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VOL. 48.
HUNTINGDON", PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1873.
NO. 4.
ing  (Ircssing-gowu, and slippers  trodden down at tiie heel.
'•Not a drop of w.ivm water, or nnything to eat iu the hou.se. I'll warrant!" And he .strode into the dining room, which indeed was cold and void of cheer.
He went into the pantry and munched a liard, very dArk-colored doughnut savage- iy-
'•I'd turn her away to-morrow, she  and her husband, too, only that the  next oue would be sure to be worse.    They are  all about of a piece.    There i.s nothing worse to have iu the house than a housekeeper— unless it's a wife.    Aud I don't know—" Doctor Hulburt still stood in the pantry, solemnly deliberating, after the last monsel of doughnut had disappeared.    It  was so long sinee he had a wifo that he could not decide whether one was worse that a house¬ keeper or not.    It was a question   that he had been revolving in his mind ior years, without coming to any definite conclusion. " -Better bear tho ill.s we hare, than fly to others  that we  know not of,' thc poet says.    But then,  a man   can't bear this state of things long ; he might as well live ill a   cave in  the woods I   No order, no comfort, none of the decencies of living. Some time or other I shall have to marry, and I might as well make up my mind to it at once.    And there's the widow Zilpha Thomas.    (Strange that boy oan  be such a fool as to run after that  littie jade of a Rose Carter '.)   Thc widow  Thomas is a good housokceper, I have no doubt; house i always loo'ss as neat as wi x.    Then there's I that wood lot ofhers that joins mine; not I that I'm looking out for  property with a wife, but that lot would come vcr}" handy; and the widow is a fine  woman ;   a  littic quick tempered, I'm tifraid.    1 never  did . __l   1 like those snapping black eyes: that girl iiiiiiiAKr     Kose Carter, is just her mother over again, Illu     lulUiILU.iii   with her blue eyes and he; wheedling ways
-o^-^¦o  —confounded littlo jilt! and  that  boy is
" IT'S of no use to talk about my be- \ fool enough to bo taken in by her. I ing yo-ar wife, Charley. Your lather will ,-: should like to sec anybody take me in I never consent, and mother will never eveu   No, I thank you ' once is eno-ugh.    I said
The Evening Story.
Xow, we are .«lcopy, mother,
Seo how wid«-awaJie wo seem ; Tell Ui something sweet to tbink of.
TjU Ui soraething .^weet to dream. Tell the ver.v .s-.vcete=t slory
Thai you ever heard or read, .\nd you'll .=ce that we'll rcraembor
'Kvery single word you've said.
Then I fold tliPiu ofa iMidnight
lu tiio very loug ago, Wiien the sky wns full of angels,
.Ind froai every shining row,
In a voice of he.ivcniy music, .. ame a loving luessagc, given
For thc sake of ono sweet baby
Thnt had coma that night from heaven.
Xow, plcai^e, lei! r,s ju.=t another;
Toll the saddest onc you know. And I told of one who suiTered,
And lie wandered to aud fro ;
Doing good lo al! around him, Withoat fear, or sin, or pride :
Blessing those who most ill-ased hiui, For whose sake at last he died.
Xow. please, just oxe more, dour mother. Tell us uow the strangest one.
So I told tbaiu of a jouruey On a mountain-top begun ;
Throus'u the azure, in a body .J ust as here on earth He trod:
Up througb tho shining ranks oi'augeli, To tho very throne oi God.
Foiirliluc eyes and tivo sweet voices Vv'aitod till my tale wus done.
Then they cried, "Why, that was .Tcsus ; These three .stories arc but one!'
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let me soa you—if she can help it—with¬ out hi? consent. No, you musn't come a .step further!" And pretty Ro.se Carter drew her srm out of Charley Hulburt's very decidedly, when lliey reached the end of the village common. ''You kuow it almoit breaks my heart to say it, but I dou't tiink I caa ever most you su again. Mother will be sure to find it out, and it would vex her so. And she has had enough trouble without my giving her any—poor mamma I"
Handsome  Charley Hulburt shrugged his slioulders imjjatiently.
to Miss Esther Wagg, thc other day, 'The widow Zilpha Thomas is a fine weuian ; a capital manager, isu't she ?' "
"Manager you may bo sure of that. She managed poor Reuben Thomas into his grave," snid Miss Esther.
"But then, it is of no consequence what theso spiteful old maids say. Most likely .she has aa eye on the situation for her¬ self I"
And the doctor drew himsolf up, in the proud assurance that when lie did take a second helpmeet, he should loavo every marriageable lady of his acquaintance iu-
'Your  mother  comes   befjrc   me.   of j consolablc. course; it is no ^natter how I feel.     You I     ''I'll  drive   round  and see the widow say  coolly  that you  can never meet mo | Thom.is next week. I don't think it likely again.    That means, I suppose, that we aro ', tliat she eould manage me I"
never to see eaeh other again."
'•Why, no,- Charley, if you will only have patienco io wait I Everything may come out right."
"AVait! You have oecn telling mo to wait for the last two yoars, and things are no nearer coming out rigiit than thoy ever wore."
"I can't think why your father should dislike my mother so. I think mother knoivs, but she never will tell mo. Miss Esther AVagg says that they were lovers once, and had a ([tiarrel that your lathcr Can uever forget. But oue can't believe all Miss Esther's gossip."^
'I can't think it is anything more than a notion he has got iuto his liead. He's a crotchety, set old fellow, but he's got a good big heart. Hose, if one can only get at it. ifyou were only my wifo, he wonld bs sure to couie round a^d think tho world of you. If you would only marry me. Rose! At the worst—if he would'nt come around—he could only disinherit rae, and I have a pair of good strung arms, and some pas,sable bruins to fight my way—our way —througii tho world."
