The Democrat.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1883.
C- ———
OOT on third—Foraker.
Tun Republican West seems more
likely to break than the Solid South.a
a journey of forty-two days, the
P* u-Amsrican delegates are back at
W nskington.
AT the Ist* State election Ohio csst
747,975 votes, and Pennsylvania 604,499.
It was surely an off year for the Ksystons
State.
No ne will hereafter deny that this is
g fast ags. It has just taken a woman
•lily four days to get ready to go arouad
the world.
TUB figure "9" is here to stay for more
tkau 110 years yat. The year 1999 will
be last of 111 successive years in which
it will be used.
PuKSiDfcrr llAituisoN ami bis creator,
lays Senator Quay, are all who know
anything about who is to he appointed to
•flice by this Administration.
NBW YOKK CITY people have already
tubscribed more than four-llfths of the
$6,000,000 guurantee necessary to securs
for that city the World's Fair of 1892.
UOTKKNOK li£AV£tt lias supplemented
Pr esideut Harrisop'a Tlianksgiviug proc
lamation. It .8 about time to ltear from
Unbone on the subject. Perhaps he has
flcthing for which to be thankful.
TIJK official count in Ohio has been
Completed. Campbell, for Governor, got
179,421 votes, and Foiaker 868,551.
C-mpbell over Foraker, 10,873. For
Ln uteuant Governor, Marquis, D., bad
175,069, and Lampsou, R., 875,110.
latmpson over Marquis 41. The other
Republican candidates are elecled by
majorities rauging front 2.000 to 5,000.
To PKEVENT its being given to the peo
ple before to Gongress, President Harri
son thinks of not having his message
put in type before be sends it to that
body. Every precaution is necessary to
prevent the enterprising newspaper men
from getting hold of the message. Un
usual interest is attached to a President's
first message, and he will have to be
watchful to prevent its being published
prematurely.
SKNATOKS Furwell and Cullotn, of Illi
nois, want one Campbell appointed Col
lector of the Port at Chicago, 1 lie for
mer is particularly active and earnest in the
advocacy of his friend's case. Other sen
ators are also in symputliy, but Mr. Ben
jamin Harrison, who has the appoint
ment to maku, declines to move. The
senators are becoming impatient, and
promise to prevent continuation in the
Senate, if auy one else than their choice
is appointed. It is believed that the
President wishes to not appoint Camp
bell. _____
THE will of Samuel J. Tildsn lias been
in the Court* for three years past, and
now one clause of it nas been set aside as
not being in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York. The will was
well enough, and doubtless right enough,
as both Attorneys and Judges have been
disputing over it for three years before
they came to the present conclusion, and
another set of Judges might have given a
different opinion. Such laws as keep
men thus in the dark as to their meaning,
and prevent JO able a mail as Tlldeu from
doing as lie desired with his own money,
are not commendable.
THE real causes of the change which
the elections show are not obscure. They
are eve t more to be found in what may
be called the recent character and tone of
the party than in the public judgment of
the policy which it lias adopted. Willi
Foraker as its representative leader it.
Ohio, Piatt in New York, Quay in Penn
sylvania, Dudley in Indiana, Clarksoti in
lowa, Malione in Virginia, it is not sur
prising that it has lost much of the kind
of ascendancy which it once enjoyed.
The elections of this year show conclu
sively that in a national contest it would
not be easy to forecast the result.—Har
ptr't Weekly
WADE HAMAXON, of South Carolina,
seems to have hud an understanding with
Postmaster General Wanantaker that one
Gibbes, a namesake of the ex-iebel and
postmaster at Columbia, in the Palmetto
State, should not be removed without
cpnsulting him. two weeks ago 11. F.
Clayton was appointed to the position,
Without Hampton's knowing that it was
to be done. This angered the General
and he wrote the Chief Postmaster a
scathing letter. The latter, however,
kept cool, and politely stated that there
was no intention of commissioning Clay
ton till his predecessor's term hud expired.
