Punxsutawney Spirit, 1885-11-04

              Wirt la 8lig Star. NO. 22. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4, 1885. right With a Wild B«tr. Better Times Coming. r)B. S. S. HAMILTON, physician and s urgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. rim™ in dwelling. Offers his Bervie.es to the people of Punxsutawney and the surrounding Into n Nest of Snakes. Ladles Chased by a Hear. —Smallpox is spreading in Vermont and New Hampshire with great rapidity.fft ft $tm $Uu. PASTE THIS IN YOUR HUT I —— 9isttsimtA*tt*9 MpMt PUBLISHED EVEBY WEDNESDAY. IttKMfHf-M TirniSLOW * CALDERWOOD, ATTORNEYS-ATLA W, TmixaoiAwmr, Fa. Mm om door cut of the Wet tern Union TelidKnh Office. Practice In the courUof Indiana Sd Jefferson counties. p M. REWEK, v* attorney-at-law, Pcmmutawniy, Pa. Office on Gilpin street, two door* north of Shield*' furniture *torc.  A LEX. J. TRUITT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Cmrrta of adiacent counties. • XpDWARD A. CARMALT, A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, Bbookvillb. Pa. Office with Judge Jenks. Legal business careftllj attended to.  ftONRAD & MUNDORFF, A TTORNE YS-A T LA W, Office in Rodger's building, opposite the Clemments House. Legal business entrusted to them will receive prompt and careful attention. TENKS ft CLARK, A TTORNE YS AT- LA W, Brookviixe, Pa. Office in Matson Block, opposite the public bmldings.  TOHN ST. CLAIR, W A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, And Justice of the Peace, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in Mundorff building, nearly opposite Spirit building. Collections made, depositions taken, and all lands of legal business attended to. TT C. CAMPBELL, ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW, Brookviixe, Pa. Qffics in Matson's office, Matson building, oppose the Court House.  TXT M. GILLESPIE, ■ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Clayviixk, Pa. Coll 'Ctions entrusted to him will V- dillgeotiy attended to and promptly paid over. Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, REYK0I.D8VILLE, Pa. ~ __ W.F. BEYER pffYSICIAN AND SURGEON, FUNYSUTAWNEY, PA. Office two doors east of the Post Office.  "P)R. WM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Punxsutawney and vicinity. _ —The London police have been instructed to arrest persons about to commit suicide 011 a charge of misdemeanor.—The Fourth Presbyterian Church, New York, has had but seven pastors in 100 years. —In China mechanics receive ft 50 to $8 per month, while common laborers receive 110 more than $1 '>0 for the same time. —Ten persons died in Philadelphia last week who had lived to or beyond the age of 80 years. The oldest was 91. —A San Francisco paper asserts that there are on the Pacific slope today more divorced and unmarried couples than in all the rest of the country.—The female university at St Petersburg', tho first institution of the kind in Russia, was dedicated last week. The royal family took part in the ceremonies. —The gold dug from the mines in Thibet, writes a missionary, is so plentiful that it is used to cover the pinnacles of the pagodas, and is made into idols, chairs, couches andornaments for the people. The Effects of Advertising. Dayton, O., Oct. 28.—For three yeari a wild boar has been roaming the hills about six miles north of here, the terror of the whole neighborhood. He has often been seen by hunters, but always got off without injury. During the last year ho has killed several of the finest dogs of the settlement, aud two persons have been injured by him. He was as cunning as a fox, swift as a horse, and when hotly chased would turn upon his pursuers with all the fury of a mad bull. Yesterday morning a party of six hunters struck his trail and after following it for some distance, he was chased out of cover. The boar headed straight for the river with George Wenz close after hiin. At Yeasel's Ford the boar took to the river and struck out rapidly for the other shore. When about half way across Wcnz, who had a double barrel shot-gun loaded with buckshot, let him have one load in the neck, and before he reached the shore he got,the other in the head. Hut he swam out, and while getting up the bank Frank Hetzel, another of the party, shot him through the body with a ritlc. He fell, but got up and worked his way back to the water's edge. A boat was secured and George Wenz and Iletzel crossed the river. As they approached him, he champed his jaws together until the sound could have been heard several hundred yards. When they got within a few feet of him a rifle ball was sent crashing through his brain. As the gun cracked, with mouth open he made ono