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WILLISTON ITEMS. A little daughter arrived at the home of Carleton Beckwith Friday, 16th inst. Mrs. Burt Wright, of Ceres, spent Sunday, with her mother, Mrs. Deming.

Washburne and wife were at the county seat Monday. Mrs. Albert Jordan is slowly recovering her health, after an illness of five weeks. At this writing Henry Yentzer is seriously ill. Leona and Floyd Reed, of Port Allegany, visited friends and relatives here last week.

Mrs. R. E. Jay and Mrs. Fisk were at Shingle House Monday.

Palmer Roberts, an old resident of this place, was visiting his old friends and relatives here Saturday and Sunday. He now lives at Ceres. Mrs. Elmer Deming was at Ceres last week. A donation for the benefit of Rev.

Jordan is held this Wednesday evening at the parsonage. The quarterly meeting services of the U. B. denomination will be held at Burtville next Saturday and Sunday, at which time the church will be dedi- cated. COSTELLO POINTERS.

Mr. and Mrs. John Turney and daughter came up from Genesee and spent Sunday with Costello friends. Than Glassmire, O. J.

Rees and Wm. Shear were guests of the Moran house last week. Mrs. P. Cassidy and daughter visited Costello friends last week.

Mrs. C. Foster and Mrs. Henry Moore were called to East Fork Sunday by the serious illness of their father, Mr. Paterson.

John and Martin McCarty were called to Wayne county Thursday by the sudden death of their mother. Mrs. Mott, of Bradford, is a guest at the Costello house. Mr. Palmatier, who has been so very sick, is thought to be getting better; also Joe Adams.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Swanson, a boy; also Mr. and Mrs. Will Cuddy have a boy added to their family, and Mr.

and Mrs. William Tracy, a girl. WEST PIKE FACTS, Sickness still prevails in our midst. C. C.

Flynn's little daughter is lying almost at the point of death with that dread disease diphtheria. A counsel of physicians was held last night and every effort is being put forth to save her life. Miss Lulu Foster and brother Clyde, who have been so very low with fever, are gaining slowly. Harold and Winifred Martin are also recovering. Several cases of fever and pneumonia are reported from Jimtown, two miles above Work on the new Baptist church is progressing, and it is hoped will be far enough along to permit of its being used for church service this winter.

Business is lively, notwithstanding the unusual amount of sickness, and logs and bark are constantly moving. RAYMOND DISPATCHES. Mrs. Niles, of Alfred, N. visited her neice, Mrs.

J. T. Smith, recently. Mr. and Mrs.

G. W. Parker were shopping in Ulysses Saturday. William Cool and family, of Buffalo, N. are visiting his parents at Andrews Settlement.

Our teacher, Miss Jessie Cool, went home on Friday night that she might visit with them over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Meeker attended the oyster supper at Warren Gridley's in Ulysses Center Friday evening. W.

B. Cutler, of Genesee, was buried in the cemetery here Friday last. Miss Manda Raymond visited Coudersport friends over Sunday. George Hassen does not seem to improve as fast as his many friends would like to have him. He is very low.

A. B. Whipple has sold his cows to Rossen Youngs of Newfield. ELEVEN MILE AFFAIRS. Wedding bells will soon ring.

Anna Richey has returned from Rexville. Miss Fate Sullivan is having excellent success in her school. Quarterly meetings will be held at this place Saturday and Sunday. Miss Anna Maginnis visited Wellsville friends Saturday last. Bert MeGregor made a flying trip to this place last Sunday.

Mrs. T. C. Walker has moved to Wellsville. She will be greatly missed by her many friends.

J. McCormick, of Wellsville, was the guest of friends here Sunday last. Anna Dorley, of Chrystal, recently visited at her uncle's, D. Maginnis'. Those who believe chronic diarrhoea to be incurable should read what Mr.

P. E. Grisham, of Gaars Mills, has to say on the subject, viz: "I have been a sufferer from chronic diarrhoea ever since the war, and have tried all kinds of medicines for it. At last I found a remedy that effected a cure and that was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy." This medicine can always be depended upon for colic, cholera morbus, dysentery and diarrhoea. It is pleasant to take and never fails to effect a cure.

25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all druggists. THE POTTER ENTERPRISE, OCTOBER 21, 1896. ROULETTE ENTERPRISE. C. Ward, of Port Allegany was on streets Monday.

our Charley Fessenden has employment in Olean. E. P. O'Brien and Will Dick, of Buffalo, were in town Monday. Mrs.

