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Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

Ice CREAM.-We are now prepared to fur
nsh ICE CREAM on short notice. Orders
left at Kirbry's daug store or with driver of
our milk wagon, will receive prompt atten-
ton. Price 81 ID cents per quarts w.
H. ELSBREE.
III. WILCOX.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

The Grand Jury of Albany County has
found indictments against a. ID. Braber
E. r. Phelps and Charles A. Edwards,
growing out of the bribery investigation.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

IMPORTANT TO OTRAVELERS.-SpecjdL m
d~cements are offered you by the BURLING-
TON ROUTE. 1t will pay you to read their
advertisement to be found elsewhere in this
issue.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

Passengers going west will save money by
consulting H. E. BABCOCK, Ticket Agent,
ToWanda. Pa. before purchasing tickets.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

The president has appointed r. S. Eos
ter United States Marshell for the Dis
trio of Indiana.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06
CKCRCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN-Rev.J j. s. Stewart, d D., Pas
tor. Preaching at 10 80 a. m. and p. m. eve
ry Sunday. Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 80. Sunday School-D'A. Overton, Superin
tendent-at1 II O'Clock.
CHRIST CHURCH-(E EpscopaD John s.
Beers. Rector. Service and preaching at 10 80 a.
m. and go pm. Service and lecture Thurs day
evening at go Sunday School Jas. II. Hale,
Assistant Supt.,-at y m. Teachers meeting
Tuesday evening at ! :45.
NJ, E. CIlURCH.-Bev. c. II. Wright, Pastor.
Preaching at 1880 a. m. and p. m. Prayer
Meetings on Sunday evening at 80, Thursday
evening at 80. Young mems prayer meeting
Friday evening at S. Sunday School-B. NJ. Peck,
SUPERINTENDENT IN.
SIS. PETER AND PAUL.--R. C) Rev. Chas F.
Kelley, Priest Mass at and 10 80 a. m. Yes
pers at 80 p m. Sunday School at II 80 and
2:30.
CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH (Universalist)
Rev. William Taylor, Pastor. Preaching at 10 80
m. and p. Prayer and Conference
Meeting Thursday evening at 80. Sunday
School-Dr. Taylor, SUPERINTENDENT u m.
BAPTIST CHURCII-Rev. c. II. Hallowel Pastor
Preaching at 10 :3 \. NJ. and I 2. NJ. Prayer
Meeting, Thursday Evening, p. NJ. Sunday
School at i IN.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES at 10 80 a. m. every Lords
day. Reading meeting every Wednesday evening.
Sunday school at p. IN.
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

Ex-Chief Justice Hiram Warner, Of
Georgia, is dead.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

Wendell Peillips delivered an Grafton
before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of
Harvard.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

Don't fail to go to JOHN SULLIvAN's, o.
Bridge street, for the best five cent cegar.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-06

MASONIC.
Union Lodge, No. los, meets First and Third
Wednesday of each &onth.
Union Chapter, No. IGN meets Second Wednesday
evenings of each month.
Northern Commandery, Knights Templar No. 16.
Meets fourth Wednesday each month.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
Towanda Lodge, No. 300. Meets every Tuesday
evening.
Endowment Rank, Section 101. Meets Third Fri
day III each month.
ODD FELLOWS.
Bradford Lodge, No. 167. Meets every Monday
light.
Bradford Encampment, No. II. Meets Second and
Fourth Wednesday night of each month.
l.eoh Lodge Degree of Rebeka. Meets First and
Third Fiday evenings of each month.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Crystal Lodge. Meets every Monday evening.
Mystic Lodge, X. and L. of H. Meets Second and
Fourth Friday evenings of each month.
G. A. r.
Watkins Post No. 6S. Meets every Saturday evening
KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN RULE.
Towanda Castle No. IS. Meets at X. of P. Hall
every Wednesday evening.
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Towanda Council, No. 532, meets first and third
Friday of each month in X. p. Hall.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

THE TWEED RING RIvALLED.

