Beworvaic Watcpan
Terms 2.00 4 Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 2t, 1894.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Epiror
A Week of Rest.
The thirty n'nth volume of the
Deyocratic WaTcHNMAY is concluded
with this issue and its readers will pot
see it again until it begins the fortieth
year, on the morning of January 4th
1895. As is the custom all hands will
rest next week the holiday season the
better to enjoy.
We have tried to give you a paper
upon which you could rely and when
we look back over the year's work we
feel that our efforts have not been
fruitless. The WamcumAN has always
enjoyed a reputation for frankness that
has had much to do with giving it
prestige as a reliable journal. For local
news it has a record for accuracy and
scope that knows no equal, while its
editorial, telegraphic and literary de-
partments have been far above the |
high standard of former years.
Wishing you ail a bright and joy-
ous Christmas and & prosperous New
Year we bid adieu to '94, with the
hope that its successor will bring mu.
tual blessings and prosperity"
TC ST.
The Gazette Trying to Excuse Itself.
In the last issue of the Keystone Ga.
zette appeared two letters, the text of
which were intended to relieve that
paper of all responsibility for the re-
lease of Mr. THoMas BENNER from the
mail carrier service in Bellefonte. Im
giving a news account of Mr. Bex-
NERS release, in a previous issue, the
WarcEMAN had stated that it was
made on account of complaints of ir-
regularity in the mails at the Gazette
office.
We had no idea of casting any reflec-
tions on the Gazette for complaining
about the mail service and only pub-
lished the action as a matter of news,
relying on the editor of another town
paper for the correctness of our story.
Now whether the Gazette did com-
plain or not, the rumor on the streets
was that it did and when we come to
look into the circumstances there is
every reason to believe the rumor true.
The Gazette is the only paper in town
on Mr. BenxEer’s route. He carried
its mail and had nothing whatever to
do with the mail relations of any of the
other papers. It was the Gazette that
complained to this office that it did not
get its regular quota of two Wate:
mans and we made the same complaint
to the Gazette office, because we did
notireceive two papers regularly from
it. We did not consider it ill ground-
ed to publish the story as we did, under
such circumstances, and are surprised
10 see the Gazette making such stren-
«ous efforts to get out of it. There is
nothing for it to be ashamed of. If it
did not get its mail regularly it had a
perfect right to complain.
LST ALSACE.
We Will Have to Vote on the Poor
House Question.
The question as to whether Centre
county shall have a poor farm, at
whieh all ber paupers will be given a
heme and the township overseer sys-
tem done away with, or whether the
manaer of supporting the poor will
continue as in the past, has at length
taken definite shape. It has been
agitating the minds of some ever since
the seheme was voted down at a popu-
lar election twelve years, and largely
through the efforts of Mr. Jounx B.
Long, of Rush township, it is to be
brought up again fer public consider-
ation.
He has studied the matter thorough-
ly and believes it both practicable and
advisable for the county to unite in the
establishment of a poor farm. Under
the act of Assembly of June 4th, 1879,
if a majority of the poor overseers of a
county petition to the court to submit
the question to an election, it must be
done. A majority of the names of the
overseers were found on a petition sub.
mitted to the court last Saturday
and in response to their prayer, it
ruled that at an election to be held the
third Tussday in February, in 1895 |
the people of Centre county can decide
by ballot whether they want to
abandon the old system and take up
the new.
The districts petitioning for the
election are: Walker, Boggs,
Spring, Bellefonte. Milesburg, Phil-
ipsburg, Rush, South Philipsburg,
Taylor, Worth, Union, Union-
ville, Liberty, Howard, Huston,
Snow Shoe, Curtin, Howard, Walker,
Patton, Benner, Half Moon, Ferguscn,
and College.
Heavy Withdrawals of Gold.
W asHINGTON, Dec. 18—The treas-
ury department is informed that $1,
800 000 in gold was withdrawa from
the sub-treasury at New York to day,
thus reducing the gold reserve to $91.-
554.909. The treasury gold reserve to-
day stands $8.500 000 below the reserve
limit ot $100.000000. The rapidity
with which the gold has been with-
drawn from thie treasury, since the
second bond issue on Nov. 24, has given
the officials at the New York sub-
treasury so much work in bandling
and counting the money that extra
force bas had to be employed aud
worked over time. Since Nov, 24 last
the treasury has lost $25.500,000 in
gold by withdrawals, two-thirds of
which have probahly been exported.
