Punxsutawney Spirit, 1890-02-26

              NO 38 ♦ i ' ALU ABOUT HURLING. W' * Offlce in Matson Block, opposite the public landings. TT C. CAMPBELL, A TTOSNE YS-AT-LA W, BBOOrnLLI, PA. Qfflco in Matson's olBce, MatBon building, oppoXt# the Court House. Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, A TTORNE Y-A1-LA W, BKOOKVILLE, PA. Office In Opera House Block. Oct. 1. 1889. TbAAC G. * c. Z. GORDON, A TTOSNE rS-A T-LA W, 16-81 Bbookville, Pa. g A. OKAIG rxANIEL UAMEY, A TTORNE T-A T-LA W 1807 Fat. N.-W., Washington, D. C. Practicing attorney In the several courts In WMtSnjrtonand elsewhere  bsfors all the Government D«P»^6ntawyi£0 purchase and sale of real estate. 14-13 The Bug Price PENN'A TENKS & CLARK, A TTOBNE TS-AT-LAW, Office with Judge Jenks. Legal „ully attended to. PUBLISHED EVBBY WEDNESDAY. Spirit. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., W i^DNBSDAY» FEBRUARY 26, 1880* Do Not be Deceived Kick la SCENES IN TOKIO. ffipfc The State Mining Inspector says that over 12,000 mining claims have been located in Montana under the United States mining laws, of which number perhaps one-half have Leen prosecuted sufficiently to show the character and positions of the ore beds, in which prospects loak as bright and promising as the now opfllent Granite, Anaconda and Drum Lnmmon did at the same stage of development. Of these not more than 3,000 have been fully opened and have a market value, but many of them, being remote from railway and smeltors, are not yet in active operation.Maidek, Moot., February 22. — The north half of the State is aroused over the unexpected discoveries of plaoer gold mines, quartz and silver and lead galeda in the mountain span and hills of the Great Reservation, as well as ia the Belt Mountains, which have already contributed so mach to the mineral wealth of Montana. The Spotted Horse mine, one of a series of six quartz claims near Maiden, is crashing enough rook with a 20- stamp mill to turn out every month (100,000 in bullion. No More Green Stamps. PCNXIOTAWK1T. PA 1*8, second story of John Zeitler's brick Paetu* in the Courts of adjacent coun- A LEX. J. TRUITT, A TTORNX Y-A T-LA W, TODWABD A. CARMALT, A TTORNE T-A T-LA W, 0 M. BREWER, * ATTOBNEY-AT-LA W, PUKXIUTAWKIT, FA. Offlee on Gilpin street, two doors north at Shields' furniture store. Washington, February 20.—On next Saturday the new postagestamps of alldenominations will be placed on sale in the principal postofflces of the country. The sioHy green stamp will be sent into oblivion, and a smaller stamp of a dark oarmine color will take its place. The green stamp has never been popular with the Postc fflce Department officials, who explain that its poor color is owing ohiefly to the fact that it was engraved on a plate inteded for a scamp of a different color. The new stamp is smaller than the old one and differnt in many other ways. "W1 M. Hazen, the Third Assistant Postmaster General, who has charge of the Btamp division, is confident that it will meet the approval of the public. The first order for the new stamps was made by the department on the 17th inst. One hundred and ten offices have been supplied with 43,644,010 stamps, the total value of which is $784,323. tlu Motley Crowd to lie Seen OB 111* Streets of Japan'* Capital* The Booties upon the streets are a* mixed as the signs. American street cars, drawn by soraggy Japanese horses, trot by your jinrikisha pulled by a barelegged cooly, and foreign carriages, with coachman and footman in iivery, dash by rude ox-carts, the beasts of which, with great straw mats stretched above them, move lazily along, led by a bowl-hatted farmer dressed in a bluo Japanese gown, and wearing upon his. feet sandals of the same straw with which his ox is shod. Hero a gang of half-naked men push great carts of merchandise through tho (treets of tho great city, and their chorus of grunts qt each turn of the wheels is brokon in upon by the whistle of tho railroad locomotive at the station. On tho sidewalks the mixture grows worse than ever. Tho colors of the clothes aro as many as those of tho coat of Joseph, and the blue-gowned man of old Japan, with his head shaved at the top, and with the back hair dono up in a short door-knocker cue, walks side by sido with his almond-eyed brother in modern clothes. Tho old man's white-mittened feet clatter along on sandals, whilo thoso of his brother creak in patent leathers. The European outfit, however, of the younger brothel is often one of raro combinations. I have seen Japanese on tho streets of* Tokio clad in a simple, white, well-; •tarched shirt and a pair of Europeap ■hoes. Others havo passed mo dressed in frock coats, with celluloid collars fastened around thoir baro and shirtlesp' necks, and with thin gauze drawers taking tho plaoo of pantaloons. I saw onco an old Japanese mother with blackened tooth and shaved eyebrows walking on tho Ginza in company with hor daughter, who sported a genuino French bustlo and whose bunchy form looked awkward and dumpy in a foreign corset. The! Japanese women, however, take less tO| the foreign dress than do tho mea.j They lose their pieturesqueness by tho phange, and tho sentiment in Japan is, I think, generally in favor of tho women retaining tho soft, graceful, long-flowing gowns of their mothers. Many ol the men, howover, aro well dressed, an$ tho highest officials ol tho government compare favorably in appearanco and clothes wiih thoso of our capital at Washington. Tho motley above spokqa of is chiefly that of the common people who ape their superiors, and to whom tho foreign dress is altogother new.