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VOL. XIII. LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 11,1890. NO* 32
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Lane. Co.. Pa.
Lembach Bro
We Protect Our Customers.
n o w ?
"1st.—By giving them reliable Goods. Some Goods look
well, but don't wear well. Woolens are very deceiving
You can't often tell the quality of the stock, nor the
test of the color. We make this a study and give you
only standard Goods.
2nd.—By giving them well made and well fitting garments.
What matters the good quality of the material, if the
workmanship of the tailor is poor? Or the beauty ol
goods if the fit is miserable ? But combine the three,
—good material,—honest workmanship,—and a good
fit,—and you have the complete garment. Twenty-five
years experience has taught us how to do that.
3 r d .— By giving them full value for their money. Whatever
amount you are willing to spend for Clothing, rest
assured that we give all that is possible in return for
your money. And our annually increasing sales show
that the people appreciate it.
The stock for the season is ready now, the quality, style, and
prices are right. Won't you call and see for yourself?
O o r . 8 t h & P e n n S t s . , LEINBACH & B R O . ,
READING, PA. Clothiers. ,
Rothsville • Carriage • Works.
LOST ON THE DEEP.
I am ready for the Spring Season, having a full line of new work on hand.
Buiies, Carriaps, Four-Posters Market and Spring
All?complete stock of S E C O N D - H A N D W A G O N S of all styles. Will
sell at reasonable prices and all work sold must give satisfaction. Give us a
call and examine our work.
P . B . K O F R O T H .
¡peat Reductions in
. A . T
S . & H . G - R O S H S '
OLD RELIABLE G0A6H WORK BROAD STREET, LITITZ.
We have a large and full stock of first-class Vehicles for the Spring Trade
which we offer at a GREAT REDUCTION of last year's prices, comprising Latest
Styles Buggies, Four-Posters Jump-Seat Carriages, one very fine Four-Passenger
Extensionr'Top Surrey, McCaul and Market Wagons, Road Carts, &c.
We have a number of Second-Hand Buggies and Market Wagons, which
we offer at a great bargain, and one Four-Poster as good as new, built of the very
best material, Derby Springs and Excellent Spring Cushion.
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R i g h t t o S u i t t h e Times.
Repairing done promptly and in the most thorough manner, at prices as low
as the lowest. S. & H . G R O S H.
THE ORIGINAL CARPET HALL.
( F o r m e r l y S h i r k ' s Carpet H a l l .)
7 he Only Exclusive Carpet House in Lancaster.
C A R P E T S , C A R P E T M A N U F A C T U R I N G AND F L O O R C O V E R I N G S ONLR.
C A R P E T S — I m m e n s e S t o c k — e v e r y t h i n g new, no a u c t i o n goods, e v e r y c a r p e t re-l
i a b l e , all q u a l i t i e s , f r om 10c p e r y a r d to $2.00 p e r y a r d . Sewing and
l a y i n g p r o m p t l y done.
O I L CLOTHS—All widths—i y a r d to 4 y a r d s wide.
L I N O L E U M S — H a n d s o m e ' p a t t e r n s all n e w — p r i c e s low.
MATTINGS—China a n d Cocoa Mattings—All w i d t h s , P l a i n a n d F a n c y.
RUGS—Beautiful P a t t e r n s — a l l sizes—all k i n d s.
R \ G CARPETS—Our own m a k e — k n o w n for y e a r s as t h e best m a d e i n t h e coun-t
r y , all w i d t h s , í r om i y a r d t o li y a r d s . Custom w e a v i n g - C a r p e ts
woven to o r d e r , special w e a v e r s for t h e p u r p o s e . We g u a r a n t e e to
u s e y o u r own r a g s a n d g i v e y o u t h s best w o v e n R a g Carpet y o u can
get a n y w h e r e.
PRICES—One price to all, m a r k e d i n P l a i n F i g u r e s , a n d t h a t p r i c e t h e l o w e s t . I
p u r c h a s e s made t h i s m o n t h d e l i v e r e d free.
