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OBITUARY.
Decease of Coroner Taylor.

William Taylor, ESD Coroner of the city of
Philadelphia, died last evening at his Residence,
No. 1121 Wallace street, of Bright's disease of
the kidneys. from which he had been suffering
for q long time. Deceased was born in 1882,
in Lancaster city, and spent his boyhood there
until 1S46 when he came to this city and entered
as an apprentice in the drug business with DR..
Parrish, at Ninth and Chestnut streets. After
acquiring thorough knowledge of the business
he commenced for himself by opening q drug
store at the southeast corner of Ninth and Race
streets. His close attention to his business aud
the uIbanity of his manners soon won for him a
large custom, and in few years he removed to
a much larger store at the northeast corner of
Ninth and Race streets. Here his trade 80 in
creased as to yield him comfortable income.
Mr.. Taylor took deep interest In politics. In
1858 he was elected member of the Board of
Health, and in 1868 was elected Coroner of Phi
ladelphia, position he filed most acceptably,
retiring at the expiration of his term with the
encomIums of the press ana the public. This
unreserved praise was not only ELECTED by his
faithful attention to his painful duties, but by
the manner in which he did It, for If there is
any municipal position that should be filed by
a man of respectabilty and feeling, itIis that of
Coroner, called as helwas to the homes of the
Unexpectedly afflicted.
So great was the reputation that he obtained
as public official that he was renominated for
Coroner in 1889 without difficulty aud at the
ensuing election ran ahead of his ticket and was
elected by nearly 5000 majority. During his
last term Mr.. Taylor has been greatly affected
Dy ailments OF the Oo1y, ana so severe nave his
attacks been that his demise was expected upon
several occasions. The last time he was on the
street was ON Christmas eve. The next day he
was taken ILL., and has been since for fdays at a
time insensbe. Every effort was made to re-
lieve the suffering inflicted by the dreadful dis
ease, but all was in vain.
Mr.. Taylor was very charitsbly disposed, and
many times opened his purse unostentatiously
to relieve the wants of poor persons whom he
believed to be deserving. Especially did he so
respond in case of strangers out of work, in
some cases well known of paying the passage
home of whole families residing in distant
cities.
The deceased was a faithful officer, a good
citizen, an attentive and careful husband and
father, and his loss will be felt by thousands out
side of his own personal friends.
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AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.
The Old and New Tariff.
The Income Tax in the Senate.
Proceedings Of Congress.
Later from Europe.
The Paris Food supply.
Intrigues of Bonapartists.
ETC., Etc.s Etc. Esc.s Rbc.
The Paris Food supply.
from EUROPE.
Tho TrnnsportatIon Of Food to 2,

The transportation of Food to Paris.
LONDON, Jan. 316 A. M.-All the rivers and
railroads are opened for transportation of food
to Paris.
The 10th Prussian Regiment has occupied
Fort Mont Valerien.
BOnapartIst IntrIRues.
A Berlin despatch in the Times says:-The
negotiations of the Bonapartists with Count
Bismarck have taken an important turn. A
later despatch, however, reports
The COnsternntIon Caused mt WilIIamshoh
by the news of propo sition to oonvoke the
Constituent Assembly of France The Times
has an account of
A Race In the Hnrbor of Havre
between the cutter of the United States war
steamer Shenandoah and that of the British war
steamer Helicon. The race was won by the
American crew in the fastest time on record for
contests of that description.
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A SNAKE.
How Certain RaIIroad Companies Salt Their