Woodward, of the Union house, has returned from a visit at Keating Summit. Mrs. Walter Knowlton, of Port Allegany, and Mrs. Cornell were calling on friends here Monday. Mrs.

Charley Knowlton and Mett Lewis have been visiting relatives in Tioga county. Mr. and Mrs. Aden Burt of Burtville were in town Saturday. Mrs.

Ida Averson and Miss Cunningham, of Olean, returned home Saturday. Miss Lulu Booth had a birthday party for her little friends Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Laura Marsh, who has been home on account of illness, returned to her school at Coudersport Saturday. Mrs.

John Holleran, of Coudersport, is home with her parents here quite ill. Hollis Lyman is attending Westbrook's Commercial College at Olean. Mrs. John Croft will entertain the M. E.

Aid Society Friday afternoon. A conundrum supper for the benefit of Rev. Feathers Wednesday evening at K. O. T.

M. hall. Mrs. Fitch and, daughter have r'eturned from visiting friends in West Bingham. Nellie B.

Pfeiffer, of Ronlette, has: a new invoice of millinery this week. Trimmed hats from $1.00 up; outing flannels, children's underwear, cloaking and baby hoods very cheap. INEZ HAPPENINGS. Mrs. S.

W. Baker entertained her Sunday school class last Friday evening and all report an enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. Will Case, of Dingman Run, spent Sunday with Mrs.

Mary Case of this place. Miss Mary Hartwick is visiting her brother at Costello. Mr. John Dean is spending a few days at Hornellsville, N. Y.

Mrs. Maria White returned from Oswayo on Friday, where she has been visiting her daughter. Mrs. W. Hartwick and children, of Costello, spent Saturday and Sunday at Mrs.

C. Quimby's. Mr. and Mrs. Scias, of Portville, N.

are guests of O. H. Crosby and family. Mrs. Maggie Crosby, of Logue, is spending the week with relatives in this place.

Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Kimball, of Ayers Hill Sundayed at Adam Hartwick's. Winnie Glaspy spent Sunday with her parents. John Bloomer, of Ayers Hill, is pressing hay for Isaac Mitchell on the Gorham farm.

H. N. Quimby Sundayed with friends in this place. W. H.

Hartwick and J. H. Merriman took dinner at Mrs. C. Quimby's Sunday.

BURTVILLE TALK. Orilla Grover, of Port Allegany, was visiting relatives in this place last week. The Burtville Ladies Aid will meet at Mrs. Arnot's October 20. All are invited.

Born, to Mrs. Merril Dexter, a boy. Mrs. Rev. Jordan is on the gain.

Mr. and Mrs. Ford, of Port Allegany, were visiting at B. B. 1 Reed's last week.

Some of the women of Burtville papered the new church last Friday. M. C. Burt was at Smethport during institute week. Guy Burt has gone to Buffalo, accompanied by Billy Tauscher of Roulette.

Mrs. Anna Burr of Lillibridge creek is reported sick with fever. She is at her parents' home on Sartwell Creek. Mr. Earle, the Farmers Alliance lecturer, is visiting his many friends in this place.

Jasper Card was home from Liberty over Sunday, where he is teaching school. Aden Burt, one of our enterprising millwrights, is working for Dr. Ellison at Coudersport. MILLPORT REPORTS. Messrs.

Frank and Fred Reed made a business trip to Coudersport last week. W. G. Van Kuren, we are informed. will soon move his family to Roulette.

Ernest Hyde and wife will commence housekeeping soon in the Van Kuren house. Roscoe Warner has accepted a position at Steam Valley. is a hustler in his line. The local dramatic company will give an entertainment at Sharon Center G. A.

R. Hall Friday evening under the auspices of the W. R. C. A large attendance is expected and no pains are being spared.

-Ayer's Hair Vigor, which has outlived and superseded hundreds of similar preparations, is undoubtedly the most fashionable as well as economical hair-dressing in the market. By its use, the poorest head of hair soon becomes luxuriant and beautiful. Two More Deaths. Died in Sharon, Sunday, October 11, Mrs. Eliza A.

Graves, aged 73 years. The funeral was held on Tuesday last, and the interment was in the Clara cemetery. Died in Eulalia, October 15th, Mrs. Olive Wedsworth. The deceased left four children--one son and three daughters.

