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The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
IrniInnca Committees.


4A55ott-Chas Meisner, Jos Schwartzenoach and
ChaS HenSchel
AUegdnV-Dayid L Raymond, 4 u Fresno ana
W r Gardner ,,,
Bingtam-I Carpenter, \ II Cobb and >
C77,qLI L.I'Il, /, Alien. VIM Graves and W A Cole
C1uderSDOrt-S F Hamilton, " n Jones ana y
E-d41ia-iewis 4 Glace, c Stearns and J D Earl
Glenssee-J c Cayanaugh, VIM Baker and JOSIAH
77rri%aTa@J ~ L Haynes, A \ SHETLAND and W
Hsct9r-D " Havens, John Skutt and Cyrus
He,r6nmWm G-TSi z Greenman, L N Coy and Geo "
Hom6r@Levi Levi QuImby, Jacob Peet and W H
EeatiSq3G l--S' Lewis, Henry Harris and Hiram
Le,ctsIifie2ZC E Baker, Henry Hosley and R
OsraIo-A 5 Lyman, J V Brown and VIM Fes-
PIN 7 -PProutv. II Martin and Sam'l Brown
Pleasant J-aTe1-EneSt Wright, Lewis Lyman
Portaae1chas Young, Chas Austin and Dan1
R9met"I ! Larrabee, VIM Hazen and Chas
8hardG-N Parmenter, A \ Newton and 5
Ste.7ards5il-H Andersen, James Barton and Ed
Sllm4it1AIyin Rennens, James Reed and J L
s,rsd671-R l. White, Edwin Lyman and Joseph
Sylranfa@Dutton Stiles, \ R Jordan and G
JTysses-A Raymond, J NJ Benton and B Jay
Vest RfaR6if7-E Crppen, S W Conable and o
H7.artt6n9J / Barclay, a R Burlngame and
Shafer L0gue
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RepubIican County Convention.

The Republicans Of Potter County are request
ed to meet at their usual place of holding their
between the hours OF and p m, to elect Dele
gates 10 represent them in County Convention TO
be held at the Borough Of Coudersport ON Thurs
day the 18th day Of September next, at o'clock
D. m. to put in nomination candidates to be y0t-
ed for at the October election, and to transact
sucn other business rs may come before the Con
TentiUn.
The Vigilance Committees Of the several town
ships and bOrOughs are requested 70 give notice
Of the time and place Of holding the primary
meetings and TO attend them 10 organize ana act
as Boards of Election. The number Of Delegates
to be elected from the several townships and bo-
rOughs are as follows: Harrison D; hebron ana
Sharon, each5: Bingham, COuderspOlt and tlyS-
ses each 1; Allegany, Eulalia, GeneSee, Hector
LeWisyille. OswayO and ROulet, each B; Abbott
Clara. Homer, Jackson, Heating, Pike, Pleasant
VALLEY Portage StewardsOn. Summit, Sweden,
Sylvania, West Branch and Wharton, each ,
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THE Republican State Convention
which met at Harrisburg on Thurs
day Of last week, was composed of
the very ablest and best men within
the limits Of the Commonwealth.
We give elsewhere the result Of their
assembling and an editorial of the
Philadelphia Press heartily endors-
ing the ticket put in nomination, and
the resolutions adopted.
The Press, as most Of our readers
know, made a malignant and inexcu-
sable fight against the ticket nomi-
mated last year 1t is matter for
great rejoicing that we are to have
union and harmony in the present
contest. Republican principles and
the Republican party live in the
hearts of the people and mean union,
justice, prosperity.
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HANuKRsLEY FORK, Pa, Aug. 9, 1873

1GANNklsSL4El rum / ~ <Atta. = Astt~
ED. JoURNAL-I saw in your pa
per an article on snalle-killing that
is nothing to the way they do things
down in Clinton. Kib. Nelson and
Ed. Fish, with others, went down
the creek one night last week ceiling,
and during the night they went to
raise their outlines, when a few rods
from the lamp Mr.. Snake sung out.
They whipped him to death in his
lair. On going few steps further
another one gave alarm, which meas
ured four feet, and also the third one
before reaching the creek. They
caught thirty eels, three white chubs,
and killed three snakes in one night.
N. A. NELSON.
P. s. fyou choose, insert this, if
not, light your cigar.
We beg to be excused not only
from lighting but having a cigar. II
that were to be the penalty for re
jecting a contribution, we would
print almost anything.-ED.
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WHEN the Constitutional Con-
yention met last fall, people very
generally seemed to have an idea
that its work would be to revise the
old constitution rather than to form
an entirely new one. Whether or
not this would have been wiser than
the course they have pursued we are
not prepared to say, but if they were
influenced by the petitions, memoir
ais and other papers that were poured
in upon them during the early days
Of the Convention, the wonder is not
that a new constitution of somewhat
superGuous length is being formed,
but that they have not loose material
enough laid away to form sixteen
more Of the same length.
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Announcements.

