Pittston Gazette

              ( Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1896. A Weekly local and Family Journal. ffl.OOPEB YEA 1 IN ADVANCE. ol a lantern atjone under the door, and the key grated in the look. At last, I thought, my time had come. The door opened," and a tall officer walked in with a bine and white bedspread on his arm, whioh he had bronght all the vay from Florida. Turning to the suriy jailer who held the door open for his passage, this tall, self possessed gentleman said: aids of the day, u.-D loeliou, our wood or swamp. dog. 1 stole back with Redoubled care. Thoroughly alarmed by fce dangers we had already encountered, *we decided to abandon the roads." "Is Alan Heady to homer" "No, he ain't,"came sharply from the mysterious interior. FORMER PIITSTONIAN HONORED. THE JENKINS CAUCUS CASE. FATHER HOBAN IN SCRANTOK. After walking all night we soon fel into the habit of sleeping three or fou hours, when we arose and strengthened our hiding place. Then we made a breakfast of whatever we might have in our haversacks, and all three of ns took a smoke in turn from Sill's brier root pipe. In the afternoon, if all looked safe, we indulged in another sleep. On one occasion our camp was so cold that we trod a ring in the snow and spent a good part of the day trotting around it to keep warm. Charlea Hliouck Appointed Superintend - "Well, can Tom git to stay all night?" ent of Onondaga Salt Reservation. Had a Yesterday With Bishop Dec. 16 we were on the Walhalkt road, and we came to a road closed by a gate and turning straight away into the flat woods, in just the way we were traveling. It was so late that we judged we could use it with safety, aoross a region that bid fair to be boggy to right and loft, and with that intent we clambered over the gate and set forward in high spirits. At that the door of the firebox flew open, and on to the porch came Aunt Betsy, surrounded by her brood. The tollowing paragraph, taken from the Syracuse limes, will Interest our reader*: "Charles Hlsoook, the supervisor from DeWitt, haa been appointed superintendent of Onondaga salt springs reservation, to snowed Peter John Brumelkamp, who has held the position since 1883. The •alary is $1,800 a year. Mr. Hlscock is a brother of ex United States Senator Prank His :ock. He was born In the town of Pompey. For some yean he resided in the town of Laf&yette and was six consecutive tlmss elected to the Board of Supervisors from that plaoe, and during these terms of service, the last of which was in 187a, he was twice elected chairman of the Boaid He then went to Pennsylvania, where for several years he was superintendent of coal mines. Mr. Hlsoock returned to Onondaga county, residing in the town of DeWitt. He represented that tpwn for four years in the Beard of Supervisors. He has made an exoaUent reputation as a supervisor. Hie apppointment as 8*lt Superintendent gives general satisfaction.'' An Interesting Decision Handed O'Hara. Down By Judge Lynch. Bev. Father Hoban. the newly appointed ooadjutor of Bishop O'Hara, was In Seranton last Friday, and held a conference with the Bishop. No further Intelligence haa been received concerning the appointment. The Diooeaan Record, the leading Oathollo paper of the dloceae, has this to aay editorially on the appointment of Father Hoban: \ "Favored by his blahop, recommended as dlgnlor by tike elector priests of the diooeee and as dlonissimua by the bishops of the Providence, Bev. K. J. Hobanhas been appointed, by Borne, to beooadjutor toBt. Ber. William O'Hara, B. D., bishop of "In course we could stay, and come in we must." THE INKERMAN NOMINATIONS STAND "X will be obliged, landlord, if yon will send me some supper and a light." The chimney occupied the best part of one end of the cabin. At the other end of the single room two beds, with a narrow aisle between them, occupied just half the interior. When the loom and the table and the spinning wheel were subtracted from the remaining space, it will readily be seen that there was little enough room for seating nine persons, big and little. Z roared with laughter as the door olosed on Lieutenant H. Q. Dorr at the Eighth Massachusetts cavalry. My new oompanion was well supplied with matches, and we groped about until we had made a collection of slivers and shavings from the window sill, which we lighted on the earthen floor, whereby each got a view of the other's unfamil- The Judge Decides That the Nominations Made at Port Blaoohard Were Not Made In Aooordance With Law and Usage, and Sustains the Objections to the Ticket. "HistI Do you see that light?" Torches in front. Moving figures and dogs. As we had often done before, we fell back into the woods and ensconced ourselves behind convenient trees. On came the torch bearers, who proved to be threo shrewd lads on a hunting expedition. When the dogs came upon onr trail, they set up a cry and were yelping about us in a minute, compelling ns to come forth, which we did with onr blankets over onr shoulders. Who were we? Why, three members of Major Blank's battalion at Pickensville. And what was it to them? On tho evening of Dec. 7, after lying in the woods all day, we were ont of provisions, and hearing the stroke of an ax I skulked from tree to tree until I espied a negro. I made known onr wants, and the man conducted ns to a camp of charcoal bnrnera Leaving us here, ho set out with a horse and cart to drive to a neighboring plantation to procure us provisions. He was gone a long time, and as we grew impatient at the delay a pious old patriarch among the burners instituted a prayer meeting for onr benefit and to express the exuberance of his joy that "the Marser Linco'n eojers is done come, an do ole man gwine t'get to die in de land o' Canaan yet. Bress de Lord!" It was a solemn and picturesque scene as we knelt on carpet of pine needles, under the tall forest trees, in the smoke and the warmth of the smoldering coal pits, and listened to the expressions of the siinplo faith of these patient bondsmen, waiting to be set free in "de Lord's" gobd time. The stagnant water in the mossy ditch over the rail of the oauseway looked as black as ink from above, but when I had ocOasion to All my cnp I found it olear and sweet, the color ooming from the black mold beneath. For whole nights not a habitation was visible—only here and there a gato marking the entrance to a private road. There were It will be remembered that two Bepnb- Hoan caucuses were held in Jenkins town"hip. Oae was held in the hooae of John Jopllug, at Inkerman. and whe other at the Port Blanc hard Hotel. The offioers of the latter got to Wllkeebarre fl-st, and had their ticket accepted by the County Commissioners, and when the offioers of thi Inkerman canons arrived at the Commissioners' office and presented their tloket, it was rejected. CHAPTER m The field where I lay had been recently cleared of trees, and the brash and logs strewn about on the uneven ground might be easily confused with my prostrate form in the uncertain moonlight. This possibility was my only hope, and my heatt beat like a trip hammer as cue of the guards halted lor a moment on the poet nearest me—eo near that I could see his eyes,and, happily,the unconscious expression of his facts. After lingering far what seemed to