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Daring AtfempI al Robbery.

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, November "a
A daring attempt was made :o-nigh'
to rob the Office of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad at this place.
Three men, with yelled faces, seized
the Waterman, handcuffed him and
tied a handkerchief over bis face; they
then took his key and told him they
intended to rob the depot, but at this
moment the baggagemaster and two
brakemen of a late passenger train
who were sitting inside the cars
rsshed out, when tn robbers fed,
first firing at the baggagemaster.
They succeeded in escaping. The
men we're evidently strangers, but,
left no clue to their identity except
the handkerchief and the handouts,
neither of which have anv marks.
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Address i"'S'
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The Vice President.
A. WILSON NORRIS,
S,n~a,1,r,

WASHINGTON, Nov. l0.-lntense
excitement was produced here this
morning by the announcement that
Vice President Wilson lad been at
tackled with paralysis while taking a
bath a: the Capitol. Mr.. Wilson ar
rived yesterday. For some days he
has been suffering from acute pain in
the back, and while in Nex-York, on
Monday, he had hot iro is applied,
but without beneficial effect. Think
ing a warm bath aud vigorous rub
biug would give relief at 10 O'Clock
this morning be repaired to the Capt.
toll bathrooms. Alter the bath Mr..
Wilson went to the Senate barber
shop, and while sitting in a chair
commenced 10 roll his head in u con-
v%ulsiye manuer The attendants i'm
mediately applied cold water TO bis
head aud rubbed his limbs with
whisky and salt. DIR. Baxter, OF the
Army, was summoned at Mr.. Wilson's
request. Upon his arrival the Doe
tor found nothing in the symptoms to
indicate brain lesion or paralysis
From Mr.. Wilson be ascertained
that be had been suffering from indi-
gestion for the past ten days, and
was troubled with pain in the shout
ders. Proper remedies were applied
aud relief soon followed. An opiate
was administered to produce sleep
but failed 10 have the desired effect
About ? O'Clock the symptoms were
less favorable; the eXtremities became
cold and there was an apparent weak
eniug of the vital force. The patient
became very nervous, rolled his head,
and threw his arms about convulsive-
ly. a solution of morphine was iu-
under the shoulder, with no
The pains in the back re-
manned and the extremities con;in-
ued cold. After having been well
rubbed, another subcutaneOus injec-
tion was administered, a halt dram
of whisky being used. This pro-
duced re~cuperation, the pulse became
and regular, and in a short
time the patient was removed to his
room in the north wing OF the Capt.
toll, where a bed had been provided.
This evening his condition is very
much improved, and his pulse is
natural and strong. Or. Baxter thinks
there is nothing in his symptoms to
cause alarm, and that a nights rest
will go far to restore him. Mr..
Wilson retained full consciousness
throughout the attack, and tonight
is quite strong and cheerful. Dur
ing the afternoon the members of the
Cabinet visited the Capitol, but it
was deemed best to permit no one to
see Mr.. Wilson, Postmaster Gen
eral Jewell will remain with him all
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HEADQUARTERS
REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 6. 1878.

REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE, =
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6, IS75.)
Republicans Of Pennsylvania:
1t vas a grand response you made
in November to the greetings of our
brethren in Ohio, Nebraska, and
Iowa, sent in October. 1t gives you
occasion for sincere REORGANIZATION;
ii justiies your shouts of triumph
echoing, cheeringly, from the Della
ware to Lake Erie.
Splendid as have been your record
aud achievements ia the past, you
may well point with pride to your
victory on Tuesday last-a pride re.
newed, emphasized, and re enforced
By the verdict Of a great people. You
have easily placed yourselves at the
head of the Republican column of
eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
la all respects, this victory is sig
niicant aud complete.
Your candidates were honest,
your principles were righteous. The
verdict concludes hat discussion.
General H~artranft, illustrious with
his military service, had won added
fame by a pure and signally success
full civic career. Your gratitude, your
patriotism, and your solicitude for
the welfare of the State compelled
bis continuance in the position of
highest responsibility.
With a knowledge, begotten of
proof, of the integrity of the State
Treasury management. and with the
actual demonstration that there was
not now and never, under Republi-
can officers, had been a d, falcation to
the amoun of one dollar of the pub
lie moneys, you had the manhood
and the courage to vindicate, boldly,
your Treasury officers from the un-
founded, false, and indecent charges
Of the political tramps who pursued
them with malignant falsehood.
With the calmness and patience of
a patriotic and intelligent people, you
discussed the existing financial ques-
ton, stripped of DISCUSSES, and de-
termined to sustain the national faith
and common honesty in public affairs,
and set the seal of your condemna-
ton and all the insidious attempts to
compass population.
Against you was arrayel a motley
but numerous host, dIscordant in
principles, united only in the pursuit
IF power and plunder. They clam
ored for change, but only offered de-
lusive promises and fraudulent pre-
fences of reform; they exaggerated
the public distress (neither the exis-
tence nor remedy for which is to be
found in governmental, but in social
c%auses); they stimulated uneasiness
in the public mind; they filed the
land with inaammatory addresses
and inflated proclamatiors; they
vexed your ears with screaming ora
tory aud with turgId blatant declama-
ton; they charged that there was
something wrong" but proved moth.
ing. Madness aud senilitv seemed TO
rule the hour.
In all this chaos you stood 6rm,
noT were you tripped 10 your judg-
ment, or swayed from your integrity.
From he brawlers and me demo
gogues you extoried your triumph.
ana have exalted the strength of the
cope in a Republican Government.
Inc wolves of political sophistry
and financial heresy, bearing menace
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A Casually.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov 1.-THE
folloAing is a special dispatch to the
Commercial from Detroit: "In the
large Pullman car works in this civ
there is a brick fue, four feet square,
through which are swept the wooden
rubbish, saw-dust, and shavings
which accumulate on the various
floors, and is used for fuel. The aue
was clogged up yesterday. and the
gases which are usually generated by
wet sawdust exploded, blowing of
the wooden cnpola, and issuing
through the openings on each floor,
and injuring nine workmen, three Of
tbem-H. W. Hatch, John T. Lovett,
and William Goerky-fa,ally.
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OUR NEW o LETTER.
New YORK, November s, 1875.
THE ELECTION

New YORK, November s, 1875.
THE ELECTION
Passed off more quietly than any
one for twenty years. There was nc
rioting, very little drunkenness, very
little lighting, and, / am happy tc
say, very little repeating or fraudu.
lent voting. There were cases Of
fraud early in the morning. but ar
rest followed so quickly that the re-
peaters dare not 60 on with the work
they had laid out. Honesty had a
fair show for one day, and the result
is Tan many is beaten out Of its boots.
1t is a glorious victory to elect the
complete anti-Tammany ticket, to re-
duce the Democratic majority to
about 20, 900, and to smash the most
formidable as well as the most cor
rupt political organization in the
country at one blow is glory enough
for one day.
How was it done? Easily enough.
The people were reused from their
apathy by the pressure the Democra-
cy put upon them, and they made
the purifying of New York politics
their business for three weeks The
best business men of the city attend
ed the primaries that goou men should
be nominated, and after that they US
ed rheir influence in every fair way
to give their nominees all the votes
possible. The rum-mills, the bullies,
the strikers found good true men in
their way, and they had no chance
to put in practice their usual tactics.
liz short, the decent men, the tax-pay-
ers found that they bad some inter
est in governmental matters. Of
course, they carried the city,-they
can do so any time they set themselves
about it.
1t was a very gloomy night at
Tammany Hall,-a funeral could not
be more dispiriting or depressing
Kelly, the Boss, made a doleful
speech and the mourners dispersed.
Gone were their visions of plumber,
gone were the hopes of an immuni.
ty from punishment for crime-gone
were their hopes Of rule, i" brief
every thief and Backyard in New
York was in mourning that night.
1t was quite different at Irving Hall,
the headquarters of the Anti-Tam-
many party. A Gne band pealed
forth joyous notes, the air was filled
with fireworks, excellent speeches
were made and the excited, ~gratiied
throng did not disperse till early III
the morning. New York, Brooklyn,
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania to.
getber made last Tuesday a memori.
al day.
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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned viii
sell at private sale the following tracts Of land.
belonging to Samuel Zimmerman. assigned to
VIM. Zimmerman, for the benefit Of his creditors
TO wit:
No. ] a tract ofland situate in QuemahOning
township, containing 80 acres, with good build
dings,
No 2 A tract adjoining z above tract and Joseph
zimmerman, containing 5 acres, with house and
shop thereon.
No. 3. a tract situate In Shade township, ad-
joining Anthony Wechtenheiser and others. con-
tanning 100 acres, more or less. all good timber
land, with a house and stable thereon.
Also, a No. / sawmill with circle avs snd On
CINE in good condition, and a large lot of various
kinds of lumber, namely, pine, spruce, ash, oak.
linn, poplar, chestnut, sugar, maple, cherry. sc.
Persons wishing to buywiu do well % al lress
or call on the undersigned a t Jenner Y Roads.
WIN. ZIMMERMAN.
mayo Assignee.
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FAMAASY.

