Lititz Record

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VOL. XIV LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13,1891.
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RECORD OFFICE-Lint*
Lane. Co.. Pa,
Terrible Slaughter
Monday, Feb. 9 th, 1891,
I will begin to sell the re-mainder
of odds and ends of
Overcoats, Suits, for men and
children, Pants, Overalls,
Shirts, Children's Waists,
Underwear, Gloves, Hats, Caps,
Ties, Suspenders, Collars, Cuffs,
Cassimeres, Cottonades,&c.,&c.
These Goods I will have as-sorted
on special counters and
they MUST POSITIVELY BE
SOLD in two weeks time, and
will be s o l d CHEAP—astonish-ingly
low. They must go and
the prices will make them sell.
Call and be convinced that I am
telling you the truth.
WALTER H. BUCH,
" R c ç o r d " B d i l d i o s, L i t i t z , P a .
BIG REDUCTION
IN -:-
Having to large a stock of Ladies Shoe Dressing on hand, I have decided to
sell it a t a price which will t u r n it i u to Cash in a s h o r t time.
All 25c Dressings Reduced to 17c
" 15c
Acme 15c
" 10c
" 10c
The largest Assortment of 25c Dressings in t h e city to select froui.
Button's Raven Gloss.
Whittemore's Gilt Edge.
Wood's Ladies Dressing.
Olio Dressings and others in Barrels and Casks.
All of these are New, Fresh Dressings, or money will be refunded.
THE ONE PRICE CASH HOUSE,
CHAS. H. FRBY,
/SUCCESSOR TO F R l i Y & ECKERT), T H E L E A D E R OF LOW PRICES IN
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HegL 5 7IND 5 E7WF KING ¡SWflBE*. IflNCfflSFER W
Store closed ev<-ry evening at 6 o'clock except Monday and Saturday.
IMMENSE BARGAINS!
H. L. BOAS.
FASHIONABLE HATTER,
Is Offering Balance of Winter Goods in
Far and (¡loth Caps
AND GLOVES
for stick prices as were never offered before. Try him if
in need of such Goods.
Highest Cash Prices Paid for all Kinds of Furs.
MT TYPEWRITER.
144 NORTH P E S STREET, LANCASTER PA
N E W T . W I N G E R T , MANAGER.
»6,000 a g e n t s«
iai B & I T C n TO SEIX10 NEW 1?A- ®HAn I Eli TENTS, EVERYWHERE..
One Agent made $52.50 in two days ¡1
another, «32 in one day. THY IT- WILL
•
give Sole Agency of Town or County..
Send 6 cts. ior 100 pages. I
PATENT AGENCY WOBIUH
LOWELL. MASS
JgURKHOLDEK
PURE RYE WHISKEY.
3. B. HERTZLER, P r o p r i e t o r,
LITITZ, PA.
Distillery one mile east oi R. B. Depot.
lOmay-Iy
FOR the last few days I have
been a much injured and much
enduring man. Some persons
when crushed beneath a mass of cir-cumstantial
evidence, readily accepted
by the tribunal which in more senses
than one is sitting upon them, take a
pride in knowing that they are inno
cent, and virtute sua involuti, await
the future acquittal or free pardon, of
which they feel certain, with tranquil
minds, actually in some cases finding
enjoyment in the sensation of martyr-dom.
I am not one of them; for I
have not felt at any time sure of my
acquittal; and even now, when it
should be practically secured, it is
possible that I shall not leave the dock
altogether without a strain on my
character. Besides which even inno-cence
may be a matter of regret to one
_who suffered for a crime, or, let us
, an act of indiscretion, without
having enjoyed the pleasure of com-mitting
it.
It happened in this way. Some
few months ago I had occasion to re-quire
in my business the seryiees of a
typewriter, and I made my wants
known. As a consequence, I visited
no fewer than forty-seven candidates
in person, without counting the hun-dred
and odd who applied by letter.
