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VOL. XVI. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30,1892. NO 17.
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GENTS' FURNISHER.
Fall aQd Wii>t«r Stock
now ready. I never had a better and larger
assortment. Everything to outfit a man or
boy in the way of Clothing and Hats and
Caps, Gents' Furnishing Goods, etc. in all
the leading styles, well and carefully made
at prices that will make them sell.
<>oods
for Overcoats and Suitings
in all desirable shades and
qualities. My counters
and shelves are loaded
from top to bottom. No
trouble to show you what
I have. Come and see
and obtain prices.
Rcady'jtyade ClotbiQg
for men and boys. My
Overcoat display is especi-ally
attractive and can
please everybody. Suits
for wear and service—just
what you want—at all
prices. I guarantee more
for the money than can be
obtained elsewhere in this
line.
6cQts FftrQisbiQS <5oods.
If you want to see a fine line of Neckwear,
Underwear, Suspenders, or anything else in
the Furnishing line you will find it here. All
the latest New York and Philadelphia styles
at popular prices. I carry as large a line as
may of the stores do in the cities, while I am
sure you will not pay as much as you will
there. You are invited to call and see and
make comparisons. Besides you have the
opportunity and convenience of returning
the goods if not satisfactory. I want every-body
buying of me to be satified with his
purchases.
[ A T S A N D C A P S in all the latest styles.
I do not have the room to make a big open display in this
line, but have it all the same, and believe I can save you
money by getting your headgear with me.
" Record " Building, Broad Street,
LITITZ, P6NNA.
I N T E R H A T S.
WINTER STOCK
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Rats, Gaps, (¡loves and Fops
COMPLETE.
Prices, Styles and Quality Correct.
141 BORTH ODIEN STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER.
Last Strote this Season on T r i « i Hats at our Sellinpit
ASTRICHS'
115 and 117 NORTH QUEEN ST., LANCASTER.
We give you the choice of any hat in our show window for #5.
We have 23 Hats in the window that were sold from $8.50 to #[5.
As soon as one is sold we put another in its place. Those in the window
are the choice of the lot.
Only a few more of those One Dollar Shoes. There will be no more
as long as you live. There isn't a pair worth less than $1.75, positively.
It is beyond a doubt that all our Coats, without exception, are sold
cheaper than any in this city. Those who leave without buying are sure
to come back.
We have reduced a lot of Ladies' Cloth Skirts, with yoke band and
ruffle, from $1 to 50c.
Boys' 25c Waists for I7C apiece ; 50c for 29c ; $1.25 for 75c.
Ladies' Ribbed Wool Jackets reduced to 45c.
Table Cloths, linen, never were „slaughtered at such prices: 75c to
50c ; $1 to 65c ; $1.50 to $1 ; $2 to $1.2$.
One lot of Lace Trimmed Aprons, 5c apiece.
One lot of Children's Tipped Shoes, sizes 5 to 8, at 24c a pair.
We are almost giving away our stock of Ladies', Misses' and Child-ren's
Oxfords. Every pair must be sold.
We need not advertise Christmas Goods. Our display speaks for
itself.
Children's Woolen Dresses, were $2.50, now $1.50.
Ladies' Pleated Flannel Waists, were $2.98, now$i_5o.
One lot of Damask Linen Tray Covers, were 25c, now I 2 ^ c,
A TEXAS LOCHINYAR.
THE EASTERN idea of a Texas
horse is a ewe-necked, low-headed,
narrow-chested, cat-hammed little
beggar, with blood in his eye and as
many devils in his disposition as there
are cockle-burrs in his tail.
I wish some of the people who
imagine that droves of such little beasts
are the horses generally raised on
Texas ranches could see Jim Mc-
Queen's Cinco. His size was a four-mile
horse whose ancestry ran vaguely
back towards Kentucky, and he unites
with the beauty, speed, smooth coat,
good temper and large size of this
stock the indomitable pluck and hardi-hood
and the inexhaustible bottom of
his native Texas blood.
Jim traded five ponies for him when
he was a raw, slim-legged yearling,
and called him Cinco in commemora«
tion. He is six years old now and has
never known the feeling of a collar.
It is true that if some uninstructed out-sider
should insist on putting him into
harness Cinco would probably end by
kicking the vehicle into kindling wood
and himself clean of every strap of
harness, but this would be simply
contemptuous protest—a forcible ex-planation
of the fact that he wasn't
built to haul loads,
Cinco is the best horse in this, t
country of good horses. His qualifica-tions
and accomplishments are varied.
