Mount Pleasant journal (June 5, 1888)

              MT. PLEASANT JOURNAL.
VOL. 1(> MT. PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND CO., PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5,1888. NO. 6
EDITORIAL NOTES.
IF Council has any time left at its
special meeting Monday eveninn, after
considering the water question, it would
lie well spent in determining to open out
East End streets for the convenience ot
those who own lots down that way and
whe would build homesifthey only knew
exactly where the street grade would
come. The little trouble and expense
such action would cost would soon be
brought back in taxes to the borough
tunny fold.
I r is about time for those of our citi-zens,
who urged the formation nl an in
dependent water company, to discover
that such a course can only prove a fail
tire. Let us take what, we need of what
we have and feel thankful.
OKU operators, who think of shutting
down their works, are very likely realiz-ing
that there is Jvery little money in
giving their coal away ill the form of
one dollar coke, The price should be
advanced to if 1,50.
IT is hard to see why brave “Little
Phil,” now that he is dying, is any more
deserving of the position of General of
the Army than lie was when he had
health and strength to enjoy the high
honor.
SCOTT has had his day; but who will
dare say that Randall’s is not coniine?
It is hardly possible for Pennsylvania’s
protective giant to be knocked out in
one round.
IF the capital stock of the Seottdale
water company is only if 10,000 our big
neighbor won’t be able to brag much of
the plant’s size when it is completed.
IF to-day's St. Louis convention nomi-nates
Cleveland and Thurman, as, in all
probability, It will, the ticket’s tail at
least, will he full of strength.
IT speaks pretty well for onr town
when a prominent physician the oilier
day said: “Mt. Pleasant is becoming
alarmingly healthy.”
GitKF.NHiiPaOF.RS seem determined to
have water mains through their town
oven though they do not have the fluid
to put in them.
The way Mayor Warden sticks to and
enforces the borough ordinances is
making him somew hat of a terror to
evil-doers.
Tim conference may yet be compelled
to toss the penny before the 24th Con-gressional
district deadlock iB broken.
MAKING THINGS HI M.
PREPARATIONS FOR MT- PLEASANT’S
FAIR PROGRESSING RAPIDLY.
OPR Greensburg friends might come
over and get Borne points on how to suc-cestf.
illy arrange for holding a fair.
MEETING OF COUNCIL.
Doronffh Tnv of 7 I -'l MIIIH IjnUl nn«l Lonr
Ht-clwlfil Tn-iiminr
At the regular monthly meeting of
Council, held last evening every mem-ber
was present aud besides the usual
number of orders granted for work done
during May, it was resolved to lay a lior
ough tax of 7J mills—S for regular bor-ough
purposes and 2{ for gas ami water.
Last year there were six mills laid, but
then the lighting of streets was paid for
out of receipts oilier than that brought
in in the way of taxes; so that the total
taxation this year is in reality only a
very little higher than that of 1887. .1.
A. Loar had no opposition and wasagain
placed in the office of treasurer.
There was quite a lively dispute be-tween
Chief of Police Shivler and Rob-ert
Clark over the settlement of a bill
charged the latter by Council for clean
ing up the alley in the rear oi his East
Knd property. Both disputants used
language that would have caused a stran-ger
to doubt the integrity of either. Mr.
Clark thought the amount of the bill,
some $29, too high and had no hesita-tion
in saying so. It is quite likely how-ever,
that lie will have to settle the ac-count
as it is, after having deducted from
it some $12 the borough owes him for
work done on the streets. Council then
adjourned to hold a special meeting
next Monday evening for the purpose of
considering the water question.
Flag Presentation.
The program of exercises, as given in
last week’s JOURNAL, for the presenta-tion
of the American ilag to the public
schools by Logan Council, Jr. O. U. A.
•M., in School Hall. Tuesday evening,
was most successfully carried out, with
enthusiasm, on the part of the large au-dience
present, that would boil over on
the least provocation from the very mo-ment
the chairman, Dr. A. H. Myers,
called for order until Rev. Mr. Pershing
pronounced the benediction. The givers
with their brothers from the couucil at
Stauffers and Robert Warden Post G. A.
R.,and the Mt. Pleasant Camp Sons of
Veterans, made a very creditable parade
to the hall, the Star brass band loading
the procession. In addition to the pub-lished
list of orators, Rev. E. R. Donehoo,
of Pittsburg, and Editor Brown of the
Pittsburg American, gave short but
pleasing talks. The dag given is a very
handsome one with staff and is the first
in this State to be presented in this way.
A Very Neat Prize Aliout Rnt«e<l for llir
Hand Content, With Height Proaped*
of Securing Rev. Tnlinnge.
Although hut one week lias passed
since the committees for our July fair
were announced, the members of many
of them have already met and have
their work not only laid out, but, in not
a few instances, well under way. Every-body
seems imbued witli the idea of
making Hie undertaking a success, ami
if well begun means anything at least
half of that end lias been accomplished.
The small amount, as first offered as
the band contest prize, seemed to strike
unfavorably those who are anxious to
see this made one of ttie prominent
features of the exhibition, and J. W.
Swartz started out among the merchanta
and citizens to see if the inducement to
contestants could not be made more
tempting by increasing the sum offered.
Almost every person asked gave some-thing
and the result is that the purse
will he $175, to be divided into three
prizes, $100, $50 and $25. This contest
will lie open for hands from Westmcre
land, Fayette, Allegheny and Indiana
counties, barring only the Mt. I’leasant
organizations.
On the Fourth of July, the opening
day of the fair, the management propos-es
to have an address from one or more
of the country’s ablest orators. If it is
at all possible l!ev, Dr. Talmage, the
great New York divine, will, be engaged.
Toe committee in charge inis written
him with theis object in view, although
a reply lias not yet been had. Rev. I)r.
M illets' name has also been suggested.
Me it was whose lecture here several
years ago left such a favorable impres-sion
among those who were so fortunate
as to have heard him.
The management lias two locations in
in view as probable places for holding
the fair. One is the old college building
at the Institute, with the campus, and
the other School Hall, with the surroun-ding
school grounds and the field im-mediately
bark of the building for ex-hibits
of machinery, the different school
rooms and hall to he used in displaying
articles that inclement weather might
injure. Between these two, although
no definite arrangement has been made,
it is probable that the Church street
place will bechosen, should the scliool
directors favor the project with their
consent.
The Full illii.t Stop.
The Bridgeport dams of the Mt.
Pleasant Water Company have, for the
past few days, been lined with fishermen
who captured big carp, chubs and suck-ers
without number. But the fun can-not
long continue as, it is said, cortaln
gentlemen who were instrumental ill
stocking the dams with fish have secured
papers from the Governor which protect
their finny charges aud prohibit fishing
in the dams. A last week’s mail also
brought a commission to ex-Constable
John Sullenberger, appointing him a
special officer and empowering him to
arrest parties found fishing in the prohib-ited
waters. The gentlemen forming
tlie commission have also submitted an
agreement to the water company which
the latter hasagroed to sign, after which
fish taken from the dams will be costly
eating.
HOME HAPPENINOS,
PERSONAL.
Mixing tilt- Divine mill Satanic.
Rev. George P. Donehoo, of the Mid-dle
Presbyterian church, aud Benjamin
C. Hurst, of this office, are making ar-rangements
for a two days’ tramp, next
week, through the Ridge and Hill wilds
on the hunt of as the junior member of
the firm says: "The historical, botani-cal
and curious.” The specimens amt
relics to he secured will fie exhibited at
the coining tair. The objective points of
the touristsjure Kolia's Cave,Bear Rocks,
the old Ridge furnace aud Mt. Vernon.
The printer has some del ighiful surpris-es
m store for the preacher.
Miss Lizzie Storer is yisiling friends in
McKeesport.
Dr. John Keisinger is in Findlay, O.,
on a pleasure trip.
Misses Ella and Sadie Kerguson, of tlie
East Find, are with Seottdale friends.
Miss Emma King, of the West End,
spent Sunday with lriendsat Dawson.
Mrs. Dr. Bovd returned home Satur-day
from a week’s visit with Pittsburg
friends.
Mrs. Jesse Hunter and daughter, Miss
Anna, are enjoying a pleasant visit with
friends in Kansas.
Miss Collins, ofUuiontown, last week
was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. lteisinger,
ofSouth Church street.
Mrs. Rev. Donehoo is In Pittsburg
paying her father a farewell visit prior
to his sailing for Europe.
Mrs. Sarah Shupe and daughter, Mrs.
S. IV. S'oner, spent part of last week
with Greensburg friends.
Mr, G. B. Knee, of Johnstown, spent
Saturday and Sunday here with his
brother-in-law, Frank B. Shirey.
Mr. Charles Kusli,a Pittsburg B. & O.
employe, was the guost of Assistant
Cashier Shope, on Wednesday.
Mr. Charles McClain, an old Mt. Pleas-ant
boy but now engaged in business in
Pittsburg, is visiting friends here.
Messrs. J. F. McMillin and S. C. Kelly
left last evening on a week’s business
trip to Philadelpbiaand New York.
Mr. Charles Swartz, of Leadville, Col.,
is bore visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Swartz, of t he West End.
Mrs. Dr Clark and Mrs. C. S. Oveebolt
left this morning for Altoona to attend
the funeral of their sister. Mrs.C.C.Lyon.
Messrs. E. A. Vpstlll and E. T. Iliteli-man,
tlie Connonslnirg coal men, were
among tho Markleton visitors over Sun-day.
Mrs. George Mellinger, oi Reynolds-ville,
Jetlerson county, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Breokbill, of West Main
street.
Mr. A. P. DyBart,of Pittsburg, was at
the National over Sunday, the guest of
his brother, tho ex-Staudard superin-tendent.
Genera) Superintendent Lynch, of the
Frick Coke Company, left Friday to at-tend
the Democratic National Conven-tion,
which meets to-day in St. Louis.
Mr. J. A. Striekler, who had been a
delegate to tlie Methodist General Con-ference
in New York, returned home
Friday, Mrs. Striekler having come sev-eral
days before.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Morrison, Cap-tail,
and Mrs. U. B. Hubbs, Presiding
Elder Jones and Rev. J. I. L. Rosier were
in Attendance at the United Brethren
Conference, meeting last week at Rock-wood.
A llrlrf Menilott of Rvcttf* Hint Occurted
Otiring the Pent Week.
Irish citizens will hold a demonstra-tion
here on tlie Fourth of July.
A little son of S. U Kelley, Ksq., was
run over by a buggy on Memorial Day,
but escaped with slight injury.
There are three vacancies in Company
R’s ranks which can be tilled by quail-tled
applicants before July 1st.
The JOURNAL is Indebted to Mr. A. W.
Fox, the West End florist, for a hand-some
boqiiet of fragrant flowers.
Brain fever on Friday robbed Mr. and
Mrs George Bills, of this place, of their
little daughter, Georgia Mary, aged eight
months.
It is said that Stark Bros., the Greens-burg
contractors, will soon put a force of
men to work on completing the Eagle
street reservoir.
The boys of Company E will encamp
with the Second Brlgadeof tho National
Guard, atConnenut Lake, from the 11th
to tlie 18th of August.
Mr. Clark. Coke Inspector fur the
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company,
was called to Detroit, Mich., last week,
to attend tlie funeral of his father.
Children’s Day at the United Brethren
church has been postponed until next.
Sabbath week, June 17. The same day
will beobserved at the Methodist church.
Rev. Samuel Warden returned home
Saturday, having graduated from the
Allegheny Seminary, and preached Sab-bath
morning in tho United Presbyterian
church.
Samuel Brody, while out carriage rid-ing
Sunday with his companions, lost
his puckelbook, in which he claims
there were five dollars. The purse was
found but was empty,
VV. D. Mullin is building aline house
and barn on his farm, just south of town.
Both structures will be in keeping with
the builder’s well known ability in the
line ofimprovement.
A child's lace collar and pin were lost
Sunday evening between Church street
and tho cemetery. As both were presents
the loser will feel very grateful for their
return to Graul’s bakery.
There were many handsome decora-tions
by onr merchants and citizens on
Memorial Day; but there would be no
disparagement to others in saving that
Braddock lead off, with Dr. James Har-kins
a good second.
Rev, S. K. Henrlr, of Mt. Pleasant
township, returned Wednesday from
holding a four weeks’ revival meeting at
Williamsport, Pa. The work was very
successful as it resulted in the conversion
of over fifty persons.
Business in Texas is booming. Two
rival East End merchants had no end of
a lively time, Saturday evening, over
the semiring of an Italian orchestra to
to play in front of their places of business.
Grocer Davis got the bond.
Next Sabbath will be observed as
Children’s Day at the Middle Presby-terian
church, when Pastor Donehoo will
conduct in the morning a special service
for the Sunday school. The church will
be decorated for the occasion.
Services at the Presbyterian church,
Sabbath morning, were conducted by
Rev. Mr. Stevenson, formerly of Soott-dale
but now located in Iliinois, who
stopped off here while on bis way home
from the Presbyterian General Assem-bly
at Philadelphia.
Tho Western Pennsylvania Fanning
Mill and Separator Company, of this
place, hasdisposed, during tlie past week,
of the right for the following counties;
York, Adams. Franklin, Fulton, Cum-berland
and Huntingdon. Greensburg
parties were tho purchasers.
Work on the now opera house will be
commenced in a few weeks. The neces-sary
stock has been almost all taken and
a committee of Moss Rose Odd Fellows
will visit the opera house at Beaver, this
weok, to get somo idea of its style and
cost as that building is said to be a'model
of neatness.
W. L. Byers, of Andrew’s’ Old Mill, on
Friday last lost a pocket daybook be-tween
his homo and Mt. Pleasant.' A
suitable roward will be paid for its re-turn
to this ofllce or the loser. Tho
book contained only dates and notes,
which are of no value except to Mi.
Bvers.
Almost on the first trial many of the
members of Company E are making
excellent scores on the new rifle range.
At Wednesdav’s practice Sergeant
Thompson and Private Anderson made
at fjOrt yards, respectively 21 and 19 points
out of a possible 25. The home team's
chances of securing the 10th Regiment
prize are considered good.
Very few of those who crowded the
opera house, Saturday evening, at the
Reformed festival knew of the danger
they passod through. The registers had
been closed and tlie gas-heated furnace
took the back draught and the flames
had the floor almost on tire when Robert
Andrew was called and succeeded, at
considerable risk to his own person, in
turning the gasoil*.
Memorial Day parade showed whaf
Mt. Pleasant can turn out in tlie w’ay of
good musicai organizations, to say noth-ing
of the fine appearance Company E,
the Mt. PleasantCamp Sons of Veterans,
Grand Army and tlie American Mechan-ics
made. Tlie Cochran Cornet Band was
given the right of the line, as was fitting,
and came in for Ps full share of praise.
At. St. Joseph’s Catholic church, on
Sabbath afternoon, the were one hun-dred
and fifty children confirmed by
Bishop Phelan, of Pittsburg, assisted by
the pastor, Rev. Mr. May, and Fat her
Lambing, ol Seottdale. The bishop was
was met at, the South End of town by a
procession of the Hibernian, Knights of
St, George and Temperance societies,
and escorted to the church.
The festival for the benefit of St. Peter’s
Reformed church, begun in the opera
house, Tuesday evening, was continued
during the week and closed Saturday
night. The management was excellent.
Dozens of pretty waitresses saw to it t hat
everybody was promptly served; while
the JOURNAL Band and church choir ad-ded
a very pleasant musical feature to
the artair that, despite several wet nights
was well attended. The receipts will
i net the ohurch $250.
A DUE TRIBUTE
PAID TO THE MEMORY OF THE NA-TION’S
SLEEPING HEROES.
Sy nopal* of tin* AtMirim Dfllvnrfd 111
School Hall on Memortnl liny by
Mnjor Kdivard A. MoiHooth.
Probably not in the history of Mt.
Pleasant was Memorial Day more fit-tingly
observed than on Wednesday last.