-®! Cosmopolitan. Some merchants still insist on trying to liumbug the people, practicing deception both by advertising and misrepresenting their goods. Somehow they don't realize the time has passed for such nonsense. The ready made clothing business of to-day is not that of twenty or thirty years ago. There is a wonderful improvement in the manufacture, and the j pains taken in selecting styles, in order to procure the very best material the market produces. Look, if you please, at the most stylish men of to-day. Do they pay tailors from $35 to §40 for a suit ? We answer, "No ; they buy their suits ready-made." Now, from the very fact that we have tried to show you the rapid strides tke manufacturers are making towards perfection, it is not necesessary for us to state that the people are keeping pace with the improvements, and can tell the difference between flop-shop clothing and fine, elrgant, stylish, well-made, good-fitting clothing. The application of a caveat to stop a marriage is somthing new. It is stated that a member of the Maryland Legislature had contracted a marriage with abady, and journeyed to the county seat to procure a license, when he made the painful discovery that his rival had filled a csveat against the issue, and before he can get it the case will have to be argued. The wedding day has been posponed, but the old man is a fighter, and won't give up easily. MR. BIXBY'S WRATH. QR. W.F. BEYEE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, P0HTBOTAWNIT, PA OCoe two doors east of the Post Ofllco. TYR. 8. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PTOXfOTAWKlT, PA. Offer* his ■errtces to the people of Punxsuiivm; and vicinity.  J)R. BYRON WIN SLOW, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, CLATVILLK, PA. — rtfBrj and residence oro square back of J. vTGlllesples store. is-i-iy. , Clayton North, The hurley is of wood, about three feet long, curved at the end and flattened. It may be of any pattern fancied by the player. The ball can bo. struck with the hand or kicked, but itj must not be lifted from the ground ex-, cept with the hurley. But it can be caught when off tho ground, and then tl»e hurler can bat it, or as it is termed, "puck" it, in any direction. When the} ball is driven over the goal line outside, the "points" a free "puck" is allowed.; The time of play is one hour, the sidesj changing goals at the end of thirty minutes. J The simplicity of the rules and the! great latitude allowed the players in' striking the ball make the game a most interesting one to watch. It involves more exercises even than foot ball and quite as much as lacrosse nor is it so dangerous as either.—N. Y. Mail and Express.  An Interesting Game TkM n»T»dl» Ireland Centuries Ago. Probably very few people around New ;York know much about the Irish national game, hurling. It Is played In this vicinity only by the vigorous New York branch ot the Gaelic Association, which t'is making a strong effort to revive interest in the old Gaelic games. The game is one of the oldest extant. There is hardly a doubt that it was played in Ireland, with some modifications, as far back as two thousand years ago. The game in Irish is called baire, and the stick or hurloy used is called a caman. Hurling appears to be a mixture of polo on foot, hockey and lacrosse, and Is described by its enthusiasts as being even more interesting than foot-ball. When full teams of twenty-one men each are playing, the ground used should be 190 yards long and 140 yards broad, marked off with boundary lines, as in football. The goal posts stand at each end, tho object of the game, of course, being to drivo the ball betweon 'the posts. It must pass, however, underneath the crossbar, which is ten and a half feet above tho ground. When tho ball is driven over tho cross-bar or over the goal lino within twenty-one feet of either post, a point is scored which counts in the total. The arrangement of the men for play is more or less arbitrary, but tho general plan is as follows: The goal-keeper, called in Irish the culbairc, stands in front of and near the goal, and two men cover tho  Four others are stationed a few yards in front of them as pickets. In tho center of the field seven players are ranged along much like the football rush, line. The position of the remaining seven differs with different teams. They are gonerally up among the enemy waiting their opportunity to capture the ball. The ball, weighing between seven and ten ounces, is mado of cork and woolen thread covered with leather. 