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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-04-12

AT RrRkViLLn.

The lins OF Chesapeake North and Soulb Car
Ohio r X Ola points
AZ buRKYlLLs, NJ BuRkviLLH.
with Richmond Dan with Richmond pan
Vile Is q, Tor Green's. villo Railroad for RICH
hOrO, Charlotte and tho MONn, arriving at 6,S
Springs in Wsst, n. G. Pm, RE- Buy your tish
cts to RIsnAoEp VII
AT LYkGiiBURG, BURkNlLLB.
TX K to and S"' from Sor,S Ar PETERSBURG
and south. with Richmond and Pc
tersburg X X 4 Peters
~ BRtSToL, with burg Road for Weldon
East Tenn. Va, Ga 4 Wilmington and th
K Tor Knoxville, Chat. South. east.
tanooga, aud all points -
in Gs@ota, Aiaoama, At NORFOLK, wit
Tennessee mississippi, Steamers OF Bay Line
the Nest, South reSi Old Dominion, and Msr
and NORTH tessi, and for chants & Miners Tran
Chcinuati aud points sportntion Co, for Bal
along tho Cincinnati So. timore, New Iork an
Railroad, Boston,
PULLMAN CARS, Washington 20 NeI
Orleans, via Lynchburg aud Bristol
LEIGHTON sLEEPERS Lynchburg /
Memphis Twin NJ. &. @. II. r. J withou
change.
First-Clnss and Emigrant Tickets to al
principal points WEST and NORTHWEST
MS low as by any other all Rail Line
asSs" EMIGRANTS CARRIED on Express
Traina--l50 pounds of baggage allowed 4
each full ticket and 10 pounds on each hal
ticket rRrE. Children bet tween and |.
years charged half rates--undcr Eve year
FREE.
This road comprises an important link o
the OLD RELIABLE VIRGINIA & TENN
AIRLINE, Offering UNSURPASSED FA
CILlrlES for the expeditions handling o
freight to and 70 from the NORTH, S0CTE
and WEST, issuing THROUGH BlLLS Vi
LADlNG to all principal points. Promp
adjustment OF claims, Road Bod Unex
ccllad, Management Unequalled, Con
ncctions Sure.
B&S"No truoblo to answer letters.
For Tickets, Rates, Map Bills, & plsas,
apply to
/. s, BROWN, GeNl TRAvELrGx Ao'T,
Lynchburg, Va
N. x. OSBORNE, MASTER or TRANS.
Petersburg, Va
RANK HUdER, SUIT. TRANS.
Lynchburg, Va
All pcs g IL years old aud over ar,
chaIiod full rates Ms above: children fv,
years and under IL years OF age are chRrR.
ei half Of the above rates, and children
under years Of age are passed FREn. 20t
pounds Of baggage, consisting Of wearing
sprearel and bedding, to each whole tickle
and 10 pounds to each half ticket will b,
checked for Emiprants AN bappapa INNS
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-04-12

At N0RP0Lk, With
Steamers OF Bay Line,
Old Dominion, and Msr-
chants 4 Miners TraN-
sportation Co, for Ball
limore, New Iork and
Boston.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-04-12
Great Cure Of rheumatism, Partial Paral-
ysiS, Diseases Peculiar 10 Ladies', Com
pIete HeIpIcssness and intense
SnfIorlnn Day and MINT.

Ny wife has suffered a long time with
paralyc,ic rheumatism general loss Of
health, female disease, consti-
patton, &c, She could not move nor be
turned IN bed without intense pain. She
suffered day and night and had given up
ever being cured. In seven weeks use
Of Or. Joucs's mild and pleasant medi-
cincs she has rcganod her health, is cur
ed Of her many diseases, besides her
rheumatism, which is all gone. She
walks every day, eats and sleeps well,
and says she never felt better in her life
DR.. Jones has accomplished more in less
time than he promised and what our
family physicians utterly failed to do.
/ cannot recommend him too highly.
HENRY =. WATTS,
Jacksboro St., Knoxville, March 20, 81,
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-11

