The Democrat. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1880. THEY ACTED WEI.L. The cue hundred nnd twenty thiee members of the Presbyterian Church, lust night, who refused to vole for the acceptance of the resignation of Rev. David J. Beule, D. D.. ns pastor of that congregation, merit and should receive the plaudits of this entire community. Since the llood, and it is not necessary to go further hack than that, the ministers of Johnstown, so far us we know, have endeared themselves to their < ongregations and the public generally, and none more than Dr. Bc.dc. The Presbyterian Church of this plare has been fortunate in its psslors, they have been earnest, aide Christian ministers, and David J. Beale is as good a man as ever preached from its sacred pulpit. Ilis conduct as a min ister and a citizen is worthy of emulation, and no one lias ever truthfully assailed his Christain character. During the chaotic aud. trying times of the great calamity he showed himself to be a niuuly man. He shirked no work however hard, unpleasant, aud difficult it was to perform. The distressed and suffering people had no kinder or more sympathiz ing friend and able counselor. Dr. Beale's noble work at the Fourth- Ward Morgue during the flood entitles him to the grati tude of every citizen of the Conemaugh Valley. If he never performed another act what he did there should entitle hint to the unbounded praise of this whole community. The large majority that voted in the church meeting last night against the resoultion to accept his resignation as pastor of the Presbyterian Church, not wilhs'andiug the means that had been re sorted to to injure this faithful pastor, gives but a faint idea of what an immense majority of the people of Johnstown, who are not members of his congregation, would vote in favor of his remaining here. The people of Johnstown have every con- Jidence in Dr. Ueale, and whether lie con cludes to stay here or not, lie will retain their respect and admiration. A DIG GATHIiItING I V GOVEKNOKs. At no former lime or on any occasion were so many Governors congregated as at Washington this week. New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri. North Carolina, New Jersey. Uhoue Island, Maine, Maryland. Delaware, Connecti cut, New Hampshire, Arkansas, Wiscon sin. Kentucky, lowa, and several of the Territories were all represented by their Governors or proxy's. The occasion was to adopt measures for the esection of a mammoth memorial structure commemo rative of the settlement of tins country and the origin and progress of the Nation. A bill was drawn up and unanimously adopted, asking Congress for the neces sary appropriation of funds to carry into effect at the earliest possible moment the project. It wa- resolved to erect a mon ument tlini would not only be highly o uamcntal, but commemorative of all the great events in the Nation's histoiv during tbo past one hundred years.' The structure is to be erected on ten acres of ground in Fairmo nit Park, Philadelphia, the title of which is to he secut'ilv vested in the United Steles. Apropos of tin* coming together of so great a number ol governors, a Washing ton paper says, "the time elapsing be tween (it inks <s not nearly so long as it was when there were only the Governor of North Carolina aid the Governor of South Caiolina to do tlm talking." Wonder what that means? Do you think there is imvthing significant in it ? Here n Johnstown it Wfiiild be impossible to imagine what the# ' drinks" refer to. Probably it is ronte new invention clown at the C'apitcl. NI'.WSI'AFEIt KNTKHI'IUSK I XTItA OKIIINAItV. A wee bit of hunibngvery is practiced bv eeilain city dailies in publishing Air. Tidmadgt's s< inions under their guise of journalistic enterprise. A Pittsburgh paper, last Monday morning, says " We publish this morning u sermon delivered by Dr. Tain udge at Capernaum on yes terday." How did said paper know lie preached it jest relay? Was it wired from Capernaum to'its office? That's what it would have renders believe. It might turn out that tiie preacher was sick or failed to get their cm time, and, there fore. did not preach, as was the case a few weeks ago when the some paper said " We lay before our readers the sermon Dr. Tolimnlgi pre itched at Athens y est id ay forenoon.'' U so happened lie did not preach that sermon or any other at ti nt place at that time. Would it not be well hereafter for sncli enterprising papers to say, '• the sctmoti we print this morning is to he found in Dr. Tnlmadge's book of seroous. which lie wrote us he would preach at Jerusalem on the day and date named.' And, then, byway of a P !>., .add. that in the event of the Doctor's not r'-achln: Jerusalem on schedule time, the sermon was not pleached there. Then r.