The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-02


the result. Elections were held to-day
in Marseilles and Bordeaux, III which
the Radical candidates were also sue
cessful.
TOPEKA, Kan, April 25.-Several
parties just arrived from Barbour
county deny the accounts of Indian
troubles in that country recently re
ported by Atchison and Leavenworth
newspapers. Travellers are constantly
passing between Medicine Lodge and
! Hutchinson and no troubles with the
Indians have been heard of. Three
citizens returned yesterday from jour
ney of 200 miles southwest, crossing the
CimmarOn and Canadian Rivers, visit
/ ing Camp Supply, and returning through
the Camanche country, travelling all the
| time in perfect safety.
| LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 22.-Ihe
! first train for the week OH the Burling-
| ton and Missouri River Railroad came
in yesterday. The reports of the late
storm show it to have been the severest
ever known here Men were frozen to
death within two rods of their houses
| while trying to get to their stock to feed
/ them. Near Grafton a man named
| Keeler attempted TO reach neighbor,
scarcely half mile away, accompanied
by his wife and child, and the two latter
were frozen to death. Mr. Marshall, of
Hastings, perished while trying to reach
his stock from his house The wife and
child of Mr.. Bent, living near Red
Cloud, were frozen while attempt
ing to reach the neighbors afterthe
house had been rendered uninhabit-
able. Their bodies were found on Fri
day ten rods from the house. Families
were compelled to take refuge in cellars
or keep their bed for three days.
Houses were blown down and filled
with snow. The loss of cattle and
horses was great; some farmers lost all
they had. One party lost a whole herd
of seventy fine head. The gullieS on
the railroads were filled with snow as
hard as ice, and snow-plows were use |
less
SENATOR Bayard has paid his extra
compensation as Member of the Forty
second Congress into the United States
Treasury.
A BRILLIANT starry triangle is now
visible in the early evening. 1t is made !
up of the three brightest stars that are /
ever in our latitude, with the exception |
Of Mars, when in opposition. Venus, |
Jupiter and Sirius form the shining
points of the celestial triangle and make
the geometrical marvel easy to recog-
niZe. Venus must be looked for in the /
West. Jupiter towards the zenith in the F.
East and SeriuS III the South.
TIE first Protestant Easter service |
ever held in Cuba occurred at the Epis-
copal Church here last Sunday. |
WE RECORD with great pleasure the
fact that Senator SchurZ declined to re- /
ceive the 5000 of back pay voted by .
the last Congress; and with equal .
pleasure we record a similar fact in /
favor of Vice President Wilson. But |
we confess to more concern for the fu- |
ture than for the past of this increased /
pay. When all is told about the money /
refunded. it makS an honorable record /
for those who refunded, but it only re- |
duces by a tritie the amount of a steal /
which will at any rate foot up a million /
and half Let those who have goI /
the money keep it, and much good may
it do them. We object, however, to |
having the steal repeated at every future !
Congress, and therefore we insist upon |
agtating the question of repeal as an /
issue in all future campaigns, until ac- /
complished. Mr.. Erastus Wells, mem
Der from the Second District of this .
city, promises to introduce bill ON tie
first day of December session to re-eS-
tablish the old rate of $4,000 per annum.
By so doing he will entitle himself to
the applause of the country, and the
men who vote against him may bid
farewell to public life.
ALDERMAN OttendOrfer refuses to
receive his salary both as member of
the Board of Supervisors and Aldermen,
on the ground that the salaries paid are
excessive, and that $500, instead of
$4,000, as now paid, would be amply re-
munerative.
A COMPARISON made between smok-
ers and non-smokers belonging to the
Polytechnic School of Paris shows that
the nOn-smOkers take the highest rank
i'll every grade. Further, it is found
that the smokers lost grade constantly.
In 1861 the Minister of Public Instruc-
tion accordingly issued a circular forbid
ding the use of toba eco by pupils in
public sehools.-POp. Science Month.