Ed. JOURNAL & ITEu-Please announce the
name Of Il. l.. White. Of Sweden township, as
a candidate for the Office of County Commission
er-subiect TO the decision Of Republican County
Convention.
ED. JOURNAL &, ITEM.-PleaSe announce the
name OF a. A. S@etIand, Of Harrison town
ship. rs a candidate for County Commissioner,
subject to the decision of the Republican County
Convention. EQUAL
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18th. That we sympathize with every
movement to secure for agriculture and
labor, their due influence, interest and
rights, and the Republican party will
be their ally in every just effort to at
tain their ends.
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AUGUST has got achilI at its heart,
has lost the light from its eye; has
only an occasional smile which ends
in tears. In short August is not
near so August as we could wish.
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track-laying viii continue from the
west down to the big cut at Weed
vile by the time that is through, and
we expect the road to be open by
Jan. |, 1874. h. BIRD.
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"RoUGHING it? | know what that
is. 1 roughed it up among the Adj
rondacks. Why, we were three days
that we did not see a newspaper nor
get letter from anybodym
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whatever gives US tra,.,,
thinking whether thin
ITSELF.
Brethren and sisters, +
be more just 10 dear r.,
who are given to rs f.
train.
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WE agree with our fl
proposition but want to
words about the sells
course only by being sava
sins, among winch one j
greatest, is selfshness, cod.
to the state last spoken O.
When Chicago was bun
we have thought it SELF,
man to do his utmost to&
house?
In a railroad disaster v
are mangled and crushed
be christian for one toll
die because he must GET. +.
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c For the Js-
SELFISHNEss IS always =
well, to say the least ~.
sidered a virtue.
4 man or woman wbo,r-
things from selfish maj.
considered a good nen,.
ciety.
Yet, Mr.. Editor, l am s..
that nearly all the scn,..
either appeal to our fe,, =
ishness.
For instance a sermon
either Heaven or hell Fl,
son who dies and then ta-.
we must do to be saved.
Now, Mr.. Editor, / Tim
person who does these thin
purpose of being saved. is
by which he will not b. s.,
do not think Christ will
to him who would or9.
they were not afraid Of H.
do | think He will take tsa
who come from the selfish,
saving themselves, not ca
becomes Of the rest oftIe
L heard this Question s.
a pulpit not long ego.
"What is your creates
in this world?" and The
wered in this manner. IN
faction of knowing that
are recorded in Heaven az
will be saved"
Now | do not believed
lieve that a Christians q
joyment in this life is IN.
without thinking whc.a
90 to Heaven for doing
| do not believe self lor
get any person to Heaver
person must love Chris.
neighbor as himself. Ba
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Republican Ticket.

CoUDERsPoRT, PA, Aug. 90. 1878
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On the eleventh ballot Isaac G.
Gordon, of jefferson County, re-
ceived II votes and was declared
nominated. After which the follow
ing exhaustive and unexceptionable
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

return to becoming face trimmings. The
bonnets have without exception coronet
points with less high crowns than for
merly. Hats are turned up on one side
with the pointed piece fastened against
the high conical shaped crown, or are
turned up on both sides against a lower,
border crown; or are turned up narrow
ly from side to side across the front,
rounding out flat across the hair behind.
The combinations of color are beauti-
full, mixture of deep grape blue and
pale flesh pink is especially desirable.
An ostrich feather or tip is considered a
necessity for elegant trimming. Exquis-
lite flowers of brilliant autumn tints,
graceful leaf wreaths, tempting vines
with ripening fruit hanging luxuriantly
from the slender stems, scarlet berries,
gray MOSES and roses, too pale in cast,
scarcely more than tinged with color,
are also used. Ornaments in jet, steel
and mother of pearl are desirable.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

