnstown Pottery ' In said ward; 7th ward, at the office of S. W. Miller in said ward. The electors of tLe district composed ot the borough of Lilly, to meet at the house of Gep hart Bender In said borough. The electors ot the district composed ot the < borough of Loretto, to meet In school house In said borough. _ , The electors of the district composed of the township ot Muuster, to meet at the ware-house of Augustine Durbln, deceased, In the village ot Munster In said township. The electoi • ot the district composed of the borough of .'lllvllle, to meet as follows: Ist ward, at the lock-up; 2nd ward, at the hose car riage house In said township. 'liie electors of the district composed of the borough of prospect, to meet at council Cham ber In said borough. The electors of the district composed of the township of Portage, to meet at the school house near the village of Portage In said town ship. The electors of the district composed of the township of Heade. to meet at the tin shop of Abraham Cornelllus, In the vlllnge of Glasgow In said township. , The electors of the district composed of tho township of Richland, to meet at the house of Joseph Gets In said township. The electors of the district composed of the township of Stonycreek, to meet at Jacoby.s school house in said township. Tho electors of the district composed of the township of Summerhlll. to meet at school house No. 4 in said township. The electors of the district composed ot the tow nship of Susquehanna to meet at tho house of Michael Plottln said township. The electors of the district composed of the township'of West Taylor, to meet at 'lie school house near James Blough's In said township. The electors of the district composed of tlio township of East Taylor, to meet at the house ot Peter Rhodes, near the Hendrtck's school house, In said township. The electors of the district composed of the borough of Tunnelhlll, to meet at the school house In said borough. The electors of the district composed of the boougb of Woodvale, to meet at council cham ber In said borough. The electors kit the district composed of the borough of Wilmore to meet at the council Chamber In said borough. The electors of the district composes ot the township of Washington No. 1 to meet at school house No. 3 In said township. The electors of the district composed of the township of Washington No. a to meet at school house No. 5 on the pike leading from cresson to summit. The electors ot the district composed of the township of white to meet at the small store house of John C. Gates in said township. The electors of the district composed of the township of upper Yoder to meet at the Whiskey Springs Hotel In said township. The electors ot the district composed of tho township of Lower Yoder to meet at Beam's school house In said township. SPECIAL ATTENTION. Ssc. l. Every male citizen twenty-one years of age possessing the following qualltlcations shall be entitled to vote at all electrons. ist, lie shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one mont h. 2d. He shall have roitdod in the State at least one year tor tf having previously been a quail- 1 tied eloctor or native born citizen of the State he shall have removed therefrom and returned then six months, Immediately preceding the election, 3d. He shall have resided In the election dis trict were he shall offer to vote at least two months Immediately preceding the election. 4th. If twenty-one years of age or upward he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shnll have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election. SKC. 4. All elections by the citizens shnll be by ballot.: Every ballot voted shall be numbered In tho order In which It shall be received, and the number recorded by the cloctlon officers on the list of voters, opposite the name of the elec tor who presents the ballots. Any elector may write Ills name upon his ticket, or cause his Dame to be written thereon, and attested by a citizen of the district. The election officers shaU be sworn or affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall have voted unless required to do so as a witness In a Judicial proceeding. Sue. 3. Electors shall in nil cases except trea son, felony and bre:ich ot surety of the pence, be privileged from arrest during their attendance on election, and In going to aud returning there from. SKC. 6. Whenever any of the qualified electors of this commonwealth shall be In active mili tary service, under a requisition from the Pres ident of the United States, or by authority trom this Commonwealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage In all elections by the citizens, under such regulations as are or shall he prescribed by law, as fully as If the) were present at their usual place of election. SBC. 7. All the laws rgulntlng the holding of elections by the citizens for the regulation of