S T O C K — E v e r y t h i n g e n t i r e l y new—new m a n a g e m e n t , s t o r e r o om e n l a r g e d , e v e ry
t h i n g s h o w n o n first floor.
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H 0 OE T I R E S !
Now is the tlm to Buy at a
GOOD REDUCTION.
My Stock is Larger than Ever.
STOVES OF DIFFERENT KINDS.
Tinware of best I XX Tin, none like It in
town.
KNIVES, FORKS and SPOONS.
Wood and Wiiloware Cheaper t h a n ever.
Parties about to COMMENCE HOUSE-KEEPING
are cordially invited t o examine
my stock a n d get prices before buying else-where.
« a . Goods delivered and satisfaction
guranteed.
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Roofing, Spouting, Plumbing,
and Steam Fitting.
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Mary Graham and her betrothed
William Trueman, fearing that their
«rents would object to the match, re-solved
to sail to some port where they
:ould be secretly married, for MaryV
at her wanted her to màrry a wealthy
>ld merchant named Rodger Bron-son.
They had hardly started, when
a squall struck Ihe boat, almost upset-ing
it. The storm increased and at
last the mast broke just as Trueman
was swept overboard.
Fortunately for him, he was able to
•seize the spar, which supported him
until he was rescued by a tishing-smack.
His first effort was to persuade
¡e men to go in search of his boat.
It was found at last, bottom up and
empty.
I knew it," he groaned, a« the fish-ing-
smack turned toward home again.
" How could you attempt an elope-ment?"
said Mr. Trueman when he
heard it all.
" I will now tell you a secret. Rod-ger
Bronson, your ecceutrive old rela
tive, liked Mary so well—bad so high
an opinion of her—that he, too, hoped
you would choose her in preference 10
any other young woman for a wife."
" No, no ; it cannot be," said Wil-liam.
" H e wanted her himself." '
" You are entirely mistaken. And
now I will tell you what he informed
Mr. Graham and me he meant to do
for you if you married Mary."
Forme?"
Yes. He in'eiided to make you a
present of $10,000 on thf! day you be-came
her husband."
How I have misjudged him !
Why—oh, why !—did you not tell me
all this before? Had I known it, my
Mary would have been spared me !"
" As regards Roger' Bronson, he
charged me to say nothiug 10 you
about his benevolent intention^ for he
did not wânt to have you influenced
in any way. Of course, he did not
know your character or be would have
never been afraid that you could be
bribed into marrying the young lady.
Nevertheless, as he wished me to keep
his secret, I have felt obliged to do so
up to the present time. Now, as the
poor girl is lost, there i* no longer, in
my opinion, any reason why you
should learn her truth. Neither Mr.
Graham nor myself wished, under the
circumstances, to say anything that
might have the slightest effect upon
either your choice or Mary's. We there-fore
never praised or recommended one
of you to the other. We wished to leave
you entirely to j o u r inclinations."
William's feelings on hearing these
statements may be imagined. h i s
grief was almost beyond endurance.
The fact that his attempt at a secret
marriage, which had brought about
the unfortunate occurrence, had been
wholly unnecessaiy, added to the
torments he suffered.
He father endeavored to soothe
him, but for hours he paced the floor
of his room like a madman, refusing
all offers of consolation.
Finally Mr. Trueman said :
" We must break the sad news to
Mary's father. Will you come with
me?"
The young man snatched up his
bat, and the two hurried to Mr.
Graham's house.
They found him at home, and they
at once told the story.
They were amazed at the calm
manner in which he received the
gli.omy tidings.
He took a pinch of snuff, sneezed,
and then bade the two follow him up-stairs.
They did so. He led them straight
to Mary's room, and there on the
couch lay the young girl, pale and
weak still, but recovering from the
effect of her excitement and suffering.
A doctor was by her side, and
William almost knocked him over in
his haste to embrace the fair one he
had thought was lost to him forever,
Mary had heard of her loyer's
rescue from some fisherman who had
come to Mr. Graham's house to inform
him of what had happened.