Tho moonlight showed him hor face, and he i'aiicicd that thore was a little shadow of hesitation on it. But sho shook her head firmly after a moment.
"Now, Rose, darling, don't tell me again to wait^"
The rest of the sentence was never spo¬ ken, for a heavy hand was laid on the young man's shoulder, and an angry voice mimicked his tender tones.
'•Rose, darling'/ I'll teach you to dar¬ ling her, young m-an !"
And there was Ur. Hulburt's face, red with anger, looking over Charley's shoul¬ der. Rose, at the first glimpse of it, turned and rau like a little coward, a.s sho v.as.
•Haven't I forbidden j'our seeing that young womiin ? What do you mean by sneaking around hero with her, like a thief in the night'/" pursued the doctor, furiously.
••It is not my fault that I d.) not walk with her openly ; it is not my fault that .she is not my wife. It is only because she will not con.sont to be s.j," answered Char¬ ley stoutly.
"Won't consent to be your wife, eh? It doea'nt seam to me that she treats you ex¬ actly like a rejected lover I" saecred the doctor.
''.'5ho would marrj- me, if sho wore al¬ lowed to choose," answered Charley, trying hard to keep his tompcr. "Her mother will not consent."
"Humph! uot consent'? that's pretty well!" growled the doctor. "So she thinks my son is uot good enough for her daughter'!"
"She does not object to rae. If you would give your consent to our marriage, .she would give her.-i."
"Ah, that's it! Well, my eonssnt you'll never have, young man, you may icly upon that. And if ever I hoar of your being Been with that young woman again I'll turn you out of door.s, sir. Not a penny of my money shall you ever have, sir. Re¬ member thut' I am not onc to make idle .threats."
Charley w:i.s about to reply, but they Lid reached the house by this time, and the doetor went into t'oe office and shut tho door beiiiud him with a bang. So there wa.s nothing for poor Charley to do but to itake his way di.soonsolutciy up .stairs to bed.
In tha meantime, the doctor seized the poker and stirred up the dying fire iu his grate eavagely.
•'Won't consent, eh "' That's like R:se Shepard! she alwa3rB wus a proud piece. iiOt me catch that boy with hor daughter again !" And he walked rapidly up and down thn room, brandishing the poker, and with a scowl still on his face, looking not unlike a midnight assassin, in spite of the venerable aspect which h'a gray hairs •jBve him.
/jut he cooled down very soon, sufficisnt- .ly to carry the poker back to its place, and begin a search for dressing-gown and slip¬ per.-', :i search which proved long, and served to turu his angor from Charley to another.
•'Of all the miserable housekeepers that ever I had, this Barnes wouiau is the worst !" ho grumbled, jerking himself nt Jast into the dilapidated, comfortless! look-
And haviug made up his mind. Doctor Hulburt betook himself to his chamber. But his face was uot that of c. man who is quite satisfied with the decision; and he stood for a long time at the wijdow, and looked down to the foot of thc hill, where the widow Carter's house was plainly visi¬ ble in tho moonlight.
"No, no 1 once is enough for a man to be made ii fool of ! And that silly boy shall never marry her daughter, if I ean help it'" he said at last, turning away with a decided shake of the head. From which sigus an observer wonld have sup¬ posed Miss Esther Wagg to be right, and the widow Carter an old sweetheart who had "made a fool of him:"
Rose Carter, with pale cheeks aiid down¬ cast eyes, sat demurely sowing beside her uiother the next morning, when her uncle, old Squiro Carter, came in. The pale cheeks had beon observed but not com¬ mented on by her mother, but the Squire was not so delicate.
"]51ess me! what has become of the red cheeks? Why, they aro as white a.s snow¬ balls ! Too much sewing and moping, and not enough air and exei^cise—or ha.s its sweetheart deserted it, poor  little Rosy ?"
Upon which Rose's cheeks grew scarlet of course. But tho si | uire was not satis¬ fied.
"The child looks really ill, and some¬ thing must be done," he said to Mrs. Car¬ ter, as he went away. "She hasn't lookod like herself for mouths."
And the squire, haunted by Rose's pale face, betook himself directly to Doctor Hulburt's office.
'•I want you to go and see my neice, little Rose Carter, or proscribe something for her. Sho saj^ nothing ails her, but she looks pale and moped. I suppose it is nothing but v/aut of exorcise; if these girls would only do aa their grandmothers did ! But you know what will help her— it's nerves, I suppose," saitl the squire who fancied that "nerves"' were at the bottom ofall feminine ailments.
'•Ah yes ! I'll send her a prescription," suid tho doctor, heartily. And thiuking it the heartiness of iutorast and good na¬ ture, the siiuiro went on his way  relieved.
And Dr. Hulburt, feeling even less almablo than ou the previous niglit, sat down at his desk, and wrote a prescription for Miss Kose Carter.
•Just as he finished it hi.s man Barnes boiught him a note. It was from the man who took care of the doctor's farm on tlie outskirts of the town, near thc widotv Thomas' wood lot.
"The widotv Thomas'man Jake wants to kuow if you will let tbe widow take Bltck Bess, to go down to Saugus to tha ([uarterly conference meeting to-night. She told him to ay particular that she didn't feel very well, and thought tho ride would do her good, if ou would bo. so kind as to let her take Black loss, whicii is so geutle.
Samuf.l Hodoki.ss."
The doctor's face cleared as he read.
'¦Little Sam Hodgkins is waiting for the answer, if you please, sir," said Barnen.
And the Doctor wrote a fow words hur¬ riedly, in answer to Samuel Hodgkins, not without grumbling at tho man's .stupiaity in not letting the widow have tho horse without applying to him. But uo matter! the widow would not Iiave to ask for BlacV Bess again. •'With all my worldly goods I thee endow," he meant to say to her very soon.
ljarne.s was entrusted with the two notes —one for Miss Rose Carter, and the ether fov little Sam Hodgkins lo carry t) his_ father.