The weather being all that could bo de-sired,
the program of exercises, as given
in these columns, was faithfully carried
out, witli not one unpleasant feature to
mar the whole. The attendance through-out
was the largest for years, while
Scliool Hall would hardly bold the audi-ence
that gathered to hear Major Ed-ward
A. Montooth, of Pittsburg, the tal-ented
orator of the day, whose chances
of being made the next Governor of
Pennsylvania are rated as among the
best. The substance of Mr. Montooth’fl
speech was:
To-dny ns we hold these solemn services, let
us not forgot that In a distant city, the capital
of our Nation, wrestles with the conqueror of
all men, Death, the Idol of our countny, Phil
Hhcrldan, and as the procession on the way
to decorate the graves of fellow comrades in
t he cemeteries around the city passes ldshouse
on tip loo, the gentle breezes Hunting their
banners, steal through the latticed windows
ami Ian t he lace ot t he dying hero. Let us
pray for him, to Him who
In the hour of pain and anguish,
In tin* hour when death draws near,
Sutler not Ills heart to languish,
buffer not his noul to fear I
And when mortal life is ended
Hid him in their arms to rest;
Till by angel bands attended
He awoke among the blest.
The loyal people of this country, in the Ter-ritories,
Northern States, and many of the
Soutliei n States,assemble in churchyards and
cemeteries on each return ing Thirtieth ofMay,
lor the purpose of strewing flowers on the
dead soldiery of the Union, listen to the re-cital
of their heroic deeds and Joining with
voice and heart In the music of sweet song—
give grateful praise that these heroes lived.
John A. Logan, he who first requested that
this day should he soohserved, within the past
few months has gone “to that land which
nothing encloses, io Hold and glorious mead-ows;
M» distant and so vast that from its eon-tines
no traveler lias ever yet ret urned,” This
day, In accordance with his wish, will he ob-served
so long as the flag of our country floats
over a land saved to the heroism of the Union
army. To-day we stand here. Kind hands
and loving hearts are placing garlandson flu*
stone which marks his last resting place, as a
grateful recognition of the crowning act of his
life-work, viz., the order to strew tlowers on
the graves of loved ones—the best years of
whose lives were passed In defending the
country they loved so well.
How nobly the gellaut men who fought to
uphold the honor of our ltag, and who now-sleep
In churchyard and cemetery, as well as
beneath the grassy mounds of (Juaticellors-vllle
and Oottysburg, or under the blue skies
of the Hutiuy South, where t he rich verdure
covers their graves with a perennial carpet of
green, discharged their sacred duty, the pen
of the historian aod the song of the poet will
hereafter tell.
The tattered Hags now In our Capital speak
volumes in their praises—there’s not. a mark
of bullet, shot or shell tad tells how fierce the
conflict waged hi which they fought, and not
a few are stained with tin* precious blood
shed In Its defense, baptized in the blood of
freemen, It stands side by side with the Hags
of every nation, the brightest, purest,noblest
of them all.
All tumor to the memories of the soldier
dead, and all honor also to the soldiers living,
whose lion courage gave to us this happy
country which \v»* now enjoy, and who sus-tained
the honor of the flag whose him* field
•‘shows eight and thirty states, ensymholed
stars, and gives protection to nil the color
classes of mankind,” mid through whose ef-forts
under Providence, “the heavens above
as dome, a land without a peasant, serf or
hl Let ine then turn back and recall the history
of the days gone by. In 1861 the clouds which
had been gathering for many years in the
once bright sky ot our Nation’s prosperity
burst with all their force, and deluged the
land with a Hood of war and famine, sorrow
and desolution, hatred and crime, wickedness
and sadness, carrying before them happiness
and peace, friendship mul love, and leaving
1.1 their wake ruined homes, severed ties,
households of inouriilng,.broad acres of gold-en
grain in wastes, waters of crystal which
had reflected the azure skies turned into deep
crimson and staining t tie white sands through
which tliev coursed with t lie blood of patriots
and causing the Hag or our country which had
earned for Itself a place amidst the ensigns of
the world to droop, without lustre, from Its
bright stars, as if waiting for the time when
the hand of a foreign foe would add to its
disgrace by trailing its blight colors beneath
his feet.
Truly indeed a storm such ns this and with
such results hud never vented its fury within
the history of the world. Ask the cause of all
this and in (.tie word I might answer—Slavery
For years tlie cries of human beings in bond-age
had gone up without an answer to their
piteous wall.
Tears without effect had Lean shed, erics
which should have turned oven hearts of
stoia* fell unheeded. The teuderost of human
ties were rudely shattered and supplications
uttered for assistance heard in* kindly re
spouse. But there was a time near ut hand,
lie who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
and whose ear Is ever toward the ciy of the
weak and distressed, heard and answered.
Hearu in the quiet which surrounds the
great white throne; answered In tlie whirl-wind
and tempest of battle.
Heard amidst the angelic forces of peace;
answered in the march of armed men, whose
marshaled trend shook the earth Itself
Heard above the strains of Heaven’s sweet
music of harp and voice; answered in the
bursting of shell and roar of cannon, whoso
detonations drove hack and scattered to the
winds the echoes huten so many years with
cries of anguish and gave place to hymns of
praise and thanksgiving ascending from the
lips of bondmen free.
Then he was a slave, but a slave no longer,
became a man in all that partalns to true
manhood. Not a mere bower ol wood, or
drawer of water, a beast of burden, a chattel
finding u market, and cold at. the shambles,
but a man of ourselves, like ourselves, owing
allegiance to tlie same country, praise and
worstiip to the same God. Not thought for,
hut thinking for himself, not a servant, hut a
master, not a subject, but a king.
Mr. Montooth here ran over the extraor-dlmuy
expenditure of blood and treasure
called for by the war, and then referred to
General Grant:
The first mourner to-day
Is tlie nation whose fattier is tukcu away.
Wife, children and iieighlntr
May moan at his knell,
He was lover and friend,
1o his country as well,
For the stars oil our banners
Grow suddenly dim.
Let us weep In our darkness,
But weep not for him.
Not lor him who despairing
Leaves millions in tears;
Not for him who lias died
Full of houor and years;
Not for him who ascended
Fame’s ladder so high.
From the round at the top
He has stepped to the sky.
Speaking then of the dead soldiers he said:
To-day, as we hold these solemn services and
recall tlie memories of Hie past, let us strive
so in live that In the peat hereafter we will
meet them there. We have mil faith and
confidence in the lessons taught us by our
mothers when our infant lips first learned to
say: “Our Father which art in heaven,” and
wc know that the white-winged angels who
carried them across the dark river are waiting
and watching for us, and that soon over us
will be pronounced the words: “Thedusthatli
returned to the earth us it was, and the spirit
has returned to the God who gave it. True,
these loved ones of the nation are dead, hut
their memories will live forever.
At Greensburg there was a parade of
of the Grand Army, Sons of Veterans,
Co. I, 10th Regt. National Guard, scliool
children and citizens. Tlie address was
made by Rev. J. D. Walkinshaw, of Mil
lersburg, Pa.
Tlie day was ub-eived in a similar
manner at S.-otidal>., the same organiza-tions
taking part in the parade, which
nude u line display. S. U. Trent, Esq., of
Pittsburg, was the orator of tlie ilay.
Union Post No. 1 and tha Sons of Vet-erans,
with Warden Council No. 1.H2, Jr.
O. U. A. M., turned out out in a body to
observe Memorial Day at Stonerviile.
The services were field in the Church of
God at 2 p. m., Rev. Mr. Dalzell, cousin
of Congressman Dalzell, making the ad-dress
of welcome,and Rev. IV. R. Covert,
the pastor, the memorial address. The
| same organizations assisted in tlie deco-ration
of the graves in tlieMt. Lebanon
cemetery during the afternoon, where
addresses were made by J. A. McCurdy,
Esq., of Greensburg, and Rev. Mr. Co-vert.
TALK AROUND TOWN.
What Our Lounging Man Henr* While
on lllii Tours.
T always like to see those given honor
to whom it is due, and for that reason
I’ll tell why my friend, tlie fat miller,
should he called the founder of our live-ly
little sister city of Seottdale. It
came about in this way: Just before
tlie Southwest road was built Col. Blake,
of Pittsburg, came here to buy a furnace
site, Lands along about Stauffer’s sta-tion
seetned to the prospector about right
in all except the price that was quite ele-vated.
It was at this point that young
Oliver Cromwell Perry Hazzard Shupe
stepped to tlie front with an offer. Oi’s
father was interested in the old Fountain
Mills property and was willing to sell.
Oliver showed the Colonel how it would
be to ins advantage to buy at a point
where there would he a crossing of two
railroads before long, and the result was
tlie mill was soon the colonel’s property.
Then came tlie furnace, coke ovens,
rolling mill and the place was called
Seottdale.
I was told a good story the oilier day
on a Mt. Pleasant minister and as it
verifies tny belief in ttie truly wonder-ful
power of one’s imagination T feel
that it is my duty to give the account to
the JomiNAi.’s readers. Tlie hero, who
must not be confounded with eithei broth-ers
Woods,Wood,Groff, Pershing, Hesler,
Jones, Reynolds, Ferner, May, Wilson,
Warden, Lewis or Gater, lias a special
brand of coffee and never thoroughly en-joys
his meals unless accompanied by
a cup made from it. One day the sup-ply
ran short and another article had to
he substituted much to the pastor’s dis-gtt
t. Its doubtful if the reverend gen-tleman
would have been able to preacli
the next Sabbath morning had not a
woman’s wits fixed op a little scheme,
whereby tlie happy shepherd smacked
his lips over what he was lead to belieye
was iiis favorite coffee for almost a week
before tlie real article arrived. If it
wasn’t immagination that changed the
taste of (he common beverage I would
like very much to know what did.
*. *
The junior member of the new Pomer
set comity farming firm had a thrilling
adventure the other night. He had gone
out alone to hunt wild beasts, and had a
regular picnic toppling over lions, tigers
and an occasional hyena; but the fun
ended when he banged away at an old
hull elephant that wheeled and, with
trumpeting that could only be compared
in volume to Niagara’s roar, charged
down upon the intrepid hunter, who
dropped every tiling and made for tlie
nearest tree. It was nip and tuck but
(lie combination hanker and farmer
made it. The elephant gave tlie man up
the tree a wicked wink and commenced
butting. The third grand .butt brought
the terrified hunter to—his senses and
made him release the death grip he had
taken around one of the bed’s posts.
Tlie effect ofatteuding circuses on some
people is marvelous.
* **
But speaking about shows, why, I ac-knowledge
I’ve had a weakness for (hem
from childhood; but I didn’t get to tlie
iast one. The sight of “Uncle” Sam
Warden sitting at the entrance was too
much for my nerves, I gave tny comp-limentary
to a little fellow who had
failed to connect on under-the-eanvass
route, and went straightway, hence from
the grounds. It was not until tlie next
day Dial I learned that “Uncle” Samuel
was there as an (official and not through
any desire lie himself had of seeing tlie
solitary elephant. Of course, it maybe
only a false rumor, but I did hear that
Mr. Warden’s presence so excited “Un-cle”
Harry Jordan that the cashier had
to have his hair cut before his nerves
could he strung again.
The exact age at which a mule, “that
bird that wears its wings on tlie side of
its head," commences to kick has not
yet been ascertained by scientists; but
Dr. Fulton has narrowed the time down
to less than one day, and I guess that’s
good enough for all practical purposes.
Tlie doctor furnishes a statement, to
which, if it is doubted, he stands willing
to be qualified, to tlie effect that he is
the owner of one that backed out of the
stable when only 18 hours old and com-menced
kicking the bark off a cherry
tree in the yard. TIIK LOCNOKR.
12 BALLOTS TAKEN
BUT THE 24TH CONGRESSIONAL DIS-TRICT
DEADLOCK IS UNBROKEN.
(.'antltdiites Held and Kny Uveliongr Com-plimentary
Vote* anti the Conference
Adjourn* Until June
Tlie conferees to nominate a candidate
for Congress in the Twenty-fourth Con-gressional
district met in Pittsburg,
Thursday morning, for the second time,
and vainly trie i to make a nomination.
They convened in Select Council cham-ber,
Dr. Foster presiding. Secretary
MGJuitty began tlie roll call, and before
noon 12 ballots were taken, with 10 votes
each for Cox, Ray, Acheson and Reid.
In Die afternoon tlie conferees again met
and 12 ballots were taken, making in all
79, without any choice being made. The
afternoon work was done veiv listlessly,
most of Die gentlemen reading papers
while tlie roil was being called.
At Friday morning's session of tlie
conference, when tlie conyention, with
the same old result, worried along until
tlie J02d ballot was east, numerous sug
gestions were made of both a humorous
and serious nature of methods of over-eomingtliedifficiilty.
Mr. Ray proposed
to release Die delegates from instructions,
but it did not take: John F.Cox wanted
to refer Die nomination back to tlie peo-ple
of tlie district, while Col. Reid sug-gested
the jury plan of locking them up
on a boat and sail on tlie river until a
nomination was reached.
There was a little surprise for Messrs.
Cox mul Acheson when tho first ballot
was taken .Saturday morning, as it re-sulted
: Cox, 10; Acheson, 10; Reid, 18,
and Ray 2. Tlie next ballot was the
sani“. The 105th and 100th ballots re
suited as follows : Reid, 2; Cox, 10, Ache-son,
10, and Ray 1.8. Bui this was only
a little exchange of complimentary votes
between the Fayette and Greene con-ferees,
which did not amount to any-thing,
us ballots after that and until Die
112th was readied showed Die same old
four tens. The Allegheny and Wash-ington
county delegates did not avail
themselves of the opportunity extended
them to nominate either Reid or Ray.
Cox declared when the Is votes were
recorded first for Reid and then for
Ray, that he proposed to fight it out, and
die, if he must, in tho last ditch. Rob-ert
Downey, of Greene county, finally
moved that tho convention adjourn, to
meet in Waynesburg on June 11. There
was opposition to the proposed place of
meeting. The Fayette delegates wanted
Die meeting held either in Connellsville
or at Capt. Sam. Brown’s summer resort
in Fayette county. On account of the
lawyers’picnic in Allegheny county on
June 11, Mr. Downey consented to change
tlie date of the meeting to June 12. His
motion was then unanimously carried.
He then moved that they meet in
Waynesburg. A point of order was
raised that the motion was out of order,
tlie convention having adjourned. The
chair so decided.
There is a project on foot to have the
candidates meet and fix up matters. It
is evident from the feeling at the second
adjournment that it is impossible to
come to any understanding as things now
are. All the conferees are pledged to
their candidates from their several coun-ties,
and it is highly improbable that any
break would be made until tlie candi-dates
themselves consent to it. Several
of the conferees went to the candidates
and informed them that they would
have to fix matters up themselves or
they would take up some new eandidate
altogether. Mr. Cox expressed himself
as willing to have a conference with tlie
other candidates to try and agree on
somo plan of ending the deadlock. Col.
Reid said iie was willing to meet tlie
other candidates, and there is a strong
probability that g meeting of the candi-dates
will he lipid this week.
RUMORS OF A SHUT-DOWN
A GOLD HUNTER.
An Old Ht. Pleannnt Hoy Wlio 11a* Sprat
Twelve Years Hi the Dmiliir**.
Air. Charles Swartz dropped in at his
Aft. I’leasant home yesterday for the
second time in tlie twelve years he has
spent in western gold hunting and look-ing
hardly a day older than when ns a
boy he made things lively for Mt. Pleas-ant
teachers and his companions who
are now to he found in old married men
like liis brother Wes or gray-haired Bob
Goodman.
Charles left Alt. Pleasant twelve years
ago and for most ot that time lias made
Leadville, Col., his headquarters. About
three months during each summer he
lias spent in gold prospecting through
the mountains of that State, Arizona,
and New Mexico. Only last season lie
and a companion drove from Denver to
through to California, visiting all the
principal mining carps between and
traveling in the neighborhood of 1,200
miles. He has Die advantage of many
others engaged in the same business in
that lie is a painter and did well at his
trade wlieu the weather was too rough
for piospecting. Once when out on a
tour with Christ Overholt and Janies
L'ucaplier, Charley says, they had to
carry 800 pounds of provisions on their
backs over a mountain and that
•’Dntchy" Overholt walked right up the
steep wav with a barrel of flour.
