The Democrat.
FRIDAY, MARCH, 7 1800.
EX-SBNATOK WALLACE of Pennsylvania
will arrive from Europe and begin to look
over the political field early in March.
SPEAK Kit REED has accepted the invita
tion of the Young Republican Club of
Philadelphia to attend its annual dinner
on April 9ih.
Miss RARECOA E. ROBERTS has been
admitted to practice in the Orphans' Court
of Philadelphia. She is the second wom
an lawyer admitted to the bar of that
city.
THE carrying of concealed deadly weap
ons is a legal offense in Pennsylvania, but
scarcely a day passes without a murder
or a suicide caused by the violation of
that law. Cannot some means be devised
for icstricting the sale of pocket pistols ?
Tnß Philadelphia Record says : Sena
tor Hoar's bill to prevent changes in Con
gressional districts before a new appor
tionmcnt shall have been made, is not so
much an attempt to prevent gerrymander
ing as an attempt to prevent the correc
tion of existing gerrymanders. The
Republican paity is making desperate ef
forts to niolxng its life. Senator Hoar's
project is one of the latest.
TnAT sturdy Democratic journal, the
Westmoreland Domocrat with much grati
fication says: Of Westmoreland's six
leading boroughs, all save one, last week,
elected Democratic Mayors. They are
Greensburg, Latrobe, Mt. Pleasant. Irwin
and West Newton. The one exception is
Scottdale. That locality showed its good
iLtentions, however, by re iucing the Re
publican majority, while Greensburg
largely increased her Democratic margin.
There is no abatement in the rising tide
of Democracy in the old " Star of the
West."
MAIiKIAUK LICENSES.
The Following Have Keen (.ranted Since
Our Last Report.
jjohn n.Davis Ebensburg
(Nora Thompson East Taylor twp
f William cummins South Fork
l Ella conue 1 Souih Fork
(William 11. Seese Scalp Level
(Nancy till! l'ortuge
(Andrew Malum Johnstown
"(Sue tolls Johnstown
(Joseph W, Lent Johnstown
(Eva Ann 1 humus Johnstown
(Aaron Davis Johnstown
(Kate .Morgan Ebensburg
(Fran Is I.lndqulst Johnstown
(Amanda SuUerLuid Johnstown
For (lie Legislature
This morning we have the announce
ment of Capt. M.Fiizharris.of Gallitzin, as
a candidate for the Democratic nomina
tion tor the Legislature. Mr. Fitzharris
is a gentleman of pleasing address and
extended acquaintance, and has many
friends among his comrades-in-arms, the
boys in blue, lie was a brave soldier and
served his country well. During the
Cleveland adiuinistrati in he was post
master at Gailitziu, and tilled that office
to the satisfiieiion of the people. He is
a Democrat, and is able at all times to
advocate the principles be believes to be
right. For many > "ars lie has taken an
aetiye interest ill the success of the Dem
ocratic party, and lots fairly won its favor
able recognition. If he is nominated lie
-will be elected by a large majority.
A Model Soil.
Fussy old gentleman (to a chance trav
eling lady companion)— Have you any
children madam ? "
" Yes sir, a son."
"All, indeed ! Does be smoke "
" No, sir ; he never has as rattch as
touched a cigarette."
' 8o mucli the better, madam ; the use
of tobacco is a pernicious habit. Does he
frequent the clubs 1"
" lie has never put his foot in one."
"Allow me to congratulate you. Does
lib come home late ? "
" Never. He goes to bed directly af
ter dinner."
" A model young man, madam, a
model young man. How old is he ? "
" Two months."—AT. Y, Sun.
The South IVmi to ho Sold.
Somerset, Herald.
At the October term of court in Fulton
county, Robert MeFarlan obtained a
judgment against the ,South Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for ft,078 for damages
occasioned by work on the proposed rail
road. An execution was' issued and all
the personal property of the defendant
corporation in the comity was sold by
the sheriff. On Thursday of last week an
alias execution was issued, d reeling the
suuiiif to levy upon and sell any personal
mixed or real property, franc use, and
rights of the defend"nt corporation with
in the Commonwealth. The sale is ad
vertised for Saturday, March 15tli,
They Let Go.
llratldock Dally News.