How Certain Railroad Companies Salt Their
Tracks.
A few days ago Mayor Fox received informa-
ton that the track of the Chestnut and Walnut
Streets Passenger Railway Company had been
salted He promptly addressed a communica-
tion to the officers of the company, Eummoning
them to appear before him. These officers
promptly appeared, and astonished the Mayor
by presenting copy of the following
An Act TO repeal an act entitled San Act to protect
the health OF the citizens or the City OF Phaadsl-
P0la, approved the seventeenth day OF April, 1869,
as lar as relates to the Frankford and Southwark
Fasse1ger Railroad north OF York street.
Sectlon a Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives OF the Commonwealth OF Penn
sylVanla IN GeAeral Assembly, met, and 1t is hereby
enacted Dy Ihe authority of the same, that much
Oh the act ehea IN act TO protect the health OF the
the nth day OF April, 1862 which prohibits sailing
the railway tracks IN said city be and the same is
hereby repealed, so lar relates TO the Frankford
and SOUTHWARK Passenger Railroad north OF the
Berks street station, ane the Second and Third
Streets Passenger Railroad north of YORK street.
and all the passenger railroaa tracks west OF the
SchuylkIl river, and the GerlAantOWn Passenger
Railway Company from DiamOni street 10 their
depot IN Germantown, in the TweIty second ward
b. b. STRLSG,
Speaker OF she HoUEe
CHARLES III. SITRSOE
Speaker OF the Senate
Approved the third day of October, Ammo Oomini
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
This act has never been published, and we
believe this is the first knowledge the public
have of the passage of an act in direct contra
dietion to their wishes. 1t is no doubt but the
forerunner of a general repeal of the obnoxious
laws, and by next winter pedestrians may ex-
Pect to wade through rivers Of sush at the street
crossings.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81,

WASHINGTON, JAN 81.
The Engineer Battalion of the Army.
Despatch TO the Associated Press
General orders from the War Department have
been Issued to carry into effect the requirements of
previous orders for reduction of the Engineer Bat
talon, in which it is provided that the unexpired
portions Of punishments inflicted by general courts
martial in cases OF such enlisted men of engineers
as may be selected for discharges will be remtted
and the men discharged the service.
The Alabama Claims.
Special Despatch TO The EUenfng Telegraph,
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee to-day
for the first time considered the Alabama claims
question The whole subject was fully discussed
in all its various aspects, but conclusion was
reached. The matter will be resumed at the next
meeting, when the committee expect to receive the
information called for from the State Department..
New Issue of National Bnnk Nstes
The Banking and Currency Committee to-day
agreed to report a bill authorizing a new issue Of
twentes ffties, and hundreds. They also require
that the work shall be done here. This work has
heretofore been done by the New York Bank Note
Company. 1t Will require an appropriation Of nearly
haIf million of dollars.
Steamship SubsIdIes
A delegation o! steamship men from New York
Boston, and other localities was before the House
Commerce Committee to-day, arguing in favor OF a
general principle OF subsidy and urging the Oriental
and Mediterranean Steamship bill. The committee
are not disposed to report any of the schemes at
the present session.
The Income Tax.
The WAYS and Means Committee to-day had
another powwow over the income tax At present
they are equally divided. They partially agreed to
report the matter to the House, and allow vote ia
be taken on the question.
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"NO VISITORS PERMITTED
TO ENTER TODAY"

This morning q number of reporters called at
the prison, and we're by the underkeeper per-
mitted to enter the gate. The first question
was:-
"Can we see Mr.. Perkins ?"
"You can, l think, gentlemen" responded
he, but | surmise your intention. You are
reporters"
''We are"
'Well, Mr.. Perkins will see you, but will
refuse to tell you anything that has transpired
In Hanlon's cell, or anything regarding the
arrangements for the execution. This he does
by order of the President of the Board of In
spectors, who believe that the proprieties of
such solemn occasion should not be marred"
SIS there a rule which would require the Off
GERS to be reticent on such an occasion?'
"Only that of humanity. You see here the
fathers of the Catholic Church, Hanlon's con-
fessors. They are going now to visit him. He
is constantly at his deVotons. You may speak
to them, but they will, know, decline answer
ing any question inquiring about what trans
pires in the CELL"
The reporters were then bowed out. The
officers are determined, and rightly, that nothing
shall occur which might in any way draw the
condemned mans thoughts from making his
peace with Him whose DEGREES are irrevocabe.
No writ of error will be filed in Hanlon's
case, and no injunction will therefore issue
from the Supreme Court to stay the execution.
The scaffold will be erected on the eastern cor
ridor, and that no unlicensed eyes may see the
tragic scene which occurs upon it, the prisoners
will all be removed to another part of the great
buildinp
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steamship Subsidies
FROM THE WEST.
Burning of still Another Hotel.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 31.-The Old American
House at Painesville, Ohio, was destroyed by
owned by Eleazer Parmley, of New York
Another building adjoining was torn down to
prevent the spread of the flames. 1t also was
owned by the same party. His loss is $1S 900 on
both buildings Other small losses of different
parties aggregate $4,000 to $4,000, on which
there is some insurance
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from NEW JERSEY

