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SKETCH
O f the Early History of IjititE.
From the recently published "sketch
of the early history of Lititz," by H.
A. Brickenstein, we take the following
extracts: -
In the month of December, 1742, in
the course of a farewell visitation of
some of the various groups of German
settlers in the Eastern section of the
Colony of Pennsylvania, amongst
whom itinerant ministers from the
Moravian settlement, at Bethlehem
had for several years been laboring,
Count Zinzendorf came to the house
of Jacob Huber, in Warwick town-ship,
Lancaster county, where he de-livered
an address in the evening.
George Klein,* Huber's nearest neigh-bor,
knew of the meeting, but, having
a prejudice against Zinzendorf, did not
attend. It was a time of religious
awakening amongst the Pennsylvania
Germans, brought about largely
through the evangelical testimony of
the Brethren, and during the night
Klein's mind became much disturbed
on account of his conduct and he re-solved
to follow the Count to Lancas-ter
on the following day. This he did,
heard Zinzendorf preach in the court-house,
and was deeply moved., At
the meenting at Huber's house Zinzen-dorf
had been requested to send the
people a minister. This he soon after
wards did in in the person of Jacob
Lischy, a Swiss, who was a very gifted
preacher. Lischy also took charge of
the mission work amongst the Re-formed
at Muddy Creek (near the
present Eeamstown.) Many persons
were awakened under his preaching,
among them Paul Lesson, " one of the
French refugees," and old George
Kiesel and his two sons, who occupied
the farm adjoining Klein's to the
south. Lischy gradually became first
estranged and then (1747) an open
enemy of the Brethren. Other evan-gelists
were sent from Bethlehem to
take up the work he had relinquished,
among them Christian Henry Rauch
(afterwards a noted missionary
amongst the Indians and in the West
Indies,) David Bruce (formerly a
Saaicli
Ilcinke (a Swedish Lutheran,) and
others.
In the year 1744 a log church was
built on Klein's land, at the instance
of a number of the attendants on. the
preaching of the Rev. Lawrence
Nyberg, a Lutheran minister from
Sweden, who was stationed at Lancas-ter
and occasionally preached in this
vicinity. He entered heartily into
Zinzendorf's plans for a union amongst
all the churches, though he had been
sent to this country to oppose them.
His preaching was very acceptable ;
under it a number, of persons were
awakened aud desired stated preach-ing.
This church stood near the road
to Lancaster, on the ground now
occupied by " the old grave-yard." It
was known by the name of St. James'
church, having been dedicated by
Nyberg on the festival of St. James,
July 25, 1844. Here he preached
statedly once a month for two years.
In 1746 he was suspended from his
ministry, owing to his independent
views and the character of his preach-ing,
so that during this year he
pjmched every Sunday at St. James'
church and opened his pulpit to the
"various Itinerant Moravian ministers
m their visit to this section.
At a Synod of the Moravians, held
in the court-house at Lancaster after
every effort had been made to prevent
them from so doing, a request was
WM. H. EEGENNAS,
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T H E OLD
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and Confectionery—which, has been in
existence for upwards of fifty years—where I
shall be pleased at all times to see my friends.
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presented by a number of awakened
persons in Warwick township that
they might have a pastor to reside
among them. In September, 1745,
the Rev. Daniel Neibert and his wife,
from Philadelphia, were sent to them.
They took up their quarters first at
the house of Henry Stffihr, afterwards
with Peter Kohl.
I n September a meeting was held
at George Klein's house to consider
the question of building a school and
meeting-house (as distinguished from
" the church.") The unanimous con-clusion
was that they would each
contribute toward building a Gemeint-haus,
to serve the purposes, as was the
Moravian arrangement elsewhere, of a
dwelling place for the minister and as
a school and meeting house. Klein
donated three and three-quarter acres
of his land for this purpose and for a
garden and a meadow. In November
the cellar was dug; March 29, 1747,
the corner stone was laid by Nyberg
and Neibert ; May 24, 1748, the Rev.