at an attempt to murder the Preside Mt.
have given thought to matter which
yonr attention may or may not have turn
ed. Our criminal code treats premedi-F
tated homicide in all cases alike, ,irrespec-
tive of the victim, murder being visited
by the greatest penalty. Perhaps no
distinction between one case and another
could be found on the public relations
held by the person slain, but in case of
an attempt to take a life Of Special value
to the whole people The shocking oc-
currence of Saturday, I think, demands
it at the definition and punishmentsof as
saults aimed at highest executive officers,
whether successful or not, should be
made thoroughly vigorous. A man who
attempts the life Of the President, if NOR
ally responsible, commits an offence
which the nation ought to guard against,
and punish by all the exertion Of all the
power which civilized nations may en-
ploy. ], suggest this as deserving of con-
Sideration. ' s+
My profound sympathies are with the
President and all Of you every hour. The
conflict Of ofreports keeps hope and fear
striving with each other, with nothing
stable except the facts, and L trust that
the worst is over and past. l wish you
would express to the President my deep
est sympathy in this hour, which should
hush all discords and enlist all prayers
for his safe deliverance.
Please give to Mrs. Garfield my most
respectful coincidence. Trusting that all
will be well, am cordially yours.
signed, ROSCOE CONKLING. p
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-11
BUSINESS LOCALS.
Go to G. AcKLEY & Co.'S for cheap Cow
fay. 96.

Go to G. $ AcKLEY & Co.'S for cheap Cow
Hay. 81.
GEORGE LYNCHCOME has removed his
barber shop from the room over POWELL &
Co.'S store, 70 his old quarters under the
Meat Market, one door south of Ward House,
where he will be pleased to see all his former
patrons and everybody else desiring tOnsOrial
services. r. ~. ...i
Having sold my retail Furniture and Un
taking business, known as the Bridge Street
Furniture Store to E.. B. Pierce I would re-
spectfully recommend those III need of goods
in his line to call on him at the old stand.
also wish to inform those indebted to me
that it will be necessary to settle the accounts
soon. Mp. Hicks.
January 1, 1881. ,. '....
HOTEL FOR SALE offer the American
Hotel property for sale on very reasonable
terms-one half the purchase money down
and the balance in ten years. Possession
given April l, 1881. There is q good barn
connected with the property. This hotel is
located on the corner Of Bridge and Water
bridge and new depot near to it make this
hotel desirable for any one wishing to engage
in the hotel business. Call upon or address,
JOSEPH G. PATTON. Towanda. Pa.
"What everybody wants is the best organ for
the least amount of money: Therefore every
body wants the Burdett; and when you've
said that, you've told the whole story
So say the brightest and busiest organ
dealers throughout the land, who are furn
ishing this matchless instrument to musica
public, which is rapidly learning to distinguish
it's marvellously pure and beautiful! voice
from that which is not music. For sale by
j. A. Manville, No. Bridge ST., Towanda.
The finest building lot in Towanda borough
corner of Poplar and Second streets, between
the residence of Hon. E. y. Goodrich and
ID. Walker, will be sold cheap. Apply to 0.
ID Kinney
FARM For SALE.-I offer for sale on reason
able terms a valuable farm. located i'm the
valley of the Towanda creek, about 3 1-2
mias from Towanda, containing Is acres,
under good state of cultivation, well water
ed, young orchard of choice trees, good
framed dwelling house, and fine large BARN
with underground stabling. will sell this
arm on long time, or exchange it in part for
property in Towada borough.
JOSEPH G. PATTON.
Second hand Herring Safe for sale cheap.
quire at this office.
For sale very cheap one of the celebrated
Rochester Filters, nearly new. Holds a barrel.
Call at this office.
The Revised Edition of the New Testament
in three different styles and ranging in price
from 20 cents to 81 %, just received at Whit
combs Book store. 246
One of those thin gum overcoats sold bv
Rosentield is cheaper and much more conven-
ent than an umbrella.
A GOOD HOME CHEAP.-I offer for sale
VERY CHEAP, the house and lot, South
east corner Third and Elizabeth streets in
this borough. The house is in good repair,
the lot large, with good well of water and
water in the house. The property will be
sold for half its value OIL long time.
June 8, 81. 0. d. KINNEY.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-11
Letter from Senator C0nkIinq.

Hon. Roscoe Conkling sent the follow
ing letter to Attorney General MacVeigh !:
New YORK, July 5.
MY DEAR SIR: 1t is the adherence
with which all decent men alike shudder
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-11
The Penalty for the Act.

