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VOL. XIII. L I T I T Z P A . , - F R I D A Y M O R N I N G , . O C T O B E R 11,1889. NO 6
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RECORD OFFICE.
Utile. Lane. Co., Pa.
W. H. Buch, the Tailor,
and Gents' Outfitter.
CLOTHING-.
I offer everything in the way of Fall
and Winter Clothing and make aspecialty of
SUITS TO ORDER,
having an endless variety of piece goods to
select from. In the
Ready-made Department
you will find an elegant variety of Men's,
Youths' and Children's Clothing, made up
in good style, warranted as represented or
no sale. Prices will be found as low as
anywhere.
HATS AND CAPS.
SHIRTS.
We have the latest and nobbiest styles
in Fine Stiff and Soft Hats for men and
boys. Caps for wear a specialty. No old
styles.
The most comfortable and neatest
Shirt is the Tailor Made Flannel Shirt.
I have them in all colors, in various patterns,
at prices far below last year's prices and in
such pretty designs that they will sell.
White Shirts, laundried and unlaundried,
the latter from 35 cents up. Who'd think
of making a shirt when they can be bought
at these prices ?
NECKWEAR.
Nothing adds so much to the appearance of a man
as a neat Collar and Necktie. I have the correct styles
in seasonable fall and winter shapes of fashionable
Scarfs and Ties, in large variety to select from. These
goods were made especially for me from silks of my
own choice. I n COLLARS a n d CUFFS I c a n s u p p l y y ou
in linen, celluloid or paper, just as you prefer. In
styles it must be funny if I cannot suit you.
Would be pleased to have you call and see
elsewhere to purchase.
e going
WALTER H. BITCH,
" R E C O R D " BUILDING,
B J R . O J U D S T . , LITITZ.
Do not neglect the graves of your dead.
IM M1BBLE TIKI
is again fully replenished with an ex-cellent
assortment of Tombstones
and Monuments for the Fall trade.
Now is the most desirable season to
put up such work, and parties in need
of anything in our line, should call at
once and secure special bargains.
Prices greatly reduced.
W THE OAK WALK.
S. P. MILLER, Manager.
BS. M. S. HUEBENER. M
A. FULL LINE OF
FANCY GOODS,
of every description.
LADIES and CHILDREN'S UNDERWEAR,
Woolen Stockings, Leggina, Mittens,
Knit Sacques and Caps,
SEASONABLE GLOVES
Buchini, Silk Handkerchiefs, Cuffs, Collars,
Laces, Ac.
CORSETS. CORSETS.
V
MADAM FOT WAIST, h i g h l y recommended
by physicians. Zephyrs, Saxony, Columbia
woól, Ac.
Agent for Dr. Scott's Celebrated ELECTRIC
CORSETS, HAIR a n d TOOTH BRUSHES, HAIR
CURLERS, INSOLES, &C., <fcc.
STAMPING NEATLY AND PROMPTLY DONE.
MAIN ST., LITITZ.
Fall and Wiqief, 1889.
Mrs. A. I . Shelly,
—AT THE—
^Broai Street Millinery Stored
takes pleasure in announcing that she has
received a full line of Goods for Fall and
Winter Wear, in all the latest fashions.
Hats, Bonnets, Flowers, Feathers,
Fancy Goods, Notions, &c.
Call and see and obtain prices, which yocs
will find as low as anywhere.
S T A M P I N G A S P E C I A L T Y .
M R S . A. L. S H E L L Y ,
nSOtf Broad Street, Lititi
THE RECORD OFFICE DOES EVERY
kind of printing, from a card to a large
poster, in the neatest manner. Try us.
S T O V E S !
A Large Lot of
Heating Stoves,
which I will positively close out
BELOW COST
to reduce my big stock.
O I L C L O T H ,
2 yards wide, at from 45 to 90 cents a yar^s
Stovepipe and Stove Boards, Agate Ware,
Tubs and Buckets, Knires and Forks.
Roofing and Spouting, Plumbing, Steam
and Gas Fitting, Wood and Iron Pumps.
Stoves put up and delivered iree of charge
All work guaranteed. Can «orapete iia price
with the lowest.
Come and see my stoak. No trouble to>
show Goods.
