The Johnstown Democrat. jp^rWS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, No. 138 FRANKLIN STREET, JOII ISOwJH, CAMBRIA CO., I'A. TERMS—! 9I.SO per year, payable in advance ; the county, fifteen cent s additional for goituge. If not paid within three months *2 wTK be charged. A paper can bo discontinued at any time by paying arrearages, and not otherwise. The failure to direct a discontinuance at the aaplratlonof the period subscribed for will be aonsldered a new engagement. .Veto Subscrip tmt* must be accompanied by the CASH. L. 11. WOODRUFF. Editor and publisher, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1890. THE WAV THE PUBLIC MONET GOES. Contractors who built gunboats for the Government during the war are still beg ging for more moucy. One of the claims (McKay'*) was allowed by Congress, nnd the bill was veto*d by Mr. Cleveland. The Republicans will allow all these, and no one knows the exact amount involved. It will reach millions. The building of the United State* peni tentiaries is a worthy object, but there is corruption in the present scheme. It will call tor the expenditure of $1,000,- Te present cost of keeping Federal pris oners it $090,000 per annum. It will be twice as much under the new system. The Republicans intend to pass the di rect tax bill, which Mr. Cleveland vetoed. This will cost about $20,000,000. They intend to pass the Blair edur a. tlonal bill, which will involve an expendi ture of $77,000,000. Many millions will be granted as sub' sidie* to ships in the foreign carrying trade ar.d for mail service. It is intended to add hundreds of mil ions to the pension account by the re peal of the limitation in arrears act. The term fixed in the original statin- was 1889. There will be passed the biggest river and harbor bill at this season of Congress that the country has ever known. The Hale navy bill and the Dolph fortifications bill involve at least $850,- 000.000. A service pension bill will be passed, which will call for an expenditure of $200,000,000. It is speaking within bounds to say that the thirteen regular pension bills will aggregate not less than $100,000,000 more than those of the last season. The Hennepin canal alone will cost $21,- 000 000. With the rules of the House as they are at present, and a clear chance for jobbery in the Senate, theie will belittle difficulty in putting through tiie proposed measures to do away with the surplus. Almostevery scheme projected by the Government gets into the handset the jobbers before it goes far. At the prsseut day Congress does very little exccept to provide for spending the people's money. ON HIE HARRISON BI.OCK. New York Bun. The appointment of a negro of the name of Dudley as Postmaster at Americus, Georgia, seems ti he as distasteful to the white Republicans as to the that State. It cannot be said that the oh jtctio ito Dudley is founded upon the mere accident of color if the story told in the Atlanta Constitution by Col. Jack Brown, an Americus Republican now living at Washington, is true. Perhaps, however, some allowance must be made, as Col. Jack is not fond of Col. Buck, the Republican boss of Georgia, and has a son who thinks that the Americus Post mastarship is about his size. But Col. Jack's narative is told with considerable spirit and has at least an air ot probabil ity : 51 It Is a lame excuse to put the appointment of Dudley on the grounds ot a reward Dudley lias already been rewarded. I went to the Chicago Convention In the Interest ot Allison. Sherman paid the expenses of Buck and the en ure Georgia delegation to Chicago, and put up some extra money besides. " Dudley's expenses were, however, not In truded. He paid his own way theie. Ills seat wus contested, and. Buck, who had Sherman's funds to dispense, paid the expenses of Elbert Ueud, another negro who contested Dudley's seat, and who, Buck thought, would get It. Buck, you know, divided out the Sherman boodle among the Georgia boys. "Well, In Chicago, I found Dudley had paid Ills own expenses. 