The Johnstown Dimoerat. J 4fggyfr, • isv Pi PUBLISHED EVEHY FRIDAY MORNING, No. ISIB FRANKLIN STItKKT, JOIUSO H iV, CAMBRIA CO., /'.I. Tl-'A vis—lS!.fio per year,payable In advance ; auLslCe Ue county, tttteen cents additional fur uotkwe. t( not, paid within three months wffl )>' charged. A paper can be discontinued at anv time by pay fug arrearages, and not ufturvisu. The failure to direct a discontinuance ni itie. acirau-m of the period subs'vlbi'.l for will lie nunsldered a new eug e'i'.ncnt. ,\v>n Suh:f Mr. Moxham, and ordered his high toned deputy or turnkey to report to Ebcnsburg where lie has remained ever since. Sheriff Stineman hud the good sense to sec that the attempt of Mr. Young to mulct the county in thousands of dollars of ex pense at that time, was not only unjust in itself, but that lie, not Mr. Young, would he held responsible. Turnkey Young has had it in for sev eral parlies including tiie writer and (Jen. Hastings, who refused to recognize him as ci'liiT tiie Sheriff or acting for the Sheriff, and has taken til's method to get even, as it were, lam perfectly satisfied to let my record both political and social, before and since the flood, lie measured along side of his and abide by I lie verdii t. I will make the prophecy, that should our next Sheriff be elected by the Doino- crat'c party, you will find Turnkey Young dropping hurriedly back to his first love, A. N. HAUT. Abhlviift of (lie Mtllvllitf ISo rough Council i ii- Millville Borough Council met in regula; session ou Saturday evening with Burgess Needy In the chair, A petition from James White, asking for a rctvaid for a wall built near his lot, was read and ! filed. The report of Borough Treasurer Brixutr was rend T e cash on hand on February 28lli was $1,90/.fii). The Street Commissioner reported what had heco done by bis department during the month. Mr. Boyle reported Unit the best terras that could be obtained from the Electric Ligl.t Company or are lights was sl2 a piece. A resolution lo have a telephone placed in the hose house of tiie Second ward was adopted. Refunding orlcrs were granted Neal Sharkey, Thomas Morgan, John Meyers, and Mrs. B. Perry for excessive hoiougli tax paid. A new grade of Iron street from Lincoln bridge to the stone bridge was adopted. Bills to the amount of $1,108,90 were ordered paid, after which Council ad journed. Nearly a Fire. Tlii; tapping of the Vigilant lire bill Mouthy shortly afternoon, was the first alarm of Ore that has been sounded in the city for some weeks. It caused some ex citement till it was learned that there was no outbreak of Humes. The source of the alarm was in the house occupied bv Mr. George Marble, the plasterer, at Xo. 50 Somerset street. A defective due failed to prot: c some of the timbers near It and they caught lire. Buckets wcte sufficient to extinguish the lire, which, us yet. was mostly smoke, but a lllt.e longer start might have made a lire that would Itave been Imrd to control. • Cliatlof Green, the champion heavy J weight wrestler of England, is looking for: blood. Jim Kelly is ready to back him i against any heavy weight in Atnerieu for £if 00 or ¥4OO at eaich-as-catchcari, two falls down, two fails out of three. Ihe death of Samuel 1!. Washburn leaves but one remaining out of one of the most remarkable families ever reared in the United States. William I), is the last >f the seven brothers who grew up on Israel Washburn's farm in Liveunore. 