J. A. MIKSCH,
MAIN STREET. LITITZ, PA
l e OU Litiîz M m and
CONFECTIONERY,
MAIN STREET, - - LITITZ, PA.
Fresh Bread, Cakes, Buns, Rolls, &c,„
daily.
Ice Cream, Fruits & Confectionery
furnished for picnics, parties, <fcc., at short
notice and at lowest rates.
I. F. BOHBERGER. Prop'r. 17my
How pretty Miss Perry looked!
Neither Miss Lane nor Phil Thomp
son had ever seen quite such a sight.
She was in black silk* though it was
only for a morning stroll to the Oak
Walk—black silk enveloped, as to the
skirt, in shimmering lace.
Her little black bonnet set off her
fair face and yellow hair ; her long
Suede gloves were as yellow as her
hair, her parasol white and lacy.
" Your cousin is very handsome,"
said Mary Lane to Mr. OIney.
In her heart there was a shocked
disapproval of Miss Perry, put her
cousin was not the one to confide it to.
" Oh, yes, Mag's pretty !" Mr. OI-ney
rejoined, turning languidly to
glance at her (he did everything lazi-ly).
" But she's not my cousin, you
know. Mag's step-father's cousin is
my aunt."
" Oh !" said Mary.
She raised her old fashioned brown
parasol.
" Allow me!'' said Mr. Olney, and
took it.
Mary Lane smiled.
I t amused her that she, a staid little
country schoolma'am, should be the
recipient of the gallantries of a silk-hatted,
eye-glassed young man from
the city.
But it did not so much amuse her
that Miss Perry should ba the recipi-ent
of Phil Thompson's gallantries.
She was indignant with everybody.
With the Waltons, who boarded her.
self and Phil Thompson, Phil's pa-rents
being away on a visit. Why
had they taken any more boarders ?
Miss Perry and her mother might have
summered elsewhere very well.
With Phil himself. In spite of the
innocence of his wide blue eyes, Mary
had thought Phil rather level-headed.
Now what was she to think?
But most of all with Miss Perry.
What right had she to do it—to |)ut
forth her finished charms for the un-doing
of a defenseless country youth?
to trifle with his honest heart like a
cat with a mouse ?
Mary Lane was wrathful.
" No, Mag's not closely related, you
See," Mr. Olney was saying, in Bis not
unpleasant drawl. " But I consider it
my duty to look after her, rather.
That's why I 'm here. I thought I 'd
run down for a day or two and see
what Mag was up to."
I t was evident what Mag was up
to. She and Phil were far behind
now, under her white parasol.
Mr. Olney laughed lazily.
" I rather think it's a good thing I
came, you know," he remarked. " I
may be in time to rescue Mr. Thomp-son.
You see, Mag's a terror. Miss
Lane. She doesn't mean it, but on
my word she can't help i t !"
' What ?" said Mary coldly.
' Flirting, you know," said Mr.
Olney, yawning. " I don't know how
it is, you know, but she cawn't see a
fresh fellow—a new one, I mean/' he
substituted politely—" without trying
to get his scalp. On my word !"
No reply from the schoolma'am.
She was burningly silent.
He was making fun of Phil, of
course; that was plain. But that was
not the worst. It was so then ; she
was amusing herself with Phil. Mr.
Olney had seen it. Poor Phil! and
her poor self, not to be able to say
one word, to place one straw against
the current!
"As many good shots as Mag's
made, though," Mr. Olney added, re
flectively," she hasn't suited herself
yet. She knocks down fellows fast
enough, but she don't pick 'em up
when she's got 'em down."
"You see the turn just ahead?"
said Mary—she did not propose to
listen to a rehearsel of Mis3 Perry's
triumphs. " That brings us to the
Walk. It is an avenue of oaks,
which gives it its name. Gome up
here, and you can see the river," said
Mary mechanically.
" A charming view," said Nr. Ol-ney,
adjusting his eye-glass. " Ah,
Mag aud Mr. Thompson are upon us !"
They were, at last; Miss Perry with
a pretty smile and gracefully, dangling
parasol, Phil with a somewhat dazed
look on his handsome, honest face.
" I t ' s done!'' Mary thought, bitter-ly.
