VOL.XXVII.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Regular Mar I'll Term—Kit at Week—Mou <lny
r ore noon SegKion.
EnENBBDKO. March 4.—Court met about
.10.30. A large number of jurors—eleven
—were excused. The Grand Jury was
organized for business bv appointing Jas.
P. Green, of the Fifteenth ward. Johns
town. foreman, and Porter H. Miller was
directed to act as the Cousiable in charge.
James Myers and It. W. Tudor, ol En.
ensburg, were chosen as the Constables
to wait 011 the Traverse Juries this week.
Chas. W. Jones charged with surety of
the peace, preferred try J. McCurdy, plead
guilty aim will pay the costs and remain
in jut), being unable to furnish secuiity
• that he will behave hereafter.
baniuel Seelv, charged with desertion,
admitted that he does not now live with
or support his wife Ellen Scely, but made
the counter complaint that she uses liquor
to excess. 11 is she denied. Samuel was
admonished as to his duties to his wile
and was ordered to pay $1.50 per week
for her support.
Joiiu Price, chaiged with assault and
battery, was found guilty, lie paid the
costs and was required to enter into a
recognizance in the sum of $lOO to keep
the peace for one year.
1 . AFTERNOON SESSION.
After an in ermission lusting from 12
o'clock to 2:30 the Court met and took up
the returns ol the Constables, after w..icn
the Constables-elect were sworn ill afier
their bonds had been examined and proved
satisfactory. When ibe West ward of
Eheusbnry was reached Mr. Kiltcll pre
si-nttd a petillon swi til lo by live citizens
and sigiud by many others, objecting t"
* the swearing-in of E. It. Humphreys,
Constnlde-cleet, he having served us In.
Bpictor 011 the election board. The
fourth Monday of March wns fixed upon
a- the time for hearing urgumcuts us 10
tiie law nn the point.
Valentino Loftier. Susan Hnlroid,
Amanda Li-flier, and Lydia Slmfer ap
peared as the ucirs of Christian Le flier to
claim his estate.
A number 01 cases were brought up in
VIIII li nolle jitoitqui* were entered, in d
quite a number 01 others weie combine I.
At the evening session, which began at
7:80. the viewers to adjust matters in re
giuil to the opening of Locust street wcr> j
appointed : P. S. Fisher, Geo. W. Moses. |
John Raub, Clius. Unversagt, Alex. Adair,
L. M. Woolf, and Louis Weliu were [
nannd. 11l the matter of widening Clin
toil street John Thomas, Geo. W. Moses,
Wcsli-sv J. Rose, B. F. Horner, and B. F
Speedy were appointed us viewers.
-• Adam Smith was found guilty of selling
liquor on Sli dly and of selling lo minors.
The Court adjourned at 10 o'clock.
TUESDAY MORNING SESSION.
Jeremiah Lately was found guilty of
malicious mischnf. Win. F. Conk. Esq.,
was prosecutor ill ibis case.
The case of Commonwealth against
John McMullen, charged with highway
robbery, was then taken up an.l occupied
the attention of the Court till adjourn
, mental 12:20. The principal witness was
Mr. Durbin, who ciu.ni s that on the
r night ot the lthh of last Beptcm
ber he was robbed by the defendant of his
pocket-book, containing considerable
money. Two otl er men, Mr. Dm bin
claims, held bun while the defendant took
the pocket-book.
TUKSD.iY AFTERNOON SESSION.
On the re-assembling of the Court at 2
o'cloik several parties, who bad been
found guilty of the indictments against
them, weie sentenced.
Auam Smith, convicted of selling
liquor to minors and of selling on Sunday,
" wis sentenced to pay a fine of SIOO on
cacti indictment and the costs of prosecu
tion also.
Jeremiah Lavely, convicted of mali
cious mischief, was sentenced to pay a
fine of S2O and costs, and undergo im
prisonment for one week in the counly
jail.
'the five boys—Jus. Edwards, George
Jones, Micnael Holian, J< lin Tracy, and
F.auk Beamish—all plead guilty to the
charge of la ceny, preferred against them
by seveial Johnstown merchants. They
1 seemed very youthful to he airnigned tor
such a charge. Their counsel pleaded
■wah the Court thut they be treated
leuien'ly. One of the attorneys said that
in bis mind the boys hud been taught to
steal by the general pilfering and common
use of property in Johnstown during the
time subsequent to the flood. All Hie
boys, save one, had been well behaved
before 'his trouble.