Congress from Kansas in 1869, and
served during the thirty-seventh Con
gress. He was a lawyer by profession
although in early life he learned the
trade of printer He was "a member
of the first Kansas Legislature, anG
Chief Justice of the. Supreme Court
under the Topeka Constitution, anG
President of the Leavenworth Constitu.
tional Convention in 1860, and what il
the worst thing against him, he was re-
garded by Pomeroy as his friend. He
was strongly allied with the Greeley
movement last year, and since then has
shown unmistakable evidence of lunacy,
and will doubtless be shown to be insane
if he is ever brought to trial on the
charge of an assault with intent to kill
Pomeroy.
After Conway had fired his three
shots at Pomeroy aud that illustrious per-
sonage lay writing on the ground, with
an abrasion of the skin on his right side
and dangerous hole through his hat, he
turned and fled, but returned at once
when Mr.. Addison, who was present,
hallooed after him that eff he had
cause for shooting that man he would
not run away, and then with the accus-
toned pathos of these murderers, who
are troubled with one sudden fit of emo
tional insanity he charged that "Pome-
VOW baJ rninaJ he fo,,,;l,y o,d no Iod
nothing to live for but revenge" We
hope that none of our readers will get
excited in anticipation of another expose
of conjugal infidehty and the delineation
Of yindication Of marital rights by the
pistol, for Subsidy Pomeroy's two hun
dred and fifty pounds of adipose matter
is not put up in such an attractive form
as to charm married woman from her
allegiance to any other living man, and
his character is even less desirable to as
sociate with than his person.
The ruin which Conway spoke of, is
said TO refer to the political ruin which
was brought upon him by the scandal
GUS senatorial contest in Kansas, which
was brought to conclusion by State
Senator York making his dramatic ex-
hibition of $1,000, in greenbacks, in the
joint assembly of the Kansas Legisla-
ture. We are told that this contest,
which ended in the discontinue Of Pom
eroy, also wiped out all hopes for Con-
way, and left him a political beggar,
and that he is now ruined not only po-
litically, but financially and mentally,
and that in this last foolish or crazy act,
he has shown to the world the sad con-
dition of his mind, which his friends
have long feared. If a judicial investi-
CATION is had in this matter, there will
probably be developed some very fine
disclosures of the beauties and virtues of
Kansas politics. We are glad the ex-
Senator was not killed, although if any
public man must be shot we don't know
of one that could be better spared than
this same Pomeroy.
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correspondence of the Herald
How is il, and If so, Why is II

Editor Rutland Herald How is it.,
that with many persons the impression
is, that the temperance cause in this
country is on the decline? No doubt
some persons would give this represen-
tation of the matter, whose immediate
interests, from certain considerations,
would be promoted thereby; and others
because of a love for drink, and yet the
Judgment of all these is in favor of
temperance, but when sober, moral, OBJ
serving men conclude that we are losing
ground in this reform, it seems a duty
to know, if we can, what are the signs
of declension.
Perhaps the small number of meet
ings as compared with year since, is
one evidence of the decline. In Rutland
and Fairhaven the earnestness and activ-
ity fall far, yea, sadly below last year.
This viii be admitted, we think, of both
places. Why is it so If the feeling
was as tender and earnest as then, why
should there not be proof in the activity
of the people?
Another evidence of decline is found,
so it is said, in the frequent and bold vi
olations of the prohibitory law. But is it
so? Is not the law enforced better than
last year, or almost any of the years
proceeding this :? Certainly many cases
of prosecution are commenced, and
should be carried through, inhicting due
punishment upon the offender.
The charge of Judge Wheeler, given
to the grand and petit jurors in Rutland,
few days since, was clear, straight and
true. Let its spirit, yea, letter, be fol
lowed, and the law will soon be a terror
| to evil doors and a praise to them that
do well. Our courts and our attorneys
owe plain duty to morality and the
general welfare of the country in this
particular matter, which their oath
obliges them to perform. -. o
| An important movement is being in
aagurated in Russia, and surely America
land especially Rutland colinty-Wi]
not fall behind that semi-C Christian eoun.
| try; in endeavors to suppress the sin. OF
intemperance. |yftg+ss t.g
Il A St. Petersburg correspondent, III 8
late letter to; the Constitutional, says, a
recent decision of the Russian council,
/ has introduced important notifications
in the regulations for the sale of intoxi.
eating drinks. The duties imposed. or
places where liquors. are. sold, have beer
!. eonstantly increased. Clerks under
l.twenfy-one years of age, soldiers, pupils
4 of educational institutions, and young
people generally are not to: be allowed
in taEerns: .s., ~ :. s. ~: IS.
These. are advance movements. and art
very suggestive, America, Vermont
and our county, eertafnly must mo-
/ decline. Let us labor while the day
/. lasts. .., - s..
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16
SUBSIDY pOMEROy sHEoT.