Leonard Schnell, the successor of
Neibert, who was called to Heidelberg,
occupied the house, and commenced
the school with four boys and three
girls, his wife teaching the latter.
June 28, the Rev. Reinhard Bonner
and wife arrived from Bethlehem as
•-•A native of Kirehart, lîailen; settled
in Warwick township about 1740; died
at Bethlehem in July, 1783, ,
assistants in the school and pastoral
work, Schnell being also charged with
the work of preaching and visiting at
Muddy Creek, Heidelberg, Lancaster,
Tulpehocken, Quittopehille, Donegal
and " beyond the Susquehanna."
August 11, the first love-feast was held
in the Gemeinhaus by Bishop
Nathaniel Seidel, from Bethlehem.
September 4, the first Wednesday
eyening meeting was held. November
13, George Klein and Leonardt Ben-der,
who lived on the Conestpga, were
received into the communion of the
Brethren's church, al Bethlehem, the
first to be received not only in War-wick,
but in the Colony, all the mem-bers
at Bethlehem aud Nazareth being
recent emigrants from Europe.
February 9, 1749, the Brethren
Spangerberg, de Watteville, Seidel
and others from Bethlehem were pre-sent
to dedicate the Gemeinhaus and
to organize the Warwick Country
Congregation." The first communion
in this house was held on this day.f
From November 20-23 a Provincial
Synod was held in Warwick, on which
occasion a number of new members
(twenty-two) were received.
During the year 1749 the following
itinerant ministers preached and visit-ed
in Warwick and the other country
congregations: Christian Henry
Rauch, Leonard Schnell, Samuel
Utlev, and Abraham Reinke. Teach-ers
of the school until 1756 were the
Ronners already mentioned, to June,
1751; George and Susan Nixdorff, to
September, 1753; Frederic and Bar-bara
Schlegel, to February, 1755,
when they were succeeded by Michael
and Regina Zahm.
September 5, 1751, the first mar-riage
in the congregation to place, that
of Peter Ricksecker, a widower from
Donegal, to the widow Barbara Bort.
August, 1752, Bishop Matthew
Hehl arrived on a visitation.
November 7, 1753, on the occasion
of the interment of Michael Erb in the
graveyard at St. James' church, a
beginning was made with dividing off
the ground into sections, so that those
of tlie same sex and " class " might be
interred together. Before this time
•irrtcrmetitriiffit "beetr make promiscu-ously.
Sections were also reserved
for " Society members" and for
straugers. On December 9, Bishop
Boehler organized a " Society," that is,
a class of persons who, whilst they
were not members of the Warwick
church, desired to be under the spiri-tual
supervision of its pastors and to
share in the ordinary and special
church services.
October 71754, the church Council
was organized by Bishop Spangenberg.
At this first meeting George Klein,
who had in fact acted as such from the
beginning, and Valentine Grosh, of
Hempfield township, were elected
stewards of the congregation. They
were changed with the supervision of
the outward affairs, the care of the
church buildings, collections for the
ministers' support, etc.
The Warwick congregation was a
Land Gemeine, that is, a country con-gregation,
the members of which lived
scattered on their farms, and not in a
close settlement, as was the case at
Bethlehem and Nazareth. The former
was the " Pilgrim Congregation," that
is, the members were missionaries or
in training for such service, or were
laboring for the support of those who
were continually coming aud going
at the call of the church in its activity
amongst the Indians and the negro
slaves in the West Indies and Surinam,
or in what we should now call home
mission, or its " diaspora " labors in
Pennsylvania and the adjoining
Colonies. Nazareth was the " Patri-archs'
Plan," being composed mainly
of farmers, who tilled their land and
gathered in the harvests for the same
common purpose. Both these congre-gations
-were, of necessity, peculiarly
constituted. The members lived in
close quarters and with the greatest
economy, surrendering many indivi-dual
rights, and putting the proceeds
of their labor into a common treasury.