be an age, he turned and walked away. Working along with the help of my elbows among the weeds, I gradually got farther and farther from camp until I was able to creep and at last to walk erect without fear. I found the heap at brush where Lieutenant By era and I had oonoealed our blankets and lay to await my oompanion. The fire roared and crackled, and Aunt Betsy swore merrily, cursing the men for having bronght on the war, and threatening to "stomp" them all through the turnpike, and cursing her own sex for the bonnets and gowns she had heard they wore in Philadelphia, and vowing if ever she shonld see "one o' them painted critters she'd claw the feathers off'n her bead less'n her name wa'n't Betsy Headeu." Seranton dloeese. Father Hoban la honj °red, aa the elevation to the eplaoopate la an exalted dignity which honors the gifted and gives opportunity of extensive UMfnlneaa to the sealona and raises its recipient to the position of oonfsaaor of the truths of religion, preserver of its lawn, shepherd, father, and jadge. nights, too, when the interminable forests gave plaoe to open fields thickly studded with girdled trees whose bare limbs were white in the moonlight There were now small houses standing near to the road, built free from the ground on stout posts, with conical sugar houses in the yard 'and patohes of oane ooming down to the fences. "What about them blue breeches?" said one youngster in the background. Ex-Commissioner Henry Kvuis, acting for ths Republicans who met at Mr. Jopllng's bouse, at onoe filed exceptions to the action of the Commissioners, and took the case ititotsourt. The argument was that the Inkerman caucus was the regular B*- pn'ilioan township caucus, and that the Once upon a time she had made the journey of her life to Walhalla, where she had seen steam cars and brick chimneys. On this -particular ooaaAaasflhe had driven a heifer to market, a distance of 40 miles, walking most of the way beside her horse and wagon. Her husband had charged her to bring back the heifer bell, and when the purchaser of the cow refused to give it up she was "plumb sot on" getting it in spite of him. So she made her way to the pasture in the early morning, cornered the animal, cut the strap, and with the cov- We faced the boys down and swore by the stars and bars that we belonged to the major's command and bade them go home to their mothers, while we leisurely walked off up the road. Fearing the dogs, we soon edged into the woods and took to onr heels. We ran through the streams and out of our way to find a qnagmiro. We plunged over the hills and down into the valleys. When we heard the dogs far away behind us, we rubbed our feet well with the resinous needles of the pine and tore away again over hill and dale, running with a relish born of tlio condition we had gained by exposure and high feeding. Mc. Hiaaook, it will be remembered, waa for a number of years a resident of West Plttaton, he being at that time superintendent of the Pittston and Elmira Coal Company's works. "Th» qualifications required to be a blahop, aa daaoribyl by Bt. Paul through ths graee of God, enable him who is shoe- t en for that exalted porttfon to perform his One day I lay concealed in a negro hat an the border of a vast sweet potato field. This habitation was of the most primitive construction—simply a roof of fence rails leaning upon a ridge pole and thatched with turf. In this picturesque hovel my meat was oowpeas. other oAocna was not a award humanity and for the glory Recommended by those who reoomhla elevation to the eptooopal digqnalltlee required la [eel eaoonrmlarion m- meeting. The oourt was aaked to About the time of the 8 o'clock relief, the moon now shining brightly, I heard the report of rifles at various points on the sentry line, and then all was still again. Perhape my tentmate had been ■hot attempting to join me. 1 had already found time to reflect, with amazement, upon the recklessness of my conduct and with gratitude upon my wonderful escape. I had little hope thereafter that Lieutenant Byers would join me, hot nevertheless I lay still until I heard the posting of the 10 o'clock relief. I feared that there bad been • tragedy in camp, but I went away in faappy ignorance of the fact that two young officers had paid with their lives for attempting the hazardous feat I had accomplished. While we were thus engaged the provision cart arrived with precious little in it. As has often happened before, after the longest grace came the shortest meat. A dried goat ham and a few small sweet potatoes, rolling about on the bottom of the cart, composed all the food supply the zealous negro had been able to procure. We carried the goat ham all night, and on the following day, having made our camp deep in an almost impenetrable dry swamp, we prepared to cook it, building the only fire we allowed ourselves between Columbia and the mountains. Alas I Our prize, which was as light aa cork, was riddled with worm holes and filled with red dust. HUNGARIAN LABORER KILLED. off the Port Blanohard canon* Fell Down the Laflin Shaft Through a from the ticket, and to order the Onmniti eionere to place the nominations at » bishop, father aged to tindertaki rfgned to him even though 1U rnpomlbill- The chief hardship of this lmely journey was the interminable arterpart of the day in camp. The travel through the mild September night was full of incident and change of scenCi With a companion I should have co»™*ared every night walk a pleasant excursion. As It was, it was a great improvement on the life I had left behind. As I swung easily along the silent road I kept my mind on the pleasures in store for me in case I won the hazardous game 1 was patiently playing against my keepers, whom I at present held at such a gratifying advantage. BREAKFAST IN CHARLESTON JAIL. Peculiar Aecldent. Inker man upon the ballot Judge Lynoh took the papers and Satnrday.flled the following order in the oaao: far face. This light to retire by and the hickory pillow left by the French sailor were all the hospitality I could offer. The lieutenant entertained me with the story of his capture in Florida, followed by his travels in Africa, and when I fell asleep he was entertaining the Prinoe of Wales at Delagoa bay. A fatal accident occurred at the Laflin •haft on Thursday morning, Feb. 6, the victim being Joseph Barretts, aged forty-eight, a Hungarian- laborer, who boarded In Laflin, and Who had a wife and four ohildren in Hungary. Barretts, with three others, was working in the Bed Ash vein. They supposed the cage was in position at that piaoe, and attempted to run acarapon it. The cage, however, had gone up the shaft. The oar fell a distance of s'xty feet to the bottom of the shaft Barrett was carried with the car, and was so badly injured internally that he dftd at the Pittston Hospital at about six o'clock. The rt mains were taken to his boarding house in Laflin. eted bell jangling in her hand, to rm her own picturesque language, she "walked through the streets of Walhalla cm-sin." and harden* art great He hn wo i an 1 flourish through lite "In re certificate of nomination*, etc , of Republicans In township of JxnklM, No. 263, February sessions 1886. Objections to certificate A readlpg of 'he deposition shows dearly that the