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ch, the Tailor,
Gents' Outfitter.
CLOTHING.
I offer everything in the way of Spring
andSummerClothing and make a specialty of
SUITS TO ORDER,
having an endless variety of piece goods to
select from. In the
Ready-made Department
you will find an elegant variety of Men's,
Youths' and Children's Clothing, made up
in good style, warranted as represented .or
no sale. Prices will be found as low as
anywhere.
HATS AND CAPS.
SHIRTS.
We have the latest and nobbiest styles
in Fine Stiff and Soft Hats and Straw
Goods for men and boys. Caps for summer
wear a specialty. No old styles.
The most comfortable and neatest
Shirt is the Tailor Made Flannel Shirt.
I have them in all colors, in various patterns,
at prices far below last year's prices and in
such pretty designs that they will sell.
White Shirts, laundried and unlaundried,
the latter from 35 cents up. Who'd think
of making a shirt when they can be bought
at these prices ?
NECKWEAR.
Nothing adds so much to the appearance of a
man as a neat Collar and Necktie. I have the correct
styles in seasonable summer shapes of fashionable
Scarfs and Ties, in large variety to select from. These,
goods were made especially for me from silks of my
own choice. In COLLARS and CUFFS I can supply you
in linen, celluloid or paper, just as you prefer. In
styles it must be funny if I cannot suit you.
Would be pleased to have you call and see before going
elsewhere to purchase.
WALTER H. BTJCH,
RECORD" BUILDING,
I B - R O - A J D S T . L I T I T Z .
J J J I K R Y GTAMM
T h e i ^ EW g o S T O N ßTORE,
No. 24 Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa.
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CAPTAIN PIGAULT.
Light Calicoes at 4, 5 and a yard.
Fine Lawns at3}^cayard.
Fine Lawns at 4c a yard.
Yard-wide Batiste at 8 a nd 12%c a yard
Beautiful Challies at 5, 8,10c etc., a yard.
Lovely and New!
Printed Persian Mulls, 12%c a yard.
Black Lawns—Fast Black;, 12%c a yard.
White Lawns, yard wide, 8c a yard. -
10,000 Yards of Hand-made Torchon Laces
at 3, 4, 5, 7,8 and 10c a yard.
These Laces are from 2 to 5c a yard less
t h a n cost ot manufacture,
Big Bargains in "White Cotton Laces
at 1,2, 3, i and 5c a yard.
The quality and styles are both a surprise
and a pleasure.
Beautiful Crazy Cloths or Crepelines
at 12%c a yard, both in Fanay and Plain
Cream.
Exquisite Styles in
Plaid Fifured Organdie Lawns
at 12>^e a yard
Ladies' Balbriggan Hose,
Regular Made, 12%e a pair.
Silk Gloves. All our Silk Gloves at 2hc a
pair. Some were sold as high as 75c a pair.
Special Assortment of Black Sateens at 12^c
a yard.
Hair-Brushes 12%c each.
Fine Soap—Three Pieces for 10c.
Button Moulds, 1, i and 5c a dozen.
Dress Shields, 5c a pair.
Big Bargains in Ribbons at 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10
and 12J^c a yard-at
the money-saving
Boston Store,
Lancaster, Penn'a
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STOVES! A M.ntEIDEB.
TIN & SHEET IRON WORKER.
I now have a stoce of upwards of loo Roofing and Spouting a Specialty.
STOVES, EASGESaM HEATERS
to select from, in all the latest improved
styles. 20 pieces of new patterns in
O I L C L O T H ,
£ yards wide, at from 45 to 90 cents a yard;.
Stovepipe and Stove Boards. Agate Ware,
Tubs a n d Buckets, Knives and Forks.
Roofing and Spouting, Plumbing, Steam
and Gas Fitting, Wood and Iron Pumps.
Stoves put up and delivered iree of charge
All work guaranteed. Can compote in prise
with the lowest.
Come and see my stock. No trouble to
show Goods,
Gas ani Steal Fitiipiiiilmliii.