Not every one wis fitted for the
labors, restrictions and self-denials of
such a social and religious community,
and as emigrants continued to arrive
from Europe who might not be suit
able and willing members of either of
these settlements, it was resolved by
Zinzendorf and Spangenberg to pro-vide
a third church settlement
(Gemeinrot) in Pennsylvania, which
should not only answer the purposes
jnst mentioned, but also afford a home
for such church-members in the Colo-nies
who desired closer spiritual
supervision and fellowship than could
oe obtained IU the Country Congrega-tions,
in which the members lived
widely scattered from each other.
Two locations for such a settlement
had been thought of, at Gnadenhohe,
near the old graveyard at Nazareth,
and at Ghadenstadt, near the Rose
tavern, back of the presens Schceneck,
in Northampton! county, but nothing
came of these plans. Warwick was
that one of the country congregations
which by its situation and rapid in-crease
seemed best fitted for this settle-ment.
.fFebruary 9 was thereafter observed
as the Gcmoinfeat of the Warwick con-gregation.
(To be continued.')
I resident Cleveland to Marry.
"On his recent trip to the woods,"
slyly remarked a well-known New
Yorker, "President Cleveland met an
acquaintance, a young widow, whom
the gossips have not yet named, but
who is undoubtedly nearer his heart
than any of the young misses who
have been mentioned as his fiancees."
The meeting was arranged by Dr.
Ward, who holds himself responsible
for the whole business.
This widow is about thirty, has no
children, and enjoys a comfortable in-come
from a snug little property in-herited
from her mother. She was in
Washington, D. C., last May and saw
the president twice without attracting
any attention. There is no doubt that
the president and the widow are much
interesting in each other, but the
president is a little shy about telling
sister Rose, don't you see!
The widow belongs to an excellent
New York family, but Miss Rose may
or may not approve of having the
acquaintance continue. The president
told an intimate friend confidentially
the other evening that he never felt
the need of a wife so much as since
coming to Washington. The presi
dent and Miss Rose are totally unlike
in their thoughts and actions and the
latter,is wholly absorbed in her liter-ary
labors.
The ladies of Washington would re-joice
to see the president wedded to a
good wife, but perhaps two or three
belles who have set their caps for the
president >vould be sorely disappointed.
"What a grand wedding we will
have," exclaimed one of the attaches
of the White House, "if this rumor
proves true." The president, by
two moves, has become entirely sepa-rated
from .all of his older bachelor
companions and has no chance for
the delights of club life, as in. the old
Buffalo days. All his chums of yore
are hundreds of miles away, and is it
any wonder that the president keenly
realizes the utter loneliness of his life ?
Since the 4th of March, the hurly-burly
of official life has kept his
mind fairly occupied, but it is quieter
now, and homesickness can reach even
older hearts than the president's.
The Great Marrying Place.
About thirty or forty years ago, the
Cooper house at Lancaster was the
great marrying place tor people from
Dauphin county. If one inquires now,
it is surprising to find how maay old
couples from this section were united
at that place, and the trip to Lancaster
and back frequently constituted the
extend of their wedding tour. Very
few of them have any marriage cer-tificate
or any thing to show that they
really ever were legally married. The
license law will obviate difficulties like
that in the future.—Middletown Press.
A Girl's Retrospect.
The summer is over. The season
Was cold at t h e seaside, y o u know;
This -weather perhaps was the reason
That none of us captured a beau.
For the men found it cool in t h e city,
And the brokers were blue, it was
thought,
So we lost every chance (what a pity!),
And no dashing fellow was caught.
So Maud and Madola and Lillie,
Yiola, Narcissa and I,
Were ieft in the shade (am X silly ?)
To wait till next year—and to sigh.
For nothing is done in the winter.
I n town, w i t h gay talk and fine cloihes;
No beau says, " My dear Araminta,"
And none is betrayed to propose.
But when you walk out b y t h e water,
And moonlight falls soft on the shore,
The primmest mamma's plainestdaughter
Some masculine heart will adore.