" I t is too late I Oh, she should
be choked!"
" What a view !" Miss Perry was
crying, with clasped hands. " See the
river, Marmaduke! Blue from the
sky, and still as glass I"
" Beautiful !" Mr. Olney assented.
" And this long avenue—did yoii
ever see anything like it, Marma-duke
!"
Marmaduke n;ver had.
" I thank you so much, Miss Lane,
for bringing us!" Miss Perry cried,
herself beautiful in her gay enthusiasm.
"Not at all," said Mary.
Miss Perry's thanks were intolera-ble.
Phil—poor Phil—if she could
save him I
But Miss Perry stood near him—
was smiling at him.
" What are those flowers down
there?" she demanded, brightly.
" Violets already ? I must have them ?"
They were a dozen perilous feet
down the steep bank, which sloped to
the river.
But Miss Perry gazed brilliantly at
Phil and Mr. Olney.
" We couldn't get them, Mag," said
Mr. Olney. " We'd break our necks."
" Shame !" cried Miss Perry, blithe-ly,
and cast down her parasol and
gloves. " Laggards, I'll do it myself!
Go hide your heads !"
She was at the brink of the bank.
Mr. Olney caught her wrist.
"You'll kill yourself, you know,
Mag," he drawled.
Perhaps I shall," she retorted,
rollickingly ; but she turned hotly red
at bis touch. " My blood will be on
your head, Marmaduke!"
She sprang out of his reach and
stood poised where her leap had taken
her, her charming face on a level with
their feet.
"Miss Perry!" said Phil, and
" Mag !" said Mr. Olney, sternly, but
go no further,
She had slipped. Down, down the
sheer bank she went sliding, with a
dire rending, of pretty skirts, a wild
fluttering of frightened hands, till
she clutched at a sapling root; far be-low,
and sank down with an exhausted
shriek.'
" Well, how can we get to her ?"
Phil gasped.
" Upon my word, I don't know!"
said Mr. Olney, angrily. " She's a
madcap!"
Miss Perry was gazing up at them
in comical defiance, her white hand
waving.
" I'm not hurt. I suppose you're
sorry I'm not hurt, Marmaduke ?" she
cried.
" You see the foot path just below
you Miss Perry ?" Mary called to her,
coldly. " I f you will take that it
will bring1 you gradually to a lower
grade in the walk, where you can
climb up easily."
" We will walk down and meet you
there," said Phil. " Shan't we, Mary ?"
" Very well," said Mary, frigidly.
Miss Perry, with a last defiant word
or two, was off.
Mary led the way down the walk
stiffly. Phil was laughing.
" Miss Perry is irrepressible !" he
observed, admiringly.
" Oh, she's a madcap," Mr. Olney
repeated, strolling leisurely in the rear,
Mary^accomplished the five minute'
walk in silence.
A slender figure, in draggled black
silk, looked up at them drolly from
down the slope.
Phil and Mr. Olney sprang down
and pulled her up. Marv was posi-tive
she had stopped there purposely.
Her heart burned within her. What
a fool she would have looked in such
a position !
But Miss Perry was flushed and
laughing and lovely.
" What are you giggling at, you
wretchs ?" she cried, tipping her bent
bonnet recklessly over her nose, and
spreading her lace skirt—which hung
in tags. "Stop this minute, Marma-duke
! I've had a delightful little ex-cursion.
I've enjoyed it—there now !
I didn't get my violets, but "
Miss Perry was turning white. She
clasped her round armjwith a shiver of
pain. Blood was trickling on the fair
skin.
" I t was a stone—it cut as I fell!"
she murmured.
Now she would have pity and con-cern
as well as admiration. It was a
cut-and-dried scheme. Mary reflected,
irefully. Phil would have to help her
home.
She turned away, her lips between
her teeth, hot and f u t ik tears in her
eyes. She would not look at it!
But it was Miss Perry's ambiguous
relative who offered his arm.
" If you've had enough of an esca-pade,
Mag," he remarked, dryly," per-haps
you'll let me take you home ?"
She took his arm without a word,
that warm red rising in her soft face;
and PhiJ joined Mafy.
Mary looked fixedly at the river.