ARR
The Inquirer in Its New Home.
What may be definitely considered as
one of the most notable and important
events in the recent history of American
journalism was the formal opening of
the gplendidly equipped new building
of the Philadelphia Inquirer, which
took place last Saturday evening, in the
presence of thousands of distingushed
men from all parts of the United States.
The Inquirer has long since come to be
recognized as one of the leading news-
papers of Pennsylvania, and its final
settlement in its new and magnificent
home, at Eleventh and Market streets,
in the very centre of Philadelphia’s
business section, give it prestige among
the greatest of the metropolitian dailies
of New York and Chicago.
“The Only” is King.
The Pittsburg Daily Post gives all
the latest news of the entire world for
one cent. It is in the front rank of jour-
palism. It is pre-eminently a family
paper. It devotes a department daily
to women and their doings. Its markets
are complete and accurate. It is admir-
ably illustrated and the best printed. In
short, it is bright, clean, newsy, and
costs only one cent, and is read by many
thousands of people daily.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
— Within four weeks Mr. Reuben
‘Watkins, of Mt. Eagle, and four mem-
bers of his family have died from ty-
phoid fever.
—Wardner Willard, a son of Mrs.
Nan Willard, of Reynolds avenue, fell
off the vaulting horso in the Y. M. C.
A. gymnasium, on Monday, and frac-
tured some of the bones of his wrist.
——RElectric cars are running on the
streets of Lock Haven now. ‘On Satur-
day, the first day, between seven and
eight hundred fares were rung up. One
car on Sunday picked up over a thous-
and nickels.’
——Mrs. Amelia Harper was found
dead on the floor of her home in
Aaronsburg on Tuesday morning. She
had suffered with cancer but she was
able to be about, as she had apparently
been doing her morning work when
«death overtook her. A few friends who
happened in found her shortly after life
had fled.
——A pleasant way to spend Christ-
mas evening will be to go to the opera
house and see Diehl’s stereopticon
exhibition.
tive as well as amusing. You can see
more of the world in an hour up there
than you can in years of travel. Many
views have been added to the well se-
lected list. Among them the celebrated
«Ten Night's in a bar-room” series.
Cepars’ Horipay DarnNties.--The
best candies, clearest toys, the freshest
cakes and breads, the largest nuts and
the greatest variety of ices are to ke
found only at Cedars’ Allegheny street
bakery and confectionery. Special at-
tention is being paid to the holiday
trade up there and you can buy more
good things at Cedars’ this year than
ever before, and for less money. Call
and see for yourself.
——The Karthause Times says deer
are so plenty in West Keating township
that a lady caught one and put it into
an outbuilding and kept it until Deacon
Jones came home and killed it on Mon-
day of last week. The deer dressed
about 100 pounds. He ran against a wire
fence on the old Jones’ farm turning
somersaults and landing in the yard on
his back. Before he could regain his feet
Miss Jones caught the deer and handed
him into the meat house and closed the
door.
——Boys and girls grain shoes, solar
tip 60 cts., 5 ets., 70 cts,, 75 cts. 90 cts.
and $1.00. Lyon & Co.
——Holiday goods at Green's pbar-
macy.
Arp THE LoaaNs:—The fair which
the Logan Steam Engine Co. intends
holding in Temple Court all of next
week will be wholly dependent for its
success or failure, on the good feeling of
the people of tha town. If you are dis-
posed to help ibem a little present some
trinket suitable for such a sale. It will
nct cost you much, but it will mean a
great deal to Lhe firemen, who have been
trying to get their apparatus paid for.
They can do it mn this way without
much expense to anyone and as it is
wholly to the public interest their work
is directed the firemen should receive
every encouragement.