/ careful Investigation into the af-
fairs of the Philadelphia tax office has
developed a systemized course of rob-
berry which has been practiced for some
years. Rumors of such stealage were
current several years ago, and doubtless
a large percentage of the S10,000,000
collected annually has gone unlawfully
into the pockets of thieves. The steal
ing has been effected by combinations of
the clerks in the tax office and con-
troller's Office, so that the auditing clerk
would approve the figures given by the
tax receiving clerk and certify to the
correctness of the account. The delin-
quent tax collectors were also g fixed +"
so that the fraudulent bookkeeping in
the Office should not be discovere /. An
other way of stealing was a compare
lively easy one. A citizens property
would be assessed at reduction of say
1000, through decline of vaues. The
tax notice would be made out by mis-
take, calling for the payment on $4,000
instead of So, 900. The clerk would then
receipt for $4,000, and return to the
city treasury the tax on $4,000, pocket
ing the difference. All these tricks are
possible where the clerks are without
supervision and in collision.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
A McnaOerie af Auction

Van Amburgh has been dead these
many years, but his show goes on just
the same. At least it did until the
other day, when the two partners, Frost
and Ferguson, who have been exhibiting
a show as Van Amburgh's, though there
Is not beast In the collection that had
seen the light when Van Amburgh died,
sold it at auction away up on the bills
of Duchess County, New York, whittier
fiocked the farmers from the neighbor-
hood, and nearly every Snowman be-
tween the two oceans was present at the
sale. The farmers came "for f1np'
principally, but many of them bought
the draft horses. A dromedary, shiv-
ering in the cold, was "knocked down y
for 1926. A bactrachian camel, SO
called because of its two humps, fetched
1925. A sacred COW didn't get bid; q
hyena was sold for So; bles-bock was
sold for 1915; an orynx for S210, and q
harte-beste for $3.50; a rhinoceros,
(which breathed like a blacksmith E
bellows, the auctioneer being obliged to
pitch his voice an octave higher in order
to make himself heard" was knocked
down at $3.50. It weighed $500
HONiNAo' IAS lOOlIHd1, Sdlu u
be the largest in the world, hampered
with chain, which clanked like pris-
oner's shackles, was started at $4,000
and it was whispered about that Bar.
mum and Forepaugh both wanted the
animal. The figures ran up to $7,1OO,
and Mr.. Reed, bidding for Forepaugh,
became the purchaser at that price.
Bolivar is eighteen years old, and
weighs five tons. He will be much
larger. His keeper who has been with
him for eleven years, was nearly heart
broken at the thought of parting with
him. Boxes containing trappings and
tawdry and tinsel of all sorts were sold
to farmers at ridiculously low prices.
A ion-king dress was bought by a man
In checked flannel shirt and blue over
all. Six Chinese suits went to farmer,
who said his boys could wear them, and
a lot of Esquimaux suits to man sc
thin, as the auctioneer remarked that he
would not cast a shadow. Nobody
could be induced to buy the man-fish
wagon, and it was stored with the char.
lots and cages that could not find sale
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

Christian law was passed by congress
prohibiting the passage of bad literature
through the mails. Under it many per-
sons were arrested and thrown into the
penitentiary, where they belonged. This
law stirred up great many people, and
they sent a petition to congress to have
it repealed. The house refused the re-
quest and the matter was referred to the
senate. There the committee on the re-
vision of laws reported adversely to the
petition and the law remains. Accord
ing to Mr.. Talmage, the best way to war
against immoral literature is to enforce
the law. When Rowland Hill spent his
life for healthful INSTRUMENTATION he
did not mean to make vico easy. It
ought not to be in the power of any man
who can raise one-cent stamp to blast
a man or destroy a home. Mr.. Talmage
asserted that the plague should be
driven back by filling the minds and
hands of children with good books of all
styles. While the publishers of corrupt
literature may live in the city of church.
es the stuff itself emanates, in great part,
from New York city. Flash weeklies,
with sensational stories and shockingly
bad and unnatural pictures, are circu-
lated by the hundreds of thousands and
do more in corrupting the young than
any other single agency
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
PeriIs of the Deem.

