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The state journal., 1884-04-19

the attempt to maintain such a stand
ard by the United States alone is cal
cnlated TO produce serious complication
- our monetary system, it is earnestly
recommended to our Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress that they urge
such legislation as will suspend the coin
age Of the Standard silver dollar until
united action with the other nations can
be had.
Fifth That we also recommend the re-
tiTement of the trade dollar in exchange
for standard dollars, without increasing
the monthly issue of the latter.
sixth. That by the integrity and wis
dom Of his administration President
Arthur has deservedly won the respect,
confidence and commentator of the
whole people.
Seventh. We commend every effort to
sustain and promote thorough civil service
reform in all departments of the National
and State governments
Eighth. That James G.. Blaine is the
choice Of the Republicans of Pennsylva-
MIA for President, and Robert r. Lincoln
for Vice President, and that the delegates
at-large, this day elected, be and they are
hereby instructed to vote for them so long
as their names shall he before the conven-
ton and to use all honorable means to
secure their nomination.
The reading of the resolutions was re-
ceivcd with cheers, and applause at every
plank, and at the conclusion the platform
was adopted unanimously.
District Delegates to Chicago
The fO1ln1rin ir tba licf
The state journal., 1884-04-19
Death of Mrs. William Adore.


The funeral of Mrs. William Adore,
who died on Saturday last, took
place from her residence on South
street Tuesday afternoon. The cere-
monies were conducted by Prof,
William Howard Day, which were
very affecting. Mrs. Adore leaves a
borrowing husband and daughter,
who feel her loss intensely. The in
terment was at Lincoln Cemetery,
and large number of relatives and
friends were present. MIR. Adore
has the sympathy of the community.
We t ts.hG pleasure in commencing
the energy displayed in the interest
of the JOURNAL by our Williamsport
agent, w. Fl. Conrad, through whose
interchangeable efforts the circulation Of
the Journal is steadily increasing
throughout Centre and Lycoming
! counties.
The state journal., 1884-04-19

The contest over the seats of the
Blaine delegates from the Oath, Allie
gheny district, was spirited one, but
resulted 10 victory for the machine.
Upon the presentation Of the commit
tee reports, Q resolution to adopt the
minority report, inspired John Stew
art 10 make the speech of the day
against the adoption of the report.
Ex-Judge Reeder ably urged the
adoption Of the report, and the Magee
delegates were selted by a meagre
majority, thus showing that the lion
inside of this lamb was not submitting
gracefully
The convention did not get down
to business until the evening session.
After the contested seat question
was disposed Of, the convention pro
ceeded to the election of six delegates
at large, aud candidates were named
as follows: James McManes, of Phila-
delphia; Senator Lewis Emery, Of
Mexican; Senator J. w. Lee, of We
mango; Hamilton Disston, Of Phila-
delphia; B. 4. Jones, of Allegheny !;
Peter L. Kimberly, of Mercer; VIM.
ii. Jessup, Of Susquehanna Joseph
N. Shomo, Of Berks, and James Mil.
likeD, of Centre; of which number
Messrs. Disston, McManes, Jessup,
Lee, Kimberly and Emery were
chosen. Bayne's man, Jones, was
LETT, and Lee, of Venango, and En-
cry, Of Mexican, the Independents,
drew these prizes from the grab-bag.
Major Pomeroy moved that Messrs.
Wells, Todd and LeiSenring be de-
clared electors-at large. Col. Snow
den amended that the convention
Pre- coed to an election, and in ring
ing speech nominated James Dobson,
of Philadelphia. Waddell, of Ches-
ter, in a strong speech, said that
Philadelphia had just been honored
sufficiently, and the county of Ale
gheny had Just been left in the cold.
If his motion prevailed, another
tedious ballot would have to be gone
through With. On a viva voce vote
it was impossible to tell whether or
not Colonel Snowden's motion had
prevailed, and so a rising vote was
taken and the chair decided that the
motion was lost by 100 yeas to 1913
nays.
a motion to insert the name of Jas.
Dobson in place of Lemuel Todd was
also so closely contested that stand
inc Vote had to be taken, and by a
vote Of 140 yeas to an uncounted
number Of nays the motion was de,
clared carried, and the resolution, as
amended, was adopted unanimously,
and Calvin Wells, of Pittsburg; John
Leisenring, Of Mauch Chunk, and
James Dobson, of Philadelphia, were
declared electorseat-large.
The following gentlemen were
pl. ICED in nomination for Congress
n-at-Large: A. Louden Snowden,
Of Philadelphia; Gen Edwin S. Os
borne, Of Luzerne; ex- Congressman
i. r. Watson, Of Warren; Hon. John
Patton, Of Clearfeld; Gen. William
Lilly, Of Carbon, and DIR. Q. Ii Dress
Ter, Of York. Colonel Snowden, who
had been nominated by w. Ellwood
Rowan, arose, after Kaufman, o.
Lancaster, had made speech in sec
onding the nomination, to announce
to the convention that he did moi
wish the delegates to imagine thai
Philadelphia wanted everything, anG
SO he positively declined to be a can
didate, but when the balloting tool
place the entire Philadelphia delega
The state journal., 1884-04-19

