The Perry County Democrat from Bloomfield, Pennsylvania • 2

PROHIBITION SERMON. 'LECTION PROCLAMATION. and disappointed hopes of fathers and mothers. But we are the rum-power and mighty, "and shall the prey be taken the mighty and if any election officer or officers shall receive a second vote on the same day, by virtue of the same certificate, excepting where sons arc entitled to vote because of commissioner of any incorporated district, is by law, incapable of holding or exercising the same time the office or appointment judge, inspector or clerk, of any elections this Commonwealth, and no inspector. At Bolivar a man, woman and child were seen floating down in a lot of drift.

The mass of debri9 commenced to part and by desperate efforts the husband and father succeeded in getting his wife and little one were congregated on the platform station at Curvensville and said "Gentlemen, had I a shot gun with mo a half an hour ago I would now be a murderer, yet with no fear of ever having to suffer for my crime. Two miles below here I watched three men going along the banks stealing jewels NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. "GOD SAVE THE COMMOX J. LAIIR. High Sheriff of the county of Perry, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by virtue of a Proclamation issued James A.

Beaver, Governor of tins Common wealth, dated at Ilarrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1889, to me directed, do hereby make known give this notice to the Electors of the county aforesaid, that an election will be in said county of Perry on Tuesday, the 18t7i day of June, 1889. The Polls to open at 7 a. m. aud to close 7 p. at which time the freemen of Perry county will vote by ballot for or against the following Amendments to the Constitution of this Commonwealth, namely The first Amendment being as follows AMENDMENT.

There shall be an additional article to said Constitution to be designated as Article XIX, as follows ARTICLE XIX. The manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale of intoxicating liquor, to bs used as a beverage, is hereby prohibited, and any violation of this prohibition shall be a misdemeanor, punishable as thall be provided law. I he manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale of intoxicating liquor for other purposes than as a beverage may be allowed in such manner only as may be prescribed by law. The General Assembly shall, at the first session succeeding the adoption of this article of the Constitution, enact laws with adequate penalties for its enforcement. Theecond Amendment being as follows: AMENDMENT.

Sliike out from Ecction one, of article I eight, the four qualifications for voters which reads as follows "If twenty-two years of age or upwards, he shall have paid, withintwo years, a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months, and paid at least one month before the election," so that the section which reads as follows: "Every male citizen, twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifica tions, shall ba, entitled to vote at all elec tions First. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. Second. He shall have resided in the State one year (or if, having previously been a qualified tlector or native born citi zen of the State, he shall have removpd therefrom and returned, then six months) im mo-' lately preceding the election Third. lie shall have resided in the elec tioa district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election fourth, it twenty two years ol age or upwards, he shall have paid, within two years, a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least tw.i months and paid at least one month belore the shall be amended, so as to read as follows Every male citizen twenty one years of age possessing the following qualifications.

shall be entitled to vote at the polling place ot tho election district ot which ho shall at the time be a resident and not elsewhere First He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least thirty days. Second. lie shall have resided in the State one year (or if, having previously been a qualined elector or native born citi zen of the State, he shall removed therefrom and returned, tlf six months) immediately preceding the election. Third. lie shall have resided in the elec tion district where be shall effer to vote at least thirty days immediately preceding the election.

The Legislature, at the session thereof next after the adoption of this sec tion, shall, and from time to time thereafter may, enact laws to properly enforce this provision. Fourth. Every male citizen of the age of twenty one years, who shall have been a citizen for thirty days and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an elec tion, except at municipal elections, aod for the last thirty day a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident and not elsewhere for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elected by tie people l'rovided, That in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be de prived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district, and the Legis lature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and nlaet which such absent electors may vote, and for the icturn and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respec tively reside. tutu. iror tne purpose ot voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States or the State, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of the State or of the high seas, nor while a student of any college or seminary of learn ing, nor while Kept as any almshouse or public institution, except the inmates of any home for disabled and indigent soldiers and sailors, who, for the purpose of voting, shall be ieem'd to reside 111 the election district where said home is located.

Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs. the citizens who shall be entitled to th right of suffrage hereby established." 1 also Hereby matte known and give no tice that the places for holding the aforesaid general election in the several boroughs and townships within the county ot ferry, are as follows, to wit At the school house 111 iew uermantown, lor I oboyne township. At the Town Hall in the borough of Blain for said borough. At the Town Hall in the borough of Ulain for Jackson township. At the school house in Landisburg, for the borough ot Lnndisnurg.

At the school house in Landisburg, for Tyrone township, and also for that portion of Madison township known as Henry's alley, per act of Assembly ot March 4 1842. At the shoemaker shop of C. Junk's heirs, in the village of Andersonburg, as the place of holding elections in the Southwestern division of Madison township, except tnat part known as Henry's Valley, as above stated and At the shoemaker shop of Samuel Hol- lenbaugh at Kistler postoffice, in the other district of Madison township, called Sandy Hill, as the place of holding elections in that district. At the school house at the cross roads near Christian Heishlcy's, in Wheatficld township, for said township. At the school room on the ground floor of the public high school building on Main street in Marj'sviile, tor said borough.

At Montgomery's tavern, for Buffalo township. At the house formerly of Jacob Gliss, in Liverpool, for eaid borough. At the school house in Newport, for said borough. At the school house in Newport, for Oli ver township. At the bouse of Wm.

T. Dewalt, (former ly Levi Hair,) for Carroll township. At the school house in Duncannon for Penn township. At the school house in Duncannon for said borough. At the school house known as the Mill town brick school house, in Spring town ship, for said township.

At the new school house in Millerstown for Greenwood township. At the school house in Millerstown for said borough. At the new brick school house in New Buffalo for said borough. At Steel's new school house for Watts township. At Pine Grove school house for the township of Miller.

At the new No. 2 school house, in Howe township, for said township. At the Court House, in the borough of Bloomfield. tor said borough. At the Court House, in the borough of Bloomfield, for Centre township.

At the Jefferson school house for the township of Savillc. At the school house in Markelville, for the township of Juniata. At the house of E. D. Owen, in the borough of Liverpool, lor the township of Liverpool.