1 bev were prize specimens of one of! Maine's most noted products, men of irain and action. Mrs. Caroline Donovan, who died in Baltimore, left #12,000 to Cardinal Gib jons and his successor to help educate foung men in the Catholic ministry. She! ilso gave *IOO,OOO to the Joints Hopkins University and *IO,OOO to Washington tnd Lee University. She was not a 'atholic. Pedagogics at. Indiana Normal. The course In pedagogics at Indiana state , Normal school, Indiana. I'a., embraces Prod leal 'sychology. History or Kducatlon, Methods In i education. Devices In Kducatlon and Manage- i ncut In Kducatlon. The aim of the school Is lo ' nake a scaolar, a thinker and a teacher. < spring term opens March 31st. ♦ ♦ ♦ I lie Millville authorities are pursuiug a j re ry commendable course in having the s nud scraped off some of their streets. RESTORATION OF ROME. | THE CAPITAL OF HUMBERT'S KING- J DOM A GREAT MODERN CITY. The Remain* of the Ancient City—The New City Not Quito on the Same Site. The City lla* Had a Continuous Exist ence for 2,000 Year*. "Rome is transformed." Such is the united testimony of all recent visitors. Rome is once more the capital of a united country, and, though not so great as the Rome of the later Cmsars, it is quite a great city of the modern order. Nor are the antiquities disturbed, for the Rome of restored Italy—Victor Em manuel's Rome, the "Sardinian" or "PiediTJOUtose Rome," as unfriendly pol iticians call it—does not cover the old sites. Alien Of consTantink. Excluding the eras of decay and de struction, there have been three great Homes—and, for aught we know, a fourth, as there was an Alba Longa, sometimes called "Mother of Rome" — and tlie present Rome, with not quite 300,000 people, is probably not more than a third as large as the Rome of the Antonines and of the Second and Third centuries A. D. The present kingdom of Italy covers 114,380 square miles and contains (by the census of 1887) 30,260,- 065 people. It lias impartial suffrage, absolute freedom of the press, compul sory education and a respousible consti tutional government. But, alas, it has a standing army of 879,000, and a na tional debt of 82.210,903,485. Americans, therefore, need not be told that there is muGli poverty, of which Naples, the largest city, has rather the largest share. The Rome of classic history was sup posed to have been founded 743 B. C., but there are many Italian antiquities much older than that, for the Etruscans had a fairly well developed civilization before Rome and the Greeks had cities and flourishing provinces in the southern part of the peninsula. The second great Rome was that of the popes, '-ut in art and architect ore there were muclr more noted citii s. And so it lias resulted that all Italy is a laud of antiquities, a land of never failing interest to scholars, artists and general tourists, *T W\ t|i it eM THE QUIRINAL. From the foundation of the city tiierC was a tolerably regular growth till the reign of Augustus, and of that era the most interesting remains are the old Forur. and many engineering works. With the emperors came the great struc tures, such as the Circus Ma.ximus, and perhaps the last of these to be erected was the "Arch of Constantine." The Romans of the early period gave much thought to engineering, those of the im perial era to architecture. If excavation in Italy develops any work with an arch, it is known to be Roman; if it is mono lithic—that is, of single stones and no' ureli—it is probably Etruscan, as that people had not invented the arch. Rome is thought to have reached its highest pitch of splendor and numbers about 100 to 130 A. D., when the city had about a million inhabitants. This city extended over the seven hills, of which tile CJuirinal (still a' noted place in Rome) was a center of the Sabine pop ulation. The Campus Martius ("field of Mars," or war) was thick set with mag nificent buildings, but the modern city covers ii, and one looks in vain for beauty, in fact, rather the densest and poorest population i.