1t is not unnaturally suggested that the
penalty for an attempt on the life Of the
President of the United States-eyen
should it prove to have failed Of it's In
tention-is something more than the
same deed doue against the life of pri-
vate individual. 1t will present singu-
lar spectacle indeed if the would-be
assassin escapes under the protection Of
a statute which contemplatcs--no the
hand upraised to smite with death the
head Of the Nation, but a simple, unac-
credited private citizen. The moral
effect Of such a lesion in the
criminal code as that which practi-
cally confounds the one, act with the
other might be, indeed, grave in it's
conseqences-a very unfortunate spec
tacle in the eyes of all the world. No
civilized nation in existance can afford to
put murderous act against the majesty
of that authority which typifies the all
that is sacred in the safeguards of socie-
ty, in the person of it's accredited head,
upon the same footing as an attempt
against the life of single individual up
on which, comparatively, little may depend
beyond his own immediate surroundings.
1t is true the extreme penalty Of the law
can go no farther in the case Of the foot
pad who waylays his victim, and takes
his life for booty, than in that of a man
who murders President But the mea-
sure of guilt is certainly greater because
the harm to society and good-order is
greater in him who, In waylaying the life
of it's Chief Magistrate, strikes at the
very expression Of the Nations life itself
1t would seem that the act of treason
which is punishable with death under the
supreme law of the land, is not aggravat-
ed in itself whether it is carried on by an
armed band of fifty men or lis the act,
overt or otherwise, of u single man. One
pistol may do the deed as effectualy as
twenty. 1t took but single Guy Fawkes
to set the match which would have blown
up Parliment Houses; the failure to sue
"
design nor alter the character of the
crime. The penalty which followed has
not suffered from the condemnation Of
mankiud, because the attempt fell sholt
of the actual result intended Whatever
definition such crime as the attempt
against the Presidents life may take,
public policy and the very safety of the
government demands that it shall not be
treated as an ordinary assault with intent
to kill. BY as much greater the injury
done in the one instance to the entire
country, by so much the more is the
crime aggravated in the one case beyond
its effect in the other. Should there be
no provision for such an emergency-no
statute, (and it seems there is none)-
expressly providing for such the crime
President shooting, whether it be with
fatal effect or motive are measurably
certain the RENE dy for the omission in
come, will be found, and if not found in
the laws, i'll some other manner practical
ly supplied Meanwhile, we cordially
join i'll the general recommendation Of a
statute which shall put the law on this
subject upon strong and sure footing,
and bring it nearer to the laws of other
civilized nations of the world. o. fe.+.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17

a LOT of insurance companies which
had 4 lot of insurance on the life of COL
Dwight resisted the payment of his poll.
cies for not much better reason, it seems,
than that his premiums had not
amounted to us much as his policies,
and for once the family of the insured
had the best Of the bargain. The COM
panies had insured him willingly and
taken his premiums regularly and it does
not appear to have ever concerned them
much about his habits until after he
was dead they saw chance to make
them ground for objections to paying
his policies to those for whose benefit he
had taken them out and kept them up.
The final determination Of the cases in
favor of his family will give general
satisfaction.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17

large tabernacle was completely destroyed.
Several buildings were blown down at
Joplin, but at Carthage the damage was
slight.
There was decided stir in Baltimore
yesterday over an advance in the value Of
the shares of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road company to 2O3. The highest point
ever reached before was 1876. The lell
cause of the advance is conundrum. and
no definite or official answer to it could be
given by anyone. 1t is attributed by some
to revival of the rumor that the Oft
promised extra dividend was about to be
clared. Some went SO far as to name 80
per cent. Is the dividend, while others felt
confident that should any extra dividend
be declared it would be share for share, or
100 per cent.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17
Flashes from the Ocean Cables.


Another strong shock of earthquake has
been felt at Casamiaciola, and many more
houses have fallen.
The Oxford university crew will 20 to
Great NARROW, on the Thames for a fort
nights practice before going to Put
ney.
The statement that French troops from
Algeria are about to invade Tunis, sup
ported by a naval demonstration, is off.
cially denied.
In consequence of the outbreak of the
plague, the government of Egypt has
issued notice Of quarantine against yes
sells of the Persian gulf.
King Oscar H., of Sweden. has been
suffering from a slight attack of fever
since Sunday. Symptoms Of inflammot;on
Of the left lung set in on Tuesday.
The North German Gazette saws s.The
United States holds, like Germany. that
participation in the monetary conference
will not bind any power to a particular
vicw."
At Worcester, Eng, United States Min
lister Lowell, in his address opening the
free library. pecially referred to Presidents
Lincoln and Garfield as conspicuously sue
cessful Americans.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17
WllAl il Signifies.