desperate leap for the boat,which was very nearly capsized by the collision. A wagon was secured and the dead boar was taken to Snyder's mill, where he was weighed, tipping the scales at 420 pounds, and there was frame enough for 400 pounds more. His tusks were nearly five inches in length and of great strength. Ferninand Ward,convicted of grand larceny, in connection with the collapse of the banking firm of Grant & Ward, was last Saturday sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Siug Sing. The Judge, in sentencing him said: "You have shown yourself to be wholly indifferent throughout this trial of the charges which have been brought against you. You seem to experience no remorse whatever over the ruin and sorrow which you have brought to hundreds of people in this country. You have done more to unsettle public confidence in moneyed institutions than any other man of this generation. And yet through this entire trial you have shown yourself to be wholly unrepentant for the sins you have committed. This being the fact, I must simply content myself with pronouncing the sentence of the court, which is that you shall be confined in the State's prison at hard labor for the period of ten years." Ward was then taken to the prison, when the warden read him a long speech on prison rules, concluding as follows: "Ward, you have been sentenced to 10 years at hard labor, and this you will have to do. An honest, fair day's work will be required of you when you arc in good health, from 6:15 every morning until 5 at night, with one hour for dinner. The State allows you three and a half years off your sentence for good behavior. Any insubordination, disobedience or attempt to escape will forfeit your claim to this, and I therefore warn you solemnly to obey our regulations. You will now go to the storeroom and get your clothes." Ward was t'nen taken to his cell and provided with a nice, new striped suit. ST. ELMO J VJ ± • lfx vyi\ i \ | *°* \ ! tatesK i i Styles \ «c / \ u «» / l \  ■71 1 \ John Co voile and Andrew Johnson. Mr. Wilson Soule, Secretary and Treasurer of the Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company, lias been spending the last two days here, arranging his advertising matters, and was interviewed by a Union reporter at Mr. H. P. Hubbard's office, as to the results and the worth of newspaper advertising. He said that for the four years previous to 1878 they spent all their money in bill posting and circulars, from which they received no profit; in fact, they got back just about half what it cost them for making the medicine and printing and distributing the circulars. In the Spring of 18.78 they placed an advertising order of $40,000 with Mr. Hubbard, using The Union and other first-class mediums. The results were sales of $107,000. They increased the advertising the following year to $100,000, the sales to $360,000. The next year they spent $120,000, with $480,000 sales, and the next year tiie expenditure was slightly increased, as also the sales. They argue from this that nothing but simon pure newspaper advertising, judiciously and thoroughly applied is the sure road to success. [New Haven Sunday Union.] EasTon, Pa., Oct. 30.—The improvement in business which has taken place within the. last several weeks is very noticeable in the Lehigh Yallev. This is particularly so between "VVeatherly and Easton, where all the train hands arc working steadily and idle furnaces are being lighted. Two more furnaces were putin blast this week, one by the Coplay Iron Company at Coplay, which has been idle for over two years, and one by the Thomas Iron Company at Ilokendaqua. The latter company has six furnaces at that place, five of which are now in blast. The Crane Iron Company at Catasauqga has five furnaces, three in blast. One of the idle stacks will be lighted next week, and one of the furnaces now in service will be blown out for repair. The Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company, at South Bethlehem, has just completed the foundations for 20 new oxide furnaces, and work on the brick portion will be pushed so as to complete the furnaces as soon as possible. —The hornets of Asia are powerful creatures. A strong, robust man, bitten on the neck by one of them, died in two hours. The hornets are of medium size, bright yellow and striped with black. —A strange scene was recently witnessed in Westminster Abbey. A crowd of both sexes numbering more than 500 persons, made a pilgrimage to the tomb os Edward the Confessor, and there engaged for some time in prayer. Edward died in 1065. He was the last but one of the Saxon, Kings of England. —Near Fayettoville, Ark., last week two men killed 