James Winter, a third Indian, a
third Spaniard and the ether thtrd
oolored, was committed to Jail by
Mayor Wilson for peddling loVepo
dera and telling fortunes,
The state journal., 1884-04-19
RUNS SCORED EACH INNING

Cleveland. .....4 OI 3 0 Ill
Harrisburg. ......... 0 o. o. 2
Total left on bases Cleveland 6, Harrisburg 8 ;
passed balls Munyan 2; Wild pitches, Weidel, l.
out on strikes, by Moffat 5, Weidel 2 double
plays, Hotzling and Glasscock. Umpire, Harry
Slime, Harrisburg
The state journal., 1884-04-19

Cciored schools in New York city
will soon be thing of the past. The
retention of colored teachers will be
asked for by petition.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

POSTMASTEES' SALARIEs.-On Saturday
last, the Postmaster General rendered an
opinion in regard to the construction of the
Act of March Bird, 1883, relative to the read
justment of postmasters' salaries. He holds
that in all cases in which it appears from the
biennial readiustment of salaries of post
masters of the third, fourth, or fifth class,
that they received 10 per cent, more or less
than they would have received in commits
sions under the Act of 1851, they are now
entitled under the Act of March 3, 1888, to
the difference between what was paid them
and what they would have received as COM
missions under the Act of 1854. He also
holds that it was not the intention Of Con-
gress, by the Acts of 1864 and 1866, to dis
pense with biennial readjustments. 1t fol-
lows thata claimant under the Act of March
3rd, 1888, must show that the Acts subse-
quent to 1854 deprived him of ten per cent,
or more of what he would have received if
those statutes had not been enacted and he
had been compensated on the basis Of the
Act of 1854. The opinion of the attorney
general is in harmony with the construction
given to these statutes by the department.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

ADVICE ABOUT BREATIIING.-Let doc
tor give little advice about breathing.
Breathe naturally-or, in other words, do
not breathe at all. Let breathing attend to
its own business. The idea that breathing
through the nose will prevent taking cold,
exclude dust from the lungs, etc, is all
moonshine. There is more than twenty
times as much heat radiating surface in
the mouth than there is in the nose, and
much greater mucous surface to catch
floating particles of dust If we breathe
naturally, we will breathe through the
mouth and nose at the same time. This
causes two currents of air to meet at almost
right angles above the trachca, which causes
them to bound and spread out over the
heated mucous membrane, there receiv-
ing heat and leaving its particles of irrta-
ting dust on the moist walls of the mouth
and throat, thence passing into the lungs
warmer and more pure than if it went tC
the lung in one unbroken chilling current
For these reasons use your brain for some
other purpose than to direct breathing, fol
l assure you the inner man will attend tC
that part of the business without your assis
tance.-L. ". clark, ". d., IN Micdgc
NcWs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

