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Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-03-20

SINGULAR CASE.-SCIENCK vs.. MILLER,
wyoming county, sHys the Philadl h,a
Times, ranks as the funniest case Of the ses-
sion Of the supreme Court. j. G.. SCHENCK,
who is dGnOmnatcd by his own council us an
iitcrate and ignornt Dutchman, asked the
Supreme Court to reverse the decision Of the
lower Court, which refused to open Judgment
on 81 note which he signed aS security for one
THOMAS MAY. He alleges that MAY bought
some goods of NJ. G. MARTIN, nn agent of
THOMAS A. MILLER, for 500. SCHRNCK
was asked to sign the note rs security. This
he refused to do unless he was himself sccur-
ed. Then MAY, in the presence of MARTIN,
proposed the following securities: First, fifty
dollars, which was never paid; second u
claim against another party, representing to
SClIENCK that it was ~ judgment; third, he
assigned to him u receipt for 81 40, money
which MAY had paid on judgment against
him. The latter item was so grossly absurd
that even SCHENCK doubted its value. He
appealed to MARTIN to know whether the
receipt would secure him. 1t is aIf red that
MARTIN replled lhat IL would, and thcreupOn
wrote an assignment of the receipt to
SCHENCK. The latter then signed a security.
1t is urged by his counsel that the reason of
the refusal of the Court below to open judg-
ment, was that the application for relief had
not been made by SCHNNCK, but by MAY,
the other siGncr OF the note. Counsel for
MILLER, poOh-pooh that SCENCK is so ignC.
rant. They also urge that MILLER is not
liable for the statements made by MARTIN,
as to the character of the collateral security
offered by May to induce SCHENCK to sign
the Judgment note.
The argument raised many smile, and re-
lieved for time the dreary monotony of the
business Of the Supreme Court Of PennSy-
wanna. Decision reserved.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-03-20

A damp disagreeable snow storm prevailed
all day yesterday.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-03-20

Master ARTHUR WELLS, who resides with
his grandfather, Col. G.. r. MASON, South
Main street, narrowly escaped being crushed
to death beneath the wheels of wagon yes
terlay. While the 'busscs were coming from
the IL O'Clock train. the boy was riding on
KIRWIN'S baggage express, just in front of
Ward House team, and when near the Post
Office jumped off, and in order to avoid the
BUS, stepped one side. just as DR.. JOHNSON
was passing. The wheels OF the Doctors
carriage struck the lad, throwing him to the
ground, and intiicting several severe cuts
about the face and head. After promptly
dressing the wounds, the Doctor took the
hoy home. No blame attaches to any one for
the accident; but it should prove a warning
to boys against the habit Catching ON wag-
ons on the street.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-03-20

1t is better to need relief than to want heart
20 give it.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-03-20

Religious services will be held tomorrow
rs folows:
Presbyterian Church, preaching ut 10 80
n. m. and 100 p. IN. Sunday school Mt II, IN.
Christ Church, EpiscopaO, service and
sermon, 1880, u. m, and 7, p. IN. Sunday
School, II, III.
NJ. L. Church, preaching at 10: 80 Il. m,
and O'Clock p. N. Sunday School ~ II NJ.
Baptist church, preaching at I 80.
IS. Peter and Paul, mass ut 80 and 10 80
n. M, Vespcrs at Z 80 p. M, Sunday School
l2 80 p. IN.
Church of Messiah, (Universaist.) Rev.
VIM. Taylor, pastor. Services ut 10 80 q. M.
subject: "The Operation Of the Holy Spirit
in the Human Soul" Att p. m, by request,
1.-The Lake of Fire, and the Second Death"
Sunday school at II O'Clock. All welcome.
A. NJ. L. Zion, Prayer and Class meetings
10 80 Il. m. Sunday School > p. M. Service
+ 80 p. III.
L. Il. Mission, ut Nail Works School House,
Sunday School ut 3 y. IN. Service at 6:3O.
The Brethren, service at 10 1-2 a. NJ. Sum
day School at 3 p. NJ. Rooms over Madilrs
Crockery Store.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
Model Defense of Washburnism.