Of the forty-seven, thirty-sis were of
the weaker sex; and as these demand-ed
a slightly lower wage than their
male competitors, I decided for that
reason—and that reason only—to em-ploy
one of them. Now, the thirty-six
had all brought samples of their work;
and as all possessed the needful quali-fications,
and one typewritten letter is
precisely like another, I did what
every other man would have done un-der
the circumstances, and chose the
best looking one. She was a very
charming one, too. I say it in spite
of the trouble she brought me.
For a time she was a complete suc-cess.
Apart from the fact that I had
to dictate to her continually, it was
obviously undesirable that she should
sit with my male clerks. Some oi
them I know are frivolous, and as a
married man I had a sense of responsi-bility
; so I allotted her a corner in my
own room, and she set up her machine
there.
It was pleasant to have some one to
talk to when one was not busy, and
Miss King being of a lively disposition,
interested me much with accounts of
of her experiences as a beautiful and
meritorious young woman fighting the
battle of life in London. Some of her
adventures were almost romantic
enough to have interested the readers
of tne Family Herald—to which, in-deed,
I believe she had contributed.
Others might have amused students
of a more friyolous class of literature ;
but except to account for the interest
I still feel in her they have nothing to
do with the present narrative. I am
not in the habit of " taking the ofBce
home with me" and worrying my
wife with " shop," so naturally, I never
mentioned my typewriter in the do-mestic
circle. That simple omission has
been thrown in my teeth many hun-dreds
of times during the past two
days. I begin to fear it always will
be.
My typewriter, as I have said, work-ed
admirably till within about a fort-night
ago when she become restless,
melancholy and abstracted in manner.
For a time I took no notice of i t ; but
last Saturday business being dull, I
called her to me as I sat at ray table,
and placing her near the window look-ing
over old Broad street far below,
where I could get the light on her face
and observe her expression, I began to
interrogate her in a kindly way, as an
employer should always interrogate
his clerks if he thinks they are in need
of his help or advice. While I was
doing so the 1 o'clock post came in.
I did not look at my letters for a mo-ment
as I was saying to my new type-writer
:
" Gertrude " ( I make a rule of call-ing
my younger clerks by their Christ-ian
names, and, as a rule in my office
is a rule, I was resolved from the first
to make no exception in her favor—
" Gertrude," I said, there is some-thing
on your mind ; you are anxious
and distressed."
" It is nothing," she answered.
" Nothing be hanged," I said in my
friendly way. " Nothing does not
make a girl pale and absent and silent
for ten days at a time. I simply do
not belieye you."
" I cannot help it."
" My dear Gertrude," I said (I am
not sure that I eyer called young Bob
Smithers, my junior clerk, " My dear
Robert," but circumstances alter
cases), " I want you to try and let me
hely you in any way I can."
" You are very kind," she said.
" Then tell me what is the matter."
l< You have not opened your letters;
there is one marked ' Immediate.'"
I knew she was only trying to put
me off, as my clerks as a rule did n'it
dictate to me in such matters. How
ever, as I could see the girl had tears
in her eyes, I took up the envelope
she spoke of and opened it, to give her
time to recover from her evident
emotion. At a glance I saw, to my
surprise, that the letter was a note
from my wife; whom I had left at
home in the Cromwell road at 9.30
that morning. It run as follows ;
DEAK CHARLES: I want to take you
to the shop in the city where I saw
the sealskin I was telling you about.
I have decided that I must have it at
once, as Mrs. Carruthers has got
new one. I know the shop closes at 2
on Saturday, but if you can leave
youroffice with me when I call for
you a little before 1.30, we can do it.
Your affectionate wife,
ELIZA JOHNSON.
P. S.—Have your check book in
your pocket.
Now wh^1, in the name of fortune,
Mrs. Charles Johnson, who as her
letter shows, is a woman of decided
purpose when it suits her, could not
have made up her mind to have the
sealskin before I left that morning,
and why she should have grudged six-pence
for a telegraph I do not know.
have spoken to her about it, and all
she says is that in the future she shall
visit me without any warning at all.
I read her note, and at once grasped
the fact that my wife might come in
at any moment. The presence of a
stranger, even of my wife, who is really
in her way, a very kind woman, would,
of course, have been unwelcome to my
typewriter in her distress; so I said,
without looking up.
