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The wedding nj The white Irouse

WASHINGTON, June l9-Tbe we'd
ding of Colonel Russell Hastings and
Miss Emily Plat, niece of the Presi-
dent. was solemnized at the Execu-
tive Mansion this evening, Bishop
Jaeger of Ohio, officiating. The
ceremony took place in the Blue
Parlor, which was tastetully and
p~rofusely decorated with flowers.
All the parlors, together with The
spacious East Room" were brilli-
anlly lighted. The Marine Band
was in attendance and performed
several airs. The wedding was a
very quiet one, only immediate friends
of the President and his family, and
of the bride and groom being present
Mr.. Plat, the father Of Miss Plat.
gave the bride away. A feature of
the ceremony "a the presence Of q
great many ehildren-nepbews, nice
es, and cousins of the bride. Colonel
and Mrs. Hastings left the city for
York on the 9:25 troin
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How the Forfy-Fourth Congress End
cd Its First Sess Ion.

WASH NGToN, June 20.-Congres:
finally adjourned at I O'Clock this
morning. In the House the unbri
died ~saturnalia hat ragged through
the night had almost completely
subsidized at daybreak, by which time
the demonstrative members were
placed hors de combat through ex.
cessive indulgence 10 the ardent.
The finale of the tumultuous scene
was comparatively calm, and Speak
er Randall's farewell words were lis.
tened to with respect. The best of
good humor prevailed at parting. aud
the follies of the preceding night ev-
caused no regrets.
The Senate's last hours were
marked by q moderate Indulgence 10
levity and hilsrity, which
consumed tie interval between 3 anu
5 A. NJ. Senators seemed bent upon
preventing further legislation, and
amused themselves by interposing
Of order and objections to oil
attempts that were made to secure
the passing of bills. In this way
the consideration Of the Post Route
bill, which passed the House divest-
ed Of all objectional amendments,
and Of the Letter Carriers bill, was
prevented. At 5 A. NJ. the Senate
pretended to 60 into executive ses-
sion, for the purpose of enabling Sen
ators to enjoy a quiet nap. free from
the gaze of the public. The doors
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were not opened until ten minutes 10

were not opened until ten minutes TO
seven. when the Sundry Civil bill,
duly engrossed aud signed b. the
Speaker, was hurriedly presented
to the President pro tenn who im-
mediately appended his signature ~
the document, and in another in
slant il received the approval Ct the
President, who was in his room, 10
the rear of the Senate chamber.
The minute hand Of the Senate
clock pointed five minutes to seven
when the Clerk Of the House enter
ed, bringing with him the three last
~engrossed bills that became laws.
One of these created a commission
to select a new and more healthy
site for the Naval Observatory, aad
necessitated the immediate nominG-
ton Of the three Commissioners.
Senator Sargent, the author of the
bill, rushed into the Presidents
room and presently returned with
one of Mr.. Hayes secretaries, who
announced a message from the
President. An executive session
was forthwith ordered, although only
three minutes lacked of the appoint
ed hour for a~djourning. The nom
nations were confirmed withou: de-
lay, but when the doors were opened,
at the expiration Of a few moments,
the clock had meanwhile been very
conveniently manipulated by the
Doorkeeper. so that it was now ten
minutes before seven, instead OF ten
minutes past seven. An oppressive
silence prevailed in the chamber at
the time. Sleepy pages, tired clerks,
drcwsy messengers, and a few wide
awake, live correspondents were
gathered around the desk, whilst
Senators, with their hats in their
hands, sat in their seats waiting i'm
patiently for the welcome word re-.
leasing them from their labors. 1t
was not long in coming, aud in FIVE
minutes after Mr.. Ferry's parting
speech, the Senate chamber was
empty.
President Hayes and all the mem
bers of the Cabinet remained in con-
slant attendance at the Capitol from
s P. NJ. until the adjournment, and
every bill that was presented was
considered and signed before the dis
solution.
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The Marriage of Mrs. skunk.

