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WALTER H. BUCH,
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LITITZ, PA.,
is again in the front as usual with a full and complete line of
goods for the spring and summer season of 1890.
READY-MADE CLOTHING.
All kinds of Ready-made Clothing for
Men, Boys, and Youths, in fine and com-mon
grades, made up in the best manner
possible. . •
PIECE GOODS.
I have a beautiful and fashionable line of
Piece Goods, for summer wear, which I
make to order at short notice and guarantee
a fit. Having long experience in the Cloth-ing
business, I have learned how to cut
garments to suit customers, and also what
kind of material will give satisfaction.
FURNISHING GOODS.
There is nothing in Furnishing Goods
that I cannot supply you. My specialties
are the All-wool and Flannel Shirts, which
will be worn to a greater extent this sum-mer
than ever. White Shirts at all prices.
Neckwear, Suspenders, Gloves, &c., in all
the leading styles.
OUR FOREIGN POPULATION.
A STUDY O*' DANGER") THREAT-ENING
OUR COUNTRY.
HATS AND CAPS.
If you want a fashionable Hat as cheap
as you can buy it anywhere call and see
what I have betore going elsewhere. I
have such a complete variety that l am
sure I can suit you.
W . H . B U C H,
"Record" Building. Broad Street, Lititz, Pa.
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factories in Philadelphia, and
we make most of our own
Shoes. We can sell you a
Shoe at least 10 per cent,
cheaper than any other dealer,
and know just exactly WHAT
we are selling you.
We will give you a new
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don't wear well, no more, no
less.
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The naturalization laws of the Uni-ted
States are embodied in sections
2165-74 of the Revised Statutes.
Upon complying with t' e conditions
therein set forth, which include five
years residence in this country, an
alien may become a citizen.
Independent of this, however, any
and every State may prescribe the
period of time required for living
within its o.wn limits, when an alien
or a citizen may exercise the elective
franchise.
In nearly one-half the States a for-eigner
may vote after living therein
one year, if immediately after enter-ing
the State, declares his intention to
become a citizen.
In six States the stipulated time is
six months, but Minnesota is satisfied
with only four months.
The provisions for residence in the
State extend equally to the native
born and the men of foreign birth.
Thus, it appears an alien may be-come
a voter in 20 States long before
he has become a citizen of the United
States, although he cannot exercise the
right of suffrage in any State unless
specially qualified bv State law.
According to the census of 1880,
there were 6,650,000 persons of foreign
birth in this country. Since thai time
and prior to 1890, over 5,200,000
more had arrived.
These figures do not include im-migrants
from Canada and Mexico,
the number of whom may be estimated
at three-quarters of a million.
Adding to all these the large influx
of the present year.and making reason-able
allowance for deaths, and for
those who haye gone back, the result
will show that there is not less than
10,000,000 of people born outside of
our limits now resident in the United
States.
The natural growth of these people,
and of others who preceded them, and
who are now alive, cannot be less than
15,000,000 more, making in all 25,.000-
000 of our population of foreign birth
and foreign parentage.
OUR EIGHT TO PROTECTION.
No fair-minded man will question
the right of any nation to make such
rules and laws as will best promote its
interests and secure its perpetuity, and
while we welcome to our shores and
hospitality the people of every clime,
(Chinese excepted) it is a duty,we owe
to ourselves and our children to pre-scribe
such conditions for their admis-sion
as in our judgment may be
essential for our welfare.
This being our right, and the alien
having no rights here other than those
vouchsafed by law, he can have no
just cause for complaint, should the
people in their wisdom require from
him additional pre-requisites before
clothing him with citizenship endow
ing him with the elective franchise.
Within the past ten years the tide
of immigration has swollen to immense
proportions, while the class of immi-grants
has been of a most inferior
character ; and when we consider that
the majority of these people will, in a
few years at most, become voters, it
behooves us to carefully ponder over
the weighty consequences.
There has been a period in our
national existence when immigration
was necessary for the development of
our natural resources, but that time
has passed, and the qualifications or
recommendations which the alien has
to offer should be closely examined
prior to admitting him to the privi-leges
of citizenship.
Under existing laws the period of
probation is so short that many of our
leading citizens and statesmen have
contemplated its extension, and have
proposed to impose further tests.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP.
It would not be unreasonable to
insist that no alien should be admitted
to citizenship.