Among Republicans there is wonder, that
Wanamaker ever took Hampton into
consultation or made any promises to
him.
NKI.I.Y Bl.v, who has already achieved
fame as a writer and an adventuress, hjit
Undertaken, alone, a trip around the
#orld. She is to be in coustant commu
nication with the New York World , under
■Wbbsc auspices she is making the jour
ney. No other woman, perhaps, has ever
Attempted such a long trip by herself.
Seventy-five days ie the time in which the
ourney is to be made, tlius beating Jules
Verne's famous and fabulous eighty-day
trip of Pbineas Fogg. Mite left New York
eastward on Thursday at 9:40 A. V. on
the steamer Augusta Victoria, and is duy
there from the west on Monday, January
37, 1890. The whole country will watch
witli interest thii daring young American
woman, and will read eagerly the no
count* of her experiences ns she pushes
onward. She carries in her hand a grip
sack, containing a few extra articles of
apparel. She will go byway of South
ampton, London, Paris, Turin, Bnndisi.
the Suez Canal, Colombo (Ceylon), Sing
apore, Hong Kong, Yokohoma, and San
Fraacisco.
TURUk MOKE BODIES FOUND.
A Girl In the Sttoujrcreek, a Boy at Slier
l<tun, aid a Woman Near Lincoln
Bridge.
Saturday morning about 9 o'clock the
body of a little girl was found in the
Stonycreek, back of the Brethren Church.
It was taken to the morgue and is de
scribed as follows:
No. 505, little girl, height three feet
nine incites, very light huir, short gray
flannel dress with brass button, trimmed
with three rows narrow braid one and
one-half incites from bottom, also three
rows down Ironl. black hose, spring-heel
button shoes.
Three boys from Sheridan statien re
ported having found the body of a body
of a boy yesterday morning. A wagon
was sent for it. The description in its
follows :
No, 804, boy, knee breeches, brown
and black striped, gray flattncl shirt with
collar, blue calico shirt-waist with light
chain stripe.
The searchers for the dead found the
body of a woman yesterday afternoon
about 8 o'clock just below the Lincoln
bridge. It had been buried in the sand.
After being removed to the morgue a de
scription was obtained, which is as fol
lows :
No. 508, woman, light brown hair, ap
parently curly, height five feet two inches,
canton flannel under-waist, no upner
teeth, three double teeth and one small
tooth out on right side lower jaw. on left
side, first and fourth double teeth out.
The clothing was all torn from the body.
Many who have seen the body think it to
be that of Mrs. It. M. Ogle, the Western
Union Telegraph operator.
CHARLUS CAKTKIt A Kit I VES.
If< I{ro Ycitt rrtav in Company Willi
Countable Wultirn.
As stated in Saturday morning's paper
Charles Carter was held in Harrisburg.
Constable Waters, of Johnstown, went
to that city, and yesterday evening re
turned with the prisoner. Carter was
lodged in the Conutnaugh borough lock
up. The principal witnesses in the case,
the Robertses and the two girls who re
cently served their Ave days, are also in
the "coop," so that they will be on hand
this morning at the hearing before' Squire
McKee. The revolver with which Carter
did the shooting was obtained, he claims,
from W. H. Cooper, the principal wit
ness.
Carter had been in the Harrisburg lock
up for ten ilays, and bad been released
Thursday morning, but he returned to
the jail about noon to look for the letter
containing the $5 li> was to receive trout
Cooper. In the meantime the officers had
been notified by Constable Waters that
he was wanted here. Carter was then
taken up and held till the Constable ar
rived. In Hurrisburg Carter was known
as Charles "Gi> son."
Curler was seen lust night by a report
er. toil proUKied bis innocence. Tne
hearing tiii- morning wili go far to itcier
mine bis tale. The evidence given at tin
inquest will lie very damaging to iiiiu, if
oe lir. ves in lie tlio riglil man, anil Uiu
officers sav lie w.