YORK, Pa, June 2l.-Rebeksh
Skunk. the brilliant, beautiful daugh-
ter Of Judge Jere S. Black, and wild
ow of Governor Shunk's son, James,
himself u most accomplished journal
list and man of affairs, was married
yesterday in a Every private" way
at Broekie, the country residence of
her father, just outside of this town.
The bridegroom, Mr.J j. III. Honesty,
a nan of fine presence and high
breeding, who has turned the shady
side of the forties a bachelor, is a
wealthy merchant of Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. Skunk and her daughter made
quite a stay in Louisville last winter,
with her friends Mrs. Thompson and
Mrs. Henry Watterson, and it was
this time that an existing
ripened into an engage
ment to Mr.. Honesty. The we'd
ding ceremony was performed by
Rev. C. w. Thompson. a retired
clergyman OF York, in
presence of 40 one whatever but
Miss Skunk and the immediate per-
sonal families Of Judge Black. his son
Ch~auncey, and his son-in-law Captain
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THE dead Congress has not accom-
plished what those who entered it
buoyant with hope and Astounding
with plans expected Having a ma
jority in one branch, the Democracy
foresaw that they could direct and
check legislation. They imagined that
by shrewd management they could
render this power productive of great
uses to them. They planned to Gust
tie President, to capture the Cabinet,
and grasp the Senate. They devised
Investigations without number and
commissions without limit. They in
troduced a plan to destroy the tariff
and with a bill to effect that destruc-
ton, with an investigation to remove
the President, and other purely par
tisan labor, they have spent valuable
months aud done nothing. The
rebel brigadiers would not enroll in
any scheme looking to national use
the northern representatives dare not
uphold the extravagances that would
cost them their seats and more, and the
session has terminated in disappoint-
ment and sorrow. They intended to
exclude politics. Politics was almost
the only thing they really touched.
Now they are finding before they have
returned to their homes, that their con.
duct is unsatisfactory and they them.
selves %unpopnlan Sunset Cox. shrewd
to sec where partisan uses lie, has as
serted that the action of the House will
render the reelection of four-fiths OF
the House impossible, and the mana
gers fear worse consequences. Re-
publicans went to the people
with a stronger claim, and it is one
that must be honored when present.
ed.-Phila. North american.
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The workingmen Of the country
are expected to play into the hands
OF the Democracy at the coming
election, and yet the Democratic
House of Representatives that has
just adjourned did all in its power to
make times harder by cutting down
appropriations, curtailing work on
public buildings, closing arssnals and
navy yards, and thus throwing
thousands of workingmen out of en-
ployment, making q determined ef-
fort to reduce the present tariff, and
while reducing the pay of the officers
of our little and hard worked army,
at the same time voting themselves
the full pecuniary profits Of 8 long
session, for the special session Of six
weeks, necessitated by their outra-
gSous conduct OF the previous winter.
And yet these Democratic leaders
are asking support on the ground of
being the special friends Of the work
ingmen.
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Terrible Trsmas.

JACKSONVILLE, Ill, Juae 2I-
OFtr one hundred tramps took pos
session # a freight train C ming
north on the Chicago and Alton
road, arriving here at noon yester-
day. They transferred themselves
to freigi t train No. $50 that happen
ed along. going west on the Wabash
road, all being determined to ride.
When ordered off by the Mayor and
CITY Marshal they obeyed promptly,
but wheneyer the train started thew
gvt aboard again. Sheriff Dunlap
finally ordered to the ground
with a posse. The train was delay
ed from two O'Clock until nearly si2,
when it was inally pulled out with
all aboard. They are bound north
to Pike county. More trsmps are
expected here tonight. Several
hundred are said 10 be scattered
the road to Jersey Vile. No
threats were made, and there has
been no collision thus far.
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iohien OutTages.