First. Who cannot read, writ0 and
speak our language understanclingly,
or
Second. "\^ho is a pauper, criminal
or anarchist, or
Third. Who is ignorant of the funda-mental
principals on which this
Republicis founded, or
Fourth. Who will not swear to
mantain the laws and goyernment of
his adopted country against the claims
of all other powers, whether temporal
or ecclesiastical, or
Fifth. Who has not' resided in the
United States fourteen years.
Ignorance is the mother of intoler-ance,
superstition and crime, and to
insure the perpetuity of our govern-ment,
every voter should be able to
read, write and understand our lan-guage
to enable him to cast his ballot
intelligently.
The great mass of immigrants speak
a strange tongue, and generally cannot
comply with this demand in less than
fourteen years.
The fiat has gone forth from a
mighty ecclesiastical power," that the
laws of man, when they conflict with
the laws of God, (meaning those of
Rome) must be opposed and disobeyed.
This injunction, if complied with,
would make the State subservient to
the church, and no government could
exist for any great length of time—
except upon the sufferance of the Pope
—if the demands embodied in the late
Papal Encyclical were accepted and
obeyed.
CITIZENSHIP AND HONOB.
Rionzi in his memorable address to
the people of modern Rome, when he
referred to their ancestors, said, " In
that dav to be a Roman was greater
than a king;" and we may truly say,
it is no mean thing, nor is it devoid
of honor to be an American citizen—
for to be an American is to be the
peer of an monarch.
The liberties we enjoy were trans-mitted
to our keeping by patriots, and
were wrested from the hands of a
tyrant by the expenditure of blood
and treasure.
They have been held intact through
a war of gigantic proportions, and of
great sacrifices, and must be trans-ferred
to posterity untarnished, unim-paired.
After the transformed alien has
resided here five years, let him enjoy
all the privileges of citizenship, save
the elective franchise, but if his
ambition to serve his adopted country
in official capacity or by shaping its
political policy will not brook re-straint,
then insist upon a longer pro-bationary
period for voting and hold-ing
office, although Americans are
competent to rule their own land, and
make their own laws, without the aid
of the f,reign-born.
The extension of the period required
for naturalization is a subject of great
moment and deserves calm and care-ful
thought. Let us then look at it
without prejudice, having in view only
our country's best interests.
" LOOK ON THIS PICTURE."
A very large proportion of the
present immigration are of the lowest
order of the human race, and do not
assimilate with us. Their language,
manners, customs, habits, and preju-dices
are totally unlike our own.
Their existence has been passed in
serfdom; with them liberty means
license ; they come here for pecuniary
gain and not for mental or moral
development; theirs is an animal ex-istence
with scarcely a human feature
in it, and they plod along in wretched-ness,
eking out a miserable existence
in vice and misery until removed by
disease or the stilletto.
Dwarfed in stature, filthy in their
habits, ignorant and unable to speak
or understand our language, they are
most undersirable additions to our
population.
No one who has seen them on the
immigrant ships,or as they have passed
through the Barge office and Castle
Garden, in New York, will say that
the picture here presented is too
highly colored, or that the statements
just made are exaggerated.
Follow these people to the places
they inhabit and which they call
homes, and a still worse spectacle
presents itself.
There live the match-peddler and
the shoeblack ; the peanut merchant,
the monkey—his master—the organ
grinder, the slaye dealing padrone, all
are there in their glory. Stale beer,
juiceless cuds of tobacco and cigarette
butts are articles of commerce; hor
rible music harmonizes with the cry of
the vender of decayed vegetables and
ancient poultry, and the drunken
midnight brawl amuses the occupants
of the overcrowded dens and
pestilential tenements.
A stranger entering one of these
localities would imagine himself, in
some foreign clime. Not a word of
English is spoken, and there is noth-ing
in the surrounding to indicate
that this is an integral part of the
United States.
And yet this is the class of people
now entering the port of New York, at
the rate'of 10,000 and more every
week.
In time many of them will become
citizens, and their votes are as valu-able
as those of better men. They
elect our law-makers and make our
laws. Can such beings ever become
good and useful citizens ?
BIDDING FOR FOREIGN VOTES.
Perhaps General Scott, when a can
didate ror President of the United
States, was the first prominent public
man who catered for the foreign vote
by expressing his love for " the rich
Irish brogue and mellifluous German
accent," but could he have lorseen the
fearful consequences that have ensued
the words he uttered would never
haye passed his lips. Others, however,
have followed in the ¡same track, with
the result that thé servant has become
the master.