How :i:t,0(l(l I'ouuiU Was liudu a Bursa
Power.
SrleiiUltc Ainerlcnii.
When men bt-ytiti lirst to become fnuiil
iar with the methods tf measuring me
chanical power, tbev otien speculate <>'
where the breed of horses is to be found
which can keep at work raising 33,000
pounds one foot per minute, or the
equivalent, which is familiar to men ac
customed to pile driving by horse power,
of raising 330 pounds 100 feet per miuute.
Since 33.000 pounds raised one foot per
minute is called one horse power, it is
natural for people to think that the en
gineers WHO established that unit of
measurement based it on the actual work
performed by horses. But that was not
the ease. The horse power unit was es
tablished oy Jame Watt about a ceutury
ago, and tbe figures were settled in a
curious way. Watt in his usual ca'eful
maiiuer, proceeded to flud out tne average
work which the horses of his district
could perform, and nc lound tiiat the
raising of 22,000 pounds one foot per
miuute wus about an actual horse power.
At this time he was employed in tlie
manufacture of engines, and had almost
a monopoly of the engine-building trade.
Customers were so hard to tind that all
kinds of arlirieiul encouragements were
considered necessary to induce power
users to buy steam engines. As a method
of encouraging business. Watt offered to
sell engines reckoning 38,000 foot pounds
to a horse power, or one-third mere than
the actual. And thus, says the Afanv
facturn' OatftU, what was intended as a
temporary expedient to promote business
lias been the means of giving a false unit
of'a very important measurement to the
world.
Tried tm skip,, „ Bill.
Officer James O. Kelly, of Slillville, in
tercepted a Hungarian at the Pennsyl
vania statien yesterday evening. The
Hun owed a board hill and was about to
board a train without paying it. On the
way to the lockup he pulled out .$lO and
offered to pay his debt. His offer was
promptly accepted ami now he is pro
ceeding on liia journey.
THE STATE HIM HI) OF HEALTH.
The New DUtriet—The Wisdom of the Luiv
Creating the Board.
Recently the State Board of Health,
through Dr. W. E. Matthews, turued
over to Johnstown borough all the disin
fectants and the street sprinklers owned
by the State here. The value of them is
about $ 1,000, and they will be the prop
erty of the Boaid of Health to be organ
ized when the new city takes hold of its
affairs.
The operations of the State Board of
Health here, during the weeks following
the Hood, are well remembered That they
did much for this community is certain.
In fact, it was only through the energy of
the Board of Health that Die State could
do anything to help the community, ex
cepting by using the State Military to
ksep order. The Board made its report
a few days ago. Among other things
done, a new district, with Dr. W. E.
Matthews us inspector, lias been created
of Indiana, Cambria, aud Clearfield
counties. Concerning the works of the
Board iu general the Philadelphia Times
sttys '
No intelligent, public-spirited citizen
can read the anaual report of the Secre
tary f the State Board of Health, which
hut just been published, without be
iug with impressed wisdom of
the legislation creating that body.
Its excellent work iu the appli
cation of preventive measures de
signed to ward off the outbreak of
dangerous epidemics after the June
floods aud the effectiveness f the efforts
to control and circumscribe the ravages
of typhoid, diphtheria and small-pox in
the few localities in Die Stale in which
these diseases assumed epidemic forms
during the past year, furnish all the argu
ment necessary for the existence of the
Bouid and the extension of its powers.
The report very properly calls particu
lar attention to tin- limited powers of the
Board under existing laws. In view of
this discouraging fact, the wonder is that
any real, effective work in the interest of
the public health was accomplished at
all. The work of the pust year, however,
touching as it did the public iu all parts
of the State, lias been highly educational.
The necessity of some intelligently art
ministered legal restraint upon the pollu
tion of streams, the adulteration of food,
and the existence of nuisauces prejudicial
to the health of the community has been
demonstrated as never before.