He is an inapproachable cow horse,
finished expert in all the horse manoe-uvres
incideut to roupding up, rolling
and cutting out; a perfect mine of en-durance
and good spirits on the trail,
and always wins all the long distance
and handicap races at the county, fair.
He won his last handicap, about a
month ago under circumstances of
interest to a romance loving frontier
society.
Jim is the junior partner at the
bachelor Gilleapie & McQueen sheep
ranch on Boggy run. Their nearest
neighbor, five miles above, is the Aus-tell
ranch at Crockett's well. Miss
Chummie Austell, when she came out
to the ranch & year ago from some
east Texas school, had as easy a walk-over
of the undisputed belleship of the
whole county as Cinco would have had
in an open race against a field of cow
ponies and without an ounce pf handi-cap.
It was Jim, with his good looks,
boyish spirits, and what Wade Keener
bitterly styled "his blame winnin'
ways," who first gained her maiden
preference and held it so long in the
face of so much and such spirited, not
to say desperate, rivalry that it looked
as though the course of true love might
be going to run smooth once, just to
show its west Texas originality.
But now came upon the scene the
cause of discord, misunderstanding,
jealousy and reproaches, spirited re-torts
and secret tears and finally separa-tion
in the person of a sheepman's
" drifter " from somewhere up in the
Panhandle. Spurr was a mostunroman-tic
figure, about six feet in height and
three across, with a sort of air of good
fellowship about him, and giving im-pression
somehow of great and abound-ing
wealth.
Now a " drifting " sheepman is, gen-erally
speaking, not very kindly taken
to by cattlemen or even by sheep
ranchers. He is a man who may have
10,000,15,000, or 20,000 sheep, and
grow rich off the wool and mutton
without ever owning a foot of land.
But old man Austell and Mrs Austell
were undeniably impressed by the
atmosphere of wealth that went about
with Spurr, and when he had violent
siege to Chummie's affections he got
more or less support from the family—
even the boys, who were Jim's special
friends, standing off neutral. Jim,
hurt and angry, rode over to see Chum-mie
and demanded that she give that
chump his vamos right straight.
It's hard for a pretty girl who knows
her power to accede gracefully and
promptly to an order like that, even
from the man she loves, and the result
was an angry rupture.
For some weeks they never met, and
all this time Spurr was staying at the
Austell ranch or camping close to it
pushing his suit with Chnmmie, and
Chummie, with the indiscretion of the
weaker sex, thinking to scare Jim into
repentance, allowed herself to be drawn
into a sort of promise, which Spuir
immediately fastened upon, sent to San
Antonio for an immense diamond soli-taire
and, with the support of the old
people, hurried on the marriage, so
that before slie realized where she
stood the frightened and unhappy girl
was actually putting on her wedding
dress.
And Jim ?
The season was bad, there had been
no rain for long, Boggy Run was run
out, the grass was dry as tender and
the stock was beginning to suffer. The
sheep could do where they were — a
well-regulated Texas sheep can come
as near dispensing with drinking water
as a Kentucky colonel—-but the cattle
were rounded up and started out on
the trail for "the territory." Jim
who usually stayed with the sheep,
took charge of the cattle this year,
There was a most uncomfortable sore-ness
in the region of his heart, which it
seemed somewhat to him might be
more or less worked off in the toil of
managing a herd of trail cattle, lam
ming recalcitrant steers, fighting to
keep the bunch to the trail in the face
of a norther, or struggling to prevent
or to quell an incipient stampede.
They had been out on the trail near-ly
a week, and were pretty well up
towards the State line when Bob
English rode into their camp one
evening. After supper, when Jim
two cowboys were out riding around
the herd, getting them bedded down
for the night,Bob remarked confident!
ally to Jim: " The weddin's a coming
off next Thursday. You done the
very thing to jest skip. She's sorry
enough . Good God, Jim !
thought you knew all about it!"
In two hours'time Jim was far from
his camp and Bob's, headed for Boggy
Run on the best pony in the saddle
band and leading another, cursing his
folly for thinking Cinco too good for
so hard a trip. Four days later, on a
Thursday, he rode up to the ranch
house door at Boggy Run about noon
and threw himself upon the bed with-out
a word, while Gillespie, equally
speechless with amazement, arose from
hi3 solitary dinner and attended to the
used-up horses.
