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EDITORIAL NOTES. M* PLEASANT as n railroan centre will we trust bo tin? liveliest town in Western Pennsylvania. THE Democrats and Republicans of Ohio are beginning to talk of tnriff and free trade already. Better wait until the thermometer gets cold. MOST people believe that the days of witchcraft have gone by, but it seems that historic llullskin still believes in spooks and ollindritches. THERE is a report in circulation that the government is about to bring civil suits against the various Star route con-tractors to recover moneys alleged to have been fraudulently taken from the Treasury by them. The aggregate of those claims amount to $1,000,000, and the suits it begun will involve upwards of twenty of tho contractors. With the experience of tho government in the criminal suits, it looks a little likethrow lug good money after bad to incur any more cost in prosecuting Star rotito cases in Washington. While there is no doubt in the public mind that not only one million but many millions wero taken fiaudulentl/ by means of these contracts, tlie trouble will be to convince a Wash-ington jury that such practices weren't highly commendable. If the cases could be tried somewhere else there might he some show of success. THE WA3 OF THE WIRES. One of the most important strikes ever inaugurated opened on Thursday last when the commercial telegraph op-erators left their desks on account of the refusal by their employers of certain concessions which they asked. There is no doubt that as a class, tho telegraphers receive small wages for their labor. Mot any slouch can enter an office and learn the business, but the employee must be quick of oar, ready with his fingers and have a degree of intelligence hardly re-quired cf any oilier profession of the name grade. lie must be thoroughly honest and reliable, with a slow tongue and an eye alive to the interests of his superior officers and his company. Corporations generally do not havothe name of paying their employees extrava-gant salaries and it is well known that tho telegraph companies are no excep-tion to the rule. The railroad and the tolegraph arc the mostclosely intertwined with commercial traffic and tho prompt and accurate working of both branches of communication is necessary to the transaction of business. In no line does n strike so affect the country at large as in the telegraph or railroad and there-fore all possible concessions on both sides ought to be made before a strike is pre-cipitated. In tlie strike now in progress, the sympathy of the public seems to be with the operators. There are some demands in their declaration which they might disponso with, and doubtless would if tlieir employers would treat with them. They are holding the whip band now for tlie offices are not well manned, nor is business able to lie car-ried on as it was before the strike. From Maine to California and from tlie hikes to the gulf, there is trouble in every large city and the operators are so well organized that the chances are in tlieir favor just as soon as tho present force are worn out by overwork. STOLEN HORSES, A Pleasant Unity Auimnl Talcrn anti Re-covered— News of LtMt Hornes at Home. On Monday Mr. Samuel Andrews, of Ml. lfieasant, and Geo. Frick, of Greens-burg, left lor Butler county to examine an estray horse which answered the de-scription of the one stolen from Mr Andrews some time ago. Tlie horse had come to tlie farmer’s place on the1 Mon-day following the day it had been stolen, without any harness on, and the buggy and harness wete found at another place. It is thought the thieves had been pas-turing the animal and that it had slipped away from them. Tlie farmer took tlie home into Pittsburg, but nobody there could identify it. Tlie horse was promptly identified, and on Tuesday morning Mr. Andrews arrived home with it. On Friday night, a valuable bay horse was stolen from Joseph Jamison near Pleasant Unity. A man named John Garland was arrested in Pittsburg on Sunday, and it was discovered that he had traded Mr. Jamison’s horse for a bay ono at Braddocks. Garland formerly lived at (ireensburg, and it is supposed that ho could tell the whereabouts of several missing animals in that neigh-borhood. Tilt* lu Not a Cnmpnlgit Story. John Rumbaugh is tho owner of.*i tur-key gobbler which so far encroached upon the belongings of,tho feminine side ol his Hpoctos as to sit upon eggs and the most wonderful part remains to be told, for tho gobbler hatched out a chicken. We refer to J* lb Andrew for proof, be-cause be saw tho.chicken aud Lite gobbler* V/fco Cmu Ibiat It T ^ • Mr. H. B. l’crshiug Jast week cut from two and a half acres ul bis residence on <*Tmrc.h street, more than eight tons of prirno hay, and ho would like to hear of **onio larger yiolds if there are any, PurelnuMtd Instruments; The Kidgeviow band lias purchased thirteen pieces through J, W. Swartz the lender of the Mt. Pleasant bands Tlvore ■will lie plenty of music on- tit? .rklg* this full, DAY’S DOINGS. OUR HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. A of Event* Transpiring tho World Over During the P:isl Revest Dnj s, n« Gathered l»y the busy Ncvrmneit. WEDNESDAY.—The English conserva-tives are urging tlie government to sub-mit tlie Lesseps agreement to parliament as soon ns possible.—Tlie French cam-paign iiiTunquin will begin in .Septem-ber— Secretary Teller proposes personally to decide on tho claim of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to tlie land grants of the Texas Pacific Company.— The captain of a British bark was arres-ted in Boston for alleged violation of tho new law against importing Chinamen.— Nusv llainsliiro lias not yet elected her new United States Senator.—From Read-ing. Pa., the simultaneous explosion of eight steam boilers is reported. One man was killed and several others injured.— The trial of Colonel I lyes, U. S. A., for alleged duplication of his pay roll for August, Iss:j, 1ms commenced at St. Paul Minn.—The campaign in Iowa premises to lie lively, as the respective candidates for Governor have arranged to conduct it by a series ofjoint debates.—The trial of Marsh K. l’olk, the defaulting ex-Stato Treasurer of Tennessee, has begun. THURSDAY.— Sixty-one deaths from cholera occurred in twenty-four hours at Cairo.—The evidenco of tho boy Moritz Seharfhas been tested by'cxaminingtho keyhole through which lie claims to have witnessed tlie Hungarian murder.—Post-masters are notified by department cir-cular of tho reduction of letter postage on tho 1st of October to two cents, and are directed to prepare therefor.—Yellow fever is unusually prevalent in Vera Cruz and several c^scs arc detained in New Orleans quarantine. No case has yet appeared on shore in the United States. —Yigiuuix, the billiard player, left for Franco on tlie steamer J.ubrabor.—A slight frost is reported from Davenport, Iowa.—Tho office of tho United States Consul at Monterey, Mexico, lias been raided by n mob, those in charge mal-treated and tlie books and papers de-stroyed.— Canned fruits poisoned upward of twenty-five persons at Clinton, Mass. —Tlie Indian problem is now to lie sol-ved by making the aborigines cattle owners and ranchers.—George G. Bren-ner. City Marshall of Wellington, Ohio was shot and killed while pursuing two men whom ho had discovered in the act of coiiiniitliug a burglary. Fntiiiv,—1Twelve deaths from cholera have occurred at Cairo within half an hour.—Tho Knglisli and American teams at Wimbledon have been finally selected. —The Elclio Shield was won by (lie Irish.—Mr. Waddington’s appointment and Lord Lyons’ holiday are regarded as omens of peace between England and France.—(.Tops in Prussia promise well. —Miss Murphy, of Hun Francisco, lias married Sir Charles Wolseley.—In the case against ex-Unitcd Stales Senator Kellogg on argument tlie court decided that tho objections to the indictment on tlie ground of tlie attendance of Mr. Ker in tlie Grand Jury room was not valid.—A material falling off is noted in sales of postage stamps, resulting from the approaching change of rate.—Owing to the employment of non-union men at the iron furnaces in Bctlihihcm, l’a., a riot is anticipated.—In tlie neighboi-borhood of tin? scene of General Crook's exploits Apache braves have just de-feated a body of Mexican troops, killing seven of them.—The interment of Gen-eral Tom Thumb took place in the pres-ence of a very largo gathering at Bridge-port.— Two children were drowned by the surf at Atlantic City, N. J. SATURDAY—Demands are made at Cairo that the English should take the direction of affairs. There were 110 deaths from cholera llicre in one day.— Tlie funds of the second Suez Canal are assured.—The Burmese envoys have ar-rived at Venice.—The American rifle team at Wimbledon' lead in tho first three ranges by eight points.—Prepara-tions aro being made for tie commence-ment of civil suits against star route con-tractors to recover moneys drawn from tlie Treasury on fraudulent representa-tions for postal service under expediting orders.—Bids for the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., range from £60,000 to $120,000.—In consequence of Texas fever' appearing, among tlie cattle just reaching Massachusetts further receipts of cattle from Texas are inter-dicted.— John Williams a noted bunko man, was shot dead by his wife in Cin-cinnati.— No Senator lias been chosen by New Hampshire.—Three men paid on tlie gallows the penalty’ of capital crimes— Guofge McMillan, at Canton, Ohio, for tlie murder of his wife; Robert Wilson, at Memphis, Tenn., for robbing and kill-ing Frank B. Russell, and Daniel Tim-berlake, at Lexington, Ky., for criminal assault upon a little girl. SUNDAY.—Tlie British Rifle Team de feated the Americans yesterday at Wim-bledon by a score of 1,031 to 1,906 for the six ranges.—Two hundred and forty-two deaths from cholera occurred at Alexan-dria on Friday.—It is believed that the Suez Canal agreement lias been modified. —One hundred and twenty-three corpses have been recovered from tlie Daphne, —Two witnesses favorable to the Jews on trial at Nyireshyliaza have with-drawn tlieir evidence.—Census office clerks are not to lie dismissed, blit al-lowed leavo of absence till vacancies occur in the Interior Department, when they will be transferred to fill them.— It is proposed by Hanlan to establish a professional oarsmen’s association.—An insane man at Rochester leaped into a furnace and was burned to ashes.—Tlie Canadian government lias proclaimed a rigid quarantine against all Mediterra-nean ports.—Reports from all over the country shew the straits to which the telegraph companies lmvo beon reduced. —The discovery of a prehistoric forest well-preserved is announced from Clin-ton county. MONDAY.—The British commanders in Cairo are going to form a Sanitary com-mission,— Tho deaths from cholera at Cairo were i!Sl on Saturday.—The Daily Telegraph praises tlie American team in the rifle maitcb.—Tjjo Marquis of Lans-de* me v. ill sail on thesiearner Circassian on October 11 for Canada, to assume the duties of the office of Governor General of the Dominion.—The Supervising Sur-geon General of Marine Hospitals noti-fied tlie henltli and quarantine officers in New York and other cities of a cable message received by him announcing six deaths from cholera in tho London docks.—The State Department was infor-med that the steamship City of Wash-ington, from Vera Cruz for Now York, left several passengers sick with yellow fever at Havana, and Unit five of those left had died.—Tlie gay season at Sara-toga Springs is described as being at iis height.—A cyclone in Southern Minne-sota resulted in loss of life and consider-able destruction of property.—Tlie strik-ing operators all over tho country are cheerful. They seem determined to hold their ground. No new features of great importance are reported. TUESDAY.—Tolegraph operators still remain firm.—£1,100,000 is the amount the government will try to recover from the Star Route thieves by bringing civil suits against them.—The Secretary of tlie Treasury decides that tho Depart-ment lias no authority to erder sub- Treasury officers to receive trade dollars •the shoe as Standard dollars.—On ac-count of the reported prevalence of cholera in London, Health Guards have been appointed and placed on duty both ut London and Liverpool. American-bound vessels will be closely watched by sanitary inspectors appointed by our Consuls in London and Liverpool.— Eight men were killed instantly at Gad-dis, N. Y., in a blast furnace into which they had gone to put in n new lining when tho old lining foil upon them. They wero all married and have families. —President Arthur and party arrived at Capo May yesterday on board tlie United States steamer Dispatch Aii Arm Fractured. Mrs. .Jacob Ilornor, who lives near LaurelviIlr?f was riding from a field to tho barn on a load of hay on Wednes-day last. By n.sudden joltsho was thrown off tho wagon and in her fall broke her loft arm close to theshoulder. Dr. Wako-ileld reduced tho fraeturo, lint tho chan-ces aro that tho lady will never recover tho full use of the arm as tho fraeturo is so close to tho joint. Ilor recovery is only a matter of tiino. A Shoulder Hl«i It* Hrokt-n. On Thursday last Emma Gilson, a lit-tle girl living in West ibid, while play-ing with some children on West Main street, was thrown over tho embank-ment and had her shoulder blade broken. Tho little siifroror is making satisfactory progress toward recovery. PERSONAL. Al. Mortimoio is happy. It is a big hoy. Miss Ida Roadman, leaves" to-day on a visit to friends in Bedford. Mr. Cloorgo MnrdoT, of Bedford, is visiting Mrs. A. Roadman. Mr. Will Buttermoro,of Connollsvlllo, was in town on Monday last. Mrs. I. P. MeTntyro is away on a visit to her parents in Greenaburg. Mr. r. II, Sheploy is on tho sick list again though not seriously ill. Miss Luoy Spa aiding, of Now Castl o, is visiting Miss Ida Roadman. Mr. Samuel Dieo, of Ligonier, is visit-ing frionds in this neighborhood. Miss Maggio Highborger, of Greons-burg, is tho guest of Miss Jessie Jordan. Mrs. G. L. Francis and children aro visaing relatives in Scottdale this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shape, of Nton-honvillo, Ohio, aro visiting frionds in town. Mr. (’has. Fortor, of Connellsvillo, spent Sunday last tho guest of Mrs. C, M. Galley. Mr. I). L. Lutz, of Marlboro, Ohio, was visiting his nioco, Mrs. I. S. White, last week. Miss. Hulo Waltlmur, of Greonsbnrg, was the guest of Airs. I). M. Kennedy on Walnut street lost week. Mrs. Dr. J. A. Loar was summoned to Greenaburg last wenk by tho illness of her father, Mr. Joseph Gross. Mr. Armel Keister, who has been ill with typhoid fever, has so far recovered as to bo able to bo about once more. Prof. DoLong, principal of Lebanon Valley College, was in town Saturday last looking up tho interests of his school. Mrs. J. S. Ramsey and Miss Bello Ramsey, of Pittsburg, aro tlie guests of Mr. Wilson Shields, on Church street. Rev., Ewing principal of tho Jefferson Academy at Washington, Pa. was tlie guest of Mr. W. J. Ilitchman last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Coughenour leavo to-day for Pringledalo camp ground. The camp meeting doos uot open until next week. Miss Mary Ridingor, of Irwin, ami Miss Emma James, of Brady’s Bend, are the guests of Mr. C. II. Sliopley, on Eagle street. Mr. J. W. Miller was in Pittsburg last week, llo was accompanied on his re-turn homo by Miss Flora Wood, of Cin-cinnati, Ohio. Bass Stimmoll, of Greonsbnrg, camoto Mt. Ploasant on Friday evening mid stayed all night to recuperate from his overland trip with the Citizens Baud. Mr. Tarr, a tolegraph operator, who has beon working for George MeCalob in the Western Union office hero, wont in to Pittsburg last week to take a dosk in tho city olfico. On- Wednesday aftornoon, Engineer Lutz, of tlie South Pennsylvania survey, ordorod by Chief Engineer Barnes report for duty to Division Engineer at Somerset. 'uw ordi tp ropor Miller,; Mr. J. B. Goldsmith goes to Pittsburg to-morrow to buy a stock of provisions for tho restaurant which lie will have chargo of at the coming ennipmeoting to bo hold at Pringledalo. Among tlie tenters at Pringlodale camp next week will bo L. S. Tinstman and wife, J. It. Zuuk and family, J. B. Goldsmith and Bcrgess Loar, who has the management of tlie hoarding house. They will leave JOV tho camp grounds tii Thursday* OUR CORPS OF LOCAL REPORTERS Nnrn Notts Rcporlut from the Boroughs and Townships Within tin* County nud from AcroxH tlir liordcrtt. A canip-inoeting is in progress near tho Mutual coke works. Derry has not sufficient accommoda-tions for tho pupllsof her public schools. Tho Greonsbnrg bandsmen who wont on the Somerset excursion have ro turned home. Tho Brunots, a strong amateur base ball ldno of Greonsbnrg, has been re-organized for tho season. Since tho recent fire at Pleasant Unity that region has beon overrun by light-ning rod agents and insurance men. Ten Knights Templar left Groensburg for San Francisco on Monday to join in tho order’s grand colebration in thatcity. John A. Moore, an old farmer of New Salem, was nearly killed by the fall of a heavy frame from tho upper story of a barn. Tho Latrobo car works aro running full time in getting out now cars for the ocpiipmont of the Pittsburg, McKcospor.t it Youghioghony road. A pike weighing 135 pounds and over four feet long was killed by tho use of dynamite by some pirtios fishing in the Yongh at West NovvUm. Tho relics on tho Bushy Run battle-ground aro coming to the surface in such quantities that it looks as though tlioro might ho an underground factory some-where in tho neighborhood. Tlie now barn of Jacob Zundle, who formerly occupied the farm'on which A shaft of the Al orewood works is located, but now of Rostraver township, was struck by lightning on Sunday last. Tho damage is slight. 11. P. Snyder and E l ward Doan, of Connellsvillo; Ewing Craft, of Luzerne; G. G. Marshall, of Uniontown, and i). B. Miilor, of Springfield aro tho democratic delegates from Fagotto county to the Stato convention. Tho boj, Middleton, who was injured at*Everson some time since in attempt-ing to cross the track underneath the cars died last Friday afternoon at half past two o'clock. YoungMulvorhil), who was hurt at tho same time, lias fully recov-ered. At Coultervillo, a man name Conners, while at work on tho division, was struck by tho through mail Tuesday morning oi last week, and instantly killed. A freight train eamo along and he stepped out of the way to tho other track ahead of tlie mail. During Urn (blinder storm at Larimer Station Monday afternoon tbo ham o! •Jacob Baker was struck by lightning and burned to tho ground. Mr. Baker had just finished his whoat and hay h ar-vest, and his ontiro crop of each was de-stroyed by tho lire. W. II. Cooperand wife, who wore nr-rosted at Scottdaloon Thursday evening, chargod with illegal liquor selling, esca-ped from the lock-up on Friday niornivg while Officer Camlin went to ordei breakfast for them. No tracoof tho mis-sing couple has been found. Tho Scottdale .School Board have se-lected the following named teachers for the coming school term: Principal, Prof. Keen, of Harrisburg; room No. 1, AMLSS Clifford, of Ligonier; room No. 2, Miss Bennett, ofGreonsbnrg; room No. 3, Miss Loucks.of Mt. Pleasant; room No.4, Miss Ruff, of East lluutingtou towusblp. Throo Latrobo youths liavo mysteri-ously disappeared. They left tlieir nornos some tiino Wednesday night ol lust week and uo ono seems to know why or where tiiey wont. Tlie boys aro sons of well-known citizens andare named as follows: JIarry Showaltor, John Shulty and Janies Householder. They aro aged about 18 or 19. A ton-year-old son of Mr. Kinkaid, residing on Broadway, Scottdalo, on® day last week was run down by a horse at-tached to a wagon owned by J. B. Lott, carelessly driven by a boy delivering goods. His injuries about tlie head, neck and shoulders are severe, the horse having tramped on him with his fore feet. The animal tried hard to kick him, but he was luckily not in reach of its liind foot. William II, Michell, a miner living at Gist station, on the Southwest road near Uniontown, on Friday lastwas killed by freight train No. 53 going north. lie leaves a wifo and four children. Mitchell at times becamo crazy and was in the lunatic asylum a short time ago, and lie had one of his attacks on Friday. lit* took off his hat and coat and threw him-self in front of the train. He was 43 years old. Thomas Bygate, foreman at the Marklc mills, made an information before Squire Keener, of Greensbarg, against Captain O. C. Markle and his son C. P. Marklc. Jr., for assault and battery. Captain Murkle and son had just returned'from Boston, went to tho mill and had an al-tercation with Schoenthal, chief clerk, under Assignee Lippincott. From there they went to Bygate and committed an assault in consequence of some alleged mismanagement about tho mills. Bail was given for their appearance at court. An effort made by cracksmen to gel Into tho safe ofthe Union Hotel atGreens-burg on Saturday night did not prove a success. They drillod an inch hole into the safe door about two inches irom the combination dial, and some ofthe wheels of tho look had been cut so badly that the safe could not be opened. They made a mistake and bored too low IO strike tho bolt bar as they intended and wore probably frightonod away before they had time to blow it. Au expert from Pittsburgh opened tho safe and repaired it. Tho work is evidently that of professionals. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company aro laying out a rail road lino from Manor 1 n ation to Saltsburg. A full corps of en-gineers aro at work. Tho proposed road will be about twenty miles in length and pass ono-half milo eastot Saleui. It will tap tho rich and undeveloped seven foot vein of coat that extends tho whole length of the lino, and is one of the largest bod-ies of coal in Westmorland county. Large tracts of coal land lmvo already boon leased by tho Penn Gas Coal Coin-t puny, Westmoreland Coal Company and Kline Bros, of Greensbarg. This lino will connect tlie main lino of tlie Bonn-sylvanm'Railroad with the West Penn branch by an easy grade. An Indiana county man wont out to shoot Imh notlong ago. He seated himself on tho limb of a tree, thirty loot above tlie water, cocked his gun and awaited events. Tho first occurrence of any importance was tho breaking of tho limb, the next was his rapid descent and the entrance of logs into tho oozy bottom of tho creek. Ho was^wedged in so tightly as to ho un-able to extricate himself, and it was quite an interval before his'erios brought assis-tance. Ropes wore then put around his body and after a good deal of exertion lie was dragged ashore, and then thodiscov-ory was made that tho bone of one log was broken in two places below the knee and ono bono of tlie other leg also broken. BASE BALL. Tlie Texas Stars Defeat Die Geary*, of «Tamlif»n'* Coke. Works. On Katimiaj’ afternoon lust quite a num-ber of the friends of both clubs gathered at tho Morewood grounds to witness tlie first game between tho II. Geary’s of Jamison's coke works and the Texas Stars. Tlie home nine won the toss, sending tlie visitors to tlie hat. J. Good-man and Carson wore the battery, for the Geary’s, and Zitck and Queer for the Stars. By heavy halting assisted by errors on the part of the homo team, the visitors succeeded in placing two runs to tlieir credit tho first inning, two in the second and one in the third w hile the Stars got but one in the first, none in tlie second and ono in the third, leaving tlie score at tlie end of tlie third inning five to two in favor of the visitors. It is due to Mr. Zuck to say that tie pitched the first three innings for tlie Stars be-cause it was thought necessary to call tho game beforo Milbee, tlie regular pitcher was able to ho present, Milbee was now put in the box and succeeded in puzzling tho Geary’s not a little by his peculiar style of tossing tlie sphere, as f lic visitors only got ono base hit off him and one run in tlie remaining six in-nings. and oven this run wasall owing to a miserable overthrow to first in the eight inning on the part of Mcl’liadden who played third base for the Stars; tlie hall was lost and not found until the runner had touched tlie homo plate. Tlie Stars got five runs in the fiftli in-ning, two in the sixth and did not play their half of tlie ninth as tlie game was theirs without so doing. Carson and f. Goodman carried off tho hon-ors for tho visitors, Goodman making a beautiful catch of a hot line hall while standing in tho pichers box, and Carson having but one pass hall behind tho hat. Tho pitching of Milbeo and the catching of Queer for the homo team wore almost faultless, .Mr. Ram Jamison, of Pleasant Unity, umpired the game in a manner highly satisfactory to both sides. The following is tlie score by innings: l 2 a -i r, n 7 s n Henry's a 2 1 I) 0 U 0 1 0—n Stars' I 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 x—0 WITCHERY IN BU1.LSKIN. IIo-.v (he German Parmer* Catch Any One Who KolmThcm. The residents of tho northern end of Tinllskiii township, Fayette county, have a firm and abiding belief in the super-natural and they appeal to it for all de-cisions on weighty questions. Not long ago a ll.ief visited the home of one of the number and stole a silver watch, a pair of pantaloons and some other arti-cles of a, domestic nature. AVlion tlie nows of tlie robbery spread abroad, the neighbors gathered in and compared ex-periences on tlie most acceptable way of conjuring back tho missing goods. One of tlie number knew of a plan which had worked to perfection over in Som-erset county. There the thief had been so violently affected by its wierd power that in the middle of the night he sprang from liis bed naked, jumped through a sash and returned the stolen goods to their rightful owner. Tlie charm was arranged with due so-lemnity. To one of tho party was given tlie hook of incantation while to another was assigned tlie duty of turning tlie wheel of fate which was to wind up the career of the thief. Tlie words of witch-ery were read with stern tones while tlie wheel slowly revolved and the spell was pronounced complete. The circle adjourned, all satisfied that tlie goods would he brought hack through tlie fairy influence. The following morning, one of the party asseverated his belief that the thief was dead for at midnight as lie laid in liis bed he heard a report like a pistol and he felt assured that tlie noise betokened the demise of tho robber. Days passed away and the thief did not die nor did thegoods come back. It was not until nearly a week had passed that •ommon mortality’s aid was invoked to capture the thief, hut by that time the trail had grown cold and the owner still mourns the loss of liis watch, pantaloons, and other property, while he meditates over tlie trickiness of tho spook and the thief. Injured 1>y Dyunmlle. A twelvo year old pit boy, a son of William Zentmycr, at \lieocoko works, while at work in the pit last week found a dynamite cartridge. After carrying it for several days in his vest pocket, on Sunday ho determined to find out what tho tiling contained. lie picked it with u pin until it explodod. His thumb first and third finger on liis right hand and the thumb on the loir, hand wero torn entirely off, while tho remaining fingers of noth hands woro badly lacerated. His face and breast were punctured with many small particles of tho dangerous compound. The attending physician ron lerod the necessary surgical aid and the youngster will go through life in a bally maimed condition. Theology lu tlie Wooil*. The eampmeettng under tho auspices of the A. M. E. Zion church now being hold in Rnmbaugh’s grove, oast of town, lias thus fur boon very successful. The attendance on Sunday last was quite largo and a big crowd is oxpected next Sunday. Now stock of toilet and nursery articles at Miller A SliepVy's. 7 25 2t COAL, COKE AND IRON. OUR GREAT INDUSTRIES IN REVIEW. Items of Interest fioin Mine, Yard, Oven nml Mill—Jottings of tlie Past Week. Tlie new coal works nearly opposite Sutervillo have been named tho Lake Erie Coal Works. Ono hundred and thirty-five new coke ovens are being built by tlio Connells-villo gfs coal company. A new air course aud exit has boon put in at tho Monastery coke works. The ovens aro running slow on small orders. A special meeting of the stockholders of tho South Pennsylvania railroad com-pany has boon called for September 0th, for tho purpoae of ascertaining if tho in-debtedness and capital stock shall be in-creased. Tlie 1*. McK. Sz Y. R. R. Co. have just completed a good, substantial pump house on tho west side of tho river oppo-site West Newton. Tho structure is built of brick. Largo stone fliers are being built on which tho lingo water tank will rest. Tho Youghioghony River Coal Co., at Scott Haven, received their first con-signment of machinery for tlieir new works on tlio west side of tho Yongh., ono clay last wook, over the P. McK. & Y. R. R., from McKeesport, whore it was transferred from tho B. & O. to tho new road. The American Manufacturer in an ed-itorial upon tho coke trade, and the diffi-culties attending tlio forming of an or-ganization among coke producers says: “It does not now seem likoly that a suc-cessful organization will bo reached. Doubt seems to exist in somo measure among those who were advocating an association, largely induced by the fail-ure in tlio first place; and then,as stated above, there is not tho inducement to coinpleto an organization that there was formerly. Prices ore improving, and the fooling is decidedly firmer, and it is doubtful should tho movement bo re-vived if it would find any supporters.” Tho Now York Coal of last week says: We note with satisfaction that tho Stato of Pennsylvania has appropriated $12,500 for tho erection of a hospital for sick and wounded coal miners nml railroad men at Connollsvillo, provided that a like amount is raised by private sub-scription. To the great railroads which derive a vast revenue annually from tho loading industry of that section, and to tho largo producers, somo of whom have accumulated princely fortunes, itshould ho a matter of a few days to secure tho necessary funds. Wo trust that wo may honbio to record at an early date tho completion of ail tho nocoseary arrange-ments. Tho now hridgo of tho P. McK. Sc Y. railroad company, over tlio Youghio-gheny river at McKeesport, was consid-erably damaged by a blast on Saturday. Tho company opened a barrow pit near tho southern approach, out of which workmen are taking material. The con tractor prepared an unusually heavy blast and when it exploded huge masses of rock and earth wore hurled in every direction. One solid stone weighing about throo hundred pounds, struck the shore span of llie hridgo with such force that somo of tho rods and posts were bent and twisted out ot shape. Somo of tho pioces will bo replaced, and it is es-timated that it will cost $(100 or $700 to repair tho damage clone. The foundry and fire-brick works of tho Fairchanco Furnaeo Company are in full operation. This company contracted last week with the Connellsvillo Coal and Iron Company for furnishing fire-brick for 50 new coke ovens, which tho latter purpose building at LolsenringNo. 2im-modlutely. The furnaeo of the Fayette Coke and Furnace Company, situate at Oil pliant, is still in blast, and making from twenty to twenty-five tons per day* but not much of this production is being put on the marl ot, ns tho company does not care to sell at tho present prices. Tho iron men are feeling very confident that thero will be a greater demand lor their iron by tho middle of next month, and with it an advance in prices. Lemont furnace, situate oir tno lines of the Southwest Pennsylvania and Balti-more and Ohio railroads, three miles north of Uniontown. was hanked up on Saturday last for repairs. The furnace noeds considerable repairing and the proprietors thought this a good time to put them on. Tho yard at tlio furnaeo is filled with iron, more than enough to meet tho present demand. One hundred and fifty tons were sold last week at $10.50 and $77. Dunbar furnace is in blast still, but only one stack is fired up and it is not making much more than half its capacity. The average run is about fifty tons per day. Fairchanee furnace is still idle, but may possibly be started up Au-gust 1, providing tho pi ice of iron has advanced at that time. Tlie Yongh. River Coal Co., bettei known as the operators of tho Scott Ha-ven mine, says tlie West Newton Press, have been making some important pur-chases of real estate in tho vicinity of Buena Vista* Tho purchases were made on sixty days option, but it is not at all likoly but that they will be posUivo sales at the expiration of tlio option. The purchases Include tlio farm ofJohn Boyd, for §-4,-100; a tract of land belonging to Thos. Patterson, price not statod, and the farm of Jas. Doublass, comprising 45 ayres, at $350an acre. The company have a large tract of coal lying up Boyd’s hol-low, and it is tho Intentions of the com-pany, so it is reported, to build a branch road up tbo hollow and in this manner have full and free access to tlieir coal. It is noised about at the village of Seott Haven that the company lmvo not vet given up the project of bridging the Youghatthat poinf. It is reported that the superintendent of the Philadelphia gas works has con-demned 103,*tOO tons of bituminous coal rocently contracted for by the Gas Trust in preference to tlio coal produced by tho Pennsylvania Gas-Coal Company, the Wcstniorohind Coal Company, and other large (Joncerus. This is tho coal furnished by the Saltsburg Coal Com puny, whoso mines aro located on the Conomaugh river, near Saltsburg, and carried to Philadelphia over tlio Penn-sylvania company’s linos. Whon the contracts woro lot, tho Saltsburg product was believed to bo one of tho best gas coals obtainable, and the company se-cured 105,000 tons of the amount required during tlie year, other Pittsburg bidders being badly left behind on their esti-mates. Tho gas company snpermtond-ent now says tho coal contains too much sulphur, and the gas company is to stand suit for refusing to receive tlie coal. Argument was hoard in Philadelphia, by Attorney-Ooneral Cassidy, on on ap-plication for a writ of quo warranto bv Dr. Early and others, who own lands along tlio valley of Little Toby Crook, in which region the New York, Lake Erie <fc Western railroad is about to oxtend its linos. It appeared from tho papers that the New York, Lako Erie Sc West-ern road owns and operates about 27,000 acres of coal lands in Elk, McKean, and Jefferson counties, and also opeiates the railroad belonging trt tlie New York, Lake Erie & Western Coal and Railroad Company. It Is conceded that tho re-spondent can not legally do this; for it is directly prohibited by Statute from owning more than fifty acres of real es-tate in its own mime in Pennsylvania; the acts of 1833 and 1855 forbidding any foreign corporation from owning la. ds in Pennsylvania without express legis-lative permission. Tlie constitution also prohibits any incorporated company, doing tlio business of a common carrier, from engaging in mining or manufac-turing articles for transportation over its tracks, except such as shall bo necessary for carrying on its business. Tho Now York, Lake Erie <* Western sought to evade the law by purchasing the entire stock of a corporation called tho North-western Miningand Exchange Company, and that company owns tlio whole stock of tlie New York, Lake Erie <fc Western Coal and Railroad Company, which was formerly known as tho Wilcox Sc How-ard Hill Improvement Company. It is averred by the petitioners in tho case that they arc tho owners of coal lands in the valley, which will bo rendered val-ueless, because it will bo impossible for them to compete successfully with a cor-poration that transports its own material, and they charge that tlio respondents aro trying to evade tho law. In answer to this, tho railroad company claimed to have tho right to uso tho charter privi-leges of other companies. The Attorney General reserved his decision. PASSING HIS EX. An Esnilnplan D!*clpl» Pitssfd Through HU Pacts hy a Lawyer. The medical profession is becoming ex-ceedingly exclusive as to its membership in tho Keystone State, and tho State Medical Society has so regulated affairs that candidates for medical honors must hereafter pass preliminary examinations before being allowed to read with an al-lopathic physician. In Westmoreland* there are three examiners each having branches of the examination in which they make the applicants show their pro-ficiency. Not a thousand miles from Mt. Pleasant- lives a young gentleman whose tastes run in the direction of scalpel and medicines. Girding up his loins last •veck, lie started to interview the exam-iners and let them sec how well fitted he was for his chosen profession. Going over to Greensburg he made a break for Dr. Frank Cowan’s office, that gentleman being ono of the dread tri-umvirate who pass upon the merits of would-be doctors. Entering tlio office, he stood in the presence of a gray haired* kindly faced v<%Mri to whom lie pre-sented his letter of introduction. “Read it to me” said the veteran, “my eyes are not as good as they once were.’’ The letter was read in tremulous tone and the veteran smilingly bade tlie young man sit down. “Must have a knowledge of Greek and Latin! Y’es, the doctors of Westmore-land know a devil of a lot about Greek and Latin.” With this prefatory remark theveteran sailed in and for two hours ho quizzed tlie youngster from the alpha to tl o omega of his task. Finally on a question the victim gave a definition not in exact accord with the definition asgiven by the book. The examiner curtly eat the young man ofT by saying “tell me what tlie hook says; we are sure that the hook is right.” This was more than the can-didate could stand, and he blurted out that he would he blanked if lie could give it in the exact words, and then his indig-nation arose and he grabbed Ids hat and left. In Die meantime tlie victim’s friend passed his examination before another of the board and then went to Greens burg where Dr. Cowan examined him On his return home he knocked the backbone out of the victim by saying on Dr. Cowan’s authority that tho victim had not been near him. The victim then looked the matter up and found that Ids two hour tournament had been conducted by the veteran law-yer, Hon. Edgar Cowan who bad hear-tily enjoyed getting even with the medi cal profession by thoroughly probing one of the young disciples. Mr. Cowan should take all the neccs sary precautions for personal safety, be cause the pill roller is on the war path, thirsting for Ins gore. It is probable that a writ of certiorari will be applied for to determine the standing of doctor Cowan and lawyer Cowan, ami in the meanwhile lawyer Cowan had better se-cure a writ of injunction restraining the victim from administering any prescrip-tions upon his bodily estate. A House Burned* On Friday last about noon, tlio whole second story of Mr. John Sandlo’s house •nr.i'.e and ajhalf northeast of town, was discovered to bo on fire. By the time aid arrived tho whole house was a mass of (lames, and a few pleeos of furniture were the only things saved from the lower story. The building was totally destroyed. A purse containing $120 be-longing to Miss Annio Sandies anil Shi in gold tlie property ot young Jesse San-dies wero lost. The origin of tho fire is attributed to a defective fluo on the second story. There was an insurance of$1200 in tlio Aetna. The family have taken up their abode In the spring house until they can rebuild. A Handsome Cn*t*. Ono of the most tastily arrangod show cases wo liayo ever seen is now on exhi-bition at Miller & Shoploy's drug store. Tho decorations aro made up entirely or ohroino pictures aud tlio general etfeet of tlio grouping is very pleasing to the eye. SELLING THE STANDARD: A BIG COKE DEAL IMMINENT. A Syndicate nnrtrrlng for (ltc Largfiif In* <11villaitl Work* In (lie Coke Revlon —Railroad Information. For sonic time past negotiations liavo been in progress looking towards the transfer of tho Standard coal and coke, works, located lit tlio eastern end of town, which is tlio largest plant in tlie region. The works comprise about 1200 acres of coal land, ovor 100 tenement houses, 576 coke ovens, one slope, one shaft, a 45,000 barrel water reservoir, with pump lious'e, besides other im-provements of the latest pattern. Tlio, plant is owned by A. A. Hutchinson, of Pittsburg, Hnd tlie proposed purchasers are H. C. Erick, Andrew Mellon and several oilier Pittsburg gentlemen. Ati inspection party were over tlie works last week making a critical examination of everything connected therewith. Wo understand that Mr. Hutchinson asks $400,000 for the property, while tlie pur-chasers oiler $700,000. The probabilities are that a compromise will be made, as Mr. Hutchinson is in bad health and anxious to retire from active business life, it is reported about tho works that in case the sale is effected, tlio Frick party will immediately fire up all tho smokeless ovens and run tlio works to tlieir full capacity. In this connection wo noto that oh Thursday last n charter was granted at Harrisburg to Ti. C. Frick, Thomas M. Carnegie, D. A. Stewart, John Walker, W. F. McCook and G.B.Boswortli. This road lias a capital stock of $500,000; is standard gauge, and will run from .Sum-mit station, on the Mt. Plensant & Broadford road, to tho Monastery coke werks, near