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THE WEST.

A GIGANTIC swindle has been uncover
ed at St. Louis. A company of scamps are
sending out letters ordering cotton in the
name of the St. Louis Cotton Exchange,
using fac simile letter-heads, etc.
CYRUS Stem, a Chicago medical
student, has large cauldron at his resi-
dence, and boilS up human bodies to the
great annoyance of his neighbors. The
citizens living in his neighborhood COM
planned TO the authorities on the Goth.
DAVID SINLON, who gave 100000 to
the Cincinnati Union Bethel home, some
time ago, added $4,000 more on the 10Th,
for the purpose OF clearing debt
THE workingmen's convention of
San Francisco have adopted resolutions
calling for restrictions and the abolition of
Chinese cheap labor; demanding that land
donated by the government to aid indivdu-
ais and corporations shall revert to its law
full possessors; demanding that a system of
finance be adopted suited to the require
ments of the people, and uncontrolled by
rings and bankers; that the pardoning pow
er shall be vested in commissioners instead of
the governor and the president; that fraud in
office should be punishable by imprison-
ment for life; that the contract system in
prisons should be abolished; that all labor
ON public works should be by the day, and
that eight hours should be lawful days
work; that the fees of public officers should
be accounted as public money, and that the
president, vice-president and senators
should be elected by the direct vote of the
people.
GENERAL AUGUST WELLICH died at
st. Mary, o., on the oath. He was distin,
gushed soldier during the war, and in pri.
vate life prom inent and highly-respected
citizen.
LOUIS B. HUCK, of Chicago, ex-county
treasurer, has paid to the county $4,000 Of
|. the 100000 by which he was short when
his term expired. He will pay the balance
ABOUT ten miles north of the newly
discovered oil springs, near Deadwood, sal
springs have been found, from one gallor
OF which one pound of pure salt was ex
tracted. Several parties are making prep
aratlons to put up pans for salt extraction
ALTHOUGH the quartz lodes at Sitk:
/ prospect well, no efforts have yet beer
( made to develop them.
/ SENATOR ALLISON was reelected b.
the Iowa legislature on the sd inst.
/ PIATT, HUBBELL & Co, of St. Louis
/ have failed. Liabilities $4,000; assets un
known.
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NEWSOF THE WEEK.
A SQUABBLE AT NEW ORLEANS.

AT New Orleans on the 26th Sheriff
Houston, with A posse, demanded admit
tance TO the United States custom house
where Anderson, kenner and Casanayc,
members OF the Louisiana returning board
were secreted. Admittance was refused and
Collector Tomlnson summoned deputy
marshal and called upon the sheritf7s party
to disband. The sheriff would not comply,
and he and his deputies were arrested by
the collector, they submitted peacefully.
The collector sent for the commander of the
revenue cutter and detachment of marines,
ordering them to be stationed al his door,
through which a passage had TO be effected 10
reach the collectors office.
Commissioner Lane released Sheriff Heus-
ton on his own recognizance, who lmmed-
lately sent for armed assistance to force an
entrance to the custom house. A guard OF
marines from the revenue cutter DIX was
placed at the entrance to the collector
office
Sheriff Houston, acting under the direc-
ton of Atty. Gen. Ogden, had a conference
with Marshal Wharton, and they agreed to
submit the matter TO the department of JUS
tice at Washington.
They received an answer from the Attor-
ney-General instructing them not the inter
fere with the execution of the writs of the
state courts.
Sheriff Houston was notified, and found
Anderson, kenner, and Cassnaye in the
collectors office, from whence they We're
taken TO the Parish. Prison, where they will
remain until they furnish new bonds of
S., 900 each.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.
C. S. RAND,
HENRY BERGER.
Brick Tea.

A correspon dent writing from Han
kon, in China, says: There is a very
large trade in brick tea, which is pre-
pared here for the Russian market, and
is shipped hence by the way of Tientsin
and Pekin. Nearly half of the foreign
merchants here are Russians, and they
have several factories for the prepara-
tion of the bricks This morning |
visited one of the establishments and
witnessed the process. The dry tea is
weighed out into portions for single
bricks, and each portion is wrapped in a
cloth and placed over steam boiler.
When it is thoroughly steamed it is
poured into mold and placed beneath
machine which presses it into the requir-
ed shape. Some of the machines are
worked by hand and Others by steam;
both kinds are rapid and efficient, and it
dld not appear that the steam had much
advantage. Five men working hand
machine and receiving twenty cents each
per day, W re able TO press six bricks a
minute. The steam press worked only a
little faster, and the cost of fuel must be
nearly equal to that of muscle.
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WARRINGTON.