She had been picked up hours
before he was saved, by the vessel
whose light she had seen, Thei craft
had passed close to the boat. She
contrived to make her voice heard,
and as the moon was then shining, she
was finally ssen by the sailors. The
boat being half full of water, had
turned over, oottom up, soon after she
left the tiller to go into the dingey,
which had been lowered for her. She
then begged the men not to lose time
by stopping to tow the heavy over-turned
boat to their schooner, but to
get aboard as soon as possible and look
for her lover.
Their search f->r him was in vain
They took Mary to land. She hired a
conveyance, and she reached her fa
ther's house soon after midnight. Her
excitement—her anguish at William's
supposed loss—made her so ill that the
doctor was sent for.
The news noi long after of he lover's
safety probably benefited her more
than did the medicine prescribed fot
'her.
The affair ended to the satisfaction
of all concerned when, a few weeks la-ter,
the loyers were united at the house
of the bride's father.
Go.id Rodger Bronson was there,
and his present to the bridegroom was
a check for the promised $10,000.
The couple were happy, but the}
will not soon forget their perilous ex
perience iu their needless attempt at
secret wedlock.
Young persons who would marry
without the knowledge of their parents
should remember that such a course is
apt to be attended with more sorrow
than pleasure, and, as in the case of
Mary Graham and William Trueman,
it is often " unnecessary."
C o r n f i e l d P h i l o s o p h y.
The mocking-bird does not ting to
amuse his neighbors. He sings be-cause
he tannot help it, aud would
whistle just as cheerfully if there was
not a living thing within seven miles.
When a shoe that is too tight quits
hurting it does not mean that your
.o( t is smaller or the shoe larger. It
means that you have become accus-tomed
to the misery.
Do not judge a man by the clothes
he wears. They may belong to some
one else.
A paper collar may be around the
neck of an honest mail, but from the
fact that it is a species of fraud, it is
more likely to be worn by the confi-dence
mat).
One poet has remarked that an
honest man is the noblest work of God,
mid «in ther lias said that Time's no-blest
offspring is the last. This would
indicate that an honest man was a
thing of the future.
It is only after a man has run off
with all the money in the bank and
somebody's wife that it is remembered
that he was an exemplary citizen.
Plowing deep is hard on your horse,
but it will insure you bigger crops.
A man can have a bad habit, but no
one ever h«ard of the person who was
habitually honest.
L I Ì T E N A M T E B M .
LANCASTER COUNTY'S OWN CAX-T>
I1),\TK.
P r e s e n t e d by t h e T h i r d S t r o n g e s t Re-p
u b l i c a n D i s t r i c t i n t h e Common-w
e a l t h Which has Never H a d a
C a n d i d a t e on a S t a t e T i c k e t.
' ,In announcing the candidacy of
Edwin K. Martin for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor
some time ago, we called atten-tion
to the fact that although Lancas-ter
county is the third strongest Re-publican
district in the State, and has.
increased her Republican majority
from 5,000 in i860 to 11,481 in 1888, we
have never had a candidate for a State
office on the ticket since the organiza-tion
of the party. The data which we
printed to sustain this fact attracted a
great deal of attention and elicited the
favorable comment of the press on the
neglected claims of the "old guard."
Inasmuch Mr. Martin is the only can-didate
for a place on the state ticket
from this county, and his character
and qualifications for the office being
unquestioned, we naturally assumed
that there would be no opposition to
allowing him to name the delegates.
The response of public sentiment had
unwilling to leave the field General
Thomas ordered the regiment to do
depot duty. Up to this time young
Martin had been in the ranks and
though very young he had performed,
for the years, all the severe duties of
those terrible campaigns which had
broken down thousands of the most
robust constitutions. While his regi-ment
was on depot duty at Carters-ville
in Georgia, which was then the
base of supplies, the mails of General
Sherman's army began to accumulate,
and owing to staff changes, that de-partment
of the service passed out of
the jurisdiction of Col. Truesdale of
Rosecrans' staft into that of Col. Kelly
of Louisville. Col. Kelly was sick,
with no one at hand to look after the
mails of the army. In the emergency
the general commanding requested the
colonel of the 79th Pennsylvania to
detail his best non-commissioned
officer or private to take temporary
charge of this work until Colonel
Kelly arrived. By this accident a
private soldier was placed in charge of
the entire mails of Sherman's army,
and under Colonel Kelly, and sub-sequently
under Colonel Markland, of
General Grant's headquarters, Mr.