The German element has always
been regarded as the most desirable of
any in our mixed population, but
recent events have demonstrated the
prejudices of these people, by showing
that they do not harmonize with our
educational system.
They joined hands with the foes of
our free schools, and are attacking in-stitutions
that every true American
will defend.
If these people were not voters their
noise and threats would be harmless,
but with the ballot in their hands, and
through renegade Americans and
othérs, it is possible they may be able
to over turn the educational laws of
several States.
FOUND EVERYWHERE.
The ignorant and bigoted French
Canadians who made up three-quarters
of a million of New England's in-habitants
present another cause ol
alarm. They, like the German Lu-therans
and German Catholics in the
west, teach only their native tongue in
their parochial schools, and the Eng-lish
learned by either of these races
and their children is picked up out-side
of their homes and school houses.
In the populous Middle States the
sons of Erin cry, " We arc the people,"
and " there is none to molest or make
them afraid." Laws are made to suit
their church ; they hold three-fourths
oi all the official positions in our large
cities ; they and their church have be-come
a political power, and but few
have the courage to oppose them.
Both parties are permeated with
foreign influence, and while one
organization seems "to enjoy it in
superabundance, the other is using its
most seductive powers to secure the
foreign vote.
' The mills of the gods grind
slowly" is an old legend, but the
naturalization mills of New York
grind out the foreign chaff with
lightning speed.
THE STORM GATHERING.
The case with which an alien may
become a political factor has been
taken advantage of by shrewd men of
foreign birth and foreign faith, and
the privileges granted by a too gener-ous
people haye been abused, and now
we find ourselves at the mercy of these
people, who are aided in their schemes
by ambitious men, who cater for the
foreign vote.
The skiés are dark, the prospect is
gloomy ; it seems as though .the poison
had so thoroughly permeated the
nation that no. antidote can neutralize
it. But if any thing is to be done, it
should begin its work now. The
enemy is thoroughly organized and
equipped, while we are scarcely better
than a mob. Here and there are little
squads of minute men, corporal'
guards, or perhaps a single company ;
but where are the regiments, brigades
and army corps. Where is the Grand
Army of the Republic ?
The call for organization has gone
forth, and volunteers are wanted. If
the American people will only unite
our cause is not hopeless.
New York. ANDREW POWELL.
A Handy Thing.
An enterprising chap iu Connecti-cut
has patented a tonic which he ad
vertises in the spring as " the great
spring tonic." In the summer he calls
it " the great summer tonic," and in
the fall and winter the term is chang
ed to meet the season. A patent med
icine man with a " great tonic" for
only one season of the year can't ex-pect
to do much business.
A B i g Job.
One Nathaniel Paige, a Washing-ton
man, has undertaken, in the inter-est
of the Russian Government, to
prove that all statements made by
George Kennan in reference to Siberia
are false. Mr. Paige has cut out
large slice of work for himself, and
should make arrangements to live for
500 years.
How Husband and Wife Died To-g
e t h e r o n t h e Gallows.
ELKO, Nev.: Elko was in a state of
excitement and people poured into
town to witness the execution of
Josiah Potts and Elizabeth, his wife,
for the murder of Miles Fawcett iu
January, 1888. Sixteen women ap-plied
to the sheriff for permits to wit-ness
the execution, which were
refused. The conduct of Mrs. Potts
for the past five days was an alterna-tion
of hysterical crying, screaming
and swearing at her husband, who
spent his time in his own cell at
solitaire.
Owing to apprehensions of trouble
on the part of Mrs. Potts the officials
kept the hour of execution secret.
She attempted to commit suicide,
gashing her wrists and trying to
smother herself. The vigilance of the
death watch prevented further injury,
but she fainted from the loss of blood.
Both of the Potts retired early in a
nervous condition.
Next morning the sheriff read the
death warrants to the condemned in
the doorway of the latticed cell which
Josiah had occupied for so long a
period. He stood in a most despond-ent
attitude, wtth his head bowed
down against the iron bars, and
never once during the reading did he
lift his head or eyes. His wife stood
erect, clad in a muslin suit, draped in
black, with a red rose in her bodice,
pale, but with a mo3t determined as-pect.