electors shall bo uniform throughout the statu but no eLector shall be deprived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being regis tered. SKC. 8. Any person who shall give or promise to give any elector any money, reward or other valuable considerations tor his vote at any elec tion, or for withholding the same, or who shall give or promise to give such consideration to any other person or party for such elector's vote or for withholding thereof, and any elector who shall receive or agree to receive for himself or another, any money, reward or other valuable considerations for his vote at any election, or for withholding the same, thereby forfeits the right to vote at such elections; and an elect or whose right to vote shall be challenged for such cause before tho election officers shall be re quired to swear or affirm that the matter of the challenge Is untrue before his vote shall be re ceived. SEC. 9. Any person who shall while a candi date tor office bo guilty ot bribery, fraud or wilful violation of any election laws shall be for ever dlsqualllted from holding any offlco or trust or prollt within this commonwealth, any person convicted of wtltul violation ot any elec tion law, shall In addition to anypenalty provid ed by law, be deprived of tho right of suffrage absolutely for a term of four years. SEC. 13. For the purpose of voting no person shall bo deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his presence, or lost it by reason of Ids absence, while employed In the sendee, either civil or military, of this State or of the United States, or on the high seas, or while a student at any Institution of learning, nor while kept In a poor house or other asylum at public expense, nor while confined In public prison. SEC. 14. District election boards shall con sist of a Judge and two Inspectors, who shall be chosen annually by the citizens. Each elector shall have a right to vote for one Judge and one Inspector; and each inspector shall appolut one clerk. Tho tlrst election board of any new dis trict shall be selected and vacancies tn election boards tilled as shall be provided by law. Elec tion officers shall he privileged from arrest upon day of election and while engaged In making up and transmitting returns, except upon a war rant of a court, of record or Judge thereof, for an election fraud, tor felony, or for want of breach of peace. In cities they may claim exemption from Jury duty during their terms of service. SEC. 15. No person shnll be qualttled to servo as an election officer who shall hold or who shall have held within two months any office, ap pointment or employment in or under the government of the United States, or of this State, of any city or county, or any municipal board, commission or trust in any city, save only Justices ot the peace, and aldermen, nota ries public and persons In tho military service of the state; nor shall any election officor be eligible to any civil office to be tilled at an elec tion at which ho shall serve, save to such subordinate municipal or local offices, below t ho grade of city or county officer, as shall be des ignated by law. And also the following Acts of Assembly now In force In this State, viz: ACT OF JANUARY 30, 1874. SEC. 4. That alt elections hereafter held un der the laws of the Commonwealth, the polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock a. m., and close at 7 o'clock p. m. SEC. 8. Whenever there shall be a vacancy In the election board on the morning or tlio elec tion said vacancy shall be tilled In eomfonulty with existing laws. The Act of Assembly entitled, an "Act relat ing to the elections ot this Commonwealth," passed July 2,1876, provides as follows, to-wlt: That the Inspectors and Judges shall meet at tho respective place appointed for holding tho electron in the district to which they respect ively belong before 7 o'clock In the morning on Tuesday, November sth, and each sold Inspec tor shall appoint one clerk, who shall be a qual iiled voter of such district. In case the person who shall have received tho second highest number ot votes for inspector shall not attend on the day of an election, then the person who shall have received tho next highest number o( votes for Judge the next pre ceding election shall act as Inspector In bis place. And, In case the person who shall have received the highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend, the person elected Judge shall ap point an Inspector In his place. And, In ease the person elected Judge should not attend, then the Inspector who shall have received the high est number of votes, shall appoint a Judge In Ills place, and if any vacancy shaU continue In the Board for the space of one hour after the time tlxed by the law for the opening of the election, the qualttled voters ot the township, ward or dis trict for which such officers have been elected shall elect some one of their number to till the vacancy. MODE OF VOTING. The attention of all qualltled voters Is di rected to the following Act ot Assembly regu lating the mode of voting in this common wealth; CHANGE IN THE MODE OF VOTING. AN ACT regulating tho mode of voting at all the elections In the several counties of the com monwealth, approved March 30. 