certificate of nominations filed with the Ooro miss loners Alxjut this time we first heard of the loyal people in Cashiers valley, on the east slope of the Blue Ridge, but high up among the peaks. We were given minute directions on the road leading into the settlement and how to recognize the house of old Tom Hancock as well as how to avoid that of filack Jim McKinney. Negro George piloted us up a trail leading to the old stage road. [ the untiring, i  firat bishop whoa« eoadjator be to to be. He has bees of the clergy wboee oo-oper•tton aided the btobop to make the deeert bloom and thai enable religion to reap a Old Roderick Norton, who was her nearest neighbor on the mountain, oame in for the lion's share of her anathemas, and she freely accused him of the gravest crime known in all the mountains— he had put her pigs in his pork barrel, and they "marked plain with two imooth crops in the left and underbitted in the right." When we returned a few days thereafter to Camp Sorghum, Lieutenant Dorr found a fellow Mason on the train in the person of a Confederate general officer stationed at Columbia. I rejoined my old mess about the 1st of November, presenting Lieutenant Dorr to Byers as an ablebodied and active minded recruit Lieutenant Sill had returned from his fruitless expedition for exchange, and appreciating my experiences outside he exacted a promise from me that I would join his party as soon as he could provide himself with shoes. on Jan. 1896, was made by a oaaou of a faction of the Republican electors of the township of Jen kino, not authorized either tinder the ru es of the party or the ueage of the Republican electors of the townehiptherefore the flrft obj action filed la sna tsin i. This dlapoaea of the case, and makes it useless to pass upon the other exception. It is therefore, after hearing and notioe, decided that the certificate above johj* ited to waa not filed by the parties authorize under the aot of 10th of June, 1893, P. L 419, to file the same, and it la wholly void. By the CJonrt. Lynch, Judge." Under this ruling, the nominations n»ii» at the Port Blanohard canons cannot be* placed upon the ballot at all, the time for filing individual nomination papers having passed. C rantirui harvest. "Laborious, indeed, has been the work done by oar bishop to build Bp our diooeee and unosssingly will he continue to toil, even though hie priests should request and he dealre to rat since be has an assistant, aa then will be work for both to do. Aye, will there be work to be done and all the qualities of a bishop to be exercised, but our coadjutor will be snooureged by out blahop and the co-operation of the clergy will be given to onr young assistant bishop, not only because we have confidence in hie natural qualifications and rapeet his priestly qualities bat also beoause he is ours. He knows us end we know him and the mutual knowledge will benefit religion Rome has shown its confidence in us by Appointing one from among us, above no, and we, prints and people, will show that this confidence is r not misplaced by oooperating with, the blahop whom he selected in all their efforts to advance the glorious cause of religion in onr beloved and flourishing diocese of 8c ran ton." The details of the consecration have not as yet been disoussed and will not be except informally until the official letter of appointment is reoeived from Rome, which it is expected will be towards the latter part ol next week. We met George at Oconee on Sunday, Dec. 18, and it must have been the morning of the 19th that, after toiling up among the huge bowlders, some of them above our heads, and once below the surface of the washed out stage road, we were aronsed by the'storm as deicribed in The Century : I kept the "big road" until I arrived at Goose creek, only a few miles in the rear of Charleston. On the right at the turning was a quaint little chapel, half oovered with bushes, and on the left a house, where from the servants I obtained a supply of boiled sweet potatoes. Here I took a road turning north, intending to make my way to the coast above Charleston. Another long day I passed lying behind a log in the tall grass, so near to the road, along which carriages passed now and again, that I overheard fragments of conversation. I nibbled at my sweet potatoes for hours, prolonging to the utmost the process of mastication. When the last vestige of a potato was consumed, I speculated on what part of an hour might have been absorbed in the process. One wintry night when our road lay between Greenville Court House on the north and Pickens Court House on the south oar trio came to a halt at the foot of a guidepost that marked the intcrseotion of three roads. We climbed the post and tried to decipher the letters. Sill was for taking the right hand road, and I pleaded for the left Lain son refused to settle the dispnto, and we finally agreed to proceed to the right until we could find somebody to give us definite information. A mile or two around this turn we reached a farmhouse standing close to the road. Larnson and I lay down in the grove opposite while Sill made his way toward the light of a cabin in the rear of the bouse. Old Tom went down the mountain to arrange his affairs against Head en's return. Besides the old woman, there were Julia Ann, a daughter of 1C, and three little boys. One of the lDeds was piled high with broken furniture and clothing. and the other was the receptacle at night for the whole family, the father included, except when Aunt Betsy relieved the overcrowded nest by turning out to spin, which we who slept on the floor observed she did at intervals. I took both blankets and one of the cups and moved out alone across the open fields in the of the river, intending to carry outnne plan Lieutenant Byers and I had agreed upon, which was to secure a boat at the first opportunity and float and paddle down the Congaree river and so to the mouth of the San tee, journeying by night and concealing oy craft in the and lagoons during the day. The tall weeds and grass were heavy with the dew, and I was soon drenched to the waist My oourse brought me to the Charleston turnpike, wnicn j. louowea lor a snort distance in the direction of Columbia until 1 came to a oovered bridge crossing the river. AM EAllLY MOBNING WEDDING. Thero had been some changes in camp in the course of my absence. The officers were now allowed to go out on chopping expeditions by giving their parole at the main entrance. After costing their wood over the guard line at tha most convenient point they returned and reported to headquarters and were duly excused from parole. The confusion of transferring the wood from the choppers outside to the messmates inside involved the parties in constant disputes with the inexperienced guards and proved a fruitful means of getting men out not restrained by a parole. Officers escaped almost every day, many of whom were recaptured after a longer or shorter absence in the direction of the western mountains. "Lying down before morning, high up on the side of the mountain, we fell asleep, to be awakened by thunder and lightning and to find torrents of hail and sleet beating upon our blankets. Chilled to the bone, we ventured to build a small fire in a secluded place. After dark and before