During the reading'of her own
warrant only once did she show any
emotion whatever, and she conclusive-ly
clutched her throat wheu her hus-band's
warrant was being read, and
the words " hanged by the neck till
you be dead" were reached. She
gave a hysterical gasp and seemed to
exhibit much feeling.
At the conclusion of the reading
Mrs. Potts earnestly ejaculated : I
am innocent, and God knows it," and
Josiah Potts reiterated : " God knows
we are innocent." The gloomy pro-cession
made its way through the
door, and with bravery unexpected by
the spectators they seated themselves
on the stools provided on the scaffold,
while deputies speedily proceeded to
bind them with leather straps. Mrs
Potts helped to adjust them herself,
Potts sitting in stolidity.
All of the attendants shook hands
with the condemned. As they stood
after shaking hands, Potts made sever-al
endeayors to clasp the hand of his
wife without accomplishing it. Final
ly a touch on her wrist caused her to
turn her eyes towards his, and the
mute appeal caused their lips to meet
for a brief moment. As the rope was
stretched around Mrs. Potts' neck she
clasped her hands together and, lifting
her eye» toward the sky, exclaimed :
" God help me, I am innocent." Her
husband reiterated, in a hollow tone :
•' God knows we are both innocent."
As the black caps were drawn over
their heads shutting out the last light
of day, the words of the clergymen
who had remained with them to the
last, broke the silence: " Put your
trust in God and He will see you
righted," and then the drop fell.
Mrs. Potts was at once a corpse, ow
ing to her heavy weight.
F i r e s in F l o u r Mills.
The Chief of the St. Louis Fire De-partment,
John Lindsay, tells the
Globe-Democrat when a flouring mill
gets on fire the department is satisfied
to save the adjacent property. There
is nothing outside of a powder-mill or
a paint shop that is as combustible as
a fiour-mill. I have heard a great
deal about the explosive nature of|
flour dust, but I know nothing on the
subject. My own ideas of the reason
why a fiour-mill burns like a bonfire
is that it is built of wood m the first
place, and that every part is connect-ed
by conveyors, flues, elevators, etc.
Start a fire in any one portion of a
mill and within five minutes the whole
structure is in flames. The depart-ment
never did save but one mill, and
that was E. O. Stauard's. In that
case the fire commenced on an upper
floor, and we kept it there. There
has been more money lost in flour-mill
fires in St. Louis within ten years
than from all other forms of large
fires.
Kansas Farmer Offers to Marry
One of the Widows.
Immediately after the great mine
disaster at Ashley, Pa., by which
twemy eight men lost their lives, a
committee of prominent citizens of the
town issued a circular of appeal for
help for the widows and orphans. One
of the circulars fell into the hands of
Mr. Morgan, a Kansas former. Mr.
Morgan wrote to Rev. Hugh Hughes,
of that city, stating that he had a
pretty farm, almost free from debt, and
was a bachelor with good habits, but
did not feel able to help the sufferers
financially.
He, however, felt that it was his
duty to God to help the distressed,
and he offered to marry one of the
widows, providing she had not mere
than three children. He left the
matter of selecting his future wife to
the relief committee. The relief com-mittee
has laid the matter before the
widows. Instead of one there are
eight or nine who want to marry the
farmer. The committee is unable to
decide and will forward the pictures
of the women to Kansas and let
Morgan decide for himself.
Over t h e State.
Rust has formed on the growing
oats in nearly all the Lehigh county
fields.
The past week Bristol has turned up
two human brutes—one beat his son
'and the other his wife.
George Bowers, aged 35, was in-stantly
killed on Saturday by falling
from a hay-mow in Bushkill township,
Northampton county.
Two kinds of stone are taken from
one quarry at Doylestown.
Kutztown has a 15-year-old boy who
is an accomplished church organist.
A cow hitched to a drag was one of
the attractions in Monday's "bovine*
parade" at Pottsville.
An Australian miner injured at
Shenandoah had both legs and an arm
amputated at the hospital.
James Alternóse, of Packerton^ aged
16, Saturday stepped in front of a
Jersey Central passenger train at
Lehighton and was killed.
Nevin Troxell fell from a hay wagon
at Coplay on Friday night, and one of
the wheels passed over his head. His
recovery is doubtful.
The Williamsport Sun has made a
canvass of the county Democrats on
the gubernatorial fight, and found
3g6 for Pattison and 324 for Wallace.