At the Keystone school house for the township of Rye. At the school house No. 5 for Tuscarora township. I also make known aud give notice, as in and by the loth section of the aforesaid act, I am directed, "that every person excepting Justices ot the Peace, who shall hold any office or appointment of office or trust under the United States, or this State, or any city or incorporated distiict, whether a commissioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent who is or shall be employed under legislative, executive or judiciary departments of this State, or of the United States, or of any incorporated city or district, and also that every member of Congress and of the State Legislature aud of the select or common council of any city, or at of in be are, at ous if, or are of of or of A BY liEV. WJi.

St. BUROIIFIEI.D. New Bloomfield, May 28, 1880. Kev. W.

M. BUnCHFIELD. Dear Sir Your cermon, delivered in the PrcBby-toriau Church in this borough on last Sabbath evening, on Prohibition, was timely and instructive, and we listened to it with so much pleasure and profit that we think its publication in the county pipers would be productive of much good to the cause of Prohibition, and be the means of inducing voters to attend the election June and vote on the side of right and justice, to put down this monstrous evil rum-power. We, therefore, respectfully aud earnestly retjnest a copy of it for publication. Very Respectf ully, "Yours, JA8.

B. IlACliETT. Wm. OniKR. John U.

Adams. Landisbubr, May 29, 1890. Messrs. Hackett, Grif.r asd Adams. Dear Sirs Appreciating the compliment paid to me, by your request for my sermon on the Amendment, for publication, I cheerfully submit it to your judgment and send it.

Yours, fraternally, W.M. M. Bcrohfield. Isaiaii49: 24 and 25. the prey be taken from the mighty or the lawful captive be delivered? But thus saith the Lord, even Vie captives of the mighty shall he taken aray, and the prey of the terrible shall be dtliwred; for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy In the brief time allotted to a single sermon, our attention must be devoted mainly to the 2-lth verso.

But in considering the 24th, we must also keep 111 view the 25th. if wc would understand the full import of the text. These inspired utterances relate; to the conquest of Judea and Jerusalem, by the Chaldeans, the captivity of the Jews, and the promise of their deliverance. More than a century after these prophecies were given, Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Jews and carried the survivors into cap tivity. Nebuchadnezzar was proud and ambitious.

He possessed abilities of a high order. Under his energetic reign the Chal dean empire reached the zenith of its glorv. mi 1 I lie ousiness ol 111s me was conquest, lie lived to subjugate aud to enslave the con quered, and to build, adorn and fortify the city of Babylon. He aimed to make it the mightiest and most magnificent city in the world. No matter about the treasures and lives wasted so that this "gnat Babylon winch 1 have built" shall surpass all th cities of the world in Greatness.

The treasures wrested from the conquered were employed for this object. 1 hese toil crs these hearers 01 burdens, whose unre quired labors and sufferings and whose lives arc given to tins work are lus captives. Babylon must become impregnable and magnificent and be enriched, though it be by treasures taken from the conquered and l)V the, forced servitude of captives. It might be unjust. It might bo cruel.

Tl lives of multitudes might be sacrificed. The lives of multitudes more might be made miserable. But with tins monarch "might makes right" and Babylon must be great Iy the law ot might, and under the su preine demands of Babylon's interests these captives are "lawful captives" the "prey ot the mighty. Uaptive men, women and children may groan in anguish, in poverty, misery and suffering and in hopelessness and multitudes may sink and die under their cruel burdens bnt Babylon has the power and by the law of the conqueror, captives are the prey of the mighty. It was a law sanctioned bv the custom of the times.

As the power of their oppressor was irresistible, there could be no help for these oppressed captives, The 24th verse may be understood as the defiant challenge of the oppressor. "Shall the prey be taken from the mighty or the lawful captive delivered The defiant challenge is in answer to the prophet's pre diction of the deliverance of these suffering captives. I am Nebuchadnezzar and here is this "great Babylon which I have built' and tins mighty iiiaidcan empire. Let tne prophet talk about the deliverance of these "captives." Who is going to do it? l'erhaps the words, "shall the prey be taKen irom tlic mighty, may also express the despairing wail of broken-spirited captives. They may so far lose sight of a cov enant-keeping God and so yield to the op pressor power, as to despondingly repeat the arrogant oppressor's words "Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive be delivered?" God answers both the defiance of lie oppressor and the despondent wail of His despairing people.

"Thus saith the Lord, even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for I will contend with him that contemletl with thee and I will save thy children." JLsut mere is a power in tins state and in most of these united States, more potent tor evil, more cruel in its oppressions, producing more misery and destroying more lives than that which wasted and oppressed the Jews. It is the ruin Dower. It is power wiiube, uuiueiice uuu arrogance can hardly be estimated. Certainly no pen or tongue can ever fully portray the miseries, sorrows, suffering and death caused by intoxicating drinks. It is a gigantic monopoly, clothed with the sanction of law and custom, and wielding a power tremendous in its proportions.

Few perhaps are aware of the exteut to which it controls the politics of the country. It is a gigantic money-power corrupting in its influence over municipal affairs and the political affairs of the State and the nation. It is a gigantic Babylon, grown great in wealth, absorbing the people's money and in return giving them and their families poverty, sorrow, ruin and death. To the rum-power it matters not what the blighted hopes, ruined prospects and miseries of its victims. This modern Babylon must have the wealth of the rich and the wages of the poor.

Its power to oppress and destroy may appear when wc rennber that there were not half as many captives carried from Jerusalem to Babylon as there arc victims of the liquor traffic in Pennsylvania alone. There were probably about 22,000 captives, while in this State alone there are probibly more than 00,000 drunkards and in the United States more than 000,000. But these 000,000 victims, with broken hopes and prospects darkened for time and for eternity, are not the only sufferers. Their families suffer with them. Aud these in nocent sufferers feel the shame aud disgrace more deeply than the wretched victims of intemperance, whose reason and conscience become too much blunted to realize fully their own degradation.

Think of it. Six hundred thosand men American citizens exalted by all the rights and priviliges of this land "of the free" and yet the conquered captives of the liquor traffic and marching steadily downward towards the drunkard's grave And just as fast as these ranks are depleted by death, they are filled up and more than filled up by new recruits. Somebody's sons will be the new victims. The rum-traffic has always had enough new victims to more than fill up the falling ranks. It is securing new victims now.