The Legislature Opened by n CoIored Minister
TRENTON, Jan. 31.-The Rev. Mr.. Woodin, a
colored Methodist minister of Trenton, opened
the proceedings of the Senate this morning
with prayer.
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State OF Illinois, and twice as large the thirteen
original States The homestead pocy the only true
and wise means OF disposng of the public domain. IL
would IL to actual settlers thereby adding the
wealth and strength Of the country. while the extension
Of the bounty land system would retard the development
Of the great West He mentioned the fact that not
in FIVE hundred Of the bounty nd warrants heretofore
granted settled by the to whom they
issued and not 10 cent of them by actual settlers
The land covered by ninety per cent of them passed
into the hands of land obbers and speoulators In
clusion he appealed to the House allow its
and admiration for the soldiers of foy
which could never be recalled.
Mr. Stoughton who reported the BILL explain ed and
Tended it's provisions IL not true he argued that
solde would be swindled out of their rights By land
sharks.
They had saved the country from treason, and he
thought they capable of taking OF 100
wild Western lands The bill required the soldier
his land, and then him year in which, If he
pleased he could assign that right that inchoate title
which he had in the land to persons wished
West and locate that land and il he did not it
vert ed to the Government.
The bill could operate for the benefit Of land specu
lators because it required actual settlement He be
ieved that the soldiers would be satisfied with the bill
and that the country would be satisfied with it,
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HANLON.
Sy Ise sRe9iA ana nc oiiSsrs TIT ~ the Yn.o Pr,soH

His Impending Doom-Rjaid Rules Observed
by the sheriff and the Officers Of the Prison.
Tomorrow morning. unless there Is an unex
pected interposition by Providence or the Gov
ernor, the terrible sentence of the Court, which
condemns HaDlon ito be hanged by the neck
until dead" will be visited upon him; and with
this tragic denouement ends the shocking drama
that for so long q time has been held before the
public vision. For this doom the condemned
man has, ever since he stood up in the Quarter
Sessions to hear the fiat of outraged law been
earnestly preparing. The arrangements of the
law officers whose duty 1t Is to execute the SEN
tence are all completed.
Sheriff Leeds is beset on all sides by persons,
prompted alone by q depraved curiosity, for
cards of admission, but to these opportunities
he turns deaf ear, and hands to tae applicant
q transcript of the 10th section of the act OF
Assembly passed March 81, 1850, which reads:-
Whenever hereafter any person shall be con-
demned to suffer death by hanging, for any crime OF
which he shall have been convicted, the said punish
ment shall be inflicted upon him In the walls or yard
OF the jail OF the county In which he shall have been
convicIed it shall be the duty OF the sheriff or
coroner OF the said county to attend and be
present at such execution, TO which he shall
Invite the presence OF physician, the district
attorney Of the county, and twelve reputable
citizens, who shall be selected by the sheriff; and
the said sheriff shall, at the request Of the criminal
permit such ministers OF the Gospel not exceeding
two, as he may name, and any OF his immediate
relatives, together with such officers OF the prison
and such of the sherif7s deputies the said sheriff
or coroner in his discretion may think it expedent
to have present; and it shall be only permitted to
the persons above designated to witness the said
execution; provided that no person under age shall
be permitted on any account to witness the same
Being defeated in these endeavors, the next
stratagem resorted to, in order that their curl
osity may be gratifed, is to secure permit to
visit the County Prison, where, they have the
vain hope, in passing through its corridors they
may perchance see the doomed man. But in
this they are defeated; for above the entrance
door in glaring letters is placarded:-
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FROM THE ,ST.AIE.