Michael Rums met with a curious acci
dent this morning. Along pinch bar had
been placed under a heavy casting in
order to raise it. Eight men placed their
weight upon the bar and lowered it some
distance, when suddenly seven of them
got off, the man that didn't was Mike,
and lie escaped having his head taken off
by a miracle, the bar just grazing bis
head, taking soine of the flesh Irom his
cheek bone.
Will Remove Here to Engage in Kusiuesn.
The Ebensburg llerahl says that C. T.-
Roberts, Esq., of that place, has leased a
large storeroom in Johnstown and will
embark in the mercantile business in this
city. His family will remain in Ebens
burg, and conduct his variety store there.
The room leased by Mr. Roberts is iu the
G. A. R., building on Main street, in the
best part of the city for carrying on his
business.
JOHNSTOWN TO-DAY.
THE FLOODED CITY'S PROGRESS SINCE
THE GREAT CALAMITY.
The Victim** of the Delude Have lleen
Replaced by Strangers-Hut the 111
Fated Town id Not IVhat It Was a
Year Ago.
The special staff correspondence of The
Preen, New York, Sunday has |a full
page illustrated article on "Johnstown
To-day," contain# a picture of Johnstown
before the Hood, Johnstown, after the
flood, the Cambria Iron Works and P. R.
R. stone bridge, and portraits of Mayor
elect W, Horace Rose, General Manager
John Fulton, of the Cambria Iron Works,
Rev. I)r. Beale, Rev. Father Tahaney,
and L. D. Woodruff. We take the fol
lowing from the article:
The morning, as we reached Altoona,
was crisp and bright, with just enough
frost iu the air to make one enjoy the
ride over the western foot hills of the Al
leghanies. Coming toward South Forks
everybody in the enr seemed instinctively
to recur to Johnstown and seek a window
from which to view the scenes of the de
struction that were begiuning to unfold
themselves. Up to the north, nestling in
the mountains, only just out of sight, lay
the dam that wrought such a ruin and out
from whose defective sides poured an
avalanche that, while it lusted, outdid the
gieat Niagara in volume and velocity.
Skimmed over with frost, as I saw it
afterward, it seemed more like a great
meadow over which a silver gauze had
been spread than anvting else. A small
stream ran through the center, but noth
ing save the memories of the flood of
1889 suggested that with it was connected
the most chustly tragedy of the past de
cade of centuries.
It lay their a peaceful ruin. Not so,
however, was the country through which
it carried death and desolation. For fif
teen miles down that beautiful valley it
had swept onward in a wild carnival of
destruction. Great trees, robust and ma
ture with the growth of ages, bowlders
and hillsides that had been landmarks,
homes that had harbored a peonle pro
verbially hospitable, hard working, moral
and generous, men and women and chil
dren who had toiled until the valley
smiled with plenty and was the most
cheeful setting in the ring of hills that
bounded it, all were its victims. The
story of Johnstown, of its dreadful chas
tening, of the sorrows that came so sud
denly upon it is known by every one.
The suffering of its people made them
dear to every heart. 1 hey were the
wards of tiie world in the highest sense of
the term. There was no home in all th e
land that from out of generosity did not
send them its mite. There was no one so
poor whose alms did not go cheerfully
into the stricken vulley. The charity ex
tended was utmost as broad 11s the ruin
that had been wrought. If money could
have compensated for the loss of life or
sympathy heal the wounds of hearts that
were breaking with anguish then Johns
town would have been itself again.
But tliey could not.
THE JOHNSTOWN OP 01.0 GONE FOIIEVRB,
To-day, after a lapse of almost nine
months, only one conclusion can force it
self upon the impartial observer, and that
is that the Johnstown of old has gone
forever—that her sons and daughters who
survived tile flood are shrouded in a sor
row that has.deadened their ambitions—
that the old town with its once cherished
beauties holds for them 100 many memo
ries of the dead to ever be the same again.
Tiiere are many of them living near the
place, but the eld borough of Johnstown
itself contains only a comparatively small
percentage of the survivors. They who
still remain uear the scenes prefer to live
up in the adjoining hamlets that fringe
the base of tnc hills.
Johnstown may be rebuilt, but it will
not be by the survivors. If it is to be
resurrected stranger hands must do it and
another people alien to those who once
dwelt there live on the banks of the C'ou
emaugk.