The views will be instruc- |
News For PENsIoNERS —By the jor)
sue of December 5th Oliver P. Wilson,
of Hublersburg, was granted a pension
and George M. Fransler, of Port Ma-
tilda, was awarded an increase.
A FareweLL BanqQuer.—The Belle-
fonte lodge I. O. O. F. had a social ses-
sion in their rooms in the Exchange an-
nex last night, the object being a fare-
well banquet to their brother Odd Fellow
Rev. Miles O. Noll. Rev. Noll expects
to leave for his new field of pastoral
duty, at Carlisle, before the first of the
year and the fraternal spirit that has al-
ways manifested itself in his relations
with his brothers of the order found its
response in the testimonial given him
last night. During Mr. Noll’s stay in
Bellefonte he has made friends of every-
one and his departure will leave a sphere
unfilled that will be noticed in more
ways than one.
BierLy’s FEsTaL Davs.—The latest
musical compilation by Prof. Alfred
Bierly, of Chicago, Ill. is out under an
attractive cover and the caption “Festal
Days.” It is specially adapted for
singing classes, musical conventions
and societies in that it begins with the
rudiments of music and ends with the
highest grade of choral music. The
frontispiece is a handsome full page
picture of the composer and publisher,
whose music bas become so popular in
this section.
The book contains more than one
hundred choice selections, is printed on
good paper and should prove a ready
seller.
Two oF THE TripLETS DEAD.—The
trio of baby girls that has been the cen-
tre of attraction at the home of Robert
Boslough, on east Bishop street this
place, for the past fifteen months, is
broken and little Ruth, the prettiest of
the triplets is dead. Several weeks ago
the babies ell took the measles, that
is epidemic in the town, and were}getting
along fairly well until Ruth was pros-
trated with pneumonia. She died on
Tuesday evening.
Yesterday at noon another of the
two died but the third was on a fair
road to recovery. It is too bad that
after having lived this long, with every
promise of growing up into strong
healthful children those interesting
triplets should fall victims to disease.
The two will be buried in the same
coffin this afternoon at 8 o’clock.
MARRIAGE LicENCES.—Issued dur-
ing the past week taken from the docket:
Franklin E. Scantling, of Blanchard,
and Mamie Jackson, of Lock Haven.
John S. Daleand Caroline Summy,
both of Lemont.
John T. Watson and Laura E. Con-
fer, both of Boggs Twp.
Geo. B. Lee and Kate C. Moyer, of
Potter Twp.
Chas. E. Cowdrick, of Bellefonte,
and Emma J. Ross, of Spring Twp.
John B. Ruble, of State College, and
Sarah Hoy, of Lemont.
Jas. C. Gilliland, of Oak Hall, and
Nannie M. Campbell, of Linden Hall:
Wm. J. Howe and Mary Frank, both
of Philipsburg.
J. H. Fogelman, and Sarah E.
Mechtly, both of Patton Twp.
Elmer E. Bartley, of Bellefonte ; and
Ella M, Stover, of Aaronsburg.
——Two thousand heavy flannel
shirts worth $1.50 are selling at 50
cts. Lyon & Co.
——A half hour spent in looking
over our assortment will give you
a fair idea of the popular styles. and we
can only hope that it will be as much
pleasure for you to see as for us to show
our goods.—Samuel Lewin’s.
——Shaeffer the photographer is offer-
ing some great enducements until Jan
1st, 1895.
Foster STILL TALKS WEATHER.—
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the
storm wave to cross the continent from
16th to 20th, and the next, which was
due in Japan about Dec. 8, will reach
the Pacific coast, near the Columbia
river’s mouth, about the 20th, cross the
western mountains by close of 21st, the
Mississippt valley and upper lakes 23d,
Ohio valley, east gulf and lower lakes
24th, eastern states 25th, and New-
foundland 26th.
The path of this storm center will lie
along the northern boundary of .the
United States, causing unusually warm
weather all over the country preceding
and during the passage of the disturb-
ance, only moderately cool weather fol-
lowing.
Rainfall from this disturbance will be
limited to small areas and excessive
evaporation will cause drouth in many
parts of the country. Better rains may
be expected from the next disturbance.