" I will not press you further to-day
Gertrude; but on Monday I shall ex-pect
to be treated with more confidence.
I am expecting someone here on im-portant
priyate business, so you may
go at once."
She made no answer and I could
hear her breath coming in short quick
pants. I turnad to look at her. She
was standing with parted lips and
widely starting eyes, her tear-stained
face tightly pressed against the digny
window pane. I took her by the hand;
then she turneJ, uttering a cry—-
" Charlie, Charlie, my darling!"
At the moment she did so—in fact,
before the words left her lips—I was
conscious of the door opening, and that
my wife was there and must have
heard her with as much surprise as
myself, and even more horror. But
before another word could be said
there was a rush across the room, an
ink-pot, a pen or two, a sheaf of letters
and a typewriter (the machine) were
lying overturned upon the floor, and a
type-writer (the operator) had dashed
into a small closet where she kept her
hat and cloak, seized them, and, almost
upsetting my wife in her flight, vanish-ed
down stairs, hef little heels clatter-ing
in a wild tattoo on the stone-flagg-ed
stairs. Then a scene took place
which was only the prelude to the or-deal
I have spoken of. It was useless
for me to argue and aver that I was
innocent myself, and as unaware of
any passion for me indulged in by my
typewriter (a mere clerk, as I repeated-ly
said) as I was of any insanity in
her family or in her individual consti-tution.
Now I suppose the worst of
my misery has been practically put
an end to by following letter—not
type-written—which I have just re-ceived
at the office, and am taking
home to show my wife :
DEAR MR. JOHNSON :—I hope you
did not think me quite crazy when I
left, you so abruptly on Saturday,
especially after your very kind con-versation
with me. The reason for my
anxiety and sadness was ttfat the man
I have been engaged to for two years
was coming home from Australia, and
his ship was much overdue, owing to
the gales. He uever let me know he
had arrived, but went straight to my
home and followed me to the city to
find your office, when I saw him from
the window, which was the cause of
my hurried exit. I shall not have to
typewrite any more, and I dare say
you have discharged me; but you
have been so very kind to me that I
must come, with him, that we may
both thank you personally, and also
remove the remains of the typewriter
I think I shattered in my flight.
When I do come I shall be Mrs.
Charles Webster. Thanking you
again and again for your kindness and
sympathy.
Yours very truly,
GERTRUDE KING.
Well, there is her letter ; it speaks
for itself, and I must show it to my
wife and convince her of my innocence.
But I do wish it said a little less about
my kindness; in this censorious world
natural humanity is able to miseon
struction.
R e n t i n g Time.
Applicant—Your description of the
house just fills the bill. How about
the water supply ?
Agent—Never any trouble about
that. The cellar is full of it.
A Talk about Boys.
In almost every paper we find ar-ticles
headed " Advice to Girls," now
let us change this to " Advice to
Boys." ^
Our Boys have honor and virtue to
save, as well as our girls, and it seems
to me there would not be so many
mothers singing that sad song, " Oh !
where is my wandering boy to-night,"
if we looked after them a little closer.
Let us make companions of them so
that they will feel free to converse
with us, upon all subjects of business,
pleasure or sorrow ; then, if they are
ever in trouble, they will confide in
us; and when they need sympathy and
advice they will turn to us, well know-ing
that we shall never fail them.
Now, mothers, knowing our power,
let us try to have them become good,
honest, true men, as free as possible
from all bad habits. Let us teach
them that the use of tobacco will op-press
and degrade them.
Let us teach the boys that the man
who uses intoxicants is not a fit asso-ciate
for them. J ell them that if they
want the company and friendship of
girls, they must keep themselves up-right
and respectable, in order to be
worihy of such esteem.
If t is expected of our women, the
world over, to be pure and good, why
should it not be expected of o"ur men ?
How I long for the time to come,
when our good true women will let
them know that, if they would marry
honorable wiyes, they must be honor-able
men. Let us try to start an in-fluence
which will help on the much
needed reform in our social system.