Three years ago Charley struck it rich
in Die Holy Cross district, some forty
miles west of Leadville,and was prevent-ed
from making it pay handsomely on'y
by water that drove the miners from
Die vein. He still owns tiiis claim and
! believes that luck will yet come his way,
j and liia many friends here certainly
' trust that it may.
If tlie Prints ol Coke I* Not Speedily
vanrert From £1.
While Die price of coke kept tumbling
until tlie profitless dollar mark lias been
reached, it would seem, according to the
statement of an operator, that the cost
of production did exactly the opposite
and tho increase is now raceiving seri-ous
consideration at the hands of the
coke men. The producers’ expenses in
mining have been, it is claimed, almost
trebled on account of the ever increas-ing
distance the coal must lie hauled to
the surface. Another thing that adds to
the cost of coke making is that most of
the drift mines have been exhausted,
thus compelling tho use of a greater
number ofalw.-iysexpensiveshafts. This
lias become such a serious slate of af-fairs
to coke men that one of them aver-red
recently that prices of coke must
go up, or the majority of ovens will be
closed down very soon.
AROUND AND ABOUT.
Short Xol„s From AVeatinorMnnil unit the
Connflea Adjoining.
The Democratic primary election In
this county wilt he held on Saturday
next.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Campbell, of
Donegal, recently celebrated tlie 00th
anniversary of their marriage.
At the Instigation of Humane Agent
Cline, Robert Walter, of Seottdale, re-cently
paid 8!9 and costs tor abusing IDs
stop-son.
John Galliglier, aged 22 years, was
struck by the Oyster Express Friday
morning, at Johnstown, and almost in-stantly
killed.
The Grand Army post at Seottdale
gave a bean bake festival in tlie Grand
Central Opera House, Friday and Satur-lay
overlings last.
Tlie information for cruelty to children
inane by Humane Agent Cline against
Samuel Null, of Tarrs, cost the defen
dant $10 aud charges.
Large new brick-works will bo erected
at Eyerson by a company composed of
business men of that vicinity. Tlie
works will he large and employ many
men.
The pipingof the liorough of Oreens-bnrg
for water, it is said, will soon be
commenced. It is also rumored that the
reservoir will be constructed near
Stumptown.
Jesse King, ofSeottdale, was attacked
by highwaymen the other night and
robbed of a gold watch and his purse.
Samuel Walker has been committed to
answer for the offense.
Nicholas McCullough, of Unlontown,
died on Saturday of Bright's disease,
aged .">0 years. He was formerly a United
States storekeeper under Collector
Bowlin.
While twosonsof John Dins, of near
Bolivar, this county, were out hunting
Friday, one fired at a squirrel and hit
his brother, who died the same evening
from the effects of the shot.
The County Commissioners awarded
the contract for building tlie bridge at
Manor Friday morning to the Pittsburg
Bridge Company. Tlie other bridges
advertised will be let at a future time.
The Westmoreland Classisof the Re-formed
church closed its Delmnnt ses-sion
on Tuesday. The next annual
meeting will be held at Emanuel's
church, in Franklin township, this
county.
Johnston’s store, in | Saltlick town-ship,
near Seottdale, was robbed Thurs-day
night of$2:12 ill cash and everything
of value was consumed. Tho robbets
were pursued as far as Unlontown where
the trail was lost.
Tod Burns, tho young mail from
Everson who broke his leg while trying
to escape from an officer who had a
warrant for his arrest on a charge of il-legal
liquor selling, in the end gave his
captor the slip and is still at large.
E. Itaily Dawson, of Unlontown, who
is nearly 70 years old and wortli $10;»,000,
lias |nst surprised IDs friends by marry-ing
Miss Lizzie McGregor, ail indus-trious
domestic of about 40 summers.
They went to New York to have the knot
tied.
A gang of Hangarians, working on tlie
West Newtou pipe line, made a raid Sun-day
on an Adau’.slmrg farmer named
Jacob Errett, capturing hams, butter,
eggs, chickens and eatables. Some of the
Huns stood guard while tlie others did
the plundering.
The last gas well drilled by J. M.
Guffey Co., in the Indians Held, near
Cherry Tree, and which was reported to
be such a gusher, has been examined by
the company and found to be similar to
the 15 other wells drilled io that territory
—almost worthless.
Tuesday evening, at Irwin, Nicholas
Bracker and Matthew Smith engaged in
in alight over somo trilling dispute,
which will probably result fatally as
Smith was liiton the head several times
with some blunt instrument and has
concussion of the brain.
A treinenduous rain storm occurred
at Manor, Thursday afternoon, lasting
an hour and a hall'. It tilled the streets
with water four inches deep, covored
500 yards oftho railroad, flooded many
acres of land, washed away a bridge and
flooded a store at Westmoreland City.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
ANDTHE CASES DISPOSED OF
ING THE PAST WEEK.
DUR-Ainnlganmtecl
MaftH Meeting,
At the Seottdale mass meeting and
picnic, on Memorial Day, there were
addresses by Samuel Gouipers, Pres
ident of the Federation of Labor; Christ
Evans, of Ohio, and Secretary Mullen
amt President Richard Davis, ofthe Min-ers’
and Laborers’ Amalgamated Asso-ciation
of tlie Cnnnollsviile coke region.
Tlie speeches principally urged unionism
usthe order has been greatly weukened
within the last six months. Mr. Gouipers
j held that arbitration would, in all cases,
i be accepted; he is greatly opposed to strik-i
ing, In the lftft yard foot race at the pic-nic,
John Gru.nlev, El. Hickey and
i John Hopkins were Die winners respec-tively
of Die first, second and third pri
zes, ten, seven ami three dollars. Mickey
I is from Mt. Pleasant and tho other two
from Seottdale.
Seottdale’. Water Coin puny Organized.
Nathaniel Miles, as treasurer of the
company that intends supplying Scott-dale
with water to be brought from the
Mt. Vernon ore mines, has already col-lected
10 per ceut. of tlie capital stock,
which is given as $10,000, and work will
be begun on the plant as soon as a char-
I ter can be secured. The company is
! composed of Thomas Tennant, John
! Brennan, PeterS. Loucks.D. P. Pershing,
j Joseph K. Stauffer, AheC. Overholt and
Nathaniel and G. K. Miles. Thomas
Tennant is president and Harry Taylor
secretary. •
Thomas Crow was sentenced at Somer-set,
on Wednesday, to twelve years in
the penitentiary for assaulting his 15
year-old daughter. James Wiley, .fas.
Murphy aud Joseph Wilson, three
young men convicted of burglary, got
each three years’ imprisonment.
A company composed of Seottdale
business men has been formed to drill n
gas well betwoen that place and Ueagnn-towu.
If the company is successlul, a
pipe line will be run to Seottdale, and
the price of supplying gas greatly re-duced.
Many claim that tlie Southwest
Natural Gas Company’s charges are ex-orbitant.
The committee appointed lor the pur-pose
has seloeted as the place for the
State Camp of the Young Men’s Chris-tian
Association, Bald Eagle Island, on
the Susquehanna, twenty-live miles
north of Harrisburg. It contains eight
acres. The camp will be opened on July
17 for one month.
The Fayette Fuel Gas Company lias
let the contract for piping the llow at
the Rider well to Unioutown to the
Chester Pipe <fc Tube Company, of
Philadelphia. Over $20,090 of the $24,000
required to betaken by the citizens lias
been subscribed. Work will begin at
once.
Tlie McKeesport and Bellevernon
Railroad Company is prepared to begin
work at Reyuoldton, opposite McKees-port,
and is only delayed by a difficulty
in securing the rights of way through
Captain Benjamin Coorsin’s property.
Iudeimiity bonds incases of exhorbitant
damages demanded by farinors are being
filed.
Engineers employed by tlie South
Pennsylvania Railroad Company are
surveying routes west of Bedford. At
tliesame time the Pennsylvania is sur-veying
a proposed route of eighteen
miles connecting Die Bedford division
and the main line, running parallel to
the Huntingdon A Broad Top railroad,
which, It is rumored, will be built If
work is begun on the South Penn,
Evll-IJoerft Koninl entity Dtil-lng I hr
Criminal Term Iti ci lv^SnitriiNr From',
III* Honor .fudge Hunter.
Tn the case of Jesse Dlcken vs. Harry
F. Seanor, to determine tlie ownership
of a house, the jury found verdict in fa-vor
of the plaintiff.
In Die case of White, Fussier A: Kelly
ys. Robert Gant, tlie jury found verdict in
favor of the defendant for SI(10 damages,
to be released from tlie payment of Die
$100 note and plaintiffs to pay all costs.
The defendant, some six years ago.
bought a self-binding machine from the
plaintiffs for $200. witli a guarantee.
The hinder not working satisfactory, Mr.
Gant refused to pay tho balance ot$100 due
for which lie had given his note, and tlie
company sued with tlie above result.
The defendant eonfessed judgment in
favor of the plaintiff for $108.16 in tlie
case of Daniel Williams vs. John Guffey.
Under the instructions of the court,
the jury in the ejectment, ease of Caro-lina
Dusliane el. ill. vs. Joseph ilam-et
ai. rendered a verdict in favor of the
plaintiff.
The defendant won in the ease of
Lewis Klingensmith et. ux., vs. tlie Char-tiers
A'alley Gas Company. The plain-tiffs
had sued to recover d images to their
property from the pumping of a well
being put down by the defendant com-pany
on an adjoining lot.
The following cases were continued
tor cause: Cross slander suits between
J. B. Andrew and W. H. Gross, G. W.
Williams vs. Gallagher's executors, et. ah,
Wm. Williams vs.same, lbiquesne Dairy
Co. vs. H. J. Fulmer it Co., K. L. and D.
W. Brown et al. ys. David I’atton Ctrl,
Walker, Dnnlevy & Bro. vs. W. A. Flohr
& Co., D. G. Andrews vs. Albert A. An-drews,
J. B. Andrews vs. R. G. Love.
Seottdale Co-operate Association vs. R.
G. Leepcr, et al, Peter Williams vs. the
township of Mt. Pleasant, O. B. Robert-son
vs. \V. A. Ixifer. et ux. Simon Bald-win
vs. David Kniiklo, Levi PortserI
ex’r. vs. Welty McCnllogh, administrator,
township of Allegheny vs. I!. Pinkerton,
Z. Wainwright A Co. vs. J. K. Shoema-ker
et ux.
PUNISHMUST KOI! Till! KIIRIXOi
On Saturday afternoon His Honor
Judge Hunter dealt out punishment as
follows to defendants, who had been
found guilty during criminal court:
Wm. Stillwagon, the youth who had
disturbed a religions meeting at Bridge •
port by threatening to whale Die pastor,
was given tlie costs of prosecution and
two months to tlie workhouse.
Samuel Johnston, Die Spring Garden
colored man who was found guilty of
carrying concealed weapons, got off witli
the costs and four months to the work-house.
Frank Fullerton, tho M\ Pleasant
turkey thief, will spend llirce months in
the Greensburg jail and pay all costs.
Samuel Best, the Irwin man who had
entered a plea of guilty to having at-tempted
to assault his step-daughter,
goes to the penitentiary for two vests
and must pay the court charges.
Jacob I .suffer had pleaded guilty to
haying stolon a set of harness from
Daniel McQuaid and the court let him
off with six months to Die workhouse
aud costs.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gradler, notorious
Standard citizens who had been found
guilry together on no less than seven
counts for illegal liquor selling,
were given doses as follows: Mrs.
Gradler on her fours got $109 line on
each, costs on all four and sixty days to
jail on each of Diree. Frank on his
three counts gut $100 lino on each, costs
on all and a total of 120 days to jail.
Isaiah Brown and II. Bailey, the
two men who confessed to having stolen
Mr. Durstine’s meat, in East Hunting-don
township, were given each three
months to the workhouse and costs of
prosecution.
COAL AND COKE.
VarlOHM Item* Gathered fra in ilia SHI*
roiiiidtni; Work*.
Seven employAM of the Oliphant Coke
Works, it is said, have been (Uncharged
lor not working on Memorial Day.
The minors of the Clearfield coal le-gion
are holding immense meetings to
denounce the company store system of
paying wages in vogue in that section
among large operators.
The Heda employes struck Friday
against a 10 per cent, reduction in wages,
but tho trouble was settled by labor offi-aud
tho men went back to work yester-day,
accepting, it is said, a HI per cent,
reduction.
►Superintendent .1. U. DyBart resigned
his position at the Standard works oft he
H. C. Frick Company, on Saturday, and
will take a month's vacation before
taking tho general management ol the
Ckartiers Block Coal Company's affairs,
Mr. Hubert Ramsey has now the Stan-dard
siiperimendoiioy the position of
Superintendent of M ines, which he lor-merly
held, having been dispensed with
by the company.
A Well Drserved Compliment.
George N. McCain, one of the best
known and most popular newspaper
men in Pittsburg, loaves the Dispatch
this week to accept a flattering oiler
front the Commercial Uascttc. Mr, Mo-
Cain will act as traveling eorrospomleut
for the ('ommct'ciul <Saz*stte during tlie
oresidential campaign, attending both
national conventions in that capacity.
As an all around correspondent Mr. Mc-
Cain hits few equals in the state.
hneff rre8n.
Mr. linylc llaVHitng up Again.
Saturday’* Deiimomiic primaries in
Fayette county wore very quiet, and but
a light vote .vus polled. Only niesg.r
returns have been received, but enough
to indicate the nomination of Stewart,
Doonau and Beatty for assembly, Mc-i
tusker lor jury eomniins*mar, ' • old lor
poor house director, and tiial the Boyle
slato for congressional delegates went
through. Tho Boyle men claim to have
carried a considerable majority of the
central committeemen*
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nnnnwl Hint thoro hail been attempt to
Stull' the ballot bos. Thoro was giont
excitement for a lime, but Bishop How-man
restored order by threatening to
clear the galleries. Then tic rebuked the
delegates, and asked them if they thought
limy were in a political convention.
The llishop made a serious hut natural
mistake. N'o such scene of di-order as
he was called upon to quell would have
occurred in a political convention. Suit-pose,
lor instance, that some of the
"hlioys” who run tlie political machine
Imd wanted to -tnlVtlm ballot box at a
primary against their kid-glove oppo-nents.
Does any one imagine that they
would have been so foolisli as to put only
one bogus ballot in the box, and he
caught at that? They would have had
enough votes counted to bury their op-ponents:
and, what Is more, no one
would have ever been the wiser.
The advice we wish to give our Meth-odist
friends is this: If they want to
stuff the ballot box at the next confer-ence,
let them go through the prelimin-ary
training undorsome politlal machine
lender in this city. It will take only a
short time to make them experts, and
they will then be enabled to elect theii
candidates for bishoprics without any
great annoyance or trouble or danger of
being found out.—AVie l or/' Slur.
EXCHANGE ETCHINGS. W. C. T. U.
FOR GOO AMD HOME AND NATIVE
LAND.”
If* (.oori NfWii
Din I rHvllli? Enterprise.
lielva Lockwood lias been nominated
by the E«|Ual Rights party for the PresI- |
iluiicy. When she in elected everybody it ■ mi v-. Mission* -Trniprrnuc
will have their equal rights. lll'H
TUESDAY, UNI
THE AUDITOR GENERALSHIP.
Governor Beaver lias acted promptly
and well In appointing an Auditor Gen-eral
to till the vacancy caused by the la-mented
death of Colonel Morris. The
public journals throughout Eastern
Pennsylvania which are in sympathy
with (Inventor Beaver spoke with almost
unanimous voice In favor of Thomas Mc-
Cainant, of Blair county, long the Chief
Clerk of the olllce, and often acting Aud-itor
General under all administrations
and confessedly the host equipped man
for the position, and liis appointment
will he generally approved.