< i odv would lie deceived. <• • *- lObettflhitrff Social. A very nlcnsant all";ir occurred at the residence of Miss Maggie* Kliey, on Centre street, last Tuesday r veiling. "The Tuesday Evening Club " tendered a pro gressive euchre party with compliments it Lieutenant Nicholson and family and M. D. ICittell, Esq., and wife. Prizes were awarded to Mr. M. I). Hearer and Miss Flo Parrish for tiie largest nuniher of games won, and to .Mr. 11. 11. Myers and Mrs. M. I). Hearer lor the largest number of " lone bauds" played. The prizes were very eerily, being both ornamental and useful. At II o'clock refreshments were served and it is needless to say thut the twenty couples present tlid ample justice to themselves. The Club will meet Dext Monday evening at the residence of M. D. Kittell, Esq. Tuesday evening being the eve before Christmas. HENRY GEORGE. HE lECTIRKS TO A LAIUiE AUDIENCE AT MOXff AM. 44 The Land For ,the People " the Subject I UHt Evening—Much Intercut MatiifeHtcd —What Single-Tax Men Propose— Effect m nt the Application of the Single Tax yui'tttlon* and Answers— Effect of Cheap hand on Wages—Much Enthusiasm Aroused. A large and intelligent audience greet ed Hemy George in the Laying-out Hall, Moxham,Tuesday niglit to hear his lecture on " The Land for the People." The 800 chairs ill the hull were tilled, and there were many others present. Mr. A. J. .Moxham, President of the Henry George Club, of Johnstown, in n short and telling speech, introduced Mr. George, who spoke substantially ns fol lows : Ladies and Gentlemen : I think it im possible that anyone who has been in Johnstown before, as 1 have been, should return without some feeling of sadness and awe. The true spirit should pluck from suoli disasters the lessons of endur ance aud endeavor. The highest and noblest thing that a man can lay before himself is that he can do something to make his fellow-man better than before. We, as single-tax men, indulge in the hope thai the time may come when there shall he no such thing as that tierce struggle for mere existence as now makes life so degraded for so many hundreds of tLousanits of human beings. We nope that the time may come when not the few, but the many—yes, all—may be rich, not in the sense of each one's having more than his fellow-man, or more than he can use, but that he shall have enough to sat isfy his wants. If it be but a hope it is a noble hope ; if it be but a dream it is an elevating one. When we see how hard the lives of most people are, hardly one in a hundred —yes, one in a thousand being able to enjoy w hat this age of progress oSords, we can not look with pleasure upon things as they are. There are reasons why so many deny Christianity. The worse-than-atheism preached from most of our pulpits to-day. that things are as they are because, ot the ordination of Nature, they must be so, is the cause.of it. It is preached that the few only can enjoy and that tnc many must toil for their enjoyment. Our belief is that it is not the decree of Nature that makes so many lives miserable. The Maker did not intend this earth as a fool's paradise, but a place where man is given a sphere where iiis endeavor will meet with a re ward. There are social laws, the obedience to which brings happiness, and the dis obeuce of which brings pam and unliap piness, just as surely as the disobedience of physical laws. Ordinarily we mean by rent the sunt paid tor the hire of anything, usually for the use of lauu. In Political Economy it means that which is paiii for tlie use of land alone, exclusive of any of the things produced by human exertion. One tiling is always observable in regard to rent -it always advances where population grows. If I tell you that in ten years Johnstown will have a popu lation of 500,000 people, and then ask what things will have incieased in value by that time, I should gut the answer that clothing- furniture, houses, etc., will not. They to decay. The tendency of improvement and invention is to cheapen the production of those things. Hut land would have enormously increased in value. The law of rent is the law of in crease ofjland values. One piece of land is more valuable than others, because it is more desirable. Land that can he got for nothing can command no price or rent. Vet naturally it may be good land. Land in a town like this may have a cer tain value, but land in Pittsburgh will have a greater value, and lund in New York a value still greater. This is due to the centering of population and industries. Laud 011 which a house would bring no more in rem than what it cost to build it, would have uo value. I)r. Nulty says that the law of rent is the most beuellce.it measure known for equalizing the burdens of life. It meant the taking for the use of the community the value added by the community to eacli man's property without subtracting from the rewards of labor. We, by our present system, make land individual property. We give to individu als the same right in the