< tiiCte. Of the once noted "Portico of Octavia" (sister of Augustus) only the ruins remain. It stood before the splendid temples of Ju piter and Juno, of which not a trace re- sp:| ? f | | | [,|-i • I' PORTA ANOi UCA, A.N ENTUANCK TO THE VATICAN. mains. Part of the oft described Mamor tine prison remains, and the two cells alleged to have been occupied by St. Pe ter and St. Paul are used as chapels. As no one can prove the contrary, they will do as well as any. The great Flavian amphitheater (founded about A. D. 72), however, tjlill stands in sufficient pres ervation to astonish the visitors—called from its size the Colosseum, j The great "Arch of Constantino" com memorates bis victory over Maxentius, and is doubly interesting because of its beauty and the fact that it is a memorial - of the beginning of Christianity as a ruling power. The "Arch of Titus," ' commemorative of the destruction of Je rusalem, is of almost equal interest and well preserved. In artistic effect, how ever, all these yield to the great Column of Trajan in the Forum, which is now surmounted by a statue of St. Peter. The column alono is 1271 feet high, and on it are carved 2..700 human figures, besides many horses and chariots. The decline of Rome liegan about 200 A. D., and, after Constantino founded a now capital, the decline was rapid. After its capture by the Vandals it sunk to a mere waste, and in the Eighth century i traveler re marked with surprise that there were still some 27.000 people among the ruins. The second great Rome came with the rise of the papal power. Finally, when the statesmen of modern Italy overthrew all the petty sovereigns and united Italy became a great power, Victor Emanuel in the year 1870 took possession of Rome and abolished the pope's temporal power. So the third Rome began to rise at once, and in it are two great centers of inter est—the Quirinal and the Vatican. The first is the seat and center, the paiaco of the kingdom of Italy, and the second the center of a far greater power—the Roman Catholic church. The dumb war between the two powers still goes on; the great ecclesiastics are often insulted by groups of infidels, and the government is ac cused of enforcing its laws but feebly against the insulters. The new city is too much an imitation o"f Paris, and in laving out the new streets some antiquities were destroyed. It's a pitv. hilt it had to be. There is even a street railroad nearly around the Forum, and one may go along a very Frenchy street to the great St. Peter's— the most magnificent structure ever e " ' M|fi sVr fji*l I ! ,j.V llml-iir A GLIMPSE OF ST. PETER'S, erected on this earth for the purposes of icligi v Grand a> it, the original de sign would have made it still grander; Brainante and Michael Angelo intended that the whole central front should rise in one bold relief, giving the full effect to its height and leaving the whole dome \ isiblo from the square before tlie church. Their successor, Modern a, add ed the prominent lower front, which certainly marred the general effect; but St. Peter's is still unrivaled in magni tude, prop el ion and decoration. Net far awav is tiie Vatican palace, of which and its great occupant the world has heard an I mill hears much. By the liberal spirit of modern times scholars are now admitted to its wonderful iiova ry and its marvelous gallery of maps. In its peculiar lino no Other collection in the world can rival this. Questions long debated by the learned have recently been settled by the production of a sin gle map, which proved beyond contro versy what the ancients believed as to this earth. Not the least interesting to Americans is that curious chart oti which the popo traced the lines dividing all this continent between Spain and Portu gal! Of all the vast area neither power now owns one rod; it is all under repub lican rule (Canada but nominally other wise) and one-half of it governed by de scendants of those very English against whom the decree was aimed. Little, if any, less attractive is the College for Propagating the Faith, com monly called the Propaganda, from which go eve:/ year largo classes o! cultured men, scattering to every section of the globe classmates of whom mosl will never meet again in this world. To all the savage, the barbarous, the uncivil ized races these missionaries carry bless ings; let one's faitli bo wiiat it may lie look upon their work among the heathed i li unmixed good. But many columns nright he filled by a bare enu meration of the tight.; of Rome. Though tiio modevn cifv is everywhere humming with the in.