Punxsutawney Spirit, 1887-12-07

              imsmmMMm mm rlv - ' * '"V " ■ Vfe-v .»' ***;.•* .'« WILL INFORM YOU OF Little Heart Glad I "•* ' ' t <PAi *4h:*'y V;K 1 w tfiiiaiuMfiiy * nwtFiniirR 7* - tfuif ,;W iSa/JNJu9llAlf UiSvlfi M .if IB ft • »■ i>oo l « RUMiAM Christmas is Coming niumpivttf wwmmm* s - ■ Ugg  dE££EnasnB TirrasLOW * calmkwood, 4TTOiXXT£AT-LAW, hnniMtnT, Ta. And many Fathers, Mothers, Brothers and Sisters are wondering what to buy for Q K. BBXITXB, JTTQMNMTrUT-LAW, fumwifwr, Pa. Mb m mxpm KMt, two 4mm aorth of Nu*Mt> farainm a«ora. At«. J. TBUITT, A TTOE2fMY-AT-LA W, ftiuwimr, PA. Oppoalte Shut Building. Praettoe ia the OMM 01 Adjacent oouatlee. Offle# with Judge Jenki. Legal ally attended to. JJJDWARD A. CARMALT, ATTOSNEY-AT-LA W, BMtmui, PA CttPISTMAS PRESENTS ! BMocrau, Pa. OlBee to Mateon Block, opposite the pnklle eoildtoge. .JXNKS * CLARK, JLTTOrfNEYS-AT-LA W, NORTH & MORRIS Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, kmraumuj. PA. gt C. CAMPBELL, aTTOBNXYS-AT-LA W, BBOWmU, 'A. Ofiee to Mauon'i oflce, Katun building, opjoalU the Court Hooae. And Jnatice of the Peace, Fuintawmf, Pa. OIh la Mundorff building, nearly oppoalte Irnur building. Collection* made, depoelttona taken, and all ktoda of legal buaineaa attended to. JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, Many Handsome asd Dsefol Presents Which you can get so cheap that it will be within the reach of all to make some Or some aged father smile with joy by presenting him with a beautiful suit, or overcoat. If you have a little brother or nephew don't spend money buying toys, but get him one of tnose •HAKMITt ANTIDOTE* Bcssm years i|« Dr. J. B. learned eaJeettkt of Bruit, CMk4aeto4 • number of asperimeate with the purpose «t dieooveriag m antidote for ths poison o( m«mw Mwati. H«>t UitlrMu a chamlcal antidote |«rmui*Mli «* P°- tassiam injected Into *k« Mto, and ad with wonderful •uoeaea. The remit of his experiments ha jmUliM ,B book tern. and at the ttma Me brochure attracted ooMlderabla attention among scientists. Soma discredit vu, however, thrown upon hit experiment! by an attempt to repeat them in Franoe, which *u an abaolota failure. Believing that there wai a good deal of troth in what Dr. De Lacerda claims, Dr. Tarrow, o( the Smithsonian Institute, hat, according to • Washington correspondent, undertaken a series . of experiments with the poison of rattlesnake*, intending to use the permanganate of potassium as an antidote. Various herbal preparations having the reputation among oountry folk of being remarkably efficacious in cases of snake-bite, will also be tried, and a fine specimen of "mad-stone," popularly supposed to be poesessed of great virtu* in such cases, has been procured, and will be tested, in order to set at rest ones and forever the conflicting opinions on this much-debated subject. Dr. Yarrow has procured four fine specimens of rattlesnakes from Loudon County, Virginia, and during the past week he has been collecting from them a quantity of their ▼enom. The manner of doing this was aa follows: Taking a long stick, to the end of which was scurely- fastened a broad leather strap, he confined the latter loosely about a couple of inches from the end of the stick so as to make a loop below which could be drawn tight Armed with this instument ha caught the reptiles one by one, by passing the loop over their heads. An assistant then held a thin stick, to the end of whioh was attached a piece of cotton wool saturated with glycerine, to the mouth of the snake and be was made to bite the wool, which soaked up the venom emitted freely by the angry creature as it buried its fangs in its inanimate enemy. The poisonous virus having thus been extracted from the serpents It was soaked out in an ounce of glycerine, and the operation repeated on the following day. A drachm And a half of venom has thus been secured, or more than enough to kill thirty men. The experiments will be conducted on pigeons and rabbits. A certain quantity of virus, sufficient to kill, will be hypodermlcally injected into a pigeon as the first experiment. Then a little more than was enough to kill will be injected into another pigeon and immediately followed by an injection of the permanganate of potassium, which it is believed will prove an antidote. The experiments will then be continued, allowtag varying spaces of time to elapse between .the injection of the virus