Over three hundred fishing boats were de-
stroyed by the late gales on the west coast of
Iverness, Ross and Sutherland. The fishermen
also lost their nets.
A storm in the gulf of st. Lawrence wrecked
seven schooners from Halifax bound to the
Magdalen islands with winter supplies for the
inhabitants.
The City Of Berlin encountered terrific gale
on the voyage from New York to Liverpool.
Her second officer was swept overheard. The
saloon was flooded to a depth of three feet.
The passengers aided the crew, and behaved
well and bravely.
The steamer Jackall fomdered in ST. Georges
Channel. Ten lives lost.
The Australian clipper Dundee collided with
the steam-yacht Lucerne near Gravesend. The
former was sunk and several persons drowned
The steamer Hermann put into Southampton,
Eng, in demoralzed state. Two hundred
bales of cotton were thrown overheard and
twenty tons of tobacco used as fuel, the supply
of coal having run out.
The British bark Sara, from Hull for San
Francisco burned in the South Pacific Capt.
Curie, wife, two children and four seamen
were picked up by the steamer North Carolina
and taken to New York. Their sufferings
while exposed to tropical sun in an open boat
for twenty-three days were terrible. Two other
boats are missing. r.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.

Postmaster General James, in his an
nual report, recommends the establish
ment of postal savings banks throughout
the country. These banks are popular
and consequently successful in Great
Britain, where they have been in opera
ton for twenty years. They are open at
all money order Offices and deposits are
received from one shilling up, except
that no person is allowed to deposit more
than hundred and fifty dollars in any
one year or run up his total account be-
yond seven hundred and fifty dollars
Interest is paid at the rate of two and a
half per cent. year, and begins to run
from the first of themonth after deposit.
One convenient feature of the English
system is that when a depositor wants
money he is not obliged to draw from
the Office where he deposited, but may
get it at any postal bank in the United
Kingdom. Another advantageous ar
rangement, which was first tried about a
year ago, and has become very popular
among the poorer depositors, is that
twelve penny postage stamps stuck on a
slip of paper prepared by the govern
ment may be deposited for shilling.
The extent to which these institutions
are used by the people is shown by the
fact that in 1879 the number of banks
had increased to six thousand, the num-
Der of annual depositors to nearly three
and half millions and the total amount
of yearly deposits to fifty million dollars.
The open accounts at the beginning of
1880 numbered nearly two millions,
while the amount standing to the credit
of depositors was hundred and sixty
million dollars.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Washington Gossip.

The annual report of the secretary of war is
chiefly devoted TO the consideration of the i'm
portant recommendation contained in the an
nual report of army chiefs. Gen. Sherman 8
recommendation that the army be increased to
10000 men receives Secretary LincOln's earnest
endorsement. The attention is called TO the
need of legislation to prevent intrusion upon
Indian lands, especially from Kansas into the
Indian territory. The chief of engineers shows
that defense by Notifications and torpedoes is
the only one which is at all practical for coast
as extended as ours. referring to the subject
of the standard of requirements necessary for
admission to the military academy at West
Point, the secretary concurs in the views of his
predecessor, that it would not be we'll to raise
the standard of admission. 1t is recommended
that the course be extended so as to cover five
years. The actual expenditures under the war
department for the fiscal yeor ended June 80,
1881. were $43 122, POI; appropriations for 1882
were S44, 889, 724, and estimates for 1883 call
for $44, 541, 276.
Secretary Hunt, in his annual report, calls the
attention of congress to the neglected condition
of the navy and says that unless some action
be had In Its behalf, it must soon dwindle to
insignifcance. He devotes considerable space
to the considerations of reports of bureau off,
cerr and generally endorses the recommended
lion submitted. Secretary Hunt estimates that
520,0l3, 716 will be needed to defray the ex-
penses of the department for the fiscal wear
ending June 80, 1880.
The grand jury found the first indictments
IN the star route cases on the 29th. The first
is against Contractor Brott for bribing officials
and defrauding the government. Ex-Deputy
Auditor Liley was indicted for accepting a
bride.
In consequence of the alarm caused in some
portions of the west by the reported spreading
of smallpox, acting Postmaster General Hat
ton has issued an order to the effect that where
a postmaster receives official information from
the health officer of any port or town that mail
matter received is liable to communicate conta-
gious diseases, it shall be his duty to refuse to
accept such mail matter. The mail returned
shall ne hela untli the prohIbltlon Is removed,
and shall not be forwarded to its destination
until properly fumigated.
Assistant United States Treasurer Hillhouse
hao
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
The Leadina-Strinas EaIIaoy.
From the Popular Science Monthly. :