She felt Phil's big, blue eyes upon her,
but she did not meet them.
She ha'd no patience with him—a
simpleton who would let a shallow
flirt make an idiot of him !
" What's the matter, Mary ?" he
stammered, at last. " I—I—-you do
don't seem to like Miss Perry much,
Mary."
That was too much. '
"Noj I don't," said Mary grimly.
" I think she's jolly, you know,"
said Phil timidly. "And I'm sorry
for her—awfully sorry !"
" I t is only a scratch," said Mary,
with forced calmness.
" I don't mean that," said Phil-
He took Mary's elbow to help her up
the grade, but she pulled it away.
" Not that, you know. You see, she
—I wonder if she'd mind my telling
you—just you ?"
" I don't want to hear it," said
Mary, in agony.
" She wouldn't mind," Phil insisted.
" If she told me; she'd tell anybody.
It's about her Marmaduke—he isn't
hers, that is, but she'd like him to be.
They've been going on together for
years, I gathered, without it's ever
coming to anything. He's so careless
and lazy, she doesn't know whether he
likes her or not. But she likes him.
She told mo that right out, Mary, as
innocent as a baby ; seemed to want
somebody to tell it to. ' And she cried
when she said it—just cried. That
was why she went on like that when
we came up with you—made all that
fuss about the flowers, and went down
the bank—to take his attention off her
red eyes. She says she can't marry
anybody else. And then not to be sure
he cares for her—well, it is tbugh.
If he don't wan't her, I don't know
what he does want, said Phil, indig-nantly.
Mary Lane was looking down at the
" " Was that what she was saying ?"
she murmured. "He—he said she
was flirting with you !"
" He did ?" said Phil, warmly. " He
wants throttling. I've a mind to do it
for him. He doesn't deserve her, the
puppy!"
" I thought so, too," Mary faltered
on. " I thought she was. And I was
so angry with her for doing it!"
Phil laughed.
" And did you think I was flirting
with, her, Mary ?" he demanded.
" Yes," she owned.
"Then you need throttling!" But
he contented himself with a soft shake
of her shoulder. "Mary, did you
think I could flirt with anybody but
you ! Don't you know I like you, and
always have ? And mean to marry
you—you, nobody else ? Mary, for
shame! Didn't you know it ?"
The grass seemed to swim before
Mary's eyes.
" I—had hoped so, Phil," she whis-pered.
" Oh, Phil, it was that! I
thonghl it was just pity for you, Phil,
and indigdation and all, that made
me hate her. But it was because I
wanted you ! It was that. She might
have flirted with anybody else, Phil,
and I wouldn't have cared !" she end-ed,
amazed, joyfully amazed, in the
sudden light which broke over her.
" Oh !" said Phil, eloquently.
A common impulse made them
turn and peep at the pair behind. One
look was enough. Miss Perry's face,
sweetly aglow, was lifted to that of
her step-father's cousin's nephew,
while the nephew bent his lazy, hand-some
head above her, and clasped the
hand clinging to his arm. The beau-ties
of the Oak Walk and the river
were now here.
" She's got her Marmaduke !" said
Phil with a silent laugh.
" Yes. Their mixed relationship
will be simplified now," said Alary, in
an ecstasy.
She looked back admiringly, re-morsefully.
" Don't you think she's the cutest
girl ?" she demanded, her throes of
the last half-hour flung to the winds.
" There's only one cuter," said
Phil, overlooking her inconsistencies.
"You."
Chewing G u m R e t i r e d Her.
The young ladies who delight in the
felicities of chewing gum, and keep
their pretty little jaws at work from
morning till night in masticating what
th ey cannot swallow, had better take
warning in time, if they prize their
beauty. It appears that a young so-ciety
belle of a city has so exercised
her masticatory muscles that they
»tick out like the biceps which helped
John L. Sullivan win the prize of
champion. The young lady has gone
into retirement, as her unusual facial
developement is anything but attrac-tive,
and the only prescription that it
is possible to give her is the adyice
" don't move your jaws," which she
is endeavoring to fulfill in the seclu-sion
of her home.
A Warning.
Prof. H. Umerous—" I think I have
the basis for a capital joke, my dear."
