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Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
The Late Pope Plus TX.

Pope Plus IX-Giovanni Maria Mas tai Ferretti-was born of noble family at Sinigaglia, near Ancona, on May 18th.
 1792. He visited South America on religious mission in 1923. In 1887 he was made Archbishop of Spoleto, and he attained the dignity of Cardinal in 184O.
 In June, 1847, he was elected by ac- clamation the successor of Gregory XVI
 The prodigious popularity which he at first won by his innovations and reforms, began to decline before the end of 1847. Excited by the French Revolution of 1848, the Italian liberals demanded greater concessions than the Pope was willing to grant. After several violent demonstrations on the part of the Roman population, Pic Mono escaped to Gaeta in disguise, in November, 1848. A re- public was organized at Rome in 1849, but was subverted by 6 French army, which took Rome in July of that year, and restored the Pope. Among the chief events of his pontifcate were the formal definition and promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Concep- tion in 1855. During the war of Austria against the French and Sardinians in 1859, the people of the Romagna and the Legations revolted against the Pope, and the Papal States were annexed to the Kingdom of Victor Emanuel T In January, 1560,. the Pope issued an ana thema against those who abetteda the in vasion of his dominions. This was prob bably aimed at Napoleon III. Rome was declared the capital of the new King dom of Italy in 1860. Since that date the question of the Pope's temporal power has remained in suspense, as one of the great problems of European di' plomacy. About the 10th of December, 1866, the French army left, Rome. The Pope protested firmly against the aboli- tion of his temporal power, but he re mained in Rome. He convoked by an encyclical letter an Gcumenical, Council, which met at Rome in December, 1869, to define the dogma of Papal infallibility. which, after 8 long deliberation, was fl. nally promulgated in July, 1870. From that time to the present date the Pope has led comparatively uneventful life at the Vatican.
Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
The Story of a DefauIter.

The saddest feature of the dedication on the Bank of North America, of New York, says local paper, as it is of so many other recent defalcations and for geries, is in it's effects on the family of the criminal. MT. Turney is a man of about forty-five years of age and has 8 wife, five sons, and daughter. The daughter is about twenty years old. His connection with the bank dates back almost to its foundation, in 1851. In 1853 he was smitten with the gold fever, and went to California. He returned in short time, and since then has been employed uninterruptedly in the bank. Three months ago he told his wife of his long course of systematic dishonesty, so that when dispatch was sent to her at the family home in Harlem, the news could only have been realization of her forebodings. The family are said to have been living in economical circum- stances. One brother of Mr.. Turney died short time ago in this city. An other is now living in California, and
 
 have been associated with MT. Turney in business and social life speak of him as man of singularly attractive charac- ter and amiable disposition. The reve- lation of his dishonesty will be shock to all his friends.
 The story of this dedication is pecu- liar. A. M. Turney, the paying-teller, was a man in whom all the officers of the bank placed implicit confidence. He had , been connected with the bank almost from it's foundation. Nothing had ever I been discovered in his conduct which led to the slightest suspicion of any dis honesty on his part When the Bank Examiner came to examine the condition of the Bank, he found that there was 8 deficit of $2S5, 900. MT. Turney was called in, and confessed that this large deficit was due to his own defalcations Just prior to Black Friday, in 1869, he began to dabble in stocks. The passion for speculation grew upon him. His first theft to meet losses in Wall street amounted to $35, 900. To preserve the loss from the knowledge of the bank off, cers, he told the second teller, who was 2 strong personal friend of his, and be- sought him to assist in covering up the deficiency, promising to make it good ill Q short time. Between them, the &C., counts were "cooked" so as to escape detection. The crash of Black Friday, I think, involved MT. Turney heavily. Then, it is thought, he drew out large sums, hoping to retrieve his losses, but the crisis in the street swept everything away. Since then all his efforts had been directed to conceal his thefts. The two tellers, by exchanging checks and alter ing the figures in their books, escaped detection at all the semi annual examina- tions. Of all the money taken by MT. Turney, have good reason to believe that the second teller received not a penny. Mistakenly, he helped his friend at the start, and after that he could not withdraw He still remains at the bank.
Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
A Forgotten Hero.