Let us talk to our boys the same as to
our girls, and we shall see that they
will be better, nobler and wiser men.
A boy reared under the influence of a
true mother, will, I feel sure, know
better how to treat a wife.
Our boys should let their character
be so honorable that they can com-mand
the respect and esteem of all.
They should have plenty of good read .
ing, that they may gain in intelligence
and thought, and be careful what they
do or say, that they may have no cause
for regrets in the future. Teach them
this truth : " if you would be respect-ed,
you must respect yourself."
MAN? YEARS AGO.
—Are you married ? if not send your,
address to t h e American Corresponding
Club, Box 643, W. Clarksburg, Va. So-Xy
Farm and Garden Notes.
A stunted pig is not fit for breeding.
Two thicknesses of newspaper make
a good lining for apple barrels.
Money spent in painting farm build-ings
and implements is well invested.
When well tilled and fertilized the
farmer's bank (of earth) never breaks.
When a hog gets too lazy t •> eat,
generally the best thing to do with it
is to market it.
It is an easy matter with hogs to
feed longer than is necessary if the best
profit is realized.
Green food in winter is always hard
to obtain. Where the ensilage is rye,
oats or rowen, it makes an excellent
green fodder in winter. Hen3 will
greedily eat ensilage, and often prefer
it to any other green food, and it
makes them lay steadily right along.
Dirty hay is unfit for any animal.
Heaves in horses are always the result
of dusty hay, and when once a horse
is attacked with heaves it is a difficult
matter to cure it. As» a precaution,
however, hay should be well shaken
and then slightly moistened before
feeding it.
Be sure there are no pitfalls for the
stock to get into. If you have open
wells in the pasture fence them strong-ly
; have good posts, well set, and good
boards or wires well stretched. If the
wells are of no use no longer, fill them
up ; that is by far the safer plan.
Eyen the loss of a calf is more than
the worth of time to make these places
A Brief Sketch o f tlie Old Moravian
Sister House at Lititz and a Glance
at Some of its Inmates.
A Thankful Deacon.
The importance of thinking before
you speak recently received an amus-ing
illustration at a meeting held in a
well-known town not a hundred miles
from the banks of the Hudson. One
of the person-« who occupied the stage
was an enthusiastic deacon, who fre-quently
interrupted the speakers by
y e l l i n g T h a n k goodness for that!"
One gentleman was called upon who
arose aod said:
" Ladies and gentleman, I am heart
and soul in this cause, and feel that it
will be a great benefit to the people
of this place."
" Thank goodness for that!'' yelled
the deacon.
"But, ladies and gentlemen," he
continued, " I am going to say that it
will be impossible for me to address
you this evening—"
" Thank goodness for that!" broke
in the absent minded deacon, amidst
general laughter.
OWEN F. BRICKEK, E s q . , attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningand can be consulted
in all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
BY A MORAVIAN" KUN.
I I I .
Saturday was a half holiday. ' The
sisters were at perfect libeity to spend
it as they pleased. The afternoon was
generally devoted to calling or shop-ping
in the village. Occasionally one
stayed out to tea. In the morning the
big girls were obliged to do their
mending, but in the afternoon they
too were free. Even the vorgesetzte
relaxed, her vigilance at those time?,
and as most of the girls had relatives
in the village, they went home. Those
who remained in the Sister House
were left to themselves, and the most
daring spirits ayailed themselves of
this opportunity for having some fun.
By nine o'clock in the evening all had
to be on hand. Those who failed to
appear till next morning were-severely
reprimanded.