Ifro1n the Popular Science Monthly.l
From the moment child is born he
is treated on the principle that all his
instincts are essentially wrong, that
nature must be thwarted and counter
acted IN every possible way. He is
strapped up IN contrivance he would
be glad to exchange for strait Jacket.
kept for hours in a position that pre-
vents HIM from moving any limb of his
body. His first attempts at locomotion
are checked; he is put in leading
strings, he is carefully guarded from the
outdoor world, from the air that would
invigorate his lungs, from the sports
that would develop his muscles. Hence
the pevishness, awkwardness and sick
Illness OF our young aristocrats Poor
people have no time to initiate the alb
surdlties of their wealthy neighbors, and
their children profit by what the model
nurse would undoubtedly call neglect.
Indian babes are still better off. They
are fed on bull-beef and kicked around
like your dogs; but they are not swad-
died. they are not Graded and not dosed
withparegoric; they crawl around naked
and soon learn to keep out of the way;
they are happy, they never cry. If we
would treat our youngsters In the same
way, only substituting kisses and bread
for kicks and beef, they would be as
happy as kids III clover-feld, and,
moreover, they would afterwards be
harder and stronger.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
FOREST CULTIVATION.



The rapid waste of our great forests
before the woodlands axe, in the effort
to satisfy the increasing demands of
mankind for building material, fuel,
pavements, etc., has of late years been
the subject of considerable discussion.
Scientists have proven that the seasons
of protracted drouth experienced in sec
lions of country where such q state of
things had been unknown, are due
entirely to the denudation Of the land of
its forest trees. Certain streams in the
far west which have been of valuable
service during the summer months as
drive-ways for logs and for water-powers
have gradually dwindled after the spring
freshet until in midsummer they are
almost worthless for commercial pr1r-
poses. AS every effect must have it's
cause, careful inv estigation was made,
and again the woodman's axe was found
to be at fault. The forests on the sur
rounding mountains, which had held
the snow for months under the shade of
their branches and allowed the melting
process to proceed slowly, have been
dissipated, and now the snowy mantle
wastes rapidly under the balmy atmos-
phere of spring and the supply of water
is soon gone. - 8 --
With commendable and philanthropic
enterprise the legislatures of several
states in the Union have enacted laws re-
ieving the husbandmen of a certain
amount of taxes for every forest tree
planted, and carbon day ?" or tree plant
ing day has become a fixed institution in
some of our great commonwealth. The
latest scheme of the kind has DEVELOPED
In Massachusetts, where an association
has been formed and a tract of about
four thousand acres secured near Boston
for the cultivation of forest trees. The
association also hopes to obtain from the
Legislature of the state law establishing
Board of Forestry to superintend the
protection and restoration of forests
throughout the commonwealth. The
most important provision of the proposed
enactment is that In relation to acquir-
ing forest lands as public domain.
Wherever there is tract of not less
than five hundred acres, covered with
wood, or more suitable for the Gull
tivation of trees than for anything else,
the town, or towns, in which it is located
may by major vote set it apart for that
purpose. The title vests in the state for
the benefit of the town, which is to pay
the several owners of the soil therefor
the amount at which the same was last
appraised by the assessors. If any owner
is unwilling to accept that valu alton for
his land, he may apply to the supreme
court, aud have its value assessed by a
Jury. Such efforts as the above are truly
commendable and the promoters thereof
will come in for a large share of thanks
from generations to come.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
! Terrible CONFEDERATION at Mime.