abandoning our camp we gathered quantities of wood, stacking it upon the fire, which, when we left it, was a wild tower of flame lighting up the whole mountain side in the direction we had oome and seeming in some sort to atone for a long suooesoulSi. felioweo'aK same"sr6*ge° roaa through the scattering settlement at Cashiers valley in Jackson county, N.C," Henry Biglln and Mlas Kate Stanley Pleasantly Surprise Their Friends. | |The many friends of Henry M. Blglln and Kin Kate Manley, well known young people of Pine street, were pleasantly surprised by the news of their marriage which ooourred at 6:80 o'oloek Feb. 5, at St John's Church, with a nuptial mass. Bev. father Flnnen was the officiating clergyman. Tae groomsman was Klohael O'lfalley, of Soranton, and the bridesmaid lllss Mary Madden, of New Tork. After a wedding breakfast at the home of the bride's ooualn, Prof. P. J. Manley, In Sebaetopol, Mr. and Mrs. Blglln left on a wedding visit to New Tork. The bride waa formerly a resident of Pike oounty, but of late haa been making her home with her sister, Mrs. B J Oonlan, on Pine street Mr. Blglln is an employe of Mr. Oonlan, and also made his home with the latter's fam ly. On the afternoon of the 28th the emigrants began to drop in. Captain Smith and Captain Knapp, who had been concealed by the Zacharya, came up from the valley, reporting that old Tom would come later in the evening. From Georgia came an old mountaineer of the name. of Tigue, and with him two brothers named Vincent, smooth faced boys in gray homespun. They were ul) to start for Tennessee that night. Headen advised us to go back on the mountain and stay in the rock bouse—otherwise cave—until we were ready to move. The night was bitter oold, and the wind blew the smoke back into the cave in a way that nearly strangled us, and we imprudently abandoned the plaoe at 9 o'clock returned to the house. Ba- TRAIN IN A LANDSLIDE. Locomotive and Tender Topple Over an Passenger train No. 11 on the Pennsylvania railroad, due in Wilkes bar re at eight p. m , ran into a landslide near Retreat Friday and the locomotive and tendsr were hurled down the embankment. There I took the right bank down Stream. There was a well defined footpath, bordered with bushes sparkling With moisture. Frequently I came upon narrow gullies cutting across the pathway, which I crossed by a log or swung myself over grapevine Thus far I had seen no bl5. The bank was gradually growing higher above the river. Before morning I made camp upon a high bluff, where I thought I could safely pass the day. it was close upon midnight, and all was dark in and about the main house. In due time a negro stole out of the front gate and led us under the shadow of a hedge to a side window of the cabin, where we clambered in, to find Sill seated before the bright fire watching the sweet potatoes roasting in the ashes and the pot of barley coffee steaming on the coals. Before we had finished our supper the rain and sleet were beating against the windows, and it was decided to conceal us in the barn until the following night. Accordingly we were oanducted up on to the highest mow, olose under the roof, and left to sleep on the soft oornshucks to the music ot the hail on the shingles. About this time I learned that I should find no boats along the shore between Charleston and the mouth of the Santee, everything able to float having been destroyed by the Confederate authorities to prevent the escape of the negroes and the desertion of the soldiers. The Injured are: George Roth, engi neer, of Wilkeebarre, leg scalded and bruised aboutthe boJy. Jacob Sohutt, fireman, of Wilkeebarre, was badly bruised and shaken up. At 2 o'clock in the morning we oame upon twin cabins of hewn logs standing in a grove at the right of the road, just where we expected to find them, having already passed what we believed to be the but of Black Jim, of unsavory renown.I was ferried over the broad river by a crusty old darky, whose dugont, after long delay, emerged from the shadows of the low trees marking the opposite shore and came paddling across through the reflected stars in answer to my continuous cries of "O v-e-r 1 O-v-e-rl' ' My treatment by the negroes hitherto had buen so universally kind and considerate that Z was alarmed at the man's surly maimer and gave him my case knife, which was a very precious possession, by way of a fee for the crossing. On this night I obtained the only taste of meat of all this 18 days' journey from a venerable old negro whom I found alone in his cabin eating possum and rioe. After crossing the Cooper river I found myself on a vast plantation as level as the sea I was nearing, whose fields "of rice and sweet potatoes were laid off in endless squares, separated by sandy roadways. Away on the horizon to the right was a glow at light which came from the out of door fires at the quarters. Ooing in the direction of this light, I met a party of slaves of-both sexes carrying baskets and clumsy hoes. I had never seen before human beings of bo low a grade of intelligence. The .men were scarcely distinguishable from the Jyornen, and of all their heathenish chatter the only two intelligible words I could understand were "maesa" and "baca." Immediately following my return the camp was visited by a succession of sleetstorms. Whenever the weather permitted our ipess was industriously at work constructing a winter cabin. The walls and chimney were completed, and on the 28th day of November all hands had been outside cutting a section of pine log to be split into shingles for the roof. We hyl rolled our log up to the but and engaged a Tennessee woodman to split out our Ehingles on the following day, when Lientenant Sill appeared on the ground in a serviceable pair of shoes to remind me of my promise. The train,'whioh was in charge of Conductor Z*ch Moyer, of Wilkeebarre, left Snabury at five 0*oloek. On - aeoount of the severe rafaa of Thursday Engineer Roth while making his time kept his engine nuder oontrol and a careful lookout on the traok. At a point juet below Retreat, Engineer Roth saw a slide ahead of him and at onoe shut off steam and applied the air brakes. The tiain was under too much headway, however, to bs stopped and the locomotive, tender and one trnok went over the bank and the baggage oar was derailed. The It wan a long, Runny day, and I lay flat in the tall, dry grass listening to the sounds that oame across the river from the road along the other bank, and watching the hawks circling in the clear sky pursued and darted at by small birds. Toward night two boya brought a drove of cows to drink in the brink of the river opposite. About this iimu I crept through the grass to the edge of the bluff, and far below me I saw a small boat chained to the bank, which I resolved to secure as soon as it should be dark. Unfortunately the owner came at early twilight and paddled away, while I, instead of waiting for his return, proceeded along the shore in search of another boat Old Tom Hancock and his morganatio wife bad been sleeping before our arrival on a bed spread upon the floor before the fireplace. Tom had only to draw on his boots and the old woman to dan ber nun bonnet to be in fnll regalia, and they con Id wake op afterward. The bed and blankets were shunted