Hon. G.. A. CANNON, the Mormon
delegate in congress, and DR.. Mary Walker,
appeared before the subcommittee on terri
tories, on the 2Sth, in opposition to the cleo
tive bill giving Utah secret ballot disfran-
chising polygamists and women.
GEN. SHERMAN received dispatch
from Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, on the 2Sth, sta
ting that the reported crossing of Sitting
Bull into United States territory is not con-
trmed, but should the rumor prove true, he
will at once dispatch troops TO Col. Miles at
Fort keogh.
HON. JOHN B. KERR died suddenly
at his residence in Washington, on the Goth.
He was native OF Maryland, and son of
United States Senator Leeds Kerr. He was
member of Congress previous TO 1850.
President Fillmore appointed him minister
TO Central America.
CAPT. FRED d. STEWART died at
Washington, on the 18th, OF pneumonia.
He was member OF the scientific corps that
accompanied Capt Wilkes in the South Sea
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exploration, and was also conspicuous Odd
Fellow.
THE President, on the 25th, appointed
Glenn Studebacker and Frank c. Johnson
honorary commissioners from Indiana 10
the Paris exposition.
The Pacific railroad representatives
stated before the committee of railroads that
it would be necessary either to grant them
extension of time beyond the maturity of
their bonds in 1900, or TO take back the un-
sold bonds of the company in part pay
ment.
THE commissioners of state school and
sinking fund at Topeka, Kansas, have SUBJ
scribed TO 100000 of the United States four
per cent. loan.
IT is understood that the cabinet
agreed, on the 23d, TO release the syndicate
from their last subscription of SIC, 100000 of
for.S,sss -clit bonds, as Secretary sherman
believs his plan of selling these bonds will
be successful, and the accounts between the
government and the syndicate will there
fore be settled Immediately.
The senate, on the 22d inst, rejected
the nomination OF Mike j. Waldron to he
United States Marshal for the western dis
trict of Tennessee.
THE attorney-general denies the report
that L. 5. Grant, jr., has been appointed
assistant district attorney in New York
city.
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ABROAD.

1T is reported that Viscount Sandon,
member OF Parliament for Liverpool, will
sicceed Lord Carnarvon as secretary of
safe for the colonial department
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD GREASY, his
iorian, died on the 2sth, in London.
LORD DERBY withdrew his resignation
or the 2Sth.
The news of the conclusion of peace
e;used great consternation in Athens,
Greece, and large crowd paraded the
streets making demonstrations in favor of
var. crowd, exceeding 10000 in number,
marched TO the residence of the minister,
where they broke windows and committed
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THE MARKETS..
New York.

NEW YORK, January $500 P. NJ
Cotton-U nchanged. Flour-Duil receipts
10000 bbls; sales 1000 bbls. Wheat-A@
14c lower; receipts 291 ,000 bus; sales 81 900
bus at $1.2414@L241a for No. , spring sell
Ter February. Rye Unchanged at 71@75c.
Corn-Old and prime new steady; common
and inferior grades dull and declining; re-
ceipts 219,0GO bus; : tles 900 bus at 479
61Ac for western mixed. Barley-Quiet.
Oats-Dull; receipts 81 900 bus; sales $4,000
bus; prices unchanged. Pork-Heavy and
unchanged. Lard-A shade easier at S7.60.
Whisky-At Sl.U613. Petroleum-Crude at
7c: refined at 1l7sc
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CASUALTIES.