‘Warm waves will cross the western
mountain country about the 20th, the
great central valleys about 22d and the
eastern states about the 24th. Cool
waves will cross the western mountain
country about the 28d, the great cen-
tral valleys about the 25th and the east.
ern states about the 27th.
My forecast of a dry November has
been wonderfully well verified, not
more than half the usual amount of
rain having fallen during the past
ee
WaY CHILDREN HANG STOCKINGS —
The custom of hanging stockings on
Christmas eve, like that of preparing
the Christmas tree, is derived from the
Germans, who have a fable that while
the stockings of good children are filled
with toys and sweetmeats by Kris King-
le, a corruption of Christ Kindlin, or
Christ child—those of bad ones receive
nothing but a small rod or switch, which
is placed in them by another personage,
known as Pelsnichol, literally Nicholar
with fur, meaning St. Nicholas dressed
in fur. Itis a rare sight on Christmas
morning in a German household to see
the expression of abject misery and
broken heartedness on the face of some
poor little wight who, having been dis,
obedient or otherwise naughty on Christ-
mas eve, finds in his stocking cnly a
small birch rod, while the hosiery of his
brothers and sisters is filled with bon-
bons and playthings. The dread of get-
ting the rod, from old Pelsnichol on
Christmas, keeps many a German child
in order throughout the entire year.
—Ez.
| WEDDING BELLS CHIME FORTH.—A
pretty wedding ceremony was solemniz-
ed at the palatial country home of Mr.
Joseph Ross, near Pleasant Gap, on
Wednesday evening, at 7 o’clock. The
colonial stone homestead was thronged
with merry people who had assembled
to witness the nuptials of the daughter
of the family, Miss Emma Ross, to Mr.
C. E. Cowdrick, the youngest son of
contractor Morris Cowdrick, of east
Linn street, this place. Rev. J. C.
Young, of the Methodist church pro-
nounced the ceremony after which a
reception was held and a sumptuous
wedding supper served. The bride is a
charming young girl who will make a
loving and practical wife. Her husband is
a brick layer and a young man of good
habits and kind disposition. Their
union will prove a happy one, no doubt,
and the WATCHMAN extends its hearty
congratulations.
Among those present were : Mr. and
Mrs. M. W. Cowdrick, Mr. and Mrs.
A. S. Garman, Mr. and Mrs. H M,
Cowdrick, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Riddle,
Miss Mable Cowdrick, Mr. Christ Dale,
Misses May Eckenrotb, Nettie Gill, and
Mamie Dolan, Messrs. T. P. Cowdrick,
Role Miller, Ammon Kerstetter, Will
Harrison, Harry Hile, Mr. and Mrs,
William Ross, and Mr. and Mrs. Potter
Tate.
Many useful and costly presents wera
received and the Pleasant Gap band
rendered a delightful serenade shortly
after the ceremony.
——Holiday goods at Green’s phar-
macy.
——Those fine enameled photos of
Shaeffer’s greatly slaughtered in price
until Jan. 1st, 1895.
. MORE NOTORIETY FOR BELLEFONTE—
"Bellefonte or some of her people seem to
be continually gaining notoriety in one
way or another. Last week it was the
dedication of the new armory that at-
tracted attention from all parts of the
country. This week the town of Belle-
fonte is being talked of because of the
escapades of one of her former sons.
Charley Valentine, oldest son, of Mr.
Abram Valentine formerly of this place,
now of Atlantic City, N. J., was ar-
rested in El Paso, Tex., one day last
week, while eloping with a Mrs. Mul-
vaney, whom he had met at the seaside
resort and who had grown tired of her
ancient husband.
The story runs as follows: The Mul-
vaneys were wealthy and Charley meg
them at the shore. Mrs. Mulvaney,
young and pretty, had married for
money and was consequently little in
love with her husband. When he fell
from a carriage last September and
broke his wrist, the doctors advised a
western trip for recuperation. They de-
cided to go but the Mrs. insisted that
her husband should have a nurse and as
Charley Valentine had n. hing in par-
ticular to do, the wife though. .¢ would
be just the plan. Well Charley wa
just looking for that kind of a job, so the
party set off, with San Francisco as their
destination. The nurse kept the old
man’s nerves up by liberal doses from a
«plack bottle,” but by the time they
reached Omaha, Neb., such a meta-
morphosis had transpired that Valen-
tine had become Mulvaney, while old
Mulvacey was known as Valentine.