No pains should be spared during the
eoming year to further educate public
sentiment in this direction. The legisla
tion cb'mui.ded will further no private
ends, and for that reusou will lack the
advocacy of those powerful influences
that conttol legislation for selfish pur
poses. If the necessary legislation is se
cured to make the Hoard a real power
for the piotectton of the public health it
must be because an irresistible public
sentiment demands it. Thul sentiment
can be created only by demonstrating
to the public the inadequacy of existing
laws.
AtftroMomU-ul Atom*.
A patient ligurer has found that in 21.-
000,000 years the sun will be as dense as
the eartn.
An English lady has left $50,000 to lie
devotee to photographing the stars, plan
ets and nebula;.
The phases of the rnoou are caused by
the different direction of the sun's rays
with respeet tn the moon's surface.
lteceut discoveries made by t e use of
the spectroscope show that all the heav
enly liodtes appear to be composer! ot Lite
same chemical elements.
Numerous observations made in France
aliow tout t.u meeting uu insulated metal
lic or carbon conductor toe solar rays
•ommunicale to it a positive charge ; that
the amplitude of this charge increases
with iho intensity of Hie rays and ue
creases with the hygromctric stale of me
air.
According lo the best astronomers of
modern times, "nothing but the wildest
desolation prevails 011 the surface of the
moon, and that mountains exist of 120
miles in diameter, the peaks of which
rise often from 7,000 to 18,000 feet in al
titude," thus precluding all possibility of
our satellite being inhabited.
ttetva Talks A again.
Belva A. Lockwood delivered her lec
ture, " The Paris' Exposition and Social
and Political Life tn Paris a ; ,d London,"
to a fair sized audience at the Gruce ,M.
E. Church, Philadelphia, Thursday night.
She depicted the passage across the At
lantic and the trip up tiie Rhine in a
graphic and eloquent manner.
" Germauy's idea of education," she
said, "is to make good fighters. Every
body t.iere drinks beer and the students
still fight duels. It might he said that
some of the Germans are beer barre's in
the morning and barrels of beer at night.
The punishment lor violating the rules of
some of the social clubs is trequeutly a
sentence to dt ink beer till the chairman
gives the drinker permission to stop.
Students convicted of fighting duels are
confined in solitary cells, where they
have to sit on what seemed to me to be
the hardest of hard wood chairs.
Th llody or Mrs Morgan Identified.
The work of removing the unknown
dead from Decker's was continued Satur
day, One body was identified as that of
Mrs. Morgan, mother of Mr. Job Morgan,
who kept hotel at the corner of Walnut
and Conemaiigli streets.
Cojieiiiaiiffli Roroii|g;li Teacher*
The Conemaugh borough shool board
met Saturday evening and selected the
following corps of teachers- Principal,
Miss Lizzie Davies ; Misses Jennie Mur
ray, Agnes Cox, Margaret Carney.
THEY KICK AGAINST ItEFOIOI.
Senators Quuy and Cameron Object to
I'ostuiastar Fied's Policy.
Philadelphia Special in New York world.
There is a row a brewing between Post
master-General Wanamaker and the 'wo
Pennsylvania Senators wliicli threatens
to be the political sensation of the winter.
The trouble is all over Postmaster Field
in this city, who proposed to run the
office in defiance of the political friends
of Quay and Cameron. Quay yielded as
gracefully as possible to Wanamaker's
selection of Field, who is att ultra re
former, and wbo, iu the recent Committee
of One Hundred tight, denounced Quay.
It was hoped by Quay that Field couid
be induced to modify his civil service
stand and to help " the hoys " in at the
back gate quietly. But recent events
have convinaed the benator that Field
means to ignore the politicians and to
manage the poslofflce in his and Wana
maker's own way. This has led the two
Seuators to give it out that they propose
to hang up Field's appointment in the
Senute, and, if he will not yield to their
wishes, to have him rejected.