That evening Jim was saying to
Gillespie (an older man and a hard-headed
Scotchman), while he blacked
his boots yigorously, turned the little
ranch house upside down and dragged
out all his own and Gillespie's entire
wardrobe to make a suitable full dress
suit: " Let up, John. There's no use
talkin'. I'm goin' over there and look
at her—that's all, If this is her own
deal, an' she's satisfied, why, I'm bound
to be. If it isn't—if that little old
swelled up prairie dog an' tfie old folks
haye sort of rushed her . No, you
can't go, nor Billy. I'm just goin' by
myself, all peaceable and natural."
They were waiting for the preacher
at the Austell ranch—he was an hour
overdue. There was a sort of strained
uneasiness in the air since Jim's unex-pected
arrival, despite his quiet man-mer
and friendly greeting.
He only needed one glance at Chum-mie's
little face, and her look at halt-terrified
delight would have melted a
more obdurate and injured lover.
Presently some lively young spirit out
on a porch exclaimed: " Oh, let's play
hide and seek; the moon's bright as
day."
Jim watched Chummie, and, as she
crossed a darkened entry, caught her
in his arms an instant, whispering,
" Hide put at the far side of the corral
—Cinco's there, hitched." She slipped
around a back way unseen, while Jim
walked boldly over in front, and there,
behind the eight-foot stockade, they
met at Cinco's head.
' You don't want him, do you. dar-ling?"
" Oh, no; oh, no, Jim!"'
" Will you risk it with me and
Cinco?"
"Oh,yes! Quick!"
" They'll follow. Where's the sad-dles
and bridles? I'll put you on
Rascal."
"All on the back porch—there's
isn't time, anyhow—oh, listen !"
Jim lifted the little figure instantly
upon Cinco behind the saddle, swept
the bridal rein up from the snag over
which it hung and sprang into the sad-dle
in front of her, and her arms were
around him. Even while he wheeled
Cinco at the corral gate he dashed in
and circling once around it drove the
horses snorting out before them with
swinging quirt. Jim thrilled within
that encircling girdle and remembered
how once, riding over from Boggy run,
he had found her afoot at the far end
of the ranch, Rascal having given her
the slip: how he had taken her up
behind him on Cinco, and how he had
grievously spurred and mistreated that
unoffending and astonished friend, and
put him into a dead run for the rare
delight of feeling those shy arms about
him.
It would have been prudent to start
north and circle round to the trail,
avoiding the house. But it wouldn't
have been Jim—nor it wouldn't have
been Texas. When he felt himself in
that sweet clasp, so long desired, so
barely snatched and won at last when
it would seem lost for good, with those
frightened arms clinging about him,
the small hands locking themselves
together below his heart, Jim felt like
a warrior god.
Touching Cinco with the spurs, he
sprang forward and dashed down the
trail, close behind the string of clatter-ing,
snorting saddle ponies, right past
the open front door and the whole as-sembled
company, in the clear white
light of a Texas full moon. As they
to
came up to the group, Jim, in a reck
less burst of unrestrainable delight
and triumph, rose in the stirrups, and,
swinging his hat, remarked in the tone
of an intoxicated steam whistle,
" Whirr—00—00—irp! Whooirp !
Whoo—00—ooey !"
Translated freely this reads, " Go to
Halifax! I have got you know! Lets
see you help yourselves !" And so the
gentlemen to whom it was addressed
received it. But Cinco accepted as
only regular straight out horse talk—
the most pressing form of exhortation
g i t" known to his tribe and he
go," forthwith.
The ponies scattered out and let them
Several of the older and sober
ed oneis, pausing to question and de-bate
a little, were caught and saddled,
and the Austell boys and some others
followed over to Boggy run. Gillespie
come out and told them, with the grim,
chuckling enjoyment of a sober old
fellow over a beloved youngster's dash
ing prank, that J im and Chummie, on
Cinco and Gillespie's best pony, had
ridden down to be marripd at Del Rio
and take the morning train to Uvalde,
where Jim's people live.
Jim and Chummie could afford to be
magnanimous and say nothing to th6
old folks, when we heard last week
that Spfirr was living meekly at Dal-las
with a very aggressive wife and
four children that came out from the
East somewhere and corralled that
gay butteifly.
British Bits.
The largest theatre in London is the
Britannia, which has seats for nearly
3000 people.
1,325,700 acres of the surface of
England are covered by woods, planta-tions,
etc.
Within the last thirty years there
have been on the British coasts over
60,000 wrecks, with the fearful loss of
20,000 lives.
In the reign of Henry V I I I it was
enacted that no person should keep
above 2000 sheep nor hold more than
two farms. .