possession of the earth that we give to men in the produc tions of their labor., Hence arises the de sire to take up land and bold it, and grow rich bv exacting u price fot it, that tome onejmusl pay. We have in this country a population of 65,000,000, and we could, without over-taxing our producing ca pacity, support 1,000.000,000 of people. Yet read any o'. our daily newspapers, even in the best of times, and yon learn of lots F<f men who are not able to get all the work they want. Then in hard times, when we have one of those industrial de pressions, there are armiesof unemployed men in the country. Then comes the talk of too many men, and the peopl look almost with reverence upon the man who gives employment to worlfiugmeu Tnis lias made men of capital to think they do a charitnbte act when they em ploy working men. Some people think of work as such a good thing thut we ac tually keep u wall along our coasts and boundary lines to keep out the things made elsewhere. And we are even be coming jealous of the admission of for eigners themselves, lest they should di minish the amount of work we have to do.. What is it that work does ? It pro duces, brings forth, the very things tha 1 we all want—food, etc There can be no shortness of need for work so long as men have wants. There is most need of work in times of business depres sion, but then there is least of it. It is not over-production, but something that prevents men from getting what they want, that brings the ills of the panic. For instance we want to build houses. How do we do it ? By putting together the raw materials taken from the earth. Production is a relative term. Man could not create the toniest mote that floats in the sunbeam. We produce coal by min ing it. we produce flab by pulling them out of the water, we produce cloth by putting together the materials out "t which it is made. Alliur productions are, in the last analysis, found to be the uniou of land and labor. Some ask, Is there not laud enough in this country ? Go from the Atlantic to the Pacific—ye; begin tight iu New York, and you wil' find land unused. Yet people tire so crowded that tuoral or physical health is impossible. Not four per cgnt of the people live in separate houses, and still one-haif of the laud in the city isuuused. The trouble is that they who would use it cau't get it. Whenever there is a disposition to use land in a certain locality, there will you find the high price of laud. There you will find the dog in the manger. The value of the land iu the future will he counted upon. An artificial monopoly will be created. We as a people have not chosen to take advantage of the beiie flcent measure of equalizing man's means of obtaining the use of the earth. We have put a premium on forestalling land. We siugle-'ax men have a simple rem edy. We proprosc to take for the use of the community the value that the com munity creates. We do away wiih the incitiment to a monopoly of the laud. We can leave as it is our treatment of land. We can tithe as rent what John Stuart Mill calls the unearned, increment. At present there is in all the States a direct tax that falls on real estate. We would take the tax oil the land alone for revenue for all public purposes. We came to it by removing one tax after another till we have hut one tax left- that on land—and increase that till we take as nearly as may be the whole rental value. Ido not tueun to tax all land. Land only can have a special value us it is more disirable than other land, and it is this excess of desirability that we propose to tax. The user of land, as a mere user, can not profit by the advance of the price of hind. Here Mr. George referred to the present systems of taxation, among them the tariff, and the evasions, test-oaths and perjuries connected with the system of customs duties. He said the whole sys tem reeks with fraud. A custom house oath, he said, has become proverbial. lie also spoke the proposition to tax men ac cording to their wealth, and of the evasion ami corruption that must attend such n practice. Continuing, -dr. George said : In the taxes we would abolish we would take away these temp ations to fraud and de ceit. You can't hide land ; its value can he readily ascertained. A man can sit in mi office mid collect a tax on laud. We all want wealth, and with the gieat majority of us it is a perfectly legitimate want. The great majority o! the people have not as much wealth as they need, nor have tliey leisure enough. By wealth I mean those tilings that human labor pro duces. We say that there is in this country now more wealtii than when Co lumbus discovered it. We do not mean that there are inure people or more land. It will be seen what is meant by wealth. The effect of a tax should he consider ed. Tax houses and they will he fewer. Tax horses and fewer people will he able to own them. Tax land as