There was a peculiar responsibility
resting upon the Governor in tilling the
Auditor General’s olllce because of the
fact tlint tie lias thus practically indicated
the candidate of his party to pass the or-deal
of the people in November; and
another special responsibility arose from
the fact that it was most essential to ap-point
a successor to Colonel Norris w ho
not only fully understood hut would
resolutely carry out his policy in relation
to alleged unpaid taxes to the State. It
is claimed that there are from $1,500,000
to $2,000,000 dtte the < ommonwealth
from corporations under existing laws,
and the late Auditor General had just
perfected his plan of procedure before his
death.
If the taxes claimed are due to the
treasury, no modification of the tux laws
by the next Legislature would impair
the claim; and It is due alike to the State
and to its faithful financial otllccr wlm
died in his harness to have his policy
fully tested. There is yet great popular
unrest because of the failure of the new
tax bill of the last Legislature, and it
would be a most unwise and dangerous
political policy to put anything but the
most earnest and clllcicnt worker in the
Auditor General’s olllce at this time.
Governor Beaver has evidently appre-ciated
the situation, and lie has met every
reasonable expectation in the selection of
a successor to Colonel Norris,—Philadel-phia
Times.
JOURNALISM IN COLLEGES.
The faculty of Cornell have decided to
make an experiment next year which
will bo watched with unusual interst
They propose to embody in their cur-riculum
a course of instruction in prac-tical
newspaper work. This will bo un-der
the direction of Professor Urninnrd
G. Smith, w ho was ior many years on
the stall'of the ,V. 1". Sim, and wasjustly
regarded as one of the ablest of the
younger men in New York journalism.
Cornell is peculiarly fortunate in having
a practical man like Professor Smith to
begin the work, for the combination of
ail ex-editor, an ex-reporter and a college
profeseor is by no means common.
The plan that Professor Smith lias
adopted U simple, and when carried out
by a man who has had his large prac-tical
experience, should meet with suc-cess.
After a series of preliminary lec-tures,
Mr. Smith proposes to organize
his pupils like the city stall ol' a great
journal. The men will then he set to
work reporting events occurring about
the city or university, which they will
he obliged to write up in the same way
that they would foranewspapor. Tltelr
reports will he edited and criticised in
the class by the Professor and put in
shape for the printer.
Good journalists are not to be made by
a course of college lectures tmy more
than gaod civil engineers, hut there is no
reason why there should not be as
thorough a course of preliminary in
strnction ior the one profession as for the
other. Tho young men will get a good
foundation for tlioir practical work later
and one that ought to he of great ser-vice
to them, which is, we suppose,
about all that Professor Smith expects
to accomplish.
The day has passed when college
graduates are regarded with suspicion
in newspaper olllces. On the contrary
fully one-third of the men holding
editorial and executive positions on the
city dailies arc men of classsical train-ing,
and the proportion is constantly in-creasing.
METHODISTS AND POLITICS.
We arc afraid that the good Methodist
brethren who are attending the Confer-ence
at the Metropolitan Opera House
are not as skilled politicians as they have
been led to believe.
There lias been a great deal of talk
during the Conference about the lobby-ing
and wirepulling that the delegates
have been Indulging in—particularly in
advancing the chances of their favorites
for bishoprics. This was done, oil the
whole, with a considerable amount of
discretion, so that no particular scandal
was excited. There was a bombshell
Don't Net cl Answer*.
Unlontown News.
Somebody should notify the high
tarilf organs that abusing “Bill” Scott,
as they are pleased to call him, don't,
answer Mr. Scott’s forcible arguments.
II IN To llu Hoped Not*
Greensburg Press.
The Mills hill Is being patched up by
the Democratic caucus. It will he con-sidered
section by section, and para-graph
by paragraph. It may not he
recognized when the last paragraph Is
reached.
The People Have ••t ailed.**
Pittsburg Press.
The lutes' from tin; South IVnn rail
way enterprise is Hint trains will In*
running between I*iiii:i<1clplii.i and the
west, through Pittsburg in is mouthy
This come* from Director Ilaer, and he
assured the-person to whom he imparted
the information that it was no “bluff.’*
Protect ton f «• Hoy*-
Cortland. iMulut*.
• and Poll-book
at.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
HI. Peter’s Reformed C’lmreli-Sor\ lees id (
10:30 a in. find 7:30 p.' n». Sunday school at,
0:00a in.' »'. It. Kernel*, I’D lor. J
Drilled Presbyterian Church- Services Huh- ■
hath morning and evening at the usual horns. '
Sunday .school a! :*• ;l. :ii#
Howard M. Wilson, Pastor, i
Presbylt r a’.i Churrli.- Si r\ i. e> , \or,\ ' to
j day morning ul lu;3'J, und evt Sunday j
M itin p t 7:30. Hmitlav selmol nitii la a. HI.
H. !**. Killed, Pastor.
William
DulilMi JO
I’ROI-'RSSIONAL CARDS
c I- M 1 KSII, M. I).,
I PHYSICIAN INI) SUUGKUN.
Glliccttnd reaidenco, West Main Street.
Mt. l'leaHiiut, Pa.
RAILROAD SOHEDUI • „s
T. PI.PAS tNl AM' ISItUA I 1
D1
This column is conducted by the Woman
Christian Temperance Union of Mt. Plcnsivnt,
Regular meetings &t\, aI p. m.
on tlu* 1st and !»d Thursday of each
month in Y. M. <’. A. Hall.
Trinity Lutheran Church.—Services ever> orJ 10A J A I 0111
**.v.M-,{jI M Joy MMAli M.
,li JOHN HEISINGKIi,
PHYSIO-MEDICAL
PIIYSK IAN & SI KG EON.
Gillen filo Glmrcli street. Air. I'lcj.iim,
PA.
A NATIONAL BANK BILL.
Mr. Plumb, or Illinois, has Introduced
a hill in tiic House of Representatives foi
refunding the public debt and amending
the National banking laws as a possible
way out of our present dilemma which
threatens the destruction of the best
banking system ever devised. As the
framer has embodied mills hill some ol
the suggestions made by leading finan-ciers
of the country, including those ol
the venerable John Thompson, of the
('base National Bank of New York, the
measure is deserving of general attention,
and if Congress eottld got lime I" con-sider
such a matter, it might prove a
benefit to the entire country if lids hill
or something like it should bo adopted.
Mr. Plumb’s measure proposes the is-sue
of bonds hearii.g interest at the rale
of two anil a half per rent, payable in
coin In fifty years, which are to he ex
elmngeahlr at their face value, with in
tcrest added, for GovelTiment currency,
National M ink notes, treasury notes ami
other obligations so redeemed are to bo
lestroved. Tho Secretary of the Treas-ury
Is also authorized to Issue treasury
notes in denominations ranging from $2
to $1,000, to he exchangeable for these
two and one-half per cent bonds. Nat-ional
batiks are to he permitted to use
these new bonds as security for their
circulation; and all the Currency they
may reeeive for the bonds they now
have on deposit is to be exempt from
taxation except to the extent of onc-lialf
ol one per cent, and the fund real-ized
from this tax is to he allowed to ac-cumulate
in the treasury to supply any
deficiencies in the assets of a falling
National hank, being practically an in-surance
fund. It is further provided
that the National debt shall he kept at
one thousond million dollars, as the
basis Tor the circulating medium of the
country.
BLIND TO FACTS.
The Central Labor Union, ofNew York
City, still maintains its boycott on all
pool beer and, although the strike lias
manifestly proved a failure, the organi-zation
continue to hopes it will end suc-cessfully.
The results of this action are
that the brewers arc exposed to some an-noyance,
but the real snlferers are the
striking workmen, who will not he taken
hack until the boycott is raised.
The success or failure of a strike can
be determined, in nine cases out of ten
within a week aftev its inception. In en-tering
a contest with capital, labor must
of necessity act quickly If it expects to
win. When striking workmen, however,
discover that they have miscalculated
their strength or that of their employers,
they should he equally ready to ac
knowledge the fact to themselves, and
make the host terms they can after tltelr
defeat,
The case of the brewers illustrates the
folly of persisting in a strike after it has
practically tailed. The breweries are
all running with nearly, if not quite, full
complements of men, and the action of
the Central Labor Union will cause
large number of strikers to lose their
places permanently.
The engineers, firemen and switchmen
of the Burlington road have just been
guilty of a similar blunder when they
decided by a nearly unanimous vote to
continue their strike. Outside of their
own ranks their strike is almost forgot-ten.
The passenger and freight trains
of the Burlington ar running regularly
and if the company is hindered by the
inexperience of its employees, it is not
apparent on tho surface.
It would be hard to understand how
the men can deceive themselves about
facts so apparent as these if we did not
have a similar case right before our eyes
in the brewers’ workmen.
Air. Stott*. HIRII Holier.
Uniontown Stan lard.
The tail If debate was characterized by
ome notable speeches hut only one
orator was honored with the presence ol
the mistress of the while house. Only
the Erie statesman, the lion. Win. L.
Scott, employer of the $10,000 French
:ook, could enjoy that proud distinction.
Wise- Workmoil.
iUslmrg l’.*l.
It is notable that the reduction being
made everywhere in the wages of iron
workers are accepted without revolt.
That.manufacturers could afiord to p'li
heir old wages by cutting in o:i the!
wn excessive prod's is prohalVe, let
still the workers act the part of wisd oi.
accepting the cur and keeping a
work, j list now.
What FellI ills are "0 nl< of.
’onneltsville I’om-ier
The G •neral ( 'inference of the .Meth-elist
Episcopal church adopted an order
I election which provided first, for
bishops; second, agents of the book con-cern
; third, general secretaries; fourth
editors. This order wits probably ar-anged
In the belief that the material
left over from the manufacture of hish-
>ps, agents and secretaries, is good
enough to make editors of,
Would TJim man Anepl!
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Will tlie old Democratic wheel-horse,
Thurman, consent to piny the part of
tail to the Democratic kite? He said
long ago that lie was out of politics and
would accept no olllce, but it is now
assorted he has given his consent, to take
second place on the ticket with Cleve-land.
Should this take place It will pre-sent
an anomaly in our anomalous
American politics, where all sorts of
queer combinations are to he found.
Fur the Prudent Young ,)Iitn.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
A New York girl with an abnormal ap-petite
Avns recently discovered by a sur-gical
operation to have four stomachs.
The doctors say- that it is not the only
case of Its kind, but that big gluttons of
history as well as those of the present
day undoubtedly had, and have, an extra
stomach or two to accommodate the large
quantity of food eaten. Now that the
strawberry and ice-cream season is open
the prudent young matt will show this
item to his girl friends and save some
money.
A Wonderful Discovery.
’Ittsbnrg Dispatch.
What a glorious thing it will be for
the United States Navy if the newly
discovered material, allitlosc a product
of eocoanut liber, is found as available as
its Inventors claim. It is claimed that a
vessel built ot this material will not sink
even though shot, through and through
in many places, the clastic fiber auto
matically closed up tho holes as soon
and as fast as they arc made, and leav-ing
the ship nearly as good as new, A
coating of this material judiciously ills
trihuted ever the rheumatic and rickety
frames ol some of our men-of-war would
save millions in appropriations nml ren-der
our gunboats as invulnerable as the
sea terrors of Great Britain or Italy.
Speed the day of allulose I
lil'M AS A lIRI.miOt'S AIIKXCV.
A Idgli license law is needed fur Af-rica,
Something higher is needed for cer-tain
New England tinders who are
sending out a cargo—allot Iter one, in (net
—of rum to that country. The lielnioiis
ness of the transaction Is not a parti, lc
lass if an associated snpph ol u ,e - amt
other religions r •ailin', u -i I'- i IM-IV
of missionaries, does gn tiling at In
value lime ‘‘to take the euss i IT.” On
the whole, It must he admitted that the
better way would he to deal wi ll ilie
traders, and not wait tor a Brooks law,
for the dusky continent. New England
rum and missionaries anil tracts may ta-il
pretty go-id mixture in the estimation
of the commercial world, but it is not
what Africa needs. In truth, Africa
would he better olF without the mis-sionaries,
the tracts and the religion that
is being sent if she must take them with
the accompanying vices. The rum
which lets for a mi nb.ir of years been
shipped to Africa Inis proved an tin
mixed curse, and enlightened Chris-tianity
everywhere should rise up In
forbid the traffic. Any number i f
missionaries, any amount, ol tracts anil
billies will not take the curse otf. Af-rica’s
cry is, save us from tlie civilizi
lion Unit sends us these tilings mix"il
villi New England ruin! Too vc-se
ilmt Is about to depart from I) >a:ou tiin-
■leigliieil, according to a cute Yankee
lightning calculator, will take o.lt an
ml Mint of rum wo eh, >v i i i" I t -ed to
i.ipples, will reach tli MI I II nr of 500,-
i; I, HO, with a drunk in every tipple.
Any one can run out tlie subject In his
own mind.—Pittsbury Times,
An (fiiio newspaper rises to remark
that “tlie political Prohibition party-passes
a good many resolutions, hut lias
never yet succeeded as a party in ac-complishing
much in the way of shut-ting
up the saloons.” The “political
Prohibition party” was the only one
which “as a party” sent its representa-tives
to Michigan a year ago, to work in
the amendment campaign, and when
through its exertions and the devoted
efforts of the W. C, T. U. the amendment
was voted in, another party “counted It
out.” Then that party, fearing the veil- i
geance of the people, and having an |
overwhelming majority In the legisla-ture,
grudgingly passed a local option
law, under which the prohibitionists car-ried
.‘!ti comities for their cause. Said
party being between two tires, however,
had managed to have the local option hill
so bunglingly wounded that now, after
all this anti-license work, the law lias
been declared unconstitutional and the
saloons are re-instated. A good-enough
temperance party did this, and the
Christian voters of Michigan are only
beginning to have their eyes opened to
see it.
The Democratic State < Convention met
recently at Harrisburg and adopted a
platform, in most respect as good as its
Republican predoeessor, and very simi-lar.
There is a plank in it strongly fa -
voring Home Rule in Ireland, but none,
no, not one word for Home Protection in
Pennsylvania.
Protection for what ? For copper and
steel;
Protection for wool, for beef nml for vent;
Protection for yarn, for dry goods and toys;
Protection formates, but none for tlie boys,
Protection for tin, for hairpins and wax.
Protection for Iron, for toottipicks *,»Tid tacks
Protection .ior gum, for brushes and combs;
Protection for lace but none (nr the homes.
United Hrcllircn int'lnlsi — iSrrv!ct>sn! I■ i: is
a. in. amt Tain n m. Class meeting nt aa
m. .Sumtny school at 2 ],. ni. Vnnng|>o,.|,ic
meeting at tia'tOp. m. .i I. L. Ueslcr. t'n-tor.
First linptlst Clinndi.-tservic s ol |«::M a.
in and 7:::n p. m. Sunday selioot nt a n.m
Preaching nt Alice mines I ui-,ta> al 7:.' ,■
m; l'csscmcr, Tlmrsdnv, 7:7* p, in; West
Overton, Ft iday,7::in p m. Mission SnnMay
i selioot at F.ast End, .Uorowood, Alice, U,■-se-iner
and West Overton >u gain p m
X. I.. Reynolds, Paslor.
Moth,dlst Episcopal Church .'cr.lccs 10
It):*) a. 111. and TOD p rn, Sunday selmol a.
On. m. Young people s m -oiiug al'baa p. m.
T. F. Pershing, I nstor.
A M. E /.. Clmrcto—Serviei , on Sunday
utlOiSoa.m nml7;:!Up no Sunday scmiol
nt 2 p.m. Prayer inecilng Wcdnes.t.iy , v. n-
I tag ni earn (t. vV. lewis, 1'nsior
Chun n ol I toil Services at 1(0:0 n. no amt
7 p. no every s.itjtoulo A Iso services at Hun-ker
11III toe secn.nl unit nmrth saliOal hs ol
each mom Ii ul data p. no sunOni Ii se.iooi thl.'i
ioin.nl Iti-It.el and 2:a1 to no nt liunkei Hill
every Sunday All Invited.
ltev. T. Woods, Pastor,
ALLEGHENY. DK* HIDE.