In the metintime, Charley had come to a new resolve. He would see llrs. Carter once more, and try to gain hoi con.sent to his marriage with Ilo.5e. Without her consent. Rose would never be his wife, it was evidently a hopeless task to try to overcome his father's prejudices; but he was determiued that they should not be allowed to destroy hishuppine.HJ. and Rose's too. fur life. Mrs. Carter liked him ; she would give Rose to him willingly, she had told hi'Ji, if it were not for his fatht;r's objections; she might bo pursxaded to, in spite of it.
And there was no time to lose, for in two days he was going away 'o a distant city, to establish himself in bitiness. He had hoped to carry Rose witi him, but all his pleading had been of m avail to in¬
duce her to marry him against her moth¬ er's will. Ail his hope now lay in influ¬ encing jMrs. Carter. So. early that morn¬ ing ho took his way to the cottage at the foot of the hill. Squire Carter had jitst left, and Mrs. C;."ter'.« mind was still filled with the anxiety regtirdiag Rose's health which he had arovsed ; so perhaps Charley could not have i'ousd a better time for try¬ ing to win her over to his side.
But. though she }id hesitate for ment. his pleading was iu vain.
•'Yoa know there is no one whom I would rather have ftr a son than you, (.'barley," she said. "But I know yoar father. He is a stern man, a very stern man, and ho will never relent. He would never forgive yoa for marying against his will. I cannot consent tn your ruining all your prospects in life. I'ou and Rose are both very young; you m.ij- cliange. The time might come. Charley, when you would regret disobeying your father's wish. You arc his onlj- son, and so deal to him; and beforo this, you say, he lias mjver thv.'artcd your slightest wish, j ou ought not to dis>)bc-y him hastily. To be sure, hi.s preju¬ dice seems unreasonable—"
"Unrea-sonablcl It is absurd!" inter¬ rupted Charley, hotly. "Why, he has never so much &s seen you, to my knowl¬ edge !"
Mrs. Carter's cheek flushed faintly. "I li'.'cd here when  I  was a girl, you know.    I kuew  your   fither   then.    He has some reason for disliking me which I don't unilerstand."
''It is oniy a prejudice, a notion, I am sure," said Charley. "And he has no right to dictate to mo in such a matter."
And he was beginning his e.tger plead¬ ing over again, when Barnes appeared with the note. There was no address on the outside, and Mrs. Carter opened it, while Charley waited in a fever of suspense to know what his father could havo to say to Mrs. Carter.
Her face was a picture of amazement as she read, but plea.sure shone through it as she handed the note to Charley. It was brief and to the point. "Let him have ber.
Edward H. Hdlburt." "I always told Rose he had a heart if one could only get at it 1" cried Charley in a transport of delight. "Now, you can make no objection ; we have your prom¬ ise ! And I am going away the day after to-morrow, you know, and I must take my wife with me."
"The day after to-morrow! My dear boy, you are beside yourself!" exclaimed Mrs."Carter.
"You and Rose have said wait to me for so long, that you can't have the heart to say it longer, now that there is uo reason for waiting. I shall coax Rose over to my side, aud then you can't refuse. •
And he did coax them both over to his side, after countless arguments and objec¬ tions. It was arranged that thero should be a very quiet wedding, to which only a few intimate friends were to be invited, the next evening. Then Charley hurried home to express his gratitude to his iatlier, whom he began to think he had misjudged. Whilo this scene was transpiring at tho cottage, Samuel Hodgkins has received Doctor Hulburt's answer to his note, and being somewhat surprised and puzzled by it, had transmitted it directly to the widow Thomas; thus relieving bini.self of all re¬ sponsibility in the matter.
So the widow, who was adorning her best cap with new cherry ribbons, in an¬ ticipation of the doctor's taking her gentle hint and coming himself to drive her to the quarterly conference meeting, was called from that pleasing occupation to read the following note, a mere scrawl, writteu evidently in haste and irritation :
"Let her take a dessert-spoonful of extract of valerian, night and morning, for her nerves, common sense in as large doses as s'.io can get it, and stop gadding about evenings.
"EoWAnD   n.   HULBCRT."
The widow's black eyes snapped so that the doctor, if he had been there to sec, would have liked them less than ever, and the roses that had deserted her cheeks she thought forcTcr, reappeared ia full bloom. Sho had beea angry often in her life—the departed Reuben had not been very easy to manage—but never before had she felt anything like the wrath she felt at that moment.
"Thc Lnpertinent old scoundrel! 'Gad¬ ding abfut evenings' indeed ! 'Valerian fbr my rerves !' as if I were some fidgety old mail! 'Common sense in as large do¬ ses ns lean find.' How dare he write such a notol Well, I have had a lucky escape! Stupit. cross-grained old wretch ! a life of it I aiould have had with him !"
Aid the widow put on the cherry-rib- bonsd cap upside down, and fell to dusting tho portrait of her deceased spouse with a vin. With ail his faults Reuben was not tte worst man that ever lived !
Charley was obliged to repress his gra¬ titude i'or a while, for when he reached home he found that his I'ather had gone to a neighboring town to attend a medical convetition, and would not return until tho following day.
When the doctor returned fhe next af¬ ternoon Charley was absent, busied with preparations for the approaching wedding. Dr. Hulburt, finding a leisure afternoon upou his hands made an unusually careful toilet, and drove out to call upon the w^idow 'Thomas.
He had fully made up his mind that it would be a lesser evil to have the Widow Zilpha Thoma.s for a wife, than Mrs. Barnes for a housekeeper, but he had not the air of a very eager wooer, and, in truth, ho was not without his misgivings ; ho saw in imagination the widow's black eyes snapping defiantly at him, and won¬ dered if he should not repent, if she tiro- ved to be ofa quarWaome temper.