. The London Times says: On the 7th of January there passed away, in his niinety-first year, Capt. Charles Boyce of the Indian navy, who so long ago as the year 1915 performed 8 deed of unsur- passed valor in upholding the honor of his country's flag. "sa ..nas ~e1
 On the 3Oth of June in that year Lieut.. Boyce, then in command of the brig Nau- titus, of fourteen..guns, was cruising in the Straits of Sunda, when the United States corvette Peacock, twenty-two guns, Capt. Warrington, hove in sight. AS Lieut. Boyce had received notice of MT. Madisons proclamation of peace with England, he made no attempt to shun his adversary, but sent boat to ln- form Capt. Warrington of the conclu- sion of peace. That officer, however, replied by hailing Lieut.. Boyce to haul his flag down as token of submission, or stand the alternative of being sunk. An action ensued, and soon the young Captain of the Nautilus lay prostrate on the deck with grapeshot measuring ? inches in his hip, and his right knee and thigh bone shattered by a 32-pounder shot, while his First Lieutenant, Mir. Mayston, lay by his side mortally wound ed Feeling that his countrys honor dearer to him than limbs or lfe-was satisfied, and in order to save the useless slaughter of his brave seamen, he gave the order to the boatswain, the officer now in charge, to strike his flag.
 It should be borne in mind that when Lieut.. Boyce answered the demand of the United States scommander by an equally naughty refusal, his crew, owing to loss on active service, had been re- duced to forty officers and men, and of these two officers and boats crew had been detained by Capt. Warrington, so that he was pitting his handful of men against crew of 220 seamen flushed with their recent victory over Her Ma jesty's ship Epervier, of eighteen guns.
 The United States Government recog- nized the illegality of the act of the com mander of the Peacock by conferring a pension on Lieut.. Boyce, and 1t was only few days ago that the shattered frame of this brave seaman was carried to it's last resting place at St. Calais, Sarthe, in France.
Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14

AN INDIAN SToRY.-A story is going the round of the East Indian papers of 8 frontier officer just after the conquest of the Puniaub being in conversation with Sikh chief, when the latter remarked |: You English do not know how to man. age Pathan. I will tell you what you should do. You should get sack and put your Pathan into it, then fill it with chaff and set fire to it. That is the way to manage Pathan." Shortly after the same officer fell in with some Pa- thans, and in course of conversation one of them observed, " You English do not know how to manage Sikh. I will tell you what you should do. You should get a sack and put your Sikh into it, then fill it with chaff and set fire. That is the way to manage Sikh."
Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14

Palermo letters give frightful de. tails of the treatment of Alessandro Pa- risi, whom brigands captured and spirit ed away in carriage from the heart of the city, within sight and hearing of his family and friends, before midnight, only releasing him upon receiving ransom of 10000 lire in gold, or 57,000 lire in paper, after eleven days detentio on in 8 mountain cave with dire sufferings. This daring act has plunged Palermo into a state of consternation, and people are afraid. to venture out after dusk.
Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
A Point on which the Doctors Agree.

Physicians who have tested Hostetter's Stomach Bitters concur in representing 1t to be an eninently sdfe stinluldnt, far preferable to the ordinary liquors of commerce, not only because it is medicated, but because-it is inf- nitely pure. Its alcoholic basis is the finest old rye, and this is tempered and rendered anic origin which it holds in solution.s SIthas often been initiated, but never riyalled, and tent of America, Malarial levers are preven- ted and remedied by it., and it is Q thoroughly reliable medicine in cases of dyspepsia, con stipation, liver complaint, Rheumatism, gout, nervousness, urinary and uterine affections. It improves the appetite, increases the bodily stamina. checks premature decay, and us Q sustaining and comforting cordial for the aged and infrm is unequalled. J, ,ba,s z las
Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14

It is said that mordants and mixtures for finishing white cotton goods, some times contain arceniate of soda to the ex- tent of one-sixth part of their weight.
Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14

Marriage is becoming fashionable among the Catholic priests of Germany, the civil law protecting them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19
A C0ntrast-Hoyt and Dill.

