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Of the temperance men In this Htate,
1039 of them voted as they talk. In
other words that is the number of votes
cast at the late election for Dow for
President. It is four times as many as
voted for him in his own State. Weaver,
the Oreenback candidate received in
this State 0,009 votes. Hancock, 40",
428. Garfield, 444,704.
The Contest In California.
San Fiiancisco, November 10.-Full
official returns of this state show that
Henry Edgarton, republican, receives
607 more votes for elector than does
Judge Terry, the lowest on the demo
cratic ticket, and is elected. The other
democmtio electors have majorities
ranging from 87 to 143.
Recounting a Vote.
Bed Bank, N. J., November 15. In
a recount of the vote of the Third assem
bly district, made before Judge Bcudder
of the Supreme court, a majority of sev
en votes was given In favor of Qrover
II. Lufburow, the republican candidate.
The board of county canvassers gave the
certificate of election to Charles Allen,
democratic candidate on a majority of
one.
Very Cold Weather in the Northwest.
Very cold weather is reported from
the West. The thermometer gives the
subjoined Indications at the places
named: Cheyenne, sixteen degrees
below zero, Denver six degrees below,
Fort Platte three degrees below, St.
Louis fourteen degrees above, Chicago
thirteen degrees above.
A Singular Case.
Elmira, N. Y.; November 14. A lad
named Fred. Palmer a son of the mana
ger of the Western Union telegraph
office, has lost an eye from eplzooty poi
soning. The other eye Is endangered.
It seems the lad washed his face with a
handkerchief he had used to clean saliva
that his horse had coughed on his coat
sleeve. A Whole Family Killed.
Cleveland, O., November 17. When
Daniel Burr, a watchman in a mill here
returned home this morning, he found
his house tightly closed and climbing
through the window was horrified to
find the whole family lying senseless
and a powerful odor of gas from a base
burner stove pervading the air. His
three year old daughter was dead. His
wife and eleven year old daughter were
on the bed and an infant on the floor un
conscious. A neighbor's daughter vlslt
iug them was also insensible, and a
woman friend of the family was sitting
at the foot of the bed In the same coma
tose condition. The last named may re
cover ; the others will probably die.
Thirteen as Jury.
Iu the case of Carson vs. Spring, tried
in the Lycoming county court Tuesday,
' to recover the value of a horse, worth
about $50, had a curious and ludicrous
termination by reason of thirteen men
being on the Jury. George F. Fague
was called as a juror in the case, but was
challenged, and when the jury was
sworn left the box and took a seat by
the side thereof. When it retired he
also followed the constable In charge
and was locked up with the others to
eettle upon a verdict The jurors no
tlced nothing wrong until a ballot turn
ed up showing thirteen votes. The
matter was then reported to the court,
the jury was discharged and a new trial
ordered.
Fatal Casualty.
Retta, aged about 10 years, a daughter
of William McDonald,carpenter, of Hun.
tingdon, was almost Instantly killed by
the accidental discharge of a navy revol
ver, Wednesday afternoon about half-pas
1 o'clock. Our informant learned that
the parents of the child were absent
from the house, and that the little girl
was preparing to go to school. On a
tthelf under the stairway leading to the
upper rooms of the house, which can be
reached from the steps leading to the
basement kitchen, lay the revolver.
The story of the younger brother Is that
his sister was looking for a slate pencil;
that she took a broom not being able to
reach the shelf and was sweeping over
it, thinking to find a pencil thereon,
when the revolver was knocked down.
It was charged with bird-shot and fall
ing on the butt went on", the entire dis
charge entering her breast. The little
girl ran into the kitchen, fell to the floor
and expired almost instantly, having
died In agony in the arms of a neighbor
lady, who hearing the report of the
weapon ran in. The sad event cast
quite a gloom over the community.
Altonou Tribune,
Dangerous Emigrants.