The Lord Mayor takes precedence
of every other subject within the juris-diction
of the city of London, even of
the Prince of Wales.
There are forty " Penny Dreadfuls "
issued weekly in London, having in all
circulation of a million, and these
are read almost exclusively by child-ren.
One Thing and Another.
The oldest spoon in the world be-longs
to George A. Warren, of India-apolis.
It is 229 years old, and was
brought from England.
The word "preface" used in the
beginning of books was originally a
word of welcome to a meal, and was
equivalent to " Much good may it do
ypu."
It is not generally known that Great
Briiain, in spite of the progress of
cultivation, still possesses more species
of wild fowl than any other European
country.
More first magnitude stars are in the
field of vision in winter than in sum-mer.
Sirius, Aldebaran, Procyon,
Betelguese, Rigel and Cappella are
bright stars seen in the winter months
which are not visible in the evening
hours during the summer.
Sound Sleepers.
A miaisterHSfho was generally able
to keep his congregation wide awake,
on one occasion—it was a sultry sum-mer
day—observed numbers of them
asleep. He resolved fo nip the eyil
practice in the bud. So, taking a good
survey of the scene before and around
him, exclaimed, " I saw an advertise-ment
last week for 500 sleepers for a
railroad. I think I could supply at
least 50, and recommend them as good
and sound!" It is, perhaps, needless to
say that the supply instantly vanished.
Color of the Eye a Test of Strength.
It is said that the health of the bru-netts
type of eye is, as a rule, superior
to that of a blonde type. Black eyes
usually indicate good powers of physi-cal
endurance, Dark blue eyes are
most common in persons of delicate, re-fined,
or effeminate nature, and gen-erally
show weak health. Light blue,
and, much more gray eyes, are most
common in the hardy and active.
With regard to disease of the eye,
brown or dark colored are weaker or
more susceptible ofinjury from various
causes than gray or blue eyes. Light
blue eyes are generally the most power-ful,
and next to those are gray. The
lighter the pupil the greater and long-er
continued is the degree of tension
the eye can sustain. The majority of
first-class shots are men whose eyes
are either blue or gray in color.
Minor Memoranda.
There are $150 garters.
Practice writing 1893.
Big hips are fashionable.
July 4th falls on Tuesday.
The calender fiend is with us.
The accordion pleat is obsolete.
The turn-down collar gains favor.
Factories are making summer goods.
Jewelers report a light call for ear
rings.
White hosiery is popular; on rainy
days at least.
Remember the Departed Ones.
The Manheim Marble and Granite
Works, near the railroad depot, are well
prepared to execute at short notice all
rinds of tombstones, monuments and
cemetery enclosures. The yard is well
stocked with an elegant assortment of
all kinds of material lor this purpose,
thus enabling the manager to suit all
tastes in styles and prices. Please call ii
in need of anything in our line.
20au-6m S. B. HARNEB, Manager.
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Food for Thought.
Use no hurtfnl deceit.
Think innocently and justly.
Keep among the haunts of men.
To return good for evil is divine.
To return good for good is human.
^Nothing is stronger than aversion.
Let all your things have their place.
Resolve to perform what you ought,
Woo a window ere she sheds her
weeds.
Perform without fail what you
solve.
Be always employed in something
useful.
We are always bored by those whom
we bore.
To be industrious, keep out all un
necessary action.
Every dog hath his day, eyery
woman hath her way.
A man who praise himself meets
with general denial.
A great mind will neither give an
affront nor bear it.
Women are wise on a sudden, and
fools on reflection.
Make no expense but to do good to
others or yourself.
A man who decries himself finds
plenty to agree with him.
Amongst true friends there is no fear
of losing anything.
The shortest cut to poverty is to try
to get rich m a hurry.
He deserves to be suspected who has
once done an injury.
The man who does honest work gets
a double pay for doing it.
Quarrels would not last long were
the faults on one side only.
A religion that consists only in ideas
does not make anybody better.
A big man does not haye so many
opportunities to fight as a little one.
Wrong none by doing injuries or
omitting benefits that are your duty.
Coming to t h e Point.
Ihere are some subjects which, the
more they are explained, the more, in
Tennyson's phrase, they are "darklier
understood."
A lecturer on theosophy had con-cluded
a long and careful address, and
said to his attentive audience :
If there is any question which any
of you would like to ask, I shall be
pleased to answer it."
For a moment there was silence;
then an earnest looking gentleman
rose and said:
I should like to know, professor,
whether anybody has ever discovered
reliable cure for warts."