On Sunday morning the sisters rose
an hour later th»n usual. At nine
o'clock they went to church in the
village. Here the German litany was
read and sung, and as it was rather
long the services usually lasted fron) a
half to three-quarters of an hour. At
ten o'clock they went to preaching
A cold dinner minus the soup was
served on this day, as the cook wanted
to go to church, and the practice was
general through the yillage. In the
afternoon the sisters occupied them-selves
with reading the bible or other
religious works which were few in
number. Sunday-school there was
none iu those days. Visiting was con-sidered
objectionable. However, knit-ting
was regarded as a harmless pas-time
IF NOT DONE FOR PAY ! On fine sum-mer
days some of the sisters spent an
houror two on the graveyard in thevery
cheerful employment of reading tomb-stone
inscriptions. The evening service
was held at seyen o'clock. This was
either a liturgical service or a mission-ary
meeting or else it consisted of a
short address, a prayer and a few
hymns. It was always short. Our
forefathers believed in many but short
seryiees. The remainder of the even-ing
was spent in social chat. The
younger sisters loved to gather about
the older ones, and they were de-lighted
beyond measure if they could
induce one of the latter to tell them
stories about her own youth and
especially her experiences in the Sister
House as it was in her time. We
who are deluged with an ocean of
iterature can scarcely comprehend
how the starved imaginations of these
young women feasted upon the twice
told tales of the oldest residents.
It. will be necessary right here to
mention something that made a part
of the regular daily program. One of
the peculiar institutions of the place
and time was the " Stunden-Gebet" or
hour of prayer. At all hours of the
day and night prayer was offered in
the chapel. Every sister in her turn
thus spent an hour in prayer. Tradi-tion
does not state how the sisters en-joyed
getting out of their warm beds
on a winter night in order to spend a
solitary hour in the cold and dimly
lighted chapel. It does state, however,
that a sister of a delicate constitution
and a nervous temperament died from
the effects of her midnight vigil,
whether of cold or of fright, or of
both combined. After that the
stunden-gebet was abolished.
The sisters dressed very simply. In.
summer they wore plain calico dresses
of sombre hue, which consisted of a
narrow skirt sewed right on to the
waist. In winter they wore dark red
and blue plaids of linsey-woolsey,
woven in the weaver house by the
sisters themtelyes, Checked aprons
were worn when at work, All the big
girls, too, wore white muslin caps, the
" schnabel-kappchen," as they were
called, tied under the chin with a pink
bow. On Sunday aprons of fine white
muslin were worn. Also white muslin
kerchiefs, mostly plain, but some
beautifully embroidered. When they
went out the sisters wore shaker bon-nets,
and in winter cloaks with hoods
attached in the manner of Little Red
Riding Hood. ID time the lace caps
displaced the muslin caps as the
sisters became more skillful in lace
making, and so also the " calash,"
a huge bonnet made of silk or calico
gathered over a pyramid shaped
frame-work of paste-board with a kind
of visor in front displaced the shaker.
The sisters wore low heelless shoes of
a most pronounced common sense type
slightly laced or fastened with buckles.
We now come to the church festivals.
These were the greatest events of the
year and bioke in very pleasantly
upon the daily routine. They were
the Sisters' Festival, May 4th, the
Older Girls' Festival June 28th, the
13th of August, the 13th of Novem-ber,
Christinas, New Year and Easter.
The two first named were chiefly
celebrated in the Sisters' House. All
the festivals at that time were held on
the exact date specified instead of the
Sunday nearest to it as now. On the
evening before the Sisters' Fest a short
service was held in the Sister House
chapel. On the morning of the festival
day the sisters decorated their rooms
with flowers and yines. At 7.30 a
short service of prayer was 1 eld in the
chapel led by the pastor of the village
instead of the pflegerin on this day.
Immediately after the early service
such of the older girls as had attained
the required age were admitted into
the sisters choir with due formality.
Each one was received with a hand-shake
and a kiss by the pflegerin. After
the "Aufnahme," as it was called,came
an ither short service, the ''Fest
.Rede," and then, if it came on a Sun-day,
the regular sermon was preached
in the church. On this day all the
single sisters who lived in the village
were invited to dine iu the Sisters
House. Both they and their colleagues
(Continued on second page.)
General News.
Ex-Chief Justice John AppletoD, of
Maine, is dead at Bangor, aged eighty
seven years.
Bismark, N. D., residents have
come to water, all the saloons being
closed.
Theosophy crazed Miss Caroline
Taylor, of Indianapolis, who killed
her aunt.