Am prepared wi th a full set of tools and
compatent workmen in this branch. All
work guaranteed.
A L L K I N D S O F
WOOD AND IRON PUMPS.
Agent for the famous Walters' Patent Tin
Shingle.
BROAD STREET, LITITZ, 23my-ly
J. A. MIKSCH,
M A I N STREET,
DR.COEX'S SANTONINE WORM SYRUP
Is the most pleasant and certain Vermi-fuge
known to medical science. Try a bottle.
Price 25 cents. These Remedies are prepared
only at Dr. H. N. Coxe's Laboratory, Schuyl-
T „ k m Haven, Pa., a n d sold by all Respectable
LITITZ, PA Dealers. 28sep-6m
In the spring of '64, when the sul-len
boom of Sherman's cannon,
forty miles away, could be distinctly
heard in Atlanta, the good people in
that city were usually restless and vi-gilant.
A stranger in those days was an ob-ject
ot suspicion, until he proved him-self
to be a friend and not a doubtful
character.
This was the situation of affairs one
fine morning, when the gentleman
walked out of the dining-room of the
Atlanta hotel and took his stand in
front of the main entrance.
A citizen iu shabby clothes—every-thing
was shabby at that stage of the
war—sauntered into the hotel, looking
keenly at the stranger as he passed
him. What he saw evidently sur-prised
him, for he turned and looked
sharply at the man.
" Who is he ?" the citizen asked the
landlord, who at that moment came
aloDg and stopped to shake hands.
" Come in last night," was the
reply, " registered from Montgomery,
name Louis Pigault—French, I should
say."
" Or Yankee," answered the other
with a frown, " I don't like his looks.
Where in the devil did he get his spick
and span new store clothes ? Why man,
they're brand new! You don't see
such a stylish rig as that coming
through the blockade. Money
wouldn't buy it, sir, not even in Rich-mond!"
" That's so," said the landlord re-flectively.
" He'll have to be investi-gated."
"I don't want to bother anybody,"
remarked the shabby man, " but as a
member of the committee of safely 1
must do my duiy, you know !"
" Then you will—"
" Precisely," with a meaning nod.
" I'll drop a hint to the commander ot
the post."
With these words the member of
the committee of safety walked out of
the office, and started up the street.
The landlord was a genial man, and
he did not like to see a guest annoyed.
Yielding to a good-natured impulse,
he joined Pigault, and made some
commonplace remarks about the
weather.
"French," said the landlord to him-self,
after a few pleasant words had
been exchanged, " or a creole from
Louisiana—I don't know which—but
he is a gentleman all the same."
As Pigault stood there puffing his
cigar, and talking vivaciously with a
strong foreign accent, his companion
scrutinized him closely. The French-man
was a man of 35 or 40, with a
bronzed moustache and imperial. His
eyes were black and impenetrable, but
his expression was suave, and his cour-tesy
embarrassed the plain Georgian.
An officer, accompanied by a pri-vate
soldier, came striding along the
pavement. He paused in front of the
hotel.
" Can I see Mr. Pigault ?" he asked
the proprietor.
Tho smiling landlord at once intro-duced
the officer to his companion.
The military man was very polite.
Would Mr. Pigault mind stepping up
to the office of the commander of the
post, a mere formal matter of business,
he believed, but still it >va3 necessary
that the matter should be attended to
at once.
Mr. Pigault received this informa-tion
with a blank look. ,, Nothing
would afford him greater pleasure, he
said, than to meet the commander,
and he would be charmed to accompa-ny
the officer.
By this time the landlord tad com-plete
confidence in the newcomer.
"Tell the colonel," he said, "that
I'll call with Mr. Pigault in a few min-utes."
This was satisfactory to the lieuten-ant,
and with an elaborate bow he de-parted,
followed by the private with
his musket.
The commander of the post opened
his eyes very wide when the stranger
informed him that he was Captain
Pigault of Marshal Bazaine's staff.
" Here is my pass," the captain vol-unteered,
handing him a scrap of
brown paper.