What is Tammany! No name ap-
pears more frequently in politics, but
very few know anything about the
origin of the organizatin or its meth
cd of working. 1t is understood to
be en- immense political power, but
what it is, and how il works, but few
know.
"Tammany Society. or the Colum-
bian Order" was established in 1889
by William Mooney, a noted politi-
clan of that day. During the revo-
lutioua-y war ne had been a staunch
patriot, and after its close an active
politician aud partisan. The order
took its name from Tammany. a
prominent Delaware chief, and its
government was modelled after that
Of the Indians, a Great Father being
the chief. surrounded by twelve sach-
ems as his counselors. Mooney vas
the first Grand Saehem, At the be-
ginning there was some pretext of
benevolence in the order, but that
was doubtless a sham. Its objects
were always political and nothing
else. The members met for many
years at taverns. and the meetings
were, after the business Of the even
ing had been dispatched, very jolly.
While Mooney was the originator
Of the order, andits first chief, a
greater MAJ was from its beginning
for many years its actual head, though
be wisely kept out Of sight. Aaron
Burr, the greatest and fouiHst of
American politicians, saw at once the
advantage OF having a disciplined
body behind him, and he seized Tam
many and subordinated it TO his pur-
poses He was the leader OF the
lover classes in the city aud the
State, and he used Tammany to con
troll the better classes of which it was
then composed. Hamilton, bis Bit
ter enemy. was the head of the 60
ciety Of the Cincinnati, which vas
Federal ia its tendencies, and TAM
many VAS q fair oese, 70 its infu-
ence.
The society was then precisely
what it is noG-a political power in
the hands Of set OF men working for
a common object. In 1909 the election
in New York City mads Jefferson
and Burr President and Eiee-PreS-
DEBT of the United States. Ii was
Burr who did ii, by means of Tam
many men who were Initiated into
the society on the eve of the election,
and Felt in honor bound to vote the
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Raid on n New York Disfiilery.

New YORK, November IA
raid was made this morning by sever
al United States went officers, as
sisted by police, upon an Illicit still
which was in operation in a bottom
place near North river, and property,
seized to the value of $4,000. The
property seized consisted of a large
copper still and connections, having
a capacity Of five hundred gallons
each, and filed with mash, eight
hogsbeads of molasses and twelve
barrels Of whiskey.A large crowd
gathered and used threatening Ian
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lence. No arrests were made.
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SALE.

by virtue Of 4 decree and order Of the Court Of
Common Pleas OF Somerset county, Pa, and to
me directed, thers will be exposed to public sale,
on the premises. on Monday, the Sth day OF Nov,
1875, the following described property, viz; A lot
OF ground containing one acre, situated in Upper
TurkeyfoOt township, known as the Old Disciples
Church property,
Terms ;-One-balf Of the purchase money 10 be
paid on continuation OF sale, and the balance In
one year, Without interest.
sale 10 eoHlEaeEcs at OEe O'elOck L. ii. OF saId
day. AARON SCARACEF
Trnstae-
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The Democracy are trying to per-
suade themselves that i. wasn't much
GA storm they encountered on The
End inst, and are busy figuring up
their chances for President in 1876.
The New York Herald a warm sup
porter of Tilden, who at present has
the inside track for the Presidential
nomination, does no appear to take
much stock in his chances, aud pours
s stream Of cold water down the
democratic spinal colugn as follows:
The Republicans control States
cSough 20 enable them 10 elect the
next President. with the aid of New
York, aad the result of Tuesdays
voting is not such as to take New
York QUITO the list Of debsteasle
States next year.
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Farm for Sale.

