The Altoona Tribune from Altoona, Pennsylvania • 1

rntr nlTDir ALTOONA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1881. VOL. 26. NO.

5. THE GREAT FLOOD. SAVED FROM AN AVALANCHE. CHICAGO OUTDONE. 'UPoeirg.

belenIjf tyre. On tlie Lookcmt! Everybody on the Lookout for JOHISr SPEANKLE'S Cheap Dry Goods, Boot Shoe Store, The watch on the dock ot a steam ship is no more on the alert to do his duty, than we are for what will serve our customers. With this diligence requires mdgnient in selection and wisdom in buying ol stocks, vnd the store that gives the best article lor the least money does the best for the purchaser. COME AND SEE US. Winter is now upon ns, and the outlook Is much better than last year, and with 25 years experience and an eye to business, and no rents to pay, will make it apparent to purchasers that we are prepared to meet their wants at leas price than others can do.

GIVE US TEIAL. Good goods will ever bring good words and custom. Buyers should examine what we oiler and thus J.e convinced ot the advantages we offer. COME AND BE CONVINCED. We enter upon the winter campaign with the nxed determination to excel in everythiner, and with the aid of our enemies and the support of our patrons we mean making things lively at the lively corner.

Our Questions. Are you a buyer of Men's or Boys' Clothing at retail? Do you need clothing for the farm, the office, the work-shop, the court-room, or the pulpit )o you want boys' clothing for the school-room, or for dress Do you prefer to buy clothing ready-made or to order? Are you in need of shirts If yes, to any or all of these queries, state your needs to us, that we may send you samples and prices. How They Did It. Rev. Theodore L.

Cuyler in the Evangelist. When we read that in the days of the Apostles "the word of God grew mightily and prevailed," we are constrained to look further and to see how they did it. We inquire for the secret of their success. It may be said that if the Holy Spirit were poured oui as wonderfully upon our churches, as upon the churches of Jerusalem, we thould see the phenomena of Pentecost and the scenes of Samaria and Antioch repeated again. Suppose we reverse this, and say that if we live and pray and labor as Peter and his fellow-Christians did, we shall have as plentiful outpourings of the Holy Ghost.

Of the divine side of these early successes, we will say nothing. On the human side what do we discover? I. We see a prodigious amount of personal labor. The Book of the Acts is not a chronicle of conventions, or conferences, -or councils, or even of churches as such, It is the story of individual life and labor. What Philip did to enlighten the Ethiopian treasurer, and what Paul did for a heathen jrilor, and how Peter visited and guided Cornelius, and how Aquila and his wife et Apollos aright these are the main features of the apostolic history.

We do not lead that a "benevolent society" was or- -ganized at Joppa, with plentiful by-laws. But there was one woman's needle very busy there under the "by-law" of lore. Throughout the book runs this golden thread of personal consecration to Christ's cause. In our time there is no small amount of eloquent nonsense uttered about "reaching the masses." It is a glittering generality, which finds no warrant in God's wise book. Human beings sin as individuals, suffer as individuals, and must be saved as individuals.

Christ did not die for "masses;" He died for men. Each person must be reached one at a time. Brother Moody preaches Jesus to en thousand hearers in Dublin or Manchester, aud theu he asks individual to stop and be conversed with in an iu- I PLEASE READ OUJEi PE1CE JAST: Ulaat and Colored wool uasnmeres to ouc Cashmeres, all shades 25 to 3oc Figured Brocades VZX to 25e Alpaca, all shades 12 to 26c Figured Suitings 10 to 12 Oood Calico. 6 and flc Gingham 6 to luc 4-4 Muslin to 9c Bed and Grey Flannel latoSCa Flannels for suiting S5c to Lt White and Grey Blankets $-2 00 to Hapc $1.26 to $1.75 risking 12to-26c JOHN A. 8PBANKLE, One Square Below Market House, Altootia.

IMrg 5rt 00, THE CASH SYSTEM MEANS SUCCESS THE CREDIT IS ABSOLUTE RUIN. Kxteniive Damage Reported in AH Parts of the State. The long-expected thaw has come at last aud seems to have gathered intensity with age. Bridges all around have been washed away and the storm has done great damage. Three spans of the toll bridge between Patterson and Mifflin have been knocked down by the ice.

The county bridge at Newton Hamilton has gone floating down the stream. Two spans of the Lewistown bridge are down, and the boom near Mill Creek has been entirely destroyed. Newport, February 11. The ice in Juniata river broke to-day and is now rapidly running out, the roar of crushing ice being heard a mile from the stream. The bridge at Millerstown has been carried away and striking the bridge at this place carried two spans of it away.

The dam--age along the river in this vicinity canuot be estimated, but will doubtless be large. Families living along the river have moved out for safety. The river is still rising aiid is fully as high as the flood of 18G5. Washington, February 11. The recent heavy rains and the present thaw have swollen all the streams in this neighborhood and considerable damage has been done to both life aud property.

Yesterday afternoon William Thompson and William Boiser, the latter a colored man, were taking a sled load of hides to Wheeling, W. Va. The sled was capsized while Short creek was being crossed and Mr. Thompson was caught under the sled, and, being unable to free himself from his perilous position, was drowned. The colored man saved his life by scrambling upon a cake of ice.