much as you please, and there will lie 110 less of it, and what is more it w ill he easier to get. Those who hold it would find it heaver to hold. He who produces anything can claim it as against all others, it is the re sult of liis own exertion. Herein con sists Ids right of ownership. Who can carry the land title hack to Him who made it ? If we all arc here as children of the Creator, are we not all eutitlcd to our pio porlionate share of the land ? If the whole human race of to day chose to give away their title to the earth, how would that debar the child of to-morrow from its share ot the earth ? If a house belongs to Hie man who. builds it, how can we lax it without violating liis right ot property? The value of improvements, the value of buildings is value brought by human exertion. The value attached to land is its superior desirability. In the Johnstown disaster Hie tilings made by labor were swept uway, the land reninincd and did not decrease in value. If it had been known that 110 people would settle hero again, land values would have gone down. It is the our pose of the single tax to make land of value only lo tile user. Then we should cease to I hear of the trump, cease to hear of the fierce competition that everywhere keips 1 wages down. , If we would avoid the darkening prob- I lein confronting our civilization we must 1 give every man an opportunity to make 11 ; good living. He must also have inde pendence. What we see in our reform is i the the onl.y practical recognition of the ' great maxim of the Creator that we should I do to others as we would that they should | do to us. Mr. Moxhnni, at the conclusion of tilt lecture, invited those present to propound to the lecturer any questions that tliey might ivi li to have answered concerning the application of the single tax. Tills question was asked : If the single tax would so much decrease the land values, would there be enough left from which to raise taxes ? Answer —Yes. There are two values to land, selling value nnd using value. The land would still have a using value, al though it hail no selling value. capital have a great advantage over the Question- Would not the man with large matt of small capital ? Answer —Literally lie would, hut not so great proportionately as lie now lias. If we tax.the lending of money, the lender invariably puts it on the borrower. All tax ou capital comes off the eon consumer. Taxing capital never taxes the capitalist, but gives large capitalists an advantage ever small ones because it takes so much more capital to conriuet the business. The small capitalist is un able to carry on the business. Our pro posal is a stroke at the foundation of great fortunes. All great fortunes have cotue from getting possession of land There aie, it is true, some great fortunes that have sprcng front the monopoly of franchises. The rich are in favor of tax ing everything. Question--Does not the consumer in the end pay the tax ? Answer He does. A man here in Johus towu builds a house and they not only put a tax on the house, but an additional tax is put on the land. Take the example of those now holding valuable laud un used. Put a heavy tax ou it, and they will be more atixious to sell it. Wheu men go hunting for purchasers, are prices likely to be higlior low. Increase of the tax on land lias a tendency to force land into the market, hence to make it cheaper. Question—ls" not the using value an iudex to the selling value ? Answer -Yes; the using value fixes the selling value. Over and above its using value there now is a speculative value. When it is expected that people will be wanting land, the [expected using value is put upon it, not its present using value. Question- If it is an injustice to tax building and otlieu products of human labor, is it not wrong. to require a tax on land, wnich must be paid by the pro ducts of labor? Answer—The tax is not had by the pro ducts, but in the products of labor, it is taking what now goes to the monopolizer. In reply to the question as to how much he thought the application of the simile tax would increase the wages of the common laborer, Mr. George replied that if he were to gi-'e his answer the audience would thlnK him imaginative. Wages in general, said he, can only be permanently raised by raising the wages of the common laborer. The greatest in dustries are those wLicn take from the earth the raw materials, ihe common laborers do this work. Wages were higher here in colonial times, before we bad a tariff, than tbey were elsewhere, because land was free, or at least there was easy access to it. God never mad* a laborer till be bud first made the opportunity to labor. Here Mr. George had a tilt with a questioner as to whether the application of the single tax would not place our in dustries at a idisatvantage, while other counties had not yet adopted that measure. The