The Court measured out the penalty as
lightly as could be done under the cir
, cam-tnnces. The boys were remanded lo
jail to be kept there till Mouday next,
when they are to be set free.
llenry Brown plead guilty of burglary
as indicted, and was sentenced to one
year and three mouths in the western
penitentiary, SSO fine and the costs of
prosecution.
Clias. Ligantl, for malicious mischief,
was sentenced three months in jail and to
piy a fine of S2O and the costs. A charge
• o! assault and battery was luld over un
til next court.
Ja<. S. Lytle, charged with the larceny
o'' a carload of shingles, belonging to
Hoover, Hughes & Co., was released
JOHNSTOWN, CAMBRIA COUNTY. PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1890.
upon paying for tbe same and providing
for the settlement of the costs.
The trial of the highway rohbery case
was then resumed and was occupying the
at ention of the Court at 3:3oo'clock.
THE iiuiyuois'ci.UH.
The Permanent Organism ion FfTrctecl at
the Meeting llehl I.UM Evening.
A number of gentlemen have formed an
organization known as the Iroquois Club
autl have rented apartments in the tliiid
story of Lion. John llannau's new b :iid
ing, paying therefor an annual rent of
S4OO. The Club is organized very much
on the same i'ltes as the famous Randall
Club of Pittsburgh. At a meeting last
evening the following officers were elected
for the ensuit g year :
President, VV. Horace Rose ; First Vice
President. J. VV. Wonders; Second Vice
President, Jay Woodr'ng; Third Vue
President, E. F. Creed ; Recording Secre
tary, R. M. Liuton ; Coriesponditig Secre
tary. C. M. Johfiso i ; Tieasurer, P. J.
MeLsiigh in ; Trustees, Claude M. John
soil, G. VV. Wagoner, J. J. Millignn, 8.
M. Lynch, J. B. O'Connor, G. J. Alters,
J. C. Larkin.
DIED IN CAUtUIINIA.
Fxposuro ut .John Mown the Canine of the
Deutli of iiitriy Duty.
Another dealli that can be traced di
rectly to exposure in the Coucmaugh
Valley as the cause, has occurred. Hurry
Gray, of Allegheny, a member of the lirin
of MeUridt- & Gray, architects, died last
Monday in Pasadena, California. His re
mains arrived in Pittsburgh yesterday
morning, and the funeral will take place
to-day, frotu his mother's residence, in
Allegheny.
Mr. Gray's death was the result of ex
posure in Johnstown. At tbe time of the
llood Mcßiidi & Gray were building the
Nululorium, and Mr. Gray came to Johns
town to sunn intend the erection of some
buildings here. lie contracted a cold,
which became so serious that his physi
cians ulvised him to go to Calif u nia.
Six weeks ago he started West with hit
mother, hut instead ot improving lie same
rapidly, dying on Monday,
Mr. Qray was a young man of consider
utile promise. Very energetic in his btisi
is-i anil was rising rapidly in his prates
<lOll. For many years lu- was with Joseph I
Stillbetg the arrliiiecl of the Exposition,
and dill much of the worn <m that build
inn. He had consideranlo to do with the
Ursuline Youi.g Ladic-.' Academy. A
year ago he entered iuto partnership will
Mr. Mcjlridc.
The Cioiihei laiill .Hill l.easuil.
Some time since we noted the visit of
mo-t of the prominent Cambria Iron
Company men in litis city, together with
Vice President Stncklmuse, of Philadel
phia, to Cumberland, Mil. It was then
thought that tbey were lookinirafler the
rolling mill at ilia" place, belonging 101 l e
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Liter it wa
lent ih (1 that liegotiaiioys were in progress
looking to the leasing of the mill, but the
officials of 'lie company declined to give
any particulars until the bargain was
closed. It is now learned that ihu Cam
bria Iron Company lias leased Ibe mill at
Cumberland and will operate it for the
purpose of supplying the large orders
formerly furnished by its Guu ier Mills.
Machinery steel, spring steel, plow steel,
rake teetll and other special shapes will
be turned out. How long the lease ex
lends lias not been learned, hilt it will
likely be till the enlarged Gautier Mills
are built in this city, work on the founda
tions of which is now in progress.