>se of improvements, they really ciicV>ucl' but little upon t.ie an cleat-- modern, m'sdiasval and classical Rome combine to .attract and intere.it the world. Cuttiittn! VtrA The Roman Catholic chtfv cently lost one of its high- digJV ' al i s ,,' n Cardinal Peeei, an elder brother' -' pope. Ciuseppe Pecci was born i.* - at Carpujelo, Italy, of a noblo xna wealthy family. lie was weft' educate! at Rome, and , while very young * joined the Hoei- Sp ~, - Id., a . c. ing appointed • Vaf. Vi profpsv"' of phi- '■* losophy IN the T\-J4 """./ Roma av.co!lege, he becann?-. noted ~ -tmlfo for his theov'ngic ■ ■' ability, llewn'tle p, ■ "tK several works ifii the teachings arvl 'vS'qf 1 *' V> system of Thomas' ■ ' ' Aquinas, which CABtKNAL PECCI. works did "ot meettfhe approval of Ids superiors in tiie Order of Jesuits, and Father Pecci left when he retired from\ his professor ship, ho was considered I'be first theolo gian in Europe, Upon leaving the Society of Jesus Fa ther Pecci took the position of min utante in the Vatican library,-which he held till his brother was elected pope. In 1879 the latter raised the librarian to the position of cardinal deacon, giving him at the same time the titular /Church- of St. Agatha. lit a Japanche Theatre. From "An Artist's Letters from Japan," written and pictured by John La Farge in The Century, we quote as follows: The doctor took us on Sunday afternoon to his club—whose name, I think, means the perfume of the maple —to see and listen to some Japanese plays, \vhicli are given in the club thea tre built for the purpose. We went there in the afternoon, passing by the Sliiba temples, and our kurumas were drawn up at one end of the buildings. There everything was Japanese, though I hear stories of the other club and its ultra-European ways—brandies and sodas, single eye glasses, etc. However that may be, on this side we were in Japan without mistake. We sat on the steps and had our shoes taken off, ac cording to the Japanese fashion, so as not to injure mats, and we could hear during the operation long waitings, high notes and the piercing sound of flutes and stringed instruments; the curiously sud rhythm mingled with a background of high, distinct declamation. We walked in, with careful attention to make no noise, forgetting that in our stocking feet we could have made none had we wished, and we found the doctor's place reserved for him and us, and marked with his name, writ large. Oilier low boxes, with sides no higher than our elbows as we sat on the mats, divided the sloping floor down to the stage. The stage was a pretty little building projecting into the great hall from its long side. It had its own roof, and connected with a largo gallery or bridge, along which the actors moved as they came on or disappeared, in u man ner new to us, but which gave a certain natural sequence and made a beginning and an end—a dramatic introduction and conclusion—and added greatly to the picture when the magnificent dresses of stiff brocade dragged slowly along to the cadence of the music. A quiet, sleepy appreciation lldrfered over the scene; even the devotees near us, many of them older people and be longing to the old regime, showing their approval or disapproval with re | strained criticism. I could see without I turning my head the expression of the ! face of my neighbor, a former daiiuio, a man of position: a face a Japanese ; translation of the universal well known i aristocratic type —immovable, fatigued, : with the drooping under lip. Behind j him sat former retainers, 1 suppose— ' deferential, insinuating remarks and ' judgments to which lie assented with in ! imitablo brevity. Still, I thought that 1 could distinguish, when he showed that the youthful ama i teurs —for most of tho actors were non ' profi sional—did not come up to a proper ! standard, that his memory went back to a long experience of good