The most unique .vindicatiOn OF Mr..
Bill Washburn which we have met ap-
pears in the columns of our esteemed
cotemporary, the Rochester Post. Most
of the Republican papers fall to ,abus-
ing Donnelly, fire a few heavy shots sat
the Democracy on general principles
and wind up with a shout about three
thousand majority. That, they consider,
settles it.
The Iost approaches the subject with
philosophical, g they all do-h sort
of an air, and finds great deal Of COM
fort in the developments. 1t announces
that no one could be elected in this dis
trict ''without a resort to some means
that George William Curtis and polit-
ical saints of his sort would disapprove
of We presume that this is intended
to indicate that political saints" are
fools enough to favor political honesty.
Our critic having conceded that the
"political saints y do not reside in the
Third Minnesota District, confesses his
disappointment. He says zone would
expect to find some revelations of u,a-
usual skulduggery in the report of the
committee, but they will be disap-
pointed The editor of the Post dis
plays. a. familiarity with this. district
which almost leads us to suppose that
he has resided in Minneapolis. He is
disappointed, not because the report
failed to expose "skulduggery,'' but it
was simply the usual kind Of "skul-
duggery," such as buying up an cleo
ton, etc. Nothing short of some ras-
cality more monstrous than Washburn' S
would beregarded by orls cotelnporary
as ''unus'tal" for the Republican party,
andthe Glote is constrained to agree
with the critic on this point.
He approaches the details with COM
mendable resolution The voting for
Washburn of a couple of camps of lum-
bermen is shown" The editor con-
cedes that this was an entirely unjus-
tiftable outrage" He is working too
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17

straight from the shoulder to assume
that the Republicans of the Washburn
stripe repudiate this ''unjustifable out
rage" but he cautiously declares that
''no Republican is under obligation to
defend it, That is excellent; the Re-
publicans do defend political outrages,
but they are not under any obligation
to do SO. This announcement will un-
doubtedly be great relief to MANY per-
turbed souls who have supposed that
defense of Washburnism was essential
to party loyalty. Our Republican
friends, however, should not be led IN
to any hasty Reputation of rascality by
the authoritative announcement that
they are under no obligation to defend
it, for in the next breath the editor an
nounces that he suspects this cum
justifable outrage 90 has always been
practiced up there" In other words
they not only ''all do it'' but have al
ways done it. This is strong point for
Washburn.
The next point in this remarkable
vindication is settler. The buying up
of men by the wholesale is conceded,
but astonishing as it might seem to
political saint they were presumably
unscrupulous fellows" and as if that
was not sufficient defense they went
cheap. "Cheap bummers' who only
demanded "cheap price, and rem
dered cheap services" is the way our
champion of Washburnism explains that
there was no corruption about it. The
Post was doubtless again the victim of
disappointment when it found that the.
market price of voters in the Third
Minnesota district is not exorbitant,
and hence it finds an excuse for Wash
burns bribery on the ground that they
were 'cheap bummers' and sold them
selves at a 'scheap price" Regulating
the standard of morality by the price
paid for the scoundrelism is certainly
worthy of Washburnism.
The only other feature presented is
that these :. uniustiiable outrages"
(which Republicans defend without be-
| ing under any obligation to, were per-
petrated by the Republican Committee
and not by Washburn in person. The
Post comedies that there is g single
instance where it is asserted Wash
burn did the bribing personally, but the
fellow he bought is denounced as a
"dead beat.'' OF course, this excuses
Washburn if the fellow he bought was
'' dead beat,'' and if he bought hIm
"cheap'' it is rather virtue than other
wise.
After making so clear defense of
Washburnism, we are surprised that the
Post should fall back on the committee
as an excuse for Washburn personally.
AS matter of fact, the working por-
ton of the committee consisted of
Charley johnson and such other clerks
as Washburn hired. Charley johnson
was sent out through the district to buy
the nomination away from DR.. Stewart,
and, having succeeded in that, Wash
burn had him appointed Secretary of
the committee. The committee head
quarters were removed from st. Paul to
Minneapolis in order to be near the
source of supplies, and the skulduggery
which we are assured by our esteemed
contemporary is not unusual in the
Republican party, followed.
Washburn ought to head the Post ar.
ticle with wood-cut of himself, an6
circulate it broadcast as a personal vim
dication of a political saint.-St. Pau
Globe.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
Too Late to Mend 'Em Now.