V E! Eltl N A It Y SURGEON.
()Ti •• 'J I » Maili ► »i i l M t. I'ionsi .
Wo "re now lining itji ’’ iili l-’A 1,1.
GOODS iu every h. |i tr'men'.
Newest |>"nlttflions in
I’
!\l
nnssengi-r trains wilt nrrivi* ami o<*i. rf imru
ilt” Ncvcriil Mint Ion n* fulli.u* fHtfin<lnrr!
*•'». I II. \ „ V| J , ,
Ml. i'lcnfeiint - iii'ii |i:»7 2D
StmtHi* i* .»• 17 ui*J> | 0)7 Ii
fr«»n BrhlcfO r I in !i ,•-» 7 1 \
I \\ 1 ivurton .» •).-> ill .*{ 7 I,
I 1 V*TM*H I G' u ,i. A J.*, . 1 |
I n list man 7 -*,! It t.-. { 1 *,
! Flroiul FortI !; 1 H .».» 1 MI 0 l»
. .. .
ITOI TM - . . • r. * 4
l .MI. Ult-.iMiiii . .. . » 1» . : i
Mitum r. u > . j A *j.»
Iron 1'rlilg** » ♦«. . . M
• U «‘Mt nvcrlon •*'. .
l-*v orson a all n t 7 i
| linstiiinn ..
man.... .
r« HU r.irtl
1 071 .(il
t.\ j»ru*
»H*hiK opGiual dally 'Vo have 11 lln<* llmi
:.i* t iiuiiasln nil ’lit* ile.MrnUle 00lor* in
IMniils, su-lpe*. .MOIIUNI nml MIXIMI style*,
u.Mtl \ nlu •. Mill nil wool suiting 1,’loiliN :r»c.
'»•_* In HnitDigs/iOi*, O'ici mid Tii*. ."it in. 1 liiNict*
; I tills aM<t si'rlpo* nml I'ItimlniiHnl 1’l.iUls al.
••I.*•", V1 L'tiimlf • ll-wuol I'.l.tuk IleialH-taut
TV a ml >1.0) Si I ; Warp ifonrlo |.i,*fl.iM
.1 Mini. Special burgaliiH in itlaclc« nsInmTcK
nt.'jOo, '0« ami 7V. NovelllcH in itlack Gooils
at low prkvH.
SECRET SOCIETIES. Co'.creil Dress Silks
I.O.O. F.
Moss Hose Lod No.'ISO, I.O. <). F., nieetn
c\eiy lliuiMia> evening 111 oad Lcliown'
• up Blnck DressIks, Wc up IHnula-
1 mas. 7-*a* ami sT'Yit* Our unenunleJ Imrualns
In Dimk nigral ns m M.*J*» ami tfl.nua
yard.
Hull. JOHN A. HliiiV l*;Ni
KN1UUTSOF UONUll.
M. MCCON A U(ill V, M. I
1*11 YSI ! W tK: HUKGKOW :
a iii nt* f«Mlnc! at the «»ltl »illii*t* v «■ aU*tl hy | DPiitbuifc
.1. «V; ii. .McCotiH'luhv. t" lift<*tnl to PM- —
iet>*'i«»iiHl rail- promptly >0 hil It urn. 1 iheUaltlnn
I 9*2" p m, stopping at*.MrKeespurl at
Newton 1 . » onto llsville H J ' mill*. .1
Ia*rLMtonj ri,.'v1 I a 10.» in, U asli'iUfton 7 *Jn il III, Oaltln • • !"
AllOilNI*. A . 1 LAW. The 1'itl sl'ii lit; Kxpirsh lenM’H DHMII on ..1
Ullii'e— Hit.'liman Block. Uhureli street I? op III stopping at .. Usl.lngton ;i .., tan,
lour south of -Hu,lire Stanti'cr’s Of-! ir!u n.'!*"■,’”1 >«v"'*"” 1 "« ">• ’*“■'
nice, Mt. Pleasant, Fa Cullcptiolis ai i tie TI.rmtgl. Matt leaves Pittsburg ni MJOa
ini II t 9 *!•» H in i’t
VII»K nI la Ii n> • 'c
o - . -. , ,, - , , -. .. lenvoh Daltii’io'e
Koal etslHie amt ; oiistnn aj/PHl. 1-12-tf j *t I «k»» m, .* topping »»t W aslilnjjton at n
tin. at llioiul Ford nt ‘ 11 p in, urrl vh.jf ilk
| Pittsburgut » H'p in. 'I lose trains connect
at Lockwood with train* to ami from *>.*nu*i*-
set and JoniiKtown, at Hyndmau with trains
to and Iroin Bedford, at Garrett with trains
tfiand from Berlin.
i)RI:SS GOODSjs.Ol
one
flice,
snceialtv. Snociill atfention given to the i stoppt"Z at Brontl Ft,
prepHratioti of U*«ul paporx ol all kinds, j Ht l( |.-> p m. Brtni-ninfc, it
AHTIN N. STAUFFER. M JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Ollice. Ilitclniiiin’s ItltD’k (‘hrm li vtive1
... ...*orfrom Alain. St. Ait. Ulensant, Da.
Collection.- promptly attended to.
JOSEPHI A. Mt CURDY,
ATTORNEY
l’1 ‘ - — * CiUKKNSIU l.i UA
OFFICE—No. 135 N*Till Main
four d "*n» Hb-**’e Con**1 ILnme.
Mt. IMeasiint l-otlg.* No. K. o! II..
meets alternate Monday evenings iu Odu t >;,.w rnlorings nml Designs. T.ipc olcs at „ „ .. *
Vr Bod.' 1 MI**»I*|S. * I IHl. New Itugs. « »tl ( \ C* l .U 1* 1* I . M . 1>.,
Cloths. .Vials and idlings at poj uHr liuuivs. | J # IMIY^lCI \N A SCROK(»N.
i Olllce cornet Chni’cli and M*i’c *t,*ccls
'New TT«' i Pali larpets
h i lJUWN Hull. ,)AS. itKAUUiA K, Kep.
HO V AL A ROANU Al.
I)KNNSYLV \ NI A It \ ILKOA D.--Train* o'
t 11’“ Deli n sv | vania Kail road leaveihcsev
oral slatloiih in this county on ai.d HII«*
Noveiober litli, IKS7 as follows.
KASTW van. I WEMTWa Kir,
J, ?!
1{. A Lodge No. a'.rj ineels alternate Mon-day
evening-*' «»i odd Feitows’ ludi.
j. A. I A i All, Sec’y
A. (). K. ol M. 0.
Mt,. Pleasant Castle No. DO, Ancient order
Kuignt-ioi .uisile Omni, nac.s uiterm.io
Saturouy eV’eiinigs in Laid i Vlious nun.
JOHN A. Kl.MKii, li. S.
w. A. K.
ftoberl Warden Post No. 10**» G
Mt I Mr c-int . IV.
! i PV< or l adle
StOllMI.I
New Tull Gloves and Hosiery.
It 'l J , 1 For 1 miles, Misses and Children CORSETS
Zueit, A.ijumiit, meets In Odu i vuo'ws'' Hal!1 in all the inoat approved almpeii, und tlie lnr-tneiy
thiui e rtu.iy ul eucu moniti [ zest im--i,|
J, O. U. A, M.
Lugttn Gouncth No. 115, Junior Order United
Amen, MU .Mechanics, meets on the second
UII.I lourtti Wednesday evenings of cacti
muntil, at 7 o,clock, in udd Fellows' J lull.
A. if. MVKRH, Councilor.
A. O. U. W.
Eodge of Ancient Order United fWorkmen
meets ill Odd Fellows’ Hall every alternate
Friday of tlie month,
A. N. STAUFFER, Sec’y.
K of P.
Hylas ljodge No. -171, Knights of Pythias,
insets every Wednesday evening in tv. o! P.
Hall. V A. HHEKKICK. K. of K. and S.
(FULLjiMILLINERY)
In the two cities, at lowest prices.
FLAN NELLS—Barred, Plain,Faney and full
skirting widths. Blankets all weights,colors
and sizes, at low prices.
Mail Orders Promptly Filled.
Mt* Pleasant Nurseries-
NEW LIVERY!
New Homs! Now VeMcles!
.T. E. Gibbs desires to announce to the
citizens of Mt. Pleasantand; vicinity that be
has opened new
LIVERY AND EXCHANGE STABLES,
In the rear ot the Gibbs House, West Main
street, where they will be pleased to see any-body
desiring livery service. Moderate rates
and first-class accommodations, stables open
at all hours. 10 17 83 ly
Apple Standard Pear, Dwarf Pear,
Plum, Cherry, Peach, Quince,
(■rape Vines, Strawberry Plants
Raspberry Plants,
Evergreens, Shrubbery,
Shade and Ornamental Trees
iu great variety at reasonable prices.
aiuHdrerry^by Uio^cUizeii or hundred. MYEBS, M’BDLLIH & M’GREW,
Lit. J. A. L0AR,
flRIsiDgliT X DENTisfO
Teeth Extracted Without Pain,
Pine Filling With Sold, Silver, &o.
A Specialty.
ARTIFICIAL TEETH
at the lowest prices, mounted on
any hind ofplate you may wish.
Vitalised Air Admimstergd !
All work guaranteed. Office three
doors East of U. B. Church.
J. E. GIBBS.
Something New !
In connection with otir Nursery and Green-house
business we have opened out,on C hurch
street,a
Seed and florist’s Store,
where we are prepared to furnish the old re-liable
Landreth’s Garden and Field Heeds in
large or small quantities, and Peter Mender
son’s Flower Seeds. Also all articles of mer-chandise
usually found in Horticultural and
Florists’ stores, such as
Plain and Fancy Flower Pots,
Hanginsr Basketo. Window Boxes,
Bracket Pots. Lawn Vases and
Garden Tools, Lawn Seeds,
and Lawn Fertilizers,
Flowering Bulbs and
Roots, Grape
Vines,
Shrubbery ami Hardy Roses in season for Shoo
planting. Also Fear, Plum Cherry amt other sampl
Fruit trees A great variety of
i* ■(
|i
A >1 A « I’ -1
IM1 I 17 Conem'I
i. M 11 John’wn
l) l« 11 U7 PJGONlneval
o:w 10 511 311 Florence
lb 34 f10 51 13 311 I .ftcol Ie
0 29 10 11 331 Lockpr’l
0 21 10 38 8 28 Bolivar
6 13 10 24 318 lnters’cu
6 08 HO i« Gray s
0 03 10 09 f309 Hillside
0 00 10 03 1300 Millwood
5 60 9 58
5 60 9 51
f5 47 f 9 48
5 42 9 43
5 35 9 84
f5 31 f 9 27 12 37
f5 24 1 9 18 12 32
5 10 8 38 2 22
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Manor
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Shnfton
Irwin
Larimer
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$3 40! $0 551 HI 00!Pittsburg
PM AM P MI.
Flag Station.
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oi:
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SOUTHWEST, PENN. RAILWAY.—on and
after November 18th, 1887, the|timeolpu»*
senger trains will be as follows:
PRACTICAL PLUMBERS,
Gas and Steam Fitters,
Natural : Gas : Fitting
A SPECIALTY.
Also dealers in all kinds of Gas Fixtures
for natural gas fires, including Logs, Tile,
Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Toys, Asbestos, Ac.
Also air moisture pots for grates For plumb-ing
but Ii tubs, »• liter closets, sinks, hydrants,
hot water boilers and cess pools the people of
Mt. Pleasant will do well by calling and get-
! ting estimates
All Work Guaranteed.
FIRST NATIONAL RANK.
OF MT. PLEASANT, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK $150,000.
OFFICERS:
H. W. STONK'V, HKNRY JORDAN,
President Cashier.
W. J. HITCHMAN, G. W. STONER,
Vice President. AsBls'tCashler,
DIRECTORS.
HENRY JORDAN, W. J. HITCHMAN,
H. W. STONER, WM. B. NEEI,,
J. C. C'ROWNOVI.R, Jos. R. STAl'EFER,
SAM’L WARDEN. DR. J. H.CI.ARK.
W. D. Mr1.1.IN
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled
THE MT. PLEASANT, BANK
Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Pa.
W. J. HITCHMAN - Cashier.
J. G. SHOPE, - Ass’t Cashier
Receives Current and Time Deposits.
Discounts Paper.
Collections made throughout the United
States
Drafts issued on England, Ireland, France.
Germany, etc., and a GENERAL BANKING
BUSINESS transacted. .
W. J. HITCHMAN,
W. B. NEEL,
J.C. CROWNOVER.
SOUTHWARD.
P M P M
AS
A M
$4 25 fll GO; $8 36
5 28 ~ 41 4,1
5 33
5 .’48
f 5 40
f 5 43
5 40
5 58
f 5 50
NORTHWAD
Pittsburg.
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2 43,
f 2 45!
f 2 47
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f 2 58 fl0 07 ... Hunker.
9 10 Greensburg.
9 40 E. Greensb’g
9 50 HuIf
f 9 52,Co’ty Home,
f 9 51 .Fostervllle..
9 57 Youngwood. 8 27 10 57
“ |8 19! 11062
A M
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8 40 11 08
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f 3 03 flO 12 ... Bethany...
3 00 10 15; Tarrs
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3 12 1 0 22 Stonerville..
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8 20 10 31 ...Hcottdale...
3 23 10 34; . Everson ...
f3 28! HO 37 Valley w'ks
1810 no 19
18 11 110 44
f 0 31 If3 30 flO 411 .Pennsvllle.
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Shop In McMillln <fc McGrew’s Can Factory
e room at Dr. Loar’s office, Main stree
FLOWED DESIG NS FOR SALE;—Rare Business Chaijce.
f.or Fes.ti1ve or.F..u..n..eralI occasions w... iI l11l bhne pnnu
up on short notice at reasonable rates. Or-ders
for Bouquets or baskets of llowers will i P'*ro«s towns In Western IVnnsy
receive prompt attention special cure will choice stock ol Drv Goods, Boots a
he given U. tills.I'urt m the business. I ******* »" ., "rr!rl‘J-.Vif.”!!
The peroifical traveller tins again been
in Maine, ttiis time from Wheeling, W.
Vn., and gives ns tlie result of his ob-servation
in Portland, Augusta, Bangor
and other large cities, the usual testi-mony
that “prohibition does not prohib-it.”
Evidence so persistent is sntisfac
torv in establishing one point not spe-cially
intended, namely, that laws to be
effectual must be enacted by a party
pledged to their enforcement.
THE NEW STATE REFORMATORY.
Tlie Pennsylvania Industrial Reforma-tory
at Huntingdon has been completed
and accepted by Governor Beaver on the
part of tlie Commonwealth. The act
creating tlie Middle Penitentiary district
was approved by Governor Hartranft,
.June 12,1878. Under this law a com-mission
was formed to locate tlie build-ings
and supervise their erection. The
first appropriation, made In 1878, was
for $10,000. .Subsequent appropriations
have increased this sum to $001,000, tlie
total cost of the buildings.
Tlie Reformatory, the erection of
which was begun in 1879 stands on tlie
south bank of tlie Juniata opposite Hun-tingdon
and occupies, with the necessary
outbuildings, ten acres of ground. It is
surrounded by a brick wall twenty-live
ieet high. Tlie buildings are fireproof,
lighted with electricity and contain 525
cells, each supplied with water from a
living spring twenty-eight feet above tlie
site of the Reformatory. The younger
criminals, only of whom there is a rea-sonable
prospect of reformation, arc to
to tins prison.
Prohibition imd McthoiliHin.
Philadelphia Tlmeu.