930,000 ln'.SlKht Draft*. POOR BUT HONEST. The insurance firm of Jno. F. and G. E. Brown, of Clarion and Brookvill*. had a large portion of the insurance in Pnnxsntawney at the time of our great fire of 1886 and it is not flattery to say that their adjustments were prompt and satisfactory. Every loss was settled and paid by sight drafts, over $30,000 being paid by their companies within 60 days after the fire. That fire did not discourage them and they have written most of the new buildings and stocks. Their business has increased so much that they have opened an office in Punxsutawney, in iront room of second story of John Zeitler block, and placed Walter S. Brown, one of the brothers, ia charge. Their line comprises the largest and best companies doing business in the United States 16-29 T\R. CHARLES G. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUMXSCTAWKBT, PA. Ate Tlotalty. He may be found at aU tlmes at OlrfiBiioB Inmmew.  lqnor Habit. T\R. J. A. WALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCNXSBTAWNKT, PA. jk&sssz1: «vrd«rp"M: 5y exanUncil unit tested for the adjustment of ?h6 proper glasseB.  TYR, S. J. HUGHES, S URGEON DENTIST, PCnI9tTTAWTI«T. PA. Ofloe «outb end of Findley street.  *-*B. W. J- CHANDLER, SURGEON DENTIST, PUKISPTAWWIT, PA; lypfflM in his residence.! n the West End. f|l B. MOBKISON, D. D. S. DENTAL ROOMS, PtmxSPTAWNIT, TA. Wehrle Building, four doora west of Malionng Bui'-  Is here to tell you that he can furnish everybody with the finest stjles you ever saw, prices and fit guaranteed. We still sell OVERCOATS AT COST. Come and get one. Our Spring stock is coming in. If you want a stylish Suit, Hat or Shoes, now is your time. Men's Suits from $5 to $25.00. Boys' Suits, $3 to $15. Child's Suits, in kilt and short pants, $1 50 to $7. Men's Pants, an elegant line, all grades and prices. Hats—a brand new stock of Hats—all the new and stylish shapes. Caps and Hats for girls and boys. Furnishing goods. The finest line of Men's and Boys' Flannel Shirts ever brought to Punxsutawney. Boys' Waists, LADIES' AND MISSES' BLOUSE WAISTS in beautiful patterns. The best line of Men's and Boys' Boots and Shoes in town—a brand new stock to select Iroxn. Neckwear, Hosiery, Gloves, E. & W. Collars and Cuffs, Umbrellas, silk Mohair, Trunks, Satchels, Valises. The celebrated Manhattan White Shirt, best in the market. MYMOLBSVILI.*, PA. -Jiw." <SSSFJSt^SS^ DB.M. r. PHILLIPP1, dentist. "My dear friends, I do not ask for; Charity. All I want is a fair show to pake my way in life. I shall now ask you to chip in a nickel apiece, and I will endeavor to do something never yet dona on the face of the globe. I will try to turn a quadruple somersault in the air." i The crowd soemed to like the idea,j and tho small change rattled in until tho gross amount was about three dollacs. The young man got down oft tho barrel,' •pit on his hands, picked out his ground,! and turned a pretty fair somersault. Ho turned another and another and thea rer\mted tho barrel and said: "Kind friends, I have tried to, but I can't do it. Assuring you of my heart-; lelt thanks for your kindness, I remain' yours truly." And not a man uttored a word of comqlaint.—Detroit Free Press. Be Tried Hard to Keep Hla Promise, Nobody Kicked. 1 The other forenoon a younff man With' ft forlorn-looking countenance, and a| suit of clothes which seemed to have /un all together and consolidated to save pxpense, mounted a salt barrel on tha( pidewalk on Michigan avenue, and started oft with: i "My dear friends, pause for a moment; and hear my narrative. I am a poor but Jionost young man. My motto is 'Excel" sior.' My paronts are dead and I am a poor lone orphan." | lie added considerable to tho above, pnd in a few minutes he had a crowd of fifty people around him. Then he announced:In all the woridthere i but one ca e Dr. Haines'J Golden Specifio. It can be given in a cnp of tea or coffee without the knowledge of the person taking it, effecting a speedy;and permanent cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have who have taken the Golden Specifio in their coffee without their knowledge, and to day believe they quit drinking of their own free will. No harmful effect results from its administration. Cures guaranteed. Send for circular and full particulars. Address, in confidence, Golden Specific Co., 185 Rice Street, ' Cincinnati, O. 17-24 ly As a Maker of Barrel Clialrs the Old Man Is Not a Success. "I was over to Fred. Grey's the other day and he showed me a chair