and the application of the antidote. In this connection, Dr. Tarrow is anxious to find a man who would like to be bitten by a rattlesnake in the cause of science, and who would be willing to take his chances of surviving the experiment. Should an antidote for snake-bite be found by Dr. Yar* row in the course of these experiments, ho will confer an incalculable benefit upon mankind. Beautiful Norfolk Suits A FAMOUS AMAZON. I expected to And the Russians a fiercelooking people. They we tho very opposite. Fierceness must be accompanied by • degree of mental substanco. TUc average Russian one meets in the street* or ia the country is of medium size, Us is of light yellow tan oolor, from exposure to weather and existence upon coarss food. Generally he wears a (ull b iari, and (our times out of five it is liglit in color and ▼ery filthy. His hair is about tw:> inches thick, is cut as If the work was done with a meat axe or a circular saw, mid beside* being combed down in front ia slightly parted in the middle, as though be weM not sure whether he is a male or feaiala. He invariably wears high-topped boots, and his trousers are tucked into the boottops. The boot-tops have a series of finely artistic wrinkles midway, and we generally well oiled. This is the only tasteful indication In the drest. The coat of a peasant is a cross between a robe, a frock and a blouse. Ik comes almost to the knees, is single* breasted, and has a wide belt. If llie subject is a driver he wews a robe and belt, and the garment is of blue cloth and comes to the ground. Tho hcadwear is a broad cap with alow crown. The Russian Is as filthy as he is ignorant and uasightly. Only tbroe or four ot the principal hotels have any proparation* for bathing, and these are extremely meager. The Russian bath in Russia Is a myth. I paid three roubles for a place to take a very ordinary bath in the principal hotel to-day. Not one place in five has a bath, and as the waters of the Nova are too cold for swimming baths, (bo people, as a mass, shed tbsir filth like fish scales. And since dried fish, oil and cured vegetables form the staple diet for a majority of the people, and the Neva, which furnishes the water sepply, can be detected miles distant by the nostrils, it is only the cold atmosphere that prevents long mortuary lists. Robbery is very common in all Russia- Looking out on a street here one sees hundreds and hundreds of men, women and children walking or driving with bared heads and making crosses nt every shrine. The drivers are continually at it. Only tbe wicked gendarme deigns to pass without notice. The steps leading to the hundreds of churches aro covered with people of all grades on their knoes making crosses and bumping their foreheads on the stones or pavements. The candles at the shrines are kept burning continually, at the expense of the empire, and almost every other store or shop has a larie display of glittering brass and paint in tha form of shrines. And yet there is mora crime bare and more ignorance than ia any other civilized country. btMwhw >>—*»* »ini<i «l drosky (carriac*) Mm vrtlM • •*« ■pondant of the New York Sun, Mil I Mi told that not oil* In tvwljr can read Mm •Ipi alone th* streete, and not tw* Is Bn hundred cm ra#d m book «r Miratap«r. And yet th*** bn ktn IumI» te liHti, extraontlnary opportunitl**. What, than, moat b* the conditio* of Ik* people In th* oountry—those who ktn a«4 had contact with th* world? Th* proportion ot these ignorant paopl* to th* intelligent and educated i« about M p*r cant. Of the 100,000,003 population i* Russia about 60,000,000 were Hther amoMg the serfs Creed by Alexander II. a quarter of a century ago or are the offspring of those white slave*. They do not know what a school is, and have learned mora abjact manners than our black folk*. 