The solemn fact is that Sherman's
fences were in beautiful and impossible
condition one year ago, compared with
their condition to-day. There isn't a
length with the top rail on. The stones
are out from under the corners. The
stakes are rotten. We don't believe
there's sound stake on his whole farm.
About his most cherished meadows the
fences are altogether taken away. His
trusted neighbors have burned them for
firewood, and their cattle have already
made his finest grass lands speckled
with their footprints in the soft earth.
His fences one year ago were an inn
passable Gordon line, Chinese wall,
in comparison with the same fences to-
day. His agents, in endeavoring to
fence in ground that doesn't belong to
him, have made the best portions of
his fences so inefficient that a sucking
calf can walk through or over them.
His entire property in Ohio is in a very
bad way. 1t is sadly unprotected. and
the men who advertise to be, or to have
been, protecting it, are like the young
man in the parable, who said, II co."
but went not Cincinnati Enquirer.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
A Brace Of Adventurers Who Travelled
OH Alleged Expectations.

A singular story of wholesale swim
ding and inconceivable credulity comes
from Rome. About a year ago, a young
and beautiful woman, believed to be an
American, and credited with the posses
sion of an enormous fortune, arrived in
the Italian capital, accompanied by a
young man belonging to one of the old
est and most distinguished Roman FAM
lilies, and by a monkey. She had no
other travelling companions. Shortly
after her arrival she was married to the
young aristocrat, whose name the Italian
papers conceal under the title of Sig. x.
The couple went upon Il wedding tour,
and spent money with lavish hands.
They selected the city of Portici for their
home, saying they wished to live in re-
tirement while awaiting the completion
of madame's twenty-fifth year, when she
would come into possession of her fort
une and would receive $6;OO0,OOO.
Everyone was willing to give credit to
such great heiress A Roman gentle
man, in whose villa the couple lodged,
loaned them 10000 francs, and guaran-
teed payment for 10000 francs worth
of jewelry, which they bought in Ma
pies. They made debts among the
Neapolitan merchants and bankers to
the amount of 100000 francs. In Rome
they victimized the shopkeepers heavily
for diamonds, corals, costly frlrs, and
other portable articles of high price.
Nothing seemed too costly, provided
they could get credit for it. They even
had the handles of parasols and UNI
brellas set with precious stones. They
contracted to buy the Villa Mirafiora for
700, 900 francs, bought seven carriages
and forty horses, and ordered a private
railway car and yacht. Within year
they managed to make debts to the ex-
tent of over half million of dollars. The
date fixed for payment was in all cases
the first of March. In February the
couple went to Paris and then to Lon
don, movement that seems to have eN-
cited no suspicion among their creditors;
but on the first of March news came to
Rome that they had gone to America,
taking with them an immense quantity
of baggage. A few days later a banker
in Rome received a letter from the hus-
band, saying that the will making his
wife rich heiress had been set aside,
and that they had gone to America, hop
ing with perseverance and indefatigable
effort to regain the position they had oc-
cllpied in the world.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
South Carolina Republicans.

. We learn from Republican sources
that in South Carolina ''a strong deter
mination to nominate full State ticket
in the ensuing campaign has manifest
ed itself among leading Republicans of
late,' and that it is thought that such
ticket might be successful. Whoever
thinks this must be dreaming; but that
does not deprive us of the right of re-
marking that if such ticket is nomi
mated sensible people will think there
was good deal of athletic lying done
in August, 1873, when the Republican
State Convention declared it to be in
expedient to nominate candidates be-
cause, owing to the condition of affairs
in the State occasioned by rifle-club
rule and two years of Democratic su-
premacy, it is impossible for the Re-
publican voters in many counties, with
out incurring great personal danger, to
organize for the campaign or to vote at
the election when held" Either ''rifle-
club rule'' did not prevail in South Car
olina then, or it does not prevail now.
In either case, why nominate q 'tRepub-
lican" ticket in South Carolina?-M Y.
World.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
Rival Of the KeelY Meter.