Thirteen mad dogs roving in the
streets keep Brazil, Ind., folks indoors
Captain C. G. Penny is to relieve
Captain Pierce as Indian Agent at
Pine Ridge.
Senator Chandler defies the Boston
and Maine Railroad Company to sue
him for libel.
Congressman Philan, of Memphis,
died at Nassau, New Providence, on
January 30.
Resubmission of Prohibition is the
cry in North Dakota now, and there's
millions in it.
Senator Hoar is to withdraw from
public life. He feels the defeat of the
Federal Election bill.
Three New York Italians tossed
pennies for the hand of Nealis Dregeo.
Gil go Marrer was the victor.
English gold and notes of hand are
being exchanged for Western brew-eries.
The Falk, of Milwaukee, has
gone.
Being the only witness against mur-derer
Williams, of Leon Junction,
Tex., Newt Davis has been shot and
killed.
Heirs of Daniel P. Storm, of Nyack,
N. Y.,are raising a tornado about As-semblyman
Demarest's heirs because
the $100,000 estate has dwindled to
$1000.
Washington, Oregon and Idaho
want a United State ship railway built
around the cascade and dalles of the
Columbia River to move their grain
to the sea.
Archbishop Corrigan has issued a
private circular to every priest in the
diocese of New York with the object
of placing them on record as to their
opinions on the Anti-Poverty Society's
teachings.
One Woman Kills Another.
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 11.—A brutal
murder was committed the other
morning in the negro quarter. Two
young colored women named Adeline
Scroggins and a Mrs. Gilbreath were
at a ball, when a quarrel began which
terminated in Mrs. Gilbreath being
stabbed through the heart by her in-furiated
rival. Before dying the
victim seized an ax and dealt the
murderess a terrible blow on the head,
felling her to the earth, after which
she dropped dead. The murderess is
in jail.
Oil Madera Poor Man Rich.
John McKeown, millionaire oil pro-ducer,
died at his hofte in Washing-ton,
Pa. He came to this country a
poor man 26 years ago and engaged
as a driller in the upper oil field.
Later he took an interest in an oil
well that proved a gusher, and at the
time of his death his wealth was esti-mated
at $5,000,000.
She Knows It All.
" Do you ever read the news about
the markets ?" said Maud to Mamie.
;<Oh! sometimes, especially the dry
goods advertisements ; I think they're
useful real often."
" Oh ! I don't mean that; the rises
and falls, and bulls and bears, and
Wall street and all such things."
" Yes, I know. They talk about
watering railroad stock, don't they ? I
never understood until just the other
day what they meant by that."
' What does it mean ?"
' Why, when I was coming in on
the train they stopped for a while and
I heard a gentleman say that the en-gine
was taking water."
" Well, what of that ?"
" Well, of course you know they call
the engine an iron horse sometimes.
And if you had ever been in the coun-try
you'd know that horses are stock,
and so that explains everything just
lovely, doesn't it ?"
Pfot t h e Man H e was Once.
Bingley—I rode all the way down
town this morning by the side oi an
old fellow who carried a big fat pocket-book
in the outside pocket of his over-coat.
I could have taken it as eaily
as not
Stumn—And didn't you ?
(Indignatly)—what do ypu take me
for ? Of course not 1
(Compassionately)—Bingley, yoiif*ve
lost your nerve. You're not the man
you used to be.
Drunkenness—Liquor Habit—in a l l t he
World There is but One Cure, Dr.
Hains' Golden Specific.
I t can be given i n a c u p of tea or coifee
without the knowledge of the person
taking it, effecting a speedy and
permanent cure, whether t h e patient is a
moderate drinker or an alcholic wreck
Thousands of drunkards have been
cured who have taken the Golden
Specific in their coffee without their
knowledge, and to-day believe t h e y quit
d r i n k i n g of their own free will.
Ho h a rm effect r e s u l t s f r om i t s a d m i n -
istration. Curfis guaranteed. Send for
circular and f u l l particulars. Address
in confidence, Golden Spedific Co., 185
Race street,Cincinnati, O.
Over t h e State
In Bucks county last year 347 mar-riage
licenses were granted.