-Save money by going to Metzger's bakery and getting a good square meal at half the price of any other place in town. Institute Week. The Teachers' Institute will be held from October 26 to 30. The instructors will be Dr. N.

C. Shaffer, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania; Miss Anna Buckbee, California, S. N. S. of Pennsylvania; Dr.

A. F. Smith, West Chester, S. N. S.

of Pennsylvania; Dr. Heber Holbrook, Clarion, S. N. S. of Pennsylvania.

On Monday evening, October 26, Gen. John B. Gordon will deliver his great lecture on "The Last Days of the Confederacy." On October 28 there will be a concert by the Lyric Quartette, assisted by "Judge" Green, humorist, and October 29 there will be a lecture on "The Secret of Character Building," by John B. DeMotte. Don't forget the dates nor fail to hear these great instructors and entertainers.

-Oysters were never finer than at the present time. Sold by the dish or quantity at Metzger's bakery. A Miraculous Recovery. Fred L. Buckley, the carpenter who fell from the spire of St.

John's church, a distance of 95 feet to the ground, about nine weeks ago, is still confined to his bed at his home 102 Eighth street. His badly fractured limbs are slowly mending and he hopes within six or eight weeks more to have some use of them. His recovery seems almost miraculous and in no small part is due to the untiring care given him by his plucky little wife. Mr. Buckley says he has but a slight recollection, and that, he is almost inclined to believe is imaginary, of the awful accident or of anything else that happened on the day that it occured, before or after the fall.

-Olean Times. -A large coffee mill as good as new for sale at half price. Enquire at Wm. Metzger's. An Able Argument.

W. L. Lillibridge, of Port Allegany, and C. Lee Peck, of this borough, addressed the free silver element of Andrews Settlement on Friday evening last. At the close of Lee's oration he stated that if any in the audience desired to ask any questions on the financial issues of the day he would be pleased to answer them.

Some one then inquired "what effect the free and unlimited coinage of silver would have upon the pension of the old soldier," to which he replied "that while it would undoubtedly depreciate the money value of the monthly stipend, it was hoped that the Democratic party would increase the pensions to that extent that the pensioner would suffer no loss." The idea of a Democratic Congress or Senate raising the pension of a man who wore the blue! Croup Quickly Cured. MOUNTAIN GLEN, children were suffering with croup when received a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It afforded almost instant relief. A. THORNTON.

This celebrated remedy is for sale by all druggists. OBITUARY. It is with profound regret that we record the death of Carl Snyder, son of Wm. Snyder, of Sweden Hill, who died on Thursday morning last after a five days illness of typhoid fever, which from the first assumed an aggravated form. The young man was but 21 years of age and was married about six weeks ago to a charming young lady of Sweden, who is left to mourn his loss together with his father and a number of sisters.

Mr. Snyder was living at the ofd home farm and was a young man highly respected by all who knew him. The funeral was held from the residence on Saturday Morning last, the enterment being in the Sweden Hill cemetery. The ENTERPRISE extends heartfelt sympathy to the sorrowing friends. -A few weeks ago the editor was taken with a very severe cold that caused him to be in a most miserable condition.

It was undoubtedly a bad case of la grippe, and recognizing it as dangerous he took steps to bring about a speedy cure. From the advertisement of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and the many good recommendations included therein, we concluded to make a frst trial of the medicine. To say that it was satisfactory in its results is putting it very mildly, indeed. It acted like magic, and the result was a speedy and permanent cure. We have no hesitancy in recommending this excellent Cough Remedy to anyone afflicted with a cough or cold in any -The Banner of Liberty, Libertytown, Maryland.

The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all druggists. NEW GOODS AND LOW PRICES! A full line of Men's, Boys and Youth's Winter Mittens and Gloves. Cold weather is fast approaching and you need them. New Canned Goods of all kinds. A full line of Porter's Famous Flour, the best made, try a sack and be convinced.

Bailed Hay and Straw at right prices. AMBERG BLANCHARD, Main Street, South Side. GENERAL ELECTION PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, by an Act of General Assembly Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to regulate the nomination and election of public officers, requiring certain expenses incident thereto to be paid by the several counties and punishing certain offenses in regard to such elections," a proved the 10th day of June, it is made notice duty of the sheriff of every county to give of every general election to be held therein, and in such notice to enumerate the officers to be elected, to give a list of all the nominations to be voted for in said county, and to designate the places at which the election is to be held. Therefore, E. M.