The friends of Quay and Cameron are
openly boasting that Field will not be
confirmed aud that a new Postoilico deal
will be forced upon Wamunaker. The
frie . s of Field say that they doubt the
accuracy of the statements in regard to
Quay's attitude, but they add that the
new Postmaster will not give in a point
that be proposes to run to the office in bl
own way on business principles, and be
doesn't care whether lie is confirmed or
not. Mr. Field refuses to talk, but a
close personal friend suid to-night tluit
Quay and Cameron would find that Who
auiaker could anil would 1U lit us hard us
they could, and tlmt any attempt to de
feat Field's confirmation would precipi
tate a tight with'Wauumakcr, who would
be supported by the President. The
alt.iii lias created a decided sensation in
Pennsylvania polities. A friend of bena
tor Quay suid to night: •' The boys
don't think thai Quay 1 can afford to lei
Field inii the Poglofiicc ami keep all the
Democrats in placed there by Jlar
rity ; yet that is wliul we are afraid he
will do, as it is asserted that civil serviae
be strictly construed, aud. although this
might rcsu't iu many of the present em
ployes being turned out, most of luem
would remain. If that is to be done
Quay is bound to tight Field to ksep up
his prestige hi the rank and tile of tlic
party. Should there lie a tight in the
Senate against Field's confirmation Cam
eron can control some Democratic Sena
tors and the the tangle between Hampton
ami Wanamuker will help iu that direc
tion. I think the fight will come.
UKIIfUi COATS IN TUli RAIN.
Klglit Jnlinstown Youths One Ahead In JCr
traordinary Thing*.
Young America is bound to be ahead.
There is no stopping him. He is always
making strides upward, but the latest hi
jump be made took place in CambriaCi®
Sunday. As everyouc is well awaie
there was considerable rain yesterday af
ternoon. Sonic liovs were out for walk,'
and during their saunterings along the
Pcn.sv Ivan in Railroad in Cambria City,
they came to a burning pile of old ties.
It had been raining and the boys' coats
were wet. The boy who made the sug
gestion is not known, but they all pulled
off their coats unil held lhem'up to the
fire, presumably to let tliem dry. It kept
on raining faster, of which fact the lads,
who ratucd in age from twelve to fifteen
years, scented to lie entirely oblivious.
Whether they have yet got their coats dry
we (In not know, but when last-seen they
were standing eoatless in the raiti holding
their coals before the fire.
I+II> 4
At Homo Again.
Mr. Aaron Davis and bis mother are
occupying their old home at the corner
of Vine and King streets. The house was
badly wrecked by the flood but lias since
hi en removed. It is riot the house that
Mrs. Davis formerly occupied but one
that was washed on her lot by the flood
and purchased by lier. Her home was
destroyed. Mr. Davis formerly lived in
Woodvale. but lost his wife and three
children in the flood. None of their
bodies have been lottnd, although be bus
been watching all the operations of re
moving tlio unknown dead in the hope of
finding some one of the lost ones. His
home will be with Ids mother for the
present.
SI list Wear the Blue
The Pennsylvania Uailroud Company
has issued au order to conductors, brake
men and baggage-masters that while oil
duty they must appear at all times in full
suits of uniform, and wear their coats
buttoned. It will not do for them to wear
panta'oons or vests of other material than
the regulation blue. All of the men are
obliged to sign an agreement that they
will do this. A brakeman in Harrisburg
appeared a few days ago with a dark pair
of pantaloons on that did not belong to
his uniform. He wus laid off for ten
days.
An A. O. tl. Kail in Altoona.
The first annual ball of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, of Altoona, will be
held in the Emerald llall in that place,
November 27, 1889. Arrangements have
been made for an excellent entertain
ment, and many Johnstown people, espe
cially members of the order, intend go
ing.
Dolus Rood Work.
One hundred and sixty-eight councils
of the Jr. O. U. A, M., in response to a
call issued for funds for the public schools
of Johnstown, have contributed SI,BOO.
