The Democrat. HUDAT, DECmiBIR 18, 1*. CONGRESS and the country are awaiting with much interest the announcement of the House Committees by the speaker. Much of the action of Congress depends upon the compasition of the different committees. It is rumored that Emperor William, of Germany thinks of visiting America. We have no crowned heads in this country who will present him with diamond hilted swords or give his wife $240,000 necklaces, but we can take him to a Canstatter festival where 800,000 achooncrs of beer are consumed in one day. That would prevent lnm from feeling lonesome. CHRISTMAS is coming, the merriest holi day of the year. It is especially so to the little folks whose belief in Santa Clans has not yet been disturbed by the en croachment of time. All the Sunday schools are making preparations for its proper celebration, while domestic thought is almost entirely absorbed in ar ranging for its demands. It takes so little to amuse a child that there can be u J good excuse offered for not making juvenile joy universal on Christmas morning. NOTHING is better titled to point tlie words of the Preacher—" Vanity of van ities, all is vanity "—than the sudden rise and quick decadence of a reputation. Just fifty years ago a volume came from the press named Proverbial Philosophy, and in the then dearth of great writers in England its author was at once accepted as a considerable poet. America was not slow to follow, over 500,800 copies being sold here iu a few years, and translations into foreign tongues still further extended the author's reputation. But when the cable flashed the news last Friday that Martin Farquhar Tupper was dead, at the age of seventy-eight, many a reader of the message must have asked himself, And who is Tupper? It is hard to realize that this writer of truisms and and com monplaces, inutile baldest of mcasmcd prose, could ever have been hailed as a great poet, but he deserved the oblivion ot his lutest years as little as lie did the fame of his youth. Those who toil for the ap proval of "the public" serve a master whose fickleness i> equalled only by its lieartlessncss. A New Yokk paper recently opened iis columns to correspondents who could give some information as to the best way to keep husbands homo nights. It was presumed, of course, that the informants would be found among experienced mar ried women. And so they were. The let ters were interesting reading, and thou sands of recipes was given. It was, how ever, reserved for Gen. Wagner Swayne to tell a story before the Ohio Society the other night which seems to tit the case. It was about a young wife who had great admiration for her mother-in-law, be cause of the manner in whish she man aged her husband. The honeymoon was hardly over before the young wife came to the older woman to beg for knowledge how to make her young husband as good a man as his father. " You have some Mcrct about it, mother, I am sure ; and now that I am your daughter, you can tall me about it, can't you ? " The old lady insisted that she had no secret, and knew of no special plan by which to make a man always as he ought to be, but finally, under repeated urgings, she smiled and said simply this : " Daugh ter, feed the beast." HINDSIGHT, The Coroner's jury in the Opera House case concludes by asking tbe authorities to prevent any public gathering in the building as now constructed. That is a good recommendation, but of what use is it? Ten lives have been lost. Public opinion would not tolerate another gathering in the place. Is it the duty of no one to see to such things? It should be somebody's duly to see whether places where large bodies of people assemble are safe or not. We now sec the remedy after the occasion for its use is past. Who will teach the public to take preseculiou against danger? But perhaps the insufficient menus of exit was not the only cause of death. When men loose their manhood and stampede like wild animals before they even know whether there is danger or not. most any thing is likely to happen. There is another matter about which something might and should be said in this connection. The present dangerous condition <f the wretched apology of a structure taking tho place of the i la col n bridge should-rccoievc attention. The Dbmooi;at has repeatedly called i'le attention of the public to its dangerous condition. It is nnother death-trap. Some lime ago it was announced that a better structure was to be put there. It is not there yet, and the good weather is pass ing. Winter may set in any day and the river freeze over. No bridge can then bo built. With snow and ice on the bridge and its approaches the danger from it would be much increased. There is not even a guard-rail to prevent any one from falling over the edge. How long people will wait on the contractors and allow this source of danger to life to remain as it is, is a question. The delay of a day may mean the loss of many lives. Then there will be another cor oner's jury and a verdict condeming tho tructiire, and tbe people will say, "I pold you it would be o," and things of a like kind. How much longer will the wait to have the daner gremoved ? From Wednesday Morning's Daily: HORRIBLE! A Cry of Firo Causes an Awful Panic at the Opera House. DEAD AND INJURED. Men Go Mad, and Women Faint— The Crowd Panic-Sttieken Rush lor the Narrow Stairs. 