Ileal h If rum Injuries.
From the Huntingdon Daiy Lccal Ntwx
we learn of the death on Moudayaftir
noon ot John Smith of that place, who on
the Wednesday before was struck by
Eastern Express. He suffered inieriiul
injuries, from which his death resulted.
His age was about forty-four years. Two
daughters of Mr. Smith's reside in
Coopersdale.
Count Herbert Bismarck, during his so
journ in the Orient, learned a new proverb
which he repeated in a recent speech :
'• There are three things with which no
man should play—the fire, because it can
burn him ; the viper because it can sting
him ; a woman, because she can love
him." Herbert has been there.
Death of Air*. Jennie Dunbar.
Mrs. Jennie, wife of W. Sooit Dunbar,
died at her residence in Huntingdon 011
Sunday evening. She had been in poor
health since before Christmas. Mr. Dun
bar, who is now a cletk in the Pennsyl
vania Hainoiul Company's repair shops at
Huntingdon, tormcrly lived in this city,
lie is well known as a band instructor,
and while here he was leader of the
Johnstown City Band.
Mora AboiD tlio Prtur Cne.
Chicf-of-Police Harris has subpoened
four new witnesses in the Peters gamb
ling case, and wi.l take them to Ebens
burg ibis morning to have them appear
against Peters, 't he officer thinks ihey
have evidence enough to make the
case go against Peters. It is now said
that Meal, the informant was given $l5O
to skip, and that he was driveu to Red
Bridge on Tuesday evening, where he
took the train for other parts early the
next morning.
TOLD IN A I'UHI.IC DOCUMENT.
A Thillllng Indian Slorv of Hie Early Days
■hi tin, I'ai ifli! Coast.
Washington Star.
Hidden away in t lie numerous com
mittee rooms in the great Capitol build
ing are tuns of documents of all descrip
tions reori settling the hopes and fears uf
thousands of claimants for even-bauded
justice or putilic bounty. One of the most
intere-titig ot these petitions has just been
reported from the House Committee on
Pensions with urecommendation that the
bill covering tbe ease become a law. The
stoty as told by Representative DeLatio
in the repoit is a most thrilling one.
Christina Guiscl, now Christina Edson,
emigrated in the early years Iroui lite At
lantic States to the shores of the Paeitic,
and, with her husband, John G. isel, and
their lit tie family settled upon the shores
of the Paeitic ocean, near the mouth of
the Rogue river, in Oregon. The house
was upon the then traveled trail leaning
from Die coast of California imo Oregon.
They were comfortably iixed wiieu they
settled there at that time. Joliu Gei.-ei
mined be tine gold dust on the ocean
beach, and this, together with Ins stock
upon the prairies and what was received
by his family trout the passing travellers
for lodgings-, constituted their means of
livelihood. A fiieudly Indian WHS em
ployed about tbe premises in occasional
set vices. The village of Ihe Indian tribe
ot tits •' Too loot-tias " was eight miles
distant up the Rogue river. Very lilifc
apprehension existed among the sellleis
as to any hostile intent on the part of the
Indians. Ben Wright, I lie Indian agent
in tlie vicinity and known in the Pacific
Slates as a daring Indian lighter, gave
positive assurance ttint no danger - xistcl.
On the night of February 21. 18>ti, the
settlers for some miles aroutnl attended a
ball at Koine river, iu observance of
Washington's birthday. The Indians,
expecting to find the cotin ry c anpti i
lively defeuceless, owing to the assem
blage ut l tin ball, concluded upon a gen
eral massacre of the whites wno remained
at home. Owing to the illness of one of
the children, nottu of the Geisel family
attended Hie hull. •
About mid night Mr. Geisel was awak- |
ened by a rap upon the door and by lierr- ■
irig heir Indian servant saying that lie
ucsirt d to obtain something to eat. Upon
tld Hie door was oper.ed and i ill media! ■ - !
Iv several stalwart Indians rushed in and
commenced 'heir attack, witli long tlra-wn
knives ami tomahawks, upon Mr. Geisel.
Mrs. Geisel left Her three weeks' old in
fant in bed. and, though qu le feeble,
rushed to her husband's rescue. In the
co lict she rect i ed a severe wound
11. r husband was soon overcome, and fell
dead in her pri sence. She was securely
bound mid, with her infant and a seven
year old daughter, was forced wilbout.