Gillon, High Sheriff of Potter, county, do hereby make known and proclaim to the qualified electors of Potter county that a general election will be TUESDAY, the THIRD DAY OF BER, A. D. 1896, (being the Tuesday next following the first Monday of said month) in the several districts in said county as follows: Abbott-In the hotel of August Voss. Allegany-In wagon shop of R. C.

Plants, Andrews Settlement. Austin-In new borough building on Main street, near hose house. Bingham--In Bingham Center schoolhouse. Clara-In the new town hall on the W. A.

Cole Coudersport- Ward in the court house. Second Ward in the Knights of Labor building. Eulalia-In tenement house of John D. formerly occupied by W. H.

Moore, near residence of said Earl, in Eulalia township East Fork-In the hotel of Joseph S. Hull, in the village of Conrad. Genesee -In Genesee village, at the house of A. C. Allis.

Harrison-In the house of William Smith. -In schoolhouse at Hebron Center. Sunderlinville, E. A. G.

F. A. I. ball. Homer, In township building at Inez.

Keating, In school building. Lewisville, In the opera house of M. W. Gridley. Oswayo, In the hotel known as the Lee house.

Galeton Borough, In the opera Pike, At the house of M. Kilbourn at West Pike. Portage, Pleasant In Valley, township In schoolhouse building, Near' shool house. Roulette, In I. 0.

0. F. hall. Sharon, In the house of P. D.

Hawley at Shingle House. Stewardson, In the old schoolhouse at Cross Fork. Summit, township hall near Jackson's. Sweden, In opera house at Sweden Valley. Sylvania.

In ostello's boarding house. Ulysses, In hall of w. J. Grover rat Newfield West Branch, In the house Thressia Streitz. Wharton, In the storehouse on the Seibert farm, at the mouth of East Fork.

At which time and place the qualified electors will vote by ballot for the following officers to be elected, namely: REPUBLICAN. Milton J. Fiery Noah Pettebone Jounthon Brown John Martyn, Sr John A. Siugmaster William R. Wharton Jesse F.

Bodine For President and Vice President, McKinley and Hobart Presidential Electors. Joseph Wharton Alexander E. Patton William Witherow Peter L. Kimberly John S. Pearson Allen B.

Rorke Frank P. Hendley William M. Taggart Leonard Myers Joseph H. Huddell William F. Solly John Fritz Henry Johnson John H.

Landis Everett Warren Eider Wellington Wilde Harrison Ball David W. Miller Henry C. Prevost James V. Brown Frederick H. Eaton George Barron Miller Reuben Hathaway Shindel George Thompson Swank Samuel Edward Wilson Wi liam Maurice Randolph Emanuel Wertheimer Josiah Speer Edward Everett Abrams Isador Sobel William Schnur Joseph J.

Campbell at- Large in Congress. Galusha A. Grow Samuel A. Davenport Representative in Congress. Horace B.

Packer Senator In the General Assembly. Walter T. Merrick Representative in the General Assembly. Walter Wells Prothonotary, Sanford H. Lewis, Register and Recorder.

James H. Dexter Commsssioners George W. Stevens Ira Barclay Auditors. F. M.

Van Wegen Leon L. Cole DEMOCRATIC. For President and Vice President, Bryan and Sewall Presidential Electors. Thomas Sterrett Lewis N. Ireland Alexander H.

Coffroth Thomas G. Delahunty John H. Keenan Albert Hicks John I. Taylor Thomas McCullough John Hagan Robert A. Thompson Charles B.

Kaier John B. Storm Thomas E. Haak Charles F. Hengier, Jr Charles H. Schadt Thomas R.

Phillips Joseph S. Sartain John K. Royal John M. Carroll Charles J. Reilly J.

P. Hoffa Michael Delaney A. J. Brady George W. Rhine C.

Patton William Weihe Samuel W. Black John J. McFarland C. H. Akens John L.

McKinney Hackett James J. King -at-Large in Congress, De Witt C. De Witt Jerome T. Ailman Representative in Congress. L.

B. Seibert Senator in the General Assembly J. Burt Representative in the General Assembly. D. H.

Cobb Prothonotary. Harry A. Johnston Register and Recorder. W. H.

Tassell Commissioners. Ford A. Nelson John W. Lewis Auditors. Jerome P.