On the 4th inst, a fire broke cut in the Pills
bury "B " flour mill at Minneapolis, MIMI,
and spread rapidly to the three mills on the
west side of the river, also operated by Pills
bury d Co., and the intervening mill of Croker,
FISK d Co. The alarm had been turned in from
the Washburn "a" mill, and the fremen were
rendering heroic service in face of great odds
for nearly an hour. Assistant Engineer
Frederick and few of his Iemen were stand
ing on the Minneapolis and st. Louis elevator
track, running evenly with the second floor of
the Croker, Fisk & Co. mills, and two firemen
were on top of the latter building, when a
tremendous explosion occurred in the
Croker d Fisk mill, tearing the building into
fragments, and hurllLg the two men on the
roof. from which point they were recovered a
few minutes afterwards without greater injury
than mere scratches. The front of the ex-
poded Mill was thrown outward in mass of
flying debris, travelling with the force of can
non ball, intiictlng few bodily injuries among
the spectators, owing to the limited number
congregated on the ground where the frightful
incident of the casualty occurred. =. ".
| The property swept away by the fire consists
OF the Excelsior Mill, owned by D. Morrison
and operated by Chas. A. P:Ilsbury & Co.; the
PillSbury "B" Mill, owned and operated by the
same firm: che Minneapolis Mill, owned and
operated by Croker, Fisk & Co.; the Empire
Mill, owned by A. L. Watson, of Massachusetts,,
and operated by Chas. A. Pillsbury & Co., and
the Cotton Mill, owned by D. Morrison and
| operated by Henry Fl. Honkomp. These mills
were totally destroyed and all their contents
burned. The total loss foots up over $4Oo, ZOO.
Following is list of the casualties: Cornelius
Fredericks, assistant chief engineer of the fire
department, John Huery, member of Hook and
Ladder Company No. 8, Alex. Burke, sweeper
in the Pillsbury ''B" Mill, and man named
Robinson were killed. Daniel Harbach, fire.
man, member of No. f. was badly bruised and
cut about the face, Fred. Rolke, fireman. badly
injured on leg by flying missile, F. L. Coulter,
fireman, left arm broken and otherwise injured,
and Peter Nelson, fireman, No. 8, hurt by flying
missiles
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Horrible Triple Murder.

Perhaps the most horrible massacre that ever
stained Mississippi was enacted three miles from
Aberdeen on the night of the Goth uIt, in the
murder of W. A. Walker, Alonzo r. Walker
and a younger brother. On the 22d an
emigrant train, consisting of a special wagon,
acovered road wagon and sulky, and party
consisting of four men was seen passing
through Aberdeen. No more was thought of
the travellers until the night of the 9th ult.,
when the whole community was shocked at the
announcement that three of the party had
been found murdered. An officer with large
posse left for the scene, where they found the
party had camped. Horses and mules tied up
were neighing, and four hounds howlin. On
a mattress near lay the mutilated remains of
three men, or; rather, two men and a mere boy
some Is years of age. They had evidently all
retired, and these three were asleep when the
fourth arose and with an axe successfully killed
the three, by striking each blow on the head
leaving a most frightful cash. Death was in
Simultaneous, as the cover over them was not in
the least disturbed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
CORRUPT LITERATURE.

While the details of the robbery of a
railroad train in Missouri several months
ago by coterie of striplings are vet
fresh Ill the memory of news-readers
comes the pathetic story of the death of
one of the youthful band of law-breakers
inside the prison walls. The poor boy
died. broken-hearted and the scenes at
his bedside were particularly affecting
BE bewailed his sad fate and charged
his downfall to the corruption of his
mind through constant reading of fresh
publications so numerous in the present
- day. This is not an isolated case. The
superintendent of the House of Refuoe
on RandalPs Island, New York civ.
stated couple of years ago that ma
Jority aot the boys in the institution had
been habitual readers of the sentimental
literature OF the period aud that their
first steps on the downward path could
be traced more or less directly to such
reading. The same is probably true OF
the children in other institutions. and
flash literature should be forced out OF
the market and give place to that which
Is healthy and not enervating in its ten
dencies
81 ReW.T. Dewitt Talmage, of the Brook,
iyn Tabernacle took occasion to de.
nounce the corrupt literature of the day
IN sermon recently. He compared il
to the, plague of frogs in Egypt. He
said that these frogs pop up everywhere.
The mail bags in the postofice shake
out thousands of them in the letter
trough. 1t is one of the most CHASTITY OF
the ten plaques of our modern cities.
There is a vast number of books and
: papers which should never be published,
for the literature of nation decides its
fate. 1t is remarkable fact that more
publishers of bad books live in BROOKLYN
than anywhere else. They must be
drawn out and .exterminated from
Christendom. I'm 1873 grand, potent