There sliu witnessed her three boys taken
fre ill their litlle beds in an adjoining
room, anil, while pileoualy begging tor
dfe, they were, one bv oue, slaughtered
in l>er pre-etice.
After rilling the house of all such arti
cles as they desired they applied the
t well to it and compelled their captives
to witness its destruction, with the limn
ing of Hie bodies of the slain. Mrs. Geisel,
barefooted and clad in her tiiin gown,and
with her two children, was then marched
to the camp of the Too-toot-nas, and
while en route witnessed the ouming of
many houses and the massacre or her
neighbors. Great indignities were inflat
ed upon the captives by the Indians in
Hie village of the hostiles. They were
kept prisoners under strict watch fer two
weeks, when they were exchanged or ran
somed by the white people who were
forled at the month of the Rogue river.
During her captivity Mrs. Geisel took
careful notes and sketches of wnatslie ob
served. Sue discovered that several alli
ed tribes were constructing very strong
fori ideal ions from which they proposed
making raids upon all the surrounding
country iu California and Oregon and
tnus complete the destruction already be
gun. Mrs. Geisel discovered a concealed
approach through Die mountain gorges
Into this fori ideation and village by which
if it could be as-ailed in tbat direction bv
sufficient force, defence would be without
avail. She also learned from conversa
tion among the Indians in their own lan
guage, which she interpreted, that great
preparations were in progress for a raid
on the people of the town of Port Orfoid,
thirty miles distant, where they expressed
great confidence of exterminating the
men and childred and making captives ol
the woman. The time was fixed for their
departure and surprise. This information
she disclosed to the settlors in the fort
, immcdiuti ly upon iier ransom and they
| sent forward to Port Orford, a swift trav
elling messenger toiuform the people of
their approaching danger. Port Orford
was at once placed in a condition of de
fence, and when the Indians appeared be
fore it they were repulsed and returned
to their camp ou Rogue river.
Foldiers and volunteers were soon on
tiie ground, and, availing themselves of
the information communicated by Mrs.
Geisel, they made a sudden nssault upon
the Indian fortifications byway of the ap
proach discoveied by the captive wo
| man, and after a closely contested battle
they conipletily routed and killed many
of the Indian warriors. This defeat so
dispirited tliein that llicy never rallied
again, and were afterward the most
peaceable Indians on the Pacific coast.
The Rogue River War, which extended
over a large portion of Southern Oregon,
was substantially ended at this place. It
is a part of ttie written history of the
Pacific coast States and Territories.
kOsS RULE.
Cuime* :t llt-volt in lilalr County-Attempt
to I'urcliUMe DclegatcM For Hclamater.
special to Pittsburgh chronicle Telegraph.
ALTOUNA, Marcli 4.— No county gives a
better illustration of the remit of Chair
man Andrews' attempted boss rule tluui
does Blair.
Through his grip upon the machine,
Andrews tried to force Delamater candi
dates on tliis county.
Ho hud a conference with Chairman
McDowell, ot the Blair County Commit
tee, sliorliy after the Buyer Convention.
Mr. McDowell before that time had hern
regarded as a Hastings man. For some
time after this there were reports afloat
that McDowell was loa led witli funds tor
an Andrews-Drlamuler boom. It is said
that lie spent considerable money among
c itain wnikers in Altoouauiid Hollidays-
burg. One man, while under tlie influ
ence of liquor, boasted ttiat lie had been
given SSO to carry his pieciuct for Dela
mater. There were indications iu a great
many quarters of crooked manipulation
at Andrews' instance.
Delamater, as usual, put his foot in it.
He lliouglit that all that was necessary
was to draw on the Standard Oil Com
pany for mine casli nun give it to An
drews to to buy Blair w ilh. Although ac
tively fot Delamater fi.r a time, Cbuir
lllUU McDowell has of late been quiet and
tiis barrel seems to have been emptied.
No liutier illustration of tlie contemp
tuous, higli-tiuuded way that Delairater
i in|>I<>ys could bo given Iban the way be
ami Andrews liavo acted towaid Me.
