The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24
SATURDAY. IAN. "a. Issk.


IJAo 1T 2Is arc received at the Dead
better Office ia j..
General AcCe elan hls been aIIo l.
tel IT srsaal Of tl. Inauguration pro
,cssiUn.
The prison couvicts shouldhc lut 70
NeiA on pull. worhs.
The great i;on firm of Oliver Brcs Il
PiIHliy;, Of Pttsbdr; have fai.el with
s., 500, oe0 liabilities. The WORKS will
lie continued,
Tie bill, which was passed last week
u The Senate TO place Gen. Grant on
he pt'red list of tie any, has died
fl want Of action aEcn N i III the
Ii ne.
The weather has been so severe III
Indian Territory that the Indians arc
IL Il suifSr.Ls condition, n0twith5t&n(-
ihgtheail ol HE government. Thous-
anas OF cattle and sheep haze died from
hanger, .ljrs. and cold.
On last Sunday morning Tie He3pitaI
for the Insane, u, Kcukakre, H.. was
turned. The UMilding contained forty
FIVE Inmates, seventeen OF Wkom failed
TO es.ap.a and were burned beyond r.cog-
1ition. Tie fire originated f1om the
furnace.
Fitz John Por'cr has asked the Pres
dent to restore him 10 ttC army. ThL,
old commander has suffered great in
Justice and bitter c~ontuincly because
of w~rti2anisn. 1t Is thought that,
when Gen. Porter las received justice
IRON the government, Gen. Grant vii!
he placed on the retired list.
/. Ium smith who has become a
terror to fraud advertisers and sWiud-
ling publishers, through the columns
OF the AGENTS Herald, has just started
nothcr paper, the PCBLtc Herald,
whose mission will he tie same. In its
first issue it makes Il bold attack upon
many Business Frauds and low, sen
s;tIfopal, wrnicioug literature winch is
III fit for circulation. Many readers
who have leen pIcyed upon 10y swind-
Ing advertisers would be repaid great
Is h subscribing for the HERALD.
Ga account of the large number OF
idle prisoners in the State Prison, the
Prison Inspector has recommended that
some means Of supplying the men with
werk I've taken Instead of the contract
s.stern. The recommendation is made
on the ground that the prisoners VIII
~ better physically, mentally md
lnorpllv. Tie prisoners not only should
lie kept IT work but should be made Ia
support the prison by their labor.
Why should they be kept idle as some
of them have been. because a lew dem
2 in their protested love for the
laboring class. c7alIn tIIarTnr> vt'ns IL
competition with free labor? Would
they not compete with free labor ifthey
were free? Why should free labor be
taxed to support criminals? 1t should
i've the reverse. Let The State find work
for them to do and not let idlencss lie
:: reward for crime.
a Washington di>pttch to the rl.,i-
dslpiia Record If The 2Ist. 3ays that
can be stated on the highast author
ilst tsts84 TINS time until llir 18th Of
lSAreh the President will accept no
feglgrut.ous from Federal CficiLle ex-
,eDt in cases where good, substanciai
reasons are assigned. He proposes 10
make as few appointments as possible
duuing that period. He does not want
to mike one that will in any way en-
lurrass President Cleveland admins
1ratiou. This determination is tle re-
suit of y general effort on the pert Of a
number of p,stmasters all over the
~sanutry 90 resign at once in "'drr that
DEMOCRATS who IL Ih3g could control
may be appointed theit .ucatss3s or
that Republicans might be appointed
for fun four-year terms. The Pres
.idcnt and the Postmaster General are
equally resolved 10 frown upon every
such arrangements, and they VIII ac-
crpt no designations having any such
scheme behind them.