out of the way and green wood fed to the Are until it leaped and crackled np the small chimney. They were glad enough to see as and eager enough to make as oom* fortable and hear us talk, as the inhabitants of the valley are to %hip day whensoever the stranger appears. When we were thoroughly dry and warm, we were put in bed in the other half of the bouse and left to sleep as long as we willed. side the chimney stood a pot of- .meat cooked far the journey. Head en and wife had gone to the mill for the meal we were to carry. Hour after hour passed without their return, but the mill was five miles away, and we thought nothing strange of their absence. In fact, the fire was so warm and the company so merry and the immediate future So fall of possible adventures that we did not concern ourselves about anything exoept our jokes and our stories. We thought it was queer Tom Hancock had not come and the time now after midnight DISTRICT CONTEST. MANGLED ON THE RAILS. Cor Delefates to the National Republican "Hover" Mxloney, a Wandering; Fellow* The Sosqaebanna Journal, In rising np the National Delegate oonteet In the Fifteenth Congressional District, which to eompoeed of Bradford, Wyoming, Susquehanna and Wayne oonnties, expresses the opinion that banker C. lTrsd Wright, of Sosqaehanna, and 8enator E. B. Hardenbnrg, of Wayne, will be the auooewf ul msn. Soeqaehanna and Wayne .form the 26th Senatorial district and are naturally tied very cloeely, henoe it la not strange that they view the situation aa they desire to have the oontest settled. Secure as this retreat seemed, when the negro brought us our early breakfast he insisted upon burying us three feet under the fodder, for fear the children might oome up there to play, in which case we might lie very still and let them romp over us at will. Tlx cracks in the siding gave as air and light enough to study a map of the Car olinas torn from Mitcbel's Atlaw, wind had coino with our breakfast, beside, a good view of the house over the way. We wero promised a luxurious sup per to be served at the quarters before we started. The short winter's day dre\ on to early darkness, and no one cam« to take us out of our pit in the stalks Seven o'clock came, and 8 o'clock came and we were still ijj sysponso, altlioug) We had clambered up on to the surface Presently a shade advanced through tb giooin oyer tne rustjing stains, 10 oui intense relief, and conducted us down to the barn floor and to the banquet. It seemed that there was a frolic going on at the quarters, and there was one negrc present whom they dared not trust Killed by m O,, L & W. Train* ▲t abDUt nine o'clock Feb. 6th the mangled remains of a man were found between the D.,L & W. tracks, opposite tbe Phoenix breaker, in the lower end of Duryea. The head waa mining, and the olothea had been almost entirely atripped from the body. The remains were taken to the Junotion stttion This morning tie man's head was found lying along the traoka near where the body waa found. Then the remains were Identified as those of Patriok Maloney, better known as "Rover" Maloney, a fe low who has been wandering about these parts tor seven or eight yean. He waa aeen about the Janotion last evening by a number of people who afterward identified the body. There ia no means of learning by what train hs Was killed. I do not know whether the guards had been changed in the coarse of my absence on the Charleston expedition, but I do know that discipline had grown so lax that escape was easily possible to every officer who cared to undergo the hardships of winter travel. Perhaps the guards had become more amiable on better acquaintance, Ipdped this result could hardly be avoided among men brought into so intimate on association as we were, enduring the same exposure and living on about the same fare, with □o stockade to separate us. Our keepers, forced into the service against their will —sons, fathers and grandfathers in the same battalion—*were heartily tired of the war and must have realised that, while they were nominally holding as prisoners, we were practically holding them to the same conditions. They found ns human beings, equally sensitive to hunger and cold, and disposed to lighten their burdens whenever we could. The parole system engendered endless confusion and afforded Infinite expedients to the fertile minds of experi enced officers bent on escape. passenger ooaohee, whloh were well filled with passengers, fortunately did not leave the rails and bsyond a savers shaking np and frighfnl scare thsy were all right. There was a gentle knock on the door, and springing to the latch to meet my old guide I threw the door wide open with a cheery invitation to come in. There was no waiting for a second invitation by the tall soldiers in slouch hats and gray clothes who crowded into the room, rattling their rifles down on the floor and stamping the snow from their heavy boots. Before going a mile the ground ad- Joining the river became so boggy that | was forced to turn back Thinkifig that { could take to the cornfields, skirt the swamp and get back to the river again, a few miles below, I set oat with that intention. I soon came upon a highroad, which proved to be the Charleston turnpike, the same I bad crossed the. flight before. Seeing no opportunity to* jfet Dearer to the river, I followed this toad all night, oontent for the time being to get farther from Columbia. Having no bread, I filled my cup with shelled corn, and at the first signs of day I retreated into the woods and made my ftecond camp in a broken down tree top. before going Jo sleep on a pest of leaves | put my corn to toak. 1 had pioked up it scrap of newspa{Der in the night, which I carefully preserved to help pass the time after I awoke. As soon as possible aid was given Engineer Both and Fireman Schntt and they were carried Into the bf3gage car. Word of the aocident was sent to headquarters at Bradford county also oomse to the front with banker Oharlee Tracy, of To wan da, We bad now arrived in the land where no man walked ahroad without his rifle on bis shoulder, so after breakfast Tom took down his, and we fell in at his heels, taking good care to keep and Hon. Floyd Klnner, of Athena, aa candidates. Wyoming county's oholoe appears to be their member of the Republics an State Committee, Fred. I. Wheelook, of Baton, who In oompany with Hon. Ghkhuha A. Grow represented the Fifteenth district at the Minneapolis Convention In 1888. Snnbnry and a train was at onoe ordered and sent from Nanttooke to transfer the passengers and bring them to Wilkesbarre. A. wrecking train wis also sent to the soene and the tracts had been oleared by this morning. [TO BB OONriHUXD ] WILL SERVE ON JURIES. DEATH OF MI3S BREAKSTONE. OltlMU Drawn for Seaatons of Court and Orand Jury. The following juries were drawn yesterday:The Untimely End of a Bright Young BIO CONTRACT AWARDED. Prom a logical paint of view Wayne oounty deeervea recognition at the handa of the oonferenoe, and popular Ned Hardanbnrg can do than fnll jastloe. The Senator la a oloae fr-end of Senator Quay, and dnrlng the campaign of last August he did some effective antl-Comblne work over In Wayne. But why the other oonntlee of the* district should think of going wild over the Susquehanna man.C. Fred