It was in due form, signed by the
Montgomery official, and on the back,
was the oath of allegiance to the
southern confederacy properly filled
out and signed.
The commander did not know ex-actly
what to say, but intimated his
desire to learn the nature of his visi-tor's
mission.
Captain Pigault hesitated and look-ed
at the landlord. The worthy citi-zen
took the hint and excused himself.
The interview lasted an hour. Cap-tain
Pigault had no commission in
writing, no letters, no documents-nothing
but the pass from Montgomery.
After he had talked ten minutes, the
commander felt that no credentials
were necessary. The Frenchman ex-pressed
his gratification at meeting a
gallant confederate of high rank to
whom he could talk-freely, and yet he
felt bound to state that he was com-pelled
to hold some things back until
he could confer with President Davis
and his cabinet. One thing, however,
he would say, and that was that the
Emperor Maximilian would soon be
firmly established in Mexico, and the
empire desired to form a close alliance
with the" southern confederacy. In a
month or so Bazaine's army would
not be needed at home. Was there
any reason why it should not reinforce
Johnston or Lee ?
The scheme was a dazzling one.
The commander had heard whispers
of it in Kichmond, and the newspapers
from time to time hinted at it. As he
listened to the accomplished diplomat
and soldier before him it struck him
that Maximilian could not have se-lected
a better man for such an impor-tant
mission.
Captain Pigault did not disguise
the fact that he had found it difficult
to reach Atlanta. He could not re-pose
confidence in everybody. It
would have been dangerous to carry a
written communication from the im-perial
government, as he ran the risk
of falling into the hands of the feder-als
on his way across the Rio Grande,
as the troops of Juarez would have
captured him. He had first gone to
Cuba and from there to Florida in a
little fishing vessel. Before going to
Richmond he wanted to see General
Johnston. Then he would proceed
with his journey and talk with Presi-dent
Davis and General Lee.
" We expect trouble sooner or later,"
he said, with the United States. The
federal government will reassert the
Monroe doctrine and go to war with
the empire. Who are our natural
allies? The confederates as a matter
of course. It is true that they are
founding a republic, but as it is based
upon slavery it is monarchical in
spirit. As friendly allies the .empire
and the confederacy will be able to
maintain themselves against the
world 1"
As the confederate gazed into the
handsome face of the debonair French-man,
it dawned upon him that this
man could not be a nameless adven-turer.
He was a man of affairs one
used to authority in courts and camps.
A few questions confirmed this im-pression.
Coptaiu Pigault gave me a
brief sketch of his career. He had
served in the Imperial guard and
fought in the Crimea and in Algeria.
He spoke five languages as well as his
native tongue. Louis Napoleon had
decorated him with the cros3 of the
legion of honor.
All these matters the captain touch-ed
upon in his fluent, sparkling talk,
and the confederate never thought of
doubting him. When they parled4he
commander proposed to escort him on
the following day to General John-ston's
headquarters. This was satis-factory
to the captain, and he returned
to his hotel with a new pass in his
pocket giving him practically the free-dom
of the city.
The next morning the commander
called at the hotel and asked for his
French friend.
Captain Pigault was not to be seen.
The landlord and the commander
went to his room ! It was vacant and
the lodger's valise was gone.
The bed showed that it had not
been occupied the night before. In
the grate were a few small bits of
paper. The commander picked up
several of the scraps and proceeded to
examine them. They had evidently
formed part of a drawing, and two or
three ot the larger pieces showed that
the drawing had represented a forti-fied
city.
The two men looked at each other
and the same suspicion was in their
minds.
Why had the Frenchman spent
his time in drawing a diagram of
Atlanta and her defense ?
The commander hurriedly returned
to his office. He sent put runners to
scour the town and telegraphed in
every direction, but the day wore
away without any tidings.
On the following day the command-er
was; thoroughly miserable. Who
was Captain Pigault, and where was
he?
Long afterwards the commander
learned that he had been hoodwinked
by the sharpest and most clever spy
in Sherman's army. But Pigault had
not remained in Atlanta long enough
to secure much information. The
commander's offer to accompany him
to Johnston's headquarters had fright-ened
him.