Martin remained in charge of that
service to the end of the war. In it he
EDWIN KONIGMACHER MARTIN,
THE LANCASTER COUNTY CANDIDATE FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
T h e S t a r s ' a n d Stripes.
This flag that we cherish, floats
protection, freedom and Union from
Canada to Mexico, and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Con-sequently,
every man, woman and
child, white or black, breathes alike
the same air that is wafted by our
famous flag. All powers in the civilize
universe pays respect to it, and respect
to all nations it does acknowledge;
therefore, as . the Proverbs say:
' Charity must commence at home
first, before it be shed abroad," why
then should we not respect each other
at home? White and black, alike,
are living under this noble flag that
no man or power dare blemish.
Americans we are, the inhabitors of
the new world—the land of the free and
the Republic that all powers hesitate
hostilities. If this be the new world,
why should not we set new examples
to the old world. Abolishment of
prejudice and the administration
of equal rights and justice to every
man, white and black, will be the star
example of the world. If every
man's rights were carefully measured
in the same bushel and administered
to all, alike, white or black, " when
implicated," this would be an example
world. Love and unity would reign
supreme, but when to the contrary,
how can it be expected ? The meeting
of a governing officer with an officer
of the lower rank, to tenaer acknowl-edgments
of receptions is not social
equality, but the measurement of
equal rights.
Freedom we have, united we are,
but when protection is administered
freely in the division of equal rights
and justice, then this land the land of
the free will be a paradise on earth
and the greatest wonder of all wond-ers,
and all the worlds headlight will
be the stars and stripes.
H i s V i e w o f It.
Tramp—" Well, mum, you see I've
been out of a job so long that I hate
to tackle one now."
Farmer's wife—" Ah, you have be
come lazy."
Tramp—"No, mum; it's not lazi-ness
; it's a disinclination to work."
ST. ELMO HOTEL, N o s . 317 a n d 319
A.rch street, Philadelphia.—Rates re-duced
to $2 per day. The traveling
p u b l i c will still find at this hotel tne
•ame liberal provision for their com-fort.
It is located in t h e immediate
centre of busiaess, and places of amuse
ment and t h e different railroad depots
as well as all parts of t h e city, as,
easily accessible by street cars con
stantly passing the doors. I t offer
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solicted.
J O S E P H M . FEGER,
oc7-ly Propr.
thus far justified the assumption.
Nineteen out of twenty-two news-papers
published in the county have
endorsed his candidacy, and the ex-ceptions
base their; opposition on the
fact that Mr. Martin was an Indepen-dent
Republican, and in company with
some 50,000 other Republicans voted
for John Stewart, whom his Republi-can
constituents have since clothed
with the high honors and responsible
duties of the judiciiary. It soon be-came
evident to these objectors that
opposition based on such frivilous
grounds, or on a mere personal or
political grievance, met with no
response in the popular heart, except
to arouse a feeling of indignation
among the 2,500 Independents of the
county who had acted and voted with
Mr. Martin, and who for the last ten
years have vied with the most stalwart
of their Republican brethren in up-holding
the local banner of the party,
as the increased majorities show.
Edwin K. Martin was born at
Millersville, Lancaster county, Penn-sylvania,
in 1844, and is now in the
prime of life. His father B. B. Martin
was one of the founders of the cele-brated
State Normal School at that
place, where his son received his
earlier education.
In 1861 Mr. Martin was attending
Philips' Academy, Andover, Massa-chusetts,
when the firing on Fort
Sumpter woke new echoes in the
hearts of youth and age. The first
sacrifice to the bloody events, which
were to follow that reached the North,
were the dead bodies of the three
members of the Massachusetts Sixth,
who were slain on the streets of Balti-more.