100 STRUGGLING PEOPLE Hehl in u Muss in the Doorway—Men and Hoys Jump from the Galleries oil the Heads of the People lfelow—Crazed by Excitement the Audience Loses Pres ence ot Mind and Makes a Mad Kush for the Narrow Exit—Ten People Tramp • led and Three Times as Many More Badly Hurt—ruths and Death Cries Commingle—The Coroner's In quest. Another dreadful disaster was on last night added to the list of horrors of the year, 1889. Parke's Opera House was packed to the doors, and as has long been predicted if the occasion should present itself, a panic resulted from a cry of Are. The crowd rose en masse and made a frantic rush for the narrow stairway. No second thought was taken. In a moment the stairway was packed full of human beings. Those inside could not gel out. There was a genuine panic. Women screamed, men and boys yelled, a number fainted. The scene was inde scribable. Outside at the foot of the stairs was a heartrending scene. Piteous shrieks came from the bottom of the seething mass. People begged to be re leasod ; others had the breath crushed out of them at once. THE DEAD. When the crowd had been fought hack, the dead and injured were carried to dif ferent places. The morgue authorities were soon on hand and the dead were taken to Henderson's. The list is as fol lows JOHN MILLER, colored, C'hambersburg, Pa., employed at Koch's saloon. GEORGE SLONICKER, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., a teamster. LIZZIE CLAYCOMB, aged 19, domestic at John Bowser's Bedford street, from Bedford county. MRS. WESLEY BURNS, 40years, Morris street. CLARA BURNS, 19 years, daughter of above, Morris street. ISAAC FOHLER, 60 years. Cone maugh borough. GEORGE HORNER, aged 11 years, Park building, Park Place. MRS. JOHN W.NESTOR, aged 2.0, Na , poleon street, EDDIE BIGLER, aged 8, son of John Bigler, of Gautier street. Conemaugh borough. GEORGE FRIBCHHORN, Baltimore, Md. THE INJURED. , The number of injured* cannot be known at this writing, 2:30 A. M., but it is thought that not less than thirty or forty persons were seriously hurt. Those now known to be seriously hurt are : ALBERT OWENS, 18 years. Peelorville. JAMES ICELLEY. 15 years, Conemaugh borough. DANIEE KELLY, colored, Kcrnville. LOTTIE JACLSON, Brownstown. LEWIS IJUNDY, colored. JOHN WELMER, Peelorville. CHARLES VAUGHN, Prospect. STEWART BLACKBURN, Morrellvillc. RICHARD WORTIIINGTON, Morrell vtlle. EDWARD BTAUFFEH, Shermnn street. WESLEY BURNS, Morris street. MRS. CLAUSON, Upper Yoder town ship. MRS. M. S. McGARRY, Sherman street. CLARENCE ENGELBERTIL JOHN WEIMER, Peelorville. MARTHA OWENS. Peter street, Cone maugh borough. JOHN DEVINE, South street. MRS." WILLIAM PLATT, Grubbtown. WILLIE DIBERT, South Side. HOW Tn At ARM STARTED. Dr. A. N. Wakefield's hostler lives in a smnll building bnck of the doctor's resi dence on Morris street. Before preparing to go to bed he stirred up his fire. The flue comes but a short distance above the roof. The building is low, and as the smoke came from the flue, it enveloped Dr. Wakefield's residence, the air being very still. Some one going past thought the building was on Are. and went on to ring uu alarm. It is also said that the bell on the engine at the corner of Main and Franklin streets was rung onee or twice. This was a few minutes after half-past ten. Some on in the upper gallery, said to have been a boy, yelled " fire !" A panic ensued ; men and boys jumped from the galleries and lit on the heads of the people on the floor. A scat in the gallery broke with a crash. Some thought the building was falling. Shrieks, cries, and oaths mingled in awful confusion. Tumult reigned. A hundred and fifty people seemed to go down the narrow stairway at once. Those down first were pressed upon so closely that they fell in the doorway. The crowd came confusedly upon them. Thd stair was piled full of Agon izing shrieks came from those undernea'h who were pinned to the floor and steps. Others were suffocating. Such a scene was never witnessed in Johnstown. It was simply indescribab'e. The uproar could be heard squares away. The police were ou hand and fought back those who were trying to get out by walk ing over the unfortunates in the stairway. A great crowd soon assembled on the street aud had to be fought back to give room to remove those who were lodged in the doorway. These latter were so lightly held to the floor and sleps thnt strong men could not pull them out. It was not until the crowd in the upper Dart of the stairway had been forced back, that anything effective could be done toward removing