THE CENTRE REPORTER From Johnstown.
The death of Judge Cummin, at Cres~
gon was unexpected to the people of
Johnstown, as it had been reported that
he was improving.
During Judge Commin’s stay among
FRED KURTZ, -~- EDITOR
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the people there he made many friends
and they deeply regret his demise, His
C M Bower
Patrick Garrety
Soseph W Gross
JW M'Cormick
«.M 1 Gardner
J Willis Weaaer
W Harter
Bellefonte, N.
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Contre Hall Borough...
Howard Borough...
Milesburg Borough.
Borough... ssanssnsnsaed
plan for having the people qualify to
their classes met with considerable oppo-
sition when he first began his work here,
but that
methods were het ins
now everyone admits his
wise and for the
terests of all concerned,
The Board of Inquiry seems now to be
itaswork in the
and of
day and night,
~H L Barnhart
Daniel Grove
IS Del
determined to finish up
shortest time possible, a force
clerks are kept at work
ooo B Crawlord
I € Rossman
J A Bowersox
C A Weaver
Halfmoon. cesses a Wm Bailey
Haris... ..cueicsnmnse what irmine «eo C Meyer
Howard. Franklin Dietz
Huston John Q Miles
Liberty D W Herring
Marion eases sess MeDowell
MILES.....c.ovovrrammtmnsmmuinnsnnrssss FJ Gramley
Patton. sraisteisss ’ . Meek
PORN. iiss iron F Smith
‘otter, NP
Gregg, &
The Commissary Department has been
A eee
Haines, 1g very much simplified, only few clerks
to do
There areabont 7
i"
are required now the necessary
work, (4) persons subs
sisting and they are of a class that are un.
Harry able to he.p themselves.
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As soon a8 the widows receive their
allowance in money from the Relief Fund
the:
subsistence is furnished
are taken off the list and no farther
In such
furan i
bu
them.
Cases, ish 64
rations
to the children of the family,
R J Haynes Jr however, are
J N Brooks
m T Hoover
. Aaron Fahr
] H McCauley
Levi Reese
thos ©
take care of
number of
who are older are lefl to
The
aud
themselves, rations 18
calculated, instead of
bread, flon
furnishing
is given and the people are
required to bake for themselves.
meat is furnished twice
Reports from Ireland indicate that its Fresl
crops of wheat, barley, oats, potatoes and
other farm prodnots are better than they
have for many This
cheering news to (he poor inhabitants of
a week, and the
food is all of good, healthy quality.
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Capt. Kuhne says that it will be impos
heen 18 .
years j
sible to reduce the number subsisting
all
PAR
their friends. from the commissary much below the
Ireland and!
——————————— present number for some {ime without
The Philadelphia Times is doing a good doing injustice, but as soon ns the relief
thing i coming down on lawyers on the
contingent fea 1 for its
text damages a £20,000
In this case the law-
an
money is all paid out the stock of goods
yusiness, taking on hand will beclosed out and orders
1
£1
given on merchanis
that it will
awarded boy in town to the few
: be necessary to subsist
for a broken limb. De necessary LO subEasl,
Some lawyers have --—
yer kept half.
astounding maw to keep funds, The Rev, E. F, Flemon, who it will
remembered was arrested at P re:
charged with murder 1a South Carolina,
and handed
that state for
bes
ia ittsbu
The New York Herald says Ex-Mayor
Hewitt upon his arrival from Europe res
marked that it
the American
over to
trial,
composed altogether
the authorities of
was a curious thing to see has been acquitted,
epublic preparing to ins {the jury, of white
vite ot ations to send their products
the government
in its power to keep them
aut by a prohibit
Ball's-#ove
ert men, having found him not guilty,
across the ocean when The colored witnesses who appeared
was doing ail the loterest of
Beaver
Filemon, did not
before Gov. in
ory tariff, want the governor to
honor the requisition
He
declared, because
resolution that hereafter no person shall i white Democrats of the south
oF eh
wad
¢ esocniive of
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South Carolina.