Katrohn, a distance of twenty-fivo miles. This road will como up the Morewood valley, crossing the' turnpike at the western end of town,' and will be a valuable feeder to tho South Pennsylvania, ns it will drain tbo pro-duct of tho Frick ovens from tlieir southern io tlieir northern terminus.' should tlio Frick syndicate secure tlio control of tlio Standard works, an inter-socting line could be built which would throw tbo cuke from Mint point on to tlio South Pennsylvania a short distance north of tlie works. Tho indications aio that Mt. Pleasant will become the cen-tral point for a fmmbflr of railroads.' Wo are informed that tlio B. & O, extension to Punxsutawney is an assured fact, the Southwest is pushing to completion the connecting link which Will put our town on the main line of that rond, tlio build-ing of the Sharrick Run road northward and of tho South Pennsylvania branch to Wheeling all indicate a lively future for tlie town. DEMOCRATIC DELEuATES. Till' County Conimltt««C!inn»eTheir liar-riHtmrx R«prmii(atlvrfl> Tlio Democratic County Committee mot at Greonsbnrg on Thursday last to select delegates to tho Stale Convention and transact such other business ns‘ might bo presented before tlie meeting.. Vincent K, Williams, Esq., Chairman of the County Committee, read a rery good address. On the first ballot Jos. Clifford, John A. Bennett, D. linstman, O. B. Robertson, E. W. Doty and Thompson' McCain were elected delegates to ttio State Convention. John' p. Keenan having received 2o votes, John Hill 3fi, Freeman C. Gay 15, Dr. Oifit 25 and Jus.' iv. Clarke 33, the Cliafiman ordered a second ballot, which resulted'in Clarke’s favor by 37 to"20 for Hill. Hon. Jae. Turney was selected as the member of State Central Committee for this district. Pattison’s administration was endorsed by resolution. Tile Itelgn of Die Dog Stats' t. Tuesday cf last week was the begin-, ning of what is known as tlio “dog days,’’* which precede and follow the heliacal' rising of tho star Sirius—in the constel-lation of the Greater. Dog—in tho morn-ing, which i'll Pliny’s tiino was on tho 18th of July. Tho extreme beat of this season of the year, although to us palpa-bly the elleet of tlie continued high po-iition of the sun, was connected by the indents with the appearance of this star in tlio morning. They considered tlio • log star as raging, and gavo tlie time the appellation ot' tho Dog Days. The liabil-ity of dogs to rabies in o * lequenen of ilie heat of tlio season was conneotod with the suiue’Star, although thero was nothing but aecidont in the collusion, md they butchered those animals with-out mercy. At Argos thero was n festi-val instituted expressly for tho killing if dogs during this season. By tho pro-cession of tho equinoxes tho liolaioal rising of Sirius in tto morning has been' changed to tho lattor end of August, and in a few thousand years will take place in the depths of winter. Appraising a Bridge. On Friday last, Eli Sinter, of Sutorvlllo, Squire Hunter, of Donegal, J. D. Pores, if Lutrohe, Timothy Connor, of Derry, Oliver Porter, of Rostraver and W. J. ilitchman, of Mt. Pleasant, who Woro appointed appraisers to determine the value of tlio old Robbstown turnpike bridge across tho Youghiogheny at West Newton, by Judgo Hunter, met for to perform tho duties of their appointment it West Newton. It is proposed to make the bridge a county structure. As theif instructions wore not doiiuite, they viewed tho bridge and adjourned to meet in Greonsbnrg on August 8rd. Their report is made roturnublo August 27tU md at tbo Groensburg mooting, tho ques-tion of value will bo determined. Having a iioum. The Mt. Plensant Firo Brick Company 'sin tho midstof a business boom. They bnvo within tbo past five days rocolve<t urderH for 1,200,000 tiro brick. Those or-ders will bo sufficient to keep them run-ning until tlie first of October, In addi-tion to tho nutnbor they already have on: homl, _________ Died of LocltjlHY. John Ostrowsky, tlio lad who w- H burned at Morawood somo dnys ago by •ho oxp'.oslon of a kerosene can died on Thursday last of lock jaw and was burled on Friday in tlio Catholic cemetery at. Scott l:d<.. t^SrSBrni£*- n T11 E JOTlils A I -Mrl. PLEASANT, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY O K JU*), ! 883. TtT3 MT PLEASANT JOURNAL.! PrBt isHKD EVERY WEDNESDAY. —BY-KENNEDY & SHIELDS, Ei-m-ns AND PROPRIETORS. but it bus nowhere been repented, business will brighten with the openint nlthougb much property baa been datn-Joftlie fall season. Prices on coke are aped. These storms have this year I stiffening and the tendency is upward turned tip in places where they were | from the 80 cent basis which has been never before heard of and afford a mu -; the rule. The advance already is climb-i ter for study. runvs or svKscRirTiox. One copy, one j-enr, In mlvanee ,1.50 If not pnId within 0 monllis 9*2.00 Advertising; rates furnished on application. •ton FRIXTINO—Of ovory hind, plain and colored, done with nentness and dispatch. Hand-bills, blanks, curds, pamphlet*, books, etc., of every variety and style, will beexecu! cd in tlie most artistic manner and nt the lowest rates. Orders by inotl will receive prompt attention. Marriage and death notices free; all resolu-tions of respect and votes of thanks five cents per line. Itmris of local Interest and nows pertainin'.- to the mines and pnbllc wotks will he thank-fully roeetved. Onmmunlcntlons are respectfully solicited. To insure insertion favors of tills kind must he accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, hut as n guarantee against imposition. Copies of the .loccSAI. on side at Stcvon- Bon's News Depot. WEDNESDAY •irr.Y 25 AMERICAN whiskey is to be poured down English mid German throats. This is an article whose importation will not be interfered with to any great extent. OCR President, who professed to lie a devotee of practical politics, lias lived to see the day when a trip to the Yellovv-ntone is necessary to relieve himself of tlie burden of bis faith. LET the dead rest. What gain is there in smirching the memory of n man by the slander of thieves, yet that is just w hat a prominent Democratic journal in New York is trying to do over Garfield’s grave. THE borough tax duplicate this year amounts to about tlirce thousand dollars. The town fathers should be able to make a good many improvements in addition to the regular municipal expenses. THE government advertised for the building of steel cruiseis and now the unfortunate bidders assert that the lucky contractor will erect steal cruisers. That’s the plan generally adopted in such jobs judging from common talk. OCR secretary of the navy is taking a hitch in bis cable and trying to make a landing ns a United States Rcnntor from New Ilamsliire. The wind seems to be blowing off shore and tho chances for making part with a ship chandler on tho bridge offers a good margin for bets. GOVERNOR PATTISON, having shaped civil affairs to suit his tasie as fur as lie can, is now taking a deadly interest in military affairs and already lias vetoed three companies of the National Guards out of existence. We are going to be a model Commonwealth in a short time. SENATOR PATTOH, of our neighboring district, thinks that Attorney-General Cassidy lias a slop bucket full of brains. This is a rather equivocal compliment and Dr. Patton should add an explana-tory foot note or Cassidy’s favors will not How freely toward Payette and Greene. THE spread of the cholera is surely making its way westward and our quar-antines should be watched as they have never been watched before. Fighting back the yellow fever and the cholera can only bo accomplished by the most careful generalship and the people will not growl at the expense. THE overweening desire to have full justice rendered as evinced by the Alle-gheny county officials is truly wonder-ful. What with missing books, lost wit-nesses and contempt of court, it begins to look as though tlie consuming fire of zealousness in tho good work had de-stroyed more evidence than it made plain. ONE of tlie United States war vessels started on a trip to tlie Arctic sens, and after a few hour's run had to put back to port for repairs. The ship had just re-covered from an attack of sickness on which the government paid a hundred thousand dollar doctor bill, and it looks as though tho poor tiling had been put in cominssion before it had fully recov-ered strength. THE golden-haired Cooper is a great speech maker. In a debate over tlie ap-portionment bill last week, lie said that for tlie past three months tlie guns of the enemy bad been trained upon his radiant cranium and that since they had secured a new target be felt like a singed cat in a strange guiret. If Thomas V. will cast his thoughts back for twenty years to the days when guns were active ami accurate lie will doubtless remem-ber that it was fashionable for singed cats to hunt tlie cellar instead of tlie garret when their domiciles were under tire. A STATISTICIAN, after months of hard labor, makes the following interesting statement in regard to the future supply of anthracite coal: Tlie total anthracite area before mining was commenced was, in round figures, fiOO square miles, or 320,000 square acres. Allowing 1,000 tons to tlie acre, a foot in depth would give 320,000,000 tons. Assuming that tlie deptli averages thirty feet, which tlie gentleman thinks is a fair estimate. It gives a grand total of 0,000,000,000 tons. Tlie present consumption being about 30,000,000 tons per year, it will bo seen that at the commencement of mining operations (lie supply was sufficient for 320 years. About 608,000,000 tons, or about seventeen years’ supply, have been mined, leaving sufllrient to supply tlie demr iul for a little over 300 years. THE tide of immigration, which for several years paired upon onr shores in steadily increasing volume, is now on tlie ebb. For the year ended June 30 last (lie total number of arrivals was 592,32-1, against 770,422 for tlie preceding year, a falling off of 23 per cent. Since 1S70 tho total immigration to this country lias been 12,196,295, tlie largest number arri-ving in any one year being 770,022 for 1SS2. In 1881 the arrivals numbered 009,431, being second, in tlie proportions reached, to 1882. In the early part of tlie present year tlie indications were that tlie steady increase in tlie volume of im. migration shown by tlie preceding sev-eral years would lie kept up, but before tlie first six months had passed tlie diminution set in and it continued through the year. The falling off is at-tributed to labor troubles in this country and tlie reduction of wages in many branches of industry. THE TWO-CEMT POSTAGE. Tlie Dost Office Department is shaping its liiisineas for tlie change in letter post-age which goes into effect on October first. Tlie postmasters a*e notified that it is desirable to have as small a stock of present tliree-cent postage stamps and stamped envelopes as possible when tlie reduction of rates goes into effect and they aro accordingly directed to limit their requisitions for stamps and envel-opes of this denomination to such quan-tities ns upon careful estimate they may deem sufficient to last until tlie 1st oi October. They are also instructed lo take all available means without incur-ring any expense to call public attention to tlie coming reduction, so that purchas-ers may not accumulate an unnecessary supply of threo-cer t stamps and envel-opes. The circular issued by the depart-ment also directs that, as no arrange-ments have yet been made fur tlie re-demption of tliree-cent stamps and envelopes in the hands of postmasters or for exchange by posti^isters of those stamps and envelopes in tlie bands of private holders, until further notice postmasters will not make exchanges for tlie public nor return to tlie department tlie stock tlmt remains on their hands after October 1. Postmasters are, how-ever, notified that as two and tliree-cent stamps and envelopes of the present issue will continue to be valid after that date they must be accepted in payment of postage when offered in proper amounts and that tliree-cent stamps can be used in combination with other de-nominations on letters requiring more than one rate postage, and on parcels ol third and fourth class matter. Tho circular also announces that tlie Department will be ready to insure two-ccnt stamps, new design, the 15th of Sep-tember, but that these stamps and en-velopes must not be placed on sale or used by postmasters before October i. Also that no tliree-cent stamps will be issued after September 14th unless the requisition therefor is accompanied by a statement that they are needed for im-mediate use, and that the full supply called for will become exhausted by October 1, and further that no tliree-cent stamped envelopes will bo issued after tlie 31st of August unless requisition for them is accompanied by a similar state-ment. The circular further instructs postmasters as to the design for the new two-cent and four-cent stamps and stamped envelopes, and notifies them that tlie prices of envelopes (exclusive of postage) will remain tlie same as at present; that no change will be made in postage-due stamps, and that rates on ing toward tlie dollar mark, and some quotations have been made at and slightly above that figure. Tlie world must have iron, and iron must bo made ; with tho increased demand for iron, tlie cost of production will go up for tlie maintenance for such prices as have ob-tained during tlie summer would be suicidal. THE JOURNAL lias ardently ad; voeated an extension an diversification of industrial pursuits in our midst so that tlie stated recurranceof such abnormally dull periods would be improbable. Just so long ns we depend upon tlie one in-dustry for support our prosperiity may be guaged by tlie price of Halt, commo-dity in tlie market, hilt when wo push forward and can look upon tl.e wheels turning in many different lines of trade, each independent of tlie oilier, there will be no need of sitting with folded bands mourning over departed greatness. It is time to be tip and doing. THE CROPS. Tliis season's grain crop lias been gar-nered and tlie reports from tlie State show that Pennsylvania lias been kindly favored by Providence. The wheat crop is about Hie average but the outlook for oats and corn justifies tlie belief that the yield will bo greater this year Mian it lias been for the past four or five years. The shortage in wheat, if any lliore lie, will be covered by the overplus from last year’s yield. In our immediate neighborhood, tlie wheat lias been very heavy in some localities while in others there lias been a blight which cannot be definitely assigned to any particular cause. Tho yield about here will be about Hie average, tlie exceptionally heavy filling Hie deficiencies created by the short fields. Tlie corn is backward but indications for a large crop aro good, while tlie condition of Hie oats is favor-ably commented upon everywhere. Thanksgiving day will find the farmer with lull barns and evefty reason to give thanks fur a bountiful year. PRESS COMMENTS. A Hood Snimi'KlIoii. From tho Pittsburg Dispatch. Wliilo tho Democracy is indulging its penchant for llio old ticket, why not take the oldest one available ami run McClel-lan and Pendleton ? Tills would ho old lint good. Poor Or],lions. From tiie Pittsburg Telegraph. The statomont that “Cod made tho country and man made tlie city” is made uso of frequently to show the compara-tive purity and excellence ol tlie rural districts. As for the country towns, tlioir wickedness lias grown so pronounced tlmt no one cares to nssumo tho respon-sibilities of their creation. Kept Themselves Posted. From the New York San. It is rather creditable to tho intelligence prevailing in Tennessee that in order to obtain twelve men who had reader heard so little of Polk's case ns to satisfy tlie lawyers that they Imd the impartiality of Ignorance, paruiels aggregating about two thousand persons were exhausted. Tlie result of this preliminary of tho trial of Polk shows tlmt a very large propor-tion of Tennosseans read tlie newspapers. Kiiti'enttr* Blither Than Demands. From tlie New York Herald. Tho long expected demands of the Brotherhood of Teleg raphers lias been presented to tho m anagers of tlie tele graph companies. They were couched in respectful language and were unac-companied by any threats. This fact should be placed to the credit of tho fra-mers of tho paper, as it was feared that, confident of their power, they would rely rather upon the fear of consequences that would follow a refusal than upon the jus-tice of their cause. This danger was avoided, and their grievances, asset forth by themselves, must be judged on tlioir merits. Tlie Dundy nt Cape Huy. The chief dandy at Cape May changes bis suits five or six times a day. Early in tho morning lie puts on a corduroy coat and knee brooches, or knickerbock-ers, such as bioyclo riders wear, and in which he takes a walk. On his return, lie drosses for breakfast in a suit notable for wide cheeks and loud yellow. At bath-ing time lie saunters down to tho beach in a panama; that is to say, a loose sack and wide trousers, made of ligbl-colored stuff, girlishly trimmed, and normally worn in ono’s bedroom. His adyont on tho sands in such a rig astounds those who linvo not, become nccustomad to him, and alarinslliem a little, too, because tlioy get the idea at first that ha Uu luna-tic. It might bo expected that lie would bo still more remarkable when attired for tho water, lint hero occurs a disappoint-ment. lie appears in a plain and con-ventional bathing suit of looio llamul, because lie knows that bis attenuated form could not stand a comparison with those robust fellows who batli in scant tights, in tiie afternoon lie exhibits A LIVING SHADOW. llow til© DctcsUvru Follow Eiiupccl'rt People. A detective gives the following for publication: A man hired to shadow a party, or a shadow, as we call him, gets about $2 a day and expenses and is paid fir Hie time lie works. A shadow is ex-pected to watch a man from tlie time lie gets up in tlie morning till he goes to bed. If it happens to be a party WHO must be shadowed night and day it re-quires two men to watch him. A shadow must watch a man closely without him-self being seen or allowing tlie party to find out that be is being shadowed. I meet tlie shadow, for instance, and tell hint lie most keep his eyes on a certain man whom I will designate by brushing | on the shoulder with my handkerchief. Then I enter a place, and ns tlie man comes out I pretend to see a bug on liis shoulder and brush it off. Then I go away, knowing Hint until I give tlie word that man will never bo ®ut of tlie sight of my shadow. The shadow takes him to dinner and back lo his place of busi-ness. Then to supper, and I hen down town in the evening. Then it is tlmt his hardest work begins. He may l.ave to suddenly hire a hack at a big expense and follow Hie man on some carousing expedition. lie finally takes him home at night, secures a cover and catches a little sleep himself. The securing of a cover is sometimes tlie most difficult part of the work, for your man may live in an aristocratic locality where there are no rooms for rent. I have known our man Boland to sleep night after night in a coal bunk on the strecl when it was nipping cold. There are in New York certs in hanks and large corpora-tions which every year along about tiie holidays have each one of their men shadowed about, a week. At the end of a week a full report of a maul’s haunts, habits, stylo of living, and even of liis week’s expenses, is given liis employer. The most extensive job of shadowing I have known was that which resulted in tlie arrest of Kindt, Hie man who robbed the Brooklyn watch company of $20,000 worth of gold watch cases, dividing tip with a man who aided him. When oho of our men was taken through the watch company’s works lie pointed out Kindt, tlie assistant superintendent, as the man who, in liis opinion, bad done Hie job. lie had been told that Kindt was a splendid mechanic of wonderful inge-nuity. Kindt’s employers, fur whom lie had worked a long time, would not at first listen to tlie theory of bis guilt, blit they filially consented to allow lain to be shadowed. lie lived in small rooms on tlie fourth floor of a tenement house, wlieie lie had a little shop of ids own. It was weeks before anything was dis-covered. lie bad a wife, and she was sharper than Hie average detective. At length lie was seen one night to board a street car and ride away out in a thinly settled portion of New York. When lie left tlie front end of tiie car the shadow left the rear platform and fell out of sight into a ditch in a vacant lot. lie lay concealed until tho suspicious Kindt, after looking cautiously about him, bad entered tlie basement of a new house. He remained there half an hour and then returned home. At last we had gotten a clue. We searched tlie Court House records and found that lie owned tlie new house that the shadow had seen him en-ter, and that although a poor man on a small salary, lie was building another' Then we shadowed liis wife, and followed her one day to tlie United States Mint, where she took a 8500 nugget of gold to bo coined. It had been buried in the sand, and it was probably to bury uv get this nugget that Kindt entered liis new house that night. We could learn noth-ing more, and one of our men entered the watch factory as a workman under Kindt, lie was compelled to work at breaking up mortars, which are treated to got from them Hie gold that in almost invisible specks attaches itself to them, lie finally worked himself into tho con-fidence of Kindt, who proposed to him a scheme to rob tlie safe tlie second time. Kindt secured a pair of powerful glasses and placed them where lie could com-mand a view of the safe. He hung liis coat over them when tlie men were in tlie shop. lie came before tlie other employes did, and, with liis eye at tlie powerful glasses set in the partition, saw eacli letter of the combination as Hie only member of tiie firm who knew it unlock-ed the safe. Ha marked these down on a board, and had gotten all tiie combina-tion, save one figure, when he was arres-ted. He refused to tell where the restof tlie gold was secreted, and tlie officers were about to leave liis. rooms after a fruitless search, when lie chanced to step on a window ledge which tipped up and revealed beneath it a $5000 nugget of gold and many dollars of gold filings and scraps. Kindt was sent to State’s prison for ten years. His wonderful mechanical abilities stood him in good stead even there. He invented a patent lock by which a line of colls could all be locked with tlie movement of a lever that con-trolled them all. He was intrusted with a partial superintending of the job. He worked it, however, so that tlie move-ment of tlie lever would lock all the cells but liis own, and one night walked qut a free man. CLEARING SALE HOUSE PAINTING! HITCHMAN & NELSON-HOUSE m ffl PAINTERS PANTING, GRAINING, DECORATNG PAPER HANGING, FRESCOING. Now' is Your Chance-Tiiey Musi Go BAILROAD SCHEDULES. YJT. PLEASANT AND HROA tIFORT RAH,, ill HOAD.