Mr. Thompson's body was recovered a few miles down the stream. The deceased was about 45 years of age, and leaves a wife and five or six children. One of the horses, belonging to Mr. Thompson, was also drowned.

This afternoon a still sadder accident occurred. Three small children, aged about 10 or 12 years each, were retnrning from school. On the way home there was a foot log over Allison's creek which had to be crossed. While crossing the log the children were thrown into the stream and all of them perished. The bodies of two of them were found, but the other is still missing.

The body not found is that of the little girl. One of the children was a twin-son of an extensive coal merchant of this place and ex-member of the Legislature. A colored boy, son of John Codct, and a little girl, daughter of Joseph Arnold, were the other tw victims. The scene of the accident was on the farm of Mr. Allison, near the coal works, five miles from this place.

Port Deposit, February 12. An ice gorge, which for its sudden occurrence was unprecedented in the history of this often washed-out town and which was attended by damage only excelled in later years by that of the great gorge of 1875, has thrown this place into a state of excitement almost beyond conception. The ice commenced to run about 3 o'clock this morning, and a few minutes afterward the broken masses lodged in both channels of the river, causing the water to rise and inundate the town. Vast masses ot ice were borne in on the flood, destroying property of all kinds. A number of dwelling houses were crushed like egg shells, the inhabitants making narrow escapes.

The hay house of the Baltimore Steamboat Company was demolished, and a force of men engaged iu removing hay to a place of safety had to leave it in boats, so sudden was the rise of the water. The building was destroyed a few minutes after they left. A copoer of the warehouse of Messrs. Davis Co. was torn away and the lumber yard of the same firm was damaged to the extent of over $1,000.

S. Routland's lumber yard was also injured. The steamboat Beniga narrowly escaped destruction. The track of the Port Deposit branch of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad was covered with ice, and in consequence travel is suspended. A channel was formed after the flood had lasted two hours, and the ice began to pass out.

The water at once subsided. Tiie ice continued to pass down the river until 4 o'clock this afternoon, when it commenced to gorge again, this time five miles below, at the mouth of the river. In consequence of this the water has risen two feet to-night, and unless channel is cut through this packed mass the town will be subjected to another inundation before morning more disastrous than that through which it has just passed. Huntingdon, February 13. The flood of the past few days has been more disastrous than any which has ever visited the Juniata valley.

The loss in bridges to Huntingdon county alone will be about $50,000. Two spansof the bridge at Alexandria, Diehl boom at the mouth of the Raystown branch, four road bridges over the branch and the bridge at Newton, Hamilton have been carried away and the bridge at McVeytown partially destroyed. Milford, February 13. The rain storm has ceased and the Delaware river is falling slowly. The ice is moving out rapidly.

It is reported that a small gorge has formed at Bushville, below this place, and that the country is flooded. Great damage has been done to lumber, hay, fences and movable property. The loss by the flood is fully $50,000. The Buckery family were said to be imprisoned on Connesbaugh island without food. It was thought they would escape during last night.

Harrisburg, February 13. The Susquehanna has been falling all day. Last night East and South Harrisburg was partially flooded by the overflow of Paxtou creek, and many persons were obliged to move out, and to-day their houses can only be reached by boats. The danger is apparently over. Remarkable Accouipiishmetit of Ttobhe-rs in Intiia.

The scientific manner in which the na tive robbers of India prepare for thsir raids shows a thorough knowledge ol the dangers of their calling aud the best guards agaiust them. When their dusky bodies are least observable they remove their clothes, anoint themselves with oil, and with a single weapon a keen-edged knife suspended from their neck creep and steal like shadows noiselessly through the darkness. If detected, their greasy and slippery bodies assist them in eluding capture, while their razor-bladed knife dexterously severs the wrist of any detaining hand. But the most ingenious device to escape capture is that shown by the Bheel robbers. It very often happens that a band of these robbers are pursued by mounted Englishmen, and being unable to reach the jungle, find themselves about to be overtaken upon one of those open plains which have been cleared by fire, the only shelter in sight being the blackened trunks or leafless branches of small trees that perished in the flames.

For men so skilled in posturing this is shelter enough. Quickly divesting themselves of their scanty clothing, they scatter it with their plunder in small piles over the plain, covering them with their round shields so that they have the appearance of lumps of earth and attract no attention. This accomplished they snatch up a few sticks, throw their body into a contorted position, and stand or crouch immovable until their unsuspicious enemies have galloped by. When all is safe they quickly pick up their spoils and proceed upon their way. The Rev.

Dr. J. D. Woods gives an interesting account of these marvellous mimics. "Before the English had become used to these manoeuvres a very ludicrous incident occurred.

An officer, with a party of horse, -was chasing a small body of Bheel robbers and was fast overtaking them. Suddenly the robbers ran behind a rock or some such obstacle, which hid them for a moment, and when the soldiers came up the men had mysteriously disappeared. After an unavailing search the officer ordered his men to dis mount beside a clump of scorched and withered trees; and, the day being very hot, he took off his helmet and hung it on a branch by which he was standing. The branch turned out to be the leg of a Bheel, who burst into a scream of laughter and flung the astonished officer to the ground. The clump of scorched trees suddenly became metamorphosed into men, and the whole party dispersed in different directions before the Englishmen could recover from their surprise, carrying with them the officer's helmet by way of trophy." Two Prospectors Escape a Terrible Death by Clinging to Slender Bushes.