And ho cast two or three glances back at the Widow Carter's cottage, and as he did so he certainly sighed. The widow had been in tha window, and sho had bow¬ ed to him—bowed, and .actually smiled a little, though in it shy sad way. Dr. Hul¬ burt did not quite understand it. He had met her but twice, to be sure, since she had come back to the village, two years before, but at neither of those times h.ad she shown auy dispositiou to recognize him. His looks had not invited a recognition either then or now, but hero she was as sweet as a May morning ! It was all her artfulness, of conrso ! She thought she could cajole him into letting Charley mar¬ ry her daughter. Sho would see! He would send that boy to Europe, to China if need be, to get him oat of Rose Carter's
From afar off the v.'idow Thomas saw him coming, "riding along with that grand carcle.ss air. as if he owned the whole town." as she declared, and prepared to do battle. She was in snch a quiver of indignation that her cap-ribbons stood up straight, and the snapping eyes ofhis im¬ agin.ation were as nothing compared with theso !
"How daro you come here, you insult¬ ing, hypocritical villain ! you perfidious wretch ! Loavo this house, sir, and if you ever come here again I'll set Towstr upon you as sure as you live !" she cried.
To say that the old doctor %vas amazed would but feebly express his emotion, lie was thoroughly alarmed, and lost no time in escaping from thc presence of the ma¬ niac (as he folt sure she must be), t^) his carriage.
"In.%re from evil temper, ah, I knew those eyes were not for nothing! But why her anger should be directed against me I ean't  understand;  thoUKh I suppose her }<8onvostion whether,
naking irrevocable   any grant   of special   by the Legislature, the same to be on three privileges or immunities. difi'erent days;  every such bill to be ap-
Aldo, prohibiting tho taking or damag- proved in each house by a majority of iig of private proparty for public use members presentat each of such readino-s; nitliout   just   compensation.    Also, that | the votes of each house in every instance
tie fee of laud taken for railroad tracks vithout the consent of the owners shail ffimain in such owuer.s subjeet to the use fcr w'lich it is taken, and private property iiiall uever be taken under any pretext for p'ivate use.
B3' Mr. Broomall, amending the fourth pragraph so as to read :
"That the right of trial by jury shall Emain inviolate in all cases in which the prty shall demand the samo."
Aud adding to the thirteenth paragraph tie words :
"Nor shall the life of any person be tikon as a punishment for crime."
By Mr. Mantor, that the Committee on Suffrage, Eleetion, and Representation be requested to inquire into and report to this ,.^        .=-„ __T_   1 -      timir opinion, a
wrath falls  upon any one who happens to I provision should   be incorporated   in the
way.
Still it is certain that he sighed deeply as he passed the cottage, and the Widow Thomas' black eyes snapped before him all tho more ominously iu contrast with the Widow Carter's soft, shy blue ones.
Was Miss Esther Wagg right, and was it possible that there was still a spring of sentiment iu the doctor'.s heart, which fifty years and his crusty temper had not been ablo wholly to dry.
be near whsn thc fit seizes her.     U, what an escape I have had !'
And Dr. Hulburt took his homeward way, resolved to be contented with a house keeper and thankful that his lot was nt worse.
Mrs- Barnes mot him with an unusually smiling countenance.
"Mr. Charley's been waiting to see yoi, sir; he waited awhile, but of course le coul In't wait any longer, and it'.s .sx o'clock this minute. He told me to tdl you how thankful and happy he was, ard that he shonld feel awful bad if j'ou dd come to the wedding."
'• 'Thankful and happy I' 'Como to tie wedding!' What areyou talking abou;, you idiot'!" demanded the doctor.
"To his wedding with Miss Rose Car¬ ter. I ihought of course you knew. It's at half-past eight"
"'i'ho young rascal! Does ho daro to do this ?" .shoutod the doctor, and rushed out *f tho liou.se, aud down to the widow Carter's cottage. Mr.-i. Carter and Charles met him in thc hall. His wrath had had time to cool a little in his walk, and if it had not he wonld have found it hard to be so demonstrative as usual under the wid ow's calm clear eyes. But he expressed his disapproval quito strongly enough to show them that there had been some mis¬ take.
Charley produced the note, and the doctor saw through the mystery at once— Mrs. Thomas' lunacy and all. That stupid Barnes had changed the notes. The widow Thomas had been advised to stop gadding about of evenings, and Mrs. Carter bail considered herself permitted to "let him havo" hor daughter ! However angry he might be, the doct;ir saw that it was too late to interfere.
"Well, young man, you have chosen your way, and you must walk in it! She is her mother over again, they say—^you had better marry her as soon as possible or she'll jilt you, as her mother did me!"
The widow Carter looked at him with something like a fiasli in her eyes.
"How can you say that, whon you know it was you who deserted me ':" she said.
"Didn't you write me a letter within a month of the d.iy that was to have been our wedding day, telling me, coolly, that you had discovered that you preferred an¬ other ?" demanded the doctor.
"Never! I never wrote jou such a letter !" said thc widow. Chtirley began to see that an explanation waa coming, g.t which a third party would not be wanted and took his departure. It ho did, then, have a faint presentiment of what might happen as a result of that explanation at some future day, he was not at all prepared for ^fhat did occur that very night.
When he and Rose moved away from before thc minister who had made them husband and wife, uis father and Mrs. Carter stood up before him, aud the cere¬ mony was repeated for their benefit. They had decided, in that brief space of time, that that was the best reparation possible for the mistake of almost a lifetime.
And it proved so agreeable an arrange¬ ment that Dr. Hulburt ia often heard to say that, though ho has always prospered in his practice, ho never made so great a success as when he wrote a prescription for Rose Carter.
§tmBn$ Ux the ^tllm.