" I don't believe that he was alto-gether
a liar," said the commander
when he spoke of it afterwards. " I
believe that he was once a French
soldier, and that he had served with
Bazaine in Mexico. He was deci-dedly
the gamest, most fascinating
and interesting scroundrel that I ever
met. If we had found him out in
time he would have met the death
of a spy without flinching."
E n g l i s h P r o v e r b s.
Beauty is a blossom:
Better late than never.
Be as merry as you can.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Business is the salt of life.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Better known than trusted.
A tree is known by its Iruit.
Better to bend than to break.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
As the bell is so is the clapper.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Birds of a feather flock together.
A small spark makes a great fire.
Borrowed garments never fit well.
A penny saved is a penny earned,
A quiet tongue shows a wise head.
Buy at a market; but sell at home.
A willing mind makes a light foot.
Change of fortune is the lot of life.
A word before is worth two behind.
An old sack asketh much patching.
Be not too hasty to outbid another.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thun-der.
An idle brain is the devil's work-shop.
Better go about than fall into the
ditch.
Better to. be alone than in bad con>
pany.
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast ia
better.
A rotten apple injures its com-panions.
Be slow to promise, and quick to
perform.
An obedient wife commands her
husband.
An honest man's word is as good as
his bond.
A spur in the head is worth two in
the heel.
As you make your bed so mu3t you
lie on it.
An unlawful oath is better broke
than kept.
By others faults wise men correct
their own. -
A single fact is worth a ship-load of
argument.
Charity begins at home but does
not end there.
Better to go to bed supperless than
to rise in debt.
An hour in the morning is worth
two in the afternoon.
A nice wife and a back door often
make a rich man poor.
Before thou marry, be sure of a
house wherein to tarry.
Better ride on an ass that carries
me, than a horse that throws me.
Be it for better, or be it for worse,
be ruled by him that beareth the
purse.
V a r i e t y S h o w i n a C h u r c h.
NEWARK, June 23.—Bethel and
St. John's Methodist Churches are
having a first-class sensation. The
two congregations united in an enter-tainment
in St. John's church last
Wednesday night for the benefit of a
new Bethel building fund. The enter-tainment
was advertised as " classical,"
but before it had progressed ten min-utes
it developed into a regular va-riety
show. The first piece on the
programme proved to be a baccha-nalian
song and chorus. The women
wore short skirts and did some high
kicking and the men clinked wine
glasses as they sang.
Pastors Palmer and Diggs were hor-rified
and so were half the audience.
Finally people began leaving and Pas-tor
Palmer went behind the curtain
and ordered the permormance stopped.
This was done after the manager had
declared that they had often exhibited
in churches. An attempt was made
to keep the matter quiet, but it be-came
public yesterday. The officers
and pastors of the churches are very
much chagrined.
A I j u c k y W o m a n ' s Gain.
There is nothing that I now enjoy
that I do not owe to the happy chance
of having used Dr. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy at a time when I
was suffering all that a human being
could endure. My troubles began in
my kidneys over nine years ago, and
from which I never expected to re-cover.
Later my physicians said I had
bright's disease.
To add to my affliction, after I had
been ill about two years I had a bad
attack of gravel. Six years ago last
June—how well I remember the day—
I saw Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy, of Rondout, N. Y., advertised
in our paper. After using three bottles
I was well. I haye never had a return
of the gravel, and though I am over
sixty years of age I am vigorous and
strong as I was in my prime.
I do all my own work and rarely
know what it is to be tired. I keep
the medicine in the house and give it
to my grandchildren, and recommend
it wheneyor I can. What physicians
and all of the many remedies I had
taken coulil not do Dr. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy did : it stayed the
disease and made me a strong, vigorous
woman. Mrs. EMELINE P. MIZNER,
Burg Hill, Ohio.
The Unlucky Woman.
About the unlucky woman. Start
her out on a hot day and her face gets
red.
Start her out on a cold day and it
gets blue.