discussion turned on the tariff and was quite animated. The questioner wanted to know how we were to he prevented from being flooded with foreign goods. Mr. George said that he for one had no object to being flooded, even if the goods were given and nothing required 111 exchange. But he thought that foreigners always wanted something in exchange, when they shipped goods here, and the making of those tilings employed labor. The speaker was several times inter rupted by lieariy applause during the lecture proper, and some of his telling bits in answering the questions put to him elicited storms of applause. Marriage of Uussell I'hl anil Miss Sadie James. Wednesday morning at half-past nine o'clock at the Presbyterian Church. Air. Hussell Uht was married to Miss Sadie James by the Rev. Dr. D. J. Bcnle in the presence of a goodly company, many be ing dcta : ned on account of tliu rain. Among those present wit observed the father, mother and sister of the groom, Mr. and .Mrs. John H. Uhi, and Miss Mnme Ulil, of Somerset, and Mr. and Mrs. Ebeii James, parents of the bride, and her brothers and sisters, liev. Dr. i James 11. Baird, of Philadelphia, Hon. John M. Rose t'apt. A. N. Halt, Mrs. W. 11. Rose and daughter, Miss June ! Rose, ami Mrs. Jas. &. Taylor, Mrs. and ! Miss Kellar, Mr. Harry Slick, Supt. W. 8. i Steel, and other friends of the bride and groom. Dr. Beale seemed to lie in the ! best mood and performed his part of the ceremony in his happiest style After | congratulations by the company present, ! the happy pair took Day Express on an | extended wedding trip to Philadelphia i and other places. We wish them nil liap -1 piitess anil joy in their new state. Sail News. Mr. D. W. Cobaugli, of Adult street, received a dispatch Wednesday uftcruoon that Robert, hged eleven year.-, sou of R. ; .)•• Cobaugli, of Glenwood, had betpi killed by the cars at that place. Mr. Co baugli, father of the unfortunate boy, was formerly an engineer on the Pennsyl vania Railroad, hut lias been running on i the li. & ()., with headquarters at Glen ! wood the past throe years. Yocr wasted cheeks may have all the plumpness and bloom of health through your use of Ayer's Saraparilla. This tune honored remedy still leads the van. It improves digestion, purities the blood, and invigorates the system. Give it a trial. JOHNSTOWN . OUNCIL. Al>Ktra<;tf the Proceeding of the Itegular .Meeting; Held Tuesday Evening. The Johnstown, Council met in regular session Tuesday evening-President Ken nedy in the chair. At roll call the fol lowing men.hers were present : .Messrs. Bols.nger. Chandler, Cover (B. F.), Fos ter, Freidlioff, FronbeUer, Horner, Olt, Shumaker, Shryock, and President Ken nedy—ll. Messrs. Cover fC. B.;, Leiller, and Roberts came in later. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Rev. Glasow, for the German Evangel ical Lutheran Zion's Church, Mr. John Henderson, and W. H. Bates each ob tained a permit to tap sewers as per pe tition, the woilt to be "done under the di rection of the Street Commissioner. The petition of Mr. Stephen*McCaun for a pro rata adjustment of tax ou his billiard tables was referred to City So licitor. The petition of Mr. Henry Raab for leave to put dowb a line of sewer pipe from ins property to the Market street sewer, was referred to Committee on Streets and Alleys. A number of property holders of Main street, below Market, petitioned the Council to have the grade of the lower end of -Main street raised to correspond with the change of level made by the re cent embankments made along the Stonycreek. The petition was referred to the Committee on Streets anil Alleys. A petition of tiie Vigilant Fire Com pany to pay them the $7OO appropriated to tliein, was laid on the table. . A message from tlie Burgess was then read, stating that $133.60 had been col lected for fines and costs during Novem ber, and that the money had been paid over to the Treasurer. He also called at tention to the bad condition of Poplar and Horner streets, recommending that the Street Commissionot be instructed to put those streets in better condition. lie also presented the decree of the Court an nexing portion of Stonycrcek and Upper yoder townships to Johnstown borough The message was then considered, and one-half,of Poplar street between Horner street and the Poplar street bridge was ordered to be cindered. The same was done in connection with Horner strict, from Hickory street to Cedar. The de cree of the Court referred to in the mes sage was read and ordered to be filed. The Chief-of-Police reported fifty-four ariests and the same number of con victions during November. Treasurer Caldwell reported balance and receipts to November 4th, $11,601 36; disbursements, $1,610 75; balance on hand, $9,090 61. The Committee on Public Safety ie ported the old Merchants' Hotel unsafe. The report was referred to the Borough Solicitor, with instructions to notify the owners of the building to have it removed. The same was doue in regard to the Market street school house. Mr. C. B. Cover, Chairman of the Com mittee on Accounts and Claims, reported having examined bills and recommended tbe following for payment: Irwin Horiell. Burgess, November.. . sso on John I . Harris, t lilet Police. November.. 