Constitutional  Convention.
The following amendments were propo¬ sed January 8, 187o :
By Mr. Wherry :
Wltereas, It is a universally-admitted principle iu criminal law that an aecused person is to be presumed iilnocent until he is eouvicted ; aud whereas, although "socie¬ ty, in virtare of its right of lawful self- protection, may subject its members to pre¬ ventive detention,as the temporary hostages of jastice, yet thc sacred obligation of pro¬ tection requires at its hands the exercise of parental gnardianship over tlie accused, and the full preservation of their rights as eitizens—
Resolved, That the amended constitu¬ tion ought to contain some provision whereby accused peracns and tliffie detain¬ ed as witnesses may be protectee from the fienal confinement infiicted upcr convicted criminah.
By Mr. Runk, requiring thit in the nomination of candidates for til elective offices (by delegates or otherwBo) all le¬ gal voters of a district shall be nquired to participate, under penalty of behg depri¬ ved of their votes at the eleotion o fill such ofiices.
By JIr. Hunsieker, providinr for bien¬ nial sessions of the Legislaturo.
By Mr. Temple, to give thi appoint¬ ment of prothonotaries and elerkl of courts to thc courts respectively of\iichthey shall bo officers.
By Mr. Funck, requiring all hnks, sav¬ ings institutions, and other moiByed cor¬ porations, or conerpart-ships for iorrowing monoy aud discounting notes, to make (juarterly returns tinder oath ofthe money so borrowed or deposited at ijterest, so the .same shall bo subject to tatation.
Also, to prohibit all bants of Issue from paying interest on deptsits, or ma¬ king it a part oftheir general business to borrow money and loan out tlit same at in¬ terest.
By Mr. Broomall, emporering the judges ofthe Court of Comuon Pleas, andother courts of liko jutsdiction, to decide upon the facts as well ft the law in all cases in whieh neither paty shall de¬ sire a jury trial.
By Mr. DeFranco, that theirialby jury in all cases iu which it lia.'i haretofore been used shall remain inviolte forever, except that in suits in justicescourts pro¬ vision may be made by law fr trial by a jury of less than twelve men ;but a jury trial may be waived by the jirties in all civil cases.
Also, prohibiting   the   pasige of laws
constitution authorizing tho women ofthis Stste to exercise the elective franchise, when they shall ask that right hy a major¬ ity of thc votes gieen hy citizens females over the age of twenty-one years, at an election called for this purpose, at which the women alono shall have tho right to vote.
By Mr. J. P. Wetherili. that the Gov¬ ernor shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, whieh shall be neither increased or diminished duriug a period beginning on tho d.iy ofhis election by the people, and exteudiug through the period for which he has been elected.
By Mr. Boyd, that the Secrotary of the Commonwealth and tho Attorney General of the State shali be elected by the people at large.
Also, that the following new offices be created: One Lieutenant Governor, to bo elected by the people at large; one Com¬ missioner of Insuranco and one Inspettor General of Iron, to bo appointed by the Governor.
By Mr. Edwards, that it shall be the duty of the Legislature to establish by law a full and complete system of detailed sta¬ tistics ofall kinds of manufactures, com¬ merce, and agriculture, and also the min¬ eral resources ofthis Commonwealth, to in- clttde the quantity and quality ofeach, and wliere located.
By Mr. MaeConnell, that in elections by the citizens every free person ofthe age ot'twenty-one years, being a citizen of the Uiited States, having residedin good faith aiii continuously in this Commonwealth one fall year, and in the election district wiere ho or she ofi'ers to vote two full miaths immediately preceding sach elec- tim, and within two yoars paid a State or caunty tax, which shall have been assessed atleast ten days before the election, shall eqoy the right of an elector; provided that a titizen of the United States who hadpre- vioisly been a qualified voter in this State, ani removed therefrom and returned, and whi sh.all have resided in the eiectiou dis- triit and paid taxes as aforesaid, shall be enitled to vote upon residing in the State fors'ix months.
Al'o, providing for a vote by the people of tie State upoa the question of female suffr^e.
BjMr. Broomall, tliat the Declaration of R'iglts be so amended that no person shall be diqualificd to hold any office or place of tnst, or to testify as a witness, or exer¬ cise ;he right of suffrage, on account of his riligioas sentiments.
M:. J. N. Purviance offered thc follow¬ ing nsolution, which was twice road and adoptd:
lieolved, That the State Treasurer be rcquatedto furnish thc convention astate- mentof the amount of interest paid an- nuallonthe State debt, from 1845 to 1872 ineluive, showing specifically the amount due aid paid semi-annually each year.
31. J. P. Wetherili offered a resolution for ai additional standing committee of ninoon Federal Relations.
Tie following additional propositions wen submitted:
Ey Mr. De Prance, calling upon the Siniing Fund Commissioners to lay before the convention a statement showing what part, ifany, oftho sinking fund has been used otherwise than in the extinguish¬ ment of the State debt since the close of the rebellion; and, if so used, for what purpose and to what amount.    Referred.
By Mr. Parsons, that no person shall have tho right to vote or be eligible to oflice, under the constitution of this Com¬ monwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitvition in the Englis'n language, d write Iii;^ name; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any persons prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has tho rigbt to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age or upward at the time this amendment shall take effect.
By M. Alricks: directing an inquiry by the proper committoo into the expediency of a provision that the rolling stock and other movable property of any railroad company or other corporation in this State shall be considered personal property, and as sueh liable to levy and sale ou exeeution in the same manner as the personal prop¬ erty of natural persons.
Also, that the exercises of tho right of eminent domain shall never be abridged so as to prevent the Legislature from re¬ voking franchises or taking the property of incorporated companies and subjecting it to the pablic ueeessitios in the .same manner aud extent as the property of in¬ dividuals may be taken or subject.