Pottstown town council has adopted a | fair trial, they
receive a
the
be employed on borough work unless he | diced against
i 4
i voles the
!
i
his honest |
every colored
is an American citizen and taxpayer, and
no person who fail
hiinae
1DIICAD
Beaver's credit, be it
Het
ticket,
8 topay
debts when he ia able to do so
railroad
mit himself (0 be swayed
The Pennsylvavia company { shirt sentimentality.
}
a rule to
employes who do not pay
debta.
has also adopted discharge all Filemon's
their honest | find fault with th
friends
of ¢
while mo
cannot JUrse
’
¢ twelve an
who acquitted him, and the
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that remains for them to do isto denoun-
ce the negro that
fired the fatal shot
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mation, by the Democrats on
. Mever was nominated by secla who swore Flemon
Tueaday, |
f . g tia 4 n i
for re-election as district attorney, Mr,
Meyer has filled the office faithfully dar
g the present term and it is bat justice
-
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the w of the divoree transgressor
sometimes a hard one.
Sheriff Flack, ¢
recently divorce
f
that Lie wa¥ accorded the usages of a re a
New York,
nomination and
his eli | from bis wife by an apparently collusive
ciency he deserves a re-election. Hav-| proceading of whicl had no knowl
ing the experience of one term the inter-| gdge—there being a younger and prets|
ests ot the people of our county will bel (jer woman in the case—will have to res
sarved by his re election. sign his sheriffaity, as
D ——— a ——— = .
: resigned, and
chem of
who was
in account of i
@
5 i she
be has already
er compulsion, as grand sa-
Tammany Hall
clared that unless Flack
There is something almost ludicrous in
the current reports of train robbing in
the West. A few days ago two robbers
went throogh a crowded train, meeti
with no resistance except from an un-
armed conductor, and a single robber
was equally successful. Meanwhile the
railroad companies seem to be making no
effort whatever to protect their passens
gers; and as for the State Governments,
they do not appear to have any concern
in the matter.
Tammany des
cleared himself
fully of the dishonoring charges against
him, he would be expelled; thereupon
Flack resigned, but without making the
slightest explanation or excuse for his |
conduct toward his wife, The divoree |
was a judicial scandal; not more go, prob-
ably, than many others that attract no
attention, but the political prominence of
Flack will make an example of him. He
will have to give up an office worth £50
000 a year, in which he has two years to
serve, and possibly face a criminal prose-
caution.
Centre county's sheriff may not find
thie pleasant reading.
o
T. F. Riley, nominated for aseociate
judge, is one of the most active Demo
crats of Harris township, and a gentle.
man of excellent character, who slands
high in his own neighborhood. He is a
man of intelligence and good sound Sarely the nomination of L: A. Schaef-
judgment, and will make a good aseo- | fer for prothonotary, T. F. Riley for as
ciate judge for which position he is in |sociate judge, and J. C. Meyer for dis-
every manner qualified. Democrats owe | trict attorney, should meet the approbas
him their united support, because he is | tion of every good citizen, without res
a good man and has always been true to | spect to party. In the important office
the Democracy. of prothonotary, in which the people
have more business than in any other
office, it would he anwisdom to change
from eminent fitness to inexperience
For associate judge we can not avoid
having a new man, hence a very safe
gentleman is presented in the person of
T. F. Riley, For district attorney, J. C
Meyer has proven himself very compe:
tent daring the present term and every
voter will recogmize the importance of
securing his services for another term.
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Advices from Zanzibar say Stanley i
coming down the coast with Emin Pasha
9.000 men and an enormons quantity of
ivory. The exact date of their arrival is
uncertain,
The Germans are doing their utmost
to creats a disturbance there, and a ris
ing against all Earopeans is mot only
A Ap
The King of famous Dahomey is dead,
and his successor must pr ove before he
ascends the throne that he is a brave
and great man, the young aspirant is
looking around for adventures, At last
accounts he had gone hunting for King
Tofa of Porto Novo, declaring that noths
ing less than the head of that potentate
would satisfy bisambition. King Tofa
was at peace with all the world, bat his
country is suddenly plunged into terris
ble commotion simply because his head
is wanted across the border in Dahomey,
The French are now busily engaged in
Porto Novo helping the King keep his
head on his shoulders. It ie such puer
ile quarrels as these that are playing the
mischief with the West African trade,
and keeping a long stretch of the coast
in an uproar, possible, bat highly probable.