From the Leadville Democrat. There are almost daily accounts received in this city of narrow escapes made by prospectors in the mountains from the terrible suowsiides, more frequent this year than for many years, and Messrs. A. Lafave and Waller Sterrock, who reached this city a few days ago, give a graphic description of their experience with one of the white monsters well worth relating in print. These two gentlemen are interested in claims near the Mount of the Holy Cross and last Tuesday, while they were on their way on snow shoes from the Holy Cross mountain to Red Cliff they were struck by a snow-slide under the following circumstances: They were descending the precipitous slope of French mountain, which is about 800 feet in height, and when about 300 from the top of the cliff, which out from the summit of the mountain, they heard the strange, fearful, indescribable sound which foretells the coming of the avalanche.

They were a short distance apart when they heard the sound, and without stopping to look up or waste a moment in conjecture Lafave shouted to Sterrock to grasp a bush protruding through the snow, at the same moment clutching with strong grip a sapling by which he was stauding. No man has ever yet described an avalanche of snow. No imagination has ever conceived one. It is a monstrous, ghastly, terrible thing; literally death riding on a pale horse sweeping all before it with blind, swift rage. Wnen these two men, standing on five feet of snow and shuddering with the awful fear which the bravest feel when in the presence of impending death, grasped the slender bushes on which they relied to save them, they felt that they were in the grasp of a power against which human strength and cunning availed but little, and they closed their eyes and bowed their heads to await the shock.

In an instant, like a bolt of lightning, the avalanche was upon them and rolled in great white waves over and around them. They clung to the tough saplings with desperate strength, completely submerged in the snow, blinded and choking, but knowing that their lives depended upon the strength of their grip. Their bodies were swayed down the mountain and cruelly wrenched by the savage power of the avalanche, but they held to their anchorage and in a few seconds the great white wave passed below them and left them stunned and dazed, still holding to the bushes. The snow swept on down the mountain like a tidal wave, and when it reached the bottom piled up layer upon layer until there was a huge mass of it laying there fifty feet in thickness. When the two men were sufficiently recovered they proceeded to Red Cliff, and Mr.

Lafave came to Leadville where he described to the reporter his perilous adventure and narrow escape. SUPERSTITION IN VIRGINIA. O-e Negro Hunting Another with a Shot-gun for Conjuring His Wife. Fincastle, despatch to the New York Sun. A remarkable case of negro superstition and belief in witchcraft has just come to light here.

About two miles from this place lives a respectable colored man, Willis Wilson, with his wife and several children. He says that his wedded life was happy until Pleasant Walker, another negro, crossed his path and bewitched him. Wilson went into court yesterday and told a wonderful story, which was corroborated by. many negro witnesses. The case came in court on a warrant sworn out by Pleasant Walker, who alleged that Wilson and his son were hunting for him with shotguns and be appealed to the law for protection.

It was proven that Wilson had been looking for Walker with a a guu, and the court aked him to explain his actions, whereupon he stated his grievance. He said that some months ago four persons came to his house and were kindly treated. One of them only, Sally Johnson, shook hands with his (Wilson's) wife, and she held his wife's hand longer than is usual. The party broke up and were scarcely out of sight before his wife's hand began to itch and swell, and by night the ailment had reached her shoulder. Home-made remedies were used without effect, and by midnight it had reached her head, and she was nearly crazy with itching and burning, insisting that she had a bullet in her eye.

Several of the leading white physicians were called in, but could do nothing for her, nor tell what caused her sufferings. They all affirm that she seems to suffer greatly. Mr. Wilson then summoned Henry Henderson, of Roanoke, an old colored conjure doctor. He at once pronounced the woman conjured on the occasion of Worker's visit.

Henderson was asked to sit down, and at the time several of the four persons present at the beginning of the trouble were in the room, but he declined, saying that there were too many devils around. At this the unwelcome visitors fled and Henderson knelt down and prayed. He then mixed and applied certain medicine, whereupon from Mrs. Wilson's swollen arm and breast came lizards and ground puppies, the witness swearing he saw them himself. From that time her recovery was rapid.

The husband said he had ascertained that Walker gave Sally Johnson the power to conjure his wife and for this reason he had determined to kill Walker. The Judge bound Wilson over to keep the peace. The negroes are greatly excited over the case, and Walker is a social Pariah among them. They flee from him' whenever he approaches, fearing that he will conjure them. In fact a number have moved into the adjoining county to get out of the range of his power.

Where the Angels Took a Hand. From the Detroit Free Press. A colored man named Bounty Smith, living on Antoine street, was before a Justice of the Peace yesterday forenoon charged with the larceny of 50 cents worth of fire wood from a white man living next door. The prosecution had a circumstantial case. Some one was heard at the wood pile in the night.

There were tracks in the snow leading directly to defendant's house. Tuts defendant was found in possession of wood exactly like that missed from the pile, admitted that he had not purchased any wood this fall. The defendant said he wished to De sworn in ms own after he had taken the stand he began: "He claims dis wood was tooken away Sunday night. Now on Sunday maw-nin? I war tacked by rheumatiz an' could not step till Monday night. Dis right leg war bent back so, an' dis left one war skewed out so, a' my wife had to feed me wid a spoon.