Lawrence and Lowell, where
the dead soldiers had resided, were but
a few miles from Andover. and young
Martin turned out with the rest of
Massachusetts to tnoran the honored
dead. There were no books and no
studies for him after that; so he
resolved to pack his trunk and go
home and enlist in the first regiment
that would be recruited for the war. It
so happened that shortly after his re-turn
to Lancaster the proposition was
started to recruit an entirely Lancaster
county regiment, and young Martin
was one of the earliest to]enroll in the
organization.
His regiment was promptly assign-ed
for duty in Kentucky and after-wards
became celebrated in the army
of the Cumberland, as the gallant 79th
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer In-fantry
; it participated in over twenty
battles and engagements; sustained
as great losses, and endured as hard
continuous service as any other regi-ment
of the southwestern army. At
Perryville, in its first engagement, it
lost thirty-three per cent, in a few
hours of the most desperate fighting
of the war ; at Chicamauga it stood in
the famous horse-shoe line which
under Thomas saved the fragments of
Rosecrans' army.
Stone River, Chattanooga, the severe
fighting around Atlanta, the inarch
with Sherman through Georgia and
the Carolinas are also inscribed on its
tattered battle flags. In the engage-ment
at Resaca in 1864, the Colonel of
there regiment was wounded, and being
inaugurated many important changes
and on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad introduced a railway mail dis-tribution
which was probably the first
of its kind in the country ; and for all
we know the beginning of the present
extended system, which has revolu-tionized
the transportation of mails in
this country. His trained corps of en-listed
men did their work not only on
the railway cars, but on steamboats,
in ambulances, by the bivouac and
under the fire of battle.
Immediately after leaving the army
he began to make preparations to re-sume
his college education which he
had dropped when he enlisted nearly
four years before ; and after two years
more of preparation at Philips' Acade-my,
Andover, Mass., he entered, first
Princeton and then Amherst College,
from which latter institution he grad-uated
with honor in 1871. He then
engaged with his father in the lumber
business in Central Pennsylvania, and
for four years was connected with ex-tensive
saw mills and timber opera-tions
in the counties of Clinton, Cen-tre
and Cambria. In 1876, he read
law and in the winter of 1877, attend-ed
a course of law lectures at Colum-bia
College Law School, New York
City, in the same class with U. S.
Grant, Jr. He was subsequently ad-mitted
to the bar, and soon afterward
took up the practice of his profession
in his native county, where he has
held a front rank ever since. As a
professional man he has been connect-ed
with some of the most important
cases, both civil and criminal, that
have been tried at the Lancaster bar.
His business is large and lucrative,
and he commands the confidence and
respect of a numerous and ever in-creasing
clientage.
His friends seek to have him chosen
as the standard bearer of Lancaster
county in the coming contest for hon-orable
State recognition ; because in
the thirty years of the Republican
existence, though Lancaster has been
the third county in the State in the
size of her Republican majorities, she
has never had a candidate on the
State ticket since the organization of
the party.—New Era.
The S e x t o n W a n t s a L i c e n s e.
The residents of Jacobstown, Bur-lington
county, New Jersey, are very
much stirred up because of« the fact
that Biddle Reed, a highly-respected
citizen, who is also sexton of the Bap-tist
Church, is about to apply for a li-cense
to run a hotel there and keep a
bar. Recently he purchased a large
store property, but it was not for a
long time known that it was to be con-verted
into a " gin-mill."
Immediately the church people were
up in arms. It had been fifty years
since the town had supported a licens-ed
hotel, and the sentiment seemed to
be against it. Air. Reed had secured
several signers to his application for
for license, and said he was going to
run the hotel in spite of the opposition.
Then he was threatened with being re-moved
from his position as sexton, but
this had no effect upon him, and now
the members of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union are gunning for
him with the determination to make
him withdraw his license application.
Y o u t h f u l Lovers Elope.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., April 4.—The
elopement of two well-known young
people of Pittston is the talk of the
town to day. Richard Gibbons and
Maggie Lally have been keeping com-pany
for six months. They wanted to
marry, but the parents on both sides
objected on account of the youth of
the lovers, Gibbons being twenty and
the girl seventeen. The opposition
of the parents only made the love
between the two stronger, and they
determined to elope.