acting. And so catching are the impressions of a | crowd that I myself after a time believed ! that 1 recognized, more or less distinctly, the tvio and the master, even though I ; only vaguely understood what it was all ! about. For 1 need not tell you that the ! libretto would havo been still morodifli ; cult for me than the pantomime before I me, and very often it was hut pantomime, j the actor making gestures to the acconi j pan intent of music, or the declamation of ; tliepliortegns, who told the poetic story Trading la Dumasmii. Tlieoriental mind is disposed to mingle all the dealings of life with an amount of "sentiment" whicli would ho scorned by the'more literal business man of the west, A visitor at Damascus gives in Murray's Magazine the following description of a horse trade in that city i A long dispute took place between the intending purchaser and the owner as tin? former attempted to heat down the price by a few piasters. The owner, however, seemed very sure of making a favorable gale, even if the present customer should withdraw. So lie remained silent, with an occasional inconsequent remark, such as, "li matters not," "Wallah, whom am i to argue with thee?" "Wallah, my lior3e is as dust; take it without money." Ail these expressions are equivalent to cold negatives, and might naturally have exasperated the other man, who had been wasting o,cean of rhetoric in per suasion Finally, lie, in this turn, ex claimed, with iiewirt wazining show of generosity and philanthropy: "Wallah, are >ve not brothers? Where fore all tills noise? Is it for money? Al lah, why bill! You want .1.000 piasters? Here is the money Take ItP Then he pressed the bulk of treasure into the other's hand and turned awav "Never mind about your horse. 1 care not for it. Shall we part enemies because of money?" At this point the other, who now hud his money secure, ran after his customer, fell 011 his neck, and, kissing him on both checks, assured him that the horse would henceforth he worthless to him; that, since Ilia brother wished for it, he must take it as a present. And so the bargain was concluded. Solvent Power or a I.iquid. A very simple experiment may be per formed to show the solvent power of a K'quid, namely, by taking a small vial of camphor water or a quantity of alcohol, ) with 3 i'lttch camphor dissolved as it 1 will hold. anJ then adding to this a drop I cf water: it II as clear as water itself I uutil A di' |i is given, when the solution : is weukvii' d - > much that ft cannot hold the eiiniptv'i longer iti solution and pe gfnstogive it up in a white cloud,'al lowing it to rmi.ii down to t' e bottom of a glass. No' r about the same process as tliis is effective when a Specimen of driuktng~water is to be examined l'or a test of orgn'oic matter, which it may contain in sofilSjoril The sot.vent power for this impurity is reduced by giving the liquid soulethJtg better to dissolve, or something' to dissotve for which it has a greater liking,.sugar being one of the best knowli substances in .this respect; thus, when a spoonful is added to a flask, and corked up tight in the sunlight, the water drops the organic matter and adopts the ingredient it Jias a greater af finity for —all that is required being to watch for the minute black specks which will be seen floating in every por- ; tion of the liquid when waber for drink- ] ing purposes is to be tested, for purity.— ; Philadelphia Record. The Old Doctors Drew lilmill, in !, r:i ilorlwe* cleanse it ; IICIICI i i- lucre used ilemamf lot Altera tives ! u i"i'.v ni'll l.iii '.vM tfral most ills.-a- -.'a • : m,u t- -abundance, liir to . Hiatal; ami it is t v. . that 110 blood in •< -ins as Ayer's iia. . • i .'