--On and nl'Kir May nth, ISKI, the nussenger I ruins will arrive unit ilcn.rt from tlx* several stations as follows (llnitlinoro time): As tvc take account of stock on August 0th wo will until then offer the following at these Very Low prices : Dress G-oocls worth 12|, 15 and 18c “ “ “ 18 and 20c Lawns U Tickings, Plenty of Calico, Jeans and Cottonade, 15c at 10c , “ 12^0 <« PQG 12!, 15 and 18c only 6c 12i. 15 and 20o 500 Y-A-IRBDS OIF1 CBASH All kinds and prices from 8c per yard up. A job in Women’s Walking Shoes at 80 cents, A big drive in job Buttons and Ilosicrv. A few damaged Kent Shawls worth $1.50 at 50c. All our fine Summer dress goods anti in lact our entire stock of Summer goods at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Don't forget take advantage ol this sale. Braddockj Cor. Main and Cliin'ch Sts. Mt. Pleasant, Pa. JAMES MCGRATH, Supt. ,T. T. MCCORMICK, Sec. and Treas. THE MACHINE & CAR CO., OF CONNELLSYILLK, FA. V/as Established in 1865, and has GROWN UP WITH THE COKE TRADE. Their extensive works, located on the !L A O, and the S. W. 1\ Pnilroads, nt tho moutn o Mount's creek ami immediately below tin* town of Connollsvilio, contain nil the JIMMY, TOOLS, PITTESDIS IP JPPLU1ES NECESSARY TO FIT OUT Coal sbELdL Collie ’Works From tlie opening of tho Mine or Shaft, to tho final shipment ot tlio manufactured product Special Facilities for making HEAVY CASTINGS AND FORGINGS. NONE BUT FIRST-CLASS WORKMEN EMPLOYED ■Office near B. & O. Depot, Conncllsvillc, Pa. Orders in all branches of the trade promptly attended to. Est imfttos Givon PRICES REASONABLE AND WORK FIRST CLASS. Shop—Main Slreof, roar OeMingcr & Lewy. Mt. Plcasunt, Pa. MOUTH. Mt. Pleasant St mi tier Iron Bridge West (>vcrU>n F.verson Tins!,man Morgan Broad Ford i 'lttaburg H6UTIT. Mt. Pleasant St jin tier Iron Bridge West Overton Everson Tlnstnmn Morgan Broad Ford Pittsburg IA R11 A M !* !<>' II *10 !« .Til II ,‘tl X .'it 11 HO 8 23 II 25' (X 17 II IN NON II 1|, 8 00 II 01' 17 r>5| II 00 I I N NO! A M I o :i.r> l) 11 0 45' 0 I0i 0 55 10 <2 io oo; 10 15 12 10 H Al 11’ JU 1 25 (1 57 •I 17,0 51 •i aril i7 1 051*0 12 4 00(0 15 N 50 0 28 n 40 o u n 15 0 (7 J AH)1° p n 11* M 2 20:4 45 2 20M 5* 2 30j I 55 2 34:4 .’IO 2 40!5 05 2 10 5 12 2 5415 19 3 00:5 25 5 31;7 11 COLDSMITH & COX Tho Baltimore Express leaves Pittsburg nt 0 10 p in, stopping nt McKeesport at 0 JJ, West Newton 1020, ConncllHvlllo il 10, Cumberland 2.50 a in, Washington 7 35 a m, Baltimore N 45 a m. _ The Pittsburg Express leaves Baltimore at 7 30 p m, stopping at Washington N 10, Cum-berland 1 10,a in,Connellsvllle.5 08,a in, Pitta-burg 630 a in. The Through Mall leaves Pittsburg nt 8 30 A m, stopping at Broad Ford at 10 53 a m. at Washington ut 8 p m. arriving at Baltimore jit 0 10 pm. Returning, it leaves Baltimore st 7 15 a m. .‘-topping at Washington at 8 80 JI in, at Broad Ford at 535 p m, arriving in Pittsburg at 7 15 p m. These trains connect 1 nt Hoelcwood with trains to and from Somer-set and .Johnstown, nt Ffyndman with trains to and from Bedford, at Garrett with trains to and from Berlin. Are now prepared to do nil kinds nr Paint- PF'uie1vnnsy?vnnlni\nVllrimdVriive?lio ing, Graining, Glazing and Kalsomining. end stations in t ids county on and after Mon-day, October 2nd, 1882, as follows: Paper Hanging anil Decoratii |3 KASTWA 1’. It. | T WESTWARD. MACHINERY SUPPLIES and HARDWARE’ "as and Steam Pipes, Iron and Nails, White T>nd, Brass and Iron Valves, Biilroad Spikes, Linseed Oil, Pine Fittin"s, Steel, Japan Varnish, Force Pumps, Glass Colors, Glim Hose, BaHl.it, Shovels teet and I’iston Packing:. Pig: Lead, Picksa.td Sieitf-es. Hemp and Snap Stone Packing, Lead Pipe, Garden Tools, t um mid Leather Belting. Gas Fixtures, Carpenter TooL And a complete assortment of BUILDERS Hardware nt the store of tho CONNELLSVILLE MACHINE & CAR CO., W ATER STREET, NEAR DEPOT. CONNELLSVILLE P A —SPECIALTIES.— J. B. Coldsmlth, well known in this line, has charge of tlie paper hanging. Orders left at J. B. Goldsmith'sBtoro, On tlie ilili, will receive prompt nttcr.tion. WORK DONE PROMPTLY and at reasonable prices, 3-7-Cm MILLINERY. MRS. A. ROADMAN lias on hand a largo and complete line of la-dies’, misses' and childrens’ HATS BONNETS TURBANS RIBBONS PLUMES FLOWERS ETC.ETC FTJits and bonnets trimmed in tho latest Eastern and Parisian styles. CHILDRENS’ GARMENTS W.IAPS A SPEMALTY Undies arc requested to call and examine my goods lieiore purchasing elsewhere, •s-1-31II MEAT MARKET. iT. .A.. WYLIE, MAIN STREET - MT. PLEASANT. Fresh BEEF, PORK, LAMB, VEAL, MUTTON. Sausages In Their Season. Cash paid for good Cattle, ns 1 kill nothing but the \ cry beat.- 0-13-5m A. B. AMTTICCHIO’S BATH AND'SHAVING SAI.00N, Under Mt. Pleasant Bank. City Accom-modations. Hot and Cold Water Baths at all times. Best Workmen. HAIR DRESSING STATIONS. PM F Ml PM «:.!> 1210 8 58 12 02! 8 81 11 35: 8 21 11 24, ft HI fll 17 8 10 11 os; 8 (Hi II 01 7 55 10 50; a 4!) flO 42 . 7 14 10.811 7 41 10.80' 7 87 10 25 7.80 10 17! 17 28 flO It; 7 25 10 10 7 IS 10 |)| f7 14 f !• .50, 7 07, 0 I!) 0 581 0 10 0 4!) f 0 10 0 43' 0 01 686 8 67 0 31 8 58 1*0 28 f 8 50 fll 25 f 8 IS 0 22 845 0 18 8 41 fll 14 f 8 37 0 07 8 30 4 20 fl li)| f.3 50 3 50 f3 45' 3 30 .8 35 8 24 f2 12 12 03 12 04 fl 44 f'onem'h .John'wu Ninevnl» Florenee Lacolie l.oek pr’t Bolivar Iiiters'cn Gray’s 11 divide M ill wood Derry St < lair I.ova11Va I .at robe 8 23 Beatty’s s;i0 Carney's f,;30 George’s j 8 42 Greensburg 0 01 HirUcb’ghs fi) 08 Grapevillo l’t*nn Manor Riddle slmfton II win Larimer < nrpentcr •Stewart's 5 10 7 33 loo; Pittsburg PM AM! PM| S 12 0 10 0 20 fll 22 fll 24 0 27 0.81 0 35 !• if) AMI 1* M 9 38 8 24 0 0.5 5 III fJO 20' 6 fit 10.87 (J A A: oo no 48 6 il no 521 0 14 11 Jt' fl. 26 ... ‘fli SO til II 6 35 r 11 2.8; fl At fil 28 0 47 lb 58 11 38; 0 53 11 4.8' 7 01 f7 05 fll 50,17 10 12 07 7 19 17 2(4 mis a si f!2 24 7.80 112 27 7 89 17 41 17 43 12.80; 7 40 1*12 30 7 li> rr 68 f12.50; 7 59 10 35 1 35 8 60 A M I PM |PM CJOUTII WERT. PENN. RAILWAY.—On and O after Monday, <»et. jfcid, 1382, tho time of passenger trains will be as fellows : NORTHWARD. BOUTITW Aim J- M i* M: A M 2 50 3 20 5 i: 3 50 5 ; l 18 5 l 4 21: 5 ; f l 25 0« ( I 20 0 ( f i 31 •«; ( I .75 0 J f 1 37 I 1 fl 18 16 ! f I 401 f 4 .52 n 55 If, j A M J 40 .Falrehnnee. n to r 10 Unlontown. n ifi T 11 < ’onncllsv’e. 10 tuj 4 00 . 1Cverson ... ,10 17 < 09 ...Scottilnlo... 10 14) < III ...Ilnwiicye... 10 ey 4 17 .Ktoiiervillo.jio 051 4 I!) 1.011 tier.. ..10 0: TaITS s 25 ... Het'umy... 8.81 ...Hunker.... 8 34 I’jlintervillo 3 to Youngwood. 8 13 .Fostervillo.. 8 15 I'o’ty Home. . •; t." Hull’ t 0 31, 8 .52 !•:. < ireOMKb’g 0 .7 8.57 Greenvburg. 0 22 0 00 ...Littrb 8 20; 1 ■”'i lAMl 9 53 0 55 0 40; 0 45; 0 3!) 0 86 0 34 || II £ q 1 '5M Si !-» PM 1* M .... 1 7 30 I I0! 7 00 1 01 0 ?A 3 30 fl Oft 3 32 fi 50 f 3 27 b ol 3 23 fi 49 f3 20 fi m 7 Ifi fi Vi rs 1.8 fi .89 f3 07, fi M 3 0.3 fi 29 f2 fi7 5 J8 f 2 54' 6 U1 f2 621 fi 19 f2 10 fi IS 2 45 5 12 2 40 fi 08 1 00 4 00 V. M.j P It In addilion to the above llio Greensburg Ao-eomiuodutien southward leaves Greensbarg at0 25a in; T»rr7().‘; Heottdalo 7 20; Kverson 7 2.8; ComiellHYillH 7 4-4; I'uieiitownS20; Fulr-ehnncoS 43, stopping :it all stations. Northward, leaves Fairehunec at 9 20a in, Fniontown 95fl, Connollsvilio 10.82, Everson 1057, yeottdale 11 01, I HIT 1117,Greensburg II 55 Pittsburg I "5 )» m, stopping at all stations on Southwest brunch. MAIL ARRANGEMENT. Tho time for tlio arrival Mails from the Post Olflee, Mt. Pleasant, Pn are JIS follows: ARRIVE. Way mail from TMttshurgand West. 11 n.ru do Clroeiisburgnml East..11 n,in do Jones* Mills Hi*.in do Mention, Tim s, etc 2 p.ro do Broadford, etc 2p.iu do Unlontown, etc 7p.m Through mail from Pittsouigund West 7p.m CLOSE. Through moil—Plttslmgh and West... 7.15 a.m Way—Stonor, Seottdnlo to Unlont'n.. 7.ifi a.m “ Jones’ Mills, ete 12.30p.ra “ Terrs, Mendon. West Newton. 8.00p.m “ Pittsburg and West 3.15p.m “ Greens!.mg and Lust 3.15 p.m Through—Stauffer, \V. Overton, etc... 4.30 p.m John I). McCaleb, P, M. A Specially. Shaving and Hair cuttiug at , POPULAR PRICES Dlt. E. C. WEST’S Ladies Look! THIS will be known as a year of de-structive storms. Almost every section of the country has hud some experience with either wind or flood. During tlie past week a large portion of the West was swept by a wind-storm mid thou-sands of dollars’ worth of property car-ried away. Tlie destruction’ was con-tinued in a witle path through Missouri Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota. One ol tlie notable features of Iheso storms is the comparatively small loss of human life. An Iowa tornado early in tlie sea-son was quite destructive in Ibis respect, drop letters will remain the same as at J ^or lounging or driving, in a costunio of white; uiul in the evening ho present. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. In ail branches of trade about our town, business lias been exceptionally dull for the past few months and the man who has paid liis running expenses and secured a comfortable living lias no need to complain. Largely dependent upon one lino of business for support, tlio de-cline of the coke industry lias been dis-astrous to our mercantile interests for tlie break in iron brougham its train a large falling oil’ in coke production, and such a decline in prices that operators made money by letting their works stand idle. With no employment at their regular occupation, tlio minors and coke drawers husbanded their resources, and tlie con-sequences is that llio flow of wealtli into the coffer! of tlie business has been badly restricted. Tlie tide having reached its lowest ebb seems to have taken tho turn, and uuiuis tiie indications aro fauitJy, squeezes himselfinto a seemingly impos-sible black frock coat and dark trousers. “Tlio Connor is conceivable,” siys tho writer, “ if ho wears corsets, as they all say lie does; but Iioiv lie gots liis panta-loons on is a problem. IIis logs are small enough for tho purpose. lint do liis foot screw off and on, or has lie discovered a way ot donning them shirt fashion over Ins dear tiLile head?” Mrtrri** I in a Great Hurry. From tlio St. Louis rost-Difpatch. “ Tlio quickest courtship on record,” ! said ono old resident, “was that of Dr. j Nick McDowell, who, drivihg along tho j street in liis baggy ono day, saw a beau* | tiful girl standing at a window. lie im-mediately stopped and hitched his horse, rang the hell, inquiiod tho lady's name, was ushered ill to the parlor, announcing his own name, said ho was ‘pleased with her appearance and wished to marry her at once.’ Nothing but tho knowledge that she was actually 111 tho presence of Spring Stock on Hand I! Miss R. HAZELETTE CLARK desires to announce to the Indies of Mt. Pleas-ant and vicinity that she has just received her .Spring assortment ot HATS, BONNETS, Feathers, Flora and Rita Having had special facilities in securing Free ofdost* All persons wishing to tost tho merits of a great 1 emody—one that will positively cure consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis or any affection of tho throat and lungs, aro requested to call at E. J. MeElwea’s drug store and get a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for consump-tion, free of cost, which will show you what a regular dollar size bottle will do. Wo have a speedy and positivo Cure, for Catarrh Diphtheria, Canker month and Head Acho, in Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. A nasal Injector freo with each bottlo. Uso it if youdesire health and sweet bronth. Price d0 etu. Sold bv Miller A. Shepley. U-J4-ly Kriap’ii Ual.su ut For the throat and lungs is effect!n more cures than any other medicine. If relief is not obtained aftor taking if of a bottle E. J. McElwee tho leming drug-gist is authorized to refund your money. Price oO coats and §1.00, * LEMMON BROS, the celebrated physician kept her from s,OL'c 1 ani i)r^I»uHl to soil at rci sonahic nii fainting. T o her plea of ‘surprise at tins | unexpected announcement’ he only re- I plied. ‘Now or never.’ When she asked j G. W • LEMMON. D. O. LEMMON. to ‘take a week to consider,’ ho said ‘1 am going down street to attend a critical case and have no time to sparo right now.’ “ *Givo mo a day, then.’ “‘I’ll tell you what i’ll do. When I am through with this professional visit I II drive around and got a preuclior. If vou’ve made up your mind to marry me by that time, all light!’ and ho left her breathless and unablo to articulate another word. When ho returned they were quietly m irriod.” STEVENSON BROS., (Successors to McConautjliy & Co., also Crownover & Co.) GENERAL INSURANCE A&’TS. MT, PLEASANT - PA iEtna Fire Ins. Co., Conn., ASSETS - - $8,962,909.99 Ins. of North America, Pa., ASSETS - - $8,818,805.00 Fire Association, "Phila. ASSETS - - $4,.152,729.00 Penna. Fire Ins. Co., Pkila. ASSETS - $2,227,010.00 Royal of Liverpool ASSETS in United States. $2,970,805.00 ’• in Europe $25,400,000.00 London & Lancashire. ASSETS - - $2,S00,000.00 N. British & Mercantile, Lon., ASSETS - ‘ - $10,000,000.00 American, of Philadelphia, Livery ! Sale Stables.&elM Oo;iPhi^«~ In rear of Patterson’s Hardware store, ASSETS - - $712,17(3.00 Pittsburg Street, Mt, Pleasant, Pa. Business promptly attended to at tlie office in tlie rear of S. C. Stevenson’s News Depot. STEVENSON BEOS. LOOK OUT FOR HARVEST. IL B. Pershing of Mt. Pleasant is agent for the Win. Anson Wood & <’o. Henpers and Mowers,also tho Willoughby Grain Drill force Perd and Fertilizer. These machinesand drills have been fairly tested and found to be equal to any in tho market; will be sold on tlioir own merits. Any personsWanting machinery should see them before makfngarrangements elsewhere. All I ask is to compare theso ma-chines with others for same work and ho your own Judge. 4-18-flm. IL B. PERSHING. Brain and Nm Treatment, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria. Dizziness, « on\ ulsioas, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia, Head-ache, Nervous Prostration caused by the uso of alcohol or tobacco, Wnkclulness, Mental Depression, Softening of the Brain resulting in insanity and leading to misery, decay ami death, Premature < dd Age, Barrenness, Loss of power in cither »ex, involuntary Losses, and sperinntorrhceo caused by over exertion of tho Brain, self-abuse or ovor-indulgonce. One box will euro recent eases. Each box contains one month's treatment. One dollar a box, or six boxes five dollars; sent by intiii prepaid on receipt of price. Wc guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With each order received for six boxes, accompanied with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our writ-ten guarantee to refund money if treatment does not effect a euro. Guarantees Issued illy by Joseph Fleming, dingy 1st. M MMl-street, Pittsburg, Pa. Orders by mail at r otilar prices. 7-2 We keep on band a number of stylish rigs and good driving horses, and will be pleased to aeeommoUute all at reasonable rates and at all hours. Funeral Carriages Furnished on Short Notice \ AT SPECIAL RATES. We are prepared to suit ull,and solicit a liberal share nt patronage from tlie traveling public. All kinds of Harsss Bought android. i-n-iy Lemmon Bros. REST li.lpi, Maine. not, life is swooping by, do and dare before- you die, something mighty smdsub- _ lime leave behind to cou-pler time.” week in yourown town. S5 outfit free. No risk. Everytiling new. Vapital not required. We furnish you everything Many arc making fortunes. Ladies makeing inurh as men. and girls and boys make gresit py. Header, if you want business at which you can make groat pay nil thine, write fin particulate lo ii. H VLLLTT &‘l' 1 env * ’ %* ’ LM3-Iy A Common-Sense Remedy. SALICYLICA. No more Rheumatism, Gout or Neuralgia. Immediate Relief Warranted. 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REMEMBER that. Sulicylicu is a certain cure for Uhcuma-tism, Gout »nU Neuralgia. Thu most intense pains are subdued almost instantly. (jive it a trial. Belief guaranteed ormoney | refunded. Thousands of testimonials sent on applica-tion. #1 a Box. fi Boxes for $5. Sent freo by mail on receipt of money. ASK YOURDRUGGIST FOR IT. Hut do not bo deluded Into taking imitations or substitutes, r-something recommended as “Just as good !’’ Insist on tho genulno with tlio name of Washhurno A('o., on eaoli br x, which is guaranteed chemically pure under our signature, an imMspensible requisite to 1 insure succe-s in tho treatmont. Take no other, or send toils. Washburne & Oo > Proprietors- 287 Broadway, cx. lies St, Now Y< r!< HTV Tlio richest, creamy ffjDFftT AMERU'Wfcgs BEER ever quaffed, r*“7 fftff'IPSW-l Purifies the blood. SiratCU K E S Dyspep3!a, I5\«w“ ®£©!rJls Liver and Kidney d!s- 1 -■ Qftl oiCKAOE^l—Lcvd cases. Sent by Mail —J()nreceipt ot 26 cts, in postage stamps. Addr:ss: BEAN & RARE, Wholesale Druggists, S , Nos. 47 & 49 N. 2d St., Philadelphia. J". _A_. BOBBS, SOLE AGENT FOR QUI C* WATCH. MAIN ST, MT. PLEASANT, PA. OLD'SORES BLOOD LOSS APPETITE IT HAS RE. SELLERS&L PROPRIETORS.. PJTTSBUE Til IS jotJRN AL—MT. PLEASANT, PA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 25, 188». SUMMER MUSIXCS. A DAY SPENT IN THE WOODS, The Midsummer Wanderings of « Town ami tlie Curiosities Site Kncountcrctl. For tlie Jorit.ww.. (it.EXPIKLI), TA., July 10, 188ft. Taking a train at Allegheny, on the Pittsburg & Western railroad, you pass through a most delightful section of | to grace the snowy doth in the vine dad cottage, or adorn the table of the wealthy. 'iho Fourth has come and gone again with its usual round of picnics, celebra-tions etc. Our hostess at her charming country residence suggested that we take our refreshments in the adjoining grove instead of the commodious dining room, to tliis all heartily consented (except the male members of the household who pienie’d a mile away exhibiting their patriotism working tlie waving corn,) tlie UO-A-BRAC. ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE, A Collection of Odds and I-hids Cutltercd Front All Porta of tlie World. Chicago's Internal Revenue Oflftco col-lects from $20,000 to $25,000 a day. The Gould Southwestern system is to Celling Heady For Hushies*. From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. The Vanderbilt syndicate interested in tlie new Harrisburg & Western railroad j are cocnring mineral and coal lands along its route and preparing to develop the country through which the road will pass. A land agent of the syndicate was in the city yesterday and gave a few points to a “Commercial (inzeltu” reporter as to their plans for development before leaving for country, bounded on belli sides by ro- line ef march is taken up, the basket of niantie and picturesque scenery. About fourteen miles from the city you arrive at the beautiful picnic groves, Wildwood and Oak Shade, their friendly boughs interlacing so that tlie songsters can chant hark and forth their matin and vesper lays. The latter place has this summer lor the first time opened her leafy bowers to the pleasure goer, and I hear her rustic shrine is to be held sn-c- red to Sunday school picnics and the like, while Wildwood, or as it was for-merly better known ns “Owls’ Nest,” bore a suggestive title, for hero it was that tlie peaceable citizens thereof were disturbed by tlie hideous bootings of his 1 midnight majesty,” whose lofty tl rone was m this dense wilderness; but tlie woodman's nxe told a sad tale on hi.s royal highness and his owldom fie 1 for more congenial quarters; and here we now have one of the most invitin' edibles in the van, while the .shining sauco pan of new beans smoking hot borne by your humble servant and tlie silver pitcher of ice cold “Adams Ale” brought up the rear, the sylvan spot j reached, wo partake of the “good things” under the friendly boughs of tlie wide spreading oak and famous hickory. ANNA 11. LAKER. delight with his lady love. There came to this shady retreat one Sabbath day u company of Teutonic extraction, whose motives I trow were not strictly conso-nant with the higher principles of piety, for they made merry with high sounding instruments, and they danced until the golden hours sank into (lie dusk of evening, when from the appearance ol some you would at once conclude that they had partaken of something stronger than the crystal waters that sparkle mid play laughingly among (lie rocks. This aroused tlie righteous wrath of the pious community, and they at or.ee set their foot on on such desecration of tiie holy Sabbath. Ho 1 think there will not like-ly be a repetition of the same soon again. Not long ago in my summer journey-ing 1 passed tlie familiar looking farm house where they t 1 me my infancy was cradled. There in tlie delightful umbrage, in the waters of Crow run that yet meander on so quietly through the meadow, in a mother’s loving embrace, 1 was hushed to sleep by the sweetest lullabies and greeted in the morning by her most tender smiles. The house stands there; the scenes around appear as inviting as ever. Lnt all, all is gone to a motherless girl who with a kind and affectionate father stands again in tlie shade of other days and thinks of the happy once, but now by-gone. A be-reaved husband secs again tlie dear companion that shared Ids joys and helped to lighten the burdens of a pas-tor’s life. Fancy no doubt weaves again a complete circle; no vacant chair, no broken fireside; hut we waken from (his, n it a dream—would that it were so—to pick up our burdens, and tug on up the rugged steeps of life, while we dwell in memory only on this tender scene. On tlie hanks of tiie Ohio, not fur from hero, beautiful for situation, stands the wealthy and neat little town of Economy. In this quiet villa there dwelleth a pe-culiar people, the Economites. Every tiling about the place indicates taste, thrift, and enterprise. The largo manu-facturing establishments tell mo that at one time this good people manufactured all their own wearing material, from the glossy silk that embraces the male coat and the fair dame's bonnet down to tiie coarser and more durable textures. Then the handsomely arranged gardens, with tlioir artistic parterres and choice (lowers, bespeak their esthetic skill. The female portion of this beautiful heritage don an apparel uniform in design, as well as peculiar in style, while “one cut” satis* fies tlie eccentric male. The principal man among them serves in the capacity of preacher, general manager and finan-cier, dropping them good counsel con-cerning the things of this life, as well as !inR’ alu^ produce what is termed the discoursing beautifully on tlie divine! *^oath rattle. As soon ns Iho lungs cense word. They are all well trained in tlie ito act *be black venous blood is no longer useful departments of life The fair one, ' banged to red arterial blood, but is pro-while well skilled in the intrica- i !’°bed unpurified from the heart, and cies of general housekeeping, is just ns d*us poisons tlie body like a narcotic. THE PHENOMENA OF DEATH. Pliyulclniia* Vltwi of Iho Pniulenn Disso-lution Which EntU Life. From the New York Sun. “The ideal death,” said a physician in charge of one of the eily hospitals, “was that of my uncle, lie was a hale, hearty man of eighty, a bachelor, wealthy, and surrounded with every comfort in a beautiful home not far from New York, lie had traveled in Europe, and was full groves, with all arrangements made to of anecdote and memory of his longlife, suit the varied tastes of the most fastid-JIIe ar°se one morning, apparently in ions. The gallant gent can “swing his j I,erfect beaith. Ilis buoyancy of spirits partner” on tlie commodious list form noticed. He was singing some of erected for that purpose; tlie most ex- , 'be quaint old Scotch songs of his boy-neting epicure can feast at the table of: bood. lie expected a visit from mej luxuries, while tlie more exuberant rtts-1 ns be desired to confer with me on tic airs himself in base ball or takes to 111 ,liatter of business, he arose from tlie the flying horse and is whirled in sweet! |able* llftl-'r il basty and partial meal.sny-ing he would drive down to tiie depot, not far away, and bring me to tiie house. He had tlie servants bring the ponies to tlie door, and refused to let tlie man go with him, saying he preferred to drive himself, lie mounted tlie box and drove off at a smart pace. The old gen-tleman had not driven more than a few I rods from his house when ho was met by a neighbor, who noticed somethin" strange in his appearance. 11 is horses stopped. The neighbor dismounted and went to the side of his carriage and spoke to him. The old gentleman did not an-swer. He sat bolt upright in his seat, holding the reins in his hand, lie was dead. He had passed away without a shock of any kind. There was no appa-rent cause for his death, which was prob-ably occasioned by heart disease.” Dr. L. L. Seaman, physician in chief of Charity Hospital, Blackwell’s Island, took great interest in observing tlie much-vaunted death scenes of Sara Bernhardt, and, when once started on tlie subject, lie is apt to give a judgment of the great actress’ performances sonie-wliat different from tiie general conclu-sions oi the dramatic critics. Speak-ing on this subject the other day, Dr Seaman said that Mile. Bernhardt had seven different ways of dying and all of them wore totally unlike anything he had ever seen in a medical practice cov-ering many thousands of cases of all kinds of dentil. “Of course I do not hold myself respoti sible for the deaths in my hospital any more than for the births,” said Dr. Sea-man. “Many patients come in when they are almost in the last moments of life. Many are known to he absolutely beyond hope of recovery. But my ob-servation convinces me that the dra-matists and actors have far over-estima-ted the pains of death, and especially the possibilities of great mental effort just previous to the moment of dissolu-tion. “It is, in fact, about as difficult to tell when a man dies as to determine when lie goes to sleep. Death is a gradual, not a sudden process. I am speaking now of death by disease, not of violent death. Possibly in tlie representation of violent death the actors may come smiewhere near the truth, but generally tlioir pic-tures of death by disease are, to one who knows tlie truth, simply ridiculous. Dis-solution is as painless and unconscious as birth. The approach to it may ho protracted and painful. There may be long and agonizing scenes resulting from disordered imagination. Death destroys one organ after another, not all at once. The last organs to yield are the lungs, which show their oppression in breath-build a railroad hospital at Fort Worth. ! 1!cflfonl 111st evening, lie says that Mr. * Vanderbilt after having had careful gnr- A Lowery sign is painted in Hebrew characters, though its language is Low Dutch. Klko, Nov., has a Chinese bloated mo-nopolist. Hop Sing has purchased the wutor works. i )neseason's bearing of an apple treo at Fauquiro, Va., has made a forty-gallon barrel of brandy. Santa Lai’bnra is feasting its eyos on a blood sucking vampire, with the head of a kitten the hotly of a gopher uiul tlio wings of a bat. A St L <u:s locem itivo run away l-oeent ly, springing opon its throttle, dashing through a brick wall, and tearing up the ground beyond. A Virginia farmer, aged seventy-eight, j cradled his whole crop of wheat this yoar, cutting from twenty-nine to thirty dozen sheaves per day. The Dominion groans under a yearly pension to an Indian chief, Louis Wat.-o, of Lake George. Louis will not die j ho has just eelobratod his 108 birthday. Mrs. Kunler, of Pendleton, Oregon, in making the hired man’s bed, jerked tho sheet and exploded a pistol lying under tlie pillow, killing her four-year-old daughter. Manufacturers of jelly in Northern Ohio are trying to make a “corner” and raise the price. Last winter competi-tion molted jelly prices down to 4a5e., but the combination lias hardened the figures to 7a8o. It lias been said that on founding a col-ony the first tiling a Spaniard doss is to build a gallows, a Portuguese a church, an Englishman a drinking booth, and a Frenchman a dancing floor. At a breakfast the other morninga New York dude declined a piece of shad, lie hail been told that tisli food made brain, and lie didn't want to unfit himself for tho position ho occupied in society. Dado County, Ga., has no boundary line. The stage engineer died on bis way to tho capital and his notes of the survey were lost. Many people In tlie region do not know whethor thoy live in Dade or ail adjoining county. • Tho weekly return of London pauper-ism shows that in the first week of June there were 8,2!)I paupers, of whom 50,38-1 were indoor and 35,907 outdoor. This is a deereaso of 031 and 83-1 us compared with 1882 and 1881. A pond called “Llg Led Line Sink,” near Dooly, Ua., which local tradition calls unfathomable, suddenly sunk too foot recently, with n tremendous thud and a rumbling sound. It is supposed that tho bottom of the pond was the roof of a great cave. Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the ma-line hospital service, says that, while yellow lover is a very seiious matter, at present he does not think there is cause for alarm, as ho believes the marine hos-pital service with the epidemic fund, has tho means of preventing the introduction ot the disease. veys made of the geological formations of the country between Harrisburg and the Youghiogheny river in a conversation with President Gowan, of the Reading said that he would make this State the base of supplies from which the maim* factoring world must draw its raw mato- ! rial. 11 is land purchases all dearly bear this statement out as they are in rich deposits of iron ore, coal and limestone, Following the policy adopted by tho Pennsylvania railroad, furnaces are to be located along the lino of the road. A syndicate, subordinate to tho railroad syndicate, is being formed in Philadel-phia, to locate five furnaces west of Som-erset. The gentleman referred to stated that it is reported inside the syndicate that New York capitalists are really to invest ten millions in similar enterprises as soon as tiie road is put in operation. The railway world promises unusual ac-tivity in construction during the coming fall. More than a dozen roads will he put under contract in this State. The differ-ent coal carrying companies have ordered in the aggregate ten thousand new coal cars and additional locomotive power in proportion. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is adding six engines per week to its present supply and have placed a largo order with the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The Heading company hasg'ven on order to the Baldwin works for thirty engines to be built within tho next six months, and ban its own shops engaged upon new locomotives. Tho Baldwin works now employ 2,800 hands and will turn out 240 engines during the next six months. This activity in railroad build-ing is accompanied with renewed inquir-ies about rails. The Bethleham Iron Company last week received an order for 1,000 tons, and tho Cambria iron Com-pany expect several large offers. The Edgar Thompson Works, the Pittsburg Bessemer Mteol Company and the Penn-sylvania Steel Company are in receipt of numerous inquiries, aggregating about 50,000 tons which, when turned into orders, will keep them comfortably busy and add stability to the iron market, RUG S=—- Used this season oi the year, at greatly IRlBlDTTaiEID ZPIKICESz Gum Camphor Aromatic Camphor Persian Insect Powder Gen. Carbolic Acid White Hellebore Powdered lire Paris Green Chloride Lime 85c per lb. 25c “ “ (»0c 50c 25c 30c 10c 66 66 66 <• •6 66 : SPONGES, CHAMOISES, CASTILE OAP, BROSHES, ETC.* ETC. Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Ready Mixed Paints —AT-— IE. vT. M’ELWEE’S OLD RELIABLE DRUG STORE, graceful and as much at homo following the reaper binding the golden sheaf. This people, free from tho “narcotic weed,” are just as much noted for tlioir temperance proclivities, employing no one who is addicted to taking “too much.” Only a certain measure of wine, I have been told, is meted out alike to mail and woman weekly—this and nothing more, lluw would this meet with tlie approba-tion of the lover of <<J3a(Jcbu.s?M This is locust year in this part of the moral vineyard, and the gauzy winged tribes have already began the din of bat-tle in tlie neighboring woodlands, march-ing in a solid phalanx (with now and then a deserter from the ranks that measures its slow pace upon some friend-ly verandah) to lav waste the thriving orchards of the honest yeoman. This goodly land floweth witlj milk and honey, of the honey I am not so cure, however, I am aware that the little “busy bee” and industrious wasp exist. As I had but the oilier day a practical demonstration to lliat effect, when one of the treacherous insects actually daw-ceil a pig on my arm which produced The energies of the brain are gradually lulled as in the approach of sleep, and unconscious cerebral action produces the murmur of tlie names of friends or rec-ollections of past life, or reference to whatever has passed through the mind. But that there is pain in natural death 1 have long since ceased to believo.” A veteran physician, speaking on this subject recently, said : “Judging of the thoughts of men by their words just pre-vious to death, I should say that it often happens that a dying person gives no indication of thought upon a subject that has been the favorite topic of a lifetime. I have known active business men, with important affairs unattended to, who died with words upon their lips that in-dicated absorption in some incident of tho moment, generally relating to per-sonal comfort. It was that sort of a death that Washington Irving died, saying, ‘Well, I must arrange my pillows for an-other weary night; if'this could only end.’ Long sufferings under tho afflic-tions of a painful disease will servo to divert the mind of the strongest. Even the philosopher, Ben Franklin,was forced some high pitched notes, and they didn’t S11^ wBh iiis last breath, ‘A dying man '•‘■on- from the “wee ' wasp either, but behold a panacea in a healthy mud poul-tice which took away tiie poison, and it was a matter of Hie past, but to the text. Of the lacteal fluid I know whereof 1 speak, for it is not an uncommon sight to see the lad of ten marching his com-pany of healthy looking “hovines” to their respective stalls, where securely fa-tuned the milehing begins, the cattle that graze upon ihe puiny sloping hill sides not only furbish the milkman with tme refreshing beverage that is sold at ffmr door makes tlie baby laugh and the old mail strong again, but supply your market with the choicest butter. In the early morn you may see the fair dairy maid in neat dress and tasty collar, dex-terously wield her acorn print or more delicate “sheaf of wheat,” gracefully turning the corners of the immaculate square-over each gulden roll, whiciushe in turn places in a bed of fresh leave-ready to- lie borne from the cooling spring can do nothing easy.' It is a very com-mon thing for a dying person to express sympathy with attendants who have been attending them. Among tho last words of Sir Walter Scott were, ‘Poor souls, I know you were up all night.’ And yet, where there has not been piotracted suffering, and where adminis-tration of narcotics has not produced a wandering mind, a dying person will manifest an interest in whatever has hum the uppermost thought of liis life. Lord Chesterfield is reported to have il-lustrated his proverbial politeness bv requesting that a friend at his bedside should he given a chair. Very often the last words indicate thoughtfulness for loved ones, Hueb .as the utterance of Charles JI., ‘Let not poor Neilie starve;’ crot Thomas Jefferson, who said, ‘I re-si; n my soul to God and my daughter to iny country.’ It is but natural that what-ever eons, iotismsi is left at the moment of death should lie that of affection. I have seen it expressed in a loving look or a pres nro of tho hand, often Ion-' a. «r t .c i.ewer of speech had gone.” Washington Territory will send abroad this yoar335,000,000feotof lumber, 200,000 tons of coal, 200,000 pounds of hops, 200,- 000 eases of salmon, 5,000,000 bushels of wheat, 3,000,000 bushels of oats, 100,000 bushels of potatoes, and 2,500,000 pounds of wool. In cargoes of 1,500 tons, this quantity of produco will load 000 largo ships, or throo every day in the year ex-cept Sunday. Justice in Minnesota operates qucorly. A man at McPherson bought a revolver and was going to kill hi.s family. Hi* wife took the weapon from him and gave him a licking, and a country justice lined her $25 for It. If tho husband has to pay the lino it was a bright idea of the magistrate's, but if otherwise hedoserved a cowhiding himself. Ohamhors’ Journal recalls theso an-cient jokes: A Sybarite, on a visit to Sparta, partook of the Homely public meal. He then observed: “No wondor the Spartans fought well, for tlie greatest coward would rather face death than live on such faro.’' Pomades compared the Athenians to a clarionet—“Takeout their tongues and thoy nro good for nothing." V certain schoolmaster was reading badly. Theocritus said to him: “Why don't you teach geometry?” Lccatise I don’t understand it.” “Then why do you leach reading?" A thief caught in tho net said to Demosthenes: “I didn't know it was yours.” “No,” was tiie re-ply, "but you kilew it wasn't yours.’ The deseendents of tho old Forty-niners are slowly getting tlioir interest worked up to tho migrating pitch over tlie discoveries of gold on an island in tho Gulf of California, about 130 miles south of the mouth of tho Colorado river. It is as isolated as no man's lend, unsup-pliod with water and a wilderness of rooks. Consequently tho prospects of placor-mining is poor enough, for with-out water little can he dono in that line. Thus far tho diggings have beon found but. in ono valley, and are confined to an area of five by twenty miles. Sovorul adventurers who liavo pusliod forward to this new Hold buvo boen driven back for a want of even drinking water, which is transported in small quantities ngreat many miles, and only by tho systematic organization of larger parties can this last gold find on the Pacific coast be profitably worked. Captain Wobb, according to tlie Au-burnian, which liitoly interviewed him, proposes to go over Niagara Fulls in a rubber ball four and ono-half foet in diameter and ono-fourtli of an inch thick. Tho Auburnion says : “The Captain will outer this hall, when it will bo closed air-tight. Air will then he forcod into the ball until it will boar anj outside pressure to which it may be subjected. This ball will then bo carried into the river from tlie Canada side, east off and allowed to follow tho current over the groat fulls. A point has been selected where a ball, when east off, follows tlie current over tho centre of the Horse Shoo Falls. Here tlie river is free from ro. k“, and tlie water at tho crest of the fall is about twenty feet deep. To dotor-ndno whether or not life would oxist in a ball while tho passage was being made a dog was enclosed and sent over the falls, and came out ulivo. In response to n question the Captain Huld Unit ho ex-pected to lie sli-ikou up, but ho had boon shaken up many timesbofore and guessed he could stand it.” Krady-nuuje Clothing at C’ont, At G. T, D. Klchor’s, on tlie hill. 8-23-ly PlUs. Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight in tiie back. Joins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose lie has some affection of the kidneys or neighnoring organs. At times, symptoms of indigestion are present, as flattiency, uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A moisture, like perspir-ation, producing a very disagreeable itching, particularly at liight after get-ting will-111 in bed, is a very common at-tendant. fnternal, External and Itching I’iles yiohl at onco to tho application of Dr. Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which acts directly upon the parts affected, absorb-ing the Tumors, allaying tho intense itching, and effecting a permanent cure where all other remedies have failed. Do not delay until the drain on tho system produces permanent disability, but try it and lie cured. Price, 50 cents. Ask .vour druggist for it, and wlion you can not obtain it of him, wo will send it, pre-paid, on receipt of price. Address The Dr. liosanko Medicine (to., Piqua, Ohio. Sold by James Kuhn A Son. MAIN STREET, “ON THE HILL,” MT. PLEASANT, PA. IN S T I T U TE f'onsnm j>i Ion. II is said tint 50,000 neople die annually in tIiG United States iilono from this di-sease. In Homo sections of (ho country ono death in every three is from Con-sumption. This can bo, and should be avoided; our poople aro too caroloss about an ordinary cough or cold, and other symptoms of throat and lung affec-tions that lead to this discaso. You should arrost it while it is in tho germ. Two or throo doses of Dr. Hosanko’s Cotijrh and riling Hymn will reliovo an ordinary cough or cold. It does not dry up a cough liko many preparations on the market and leave the diseaso behind it, but acts directly on the thooat and bronchial tubes, removing all the phlegm and morbid matter that accumulates in tho throat and lungs. It always all ir-ritation, and renders tho voice (dear and distinct. Hold by James Kuhn & Hon. Dyspepsia & Liver Complaint. Is it not worth tlie small price of 75 cents to free yourself of every symptom of these distressing complaints, if you think so call at our store and get a bottlo of Shiloh’s Vitalizer, every bottlo has a printed guarantee on it, use accordingly and if it does you no good it will cost you nothing. Sod by Miller «fc Shep-loy- 2-14-ly Free of CoHt. Lv nulling at James Kulin A firms drug store, yon can got a sample bottle of Dr. Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup which will relieve tho most obstinate Cough or Cold, and .show yon what the regular 50 coot size will do. When troubled with Astlnna, Bronchitis, Dry, Hacking Gough, Pains in the chest, and all diseas-es of tho Throat and Lungs, try a sample bottle of this medicine. 8-tl-iy. When You .Have a cough and want relief, think of Kemp’s Balsam for the throat and lungs —a guaranteed reined,' for those dis-eaoes. Price 50 cents and $1-00. Forsalo by 12. J. McLlwce tho loading druggist. -1-25-83-ly Good Ileal«li IsIVtnllli And tho chief aim in life Is happiness. When you have a cough, find relief in Kemp’s llilsam. If you cannot, your money will be refunded by K. J. McEl-vveo tho loading druggist. * Price 50 cents and $1.00. 4-2o-SJ-ly Conic and See Ua. You neod a now pair ofsummer shoes. Wo have them, high or low cut and jin-1 to suit you. Como and see what a nice stock J. F. Nicliol & Co. havo, G-G-4t {Continuedfrom last rrcek.) How Watch Cases are Made. A plate of SOLID GOLD 14 2-10 karats fine is soldered on each side of a plate of hard nickel composition metal, and tho three aro then passed between polished steel rollers. From this plate the various parts oftho cases—backs, centers, bezels,etc. are cut and shaped by dies and formers. The gold is thick enough to admit of all kinds of chasing, engraving, and engine-turning. The composition metal gives it needed strength, stiffness and solidity, while the written guarantee of the manufacturers warranting each case to wear twenty years proves that it contains all tho gold that can possibly be needed. This guarantee is given from actual results, as many of these cases have been worn perfectly smooth by years of use without wearing through the gold. DUBUQUE, 1A., DUO. 14,1880. I have UHod one of your Jamoa Bona’ Gold Watch CuHea for seventeen years. I’bought it secoud-liatiid and kuow of ita having beon uned before I got it, but do not know how long. It looks good for tea years longer. Did not euspoct it was a filled caso1 until BO informed by a Jeweler a short tlmo slnco. I most cheerfully recommeud your cases to bo alt they aro represented to bo, and more. O. MCCRANKY, Dep. Col. Jnt. Her. 3J Dls. lotoa. Sunil 8 Mint »tanip to Kcjxtono Wnteh Caie Fartorlw, Phila-delphia, Pit., fur hitnrt.umf Illnotratrd Pamphlet (.turning hoi* Jouoa Dot.’ and Keystone Watch Case* arc made. (2Vbe Cvntinucds) 8 Next Term opens Dec, fi. Students may enter Low, and find classes to suit. We call attention to the importance of students en-tering at once if they wish to prepare for the Junior Class by September. Another opportunity is given to begin German. Those who are studying by the new method already find it a help in dealing with their Geiman customers. Another class may be formed in town, but it is better or those who can to enter the Institute and recite once or twice a day instead of twice a week. Perhaps we shall not be able t > offer as good an opportunity again. We call attention also to our MTJSIO AUSTID T.. Another new piano has arrived, making three in a short time. We can instruct thirty pupils by a part of them taking in class, and no one be cut short in lessons or in practice hours. Pupils may begin at any time and pay for the remainder of tho term. Applicants will please call on or address the President. The Studio is also open tor amateur artists. There arc a good many not able to attend classes who may de-sire lessons in Music or Art We extend to all such an invitation to call and see what can be done. All appli-cants for any of the departments should address the President as early as possible. Also send for catalogue. LEROY STEPHENS, President ~2SS rp IS IT ? That attracts the Farmer, the Miner, the Mechanic; the Housewife, the .School Chilrtlen--what is it that the attention 6f all at GRAUL & WERKMAN’S 1 Because it is HEADQUARTEiRS for Best Bread, Finest Fruits, Choicest Confections and! Early Vegetables, The most delicious Ice Cream apd Fipest Parlors in town; CANNED and EVAPORATED FRUITS, NEW MACKERAL, AND DELAWARE BAY TROUT; -AT-GRAUL ON THE HILL’ & WEI MAIN STBEET, HEADQUARTERS FOR FLOWS, 60BS HIAti, HILL FEED of ALL 3SABIS, SHELLED CORN, COHN IN THE EAR, OATS; GARDEN AND VEGETABLE SEED*,- LOVER SEED, TIMOTHY SEED AND SEED COBS, Wo keep largo and well selected Stock of tho above goods, and off6r thorn* for sale at reasonable prices'. Wo also sell the WIERD CHILLED PLOW Which cannot be excelled'for lightness of draft and durability. THE AUTOMATIC HAND COEN:PLANTER,. Which plants with grdat precision with one liamVafi fafit as a man call WallSt; Seed. Potatoes a, Specialty All tlie different popular varieties kept for sale at reasonable prices. Call and examine our goods and learn prices before purchasing elsewhere; J. A. STEVENSON & CO, Corner Main and Eagle Sts. - MT. PLEASANT, PA. SOMETHING REW MT. PLEASANT LUMBER YARD, On Mullin’s lot, near Millhn & Blinker’s new mill, where can he found a full stock of Building limber of all kinds. Also Dressed Siding, Flooring, Surfaced Boards and Plank, Shingles, Lath, Doors, Sash.'Moul-ding Brackets, Pickets, Door and Window Frames, Stair Rail Posts and Balusters, &c , Having had a long experience in the manufacture and sale of Lumber &,e., we claim superior advantages and expect by fair prices and honorable dealing to merit a share of the public patronage. ZAHNISER & CO CHEAP FOR CASH J. R ZUCK, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, Dealer in CHEAP FOR CASH. SCHOOL BOOKS. uini.F. A\n TESTAMENTS PENS &PENCILS, BLANK BOOKS, HATS & CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES, INKS & FLUIDS, 5 cent SHEET MUSIC, senoot SUPPLIES, PAPER, ENVELOPS. ALBUMS, SCH CCLICCKP, W. H. SMITH & GO’S yardwareapd Irpplen^ts store, £SsS rjp, <£]» v JOE £Bai _ The largest stock and finest Mn* of stoves fn town at tho very lowest prices Woodenware,all kinds of House Furnishing Geo GLASS, III OX. NAILS, ETC. REMINGTON SEWING MACHINES. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS OP ALL KINDS, ho largest hnrdwaro Mtabli-.bnu.nt Farmers tftve ns a cult and ect t,he flnwt Foods at cl Toes, W. H. SMITH <& OO. JurtOM J MX: PLEASANT, JPA.. G. W. OVERHOLTS B A K E R Y, aORFEOTIOKERY, ICE CREAM SALOON. BELOW NA TIONAL HALE Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes always on hand. FINEST TCE,CREAM in TOWN BACHMAN, IOSHP & CO. TIIE ONE PRICE MERCHANT TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS* 123 Federal Street, Allegheny. Have the Best ( utters ami Fitters. Have the Best Tailors, the Best, Stock of FIEE WOOLEFTS in the State. Call at their Mammoth Establishment-when in the city. Take Manchester cars direct over to' Federal street, or, for convenience, if you cannot come to the City, leave word at National Hotel, Mf. Pleasant.- as Mr. Bachman conies out every month with a full line' tit samples to take your measure and- send it to you- di-rect lo your home. BACHMAN, JOSEPH & CO. KB¥ S. C. STEVI BOOKSELLER and STATIONER, MAIN STREET - * MT, PLEASANT, PA. Blank Books, Writing Papers, Writing Inks, Drawing Paper; CROQUET, HAMMOCKS, BASE BALLS, States, Harmonicas, Gobi and steel Pens. Krauklfn Square, Seaside and Lovells Libraries. Ladles’ Fashion Books Magazines, Transfer and Scrap Book Pictures, Hymnals, Bibles, Testaments, Albums, American Popular Dictionary. :.ia8.-.'j;:3=3r= 3STABLISaElJ I8'7i. ^Patronize Home Industry. ltofitff so Hituutcd n« to be able to defy compi;titon in Workmanship and priced for Cemetery ami building improvement** manufactured of White HromieiFmiilte, Mar-bic, SuiKlKtoire, etc . 1 rcspncHU'lly Invito those eontcmpluting such lmj>Vovomenta to* cull at tli© MT. PLE1SMT MIDDLE II CRIMTB WORKS Bolero contract Inc elKowbero or with Traveling Agents. Cuff at my works, soo sam-ples (if finished work, designs, materials, leurn Prices and bo convinced that you cure save money by patronizing homo Industry. AH work in MuvblH, Oranito and StimlstoffO Will bo manufactured right hero In ML Pleasant, rent? ffot by foreign inumifactures as heretofore. Works At cuu old stand op1 poslte Hilo U. 8. church, ofl East Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, Ila. 12-20-1y JOHN C. GEMMELL HEADQUARTERS I'OK <GrOOlDl£3 GTLisr-j<r-Em G-OCCDS CAHXED GOODS OZLIKUS! :EED GOOES dJ^l<TlSr^lD GOODS AT MT. PLEASANT GROCERY Til E Jot! UNAL- ■MT PLEASANT, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1880: VisT-riLC-Vt « LOCAL LACONICS. PARAGRAPHS OF HOME HEWS. \luH'ng« tlie lUportm-liil Hole Book—TUM Imlilcnt. nli.l An lilentw of tin* Pint Week* Joe cronm At (H rani A Workman’s. Cull ami got Hinno to-<lay. Bargain.I at tlio Novelty Mtoro. 7-18-2t Joh lot of Hoapa at tlie Novelty Htoro.tr Now potatoes at (Irani * Workman's. Job lot of Hoapft at llie Novelty store.tr Job lot of glove, at the Novelty store. New variety of cigars atMiller iVSliep-loy’g, 7 25 2t Troitcli’s, Eagle 5-16-3m of cigars at Ft-osli vegetables at Street. Miller A 7 25 2t Now variety Blioploy’s. Frosb bread every day at llosnek’s Star bakery. 6-6-tf Closing out cotton pantaloon goods at the Novelty Store. 7-11 --It Try flosaek’s fresli bread and rolls and #0U will use no other. (i-li-tf Fanny cake baking done to order at Ilosack’s Star bakery. (i-ti-tf Fourteen bread tickets for one dollar at Hosack’s Star bakory. 0-0-tf New stock of toilet and nuisory arti-vlos at Miller A Shoploy’s. 7 25 2t Transplanted colery plants sold at 75 vents per bundled a Troitch's. 7-lS-llt There was a small sized row at No. 75, Morowood, on Sunday but nobody was hurt. Broad and rolls delivered daily at your residence by llosack, the Star baker. 6-6 tf Bovs, (Jailor and Rodgers nro tlio au-thorized agents for the A. M. E. Z. church. Presiding Elder Swanov, of llic Meth-odist church, preached hero on Sunday evening. Soap, soap, soap, at tlio Novelty store. You can get it any grade from bar to bouquet. 7-18-21, Suspenders all kinds just received and soiling nt away down prices at the Nov-elty store. 7-lS-2t Berries and vegetables arriving in largo quantities at Graul A Workman's. Always fresh. Charlie Dick, of Ligonior, injured himself badly last week by running against a soytho. Rev. .T. T. Wilson, of Pittsburg, proachcd at tlio United Presbyterian church on Sunday last. The B. it O. engineers have reached Punxsutawney with tlio survey of the Pennsylvania Central road. Tlon’t tail to look at the stock of extra fine scrap book pictures and parlor deco-rations at Miller <t Shepley’s. • 7 24 2t A largo invoice of fresli lemons just arrived “on the hill.” Graul it Work-man keep none but the best. 7-4-tf Don’t fail to look at tlio stock of extra fine scrap book pictures and parlor dec-orations at Miller & Slieploy's. 7 25 2t How is tbo Novelty store for music? Listen to tho nureplione, clarina, tourna-phone, autophono and orguinetto. 7-18-2t. Stoplienson, the Grconsbnrg druggist-bicyclist, is making a rocord as a cham-pion rider, lie was in town last week. Mrs. Thomas McGill, of Morowood, in going out of the house on Sunday to get a bucket of water, fell and broke her leg. Mothers, buy Martin's Pleasant Worm Syrup, for sale by Millor .t Shopley, Opera House Pharmacy, Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 2-21-83-ly Tho Excelsior Bakory always excols. Buy your bread, rusk, pios, otc., at Graul A Workman's if you wonld always have tile best. 7-4-tf On Friday morning last, at one o'clock, the infant daughter of Division Engineer Ueiffor died. The funeral took placo on Saturday. The Texas Stars expect to play a match game of ball with tho Groonsburg Jun-iors at Groensbuurg on next Saturday Afternoon. On Friday evening the ExcolsiorBand soronadod Mr. C. S. Overholt, and in re-turn were handsomely troated by that gentleman. Thorn were largo dancing picnics held at'Alice mines and at Bridgeport on Sat-urday evening. Theordoratbotli places was very good. In a prize figlit fought Sunday last near Bridgeport, between an English-man and an American, tho American carried oft' the honors. “Kitty” Hughes asks for police pro-toetion. His flnor feelings have been mlTled by the worldly mob thronging past his door of nights. Mr. Whitlock, tho pop maker quench-ed tho thirst of tho printers last week AVith a dozen bottles of his host, which was highly enjoyed by all hands. The contractor on the Southwest ex-tension to ML Pleasant is working 90 mon and will soon increase his force to 260, Ho expoets to finish tho work some •time iu Dccembor. A coke diawor nainod Turney, who 'had been employed at Bridgeport, was •found on Monday by ofticor J. T. Stnuf- ■fer, sick and in a filthy condition. IIo ’Was removed to the Poor IIouso. Robert Clark, of Texas, and Jamos Kennedy, of Scottdalo, became suroty -on Monday for Pat Dunlap's appearance at next term of court, and Put was HO -oordingly roloasod from duranco vile. Dr. J. A. Hoar, resident dontist of this filaco, will be absent from his office on Wain streot, from August 1st to 14th in •elusive. During that time his addross Aviil be “Wilmoro, I'a,, care Pringlodale Camp.” 7-25-2t The man Smail, who was arrested for •complicity in tlio Walthour robbory near Manor, had a bearing on Thursday last and clearly proved an alibi before Judge Hunter IIo was admittod to bail •for court in $200. Davy Burgess, William Wooden, Hen-ry Coy, William Triplet, Jamos S. Smith. John Colinan, John Winfield, and Capl. T. H. Ayers have boon sworn in to act as policeinon at tho A. M. E. Zion camp mooting lioxv being held in Rumhaugli’s woods. A parly of Pittsburghers, with fishing rods, guns, dugs and a two-horse team cn route for the mountains near Big Springs, stopped in town on Monday slleruoon.with a lame horse. Alter rest-ing for sevcrul hours they took up Hiejr jitm of Utei'db in ail easterly direction. A JOB SKIbbFUU.Y DONE. The II. A O. PniirlieH' I Ifpot Tll-llet Ollier Bobbed of S t,OOO. The office of tlie ticket agent in the B. A O. passenger depot, at the foot of (irui t street, was ruhlit'il early Monday morn-ing of about ? 1,000 in cash. After the 6:10 train had left Mr. Geo. A. Jackson, who Imd been selling tickets, closed the office and wont to the freight depot to attend to some other business. While lie was absent the strips wore removed from the office window iu the ladies waiting room, the upper sasli teken out, the lower sash pushed up, and about all tlio money abstracted from ihe drawers within, which was easily done by reach - mg through the window. 'I lie clean manner in which tlie work was done shows that tlio operator was a skillful one, and that lie hud imule himself thor-oughly familiar with everything before tho job was undertaken. The money taken were tlio receipts of tlio office from 3 p. m. Saturday until after tlio de-parture of Monday morning’s first train. C'lias. Flynn was subsequently ar-rested by officer Cook, of the l’ & L 1'1- depot, on suspicion, and is still held at the Central Station, but there is very lit-tle probability of his having had any-thing to do with it. Another man, to whom Flynn was seen to speak, was also arrested. lie lives in McKeesport. Ho proved that lie was not implicated in the affair in any way, and was discharged. Flynn came to this eily about a month ago from Chicago, and says lio has been stopping with Jimmy Malian, a friend, who is a fireman on tho B. &(). railroad, and lives at McKeesport. The lady who has charge of tlio wailing room at the II-A O. depot, states that she saw a man at-tired in a gray suit and carefully carry-ing an ulster on his arm, leave tho depot about tlio time tiie robbery was commit-ted. Officer Speedy, of Bradddck, says lie is positive Flynn lias been loitering around Braddock and other points of the B. A 0. for a month past, and suspects him of being implicated in tlio recent robborlesat Braddock. Flynn demos any knowledge of the depot roberics, but said, when first asked what lie was tv-rested for, that lie supposed it was for some trouble at Braddock.—I’iUsburg Post. I’im Ti THE SILENT MOTOR. In mini's by A HARVEST ACCIDENT. A Farm Laborer <’ni,,;lit in n ,8clf Hinder nml Badly I.neein < id. Tlio T.atrobo Advance of last week hns the following particulars of an ugly accident happening near T.atrobo: On Saturday lust a seasonable acci-dent— one of tlie harvest field, occurred on tlio place of Jolir, George, .Tr., near Latrobe. Tlie unfortunate victim of tl.c accident was a young man named George Neiman, who resides near Beatty station and lias been assisting Mr. George with his harvest. One of tlio improved har-vesting machines was being used and young Neiman, while working with it, was in some manner or other caught by the hook that gathers tlio sheaf together. The sharp iron entered tlie fleshy part of h is left forearm, penetrating between tlie bones and almost through the arm. It drew the arm with it and coming out at the same place pulled out a large bunch of tho muscle connected with the middle and ring fingers. This muscle was tom loose from the tendons of tlio fingers. Tlie injury is such that it may bring had results with it. Tin- North American Review. The North American Review for Au-gust opens with a very spirited discus-sion of tho subject of "Moral Instruction
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Title | Mount Pleasant journal (July 25, 1883) |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Creator | Mount Pleasant journal (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) |
Publisher | Mt. Pleasant Pub. Co. |
Place of Publication | Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa |
Contributors | Publishers: John L. Shields, [Jan. 10, 1923]; Howard M. Stoner and Clark Queer, 1923-1963; H. Ralph Hernley, 1963- . |
Date | 1873 |
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Title | Mount Pleasant journal |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Creator | Mount Pleasant journal (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) |
Publisher | Mt. Pleasant Pub. Co. |
Place of Publication | Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa |
Contributors | Publishers: John L. Shields, [Jan. 10, 1923]; Howard M. Stoner and Clark Queer, 1923-1963; H. Ralph Hernley, 1963- . |
Date | 1873 |
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
M* PLEASANT as n railroan centre will
we trust bo tin? liveliest town in Western
Pennsylvania.