1 have never encountered so mueli obsequiousness anywhere. Not only do the working people perpetrate upon the visitor *11 aorta of salaams, but merchants and p*opl* in the upper clns«»* liare tlie lafaction, and bow aud biiiiU till a whit* freeman must blush. Wi F» BEYER, PHTBIOIAIT AKD SUMQMOJt, t>DimDVAWII«T. Ta. OSm two dooni ewtof tk» Part Q*oe, KTSSSjjssk! rvailL RAMKT, A TTOBNX T-A T-LA W 1847 Fit! N.'WvWMhingtoil, D. C. f\B. WU. ALTMAli, PBTBICIAX AXD aVBQXOX, ■ PmscTAVKXT, FA. NOBLE JENNY LIND. AN INTERESTING CASE. "In her despair my mother took polaan and died, leaving me In a little hill station, where an officer's wife adopted me, and oared (or me as her own child. I was sent home to England, and, after being educated, concluded to follow my mother's profeasion and become an aotresi." In vivid word language she then depicted her own life. A rich Russian noble deceived her, and when she resented his wrongs he sent her to Siberia on a false charge of being a Nihilist Her escape and the vicissitudes she encountered before she reached America would Oil a volume, but were told with a singularly truthful air. She. came here some months ago, and has eluded observation until now. She keeps perfectly secluded, and evinced a desire to be unknown. 80 far, not a dosen people here know of her residence or hpr history. Certainly truth is stranger than fiction. "I am of English birth. My father, who once bore the honored title of the Earl of Hereward, but who waa then an officer in the guards, wooed and won my mother, at that time a very popular actress, playing at Drury Lane Theater. The marriage, or rather mock marriage, for my father heartlessly deceived my mother, took place in a little country village near London, and a* my father said he feared his father, the old Earl, would disinherit him if he heard of his action, he prevailed on my mother to live in retiremont, promising that as soon as possible he would declare to the world the true state of affairs. I was the ■ole issue of this union, and month after month passed, and the plausible guardsman prevailed on my trustful mother that the time was not ripe yet for a disclosure. It was soon the same old story. "At first no one could have been mora devoted than my father; then, as timS wore on, his visits to our little home became less frequent, and finally ceased altogether. My mother, in deep distress, sought the presence of the old Earl, and then told him the whole story, but he refused to believe her, and drove her from his door. In her anguish she sought her husband's regiment, but found be had exchanged and gone to India. Selling the baubles that he had given her in the halcyon days of their early happiness, ■ha took me with her. and wa sailed for the gorgeous East, but found, alas, too late, that her truant husband had fallen In an affray with tome mountain tribes io the interior. rooo worn novitwm f. . , nV'WPi'.FV*. gsaeae Wtmm the Ufa mm AlWWs *ew XMMISB IB VBovMto* la one mt the sabarbe of Jeoaeonvllle, •ays a latter to the St. Lottie Olobt-Dtmo• erit, saads a little uapreteatioas dwelling, which has tor aa inmate • woman who haa had a most checkered earmm. Raaaors of this woman's experienoaa reached a reporter, and he determined to investigate the truth of them. A short walk brought the writer to the house, and a knock brought the object of his search to the door. 8he was a woman who had passed the prima of life, and her face in her youth must have been beautiful. It was now farrowed with deep lines of care and sorrow. Her once raven black hair, which waa wound carelessly around her head, waa streaked, with silver, and though her hands were small and delicately shaped, the shrunken flesh told too'plainly'a tale of hunger and suffering. There she stood; her eyes, which could at times flash fire as some memory of former wrongs flitted across her mind, turned with a startled expression on the intruder, whose curiosity had led him to her home. But as ha Hotted his hat and greeted the strange woman with a kindly "good mqrning," the flashing orbs tilled with a softer glow, and with the bow of a Duchess she returned the salutation, and invited the newspaper man inside. The visitor managed to explain his errand with difficulty, and even then, by the flash of the black eye, he saw that sue resented the intrusion. Bnt after a short talk the thread of the conversation was gradually led back to herself, and she gave the following sensational account of herself: Or a Seal Cap for $1, or Plush for 66e. Mufflers for old and young, ranging in price from 50c. to $3.00. Oflaa U dwelling- Ott*§ tabMrvtewtotlM mil of Pua$MtMj m4 tto iumuOii lomWj. ; ■ ' r)B. B. 8. HAMILTON, PETUCIAN AXD 8UBGKQX, PnmrrAwnr, Pi ; .i , t- \ ><■> ■ ■ jm 8. O. AMJBOH, PHYSICIAN AND BUXOKON, FwxtcTimr, Pi. Ofltn hl» Mrrtow to the people of Punxwt. tanner aad Tietattj. [n Men's Suits and Overcoats we can give you but a brief idea of the immense stock, or the multitude of styles and* patterns : r)R. BYROBt WINSLOW, fBTaiCTAVAlW 