The Norristown board of trade will
endeavor to incude the Lehigh Valley
railroad company to construct its
Philadelphia line by the way of that
town.
While Henry Koons, a wealthy
farmer of Crackensport, Lehigh county,
was on Saturday engaged in mowing
grass in a field, he suddenly fell off
the machine and died in a few minutes
of heart disease.
Dennis Barrett and John Bernhard,
of Allentown, two of the striking
weavers of the Bethlehem silk mill,
have been arrested and held for trial
for making threats against James F.
Hill, one of the firemen of the mill.
At Scranton last week Michael Mc-
Namara was sentenced to the Eastern
Penitentiary for ten years for highway
robbery, and John Temphy, who
pleaded guilty of the murder of
Michael Fizer, was sentenced to ten
years.
John Mauger, of Palo Alto, a brake-man
on the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad, on Saturday sustained dan-gerous
injuries through being struck
on the head by a bridge while leaning
out too far from a car on which he was
standing.
Concerning Home Patronage.
No paper can he p u b l i s h e d without
home patronage, and every one is i n t e r -
ested i n k e e p i n g u p a h o m e p a p e r . If a \
r a i l r o a d or factory is wanted, the news-paper
»! a r e expected to_ w o r k for it. If a |
p u b l i c meeting is w a n t e d for any p u r -
pose, t h e newspaper is called upon for a
f r e e notice. If a n y of t h e societies h a v e a
supper a reception of a n y k i n d , t h e news-paper
is expected to give the necessary
notice. The newspaper m u s t puff every-t
h i n g and everybody to advance the
i n t e r e s t s of the business men of the
place, a n d t h e n give a h a n d s o m e notice
when t h e y pass away. And yet some of |
t h em do nothing to keep up a home
newspaper. •
I t Didn't Care.
A California ranchman was dis-turbed
by the coughing of his cook.
He ordered the cook to cease. The
cook wanted to but couldn't. The
ranchman finally arose and seized the
man and held his head in a barrel of
water to drown the cough. In so do-ing
he drowned the man and has gone
to prison for twenty years.
D r u n k e n n e s s — l i i q u o r Hatrtt—Iu all
t h e W o r l d t h e r e i s b u t o u e Cure, Dr.
Haines' Golden Specific.
I t can be g i v e n i n a c u p of t e a or coffee
w i t h o u t t h e knowledge of the person
t a k i n g it, effecting a speedy a n d perman-ent
cure, whether the patient is a
moderate d r i n k e r or an alcoholic wreck.
Thousands of d r u n k a r d s h a v e been cured
who have t a k e n the Golden Specific in
t h e i r coffee w i t h o u t t h e i r knowledge, and
to-day believ? they quit d r i n k i n g of
t h e i r own free w i l l . No h a r m f u l effect
r e s u l t s f r om its administration. Cures
guaranteed. Send f o r circulars and f u ll
p a r t i c u l a r s . Address in confidence,
Golden Specific Co., 185 R a c e Street, Cin-cinnati,
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L i g h t n i n g Burns a Town.
ST. PAUL, Minn.: Milacs, a village
of 800 inhabitants, in Mille Lacs
county, seventy-two miles north of St.
Paul, is reported a mass of ruins. At
7 o'clock last evening a brief despatch
reached St. Paul stating that lightning
had struck a barn setting the hay on
fire. A strong wind was blowing and
the flames communicated to adjoining
structures, and soon the fire was eating
its way along the street with great
rapidity. Telegrams asking for help
came to St, Paul at 25 minutes of 11
p. in., and at l i two engines and 20
firemen took a special train on the
Great Northern railroad and left for
the scene. The wires have gone down
and it is impossible to get further in-formation
regarding the disaster.
The town is without fire apparatus.
Crime F o l l o w s Crime.
BIRMINGHAM, A l a . , J u n e 22.—Chas.
Cato, white, shot and killed his mis-tress,
Lizzie Mitchell, a negress, and
then blew out his own brains, this
morning. Four hours later William
Tatum shot and wounded Mary
Bamettrhis mistress, and blew out his
brains, in a different locality. Jealousy
caused both crimes.
Have Y o u Met One.
One of the Buffalo Bill party made
an Italian editor believe that there
was a wild animal in America called
the " huggerwug," which crept upon
men at night to eat their livers out
and leave the rest of the body un-touched,
and that editor warns his
readers that if any come to America
they must sleep in a tin corset to pro-tect
their livers.