It will have them. The rum-pcvver lives and thrives by conquest. Its sxistencj is maintained and its wealth aud power are accumulating by absorbing the wealth and wages of its victims by sending these victims down to death aud a dark eternity. And until the power of this destrorer is broken, it will watch for your son's wages, for his honor, for his life and for his soiil. If any doubt the magnitude of this evil, let them refer to the census report of 1880, which is said to indicate that the amount of intoxicating liquors consumed in this State alone reaches the enormous sum of yearly.

It is claimed that in the United States nine hundred millions are spent annually for intoxicating drinks. If these estimates approximate the truth, how enormous are the sums spent not for bread, not for clothing, not for pa ing debts, not for securing homes, nor for maintaining business that would give employment to men and support families, but to produce poverty, to increase the consumer's debts to mortgage his property and to ruin his fam ily. No wonder that ministers and christian men and women are pleading with God in prayer, and pleading with the voters of this State to overthrow tins destroyer of the wealth and happiness and lives of multitudes. But the arrogant rum-power, with wealth and influence with which to corrupt the ballot-box, to lead political leaders, to influence aspirants to office, and to awe busi ness men into silence, deiiantly answers "Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive be delivered We have got and are getting the people's money the wealth of the rich, and the wages of the poor the bread of wives and children. We are getting the money that might cancel mortgages, secure homes, or be laid up for old age.

And wc give in return for this money that which makes paupers, ruins character, unfits men for an honorable and useful life that which causes anger, mad ness, riot and murder, and fills almshouses and county jails. But we are rich, and getting richer. We have plenty of low drinking dens, and we have the most magnificent buildings, and gilded saloons, with every attraction which can ensnare your sons, and brothers and fathers. They are our lawful prey. If we conquer them by our intoxicating drinks and ruin them, they arc our lawful victims.

Uur business is made honorable oy the sanc tion of law license laws emanating from the Christian people of this Christian Com monwealth. "Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive be de livered hu is going to do it I reacners may preacu mat mere is a righteous God who hears the groans and counts the tears of broken-hearted wives and hungry children, and reads the grief are from who the the or they is vote dent God evil or yet all of to the naturalization of their fathers, they and persons who shall offer such second shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and csnviction thereof shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the court, but the fine shall not exceed five hundred dollars in each case, nor ths imprisonment one year the like punishment shall be inflicted on conviction of the officers of election who shall neglect or refuse to make or cause to be made the endorsement required aforesaid on said naturalization certificate- Sec. 12. If any election officer shall re or neglect to require such proof of the right of suffrage as is prescibed by this law the laws to which this is a supplement. from any person offering to vote, whose name is not on the list of assessed voter, whose right to vote is challenged by qualified voter present, and shall ad such person to vote without requiring such proof, every person so offending shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced for every such offense to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to undergo an imprison ment not more than one year, or both, at discretion of the court.

Sec. 13. As soon as the polls shall close officers of election shall proceed to count the votes cast for each amendment voted and make a full return of the same triplicate, with a return sheet in addition, all of which the votes received by each amendment shall be given after them, first in words and again in figures, and shall be signed by all of said officers, and certified by overseers if any, or if not so certified, the overseers and any officer refusing to sign or certify, or either of them, shall write upon each of the returns his or their reasons for not Bigning or certifying them. The vote, as soon as counted, shall also be publicly and fully declared from the window to the citizens present, and a brief statement showing the votes received for each amendment shall be made and signed by the election officers as soon as the vote is counted, and the same shall be immediately posted up on the door of the election house for information of the public. The triplicate returns shall be enclosed in envelopes and be sealed in preence of the officers, and one envelope with the unsealed return sheet given to the judge, which shall contain one list of voters, tally paper and oaths of officers, and another of said envelopes shall be given to the minority inspector.

All judges living within twelve miles of the prothonotary's office, or within twen ty tour miles it their residence be in a town, village or city upon the line of a railroad leading to tho county seat shall, before two o'clock post meridian of the day after the election, and all other judges shall, before twelve o'clock meridian of the second day after the election, deliver said return, together with return sheet, to the prothonotary of the court of common pleas cf the county. Given under my hand at Bloomfield, this 22nd day of May, X. D. 1889, and of the one hundred and thirteenth year of American Independence. J.

B. LAHR, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Bloomfield, May 22. 1889. STATE NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary on the last will and testament of JohD Shank, late of Liverpool borough. Perry nave been granted to tne undersigned. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and all those having claims against the same to present them duly authenticated for settlement. W. W.

SHANK, Williamsport, Pa ISAAC WILLIAMSON. Liverpool, C. H. Smiley, Att'y. Executorp.

May 29, 1889. ESTATE NOTICE. Notice is htreby given that Letters Testamentary oa the last will and testament of John Deck-ard, late of Liverpool borough, Perry deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, residing in same borough. All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make immediate pay meet, and all those having claims to present them duly authenticated for settlement. WILLIAM L.

DECKARD, Ex'r, Liverpool, Perry county. Pa. C. H. Smiley, Att'y.

May 29, 1889. TESTATE NOTICE. Notice is hereby JL2J given that Letters of Administration c. a. the estate of Geo.

C. Hollenbaugh, late of Jacksou township, Perry county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, residing in same township. All persons knowing themselves indebted to the said estate are requested to make i diate payment, and all those haviDg claims to present them duly authenticated for settlement. MARGARET E. 1IOLLENBA.UGH, Admr'x Blain, Perry county.

Pa. Jcnkin Junkin, Ally. May 22, 1889. INSTATE NOTICE. Notice is hereby iLU given that Letter of Administration on the estate of Elizabeth Baker, late of Tuscarora township.

Perry county. deceased, have bren granted to the undersigned. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly authenticated for settlement. DAVID SHULL, Adm'r. Duncannon.

Peiry county. Pa. Sfonslek MiiiiiEL, Att'ye. May 1SK9. INSTATE NOTICE.

-Notice is hereby IjJ given that Letti given that betters testamentary on the last Will and Testament of Daniel Swart late of Oliver township, Perry county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned. All persons knowing themselves indebted to the said estate are requested to makeimmediate payment and all those having claims to present them duly authenticated for settlement, SAMUEL SWARTZ, Ex'r, Mansville, Perry "Pa. W. N. Seibert, Att'y.

May 1, 1889. ESTATE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary on the last Will and Testament of Samuel Wagner, late of Spring township, Perry county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to said estate are requested 10 make imme diate payment and those haviug claims against the same to present them duly authenticated for settlement. GEORGE A.