The patient was in a stupor and was
put to bed at a hotel, where Charley left
instructions that he and his wife were
going away for a day and the old man
should not be disturbed.
Immediately upon their departure the
suspicions of the hotel people were
aroused and going to the old man’s room
they found him lying on the bed fully
dressed. When he regained conscious-
ness he would not believe that his wife
had gone off until be missed $10,000 in
cash and $7,000 worth of jewelry. War-
rants were issued and the elopers were
arrested in Texas. Mrs. Mulvaney
promptly furnished cash bail for the
two, but they were held on other
charges.
Charley Valentine is well known here
and this escapade is a great surprise lo
those who knew him. It is not thought
with the intent of putting him out of
month.
the way, as the city papers assert.
here that he drugged old Mulvaney !
How CurTIN Was To Have BEEN
CARRIED OFF.—A short time after the
death of the lamented Andrew G. Cur-
tin, the WATCHMAN published a clip-
pling from Kate Field's Washington.
The story that article told was of a plan
which the confederate soldiers bad con-
cocted to capture and carry off Curtin,
who was then one of the central figures
of the North, and whosesojourn at Bed-
ford Springs brought him within a
single night’s march of the rebel lines.
The article, as it appeared, was incor-
rect as to the date of the proposed car.
rying off of Pennsylvania's Governor
and as it reached the eye of a friend of
the rebel General, who had planned the
capture, he sent a marked copy to him
asking for his confirmation or correction
of the story. The officer in question was
none other than the daring General
Imboden, who was campaigning and
recruiting in the Shenandoah valley
at the time, and his answer which ap-
peared in a recent issue of the Everett
Republican is especially interesting to
Centre countians who will be surprised
to learn how narrowly Curtin did escape
talling into rebel hands. The letter is
as follows:
Damascus, Va, November 29, 1894.
It was indeed a pleasant surprise to see
your handwriting once more ina letter ad-
dressed to me. The accompanying newspa-
per. The Everett Republican, also has come to
hand.
1 inclose you a letter from Mr. Parthemore
referring to the same matter. He also sent
me Kate Field's mention of the incident.
It has some foundation in fact, but there are
some errors in it—especially as tothe date of
my intended raid, and as to my telling Gov-
Curtin that “if he had stayed in Altoor® a
couple of hours longer he wculd have been
captured and carried off.”
I have promised Mr. Parthemore to send to
him a condensed statement of the facts on the
Confederate side for Gov. Curtin’s biographer
and am only delayed by an effort to find some-
thing in the Government's publication of the
“Records of the War,” of which some 96 vol.
umes have been issued, that will fix accurate-
ly the date of my “raid.” All my military pa:
pers were lost or burnt after the surrender of
Gen. Lee's army in 1865.
Typhoid fever so prostrated me in the Fall
of 1864 that T got a temporary transfer to light
duty in Georgia, to terminate April 1st, 1865.
But at that time Generals Sherman and Ston e-
man had so completely cut off communication
between Virginia and Georgia that it was im"
possible for me to reach the former State from
the latter.
When Gen. Lee surrendered my brigade
was scattered on detached duty in the Shen®
andoah valley, from Harrisonburg to Fincas
tle, in Botetourt county. Hearing of Lee’s
surrender the officers disbanded my men,
who went to their homes in the mountains of
Virginia, taking their horses and arms along,
and I suppose secreted or burnt my official
books and papers. At least all efforts on my
part to recover them have failed. The pres
ent Governor of Virginia, Lieut. Col. O’Ferrall”
of the 23d Virginia cavalry of my brigade’
marched a fragment of the regiment to Win.
chester and surrendered formally.
So you see I have norecords to fix dates and
events, except by reference to General Lee's
records or those of the War Department at
Washington, and they are far from complete as
to my little command in the Valley and North-
west Virginia.