A fox at York interfered with a fox
chase by hanging itself just before it
was to be released.
A thief pried his way into the Cen-tral
School at Gwynedd and stole only
the new dictionary.
A falling wire at Lancaster wrapped
itself around the top of a buggy and
*ore away the frame worked covering.
Rev. Mr. Earle, of Chadd's Ford,
has just returned from a trip to Pitts-burg
in searching for his son, who has
been missing from home for fifteen
months.
While a two-ton flask of ?and was
being hoisted at the Pottstown Bridge
Works on Friday the flask broke and
three men were buried in the sand,
but not hurt.
Samuel Baronowski, of Reading
misstated his age in joining a beneficial
society and was expelled. He says he
made a mistake, and has laid the case
before a Magistrate.
Sixteen hundred applicants for
liquor licenses in Allegheny City.
Two hundred Poltstowners ask
Councils for two new fare engines.
An iron ore cave-in at the Cornwall
ore banks killed William Christ aged
sixty-five.
Charles Fehr, of Freenausburg, was
cut to pieces by a Valley train at
Bethlehem.
Landlord Daniel Stoyer, of the Na-tional
at W est Hamburg, is dead at
the age of sixty-eight.
Huns have contributed liberally to
the King's Daughters' Hospital pro-ject
at Pottstown.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dillion, who bad
what she considered a $5000 fall on a
Delta borough sidewalk, accepts the
jury's figures—$750.
L. M. Emmerton, York, sues the
Northern Centeral Railroad Company
for killing his son, an employe, at
Marsh Run, a year ago.
An observatory to cost $2500 will
be erected to the memory of the late
Colonel Theodore Hyatt on the Chest-er
Academy grounds.
A calf born without a tail embar-rasses
Farmer Frank Frock's cow in
East Pikeland, Chester county. A
year ago she had one with two tails.
Edwin K. Meyers, son of B. F .
Meyers, of Harrisburg, is a candidate
for Quartermaster General in case of-
Colonel Demming's rejection by the
Senate.
Bishop O'Hara, of Scranton, ap-peals
to all the faithful of his diocese
to contribute on the first Sunday in
Lent to alleviate.the distress in Sligo,
Ireland.
Rescued Aliye.
There was great joy at Nanticoke
near Wilkesbarre on Mondav morn-ing.
The three miners entombed in
in Grand Tunnel colliery No. 3 of the
Susquehanna coal company, since last
Wednesday, were taken out alive this
morning, but nearly famished. Their
names are : John Riner, Michael She-lank
and William Cragle. They were
caught in a fall of rock" and shut out
from escape. They remained in this
dark and noisome tomb-like mine all
of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. Their com-panions
worked incessantly and finally
reached them this morning. The un-fortunates
were quickly brought to the
surface and nourishment given, after
which they were taked to their home.
Never Too Old.
Milton Brown, aged 84 years, of
Annerton, Ontario, will next Tuesday
lead to the altar a bride in the person
of Mrs. Margaret Clickert, aged 97
years. The groom has buried four
wives and the bride mourns the loss of
five husbands. Her last husband
died two years ago at the advanced
age of 124 years. The bride and
groom elect are colofed and were slaves-in
Virginia.
Broker Ives Denies Suicide.
Theodore A. Ives, of New York,
who attempted to jump from the Staten
Island ferryboat Southfield, was
arraigned yesterday before Justice
Casey at New Brington on a charge of
attempted suicide. Ives admitted that
he had been drinking, but said he did
not remember what he did after he
boarded the ferryboat. He said he
had no intention of committing suicide
as he had everything to live for. His
business was prosperous, and he had
a wife and family.
S T .EX . M O MoTBii, Kos. 317 and 319
Airch street, Philadelphia. —Bates re-duced
to $2 per day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel the
same liberal provision for their com-fort.
It is located in the immediate
centre of business, and places of amuse
ment and the different railroad depots
as well as all parts of the city, is
easily accessible by street ears con-stantly
passing the doors. It offers
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. You r
patronageis respectfully solieted.
JOSEPH M . FEGEB, oc7-ly Propr.