Let her use a little powder and a,
touch of rouge and women who are
hand-painted until you don't know
where it begins or where it ends speak
of her as so disgustingly made up.
Let her buy a frock on her own
responsibility and the shopkeeper can
persuade her that the one shade she
ought not to wear is the only one be-coming
to her.
Let her start out with a lot of other
women and she is certain before the
evening is over either to want a drink
of water or to find out that the string
of her petticoat is broken.
Let her have have a beautiful lace
gown given her by her godmother and
the hrst time she goes out she tears the
uppermost flounce on the edge of the
-balcony, and when Maria expostulates
with her and asks her whom she ex-pects
will mend her clothes in heaven,
she replies that she doesn't know, but
she had always supposed that her
attire there would be so simple that
she would not need any. Then she
hugs Maria, the frock gets mended
and, between you and me, looks as
good as it did in the first place.
She always sides with the unpopular
person, consequently she has the
pleasure of being told that she is
cranky.
She doesn't like ice cream, so Miss
Dollface pronounces her, with a pretty
lisp, "so unfeminine."
In making a train or a boat she is
either overpunctual and wastes valu-able
time waiting for the rest to come,
or she is hauled on by a colored por-ter.
Then she is in a lovely state of
excitement and details the story of
why she was late to a contemptuous
party.
She is an unlucky woman, but not
an unpopular one, and Miss Dollface
and Miss Athletic and Miss Nimini-piminy,
who always do the right, thing
and never make a mistake, wonder
what in the world the men see in
her.
Her engagement is announced to
the great catch of the day. They
wonder what he saw in her. Well,
certainly not a perfect woman, nobly,
planned. He would not have known
what to do with that sort of a woman,
but he saw one who was strictly
feminine and who needed a little mas-culine
training to get her so that she
could comfort and command.
I have rather a shine for the un-lucky
girl myself. She is as human
as a district messenger boy and as
natural as real fruit.
Blood will tell.
Wolverines are Ugly Customers.
Few people know what a wolverine
is. They know that Michigan is
called the Wolverine State and that
Michigan people are called Wolverines.
But they have little or no idea why
the State was so named or what the
nickname means.
The State is named after an animal
that used to infest, and still frequents,
the dense woods in the northern part
of the State, as weir as in the woods of
northern Wisconsin and Canada. This
animal is the wolyerine, or, as the
varieties of him found in northern
European countries are called, the
glutton. They are savage beasts,
these wolverines are, and they play
sad havoc with the cattle of the Michi-gan
farmers. They are like a cross
between a wolf and bear. The tail
and the temper fresemble those of a
wolf, but in strength and size and
savageness they much resemble a bear,
a very bad bear.
They are less clumsy than bears,
though, and they can climb trees.
Many a hunter has walked under a
tree up in Michigan without looking
for a wolverine in the tree first, and
the wolverine dropped down on him
from one of the lower limbs, and be-forethe
next morning had him eaten
up, buckskin breeches and all, even to
the heels of his hunting boots. They
are ugly looking beasts, the cqae pretty
thing about them being their bushy
tail, a foot or so long. . Their claws
are longer and sharper than bears',
and their teeth just as sharp.
They are so savage and so wary
and suspicious that it is almost impos-sible
to catch them alive, and so they
don't have them in circuses and zoo-logical
gardens, and most people don't
know what they are. They are so
savage that hunters don't care to hunt
them, and so the wolyerine has things
about his own way where he lives.
For the Good of Others.
I want to make known the fact that
I suffered from a Bladder and Kidney
trouble, and that I was cured by Dr.
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy-made
at Rondout, N. Y.,—and 16ok
forward to spending the balance of my
life free from torture and with a heart
grateful for the medicine which affords
me so pleasant a prospect.—Rev. S. Q.
Chandler, Lebanon Springs, Ji< Y,
PHILADELPHIA & READING.
The Excellent and Rapid Work Done
toy the Officials of that Road.