Prohibition or nothing is tlie Meth-odism
dictum on the liquor question, the
General Conference having passed a
resolution, which will become a part of
the revised discipline, opposing all
license laws and proclaiming as the
Methodist motto voluntary total alisti
nence as tlie true ground of personal
temperance and complete legal prohibi
tion of the traffic in intoxicating drinks
os the duty of civil governments. The
Methodists will now need to go home
and convert tlie entire population to
Methodism if they are to enlorce tlie
prohibition they advocate. The prohibi-tion
so far experimented with in this
country lias very clearly not been of the
Methodist kind, us it somehow has failed
to prohibit.
«*.
Wind Free Trmle DleniiM.
Pittsburg Times.
No tree trader will pretend that ills
policy would not bring down American
labor to tlie standard ot the cheapest for-eign
labor. Necessarily this would be
first logical result, and generally there is
tlie frankness to admit it. As a rule,
with the opening of our ports to foreign
articles would disappear tlie home-made
article. That or reduction of tlie wages.
There is no escaping tills. Tlie recon-struction
of manufactures and trade that
would follow tho substitution of free
trade for protection would be universal.
There would be no help for it. It
would take generations to equalize
tilings. Tlie standard would be tlie
lowest wages and cheapest living among
tlie competing countries. The present
generation of labor and manufacture
would be ground out of existence.
What in tlie corns, of time would take
the place of the present state of things,
who works to live that he may learn ?
Seventy-five thousand citizens of tlie
United States petitioned for the passage
of the I’latt Bill prohibiting liquor sel-ling
in the District ot Columbia, and
only nine thousand one hundred and
seventy nine persons signed petitions
against it, yet the Republican Senate
and the Democratic House would not so
much as consider the bill, but Imd it
smothered in committee.
In one of the most enterprising and pros-
Pennsylvunla, a
its RIHI Shoei
.J ifivmi m t IIIM Djirt, of the business, i uHri»t;u*t w»«n i-npri) CH- , amounting to
All desirable'kinds ofUreenhouse, Bedding $18,000. On account of tailing liealtb tlie
and Border plants will bo kept on bands or i owner will sell his stock and rent, his stand
supplied from our Greenhouses at the nur-i °oe of the very finest stands in the county
sBefrijrvomn/SSaannda Hiimill AAvveennuuee. i tcnoWpuislhaetdion10oyfeatorws.n oSvuecrh9,a00n0 oppBourstiunnesitsyeos-f
vCaaunaairyv oBxiriudos and Bird Cvaf^fes- ^Iscsuerldinomg aotfrfeardeede. staAbdldisrheessd, and Choice stand
Gold Fish, Fish Globes and Acquarlums.
Will be pleased to have you call either at
the nursery or at No. 319 Church street-
JOHN McADAMS,
Nurseryman, Seedsman and Florist.
Box 747. Beaver Falls. Pa.
PALESMEM
p 1 WANTED. |
I I Pushing, reliable men, to canvass ■
iltKWAKDEi) are those who read wfor NURSERY STOCK. Perma-*
J thliiand then aci; ihej’ wnl find hon-! nent employment guarani. ed. Salary and
arable employment that will not expenses paid. Apply at once, stating age.
take them from tlielr homes n,|(1 GLEX Bit
intiiilIDS, The pr<-fits are large and HOro for every
industrious person, many have made and are now
making several hundred dollar.! a ni nth. It is
easy fi r any one to make fr» and opwardb a day,who
is willing to work. Either sex. young or old: cap-tal
not needed; we start you. Everything new. .No
special abll ty required; you. reader, can do it as
well as any one. Write to us at '-lice for full partic-ulars,
which we made free. Addr.ss STfNS'M P*
CO.. Portland, Maine.
SALARY OR COMMISSION.
{immediately, a few a
to sale
BROTH FRS.
(Refer to this paper) Rochester, N, Y.
1ms revolutionized the
I world during the last half
century. N i least among
the wonders of Inventive
progress is a method :u d system of work that can
be performed all over the country without separa-ting
the workers fruin their hom<s. Pay liberal; any
one can do the work; either sex, young or old; no
special ability required. Capital • ot needed; you are
W started free. Cut this out and return to ns and we * arrjr^fy mined ialely, a few Good Men will send you tree, something ofgreat value and ini-
Mil I CUto canvass for the sa' '
Trees, Grape Vines,. Roses Ac;.
experience notessntlal
II. p. Freeman «t Co.. Ili-tclifo. 91. Y
VF. Fruit portance to you, that will start you In business,
Previous which will bring you In more monov right away.
than anything else in the world. Urand outfit free.
Address TRUK A (JO., Augusta, Maine.
Tlie gl and jury of Cook county, 111.,
report: “OurInvestigation of murder
cases inis impressed us to the degree that
we deem it our duty to call the attention
of tlie court to the following fact, in
hopes that it may have some little elteet
in future legislation regarding tlie liquor
traffic: We find that in eyery ease of
murder and manslaughter but one, tlie
cause leading to tlie crime came directly
from the saloon.”
F. A. STEVENSON & CO,
Corner Main and Eagle Sts. - LL T. PLEASANT, PA.
DEALERS IN
Twenty years ago women could not
vote anywhere. To-day they have full
sullrage in Washington and Wyoming
territories; municipal suffrage in Kan-sas;
municipal suffrage (single women
and widows) in England, Scotland On-tario
and Nova Scotia; and School so tl-rngc
in these fourteen of tlie United
States: New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,
Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota,
Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon
and Wisconsin,
FLQIJB, C3EIT MEAL, MILL FScSB of ALL GRADES,
COPLISr, OATS,
GARDEN AND VEGETABLE SEED6’,
Grass Seeds and Seed "Wiieat.
A full line of
FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS, NAILS AND IRON AND WOOD PUMPS
We also sell the.
WIEUD CHILLED PLOWS
which ca i: -a OP excelled for lightness of draft and durability. Call andxm-ine
the goods il Ira i u prices before purchasing elsewhere.
~ J. R. ZUCK,
Norway is becoming aroused on tlie
subject of tlie better protection oi
women. A petition has lately been for-warded
to King Oscar, praying that
steps be taken to prevent the circulation
of immoral writings and pictures.
Two petitions representing the signa-tures
of 170,000 men and women ot Den-mark
have been presented to the Danish
government protesting against the state
regulation of vice,
DEALER IX
School Books. Hats and Caps, School Books,
Bibles & Testaments. Boots & Shoes, Paper & Envelopes,
Pens & Pencils. Inks and Fluids, Albums,
Blank Books, 5c Sheet Music. School Books-
CHEAP FOR 0-A.SFT.
Opposite Postoffice, - - Mt. Pleasant.
SALESMEN
WANTED.
to canvass for the sale of Nuraery 8U>ck.
steady employment guaranteed. SALARY
ANDEXPENSES PAID- Apply at once.
Htatlng age, (Refer to this paper 2 15 4t
CHASE BBOTHEtoUOMPANY
GO TO
J. W. Swartz
' —FOR—
WALL PAPER,
WINDW SHADES,
Floor and Table Oil Cloths,
Carpet and Lining Paper,
Window and Picture Glass,
White, Red and Black Lead,
All kinds of Oils, Paints ol all
kinds, Varnishes and Hurd Oil,
Finish Brushes of all kinds, Artists’
Materials, full line Kalcentine Ma-terials,
i’iclure Nails, Shade Rolls,
etc., Gold Leaf and Gold Paint
Wagon &jBuggy Grease.
HARNESS SOAP and OIL,
Many other things too numerous to
mention.
Paper Hanging, Painting and
Decorating
Done on short notice.
J. W. SWARTZ.
Mail tel. BIT. PLEASANT Pa
A. B. ABATTICCHIO'S
BATH AND SHAVING SALOON
Under Mt. Pleasant Bank. City Accom-modations.
Hot and Cold Water Baths
at all times. Best workmen.
HAIR
DRESSING
A Specialty. Shaving and Hai- eu-ti- it
POPULAR PRICES
PM PM
flO 40 . Moyer
flO 51 Davidson .
10 551 Connellav’e.
flO 59 New Haven,
fll 021 .Wheeler
fll 051 Watt
1108 .Dunbar.
Ill lit1 .FergUNon
111 18 ...Beeson..
Gist
Frost
ni 20 Stambaugh.
fll 21 LemontFur.
fll 24| ..Evans.
11129 .Red 8 June.
II 321 Unlontown.
111841 . l,elth
fll 38 Hutchinson.
III 40 Brownfield,
ill 43 Oliphant
11 48 .Faireliance.
808
18 05
8 02
17.58
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17 40
17 35
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17 14
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13 32
13 30
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A M AM AM PM
The Greensburg Accommodation South-ward
leaves Greensburg at g0:45a. m„ arri-ving
at East, Greensburg at 0:49, Huff 6:58|
County Home 10:55, Fosteivllle 10:58, Young*
wood 7:01, Palntervllle f7:06. Hunker 17:09,
Bethany 1*7:11 Tarrs 7:17, Leuffer 17:21, Htoner-ville7:
24, Hawkeye 17:29, Scottdftle 7:34. Ever-son
7.37, Valley Works 17:41, Pennsvllle f7:45,
Moyer 17:50. Davidson 17:55, ConnellBville7:50,
New Haven 8:03, Wheeler 8:06. Watt 8:09,
Dunbar 8:11, Ferguson 18:16, Beeson fR:10,
Gist fH: 19, Frost 10:22, Stambaugh 10:23, Le-mont
Furnace 10:25, Evans 10:28, Redstone
Junction 10:38, Unlontown 8:30, Leith 18:88.
Hutchinson 10:43, Brownfield 10:45, Oliphant
fH:49, Fairchonce 8:54 a. m.
Going North it leaves Falreliance nt g5:00
p. ni., arriving at Oliphant at 5:06, Brown-field,
15:08, Hutchinson 15:10, Leith f5:14,
ITniontown 5:10, Redstone Junction 15,19,
Evans 15:24, Lemont Furnace 15:27, Stam*
bnugh 15:28, Frost 15.80,Gist 15:82, Beeson 15:84,
Ferguson 15:30, Dunbar 5:40, Watt 15:48,
Wheeler 5:40, New Haven 15:49, Connells-vllle5:
58. Davidson 15:57, Moyer 10:02, Penns-vllle
10:07, Valiev Works 10:11. Everson 6:14,
Hcottdale 0:17, Hawkeye 10:21,8tonervllle0:25,
Leuffer 10:28,Tarrs 0:31, Bethany f6:34,Hunker
10:39, Palntervllle, fB:42, Youngwood f8:47,
Fostervllle 10:49, County Home 10:52, Huff
0:54, East Greensburg 0:58, Greepsburg 7:06,
Pittsburg 8:16.
II—-DDaallily
\—Week days.
MAIL ARRANGEMENT.
The time for the arrival
Malls from tho Post Office, Mt. Pleasant, Pa‘
are as follows:
ARRIVE.
Way mail from Pittsburg and West 11 a.m
do Greensburg and East..11 a.m
do Jones’ Mills 11 a.m
do Mendon, Tarrs, etc 2p.m
do Broadford, etc 2p.m
do Unlontown, etc 7p.in
Through mall from Pittsourgand West 7 p.m
CLOSE.
Through mall—Plttsbugh and West... 7.15 a.m
Way—Stoner, Hcottdale to Uniont’n.. 7.15 a.m
Jones’ Mills, etc 12.30p.m
‘ Tarrs, Mendon, West Newton. 8.00 p.in
1 Pittsburg and West 3.15 p.m
Greensburg and East 3.16 p.m
Through—Stauffer, W. Overton, etc... 4.30 p.m
John D. McCaleb, P, M.
If You Want
Driving or Biding Horses,
Single or DoublelTeams,
Carriages, Buggies & Light Wagons,
Nothing but first-class and perfectly safe
animals kept. Careful and
COMPETENT DRIVERS
Hpeclal rates to
Open
furnished when desired
funerals.
Stables in real of T. C. Patterson’s,
all reasonable hours.
M. S. BRINKER.
WANTEDA TEMPERATE, en-ergetic
and reliable
MAN to solicit orders
for our NURSERY
STOCK, in this and adjoining counties. No
Experience necessary. Permanent employ-ment
and Good Pay, with a prospect of a
larger field if successful Stater
age. Address
R. G. THANK «fc CO.,
1430 So.Penn Square,Philadelphia I
2 8 ly
Sea Wonders exist In thousands of form
but are surpassed by the marvels of In
ventlon. Those who are in need ot profit
_ablew rk that can be dono while living
at home shmdk at once seud their address to Halleit
A Co., Portlaud, Maine, and receive free, full Infor-mation
how either sex, ofall ages, can earn from *5
to per da and upwards wherever they live. You
are started free. Capital not required. Home have
made over Iua single day at this work; all succeed
THE JOUIiNAlr-MT. PLEASANT, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 188<N
WOOD I’ILK PHYSIC
PRESCRIBED BY BURDETTE AS AN ^
ANGER CURE.
Hr llu. An I v|M i l. iiff lllni.. It K"pln,, |
Olif HitiIf l limp I Irf tiulliK III tllv
Aillromliu-I. HICIIIIIIUIIIN.
Rnnleltf In Plll.liui'ii Dlsimtcli.
KVIUJ liiinimi ni'ilf nnili, H tin possesses
even a llll.m-l inir Inlllt nf temper, plioilltl
keep mi six mill uomlplte Iitnnl.v, llmt tie
tiny inull mil mul umli nil' liis wrnlh
ii AVIIM. fleivu. Tlii'in is nolliing in lliis
\siin 1 ill I vvnrlil t'lsii will si’inl u instn Inick j
In ills iippiilnlpil work witll !l IIHH'O wllteil
.'tillur nii'l si ii'iipr ei>inpi'ehen“ioM ot tiim
self limn :«> iiilnntes’ wirsiliii^ ivlili n
Hill IIHVOI'IMI SIX. HI' etui use ilsotleively
mi i lie M iioil. AH tin' fury nfliU mil me.
Sill ill!' hull' III! feels Ini’ his enemy, lm
i SIII Infuse into Hint six lisiiulle, nml how
the chips will lly. Nut very iirilsllesilly.
pinbiihly, hut they "ill lly. A ml pres-milly
il hi'frins tu il.iu u upon the in in
ilisit lie Is feeling more esilin. Kvltlenlly
lie is experiencing si elisinge of heart,
lie Hoes not hsite his enemy so bitterly
sifter sill. The six weighs siboilt si pounds
on (he up stroke, lie dues not hsite his
i m my sit nil. lie elmnges Ids stroke,
smd hftiins lo chop on Ihe systs in of llsil-i.
ai■ pemnniiship, Ihe up rtroke heavy
and tie down ones llyhl. He rather
loves Ids enemy now. At last he puts
.-.11 Isis tailing sirengih Into one lerrllle
lhlow. lie misses Ids tip with the ax and
-mi l- ihe rhopping block with the listn-
• i '•*. A tingle, as I hough he had swal-ioiied
an silsirm clock goes from elbow
to hip and back again, the ax drops from
Ids powerless hands, and a weak, limp,
nerveless, perspiring, trembling, gasping
thing, he staggers into the house, lies
down on the first thing that looks like a
lounge, and is ready to die. There isn’t
a fear or a fault in Ids heart. Death has
terrors' and life has no temptations for
him. He has chopped out all his baser
nature, and is just asetherlal and spirit-ual
as he can be on this side of Jordan.
It is a great, medicine.
People with whom I have been quar-reling
all spring would he amazed to see
me now. I foolishly i ontraeted, last
year, to keep a esuup-tire going. 1 didn't
know then that it took all the forests in
the Adirondack spurs to keep up one IP-tie
camp tire. I am not a large, broad,
tall, sinewy man, and the ax they gave
me might have beaten down the brazen
gates of what-vou-may call it that what’s-his
name besieged, if lie ever did besiege
it. I have fallen trees with that ax that
would have made Mr. Gladstone shudder.