Dowi 11. The Blair chairintin is a well
meaning man, and 1 am told, be resents
t e way in which Andrews oiders him
mound. On Tuesday night last Andrews
weiil East and expected to see McDowell
at i lie Aitoona depot, The Chairman was
id and unable to be ihe re, and Andrews
frightened the two men who were present
to meet him by his vulgarity and pro
fanity.
Worse than tiiis is the way Andrews
boasts that" tin old man'" (meaning
Quay) wants him to capture the county
f>r D. launder. sOlllO of Quay's warm
f sends promptly deny tliis, but Andrews
repents it just the same.
It is-said that Chairman McDowell has
taken offense at a sneering remark made
by 1). lamater last Monday.
Delamater was talking to a friend in the
depot and did not notice a young fellow
who was standing near by half hidden iu
a shadow.
Tney were discussing politics when
Delmnaler said, without lowering his
voice: Where did you get that cliaii
uiun of yours?" He is easy,"
Naturally Mr. McDowell think* th'B is
rubbing it in on iiini.
I'lie friends of Montootb awl Hastings
have found that the rank and tile of the
party aiu docking to their support. The
ory is " anybody but Dulamater."
.Mr. Andrews has not time to look after
his newspaper lieutenants in their own
towns and now they " serve" hint on the
train as he goes cast or west.
On Tuesday he was busy giving orders
to a Westmoreland editor all the way from
the Union Depot in Pittsburgh to Greens
burg. Andrews bud the Pullman with
the curtains lowered and everything as
secret us possible, but the editor walked
oui with a smile at Greeusburg that told
things were satisfactorily urrauged as far
as he was concerned. Fixing edliors of
country papers is one of Andrews' strong
points. In some cases he has even gone
so far as to buyout the papers entirely
and put a new managmcnt in charge.
Local I atitute at Lilly's.
Programme for Teachers' Local Insti
t lie to be ne held at Lilly's, March 15th,
commencing at 0:20 A. M. : The Black
hoard, Mr F. C. George ; How a Teacher
May L iso Control of His Pupils, Mr. J.
A. Kensinger; Exercises lor Friday Af
ternoon, Miss Olive Topper; Teaching Ad
vanced Arillimetic, Mr. A. J. Noel ; How
to Awaken Interest in Advanced Bead
ing Clas-es, Miss Ella Sweeney ; Teach
Useful Things, Mr. J. O. Carroll; Should
Teaciiers have a Knowledge of Physiol
ogy? Mr. T. B. Allison ; Some Things
Seen Upon Entering School-rooms, Super
intendent Leech. COMMITTEE.
Laiullonl l'dwrs in lint Water.
On Monday evening a good-sized row
took place in the barroom of the Fourih
Ward Hotel. Shortly after, three of the
participants were arrested, and, at a hear
ing before Justice Horrell, they got #1
and costs The parties arrested were
George Hicks, William Neal, and
Thomas Jones. When Ncai had paid his
tine lie went before 'Squiie Bulledge and
made information against Wni. Peters for
keeping a gambling house. Peters, upon
being arrested, gave #SOO bail for his ap
pearance at court to-day, when his case
will be brought up for trial.
CHARLES HOLLAND'S ESCAPADES
Aii Alleged Ki-ltemrtent ot' JohtiMtoxvii
ItcatH IIIK Creditor* and Commit* Big
amy.
! POUT CIIKSTEI:, N. Y-, Match 4. —Charles
i Holland, a dealer in books and stationery,
ill ft quite suddenly last Saturday for
1 Canada. Mr. Holland came here last
June and represented that he had lokt a
j considerable amount of property in the
! disaster at Johnstown, Pa., and that he
i left a wife and child in that neighborhood.
He soon wou the eonlidence of several
leading business men, and finally, with
their financial assistance, started iu busi
ness. Mr. Holland sought the best soci
ety and was an honored guest at the re
ceptions of the Entru Nous and Pastime
Clubs. At otic ol these society events ho
mside the acquaintance of Miss Etlie
Gage, the daughter of a retired merchant
of Ml. Vernon. Miss Gage was a hand
some blonde, twenty-two years eld. Her
father left her a fortune. Mr. Hollad paid
her marked alteution and sought her
hand in marriage. Site was warned that
he was already married and she told him
what she Inid heard. He denied it and
was liually able to convince Miss Gage
that lie was free to wed. Mr. Holland ap
peared to be in distress financially during
the past, week and his creditors pressed
him very hard. He deferred payment by
promising that he would settle all his ob
ligations on March Ist. Three days pre
vious he commenced shipping goods from
Ids slore to vuiious addiesses in New
York City. When these goods were de
livered Mr. Holland was on hand to re
ceive tliein. lie Had Miss Gage's trunks
tiken to the depot on Thursday evening
and checked to New Rochelle. The young
woman went on the evening tra'n
to the same village and put up at a hotel.