I hope if we go there next season,
We girls, b y half-dozens and twelves,
Will not again need, in all reason,
To j u s t simply waltz with ourselves.
Of girls who were blustiing and twenty,
With some who were near twenty-five,
There always were more than a plenty,
And yet not a man would arrive.
How wearily all the long summer *
We wandered b y seashore and tide, _
And found no available comer—
A bridegroom, perhaps, with his bride
We who stroll to the depot and streamer
To see what was rarer than pearls,
Each one a deliberate schemer.
And lo, a new bevy of girls!
The coats and the hats were all waiting,
. i fo garment bifurcate was seen,
And some gray-headed old maids were
taunting
Us of it (I thought it was mean.)
Another such year would be awful
For what are fine feathers and clothes
If fate is to make it unlawful
For girls to be furnished with beau?
The summer lias vanished and-faded;
The forests are withered and sere;
No lover our hearts has invaded—
'Tis horrid to w f i t a whole year!
W h a t a Baby C a n B o.
I t can wear out a $1 pair of kid
shoes in 24 hours.
I t can keep its lather busy advertis-ing
in the newspapers for a nurse.
I t can occupy both sides of the larg-est
size bed manufactured simultan-eously.
I t can cause its father to be insulted
by every secoM-class boarding-house
keeper in the city who "never take
children," which in nine cases out of
ten is very fortunate for the children.
I t can make itself look like a fiend
just when mamma wants to show "what
a pretty baby she is."
I t can make an old bachelor in the
adjoining room use language that,'if
uttered on the street, would get him
in the penitentiary for two years.
I t can go from the furthest end of
the room to the foot of the stairs in
the hall adjoining quicker than its
mother can just step into the closet
and out again.
I t can go to sleep "like a little angel,"
and just as mamma and papa are start-ing
for the theater it can wake up and
stay awake until the last act.
These are some of the things that a
baby can do. But there are good things
as well. A baby can make the com-monest
home the brightest spot on
earth. It can lighten the burdens of
a loving mother's life by adding to
them. It can flatten its dirty little
face against the window pane in such a
way that the tired father can see it as
a picture before he rounds the corner.
Yes, babies are great institutions,
particularly one's own baby. !
The Dear, Clever Creatures.
Misery—A girl with a new dress
and no place to go.
Why are women like tops ? Be-cause
their mission is to hum.
" Love's young dream "—Buggy-riding
with the girl holding the lines.
When a girl is young she wants
numerous dolls, but when she grows
older she wants increase and she de-sires
several doll-ars.
I f a young lady cannot fire a young
man's affections any better than she
can fire a stone, you can make sure
she'll lose many a pound of caramels.
Fun is fun ;' but when it comes to
malice all good citizens should inter-fere.
The latest report is that a
Missouri girl 'has induced a Chinese
laundryman to elope with her.
An Oil city girl who has been 18
years old for the past ten years always
removes the Bible, which contains the
family record, from the room •when
her beau calls.
A Burlington girl with masuline
tendencies writes home from the sea-side
that »he always goes bathing in-a
striped suit, because it makes her look
like a buoy.
The newspapeu have recently been
filled with the story of a is young man
who was desperately in love with a
New Jersey girl. It has since been
discovered that the young man insane.
I understand you are a graduate
of Vassar, Miss Lucy. Did you study
English literature to any extent?"
" Oh, mercy, yes; we had Hogg for
breakfast, Bacon for dinner, Lamb for
tea, and Lover in the evening.
A Sidney, Neb., bachelor answered
a matrimonial advertisement in an
Omaha paper a few days ago, request-ing
a photograph. The lady replied,
sending not only her own photograph
but those of her four children by her
first husband as well. The bachelor
was satisfied.
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A Well dagger's Neat Trick.