1 collared him and lead lilm up to Allison's headquarters. Dud ley wanted SIOO. I offered him to GOV. Gear and Mr. Henderson, who ha i charge of Allison's headquarters, at that amount. They, however refused to buy him. Allison was not buying del egates. Then I lead the negro out like a mule, and put him on the Harrison block. BUI Dud ley, of Indiana, quickly bid his price, and got him for Harrison. The negro, Dudley, carried out his contract. He got his money, all he ask ed. and now he gels a postodlce besides." Col. Jack Brown, it will be observed, doesn't take high moral ground in regard to the little change of commodities which he describes as passing between the two Dudleys. Whnt sticks in his crop is that Dudley of Americus got a reward from Dudley of Indianapolis for voting for Harrison. and now gets another reward from Harrison for the same service. C(.l. Jack seems to have a shade of regret, to, because the Allison men were not buying delegates. Perhaps if the colored Dudley had been offered to some candidate with more cap ital than the Harrison managers had, more than a hundred dollars might have been paid. Why didn't Col. Jack take him to the Alger headquarters ? The | Wolverine hero was said to take a great ' iuterestin Southern delegates. If Mr. John Sherman believes in Col. Jack's story, he can hardly feel disposed to vote for the confirmation of Dudley. And what will Gen. Harrison think ? Can It be possible that any wicked person or persons got voles for him in the National Convention bv arguments to the purse ? And, not merely as a matter of morals, but as a matter of plitics, can lie afford to give postofficcs to delegates already subsidized ? • ► TWO TOUNG WOMEN KII.LEO. They .lump Wildly From a Carriage During a Runaway. The runaway occurred on Saturday af ternoon ou the boulevard between New ark and Elizabeth by which two young women lost their lives. Misses Mary F., Carrie and Lottie Tyler, three sisters of Newark, started for a drive to Elizabeth in a two-seated surrey. While passing on the boulevard, the team of horses attached I to the vehicle took fright from the dis j charge of guns by the East Side Gun Club, | whose members were having a pigeon s'looting match. The horses became un ; manageable and finally ran away, despite the exertions of the colored coachman. The young women lost their presence of mind and leaped wildly from the carriage. Mary E. Tyler, aged thirty-six, who is a teacher in the Lawrence street public school in Newwark struck ou her head on the macadamized roud, crushing her skull and badly lacerating her face. She was picked up insensible and carried to tho hotel, where sho died half an hour later. Her sister Carrie, age twenty-six, who is a teacher in the Summer avenue school, wus likewise unconseious when taken up. Dr. James 8. Green after ex amining Miss Carrie, said that licr case was serious, as she was suffering from concussion ot the brain. She died a few hours later. The third inmate of the carriage, Miss Lottie Tyler, escaped with a few slight bruises. The horses ran only a few hun dred feet after the accident when they were stopped. The ladies were taken to Elizabeth, and the sister who had escaped was taken to her home heart-broken. The men who did the shooting will be ar rested. COURT PROCEEDINGS. Special Term—The First Day's Work. Court met at 2 p. M., on Monday, noth ing having been done at the morning ses sion ou account of the late arrival of the train. Tlie first seven cases were cither con tinued or attachments were issued for witnesses. In the case of Patrick Stanton against Charles Zimmerman a jury wag called and sworn. The counsel for the defense stated that it was an appeal from the decision of a justice of the peace and that a question of jurisdiction would likely arise. The court asked to see the transcript of the Justice's record, and when lie had examined it he ruled that on the face of the transcript the justice fad no jurisdiction. The counsel for the plaintiff submitted to a judgment for non suit with leave to move to strike off said judgment of non-suit whenever his client was prepared to commence the suit in court. The merits of the case were not entered into. The ODly point ruised wus as to the jurisdiction ot the justice. The next case called was that ot Gal lagher vs. Flynn Brothers. A jury was called aud sworn, and the case had not been disposed of when court adjourned, Monday evening. A FAMILY POISONED. A Mysterious Adair—One ot tlie Mcmbeig Expected to Die Lust Night. About a week ago a family named Boyer, residing on the hill above Hubcr street in Conemaugh borough, near the Frankstown road, was attacked with mys terious and sudden illness. The family consists of father and mother, und two boys aged eight and six years. The fam ily came here from Reading after tlie flood, and the husband has made a precarious living for them. Dr. W. E. Matthews