Hanlon TO be Hung To morrow.
Special Despatch to The EDenina Telegraph.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 31.-The Governor will
not interfere with the execution of Hanlon to-
morrow.
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RETURNED FOR TRIAL. - Thomas Vandever
was arrested yesterday at the Baltimore depot
by Special Officer Smith, who has received in
formation of a store robbery having been com
mitted at the Red Lion, Delaware. The officer
arrested Vandever upon suspicion of being the
guilty party, and upon searching him the stolen
property was found in his possession. The
accused was returned to Delaware for trial.
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PROMPT ACTION NECEssARY.-The present
thaw, if it continues, is llrely to bring about a
heavy flood. In view of this fact, aud in order
to save the inundatiOn of the cellars of several
residences in different sections of the city, the
High Constables have notified the Board of
Health to clean the cutters and inlets, but thus
far this body has taken no action in the matter.
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Etc, Etc.. ETC.. Etc, Etc.
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FATAL ACCIDENT.-About half-past o'clock
this morning Frank White, aged thirty years,
employed as brakeman, was knocked from q
freight train on the Connecting Railroad, at the
Germantown bridge, and instantly killed. The
Deputy Coroner will investigate the matter to-
daV,
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A DISHONEST SOMA youth of twenty years,
named Ii Cabry, was arrested at the residen cs
of his mother, No. 1901 Alton street, yesterday
from his parent and squandered the same in dis
sipation. Alderman Dallas committed the young
seoundrel for trial.
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rang the bell, and bade her maid bring in
her pair Of pink satin Fenelons. A mo-
ment afterward three shoes were in the
hands of the atonished Count.
"But whose is the third one :" he said;
lit is your shoemaker's name. and even
your monogram and coronet "
Madame de p P-thought for an in
slant. aud then laughed out heartily. as
she answered:
81 have it. sent back pair last
week because they were too large. You
deserve, you jealous wretch, that they
should fit me- Monsieur Jacob evident
ly has a customer who is less of Gin
derella than l ar2. Look for yourself
they at least size 200 long"
Confused and repentant. the Count fell
at the feet he had so unjustly calumniat.
ed, and in a few moments returned to e1
plain and apologize, to his friend the
Baron. "But my dear friend" he said,
"beg your lady visitor to change heI
shoemaker"
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4ost's Corner.
THE LORDS PRAYER.

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OWN, JUNlArA COUNTY, PENN'A, NOVEMBER 1, 1871