8UBQM0N, " ! , C'LATntiK, PA. Mr. Frederick Criina»j'» reild«See. ' U-My. £)B. CHARLES G. ~ PBT8ICTAX AKD 8UB&XON, • '*AAse#*iimr, PA. Otl» jHjdot- MwabM Snfoi nuoit LD'S SUITS—$1 TJB. 8. J. HUGHES, B USOXOK VXNTIBT, PraaoTAwnT, FA. Offltx ippthgpd of , ; m. w. J- CHAndlee; ' 8XJRQX01T DBNTI8T, •v v 0«B»lm w»n>«r room, Torwioii Block. m *.MOWW9QlfAD.p.». DENTAL BOOMS, . .j,,.,. .. wtmmxnvt* (Km la Johnson Building, over Johnny t nik'ntoM. **•»» Caios I A. ■ -rvB. h. r. Wnxffn, n »«rair , VJSJ\ Ottoe in IImi ArtWeW^ : s. T\ W ■ ■■ ft -i. * ,*■. r j T; i & Hataand, Caps forMen'j Bojra and Children. All the latest styles at Bottom prices. Underwear, Overshirts, Neckwear, Umbrellas and Hosiery cheaper than• ever sold in Pnnx'y: Ministers allowed10 pferet. discount. MEN'S OVERCOATS—$2, 3.50, 5.00, 0.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00, 18.00 and $22. k Aik for any of the above prices and you can get the goods. Our motto is "One price to all." ROYS' AND CHILDREN'S StilTSV-In this line we have no rivals- $3, 466r^^j^b0,.8.00, 9.00, 10.00. 15,4G and $7. — ■ t '_ • ~ . f'S SUITS—13, |4, |6, |6, 6.50, 7.00, 8.50, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 18.00, 20.00 and $25. iti :'.-; :• .>-•:*,.: • ;$ 'X:: -X ■ , V NORTH & MORRIS, Kara Fatm*. Kurd I Ulan'* Female Warrior. People just now in Constantinople are Interested In the presence among tbem of Kara Fatma, the redoubtable female warrior of Kurdistan, who has come on a brief visit to the Turkish capital. Her deeds of prowess, says the Pall SMI Onzttte, date bock to the beginning of the Crimean war.' when she led a large body of Kurdish volunteers, who fought with singular daring for Turkey. The Ottoman Government remembers hor services, and requites these by a monthly pension of five thousand plasters—a sum that in her own frugal home allows her to live with oaae. Bhe is tall, thin, with a brown, hawk-like face; her cheeks are the color of parchment, and seamed with soars. Wearing; the national dress of the sterner sex. she looks like a man of forty, not like • woman who will never again soe seventyfive. Slung across her shoulders in Cossack fashion is her long saber, with its Jeweled hilt; decorations shine and sparkle on her breast, while the stripe* across her sleeve show her iol>e a Onptain In the Ottoman army. Watching t!.id interesting figure pass along tlie stn nts of Stambul, one is reminded of «;i epinode in the campaign of General Lesjiiiiafsa in the Dobrudja some little time before the allied armies landed in tUo C'vimett. While smoking and chatting dim Uay in bis teat with several oi hit, I iotlior officer*, the General heard at a far distance n strongs music, a medley oi drums and clarionets, tomtoms, and plereirg human cries. Whence came this weird minstrelsy? All the men iu camp turned out te listen to it and discern its origin, when from over the hills they saw a band of some three hundred horsemen approaching them at full gallop. At their head rode a brown-faced woman, with flashing eyes and lissome limbs) the very picture of an Amazon. Vaulting boa her saddle she gi avely saluted General Lespinasse, and through an interpret** told hini that she bad oome to fight the Russians, both she bor brave Kurd* being completely at h.ia service. That night her men were quartered in camp *ith tha French troops; but they were illpleated to be so billeted. They wanted their Independence, and not even their mistress and leader should barter It away . tot them. By daybreak they wars to, „ I their saddles, riding off <wro»» ttteAiujIf ; maetthe dawn, to tt.a sounJi ol, weird, stride* • ylMl claimed their eonrfxn*- . . v. V. P. T. Barnura's Chat About the Recently- Deceased C an ta trice. F. T. Barnam has given a New York Tribune reporter some interesting reminiscences of Jenny Lind. Bald the veteran showman: "Jenny Llnd's natural impulses were most noble and good; I naves, met a person so NMinMfale to the want* needs or sufferings bf other*. I could at any time make her tears flow by relating some case of want, and her doHars would flow freely with her tears. Bhe could not bear the thought of 'passing by on the other side,' when she could relieve the sorrow of any being, however humble. lir. Barnum told a touching story of an incident that occurred when Jenny was Boston. "A poor working girl," he said, "thrust three dollars into the hands of the ticket seller at Use Boston