Mr.. Hoyt has had no experience in OF out of
Office that would fit him for governor. He
has several times been a candidate for office
but his neighbors and acquaintance never
believed that he would be of service to them,
and hence they always cast large maiorities
against him. He has no experience in leg
islation, knows nothing of it, and has never
had occasion or opportunity to make himself
familiar with the special wants or interests
of the people of the state in that regard. His
personal proclivities have made him rather a
seeker of pleasure and luxury than thinker
and an economist, Two or three years ago,
when the interests of the Cameron ring re-
quired plausible respectability at the head II
their state committee they appointed Hoyt
chairman and transacted the business in his
name. He answered their purposes so well
that they made him their candidate for gov
erner, though the people knew nothing of
him. So far as the latter had a voice in the
republican convention they spoke for Grow
and Wickersham, but how utterly in vain
the contemplate vote for these men shows.
Andy Dill, when quite young man, was
selected by his neighbors, who had import
ant interests at stake, as a candidate for the
legislature in district very largely republi-
can, but so entirely did he possess the conf
dence of the people that he was elected
despite the adverse party majority. He gave
such entire satisfaction that he was the next
year nominated and elected senator, in a
republican district again, to the utter aston
ishment of the republican leaders. Notwith.
standing repeated gerrymanderings after
wards in order to clay him out" as it was
expressed, he was again elected "every time"
and continued in the senate until he resigned
in consequence of his nomination for gov
ernor. Though never an office hunter he
was always nominated and elected by the
people whenever his name was presented.
His long service in the general assembly of
the state peculiarly qualities him for gov.
ernor. Therein he was required 10 study
and master the very subjects that the gov
ernor will be called to act upon. He always
enjoyed the personal respect and confidence
of all parties in the legislature for he always
discharged his duties in the direct interests
of the people.
Here, then, is the contrast between the
two prominent candidates for governor, and
it is for the honest people to say which shall
be chosen. 1t is not worth the space to re.
fer to Mr.. Lane, the candidate of the pro-
hibitionists, or Mr.. Mason, corporation at
torney of the nationals, for votes thrown
away. The only choice is between the in
experienced and always defeated candidate
of the Cameron ring, Col. Hoyt, and the ex-
perienced, ever faithful champion of the
people, Andrew Fl. Dill, who was always
elected when candidate,by the people who
know him.-Pdtriot.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington. D. C., July l6, 1878.

A few days since 1 made mention of the
removal, by Secretary Schurz, of the APP
pointment Clerk fthe Interior Department.
This office has an importance not generally
understood. Through the Appointment
Clerk the Secretary gets his impressions of
80 in every 100 of the men he appoints to
Office. In fact, the character of the Depart
ment here depends much more upon a
shrewd appointment clerk, like the one just
dismissed by Secretary Schurz, than upon
the Secretary himself. Preceding this re-
moval there had been rumors that there
would be general reorganization of the force
in the Interior Department. These rumors
were probably true. They are confirmed by
persons in situations to know. The reorgani-
zation, if it shall take place-will unques.
tionably be of great benefit to the Depart
ment. But some sanguine people believe
that not only does Secretary Schurz mean
this, but that Mr.. Hayes has determined
upon general change among Federal Off
cials throughout the country. There is
plausibility in this story. Mr.. Hayes, if
honest, has been trying ever since he went
to the White House, to reformthe civil SER
vice of the country. Everybody knows that
he has failed if he has made the attempt.
He has failed, these sanguine people say,
because he has not cut aloof entirely from
the party leaders, and now seeing his mis-
take, he will go on with his efforts without
consu lting them further. The New Yolk
Custom House suspensions were announced
first because there, better than elsewhere,
Mr.. Hayes could learn Of the probable
amount of opposition he would have to en-
counter. His new appeal, his friends say,
will be from Conkling Blaine, and the like,
to the people. l am afraid Civil Service
Reform will not receive much immediate
benefit if he shall attempt this, but we shall
have the liveliest fight of modern times, and
the political atmosphere may be purified
thereby.
Latest reports from the seat of the Inoian
War seem to show that General Howard's
reported victory over the hostiles has had
wonderfully reviving effect on them. They
appear in large numbers in many localities,
and general alarm is felt among the exposed
settlers in Washington Territory and Ore
gon.
That portion of the Potter Committee
which is now here will visit Atlantic City,
New Jersey, before joining the sub-commt-
tee in Louisiana, and will there examine
many of the visiting statesmen as to what
they know about Louisiana affairs
Though we have been assured that Mr..
Sherman contemplates no immediate proc
lamation of resumption, the weight of opin
ion is that it will have been accomplished
by October lst, and all of Mr.. Sherman's
movements seem to be taken with view of
reaching that end as speedily az possible.
As Indian matters have forged to the
front, the Mexican situation has temporar-
ly receded. But its possibilities for sur
prise were considered quite equal to the In
dian question, and may yet prove more
startling.
SEMINOLE
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19
More about Mason.
G. A.. S.