This, be it understood, is no reflection
on the unfortunate people. It does credit
rather to those finer feelings that make
life worth the living and that distinguished
tne civilized from the savage. There are
thraldoms from which no hu.uan energy
cau free the soul. It is not the loss of
fortune that clouds the lives in the valley.
If it were, Johnstown long ago would
have been even a better city thau it was
before the flood. The people are iiulus
trious and holiest. They are a fusion of
the Welsh, the Celtic and the American
blood that never knows what it is to be
disheartened. But they have been tried
as have no other people. One hour's work
of a ranging river of death, sweeping with
it loved ones that weic as dear to them as
life itself, has left them with a paralysis
that commands admiration,however much
its existence may be deplored. They would
have been less than human did they ever
forget the scenes of which they were the
victims.
In venturing the opinion that I have, I
realize that in doing it I may run counter
to the opinions of some of its best and
leading citizens, but it is the opinion ar
rived at only alter a survey of the sur
vivors and their conditions. Ido not by
any means desire to indicate that some of
the town will not be rebuilt, or that that
portion of it which will be so rebuilt will
not be superior in some respects to that
which was swept away, but I apprehend
that the interest in Johnstown is not so
much a commercial as it is a human one ;
that it is the people who survived the flood
and not the stranger, who may from one
reason or another have been attracted
thither, that appeals to the people of the
country.
* • * * * *
TllK PEOI'LK AND THEIR I'ItOORESS.
This much for the city, and now for
the people and the progress they have
made.
In the heart of the old Johnstown bor
ough itself there has been but trifling pro
gress mado in the matter in which the
people of the country at large are inter
ested, namely, that of the building of
homes. There have been some very ex
cellent stores built, well lighted, well fur
nished, cleanly places, but in the quar
ters in which the life blood of the flowed,
in which the workingman lived, there is
a regretable dearth of activity. Little
Oklahomas, miserably constructed shan
ties. with little to keep out the wintry
chills, arc in the majority of cases the
only things to be seen in the parts of the
town uiude most desolate. They are
merely the n.akc shifts into which the
people huddled after the flood, patched
up to keep out the snow and the frost.
And poorly indeed ate they fitted up
for winter use. The season has beeD
one of phenomenal mildness iu the valley.
It would still, however, be idle to dis
guise the fact that there has been a good
deal of suffering, the story of which has
never reached the outside world. On the
Friday and Saturday of a week ago. days
belli of them sharp and wintry, your cor
respondent visited some of these cabins
and found them extremely uncomfortable.
The houses were not adequate to keep out
the cold. Draughts raced up and down the
room and chased each other through the
chinks about the doors and the window
sills. The families huddled about the
stove. Their faces were flushed with
heat, while their backs were chilled. I
find, too, that the observation I had made
was amply confirmed by ot icrs. On my
way from one of these visits I met Rev.
Dr. Beale, the Presbyterian clergyman of
the town, who assured me that he had
only an evening or two before known of
three families who were suffering severe
ly, and whom he had relieved.
These Oklahomas, as they are styled,
are oue of the blotches of the city, and to
those who merely pass through the town
on their way east or west their existence
may be taken to be a reflection on the
people who inhabit them. And yet they
are not.
Two causes, neither of them discredit
able to the survivors, account for this
state of affairs. The first is that a delay,
iu very great part unwarrantable, kept
from the people the money which was
sent to them from all over the world until
the fall set in and building became a prac
tical impossibility. For too many months
the people were merely fed. Their
spirit was broken by the humiliation of
having to go to the commissaries after
food. Johnstown was turned into a vas".
almshouse. Instead of its being taken by
the hand and giveu the money with which
to purchase for itself the things that were
needed they were doled out, iu measured
supplies. There was a great deal too
mucL of the appearance of almsgiving
about everything. The §II,OOO 000 sent
by the charity of the world was intended
to flood the valiey—to go into every
home —and make tip, so far as money
could make up, and as quickly as it was
possibly, for the things swept away. Too
much officialism clogged the stream.
There is cold iu Johnstown to-day and
there is suffering from it that it was w th
in the power of the authorities to have
prevented had they acted as promptly as
the people who sent the money When
the money was distributed the season
was well advanced, lumber was scarce
and consequently dear and the sufferers
had practically to bo content with the cir
cumstances which presented themselves.