ALL, PA.
The Sioux Indians signed the cession
of the great part of their Dakota rescrya-
tion, according to one of their head men,
on the idea if they did not agree to it the
government could and would take their
lands for nothing if it wanted to,
farms for
enough for a farming population of 400,~
000 souls.
This means 70,000 familisg,
The Sioux reservation in Dakota, re
treaties made
enormous
served to the
years ago, territory
stretching from the Nebraskan boundary
beyond the dividing line of the two Da
kotas, and including all of South Dakota
of the
Indians by
is an
lying west Missouri river except-
ing only eight connties of the Black Hills
region and the country directly
This mighty reserve has an area of 34,125
The
npying th
square miles, or 21.840 000
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country and cared for at its
ACTER
total number of 00 “4
gix agencies
Tempe
acres to every buck, squaw and
Bat i
agreement (ast compl
is about 25.000, giving an a of 000
pappoose
it must be borne in mind
ted on i
for opening to settlement about
u
fit $
cent, of this grest reserve.
erves for In
re lian OCCUPANCY Are CArve«
outofit, with an aggregate
square miles, The government
N00 for 1}
{$1
Iodisps are t
Ky)
rate ( 32 per acre, and
the 0 be provid
the 5 per cent, interest on thi
trust fund
rivers run through it, +
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in the pubic
of great fertility. Ti
for the most part a
with & clay sul soll
118 country tha
‘farmer has but to
plough and
plant his seed. Iftoo lazy for that, he
i
can tarn out his cattle upon the grass and
grow rich on the
ir iNCrease.
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I'he new liquor
which went into
AWS
f Connecticut,
effect August 1, are to
be strictly enforced. The
missioners of the State, to
censing is
connty com -
which the li
allotted, have expressed hom
:
:
selves gs unanimously { hig!
i in favor «
a
: he screen law reqoires
bara alial ¥ wha 1 f st *
all bara shall be visible from the 8!
roe
during the hours when selling is illega
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gud in cases where tha construction of
the buiiding completely seciudes the bar
noder penalty
Ti
agreed
orfeiture
of the license ye gum of $400 bas been
fixed
licenses Kont tate
Omission ers [or
have agreed n to -
00
ces hereafter to women.
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The only thing
> aging #3 d abot
it Quay, all
is about his sporting trips, fish-
You can’t
Bay any thing great of him 10 the senate
to take him an honor to the great com-
monwealth of A
w
Penu'a. sporting fis]
his
erman and ghrewd wire tule
WEer, in §
ics he stands conspicious and i 0 pes.
kind of
ye halls where
Wright and
other eminent statesmen brought renown
to their states, their Tountry and thems
selves, then they place little value upon
real greatness and are not hard to please.
Centre county has acres of as good
glatesmen as Quay and dozens who are
far his superior in real worth and ability.
fe
it
slate gic y in t! al
gtofl to represent them in tl
Webster, Calhoun,
ry
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The Robert Morris Land and Coal
Company of New York on Tuesday filed
a bill in equity against the Philadelphi
end Reading Coal and Iron Company in
the United States Cirenit Court,
The plaintiffs allege that they are the
owners of 8940 acres of land in Nors
thumberland county, Pa., having coal ly.
ing thereunder and valoable timber on
it.