1t is said that James l.. Wright, the Labor
man, has been trying to get Mason to with
draw from the National ticket. Wright has
Mason's record as corporation lawyer, al
ways on the side of coal companies, and rail
road companies, to help his argument.-
PhiladelpbiG Sunday Times.
The above clipping but family expresses
the deep'dyed corporation aitinites of the
National Gubernatorial candidate. We
have received from the records of Mercer
county the names of the following chartered
companies now using Mr.. Mason's services |;
Pennsylvania Company. .
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail
road.
Erie and Pittsburg Railroad.
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad.
New Castle and Franklin Railroad.
Mercer Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany.
Mercer Iron and Coal Company.
jamestown and Franklin Railroad.
By serving some of these companies he al
lies himself to the Standard Oil Company,
it being a chief stakeholder.
On the subject Of usury the matter is still
worse, as he figures as defendant and de-
iendanps counsel in nine-tenths of the suits
that have been brought tor usurious interest.
We aSe merely outlining what our National
friends may expect if they continue to press
their anfi'oorp0rafion candidates. They have
tied mill'stone about their necks, and the
waters will overwhelm them if it is not
loosed.-f fittsd~g Critic Worhiagaasn's Or
gcs.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19
The Local option Dog Law.

A law making all dogs personal property
was passed by the Legislature, the provisions
OF which are as follows: "For whatever
damages dogs may do, their owners shall be
liable, even for the costs and attorneys lees,
if the suits be taken To court. An annual
tax of fifty cents on male and one dollar on
female dogs will be levied, which will be
kept in separate account by the county
treasurer, from which owners of sheep shall
be compensated when dogs deplete their
droves, provided that the owners of the
dogs cannot be ascertained. If discovered,
the latter must make good the loss. Asses
sors are required to take an account of all
dogs in their districts, and the names of the
owners. If at ths end of the year the
amount of money in the hands OF the county
treasurer from this source exceeds 9 given
gum, the surplus is to be divided among the
school districts The adoption of this law is
made optional in counties. A ballot shall
be taken not ofteaer than once in two years,
upon acceptance or rejection, and il will re.
main with the voters to pronounce upon
tho merits of the measure"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19
Labor Organ Endorsing Stanton.

In an article commenting ON Judge Stan.
toms views of the political situation in Penn
sylvania, the Scranton Free Press, a pro-
nounced and open advocate of the labor
cause, says "We believe in the cause of
labor, aud we will aid the laboring men all
we can in our humble way this fall to obtain
the mastery wherever success in the fight
promises beneficial to themselves, but since
the election of Mr. Mason would, in our
Judgment, be only victory for one of the
greatest enemies of labor, we will record our
vote for plain. honest Andy Dill, who, with
out any preteusions or lying professions, will
do his whole duty by all classes, poor and
rich alike" OF course it is the most natu-
raj thing in the world for the greenback or.
gars in Schuylkill county to assert that
Judge Stanton has been dsowned by the la
Dor men of Luzerne since he announced his
preference for Senator Dill. The greenback
leaders Of Schuylkill county nearly all have
personal ends to secure and will use every
artiice to hold their men together; but it
will be apparent long before the election
that Judge Stanton speaks the sentiments of
large proportion OF the lshoring men, not
only in Luzerne but also in Schuylkil coun-
y.-IottspAe Chronicle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19
THE WIFE KILLING MANIA.