Still. I must say that against the Flood
Commission I heard but very, very little
complaint. It was generally said-thai
they erred, hut the most violent in their
outcries against it always added as a mat
ter of justice that they believed the Com
mission lind been actuated solely by a de
sire to do what was right, hut that a too
great conscientiousness hud actually rob
bed the gifts of much of their value.
. FUNDS YET UNDISTRIBUTED.
. Then, too, there yet remain undistribu
ted some funds collected by private indi
viduals amounting probably in the gross
to §50,000 or §OO,OOO that lias not been
distributed. They are hon'estly held and
will beyond any question lie hone tly and
judiciously distributed, but the delay lias
been exceedingly great. The fund is now
in the course of distribution, some of
which w ill go in a channel in which it
cannot but do good. Immediately after
the flood the residents of Kernvillc and of
Prospect, both little hamlets on Hie sides
of Hie lulls opened their doors to the
homeless ami hapless ones, sheltering
and feeding them out of their own little
stores. With business wholly destroyed
ami no work for a month and more, these
charitable people really pinched them
selves to a degree that has told on them
since. They were not entitled to any
thing under the distribution of the Flood
Commission. Indeed, they did not seek
anything, nor do they yet, but they need
it, and, approached in the proper manner,
relief would be accepted.
Then, too, in Johnstown itself there arc
some people who have been too proud to
seek relief openly. They themselves may
be to blame, hut after all one can hardly
do other than admire them. They were
of Johnstown's be9t class of honest work
ingmen, who never knew what debt was
and whose spirit revolted at doing what to
them appeared to savor of begging. They
arc deserving cases that can only be
reached through the medium of the pas
tors of the churches to which they be
long. The great reason assigned at the
time tor the holding back of money by the
commission was that if given to the
peoule much of it would be squandered
in liquor. ,
Time has shown that this thought even
was a libelion Johnstown. Its morals arc
worse since the flood, and there are more
saloons thun groceries in the city ; but it
is the stranger element that is responsible
for this state of affairs. Rum of the vilest
character runs freely in the slums, but ex
cept in few cases it is not the people who
survived the flood that are drinking it.
There are exceptional instances,of course.
Tberi are men whom I met in the gin
mills on Whashington street who I was
told had taken to drink that they might
drown their sorrow. I could hardly blame
them as I saw them reeling around.
All that they had to live for had gone
from them. They were isolated individuals,
however. The bulk of the loud mouthed;
profane bullies and hums that infested the
rum holes were the refuse of the popula
tion that h id floated in after the flood,and
worked just about long enough each week
to keep them drunk during the remainder.
Were they away nine-tenths of the saloons
might put on their shutters. Some of the
relief money has found its way into the
coffers of these people, but only a trifling
fraction.
I failed as well to detect in a single in
stance proof of the assertion so widely
made that had the people been given the
money promptly they would have squan
dered it on luxuries.
NO LUXURIES IN JOHNSTOWN.
Luxuries ? Let no one speak of luxur
ies in Johnstown. Put down the stories
of the wives of workingmen purchasing
tawdry jewelry at diamond prices with re
lief money as silly twaddle. There is lit
tle of luxury in the homes of Johnstown.
I have been in no home where I fouud it.
I have been in many a home that was
cheerless enough. They were clean as
hands can make them,the kitchen tins and
stoves were bright and polished, the
floors scrubbed until they looked as
though they might have been oiled, but
that was all.
In hut one bouse in flic flooded district
did I hear anything that sounded like
something we would wish to hear in a
Lome in the valley, and that was one in
which a bird was singing. Tiiere is only
too great a plenty of songless homes.
There is a dearth of homes in which the
merry prattle of children may he heard.
You may go along blocks of houses and
sec no little chubby free up against the
window pane. You may go into tens of
homes and look in vain for the child that
oue is wont to expect to -greet him with
its meriy crow.
SOCIAL LIFE WIPED our.
Johnstown's social lite has been prac
tically wiped out. Borne of its people
have no time lo pu any attention to the
round off life, ami some of them have no
heart to engage iu tliem. Even the peren
nial pastime of marriage appears to have
been neglected to a very large extent,
though two of tin- resident clergymen
laughingly told mu they lmil not given up
hones that iln; portion of tluir revenue
d-ihclfr-iii that source had gone from
tin m entirely. <)l those, however, who
wer-' made either widows or widowers by
the fljod i; may he of interest to know
that only four li-ive since married, and
these four wi re widowers.
