Evening Mirror (Newspaper) - March 1, 1877, Altoona, Pennsylvania VOL 221 ALTOONA PA MARCH TWO CENTS Pennsylvania Central Railroad DECEMBER 10 1876 1.10 IM 8.45 3.25 9.20 10.62 r 1.00 8.15 2.00 Sonman South Fork Mineral Ft Pittsburgh 6.33 4.42 3.17 3.12 308 3.50 1.49 1.28 1.17 1.04 12.49 12.41 7.35 A P M 8.60 8.41 837 8.34 8.15 7.18 7.08 0.58 646 6.33 6.26 6.10 6.00 above atop only tt 8.40 Point 8.58 f SI 9.81 Lillys 9.41 Sonman Boath Pork 10.13 Mineral at at 10.33 a Westward fUft p m 12.36 4 m Altoona i JO and in at 8.30 a m Westward leares Philadelphia at 11.30 3.80 p 5.17 p m Tyrone p m Altoona la Pif at 11.30 p Day at ft m a 4.15 p m aad arrt re Im Philadelphia at 7.20 m Philadelphia leates it 4.60 y in 7.61 p.m 8.11 p m 8.40 p ft -8.64 p m 10.00 p.m 10.33 p u Spruce p m Mimin 12.54 la Philadelphia at 7.00 a m at p 12.10 a m 4.10 a m aad la at 7.35 a m at a a a Altoona 7.60 a 8.66 a m a MlflJin 10.19 a m la Philadelphia at 3.46 p BE OB and Morrison's Core Branch and Branch arrlre In Altoona at 7.40 aw p m 7.16 p m and p m Altoona at 7 40 a m 9.20 a 2.40 p in and on the T k C Railway leare Tyrone at a m and 7.10 p m arrive In at 7.65 A m and 6.00 p m on B E V R R leave Tyrone at 8.30 a BI and 7.00 p m arrive la Tyrone at 1.00 p m and 6.10 p m COMPLETE LIST OF MAILS MM and at Altoona GOING WBST Express West a m Mail at for Pittsburgh west of Johnstown and all of Indiana county Past West p m Mall closes at tor Pittsburgh west of Pittsburgh all Indiana and all offices between Altoona and Johns town Express West a m Mall closes all of Mall on train for between Altoona and delivered from Day Express East at noon RECEIVED FROM THE WEST Pacific Express arrives at a m Pittsburgh Mall Day Express arrives at Pittsburgh and of Pittsburgh and all points between B and Altoona Atlantic Express arrives at Johnstown Philadelphia Express arrives Johnstown Tart Line arrives at a Pittsburgh and of Pittsburgh opened at 7 o'clock Branch mails Tor Martinsburg and branches leave closing at a in- Newry branch p m barf and p m p tn and Newry malls at S a m p m and Williamsburg branches at p m MAILS Express East p m Mail at Tyrone Lock Haven route rote It and land agents Baltimore and tOB Day Express East Mail closes at 12 m for all Eastern mail in at 12 o'clock Mai Train at 2.60 a m Mail clones at Huntingdon and all points between Altoona Atlantic East at Mail at for Philadelphia New York Fast Line at Mail closes at for All through mail East RECEIVED FROM THE EAST Express west Opened at 7 a ra Baltimore and east of those places Express at 9 o'clock west From Philadelphia New York and Fait Line west Mall from all east THE STOCK MARKET or DE HAVEN A TOWNSEND And Gold Brokers 44 Street Philadelphia B 1865 J 1867 1868 new sew R R Reading R Va R K Coal and Co Companies of K 2 ia and EriA R R Central R Pass R H HARRY SLEP Proprietor Corner Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Street ALTOONA CO PA STATE NEWS water will be tlie sylvania canal at Harrisburg in a few days in order to j heaters in the Cheater rolling at Chester Pa hare struck for higher Warren county was burned r men Berks Schuylkill and Lebanon ties are tif shoot a for a pound high which was pended some few weeks since will be re- opened on Monday with A Duncan as teacher J P Bobb iron men on the south side of Pittsburgh business is reported as ing that naa been idle for months is again put in motion A two year of George Gilbert of Lebanon while eating peanuts had one lodged in her She died of lation despite the efforts of the doctor naa consented to deliver the annual address before the nate Literary Society of Palatinate College Lebanon county at Its anniversary in June Select Commander D L Ely of Reading has been elected District Deputy Grand Commander of the Order of Knights of Mystic Chain for Berks county for the term of one year There are 34 grand lodges lodges and of the order of the of 450 lodges being in this State with a ship of the State Senate yesterday the lowing resolution was adopted that after Wednesday March 7 no new bills be read in place and that after Friday March 9 no further reports from committees be re- At the late election in Washington borough Daniel Waltz marched up and down the streets ringing a bell and ing all to turn out and vote the Republican ticket George McCollum out and proclaimed for the Democrats The editor of the York Dispatch is his brain to invent an ishment for the devil who poured whisky in his ink bottle just before he wrote the following item An extensive