H. II. M. Byers, the American consul
at Zurich, Switzerland, has wrllteu a
long letter to the New York Tribune on
the subject of emigration. He speaks
of what he kuows and claims to be ani
mated only by a desire to benefit his
country by awakening its citizens to a
sense of their danger from unrestricted
immigration. Mr. Byers says :
That hundreds and thousand of
paupers, crippled persons, crimlnals,and
even Idiots, are being sent to us by com
munilies and local governments in
Europe is now beyond a doubt. It Is
proven olllelnlly, and In a hundred In
stances. It is astonishing and barbar
ous that certain town councils and vil
lage authorities vote money out of the
town purse to compel their criminals and
paupers to emigrate to the United States
and yet who can see so much harm in it
so long as the American people are fools
enough to bid high for the rubbish V The
people so helped, swear never to return.
Why should they V Banishment to the
United States Is not half so bad as a Jail,
a workhouse or an asylum for Idiots. It
Is conferring mercy, and material good,
and considerable honor on such subjects
to get rid of them in this way; especially
when one reflects that In a very few
years these jail-birds, paupers, idiots,
and what not, will bloom out Into the
full glory of American citizenship.
One little canton of Switzerland spent
in a short series of years not less than
one and a half million of francs in a
desperate attempt to dispose of its poor
to other countries ; and the greatest re
gret was that some good citizens left
with the worthless. Within a month,
another town has publicly voted $40 a
head to all who will emigrate. America
is a cheaper poorhouse than any to be
at home, say these economists, and it is
also the cheapest jail. It Is no uncom
mon thing on the Continent for villages
and clubs to make a common purse to
defray the expenses of half a dozen loaf
ers across the sea, on the one condition
that they never return. Almost every
month of late years has brought difficul
ties and angry correspondence between
local officials in Europe and our consuls
and diplomatic representatives as to the
shipping of worthless subjects to our
shores. But a few months ago, seven
hundred Italians, wretched, poor and
dirty, were shipped off in a body to the
United States. They were all ignorant,
and of the lowest classes. They were
all Roman Catholics of the most bigoted
kind, and possibly not a man of them
could read or write his own name. In a
few years some county court will swear
these people all in as citizens of the
United States, and their vote will bal
ance the votes of seven hundred of the
most intelligent and patriotic citizens of
the country. Can there be any question
as to whether this importation (and
there are many like it) was an injury to
the United States V Is it, on the other
hand, not clear that making citizens of
them is an outrage on Americans ?
Burning of the Minnesota Insane Asylum.
Chicago, Nov. 10. The burning of
the state insane asylum at St. Peter,
Minn., last night proves to have been a
terrible disaster attended by loss of life,
the particulars as to which have not
reached here. Only one wing of the
building was burned. The structure oc
cupied ten years in building, and was
completed three years ago at a cost of
$500,000.
The loss by the fire will be from $100,
000 to $150,000, on which there was no
insurance. The cause of the fire is un
known. It originated in the basement
of the north wlng.whlch was destroyed.
Different reports states the loss of life at
from three to fifty, but no bodies have
been found and no one Is surely known
to be missing. When the danger be
came Imminent the superintendent or
dered the release of all the patients,
and it is probable that some were over
looked iu the confusion and burned,
especially as some rooms quickly filled
with smoke and could not be entered by
the rescuers. There were 056 patients In
the hospital last year. The liberated
ones were cared for by the citizens.
Probably some took advantage of the
opportunity to run away and others
wandered off aimlessly.
The patients in the annex wing were
males. Many of them refused to leave
the building at all. They ran up and
down the hall screaming and crying, and
those who could not be coaxed nor foroed
out of the building became unhappy vic
tims of the flames, or were suffbeated,
Home were saved by ladders and others
by leaping from the windows. Some
were nearly nude, some of them were
shoeless and hatless, and all were ex
posed to the exceeding cold of the night.
Many of the demented and crazed in
mates fled as If for their lives and could
not be overtaken or raptured. Their
sufferings in this frightful condition can
better be imagined than described. The
whole catastrophe Is a heartrending one.