For several weeks past the number of re-
ports in the daily papers of wife murderers
and suicides has been something remarkable.
All sorts Of instruments are used for the pur
pose. One fond husband takes an axe and
deliberately chops his spouse into sausage
meat, beats out the brains of an infant on the
stove hearth, and then scratches his own
throat with dull razor, enough to draw
blood, just to give the act an appearance of
insanity. Another monster goes to his wifes
room and with revolver puts two balls in
her body which bring her to the floor. In
endearing tones he apologies and says "Did
l hurt you, dear; l didn't intend to do it,
and 80 to make matters all right he places the
weapon at her temple and blows her brains
out. Another cuts his wife's throat and then
his own, because he loves her sc" and so on.
For many of these brutal murders no causes
are assigned. Some Of them come from the
use of liquor which makes fends of men
some from jealousy, or suspicion Of inconstan.
cy, and not few from improper and hasty
or i'll advised marriages.
Men are apt to ask the hand of woman
in marriage without having any visible means
of supporting her, and when hunger comes in
At the window, love flies out at the door.
From this point it is but few steps to mis-
cry and crime.
Women are too apt to accept offers of mar
riage without fully considering the momen-
tous step they are taking. In Mrs. Woods
story Of Castle Wafer occurs the following:
Tits gratifying to young girls vanity to re-
ceive On offer Of marriage, to anticipate an
establishment of her own to leave her com.
panions behind. Marriage is to her sealed
book, and she is eager to penetrate its mystic
ries. 1t word from a judicious friend, or
still, small voice in her own concience should
whisper warning to wait to be sure she is
on the right path ere she enters its enclosures
irrevocably, both are thrust aside unheeded
So the wedding-day comes surely on, and soon
the once eager, careless girl awakes to her
position and beholds herself as she really is
sacrificed. She is the wife Of one whom she
cannot love worse still, perhaps not respect,
now that she knows him intimately. There
is no sympathy between them not feeling,
not taste, it may be in common. But the
sacri6ce was of her own proper choosing, and
she must abide it."
Wife murderers do not often wound them
selves fatally in their attempts at suicide.
There are two ways then in which this rap.
idly increasing crime may be checked. First,
people must learn to enter the married state
with caution, and not until ample time has
been given to know that all is right Sec.
ond, for the public to see to it that no cow
srdly brute who kills the woman he has prom
ised to love and protect shall escape what he
80 richly merits-the haDgnan's halter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19
Those Matthew's Letters.
SENATOR MATTHEWS TENDERS SOME EX-
PLANTATIONS IN REGARD TO THEM.

SENATOR MATTHEWS TENDERS SOME EX-
PLANTATIONS IN REGARD TO THEM
When it was rumored that Stanley Mat
thews had written those letters, he paid no
attention to the reports, anl affected not to
have had any of them Then when it was
declared that he did write them, he smiled
lottily aud waved his hand over his shoulder,
as one who should say : Il have no time to
waste in answering malignant political scan
dal ;" THIN wh4n witnesses swore that he
wrote them aud they saw him do it, he drew
himself up to his full height, assumed the dig
nifty of god Of the second class, put his right
hand into his pocket, and said, with the stern
intonatlon Of injured honor Look at my
accusers, and then-gaze on me" And then
when they hauled out the letters and read
them and published them, he arose in his
place, and with the disregard of grammar
which comes over even great men in times of
peril, he said, ''Lemme explain" and explain
ed by saying the letters were forgeries. And
then when the letters were fully identified his
shoulders dropped and his chest caved in,
that great wrinkles bulged in and
out on the bosom of his shirt, and he lost it
as il were, his grip, and told one man that he
wrote the letters when he was asleep, and an
other that his twin brother who died wrote
them, and he told Mr.. Hayes that he didn't
think they would be saved or he never would
have written them, and finally in burst of
confidence and penitence, he hung his head
On Ben. Butler neck and sobbed 81 cannot
ell lie; John Sherman wrote them" 1t is
4 task replete wi tn sad, fearful interest to fol.
low the footsteps Oft this good reformer through
he startling transformation scenes of the
past thirty days.-ET.