They tell me 1 must say felled, not fallen,
but ] know better, because I only cut
down fallen trees. My wrists were larger
than my knees, which goes to show that
I didn’t pray as hard ns I chopped, hut 1
didn’t Drive strength enough to hate any
body; I was too limp to commit the
lightest sin, so I didn’t have much need
of prayer. I didn’t write any the fol-lowing
week, because I couldn't close
my lingers over anything smaller than
an ax helve. We tried tieing the pen-holder
to my elbows, but they wouldn’t
bend with that kind of an implement,
my hands were a little better the next
week, hut I was as badly ax-ridden as
ever. I heard voices calling even now
for “More wood,” though I assure yon
1 cut a cord bt tween every paragraph.
At least, 1 think I did. But I went out
and chopped until the ax Hew oil' the
handle, which was dropped every live
minutes, and then I heaped high the
fagots, and crawled into the camp-llie,
and showed the old martyrs how sweetly
and joyously a man could roast himself
rather than cut one solitary single other
stick of wood more.
A POI.YGLOT C'll.ARAl'TKIt.—Xo\V, what
1 enjoy more than anythingclseiu iiKne-sian
novel is something beside, ami that
great charm consists in the infinity of
names borne by each diameter as Ids
private baggage, and the Haltering as-sumption
on the part of the translator
that Ids reader is perfectly familiar with
all the pet variations and diminutives of
every name in the land of the vitchski.
Tlie other day 1 became deeply interested
in one chapter, in the conduct and ac-tions
of a whole roomfull of people.
“The prince crossed the room abruptly
and stood looking out of the window.
‘He does not see me,’ thought Paulovna.
‘Well,’ said Bolkouski, abruptly, ‘at
least one may have an opinion.’ A mo-ment
of silence and Mikhallvona sighed
piteously. ‘Ah me,’ muttered Drobitski
‘if this business were only well over.’
‘But how?’ queried Vladimirovich, Im-patiently.
Another pause, and Besonk-hoiv
fidgeted nervously with Ids eyeglass.
‘I cannot endure this,’ exclaimed Xes-vitsky,
and with this exclamation Kout-ozow
turned away from the window, and
left the room empty and deserted.”
That lonely beggar bad been standing at
the window talking to himself all the
time.
A CENTER PIT.—It is a great pity that
some of the evil counsellors of the work-ingmen
to-day were not served the same
way. Raleigh, seeing the executioner
pause, said to hint: “Why dost thou not
strike? Strike, man!” The man struck,
and that was tlie last of Raleigh. Oh,
that the workingman of to day would
thus always strike the man who tells
him to.
THE DEER SLAYER.—1 never hunted a
deer, but I think I can understand how
any man, thrilled h.v the excitement ot a
long chase, full of the ardor of pursuit,
giving the game all the fair chances ot
the field, himself enduring fatigue, thirst,
peril in the chase,'matching his own en-durance,
patience and skill against the
speed, strength and instinct of the game,
can at least bring his rifle to hisshuulder
and shoot down tlie antlered monarch,
bounding away for life. But to lie in a
boat, hidden away in tlie darkness,
crouching hack In tlie shadows of the
glowing decoy, wulting through long
hours of darkness, listening to every
sound, gun in hand, finger on the trigger,
hiding, in cold and mist, silent, motion-less,
waiting, watching until tlie beau-tiful
creatuse comes timidly to the water,
lifts its startled head to gaze with bright,
curious eyes at the light that is death,
coining nearer and nearer—to kill this
creature then, at pistol range, in cold
blood—pshaw ! this is not hunting. It Is
assassination. It is murder. It is a
deed of darkness worthy of the gloomy
shadows that hide the perpetrator.
The Merita of Ihe Vestibule Car.
From the New York Times, May 22,1888.
Speaking of tlie injunction in favor of
the Pullmau Company, restraining the
Wagner people from the use of the vesti-bule
attachment, si ptonilnent railroad
man said tlie other day : “The vestll tile
attachment Is one of the must Important
Improvements of the age toward the per-fection
of absolute comfort in passenger'
ear const ruction. Several years ago,
when the dining ear was Introduced and
tlie practice of preparing anil serving
meals on railway trains imiugnrsi'eil, ii
was found Hint timid people, especially
la IPS and Invalids, experienced great
'Hill ulty In passing from their seats in
the steeper In tlie dining ear when tlie
I rain was running at si high rate of speed.
I'he open platforms between tlie ears
formed a gulf over which they (eared to
attempt passage In line weather nml
wlileh in wind or storm, or both, was
impassable to people wi ll delicate con-sti'tiiions.
it ilie dining ear system was
To lie a siieeess. slits objection must be
overcome, nml I lie I’nllmsm people set
themselves the tusk ot bridging t lie ehnsm,
In order to necompllsh this end they
evolved sind developed the idea of the
vestibule, and in h<jngiugit Into success
fill usage tlie railway companies, ns weH
ns iheir patrons, find that the original
ilillit'iilty Inis not only been completely
overcome, but Hint si great many oilier
marked advantages have been secured
the Introduction of the vestibule. O.ie
striking tea I tire is the addition strcnglt
created nml distributed over the entire
train by the close fitting of the conches
to one another ami the consequently in-creased
power to withstand the shock of
a collision. Telescoping Is hardly possl
tile in a well-equipped vestibule train,
from the simple fact that the steel frames
artnst the force which would drive one
car into another. The steadier motion
with which the closely-united factors of
tlie train are endowed w ill be readily
recognized as a most beneficial result.
This steadiness is noticeable at once, but
particularly perceptible to the occupants
of upper berths or those who, having
tried to read or write In the ordinary car,
undertake to do so in a vestibule train.
The vestibules, beside proteetingthepas
sengers in passing from end to eml of the
train, serve the purpose of storm doors
to a residence, and prevent the sudden
drafts which the opening of ail ordinary
ear door always creates. Another feat-ure,
which is prominent from a social
standpoint, Is tlie deadening of the noise
made by the rapid revolution of the
wheels over the rails, so that conversa-tion
may be carried on without in any
way straining tlie voice.
“The constructors of these cars 'bullil-ed
wKer than they knew,’ and succeeded
in abolishing many of the petty annoy-ances
that beset tlie rallwsiy traveler,
even on the best-equipped roads.”
“These cars,” lie continued, “are as
far superior to tlie ordinary coach as the
I’uilman is to the old fashioned passen-ger
ear. They enhance in a great degree
tlie pleasure and comfort of travel, nml,
as tlie learned judge remarked in tlie de-cision
above referred to, they must have
proved a startling and successful inno-vation
or a competing company would
not have been so prompt in imitating
them. Tlie Pennsylvania’s New York
and Chicago Limited Kxpress was tin*
pioneer vestibule train, and the enor-mous
popularity it has won is tlie beet
evidence of public appreciation of its
merits.”
To-Night am! To-Morrow .Mulit
And each day and night during tliin
week you can get at C. L. Kuhn’s drug
store Kemp’s Balsam for the throat and
lungs, acknowledged to he the mostsuc-cessful
remedy ever sold for the cure of
coughs, croup, bronchitis, whooping
cough, asthma and consumption. (Jet a
bottle to-day and keep it always in the
house, so you can check your cold at
once. Price50c. and fl.OO. .Sample bot-tles
free. 8 24 87 ly.
Wlmt Are Supposltoi-left !
A. U. Hose, from New London, Conn.,
writes: Send me two boxes of your
Kemp's Pile Suppositories by mail. Oui
druggist is out. They are fora friend.
1 tried everything without help, but
the Suppositories cured me.
The treatment is new and within reach
of all, and would advise tlie affected to
give them atrial. For sale in Mt. Pleas-ant
by C. L. Kuhn, at 50c per box. 8 24 ly
A Faintly Gathering.
Have you a father? Have you a moth-er?
Have you a >ou or daughter, sister
or a brother who has not yet taken
Kemp's Halsam tor the throat and lungs,
the guaranteed remedy for the cure oi
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup and all
Throat and Lung troubles? If so, why?
when a sample bottle is gladly giveu to
you free by C. L. Kuhn, druggist, and
the large size costs on I v 50c. and $1. ly
When Baby was sick, we gave her Cantoris,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
Wheu she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Consumption Surely Cured.
To TIIK EDITOR.—Please inform your
readers that I have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have
been Deimanently cured. I shall be
glad to send two bottles ot my remedy
free to any of your readers who have
consumption if they will send me their
express and post office address. Re-spectfully.
T. A. Slocum, M. C., 181
Pearl St., New York. I 17 dm
A Few Pointer*.
The recent statistics of the number of
deaths show that the large majority die
with Consumption. This disease may
commence with an apparently harmless
cough which can be cured instantly by
Kemp’s Halsam for the Throat and
Lungs, which is guaranteed to cure ami
relieve all cases. Price 60c. and 91. Trial
size free. For sale by C. L. Kuhn. ly
In Consumption litcuruhlc!
Head the following: Mr. 0. H. Morris,
Newark, Ark., says: “Was down with
absceus of lungs, and friends and physi-cians
pronounced me an incurable con
Humptive. Began taking Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, am
now on my third bottle, and able to over-see
the work on my farm. It is the tines'
medicine ever made.”
Jesse Middleware Decatur, Ohio,says;
“Had it not been for Dr. King’s New
Discovery tor Consumption T would
have died of lung troubles. Was given
up by doctors. Am nowin bestof health.”
Try it. Sample bottles free at McEl-wee*
s.
ISuckleii’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-tively
cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-tion,
or money refunded. Price 25 cts.
per box. For sale by E. J, McElwee. ly
Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache,
Neuratgin, Nervous Weakness, Stomach
and Liver Diseases, Rheumatism, Dys-pepsia,
and all nffections of the Kidneys.
WEAK NERVES
PAINE'S CELEB*COMPOUND IBAK<T*O Tonto
which never fails. Containing Celery mu!
Cora, those wonderful nerve stiniulantH, it
HIM cully cures all uervoiiH disorders.
UHEtirAATlSWI
PAINI.N OIF.UY I'oMrorNn purine* thn
blood. It drivi-a out 11n- luetic acid, which
L'num-H Uhetiwatlxiu, and restore* the blood,
making CI JMIIH to » iicnlthy condition. It in
tlie truo remedy for Rheumatism.
KIDNEY COMPLAINTS
PAINE'S CE1.KRY COMPOUND quickly restores
the liver and kidney* to ivricct health. This
curative power, combined with it* nerve
tonics, make* it the best remedy for nil
kidney complaints.
DYSPEPSIA
J'.wsr.’s Crr.nnv COMPOUND strengthens tho
stomach, and quiets the nerves of tbo dig***,
live orgaun. I hi* I* why it CUIOH even thu
worse caw* r.f I lyspepalu.
CONSTIPATION
PAINE'* OEI.IMIY COMPOUND IS not a catliar.
tie. It H a laxative, giving e:«*y und natural
action to the bowvK Regularity niircdy to|.
low* it* use.
Recommended by professional and business
men. Send for book.
Price $1.00. fold by Druggists.
WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO. Prop’s
BURLINGTON, VT.
IS TURNING OUT BETTER
BREAD
CAKES
& PIES
Thau ever. A huge slock of fresh enke^ nml IIIWMVS on IGIIPI, lo
getlier with ;i I’u'l line of
Foreign&DomesticFrui ts. o
I*C*E » OR*E*A*M
THE BEST IN TO WN.
Fe.t'vaK Iienies, Parties, Ac., furnished at very reason-title rat es.
CHAS A. GRAUL,
CHURCH ST.. MT. PLEASANT, PA.
■ ■=.- Vsr
Larne Assortment at
&
JEWELRY STORE.
MT. PLEASANT • PA.
Llgrfn, Waltham, Hampden, 111
ton and Columbus, in gold or silv
guaranteed Also repairing of w
of eighteen years’ experience. WWHW
CLOCKS
inois, Seth Thomas, Rocklbrd, Ttell-er
cases, lor ladies or gentlemen, all
atches, clocks and jewelry lay men
Of all styles, half-hour, gong-strike.
nickel clocksyilarm clocks
all llm novelties ill clocks, sold
with a guarantee l»v MORRI-SON
& PRO.
JEWELRY!
Solid (told Jewelry of all kinds
a specialty. Plated Jewelry, in
all the diliereut patterns, to suit
all. Silverware, hollow ware,
flat, ware, .such as Knives, Forks
and Spoons.
it
’EOTACRES !
_ ar line of spectacles is new and
.. ...mplete. All kinds and qualities at
' ■ rsssgggrr; prices from the cheapest to the best.
Smoked and Blue Reading Glasses, Field Glasses, Magnifiers, Com-passes,
&c. &c.
We know we have the best stock of Sc'xsois, as they
tried. Gold plated scisotM, I utton-! ole scissors, Ac.
tave nee
ORDER YOUR SUIT NOW!
►* * of • Ten • Per • Cent.
I" l:iv h'iend and friends of theirs who come to see me at my store in Allegheny City 1 will give n Discount of 10 Cents on every Dollar
" v I'"1 1 j' :l " >K Fanis nr Spring Overcoat, which more than pays car fare. My stock of Woolens, some of them direct from Europe, is
one of Ihe hugest in tlie city.
Prices, Worknmusliip & Fit We Always Guarantee.
I he sooner you come the better we can serve you as tlie rush is great in this season. Respectfully,
147 ZEr’ZEL'DiEiR.A.IL, BTBEET 147
ALLEGHENY
2 DOOBS ABOVE 50ST0FPICE.
Pleasant Valley Cars Pass the Store ami Electric Cars above Store.
BKN. C. HURST & Co.
f T. PLEA AMT BRANCH.
KETONE WATCH CLUB CO. j
SoOGOLD WATCHES FOR H;JS
ESTABLISHED
An Absolutely Dust-Proof Watch, Stem Winding and Petting, any
ledgu of Engraving; any kind of dial, either Hunting Case or Open J
These wait lies can only be seemed at JjtU'l by clubs of ”s members.
Kacli member pays tjil on signing the coni fact, and *1 each week i here-tft
t-r until lie has pni I :?Ms. One watch is given a dub each week, on
receipt of ihe weekly payment ot $1 per member, and the dub decides
bv ballot which of tin ir mitnh T shall possess ii. smd at the end of Ihe
PS week.- every member has ;t beautiful watch to show for the money
he would have spent idly.
20 YEARS GUARANTEE WITH EACH WATCH.
Sample w.iVh can bo seen an 1 examine 1 bv any one so desiring.
See il and satisfy yourself Branch House of the Keystone Co in
every I stive city in the Fnion.
When I say Cntr. T do not mean merely to
stop them for A lliue, and then have them re-turn
Htfnin. 1 MPA'. A RADICAL CUKE.
I have made the disease of
FITS, EPILEPSY or
FALLING SICKNESS,
A life lonp; study. T WARRANT my remedy to
CnitK the worst cases. Because others have
failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure.
Bend at once for a treatise and a FKEV BOTTLH
of my INFALLIBLE REMEDY. Give Express
and Host Office. !t cost* you nothing for a
trial, audit will euro you.* Address
H. G. ROOT.M.C. I83 PEA-.LST.,NEWYORK
GALLEY&MECHLING,
—Manufacturers of—
Carriages,
Buggies
Phaetons,
and Surreys,
AND
(FB()( ERY AND BUCKWA(iDNS.
Repairing Promptly and Neatly Done.
WEST MAIN ST., MT. PLEASANT.
WHICH ARE TIIE BEST MAKES V
name on a package of COFFEE is a
guarantee of excellence-
COFFEE is kept in all first-class
stores from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Is never good when exposed to the air.
Always buy thisbrand in hermetically
sealed ONE POUND PACKAGES.
Watchmaker & jeweler.
Mill I til’s Block. Mam Street, Mt.
Ph'iixnnl, l'n,,
Is ihe place to buy your
WATCHES. CLOCKS.
SILVERWARE.
JEWELRY. ETC.. ETC..
of ail kind*, ns 1 'loan exclusive Jewelry bus-
MCS',parry nothing but first class goods ami
tin giv e my customers any grade of move-ment
they may th sire in
Flgin, Waltham, Hampden,
Illinois', Fredonia,
Rockford or Columbus.
the latter, rjinsonted in the above cut, isone
of the leading movements < i to-dn.v, havinf
many advaninge* o\a*r oilier mov incuts am
costs’ no more money. Those wishing any-thing
in m.v line will do well by calling and
pricing goods before buy! ig elsewi ore.