Experienced wife—" Don't count
your chestnuts before they're shelled.''
S T . E L M O H O T E L , JSIOS. 3 1 7 a n d 3 19
A.rch street, Philadelphia.—Rates re-duced
to per day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel tne
same liberal provision for their come-fort.
It is located in t h e immediate
centre of business, and places of amus-ment
and the different railroad depots,
as well as all parts of t h e city, are
easily accessible by street cars con-stantly
passing the doors. I t oilers
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solieted.
JOSEPH M. FEOKER,
oc71y- Propr
A t t e m p t e d Suicide.
A. Hadden, a prominent lawyer of
Corning, N. Y., attempted to commit
suicide to-day by hanging. He was
cut down before life was extinct, and
will live. Hadden was the executor
of the estate of the banker, John Hun-gerford.
Judgments to the amount
of over $100,000 were lately filed
against him.
F a m i l y P r i d e.
I f people who are troubled with
that form of egotism which they are
self-flattered into believing is " family
pride" would catch hold of the idea
that in this republican country every
tub stands on its own bottom, and that
nobody can disgrace them except them-selves,
they would escape much misery.
The sad case of the three ladies in
Washington, belonging to "one of
the oldest families in the district,"
who have gone insane as the result of
brooding in private over the shocks to
their pride, illustrates the folly of this
tendency. One of their troubles was
due to the fact that a half brother con-tracted
a marriage some years ago
which was kept secret for several
months, the wife being known by her
maiden name. Another brother, a
ne'er-do-well, " accepted a position"
as marker in a billiard-room.
What is there in either or both of
these occurrences to cause a poignant
feeling of personal disgrace in the
mind of any relative of the parties
who was not responsible for them ?
An honorable secret marriage, with
tiue affection as a basis, is much more
creditable than the open sale of them-selves
for money which many " poor
but proud" daughters of old families
consumate. Tbe " black sheep" of a
family may disgrace himself, but there
is neither rhyme nor reason in his sis-ters
and brothers taking upon them-selves
any of the shame.
The " old family" pride is one of
the most absurd and illogical of all
survivals and apings of aristocracy in
a republic of equal citizens. Some of
its vagaries are amusing, t u t the
Washington case is pitiful.
"Crackers."
For months Crackers had been
wondering what a steamboat would
look like; he had always lived among
the sand-hills, a poor colored boy, and
had never seen one.
He knew there was going to be an
excursion to the sea-coast, and he had
been saving " u p . " Now, saving up
with him meant hunting around for
odd jobs on Saturdays.
He worked hard for his board and
clothes, but when he went into town
with a load of wood, on Saturdays, he
was allowed to pick up any little job
he could find and keep the money.
He had saved just enough for the
excursion when something occurred to
make him almost forget entirely about
steamboats. He set to "studyin'
hard," thinking and planning as he
rode on top of his load one day.
The day before, a poor white woman
had died, leaving a little girl with no
one in the world to care for her. The
people in the sand-hills, white as well
BS black, were very, very poor. There
was no one who could afford to take
the little girl and support her. There
was nothing to do but send her to the
poor-house.
Crackers could not bear to think of
that, for he had often stopped and
talked to the little thing, who would
clap her hands when she saw him com-ing
and call:—
" Kackers! Kackers! Howdy,
Kaekers."
He wondered if he could not find
some one who would take the child
and let him pay for keeping her. He
had a whole dollar and a half, and he
would try to save up faster.
When he got into town he went to
a white woman whom he knew and
consulted her. She told him to bring
the little girl to her the next day. In
the meantime she would see what
could be done.
When he came again he found a
woman there who had just lost her lit-tle
girl, and was glad to take the one
he brought. But Crackers would not
leave until he was allowed to pay for
" her keep." In a crumbled piece of
paper was the money he had saved.
He counted it out, five and ten cents
at a time, proud to leave it behind,
even if he did not see a steamboat as
long as he lived.
There is a chance of his seeing one
this year, for he is making money
faster, and when he carries any to the
woman who took the little girl she
tells him to keep it, for she has not yet
spent all of his dollar and a half yet.
He thinks, after all, it does not take so
much to support such a little thing,
for he firmly believes he is still paying
for her " keep."