In 1862 I was withdrawn from Gon. Joseph
E. Johnston's army at Yorktown and sent by
President Davis to the Virginia mountains to
enlist, from beyond our then occupied lines
all the men I could “Stonewall” Jackson
dislodging Schenck, Milroy, Fremont, Banks
and Shields from the Valley in May and June,
1862, (in which I took an humble part with on-
ly about 200 men I had secured in 2 or 3
weeks), greatly facilitated my recruiting. In
fact men came in so fast I had difficalty in
arming them, and by October of that year I
had over 2,000 mountaineers in rank, and by
January, 1863, a full brigade, including a 6-gun
battery of horse artillery. Of my command 200
or 300 were Marylanders, so that I had a com-
mand embracing men who were admirable
guides to go where I wished, and they all had
left friends at home whose deepest sym-
pathies were with us.
My aim and duty were to cripple the B. & 0.
R. R. as ofcen and as much as possible. My
information of affairs on that road fro Har
per’s Ferry to Cumberland was as accurate al
most as they had at Washington, and I was
thus enabled. to strike it many a disastrous
blow, with little loss on my part. I nearly al-
ways surprised the road guard by; night
marches of from 30 to 50 miles. Such was my
success on the B. & O. that I conferred with
Gen. Lee to try to get him to send a co-operat-
ing cavalry force of 2,600 men whose move-
ments [ would mask in an effort for them to
reach Pittsburg via Fairmount and the Mo-
nongehala river, whilst I,c rossing the Potomac
below Cumberland, would make a dash at Al
toona and burn all the shops there and blow up
the engines, and take such a course for re,
treat into the Virginia mountains as would en-
able me to unite with the then retreating col-
umn from Pittsburg.
Thif scheme made a deep impressicn on
Gen. Lee, but with McClelland im his front he
did not feel safe in detaching the force I deem"
ed necessary to certain success. Ihad plenty
of men with men to send in little squads a
day or two in advance, who, with the aid of
their friends at home, could have cut and
kept cut and unserviceable all the wires that
could betray our movements, That big raid
was never undertaken, but my “heart was set’
on “getting a lick” at Altoona. I kept ham.
mering away at the B. & O. during the Sum-
mer of 1862, and thinking much about the
Pennsylvania road, but never saw an opening
that I deemed safe, and Gen. Lee had caution-
ed me against rashness.
1 think it was August, or early in September,
1862—not 1864, as Kate Field has, nor 1863, as
the editor of the Everett Republican has it,
but in 1862—that I heard via Cumberland that
Governor Curtin, Hon. Simon Cameron and
Col. A. K. McClure were at Bedford Springs
for a brief period of rest; and I thought that
possibly where these important public and
brainy men were others of note would be
! about. So I sought more positive information
to reach me at Hancock, and to be governed
by it, and set out to cross the Potomac there
with about 1000 men, sending detachments
up and down the B. O. road to do what
damage they could. and to join me «t Hen,
cock; intending, if the information justified
it, to make a night dash on Bedford, “bag the
big game," and, if the wires were cut on the
Pennsylvania road, send my prisoners back to
Virginia and go on for Altoona.
1 remember my plan thea was to fire up
every locomotive, put on a forced draft, chain
down the safety vaives, and wait at a safe dis-
tance, covering all entrances to the shops with
our rifles, "till the explosions began, then re-
tire as we came till after night fall and make
for the Potomac where we might be least ex-
pected I waited an hour or two at Hancock
in vain for the positive information I wanted»
and for lack of which I turned back to Virginia,
no one the wiser as to what brought me there,
except to do some ‘‘work” on the B. & O.
which being done it was natural we should go
back to our camp at Moorfield. But for some
mmpradence on the part of some one—perhaps
an over-eager inquiry for Governor Curtin ex-
citing suspicion—I might have gone and cap-
tured him and his friends, who would have
proved a *‘big card” in our hands to force ex-
changes then in a muddle The truth is I
should have pushed right cn. It has been
said that “the woman who hesitates is lost.”