Engraving and Repairing
I of ail kind* neatly done at re '*m:Me price*
AY. II. STRK Kt.EB.
'i , |
jtv »-
GTTIFS.:
Malaria, Dumb Chills,
Fever and Ague, Wind
Colic, Bilious Attacks.
Tluy produce regular, natural evac-uations.
never gripe or interfere with
dntly business. AH a l atnily medicine,
they should be in every household.
SOIJI> EVERY WHERE.
U\ ^ARKsE? ’© GIiNGER TGNK3 wltlwmt d«?!uy. ..i tt-. l ■ .1 ’ ■
Hu*mi rail the ■■ orst cas *of( oujgli.Wt-ttkLu *, A -tluua,
Indlzcrtinn, ID ward Polnu. Kxhuu.*tlon. Inoxluable Tur
Kln-uiiiati.'«ml tV’iimk* Winknow, and ull pain* uial tin,
oi'U'-i'H of tlie StumucU ami Bowels. 60e. at Dn.tyista.
HBNDERCORNS.
Tho w»fe*t, »u! cst and bc*t cure for Corn*, Bunion*. Ao.
8ti-',' . all pntn. Ktismcs comfort to the foot. Never fuila
to euro, lo cent* ut UrwKtota. Umcux & (Jo., N, Y.
ANSWERED -A.T-IMS
PMiBERRRT" |D. H KEISTER’S MUSIC STORE. J4. W. AYER & SON, «ir authorized agent*. 1 • 1 *• v ’ -*■ 1 ■* ^ x v KJ -A. x /
Minnesota Loads the World
With h**r Btonk, dairy and grain products.
2,000,000 acres tin*- timln r, farming and grazing
lands, adjacent to rui.roud, for sale cheap on
easy terms. For maps, prices, rates, etc.,
address, ,T. Bookuahcr. Land Commissioner, or
C. II. Warren. General n a artrau*.
Passenger Agent. St.MlflN.lfP0U!
Paul, Minn. t^fiANITQB
Ask for Book II. - £ .-3 Simt" ‘
Elegant NEW STVI.K OIIG A.VS, the perfection of modern skill, hilly wairanted for
the longest time, are sold for Cash or on T1IB EASY PAYMENT PLAN, with Stool and
fftM?ue.tor amt delivered anywhere at prices which save the buyer from 910 to $50.
Violins,Guitars, Banins. Instructors, string'* and Trimmings, Mouth Harmonicas, Ac-cordfors.
Flutes, Fifes, MUSICAL NOVELTIES—everything from a Daisy Whistle to a
Ora*ul Piano or Organ. Come and see and hear for yourself and make an intelligent pur-chase,
at the Music .Store in the
National Hotel Block, Mt.Pleasant, Pa.
PATHLESS CHILDBIRTH HOW At r. >M . : J'dF.l). Kvery lady shmiltl know.
P8end fitr.mn. BAKElt ItK.M. CO..Boxlt>! Buffalo.N.Y. EBSiAK BLOOM, Belt Ctarkiion
tilier, skin Otue nn<l Blemish Erodicator known*
Pterr.rt for trial packago. Addre*a aa ubovo.
I'orrey’s, Wade & Butcher’s, and all good makes of ltazois, small
and large, lo suit all; iti“h priced and cheap. Razor strops, very line
md common. Razors and strops combined. A full line ot all kinds of
Docket Knives,
GOLD PENS AND HOLDERS,
Pencils, &c. All are invited to call and see our stock as it is full and
complete. It is too tedious to try to numerate our stock as it is larger
than ever before, and of the best goods in the market.
MORRISON & BRO.
CHEAP EXCURSIONS.^ looking for new locations or investments, semi-monthly
excursion* lmve been arranged, at one
tare for the round trip, to all points in Dakota
and Minnesota. Tickets Mr t class and good lor
Ii » days. For maps and further particulars ail-dr-.*
C. II. WAIUILN, il G .. hlTf-LA
G t-noral I* a s,eager RAJ TrAV4-nOA
Agent, JSt. Paul, Mum. ITUBfll
L-3 S»
An Excellent Route.
Tourists, business men, settlers and others
desiring to r- .eh a..y place in < eiitrai or North-ern
Montana, Dakota, Minnesota, or Puget
Sound and Pacific Coast points should investi-gate
regarding tho rate* and advantages offered
by this route. A rate irom Chicago or St.Paul to
I Puget Souinl or Purdio Coast points So.OOlower
1 thauviaany other line is guaranteed. Aceom-
1 moda-g
i ti r s t T
Helen:i|
Fall t-
F o r i
ton Bwa RAILWAY.
! tana; Watertown, Aben c n. V le..
i Buford and Bottineau, !.:wo a few of tho
| principal points t ■; vd via • tensions of
this road. For maps or other information ad-
! dress C. If. WAICU-.N, General Passenger Agent,
i St. Paul. Mmu., or s. L. General East-
: ern Agent, 2;->7 Broadway, New York.
I Send for new map of Northwest.
umim
Selling & Collecting Agt.
POUJTHE
High ArmSinger
“Best in theWorld.’
South Diamond St.,
Mt.'Fleasant Pa.
ST: PAUL
MINNEAPOLIS I Aftit01
All DruggDts. .Vic., ami gl ;H). _
Dr. 8ctU Ai'uold, Med. Curp., Wuon*<
Prepnretl only by
.octet, It. 1.
A L K S M E
For $17.50 a flrst-claRS round trip ticket,
good f >r HO days, with stop-over privileges, can
be obtained from St. Paul to Great Fall*, Mon-j
taca, the coming manufacturing centre of the
northwest, a a STIPAUL a Only $50.00
i Saint Paul B! A lo Helena
! and return AN!T0B|i Similar»
ductionsBYl RAILWAY. from points
east and south. Rule* correspondingly as lout .
; will I>o named to points in Minnesota find Da* J
kota, or upon Puget Sound and tho Pacific
Coast. For further particulars addle
for Infants and Children.
WANTED. Permanent po*l- BH
A Bt ions gnarantecd with MALA H Y ■ W
N I) EXPF.NSFH PA 11). Any ’S 1®
letennlncd man can succeed with us Pecu-liar
advantages to beginners. Stock complete,
•nehuhng tiiMiiy fast ■selling specialti *. Out- coast. For further particulars address H. L.
tit free. A «l < 1 resstitome "»»».* this paper) Warren, General Eastern Agent, 287 l: r ond&ty,
littOWN BUG1IIF.R8, New York City, or C. H. WAUKKN, General Pua-
Nurserymeu, Hochester, N. \ j aenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn, -
“Castoria is so well adapted to children that
t recommend it as superior to any proscription
Amowii to me.” IL A. AacHEa, M. D.,
Ill So. Oxford SL, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Castoria cures Colic. Constipation,
8our Stomach. Diarrhoea, Eruetuhon,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and prumotea di-gestion.
Without iinjurious medication.
Tn» CstT.CB COUPONi, 183 Fulton Street, N.tjt
THE JOUBNAL-MT. FLEA8ANT, t'A., TUEHIJATT EVENING, JUNE 5, 1K88.
DAY’S DOINGS.
BUDGET OFHOME NEWSANDTHATOF
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
A DlRCHt of Events 1 rniiHiilrlnp tlie Worlil
Over During the l*ni»t Seven Hay** n«
Gathered toy the.Busy Newsmen.
WEDNESDAY,—Wbitelaw Held, editor
of the New York Tribune, received a
letter from Blaine, which was telegraph-ed
over this country, winsing no end of
comment. Air. Blaine’s second epistle
is sent from Paris and goes on to say ns
far as he has the power he will not allow
his name to go before the Bepublican
National Convention at Chicago, which
is generally accepted to mean that if the
nomination is thrust upon him he will
not decline it.—Senator Sherman gave
the President a little roasting because of
the latter’s veto of the bill which would
have given Youngstown, O., a $75,000
public building.—The Southern general
assembly of the Presbyterian church has
voted against organic union.—People of
Barling county, N. C., are very much ex-ercised
over the presence of what they
claim is a Hying serpent, which sails
along through the air and is they say
fully 15 feet long.—<>1 the two games in
New York between the Allegheny’s and
Giants, the latter won in the forenoon
and the former in the afternoon.
THURSDAY.—The Prohibition conven-tion
opened at Indianapolis yesterday
and got ready for business. The old
leaders, St. John, Dow and Black were
given an ovation, and Miss Willard also
was heartily cheered.—A day’s study of
Blaine’s second letter of declination
leaves Republican lenders somewhat at
sea for a candidate. Gresham’s stock lias
gone up last night.—Sheridan’s condi-tion
was worse yesterday and last night.
—Teenier easily defeated Gaudnur in a
short three mile singlo scull race at
Point of Pines, yesterday. The winner’s
time was Hi minutes.—Thurman says he
is still out of politics alid would decline
second place on the ticket with Cleve-land.—
The President reviewed the
Grand Army parades yesterday botli in
New York and Brooklyn and went back
to Washington at night.—Hon. John P.
Pearson, the eminent Harrisburg jurist,
died yesterday aged .SS years.—Emperor
Frederick’s condition continues to im-prove
i nd he daily gains in strength.
FRIDAY—Thore was no abatement in
the interest and enthusiasm which per
vailed in the Prohibition convention at
Indianapolis yesterday. General Clin-ton
B. Fiske, of New Jersey, was nomi-nated
for President, and John A.Brooks,
of Missouri, for vice President. The
female suffragists have won a great vic-tory
as the right to allow them to vote
was one of the planks in the platform.—
A Paris dispatch tolls of an interview, in
which Mr, Blaine says lie is now out of
the presidential race entirely.—General
Sheridan continues to sink, lie sutlers
very little pain hut the action of tiis
heart varies constantly, and it is not
thought that the struggle for life can
last much longer.—at Yorktown, a
mining villiago near Hazleton, this
state, Mrs. Ann McClafforty was shot by
her sonand will die. The hoy, only Is
years old, playfully picked up an old
shot gun to scare his little sister, and the
weapon went ofl, the entire charge
striking his mother in the face as she
sat in the room door.—The Aiieglienys
lost yesterday’s game to the New Yorks
because they did not go to.the grounds
supposing it was too wet to play.
SATURDAY.'—All Democratic eyes are
turned towards .St. Louis, where the mi-terrified
are gathering for that party’s
national convention. The delegates
who are there seen waiting until W. T„
Scott arrives who is credited with repre-senting
the administration and its wish-es.—
Mrs. Meckie Rawson, while in a
Chicago court room endeavoring to get a
divorce from her husband, shot at his
attorney, H. C. Whitney. Two bullets
hit iiim, one inflicting a very dangerous
wound —While a neatly dressed young
man was writing a note in the Adams
Lxpress building, at Chicago, a stranger
walked up behind him. cut off his ear,
put the severed member in his pocket
and disappeared before he could he
recognized.—The Senate rushed through
the bill yesterday, making General
Sheridan the General of the Army, an
office once created for Scott and Grant-
The honored receipient cannot live
many daj-s to enjoy the gift.—The Alle-ghenys
were shut out yesterday 2 to 0.—
Trade reports for the week are not very
favorable although they give promise of
improvement.
SUNDAY.—No sooner lias Fmperor
Frederick shown by his greatly improved
condition that he will live for some time
at least, than the old fight between him-self
and Bismark is renewed, and it may
now result in a rupture that will cause
the latter to resign and bring about a
German ministerial crisis.—Since Blaines
retirement his strength as a candidate
seems to he going out to Judge Gresham
—Thurman says lie would not decline
second place on llie Democratic ticket,
although he does not want it.—A rich
vein of coal has been struck in the In-dian
Territory.—Mrs. G. .T. Stokes, op
Chicago, fired two shots, w ith suicidal
intent, but both bullets were turned
aside by her corset stays.—The poor Al-leghenys
went over to Boston yesterday
and tried to play hall with the lovers of
beans, who laid them out cold 0 to 1.
The Allies are now in a shaky sixth
place in the League race.
MONDAY.—Everything was quiet yes-terday
in St. Louis but it is pretty gen-erally
understood that the ticket in to-morrow’s
convention will be Cleveland
and Thurman, as Boss Scott is for both.
—Another relapse in General Sheridan’s
case leaves no ground for hope of his re
covery. Von Moltke and Boulanger
speak in the highest terms of “Little
Fhil” and his military ability, and both
expressed the deepest sympathy for the
dying soldier.—The appropriation hills
in Congress are hanging fire and little
progress is expected on them during this
week.—The house in which Grant was
horn, at Point Pleasant, has been placed
on a flatboat and brought to Cincinnati,
where it will be one of Hie features at
-Wm.
brought liis
viiere he
got drunk and left it at the railway
station.—Tlie only thing that is likely to
trouble to-morrow’s St. Louis convention
is tlie Mills bill, against which to en-dorse
there are many delegates opposed.
The party’s platform of’84 will probably
be again made to do service.—Tlie Alle
ghenys won from Boston 3 to 2,
Hi- Aliviij-i III-Is Thru .
Marion Kumbaugli in tlie past seven
or oiglit years lias boon engaged in al-most
as many enterprises in Mt. Pleas-ant
ami baa never yot tailed to luako
each a success, which leaves no room for
doubt that, being now ill the shoo busi-ness,
lioisnotgoingtomeetaroverso. On
the other band, since becoming tlie pro-prietor
of the old Lyon place, on Fast
Main street, lie lias made an addition to
the room whieli not only doubles Us for-mer
capacity blit makes it the largest
and most- cheerfull placo of the kind In
the county, neatly furnished and stocked
as it Is with everything in the shoe lino
from a coker's brogan to the daintiest
slipper that, makos tho fair wearer wish
I lie style would admit ofJust a little hit
shorter cut ot her dress. It pays to call
on Marion, if only to see how nicely he
lias things fixed up.
C*0*M*M*E*N®C*E*M®E*N *T !
.A.USED THE
FOURTH OF JULY.
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS.
Sorrowing Sloiicrvlllr Parents*
Death 1ms affair visited our little town,
and this time claimed for his victim CONI
Etta, infant daughter of Jesse W. Fox,
aged seven mouths and twenty-two days.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev, C. H. Groye.
‘•Tender Shepherd thou hast stilled
Now thy little lamb’s brief weeping.
Ah, how peaceful, pale and mild
In Its narrow bed ’tIs sleeping !
And no sigh of anguish sore
Heaves that little bosom more.
“In this world of care and pain
Lord, thou wouldst no longer leave It,
To the sunny heavenly plain
Thou dost now with Joy receive It;
Clothed In robes of spot less white,
Now It dwells with thee In light."
Stonerville, June I. C.
Tlie Pcniisj’ To toe Investigated.
Interstate Commerce Commission is
about to take up tlie question of dis-crimination
in export rates by tho
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. It :s
charged that the Pennsylvania railroad
as well as the other trunk lines, dis-criminates
in its rates for freight, chiefly
grain, from tho West to Liverpool
against the seaboard cities. That is, it
charges less too transport a bushel of
grain from Chicago to Liverpool than it
does to transport a bushel of grain from
Chicago to Philadelphia, Now York or
P.altimoro.
Man lng<- I.tvcnsv*.
The following marriage licenses have
been granted in Oroensburg to parties
in this vicinity during tlie past week:
Joseph Graham, of Tarrs, and Bella
Todd, of Scottdalo.
Lawrence Ganghenour and Lena U.
Bowman, both of Hecla.
William Wright and Mary Laird, both
of Southwest,
A \\ onl to the LIUIICH.
Mrs, G. W. llarbaiigh, who purchas-ed
the Fast Main street millinery store
of Mrs. Williams, has just opened out
tho place with a full’and complete line of
new goods that'eannot fail to please even
those of most fastidious tastes in the se-lection
of head-gear. Miss llarbaiigh
considers herself most fortunate in hav-ing
secure