Wright, la a conundrum. His eateemed brother, the late Congressman Myron B. Wright, always held a warm plaee In the hearts of Wyoming oonntlans. Io the nominating eonferenoee, for several successive terms, he waa never peroepibly opposed by the Wysmlng leaders, and the Republicans of that oounty not unreasonably look for a kind word from their Susquehanna brethren. Mr. Tracy, of Towanda, la a gentleman of prominence, and the popularity of Assemblyman Ktnner, of Athens, gives him a good footing in Republican circles In Bradford oounty. Bradford and Wyoming form the 88d Senatorial district, and aa big Bradford has the largest number of oonfereee in t&e Senatorial Oonferenoe they have a life leas*, of course, on the Senatorla] nomloatlon. They also have the Congressman at preaent, and as a matter of oouiteey to the minority oounty of the Oongreaslonal District they cannot dfoently do lees than aooord Wyoming oounty a fair and liberal hearing in the National delegate oonferenoe. Mr. Whealook, the Wyoming oandldate, Is a oloae follower and friend of Senator Quay, and like Senator Hardenbnrg, of Wayne, he would be decidedly acceptable to the 8enator. At this time, although in jay twenty - fourth year, I had never seen the open seaooast beaten by the surf, and being Stisfied that I had no hope of escape in at direction" It win In pail; my curiosity that led me to press on to the finish aqd partly a vague idea that I would get Confederate transportation back to Colombia and from there take a fresh start westward bound with one or more companions. I inspected the palmetto trees TMhich I found -growing odt of the sand and relished keenly the aoent of the ocean and all the novel evidences of my approach to the sea for the first time. I wandered along the coast for hoars, enjoying the novel experience. The tide was out, and in a little pove I found an phnqdanoe of oysters bedded in the mud, Which I cracked with stones and ate, After satisfying my hanger and finding the sea rather tame inside the linn of islands which stretched along the eastern horizon, I walked over to a fire, Where I found a detachment of Confederate coast guards, to whom I surrendered as coolly as if my whole toilsome journey had been prosecuted to that end. In the morning I was marched a few miles to Pleasantville, a decayed old tillage in the rear of Fort Moultrie, and after a short stop in the guardhouse was }aken in a sailboat across the harbor to my old quarters in the city jaiL 1 had {or a cellmate a young French sailor who had entered Charleston on a blockade ranner hailing from Marseilles. Be conld speak little English, and I failed to learn why he was held as a prisoner. Saving no oonsul to lay his case before, be kit upon a novel plan whereby to get himself out of the clutches of the prison authorities. He corded both legs pbove bis knees pqtij his feet and ankles were to swollen that the surgeon ordered him pat to hospital to be treated for dropsy. While the sailor staid oar ration consisted of a milk pan of corumeal mash, with sometimes a few spoonfuls of molasses, which seldom reached as before ¥ o'clock in the afternoon. Our table Was the deep sill of the only window in the cell, which was nearly on a level with the ground outside. If any remnant of thi* breakfast remained after oar oombinec| attack, it served to stay que hanger next morning. The cell contained no furniture. The only approach to luxury was two sticks of cord wood which served for pillows at night. In the daytime wewpie sometimes pern it ted to walk in the yard, where I rem prober tq have strolled about hunting al Dnp "the ground for a chance fragment of bread. puinber of negroes from O Life The newa of the death of Miss Adele Breakstone, which oocarred at foar o'clock Thursday, Feb. 6th at her home in Wllketberre, was reoeived with sorrow by her nnmerotw friends in Pltteton. She had been ill for a month. In her death a very bright and promising life has oome to aa untimely end. She was born In New York oity on Christmas eve, 1871. When one year old her parents removed to Wilkesbarre, which has been her home ever since, exoept one year spent in Pittston. She graduated from W'lkesbarre High School in 1889, and at that time began her remarkably suceeeafnl career as an elocutionist She studied in Boston, and up in her return home was in demand both aaa » elter at public entertainments and ai a teacher of elocution. Since 1892 she has been the Instructor in elocution at Wyoming Seminary. She hai hosts of frends throughout the valley. Besides her parents, one brother and one sistar survive her. Joseph Tyrrell Will Bebnild the Moan* The big barn doors were thrown open to the mooolight, and the cloth was ■pread on the floor, and so was the food, tnd the. negroes stood about in amazement and delight to see the wonderful Yankees eat. They had brought us a pork pie and savory patties of sausage, hot biacuits, sweet potatoes, a jug of milk and another of eorghum and a variety of hot corn bread called "cracklins," enriched by tiny bits of fresh pork, chopped fine and scattered through tbe loaf, . , , * • t No one could give us much information about the road to the monntains, except that we were to go back to the point of disagreement of tbe night before and proceed by the left hand fork. The following footnote from The Century Magaaine of October, 1890, shows how lastingly our presence impressed the negroes; COMMON PLEAS, MABCH 9. Avoca—D. D. DjvIb, foreman; John Oampbell, miner. Lookout Breaker. The contract for rebuilding the lit. Lookoat breaker has been awarded to Joseph Tyrrell, of Forty Fort, and the work is to be computed by Jaly let. The new breaker will be bnllt on the same elte ae the one destroyed, and will be the best equipped In the region. SQUIRE HOOPER'S HOUSE. West Pltteton—H. F. Klllian, olerk Thomas Ford, lnaaranoe agent; ▲. Mcl DeWiit, ooal operator; J. Sogers, bookkeeper; James IMey, mine . the cabin between us and the road. As Tom informed us, Squire Hooper lived a short "quarter" back from the public thoroughfare, and, besides being loyal and hospitable, and knowing all the things we wanted to know, oould entertain us a heap better than he could, and the squire's comfortable home in its hidden clearing was the place of places for us to stay. Although I slept until well into the afternoon, I found it tedious waiting into the evening for a safe hour to take £he rbad again. ' To move Was ah lrresiHtible temptation, dangerous to indulge before 9 o'clock. The white people were safe in bed by that hoar, while the negroes were whooping and singing and chopping nutil the small hoars of the morning. If by chance of too early starting I heard voices ahead or the rattle of. Wheels on the road, I glided into the bashes at the side and watched the creaking vehicle pass in the gloom, the belated passengers as unconscious of my neighborhood as the tired horse shuffling in the sand. I bad been sefpral nights on the road When I encountered the first negro, who gave me a loaf of corn bread, at the same time telling me that every slave's portion in that part of the state was a peek of oornmeal tat a week's ration or its equivalent in potatoes or beans. For in«at they mnst'treat with the (jpossums and the chickens. Our party leaving Camp Sorghum included