r. p. JENKINS & Co.'S drug store, at
Nashville, was partially destroyed by fire at
an early hour on the Goth. The stock valued
at between 900 and 700. Losses 80
per cent.
A FIRE at lis and III North street,
New York, on the 2Sth, destroyed 100000
worth of property. The premises were oc-
cupied by dry goods and carpet commission
merchants
A LOSS of $4,000 was caused on the
Goth by a fire at Towsonton, Maryland.
Insured.
WILLIAM and George Drumm, broth
ers, aged u and Is, were drowned in the
Delaware river, at Port Jervis, n. y, on the
18th, by breaking through the ice.
THE cotton batting mills of Wilson x
Co., at Carrolton, KY, burned on the 23d.
Loss $4,000; insured.
THE cylinder containing gas for the
calcium light exploded at the Holiday
street theater, Baltimore, Nd, on the evening
of the 24th killing James Knapp and wound
ing Charles Rutter and II. Thompson, at
taches of the theater
PATRICK GIVEN, a fireman, was killed
by a falling wall, during a fire at Wheeling,
w. Va, on the 23d.
WILL WESTON, second engineer of
the steamer Jim Fisk, fell overheard in the
river near Cairo, H., on the 23d, and was
drowned.
A CARRIAGE was run into by freight
car at the railroad crossing on Reed street,
Milwaukee, Wis, on the night of the 23d.
Mr.. Gustav Falk, son of brewer Franz Falk
and Miss Emma Jacobs, daughter of Col.
VIM. II. Jacobs, were killed. Another of
Col. Jacob daughters was seriously lured.
The driver and horses escaped unframed.
The steamship Ponce was sunk near
Liverpool, Eng, on the 21st inst, by col
lisiOn. Two lives were lost.
A PASSENGER train running ten miles
an hour around a curve near Hunts station,
on the Chattanooga railroad jumped the
track and went down a twenty-foo embank-
ment. Nobody was killed, but several were
slightly injured.
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NiIuaukee.

MILWAUKEE, January 2S-3 :O0 p. M
Flour-Quiet; desirable kinds of spring
-four range from S4.75@5.25; extra choice,
s5.37 15M5.59 Wheat-Unsettled and lower;
No. l hard 31.063491.074; No. l regular,
s1.06A4; No. 2 regular, S1.021z; seller
March Sl.o3H@L03k; seller February,
$1.021z@1027s; No. 3, 963ze; rejected, 80
@9OHc. Oats-Dull at Ale for No. ,.
Corn-Nominal at II for No. ,. Rye-At
501Ic bid for No. /. Barley-Quiet at 56G
5slIc for No. .: No 3, 35c. Dressed Hogs
Inactive at 425 for good lots. Pork-Mess,
$40. 60 cash Lard-Prime steam S7.25; ket-
tie S7.75. Butter-At l7@20c for good 10
choice; fair TO good, 14(Gl6c; common 1G@
lie D n. Cheese-Firm at 12@l3c. Eggs
In good supply at l00l2c p doz.
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THURSDAY, January PA message
from the governor nominating Hon. Jere
Rusk as railroad commissioner for the term
commencing February 15 1873, was read
and referred to the committee on railroads,
but that committee declined the reference,
and on motion the nomination was referred
iourned.
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Assembly.