War I in shape to go out an' steal wood?" "Go on." "Well, long about dark de ole woman said de last stick ob wood war gone, an' we went to bed to keep warm. Could I go out when I war in bed "I guess not." "Sartin I could not. When I remembered dat we had no wood for nex' day I went to prayin' dat some rich man's heart might be opened to charity. Fust I knowed de sticks of wood began to hit de doah, an' de ole woman scrambled out and fotched dem in. If any man robbed dat man's wood pile it war an angel who were sent to help me." "But you forget the tracks in the snow.

They were just the size of your boots." "Tracks! Was dey any tracks?" "Yes." "Well, dat's nuffin agin me as I see. I 'spect de angel had to stan' alonside de wood pile to load up." Two of the jurors seemed to take this view of the case and the result was a disagreement. Beecher and Spurgeon. The question what Paul meant by his reference to his "thorn in the flesh" has for years been the puzzle and the theme of theologians. Some have thought it weak eyes, others, baldness; others, lameness, gout, stammering, mutilation, or other bodily afflictions.

At a recent conference of Baptist clergymen in New Jersey, the whole subject was discussed; and the conclusion reached that it was mental affliction which he endured for the sake of his religion. Some, however, argued that it was a brand on his forehead or hand, as a token ot fidelity, just as the Indian Brahmins bum a sign of their duty upon their forehead. And one member said that a Chicago miuister preached a sermon to prove that it was some bodily infirmity, because all the great preachers were afflicted in that way. Even in this age, he said, "Beecher has the hav fever and Spur- geon has the gout," A Grand Turk Divorced from Two Hundred Wives at Once. Frena th ondon Daily Telegraph.

Sidi Muley Hassen, the Sultan of Morocco, has set a touching example of radical retrenchment to his subjects. Constrained to thrift by a financial crisis of no ordinary severity, he has shown the true believers submitted to his rule the way to "reform his household bills" in a highly spirited aud thorough going manner. Having completely drained the Imperial Treasury during his successful efforts to suppress the rebellion that raged throughout his dominions last summer, he has just cut down the State expenses by some uncommonly sweeping measures, the first of which was the reduction of his own domestic establishment to about one-half its normal strength. He dismissed at one blow two hundred of his wives, bestowing their hands upon distinguished officers of his army, whose pay, in consideration of the high favor thus conferred, he docked to the. tune of some five and twenty per cent.

A pleasing feature of this arrangement to all, at least, except the immediate recipients Of his especial grace is the fact that his Majesty has made his matrimonial dispositions in such sort that all his older moieties have got new husbands, while he has reserved the young ones to gladden his own hearth. Instead of saddling the civil list with provision for these superanuated ladies, he has united them with gallant warriors at a positive saving to the public purse, for the gift of each ex-Sultana has been by him decreed to compensate her prospective recipient for the loss of one-fourth of his income. Muley Hassan's popularity, it appears, has been increased to such an extent by this noble self-sacrifice on his part that a few days ago, as he rode from his palace to the chief mosque, he was greeted with enthusiastic acclamation by the whole male population of Fez, his capital. This is quite a new experience for the Morocan Sultan, who has been for some years past at open odds witn his subjects. The Old Reservoir.

There is a great deal of apprehension manifested by some of our citizens in relation to the stability of the old Portage reservoir, in Croyle township, some two miles distant from South Fork, and fears are entertained that the pressure of water against-the dam may cause it to give way, precipitating an inundation which would prove disastrous to property and probably to life.y A little of its history will be seasonable. Its building was commenced in the year 1839, and was intended to supply water for the Pennsylvania canal during the summer season, when the ordinary quantity necessary for boating could not be drawn from the Stony creek and Conemaugh. After the dam was partially constructed the work was for some reason abandoned, but in 1851 a large force of employes commenced pile up the huge rocks, timber, earth, necessary to complete the filling across the valley. The outlet or sluice in the bottom consisted of five waste pipes, each twenty-two inches in diameter, emptying into a culvert of solid masonry extending some distance under the embankment. A bulk-head was erected about the centre of the filling, and the sluice-gates were so arranged as to be opened or clothed without difficulty.

The breast of the dam was about sixty-four feet at the highest point, and the body of the back water covered 375 acres. On Saturday, July 26, 18G2, the reservoir dam broke, but fortunately there was only forty-five feet of water measuring at the bulk-head at the time, and even this quantity did not run out in a body, as the emptying process was gradual, owing to a large hole being worn away around the timbers which supported the pipes in position, so that tho only damage of moment was the partial sweeping away of a saw mill which stood in the stream a few hundred rods below. Within a year or so an organization of sportsmen; incorporated under the name of the Western Game and Fish Association purchased the reservoir property, and commenced repairing the dam. The sluicegates were dispensed with, and the hole which had been worn through at the time of the break in 1862 Js now closed with rocks, earth, tops of trees, hay and straw, and there is a body of water of near sixty feet. There may be some danger should the dam break to property near it, but after the water would distribute itself over the intervening ten miles it would have to course over before it would reach us, and the removal of the dam at the head of the basin, there is not much probability its power would be very great here.