was sent for and found them all ill. and lias been attending them ever since. He thinks they are suffering from lead poison ing, as the patients have all the symptoms indicating that. The family has used quite a lot of canned goods. Tho water they use, however, comes from a very filthy well on the premises. The mother's right ami wus paralyzed yesterday, and the others are affected in that way. Last evening it was thought the older boy would not live until this morning. Valuable Addition to the Library. The latest edition of Webster's Una bridged Dictionary and Johnson's Uni versal Cyclopu'dia (complete in eight vol. umes) have been added to the library of the Young Men's Christian Assoication, and serve as a valuable reference to many who have felt the need ever since the flood. The total number of books re ceived thus fur from friends reaches nearly six hundred, besides over SIOO cash. Books can be drawn for two weeks for $2 a year. Since last public ac knowledgement the following have sent to the Association contributions : W. S. Hocking, city, one book; Daniel Baumer, city, two books ; friend, through W. A. Stewart, city, two books ; C. A. Frank, city, five books ; Murphy & Company, Cleveland, 0., cash $5; the Bejmer, Baumsn Lead Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., cash $lO ; through C. L. Weil's Massa chusetts' friends, forty books; A. M. Slauson, New York City, thirty-three books ; Miss Ella Humphreys, city, one book ; J. T. Evans, city, two books : Will F. Lewis, city, five books ; Miss Mame Canan, from Pittsburgh friend, five books; Robert L. Shettle, York, Pa., cash $5. Mack's illustrated lecture on the Johns town flood will he delivered at the Ein tracht Hall, Bedford street, on Saturday evening npxt at 8 o'clock, Doorsopcn at 1 7:80. MR. WILLIAM 11. POTTi 1 K.VD. 1 The Pnerativo essential in the Eng lish novel, and to this popular require ment Dickens again and again unhesi tatingly, though often hunglingly, bowed. Thackeray, however, had from the first sneered at the ancient methods, and we all remember that passage in the early part of "Vanity Fair," where the humor now seems so cumbrous, and where he tells us that he might have made it a dark and tempestuous night instead of the sunshiny day in Mayfair that it had the commonplace misfortune really to be. For Thackeray, both to his frantic devotees and his more rational observers, must be admitted as the first real English naturalist in fiction after Fielding. • • • The world moves along, in spite of certain well meant, if misdirected, efforts to the contrary. And no stronger proof of this could be brought forward than the way in which naturalistic novel writing is today being justified and confirmed as a desired and prized form of art by the tendency of the modern newspaper. Will it also, in the course of time, be eclipsed by the newspaper as well? I confess that I sometimes tremble for the craft of which I am an earnest, if hum ble, representative, when I see with what force and finish a thousand topics ate treated. • • • Innumerable actorsin the immense human comedy arc sketched with vivid fidelity and sometimes appeal ing power. One can imagine Balzac himself reading with amazement and ad miration a file of our modern newspaper, —Edgar Fawcett in Belford's Magazine. Not Disposed to Invest. We meet some queer people among the many who are constantly flitting into and out of this store, but an old mun and his wife, upon whom I waited a few days ago, took the prize for pure, unadulter ated simplicity. The couple were evi dently on their first visit from the coun try. When I approached them the old lady, who was undoubtedly master of ceremonies, stated that they wanted to purchase a soup tureen." "Do you want plated ware or silver? I asked. "Solid silver, ter be sure, the woman responded, with a glance that, had I been anybody else than a salesman, would have frozen me. After seeing a number of designs the old lady decided upon one and inquired the price. "One hundred and twenty dollars, I answered, as I called "to a boy to take the article to the shipping room. "What!" she almost screamed. "One hundred and twenty dollars fer that? Wall, I swan!" For a few minutes they gazed at me, as if I had expressed an intention of robbing them, after which they conferred together. Presently the old gentleman turned around, and in a quivering voice said he guessed they'd better buy a plated tureen, as that was just as good. We have several dozen designs in plated ware in stock, and after critically examining each one thoold lady plucked up courage enough to ask the price of one that had only recently been pro duced, and was selling for $lB. When I mentioned the price, she looked blankly at her husband and said she guessed we didn't have anything to suit them. As they were going out of the store, I over heard the remark, "What mighty dear stores these in New York are, ter be sure. I wouldn't pay mor'n $3 fer a soup tureen—no, not if it was the only one in thecountry."