FRIDAY, January 25.-Resolutions
were introduced, requesting the secretary
of state to furnish an account of the su-
preme court reports, and the number of
volumes on hand; also to prohibit the sale
of intoxicating liquors. Bills were intro
duced: Completing the payment of +. 4.
Calkins' claim OF four or five thousand dol
lars claimed to be unpaid from the award
of 1874; providing for transfer and
assignment of stock by giving notice to the
company without actual change in certif-
cate; authorizing the state board OF health
to make an annual report to the governor
! and increasing the number of copies of the
report to eight thousand; to abolish
time sentences to prison.....,The committee
on railroad commissioner did not report.
Adjourned till Monday.
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The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
sort of circular letter in reply to interminable
letters of inquiry as to the contraction of the
currency by the retiring of the 2 80 currency
and bonds. The 7.30 currency was treas
ury note, payable Gin not less than three
years" These notes bearing compound in
terest, were issued to the amount OF 1886, 000,-
900, and were retired as they matured by the
substitution of legal tenders in their place.
Consequently there was no reduction in the
volume of the currency. The 1880 bonds
were another thing altogether They were a
regular coupon bond, a loan negotiated by
Jay Cooke & Co., bought and sold in the
market, and they in their turn have been
partly paid off in greenbacks, and partly re-
placed by O per cents, which were and are
quite as much currency as the 7 80 bonds ever
were. These Q per cents. have been in turn
replaced by 5s, AIS and per cents. The
principal contraction has been in the rapid re-
duction of the interest paid out by the Gov
ernment The reduction of actual currency
since 1874 has been about 500, 000,0 900. Per
contra the purchasing power has been largely
increased.
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Co.: |: !: 81? =; G:
IL. hALLETT & Co., Portland, Maine.
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MORE Mr.. Samuel j. Tilden
has just been giving the country another il
lustration of his faith in the principles of
" gobble." He or rather his agents, gobbled
up and made off with a set of books which
were being used in a court room in Michigan,
in proof of Mr.. Tilden's enormous mining
profits, in a suit brought by the government
to recover income tax alleged to be due. A
couple of men suddenly entered the court
room, grabbed the books from the table, and
rushed out, jumped into carriage and made
off. escaping all pursuit. This Is the man the
Democratic party wanted to make President
of the Republic.
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AN OLD STORY RECALLED.-The carpet
mills in New Brunswick, which we're closed in
consequence of the failure of the company
three or four years ago, have been reopened,
and Charles n Woodwork, the former Pres
ident Of the Company, Is President of the
new company Four years ago the mills en-
ployed $50 hands and manufactured million
yards of carpet annually. The story of its
failure is connected with the failure of the
State Bank of New Brunswick, and Wood
worth was tried on charge of having con-
spired with Greenleaf w. Appleton. cashier
of the State Bank, to defraud the bank. APP
pleton fed to Europe and has not since return
ed. The banks assets of over 81, 00O, 600 had
disappeared some way or other. On the trial
of Woodwork it was shown that the banks
books had been falsified by the Cashiers di-
rections, and that no credit had been given to
the New Brunswick Carpet Company for de-
posts made by President Woodworth. Mr..
Woodwork, after a most exciting trial, which
lasted three weeks, was acquitted. The bank
meanwhile began proceedings against the car
pet company to recover 1861, 900 claimed to
be due, and e. f. N. Miller was appointed
assignee. Mr.. Miller's report, which has just
been filed, says that Instead of a balance Of
$667, 900 being due by the carpet company to
the bank there is balance of 100000 due
by the bank to the carpet company. The bank
started it again with a new capital of $780,
900. Two years ago it failed again and is
now in the hands of a receiver. Mr. Wood
worth had invested all his money in the car
pet company, and its failure ruined him.
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The New York Tribune tracked the Oregon
fraud, clearly and Enthusiastically, up to the
door of Mr.. Tilden's mansion in Gramercy
Park and yet his convention at Syracuse had
the effrontery to raise an outcry against the
" infamous conspiracy of force and fraud by
which the nations choice for President was
annuled and reversed" For man who tried
to buy au Oregon elector, and is now on trial
for swindling the government out of his in
come tax. and whose friends have stolen his
account books SO that his actual income can
not be ascertained, this is decidedly cool.
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WHY IT EscAPED.-The city of Galveston,
in Texas, which had always suffered from
yellow fever epidemics in the South up to
1867, has not had single case this year. The
reason is worth thinking about. Up to 1857
the city was in wretched sanitary condition
-stagnant water stood under nearly every
house, the alleys were choked with filth, and
the whole city reeked with foulness Every
three or four years the place was desolated by
yellow fever. In 1867 there was a terrible
visitation of the plague, and the Intelligent
portion of the community were reused to act
ion. Thorough measures of sanitary reform
were adopted and vigorously carried into ef
feet The grade was raised the drainage was
improved, the pools were all abolished, the
alleys and backways cleaned, and a very strict
and relentless supervision of all this has been
kept up ever since. Each house is frequent
ly visited by committees of the Board of
Health, and every householder is absolutely
compelled to keep his premises clean. No
favors are shown. In this way Galveston has
been made the cleanest city in the United
States, and public opinion there is such that
no interference with the Board of Health,
which consists of eminent physicians who
serve without pay, will be permitted. The
consequence is that tho yellow fever problem
is solved. While the scourge has been carry
ing death and suffering all around it, this
clean city has entirely escaped. The facts
seem to Justify the conclusion that foul air is
the medium by which yellow fever is made
contagious. The same is doubtless true of
many other diseases.
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THE MARKETS.
.ambertrille. Oct. 2. 1873.
MARRIAGES.