SAN Francisco. June GA
B ise Ci,y despatch says parties Tor
Fors Hall AID Lsmbi via Wood
River and Big Camss Prairie report
having seen zoo iadians on Wo d
River about two hundred miles east
o. this place who claim to be friendly
and ca their way to Port Hall Agen-
cy. These Indians stated that
james A Dempsey, a white man
who has an Indian wife. and who
has lived many years With The lad.-
ous, aad who was with The hostiles
10 he Lava Beds at the commence.
meat VI the outbreak, had been killed
by u var party before they lefl the
Lava Beds on their railiag tour.
Small parties Of Indians and traces
OF larger bodies are daily discovered
10 the country bordering the over
land stage road.
These Indians are no doubt scouts
and struggling reinforcemeats from
the East on their way to Join the
main body in the neighborhoad Of
Stems Mountain They are seep-
ing up a regular line Of communica-
ton between the Lava Bed region
and the place of rendezvous, aud are
watching the movements Of the
troops. Msjor Sanford, who is to
night at Canyon Greek, forty miles
east Of this place, will arrive here To-
morrow night, and go with General
Grover to join General Howard in
the Malheur country. Gen. Howard,
With about 400 men, will proceed To-
morrow in the direction Of STEMS
Mountain, where, it is understood,
the Indians have concentrated. deci-
ded to make a stand.
SAN Francisco, June 2l-A ST.
yer City despatch says:
The stage road between here aud
Winnemucca is clear of hostiles. Jer-
~ Winnemuecs and other friendly
Piutes who have been 10 the hostile
camp receatly say the Bannoeks
claimed that they had then killed l3
whites, and had three Of their own
Indians killed. The white men
were killed and burned in a cabin
near Stein Mountain. Recently the
MalhcuT reservation Indians were
behaving worse; that the Bannocks
were slauyhtering every animal that
came within their reach. General
Howard is still at Msiheur Cry
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THE Harrisburg Patriot is grow
ing h~ysterical through fear of Repub-
lican assaults on our new State Con-
stitution, and tesriully insists that
this must be made the great issue in
the coming political campaign, and
must not be clouded by controversies
eve questions of National politics,
that have been settled. 1t was some
what similar fears for the safety of
the National Constitution, that in
duced the Democracy to take up
arms in lS6l-62 to defend it from
Republican assaults. Such at least
were the allegations made at that
time by the rebellious democracy.
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Fatal Fight.

A st. Louis Globe Democrat spe.
cial from Bristol, Virginia, June IA,
says:
"A fearful and fatal rencontre oc.
Cured in Lee county, in this State,
this morning between John Bailey
and Henry Combs, grand nephew OF
ex Governor Leslie Combs, of Ken
lucky. The youths were students
at Professor Johnson's Academy, at
Turkey Cove, aud were rivals 10
love. The Kentucky boy made the
best progress 10 his suit, and hence
the row. The two young men met
alone in a grove, both armed with
They fred Eve shots
Combs fell MORALLY wounded by a
shot in the abdomen, and died 10 a
moments. Bailey is at large.
Both were popular and talented stu
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Bank Robbery.

ST.. JOSEPH, Mo, June 2I-Tbe
starting intelligence was spread
about the city this evening TO the ef-
feet that the First National Bank had
been entered and robbed OF SIS, 600
in broad daylight. 1t appears that
shortly after II O'Clock some parties
entered the bank t. make deposits,
the cashier, Jos. c. Hull, being alone,
other employees and officers having
gone to dinner. NJ. Hull, after they
had gone, went to the vault TO place
some money therein, when be discov-
cred to bis amazement that three
packages, each containing s., 600.
were misring.
One package had been taken from
a S24. 600 pile of currency, while the
other two packages had been taken
from another part of the vault When
the other bank officials and employ
es had arrived he made known his
discovery, and all went TO work to
make thorough examination Of the
bank in hopes that il had been mis-
placed. The packages could not be
found, hut Oh the other hand it was
ascertained that $4,700 ia addition
was missing, making in all $40. 700.
Mr.. Hull states that the morey be
is certain was 10 the bank at 9 O'Clock
when the day operations were begun.
lie says be does not remember bav-
ing seen any suspicious looking char
actess 10 the bank during the day.
There is no back entrance TO the
bank, and how the money managed
to get out of the bank is still uu.
known.
Detectives have been pat to work
to ferret u if possible the cause Of
its disappearance. A reward Of one
thousand d ,Ilars has been offered By
the bluk fr the capture Of the
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he next House Republican.