Gates Martin PROHIBITION. For President and Vice President, Levering and Johnson Presidential Electors. James Mansel Samuel Daggy Hiram De Walt Oliver H. Holcomb Andrew Hertzel John Zeigler Edward Campbell William M. Stauffer Lewis L.

Bliss Frank B. Lynch George Irwin Silas C. Swallow A Foster Mullin J. W. Rugh Robert S.

Glass Geo W. Kessler Joel R. Merriman Benjamin Cannon George G. Ritchie Grant U. Hopkins Horace Walton Joseph B.

Holtz Howard Coates George Drayton James J. King John B. Storm Thomas E. Haak Charles F. Rengier, Jr.

Charles H. Schadt Thomas R. Phillips Charles D. Kaier John K. Royal John M.

Carroll Charles I. Reilly P. Hoffa Joseph S. Sartain A. J.

Brady George W. Rhine John (1. Patton William Weihe Samuel W. lack Juhn J. McFarland U.

H. Akens John L. McKinney S. S. Hackett Michael Delaney Representative-at-Large in Congress, De Witt C.

De Witt Jerome T. Ailman Richard T. Ogden Representative-at-Large in Congress. Abraham A. Barker George Alcorn Commissioners.

F. P. Huntington Martin Lewis Auditors. Henry Harris Anson S. Burt PEOPLES.

For President and Vice President, Bryan and Watson Presidential Electors. Alexander H. Coffroth Thomas Sterrit Lewis N. Ireland Thos. G.

Delahunty John H. Keenan John J. Taylor Thos. McCullough Robert A. Thompson Chas.

D. Kaier Jos. S. Sartain Albert M. Hicks John Hagan William Stabler John B.

Storm Thos. E. Haak Chas. Rengier, Jr Chas. H.

Schadt Thos R. Phillips John K. Royal John M. Carroll Chas. J.

Riley J. P. Hoffa A. J. Brady Geo.

W. Rhine John C. Patton William Wethe John J. McFarland C. A.

Akens John L. McKinney S. H. Hackett Michael Delaney Samuel W. Black Jerome Representatives at Large in Congress.

T. Ailman John P. Correll Representative in Congress. L. B.

Seibert Senator in the General Assembly. J. C. Burt D. Representative in the General Assembly H.

Cobb Prothonotary. Harry A. Johnston Register and Recorder W. H. Tassell Commissioners.

Ford A. Nelson John W. Lewis Auditors. Jerome B. Gates R.

M. Martin SOCIALIST LABOR. For President and Vice President, Matchett and Maguire Presidential Electors. William H. Musk Clement J.

Cassidy Charles W. Ricker Genrge G. Anton Edward Kuppinger Theodore Gey Abraham Levin Max Keller Gustave Zeglin Theodore Rickert Ernest Duering William Feinhals Herman Kreimer Herman Broegger Martin V. Held Brooklyn B. Levengood Ebenezer C.

Howarth John H. Lewis Thomas Grundy James Cooke Adam Kuttenberger Anthony Beckers Simmon Segal John H. Dreher John Shmeleskey Micah Bogan John G. Smith John Lentz Charles F. Englert William H.

Thomas Michael Klemann Josiah W. Burrows Representative in Congress. Emil Guwang Fred W. Long NATIONAL. For President and Vice President.

Bentley and Southgate Presidential Electors. J. Acker Guss William Cooper Robert Cameron James Dodds William F. Boyd Jacob Ruse Samuel B. Luckie Clement L.

Butnell Albert T. Sharpley Isaac D. Johnson Isaiah v. Landis Joseph Kift. Jr Thomas H.

Webb Daniel M. Weidman Francis P. Willits Samuel E. Horner Chester R. Drown Clayton G.

Miller Chas. W. Van Syckle Joseph Phillips John W. Ballard Davis Yarnall Joshua Hannum Francis W. Hicks.

Hanson P. Passmore Charles Gerner Allan C. Brosius A. Matter William H. Farley Elmer E.

Gregory John H. Alcorn John Dennis Representative at-Large in Congress. Henry S. Kent I G. Pollard FREE SILVER.

For President and Vice-President, Bryan and Sewall Presidential Electors. Alexander H. Coffroth Thomas Sterrett Lewis N. Ireland Thomas Delbaunty John H. Keenan Albert M.

Hicks John J. Taylor Thomas McCullough John Hagan Robert A Thompson McKINLEY CITIZENS. For President and Vice President, McKinley and Hobart Presidential Electors. Joseph Wharton Alexander E. Patton William Witherow Peter L.