On Thursday night Miss Lally
escaped through i:er bed room window
and Iwiidtd on the grape arbor, »heie
she was met hv her lover with a step-iadder.
They boarded a Lehigh Valley
railroad train south, and arrived iu
Wilmington to-day, when 1 hey were
married.
The following telegram was received
by the parents of the bride : '' Accept
us; we are married. God ordained
it." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
A W o m a n ' s A w f u l D e a t h.
BRIDGETON, N. J., April 4.—Miss
Carrie Hutchinson, of Woodruff's
Station, near Bridgeton, died yester-day
of hydrophobia. Last fall she
was bitten by her father's coach-dog.
Two weeks ago she took an overdose
of medicine through mistake, and, it is
thought, that developed the poison in
her system. She immediately began
to snap and bite as a dog until death
relieved her awful agonies. The dog
is still living and has never shown
any sign of the rabies.
G e n e r a l News.
E. A. Culver, of Cleveland, Ohio
committed suicide at Denver, Col., on
Saturday night by taking half a bottle
of morphine and then blowing his
brains out.
William A. Welch, for several
years foreman on H. C. Howard's
farm, near Lasalle, N. Y., is missing,
and there seems but little doubt that
he was carried over Niagara Falls.
The body of Joseph H. Jacobs, the
son of a wealthy citizen of Hamilton,
Ohio, was found on Sunday with the
skull crushed in, and with eyery ap-pearance
of having been murdsred.
M u r d e r e d H i s T h i r d W i f e.
NEW YORK, April 4.—A polyga-mous
printer, named Horace A. Smiler^
shot and killed his Lhird wife, Maggie
Smiler, formerly Widow Draven, who
had two children, at this place last
evening, and it transpires that he has
two vsives yet living, from whom he
was never legally separated. Alter
last night's crime, due to intemperance
and a quarrel, he disappeared, but has
since been arrested. His other wives
were formerly known as Miss Maggie
Kears and Widow Gates.
I t is believed that Smiler intended,
to kill all three of his wives and then
commit suicide. When told after his
arrest that his wife was dead, Smiler
answered: " All right, then I will
hang. Bury me in the- same grave
with her."
1 , 5 3 0 , 8 8 0 Miles i n H i s Cab.
BALTIMORE, Md., April., 7.—
William Galloway, who ran the first
engine over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, and who was probably the
oldest railroad engineer in the world,
has pulled his last throttle. After
more than fifty years of hard service
he died to day at the good old age of
81 years. Mr. Galloway ran between
Baltimore and Washington for forty-six
years. He averaged sixteen trips
a week, and in that time made about
37,272 trips. Each trip being forty
miles in length, he traveled over
1,530,880 miles. He is credited with
having but two accidents occur while
in the engine cab. Both were rather
singular and nobody was hurt.
I n f l u e n z a .
I f y o u h a v e a b a d cold, cough, &c., or
t h e L a G r i p p e , u s e " Dr, F a h n e s t o c k 's
F a v o r i t e D r o p s . " A f u l l dose, i n s w e e t -
ened w a r m w a t e r , at b e d t i m e w i l l r e l i e ve
y o u a t o n c e . Try it. Sold b y all d r u g -
g i s t s a n d c o u n t r y s t o r e k e e p e r s.
J e a l o u s y a n d Murder.
HENDERSON, Ky., April 7.—James
Wells, a 16-year-old boy, and Eugene
Cornell, probably two years his senior,
have been paying attentions to the
same young lady, whose name was
not learned. Last evening they met
on the street and began quarreling.
Cornell picked up a barrel stave and
struck Wells on the head. The latter
drew a revolver, when Cornell turned
and ran for his lite. Wells gave
chase and fired two or three times,
one shot taking effect and causing
Cornell's death.
Over t h e S t a t e.
Pottstown people saw two mock suns
recently.
A Scotch-Irish Congress will be held
in Pittsburg.
