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Show Is THE Pennsylvania legislature, last wi'tik, whiie the bili saddling three-quarters of the riot losses (t4:CCJ,C00) on the etate, was uoder disciiifion, Mr. He wit, of Blair county, gave point to a speech in f.nvr t'f mail's Allegheny county pav tv: the dam-ige done by her own Lie-; strikers, by reading an edi-tj.-ii! from the Pit'surg Leader of July 1S77, the day of the riot, pympat'.iiiing with th-3 strikt rs, and . dtnoutictd the writer as a commutist who O'.ight t3 be hung. The Bpecch credit a 5.'n'-ioii. as tha senior editor -f the Ltadcr happened to be preset.'- at tho time and standing very! near toe speaker, l'.ttsburg people J are no. very anxious just now to bavei their rpiuioiia of July, 1877, qucted ogaiuit them, though they were very proud of them at the time, I |