Of Interest to Young Men.
The young men and young women
who aspire to obtain Academic or Col-lege
educations, and whose parents can-not
well afford them that expense, will
be interested in the work of The Cos-mopolitan
Magazine, wnich has offered
for the year 1893 one thousand scholar-ships
at any of the leading colleges or
schools of the United States, upon the
condition of introducing the magazine
into certain neighborhoods. Yale,
Vassar, Harvard, Ann Arbor, Chicago,
and Southern colleges, the great schools
of art and medicine, all are alike open
to the ambitious boy or girl who is not
afraid of a little earnest work. The
Cosmopolitan sends out from its New
York office a handsomely printed
pamphlet to any applicant, telling just
what is necessary in order to secure
one of these scholarships. The scholar-ship
itself includes board, lodging,
laundry and tuition—all free.
Just a Little Word When to Buy.
If you are wide awake you will hasten to make some of our
nice goods your own, as an early selection always proves the
best and most satisfactory. Do not wait until the last moment
when the best selections have been made, but come now—come
at once.
<XJAGK STRAUB, Jeweler,t*
60 N. Queen St., Lancaster.
We sell Watches at 50c per week.
Socrates Forgot to say That:
It isn't always the man with large
ears that hears the most.
It is always the man who isn't do-ing
the work who is willing to give
adyice.
Eyery man has the impulse to be
heroic when he is reading of danger
thousands of miles away.
Eyery woman is sorry for some
other woman on account of something
her husband told her about the other
woman's husband.
Turkey Without Stuffing.
Theie is not the slightest doubt but
the stuffing of poultry ruins the
flavor and makes a good dinner hard
to digest. Trust the turkey and roast
it just as you would ordinarily, and be-hold
the difference in flavor. You
will never stuff poultry again. After
he is in good shape, dust with pepper
and put a goodly quantity of washed
butter oyer his breast. Run it into a
hot oven and after thirty mintstes cool
down the Are. Roast without water,
simply basting with the melted butter
and the fat in the pan for twenty
minutes to each pound of turkey. Do
not count the first half hour. Salt
when nearly done.
He Meant It.
A Scotchman who had long served
under Garibaldi came home with a red
jacket. One summer day he was
walking through a field near Dumfries
when a large bull went for him and
sent him flying over the hedge. As
he picked himself up'the bull stood on
the other side, putting down his head
and pawing the earth and roaring.
The Garibaldian mistook the bull's
meaning, and, shaking his fist at it, he
exclaimed with great indignation:
Nane o' your apologies! You meant
it, you brute."
The Gulf Stream Weather Story.
Sometime ago a few newspapers
published articles to the effect, that
owing to the shifting of the Gulf stream,
no more extreme cold weather was
probable for this section. According
the temperature of late the gulf
stream must have shifted back again
to the old stand.
Haye You Eyer Noticed:
That as a man treats his horse so he
treats his wife ?
The man who treads upon his neigh-bors'
toes ? He it is who pines for the
earth ?
The best fruit is none to good to eat,
and that inferior fruit makes inferior
sauce ?
How much more some housekeepers
are guided by rules than by common
sense?
The expression on the face of the
man or woman who sees no good in his
neighbors ?
That good cooks are not the ones
who keep the table and hungry people
waiting for the food ?
The youthful looks of those „whose
experience has been meagre? Deep
feelings, thrilling experiences leaye
marked traces.
That some voices soothe and comfort,
while others stir up all the old Adam
that's in you- ?
Her Husband Turns Out to be Her
Father.
English high society is again
shocked. In 1874, a beautiful social
leader became the mother of an ille-gitimate
child. Her seducer fled, and
the child was raised in a nunnery.
Recently, the father whose wife died,
took the girl, aged eighteen, made
ove to her, she thinking he was only
her guardian, and finally thev were
married. It was not until after her
baby boy. was born that she learned
her father was her husband. Names
and pedigree are published, and the
highest English society is linked with
the scandal. The mother of the girl
is a daughter of Sir Henry Dehogton,
baronet. The man's name is Clark,
who is very rich.
A Counterfeit Gang R u n Down.
At West Superior, Wis., Frank
McLean has been arrested. There
has been a great deal of counterfeit
coin passed there and the town is
filled with United States detectives.
Many other arrests are expected. A
large quantity of bad coins, metal,
dies, &c., have Jbeen captured. Two
boys have also been arrested. The
gang made the coin in a cabin along
the shore of Lake Superior.