The distance around the body of' water is about seven miles, the basin being three miles long by, in the widest part, nearly oue mile, and as the Association purposes making a drive all the way around, building cottages, hotel, and running a railroad to South Fork, the prospects of it being one of the finest summer resorts in the State are very good. Johnstown Tribune. Lima's Fall. Panama, February 5. News has been received here that the Chilians occupied Lima on the 17th of December.

A division marched in through an immense throng which lined the streets but which was profoundly quiet, marching to the Santa Cataline Cnartel, where the Chilian flag was hoisted for the second time over the Peruvian Capitol. An intimation from the Chilian commander that he would be prepared to treat with a provisional government and inviting the inhabitants to form such was refused. The Chil ian commander then issued a proclamation declaring the city under martial law, prescribing death as the penalty for any Chilian or Peruvian soldier murdering, robbing or maltreating residents, and all found with arms in their possession who have no authority to carry such. Upon receipt of the result of the battle ot Chonllo thousands ot the Peruvians left Lima, many going to Aucan where they were protected and fed by the officers of the neutral fleet. Both in Lima and Callao the stores were sacked and the foreigners were obliged to turn out to protect property, and fights occurred with the mob, a number being killed.

Purola has issued an address advising the municipal authorities that his government was still in existence and its eehtre of authority would be wherever he aud his chief Secretary could be found. He announced his purpose to continue the war. Existing Orders of Chivalry. The orders of chivalry at present in existence number no fewer than one hundred and fifty-five, exclusive of service medals and war decorations, such as the Victoria and Iron Crosses. Of all European sovereigns, the Kings of Spain and Prussia are the most copiously provided with the means of distinguishing those whom they may delight to honor; for the former can dispose of thirteen and the latter twelve orders of knighthood.

France possesses only one such order; the German Empire has none. The most ancient existing order is that of Saint Andrew, or the Thistle, founded in the year 787, and the most modern is the Takovo of Servia, the foundatory statues of which bear date the 15th of February, 1878. Among the 155 orders are ten exclusively bestowed upon members of the fair sex. Six orders of chivalry derive their names from animals, only one of which, the dragon, is a heraldic and imaginary beast. The remainder, for the most part, commemorate the fame of patron saints or popular princes, only a few conspicuous among which are the British Garter, the Austrian Fleece, the Saxon Coronal of Rue, the Swedish Sword and one or two others owe their titles to more or less curious historical incidents.

Hanlan Victorious, London, February 14. The race between Hanlan and Laycock over the Thames champion course, for the championship of England, Sportsman challenge cup and 1,000, came off this afternoon and was easily won by Hanlan by about four lengths. I here was little betting on the race. The result was regarded as a foregone conclusion. Three to one on Hanlan was freely offered.

Hanlan and Laycock visit the Westminster Aquarium to-night. They leave for their respective homes shortly. Laycock, although rowing well and strongly, had no chance from the beginning. The weather is uold and rainy yet, and the towpath along the river bank was thickly lined with spectators. What phantom is this that appears Through the purple mist ol the ltiell but a mift like these? A woman ol cloud and ol tire: It is she it is Helen of Tyre, The town in the midst of the seas Tyre in thy crowded streets The phantom appears and retreats.

And the Israelites, that sell Thy lilies and lions of brass. Look up as they see herxas. And murmur "Jezettel V' Then another phantom is seen At her side, in a gray gabardine, Wiih beard that floats to his walot It is Simon MaguB, the Seer He speaks and she pauses to hear The words he utters in haste. He says "From this evil fame. From this life of sorrow and shame, .1 will lift thee and isake thee mine Thou hast been Queen Candace, And Helen of Troy, and shall be The lutelligence Divine Oh, sweet as the breath of mom.

To the fallen and forlcru Are whispered words ot pral For the famished heart believes The falsehood that tempts deceives, And the promise betrays. So she iollows from land to land The wizard's beckouing hand, a leaf is blown by the gust. Till she ravishes into night reader, stoop down and write With thy finger in the dust. town in the midst of the With thy rafts of cedar trees, Thy merchandise and thy Thou, too. art become as naught.

A phantom, a shadow, a thought, A name upon men's lip. Henry IF. Longfellow in February Atlantic. THE STORM KING. One ltaiiroad Train Blockaded for Eleven Days.

St. Pacl, February 12. Never iu the history of railroading iu the Northwest has there been such a season of impediments as has characterized this. From the first fierce blizzard which swppt the country in October to the present railroads with cuts have been particularly embai-rassed in the movement of trains. The snow is drifted to the depth of twenty to thirty feet, even on the prairies, where a nucleus has been found by throwing out snow from the track.

All these drifts have formed to the top of the telegraph poles, and in some cases uew poles have been set iu the snow that communication by wire might be kept up. The recent rain packed snow upon the track so solidly in some places that the plows on the engines are utterly useless, aud it is necessary to shovel the snow from the road bed by hand, which is a tedious process. Tiiese drawbacks to railroading can only be realized by those who have been snow bouud at extreme points on the prairies. The Hastings and Dakota divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad have been buried under a bank of snow almost since the season set in for two months.

The Sioux City branch of the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha railroad has been and still is blockaded, notwithstanding the effort of the company to raise it, and they have spared neither labor nor expense. One train has been bound at Mountain Lake, about midway between St. Paul and Sioux City, since the 1st of February and is likely to be for some time to come, from reports just received from there. To-day the passengers could restrain their patience no longer, and, of course, rested their complaint against the company, there being uo other tangible agency that could be assailed.