OWEN P . BRICKEK, E s q . , a t t o r n ey
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morning ami can be consulted
on all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
A J u s t i c e That K n e w H i s Business.
That Phoenixville Justice grasped
the situation vigorously. A lot of riot-ing
Hungarians brought before him
pleaded that they were celebrating a
christening and that a big drunk and
a free fight were but customs of the
country. " I know that," replied the
Justice," and so is cannibalism the cus-tom
of some countries, but it don't go
here. Ten dollars each."
I m p a t i e n t Y o u n g Lovers.
WESTMINSTER, MA., October 6 .—
Miss Kitty Roberts, ex-Attorney Gen-eral
of Maryland, and a bright,
vivacious blonde of seventeen summers,
eloped with William H. Thorna?, a
prominent young member of the
Carroll county bar. Both families are
of high social standing. Miss Roberts'
parents did not object to the match,
but were opposed to their daughter
becoming a wife until she was out of
girlhood.
The impatience of the lovers, how-ever,
would brook no delay. . Miss
Kitty went to Washington to visit
friends. Her lover followed her there
and they were quietly married. The
bride's father was immediately notified
by the»happy groom and the couple
have already been forgiven and have
received the parental blessings.
The N e w S t a t e E l e c t i o n s.
I t is now settled that the Democrats
of Montana have elected Toole Gov-ernor
by about 800 and a majority of
seven and probably nine on joint bal-lot
in the Legislature, thus securing
the two United States Senators. The
Republicans elect Carter to Congress
by about 1,200 and the other State'ofB-cers
are divided between the two part-ies,
but the exact proportion to each is
not yet ascertained. The Republican
majority for Carter for Delegate to
Congress last November was 5,126.
Washington has elected an entire
Republican State ticket and Congress-man
by from 6,000 to 7,000 majority,
with a large Republican majority in
the legislature that will elect two Uni-ted
States Senators. The Republican
majority in Washington for delegate
to Congress last November was 7,371. -
North Dakota has elected the entire
Republican State ticket, including
Congressman, by from 8,000 to 10,000
majority, and a large majority of the
Legislature that will elect two Sena-tors.
The Republican majority for
Delegate to Congress last November,
was 11,489.
South Dakota has elected the en-tire
Republican ticket and two Con-gressmen
by from 12,000 to 15,000
majority and a large majority of the
Legislature that is to elect the two
new Senators. The Republican ma-jority
for Delegate to Congress last
November was 14,567.
The sum total of the October elec-tions
in the four new States is the Re-publicans
about holding their own in
three of them, and losing .Montana
where they had a large majority last
November.
A Tramp Congressman.
Congressman Houk of Tennessee is
wearing a new suit of clothes. He is
a man so careless in his attire and so
indifferent to his personal appearance
that a single new outward garment is
an event in Houk's life ; the donning
of an entire new suit at Once marks an
epoch. It came about in this wise :
The Judge was walking up Pennsyl-vania
avenue recently with a couple of
Western friends, when he was accost-ed
by a tramp whose raiment might
have been fashionable and new on
the day of Jackson's first inaugura-tion.
"Scuse me, may 1 interrupt you
for a moment ? Will you give.me the
price of a meal ?"
Houk promptly replied: " I am
sorry, boss, but I can't help you. I've
just been trying to get the price of a
meal from these gentlemen. I haven't
had a mouthful of victuals to-day."
" Well, I say, pard, you look it," re-sponded
thè tramp, as he slided up to
the Congressman and looked him
over. " Here's a quarter ; you are
worse off than I am."
Judge Houk declined the proffered
charity, but he suddenly decided that
if his appearance was such as to excite
the commiseration and benevolence of
a Washington tramp it was time for
him to visit a tailor, and he lost no
time in doing so.
I t "Was Capital, S u r e E n o u g h .
There has been a great deal of dis-cussion,
and indeed'there is still con-cerning
the relations of capital and
labor," said a beautiful young lady
as she strolled with her lover through
the leafy, scented lane, under the
light of the rising moon, leaning affec-tionately
on his arm : " pray givb me
a definition of the word capital."
" Well," he said, as he encircled her
slender waist with his arm and im-printed
a lover's kiss on her cherry
lips," this, I think, is capital."