Other councils are yet to be heard from
aid it is thought this order will eouip the
schools in the strickea district pretty
thoroughly.
IT WAS LITTLE HUM sit ITMAK.ItIt.
The liody of the Utile Girl Found on Fri
day so Identified—The Shtunaker Fami
ly In the Flood.
The body of the il'tle girl found en Fri
day was identified as that of Irene Grace,
daughter of Mr. J. M. Shumakcr. The
body was interred iu Grand View Sttt -
day morning. Her age was four and om •
half years. Her body was found near
where all the rest of Mr. Sbumaker's
children ware found. The three others
drowned were John S , aged 11 years;
Edith May, aged 7 yea and 0 months,
and Walter, aged eighteen month*. Mrs.
Bhumaker was also dro.-tn-d. Her body
was found near the Pool >r licet bridge,
and interred in Grand V , *-.
Mr. Shumakcr mid hi family with two
other persons, eight in all were at his
home at No. 315 Loi-u - street, when Die
water came upon litem. He was on the
first floor; all Die res .-re on Die second.
The house was broke to pieces before it
litid moved ns far :is the middle of the
street. Two large elm trees Dint stood iu
front of it are thought to li ne prevented
Die bouse from moving "IT w hole. The
wreck of it passed ac-oss Locust street to
Main iu the iieighttur o.id of Swank's
Hardware Building, and on to the
Stoiiyc.reck. Here .'tit. Shumaker
first was able to open ,d- i-yes so (hat lie
could see. He wu hen not tar trout lite
spot where the lltn e of uis children were
found. The current > hen toolt down tne
Stony-creek. Tin- Fitinklin street bridge
was yet mi its foundation Mr Shu
makcr was disabled so that lie cotttd not
help himself, and finale i down the strcan
with the current. The bridge left its
moorings before In teach: d it, the Kern
ville end going ftr-'. I; swung almost
around to a rigid u te with the street
before it started tlow n stream. Mr. Slut
maker thinks lie was the first person who
passed through where the bridge had
stand. He went on down to the bend of
Die Stouyereek, below where Akers &
lhiumer's slaughter house stands. Here
he met the back current, and was taken
op part way through Kerovillc. It was
at thai same place that the Franklin
sireet bridge was dropped by the water,
Die two currents probably neutralizing
i licit other for a time at that point.
Mr. Shuinaket- lay for some weeks be
fore he was able o be about. In tha
meantime bis wife had been found and
buried. He did not know it, however,
until he found her jewelry in possession
of the Committee on Valuables. She had
Iter u buried us No. !i front the Kernville
Morgue. But when Mr. Bhumaker canto
to look for her body tie could not fiud it.
Ii is presumed that omehody. in a mis
take, took the body of his wife. More
than thirty graves wore opened in the
hope of finding iter, but it was all to no
purpose. The children ail rest in Grand
View, and all that Mr. Bhumaket has of
his ottce pleasant tome aud happy family,
excepting a few relits, exists only in
memory.
THIS LNGACiKD GIKL.
What x Difference Ifctrotlial Mukfn in Ifcr
Manner.
London Truth.
Have you ever noticed what u differ
ence there is in a girl's maimer when she
gets engaged to be married '< She flirts
us much as ever, of course, and even a lit
tle n ore, for it serins as though a semi
appropriated damsel has inure charms for
the male flirts than those whose hearts
have not capitulated. The difference lies
in the manner to other girls of the engag
ed one. Even tl.e gentlest and nicest
assume slight uirs of superiority,as though
the problem of settlement in life having
been settled fot them, they were m w
competent to guide and advise all other
young women.
If the flauce be young and handsome,
they are generally too much absorbed in
him to pay much attention to any one
else ; but if he be middle-aged and very
rich they find abundance of leisure to
place at the disposal of their friends.