Kimberly John S. Pearson Allen B. Rorke Frank P. Hendley William M. Taggart Leonard Myers Joseph H.

Huddell William F. Solly John Fritz Henry Johnson John H. Landis Everett Warren Hider Wellington Wilde Harrison Ball David W. Miller Henry C. Prevost James V.

Brown Frederick H. Eaton George Barron Miller Reuben Hathaway Shindel George Thompson Swank Samuel Edward Wilson William Maurice Randolph Emanuel Wertheimer Josiah Speer Edward Everett Abrams Isador Sobel William Schnur Joseph C. Campbell Representatives-at-Large in Congress. Galusha A. Grow Samuel A.

Davenport CROW ANTI-COMBINE. President and Vice President, McKinley and Hobart Presidential Electors. Joseph Wharton Alexander E. Patton William Witherow Peter L. Kimberly John S.

Pearson Allen Rorke Frank P. Hendley william M. Taggart Leonard Myers Joseph H. Huddell William F. Solly John Fritz Henry L.

Johnson John H. Landis Everett Warren Bider Wellington Wilde Harrison Ball David Miller Henry C. Prevost James V. Brown Frederick H. Eaton George Barron Miller Reuben Hathaway Shindel George Thompson Swank Samuel Edward Wilson William Maurice Randolph Emanuel Wertheimer Josiah Speer Edward Everett Abrams Isador Sobel William Schnur Joseph C.

Campbell Representative-at-Large in Congress. Galusha A. Grow Samuel A. Davenport JEFFERSONIAN. For President and Vice President, Palmer and Buckner Presidential Electors.

William M. Singerly Augustus S. Landis Stephen C. McCandless John Blanchard John Samuel Nicholas J. Griflin Charles Henry Jones Jacob Muhr Henry D.

welsh John B. Hinkson James Tracy Jeremiah S. Hess Louis Kraemer George Steinman Orlando S. Johnson George R. Wright Henry Boyer James J.

Dull Chauncey S. Russell Frederick Ely Embick Isaac West Samuel E. Henry John M. Mell Donald E. Dutton John Y.

Woods Thomas C. Lazear James Bredin James M. Hustead homas Bradford William A. Galbraith E. H.

Lamberton Frank Fielding Representative in Congress, Benjamin C. Potts Hay Walker, Jr It is further directed thot the election polls ot the several districts shall be opened at seven o'clock in the morning, and shall continue open without interruption or adjournment until seven o'clock in the evening, when the polls shall be closed. Special attention is hereby directed to Article VIII of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, as follows: SECTION 1. Every male citizen 21 years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all election: First-He shall have been a citizen of the United -tates at least one month. Second-He shall have resided in the State one year (or it having previously been a qualified eiector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned,) then six months immediately preceding the election.

Third- He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. Fourth -If twenty-one years of age or ward, he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shail have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month betore the election. SECTION 4. All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot. Every ballot voted shal be numbered in the order in which it shall be received, and the number recorded by the election officers on the list of voters, opposite the name of the elector who presents the ballot.

Any elector may write his name upon the ticket, or cause the same to be written thereon, and attested by a citizen of the district. The election officers shall be sworn or affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall have voted, unless requiree to do so as a witness in a judicial proceeding. SECTION 5. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony and breach of surety of the peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance on elections and on going to and returning therefrom. SECTION 7.

All laws regulating the holding of elections by citizens or for the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout the state, but no elector shall be deprived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being registered. SECTION 8. Any person who shall give, or promise, or offer to give, to an elector any money reward, or other valuable consideration for his vote at an election, or for withholding the same, or who shall give or promise to give such consideration to any other person or party for such elector's vote or for the withholding thereof, and any elector who shall receive or agree to receive, for himself or for another, any money, reward or other valuable consideration for his yote at an election, or for withholding the same, shall thereby forfeit the right to vote at such election: and any elector whose right to vote shall be challenged for such cause before the election officers shall be required to swear or affirm that the matter of the challenge is untrue before his vote shall be received. SECTION 9. Any person who shall, while a candidate for office, be guilty of bribery, fraud, or wilful violation of any election law, shall be forever disqualified from holding an oflice of trust or profit in this Commonwealth.