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The defendant is in possession of the
land, and is rapidly removing coal and
timber from it, 2,000,000 tons of coal being
taken ont annoally’
The property indispute ie worth $30,
000,000. Thebill only was filed, and in
a few days the order and injunction will
be asked for,
The unanimous nomination, on Tues
day, of Li. A. SchaefTer, for re-election as
prothonotary is a just {ribute to a faith
ful officer, who has attended to his dos
ties faultlessly and with his accuracy has
combined an accommodating disposition
and gentlemanly bearing towards all who
had business in this important office.
There should be no opposition to one
who has filled his position so well. Let
the people give Mr. Bchaeffer such an
endorsement at the polls as is doea
faithfal public servant,
A Ms
The people of Ferguson and other
townships in the county are much incens
sed, and justly so, against commissioners
Henderson and Decker for rising the
valnation on real estate unwarrantably
above what the sworn assessors made it,
Centre Hall, Potter and other districts
have similar complaints. This action
hos raised the taxes. Let the commis.
sloners put in less time at Bellefonte and
they will not need raise the taxes.
“Nothing for Old Maids." |
An elderly lady once remarked to a |
pretty girl that it was a very serious |
matter for a young woman to hay
sweetheart,
was o far
have
The girl answer
more serious matter not to
Certainly
Boggs, who have committed suicide «8
Point Pleasant, W, Va., agreed with the
young lady. The
to do. There was no reason why they |
one,
all, apparently, But they killed them- |
selves, leaving a pathetic note,
both
“nothing in life
: i
thelr names, saving there was |
for old maids.” {
but the sul
misap-
It is a melancholy
siOTY,
was founded
| prehension of life, °
cide on a gigantic
here is just as much |
here below for an old maid as for any-|
body else,
Suppose they were without |
Husband
old
hushands? not always
ara
what the or young maiden
fancy |
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N ) IDOTE Are Wives always 1
Socrates is credited with |
wether one marries or does |
the Misses |
i ort
nt
have got
id have had to
of.
han once. !
Women |
mistake one!
ranted that his
omfiort
argo figure in the
ana |
“fF £3
Whoever pursues |
: they invariably |
ude him at last, | Will o the Wisp.
if ti
forlorn, home- |
» of them quite as sweet |
those aims
3
©
wanted children,
gs’ babies |
h they could |
by |
and}
Then |
{ of dens be- |
sil
happiness
tle wails
ation:
i
art!
OTIC
bles blindly
\
seeking always the]
everything, thankful al.
i
weiter |
3
owe ft to the mee to give
ale who show it the }
ue :
ir time to aiding the rest. |
opy, in helping mankind to}
prosperit; better, wiser, sweeter
wavs of living, there is work enough for}
wy
a million single wi
It
through a sea of troubles to find at last
is 8
unetimes necessary 0 pass |
that the only genuine happiness is found
in giving happiness to others,
| “miserable aims that end in self,” by a}
| mysteribus law friends, happiness and |
i
hope = ill drift their way, It is indeed: |
A miseralie, petty, low row $ :
That knows Lhe mighty orbits
Through beoght
onbin,
od 11%,
{ the skies
save Mght or dark in its own |
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River Floods
Dr. Felix L. Oswald expresses, in the
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by
August Lippincott, the conviction that |
the whole carth is rapidly going to the
account of |
the constantly increasing devastations |
of river floods
“demnition bowwows,” on
The cause of the river|
jon of the hillside]
along the shores of the rivers,
As long as the river hills are lined with
4
floods is the destruc
forests
trees, the soll beneath is soft and spongy. |
The leaves, living and dead, catch the]
rain and hold it gently to promote the
growth of vegetation. The trees onoe
cut off, the rainfall rushes down the
hillsides in the spring floods, washing
ghastly, yawning gullies, and pouring
headlong into the river, causing de-
structive and widespread floods. The
soil of the hills is washed off, leaving
them barren and rocky. The sand and
soil rush into the roaring river and cause
it to become more and more shallow, to
make higher floods,
In the torrid summer days, when the
moisture that should have remained in
thé soil is most needed, the earth is hot
and parched as a desert. Sosouthwestern
Asia, northern Africa and southern Eu-
rope, once the most fertile regions on the
globe, supporting teeming millions of
people, have become sandy barrens, sim-
ply through cutting off the trees from
the highlands along the water courses.