New York is threatened with another
motor which is destined ''to revolution
ize trade and commerce" and many 9TH
er wonderful things. 1t has this advan-
tage over its Philadelphia predecessor
that there is nothing mysterious about it,
there remains nothing to be patented,
and any one may see all there is in it.
Two Pittsburgh inventors, who in 1873
worked out successfully an old idea,
which has been tried for hundred years
have taken a warehouse at Rutgers and
Cherry streets, where they yesterday ex-
hibited what they call the mammoth
motor" 1t consists of a boiler and
high-pressure engine, such as are ordina-
rily used for steam, except that they are of
greater strength, with condenser and a
small iron tank, the latter containing
mixture of crude petroleum and bi-sul-
phide of carbon. The vapor of bi-sul-
phide of carbon has long been expert
mented with as motive power, but its
great strength prevented it from being
successfully used because of the difficulty
in controlling it. Its admixture with pc
troleum, it is claimed, has obviated the
latter difficulty, and the inventors of the
process say the experiments seem to con-
form the statement that while the power
can be increased or diminished almost in
simultaneously, an assured pressure 100
per cent. greater than that of steam can
be obtained at a nominal cost.
The inventors are Mr.. Edgar Smith
and Mr.. j. r. Milligan, who have taken
out patents in this country, England,
Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Hol-
land, Belgium, Spain, Australia and
Canada. The control of the American
patent will, it is understood, pass into
the hands of a New York company, the
head of which is Mr.. Henry F. Hamill,
of the Delamater Iron Works. The
patentees are Pittsburg machinists, who
had been carrying on their experiments
in that city unsuccessfully for several
years, when, in 1873, they succeeded in
controlling the enormous power which
had previously been developed from the
vapor by other experimenters, and took
out their patents.
The petroleum used in lubricating oil
of 600 degrees fire test, and water is
mixed with it and with the bi-sulphide
of carbon. The great economy results
from the fact that the latter, which is
extremely cheap, can be used over and
over again, vaporizing at extremely low
and the water in the boiler need only be
kept at any point above 160 degrees.
This can be done by light or stack fire.
The vapor, instead of being blown off,
| passes into condenser, seems instantly
to resume its first condition, and can be
Immediately used over again the same as
condensation water is. A single pound
of the material, costing ten cents, it is
claimed, can be used for an entire week,
making it about as costly as water, while
only twenty-five per cent. as much coal
will be required in keeping up the boiler
| Should this prove to be true, the adj
vantage to ocean steamers in the saving
of space and tonnage in carrying coal,
as well as the cost Of the latter, will be
enormous. The cost of the small guam
tity of coal-oil used is represented as
practically nothing.--N. Y. Graphic.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
A Right Royal Match.

Royal marriages always excite a con-
siderable share of interest in our Repub-
ican country, which is heightened when
a real romance is involved. The latest
development of this sort is the engage
ment of the Crown Prince of Austria,
Rudolph, to Stephanie, the daughter of
the King of Belgium. The young lady,
who is not yet sixteen years old and has
been brought up in the strictest seclu-
sion, is fair-haired blonde and is said
to be one of the handsomest girls in Eu-
rope. The Prince Rudolph is affable
and popular. highly educated, able to
converse in all the dialects of his fathers
empire, traveller and something of an
author, withdrawing written two
books; the subject Of one being a trip
down the Danube, and of the other, eagle
shooting. In the choice of a wife he was
limited to the reigning Catholic families
of Europe, and these are SO few that
some apprehension was felt lest the young
man should not be suitably mated. The
greatest satisfaction, however, is ex-
pressed both by the AustIians and Bel
gians in his selection, especially since
the Princess is great granddaughter of
Maria Theresa, and will reunite the Bel
gian line with that of the Hapsburgs.-
Christian Union.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
No ss FavOrite Som Business Desired.