1t is question whether the Demo-
cratic party has gained or lost by the de-
fection of Malone. Our own belief is
tina it will rebound to its advantage.
We certainly would have held the Senate
by an uncOmfortably close tenure with
a majority of ore and that one vote, be-
side cast by Judge Davis, who proclains
his independence Of the party and his
lack Of sympathy with it in many par
ticulars. If Judge Davis was fit
guide for the party it might have been
to its benefit to have been practically
placed under his dictation but we would
prefer for our leader a man whose De-
mOcracy was more closely bred in the
bone. But even with a solid party vote
a majority of one is not one to be great
ly coveted. The Republican party with
its Malone tail, and its hydra heads, may
bc expected to follow Il very ecratic
course. Its leadership does not equal
that of the Democratic party in its pres
ent harmony.
We see Lc occasion to fear the effect
of the divided Democratic counsels
which have been so fruitful of evil to
the party in the past. The responsibility
for the conduct of the Senate is taken
from it to its benefit. The party ismuch
more free and independent with Con-
gress and the executive against it :;
while the number of its represent
tatives gives it great power. Past
experience shows that the presl-
ident who has Congress with him in the
first two years of his term is very likely
t. have it against him in the last two;
and there is little to encourage Presi-
dent Garfield to hope that his fortune
will lie any better than this. Republican
cohesion is not very abundantly presaged
in the signs Of the times. 1t rests wholly
upon the power of the public plunder.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17
PERSONAL.

Mrs. LANGTRY's effects are to be sod
to-1ay at No. II Norfolk street, Park lane,
London.
Sir ALLAN YOUNG's Antarctic expedition
his beea postponed on account of his
health.
w. X. ROGERS, who acted as private
secretary to Hayes during the latter's en-
tire term, will shortly open an Office for
the practice Of law.
In noticing the recent celebration of
the Hon. Simon Cameron's S2d birthday,
the Doylestown Democrat calls attention
to the fact that just 62 years age Gen
Cameron was editor of that paper.
Mr.. J. STANLEY BRowN has been ap-
pointed private secretary to President
Garfield. Mr.. Brown was formerly stem.
ographer to Major Powell, of the Smith
sonian Institution, and went with Garfield
in the same capacity while the latter was
in the House of Representatives. He is a
young man about "a years of age.
Hon TIMOTHY o. HOWE has formally
notified the state department of his o
ceptance as commissioner on the part of
the United States at the international
monetary conference to be held at Paris.
Messrs. Thurman and Evarts have already
accepted. The commissioners will sail
from New York early in April.
KossUTH, who is now seventy nine years
old, enjoys not only good health, but the
perfect elasticity of his intellect. He has
now very pleasant villa, near Turin. sur
rounded by a handsome garden, which he
planted himself and cultivated with the
greatest care. Natural science is one of
his favorite studies.
Rev. WILLIAM B. BROWN, of Columbia,
Pa, will assume the principalship of the
Oxford academy at the beginning of the
next term, April 1S. Mr.. Brown is a
graduate of Jefferson college, a gentleman
of fine scholarship and a teacher of large
experience. He was formerly pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Mount Joy,
Lancaster county.
Judge L. S. GRAHAM has died at Atch:-
son, Kan, from the effects of dissipation
and exposure. He was found by the PC
lice lying insensible on the platform of the
Union depot in that city, and the physi-
clan who was called pronounced it a
paralytic stroke. Graham was at one
time judge of the district court at Atchi-
son, and was lawyer of great ability, but
of late he had been drunkard, deserted
by his family and supported by charity.
A complimentary dinner was given to
Postmaster General JAMES at Wormley's
hotel last evening by Elliott F. Shepard,
of New York. Among the guests were
the members of the cabinet with the ex-
ception of Secretary Blaine), Chief JUS
tice Waite and exJustico Swayne, Of the
supreme court. Senator Hawley, Adjutant
General Drum, General Mckee, Walker
Blaine, Rev. Mr.. Paxton, Colonel Rack.
we'll; Mr.. William F. Rogers, Mcssrs. S. s.
Rogers and Timothy Griffith.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17
Lightning Railroad Trains.

The fastest trains in the country now
run between Jersey City and Philadelphia,
and the Pennsylvania railroad hopes soon
to make the trip in an hour and half.
A monster locomotive is now building in
the company's shops at Altoona which is
expected to perform the feat. It will be
finished in about three weeks, and if the
trial trip is satisfactory. five moro will be
built on the same model. A locomotive
capable of maintaining a uniform speed of
sixty miles an hour is not to be sneezed at,
but Colonel Roberts, of Tittusville, will
attempt to throw even the extraordinary
performance into the shade. There is now
building for him at the Baldwin works
locomotive which is designed to be the
fastest in the world. The builders and
the owner will be disappointed If it dosn't
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17
STATE ITEMS.