ABBOTT-HOUSEL-In Lambertville Sept. %. 1878,
by Rev Chas II. Thomas Mr.. John T. Abbott, of est
Amwe to Miss Emma Housed, OF Stockton.
ORCORAN--BENNETT.-I Lambertvie, Sept. 49,
1873, by Rev C. IL. Thomas Thomas II. Corcoran, OF
Trenton, to Miss Adde R. Bennett, of New Hope, Pa
Observation-Disclosures II, by Rev. N. 8. Aler.
Samuel s. Stephenson, Of Bethlehem. to Emma l..
Wean of Franklin.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10, by Rev. N. s. Aller
James Apgar to Adelia Alpaugh, all Of Little York.
MEGoNIGALs-EMMoNS.-S 81, by Rev. J. Roden-
burgh Richard Megonigal and Josephine Emmons all
of Kingwood.
GoUAK-WEIKEL-At the Baptist parsonage. in Lam
bertve, by Rev. C. H. Thomas, Mr.. Joseph l.. Gouak
to Miss Elizabeth Weikel, all of Horshan, Montgom-
cry Co., Pa.
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Soup, OR Sour TICKETS ?--Col. Ingersoll
puts the thing in this way
A poor man buys soup tickets. He's not
hungry at the time of the purchase, and will
not be for some hours. During these hours
the Greenback gentlemen argue there is no
Use Of keeping any soup on hand with which
10 redeem these tickets, and from this they
further argue that if they can be good for a
few hours without soup, why not forever P--
And they would be, only the holder gets hun
cry. Until he is hungry, of coarse, he doesn't
care whether any soup is on hand or not, but
when he presents his ticket he wants his soup
and the idea that he can have the soup when
he does present the ticket gives it its value
And so regard bank-notes, without gold and
silver, as Of the same value as tickets without
soup.
There is body of common sense in that
homely illustration.
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DEATHS.

KELLY-In Lambertville, Sept. 90 suddenly of heart
disease. Edward Kelly, aged Sc years.
FELL.-In Lambertve, Sept. o. Townsend Fell, NJ
D., aged 10 years and months.
BYE--In New Hope Sept. ~ Willie Bye, grandson of
Mr.. Nelson Baylor. In his eighth year.
Our little one has gone to rest,
Where pain and sorrow are unknown;
But, alas, what rememhrances he has left
With the dear, loved ones at home.
SEBOLD.-In West Amwell township, Sept 20, George
of d. b. and Jane L. Sebod, aged years and
months.
BICE.-In West Amwe township, Sept. "a, Isaac H.
Bce, aged SO years.
BoND--rn Trenton, Sept II. the infant daughter of
George and Georgana Bond.
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tg- The Republican party is the party of
honest money. Don't surrender to any other
party for a mere temporary advantage. Stand
by principle even though it leads to defeat.
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Whatever tends to diminish strength should
be removed from the system. For those weak
ening diseases of babyhood-Colic, Diarrhea,
&c, use DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup which always
cures. 20 cts.
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HoLcoMBE RIVER VIEW CEMETERY.

'n pss, beautiful Cemetery, near the Alexis auken
IN ipuse, on tne River Road is nearly Completed
oss are saked on the avenues are handsomely laid
ons and new and handsome pale fence has been bnit
s roaa There are three entrances TO the ground
naue trees VIII be planted and the grounds t.sfesII
or ma, at an early day. '"''s'1'''
of hgg ground Is rich sandy, gravey loan incapable
~ nouing water, even after the heaviest fall ~
ana no. Is situated on level ground -@'' y iA'"'
an ;' os are y feet by i6 feet clear of the avenues
chase M sou on easy terms to those wishing to pur.
ing to locaep per ot hteen OF twenty dollars accord
Application for lots can now no ro.da a;,hau ;. A..
superintendent, Jacob s. s Dean or to Se' " 'Ae
Sent I'M o., WILLIAM DEAN, Secretary.
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THE HUNTERDON COUNTY
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.

prepared write policies all good risks at a
that be shown by result to be much cheaper
than the usual cost of insurance.
For information or insurance, apply to A. BARBER
Genl. Agent, or to JOSEPH SMITH,
May 2s-tf Basenentef LambenViae National Bank
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-26
Send Money.

1t is time some of our friends paid US
a little money. A new business is hard
to start. We have been sending you pa
pers right along tor three months and
have proven that We are going to stick.
The only proper plan, the safest for pa
iron and publisher, is to pay for a paper
in advance. We shall soon begin to ask
that this be done, especially when par
ties live out of town and more especially
when they live out Of the county. You
can send post'otf1ce order and make US
glad. The present firm have to do with
the accounts only since June ID, '78. All
look out for printed statements and when
one comes attend to 1t. Don't throw 1t
away and pay no attention to 1t. Wake
up, send money or send a one cent card
and say you aoo,'t pay; anything so we
may know you aren't dead. Attend to II
promptly like business men.
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p. o. FRENCH and the Chandler Bros,
constitute new firm whose place of
business is Chandler & Bros. old stand,
round on Mill street. They will deal in
fruits and general merchandise, both
wholesale and retail. They intend es
pecially TO pay attention to the apple
trade and will ship in large quantities o.
apples which they will supply to dealers
and private parties through Southern Min
nesota. They mean business and will nj
doubt do business and that too in rush
ing manner,