There are a few clubs for the young
men. but e\ -eedingly few, and noHu-utcis
The old Opera House on Main street lia
been turned into a billiard room. It lias
not been occupied for its original purpose
since the night of the panic, some few
months since, when eotne idiot called out
an alarm of flic, and ten people wore
trampled to death. In speaking of this
fad occurrence Mr. Woodruff, the editor
of the DEMOCRAT, told me that that event,
which before the flood would have cre
ated a trenn ndons sensation, called out
but little interest. The memory of the
flood overshadowed everything so com
pletely that happenings since are insig
nificant in comparison. Of dances and
such like there is none. There have been
Hire • church socials. I attended otic—
that at the English Lutheran Church—for
the purpose of noting the people. They
seemed to enjoy themselves, were dressed
in excellent taste and were generous in
their donations.
JOHNSTOWN'S BRIGHT SIDE.
This much for the people, and again to
the town itself. What has been said tuns
far will apply verv generally to Hie bulk
of the sufferers. It is lite dark side of
the picture. And now for the brgbter
one.
Having shown that Johnstown's exis
tence was a practical necessity, created
by the Cambria Iron Works Company, it
is not hard to undcri-tand how the flood
may well have afforded the corporation
an opportunity for devising plans where
by many of the natural defects of a city
built as it had been might he remedied.
Though we speak of Johnstown in talk
ing of the great disaster, there were two
other boroughs between it and the fatal
dam that suffered in equal proportion.
Woodvalc, a pleasant and prosperous
hamlet, is to-day bleak and desolate, only
three houses standing. The borough of
Conemaugh stood between it and Johns
town, and it too suffered tremendously.
The flood made these survivors breth
ren. It welded them together in bonds of
steel. It opened their eyes to the disas
trous condition in which they had lived
before. They had been a series of villages
each witli a government of its own, jeal
ous of each oilier. Any scheme for mu
tual benefit proposed by one was at once
regarded with suspicion by the other. It
was this jealousy which partly led up to
the disaster, All three of these boroughs
knew of the existence of the dam, but no
one seemd willing of itself to fight the the
stockholders of the Ashing club who con
trolled it.
Now, however, things have changed.
The boroughs have come together, and on
the first Mouday in April next W. Horace
Rose, a lawyer of high character and
standing in Cambria county, will take
his seat, as the first Mayor of the consoli
dated city. The union of the boroughs
lias already had its effect. The dign'ty
of being a city seems to sit well upon it.
In the business quarter and in the dis
tricts that escaped the flood, as well as in
those where families live who saved their
effects and have agaiu started out witli a
purpose in li'c, every 011 c talks with you
hopefully many of them enthusiastically.
They are formulating plans already, and
through their newspapers—and Johns
town has two bright, enterprising dailies
—are discussing improvements to lie
made.
They will widen the streets in the
flooded districts, and altogether when the
new city will have been built up, it will
be a lasting monument to the energy of
the people. It will Isave a population of
close to 30,000. Land is booming. On
Main and Clinton and one or two other
streets men are asking one-third more for
lots than they were quoted at one year
ago.
Those who wish to leave the city be
cause of the memories which it holds for
them can at any time now outain a good
round figure for their property. It is pos
sibly the knowledge of this and the de
sire not to remove until spring that keeps
some of the people in the little Oklaho
mas for the winter.
I'll-TV llllHK SUICIDKS,
Terrible Tale From the Nalt Mines of Cra
cow, Poland.
A correspondent of the London Timeit
says that a strike in Russia is in truth a
revolt and is so treated by the authorities.
The reason given is that Russian work
men are such ignoruut, unreasonable be
ings that they would become utterly un
manageable without vigorous and sum
mary action of the judiciary. About a
montli ago a case occurred that Illustrated
the childish absurdities of the men and
efticacious action of the authorities. A
falling off iu trade caused the proprietors
of certain large mills to reduce the pro
duction and discharge a number of the
hands whose services were no longer use
ful. As soon as this decision was known
a raving crowd of semi-savage workmen
surrounded the managers and insis'ed
that work should he found for tiie usual
number of hands, threatening personal
violence if their demand was yuheeded.