5u 00 S. li. Varner, police, November 50 of) John l). Jones, police, November su an John Meaner, police, November no oo J. J. sivaae, police, November . . so no K. M. Hicarn, police, November no no Joliu i„ Decker, police. November no 00 James Barnes, police, November no utr John ulass. police, November no 00 James James, police, November no oo 11. 1' . spungler, police, November 50 no Day Id Jones, police, November no 00 Christ 11. Block, police. November no 00 Irwin Horiell, Burgess,expenses 2 gs .lolm T. Harris, boarding prisoners uo tin B. k, liobb, .Market-master : no r. Under, salary, November t,2 go street commissioner, labor entl tm Street coinmisslonei, hauling 83 15 11. 11. Kuliu, solicitor, quarter ending De cember id go 00 James N. ltea, clerk, quarter ending be • cember Ist fig go James Mills, hauling. Lincoln bridge 2 50 Nlinrod .McKlcar, cleaning the murxet house, jeven months Si an S. c. Bailey A son, plumbing, April . sO3 S. C. Bailey A Son, plumbing.November.. 13 HI W. B Dlbert, hardware 1130 w. J • Hose A sou, putt ing lock on Borough scales office i'g John 11. waters a Bro., sewer pipe, May.. TO 71 John H. Waters A Itro.. sewer pipe luu I t The hills were ordered paid, and Hie bill of the Electric Light Company, for November, iJJOO was ordered paid also. A special bill of ¥'.11.80 for lighting Hie Council Chamber was not. ordered paid. A proposed ordinance was then pre sented by Mr Roberts, reading as? fol lows : , lie it orilatued thid enacted by tin• llnryess mid Tirii'n CuiuicH 0/ the llorijihjti uf Johnstown, mid il Is hereby ordatmd and enacted by the authority of the same. Suction 1. That the consent ot the Borough or Johnstown be and Is hereby granted to the Johnstown Passenger Hallway Company to lay out and construct a single or double t rack, with the necessary curves, switches, turnouts, sid ings, and turn-tables, along andover the follow ing streets and public ways of the borough, in addition to streets named in Hie ordinance granting Ibe consent of tlie Borough of Johns town to the Johnstown Passenger Hallway company to construct Its tracks on or along the Streets ot the borough, passed by the Council June 20. ISK2. and accepted by a resolution of 1 IS* Board of Directors of the Johnstown Passen ger Hallway Company, adopted September is, IKB2, namely: Walnut street. Main street, Washington street, Franklin street. Jackson street. Adam street, or so much of said last uained streets as Is necessary to lay out the most convenient routes through fho centre of 1 ,'.e borough;ond It In the judgment of said Hall way company, a line slioutd be built to'the toot of ilit' proposed incline plane at Vine street, consent Is hereby given to build try Ihe moat convenient route to said point The consent of the borough Is also hereby given to the exten sion i r said street railroad, by the most conven ient route, to and through what was formerly Moxluim. now u part of the Borough of Johns toyvn. skc. 2. Thai the consent ot the borough is ti'wcby given to the said railway company to erect poles and wires and Utr necessary mechan ical com rivances to enable it to operate its ears by electricity over and along tho routes of the street railway tracks as they are now construct ed orexlended or may hereafter be constructed or extended, and also over and across the bridges along said routes. The new bridges to tie constructed shall bo bullr with not less than fifteen feet of space between tlie Boor of the bridge and tlie lop bracing or the bridge, as tlio use of electric cars requires tills spate SEC. 8. The consent of the borough Is also given to said railway company to construct throughout the muds us they are now or may hereafter he extended a double track (except on Clinton street, where It may construct a single track) to gauge of four feet and eight and one-lialf Inches, using w hat Is known as a girder rait at four and one-half lnuhes broad on the surface, to he laid to the satisfaction and ap proval of the proper authorities, the tod surface or the rail to be ilusli with the .grade line of the street, and uot to project above the pavement. Bsc. 4. The restriction against the use of salt on the said railway companies tracks for the purposoof removing lcoor snow Is hereby mod itied to the extent that a sufficient quutity of salt may be used on the rails to melt the Ice or snow, but salt shall In no wise be used in such quantity as. In the Judgment In the Borough Council, will tie objectionable to the ordlnary troille of