Those who had escaped the flames were
at large.half clothed and were to be seen
In all directions flying In wild fright
from those who attempted to save them.
The air was bitter cold, and the poor
wretches with half naked bodies and
bleeding feet were flying about, hiding
in alleys and dark corners for some
time.
A Dauphin County Farmer Kilted by. a
Burglar.
About three miles from Unlontovvn in
the upper end of the county, and four
miles from Gratz, across the Mahanton
go mountains, resides the family of
Daniel Troutman, a highly respectable
and well-to-do farmer. He was consid
ered a man of substance, and it was
generally known that he had been ap
pointed executor of the Bush estate, (a
farm adjoining his own,) and, having
had a sale, was known to have a consid
erable sum of money about the house
probably $1,050 to $1,100.
On Sunday night, soon after dusk, Mr.
Troutman and his wife went to bed the
oldest children having gone to a singing
school held in a school house in the vi
cinity. Hardly had the old people closed
their eyes, before their slumbers were
disturbed by the presence of two men at
their bedside, armed with loaded revol
vers, which were levelled uncomforta
bly close to their faces.
Mr. Troutman, says the wife, partial
ly raised himself In bed and Inquired,
" What is wanted?"
One of the villains coolly replied :
" We want money," at the same time
placing the pistol barrel close to Mr.
Troutman's face.
The terrified old farmer replied, " I
have no money." The burglar retorted
sharply, " you have and if you don't
hand it over, we'll murder you."
Mr. Troutman denied that he had
money In his possession, but the bold
burglar persisted that be knew better,
and told Mr. Troutman that he was the
administrator of the Bush estate, and
that he (the burglar) knew that he had
" got money over there, and that he
would have to give it up."
The farmer then said he desired to get
up and go to an outhouse, but the vil
lains objected to this move. The old
man, however, got out of bed, walked
towards a window without being molest
ed. Over the top of this window, rested
a double-barreled shot gun, which was
loaded. He made a motion as If to raise
the window, but instead, seized the gun
and turned towards the burglars who
fled from the house. Mr. Troutman fol
lowed them, one going round the south
corner, and the other an opposite direc
tion. He followed the villain who turn
ed the left corner, and shot at him.
When returning to come back, to enter
the house, he met the other vjlllan, run
ning fairly up against the revolver's
muzzle.
The burglar fired, the ball from his re
volver striking the breast of Mr. Trout
man, and entering a vital part, caused
his death In half an hour afterward.
Mr. Troutman uttered a cry and fell
to the ground. The burglar like a beast
at bay, stood all this time glaring sav
agely at his victim. Mrs. Troutman
hearing the second shot, ran out of the
house soreamlng " murder." She ran
as fast as possible to Mr. George Geise's,
a neighbor, and gave the alarm. The
Gelse family went back to the Troutman
house, with Mrs. Troutman, and found
her husband weltering in gore, where
he fell after having been shot by the
burglar. He questioned the dying man,
who replied : " Henry Rumberger shot
me."
Troutman repeated these words until
death ensued about half an hour after
the shot was fired.
'Squire Loudenslanger at once issued
a warrant for the arrest of Henry Rum
berger and placed it In the hands of of
ficer David Willlard, of Uuiontown. A
party consisting of Messrs. Benjamin
Dickey, D.J. Snyder, John Weiser,
Joseph Troutman, Daniel Shaeffer and
Charles Messner, citizens of Uniontown
accompanied the constable, and search
was made till far into the night without
success. Early yesterday morning as
the party was returning home to Union
town, and when quite near that place,
they met Rumberger, the alleged mur
derer, on horseback, coming down the
road, apparently quite unconcerned. He
was taken to Uniontown, and subse
quently placed in Jail.
The escaped burglar la described by
Mrs. Troutman as being a tall, spare
man, and officers are now on his track.
On his way to Harrlsburg, in an un
guarded moment, Rumberger made use
of several expressions which tend to
show that he is anxious to " squeal," in
order to mitigate the serious offence of
which he stands charged. Patriot of
tha lGth imt.