WAGNER, Alinda, Perry SAMUEL T. WAGNER, Eddyville, Armstrong May 1, 1889. Executors. OTICE OF ASSIGNMENT. Notice is hereby given that David S.

Shumaker ami Mary E. Shumaker his wife, of Saville township, Perry county, by deed of voluntary assignment, dated April 17, 1889, have assigned all their effects, real and personal, to the undersigned in trust for the benefit of creditors All persons indebted to the said assignors are requested to make immediate payment and those having claims against the same to present them duly authenticated for settlement. WILLIAM GR1ER, New Bloomfield, MOSES SEILER, Elliottsburg, Att'y. Assignees W. N.

Skibekt April 24, 1889. INSTATE NOTICE. Notice is hereby 2J given that Letters Testamentary on the last Will and Testament of Joseph T. Steel, late of Penn township, Perry county. deceased, have been granted to the undersigned.

All persons knowing themselves indebted to the said estate arerequested to makeimmediate payment and all those haviug claims to present them duly authenticated for settlement. CHESTER L. STEEL, New Buffalo, Pa L. C. ZIMMERMAN, Duncannon, CnAS.

H. Smiley, Att'y. Executors. April 21, 1889. ESTATE NOTICE.

Notice is hereby I given that Letters Testamentary on the last Will aud Testament of Barbara Lenig, late of Centre township, Perry county, Pa deceased, have been granted to the undersigned residing in Juniata township. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment, and all those having claims against the same will present them duly authenticated for settlement. JONAS LENIG. Executor. Juniata Perry Pa.

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Attested by thousands of cures atter others tail. Advice free. Send circular. for But are there any despondent Christians, chime in with the arrogant defiance of rum-power Not because they believe rum traffic to be either a righteous thing, a blessing to the people but because look upon it as too formidable to be overcome. Jiut, now that the opportunity offered to change the organic law of the State, will auy Christian man withhold his or stay at home, because too despon to expect success?" If 1 understand what faith a righteous means, and what Christian heroism.

nieans, then Christian men will stand up for God and humanity, and for the home, and vote to deliver this Christian commonwealth from the guilt of sanctioning by its laws an from the effects of which few families wholly escape. Let each one think now over the friends and relatives you have had now have, aud see if there be not among them one or more, who has been harmed or ruined by the liquor traffic. And think of what mends, or -which ot your sons may become, the prey of the mighty. Let parents think of the pretty little whose innocent prattle nas been your joy, and over which you have been watching tor years with tender, anxious solicitude, and for whose future in life you feel the most in tense concern. You would stand between that child and danger and risk your life to shield it from harm What arc your feelings as you read the story ot Herod soldiers going into the homes ot isethlehem ami thrusting their swords through the bodies of infants and the children under two years old These murdered children in the homes and streets Bethlehem awake your indignation against the tyrant and his agents.

Yen would not vote to perpetuate the power ot s-o inhuman a destroyer But the liquor traffic destroys ten thou sand and more every year for every one that Herod and his agents slew. our sons do not go forth beyond the parental roof even while you watch to save them, the emissa ries of the drink traffic are watching to place their lips the poison whicn may mllarnc the fatal appetite. It they succeed, then the, rum power may pocket your son's wages, strip him of character, honor and manhood, and send him on to a lite ot lailure and dis honor. I hat is the business ot the liquor traffic. That, '13 what it has been doing and is doing now kindlingthc thirst for alcohol Much of the wealth of the State the wealth of many families, and much of the earnings of toilers, go to swell the profits of the rum-nowcr.

and give back paupers tor you to provide for, criminals to be tried somebody's sons made criminals by bein first crazed, maddened and berett ot char actcr by drink, and for whose trial and pun ishment you have to nay. Over the fall and discrace of these criminals mothers and fatiiers may grieve, and wives and children, with blighted hopes, may be left 111 poverty, aud all to enrich the licensed rum-power a power which can spend hundreds of thou sands to corrupt the ballot-box, ami continue its power to destroy. This modern Babylon claims that these victims are lawful captives. 1 he Christian people of this State, who are bound by God's law of love, "which works no ill to his neighbor," permit the existence of laws which license this traffic. Stripped of all sophistry, license laws arc nothing less than legalizing a traffic which makes criminals of husbands, brothers, fathers and sons, absorbs wealth and wages, diminishes the power of its victims to purchase necessaries and comforts, and multiplies crime and misery.

But it is unnecessary to dwell 011 tins point. 1 ou, as an intelligent people, know that much of the crime of this State, and much of the expense incurred by the support of paupers, and the trial and im prisonment 01 criminals are. due, directly or indirectly, to the use of intoxicating drinks. And you know that crime and the conviction of criminals black as that record is against the liquor traflic, show but a small proportion of the evils suffered by the peo ple trom that business, in thousands ot homes, the hope of happiness, the hope of adequate support, and the prospect of main taining an honorable place society have been dashed to the ground through hus bands, fathers and sons led captive by thirst for alcohol. And thousands of mothers, wives and children conceal from the world, as far as possible, what they suffer from the ruin of those 011 whom they are dependent for support.

And shall all this woe and sorrow and suffering appeal in vain against the cruel Will the voters disregard this cry for help God has placed in your hands the ballots which are on the 18th of June to determine whether these evils shall continue to be sanctioned by law or not. In the sight of God in the view of the iiaptius iir-Tifo of the. Tum.rtnwcr over the politics of the county in the light of the degradation and misery produced by the liquor-traffic and in the light ot what, may result lo some very dear to you, will you vote to perpetuate the power of this mighty evil i It is a power backed by 100,000 licensed places in the United States, and before which political parties and conventions stand in awe. It is a power grown great by absorbing hundreds of millions of dollars every year from the people of these United States. And for all this it has given back, not bread and clothing, homes, and can celled debts.

It has not helped nu and women up to self-control, to honor and use fulness, nor has it given quiet, order and peace. But it has given "redness of eves," bloated tonus, maddened brain, broken hearts, ruined hopes, debts, pauper- m. riots, expensive trials tor crime, am despair and death hopeless deaths 00,000 of llicni every year. This gigantic monster tins mighty Mo loch to whom are offered in sacrifice th contributions of six hundred thousand drunkards, and six hundred thousand more who will be tho drunkards of the future, and the hopes and happiness of half a mil lion families this mourner stands grim and heartless triumph, with his heel on six hundred thousand prostrate forms, and with his iron grip on the throat ot political power, and thunders out his defiance of heaven above, ami the church 011 earth, "Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive be delivered It is a defiant power. Its wealth is enor mous, it has its allies 111 tne uany press.