At the same time a quantity of valua
ble innchineay was destroyed by the riot
ers. The police were cal.ed iu and set
tled the matter very quickly. During
the night fifty of tlie ringleaders were
quietly spirited away, no one knew
\v hit her or how. The rest, left leadcrless,
whimpered like beaten children and
prayed to theit favorite saints. Not re
cciving any satisfactory answer from Saint
Vladimir, Saint George of Cappaiiocia and
the noble army of martyrs, the holy Icons
remaining deaf and unsympathetic, the
stiikcrs quietly gave in, and were beau n
buck to their w -rk, completely demor
alized.
Bye- < id-hy. it leaked out among Hie
diplomats tluil the lilty poor fiHows h id
jmen hurried off to the salt mines of Ou
cow. wiit-re they Were scourge . Uiiived
and ill-used lili they irnila id Ihcex.unph
of Mrs. Siliida ami sought death a- a ref
uge from tyranny. All this horror was
kept as quiet as possible that the element
of mylery might be added to the other
atrociti- s, so dial while the governme.it
got rid of fifty dangerous because manly,
enemies their loriner fellow-laborers
were awed hv the incomprehensible dis
appearance of their leaders. This is how
tliey do tilings in Russia.
sKWI-ai Willi Hlilt TKI-J'l 11.
She Had no Muibs ami Vet Was Quite a
Mood Seamstress.
There died at Sugar Island, N. 8., last
week a woman who could have made
a fortune in a dime museum had she
chosen. It was Mary Goodhue, known iu
all ihe country round us " The Woman
Who Sewed With Her Mouth." Site was
bora of French parentage about fifty or
fifty-five years ago. She had no arms or
hands, legs or feet, or at least none in any
way developed, these members never hav
ing grown after she was born. Her body
was of full size, and her mind was fully
developed, Bite was very intelligent
conversing very freely in both French and
English.
Early in life she developed a fondness
for sewing ; but how was she to perform
this task when she had no hands or even
feet to assist lier in this arduous work ?
She astonished her relatives by beginning
to sew with her mouth. Finally she became
so expert that she could cut the material
with the scissors, thread the needle and
then do fine sewing, using only her
mouth for all the ope. ations. A great many
people from St. John and from tnc sur
rounding country witnessed her perform
this wonderful work and some people
have in their possession squares of patch
work quilts done by her. She pieced a
number of quilts and could make one
known as the " Log Cabin" variety a
most difficult task to perforin.
It is said that Barnuin, hearing of this
wonderful woman, offered her large pay
to go with his show. Mary would have
gone, but her family objected, and so she
remained at home.
Barber 11. P. Dei rut is defendant in
a ease to come up at court this week as
the result of his touring down a sign at
the foot of the stairway leading to Mr.
Ed. O. Fisher's office. The latter gentle
man 13 the prosecutor, while Mr. Derritt
claims that the sign unduly interfered
with his rights on the premises.
C. ICTT fN<; HEADY.
Mayor-Klect lloie and th Member*
Klocled to the City Council* Make Ar
rangement* for Cutting Thing* In Order.
At 7:80 o'clock on Saturday evening the
members of boll) branches of the City
Council met in the Johnstown Counci
Chamber. Mayor-elect W. H. Rose pre- ,
sidtd and delivered an address, setting
fortli the different measures that in his
opinion should be considered before the.
formal organization of the City Govern
ment. All the different suggestions were
afterward acted upon, as will appear from
the report of the proceedings given below.
When Mr. Rose had concluded his re
remarks Mr. Ed. A. Barry, on motion of
Mr. L. L. Smith, was made Secretary of
the meeting. The roll was then called.
All hut four members elected to the City
Councils were found to bo present.
Three more came in subsequently, leav
ing one member of tho thirty-two absent,
!o draw up and present to the City
Councils when they meet, such ordi
na ces as may be necessary for the city's
government at the outset, a Committee of
eight was appointed on motion of Mr. *
Geo. W. Moses, amended on motion of
Mr. Alex. Kennedy. The Committee ap
pointed was as follows : Geo. W. Moses,
Chairman; B. L. Yeagley, Ed. A. Bariy,
Richard Davis, Thos. duttnews.