\ FIELD FOR THE ELECTRICLANs.-The
Electric Liquor Company, of California, has
entered on the business of ripenlng and
purifying wines and liquors by means of an
electric current. The process frees the liquor
of all it's pOsinacus essential oils, and the
work of from thee to six years is done, it
is claimed, in a few hours.
The achievement of this wonderful re-
form suggests still wider and nobler field
for the application Of the mysterious powers
of the electric current. If the process of
aging Intoxicating drink can be FASTENED so
that the work Of six years can be done in a
few hours why may not its operation III
the carrying off those who have determined
to be its victims be also fastened III cor
responding degree?
There are in every community certain in
dividuals who are known of all men to be
engaged deliberately in the process of drink
ing themselves to death From the time
they deliberately form this purpose they
become a curse to the community, to their
friends, their families and themselves. They
contribute nothing to the common welfare,
but are Il burden and disgrace. And the
pity of it is that the process is usually a
very long one. Men who have started out
with set notion of bringing up in G. drunk
ards grave have been known tOspend years
on the road; and humanity is so constitu-
ted that no one will take the responsibility
of Fastening the result, though every
thoughtful person knows it is inevitable and
knows that the best and highest interests
of everybody concerned would be furthered
if the result could be FASTENED.
If, therefore, the process can be helped
forward by electricity, without compelling
humanity to do anything shocking, society
vii! be distinctly and largely benefited.
The subject is commended to the ST. I.oui,,
Electric Company, and to electric investiga-
tors elsewhere, us one worthy of their best
efforts. -DefrOH free Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28
JUDGE MACEEY on THE SITUATION.

The irrepressble II. j. Mackey, 'tormer'
Iy Circuit Judge in South Carolina, but now
Mexican war survivor in Washington" has
been lately interviewed in New York by a
Philadelphia Press correspondent.
"You can say" remarked the Judge, in
the course Of the interview, "that in the
death of my nephew South Carolina's deci'
mated ranks of Republicanism have lost the
only leader whose cal! to arms could inspire
courage"
"What is the political outlook, Judge, fol
your State? Is the sentiment for protection
or against it?"
"Well, that's rather mixed. The Bour-
bOns are free trade so far as guns and metal
lie cartridges and powder are concerned, be.
cause that would cheaper your ordinary
Democratic campaign. But when you come
to the manufacturing and agricultural inter.
est, we want all the protection we can get
In 1874 we had one cotton factory-noW we
have tW enty-fve. Our rice enjoys a protec'
tion of over 100 per cent. AS to the cotton
we find great difficulty in getting cheap ne
gro labor, because the negro is a cOnstitu
tional victim of music and the humming Of
the spindle puts him to sleep"
"Will you still be for Democratic candi.
dates on local iSsues?"
eyes, and for the Republican nominee fol
the Presidency. My position is thoroughly
logical. In national politics l believe the
Republican is the white mans party il
never can be in the South. Property inter
ests naturally rebel, and they command the
brains and the resources. AsaprOperty own
er myself in that State, can | vote to sus'
tain carpet-bag Legislature that, with the
negro help, will boom our annual printing
bill, for instance, up to $5OO,0OO? Now it is
about $4,000. Only several years ago il
was made part of the campaign capital in
New York against one party tllati incurred
printing bills of $4,000. And New York
has taxable property Cf s, 2OO,OOO,OOO
while South Carolina has Sl0O,0OO,0OO.
"It is a bootless job to think of reclaim
ing these Southern States by the negro vote
and yet" the Judge remarked with grim
sarcasm, "the Democrats have made some
noble concessions. They now admit that 8
colored man who is killed for his pOlitica
faith is entitled to the rights of burial. We
are grateful for this"
"What about candidates >"
"Rather too early to answer. From pres
ent appearances, l think that Mr.. Arthur
while not able to get the nomination him
self, will dictate the man. Logan will de-
velOp much strength in our region, but fOl
running power Edmunds is the candidate
The politicians don't want him, because
they can't use him, and this is the very
thing that would make him strong before
the people,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28
Selettea goetrg.
AN ANSWERED PRAYER.

AN ANSWERED PRAYER.
o, give me a message of quiet
I ask in nv morning prayer;
s'For the turbulent trouble within me
Is more than my heart can bear. 80
Around there is strife and discord,
And the storms that do not cease, ....
And the whirl of the world is on me
Thou only can'st give me peace
Iopened the old, old Bible ....
And looked at a page OF Psalms,
Till the wintry sea of my trouble
Was smoothed by its summer calms.
For the words that have helped so many,
And the pages have seemed more dear
Seemed new in their power to comfort,
a And they brought me my word OF cheer.
Like music of solemn singing -..
These words came down to me;
''The Lord is slow to anger,
. And of mercy great is he.
Each generation praiseth
) His work of long renown; '+.'
9 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, l-
And raiseth the bowed down..
That gave me the strength wanted;
! knew the Lord was nigh;
K All that was making me sorry 80.
Would be better by and by. j.. ',r.
I had but to wait in patience,
And keep at my fathers side,
And nothing would really hurt me,
Whatever might betide.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28
THE END. !