A rich man in Davenport hired a
man to dig a cistern, agreeing to pay
!^12 for the job. After it was done the
rich man seized the laborer's tools and
locked them up, alleging that the
cistern leaked. It was really a ruse
to make the working man take less
pay. The latter dissembled his rags
and induced the rich man . to descend
into the cistern to examine it. No
sooner had he done so than the laborer
drew up the ladder and stood guard
over the cistern with a club, avowing
that the other should not come up until
he settled the bill. The imprisoned
one yelled "Murder!" and "Fire !"
and a crowd of his neighbors gathered,
but when they learned the trouble no
one would interfere, and they let him
stay until he liquidated.
"The Tune the Old C o w Died o f ."
In Scotland and the North of Ire-land
this saying very common in
the mouths of the peasantry, though
all who use it may not understand its
origin. It arose out of an old song:
"There was an old man, and he had an old
cow
And he had nothing to "give her;
So ho took out his fiddle and played her
t u n e -
Consider, good cow, consider;
This is no time of year for the grass to grow,
Consider, good cow, consider!"
The old cow died of hunger, and
when any grotesquely melancholy
song or tune is uttered the North
country people say, "That is tlie tune
the old cow died of."
A R e p o r t e r ' s Suicide.
An e x t r a o r d i n a r y suicide took place
at the Fay House, Cincinnati. The
victim being Mr. M. Wood, a young
man aged twenty-one years, of sober
habits, formerly a city reporter on t he
local paper. His parents reside in
E l l i n g t o n and are well-to-do. Wood's
body was found in has room, s i t t i n g in
a chair before a m a r b l e slab table, the
lamp still b u r n i n g , a revolver on the
floor by his side, a bullet-hole through
h i s head, nineteen pages of manuscript
before h im and the table a u d manu-script
covered with blood. The follow-i
n g is t h e most i m p o r t a n t part of the
document;
" BROTHER REPORTERS : W h e n you
come to sift t h i s m a t t e r and s um it up
your articles will be as follows : ' Last
evening the report of a pistol was
heard to issue f r om a room at t h e Fay
House. Those who heard the noise
t h o u g h t little of it at first, b u t investi-gation
reyealed the fact (hat Mr. M.
M. Wood had deliberately shot him-self
t h r o u g h t h e brain, he ball entering:
near the right temple and tearing
away a large portion of the skull
(presumed.) The pistol was a five
chambered 32-calibre and was held so
close to the head that the face was
much burned. The cause for t h e rash
act is not well understood, but it is
supposed to be temporary insanity.
The mystery s u r r o u n d i n g the case is
all t h e greater as up to t h e very last
act of his life Mr. Wflod never gave
t h e first i n t i m a t i o n of sjjipjde or even
t h e first evidence of h a v i n g a diseased
mind.
" ' H e spent a portion of yesterday
afternoon with his friend, .George
Stahl. They left tlie F a y House to-g
e t h e r at noon and drove to Mr. S t a h l 's
place of business. Then they visited
t h e dime muséum. They then separa-ted,
Mr. S t a h l going to his store and
Mr. Wood to his boarding house,
where he spent the rest oi' the after-noon
sleeping i n his room. Tuesday
n i g h t Mr. Wood stayed with his
friend, Bert Woillard, at t h e Tremont
House. They attended the concert to-gether
at t h e Opera House and upon
going t o Mr. W . ' s room spent au hour
or so p l a y i n g cards, but never gave the
slightest evidence of being unsound in
m i n d . ' "
The suicide then goes into a long
h i s t o r y of his life, saying that he,
t h o u g h y o u n g , h a d been m u c h troubled,
t h o u g h out of position, he considered
t h a t a trifle ; t h a t he owed some for
board, b u t had assets t o cover it ; t h at
his troubles began early, his life at
home being unpleasant—had several
difficulties with his f a t h e r , who even
made his g r a d u a t i n g unpleasant ; but
besides all these, t h e r e was something
else t h a t he could not tell, t h a t made
h im miserable. H e spoke of h i s mother
affectionately, s a y i n g that at least she
would mourn for him. This part of
t h e letter he said he could not write
without tears. The document closed
as follows :
"Header, it requires nerve to take
one's life, and it is not a weakness in
me to say t h a t as I write these-lines I
am t r e m b l i n g like an aspen leaf. Be-fore
me on this marble slab lies a
revolver charged and cocked, a n d as I
look at it my h e a r t almost leaps into
my mouth. It is a fearful t h i n g to
t a k e one's life, a n d I c a n ' t see h ow so
many have t h e heart to do it. But
here it gees—"
News Items.