50 large hawks in a few hours. One of the men says they were numerous as pigeons, numbering thousands, flying in a southwestern direction. This extraordinary migration has given local weather prophets the cue that the winter will be unusually cold. —Ainong the rare coins ami medals recently sold by Hon. G. M. I'arsons, of Columbus, O., was one of special note, it being a shield of arms, the gift of the corporation of the city of Philadelphia. On the reverse side is a log cabin in flames, soldiers and a dead Indian in the foreground, with the inscription, "Kittanning destroyed by Colonel Armstrong, September 8, This medal was valued at ,$ 1,000. —The use of Jamaica ginger is being carried toexcess. A Philadelphia druggist says he has scores of customers who take from one to three ounces at a time. The alcohol which largely forms the basis of ginger accounts for the strange relish shown for the novel drink by those who thus gratify their perverted appetites. Sliockiiijf Inhumanity. Mr. J. S. Smith refers to the wcllnigh forgotten fact that among the first acts of Mr. Johnson on coming to tlie Presidency was the selection of John Covode to make a tour of the States lately in rebellion, to ascertain the feeling of the people, that he might use information in his policy of reconstruction. Mr. Smith says further: I happened to be at Mr. Covode's home when lie returned from the trip and assisted in the arrangement of his report. M1-- Covode said subsequently, that when he went to Washington to submit his report ho found a complete change had come over the President. His closest friends were men who had been lately prominent in rebellion, and the report which Mr. Covode had prepared with such pains and care was pigeon-holed, and lie bowed out with frigid politeness. Williamsport. Pa., October 27.— Percy Whiting, a lumberman who has been up in the mountains for several weeks, cutting timber, returned to the city this afternoon with a number of other workmen. Yesterday while Whiting was coming down the mountainside, his foot, slipped and ho rolled down a steep decline and landed in a lot of bushes and undergrowth. He had no sooner fallen into the bushes than he heard a hissing noise and knew in an instant that lie had fallen into a nest of snakes. He jumped suddenly to his feet and grasped a largo stick which he carried, but which had fallen from his grasp. One of the snakes had wound itself about Whiting's leg and was about to bury its fangs into his flesh when he dealt it a ferocious blow on the head and killed it. He then cleaned out the whole nest which numbered nine suakes, the largest one of which, when stretched out, measured six leet live inches. Whiting says he had a hard time of it and does not care about having another such experience. The Crisis in the East. Montreal, Oct. 28.—Corroborative evidence has come to hand relative to the treatment of smallpox at the St. Koch's Hospital. Had cases of the disease, it is asserted, do not receive any attention whatever. There are only two nurses to wait on all the sick,and not the least attention seems to be paid to children patients. One child remained for three days unattended. It was emaciated for want of food, and when one of the older patients called the nurse's attention to it the latter simply replied that "It had enough." It is of no use, it is claimed, to ask for a doctor. Children of from 15 months to 5 years of age are allowed to die 'vithout a soul going near them. Often in their agonies the little ones fall out of bed to the tloor. ! STORE i * k ; A \ ' ! / \ ! i / V / \ | | / FOR \ I \ / \ I \ / GENTS' LADIES \ /furnishing Good, \ / SHIRTS FOR ' GENT8 I Mm. J \ AND FOR I ETc. / \ Cidren. **° / \ PUNXS'Y, PA. ,/ flpgr Trices Guaranteed as Lowest in Jejferson County. ERANK P. GRAF, BJS AND LIFE 1NSVBANCE AGENT PCKY8UTAWNIY, PA. Office in tbo St. Elmo Hotel. TOIIN G. ERNST, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, McCalhont Township, Pa. Collections made. Deed* and other paapen oknowledged.  T B. MORRIS, * JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Young Township, Pa. Collection* and other busines* promptly attended to.  TOIIN T. BELL, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, l'INXSDTAWNEV, PA. Office one door east of Shields' store* All business entrusted to his care will receive prompt attention, and all monies paid over to the £a*"t*es immediately upon receipt thereof. Special attention given to collections, acknowledgement of deeds and taking depositions.  of tlje &eace. T"\R. W. J. CHANDLER, SURGEON DENTIST, PUNXSDTAWNEY, PA. Office in corner room, Torrence Block.  "T)R. S. J. HUGHES, S UBGEON DENTIST, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Office over Tx>wry's store, Mahoning street. t~)R. w. j. Mcknight, physician and surgeon, Brookvillf, Pa. Professional calls promptly responded to. T)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Has permanently located in this Place,'t?"c' °'j fershis professional services to.the citizens 01 thia virinitv He may be found at all times at his office in the Campbell building. German language spoken. Me'mber of Boarfof Pension Examiners.  T)R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in residence on North Findiay street r)R. S. C. ALLISON, physician and surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and vicinity.  "r\R. J. SHEFFER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Having permanently located in Covode, Pa., I offer mv professional services to the peo pie of this vic\nity. Chronic diseases of women a specialty. _ — —Alaska is full of wonders, tho half of which have not been brought to light. A great lako has been found at the source of the Korvak river, which is so deep that uo fathom lino has been found long enough to reach the bottom. The natives are strong and hardy, about the size of white men, with small black eyes, high foreheads, small and flat noses, Hue teeth and coarse black hair. They are of a bright brunette color. Their dress is made from the skin of  and other animals. They live in linta partly under ground. —The phrase "bloody shirt'' has been traced to the time of Mohammed. In speaking of Moawiyah, the Secretary of the False Prophet, Gibbon says, in his "Decline and Fall of the Woman Empire:" "The sacred duty of pursuing the assassins of Othman was tho engine and pretense of his ambition. The bloody shirt of the martyr was exposed in the mosque of Damascus; the Emir deplored the fate*of his injured kinsman, and 00,(XX) Syrians were engaged in his service by an oath of fidelity and revenge." In a popular torrent of Ilea upon lies. —In London, recently, a Coroner's jury in a case of suicide brought in a case of murder. As this would involve serious penalties to the family, the humane Coroner begged the jury to alter it to temporary insanity, using the following argument: "Allow nte to remark, though you may not bo aware of it. that every man is mad on some point. I'm mad, and you're mad, if we only knew about what. The deceased's mad point was to kill himself." The verdict was changed. Iii the gleam of a million million of suns? Lies upon this side. Lies upon that wide; Truthless violence mourned by the wise; Thousands of voices drowing his own —Lord Tennyson's latest poem, " Vastness," has just been published in London. It is long and full of rather extravagant figures of speech, but on the whole is considered worthv of tlie poets best reputation. The following stanza, which refers to the pending parliamentary election, is a fair sample of the entire poem : Raining politics, never at rest. As this poor earth's pale history runs; What is it all but a trouble of ants Nissa, October 30.—It is officially announced to-day that the Bulgarian forces have blocked the frontier, aud that the officers have issued orders to the men to shoot any one they lind crossing from Servia to Bulgaru. The Servian troops have been ordered to reply in force in such an event without awaiting special orders from the commanding general; or, in other words, they have received carte blanche in the premises. It is stated that bands of Bulgarians have commenced harrassing Servian frontier towns. Renova, Pa., Oct. 28.—Game is unusually abundant here this year. Hardly a week passes that a deer does not dash througlr-the town pursued by the hunters. Bears abound on the mountains and they are becoming bolder by degrees, as many of them are venturing near town. Several ladies, while hunting autumn leaves a few days ago, narrowly escaped death. Thev were less than a mile from town when thev discovered a large black bear comiug toward them. The girls made a dash for home, closely followed by bruin. At the outskirts of the town the bear wisely concluded that he was too near civilization, and strolled back to the mountains. The ladies hurried home, told their story, and then fainted.Michael Dayton, John Weaver, and Samuol Willsie, three veteran hunters of Renova, heard the story and started out tq slay the bear. They left Renova at noon and returned here in the evening with the animal. It weighed 350 pounds. ; I / y | THE | / 'OR \ i / \ i / Tl>e«tOBt THE \ j I / Co,nPlet® at line of \ j / ®^ection of \ j : / Co^ox SXJITS \ : \ Wool AM) \; if AJto >VERCOAT8 j Ca*El H . . _ for UNDeKWEAR / MEN foR k BOY 8 ® iv / \ AND j AND / \ Children : Boyj ' \\ ' voi* xni. MlRMllaaMia Item. •