A multitude of political leaders and politicians, and a multitude of its victims, and a multitude who are in a fair way to become its victims, will vote in the interests of the rum-power. And in some States it has the prestige of victory. But the Lord reigns. 110 nears prayer. He is not unmoved by the sorrows and miseries of millions.

He is a righteous God, and every oppressor will yet know it. The slave power was never more defiant than in 1800 but we have lived to near the lormer slave sing in freedom "No more auction- block for me." The rum-power contends to-day with the church and the home. As Herod's soldiers searched the homes of Bei.ilehem for victims, so the liquor traffic iies in wait for victims and menaces every home 111 the land. Against this foe the church must contend. The church and Christian parents watch to save youth from taking the hrst glass, and to rescue those who already have the poison in their veins.

Christian parents are praying for their children with an earnestness which God only knows. There are those who have sons. Is there a Single iainer 01 momci hiiuhus i cwi living who is absolutely sure that that son will not become a victim of the rum-power Sons, just as dearly loved, as noble and as promising as yours, have fallen before this destroyer. You know your own anxieties about them, and you know that the ruin-power contends for your boy. It is the business of the rum seller to sell his wares and you know that the young man who buys and drinks lias crossed tne line ui s.uuy.

xim poison is in his veins and who knows but that the craving for stimulants is his master. There is one hope the contact between right and wrong the conflict between the church and the "home on the one side and the rum-power on the other. And that hope is in God's promise: "Thus saith the Lord, even the captices of the mighty shall be taken aicay and the priy oj the terrible shall be delivered for will contend with him that contendeth with thee and I will save thy children." For the Good of Others. I want to make known the fact that I suffered from a Bladder aud Kidney trouble, and that I wai cured by Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy made at Rondout, N.

and I look forward to spending the balance of my life free Irom torture and with a heart grateful for the medicine which affords me so pleasant a prospect Rev. 8. C. Chandler, Lebanon Springs, N. Y.

A Prince Wounded in a Duel. Vienna, May 30. Prince Alois Schwar- zenberg and a lieutenant of hussars fough-a duel to day. The former was mortally wounded nad is dying. The entering wedge of a complaint that may prove fatal is often a slight cold, which a dose or two of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral might have cured at the commencement.

It would be well, therefore, to keep this remedy within reach at all times. by and and held at' by judge, or other officer of such election, shall eligible to any office then to be voted for." First and Second Sections of the Act of Congress of March 31, 1870. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Eepresenta ives of the United Slates of America in, Congress assembled, That all citizens of the United States, who or shall be otherwise qualified to vote any election by the people, in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, color, or previ condition of servitude, any Constitution, law, custom, usage or regulation of any State, Territory, or by, or under its authority to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. be it further enacted. That by or under the authority of the Constitution or laws of any Territory, any act is shall be required to be done as a prerequisite or qualification for voting, and by such Constitution or law persons or officers or shall be charged with the performance duties in furnishing to citizens an opportunity to perform such prerequisite to become qualified to vote, it shall be the duty every person and officer to give all citizens of the United States the same and equal opportunity to perform such prerequisite and to become qualified to vote without distinction of race, color or previous condition of servitude, and if any such person officer shall refuse or knowingly omit to give full effect to this section, he shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay the sum five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an ac tion on the ease, with full costs and such allowance for counsel fees as the court shall deem just, and shall also for every such of tense be deemed guilty ot a misdemeanor, and snail, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars or be im prisoned not less than one month nor more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. I also give notice of the following pro visions of an Act, approved the 30th dav of January, 187-1, entitled FUKTFIER SUPPLEMENT TO TIIE ACT REG- ULATINfi ELECTIONS IN THIS C0.MN0N- WEALTII.

Sec. o. At all elections hereafter held un der the laws of this commonwealth, the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock a. m. and closed at seven o'clock p.

in. Sec 7. Whenever there shall be a vacancy in an election board on the morning of an election, said vacancy shall be filled in con formity with existing laws. Sec. 8.

At the opening of the polls at all elections, it shall be the duty of the judges of election for their respective districts to designate one of the inspectors, whose duty it shall be, to have in custody the registry of voters and to make the entries therein required by law, and it shall be the duty of the other of said inspectors to receive and number the ballots presented at said election. Sec. 9. All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot. Every ballot voted shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received, and the number recorded by the clerks on the list of voters opposite the name of the elector from whom received.

And any voter voting two or more tickets, the several tickets so voted shall each be numbered with the number corresponding with the number to the name of the voter. elector may write his name upon his ticket or cause the same to be written thereon and attested bv a citizen of the district. In addition to the oath now prescribed by law to be taken and subscribed by election officers, they shall severally be sworn or affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall have voted unless required to do so as witnesses in a judicial proceed ng. All judges, inspectors, cleiks and overseers of any election held under this act shall, be fore entering upon their duties, bo duly sworn or affirmed in the presence of each other. The iud.ge shall be sworn by the minority inspector if there shall be such minority inspector, and in case there be no minority inspector, then by a justice of the peace or alderman, and the inspectors, overseers and clerks shall be sworn by the judge.

Certificates of such swearing or afltrming shall be duly made out and signed by the officers so sworn, and attested by the officer who administered the oath. If any judge or minority inspector refuses or lails to swear the otucers ot election la the manner required by this act, or if any officer of election shall act without being first duly sworn, or if any officer of election shall sien the form of oath without being I duly sworn, or if any judge or minority inspector shall certify that any officer was sworn when he was not. it shall be deem ed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction the officer or officers so offending shall be fined not exceeding or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both in the discretion of the court. Sec. 10.