the jam in the doorway. CALLED BACK THE CItOWD. When the alarm was announced inside, a few of the more collected persons called to the people to keep their seats. Nobody I seemed to listen. Several persons leaped to the stage and assisted the actors in en deavoring to call the people to their seats. The play Uncle Tom's Cabin, acted by Stetson's Company, was nearly over, the scene being where Lcgree orders Tom to whip Cassy and upon Tom's refusal Legree whips him. The actors behaved with great presence of mind, and pre vented the catastrophe from being worse. Mr. Frank Buchanan knew of a hack stairway which lie quickly ascended, hut not before nnmy persons had used it as a means of exit. He came to tic front of the stage and attracted the attention of the people. He said that he had come in from the outside and that there was uo tire. To prove it he said lie would stay right where lie was. By this time a great part of the crowd had cooled down and most of them returned to seats or to the space in the neighborhood of the stage. Then it was that progress began to he made in the clearing the stairway The dead and badly injured were dragged up aud placed on the stage, and others less badly hurt were helped to the top of the stairs. The policemen and workmen were much hampered by the crowd outside. The firemen at the engine near by turned a stream of water from the hose toward the crowd and scattered them a couple of times. The dead and dying were carried to different places near by. Several died in a few minutes after being released. Others were lifeless when removed. The several places to which dead and wounded were taken were Moses' tailorshop, the Hulbert House, Opera House Saloon, the Opera House Restaurant in the basement, and the tobacco and cigar store next to the Opera House. Miss Clara Burns died after being carried to John Thomas's partly completed show window. The dead bodies were takeu to Hender son's undertaking establishment, and the wounded to their home. While the dead and wounded were be ng removed there were dozens of people from all parts of thw town running about looking for friends who were known to have gone to the play. Tt was very diffi cult to give these people satisfaction. CORONER'S INQUEST. The following gentlemen were em paneled by Coroner Evans as a jury to view the remains and ascertain the capse of the death of a number ot individuals in Parke's Opera House on the evening of December 10, 1880: JAMES SBUMAKRK, GEO. I'URNER, E. ZAND. JOSEUU PRICE, TOM SEIBERT, JACOB HORNER. Being duly sworn they proceeded to cull witnesses. A. E. Humphreys, of Johnstown, Pa., being duly sworn, testified as follows : I was up behind the railing, and 1 heard the cry of lire from above, that is the railing on the first floor of the Opera House; the ratling around the stairway. I tried to get around the corner of the railing coming from above to save my self, and was carried to the foot of the stairs by the crowd. I was crushed there and was forced down stairs to door and had my head out of door. There was a lndv that was either dead or in a faint, that lay on my right shoulder. My feet were fast between two bodies lying mi ller me ; there was a hoy lying across my left shoulder, he was also helpless. My left arm was fast between the heads of two other parties and the feet of a third party was in my side. In the struggle 1 got my left arm loose and moved the boy away from my shoulder ; two men pulled the lady off me. There was an alarm of fire given from the upper gallery; it was neaaly at the end of the show. A good many shouted that there was no fire; to be seated and that all would be right, but the people kept rushing down stairs. I know of four who tramped over the heads of the people. 1 was pulled up the stairs by a couple of men. I .don't know how long I was in the jam. Tin- lower door* were open as far as T could see, but there was a jam below as well as above. The stairway is about six feet wide. The hall is a very bad one to get out of on account only being one stairway, snd it is so narrow. Mr. Turner—What about the back stairway? Answer—l don't know any thing about that. I saw several persona crawl down the post from upper gallery. The cry to he quiet seemed to como from the stage. Question by Coroner —Do you consider the house a safe one ? Answer—l do not. A. E. HUMPHREYS. John Morley, Johnstown, Pa., sworn— I was not at the show. I was coming down Main street shorily alter the cry of fire, and when I had reached John Thomas' store there was a woman laying in the window, her head was held by John Harris (not the Chief), and Dr. Sheridan was attending her. I was there when her atliei ident ifled her as his daughter, Miss Burns, of Kernville. JOHN H. MORLEY. L. W. Washburn, sworn—l reside iu Utica, N. Y. lam the proprietor of the company which gave an exhibition in the Main Street Opera House on the evening of December 10, 1889. I was not in the hall when tho alarm