Omaha, February 12. A fearful storm of wind and snow raged here yesterday and last night, blocking up all railroads aud severing telegraphic communication through most of the west. But a single wire remains open at this time between Omaha and New York. Trains from Chicago, due here this morning, have all been abandoned, and the several roads of the Union Pacific and Burlington and Missouri companies, in this State, are all blockaded. The roads extending into the northern part of the State have been blockaded for some days.

Information received at the headquarters of the Union Pacific Company show that the Kansas lines are in similar condition. Omaha is the centre of the storm, eighteen inches of snow being reported at Des Moines, and eight at Davenport, Iowa. AN ELEPHANT PACKED IN WOOL. How the Asiatic Visitor's Trip was Made Across tbe Plaina in Midwinter. Captain Mullet who is known to all showmen as the "sea lion man" for the reason that he has supplied all the American shows with sea lions, as well as some of the foreign zoological gardens, safely delivered to Adam Forepaugh, in this city, on Saturday last, an Asiatic elephant, which he purchased of the Captain of a China tea ship on its arrival in San Francisco.

Having contracted for the same to Mr. Forepaugh, the next question was how to deliver the animal in Philadelphia as per contract before it "ate its head off." The Captain proved equal to the emergency. He constructed a wooden house or box, in which the elephant was to be quartered during its overland journey. Then he found a party who was coming East with a shipment of wool. The bales of wool were piled all about the car at the sides, making it cold-proof.

Thus protected the elephant reached Philadelphia as lively as a cricket, while the weather during the trip often ranged below zero. The transportation from San Francisco to Omaha alone cost 6S00. Arriving in Philadelphia the ele phant was released from the box and a twelve-horse team being in waiting from Forepauglfs headquarters, the box was transferred to the heavy wagou. Master Adam Forepaugh, the trainer and exhibitor of his father's elephants, then marched the new arrival into the big box. It was quickly closed up and good time made to the building, where he was unloaded and placed in quarters with eleven others.

As a precaution the new-comer was given a treat of a quart of whisky in a pail of water, and he is now as lively as a cricket and none the worse for the long journey. To Prevent the Balling of Horses. From the American Agriculturist. When the snow upon the roads is cohesive and packs firmly, it collects upon the feet of horses, forming a hard projecting mass, in a manner known as "balling." This often occurs to such an extent as to impede the motion of the horse, while it causes the animal great discomfiture, and is stime times dangerous to the rider or driver. The trouble may prevented very easily by use of gutta-percha.

For this purpose the gutta-percha should be crude, t. not mixed with anything or manufactured in any manner, but just as imported. Its application depends upon the property which the gum has of softening aud becoming plastic by heat, and hardening again when cold. To apply it, place the gutta percha in hot water until it becomes soft, and having: well cleansed the foot, removing whatever has accumulated between the shoe and hoof, take a piece of the softened gum and press it against the shoe and foot in such a manner as to fill the angle between the shoe and the hoof, taking care to force it into the crack between the two. Thus filling the crevices and the space next the shoe, where the snow most firmly adheres, the ball of snow has nothing to hold it, and it either does not form or drops out as soon as it is gathered.

When the gutta-percha is applied and smoothed off with wet lingers it may De hardened at once, to prevent the horse from getting it out of place by stamping, by applying snow or ice, or more slowly by a wet sponge or cloth. When it is desired to remove the gum, the application of hot water by means of a sponge or cloth will so soften it that it may be taken off. As the softening and hardening may be repeated indefinitely, the same material will last for years. For a horse of medium size a quarter of a pound is sufficient for all the ieet. Having tested this application last winter and thus far the present season we can recommend it as thoroughly efficacious in preventing one of the greatest annoyances of snow.

The vast difference in the wealth and worth of America's two greatest merchants, results more from their different than difference in ability. One took the road macadamized with the cash the other, with perhaps greater brain power surcharged with that intellectual audacity called genius, took the turnpike of "unlimited credit, carrying upon his broad back, with his big heart and his unshaken faith in his fellow man, a load that would crush the life out of any thousand of his illustrious compeers. That big -ledger of Claf-lin's frightful. Stewart's note, if such a tbiug existed, was like a diamond as current in Iudia as the notes of the Bank of England. His untarnished word was as good as the pledge of the United States government (and to day the ashes of this mercantile king rests in an unknown grave).

The giant energies of Cianiu, notwithstanding his unquestioned position as the greatest merchant in ancient or modern times, was more than ever cheeked or clouded by commercial panto and revolution, but like a blade of Damascus perfection, he was standing in line of battle on the morrow unflinching, unwavering and uu terrified. Lrt Cash be the watchword and e.ist Credit to the winds. Pay as you go and go buy where you can get the most for the money. It is all folly to pay two prices for a few days' credit. It is your duty to give ear to means of economy and to save money when the opportunity is presented.

To those who have read our advertisements day after day and, as yet, have failed to try our goods, we can only say that your passivity costs you dollars and years. Give us your trade and we will convince yon in undeuiable force the difference between cash and credit. BALTZELL ROUSS, Pa. Your Question is, Will this pay for the trouble You must judge. We will make up the case, you must decide it.