While the air is thick with the utter
ances of the Republican boomers"
booming for their favorite candidates,
and while the mails are loaded down
with the emanations from the literary
bureaus of Blaine, and Sherman and
Grant, the Democracy East and West,
North and South, stands practically
uncommitted to any candidate. There
is free and full discussion of merits
demerits, probabilities, impossibilities
and availability; but from no quarter
has there come as yet any determined
pressure for any candidate. This is
the best attitude the Democracy could
possibly occupy in this or any other
Presidential canvass. The g favorite
SOM business has always been disas-
trous one to engage in; and the party
ought to be thankful that no one is ask
ing it to embark therein. The place
to nominate candidate is the National
Convention, and the less nominating
there is done before that body assem-
bles, the better for the candidate, the
party and the country.
The advantage of having the Con-
vention assemble, untrammeled by any
pre-arrangement in respect to candi-
date, is SO obvious that no elaborate ar
gument is necessary in support of such
a proceeding. In theory, of course,
conventions always do SO assemble; but
in practice, unfortunately, the work is
too often done beforehand, by scheming
politicians, and the delegates gather
simply to register the decree which has
been prepared for them. 1t is clearly in
dicated already that the Republican
Convention at Chicago will be one of
/ L. IL II 1,ry
fixed for assembling one candidate or
another of those whose so-called claims
are being most persistently pushed will
enough votes to insure the nomination;
and the delegates who happen to go
unpledged will merely have an oppor-
tunity to vote with the majority with
out criticism or even comment. Unless
there should be some marked change,
indeed, the whole expense of the Con-
vention might be saved by inquiring Of
the leading wire-pullers in the party on
the 1st of June whom they have de-
cided to put in the field, and accepting
those as the party nominees. Chicago
would probably object, because she ex-
poets to make something from the Con-
vention by selling it lodging, food and
Enthusiastically the latter; but no.
body else would have any good ground
for objecting.
And because the work of the Chicago
Convention has already been in part
forestalled and is sure to be altogether
forestalled, it is al the more gratifying
to feel that the Cincinnati Convention
will do its own work and that the rep
resentatives of the Democracy from
| eyery section will have a voice in all its
| deliberations Detroit Free Press.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17

THE story of the capture of the Duke
brigands, is untrue.
The Bundersrath, on the 18th, adopted
the resolution declaring the receipt for post
office remittances shall be liable to stamp duty,
thus reversing the recent vote which led to the
resignation of Bismarck.
MANY persons, perished in the floods
near 1smid Turkey.
PERUVIAN papers report that the Chill
ians landed at Mollendo and that they COM
nitted brutal outrages, respecting neither for
eigncrs nor natives, age, sex nor condition,
and that in some cases the Chilian soldiers
comrades to restrain their devilish brutality
The accounts are probably much exaggerated
THE Burmese Ambassador at Thyet-
myo says there is not a particle of truth in
the reported massacre at Manda1ay.
YELLOW fever has broken out at Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
A FIRE and an explosion by which
eleven persons were killed and number
wounded, occurred near North Woolwich, En-
gland, on the 18th.
A BERLIN dispatch says that from the
4th to the 11th inst $500 persons left Bremen
for England and the United States. The emf
grants include many skilled workmen.
LATER NEWS.
TERRIBLE forest fires were raging in
New Jersey on the 14th. The entire couptry
about Forked River covering one hundred
square miles of cedar and pine forest was con-
sumed. Thousands of game and other birds
and many cattle were suffocated.
A HEAVY shock of earthquake was felt
at San Francisco on the evening of the 18th
No damage was done, although buildings
rocked SO that the motion was plainly visible.
REPUBLICAN State Conventions for the
selection of delegates to the National Conven
tion were held in Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky
on the 14th. In Iowa a solid Blaine delega
tion was chosen. The delegates from Mis-
souri, and Kentucky were instructed to vote as
unit for General Grant.
ALEXANDER WILSON was burned tc
death at Covington, KY, on the night of the
18th, while attempting to save some children
from burning building.
FRANCE, Russia and Italy have signi
fed their adhesion to the territorial arrange
ment made between the Porte and Monte
negro.
PRINCE GoRTsCHAKoFF' illness is par
alysis of the bowels.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says thai
the long continuation of winter at Orenburgf
has completely exhausted the necessaries OF
life in that region. Rumors of starvation were
daily increasing
OTERo, who attempted to assassinate
King Alfonso. on the Both of December, was
executed at Madrid on the 14th.
IT is reported that the Pope will soon
| create fourmore Cardinals in the United States
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
This proud despiser of common

sE-This proud despiser Of common
men and common methods, this puffed-
up military despot who was always ex-
pressing his contempt for politicians, is
no longer above the tricks of the trade
he has engaged in. He plans his visit
to Texas so as to have it at the exact
time of the Republican Convention in
that State to choose delegates to the
National Republican Convention at
Chicago. 1t was very doubtful whether
Grant delegates would be sent. "And
Grant hoped by his presence ia the
State and the parade that would be made
over it to influence the choice in his
favor. So now the great chieftain fig
ures as an office seeker, on a level with
the other office seekers he has SO long
affected to despise!-M r iSHn.