Layer and Kidneys.
Calves' livers and lambs' kidneys,
prepared in various appetizing- ways,
are deservedly popular breakfast and
luncheon dishes. A physican the
other day inserted this caution: " I
never permit either liver or kidney
dishes on my table," said he. " If the
animal from which tfiey are taken has
any sort of constitutional taint it will
be present in one or the other of
those vital parts. Its flesh may be
whole-some while the liver or kid uey
will be diseased, and I prefer to take
no chances.
OWEN P. B B I C K E B , Esq., attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningand can be consulted
in all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
A Druggist
frankly tells us that he has been in busi-ness
for thirty years, and never sold as
good a preparation as Teaberry Elixir,
or Dr. Fahnestocks Favorite Drops. A
universal household remedy, good for
pain, diarrhoea and crying babies. It
gives entire satisfaction. Try it. Sold
everywhere.
Over t h e State.
Harry Focht's skull was fractured
in a mine at Fremont.
The World's Fair State Commission
is collecting china for a fine exhibit.
Navigation on the Schuylkill Canal,
above Reading, has stopped for the
season. *
Mangled to death by a train was the
fate of Carroll Kauffman, of Shippens-barg.
Twelve-year-old Harvey Kreider, of
Heilmandale, Lebanon county, is
strangely missing.
The Pittsburg Times gave to each
of its 350 newsboys a good suit of
clothes.
Twenty-five children of the Kruias-ville,
Berks county, school are ill with
scarlatina.
A large hunting party is scouring
the woods at Knauer's, Berks county,
for an enormous bear.
The Williamsport boom this year
handled 1,286,413 separate los;s, or
182,783,838 feet of lumber.
By an explosion of dynamite in
Burnside Colliery, near Shamokin,
Joseph Scott was terribly injured.
Death may result from the tripping
up, "just for fun," of Adolph Weise-wasser,
by a companion at Reading.
Max Newman, who killed Thomas
Coyne,a fellow workmen at Homestead,
will be tried for murder this week.
Roads will be the chief topic for
discussion at a meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture, to be held in
Harrisburg January 25.
The fire in the North Mahanoy col-liery
is burning unabated.
By a coasting accident at McKees-port,
Grace Moore had her nose cut off.
J. B. Baker, of Collins, a train hand,
was thrown off a freight and froze to
death.
In a drunken fit, John Quinn, of
Sharpsville, threw his wife outdoors,
and she may die.
John Oquise, a drayman at Mount
Jewett, McKean county, was burned
to death in a barn fire.
In the burning of the Wilmerding
lockup, John Purdy, confined for
drunkenness, was consumed.
Haying shot Louis Schmidt with a
" didn't-know-it-was-loaded " pistol, Jos.
Minka, of Wilkesbarre. has fled.
A new gas company with $100,000
capital has been organized in Johns-town
to make gas by a new and cheap
process.
The body of Paul Zuiiak, Egypt,
Lehigh county, was found under the
ice in Coplay Creek.
For the first time in many years
the Lehsgh River is frozen over from
Easton to Mauch Chunk.
A Lehigh Valley Railroad locomo-tive
jumped the track near Delano
and rolled down a twentyfive foot
embankment.
Mining operations in the Mahano?
region stopped, owing to the cold. It
was ten degrees below zero in some
places.
People at Mt. Carmel are try ing to
find the owner of a double team that
galloped into that town with an empty
wagon and no driver.
By the will of Joseph Home, Pitts-burg's
late millionaire merchant, each
member of the family receives a fourth
of the estate.
Charged with killing Louis Demaish
at Wellsville, last summer, Michael
Tenora, having been tracked to Wis-consin,
is now locked in New Castle
jail.
As a Christmas gift President Harri-son
pardoned Harry Flaun, serving a
five years' term in Pittsburg Prison
for embezzling Marine Bank funds.
Captain Fred D. Hines, who com-manded
the Pinkertons on the steamer
Little Bill, at Homestead, will go to
Europe this week to recover from gun-shot
wounds.
A Triefc of the Parrot Trade.
" You deal very largely in parrots»
do you not ?" asked an interviewer of
Mr. W. Cross, the London bird
merchant.
" Yes; sometimes we have a thou-sand
in stock, and I sell 80,000 annual-ly.
There is more swindling in the
parrot trade than in any I know.
There are people going about the
country buying up all the sick parrots
they can, and these are hawked by
sailors, who say they come from Liver-pool.
Two or three days after a
householder buys a bird it is dead."