Mr. Holland arrived on a later tra n, uuil
ti.ey were registered at the house as mail
and wife He went away early in the
muruiug, leaving his wife there. It was
subsequently learned that they wcio
married by the Rev, S. O. Curtice. pas or
of the Suinnierlield church at Port Cnos
ier, ou 'Thursday, before leaving tout vi -
lage. To a confidential friend, Mr. Ho -
Innd has written a letter, Slating that li s
a Idlers in future will be Windsor, Ouiu
r,o. Ilia wife in Pennsylvania has been
unfilled, and it remains to be seen whit
-tups inav be taken to bring bint to jus
ice. Miss Cage's mother resides ue.T
Mount Vernon. She is ail estimable wo
man, and her daughters mairiage to Mr.
Holland will be a serious blow to her.
The name Holland occurs otici —tlmtol
Francis Holland, G'JO Bedford street, n
the latest Johnstown directory. No 01 e
cm be found who knows that any suen
man as described above bad been here.
He Is a fraud, of course.
Arrested at lli Grave.
Capt. James D. Walker, an ex-member
of Hie Legislature, WHS arrested at tin
open grave of his father in Unioiidah
Cemetery, Allegheny, Monday. Tin
i ciuirge was a forfeiture of a 1 ail bond.
Over a year ago Capt. Walker was indict
ed by Hie Gran I Jury of Clearfield cm uiy
for illegal liquor selling and gave bail lor
i bearing. The arrest was made at the
instance of bis bondsmen. Wilt. Walker,
tin- father of the Captain, died Tuursday,
at bis home, 118 Fremont sireet. Alte
glieuy. The sou, who has been long at>-
-eut, returned to the city and the arrest
was made. Capt. Walker is well known
and was a member of Legislature from
1877 to 1880 and was a Mayoralty candi
date before the Allegheny Convention
which nominated James G. Wym.in iu
1884.
Mormon HllHioiiarirs Whipped.
Three Mormon missionaries have been
preaching in Webster county, W. Va..
and have made a number of converts in
the last three months. Recently thev be
gan holding meetings in public school
nouses, and the maimer in which their
doctrines were inculcated began to excite
intense indignation. On Friday night u
body of twenty armed men broke up a
meeting on Holly river, and drV3 the
worshipers from the house. They then
look the missionaries to a tree near bv,
ded them up, and lashed their hacks un
til the blood ran in streams. The mis
sionariee have since disappeared. Their
converts threaten to be revenged, and
trouble is ex pert ad.
Fur County CoiiiiiitMHloner.
Mr. W. A. Luntzv, the enterprising con
tractor and builder, of Upper Yoder town
ship, announces himself in to day's paper
as a candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation of County Commissioner. -Mr.
Lant/.y formerly resided at Carrolltown,
but lias been in this vicinity for a number
ofye-rs. He comes from good Demo
cratic stock, and lias always been an ac
tive a-.,d earnest worker for the party.
! His extensive knowledge of the needs of
• the people of the county, and his acquain
tance in all parts of it, would make him a
'■ strong nomiuee. If nominated lie would
1 be elected by a large vote.
,
• Remember that Ay er's Cherry Pectoral
r has no equal as a specific for colds,coughs,
, ain all affections of the throat ami lungs
For nearly half a century it hue been in
greater demand than any other remedy
2 for pulmonary complaints. All druggists
have it for sale.
NO 46.
A LAND OF EXTREME).
Aii InlprfKllnij l-otter From Prof. McCor
inick—Hard Time* in Californiii —Five
Mont lis of KIIIII.
OAKDALK, STANI-LACS COUNTY, CAI,., \
February 22, 13H0.>
To I lie Editor <>J the JoltnuUnen Democrat.