—Jewelers'Weekly. Runes In the Loag Ago. Hon. William Gould, of Windham, in a letter to The Portland Press, gives an account of Ransom, who in the first years of the present century came to Portland and pretended to be able to transmute metals. From lead found on a small island near Freeport he obtained' silver. He had his crucibles and other apparatus in a shop on Exchange street. Several reputable citizens were deceived and fleeced. It was finally proposed that he be watched, and a hole was bored over his private room. It was found that he rolled up a pistareen, a coin worth twenty cents, and inserted it in the end of the wauil with which he 6tirred the molten contents of his crucible. It had been noticed as a curious fact that the ingot he found in his cruciblo was invariably of the value of a fifth of a dollar. One of the ingredients on which he relied was May dew, and he of fered a high price for its collection. Country people brought in such large quantities of this dew that he was at first appalled. But he got out of it by testing the dew and asserting that the sun had shone on some part of it and spoiled the whole. The water it had cost such labor to gather was poured into the gutter. He was brought to trial and strong ef forts were made to have him exhibited in the pillory, but he escaped punishment. —Lewiston Journal. llewltched Milk. F. S. Bean, a former Oxford dean, now 1 residing in Cadott, Wis., communicates a strange tale of an old Oxford county superstition to The Norway Advertiser. He says that when he was a lad the peo ple of his neighborhood used to believe that an old woman living there was a witch. She became provoked with a neighbor because the latter refused to sell her a cow. and thereafter no butter could be made from that cow's milk. No matter how long they churned, the butter would not come. As the 6tory goes, a girl in the family had heard that a witch could be burned and dispossessed by dropping a red hot horseshoe in the churn witli the cream. She tried the experi ment, whereupon she declared that a scream issued from the churn 1 The but ter soon came, and a scar in the shape of a horseshoe was afterwards seen on the old woman's (x-rson by some imaginative observer. "When I was a boy, I believed the story, but my faith is somewhat shaken now," says Mr. Bean. Wlter* So me Raff* Go. Housewives must often have wondered where all the rags go to after they pass into the wagon of any one of the several hundred ragmen who pass through the alleys with their monotonous cries. These gatherers of old rags take them to warehouses where they aro bought in bulk, and then assorted by girls accord ing to quality. There was a time when most of the rags were sent to paper I mills. Now a very small proportion of rags are made into paper, straw and clay being the chief ingredients. Fine linen paper, so called, is made of rags. Ninety per cent, of the rags collected, however, go into the manufacture of "shoddy," of which cheap ready made clothing is manufactured. This stuff is now made up into the brightest and most attractive j patterns, and can only be told when new [ from wool by the expert, and by experi- j ence with the wearer.—Clothing Man in j St. Louis Globe-Democrat. liOiif Lived Doctors. Physicians appear to conform quite generally to the familiar injunction to heal themselves, save where the com plaint is old age. The average age of the decedents of the Massachusetts Medi cal society during the year 1889 reached the high figure of sixty-eight years and a half, which comes very close to the span of life allotted to man by the psalmist.—Boston Herald. A Content of Color*. Up in the red man's country, in which representatives of nearly all races ap pear to have congregated, there was a fistic contest between Messrs. Blue and White, and strangely enough they were both black. 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