J u d g i n g Clothing fey t h e P r i c e.
S. J. Tebbetts tells the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat: Nearly every man
judges the quality of clothing—above | ^ a n c e "
a certain grade—by the price, and a
certain tailor in the town, knowing
this fact, takes advantage of his cus-tomers
in this way : He has wide
tables, in which are drawers containing
his samples. These drawers extend
across the tables, and can be pulled
out from either side. When a customer
comes in a line of samples are taken
out and shown him. He will probably
say he wants something "better," and
then the shrewd tailor goes around to
the other side of the table, pulls out
the same drawer and takes out the
same samples; but this time he adds
say 50 per cent, to the price and the
customer, who judges by the price,
finds a piece that suits him, gives his
order and goes his way, little thinking
that he could have obtained a suit of
the same material at much less cost.
Jjabor Sittings.
New York locksmiths and railing-makers
won nine hours from a boss
who said he would rather throw away
$5000 t h a n accede.
O'Donovan Rossa's twenty years
banishment will soon expire. They
talk of giving him a purse to go home
for life.
Birmingham (Ala.) stone-cutters
struck against a cut from $4 and nine
hours to 40 cents an hour.
The Cleveland journeyman barbers
say t h e y will spend $2000 to keep the
shops closed on Sunday.
In Boston, Somerville and Cam -
bridge 3000 building laborers have
struck for nine hourS and $2.25.
At Calumet, Mich., 1000 miners
struck for eight hours and 10 per cent.
Washington (Ohio) shoe workers
struck to aid girls whose wages were
reduced.
San Francisco butchers are organiz-ing
the coast.
Indiana county (Pa.) Knights of
Labor will enter politics.
Denver (Col.) plumbers struck to
help the carpenters.
Pittsburg tube workers got a slight
advance.
At N e w Y o r k 2000 c i g a r m a k e r s are
still out.
The York telephone girls want Sun-day
off.
Butter eight cents a pound at Somer-set.
Arkansas has a state Labor ticket.
Omaha hired girls are organized.
California has Chinese tramps.
Milk five cents a quart at Easton.
—If you need printing, give
RECORD office a c h a n c e to do it.
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And So Was He.
A New Haven, Conn., girl who mar-1
ried a Chinaman lived with him for two
weeks and then applied for a divorce,
alleged that she was greatly disappoint-1
ed in his habits. On the other hand
he says he'll be only to glad to get rid
of her, as she insisted on using a knife z i e m e n t s.
Throughout t h e Country.
The census returns indicate a popu-l
a t i o n of 300,000 f o r C i n c i n n a t i.
E.II. Van Hoesen,formerly cashier of
the Toledo (O). national bank, was on
Saturday convicted of perjury in mak-ing
his official oath to conceal embez-and
fork aastL doing other things
which killed his love stone dead.
E a s i l y Explained.
Fred—" Yes the old gentleman will
soon have another wife to support."
Henry—" What ? You don't mean
to tell me he is going to marry another
wife while your mother is alive ?"
" No, I am going to get married."
William W. Nivison, who stole
$7500 from t h e United States Express
while act as the company's agent at
Youngstown, Ohio, in 1884, was on
Saturday found guilty.
P o s t m a s t e r Arrested
t h e Mail.
f o r Ilobbcry
ST.ELMO HOTEL, NOS. 317 a n d 319
A.rch street, Philadelphia.—-Rates re
duced to $2 per day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel the
same liberal provision for their com-fort.
It is located in the immediate
centre of business, and places of amuse
ment and the different railroad depots
as well as all parts of the city, as,
easily accessible by street cars con-stantly
passing the doors. It oflers
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solicted.
JOSEPH M . FEGER,
oe7-ly Propr.
GRAFTON, W. Va., J u n e 22.—Isaac
Waldo, postmaster at Jacksonville,
Barbour county, was arrested last
night by government detectives for
robbing the mails. No fewer than
thirty separate cases extending over
four months time are attributed "to
Waldo. His methods were such as to
direct, suspicion 011-the carriers, a
number of whom he had shadowed.
Waldo is known to have gotten several
hundred dollars.
OWEN P . BRICKEB, E s q . , a t t o r n ey
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningand can be consulted
n all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.