A n n i e May, the 15 year-old daughter
of Miller -David Whiteworth, of
Areola, Montgomery county, eloped
with and married her father's em-ployee,
George Ullman. A divorce is
asked fos.
The P h i l a d e l p h i a grand j u r y called
a t t e n t i o n to t h e great number of wife-beaters
and suggested the whipping
post as a remedy.
R. O. Moorhead, postmaster at
Brockwayville, Jefferson county, was
held in $2.000 bail on the charge of
opening a registered letter containing
$2.
James Williamson is missing from
Wilkesbarre, and Luly Dctmere,
daughter of William Detmere, whom,
t h e y o u n g man wa» soon t o h a v e mar»
ried, is l e f t forlorn.
The widow Morgan, of Homestead,
near Pittsburg, aged 78, a n d once an
i n m a t e of t h e home for aged women at
Wilkmsburg, lias j u s t married to J o hn
Probert, an industrious steel-worker,
of 53.
Timothy H a r r i n g t o n , of Dilworth-town,
Chester county, supposed to
have committed suicide because of a
criminal charge brought against him
by a young girl, was seen slipping
away f r om home.
The unlaunched cruiser Chicago,
which was reported as s i n k i n g into
t h e ground at Roach's shipyard,
Chester, because of its great weight,
has been braced u p and it is thought
t h a t no difficulty will be found in
lauching her.
On t h e same day t h a t ex-Treasurer
Rupert, of West Chester, who stole
many thousand dollars from the
borough, was released after a year's
imprisonment, a negro named-Thomas
was set free, h a v i n g served an equal
t e rm for t h e t h e f t of forty-seven cents.
An unmarried woman name
Pauquette, 18 years of age, was arrest-ed
at Ottawa, Out., charged with
b u r n i n g her illegitimate male child,
one day old. She placed the child in
a cooking stove, where it was p a r t i a l ly
consumed before discovered.
Six masked men entered t h e resid-ence
of Blias Ritts, sr., near St.
Petersburg, and, after t y i n g t h e family
of four to chairs, ransacked t h e house,
securing $1,000. The thieves t h e n de-parted.
Ritts and his wife are octo-genarians.
Over eleven hundred letters were
delivered at P h i l a d e l p h a from Thurs-day
to Monday and "seventy-live
h u n d r e d delivery stamps sold. There
are n i n e t y messengers and t h e y earned
about 33 cents a day. Some have re -
signed and others t h i n k of d o i n g so.
D i p h t h e r i a has been prevalent t o an
alarming extent for several weeks past
i n Saxton and the neighboring parts
of Bedford a n d H u n t i n g d o n counties.
A large number of deaths nave oc-curred
and there are m a n y other cases
t h a t will probably prove fatal. It has
been determined to close the public
schools t h e r e a n d in the surrounding
c o u n t r y if t h e disease should spread
f u r t h e r w i t h i n the next few days.
Paying Debts Helps Easiness to Reviye.
If eyery man who can pay his debts
would do so the business machinery of
the country would work much, easier.
Here is a story of an actual occurrence^
A gentleman of Saxton vouches for its
t r u t h : A manufacturer of bar iron
one morning paid with a $20 bill a
debt that he owed to a shoemaker.
The shoemaker used the money to
settle his account with a coal dealer.
The latter paid it to a store keeper
(this was in Saxton, Bedford county,
Pa) and the merchant used the bill to
settle with a farmer whom he owed for
some provisions. The farmer at once
went down and paid his account at the
blacksmith and the latter personage
used the bill to pay off an old score
which was against him at the furnace.