Lieutenant Lamsoq of ii JJew York regiment, and having deliberately made our arrangements to go we coolly forged a parole, and on the afternoon of the 89th of November we easily persuaded a boyish guard to permit as to pass out over his post Once outside, W6 strolled dowp the line to the' stream, where several of our friends were await* ing us. We jailed across to them that we wanted blankets to gather pine boughs in and lay down on the bank until they returned with the blankets and such other conveniences for the road as they could ooqoeal without suspicion. Marcy—J. Keun jdy, hotel. Pittscon—George Hagadorn, controller; A, Tepler, merchant; M. Tigue, miner; George Bum, merchant; J. T. Kearney, miner. Is It a Consumption Core T [From the Phila. Inquirer.] There is no disease more dreaded than consumption Its insidious character, the fact that it affects almost every part of the body and the wide swath that it outs annually In every community have made it justly feartd. While at one time it- was believed to be hereditary, medical scienoe has a', last demonstrated that it can be transmitted, and that by the use of preventive methods its ravages oan be lessened.Laflln—T. 0. Nattreaa, superintendent. Exetsi—Peter Nealon, section boas. Wyoming—George Ashlemin, farmer; J. T. Hhoemaker, insurance ageut. Hugheetown—B. B. Sohappert, riaeaeor. A dozen yards farther we ran pat upon the squire and his rifle. He shook hands cordially with us and led us back across the foot log over the branch and up to his house. COMMON PLEAS, MARCH 16. Pittston—P. J. Gallagher, hatter. Maroy lownehip— W. B. Pier, gist The squire was a hale and hearty man, lank of figure, with a thin, sandy whisker encircling bis kindly face—a very fountain of law for the litigants of the valley. By the chimney of the living room sat his invalid wife, bolstered up with pillows in the rocking chair. On a gun rack over the west door the squire bestowed his rifle and powder born on entering, and the four daughters, who completed the mountain household, came from the kitchen and the wood pi le to welcome the guests. During our stay we slept at night in a narrow middle room between the kitchen and the sitting room, and when there were no strangers in the clearing we emerged to help the girls chop wood and "tote" water. It was on the verge of Christmas, and we went back to old Tom's on the 23d to keep dear of a Confederate cousin who was exoected for the festivities. Short as our stay was, we got such a motherly, fatherly and sisterly welcome that we oould never quite disabuse ourselves of the idea that we were leaving kinsfolk in tbe valley. "Major Sill contributes evidence of the impression our trio made upon one at least of the pickaninnies who looked on in the moonlight by. a photograph of Si]) and Lumson taken on their arrival at Chattanooga before divesting themselves of the rags worn throughout the long journey. Years afterward Major Sill gave one of these pictures to Wallace Bruce of Florida, uow United States consul at Glasgow. In the winter of 1888-9 Mr. Bruce at his Florida home was showing the photograph to his family when it caught the eye of a colored servant, who exclaimed: "Oh, Massa Bruce, I know those gen'men. My father and mother hid 'em in massa's barn at Pickensville and fed 'em. There was three of 'em, I saw 'em." This servant was a child soarcely 10 years old in 1804 and could only have seen us while we were eating our supper in the barn door, and that in the Uncertain moonlight. Yet more than 20 years thereafter he greeted the photograph of the ragged Yankee officers with a flash of recognition." drug- CHAPTER IV, The 80th of November, 1864, seems to have been Tuesday, and on that day wo walked out of Camp Sorghnm, leaving Byers and Doit looking at us. We got to the Lexington pike after remaining in hiding until it was quite dork and marched steadily west until 11 o'clock. The remains of a Are blowing about on the road in front of us brought us to a halt, and a brief examination convinced us that we were confronting a picket post, which we tried to flank, but were thwarted by the swampy nature of the ground. We tramped back for a mile and took a left han4 road, which we founc) sq indistinct in the darkness that we halted and lay down. We started again before daylight and traveled throe miles before camping for the day. We made our first breakfast of corn bread and water- Kxeter Towaahip — William Coraj, farmer. It Is announced that Dr. Cyroa Edson, of New York, believes that he haa found a cure for consumption. The Medic zl Record, which la a conservative medical journal, saye that It has been suooeeafully tested, and physicians of high standing are said to be satisfied with Investigations of its merits. Two hundred and eighteen seoee have been formally reported npon, and of these twenty-three patlenta were discharged cured, sixty-eight are on the way to complete recovery and ninety-one. show marked Improvement. Avooa—John HcKenzle, miner; Thoa Miller, miner. DEATH or THOS. KERRIGAN A Wall Known Resident or Cork Lane Jenkins—Alexander Robertson, miner. Wyoming—RobertLayoook, wagon-mak Fallen Away Suddenly. Thos. Kerrigan, of Cork Lane, died very suddenly late Fiiday afternoon. Be had been at work all day 1 hursday and aroe* Friday morning and partook of hie breakfast In his nsual good health. He afterwards returned to his room and when members of the household went to call him for dinner they found htm in a dying condition. The cause of his death oould not be ascertained. He waa aged 23 years and waa an orphan, bis parenta having died quite reofently. My road was constantly diverging from the river, bat I had not yet abandoned my first plan at travel by boot fhe only attempt I made, tq reach the water again landed me in an impenetrable swamp where the tall grew oat of the yellow water as far as I conld see between their tranks. I had spent the best part of a night iq my fruitless explorations, ant} throqghout the day thai followed I remained in biding on the edge at a peanut or goober field. 1 secured an armfnl of the Vines and tried to eat the green beans, pome at which were in the milk. I was provided iq this Journey peyeraj times fvith boiled peanut*, which was a favorite way of cooking when the bean was too green to bake. After this failure to reaob the river I gave over the attempt for the time, bat thought seriously of trying a road which (was told led to the river at Eutaw Springs, when I should reach it Dallas Borough—Samuel Lltts, farmer. 