! will expose. al public sale, on the premises, in
Allegheny township. Somerset County. Pa, on Z
Saturday, Nouemter 20, 1874,
a farm containing about rs acres. OF which about
80 acres are cleared and the balance well timber
ed, a two story dwelling house, large bank barn.
almost new, blacksmith shop, and other buildings
thereon erected A cool orchard and excellent
water on the premises. Will be sold entire or d.
yided, rs purchasers may desire. Terms made
known on day Of sale, Sale to commence At one
o'clock P. n.
move JOSLAH SHAtth.
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THE result on Tuesday lNoyem
Der y in the election of Senators in
this State vas as follows: Philadel-
phia, George Handy Smith Lancas-
ter, John B. Nariel; Lebanon,
Jacob G. Holman; Blair and Cam.
bria, John A Lemon Beaver apo
Washington, George V. Lawrence
Mercer and Lawrence, Fred 4. Brsg.
gins; Erie, Henry Butter6eld 3
Republicans; and the following Dem.
ocrats: Pike. Monroe and Carbon,
Charlton Burnett; Lycoming, Mon
tour, Columbia and Sullivan, Rob.
ert p. Allen; Clinton, Clearseld and
Centre, Thomas ]. Boyer; Gamer
on, Elk, Clarion aud Forrest, ID. p.
Thomas; Fayette and Green, James
W. Hayes.
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THAT great and good little fellow,
Persbing, runs behind the old bath
erskite. Piollei, 1905 votes in the
State. Who dare say that the De-
moeracy are not as discriminating as
thew are yirtuous.
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some idea Of the rigorousness Of
the Government prosecutions against
the St. Louis whisky ring may be
gained from the fact that a review OF
the situation up to date shows thirty
one persons who have pleaded guilty.
Some two million dollars have been
assessed, Of which it is calculated
that fully four-6fths will be realized.
This, it is thought, will cover the
larger part of the amount stolen by
the whisky ring, thieves from the
Government during the last three
years. The rascals should now be
allowed TO serve literal terms in the
p%enitentiary. .
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PHILADELPHIA city gives Hart
rant I7,2s2 majority in the total
vote Of II3,s5s and elects the en-
tire Republican city ticket. Big
ban, who was opposed by the Mon
League and Reform Association, has
& 5g5 majority.
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WASHINGTON is fast filing up with
members Of Congress, preparatory
to the opening Of the Session on De
cember Let, and the fight for Offices
of the House, is waxing hot among
the Democratic aspirants. Sam Ran
dali. Of this State, and Kerr Of In
diana, are the principle competitors
for Speaker. Randall is a SALARY
grabber. Kerr was not. We are inter
ested in the choice Of the honest
Democracy"
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PERsHINC acted wisely, in holding
on to bis Judgeship. lie viii now
have an opportunity Of continuing
his valuable services 90 the bench, OF
which Democratic papers had so
much to say during the campaign.
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. DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE

Estate Of Henry Foust, Sr., late of Paint Twp,
deceased.
Letters OF administration on the above estate
having been granted to the undersigned. notice is
hereby given to those indebted to tic make imme-
diate payment, and those having claims against Il
TO present them duly authenticated for settlement
on Saturday, 10th day of November, 1875, at the
late residence of deceased.
DAVID NJ. HAMMER.
octl3 administrator
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TIMES COMPANY,
o. w. Third st Cincinnati. d
A D~MINISTRATOR'S NOTICE

Estate Of David Shaher. late Of Paint township.
deceased.
Letters Of administration on the abors es,ata
having been granted TO the Undersigned. notice l.
hereby given to those indebted to it 10 make imme-
date payment, and those having claims against
II. TO present them duly authenticated ior settle
ment on Saturday, the 10th day Of Nov, 1875. az
the late residence Of said deceased.
HIRAM SHAFFER.
OfO A1pnfnfsfrr
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IL Cumberland County where
Persbing has zoe majority for Gov
ernor. the Republicans elect their
candidates for Protbonotary by LAG
and Treasurer by 397 majority.
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A BITTER wal Of words is now
raging between the "Rag-baby"
Democracy Of Ohio and Pennsylva,
MIA. and the "bloated bond holders" oi
New York. The i~naationists of the
two former States charge their hard
money brothers OF New York with
the defeat Of Allen and Pershing,
and threaten TO take bitter venge-
anoe of Tilden 10 the National Con-
geation cf next year. Meanwhile
the New York World and other dem.
Ocratic journals Of that State make
merry over the slaughter of the
sirac-babv.n
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Is Potter county where there has
been no license granted TO sell liquor
for the pest twenty years, there was
but two votes polled for the Prohibit
lion ticket.