revival of religion 13 going ou at the Methodist M E church on erick street Hanover Pat Hester the convicted Molly after the verdict of the jury was rendered at Bloomsburg and he was returned to the jail relieved his feelings by profanity He said he had been pursued for eight or rune years and they think they've got me now Mr Hester's opinion about the present is very generally entertained Monday last near athan Smith farmer and his son were splitting rails and the father raised the axe to drive in a wedge held by the sou The latter for some reason leaned towards his father so that his arm was between the axe and the wedge and received the force of the blow by which it was nearly ered just below the elbow Amputation was necessary An effort will be made to have a cial meeting of the Board of Pardons to consider the case of Henry Leukner the murderer of Henry Shaffer This is necessary in consequence of the Board deciding not to hold the regular meeting in March If he fails in securing a special meeting of the Board it is thought a respite will be granted the condemned man to give opportunity to lay the case before the Board That was a sensible as well as a ful compliment which Philadelphia paid Thursday to President Welsh of the tennial Board of Finance The great was held in the interest of human intelligence its success was largely due to the intelligence of the financial manager and it is fitting that his name and his vices shall forever be kept alive by that promoter of intelligence The John Welsh Professorship of History English established iii the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania arid fully endowed by Mr T TELEGRAPHIC Coming Back to Packard WASHINGTON Feb dispatch from New Orleans to-day says that Hamlett and Weber have returned to their seats in the Packard Senate and that Demas is expected back every hour jire three of the five Senators who went over to the Legislature This leaves the Packard ate lacking one of a quorum The Packard House has a full quorum J Session March issued a proclamation ing an of the Legislature re- M of public and for of dispensable legislation specifying tion appropriations city and parochial affairs and the United States Senate A Woman Burned to Bed Death in YORK Feb Coakley fifty years of age living at 38 Major street was fatally burned last night She drank a few glasses of beer and retired leaving a Kerosene lamp burn be- side her bed 10 o'clock she wits awakened by flames scorching her body The had set fire to the bedstead and bed clothing The poor to reach the outer room carrying the fatal lamp which she on a table and fell exhausted The was and Mrs Coakley who is a widow to St Catharine's Hospital where she died The P International Exhibition Company PHILADELPHIA Feb meeting of the Board of Directors of the Permanent International Exhibition Company was held yesterday afternoon in Judges Hall tennial Grounds The meeting was called for the purpose of considering whether or not the capital stock of the company should be increased from the amount of the stock be in the par value thereof and in accordance with a resolution passed December 1876 that said meeting be held yesterday There was a full attendance of the members of the Board and a vote be- ing taken it was resolved that the increase mentioned should be made Redemption of Bonds WASHINGTON March acting of Treasury has issued the with call for the redemption of bonds of 1865 May and November The call is for ten million dollars of which eeven mil- lion are coupon and three million tered bonds The principal and interest are to be paid at tho Treasury on and after the of May next and interest will cease on that day The following are the descriptions of the bonds Coupon No 35.801 to 800 both inclusive No to 80.000 both inclusive Registered No 551 to both inclusive No to both inclusive 8500 No to both inclusive No to 800 both inclusive No to both inclusive No to both inclusive Spain On Her Ear YORK March flying of the Cuban ilag on the City Hall and lying in state in the Governor's room of the late General Aguilera Vice President of the Cuban Republic have caused much ment and denunciation Spanish residents The Spanish newspaper here yesterday had a strong article declaring the flying of the flag from the City Hall an insult to the Spanish ment and threatening international cations in consequence Mayor Ely denies having anything to do with the matter The Commissioner of Public Works Mr Campbell gave permission to fly tne Cuban flag and