John Wetherell, of Chester township,
Delaware county, captured, near a dam on
his farm, muskrat that was entirely
white He intends to send it to the To-
illogical Garden, Philadelphia.
Sylvester J. Megargee, the well-known
paper manufacturer and one of the most
prominent business men in Philadelphia,
died at his residence, 1916 Callowhill
street, yesterday.
Mile. Bernhardt will live, love and die
before the kerosene fOotlights up in the
oil regions to night. The other day the
seats for the performance were sold at
auction in Bradford, several hundred
being disposed Of at from SO to 81 each.
In Greenesburg, Westmoreland county,
James Somers and Joseph Seechrist had a
heated argument on politics. Seechrist
lost his temper and wanted to fight. Son.
ers replied that he would not fight an old
man. Then jeff. Seechrist' s son pulled off
his coat, but the spectators prevented the
fight. Subsequently jeff. obtained large
knife with a broad hooked blade such rs
used in pruning vines, and laid in wait for
Somers. The latter saw Seechrist coming
at him with the open knife and ran, but
tripped and fell, when Seechrist jumped
upon him and began rapidly plunging the
knife into SOmers's body, and gashed him
fatally in dozen places.
The overseer in the Eastern peniten-
tiary yesterday morning discovered the
lifeless bodies of John Pfeiffer and John
Mcbride in the cell occupied by those con-
victs. McBrile's body was lying on the floor
and shovel marks Of violence. Pieiffer's
body was hanging by a strip Of sheeting
officials are ut a loss to detirmine whether
Pfeiffcr murdered his cell mate in the
night, or whether both men comm mitted
suicide. PEeiffer, though a young man,
was an old offender, and has served several
terms in Sing Sing and on Blackwelrs
Island, his present service being for bur-
glary. Mcbride was about SO years of
age, and was serving out sentence for
aggravated assault and battery.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17

WE print the opinion Of Judge Gal.
braith in the case in which he refuses a
new trial to the editor lately convicted in
his court for an alleged libel rerpetrated
in his newspaper by his local editor with
out his knowledge. The judge presents
his side with characteristic ability, but
we are not convinced that it is the law
or common sense that defendant should
not be given a chance to show the alb
sence of malice in case in which malice
presumed or proven must be necessary
ingredient of the offence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17
An UNFORTUNATE BRIDAL PAETY.
The Brides Dress Burned and Groom's Nose
Broken.

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William Shock, of District township.
Berks county, and Miss Sterner, daughter
of David Sterncr, OF the same township.
were or their way to Bowers Station to
be joined for life by the Rev. David
Humbert, when lighted spark from the
end of Mr.. Schoch's cigar fell on the beau.
tiful dress worn by Miss Sterner.
She did notice it until it had burned
through her clothing, and it was with
some difficulty that the fire was extin-
guished. Mr.. Schock's wedding suit was
also damaged. After the knot was tied,
and they were on their homeward way,
they attended sale at John Geisinp.
er's, near Huff's church. Here there
was a German named Grossman, from
near Yellow House, who had indulced too
freely, and who was being tormented by q
party Of young men. When Mr. Gross
man was going home they attempted to No.
set his conveyance. and provoked him be-
yond measure. He jumped out and struck
Mr.: Schock, who was among the number
OF his tormentors, sharp blow with .be
butt end of his driving whip. fracturinc
his nose. The young man returned from
his matrimonial trip looking rather differ.
ent from the average bridegroom.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-17

AS General Walker says, in speaking of
this matter, it almost staggers, credulity.
g That q man, a mere human being, says
General Walker, should be able to pre-
dict fifty years in advance the number of
inhabitants in rapidly growing country
within fraction of one per cent. seems
wonderful almost beyond belief" Had
the war not intervened it is believed that
Watson's prediction would have held good
in 1870 and also in 1880. But in 1870 he
was ahead of the census nearly 4,O0O, 900
and in 1880 nearly s. 500O, 900. The loses Of
the war, direct and contingent, we can
never know, but Watson's figures, almost
absolutely accurate up to the war period,
would show it to affect us the present
year to the extent of nearly 5, OOO, 900.
That is, had there been no war, the pres
ent population of the United States would
be about 55,OO0,000. Watson predicted
that the population in 1900 would reach
100, 600. 900, but General Walker does not
believe it will be over about 80, 600, 900.