But we must tell you that we have created the Largest Retail Clothing Business in the United States by the simple method of giving the best clothing for the least money. We mean that it shall pay you to buy of us. If you buy and are not pleased, return the goods for exchange, or demand your money. Wanamaker and Brown, S. E.

Cor. Sixth Market Sts. PHILADELPHIA. rM. B.

MILLER, D. D. DENTAL OFFICE, Cor. Eleventh Avenue and Fourteenth Street. Next door to Beckley'a Drag Store, (SECOND FLOOR.) NTTKOUS OXIDE GAS ADMINISTERED.

lnhlSly R. W. S. BITTNER, SURGEON DENTIST. Proprietor ol the patent ATMOSPHERIC DISK for artificial teeth, and also the STUCK patent and CKLULOID process.

GOLD FILLING A SPECIALTY. NITHOUS OXIDE GAS ADMINISTERED. Altoona Bank Building, Eleventh Avenue. mhie-iy JR. J.

W. ISENBERG, SURGEON DENTEST, Corner Eighth Avenue and Twelfth Street, (over Mechanics' Bank) VSpecial care given to the natural teath. Artificial teeth inserted upon STUCK'S or FOLSOM'S patent. Office hours 8.30 A. M.

to 5 P. Saturday's until 7 P. M. mhlft-ly. (g M.

SELLERS, DR. HUMPHRIES SPECIFICS and BEATY fc JARVIS' HOMCEFATHIC MEDICINES A SPECIALTY'. Corner Eighth Avenue and Ticrffth Street. ALTOONA, PA. mhlft-ly G.

W. KESSLER. ESTABLISHED IN IMS ELEVENTH AVENUE. Agent for ELASTIC TRUSS COMPANY' and BAIiCOCK'S SILVER SUPPORTERS. fiSr-Prescriptions carefully compounded.

Door bell for night calls. Orders iroiu a distance solicited. mhlSf-ly LTOONA DRUG STORE, D. G. HURLEY, Ph.

Supt. Uor. Eleventh Avenue and Fourteenth Street. Dealer in DRUGS, MEDICINES and CHEMICALS, DYE STUFFS and PERFUMERY. S'fhe dispensing of physician's prescriptions specialty.

tnhlo-ly T0SIA1I D. HICKS, ATT0RiEY-AT-LAW, Tyrone, Pa. I will be at my office in the Court House on every Wednesday, and will be pleased to meet my lr ends and all persons who may have business with me officially as District Attorney. ei-All kinds of legal bus ness will be promptly attended to. jan6-wtl $pf Outfit sent free to those who wish to enwure in the most pleasant and profitable business known.

Everything new. Capital not required. We will furnish you everything. $10 a day and upwards is easily make without staying away from home over niglii. JVo risk whatever.

Many ne.w workers wanted at oucc. Many are making fortunes at the business. Ladies make as much as men, and young boys and girls make srre-t pay. No one who is willing to work fails to make more money every day than can be made in a week at any ordinary employment. Those who engage at once will find a short road to torture.

Address dee-io-ly H. ALL FTl' Sl Portland. Maine Outfit furnished free, with full in-fi-Lv strnctiims forcomiuctiiig the most profitable business that any one can engage in. The business is so easy to lea'rn. our iustnu'tions are so simple aud plain, that anyone can make great pronto otu tue very' start.

No one fan fail who is Itingto work. Women are as successful as men. Boys and giris can earn lanre sums. have made at the bu-iucss over one hundred dollars a week. Nothing like it ever known before.

All who engage are surpiised at ttie ease and r-spidity with which they are able so make monev. Y'ou can in this business during your spare time at great profit. Y'ou do nut have to invest capital in it We take all the risk. Those who need ready money, should write to us at once. All furnished tree.

Address TRU is. Angusta.Maitie. dec20-ly Science vs. Epilepsy OK DOCTOR AGAINST QUACK! A Leading London Physician Establishes an Office in New York for the Core of Epileptic Fits. From American Journal of Medicine.) Dr.

Ab. Mcserole (late of London), who uiHkes a special of Epilepsy, has withoutdoubt treated and r-ured id ore cases than any other living physician. His success has simply been astonishing: we hare heard of ot over KO years' standing. cured by him. He has published a valuable work on this disease, which he sends with a large bottle of his wonderful cure free to any sufferer who may send their express and P.

address. We advise anv one wishing a cure to address DR. AB. No. 9tf John street, New York.

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100 page pamphlet, 23 cents. jansa diwlm Men's Heavy Moots $2.00 to $2.50 Men's English Kip $3.50 to 3.75 French Kip Boots to $4.00 Bov's Knirllsh Kip. 2.0J to $2.75 Child's Boots 1.2 to 1.5o Ladies' Kid Button Shoes $2.00 to 2 Ladies' neat Button Shoes to $1.75 Infant Shoes 30. and We Men's Ij nderwear. 35 to 75c Ladies' Underwesr Men and Womens' Gum Overshoes, Men's Gum Boots Canton Flannel 7 to 12 gibbous, itotiona, Sr.

to in town or country. quiry meeimg. nen ne leaves a town solemnly enjoins upon Christians to keep personal oversigut of each new convert. If brother Moody has anv "hobbv" it is the sensible one that personal labor is the maiu- spnng ot spiritual success. He has no na- tience with this magniloquent rubbish about saving sinners by wholesale.

it tne devil can only succeed in enticing God's people into a big conveution aud into the passage of a series of flaming resolutions and the appointment of a tremen dous committee and then going home to sleep over it, he is perfectly delighted; but wnen ne sees a man like Dr. Spencer wrest ling with an obstinate sinner, or a Harlan Page hard at it in personal effort with some impenitent soul, he is full of rage. Satan knows what hurts him, and there nothing that he chuckles over more than the pious vaporing about "saving the masses." His policy is to tempt people and ruin them one by one. When churches are revived, it is by individual hearts getting aroused and at work. II.