Any person convicted of wilful violation of the election laws, shall in addition to any penalties provided by law, be deprived of the right of suffrage abs: lutely for the term of four years SECTION 13. For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his presence, or lost it by reason of his absence, while employed in the service, either civil or military, of this state or ol the United States, nor while engaged 11 the navigation of the waters of the state or of the United States, or on the high seas, nor while a student of any institut on of learning, nor while kept in any poorhouse or other asylum at public expense, nor while contined in public prison. SECTION 14. District election boards shall consist of a judge and two inspectors, who shall be chosen annually by the citizens Each elector shall have the right to vote for the judge and one inspector, and each inspector shall appoint one clerk. The first election board of any new district shall be selected and vacancies in election boards filled, as shall be provided by law.

Election officers shall be privileged from arrest upon days of election and while engaved in making up and transmitting returns except upon warrant of a court of record or a judge thereof for an election fraud, for felony, or for a wanton breach of the peace. In cities they may claim exemption from jury duty during their term of service. SECTION 15. No person shall be qualified to serve as an election officer who shall hold or who shall within two months have held any (flice or appointment or employment in or under the Government of the United States. or of this state.

or of any city or county, or of any municipal board, commission or trust in any city, save only justices of the peace and aldermen, notaries public and persons in the militia service of the United States; nor shall any election officer be eligible to any civil office to be filled at an election at which he shall serve, save only to such subordinate municipal or local officers below the grade of city or county offices as shall be designated by legislative, executive or judiciary department of the state, or of the United States, or of any city or incorporated district, and also that every member of Congress and of the State Legislature, and of the select or mon council of any city, or commissioners of any incorporated district, is by law incapable of holding or exercising, at the same time. the office or appointment of jduge, inspector or clerk of any election in this Commonwealth; and that no inspector, judge or other officer of any such election shall be eligible to any offlce to be then voted for except that of an election officer. The Act of Assembly regulating the nomination and election of public officers, approved June 10, 1893, provides as follows: SECTION 14. The face of every ballot which shall be printed in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall contain the names of all candidates whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot shall have been duly made, except such as may have died or withdrawn arranged as hereinafter provided. The names of the candidates of each political party or body of electors shall be arranged under the titles of offices for which they are nominated in parallel columns, with the party or political appellation at the head of each column.

The said columns shall be inclosed in heavy lines and separated from each other by a clear space of at least oneeighth of an inch and shall be printed in the order, as nearly as possible, of the votes obtained in the state at the last state eleotion by the parties or bodies nominating, obtained beginning with the party or body which the highest vote for the candidates, at the head of its column, at such election, When presidential electors are to be voted for. there shall be printed above each of the said columns the names of the candidates for presidential electors nominated by the party or body of citizens named in the column, arranged in groups with the prrty or political appellation, and the surnam of the candidates for president and vice president at the head of each group. There stall be printed above each columh of candidates of a political party, a circle three- fourths of an inch around in diameter, and there shall be printed but without the circle the following words: "For a straight ticket mark within the circle." There shall be left at the right of the group of candidates for presidential electors, and of the list of candidates for other offices. (or under the title of the office itself for which an election is to be held, in case there be no didates legally nominated theretor) as many blank spaces as there are persons to be voted for by each voter for such office, in which spaces the voter may insert the name of any person whose name is not printee on the ballot, as a candidate for such office, and such insertion shall Count as a vote without the. cross mark hereinafter mentioned.

Whenever the approval of a constitutional amendment or other question is submitted to the vote of the people, such question shall be printed upon the ballot in a brief form and lollowed by the words, "yes" and "no," and if such question be submitted at an election of public officers, it shall be printed below the list of candidates. The ballot shall be so printed as to give to each voter a clear opportunity to designate his choice of candidates by a cross mark (x) in a square of sufficient size to the right of the name of each candidate and inside of the line inclosing the column, and in like manner answers to the questions submitted by similar marks in squares at right of the words "yes" and and on the ballot may be printed instructions how to mark and such words as will aid the voter to do this, as "mark one," "mark three," and the like. Prov ded, That a voter may designate his choice of an entire group of candidates for presidential electors by one cross mark in a large square, which shall be placed at the right of the surnames of the candidates tor President and Vice dent at the head of such group, and such mark shall be equivalent to a mark against every name in the group. Provided further, That a voter may designate his choice of all the candidates of a political party by one cross in the circle above such column, and such mark shall be equivalent to a mark against every name in the column. SECTION 15.