So I am convinced that in war the command-
er who_hesitates, where the chances are even
and the object to be achieved is important,
commits a great blunder. Hoping for another
opportunity I kept this scheme vey quiet
but noj such chance ever presented itself
again.
To show what cool daring may accomplish I
need only refer to the capture of Generals
Crook and Kelly, at Cumberland, a little over
two years later, by Capatin Jesse McNeill, of
my brigade, where, with 40 men, he took them
out of their beds late at night when their
army of 8,000 men lay asleep all around and in
tke city, and sent them to Richmond.
In 1876-7 1 became intimately acquainted
with Governor Curtin and often discussed this
affair with him. He was a great and lovable
man, and I am proud to have numbered him
among my warm friends, and often told him
how much I regretted not forming his ac-
quaintance at Bedford and shown him chival.
rous hospitality in my mountain camp—an
honor I surely should have had that night but
for some one’s blundering or my lack of
nerve to push on. He told me he and his
friends were amusing themselves in a pleasant
game at cards, which was summarily ended
How he said they got away I do notremember,
Truly your friend,
J. D. IMBODEN.
P. S.—A later letter from Gen. Imboden
fixes the date of his intended raid on Bedford:
as in August or September, 1862.
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY OLD.—
The Young Men’s Christian Associa-
tion of this place celebrated the twenty-
fifth anniversary of its organization by
a joint meeting in the Methodist and
Presbyterian churches last Sunday night.
In the former a male quartet, with
full crchestral accompaniment, lent at.
tracti veness to the services, while in the
latterjchurch a male choir, accompanied
by Mr. Meyer on the pipe organ, led
the singing.
State !Secretary Hurlburt, Assistant
State Secretary, Gilbert A. Beaver, J.
W. Gephart Esq., and Mr. F. H. Cota,
gacretary of the local association, were
the speakersjwho entertained the people
with the factsZof the objects and re-
markable work and growth of the Y.
M. C. A. all over the world.
To most of those present Mr. Cota’s
report for the year was a revelation.
Very little attention is paid, by a ma-
jority of our people, to the stone house,
on north Allegheny street, which af-
fords an asylum for all kinds of men,
where a wholesome christian atmosphere
pervades a cheerful reading room, a cosy
parlor and an attractive game room, and
where a fully equipped gymnasium and
clean baths afford a means of physica]
development and culture. The eighteen
thousand men, who visited the place dur-
ing the year just closed attest, however,
what such a place means to them. Many
of them with no homes, find there a
bright, cosy place where they are al-
ways welcome and the result is, they
frequent it, Others without employ-
ment improve; their idle moments in the
reading rooms and every night parties
of young men unre kept off the streets
by the] attractive gymnasium.
During the year 2,000 young men at-
tended gospel meetings in the rooms, 21
young men confessed Christ there, 1,500
attended receptions and entertain-
ments, 600 took baths and 140 attend-
ed educational classes.
Is this not a record that should in-
spire a generous support ? The as30cia-
tion has never donesuch good work and
its secretary is to be congratulated on
the zealous manner in which he has
labored for its success.
Help your own son, by helping such
a telling work.
BorouGH Business TRANSACTED.—
Council met as usual on Monday night
and transacted the following business :
Upon a petition presented by Jas. I.
McClure the matter of laying a board
walk out to the Brown row, at the car
shops, was referred to the Street commit-
tee with power to act in requiring prop-
erty owners to build same. Petitions
from residents of Curtin street for anoth-
or arc and several incandescent lights
for that thoroughfare and from resi-
dents of Howard street for another arc
light were referred to the same commit-
tee.
The Street committee reported that
the end of the Curtin street fiasco is in
sight and recommended the payment of
$280.54 for two week’s work thereon.
The water committee reported the low-
ering of pipes on Curtin street at a cost
of $220.
There were no further reports and
council adjourned after instructing the
Street committee to confer with the
County Commissioners for the immediate
erection of the new bridge over Spring
creek, at the foot of Lamb street, which
was recommended by the grand jury
gome time ago. :
— Notwithstanding the strike we
have received two hundred Misses coats
from $2 00 to $5 25. They are really
worth from $4 00 to $9.00. Sd