Another secret of apostolic success was that they knew how to pray. They had no stereotyped liturgy such as we hear in too many Presbyterian meetings. Too -many Christians pray "like a book." Those early Ciinstiaus asked God for just what tney wanted, it reter was the dungeon, they met at Mark's house, and prayed him out of the dungeon. If they needed cour age to lace tne enemy, tbey prayed that they "might speak thy word with all boldness." Every prayer had a point, and a purpose. They were united in their requests.

They continued in supplication till the blessing came. Such prayer would bring a revival in the most cast iron church iu all our borders. Nav. such pravcr meet ings would be a revival. III.

Those early Christians knew how to give. They sold a part of their possessions in order to help Christ's poor. They gave-also systematically, every week, as God bad prospered them. When the time comes that American church nifmbers begiu to sell their carriages, and sewood pianos. and Brussels carpets, in order to fill np the treasury of Christ, we may conclude that the millennium is nearer by several de grees.

Whenever they begin to give "as God has prospered them," we shall hear no more about "destitute neighborhoods." aud starved-out mission enterprises. The art of giviug to the Lord is well-nigh a lost art." Let us go back and find it in the New Testament. IV. Those early Christians knew how to preach. The narrative is: "They preached Christ unto them." A personal Saviour was brought right up to each needy, guilty sinner.

They wasted no time on bootless controversies. Taking it for granted that each man was a perishing sinner, and taking it for granted that the Gospel of Calvary was true, they pressed the Saviour npon every conscience. Conversions came quick and strong. V. But the grandest thing about those early followers of Jesus was their lives.

or them to live was Christ. No epistle that noble old Paul ever penned affects me more than his pure, sweet, cheerful, honest, heroic life. The man himself represented Jesus to a wandering, wicked world. The crying need of our day is mora Christ like men and women. Then we shall have a fresh and beautiful "Book of Acts." A Desert Dish of Wit and Wisdom far Toung and Old.

All the American navy reauires is ves sels. It has plenty of water. Tf we should leavn mi nf pnnvrcil scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity what silence To judge of the if al importance of an in dividual one should think of the effect his death will produce. Let the youth who stands with a glass of liquor in his hand consider which he had better throw away the liquor or himself. Patriotism is a glorious thing in its wav.

but we observe there are always the most candidates for the office that is the best pay. nave ine courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. The chief use of a sea Cantain in these days is to explain how it all happened after most of the passengers have been drowned. A boyish novice in smoking turned deadly pale and threw away his eigar. oaiane: "iuar somethin in that ar cigar that's made me sick." "I know what it is, said his companion, pulling away.

"What?" "Tobacker." When you see a young man in gorgeous apparel walking about the street with his arms hanging in curves from his body like the wings of an overheated turkey on a summer's day, it isn't because he is in pain. It is because he has been "abroad." Paul Kruger. Paul Kruger, who was elected by the revolting Boers to preside over the des times of their present venture, has long been a noted leader of expeditions in the Transvaal and has twice beeu in England as spokesman for his countrymen. He first went in the broad felt hat, the short jacket and "veldt schoon" (shoes of un tanned leather) which form the usual and recognized costume of a Dapper. On his return he met the astonished gaze of his friends lad in a high hat, a long black cloth coat, and the boots worn by ordinary civilized men.

"England was well enough," he said, "and there were fine houses, but if a man wanted to go and smoke by himself, even away from London, every piece of the veldt seemed to be owned by some one or another, and if you sat down to smoke under a tree you hadn't taken two whiffs before a man would come up and say the land was his and he didn't want you there." Some of the old grannies are getting frightened because the citizen soldiers of some of the States, taking advantage of the occasion to get a cheap ride to Washington, are about to don their uniforms and attend the inauguration of General Garfield. This outcry is childish and ridiculous. There are no more ardent pat riots than the citizen soldiers of the Republic. David Dudley Field was 76 years old on Saturday and is the oldest of New York lawyers in active practice. He is said to be as vigorous as he was twenty years ago and walks up Broadway as erect as a THE BEST JSTOYES, THE CHEAPEST ST0YES, ANDMOEEOFTHEM CAN BE FOUND AT THE CITY STOEE, No.

1313J ELEVENTH AVENUE, ALTOONA, Fries Brother, Proprietors. Thau any other house of the kind outside of the large cities. We sell none but th MOST APPROVED PATTERNS, and in all cases they MUST GIVE SATISFACTION. In the line of TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WARE, we have an endless variety, and we MANUFACTURE TO ORDER EVERYTHING IN TIN LINE that may be called for. SPOUTING AND ROOFING, Promptly attended y3, 187.