8BA.NO JORr, APRIL 6. Hngheatown—Harry Mercer, merchant; Thomas Gawlej, laborer. Marey—Robert McMillan, foreman; Paul Urban, merchant. Pittaton—John W. Breeee, brloklayer; John MoGraw, foreman. Dr. Edson's cure, unlike the antl-toxln, is not the result of the inoculation ot animals with the dkaaae. It is based ui:n the prlnoiple that ae carbolic acid or phenol Is a normal constituent of tm blood of man there mmt be some way of using it so that it will not be harmful in its effects and still be a germ killer. He has found a way of fljoalng the human system with a solution oontalning carbolle aold and a new salt, and so ha really disinfects it. QUAKTKB BK88I0N8, APRIL 20. Wayne and Susquehanna countiea may oonolude to join hands In the oonferenoe, but if they do, Bradford and Wyoming may do the same thing, thns tleing the oonferenoe. It promisee to be an interesting oontest. Pittaton Oity—Thomaa Miles, foreman; T. H. Edwards, tinsmith; H. T. Bowkley, merchant; C K Campbell, merchant. CHILD'S BODY FOUND. From that time and through the month of December we were wanderers on the face of the earth. As my mind reverts to this long, eventful journey I am more than ever convinoed that a merciful forgetfulness has condensed the story as no art of piine could do, blotting out much that was of minor importance and leaving the salient points fresh and perhaps more vivid from frequent telling. The sentiment of the night marches, tfce sounds we heard and the very smell «{, the woods remain after dates and evCm men are forgotten. I remember vividly how Bill and 1, with our blankets over our shoulders and staira to feel the way, would be sUently struggling for the lead hour after hour, With Lamson rolling after us on the road. I remember the dreary barking of the dogs and the importance we sometimes attached to their voices, the upland cotton fields, where we struck the bursting balls with our sticks in revenge upon our enemies, and the droning wheels, spinning in the early night, the hours of silence and toil that followed, and the shrill crowintr of the cocks, her- fittaton Township—Charles E. Biker, farmer; Thomas Williams, barber. Wrapped In Paper and • Towel In a Oar Emanuel Hwiden, or, as everybody called him, "Man Heady," who lived near the top of Yellow mountain, was at this time recruiting a party of mountaineers to cross into Tennessee. Tom Hanoock was booked for the passage, and we were glad euough to have the opportunity to travel in such company. So on Christmas eve Tom guided us up the trail to the Headen cabiu. Headen himself was in the neighborhood of Rabun, Ga., collecting reoruits. at the Phoaalx Colliery. (Quoting again from The Century: '"Long experience in night marching had taught us extreme caution. We had advanced along the new road but a short way when we were startled by the barking of a bouse dog. Apprehending that •omething was moving in front of us, we instantly withdrew into the woods. We had soarcely hidden ourselves when two cayalrymen passed along, driving before them a prisoner. Aware that it was high time to betake ourselves to the crossroads and describe a wide circle RfOuqf} the military station at Pickens▼ille, we first sought information. A ray of light was visible from a hut in the woods, and believing from H* humble that it sheltered friends iny companions lay down in concealment while I advanced to reconnoiter. I gained the side of the house, and look ing through a orack in the boards saw, to my borror, a soldier lying on hid I back before the fire and playing with a West Pit titan—A L. Stantjn, faimer; K. A. Coray, journalist. The employes at the Phoenix colliery, Duryea, last Friday, found the body of a ohlld In an empty freight car which had been placed on the colliery s«ltoh to be loaded with coal. The child was not fully developed. It was w -apped in manllla paper and a towel. It Is not known whether It was plaoed in the oar be'ore or after its arrival at the oolllery. Coroner McKee directed the poor authorities to take charge of the body. Death of a Wyoming; Lady. WHO WAS THE SUICIDE? Exeter Borough—Peter Ifackin, miner. Hughestown—Frank Flynn, fireman. Avooa—James Gllhooley, tax collector. QUABTEB SUai N8, APRIL 27. Mrs. Ann Munley, widow of Patrlok Mnnley, died at Wyoming at about seven o'clock on Saturday, from heart trouble. She wae aged fifty elx years and was widely known. Her husband waa killed in Soranton several years ago by tripping on an obstruction on the sidewalk, A suit fo damp gee yiM brought against the oity. which has been pending lu the oourts for the past five years. A Mew Tore Unknown Whoso Coat Bora • Pitts ton Trade Mark. Monday's New York papers contain newa of the suiolde in a Biwery hotel, early Sunday morning, of a man who registered under the name of Davia. He left no papers by which hia Identity oould be dtaoovered. Hia ooat bore the trade mark of "I. J. McNloholle, Plttiton, Pa." There ta no way of learning whether the man belongs In this eeotlon. Mr. MoNieholIe'e - clothing atook was scattered when hia atore waa eloeed, and the ooat may hsve been purchaaed elsewhere. Jenklne—Joseph F. laborer Pltteton—K. 8. Miller, carpenter: Th s W. Lewis, miner; Eran J Evans, fireman; Pefsr W. Thompson, grooer; Chas Smith, meTohant. ' It was a singular thoroughfare, the one I was following night after night— probably as old as the state—well graded, white pod clean, the sand perhaps a |ittle too deep, but during the hours I fnoved on it as stil) and deserted as though it ran through the heart of an AtrUma forest. It led as straight as a railway for miles and miles over swamps Jay endless bridges having a low board parapet at the sides, and the limbs of pie trees which overhung it were festooned with moss. The ceaseless chorus of the frogs and the tree toads from the twainp and the forest varied the lonelitoesa and solitude of my surroundings. Atter c Jim Ding seven long nines over a snowy trail we drew up before a tiny cabin half hidden behind the railfence, and standing outside the wioket gate with tall posts, having a mortised bar across the tops like a miniature gallows, Tom lifted np hik voioe and hailed the castle. The curling smoke from the mouth of the stick chimney and the firelight gleaming through the stones of the fireplace and illuminating every prack in the cabin were an invitation of themsolvos, but the proprieties to be observed. Wyoming Borough—K B. Boaelle, car penter. PltD non Xowashlp—Ernest Brodhead, merchant. A MONTH IN THE MINES. Brother Tnbbs Read; to Enlist. (Shickshinny Echo.) npl Show's Mwmuu-h.nant.fa rppirpanf v . «ilso oonflnediii The basement oithe jail. West Pittston—George Van Mauer, oarpenter; W. S. TC mpklns, agent. Hut. Two faul Accidents In This District QUABTEB SESSIONS. MAY 4. Pittston Township—William Davis, farmer.JLaat Month. E iitor Hart, of the Gazette, since his late oanvAss for National delegate, is more than ever impressed that money and corporate influence ahould be banished from our polltloal conventions. The 'Echo has repeatedly spoken on thia subject and stands ready to aecond any I movement promising purlfioatlon. After the departure of the French sailor I remained alone for several days, expecting Momentarily to bo taken out and sent to Oolumbia. One night as I was lying awake, my head upon my luxurious pillow, listening for some hope of deliverance, I heard approaching footsteps in the corridor. The light The month of January was a very good one In the mines of the Pittston district (H McDonald, lnspeotoi), so fir as fatalities are oonoern jd. There were but two fatal aocldent 4. In all, there were thirty tdree aoeldenta, thirty-one being more or l«as serious, and classed as non-fatal. Jenkins—Hugh lfcQulre, miner, rittstoii—Boger A. Bines, foreman; G. 8. Wagner, teamstei; John A. Law, ooai operator; Howell Williams, miner, Avooa—Joseph McOlune, blacksmith, i Wyoming—A. W. Gay, agent. Karl's Olover Boot will pnrlfy your blood, clear your oomplexlon, regulate your bowels and make your head olear aa * a bell. 25o..50o. and |1.0Q* (5}