Objectionable Company.
Considerable excitement prevailed In
the vicinity of Reedsvllle, Mifflin Co.,
lust Tuesday. A party arrayed in fan.
tastlc costumes.attempted to accompany
Mr. Garver and bride to Lewlstown,
where the bridal party were to embark
on their bridal tour, but the escort was
decidedly objectionable to the groom.
An effort was made to get away from
the party by fast driving, but it was
only whan one of the horses of the fan.
tastlo party fell and broke a leg that
they stopped. One report says the fan
tastlo company was fired upon. The
Injured horse was killed.
AIlHcellaneou News Items.
. lTWbile workmen were digging a
cellar at Rahn's Statloa, Montgomery
county, they oame across a nest of 150
snakes.
HTThe Isabella Furnaoe, in Berks
county, which has been idle for some
months, It is rumored will again be put in
blast in a few days. '
tlTAt Petitnaw Plains, Mo., last week,
a herd of hogs got very drunk on the skim
mings of sorghum syrup which had been
fed to thorn and fermented. It affected
them variously.
t3f"All the preachers of New Albany
joined last Sunday in denouncing the po
litical canvass as having been, in its meth
ods and Influences, the most demoralizing
the country had ever seen.
t3TFritz Hahne a San Franclsoo miser,
made $50,000 out of a lucky investment in
real estate years ago, and when he sold
out a short time aiuoe, the sight of the
money made him orazy and he tried to
hang himself.
Dead wood, November 10. A terriflo
storm of snow and wind has been raging
throughout the Black Hills for the past
two days. The cold is intense the ther
mometer has been down to four degrees
below zero.
fyMilo Ilalstead, a bee-hunter, bad
olimbed a tree near Bennington, Shia
wassee county, Mich., to secure some
honey, and fell from a height of sixty feet.
Several ribs were broken, also his thigh
bone, but the wonder is he was not killed
outright.
Philadelphia, November 10. Henry
Morrel), a wealthy California, seventy
years of ago, was found dead in bed at the
Bt. Cloud hotel this morning. Ha retired
in bis usual health. A list of registered
bonds, footing up over 100,000, and other
valuable papers were found on his person.
tSTThe section hands near Rock Rapids
discovered the head of a calf protruding
from a snow drift the other day. Upon
shoveling it out the critter proved to be
alive and immediately began eating. It
belonged to Hoval Oleson aad had been
tightly bound by the drift for ten days.
ty Tip Lunderegan wanted to be atten
tive to Rosa Clalrmont, at BurlingteD,
Ohio, but she would not permit it. He
called at her home several times, and she
refused to see him, sending him word that
she would find a way to stop his pestering
if he persisted much longer. He would
not give up the undertaking. Foroing his
way into the parlor, he found Miss Clalr
mont there alone. She shot him immedi
ately, and he died at her feet
tW A. St. Louis bank teller, in cashing
a check, gave a woman a sealed envelope
marked $500. She did "not oount the
money nntil she got home, and then found
only $285. She returned to the bank, but
eould not get the mistake rectified. She
ought to have opened the envelope, the
teller said, before quitting the counter.
A lawsuit has resulted in a verdict for the
woman, whose statement of the facts wm
amply corroborated. The bank will appeal.
3T3. B. Vardeman owns a farm in
Ralls county, Mo., and last week one of
the hands saw smoke issuing from the
granary, located on a bluff overlooking
Sugar oreek, 200 feet above the level of its
bed. The man made an examination and
found a hole in the table-rock big enough
to admit the body of a man, from which
arose the smoke or vapor. Mr. Vardeman
made an examination, and 5$ feet deep be
found a runniog stream of ice-cold water.