S t a t e Items.
The Reading Telegram will publish
a Sunday edition.
A chestnut burr found on Sharp
mountain contained seven nuts.
Yandals smeared rancid lard oyer a
Hamburg (Berks county) tombstone.
A landscape gardener at Wayne
rides in a rustic dog cart of his own
make.
A new iron rod-mill will be put ih
operation at Allentown in a few weeks.
An apple tree on the property of
Mr. Detwiler, at York, has borne a
single apple.
A dog and a hawk were seen in
fierce combat near Norristown recent-ly.
The bird was victor.
Disguised in a priestly garb a
roguish book agent hns been imposing
on Norristown servant girls.
In an article published in a Wilkes-barre
paper a preacher" denounces
many features of the County Fair.
The Malvern Item says the men of
the Paoli wrecking train are so tony
that they work in silk hats.
The Presbyterian Church of Oxford
has decided to allow non-communicant
members to vote on the selection of a
pastor.
A Chester paper recommends its ad-vertising
columns to President Harri-son
if he wants a really good Commis-sioner
of Pensions.
Frederick Haines, of Reading,
whose ribs were fractured by the jolt-ing
of the cars on the Pennsylvania
Schuylkill Valley Railroad, has sued
the company for $5000 damages.
Frank T. Gernet, a farmer of Seips-ville,
Northampton county, was robbed
of money and clothing to the amount
of $100 by a tramp who had been in
his employ two weeks.
The body of John Devlin, a desper-ate
New York tramp, was found in an
abondened building three miles west
of Erie, and nine tramps, some of
whom had blood on their clothes, have
been arrested on suspicion of having
murdered him.
Martin Detrick was arrested at
Shamokin Dam, charged with the
murder of Charles Hain, and was
lodged in jail at Middleburg.
Father Huber, pastor of St. Pat-rick's
Catholic church, of Carlisle,
has been transferred to Elisabethtown
and Father Rafferty, of Shamokin, to
Carlisle.
A movement was inaugurated Mon-day
for the organization of another
farmers' society and the establishment
of another fair ground on the out-skirts
of Reading.
Wife of Wilson Bennicoff, residing
near New Tripoli, disappeared from
her home several days ago. She is
supposed to have wandered into the
mountains in a deranged condition
and bodies of men have been searching
for her since last Sunday morning.
The Montgomery court this week
filed opinions refusing injunctions
against the Pennsylvania Schuylkill
Valley railroad, as prayed for by
Michael A. Monagham and John W.
Kelly, to restrain the company from
laying its tracks on their properties at
Pencoyd.
Let F o r e i g n Capital Come.
We do not share the apprehensions
of some of our contemporaries that
the large investments of roreign sydni-cate
capital in American industries
threaten the success of home enter-prise
and capital. If England has a
few hundred millions unemployed and
an outlet for it is sought in our brew-eries,
our iron establishments, etc., why
not welcome them ?
Foreign capital has largely contrib-uted
to build our railways and wo
have reaped much the chief share of
the benefits, and every million of
English or German money that comes
here to go into cotton, woolen or
iron mills or breweries or any of our
other productive industries, must add
just so much to the active cash capital
of our country, and add to the gen-eral
thrift of cur industry.
They will come with a strong in-clination
to combines, but they will
be no more and probably less danger-ous
than our own monopolists, and
the country is quite equal to the task
of keeping all of them within safe
limitations. Just now the combines
have a little the upper hand, as they
claim to have paid spot cash for politi-cal
power to protect them ; but when-ever
the «issue comes squarely before
the people, the combines and monop-oly
greed will be the under dogs. Let
foreign capital come freely ; there is
plenty of room for it, and every
chance for mutual profit.—Philadel-phia
Times.
Short Worlc of a T r o u b l e s o m e Case.
One day I was taken with paralisis
of the bowels. The stomach and other
organs lost ¿ill power of action. Al-though
opposed to proprietary medi-cines,
I tried .Dr. Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy, of Bondout, N. Y. To make
along "story short it saved my life. It
is the best medicine in the world for
difficulties of the kidneys, liver and
bowels.—A. J. Clifford, Lowell, Mass.