Great credit is due the officials of
the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-road
for the manner in which they
have labored to reconstruct their road
and for the success which has crowned
their efforts. No railroad official has
shown himself to be more efficient
and capable than General Superin-tendent
Sweigard, who, after once get-ting
upon the ground, took complete
charge of the work and slept neither
night nor day until the undertaking
was completed. His success was great-ly
due to his personal knowledge of
men and to his ability to place his
hands upon the right men at an in-stant's
notice. The work was greatly
expedited by Mr. Sweigard's knowing
just where to find the necessary timber
which he had at the places, where
needed, as soon as the men were there.
The General Superintendent was aid-ed
by an energetic corps of assistants
of Messrs. Simmons, Hunter, Assist-ant
Chief Engineer, and Adams,
Chief Telegraph Operator. The
Reading people crossed their bridge at
Sunbury one day before the the Penn-sylvania
people were over theirs at
Montgomery, the Reading building
three spans and the Pennsylvania
four. The Pennsylvania crossed their
Williamsport bridge one day before
the Reading crossed theirs at Muncy,
but in this instance seven spans w
built by the Reading to four spans by
the Pennsylvania. Owing to the
strong current the tug "Minnie," of
this city, was brought into requisition
for towing the bents to the west side
of the river as fast as they were
framed on the east side. Electric
light plants were used on both sides of
the river, and Superintendent Sweig-ard
was among the men at all hours
instructing each foreman in his line of
work. Trackmen followed each gang
laying rails as fast as the bents and
stringers were placed in position.
The work at Muncy was begun Satur-day
night and completed Thursday
morning at 8 o'clock, at which time
the first passenger crossed it.
The work on the road in this city
was under the personal supervision of
Superintendent C. M. Lawier, who
was ably assisted by the Division En-gineer,
A. L. Gaily, and Superintend-ent
of bridges Perry. All of these
officials were untiring in their efforts
and when the work was started it seem-ed
like an unending and herculean
task to rebuild the trestle. The gath-ering
of the remains of the original
trestle and the clearing of the road
bed of the mass of timber and logs
that littered it, was more difficult than
that of reconstructing the trestle. On
Sunday, June 9, 3000 feet of trestle
was in place and trains ran through
to Newberry Junction. All the small
bridges between this city and Sunbury
were either entirely destroyed or were
washed from the foundations, and
several miles of roadbed were washed
out. At such times as the past two
weeks the points of a man's character
are plainly brought to light, and from
the present it will be a recognized fact
that for indomitable pluck and energy
the general and division officials of
the Philadelphia and Reading cannot
be overestimated.— Williamsport (Pa.)
Sun and Banner.
The Usual Way.
If you drop your collar button
there is one sure method of finding
it. After you haye hauled the bu-reau
across the room to look under
it, then replace the heavy furniture
and put on a heavy pair of shoes,
start to walk across the room, and
before you have taken three steps
you will be on the collar button and
smash it all to pieces.
A Michigan Central Railroad Em-ploye
Wins His Case After a Seven
"Sears' Contest.
ALBION, Mich., Dec. 20,1887,
"While employed as agent of the
Michigan Central railroad company at
Augusta, Mich., about seven years ago,
my kidneys became diseased, and I
have been a great sufferer ever since.
Have consulted the leading physicians
of this city and Ann Arbor, and all
pronounced my case Bright's disease.
After taking every highly recom-mended
remedy that I had knowledge
of to no purpose, and while suffering
under a very severe attack in October
last, began Hibbard's . Rheumatic
Syrup, and am to-day a well man. It
affords ine pleasure to render suffering
humanity any good that I can, and in
speaking of the remedy, allow me to
say that I think it the greatest medi-cine
i n t h e world. E. LARZILERE,
Agent M. C. R. It.
"When Baby waa sick, we gave her Cftsteria,
When ehe was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clang to Castoria,
When ebe had Children, she gave them Castoria,
General News.
A Prohibitionist landlord of Mal-vern
offered his tenant two months
rent if he would vote for the amend-ment.
Three daughters of Dr. Kratz, of
New Britian, Bucks county, have just
finished a long pedestrian tour through
the State.