was giveu, had left about 9 o'clock. Iu the case of an alarm, or an accident, or when there was an ac tual fire the exits are not sufficient for the escape of the people from the house. L. W. WASHBURN. Will C. Yeager, sworn—l am a mem ber of the company which occupied the hall December 10, 1880. lam a musi cian. The first alarm I heard was on the inside of the theatre. I thiuk it was given by boys on the upper gallery. A panic ensued at once. The hall was full of people. The people on the stage spoke to tlie audience and told them to keep quiet, that there was nothing the matter. The audience crowded me to the stage' and I could not see what was going on at the door. I, together with some of the members of the company, helped some of the ladies on the stage to save them from being crowded. The company made no effort to escape, but all I saw were help ing the people. I do not consider the hall a safe one in case of a fire. I have been in a great many theatres and do not re call one in which the exits are so bad as this one. I reside in Westerly, If. 1., when lam at home. The puuic occurred just as the last act was fairly started. WILL C. YEAGER. B. F. Reininger, affirmed—l reside in Johnstown. Fa. I was at the theatre, thtre was quite a large crowd there, I was on the first gallery and heard the cry of tire and thought it came from the upper gallery, and the people 011 the gal lery where I was all made for the stairs to get down. I saw some of the people on the lower floor run for the stage aud others for the stairs. I heard some one from the stage cry out for the people to take their seats, that there was no danger of fire, I didn't come off the gallery, I staid there until order was restored and then saw them carry five persons that seemed to be in a faint, towards the stage* I judge it was fifteen or twenty minutes from the first alarm until order was re stored. I didn't hear any other alarm but the cry of fire. B. F. Rbininger. t E. D. Pugh, sworn—l reside in Johns town, I was at the show on Tuesday even ing, I was in the top gallery and heard the alarm of fire given on the upper gal lery. The gallery was crowded, I started for the stairway and seen it was crowded so, that I held back, the crowd kept push ing behind and I was carried to the lower end of the stairs on the first floor. I snw and knew Mary Burns and Clara Burns of Napoleon street, Johnstown, Pa. I seen the dead bodies of both these per sons lying in Henderson's morgue. The alarm was given in one of the front rows of the gallery. It was about fifteen min utes from the time the alarm was given until I got to the prvement. I heard the showmen hollowing to the people to keep quiet that there was no fire. I dou't know anvtliiug about a back way to the hall. I didn't hear the fire bell ringing. E. D. PCGII. -Inquest adjournod to meet at Coroner Evan's office this evening at 7:30. HOW TUB SEWS WAS SENT ABROAD. The Western Union Telegraph Office was closed,the operator having retired,but the unllasiging Master Jas. A. Blough, a repoitcrfora Pittsburgh paper, went to Cambria and aroused one of the operators and sent the news of this disaster to his paper. Soon came the inquiry from ' everywhere for particulars. BIDS FOB liACHELOKS. Agree with the girl's father in polities, 1 and the mother in religion. If vou have a rival keep an eye on him. if ho is a widower keep two eyes on him. Don't put too much sweet stuff ou paper If you do you will hear it read in : after years when your wife has some o<~ pedal purpose in inflicting upsu you the | severest punishment known 10 a married i man. Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait until a-girl lias to throw her whole sole into a yawn that i she can't covet- with both hands. A little thing like that might cause a coolness at the very beginning of the game. The Rev. Dr. F. S. Delias.?, who had becen lingering so long at tiie point of death, from cancer of the face, died at 11 "o'clock Sunday night at iiis home in Mar tin's Ferry, Ohio. He was born in Wash- ; iugton county, Pa., in 1821, and was edu- j eated at Washington and Jefferson Col lege. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for many years was one of its most earnest I workers. He built the Metropolitan Church at Washington. D. C'., aud was Consul at Jerusalem during the Grant Ad ministration. Both the Pennsylvania and the Balti more & Ohio Railroads will sell holiday excursion tickets this year as heretofore. Tickets will be sold from December 21st to January Ist, inclusive, good to return until January 4th. FURTHER DETAILS OF THE FATAL DISASTER AT PARKK'9 OPERA HOUSE. i Tho Disposition of the Dead—The Condi tion ot the Wounded—The Building Now UseloHM to the Lessees—All En gagements cancelled—How a Greater Panic Was Prevented. In addition to the full report of the dreadful disaster at the Opera House on Tuesday night as published in yesterday morning's DEMOCRAT, there are not many important