.. i. •• | . i. ' -i lar-jo sorn l. • i- applied thinking i it it grew \ . I-. and lil-tr.e i ' [Miiila f " • $ pli : >r llld In '" ! n oil *"id , ij is I iio ain Ni i). t Mauliiilla i " We I.: fill* <*' 111-. I r • ' ■ v-iy l'lM'lllll an I'"'* • t It® I lost 111.Hi.; .'iri-cau, l Druggist. " Aycr's •• to ha the Stun i inl ii .J ' of all rom -11*i *11.11. V. li. . iiiomi, Bear I akv, * Ayers ' ; sapariila, r KD 11Y Or. J. C. -i Co. Lowell, Mass. Price $1; sir noities, n'onh $5 a bottle. f's:iiolii(! ClU'ltS. LJENRY H. KUHN T , Attorney-at 1 ■ Law. ofllce opposite Flint National Hank No. IBS Locust alreel, Johnstown, pa. JAMES M. WALTERS, .I TTORSKY-A T-I.A If. oilif - No, Ainu Ilall. Main sireet. .lohns town,l'a. All business elven full lifulana prompt , attention. Jams K. J. O'CONNOR. j. B. OVONNOK. Q'CONNOR BROTHERS, .1 TTOlt.rsrx-.i T-I.A It'. octlee on Franklin street, owr t'etrlkln & Mil ler's store, Opposite Postofllae, Joluistow n, I'a. ma r:t JOHN S. TITTLE, JI'STICK OK TIIK MACK AMI SOTAUY I'Ulil.lC. Ofllce corner Market and Locust streets, * )tl Johnstown. Pa. '* j RVIN RUTLEDGE, JCSTICK OK Till: I'KA CK. olllccon KlYerstreet.neartlii' liernvllle bridge in tlie Filth want, Johnstown. Pa. collections and all other business prompt Ij attended to. man A N. WAKEFIELD, M. D., / IIY SIC IA V .1 XI) ,SW KG I'M % oir.ce No. 4;i Morris street, .Johnstown, Pa. YEAGLEY, M D.. PHYSH [AX AX ) t'KGKOS. [ tinii-e No. sr. l Locust . .tohnsiown. Pa. | JOHN DOWNEY, l *j rh 11. i:\oISKKII, I' Olllee on Ston.vereek street, .lohfistown. Pa. l*J A. FEDEX. SURGEON DEN -1 - TINT. Olllee jn Border's new building, cn | Franklin slre.t i ,\ll i.tnds or Dental work so- ■* j uelted, novii j J F. THOMPSON, M. P. ' SURGEON DENTIST, JOHNSTOWN, PA. [ lias had a professional experience or over a. years. Jrf Filling Teeth a specialty. Oflice Rooms. No. li t Napoleon street. JOHNSTOWN SAVINGS BANK NO. 192 MAIN STREET. HABTEfiED 8 Eire EMBER 12, 1870 nUPosiTN received of one fV>lljrand upward, no deposits exceeding a total ot sg,oflOwltf be received front any one person. Ini "rest, is due In the months or .luueantl December, and It not withdrawn Is added to the deposit, thus com pounding twice a year without troubling the de positor to call or even to present the deposit, book. Money loaned on Heal Estate. Preference with liberal rates and long time given to Borrowers offering llrst mortgages on farms worth four or nore times the amount of lean desired; also, moderate loans made on town property wnere ample security Is offered, t.ood reference, pcr toct titles, etc.. required. i hiscorporationtßc.veiuslvely a savings Bnnk. • No commercial deposits received, nor dbcouin made. No loans on personal seenrlt;. lilank applications for borrowers, copph-s of the rules, b>-laws, and special acts or the legis lature relating' to deposits or mttrrlet! women and minors can bo obtnlned at the Bank. 'J'KDSTKKS—HernIUU Haunter. P.. 1.. Yeagley, foliti llannan, John TlionllW, r. It. Kills, Pear son Flsber, James J. Fronhelsor, John l.owman, W. is. I.owiniui, James MCMllk'ii, James Quinn, Howard J. Jlobovts, win. A. Stewart, Geo. r. Swank, Jacob Swank, W. W. Waller". James McMillan, President: John l.owman, Herman llaumer. Geo. T. swank. Vice presidentß; W. C. Lewis, Treasurer; Cyrus Killer, Solicitor maris D~ ISSoLUTION OF PARTNER SITIP.—Not lee Is hereby glvoil thai the partnership heretofore existing between JOHN 0. EDWARDS and A. ADA lit under the tlrm name Ot J. P. EDW'AKDS & CO., was dissolved on the S'lth aav of February, li, by mutual consent, nil debts due to the said partnership are to be paid and those due from the same will he discharged by John 1). towards, business will be continued by the said John l>. Edwards. J. I/. KDWAKDS, marl-tf A. A I/A lit. "IEXECUTOR'S NOTICE. ES- I J TATE OF JANE If IIESS, DECEASED!— Letters Testamentary oft the estate or Jane 11. Iless, late of cooporsdale, Crftnbrla county, deceased, having been granted to the under signed, all persons knowing themselves In debted to said estate are hereby notltted to make Immediate payment, and those having claims against salt! estate are requested to pre sent them duly authenticated tor seetlement to It. K. IIESS. Executor. 100' Seventeenth st„ South side, PRttburgb.