Also, that all franchises which have been or may be granted to any corporation shall be limited to the special object for which tho chiurter has been or may be ostensibly obtained, and that no corpora¬ tion shall have or be giveu greater fracchi.ses than such as aro given to corporations of the same specific class of denomination.
Mr. Wetherili, ofPhiladelphia, that the salary of thc Governor shall not be in¬ creased or diminished froru thc time of his electihn to the end of his term.
By Mr. Campbell, recommending a new seetion ibr incorporation in the constitu¬ tion, as follows:
"The General Assembly sball provide by law that in all elections for directors or managers of incorporatctl companies every sto^holdcr shall have thc right to vote, in person or by proxy, for thc number of shares of stock owned by him, for asmany persons :is there are directors or mana¬ gers to bo elected, or to cumulate said shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors, multi¬ plied by the number ofhis shares of stock, shall equal, or to distribute them on the sauie principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit. and such directors ov managers shall not be elected in any other manner."
By Mr. Worr.tll, requiring the reading in fnll, before   passage,  ofall bills passed
to be by yeas and nays, and the names of all members voting to be recorded.
By Mr. Carter, abolishing capital pun¬ ishment and establishing imprisonment for life, with entire withdrawal of the pardon¬ ing power, unless in cases where innocence may be judicially proven.
By Mr. Barclay, providing a form of oath for municipal officers.
By Mr. Carson, that all judges shall be learned in law, and be members of the bar.
By Mr. S. H. Reynolds, that all real es¬ tate within the Commonwealth shall, for the purpose of taxation, be assessed at its full market value.
Mr. Heverin offered a proposition pro¬ viding that the formation or expression of an opinion shall not disqualify any citizen from acting as a juror.
Also, that the Committee on the Bill of Rights be instructed to inquire into the expediency of a provision that all persous ahall be competent witnesses in any case and under all circumstances.
Mr. Edwards submitted a proposition looking to a compilation of agricultural, manufacturing, commercial and mineral statistics of the State.
By Mr. Brodhead,   lookigg to a limita- ¦ tion of the   sale  of spirituous   and other ' liquors, by the granting of not more than \ one license for every five  hundred of pop ulation.
Use and Waste of Time.
A life organized with order and purpose has always time for most things; one left to chance, which means chaos, is not able to pick up ten consecutive minutes out of the heap of waste and irregularity to which is reduced the pleasant harmony of the hours. No excuse is no pitiful a.s this want of time wherein to do your duties, to ful¬ fill your engagements, to get through yoar appointed tasks. If it ii a real excuse you are simply over-weighed, and yonr first busi¬ ness ought to be cut off from those of yeur burdens you can spare best and which you fulfill worst; but if it is only an apparent excuse, and not a reality, the fault lies, not in your having too mach to do, bat in bad arrangements—not in the want but the waste of time. Then tho groat thing to do is to re-arrange your work and your time, and to make them fit in more har¬ moniously together. There are seme peo¬ ple who havo the faculty of making use of every moment. Somc learned divine, whose name at this moment we forget, is said to have written a book during the odd five minutes when his wife was putting on her bonnet; and many women do all their little bits of fancy work and the like in the idle moments of the day, when neither work or play comes into the organization. All great men and successful workers have been careful of those odd corners of the hours, these unconsidered five minutes, which otherwise waste as of no value to any one. On the other hand, most un¬ successful peoplo have had hazy ideas cf i the value of time and of its length—have
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That a Board of   Managers  of Prisons, j been prodigal of their hours, and given to
to consist of five persons, be appointed by the Governor, to hold ofllice teu years, and to be classified so that the term of ono per¬ son shall expire at the ead of eaeh two years during the fir.st ten years; sueh board to have charge of State prisons, and of other reformatory institutions as the Legislature may direct; the managers to receive no salary except traveling expen¬ ses, the Legislature to limit such expenses, such limit not to be changed more than once in five years; the board to have pow¬ er to appoint the warden, clerk, physician and chaplain ofeach State prison with pow¬ er to remove such officers for cause ; all other ofiicers of prisons to be appointed by the warden, with power of removal, and the Governor to have power to remove any of the managers for cause.
That the Legislature shall not lave power to annual the contract of marriage in any case.
That the accused in all criminal ciises, where the ofi'ense charged is of no less grade thah a felony, shall be tried .by a jury without an indictment or pr«sentn::ent hy a grand jury, but in all other cases the law sliall remain as heretofore.
That no tierson shall hold any officij of trust or profit in the State of Pennsylva¬ nia who shall be an habitual professional gambler, and the Legislature shall provide by law fbr the mode of determining by in¬ quisition at the relation of 'any citizen, whether any person holding an office is or is not such habitaal gambler.
That no railroad shall consolidate with anotherowninga parallel or competing line, and in no ca.se shall consolidat ion be mado without public notice being given of at least sixty days to all stockhollders; also no railroads shall issue stock except for money, labor or property actually received,and all fictitious increase of stock slhall be void; also that no'capital stock shaUt be increased except on sixty days notice.
That the qualified voters cti each county shall elect one representative to the Legis¬ lature and one additionalmewber for every thirty-five thousand ol'inhabitants, and in couuties entitled to threo or more members there shall be voting by the cumulative system.
That married women uhall havo the same power over their property as though they were not married, an-d no woman on acoount of sex shall be deprived of her right to enter into any lawful employment. That the city of Philadelphia shall here¬ after be the capital of the State.
That the apportionment for Senators and Representatives shall be made every tcn years, according to the latest census. That all females over the ay j of twenty- one years, who have paid taxes, shall have the right to vote for and be eligible as school directors.
That judges ofthe Supreme Courtshall have the power to appoint a reporter of their proceedings.
That no corporation shall limit or impair by contract its responsibilities aX common law.