he'd made out of an old barrel, that was about as neat and cosy a thing as I've seen in a long time," said Mr. Bixby when he came home to dinner the other day. "Fred, showed me just how he made the chair, and I'm going to work this afternoon and make one just like it, and if you don't say it's as neat and pretty a bit df furniture as wo have, I shall be mistaken. I've brought home a lot of protty chintz for the covor, and there's! a nice clean flour barrel down collar, and I'll have the chair all dono in two hours,' if you hurry up dinner. An hour and a half later Mrs. Bixby stepped to the head of tho cellar stairs and sharply called out: "See here, Elijah Bixby, I just want you to stop such language as you're using down there. Tho children can1 hear every word of it. I won't have them hear such talk! Isn't that chair nearly done?" "Oh, ye-c-e-s/" came in fierce, hissing tones up the stairway. "It's dono as fast as tho furnace Are can make it! The barrel and chintz and oven the infernal hammer are in tho furnace, and if 1 had that blamed idiot of a Fred Grey here, I'd chuck him into tho furnace, too! I hope to high hoaven that tho raving fool who invented barrel chairs will go straight to—" "That will do, Elijah Bixby," said Mrs. Bixby, firmly. "I think you had better stay down there until you can talk and act like a Christian! I just knew how it would he when you undertook that Hilly barrel-chair busirioss." CLAYTON NORTH. r T B. MOBRIS, * JUSTICE OF TEE PEACE, TiJIWfl TOWMBTT. PA Collections and other bustae® promptly atttfflied to. CARMALT'S MI UVEEI AM SALE STABLES H7WXMJTA.WSKY, FKWK'A. \ I PUNXSUTAWNEY MAIN STREET, CORNER ROOM HOTEL PANTALL, [Succcssor to North & Morris.] TheOrieinal and Popular One Price GlStliier :i:it i.e..! *.; <t- Tbo salary ot Senators and Congivnen Vi $3,000 per annum, with a mileage a.lowanco of ''■) cents to and froi:; ' Washington, and an allowance for stationery and newspapers of $125 per an- How to SjK.ii » Mem. j num. A total of 4880,000 is required to An easy way to spoil tho evening ' pay.tbo s.ilrles of 111'. Congressmen, it meal is for each member to tell tlio sad. costsa little less than ;"150,000per session tale of all that has gone wrong during to pay the mileage of the nierabors, and the de.y. To mention the disappoint- ! the country pay:-; .-?30,00!! to purchase the nents and vexations, Lo tell of tho ! stationery for members .nd ofllcors of (lights that were endured and tho of- j the House' alone hi any ono session, ensss that were given, and to lament! The treasury pays •S.'W.O.l (for reporting >ver the results of this infelicitous com- tho debates, whether Congress sits for rination of affairs, is enough to counter-1 ono month or for twelve, as the oilleiul ict the refreshing effect of all tho good reporters, like most of the clerks, are things with which the most generou3 paid by the year, though they seldom md skillful hou. -wiffi can load thn j do more than twelve months' work in able, i Hotter put this complaining off tho twenty-four raMitliK that rnako up a irrtil %o:ne other time. What is the Congressional Urui. -.\ V. Journal. lest time for it, it is hard to say. Per- ' . ,7 m • 1 . " ' . ' ... i -An audience m .u Indian village U> laps an indefinite postponement would ' , . , , , . j,- - ,e a happy thing for all concerned, j Michigan, becoming »stad at the lalf the things that we groan over to- ; ti-miuess o .t •>> . i - . p i oiiu.i .u. light will right themselves bofore to- | oha:,t"' UJC actors out o. tie theater n norrow night if we let them alone.- W af  ■i aJwLur, who www not h little seared, consented, 3ood Housed p »• without any coaxing, lo provide the music. rigrons Wearing Conforms, The pathetic adventures of a carrier pigeon lately employed by the Empress of Austria to bear a letter to her daughter, tho Archduchess Mario Valerie, may bo noted by writers of fiction in quest of new incidents. Tho bird \va9 ono of those which are trained for service at tho arsenal of l'ola, and when the Empress recently sailed from l'ola to Corfu sho took this pi<jeon on board her yacht, having r.wi ."••<1 to let it fly with a letter for her il.nujhter at a certain distance from th'1 const. It was sup- posed that the i>':'v-on would return to the contents of 1 • i-'tter which it car- Pola, and orders wore fivon to forward rii'cl iwrxfi'•••••••• t><» u '!<><» ','iVh to Iho yor.n™ Are.hdv i'nforttmatoly a ' poas.tnt with a a t-uw the bird and shot it. lio ilid iiotioti tin' letter, which was no dn: Mown <>:T by the .shot, and so, wl.il- boro '-t-mo tb»" Kinpress' win or ••'. - for supper, tht! letter ivn: 1 •'••• -!-ntt ft" ' was ttceiden h r. after* ward; and • *-.iJ n: ■> aio y. .'or ■ r>;Y'V*"t. r. l'ttour* renvoi ' ' •: * • ■ 11' -" 'H tfcat iiob.nl ,fef«M^i*4a-.-arrter p,-.'Oi., ;.a Put * in:.i? v sho ' • »l!"' 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