And so the whole United States will be-
come like Arizona in time, unless the
murderous tree stripping policy is
stopped. The only way to stop the floods
and reclaim the deserts is to replant the
trees nnd let them stand,
—— Sonor.
How much is Queen Victoria worth?
was a question that the inquiring Mr.
Labouchere insisted on having answores
in parliament recently. Well, the frugal
minded old lady has a private fortune of
twenty-two and a half million dollars to
begin with. Then sho gets a salary of
two million dollarssfrom the British gov-
ernment for being their figurehead-—not
a very handsome one, either. She isn't
quite a pauper, therefore, although she is
a beggar every Lime one of her numerous
posterity marrios.
Gen. Boulanger has taken pains to
deny the report that he has killed him-
self, or that ho is going to doso. Boul
anger has no need to commit suicide
The late clections in France prove that
Dem. County Convention.
The Democratic County Conviution
L. W. Bchaefler was nominated for pro-
milot.
Thos, F. Riley, of
Boalshurg, was
judge on first
J. C. Meyer was nominated for district
G. B, Wych, of Rush, and James Swab
The following were appointed a coms
mittee on resolutions: W., F
W. Parker, Col. J.
Heber, 8B,
F. Wea
The vote for associate judge
tiley 57, J. F. Heckman 38
For prothonotary the vote
stood, T.
F.
was, L. A
For county surveyor Geo, D. Johnson,
of Mt. Eagle had 65, and Mich. Grove 36.
Pr.J. W
npanimously ne
W. CC, Heiule, exq., was
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For coroner Nefl, of Bnow-
al x
gO Was
Chairman
.
An English Pope.
The last British C
contains rather a startiis
future of the papacy
prophesies the remova
the Roman (
Tho
speaking, says the writer.
to be up with t
ntemporary Review
4
g article on the
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any
of
g
It substan
the head
‘atholic ch to Lond
world is now 1
WAC English
church,
he times, must rid itself
Then,
and modernized, with a poj
of Italian traditions and intrigue.
purifi.d
who isan E
—
nglishman, Holy Church may
The author of the
paper, gwhich is printed anonymously,
looks to America or Great Britain to re-
habilitate the temporal
reconquer the world.
power or the
church must decline. Cardinal Gibbons
is hinted at as the next pope. With some
its it is
will have room
and
square miles of soll for own,
claimed that the papacy
for its secretaries,
guards.
MesNengers
The growing influence of the laboring
classes is apparent day by day. It is
noticeable in the fact that Mayor Grant,
of New York, invited representatives of
various labor organizations to meet him
in conference on the question of the
world's fair In 1802. That exposition
will not be an affair of a snobbish 400,
tho centennial inauguration was, but
CTT
prise of all the people.
i L$)
interesting to our reader
¢ of year to know that the
ng is pitched in the key of
-
On Monday officers brought to Read-
ing from Altoona Henry Whiteman,
aged 30, for whom they have been pearch-
ing eight years.
A little over eight years ago Whitman
was married to a respectable young lady
of Reading, and then disappeared. It is
a young lady there, and is now the father
The charges against
him are desertion and bigamy.
In Altoona he stood high in social
circles.
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Judge Terry of San Francisco was shot
by g deputy U. 8. Marshall ina hotel
while he was assaulting Jodge Field,
Terry has long been a terror in that state.
It was he, that shot senator Broderick
about 25 years ago.