That no trade associatiou shall limit the number of apprentices in any trade, art or mystery.
That the State be Jivided into three equal districts for the election of judges ofthe Supreme Court, and that the Court consist of nine member).-, three from each district, elected by the people.
The amount of indebtedness to be in¬ curred by cities, coanties and boroughs shall be limited; also that no person who shall have charge of p ublio moneys shall be re-elected to the sarue office or shall be eligible to any office iritil tho accounts of his first ofiice shall have been settled: also providing for the filling of vacancies in the ofiice of State Treasurer.
Prohibiting thc Legislatnre from lim¬ iting the amonnt of damages to be obtained from railroads iu indemnity for damages. That tho style of corporate name shall be the State of Pennsylvania instead of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
That no person shall be allowed to vote who has committed perjury, bribery or been couv icted of fraud at elections as an election ofiicer.
That cities of more than 100,000 in¬ habitants; shall be divided into districts, aldermen and justices of the peace abol¬ ished, and judges appointed for oach dis¬ trict, who shall have power to try cases by a jury of six, and shall be salaried.
That the State Treasurer shall make (juarterly reports of the state of the Treas¬ ury.
That tha seat of goTernment shall re¬ main at Harrisburg.
Making the office of Attorney General and Seeretary of the Commonwealth elec¬ tive.
Giving the right of appeal from an as¬ sessment of value for property taken for puhlic use.
That no railroad shall be laid iu any city or town without the consent of the loiSil authorities.
Mr. J. P. Wetherili presented a memor¬ ial from the Pennsylvania Peace Society, asking for the abolition of capital panish- ment, and for the striking out of the sec¬ tions oftbe Constitution relating to military duty of citizens, and inserting that no citizen with conscientious scruples against war bMK; V? ""^P^"^'^ *" bear arnH, or p.'^y ariy' tax fori'tho support of militia. The various mstters in the memorial re¬ lating to amendSwnts were referred to appropriate committees.
lose their five minutes everywhere, with the air of moneyed men who spend a few ¦shillings while having thousands at their baeks; then they wouder why it is they get ¦ nothing dono, and fall foul for the want of time, when they shonld blame their own want of method.— The Queen.
Tit-Bits Taicen on the Fiy.
Stump is the name of a wooden-leg ma¬ ker in London.
Jour new narrow-gauge railroads are projected in Utah.
.A large company hasjust been formed in iSan Francisco to cultivate and manu¬ facture native tobacco.
T.bey have smart thieves out in Milwau¬ kee. One of them adroitly despoiled a lady's! cloak of S150 worth of lace while she was in church recently.
Several young shad have been taken in thc Sa.cramento river, and are considered products ofthe spawn taken to California by Setli Green in July, 1871.
Much fault is found with the manner in which business is transacted by the Chica¬ go Custom House ofiieials, whose tardiness often results in great inconvenience and loss to merchants.
By statiscal calculation there are 1,554,- 931 illiterate male adults in the United States, and more than three times that number who think they know something bnt make n mistake.
In the bottom of the Solomon river, in Kansas, near its confluence with the Smoky, havo boen discovered springs of coal oil boiling tip, aud there is great ex¬ citement in that section.
Thc Comptroller of New York city paid out during the four months ending Octo¬ ber 28, 1872,8522,494 as counsel fees, etc.. in the suits against the Tammany thieves, none of whom were convicted.
The commission whieh was appointed some timo back to investigate the desira¬ bleness of the introduction of a gold cur- Tcncy into Holland has reported that it is expedient that a gold currency should be introduced.
The Ohio miners, in the Tuscarawas and Mahoning valleys, are moving to se¬ cure, "by wholesome and just laws, the proper protection of life, health, and limb, in the coal mines." They complain of the pfosant law as inefficient.
The St. I.ouis Bolt and Iron Company commenced operations last week. Their manufactory, which is a very extensive one, is located in East St. Louis. They make car and bridge bolts, spikes, rivets, lag-screws, fish-bars and bolts, and bar iron.
Certain Icelandic chronicles lately trans¬ lated by the Royal Antiquarian Society of Copenhagen, distictly deseribe the discov¬ ery of Massachusetts, under the title of Vinland, in thc year 1002, nearly five centuries before the rest of America was heard of.
Tho coinage at the San Francisco Branch Mint for the year 1872 amounted to $10,000,000 in gold aud 8380,000 in silver. A lot of 89,000 in silver dollars was coined for thc first tima in manyyears, as an experiment for introduction into China.
A December as pleasant as May has just been enjoyed in England. Acres of primroses and snowdrops were in blossom, and the banks were covered with violets, the furze was in full bloom, and a nest of young thrushes was taken out of a holly tree the week before Christmas.
Alluding to the invention of a Virginian of a substitute for the "mad stone," whieh cures hydrophobia and lockjtiw, a Rich¬ mond paper calls on some one to invent a cure forlimber jaws, forthe benefit of mem¬ bers of the Legislature. The latter dis¬ ease, it says, coats the State a great deal of money.
A French savan has been making ex¬ periments to supersede borax, which is generally employed in soldering, and the result is thathe finds that an excellent flux for solwring iron, and brazing cop¬ per and aluminium bronze, is obtained by a mixture of equal parts of cryolit and chloride of barium.
. There are several Chinese doctors in San Frtiuflisoo, who drive a thriving practice with tho mora gullible of our own coun¬ trymen. All sorts of abominations a-re used by theTi for medicines. Oil made from baked cockroaches is given as a spacific for consumption, while the hair from rat tails, burned and pulverized and mixed with syrup, occupies a plaee in their materia medica as a sure cure fbr rheuma¬ tism.