THE Democrats and Republicans of
Ohio are beginning to talk of tnriff and
free trade already. Better wait until the
thermometer gets cold.
MOST people believe that the days of
witchcraft have gone by, but it seems
that historic llullskin still believes in
spooks and ollindritches.
THERE is a report in circulation that
the government is about to bring civil
suits against the various Star route con-tractors
to recover moneys alleged to
have been fraudulently taken from the
Treasury by them. The aggregate of
those claims amount to $1,000,000, and
the suits it begun will involve upwards
of twenty of tho contractors. With the
experience of tho government in the
criminal suits, it looks a little likethrow
lug good money after bad to incur any
more cost in prosecuting Star rotito cases
in Washington. While there is no doubt
in the public mind that not only one
million but many millions wero taken
fiaudulentl/ by means of these contracts,
tlie trouble will be to convince a Wash-ington
jury that such practices weren't
highly commendable. If the cases could
be tried somewhere else there might he
some show of success.
THE WA3 OF THE WIRES.
One of the most important strikes
ever inaugurated opened on Thursday
last when the commercial telegraph op-erators
left their desks on account of the
refusal by their employers of certain
concessions which they asked. There is
no doubt that as a class, tho telegraphers
receive small wages for their labor. Mot
any slouch can enter an office and learn
the business, but the employee must be
quick of oar, ready with his fingers and
have a degree of intelligence hardly re-quired
cf any oilier profession of the
name grade. lie must be thoroughly
honest and reliable, with a slow tongue
and an eye alive to the interests of his
superior officers and his company.
Corporations generally do not havothe
name of paying their employees extrava-gant
salaries and it is well known that
tho telegraph companies are no excep-tion
to the rule. The railroad and the
tolegraph arc the mostclosely intertwined
with commercial traffic and tho prompt
and accurate working of both branches
of communication is necessary to the
transaction of business. In no line does
n strike so affect the country at large
as in the telegraph or railroad and there-fore
all possible concessions on both sides
ought to be made before a strike is pre-cipitated.
In tlie strike now in progress,
the sympathy of the public seems to be
with the operators. There are some
demands in their declaration which they
might disponso with, and doubtless
would if tlieir employers would treat
with them. They are holding the whip
band now for tlie offices are not well
manned, nor is business able to lie car-ried
on as it was before the strike.
From Maine to California and from tlie
hikes to the gulf, there is trouble in
every large city and the operators are so
well organized that the chances are in
tlieir favor just as soon as tho present
force are worn out by overwork.
STOLEN HORSES,
A Pleasant Unity Auimnl Talcrn anti Re-covered—
News of LtMt Hornes at Home.
On Monday Mr. Samuel Andrews, of
Ml. lfieasant, and Geo. Frick, of Greens-burg,
left lor Butler county to examine
an estray horse which answered the de-scription
of the one stolen from Mr
Andrews some time ago. Tlie horse had
come to tlie farmer’s place on the1 Mon-day
following the day it had been stolen,
without any harness on, and the buggy
and harness wete found at another place.
It is thought the thieves had been pas-turing
the animal and that it had slipped
away from them. Tlie farmer took tlie
home into Pittsburg, but nobody there
could identify it. Tlie horse was
promptly identified, and on Tuesday
morning Mr. Andrews arrived home
with it.
On Friday night, a valuable bay horse
was stolen from Joseph Jamison near
Pleasant Unity. A man named John
Garland was arrested in Pittsburg on
Sunday, and it was discovered that he
had traded Mr. Jamison’s horse for a bay
ono at Braddocks. Garland formerly
lived at (ireensburg, and it is supposed
that ho could tell the whereabouts of
several missing animals in that neigh-borhood.
Tilt* lu Not a Cnmpnlgit Story.
John Rumbaugh is tho owner of.*i tur-key
gobbler which so far encroached
upon the belongings of,tho feminine side
ol his Hpoctos as to sit upon eggs and the
most wonderful part remains to be told,
for tho gobbler hatched out a chicken.
We refer to J* lb Andrew for proof, be-cause
be saw tho.chicken aud Lite gobbler*
V/fco Cmu Ibiat It T ^
• Mr. H. B. l’crshiug Jast week cut from
two and a half acres ul bis residence on
<*Tmrc.h street, more than eight tons of
prirno hay, and ho would like to hear of
**onio larger yiolds if there are any,
PurelnuMtd Instruments;
The Kidgeviow band lias purchased
thirteen pieces through J, W. Swartz the
lender of the Mt. Pleasant bands Tlvore
■will lie plenty of music on- tit? .rklg* this
full,
DAY’S DOINGS.
OUR HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
A of Event* Transpiring tho World
Over During the P:isl Revest Dnj s, n«
Gathered l»y the busy Ncvrmneit.
WEDNESDAY.—The English conserva-tives
are urging tlie government to sub-mit
tlie Lesseps agreement to parliament
as soon ns possible.—Tlie French cam-paign
iiiTunquin will begin in .Septem-ber—
Secretary Teller proposes personally
to decide on tho claim of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company to tlie land
grants of the Texas Pacific Company.—
The captain of a British bark was arres-ted
in Boston for alleged violation of tho
new law against importing Chinamen.—
Nusv llainsliiro lias not yet elected her
new United States Senator.—From Read-ing.
Pa., the simultaneous explosion of
eight steam boilers is reported. One man
was killed and several others injured.—
The trial of Colonel I lyes, U. S. A., for
alleged duplication of his pay roll for
August, Iss:j, 1ms commenced at St. Paul
Minn.—The campaign in Iowa premises
to lie lively, as the respective candidates
for Governor have arranged to conduct
it by a series ofjoint debates.—The trial
of Marsh K. l’olk, the defaulting ex-Stato
Treasurer of Tennessee, has begun.
THURSDAY.— Sixty-one deaths from
cholera occurred in twenty-four hours at
Cairo.—The evidenco of tho boy Moritz
Seharfhas been tested by'cxaminingtho
keyhole through which lie claims to have
witnessed tlie Hungarian murder.—Post-masters
are notified by department cir-cular
of tho reduction of letter postage on
tho 1st of October to two cents, and are
directed to prepare therefor.—Yellow
fever is unusually prevalent in Vera Cruz
and several c^scs arc detained in New
Orleans quarantine. No case has yet
appeared on shore in the United States.
—Yigiuuix, the billiard player, left for
Franco on tlie steamer J.ubrabor.—A
slight frost is reported from Davenport,
Iowa.—Tho office of tho United States
Consul at Monterey, Mexico, lias been
raided by n mob, those in charge mal-treated
and tlie books and papers de-stroyed.—
Canned fruits poisoned upward
of twenty-five persons at Clinton, Mass.
—Tlie Indian problem is now to lie sol-ved
by making the aborigines cattle
owners and ranchers.—George G. Bren-ner.
City Marshall of Wellington, Ohio
was shot and killed while pursuing two
men whom ho had discovered in the act
of coiiiniitliug a burglary.
Fntiiiv,—1Twelve deaths from cholera
have occurred at Cairo within half an
hour.—Tho Knglisli and American teams
at Wimbledon have been finally selected.
—The Elclio Shield was won by (lie
Irish.—Mr. Waddington’s appointment
and Lord Lyons’ holiday are regarded as
omens of peace between England and
France.—(.Tops in Prussia promise well.
—Miss Murphy, of Hun Francisco, lias
married Sir Charles Wolseley.—In the
case against ex-Unitcd Stales Senator
Kellogg on argument tlie court decided
that tho objections to the indictment on
tlie ground of tlie attendance of Mr.
Ker in tlie Grand Jury room was not
valid.—A material falling off is noted in
sales of postage stamps, resulting from
the approaching change of rate.—Owing
to the employment of non-union men at
the iron furnaces in Bctlihihcm, l’a., a
riot is anticipated.—In tlie neighboi-borhood
of tin? scene of General Crook's
exploits Apache braves have just de-feated
a body of Mexican troops, killing
seven of them.—The interment of Gen-eral
Tom Thumb took place in the pres-ence
of a very largo gathering at Bridge-port.—
Two children were drowned by
the surf at Atlantic City, N. J.
SATURDAY—Demands are made at
Cairo that the English should take the
direction of affairs. There were 110
deaths from cholera llicre in one day.—
Tlie funds of the second Suez Canal are
assured.—The Burmese envoys have ar-rived
at Venice.—The American rifle
team at Wimbledon' lead in tho first
three ranges by eight points.—Prepara-tions
aro being made for tie commence-ment
of civil suits against star route con-tractors
to recover moneys drawn from
tlie Treasury on fraudulent representa-tions
for postal service under expediting
orders.—Bids for the Army and Navy
Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., range
from £60,000 to $120,000.—In consequence
of Texas fever' appearing, among tlie
cattle just reaching Massachusetts further
receipts of cattle from Texas are inter-dicted.—
John Williams a noted bunko
man, was shot dead by his wife in Cin-cinnati.—
No Senator lias been chosen by
New Hampshire.—Three men paid on tlie
gallows the penalty’ of capital crimes—
Guofge McMillan, at Canton, Ohio, for
tlie murder of his wife; Robert Wilson,
at Memphis, Tenn., for robbing and kill-ing
Frank B. Russell, and Daniel Tim-berlake,
at Lexington, Ky., for criminal
assault upon a little girl.
SUNDAY.—Tlie British Rifle Team de
feated the Americans yesterday at Wim-bledon
by a score of 1,031 to 1,906 for the
six ranges.—Two hundred and forty-two
deaths from cholera occurred at Alexan-dria
on Friday.—It is believed that the
Suez Canal agreement lias been modified.
—One hundred and twenty-three corpses
have been recovered from tlie Daphne,
—Two witnesses favorable to the Jews
on trial at Nyireshyliaza have with-drawn
tlieir evidence.—Census office
clerks are not to lie dismissed, blit al-lowed
leavo of absence till vacancies
occur in the Interior Department, when
they will be transferred to fill them.—
It is proposed by Hanlan to establish a
professional oarsmen’s association.—An
insane man at Rochester leaped into a
furnace and was burned to ashes.—Tlie
Canadian government lias proclaimed a
rigid quarantine against all Mediterra-nean
ports.—Reports from all over the
country shew the straits to which the
telegraph companies lmvo beon reduced.
—The discovery of a prehistoric forest
well-preserved is announced from Clin-ton
county.
MONDAY.—The British commanders in
Cairo are going to form a Sanitary com-mission,—
Tho deaths from cholera at
Cairo were i!Sl on Saturday.—The Daily
Telegraph praises tlie American team in
the rifle maitcb.—Tjjo Marquis of Lans-de*
me v. ill sail on thesiearner Circassian
on October 11 for Canada, to assume the
duties of the office of Governor General
of the Dominion.—The Supervising Sur-geon
General of Marine Hospitals noti-fied
tlie henltli and quarantine officers in
New York and other cities of a cable
message received by him announcing six
deaths from cholera in tho London
docks.—The State Department was infor-med
that the steamship City of Wash-ington,
from Vera Cruz for Now York,
left several passengers sick with yellow
fever at Havana, and Unit five of those
left had died.—Tlie gay season at Sara-toga
Springs is described as being at iis
height.—A cyclone in Southern Minne-sota
resulted in loss of life and consider-able
destruction of property.—Tlie strik-ing
operators all over tho country are
cheerful. They seem determined to hold
their ground. No new features of great
importance are reported.
TUESDAY.—Tolegraph operators still
remain firm.—£1,100,000 is the amount
the government will try to recover from
the Star Route thieves by bringing civil
suits against them.—The Secretary of
tlie Treasury decides that tho Depart-ment
lias no authority to erder sub-
Treasury officers to receive trade dollars
•the shoe as Standard dollars.—On ac-count
of the reported prevalence of
cholera in London, Health Guards have
been appointed and placed on duty both
ut London and Liverpool. American-bound
vessels will be closely watched by
sanitary inspectors appointed by our
Consuls in London and Liverpool.—
Eight men were killed instantly at Gad-dis,
N. Y., in a blast furnace into which
they had gone to put in n new lining
when tho old lining foil upon them.
They wero all married and have families.
—President Arthur and party arrived at
Capo May yesterday on board tlie United
States steamer Dispatch
Aii Arm Fractured.
Mrs. .Jacob Ilornor, who lives near
LaurelviIlr?f was riding from a field
to tho barn on a load of hay on Wednes-day
last. By n.sudden joltsho was thrown
off tho wagon and in her fall broke her
loft arm close to theshoulder. Dr. Wako-ileld
reduced tho fraeturo, lint tho chan-ces
aro that tho lady will never recover
tho full use of the arm as tho fraeturo is
so close to tho joint. Ilor recovery is only
a matter of tiino.
A Shoulder Hl«i It* Hrokt-n.
On Thursday last Emma Gilson, a lit-tle
girl living in West ibid, while play-ing
with some children on West Main
street, was thrown over tho embank-ment
and had her shoulder blade broken.
Tho little siifroror is making satisfactory
progress toward recovery.
PERSONAL.
Al. Mortimoio is happy. It is a big
hoy.
Miss Ida Roadman, leaves" to-day on a
visit to friends in Bedford.
Mr. Cloorgo MnrdoT, of Bedford, is
visiting Mrs. A. Roadman.
Mr. Will Buttermoro,of Connollsvlllo,
was in town on Monday last.
Mrs. I. P. MeTntyro is away on a visit
to her parents in Greenaburg.
Mr. r. II, Sheploy is on tho sick list
again though not seriously ill.
Miss Luoy Spa aiding, of Now Castl o,
is visiting Miss Ida Roadman.
Mr. Samuel Dieo, of Ligonier, is visit-ing
frionds in this neighborhood.
Miss Maggio Highborger, of Greons-burg,
is tho guest of Miss Jessie Jordan.
Mrs. G. L. Francis and children aro
visaing relatives in Scottdale this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shape, of Nton-honvillo,
Ohio, aro visiting frionds in
town.
Mr. (’has. Fortor, of Connellsvillo,
spent Sunday last tho guest of Mrs. C, M.
Galley.
Mr. I). L. Lutz, of Marlboro, Ohio,
was visiting his nioco, Mrs. I. S. White,
last week.
Miss. Hulo Waltlmur, of Greonsbnrg,
was the guest of Airs. I). M. Kennedy on
Walnut street lost week.
Mrs. Dr. J. A. Loar was summoned to
Greenaburg last wenk by tho illness of
her father, Mr. Joseph Gross.
Mr. Armel Keister, who has been ill
with typhoid fever, has so far recovered
as to bo able to bo about once more.
Prof. DoLong, principal of Lebanon
Valley College, was in town Saturday last
looking up tho interests of his school.
Mrs. J. S. Ramsey and Miss Bello
Ramsey, of Pittsburg, aro tlie guests of
Mr. Wilson Shields, on Church street.