Your valuable paper reaches me about
once a month; indeed I do not know what
I should do without it, but if I could get
it once a week 1 would rather. I presume
the snow bjockade lias something to do
with it, but I never get it regularly, and 1
sent two letters which are uot accounted
for, so far as I know.
lam glad to know that your town is
expanding, and that desolated Johns
town Ims sixteen wards left. It may
bo prosperous yet. There is a good deal
of grumbling übout the manner in which
the funds sent to relieve the people have
been spent. Our little town contributed
about §7O or SBO and sent the money on,
but not oue man who subscribed thinks
that it was right to pay for losses to prop
erly. The money was sent to relieve suf
fering and tor nothing else, feme people
drew largely from the funds sent to re
store their losses on property, men who
ha I lots of property left. People here
and elsewhere gave money to relieve the
sufferers of Johnstown, who have no prop
erty of their own, and they think it hard
that money should go to men who are
already richer than they are, and they
call the transaction a regular swindle.
That is the mildest epithet that a poor
man here who contributed to the sufferers
can give it.
Well, business in our State is on the
stand-still. Property went up a few
years ago, but there wis a subsequent
collapse and now times are hard. Immi
gration has ceased. The tide ol travi lis
northward of this, to (begun and Wash
ington, and we have had a rainy season,
which has greatly impeded fanning. Af
ter live mouths diy weather we have had
live months coustant rain. Farming pur
suils have been completely clogged.
There will not he one half a crop put in.
All we can depend on now istbemines,
the wool business, the gr pe bu-incss,
and commerce. Money is tight. Almost
every farm is mortgage 1 and many nior
gages will I) • f sreolnsed. lj*gal basins
will he tiptop, and this is a tia I
There are several irrigation schemes
ailoat. liut they seem to di ■ g their slow
I tieih along, " leaving the people still to
doubt whether the suake thai makes the
track is going south or co uiag back."
Altogether. Cdifor u i is u longer an
attractive place. It is the easiest place to
get rich and the easiest place to break up
i i the United States, an ' eup : dalis's ad
and shark • know this. iliey act ac
c irdingly. ilea! i-t n's have 100
much power, and i •••■> . . e everybody
without in icy. S' i k ••ins arc no
tletter. The Stah •nd "n ul lify our
valley will s-ion change fi o un agricul
ture, to a ftuit growit.g C UP try and the
large rat.the. will he bmk iup and divid
ed out into small f.uit owing farms.
The people will tli : live much as they
do in the east, they will i aise a variety of
graius and fruiis, slock i.nd vegetables
aid not depend on na entire wheat crop
for speculation. All will have a compe
tence and none a monopoly. There will
he more frugality and le.-s | rodigality, a
consummation devoutly to be wished. As
things go now California i- a land of ex
tremes. It hurts a fanner more here to
have the toothache than it does to break
up, because breaking is ao every day oc
currence. Success to you and yours.
8. B. MCCOHMICK.
l'ay of Column Enuiiw ratom.
Census enumerators will be paid as fol
lows : For every living person, two
cents ; for every death, two cents; for
every firm, twenty-five cents; for
every factory, thirty cents ; ' for each
veteran or veteran's widow, five
cents. In special cases an enumer
ator may he paid by the dav, not to ex
ceed $5. Tue cost of taking the census
of 1880 was over $2,000,000 and the next
one is estimated at $15,000,000 larger than
iu 1880. The work of enumerating will
he done during the month of June next.
Another Fire Engine Teat.
The Cambria City Fire Company as
sisted by Enginerr Keene, of the Assist
ance Company tested their engine (No.
21) this afternoon. The Cambria boys
were afraid the engine would not pump
but when it was started up they were sur
prised to see it raise a stream fifty feet
over the highest building in Cambria.
The engine is oue of the old Philadelphia
ones ami did excelleut work. Cambria
will now have better means of extinguish
ing fire than it ever bad.
Tlo Mail and Ex|irerf itelief.
Uev. H. L. Chapman as one of the Com
mittee appointed by Col. Shephard to
distribute the balance of the Mail and Elt
press Relief Fund, wishes to notify all
persons who intend applying through him
to do so, on or before March 17th, as
after that time he will refuse to receive
names, etc. This is rendered necessary
i by the large amount of other work he has
to perform. Up to that time all who wish
to come are welcome.