A gentleman in Richmond attended a theatrical performance on Saturday after¬ noon, and when getting out with the crowd at the close, discovered that he had lost a valuable watch and chain. The natural conclusion was that the property nad been taken by a pickpocket. It ap¬ pears, however, that in tha crush to get out of tbe theatre, the chain of the watch became entangled in the fringe of a lady's sacque, and thus both watch and chain were drawn from the owner, and hang to the lady's garment without her knowledge. The time piece was promptly restored.
An incident occurred in the hotel of one' of the picturesque marine villages whioh skirt Lake Ponchartrain, on a certain oc¬ casion last summer, that effectually served to dispel thc listless enui too prevalent in such places.
Among the guests there, for the time being, was oae Michael Murphy, an eccen¬ tric, good-natured soul that used to bo par excellence in the land of potatoes but which now may be called potatoeless land. He had boen on a big 'bust' in the city, and went over the lake to dispel the fumes of debauch, and take .salt baths and soda water at the same time.
All this became known to the ventrilo¬ quist who had paid a flying visit to the place, aud who had such command over his voice that he could make it do any¬ thing, from the squeaking of a pig under the gate to the singing of a mocking bird. Believing that Jlich.ael was just about that time in au impressible state—in a re¬ formatory mood—he thought he would, through the medium of his art, endeavor to effect a favorable change in hia morals. With this view, he booked his name for a bed in the same room with Michael, and about twelve o'clock at night—that hour to superstitious minds so fraught with terror—ho pitched his voice outside the door, saying in a trombone tone :
SMieliael Murphy ! Slichael Murphy ! are you sleep ?"
"Who's that?" said Michael, ranch startbd at the sepulchral tone in which tho query was put, and the time of putting it. "Ask me not, but answer," said the ven- trilotjuist, still continuing his ghost-like accent.
"Well, what have you gut to say?" said Michael.
"Much of which I want you to take no¬ tice," said the ventriloquist voice.
"0 clear off," said Michael, "or else I'll give you your tay."
"Better had you continued to take tea than to break the pledge, as you have done," said the voice ontside the door.
"What's all this noise aboat?" said the ventriloquist, speaking from the bed.
"Some dirty blackguard that's outside the door there," said Michael, "interferin' with what's nona ofhis business."
"Why don't you drive him from it ?" said the ventriloquist from the bed.
"I wish he dare," said the voice outside the door.
"Be jabers, I'll let yon ?ee I dare," said Michael, jumping up, seizing his hickory, and harriedly opening the door, ready on sight to knock down the annoyer.
"Give it to him," said the ventriloquist from the bed.
"Be gor, I believe it's the old boy him¬ self was it," said Michael, "for I don't see a sowl here."
"It's very mysterious," said the ventril¬ oquist from the bed.
"I wonder if there's any evil spirits in this oountry," said Michael.
"I don't know," said the ventriloquist, "but they say the ghost of departed Indi¬ ans haunt the piace."
"0, that was no Indian ghost," said Michael, "for it spoke as good English as I do myself."
"And a little better, Michael," said the voice, as if it proceeded f'rom one standing by his side.
"0, the cross o' Christ about us," said Michael.    "What are you, at all at all f"
"No evil spirit, but your guardian ge¬ nius," said the voice.
"A  mortal queer janious you are," said Michael, "that can be heard and not seen." "Get into bed, then," said the voice, "I have something to say to you."
"You won't do anything bad to me," said 3Iichael.
"Nothing," said thc voice. "Honor bright," said Mithael. "Honor bright," said  the  voice,   "you know you have been a hard liver." "That's a fact," s.iid Michael. "You broke the pledge," said the voice. "More than I ever eould keep  a tally of," said Michael.
"Then you'll pledge yourself to me that you'll change your niodo of life," said the voice.
"I'll do anything you ask me," said Michael.
"Then I'm off," said the voice, "but re¬ member, ifyou attempt to break it I'll bo present and punish you through life."
"Who is that with whom you are hold¬ ing conversation ?" said the ventriloquiit, speaking again from the bed.
"Divil a one at all," said Michael, "bar- rin' some mighty polite, invisible gentle¬ man, that saeuis to tuke a great interest in my welfare."
"O, you are dreaming," said the ven¬ triloquist from the bed.
"Faix, it's like a dream, sure enough," Michael said.
The next morning a friend asked Mi¬ chael to take his bitters. He consented, but just as he took the glass in his hand, the voice of the ventriloquist, who was present, woa heard abovo his head, in the air, crying out: ''Touch it not, Michael Murphy—remember your promise." It was enough, Michael would not taste.
"The pleasure of the wine with you, Mr. Murphy," said a gentleman at the table.
"With pleasure, sir," aaid Michael, but just at that moment a voice was heard to issue from the corner of the room—it waa that of the ventriloquist, who sat by his side—uttering his admoniticn.
Thus the thing went on for a week, till Michael was then and forever made a tee¬ totaler. He now industriously minds his business, enjoys good health, and pros¬ pers. In relation to the circumstances under which he became a teetotaler he s.ays he never had the pleasure of seeing his best friend.
Couldn't Drinl( Wine.
That was a noble youth who, on being urged to take wine at the table of a famous statesman in AV^aahington, had the mora! courage to refuse. He was a poor young man, just beginning the struggle of life. He brought letters to the great statesman, who kindly infited him home to dinner.
"Not take aglass of wine?" echoed the statesman's beautiful and fascinating wife, as she arose, glass in hand, and with a grace that would have charmed an anchor¬ ite, endeavored to preas it upon him.
"No," said the heroic youth.
What a picture of moral gran^r! A poor, friendless youth refusing %ine even though proffered by the fair hinds of a beautiful lady.
"No," said the noble young man, and his voice trembled and his cheek flushed, "I never drink wine, but (here he straight¬ ened himself up and his words grew firm¬ er) if you've got a little geod old rye whis¬ ky, I don't mind trying a snifter !"