aa~ 4 letter in the Cleveland, Herald, Civ
mo some curious details of the dead letter
office at Washington, says: The number
Of letters opened last year containing cur
rency, checks, drafts and negotiable paper
was over 81, 900. The amount of actual cash
taken from letters was nearly $4,000, and
the value of checks, etc, representing mon
ey, about 81 100000. During the last year
the number of pieces of mail matter that
reached the dead letter office was nearly
four and half millions. The exact num-
Der was 4,44O,s22. This is about l4,5OO for
every daV.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

UNCoNsCIoUsNEss OF DYING PERSONS
"a dying man may be burned with red,
hot iron and not feel pain" DR.. Crawford
said to reporter of the IMdU, OF Stockton
California. CONSCIOUSNESS may remain tc
the dying almost to the dissolution, but gen.
orally they lose the power Of thought long
before actual death. In cases of death in
which there seems to be suffering, the wri-
thing and spasms are due toreflex muscular
action. Fear weakens the nervous system
and, consequently, hastens death and the
reverse Of fear may prolong life" The doc
tor cited medical report concerning a
Methodist minister. He lay on the verge OF
death, coldand pulseless, and friends around
his bed sang his favorite hymn. AS they
ceased, and while the physicians stood
timing the death, the minister's hands
moved, and he whispered ''Glory ~ Res
toratives were administered, and an hour
later the man had recovered. He lived
many years after that He said he under
stood every word spoken at his bedside.
Under the nervous excitement and enthusi.
asn wrought by the hymn, he had eXerted
his muscular strength, and lived.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28
coming around the rear of the coach. II

coming around the rear of the coach. He
was game man. He knew what had hap
pened, and he was coming to the rescue.
Pop! pop pop went the revolvers, their
flashes lighting up the night until we could
see the driver in his seat.
1t didn't take twenty seconds. One of the
robbers lay dead in front of US, the other un-
der the coach while the man with one eye
had a lock cut from his head and the grazes
of bullet across his cheek. Not one had
moved finger. We were five fools in a
row. There was q painful lull after the last
shot, and it lasted a full minute before the
stranger turned to us and remarked in a
quiet, cutting manner:
"Gentlemen, We kin drop yer hands !"
We dropped. We undertook to thank
him, and we went to shake hands, andsome-
body suggesteda q shakepurse for his benefit,
but he mOtioned us into the coach, banged
the door after us, and climbed up to a seat
beside the driver. His contempt for such a
crowd could not be measured. ..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

WHAT Is MADE FROM PApER.-One of
the most remarkable uses to which paper
has been put of late years is the manulac-
ture of zylOnitc, a substance which at the
will of the manufacturer, may be made in
imitation of horn, rubber, ivory, tortoise
shell, amber and even glass. The uses to
which zylonitc are adaptable are almost in
finite, but perhaps the most extraordinary
is the manufacture of cathedral windows.
The discovery was made about fifteen years
ago, but it is only within the last two years
that company has been formed for its
manufacture. The basis of zylonite is a
plain white tissue paper made from cotton
or cotton and linen rags. The paper is
treated first to bath of suphuric and other
acids, undergoing Il chemical change. The
acid is then carefully washed out and the
paper treated with another preparation Of
alcohol and camphor, assuming an appear
ance very much like parchment. 1t is then
capable of being worked up into plates of
any thickness, rendered almost perfectly
transparent, or given any of the brilliant
colorS that silk will take. 1t is much more
flexible than either horn or ivory and less
brittle Combs or other articles made of it
in imitation of tortoise shell are said to be
so perfect in appearance as to deceive the
eye of the most practiced workman in that
substance. The difference in the material
can be detected only by tests.-Hpdustrim
NrUs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28
ITO BE CONTINUED.

sss~ One perfect diamond is more valuable
than many defective ones. One truth we'll
fixed in the mind and comprehended is bet
ter than many half-understood. A small
opportunity fully realizedHis better than
great one misimproved. The wealth of af-
fectionate sympathy and aid is better than
peace.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