the President of the Board of Aldermen gave his consent for the remains to lie in state and said that if called upon he would answer for his action CONGRESSIONAL v SENATE WASHINGTON February 28 1877 The President read the note from the President of the Commission and the ate met the House On reassembling by a vote of yeas 39 nays 21 a strict party vote that body agreed to a resolution of Mr Robertson that the decision of the Commission upon the electoral vote of the State of South Carolina stand as the judgment of the ate the objections con- trary notwithstanding and the Secretary was directed to notify the House of of the action of the Senate The Speaker laid before the House a com- from Justice Clifford informing A Washington telegram to the New York says Governor Hayes has written a letter approving in the most ex- and direct manner the speech of Mr Foster made last week in which Mr ter expressed his confident belief that the Southern policy of Hayes would be such as the people of Louisiana and South Carolina desired Gen George A Sheridan has gone to Columbus to inform Mr Hayes of the real condition of Louisiana He is au opponent of Packard and an old tance of Hayes MacDuffy a representative in Canada of of Gilmom Co has absconded It is said he is a defaulter to the amount of can find the largest assortment of children's hats and caps at the batter 1304 Eleventh avenue unprecedented demand for Prof Parker's Pleasant Worm Syrup is the best preparation known to the profession j TAJ s-r evidence of its merit Sold by G A ley Compound of Tar is the only rue remedy for coughs and colds whooping cough and There is no the House that the had decided the matters the toral vote of South Carolina and had mitted the decision to the President Senate V On motion of Mr Sayler the clerk was directed to inform the Senate that the House meet that body iii joint convention Mr Springer moved that the House con- sider the Sundry Civil Appropriation The Speaker ruled that no legislative was in order except by unanimous consent which Mr Hoi man obtained and the House agreed to all amendments adopted in Committee of the Whole and the passed The Senators having taken their usual decision of the Commission in the case of South Carolina was read Objections were made by Messrs Phillips and Southard and the returned to its chamber that the two Houses separately decide upon objection Order had hardly been restored when Mr Springer moved House take a re- cess till 10 to-morrow Mr Wilson called for the yeas and nays and the motion for a recess was yeas 92 nays 170 All soon as the result was announced Messrs Sheakly and O'Brien rose with motions to take a recess till o'clock to-morrow forenoon The Speaker promptly ruled the motion not This gave rise to ble discussion and an appeal which was tabled Mr resolution that the vote of South Carolina be not counted was then adopted and the Senate was notified At the Senators came into the hall and the action of each House on the deci- sion having been read the presiding officer announced that the two Houses not ring otherwise the electoral votes of South Carolina would be counted and they were thereupon declared by one of the tellers as seven for Hayes and Wheeler The votes of Tennessee twelve and Texas for Tilden and Hendricks were then announced without objection and without the full reading of the certificates Then came Vermont with four votes for Hayes and Wheeler when a recess was taken until morning at nine o'clock of Ex-Governor Joseph Johnson of Virginia Ex-Governor Joseph Johnson died at Bridgeport Harrison county W Va Tuesday morning at o'clock He was born in the State of New York in and was consequently in his year at his death lie to Virginia in 1801 He was an entirely self-made man his parents being poor and hard working ple lie took the first company from Northwestern Virginia into the war of 1812 serving at Norfolk VaM with his company as captain until the close of the war He represented Harrison county in the ginia Legislature a number of years and served fourteen terms in Congress com- mencing with the Eighteenth Congress and it is believed was the last survivor of that Congress lie was twice elected ernor of Virginia first under the of 1829 chosen by the and next under the new constitution of 1851 was the first Governor elected by the people He was always a Democrat though opposed to secession in 1861 but went with the State when cion was attempted by the Federal ment He had lived in Bridgeport where he died for more