Rev., Ewing principal of tho Jefferson
Academy at Washington, Pa. was tlie
guest of Mr. W. J. Ilitchman last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Coughenour leavo
to-day for Pringledalo camp ground. The
camp meeting doos uot open until next
week.
Miss Mary Ridingor, of Irwin, ami
Miss Emma James, of Brady’s Bend,
are the guests of Mr. C. II. Sliopley, on
Eagle street.
Mr. J. W. Miller was in Pittsburg last
week, llo was accompanied on his re-turn
homo by Miss Flora Wood, of Cin-cinnati,
Ohio.
Bass Stimmoll, of Greonsbnrg, camoto
Mt. Ploasant on Friday evening mid
stayed all night to recuperate from his
overland trip with the Citizens Baud.
Mr. Tarr, a tolegraph operator, who
has beon working for George MeCalob
in the Western Union office hero, wont
in to Pittsburg last week to take a dosk
in tho city olfico.
On- Wednesday aftornoon, Engineer
Lutz, of tlie South Pennsylvania survey,
ordorod by Chief Engineer Barnes
report for duty to Division Engineer
at Somerset.
'uw ordi
tp ropor
Miller,;
Mr. J. B. Goldsmith goes to Pittsburg
to-morrow to buy a stock of provisions
for tho restaurant which lie will have
chargo of at the coming ennipmeoting
to bo hold at Pringledalo.
Among tlie tenters at Pringlodale
camp next week will bo L. S. Tinstman
and wife, J. It. Zuuk and family, J. B.
Goldsmith and Bcrgess Loar, who has
the management of tlie hoarding house.
They will leave JOV tho camp grounds
tii Thursday*
OUR CORPS OF LOCAL REPORTERS
Nnrn Notts Rcporlut from the Boroughs
and Townships Within tin* County
nud from AcroxH tlir liordcrtt.
A canip-inoeting is in progress near
tho Mutual coke works.
Derry has not sufficient accommoda-tions
for tho pupllsof her public schools.
Tho Greonsbnrg bandsmen who wont
on the Somerset excursion have ro
turned home.
Tho Brunots, a strong amateur base
ball ldno of Greonsbnrg, has been re-organized
for tho season.
Since tho recent fire at Pleasant Unity
that region has beon overrun by light-ning
rod agents and insurance men.
Ten Knights Templar left Groensburg
for San Francisco on Monday to join in
tho order’s grand colebration in thatcity.
John A. Moore, an old farmer of New
Salem, was nearly killed by the fall of a
heavy frame from tho upper story of a
barn.
Tho Latrobo car works aro running
full time in getting out now cars for the
ocpiipmont of the Pittsburg, McKcospor.t
it Youghioghony road.
A pike weighing 135 pounds and over
four feet long was killed by tho use of
dynamite by some pirtios fishing in the
Yongh at West NovvUm.
Tho relics on tho Bushy Run battle-ground
aro coming to the surface in such
quantities that it looks as though tlioro
might ho an underground factory some-where
in tho neighborhood.
Tlie now barn of Jacob Zundle, who
formerly occupied the farm'on which A
shaft of the Al orewood works is located,
but now of Rostraver township, was
struck by lightning on Sunday last. Tho
damage is slight.
11. P. Snyder and E l ward Doan, of
Connellsvillo; Ewing Craft, of Luzerne;
G. G. Marshall, of Uniontown, and i). B.
Miilor, of Springfield aro tho democratic
delegates from Fagotto county to the
Stato convention.
Tho boj, Middleton, who was injured
at*Everson some time since in attempt-ing
to cross the track underneath the
cars died last Friday afternoon at half past
two o'clock. YoungMulvorhil), who was
hurt at tho same time, lias fully recov-ered.
At Coultervillo, a man name Conners,
while at work on tho division, was struck
by tho through mail Tuesday morning oi
last week, and instantly killed. A
freight train eamo along and he
stepped out of the way to tho other track
ahead of tlie mail.
During Urn (blinder storm at Larimer
Station Monday afternoon tbo ham o!
•Jacob Baker was struck by lightning
and burned to tho ground. Mr. Baker
had just finished his whoat and hay h ar-vest,
and his ontiro crop of each was de-stroyed
by tho lire.
W. II. Cooperand wife, who wore nr-rosted
at Scottdaloon Thursday evening,
chargod with illegal liquor selling, esca-ped
from the lock-up on Friday niornivg
while Officer Camlin went to ordei
breakfast for them. No tracoof tho mis-sing
couple has been found.
Tho Scottdale .School Board have se-lected
the following named teachers
for the coming school term: Principal,
Prof. Keen, of Harrisburg; room No. 1,
AMLSS Clifford, of Ligonier; room No. 2,
Miss Bennett, ofGreonsbnrg; room No. 3,
Miss Loucks.of Mt. Pleasant; room No.4,
Miss Ruff, of East lluutingtou towusblp.
Throo Latrobo youths liavo mysteri-ously
disappeared. They left tlieir
nornos some tiino Wednesday night ol
lust week and uo ono seems to know why
or where tiiey wont. Tlie boys aro sons
of well-known citizens andare named as
follows: JIarry Showaltor, John Shulty
and Janies Householder. They aro aged
about 18 or 19.
A ton-year-old son of Mr. Kinkaid,
residing on Broadway, Scottdalo, on® day
last week was run down by a horse at-tached
to a wagon owned by J. B. Lott,
carelessly driven by a boy delivering
goods. His injuries about tlie head,
neck and shoulders are severe, the horse
having tramped on him with his fore
feet. The animal tried hard to kick him,
but he was luckily not in reach of its
liind foot.
William II, Michell, a miner living at
Gist station, on the Southwest road near
Uniontown, on Friday lastwas killed by
freight train No. 53 going north. lie
leaves a wifo and four children. Mitchell
at times becamo crazy and was in the
lunatic asylum a short time ago, and lie
had one of his attacks on Friday. lit*
took off his hat and coat and threw him-self
in front of the train. He was 43
years old.
Thomas Bygate, foreman at the Marklc
mills, made an information before Squire
Keener, of Greensbarg, against Captain
O. C. Markle and his son C. P. Marklc.
Jr., for assault and battery. Captain
Murkle and son had just returned'from
Boston, went to tho mill and had an al-tercation
with Schoenthal, chief clerk,
under Assignee Lippincott. From there
they went to Bygate and committed an
assault in consequence of some alleged
mismanagement about tho mills. Bail
was given for their appearance at court.
An effort made by cracksmen to gel
Into tho safe ofthe Union Hotel atGreens-burg
on Saturday night did not prove a
success. They drillod an inch hole into
the safe door about two inches irom the
combination dial, and some ofthe wheels
of tho look had been cut so badly that
the safe could not be opened. They made
a mistake and bored too low IO strike
tho bolt bar as they intended and wore
probably frightonod away before they
had time to blow it. Au expert
from Pittsburgh opened tho safe and
repaired it. Tho work is evidently that of
professionals.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
aro laying out a rail road lino from Manor
1 n ation to Saltsburg. A full corps of en-gineers
aro at work. Tho proposed road
will be about twenty miles in length and
pass ono-half milo eastot Saleui. It will
tap tho rich and undeveloped seven foot
vein of coat that extends tho whole length
of the lino, and is one of the largest bod-ies
of coal in Westmorland county.
Large tracts of coal land lmvo already
boon leased by tho Penn Gas Coal Coin-t
puny, Westmoreland Coal Company and
Kline Bros, of Greensbarg. This lino
will connect tlie main lino of tlie Bonn-sylvanm'Railroad
with the West Penn
branch by an easy grade.
An Indiana county man wont out to
shoot Imh notlong ago. He seated himself
on tho limb of a tree, thirty loot above tlie
water, cocked his gun and awaited events.
Tho first occurrence of any importance
was tho breaking of tho limb, the next
was his rapid descent and the entrance of
logs into tho oozy bottom of tho creek.
Ho was^wedged in so tightly as to ho un-able
to extricate himself, and it was quite
an interval before his'erios brought assis-tance.
Ropes wore then put around his
body and after a good deal of exertion lie
was dragged ashore, and then thodiscov-ory
was made that tho bone of one log was
broken in two places below the knee and
ono bono of tlie other leg also broken.
BASE BALL.
Tlie Texas Stars Defeat Die Geary*, of
«Tamlif»n'* Coke. Works.
On Katimiaj’ afternoon lust quite a num-ber
of the friends of both clubs gathered
at tho Morewood grounds to witness tlie
first game between tho II. Geary’s of
Jamison's coke works and the Texas
Stars. Tlie home nine won the toss,
sending tlie visitors to tlie hat. J. Good-man
and Carson wore the battery, for the
Geary’s, and Zitck and Queer for the
Stars. By heavy halting assisted by
errors on the part of the homo team, the
visitors succeeded in placing two runs to
tlieir credit tho first inning, two in
the second and one in the third w hile
the Stars got but one in the first, none in
tlie second and ono in the third, leaving
tlie score at tlie end of tlie third inning
five to two in favor of the visitors. It is
due to Mr. Zuck to say that tie pitched
the first three innings for tlie Stars be-cause
it was thought necessary to call
tho game beforo Milbee, tlie regular
pitcher was able to ho present, Milbee
was now put in the box and succeeded
in puzzling tho Geary’s not a little by his
peculiar style of tossing tlie sphere, as
f lic visitors only got ono base hit off him
and one run in tlie remaining six in-nings.
and oven this run wasall owing to
a miserable overthrow to first in the
eight inning on the part of Mcl’liadden
who played third base for the Stars; tlie
hall was lost and not found until the
runner had touched tlie homo plate.
Tlie Stars got five runs in the fiftli in-ning,
two in the sixth and did not play
their half of tlie ninth as tlie game was
theirs without so doing. Carson and
f. Goodman carried off tho hon-ors
for tho visitors, Goodman
making a beautiful catch of a
hot line hall while standing in tho
pichers box, and Carson having but one
pass hall behind tho hat. Tho pitching
of Milbeo and the catching of Queer for
the homo team wore almost faultless,
.Mr. Ram Jamison, of Pleasant Unity,
umpired the game in a manner highly
satisfactory to both sides. The following
is tlie score by innings:
l 2 a -i r, n 7 s n
Henry's a 2 1 I) 0 U 0 1 0—n
Stars' I 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 x—0
WITCHERY IN BU1.LSKIN.
IIo-.v (he German Parmer* Catch Any One
Who KolmThcm.
The residents of tho northern end of
Tinllskiii township, Fayette county, have
a firm and abiding belief in the super-natural
and they appeal to it for all de-cisions
on weighty questions. Not long
ago a ll.ief visited the home of one of
the number and stole a silver watch, a
pair of pantaloons and some other arti-cles
of a, domestic nature. AVlion tlie
nows of tlie robbery spread abroad, the
neighbors gathered in and compared ex-periences
on tlie most acceptable way of
conjuring back tho missing goods. One
of tlie number knew of a plan which
had worked to perfection over in Som-erset
county. There the thief had been
so violently affected by its wierd power
that in the middle of the night he sprang
from liis bed naked, jumped through a
sash and returned the stolen goods to
their rightful owner.
Tlie charm was arranged with due so-lemnity.
To one of tho party was given
tlie hook of incantation while to another
was assigned tlie duty of turning tlie
wheel of fate which was to wind up the
career of the thief. Tlie words of witch-ery
were read with stern tones while
tlie wheel slowly revolved and the spell
was pronounced complete. The circle
adjourned, all satisfied that tlie goods
would he brought hack through tlie fairy
influence. The following morning, one
of the party asseverated his belief that
the thief was dead for at midnight as lie
laid in liis bed he heard a report like a
pistol and he felt assured that tlie noise
betokened the demise of tho robber.
Days passed away and the thief did not
die nor did thegoods come back. It was
not until nearly a week had passed that
•ommon mortality’s aid was invoked to
capture the thief, hut by that time the
trail had grown cold and the owner still
mourns the loss of liis watch, pantaloons,
and other property, while he meditates
over tlie trickiness of tho spook and the
thief.
Injured 1>y Dyunmlle.
A twelvo year old pit boy, a son of
William Zentmycr, at \lieocoko works,
while at work in the pit last week found
a dynamite cartridge. After carrying it
for several days in his vest pocket, on
Sunday ho determined to find out what
tho tiling contained. lie picked it with
u pin until it explodod. His thumb first
and third finger on liis right hand and
the thumb on the loir, hand wero torn
entirely off, while tho remaining fingers
of noth hands woro badly lacerated. His
face and breast were punctured with
many small particles of tho dangerous
compound. The attending physician
ron lerod the necessary surgical aid and
the youngster will go through life in a
bally maimed condition.
Theology lu tlie Wooil*.
The eampmeettng under tho auspices
of the A. M. E. Zion church now being
hold in Rnmbaugh’s grove, oast of town,
lias thus fur boon very successful. The
attendance on Sunday last was quite
largo and a big crowd is oxpected next
Sunday.
Now stock of toilet and nursery articles
at Miller A SliepVy's. 7 25 2t
COAL, COKE AND IRON.
OUR GREAT INDUSTRIES IN REVIEW.
Items of Interest fioin Mine, Yard, Oven
nml Mill—Jottings of tlie
Past Week.
Tlie new coal works nearly opposite
Sutervillo have been named tho Lake
Erie Coal Works.
Ono hundred and thirty-five new coke
ovens are being built by tlio Connells-villo
gfs coal company.
A new air course aud exit has boon put
in at tho Monastery coke works. The
ovens aro running slow on small orders.
A special meeting of the stockholders
of tho South Pennsylvania railroad com-pany
has boon called for September 0th,
for tho purpoae of ascertaining if tho in-debtedness
and capital stock shall be in-creased.
Tlie 1*. McK. Sz Y. R. R. Co. have just
completed a good, substantial pump
house on tho west side of tho river oppo-site
West Newton. Tho structure is
built of brick. Largo stone fliers are
being built on which tho lingo water
tank will rest.
Tho Youghioghony River Coal Co., at
Scott Haven, received their first con-signment
of machinery for tlieir new
works on tlio west side of tho Yongh.,
ono clay last wook, over the P. McK. &
Y. R. R., from McKeesport, whore it was
transferred from tho B. & O. to tho new
road.
The American Manufacturer in an ed-itorial
upon tho coke trade, and the diffi-culties
attending tlio forming of an or-ganization
among coke producers says:
“It does not now seem likoly that a suc-cessful
organization will bo reached.
Doubt seems to exist in somo measure
among those who were advocating an
association, largely induced by the fail-ure
in tlio first place; and then,as stated
above, there is not tho inducement to
coinpleto an organization that there was
formerly. Prices ore improving, and
the fooling is decidedly firmer, and it is
doubtful should tho movement bo re-vived
if it would find any supporters.”
Tho Now York Coal of last week says:
We note with satisfaction that tho Stato
of Pennsylvania has appropriated $12,500
for tho erection of a hospital for sick
and wounded coal miners nml railroad
men at Connollsvillo, provided that a
like amount is raised by private sub-scription.
To the great railroads which
derive a vast revenue annually from tho
loading industry of that section, and to
tho largo producers, somo of whom have
accumulated princely fortunes, itshould
ho a matter of a few days to secure tho
necessary funds. Wo trust that wo may
honbio to record at an early date tho
completion of ail tho nocoseary arrange-ments.
Tho now hridgo of tho P. McK. Sc Y.
railroad company, over tlio Youghio-gheny
river at McKeesport, was consid-erably
damaged by a blast on Saturday.
Tho company opened a barrow pit near
tho southern approach, out of which
workmen are taking material. The con
tractor prepared an unusually heavy
blast and when it exploded huge masses
of rock and earth wore hurled in every
direction. One solid stone weighing
about throo hundred pounds, struck the
shore span of llie hridgo with such force
that somo of tho rods and posts were
bent and twisted out ot shape. Somo of
tho pioces will bo replaced, and it is es-timated
that it will cost $(100 or $700 to
repair tho damage clone.
The foundry and fire-brick works of
tho Fairchanco Furnaeo Company are in
full operation. This company contracted
last week with the Connellsvillo Coal and
Iron Company for furnishing fire-brick
for 50 new coke ovens, which tho latter
purpose building at LolsenringNo. 2im-modlutely.
The furnaeo of the Fayette
Coke and Furnace Company, situate at
Oil pliant, is still in blast, and making
from twenty to twenty-five tons per day*
but not much of this production is being
put on the marl ot, ns tho company does
not care to sell at tho present prices. Tho
iron men are feeling very confident that
thero will be a greater demand lor their
iron by tho middle of next month, and
with it an advance in prices.
Lemont furnace, situate oir tno lines of
the Southwest Pennsylvania and Balti-more
and Ohio railroads, three miles
north of Uniontown. was hanked up on
Saturday last for repairs. The furnace
noeds considerable repairing and the
proprietors thought this a good time to
put them on. Tho yard at tlio furnaeo is
filled with iron, more than enough to
meet tho present demand. One hundred
and fifty tons were sold last week at
$10.50 and $77. Dunbar furnace is in blast
still, but only one stack is fired up and it
is not making much more than half its
capacity. The average run is about fifty
tons per day. Fairchanee furnace is still
idle, but may possibly be started up Au-gust
1, providing tho pi ice of iron has
advanced at that time.
Tlie Yongh. River Coal Co., bettei
known as the operators of tho Scott Ha-ven
mine, says tlie West Newton Press,
have been making some important pur-chases
of real estate in tho vicinity of
Buena Vista* Tho purchases were made
on sixty days option, but it is not at all
likoly but that they will be posUivo sales
at the expiration of tlio option. The
purchases Include tlio farm ofJohn Boyd,
for §-4,-100; a tract of land belonging to
Thos. Patterson, price not statod, and the
farm of Jas. Doublass, comprising 45
ayres, at $350an acre. The company have
a large tract of coal lying up Boyd’s hol-low,
and it is tho Intentions of the com-pany,
so it is reported, to build a branch
road up tbo hollow and in this manner
have full and free access to tlieir coal. It
is noised about at the village of Seott
Haven that the company lmvo not vet
given up the project of bridging the
Youghatthat poinf.
It is reported that the superintendent
of the Philadelphia gas works has con-demned
103,*tOO tons of bituminous coal
rocently contracted for by the Gas Trust
in preference to tlio coal produced by
tho Pennsylvania Gas-Coal Company,
the Wcstniorohind Coal Company, and
other large (Joncerus. This is tho coal
furnished by the Saltsburg Coal Com
puny, whoso mines aro located on the
Conomaugh river, near Saltsburg, and
carried to Philadelphia over tlio Penn-sylvania
company’s linos. Whon the
contracts woro lot, tho Saltsburg product
was believed to bo one of tho best gas
coals obtainable, and the company se-cured
105,000 tons of the amount required
during tlie year, other Pittsburg bidders
being badly left behind on their esti-mates.
Tho gas company snpermtond-ent
now says tho coal contains too much
sulphur, and the gas company is to stand
suit for refusing to receive tlie coal.
Argument was hoard in Philadelphia,
by Attorney-Ooneral Cassidy, on on ap-plication
for a writ of quo warranto bv
Dr. Early and others, who own lands
along tlio valley of Little Toby Crook, in
which region the New York, Lake Erie
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