It is estimated that the stream is from 80
to 40 feet wide and six feet deep. -
Paterson, November 15. The wife of
Samuel David, son of II. J. David, a prom
inent New York city lawyer, was found
dead on the porch of his residence at Wyn
ocke, a-few miles north of Paterson, yester
day morning. Her head was bruised as if
with a olub, and she was covered with
blood. Her husband who was within all
night, gave no clue to the - tragedy. It is
thought to be a case of murder. There
was blood inside the bouse, which has not
been acoounted for. The coroner, , C. M.
Butan, la holding an inquest this after
noon. tVTbeRev. J. II. Gallahoru and a
party of evangelists wore conducting revi
val moetlngs at Hannibal, Mo., Perfect
holiness was their special theme, and their
energies were directed to arousing true
ploty among church members. They were
highly successful and every erenlng they
drew a crowded onngregatlon to the Acad
emy of Muslo. Suddenly their mission
was closed by the publication of a state
ment signed by olergymen of several
Western places where Uallahorn had la
bored, that he was a grossly immoral
person, and had lately been exposed by a
church oounoll.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, November 17, 1880.
It li announced this morning that the Cali
fornia Legislature may be, after all, Demo
cratic, which would give a Senator not hereto
fore claimed to the Democracy, If the report
should prove true there will be no difficul
ty about a Democratic organization of the
Benate, In March next unless President
Hayes should have an opportunity of appoint
ing Senator David Davis to the Supreme Boucb,
In which case a Republican would be elected
to the Senate In bis place and the Senate
organization might then depend, as it now
seems to, on the uncertain action of Senator
Mahone, of Virginia. The recent election
shows that the people of Virginia are already
sorry they sent Mahone to the Benate, but
their sorrow comes too late. They can, how
ever, learn a valuable lesson from the present
situation. They elected Mahone partly because
of his position on the State debt question, and
partly because he had been a good soldier in
the civil war. I don't propose to discuss the
Virginia debt business, but I wish to make the.
point that service in either army during the
civil war ought not to be a test of fitness for
civil office In either the North or South. Both
sections should learn this. The Mahone mis
take, will, I hope, teach the South wisdom in-,
the matter.
To-night will settle the question whether
Republicans or citizens generally shall man
age those outside affairs procession, ball,
etc. which accompany every Inauguration.
Sentiment here Is decidedly in favor of having,,
as heretofore, a non-partisan management,
and I doubt not the decision will be to that
effect.
The Patrons of Husbandry the Grangers
will have their annual meeting here, com
mencing to-day. The order Originated la this
city in 1878. Many sections of the country,
from New England to California, had and may
still have "Grangers," and the present meet
ing, the managers claim will have representa
tives from every State and Territory. As a
political force, however, the order Is dead.
It's originators all resident of this city
never contemplated any connection by the
order with politics.
It is understood that the visit of John J.
Davenport to this city, this week, was without
result to the Morey Chinese letter business.
He did not find that any Washingtonlans were
Improperly connected with the procuring of
testimony from O'Brien, alias, Lindsay, the
alleged Washington witness.
General Hancock, it Is announced, will be
here at the Inauguration of President Garfield.
Everything Indicates tbe largest crowd the city
has ever known.
UUVI.
Feet of Doctors.
The fee of doctors Is an item that very
many persons are Interested in just at
present. We believe the schedule for
visits is $3.00, which would tax a man.
confined to his bed for a year, and in
need of dally visits, over $1,000 a year
for medical attendance alone I And one
single bottle of Hop BrTTERS taken in
time would save the $1,000 and all the
year's sickness. Pott 47 2t
A NEW WRINKLE.
Wheat grists exchanged on sight or -ground
in a few hours. We have no
low water now since tapping the Penn
sylvania canal. We have the only
Smith purifier in the county, and allow
no one to make better flour. We pay
five cents advance on market rates for
Mediterranean or Lancaster wheat. We
also sell Pillsbury's XXXX flour on
commission, which is the best in the
world. MILTON B. ESHLEMAN,
Newport, Pa.
If you want a good pair of Boots or
Sboetf you can be suited at
M. Dukes & Co., Newport.
1881.
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