PITHY ADvICE.-Keep your head cool,
your feet warm and subscribe for your local
newspaper.
Don't spend more than you can borrow,
and don't borrow more than you can pay
promptly.
Don't kindle the fire with kerosene unless
you are prepared for land that is fairer
than this, and where the fires are made by
the serventS.
If you are angry at a man count fifty
before speaking if he is Il great deal big
ger, than you count four hundred and
sixty.
Don't blow in your gun to see if it is load
ed, unless you want to get your name in the
papers and your family is well provided for.
Be satisfied with the world as you find it,
remembering that you are only tenant
here and may not find yourself as we'll suit
ed when you move.
Love your neighbor If he keeps Il dog
that howls at the moon do not make harsh
remarks about him, but borrow the dog to
60 hunting and forget to bring him back
again.
Don't brag about the achievements OF
your ancestor. A great ancestor in the grave
is poor capital Of itself for a man to 60 into
business on. And, besides, our ancestors
had their faults Even Adams record is
not as clean as we would like it to be.--Wd'
dPtOWn Transcript.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

A RETRospECT.-"And my first pair of
boots" went on Simpson, chow proud and
delighted l was! Why, do you know"
and he looked about impassively,, "that the
first night insisted on wearing those boots
to bed?" "Yah !" shifted the old woman
from across the room, 'and it's many a pair
of boots you have worn to bed since"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATI0N.-Repre-
sentative Willis expects to have his bill
providing for Federal aid to education IA
vorably reported this week from the COM
mittee on education. He has prepared Il
table, embodied in the report of the SUBJ
committee that has recommended the pas
sage of the bill, which shows that illteracy
holds the balance of power in fourteen
Northern and in all the Southern States.
The report says
"In the thirty-eight States there are l.
81 PIT illiterate voters. Only one voter in
five can write his name in the Southern
States. The illiterate voters in South Caro-
lima are more than one-half. In Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carroll
na and Virginia one in two can write. Mis-
souri, with one in nine presents the best re-
cord. In the Presidential election of 1876
New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Indiana, California, Nevada,
Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois, Rhode
Island, Michigan and Pennsylvania were
ranged on the side of illiteracy. In the
last Presidential contest thirty of the States
of the Union with 29S electoral votes were
again within the domination of foreigners
who could not read the very charter of their
liberties. The majorities which they gave
could have been overthrown by the COM
bined vote of their illiterate voters, even if
those majorties had been five timesas great
as they were. In 1876 Tiden's majority of
the popular vote was l57,394. In 1880 Car
fields majority was only 1903. In lS76siX-
ty of our sevcnty-six Senators, three-tilths
of the whole, and $50 of 292 Representatives
were in the grasp of illitcncy. In 1880
fifty-eight of our seventy-siX Senators and
292 of our 325 Representatives were in States
and districts where ilitcrate voters held the
balance of power.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

Rsg" About two weeks ago horses body
foated ashore on keuka Lake, N. Y. By
the harness it was identified as horse
drowned twenty years before.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

CONFRONTED WITH His VILLAINY.-
When Mr.. Popperman threw off his over
coat last evening his wife said
"My dear, this is your birthday. Now
what kind of present would you prefer"'
"Well, money"
"That's just the kind of present have
for you," and Mrs. Popperman took from
beneath her apron plethOric bag and emp
tied upon the table pile OF Jlngyllng COINS
"There's your birthday present"
The husband looked at the coins in
amazement, and then said
"Why, my dear, the money is no good;
There is nothing here but lead quarters and
dimes with holes in 'em. Here's quarter
with a hole in it and the holes bigger than
the quarter. What rascal palmed that mon
ey on you?' Oh the scoundrels there are
in the world |"
Calm yourself, my dear, said Mrs. Pepper
man. That money must all be good. That's
what you've given me for pin money since
we've been married. .''-Ne,r York Jon7'd
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-28

THE ARAB AND His lIORsE.-The Ara
bians never beat their horses they never
cut their tails; they speak to them and
seem to hold discourse; they use them as
friends; they never attempt to increase
their speed by the whip or spur them, but
in cases of great necessity. They never fix
them to stake in the field but suffer them
to pasture at large around their habitations;
and they come running the moment they
hear the sound of the masters voice. In
consequence of such treatment these ami
mails become docile and tractable in the
highest degree. They resort at night to
their tents, and lie down in the midst of
the children, without ever hurting them in
the slightest manner. The little boys and
girls are often seen upon the body or neck Of
the mares, while the beasts continue inof-
fensive and harmless, permitting them to
play with and caress them without injury.