the streets, SF.C. 5. This ordinance shall take effect aud be In force from aud after Its passage and the receipt from the Jqhnstown Passenger Hallway Company of a written acceptance of the con ditions hereof, tiled with the clerk of tli Council- * Passed first aDd second readings aud referred to the Committee on Ordinance and the Borough Solicitor, to report on the snme at next meeting. It was agreed that when Council ad journs it adjourn to meet on Friday night, December 30th, to consider the ordinance opening Locust street from Market to Park Place. Council adjourned at 9:10 i>. m. UK. 11KALC AND Til K I'KIiSKYTHtIAN tin itcn. Tliey Decide by u Vote ot a 133 to 67 to ICetuiti lliui hh tlieir fast or—Exciting; DIHCUMAIOIHS. Wednesday the congregational meet ing at the| Presbyterian Church to take action upon the dissolution of the pastoral relations with Dr. D. J. Bcale, which had been continued from two weeks proceed ing, was re-convened. Dr. Bcale opened •he meeting y reading a paper citing tlic past and present prosperity of the Church 0 and his reasons far asking the congrega tion to concur in his resignation. Upon the conclusion of lite reading, Mr. John Fulton arose and objected t<> Dr. BeaVs presiding. That raised an .proarattdfor a time the greatest excite went prevailed. Mr. Fulton became quite personal, chal lenging Dr. Benin's veracity and honest). Countercharges were made by his friends. At one time it looked as if the meeting would break up in a row. Dr. Bcale stuck tenaciously to bis determination to preside, and finally in desperation de clared he would do so, if necessary to call in an officer. The friends of botli parties supported their champion vigorously and there was as much dirty linen washed in public us would put to shame a ward political meet ing. Finally a motion prevailed that a vote by ballot be taken upon the resolution to accept the resignation. Slips had been <| prepared and Messrs. Jolly and Ray were appointed to distribute them and count the vote. It ,fesulved in sixty-seven in favor and one hundred and twenty-three against—a majority of fifty-six in favor of retaining Dr. Bcale. Under the circum stances it was a decided victory for him. After tlie vole had been announced the Doctor in a most pleasant manner thanked the congregation for their gallant support, but said he would hold the matter in - abeyance. He intimated that it was his ultimate intention to insist upon his rcsig nation being accepted. He further te marked that lie did not wish to be kicked out, but as he desired to piomote the best interest of the church, he would step down and o 11 From the temper manifested a division of the church is one of the,ellects likely to happen in the near future. UIIOIVNEU AT liUIOUl': NO. (>. Arthur DOOUH, A Crtrpenter, FWIIH Into the CoiicniHiiKh Hint (toon Under. Wednesday morning about 9:4- , i o'clock, as Arthur Doous, a carpenter employed by T. B. Brown & Company, m Bridge No. 0, was walking across the river on a stick of timber, he fell into the water and was drowned. The water at that point is veuy swift, and Doous was carried down stream faster than his fellow workmen could run. None of them saw him fall, but' hearing the splash, they looked and saw , him in the river. They attempted to res cue him, but after ho crossed the second rapids, about ISO yards below w lcre lie fell in, he disappeared. A party of men spent all day in searching for the body, but yesterday evening at dark they had uot yet found it, Doous was uu Englishman, having just recently come to litis country, and was about twenty-four years of age. He lias a brother working somewhere about Johnstown, but he is not yet aware of the fate of the unfortunate man. Efforts are being made to find the brother. Haw llie SoUllvr There WiHt the New Administration. New Xot'K World. Mr. John VV. Jacobus, through the kind aid of Senator Evarts, is to be rewarded for his services to the Republican party with The otflce of United states Marshal for the Southern District, of New York, now hold by Gen. M. T. McMuhou. This office was sought by Gen. Henry A. Bar num, whose wounds, received in the war arc a constant matinee to Jils life. But Gen. Bariium lias not rendered 11s valu al)lc service to his parly as bus Mr. Jacobus, who Iras spent his money anil . stood as a " forlorn-hope" candidate for a number of offices. The disabled soldier is (if less consequence limn the active politician, and Mr. Jacobus is the "loader" of his district. Last week Mr. VV. J. Milligan accom panied liia wife to Mercy Hospital, Pitts burgh, where^ he will remain for some time. Mrs. Milligan received sucli a severe shook at the time of the great Hood that at intervals since she has been very unwell,and it is hoped that her stay at the hospital will result in her restoration to health.
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