details. None of the injured have since died and most of them are on the street to-day. But everybody is ex cited, and the accident is the topic of con versation everywhere. Many tell how near they come going to the play, and yet they did not go How fortunate they were ! The number of those injured is a mere matter of conjecture., now THE DEAD WILL BE DISPOSED OF. The body of Miller, the colored man, will sent to Chambersburg yesteday on Day Express at 10:13. Miss Claycomb's body was taken yes terday overlaud to Bedford county. Mrs. Wesley Burns and daughter will be taken this morning at 7:45 to Snyder's Station, Somerset county. The remains of George Horner will he interred iu Grand View this afternoon at half-past 2 o'clock. The body of Mrs. John Nestor was tak en to Somerset yesterday afternoon on the 3 o'clock train. The funeral of George Freshcorn will take place from No. 051 Wood street, cor net 1 of Poplar, this'afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made in Sadyvale. The remains of Isaac Foler are still awaiting the orders of friends. The funeral of Eddie liigler will take place from the family residence, No. 500 Cltapin street, Conemaugh borough, at 3 j o'clock this afternoon. The body of Mr. Slotiicker will he taken to Mt. Pleasant, Pa., for burial. His friends came yesterday. LOSS TO THE MANAGERS. The managers of the Opera House are Messrs. M. McCann und James Fliun. Mr. McCann's wife and child were in at tendance, as were Mr. Fliuu's mother, brother and nephew. None of tiieni were hurt, as they kept their places. Mr, McCanu had been iu all parts of the house during the evening, and just prior to the pauic, had gone to the foot of lite stairs at the street. While there he heard the fire bell ring in Kernville. He did not know just what it was for the sound of the Loll was new. When he saw what it was lie remarked to some who stood in the stairway near to him to keep quiet, aud immediately staited up the steps in anticipation of trouble. On the way up he met the first of the crowd. They bore him down in front of them to the street. Mr. McCanu thinks- that about twenty five persons got down before anybody fell Then it seemed like a spill. Some jumned over the guard railing around the stairs on the crowd iu the already clogged stairway. Mr. Flinn was in the audience, and when the rnsh came, he with several others who did not lose their presence of mind, leaped to the stage and trid to re store order. His most able assistants in that particular were D. S. Sheheuberger James Davis, the- photographer, and Frank Buchanan. Others whose names are not known also rendered able assis tance. Many of those present also state that great cred't is dus to Reddy Hawkins, an employe of T. Benton Brown & Co., for his efforts in keeping back the crowd in the gallery. There were many acts of heroism, which of course, must pass unnoticed, because those who did them were un kuown. There were many also many cases of total loss of manheod and good sense. These of course will pass unnoticed, but the man or bov who so senselessly cried tire, should be kuown and gagged hereafter, when lie goes to a place where crowds of people are assembled. The managers had recently had the building fitted up at their own expense with electric lights and new scenery. Everything was in good working order, except, of course, the means of exit, which lias always been pronounced insuf ficient. They bad plenty of good offers from companies, and several engagements had been booked. These have all been cancelled by telegraph, and it is likely that the house will now stand idle. Public opinion would not now tolerate the holding of entertainments there. As it was just the communeement of tlie season tl-e man agers will lose all they have spent in re fitting the house. JUMPED FROM OAM.KKIES AND BOXES. Mr. James Flinn, one of the managers of the Opera House, %yas the first to leap to the stage and assist the actors in the eudeavur to restore order. He says that four or five men or boys jumped from the first gallery to the lloor. Several people were injured by these men alighting against them. Two men leaped from the upper box on the lett lo the stage, and two ladies from the upper right hand box followed suit. A VISIT TO THE OPERA HOUSE YESTERDAY. The Opera House was visited yesterday by a representative of the DEMOCRAT. It was found that the back to one of the seats on the upper gallery was broken. The cracking made by this break is said to have intensified the excitement caused by the first cry of fire. Some other seates in the gallery were also displaced. On the firstgallery there were foot prints OD all the seats, indicating that the audience in that part of the house ha walked over thefurtiturc. On the main floor, or parquet, the chairs were standing around in a con fused manner. Marks of shoes or boots were plainly visible on most all the chair seats, as well as on the guard-rail of the stairway. The narrow