Charles H. Long, aged 15 years,
living in Berks county near the Le-high
county line, has been held for
trial for horse stealing.
Dnring a fight a few days ago at
Morton, John McMahon, a track-walker,
received a blow in the face
which drove the stem of a pipe he was
smoking into the roof of his mouth.
George Erdman and Elwood Broom
the latter a noted Lehigh Valley pugi-list,
were jailed at Easton for stealing
a team near South Bethlehem. They
were caught selling the team at Hel-ler
town.
Thoma H. Berry, one of Chester's
Councilmen, was recently robbed of a
pair of gold spectacles by a man who
borrowed them to write a letter to his
mother. The fellow had also begged
the paper, envelope and stamp from
Mr. Berry.
Cashier Voight, of the defunct
Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of the
South side, Pittsburg, was sentenced
to six years imprisonment in the
Western Penitentiary for embezzle-ment.
Sentence was deferred on the
other counts.
As George St. John, a noted horse-shoer
of Wilkesbarre, was driving to
Kingston a couple of nights since, a
man jumped from a grove, seized hia
horse's bity and cried : " Hold up your
hands ?" St. John sprang for the foot-pad,
and with bare knuckles pounded
his face until he begged for mercy.
Then he was let go.
Dr. C. N. Snellenberger and M. J.
Atkinson, of Philadelphia; George
M. Franjdin and W. Z. Sener, owners
of the Keystone watch factory, charged
with conspiracy to defraud Abram
Bitner, late superintendent of the
factory, waived a hearing at Lancas-ter,
and gave bail for trial at the Aug-ust
Quarter Sessions Court.
John R. Lily, of East Fallowfield,
bought a fine horse in Phoanixville,
and on the way home stopped at
West Chester, where the animal caught
a peculiar disease from western horses.
His throat swelled to an enormous
size and then burst, the blood issuing
with the hissing sound of a fountain.
It was heard afar off.
A resident of Lewistown was driv-ing
across the mountain during the
flood, when a box of one of his buggy
wheels got hot and would not revolve.
He had no axle grease, and did not
care to spend the night on the moun-tain.
Luckily he had some bologna
sausage in the vehicle. He used it as
a lubricant, and it got him safely
home.
As " Daddy" Wyant, who had been
celebrating his 53rd birthday with
friends, was driving home to Centre-moreland
his cart lurched and tilted
him out. He was wearing a tali
silk hat, which fell under the horse's
feet and frightened the animal, caus-ing
a runaway in which Mr. Wyant
was severely bruised and his team
damaged.
Will Jamison, a Union newsboy,
and other Pittsburg youths, were
walking across Penn Avenue Bridge
on the hand rail, in the game of " fol-low-
your-leader" a few days ago,
when one of the boys gave a sudden
war-whoop, which so scared Jamison
that he lost his balance and fell to
the track, thirty feet below. A
broken arm a badly bruised face were
the only results.
*A Chambersburg restaurant-keep-er
who is an expert on frogs says :
" The number caught' will diminish
from this time until the dark of the
moon, after which the season will
practically be ended, as the animals
then disappear in the mud and are
hard to catch. It is only on cloudy
nights now that they can be caught,
for when the moon is full they spy
their would-be captors in time to es-cape."
John Snyder has given the Allen-town
Democrat two tree frogs, which
dwell contentedly in a glass jar
filled one-third with water, and pro-vided
with a green twig and a little
ladder. When the weather is fair
the little fellows crawl up the ladder
and gaze around, but when a rain is
coming they dive to the bottom of the
jar. These movements are made
hours in advance of the weather.
Two aged grass widowers, James
StahJ and Aaron Eck, have put up a
shanty in the woods in Powder Val-ley,
near Allentown, and being with-out
helpmates will board with each
other. As they can do a number of
show tricks they are having daily re-hearsals
of gymnastic feats, acts of
ledgerdemain, rifle-shooting, singing,
dancing, etc., with a view of starting
up in the sideshow business in the fall
and making a tour of the county Fairs.