1869. BEC, 1. lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives fo the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania tn Oenerat Assetnhly met and it is here by enacted by the authority of the saute, That the qualified voters of the several counties of this commonwealth at the general, township, bor ough, or special elections, arc hereby author ized and required to vote the tickets printed or written, or partly printed, or partly written, severally classffied as follows: One ticket shall embrace the names all tho Judges or courts to be voted for, and be labeled outside "Judici ary one ticket shall embrace the names of all State officers voted for aud be labeled " State:" one ticket shall embrace the names of county officers voted for and be labeled " county;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all township officers voted for and be labeled " Township one ticket shall embrace the names of all bor ough officers voted for and labeled " Borough," and each class shall be deposited In a separate ballot box. GIVEN under my hand, at my office in Eben burg, this the Bth day of October, In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine and the Independence of the United states of America the one hundred und fourteenth. J. C. STINEMAN, SHERIFF. E~ LECTION NOTlCE—Notice is hereby given to the Voters of CAMBRIA BOROUGH, In the county of Cambria and In the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that on Tuesday, the fltli day of November, A. I>. 18Kb. at the time and places for the holding of the General Election, an election will be held on the QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY under the laws of said Commonwealth. All persons voting on the said question will cast a written or printed ticket labeled on the outside " City charter: " aud those In favor of It will vote a ticket containing on the inside the words " For City charter," and those opposed will vote a ' lcket containing on the Inside the words " Against city Charter." By order of Council. ROBERT H.|BRIDGKB, President. JOHN J. PFAKK, Clerk of Couuell. EDWARD E. O'NEIL, Burgess. Cambria Borough, September 21,1889. T?LEOTION NOTlCE.—Notice is 1Q hereby given to the Voters of EAST co.N KMAUGII BOROUGH. In the county of Cambria, and In the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that on Tuesday, the Oth Day of November, A. I>. 1880, at the time and places for the holding ot the General Election, an election will oc held on the QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY under the laws otsald commonwealth. All persons voting on the said question will cast a written or printed ticket, labeled on the outside " City Charterand those in favor of It will vote a ticket containing on the inside the words " For City charter," and those opposed will vote a ticket containing on the Inside the words " Against city Charter." By order of council, J. B. KAUFFMAN, President, P. O. NKILL, Clerk of counolL ROBERT NIZ, BurgeSß. East conemaugb Borough, Sept. 21, 1889. 9 T7LKCTION NOTlCE.—Notice . JJi hereby given to the .oc., u i . e ; DALE BOROUGH, lu the Coltoiy 01 cumorla,: > to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, thai Tuesday, the stli day <>t November, A. < IHHO, at the time and places for the boldtoc the General Election, an election will he held the (QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY uix 1 the laws of said Commonwealth. All persons voting on the said question v i cast a written or printed ticket, labeled on t outside " city Charter ;" and those to favor will vote a ticket containing on the Inside t words "t or City Charter, " and those oppos will vote, a ticket containing on 11, .aside t words •' Against City charter." By order of council. DANIEL WIIITTAKBR, President. I HANK JENKINS, clerk or t • smell GEOKGE W. HEED, Burgess, coopersdale Borough, September. SI, 1889. f 7LECTION NOTlCE.—Notice J hereby given to the Voters of IRANKLI BOHOL'GII, lit the County or < ambrla and tot, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that on l u< day. the sth day of November, A.!>.. INK at the time and places for the holding ol t General Election, an election will b. held on t QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY under t laws of said commonwealth. All persons voting on the said que lon w' cast a written or printed ticket, labeled ■ n i outside •• city charter;" and those in lavor It will vote a ticket containing on tile to He I words '• For city charter," and tho.