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Boulanger has been found
the French senate, of treason,
eafe in Eogland,
guilty, by
but he is
—— ip
Captain Jennings, of the steamer Co-
lina, from Glasgow, reports haviog pasted
800 icebergs, 110 at one time being coun-
ted with the naked eye between Belle
Isle and Point Amour. Perhaps an ice
trust has these bergs in tow in order ie
freeze out the ic: dealers,
EE. — a ——
we Four more bodies were found yes.
terday at Johnstown.
wweThere will be no state fair this
year; let all come to Centre Hall, Sept. 17.
wnwRev, Rearick will be installed in
the Lutheran church at Rebersbusg next
Sabbath,
wme[ind a very heavy thunder gust on
Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by
storm.
we Dr. Stam ig about opening a new
store in the vacant hotel building at
Bpring Mills,
we Fai] large as hen's eggs in Clinton
county Wednesday afiernoon and much
damage done.
weeRRov, James Arney is here, visit-
ing his aged mother and other friends,
He is accompanied by his youngest
daughter,
wee Lowisburg is excited over the re-
ig that while the corpse of Mra, Sears
os was being embalmed there were
knooks and screams from under the
floor Jet sie house has no cellar under
it. 1 is great terror among the wo
men of the town.
~wHenry Steele, of near Granville,
Mifflin county, entered a water closet,
and without Lisroction the seat, which
was occupied by a copperbesd anak
bitten by the reptile. After Wueh palin
he is dead already —dendor than a door
wail. Vive la republiguel
and suffering whisky sud a
brought Bim Through the danger.
Obituary.
ut four uu
g VOOK
Afier an illness of gl nihs duration,
the spirit of William Get ite lemy
eet i God in Heaven.
t half past three o'cloch
wis mortal, and we
This event taking
Taesday moral Deceased
December 21
death aged
The disease Wa
the heart, but afte
attending physicians
#t PROTO TION
riher examin
tisoovered hal
disease actusily was i
and that it was too fa
Doceased was born ne
burg, als county
Anna Get
eight child:
sister and younger t
f a Ch
t {lines expres
He
rasta i
Hi% INARET,
Le Angels IN
tol that &
D. GETTIO,
.
Aaronsburg
F.8 of Girard neat, who visited
friends and relatives G
Tl
¥
He has charge of 8
SL 1W0 Weeks
1 started homeward
Loe at Lhe above piace
Bright just returned from & ripacross
and a vis London, where he ais
iy
i130
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Regu
inl
Conveniaon
tivered a lec-
AY evening
god to Paris to the §
ture
KIX
in the Lutheran ch
”
Fg ls
ast,
relieved O
genticmas misforiune 10 be
between
passengers ol
made him ups
London be Ix
{ bis valise while the cars
T
he sailed
Philadelphia and New York ho
the steamship
p on which
puree so that on his arrival in
a suit of cloth
wht
ox, ol
Absaloms Mingle Bb very ill and not expected 10
recover, with brain fever. Thelattending physis
cian het no bopos al all for
Miss Jennie Modlar und Miss
Mary Huston of Clearfield, nieces of Col. Oobum,
are visiting at that pentieman’s plade
Rev. Z. A. Yearick has igned here and ae-
cepted a call from Mercers ¢, Franklin co, Pa.
Boag
of Allentown
row
and wiil move ther
Mr. HA. Mingle who had been quite sick
again able (0 be about
£5 o a
th October.
The attempt 10 burn the property of Chas. Bell,
by some unknown partics has caused the insur
ance companies to cancel their policies,
Clayton Leitzell was arrested in Sagar Valley
last week and placed in jail at look Haven,
charged with having forged an order on his em.
ployer.
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Death of Judge Irwin.
John Irwin, Jr., of Bellefonte, died at
his home, on Wednesday afternoon, 14,
aged 84 years. A stroke of paralysis,
some two weeks ago, wad the cause of his
death.
Judge Irwin was well known all over
the county and was a very excellent man,
upright in all things, and respected by
all who new him,
BIRD CAGES AT COST.
Ihaveon hand a lot of brass and
painted bird cages which I will sell at
and below cost. Come early.
J.D. Munnay.
A big picnic will be held by half
dogen Sabbath schools in Brumgards
woods in the east end of Brashvaliey, on
Sat. 24.
Musical College ~The 36th session of
six weeks, opess Monday avenlng, July
20, for the teaching of young ies in
vocal and instrumental music. Address,
F. C. Moyes,