flame At last there was rush of the
the waters, the dam had given way, and
the food came down upon on us, sweep
ing US off of our feet Into mass of tim
Der, broken plank (some on fire), horses.
cattle, dogs and human beings. all strug-
Cling and shrieking."
In the rush and whirl the almost help
less Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter were separated.
Mrs. Hunter went down and came near
being drowned. Minnie was lost and
drowned. BY swerving of the current
they were washed on shore and at day
light found each other. There were
many mourning and crying over the
scene of desolation. On all sides as far
as the eye could reach we're smouldering
fires. The village was long waete of
ashes not vestige remained.
The very tnrf was eaten away by the
detouring flames. The dreadful agony
of those who had lost children and other
relatives, as well as the awful anguish
from burns, was beyond description
People, neighbors, were SO SCARED and
blackend as NOT to know each other
Burned and drowned bodies lay here and
there. In one place there were fourteen
these apparently having perished during
fight together. Two little children lay
side by side with their hands extended
toward each other as though beseeching
help. There were other heartrending
scenes too numerous to mention and i'm
possible to adequately describe. Help
came from the adjacent country. and the
sufferers were sent to their friends.-Har-
risburg Telegraph.
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Yesterday there arrived in this city by
the Erie railway train a number of per-
sons directed from the scenes of the great
forest fires in Wisconsin and Michigan
There were nine in the party-James
w. Hunter. Mrs. Sarah Hunter, George
Martin, of Flushing, L. l Henry Por-
ter, Samuel Hillman, Charles Myers, of
Freehold, N. j., Margaret M'Govern,
Edward Wallace and George Blackeslee,
of this city. All were suffering from hav-
ing inhaled the smoke, fumes and ashes
of the fire. Mrs Hunters hair (which
the says flowed to the waist) was COM
pletely burned of one side of her face
and neck and shoulders were fearfully
injured, three deep holes having been
made by the glowing cinders in the flesh.
Her hands also were covered with bis
ters. Mr. Hunters face, neck and hands
were badly burned. Mr.. Martins face
was hideous spectacle. One cheek was
literally raw, and great blotches pitted
his left arm. shoulder and back. One eye
is hopelessly ruined, and the other in.
famed to an ominous degree. All were
SCARED, especially on the face, neck
hands and feet. As they all say, no
tongue can tell their agony Of mind,
pain, anguish and terror, nor can lam
guage or pencil portray the dreadful
scenes through which they have passed.
A Terrible Story.
Mr.. Hunters story is at once graphic
and thrilling. He resided at Peshtego
with his wife and little child seven years
of age. There house was about three
miles from the town. just at the edge Of
strip Of forest. There had been fires
in the woods and prairies for a week pre-
vious, and night after night they had
sat at the windows gazing upon the gor-
geous panorama of flame. smoke and
sparkling cinders as it moved along the
horizon. Very little if any fear was en-
tertained, as the course of the fire SEEM
ed away from the town. On Sunday
night they attended church in the vii
lase. They and Martin. the hired man,
retired to rest early. wholly unsuspect-
ing the fearful peril that was soon to
overwhelm them. At about midnight
they were aroused by the roar and crack
ling of the flames. At first they were
almost petri6ed with amazement and fear
The blazing woods seemed marching up
on them. A brisk breeze was stirring,
but the strong currents Of hot air ragged
to and fro with horrid bowling sound
Quickly dressing, they rushed to the
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a FINE assortment of Cloths, Cassimeres,
IA Vestings, &c. ust received and for sale
by S. E. LOUDUN.
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Cane Seat and Windsor Chairs,

of all descriptions, before purchasing else
where. Having lately started in business. he
is determined to do the very best he can as
regards durability and cheapncss, and mar-
rant, all rork manufactured by him.
EsF- Remember the Sign of TIE BIG
RED CHAIR on the pole on the
corner of Main and Cherry streets, when y ou
want to buy good chairs.
wM F. SNYDER.
Mifflintowu Feb 8, 1871.
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WALL PAPER.
Rally to the Place where you can buy
your Wall Paper Cheap.

THE undersigned takes this method Of in
i forming the public that he has just re-
ceived at his residence on Third Street, Milf
Aintown, a large assortment OF
WALL PAPER,
of various styles, which he offers for sale
CHEAPER than can be purchased elsewhere
in the county. All persons in need Of the
above article, and wishing to save money, are
invited to call and examine his stock and
hear his prices before going elsewhere.
R. Large supply constantly on hand.
SIMON BASOM.
Mifliptown, April 5, lS7l-tf
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Hurrah! Hurrah !
Great Excitement at the Mifflin
Chair Works!

WHY is it that everybody goes to WM. F.
SNYDER when they are in need of any kind
of Chairs
BECAUSE he keeps the Best and Finest
Assortment Of all kinds Of Chairs that was
ever offered to the eyes Of the public.
Reader. if you are in want of Chairs of
any kind. you will do we'll to call on the un
dersigned and examine his fine stock Of