The telegraph tells us that at twelve
anutes past two ON Saturday afternoon,
Congressman NJ. F. Conway, of Kan
as, attempted to kill, by shooting, ex-
Snator Samuel G. Pomeroy of the same
State, on New York avenue, near the
corner of Fourteenth street, in the city
OF Washington The tale which is told
With minuteness of detail that would
almost make it good on special de
n1rrer in an indictment, is that Conway
deliberately fired three shots at Uncle
Subsidy, at distance of five feet, with
aarge revolver. The first shot struck
Old Pom. in the right breast, causing a
sight abrasion of the skin the second
slot let daylight through the victims
lat, and he then fell to the ground as
mother bullet went whistling through
Tue air, as near to the target, at least, as
We muzzle of the pistol. The wound in
Tue breast was over the right lung and
ued profusely, but the ball was not en-
Oedded in the flesh. The telegraph does
not inform us why Mr.. Conway made
llFee such miserable shots, unless his
Oeng of ford complexion and having
red hair done it.
The rampant desire for murder that
breaks out in unexpected places at times
with no apparent object to be gained
merely, presents question that we car
only contemplate with alarm. 1t shows
AIooseness of public morals, and dis
'egard of the sacredness of human life
mat leaves every person in danger Mr.
conway was a man who had been mucl
IN public life, and the early history O
Aalsas would DE incomplete if his par
should be left out. He was elected t,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16
NEW DoCKE

AceIDENT.-Mr. Jerry Haley of Port
Henry started ont with a gun, Saturday,
for the purpose of hunting and killing
some of the game which abounds in that
vicinity. He had gone but a short dis
lance, when he noticed that be bad for
gotten his ammunition. lie placed his
gun in the bushes and started back for
the ammunition. Alter finding the latter,
he returned to- The place where he had
left his gun. While drawing the latter
from the. bushes with the muzzle toward
him, it was discharged and the contents
deposited IN bis left shoulder near the
collar bone. The wound is painful but
not dangerous one. A great many ac-
cidenss. similar to this, have happened
this yesr. There should be greater care
exercised IN the use of firearms.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

EXACTLY what President Grants views
and opinions are concerning the financial
situation may be still matter of some
speculation, but enough seems to have
leaked out to indicate, that his forth
coming recommendations viii include
favorable reference to the free banking
system, reduction in the bank reserves
and distinct prohibition of the pay
ment of interest on deposits. Now we
have faith in the sterling good sense of
the President, and are not among those
who entertain doubts respecting his
ability to grapple with the financial
question. And when we read that she
will take decided grounds Immediately
in favor of a return to specie payments
and that he is carefully maturing plan
to be submitted to Congress for that
purpose, we think of the plans he ma
tured in 186465, remember how he
saved the country then, and are content
to await the result.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

STARTLING reports are coming to us
from the West, concerning renewed hos
tilities on the part of the Indians toward
the settlers and white men in their Vicin-
ity. These savages belong to the tribes
of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes and XII
owas, ON the Arkansas river, and they
come from their reservation near Fort
Sill. The story is probably exaggerated
to some extent, and yet they have com
mitted number of depredations which
are deserving of speedy and summary
punishment. Nothing but fear of the
government and fear of punishment will
restrain the red men from committing
their thefts and outrages among our
Western settlements. So we hope these
eovogns will hn worry qsioi-ly- P"'oaou,
overtaken and punished by our military
forces.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

In the midst of the many conflicting
reports and opinions concerning the in
tentions and designs of the different fac
tions of France, and concerning the
prospects for change from republican
ism to royalty, we receive the report
that Gambetta has spoken and declared
himself confident of the stability of the
French republic. He does not believe
the monarchists can obtain majority
in the Assembly he has support in his
confidence in the people. From various
provinces he and his republican col
leagues have received assurances that
the people are averse to the establish
ment of monarchy. But Gambetta
and his friends need not to be told that
the French people have not always been
consulted in the shaping of their gov
eminent. Designing men have found it
easiest to first effect revolution and
secure the support or tolerance of the
people afterward. The coup detat of
the nephew of his uncle would not have
been had the people been first consulted.
SO they may now declare their prefer
ence for the republic, but if the mon
archists shall be able by any means to
set themselves up, cries Of 0ioe Ie roj will
not be lacking.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

PoRIl.ASD AND OGDRNsBURGH RAIL
koAD.---An exchange says that it is ru-
mored that the town of johnson, which
has not as yet issued its bonds for the
Portland and ogdensburgh railroad,
proposes 10 DO 50 ct once, that the rails
may be laid into their village. The
managers had decided to lay no more
iron on the westernsena q; present, and
had reduced their force On the gravel
train to twenty men. This sc;ionnf The
town of johnson bids fair, should stocks
remain as at present, TO secure to their
village the western terminus of the road
for some time.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16
Ihe FAN Nodes.

INTERESTING NEWS FOR THE LADIES
NOTES BY OUR. FASHION, EDITOR (. !.
The. financial panic seems not to have
interfered with those who are. always
ready to: comply with, the annual man.
dates of fashion. The desire to exam
inc the new styles. of hats and bonnets
and discuss their beauty utility is not
cohsfdered-4,is as noticeable.in, the: cities
as in less trying times: There: is no
marked change, in the. bonnets this. fall,
save there. are, indications of. capes---;
which have long been discardedAand a