Hon. WILLIAM II. ARMSTRONG, OF
Williamsport, who was urged as a
candidate for Governor before the
State Convention of the Nationals,
announces his withdrawal from the
National party, and his determine
ton to support General Hoyt and the
full Republican ticket.
lie says he went before the Nation
al Convention as an advocate of the
principles of the Greenback party,
and if the wishes Of the Greenback-
ers in the convention had predomin-
ated, be would have been the nom-
inee for Governor. But, as it is, the
National Party is now under control
of the Communistic elements of the
State, and be cannot affiliate with
any set of men who support the
doctrines of the Commune. Mr.. Arm
strong says be is aware that his with
drawal will be misconstrued, and
that be will be charged with treach-
cry but he maintains that his present
position is the only safe one for the
nan who loves law and order to oc-
cupy, and be will do so regardless OF
the consequences to himself. He is
firm in the Groonbuck faith, and will
go into any movement for the ad.
vancement Of Greenback principles I;
but the platform the National Party
has adopted be can never assent to.
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In The lsboring men of the United
States could once be brought to O
clear realization of the fact that all
the lightweight of debt and taxation
is ultimately made to rest upon their
shoulders and that the Disadvantages
under which they nov labor are
solely due to the changed conditions
which a large debt and heavy taxa
ton have brought into existence,
they would be the last men in the
world to listen to the delusive cry
for more money with which their
ears are beguiled. Every additional
piece Of paper money thrust into their
hands is an additional evidence of
debt which they must pay. If a
paper dollar is lost they suffer the
loss !; when it is redeemed they pay
for its redemption. As long as it ex-
lists it is q badge of servitude.
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HAVE our readers forgotten the
Democratic buster about economy
and reform with which the late Cor
gress was ushered into existence
As was to be expected, the dema-
gogues who roared SO loudly in the
index, have proven to be the most
reckless spendthrifts and unscrupu-
lous that ever controlled
National legislation. During the
long session that has Just closed they
fought persistently TO reduce the
army, cut down the pay Of the OIL
GERS, pinch the clerks i. government
employ, cripple tie departments by
refusing to vote necessary appropri-
ations and to reduce the tariff and
the national e taxes, and thus
impair the sources from which gov
ernment expenses are drawn-but
when it came to Southern claims, or
to appropriations for the benefit of
their immediate constituents they
voted away millions of money with
cut debate or question.
Thus the River and Harbor bill,
which was pat through under the
previous question, without c ro.d of
debate, appropriates ss,36l 900, the
largest sum ever voted for these pur-
poses. 1t was put through on the
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A Wise Deacon.

Deacon Wilder, | want you to
tell me how you kept yourself and
family 80 well the past season, v hen
all the rest Of Us have been sick SO
much, and have had the doctors run
ming to US so long"
BRO. Taylor, the answer Is very
easy. used Hop Bitters in time
and kept nv family well and saved
large doctor bills. Three dollars
worth OF it kept Us all well and able
- work all the time, aud | will war
rant IL has cost you and most of the
neighbJrs one - two hundred dol.
lars apiece to keep the sick The same
time. | guess you will take my
medicine hereafter" See other col
umn.
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Firz John Porter's New Court-Mar,iau.

Wet POINT. n. Y. June l9.-The
court appointed by President Hayes
to exnaine into the last of Gen. Fitz
J. Porter and report, with reasons for
their conclusions, what action, if ary
in their opinion justice requires should
be taken by the President on Gen.
Por,er's application for a review Of
his case, will convene here on Mon
day mex The members Of tn court
are Gems. Seho6eld, Terry, and Getty
Gen Porter's counsel are Joseph II.
Choate and Anson Maltby. Of New
York. and John C. Ballitt. now of
Philadelphia. MI. Bullitt is a demo-
cra.; the other two counsel are
Republicans.
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CondemnInG the Louisiana Commits.
sion.

The United States Senate, by O
vote Of 80 to %, placed its seal Of
condemnation upon the Presidents
course in sending a Commission to
Louisiana for the purpose Of over
turning a State Government. The
Commission was sent by the Presi.
dent, upon his own responsibility,
and without any authority Of law
and q leading officer Of the Treasury
doubtless acting upon Mr.. Sherman's
advice) persuaded a New York bank
to advance the money for the Com.
m~issioners' expenses, being assured
that Congress would pay it back
again. This Congress has just re.
fused to do, upon the ground that the
course taken was without warrant OF
law.
Leading Republicans of the Senate
were not at all chsry in the language
in which they expressed their con-
domination Of the Presidents course
in this particular, and the unanimitv
with which the same views are held
by the party may be seen in the fact
that the President could muster but
six Senators, elected as Republicans,
to his support. There are but two
of these whose Republicanism is un-
observation-disclosures. Anthony and
Paddock. The other four are known
as the Administrator Senators-the
Stanley Matthews body guard-who
have supported every item of the pol
icy Including the turning out of civ
il officers to make way for their friends)
from the start.
Thus, in the most emphatic man.
ner possible, is the Southern policy
condemned and openly censured.
The President, we understand, is
mot in the least disturbed. Gin
cinH0ti Times.
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Desperate Attempt Of n Mnrdersr 20
Escape.