The note sent out by the latter return-ed
to him before night, after having
extinguished a great mass of small
debts. This happened on Thursday
of last week.
A Wealthy Colored M a n Dead.
Thomas J . Bowers a w e a l t h y colored
man of Philadelphia, died at his late
residence, on Saturday. Mr. Bowers
was one of the best known colored
i n t h a t city. He was a coal merchant
and was supposed to be w o r t h f r om
S-°yj00 to §40,000. Until t h e last two
seasons he always passed his summer
at Saratoga, w h e r e he was well k n o wn
and respected by a large circle of
white people who passed their sum-mers
there. His dress was always
elegant aud his manners were easy
aud unobtrusive. In h i s young days
he used to appear on the lyric stage,
a u d on account of the p u r i t y of his
t e n o r voice h e was called t h e Mario of
h i s race. He was buried on Tuesday
Cornwall Railroad to be Extended.
Rumors have been out recently
about t h e Cornwall and Lebanon road
being extended from Bellaire to
Middletown. Superintendent Jen-nings
says t h a t surveyors will be put
on t h i s week, and if t h e road is r un
to Middletown the branch from
Bellaire to Oonewago will be abandon-ed.
The road to Conewago was a t first
only intended for freight, but during
t h e m o n t h of J u l y they hauled 84,7000
passengers, and if it is extended to
Middletown he believes their passeiir
ger travel would be m u c h increase^.
8 T . ELMO HOTEL, N o s . 317 a n d 319
Arch street, Philadelphia.—Rates re-duced
to $2 per day. The traveling
public will still f i n d a t t h i s hotel the
same liberal provision for t h e i r com-fort.
It is located in t h e immediate
centres of business, a n d places ofamuse-meut
a n d t h e d i f f e r e n t r a i l r o a d depots,
as well as all parts of t h e city, are
easily accessible by street cars con-s
t a n t l y passing the doors. It offers
special inducements to those visiting
t h e c i t y for business or pleasure. Your
patronage i s respectfully solicted.,
J O S E P H M . FEGER,
oc7-ly Propr.
The Oldest Moravian Seminary.
The centennial anniversary ,of the
Morayian Seminary for young ladies,
t h e oldest i n s t i t u t i o n of i t s k i n d i n the
country, was celebrated at Bethlehem
on F r i d a y . The a t t e n d a n c e of former ,
pupils aud their friends was very
large, m a n y coming from a great dis-tance.
The exercises were h e l d in tlie
Moravian church in the afternoon.
Addresses were delivered by t h e R i g ht
Rev. E d m u n d de Schweiuitz, S. T. D.,
and Hon. S. F. Phillips, ex-Solicitor
General of the United States, a n d a
historical paper was read by Rev.
Albert Loenter. I n t h e evening a social
reunion of t h e a l u m n i a n d t h e i r f r i e n ds
took place i n t h e chapel of t h e school.
The seminary was elaborately decorat-ed
a n d m a n y happy incidents occurred
d u r i n g t h e day.
Swallowed a Lot of Buttons.
Some time ago a little child (sixteen
month old) of Christian Buchen, re-s
i d i n g in Shoptown, about a mile
south of David Bear's hotel, came very
near causing i t s own d e a t h b y swallow-i
n g a number of buttons. Mrs. Buchen
was engaged i n sewing, and t h e child,
unnoticed b y t h e mother, was amusing
itself with the work-box, when it
made a noise as if choking. She at
once missed a lot of buttons t h a t had
been i n t h e box or basket, a n d immedi-ately
divined t h e cause of t h e trouble.
She succeeded i n getting one button
f r om t h e c h i l d ' s mouth, but t h i n k i ng
it had swallowed a number, Dr.
Bushong was sent for. After adminis-t
e r i n g thé proper remedies fifteen
buttons of assorted sizes and varieties,
passed f r om it. Such a meal was cer-t
a i n l y heavy for a weak little stomach.
—New Holland Clarion.
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