stairway was marked with blood in nearly a dozen places, there be ing one large pool on the step just outside the door. The stairway is tive feet in width, aud between the jambs of the swinging doors on the second step above the vestibule, it is just four feet. run WOUNDED. Those injured are all reported to be do ing well, and the attending physicians are quite confidant that none of the in juries will prove fatal. TUB NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE. Mr. McCann, one of the managers, " says that 713 admission tickets were sold. There were perhaps twenty other persons in the house. One of the boys killed, George Horner, is said to have been ad mitted for holding a torch. His parents did not know that he. was there. AT THE MORGUE. The scene at the morgue was a reminder of the days after the flood, or of the rais ing of the dead. A large crowd, mostly women and children, hung around there * all day. A constant train of people passed to anil from the morgue to view the bodies. MAKING A NlitV EAR. Expert Surgical Operation on u Victim o) tiio Johnstown Flood—Flesh Cut From the Head—The Reconstructed Member Will Soon lie us l'erfect as the Uninjured Ear. Philadelphia Dally News. „ An uuusal surgical operation has just been performed on Miss Margaret E. ■ Jones, of Johnstown, by Dr. Maik L. * Nardyz, of tbis city. The yaung lady was one of the victims of the disastrous flood that devastatid the G'oncmnugh Valley. Besides linving her right arm broken in three places, and receiving gashes on her head by being dashed against the floating debris, Miss Jones was so unfortunate as to have a portion of her right ear torn away. now IT WAS DONE. w Tlie young lady was carefully nursed, her arm was set and she finally, after a severe struggle, recovered almost her usual strength. The one noticeable de feet was the disfigured ear. This caused her much annoyance, as it was noticeable at the slightest glance. She was brought to Dr. Nardyz for examination and he said immediately that lie could remedy lie defects if she would submit lo an operation. He promised to rebuild the damaged ear. Sbe promised to do so and requested ' that the flesh needed for the purpose he taken from her arm. The doctor, how ever declared that flesh from the arm would not do, agd he decided to cut away a portion of the flesh on the side of the head, immediately adjoining the lacerated niemher. The laceration was V shaped and the surgeon skillfully cut a similar portion of flesh from the head sewed it to the remaining portions of the ear with seven stitches and bandaged it. ' This was done last Wednesday, and he operation was so successful that Miss Jones proposed to leave for Johnstown on Saturday next. All that is required is time to heal, the thing being uow merely a matter of growth. I)r. Nardya said to-day that in thirty days no one will ever be able to detect the slightest difference between the two ears. The doctor is delighted with the successof the operation, and said it is one of the best surgical feats performed in this country " for many years. nOW THK KAJt LOOKS. A JVeut reporter saw Miss Jones at the residence of Dr. Nardyz, 718 Pine street, this afternoon, and had a look at the reconstructed ear. It is healing fast and lready looks nearly as well as the perfect one. There is now a scar behind the ear, caused by the cutting away of the flesh, but this will also heal, the doc tor say*, and will besides he covered by the hair, so that it will not he visible. Miss Jones had a very narrow escape from death during the flood. Her mother, sister and three bothers were all killed. She and her father only arc left of the family. She was carried gfrom the second story of her hotel and im mediately became unconscious. When she awoke she was several miles away and found her head pinned between the roofs of two houses, with her body im mersed in water. She was extricated from her perilous position by a stranger, taken to the hospital, and expects short- ' ( ly to lie in her usual 'health and appear ance. a STOUK ROllllKll IX KBENSIIURG- The Store lioomof V. S. Darker A: Uro. En. tered by Thieves on Tuesday Xiglit— They Secure Si'-M. On Tuesday night, between the hours , of 1 and 2 o'clock, the store room of V. S. | Barker & Bios., High street, was entered i by burglars, and flie fruits of their devlish deed consisted in securing from the till, ► or drawer therein, about .*24 in cash. The entrance was made through the front door of the store room, by means of a pole-ax, which was found laying at the door in the morning by one of the clerks in the store. The lock had been burst off. A few years ago Mr. A. A. Barker baited a bold scoundrel in the same act as above stated, with powder and lead, and had he the same opportunity this time, an effective cure would no doubt , , have followed. That would have served him right. There is no clue to the guilty parties.
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