than seventy years His wife died some twenty years since leaves children and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren His public was pure No suspicion of impurity ever attached to his long and useful career Up to his last hoars his mental faculties were bright and unimpaired Read you will know where Ike the hatter can be the corner of Eleventh avenue and Eleventh street Sign of the great big Lower goods of all kinds silks of various colors trimmings notions and muslins of all kinds at CONDENSED NEWS the members of President Grant's Cabinet will hand in theit resignations Nearly all of them are preparing for an early departure from Washington Thursday night in Thomasville N C while Thomas and Miss Forney were before the altar to be married the bride dropped dead before the ceremony was cot eluded Boston Officer Freeman while at- tempting to arrest a notorious thief named Donovan was set upon by the associates of the latter he fired upon them ing one Edward Rice Gil senior partner in the extensive lumbering firm of Gilmom A Co has disappeared It is feared the loss Incurred by the absconding clerk led to his of Cincinnati PW-! is bankruptcy yesterday Their exceed f assets outside speculation is said to have caused failure are being made to arrest R W Charles Thorpe an minister of Berry of Quebec who eloped on Saturday with a young lady of able family leaving a wife dren Cincinnati police have succeeded in finding a trunk of Clothing belonging to Bessie murder in Texas Abe Rothschild was arrested The trunk was in the baggage room at one of the road depots where it had Veen sent by Rothschild Tiffin 0 yesterday evening Jacob Wetzel a baker shot little girl two years the heart causing instant death and attempted to kill his wife ing her in the leg No reason is known for the act The murderer is safely lodged in the city prison Merrill's physicians deny that his health has been permanently im- paired by Ills recent illness On the con- trary they do not doubt that in a few days he will entirely recover his usual vigor and resume the discharge of his lic duties James Ross Snowden formerly director of the Philadelphia mint arrived in Washington last evening and is said to be going to Charlotte N C to inspect the mining interests in that and also the propriety of opening the mint there for recoinage hour a cough or cold is is so much injury to the lungs sous Compound Syrup of Tar never fails in curing the worst cases of coughs and colds This genuine preparation can only be had at E L Taylor's Branch and drug store 8 Look at the Boots and Shoes at man Morrow's make a specialty of Visiting and Wedding Cards and invite all to call and seo our specimens and prices P Law Io 1138 Prompt attention to in Blair Cambria counties DOBINE to M to U Blair and T D 07 Cambria B ej Justice of Peace And Collector at the Shop TT BOW M D Physician and Surgeon OB arenae between nth MB KERB J W KERR FINDLEY INSURANCE Second Floor New Altoona Bi between Twelfth ud Altoona Pa Bread AND BAKERY ONLY CRACKER BAKERY in A P HEESS Proprietor No 713 Thirteenth Street aad manufactured to ABLETT CO 25 Street and Dealers in All Kinds of for prices before buying our prices al Ways as low as good oils can Be New Embroidery at Bowman row's one price at Rice's 1330 avenue THE HOUSEHOLD MARKET ALTOONA March 1 1877 Corrected by McCullough the ered Front man and by Runyan the butcher on Eleventh avenue per y peck 20 Eggs 10 Sausages IGi dried per Hi 10 Beef fore quarters hind 10 Corn meal 2 ftO Live turkeys per fc Applo baiter por qt 20 Dressed 15 Tim hay per ton 10 16 chickens Corn iu ear per bu 60 Live per pair per 40 Geese per peck 60 Padding Potatoes per bush li Scrapling peck 3 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS all persons knowing to Judgment or Book accounts will be- tween this and the day March and their All failing to do KO without respect to will their left in of a proper person for collection 1877 M IkY all persons knowing selves to be indebted to the by note or accounts will please call at No Avenue between th's and the of March tt settle their accounts All to do ftO without to persons will find their accounts left in the bands of proper persons for collection Altoona March 1st Wll SMITH A HOME and FARM OF YOUR OWN On the line if a GREAT wuh good both EAST WEST Now is the Time to Secure it Mild Fertile Soil Country for Stock In United SUtes Books Maps Full Information slso cent free to all parts of the 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