Tho catch of a party of Consho-hocken
fishermen consisted of a gum
boot and a tin pail.
Great preparations are being'made
for the ganeral observance of Decora-tion
day at Johnstown.
Dr. Howard Flockenthal has been
arrested at Eastoh on a charge of mal-prrctice
on Miss Sallie E. Culver.
A Norristown gentleman noticed
forty abandoned farms within a radius
oi five miles in Montgomery county.
Jchn A. Pratt, a well-known farm-er
of New Garden, died on Friday
evening of kidney trouble. He was
in his 76th year.
Baldwin Clayton, of Marshallton,
Chester county, has a clock that was
was brought to this country ten years
before Penn's first landing.
A mechanical clock said to rival the
Strasburg clock, the handiwork of
Thomas Fitzsiumons, of Pittston, was
recently destroyed by fire in New
York.
John ¡Lambert, a widower 50 years
old, committed suicide by jumping in-to
the Lehigh Canal, at Bethlehem.
No cause is known for the rash act.
A certified copy of the will of the
late Thomas A. Scott, President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
was filed in the Register's office, in
Pittsburg a few days ago.
William Fidmer, a prominent fur-niture
dealer, of Easton, died ou Fri-day
from injuries received five weeks
ago by a fall, h e has been uncon-scious
ever since the accident.
The friends of Benjamin Defrain,
the wealthy farmer, of Landi-s' Stoie,
Berks county, who so mysteriously dis-appeared
recently, have offered $400
for any information concerning him.
Two citizens of Shenandoah were
waylaid by eight highwaymen, but
escaped by whipping up their horses.
The 4500 carpenters of Pittsburg
and Alleghany haye decided not to
join the eight-hour movement of the
American Federation of Labor.
Rev. H. H. George, of Geneva Col-lege,
has gone to Washington to try
and prevail on members of Congress
to insert the word Deity or God in the
Constitution.
Rev. Mr. Fritch, of Reading,
charged with theft, has resigned from
the Reformed church ministry, and
says he will be an " independent
preacher like Talmage and Beecher."
A fellow tried to avoid paying his
fare on the Pennsylvania railroad by
purchasing a short-ride ticket and
then assuming a female disguise, but
the trick was discovered by the con-ductor.
C. M. Rouse, aged 58 years, for the
past sixteen years General Superinten-dent
of the Laflin Powder Works, at
Laflin, Pa., and president of the town
council of that borough, died Sunday^
Constable Green, of Jersey Shore,
has lost a $1000 Percheron stallion,
which unaccountably died a couple of
nights ago.
The completion of the new bridge
across the Susquehann river is ex-pected
to make a new commercial era
in Harrisburg.
The rector of St. John's P. E.
church, Lawrenceville, has established
an athletic training school for young
men of his church.
Four children of Mahlon Baer, of
Jefferson township, Berks county, were
made seriously ill by eating roots
which they mistook for wild onions.
James Gilmore, of Conshohocken,
fell from a street-crossing bridge over
the Reading railroad, Sunday night,
and sustained injuries from which he
soon after died.
Pittsburg's Easter business is prov-ing
the biggest done for years, and a
leading dry goods man says of Satur-day's
sales " I don't know that we
have ever equaled them."
The Oliver Iron and Steel Works,
at Pittsburg, which were closed last
week on account of a strike, resumed
operations in all departments, the
men having yielded.
The peninsula ponds at Erie are
alive with grass pike, some of them
of very large size, which came there
to spawn. Poachers are trying to
shoot or spear them, but the Fish
Warden has an eye on them.
OWEN P . BRICKER, Esq., attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningand can be consulted
on all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
F l o o d i n g a B u r n i n g Mine.
SHAMOKIN, Pa., April 4.—The fire
in the Cameron Colliery is now be,
yond control, and the entire mine}
comprising 250 miles of galleries, will
have to be flooded. Three creeks will
be turned into the mine, and it is
estimated that it will take sixty days
to flood it, and nearly a year to repair
the damage. The loss is estimated at
$100,000.