Temple for a back seat at Jenny's concert. On receiving the ticket she said: 'There goes my wages for one week, but I must hear that good angel sing.' Jenny's secretary, her cousin Max Hjortzberg, heard the remark and immediately went to the green-room and laughingly told it to Jenny. I shall never forget how she jumped to her feet and exclaimed: 'Oh, this must not be! Poor girl, she shall not lose her money! It is wicked!. Max, take this money'—handing him a twenty-dollar gold piece—'aeaicu oat that dear creature and put It in her hands, with my love. God b|ess her!' Cousin Max found the girl, gave her the money and message, and witnessed a flood of grateful tears from the working girl's eyes. If she is alive to-day she will remember it. "When I was struggling against tha Jerome clock debts, in 1858," Mr. Barnum went on, "I took my wife and children to London. One day Jenny's husband, Otto Goldsmith, called on me and said: 'Mrs. Lind, hearing' of your financial misfortune, desired me to call on you and say If a few hundred pounds, or a thousand, will serve to relieve your present wants, I am to hand it to you with her kindest regards. We are now living in Dresden, and my wife says if you will take your family there she will gladly find you nice apartments at a low rent, and we shall both be glad to render you any service we can.' The kind offer was declined with thanks, b(it it shows the obaritable character qf this altbppt angelic woman. "She has two. children, the elder a son. The daughter has a voice whlqh Bir Julius Benedict told, me he believed if cultivated woul4 prove equal to bar mother's. 'But,' be added, 'her parent* are rloh, and have no amotion to have her attain musical renown, which would Involve such arduous study and practice.' "Bar share, of profits in our musical j campaign In I860 and 1851 was $208,676.09. : She sang in nlpety-thrae concerts. She waa worth otw »|J,009,000 whan she laft f tha United | State* In JMl, and this I am has bcaa Jacrea»ed by occasional oonearta in Great Britain and by tha judicious tn» vaatmenta of her husband."" Important Legal Decision In a Kentucky Land Litigation. A Maysvllia (Ky.) dispatoh says: A case of considerable importance in the principle involved has just been decided in the Mason Circuit Court. Benjamin Clark died in 1816, the owner of a considerable body of land in Mason and Fleming Counties. His daughter Mary bad become the wife of Dr. A. F. McMillen, and in 1817,in the division of the decedent's estite, a tract of 404 acres was allotted to her as her portion. By title bond dated on the 28th of February, 1817, Dr. McMillen sold this land to his brother-in-law, Walter Lacy, who took possession, and he and his heir* and vendees have ever since held possession thereof, now more than seventy years. In 1819 Mrs. Mary McMillin died, leaving one child, a daughter, Mary Hester McMillin, who was a lunatic for many years before her death, which event took place In the lunatic asylum at Lexington in the year 1880. In «881 John L. McMillen, a. son of Dr. A. F. McMillen by a second marriage, and thou a half-brother of Mary Hester McMillen, and Luoretia Evlland, a granddaughter of Dr. McMillen by this same second marriage, brought a suit for the (recovery of thirty-five acres of land lying within the boundaries of the 404 acres, as above mentioned. The defendants were Walter Whltaker and his sister, Mrs. Frances Bnyder, of Boone County, both grandchildren of Walter Lacy, who; had purchased by title bond In 1817. The suit was Instituted by the plaintiffs as helrs-a't-Iaw of Mary Hester McMillen. The first decision was rendered in 1886, in favor of the defendants, under a peremptory Instruction of the court to give them a verdlct. The defense to the claims of plaintiffs was the long-oontinaed possession of the defenants and their ancestors, commencing in 1817 and eontinning until now. A new trial was asked for by plaintiffs and granted by theoourt, and nas just terminated in favor of the plaintiffs. The ground of the decision la that Dr. A. F. McMillen possessed only a life interest in tbv land; that the heirs of hi* wife, Mary Hester McMillen, Could not bring a «nit to recover until hi* death In 1873, and that the statute of limitations opuld not begin to run againrt her Apr those who claimed under her until the rl«ht of action commenced. j b.»M y* V J T* "> "* JVBtlOM OFTMMTMAOM, I •fa.,'.; « A- if & m* --