This they employ principally in discuss
ing their •own prospects, settling what
color their liveries shall be and in ar
ranging the various details of their estab
lishment. But a little egotism is pardon
able at such a time, and they are seldom
so wholly occupied with their own con
cerns as to forget to quietly patronize
their girl friends. " You must marry
well, Lucy. You shall come and stay
with me, and we will see what can be
done." Or, " .Mary, you must give up
young Brown. He will not be able to
give you a carnage for years and years,
if ever. I shall have dark tun-colored
liveries, picked out with crimsou," etc.
Then, if anything occurs to backoff the
engagement, and the girl sinks back into
the ranks of the unengaged, her position
is all the more disagreeable if she has put
on a lot of style during her betrothal.
But, perhaps, the girl who is lavishly in
love with her. fiance is the greatest bore
of all. r d
JOHNSTOWN AS SHE IS.
How an Artiftt Thinks wo Look, and he
Picturer* UH Accordingly.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of Saturday
devotee almost a page to a description,
with Illustrations (?) of Johnstewn's pres
ent appearance. Those of us who are so
(un)fortunate as to have our present
abiding places pictured off, have certainly
good grounds for bringing an action for
libel against our contemporary.
The High Water Cauaon Troable.
Hoover, Hughes & Compnny are hav
ing considerable trouble in maki g the
necessary rspaira to the Cambria City
bridga, several of their heavy timbers be
ing carried away by the high water yes
terday. They expect, with no more bad
luck, to have the bridge completed in a
day or so.
CARTER IN JAIL,
After Preliminary Hearing He IK Taken
to Kbensburg and Placed In the Keep
iiiß of Slierifl 4 Ktineuiau.
Charles Carter, the colored man who
fatally shot John Matthews, also colored,
in Coovmaugh borough about two weeks
ago, was given a preliminary hearing at
•Squire William McKee's office on Bed
ford street. Saturday morning. The prin
cipal witness was W. H. Conner. Hia
testimony was as follows :
On the night of the shooting was at the
house of John Henry Roberts, in C'one
innugli borough, corner of C'liurch and
Main streets; saw Charles Carter and
those three ladies there [Sis McGouigal,
LUICV Koontz, and Kmnta Dtitinj; went
there with Matthews; Carter and Mat
llicws had a lew words ; I did not take it
as tieing a qimirel; after tit few words I
heard two shots; did not hear the. third
one; Carter tired the shots; tie fired at
Matthews; he [Matthews] cried : "Oil,
Cooper, he is killiug me;" told me to
take him to the doctor right away ; was
shot on both sides of breast; his shirt
was on tire; I put out the tire; left the
house immedfatelv : next fern hi 111 [Car
ter] on tile I.oth in custody >f Constable ;
Connety, lirimlle, and inyself went tu
Eat Cpnetnangli; no police were about '
don't know wlial ilie words belwsen Car
ter and Matthews were about.
"His" McUonigal, Lucy Koontz. and
Emma Dunn gave testimony, which was
nothing more than corroborative of
Cooper's.
These parlies nre all detained as wit
ness s and will tie kept in custody unless
they give bad for their nppearuuee to tes- I
tify in Court.
Mrs. Roberts, wife of John Ilenry Rob- ij
erts, at whose house the uiuiiler was MB
con milted, lias entered bail for her ap- W
pearai.ee as a witness. ;
Carter was taken to tl.e Ebettsburg jail
on Saturday afternoon.
INSTANTIV KILLED.
John ti, Suiith struck Uy IVesiern Esprcaii
anil Knocked ofltlie Track I Helen*.
Western Express on the Pennsylvania
Ifkilroad was late Hatnrday morning and,
a is usual when such is the case, it was
running at a very high rale of speed.
Near Iltuvs' Cement Mill it struck and
killed a man, who was afterwaul found
out to lie John G. Smith. He was on his
way to work, and tried to get out of the
way of the train, but was too slow. His
body was brought to tbe station, and
later, ab< ut 10 A. M , to Henderson's
morgue. Word was sent to his relatives
near Broad Top, Huntingdon county.