All the ballots used at the same voting place at any election shall be allke, and shall be at least six inches long and four inches wide; they shall be printed with the same kind or kinds of type (which shall not be smaller than the size known as "brevier" or eight-point body), upon white paper, without any impression or mark to istinguish one from another, and of sufficient thickness to prevent the printed matter from showing through. Every ballot shall be attached to a stub or countertoil, and all the ballots for the same voting place shall be bound together in convenient numbers in books, in such manner that each ballot may be detached and removed separately. A diagonal folding line shall be printe 1 on the right hand upper corner of the back of each ballot, and the said corner sball be edged with adhesive paste so that the corner, when folded at the folding line, can be securely fastened down over the umber now required by the constitution of this Common wealth, so that the said number cannot be seen without unfas ening or cutting open the part 80 fastened down. The top of each ballot shall have a margin of equal size on both back and face, and the said iolding line shall be upon this margin, and the ace between the folding line and the paste shall be filled in with solid printed, and nothing else shall be printed on the margin except instructions how to mark. Provided, That if at any time the said constitution shall cease to require ballots to be numbered.

the foregoing requirements as to the folding line, the margin and the adhesive paste shall be void. On the back of each ballot or on the right hand side of the back. it the ballot is printed in two columns, there shall he printed as a caption, "official ballot for." followed by the designation of the voting place for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the election and a facsimile of the signatures of the county commissioners of the respective counties who have caused the ballots to be printed. A record of the number of ballots printed and furnished to each voting place shall be kept and preserved by the county commissioners of the several counties. When it is shown by affidavit that mistakes or omission has occurred in the publication of names or description of candidates in the printing of the ballots, the court of common pleas of the district or county or any judge thereof may, upon the application of any qualified elector of the district or county, require the county commis.

sioners to correct the mistake or omission, or to show cause why they should not. The following are the preamble and first four sections of the act of June 4tb, 1866, entitled, "A further supplement to the election laws of this Commonwealth:" Whereas. by an act of the Congress of the United States entitled, "An act to amend the several acts heretofore passed, to provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," and approved March 3d, 1865, all persons who have deserted the military or naval service of the United States, and who have not been discharged or relieved from the penalty or disability therein provided, and deemed and taken to bave voluntarily relinq ished and forfeited their rights to citizenship and are deprived of exercising any rights of citizens thereof; And whereas. Persons not citizens of the (Toi ed States. are not, under constitution and laws of Penusylvania, qualified electors of the Commonwealth.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc, That in all elections to be held in this mmonwealth it shall be unlawful for the jadge or inspector of any such election to receive any ballot or ballots from any person or persons. embraced in the provisions, and subject to the disability March imposed by said act of Congress, approved 3d, 1865, and it shall be unlawful for any such person to offer to vote any ballot or ballots. SEC 2. That if such judge and inspector of election, or any of them, shall receive or consent to receive the ballot of any disqualified person, he or they so offering shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, he shall.

for each offense be sentenced to pay a tine of not less than one hundred dollars and to undergo imprisonment in the jail of the proper county for not less than sixty days SEC. 3. That if any person deprived of zenship and disqualified as aforesaid shall, at any election hereafter 10 be held in this Commonwealth, vote, or tender to the officers thereof and to vote a ballot or ballots, any person so offering shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of quarter sessions in this monwealth shall, for each offense, be punished in a like manner as is provided in the pre eding section of this act. in the case of officers of election receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots. SEC 4.

That if any person shall hereafter persuade or advise any person or 1 ersons de prived of citizenship and disquaufied a8 aforesaid, to offer any ballot or ballots to the officers of any election hereafter to be held iu this Commonwealth, or shall persuade or advise any such officer to receive any ballot or ballots from any person deprived of citizenship offend disqualified as afor said, such perand son SO ng shall he guilty of a misdecourt of quarter sessions of this thereof in Common- any meanor, and upon conviction wealth, shall be punished in like manner As provided in the second section of this act in the such case of officers of such elections receiving unlawful ballot or ballots sheriffs in the several a a a counties of this ComSEC. 8, That it shall be the duty of the monwealth to insert in their proclamatio is of elections hereafter to be held the first tour sections of this act, with the preamble thereof. Given under my hand, at my office in Couof our Lord, day thousand ctober, in the year dersport, the 21st one eight hundred and ninety six, and in the ove hundred and twentieth year of the Independence of the United States. F. M.

GILLON. Sheriff,.