Oil motion of Mr. Kennedy a commit
tee of three was appointed to secure a
place of meeting for 1 lie two branches of
the Council. Mr. K nnedy suggested
that he knew the committee would be
able to secure the use of tho two large
r otus formerly used by the Flood flout,
mission. Mr. 11. W. Slick, as Chairman,
Messrs. Chas- Brixner, and John Neury ' *
constitute the committee.
On motion of I)r. B L. Yeagley a com
mittee of one member from each of the
different boroughs about to compose the
city was appointed to ascerlsin and report
to Council the financial stauding of
their respective municipalities. Ou the
committe Messrs. Audrew Foster (Joiins
t<wu), A. L. Miltenberger (Grubbtown),
John Gruber (Woodvale), John Neary
(Prospet), Chas. Brixner (Millville), J. P.
Greeu (Cambria) were appointed.
Mr. Fearl moved that a committee of
three be appointed to draft ordinances in
regard to the establishment of the police
department. On motion of Mr. H. Y.
Ilaws the number in the committee was
increased to six, with the instructions that
they reccommend the number of police
men and salary to be paid. Ou tbe com
mittee Messrs. 11. Y. Haws, Chairman, P. .
J. McLaughlin, Samuel Arthurs, John
Gruber, Ed. A. Barry and Thos. McCon
oell were appointed.
A committee of live on ciiy officers—to
report the number, duties and salaries of
appointive officers—was on motion ap
p noted. It is composed of Messrs. Alex.
Kennedy, William Hochstein, Henry
O'Slita, L. L. Smith ami Emil Beaujon,
wiili the tirst named gentleman us chair
man.
On motion of Mr. Kennedy, a com
mitlce of six was appointed to see to the
priming of the proposed ordinance. On
t lis cominitlen.Messrs. William Donald
•son, Alfred Staler, Peter Baser, Adam
iiuebner, Benj. Kist and John M. Davis
wo re appointed,
li was ttgiccd to on motion that when
the body adjourn, it adjourn to meet in
Saturday, March 88:1 at 7:30 l*. M.
Then followed some general sugges
tions, among which was a very pertinent
one by Mr. Hose, suggesting that it was
tl">o n w to loose sight of the old bor
ough lines and cast away many of the
ideas and customs that prevailed in
dinner times. We represent wards of a
ciiy, not tbe several boroughs. We should
have a feeling ot union and common in
icrest. Our course will be different hence
forth from what it ha* been in the past.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
Local 1 null lute.
The following is the programme for the
Teachers' Local Instititutc, to be held at
Stutzmau's schoolhouse, Upper Yoder
township, March 81, 18110, commencing
at 7 i*. M.
Opened by music : How to Teach First
Lessons in Physiology, C. F. Livings
ton ; music; Select Heading, O. M,
Young; Arc Rewards a Benefit to a
School, J. C. McCrory ; Queries ; The
Principles of Mensuration Developed by
Means of Blocks, Prof. Geo. Marsden ;
Are Spellings a Benefit to a School ? 11.
G Campbell; Music j Select Reading, N.
W. Berkley ; Wetzel Class, C. F. Livings
ton ; Queries ; Oration, L. S. Livingston ; '
Music; Resolved that all the soldiers of
the late war should be pensioned. Affirm
ative, Sol. Doer, L. S. Livingston ; nega
tive, A. W. Meyers, N. W. Berkley.
General debate will follow. A full at
tendance of teachers is desired. Visitors
welcome. COMMITTEE.
A Iteiimrkithltt HvquoKt,
" 1 have only one last request to make,'
said the dying man, as he painfully raised
his head from tho pillow and surveyed
the weeping group around the bedside.
" What is it, my good friend V" asked
the clergyman. " Anything you ask will
be done."
" Then see that the newspapers don't
refer to me as ' another old landmark
gone.'"— Lippineotl's Magazine.
A l'otnter lor Pupa.
From an Exchange.
Young Miss Wilgus—Where are you
going, papa ?
The Rev. Mr. Wilgus—To the temper
perancc meeting. We intend to inaugur
ate a movement to save flic youug men of
the country.
Young Miss Wilgus- Try and save a
real nice one for mo, will you, papa?
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