Yesterday evening Mr. Henderson got a
telegram from Mrs. Patrick Smith to have
the body of Mr. John G Smith sent to
Tatesville, on the Huntingdon & Broad
Top Railroad. The hotly will be shipped '
litis forenoon. The deceased was a Cath
olic and. it is thought, boarded in Cam
bria City.
Memorial of the Johnstown I'uhllc School
Teachers to Their Dead,
" lollie, to hearts ire t-ane behind is not to die."
In the dread calamity of the 81st of May, ism,
dc r.U entered the circle or the Johnstown nub
ile sclioot teachers for the ttrsr time in eight
years. Hilt when he cauie. became relentless,
moving from our mltlsi ai one blow eight of our
brightest unit best, on thai day Jennie Melts
Laura Hamilton, .ulnae Linton, .battle lie- .
Divltt, Humui Usher, vary . lilte. and Maggie
Jones entered the pioseiice er ihe (treat
'i'e cher followed In it re., shot", weeks by still
another, Mary Josephine ttregg.
As teacher* lu tu public schools, they had
endeared thems l\es t.n ttiolr tellow-teachers,
and to their pupils, both I whom mourn for
them as for tine and tried friends, their light
went up In the sprlng-tlnie of youth, when
hope Is strong, ami life is weet, and when faith
ful ; reparation to do their chosen work lined
tuem to be guides to i lie children they loved so
well Hut whl e e regret t heir cruel and un
timely end we rejole, In iheir mult eof life In
ilieir uiiselllsli devottou to their trying labors
while here, and In ill lull enoefornll that Is i
noblest and best they have left In the hearts of
t heir pupils, 'this inlliieiice will grow wider
and brighter and will oe their best monument
In t he coming years. I
Head, they still live In tlie hearts ot their pu
pils. In these tve shall see theiu; In their
voices we shall heart hem; In their lives we
shall live with them silll
Their years were few. but crowded with use
fulness, for they entered on their work at an
early aye, and we are witnesses that they did It
well.
Whether we remember them as public ser
vants, they were capable and conscientious:
whether 11s associates, they were gentle and
affable; whether as friends, they were kind and
true-In whatever position placed, thoy shine
still lite same-bright examples of true woman
hood. llowAitn 11. .JOHNSTON,
MOI.UK MYERS,
ELIZABETH liItIEOKR,
SA It AII llOlt HOCKS,
IPA bASIt.
About Finger Nails, 4
A white mark 011 the nail bespeaks mis
fortune.
Palo or lead-colored nails indicate mel
ancholy people.
People with narrow nails are ambitious
and quarrelsome.
Broad nails indicate a gentle, timid and
bashful nature.
Lovers of knowledge and 'ibetul senti
ment have round nails. 1
Small nails indicate littleness of mind,
obstinacy and conceit.
Choleric, martini men, delighting in
war, lmvc red and spotted us ils. ♦
Kails growing into the flesh at the .'
points or sides indicate luxurious tastes.
People with very pale nails are subject jl
to much infirmity of the tlesh and perse
cution by neighbors and friends.
The Fire Companies.
The Assistance Fire Company have
contracted witli Hoover, Hughes & Co.,
for the erection of a frame building on
the site of their former headquarters, on
Washington street. The building will be
t.wenty-two by forty-four feet and will
have a bell tower thirty feet high. It will
be erected at once and it is intended to '
have it completed by the time their new
steamer arrives.
The Good Will boys are rejoiced to see
their new building ready for the roof.
They arc also located at their old place
en Stonycreek street at the northern end.
of the South Side bridge.
A Good Chanci for Fire.
Sunday afternoon between tivo aid
six o'clock some boxes that had begun to , t
smoke from standing too near the hot
stove in John Thomas' store room. Main
street, were thrown out iuto the street
No damage was done.