FREDERICK. Md juno I9.-E. II.
Cos.ey, who is to be hanged on Fri
day. made a desperate attempt to
escape this morning. The door q
the corridor was open to feed the
prisoners. As soon as the cook had
turned bis head Costley dashed past
him through the wa-den's room and
out the front entrance to the Jail aud
down a LOT into q cellar about two
hundred yards ia the real Of the
Jail. lie was captured by the war
den almost Immediately and was
taken back to prison aud ironed.
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Has the Potter committee torn any
linen in their frantic efforts to find
who offered Judge Levissee SlO0, OOO
TO east bis vote for Tildeni If the
committee had got an inkling that
Matthews or Noyes or Sherman OF
HAYES offered O hundreth part Of
that lsrge sum for a vote, Potter and
Ru,ior would have gone frantic to
trace out and confirm the fact. Why
is the 500, 600 bribe to be passed in
silence? Does it hurt some Of the
Democratic %innocents2
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HAVING signslly failed in procur
ing any evidence on which to predi-
cate their design OF ~unseating the
President, the Democrats are now
endesvoring to claim credit for the
adoption of the Burchard resolution,
declaring any attempt to assail the
Presidential title, Revolutionary"
The pliability of the average Dem
ocratic statesmen is evidenced by
their votes in the last Congress for q
general resolution against subsidies,
and then afterwards voting for each
particular subsidy proposed. So the
Democrats who voted against any
attempt to Gust Mr.. Hayes, while
the Senate stood in the way Of their
revolutionary designs, will probably,
at the mex session, when they will
have control OF the Senate, vote to
unseat him. The people at the com
ing election should take particular
care not to give them an opportunity
to 60 back on their record on the
Burcbard resolution, and carry o1t
their original programme on the
avowed basis of the fright of reyo-
luton" The only safety of the
country is in making the majority Of
the next House Republican.
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A Woman Killed by L~ixhtnfnx.

bRAbF's BEND, June 2l.-During
the storm this afternoon the wife of
Chas. Hemerley, of Armstrong run,
was Instantly killed by a flash of
lightning. Col. Templeton. of Brady's
Bend sas considerably injured by the
same shock. Mrs. Hemerley leaves
three small children.
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Murder and Suicide.

AUGUSTA, June 2l.-On Wednes-
day evening q negro named David
Crawford shot and killed his wife on
Beach Island, South Carolina. He
then killed himself. On Thursday
morning a white man named Terry,
Q short distance from where the
tragedy occurred, chopped a woman
with whom he was living, in the
head with a Ratchet and shot her.
He afterwards shot and killed him.
cell.
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Riot I'm Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, June l9.-Judge
Davidson, of Fountain county, tele-
graphed to Governor Williams to-day
for troops to assist in suppressing
the riots among the miners. The
light infantry will leave here by
special train this afternoon.
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We have now had o year and a.
half Of the Tilden fight, and the
country is asked to devote to it some
three years or so additional, for the
qualification Of trying to make a
President out of q man who wasn't
honest enough to pay his income tax,
and who tried to buy up an electoral
vote in Oregon. What an exalted
ideal of craftsmanship NORTH
4mer,ocD
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AUDITORS:
JACOB NJ. BAKER.
HIRAM -. MCCOY.

THE Philadelphia Press has q re-
port from Bellefonte, Pa, that il is a
foregone conclusion that Ex-Governor
A. @. Curtin will q for Congress
on the Democratic ticket in that dis
trict this fall.
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"logrolling" principle, each one
caring only to know that his locality
had a share in the spoils and obliyi-
Gus to oil else that the bill contained.
When Regan. of Texas, reported the
bill to the House from the Confer
ence committee, without a word of
explanation, the House went it
'blindD and adopted the bill, by a
vote of $50 to SO.