- • opno will vote a ticket, containing on the Inside t words Against City chart' r." By order of Council. J. s. GF.TTK.MY, President. It. s. MCCLEESTKH, clerk of Council. J. If. KITE, Burgess. 1 rankll n Borough, September 81, 1889. Election notice.—Notice hereby given to tho v 0 ters of MILLVILI uuaOL'Gll. In the count/ of cuuibri i, and tho Commonwealth c" Pennsylvania that Tuesday, the sth day of November, \. 1 1881), at the time and places for the holdl ig -t tl General Elect lon, an elect lon will be held on t: QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY "Oder I. laws of said commonwealth. All persons voting on ihe said question w cast a written or printed ticket, lab de i outl outside "City charter:" and those in favor It will vole a I leket contain!ug on the Inside (1 words "For City Charter," and tlio-e oppost will vote a ticket containing on the In l ie t words "Against city Charter. By order of council. THUS. P. KEEDY, President. W. 8. O'BRIEN, Clerk of council. TIIOS. P. KEKDY, UurgOSS. Mlllvllle Borough, September el, 1889. 1 NOTlCE.—Notice "i j hereby given to tho Voters of tiltL'Bi TOWN BoltUEGll, to tho county of Cambrl and to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, tli Ou Tuesday, the stli Day of November, A. 1 1881), at the time aud places for tho holding the General Election, an election will be held ( the QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY undi the laws of said Commonwealth. All persons voting ou the said question wl cast a written or printed tlckei, labeled on tl outside •' city charter;" and those la favor of will vote a ticket containing ou the Inside tl. words " For city Charter," and those oppose will vote a ticket containing on tho lusfde tl words "Against City charter." By order of Council. DANIEL LOU'I'HER, President. A. L. MILTBNBEKOEK, Clerk of council. FRANK HOKNEK, Burgess Gruhbtown Borough, sept. 84,1889. I NOTlCE—Notice i j hereby given to tho Voters of PBOSPKC BOROUGH, to the County of Cambria, and 1 tho commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that o. Tuesday, the stli day of November, A. D. 1881), at the time and places for tli holding t the General Election, an election will be held o the QUESTION OF BECOMING ACHY Ulidt the laws of said commonwealth. All persons voting on the said question wll 1 cast a written or printed ticket, labeled on tli. outside '• city charter;" aud those to favor o It will vote a ticket containing on i ho Inside tie words " For city Charter," and those oppose, will vote a ticket containing on thelusidetlv words •• Against City charter." By order ot coucll. EDW. A. BABHY, President, CON MOONKY, Clerk of council, BEBNARD DO KAN, Burgess. Prospect Borough, September 81, 1889. 17LEO1 „OJ NOTICE.— Notioe i l g hereby given to the Votersot JOfIXSTOW BOROUGH, lu the County of Cambria, and 1 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that o Tuesday, tlie sth day of November, A. I 1889, at the time and places for the holding' the General Election, an election will be held o: the QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY undc the laws of said Commonwealth. All persons voting on the said question wll cast a written or printed ticket, labeled on th outside " City charter;" and these to favor < It will vote a ticket containing ou the inside th words " For city Charter," and those oppost will vote a ticket containing on the Inside tl words " Against city charter." By order of council. ALEX. KENNEDY, President. JAMES N. HE A, Clerk of council. I It WIN 110KKELL, Burgess .Johnstown Borough. September in. ls-9. Election notice.—iNotioe i hereby given to the Voters of WOODVAJ BOROUGH, to flic; county of Cambria, antl to tl Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that on Tut day, the sth day of November, A. O. 188: at the time and places for the holding of tl. General Election, an election will be held on tli QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY under 11 laws of said Commonwealth. All persons voting ou the sakl question wl cast a written or printed ticket, labeled on tl: outside " City Charter ; " and those In favor < It will vote a ticket containing on tho Inside th words " For city Charter, " and those oppose will vote a ticker contaitotog on the Inside tin words " Against city charter." By order of Council. 11. F. QUIGG, President. P. SI. SMITH, clerk ot council. B. F. QUIGG, Acting Burgess, Woodvale Borough, September. 80, 1889. Election notice—Notice i hereby given to the voters of CONESIAUG) BDKOUGII, to the county ot Cambria, andln tie commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that on Tuas day, the sth Day of November, A. D. 188! at tho time and places for the holding of th General Elect lon, an election will be held on th QUESTION OF BECOMING A CITY under th laws of said commonwealth. 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