On the day of election any person whose name shall not appear on the registry ot voters and who claims the right to vote at said election, shall produce at least one qualified voter of the district as a witness to the residence of the claimant in the district in which he claims to be a voter for the period of at least two months immediately preceding said election, which witness shall be sworn or affirmed, and subscribe a written or partly written and partly printed affidavit to the facts stated by him, which affidavit shall define clearly where the residence is of the person so claiming to be a voter, and the person so claiming the right to vote shall also take and subscribe a written, or partly written and partly printed affidavit, stating to the best of tiis knowledge and belief when and where he was born; that he has been a citizen of the United States for one month and of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; that he has resided in the commonwealth one year, or if formerly a qualified elector or native born citizen thereof and has removed therefrom and returned, that he has resided therein six months next preceding said election; that he has resided in the distiict in which he claims to be a voter for the period of at least two months immediately preceding said election; that he has not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein; that he has, if twenty-two years of age or upwards, paid a State or county tax within two years, which was assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election; the said affidavit shall also state and where the tax claimed to be paid by the affiant was assessed and when and where and to whom paid, and the tax receipt therefor shall be produced for examination, unless the affiant shall state in his affidavit that it has been lost or destroyed or that he never received any, and if a naturalized citizen shill also state when, where and by what court he was naturalized, and shall also produce his certificate of naturalization for examination, but if the person so claiming the right to vote shall take and subscribe an affidavit that he is a native born citizen of the United States, or if born elsewhere shall state the fact in his affidavit and shall produce evidence that he has been naturalized or that ho is entitled to citizenship by reason of his father's naturalization, and shall further state in his affidavit that he is at the time of making the affidavit of the age of twenty-one and under twenty-two years that he lias been a citizen of the United States one month and has resided in the state one year, or if a native born citizen of the state, and removed therefrom and returned, that he has resided therein six months next preceding said election and in the election district two months immediately preceding such election, he shall be entitled to vote, although he shail not have paid taxes; the said affidavits of all persons makiug such claims and the affidavits of the witnesses to their residence shall be preserved by the election board and at the close of the election they shall be enclosed with the list of voters, tally list and other papers required by law to be filed by the return judge with the prothonotary and shall remain ou file therewith in the prothonotary's office, subject to examination as other election papers are; if the election officers shall find that the applicant possesses all the legal qualifications of a voter, he shall be permitted to vote aud his name shall be added to the list of taxablcs by the election officers; the word "tax" being added where the claimant claims to vote on tax, and the word "age" where he claims to vote on age the same words being added by the clerks in each case respectively, ou the lists of persons voting at such election. Sec. 11. It shall be lawful for any quali fied citizen of the disti ict, notwithstanding the name of the proposed voter is contained on the list of resident taxables, to challenge the vote of such persons, whereupon the same proof of the right of suffrage as is now required by law shall be publicly made and acted on by the election board, and the vote admitted or rejected according to the evidence every person claiming to be a naturalized citizen shall be- required to produce his naturalization certificate at the election before voting, except where he has been for five years consecutively a voter, in the district in which he offers his vote, and ou the vote of such person being received, it shall be the duty of the election officers to write or stamp on such certificate the word "voted," with the day, month and year the vote on as fuse or or any mit the the all for in in on a floating tree, just then the tree washed under the bridge and a rope was thrown out. It fell upon the man's shoul ders.

He saw at a glance that he could not save his dear ones, so he threw the means safety to one side and gripped in his arms those who were with him. A mo ment later the tree struck a floating house. turned over, and in a second the three persons were in the seething waters, being carried to their death. An instance of a mother's love is told at Bolivar. A woman and two children were floating down.

The mother caught a rope and tried to hold it and her babe. It was impossible, and with a look of anguish she relinquished her hold and sank, her two little ones clasped in a grip that soon proved one of death. C. W. Hoppenstall, of Lincoln avenue, East End, Pittsburg, distinguished himself by his bravery yesterday afternoon.

He was a messenger on the mail train which had to turn back at Sang Hollow. As the train passed a point where the water was full of struggling persons, a woman and child floated in near the shore. The train was stopped and Hoppenstall undressed, jumped into the water, and in two trips saved both mother and child. 'At 3 o'clock in the afternoon," said Electrican Bender, of the Western Union, "the girl operator at Johnstown was cheerfully ticking away that she had to abandon the office on the first floor because the water was three feet deep there. She said she was wiring from the second story and the water was gaining steadily, She was frightened and said that many houses around wTere flooded.

This was evidently before the dam'broke, for our men here said some thing encouraging to her, and she was talk ing back as only a cheerful girl operator can when the receiver's skilled ear caught a sound of the wire made by no human hands. The wires had grounded or the house had been swept away in the flood, no one knows which now. At 3 o'clock the girl was there and at 3.07 we might as well have asked the grave to answer us." Mother and Child Drowned at Steelton. From the Patriot. The saddest story of the flood in this vicinity comes from Steelton, where a mother and her two-and-a half months' old babe were drowned in the rushing waters Saturday night, even while they were being rescued from their surrounded home, which was made insecure by the terrible body of water lashing its sides.

Rescuers were at work dunug the entire evening, and at 7.80 o'clock Mrs. Martin Holstein, her babe, and a little boy were taken into a boat from their residence, 209 Christian street. The woman was very nervous, and it was with difficulty that the men could pacify her. In crossing Trewick street, where the current was very swift, a piece of drifting timber struck the boat. The woman jumped up, capsized the boat, and with a terrible shriek on her lips sank into the seething water with her babe in her arms.

James Rodgers and John Bogner, who had charge of the boat, although in daneer of being drawn under by the cur rent, succeeded in saving themselves and the boy, and grabbed the shawl which was wrapped around the babe when it sank, but the shawl only was recovered. The bodies have not been found, and no effort will be made to procure them until the floods subside. Mrs. Holstinc was about 27 years of age. Her husband is employed on the Pennsylvania railroad.

A COLORED MAN DROWNED. Meagre reports have been received of the drowning of William btrange, a young colored man employed at the Paxton fur nace, which occurred at his home at 8 o'clock Sunday morning. In crossing the yard at his home, which was covered by water, he sank from sight and never came to the surface. It is supposed the water washed out the newly made ground in the yard, and he was carried oft by the under current. ANOTHER DROWNING REPORTED.

While catching drift wood at Cumbler's quarries, near the Halt-way House, a man whose name had not been learned by the gentleman who reported it, was drowned in the presence of his wife and children A large log, which he was attempting to make fast, turned, and he was pitched head foremost from his boat into the water. He was unable to hold on to the log, and went down belore he could be rescued. THE CRADLE AND BABY 6TORY. A man who came from the Half Way House reports that a cradle was caught near mid stream at that point containing two babies, apparently twins. One was dead the other alive.

The dead baby was supposed to have been drowned, as the end of the cradle in which it was lying was much lower than the other and was water soaked, while the other end was perfectly dry. A number of persons on Front street in this city declare they saw a crib, or cradle floating down stream this morning, and it may be that the story will be verified when communication with this now isolated lo cality is obtained. HUMAN MONSTERS. ltobbinc Dead liodies Four Driven Into the Iliver and Two Hanged. Johnstown, June 2.

The way of the transgressor in the desolated valley of is hard indeed. Each hour reveals some new and horrible story of suffer'ng and outrage, and every succeed ing hour brings news of swift and merited punishment meted out to fiends who have dared to desecrate Etiffand mangled corpses in the city of the dead and torturo the already half crazed victims of the cruelist of modern catastrophes. As roads to th lands around about are opened, tales of almost indescribable horor come to light and DEEDS OF THE VILEST NATURE perpetrated in the darkness of night. Just as the shadows began to fall upon the earth last evening, a party of thirteen Hun garians were noticed stealthily picking their way along the banks of the Cone- mauga towards sang tiouow. auspicious of their purpose, several farmers ARMED THEMSELVES and started in pursuit.

Soon their most horrible fears were realized. The Hungarians were out for plunder. Lying upon the shore they came upon the dead and mangled body of a woman, upon whose person there were a number of trinkets of jewelry and two diamond rings. In their eagerness to secure the plunder the Hungarians got into a quarrel, during which one of their number SEVERED THE FINGERS upon which were the rings and started on a run with his fearful prize. Therevolting nature of the deed so wrought upon the pursuing farmers, who by this time were close at hand, so that they gave immediate chase.

Some of the Hungarians showed fight, but being outnumbered were compelled to flee for their lives, and nine of the brutes escaped but four were literally DRIVEN INTO THE SURGING RIVER to their death. The inhuman monster whose atrocious act has been described was among a number of involuntary ii-cides. Another incident of even greater moment has just been brought to notice, and at 8 30 o'clock this morning an old railroader who had walked from Sang Hollow stepped up to a number of men who WEDNESDAY, USE 5, 1SS9. Appalling Disaster 8,000 LIVES LOST Johnstown Destroyed by the Flood AWFUL SCENES! Robbing the Dead HEROIC RESCUES! Pittsburg, June 1. Trustworthy rail road men estimate the l098 of life in and around Johnstown, caused by the breaking of the dam at Lake Conemaugh.

at Bix thousand. Supt. Hayes says that two thousand peo pie perished in the fire which followed the flood at Johnstown. Pittsburg, June 1. No estimate which has yet been made of the lives lost by the breaking of the dam at Lake Conemaugh, near Johnstown, appears exaggerated in view of the latest reports of the terrible calamity.

There were fully thirty thou sand people living in and around Johns town whose houses were cither swept away or flooded. It is imrjossible to get to the town, and it will be days yes, weeks, be fore any reliable estimate can be given of the dead. Where the thousands of people who yesterday morning living in happy igno ranee of the approaching disaster have been scattered, iflivirig, can only be conjectured But the dead Ihey have all day been float ing silently down the Conemaugh, turirng around in its swirling waters, catching in boughs of trees trunks are hidden in the river and presenting their ghastly faces to the view of any one who could ftanri on the banks and witness the heartrending spectacle. The story of the horror was not half told in this morning's dispatches. Not only were thousands of persons drowned in the flood, but fire, even more dreadful to con template, aided in the destruction of precious lives.

When the scores of houses had been torn from their foundations and were rush ire down with the torrent, thev were thrown, together with many outbuilding and timbers, against the new railroad bridge in the town. This checked their onward course, and in less than an hour an im mense heap ot wooden structures was formed. From some unknown cause, probably an overturned stove, the upper part of the wreckage caught fire. At first it burne slowly, and a long line of smoke was seen slowly mounting into the air. It looked to those who witnessed the scene from the opposite bank of the Conemaugh as if funeral pyre had been lighted, and it was indeed that, for on the mass of houses and other wreckage were crowds of men, women and children.

They had remained in their almost destroyed homes, thinking it was better to remain there ttan to trust them selves to the rushing waters. When they saw the timber on fire they realized their awful situation, and their screams were Eoon added to the awful chorus of horror They were literally roasted on the flood Before the fire burned itself out other buildings and their half-drowned inmates wprft thrown afrftinst. thn mooa Thna th terrible scene was repeated. Then the fire suddenly went out, the ruins parted, broke up and were swept under the bridge into darkness. THE VALLEY TOWNS ANNIHILATED.

Pittsburg is absolutely mad with excitement. Every hour bring3 fresh news of disaster. The wildest sort of rumors are afloat, and the estimates now being made place the loss ol life far up in the thousands. John Hay, a railroad employee, declares that escape for the people in the valley was absolutely impossible. The towns were actually annihilated.

lie says that no less than 6,000 persons have perished. The vast majority, he thinks, were drowned like rats in a trap. Those who escaped from their houses were dashed against obstructions and killed. The weaker ones were drowned in the attempt to escape. Railroad men generally express theopin ion that the corpses seen floating do not represent one-twentieth of the victims, whose bodies will not be discovered until the waters subside.

Whatever informa tion is obtainable comes from railroaders, and that is meagre enough. Inquiries are pouring in by telegraph from all parts of the country wherever a telegraph wire can be reached, and the offices are being besieged with great throngs of people. HE CONFIRMS THE STORY OF TIIE FIRE. Supt. Hayes, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who reached Pittsburg this morning, tells a horrible story.

"Fully fifteen hundred people were roasted to death," said he, "and the half-crazed survivors were powerless to aid them. I not think the number is exaggerated, although it is impossible to speak with any degree of certainty. A floating mass nearly half an acre in extent came rushing down on the torrent and was dashed with fright ful violence against the viaduct. Hundreds of persons were swept into the raging flood and drowned. A few regained their places.

Suddenly aflame shot into the air and there was a mighty wail of agony. The debris, composed of shingles, roofs and parts of frame houses, had taken fire. The flames wrapped around the miserablo shrieking wretches and they were slowly roasted to death. Nothing more horrible could be imagined. Many of them threw themselves into the water and were drowned or dashed to death against the floating houses or ground under the surface and suffocated.

TOOK OUT ONE HUNDRED BODIES. Edward Pitcairn, a trainmaster on the Pennsylvania Railroad, took out more than a hundred dead bodies at Nineveh. Moet of them were women, many very young and pretty girls. A mother was found clasping her twin babes close to her breast. An old, gray-haired man and a young woman, evidently his daughter, were found pinned betweeen the roof of a house and a hogshead.

They were clasped in each other's arms. In a ten-acre field where the water had subsided seventy -five corpses were found. Of this number fifty were women and twenty were young girls. It is esti mated that there are more than 200 dead peo pie on the bottom lands covered with debris. HEROES AND HEROINES OF THE FLOOD Edward Deck, a young railroad man of Lockport, saw an old man floating down the river on a tree trunk, with an agonized face and streaming gray hair.

Deck plung ed into the torrent and brought the old man safely ashore. Scarcely had he done so, when the upper Btory of a house floated by on which Mrs. Adams, of Cambria, and her two children were both seen. Deck plunged in again, and while breaking through the tin roof of the house cut an artery in his left wrist, but, though weak cned with toss ot mood, he succeeded in saving both mother and children. J.

W. Esch, a brave railroad employee, saved sixteen lives at Nineveh. of It FROM THE BODIES OF THE DEAD wives and daughters of men who have been robbed of all they held dear on earth." He had no sooner finished the last sentence than five burly men with looks of terrible determination written on their faces were seen on their way to the scene of plunder, one with a coil of rope over his shoulder and another with a revolver in his hand. In twenty minutes, so it is stated, they had ov2rtaken two of their victims who were then in the act of cutting pieces from ears and fingers of hands of bodies, of two dead women. With revolvers leveled at the scoundrels the leader of the posse shouted "THROW UP YOUR HANDS or we'll blow your heads off." With blanched faces and trembling forms they obeyed the order and begged for mercy.

They were searched and as their pockets were emptied of their ghastly finds, the indignation of the crowd intensified, and when the 11L30DY FINGER OF AN INFANT encircled with two tiny gold rings was found among the plunder in the leader's pocket a cry went up "Lynch them lynch them." Without a moment's delay ropes were thrown around their necks and they were DANGLING TO TOE LIMBS OF A TREE in the branches of which an hour before was entangled the bodies of a dead father and son. After the expiration of half an hour the ropes were cut, aLd the bodies lowered and carried to a pile of rocks in the forest on the hill above. It 13 hinted that an Allegheny county official was one of the most prominent factors in the justifi able homicide. KILLED IN A CYCLONE. Bktii Iilown Down, Fatally Men.

Injuring Two Martinsburg, W. May 30. A cy clone swept through a portion of this valley this afternoon. At Falling Waters, the barnol John W. Criswell was blown down, killing J.

E. Powell, a pump-maker, and atally injuring John Vogle, who had taken refuge therein from the storm. Vogle was brought to town, but died to night. Powell leaves a wife and fourteen children Wheat was beaten to the ground, trees up rooted and much fencing destroyed. Three Waterspouts Burst Near His Vessel.

Baltimore, May 29. Capt. John Hoop er, of the schooner Kate Iiighman, says that he left Norfolk a few days ago, and when between New Point and Wolf Trap in a gale he encountered three immense waterspouts, which burst with fearful crashes near the vessel and raised snch high seas that she was covered with water. She Beat the Matrimonial Record. SnELBiviLLB, May 29 Mrs.

Mol- lie Corwin, whosemarital experience beats the record, was granted a divorce yesterday from Joseph Corwin, her seventh husband, from whom uhe was divorced last Winter and to w'lom she was remarried soon after. rtions of Willtamsport and and Lock Haven were submerged great damage doue. It is now thought the dead at Johnstown will reach 8,000. Philadelphia lias Bent 200,000 to the Johnstown sufferers. Railroad communication between Philadelphia and Ilarrisburg has been restored over the P.

II. II. 2200 dead bodies have been re-are covered at Johnstown. There 300 injured in the hospital, sands more unfound. Thoa- N0TES AND NEWS.

Double price for binder twine must remind the Republican farmer that he voted for Harrison and high protection. Although Boss Quay has declared that he will vote for the Prohibition amendment, he is charged by some of the temperance leaders with se cretly working to encompass tl ie defeat of the amendment Mr. Randall's health it and he hopes to participate in the election of a "robust Democratic" administration three years hence. Every passenger train leaving the Gettsburg Junction takes away from the Indian School large delegations of Indians, scattering them out on farms during their vacation, in the counties of Lancaster, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Philadelphia, and surrounding country. Carlisle Herald.

The Grand Old Party is in trouble. She would, and she wouldn't. The Prohibitionists would like to engage her in a sentimental flirtation, but she does'nt like to desert her old flame, the Liquor League, whose pockets are filled with very hard cash. The position of the G. O.

P. is tialy critical. Phila. Record. We have the "home market," the "high tariff" and "protection" in all their fullness, but furnaces are blow ing out, strikes continue, wages are coming down, and business is not booming.

What did the Republican papers mean last fall when they promised so much Johnstoion Democrat. The election in Portsmouth for municipal officers resulted in a large and Increased Democratic majority. Joshua Mullen, an inmate of the Charlestown (Ind.) Poorhouse, built a wagon and ran away with Lucinda True, another inmate, taking her baby and trunk along. When last seen Mullen was in the wagon with the baby and trunk, smoking a pipe, and Lucinda was pulling it along. Returns from the school elections throughout West Virginia shows great Democratic gains, the majority in the State being about 0000.

JSo Republican boodle was used this time. Erie Herald. J. W. Parker, of Atcheson, came to Ilarrisburg Wednesday afternoon to consult with Witt Ronk concerning the subletting of about 1,200 mail carrying contracts which he had secured at Washington from the government.

About 7 o'clock in the evening while Mr. Parker and Mr. Ronk were discussing the matter in the Lochiel Hotel Mr. Parker suddenly lost his mind and became utterly helpless. lie did not know where he was, and appeared greatly distressed.

At times he was lucid and spoke of his afHiction. Mr. Ronk took the afllicted man to New York where; his sister resides. the.