The Huntingdon Journal,
Wednesday Morning, July 16, 1873,
READING MATTER ON EVERY PAGE.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Brief Mention--Home-Made and Stolen
Gives up his Porter—Laird.
In the Woods—The Leaguers.
Bloodgood makes good music.
Prevalent—Pains under the apron.
Much grain has already been housed.
The hay crop will he an average one.
Typical of a Poor House—John Logan.
hobby—Our new sign. Warther did it.
Huntingdon was ns dry as a chip on the 4th.
"Dixie" Swivel knows how to make good
The travel to Bedford is rapidly on the in
If you want to know the value of Porterask
Laird.
The Broom Factory will be under roof in a
few days,
Why don't somebody open the Warm
Springs ?
The auditorium of the new Presbyterian
church is finished.
Prof. Gibson makes the dry bones take up
their bed and walk.
Puttstown is earnestly inquiring after the
health of one Lytle.
When the Leaguer 3 want to make a point
theygy to the Woods.
Tbe'l;rsburg Club is the latest new thing
in that hborhood.
Smash tba League and save thousands of
dollars of taxesmnually.
A number of nen pavements are being put
down in West Huntiagdon.
The Dudley "lath and lassies" enjoyed
themselves hugely on the 4th.
The "Legends of the Juniate characterize
Mapleton as the "Vale of Birds."
When the new route.rill 'm completed Sax
ton will resemble a gutted herring.
Morrison House "Charley" feels his keep
now and then. "Big login, me!"
Rev. J. C. Clarke spent a few days in this
place last week: He looks well.
The East Broad Top cars are mere pigmies.
But they are not to be sneezed at.
The Dudley coal region appears to be bless
ed with an abundance of cars now.
The old Methodist Church has been leveled
at Mt. Union to make room for a new edifice.
Gleason, of Dudley, is a capital fellow at a
pic-nic. He knows how to do it up Brown!
The railroads did a splendid 'business on
the 4th. The employees earned their money.
The new team belonging to the Car Works
looks nobby. "Russ" Henry bolas the strings.
There was a dry Flood at Hollidaysburg, on
the 4th. Ice water was worth a dollar a pail.
There is too much tragedy in the "Legends
of the Juniata." It is a most sanguinary tale.'
There is enough of scrap iron at Saxton, to
build A solid iron bridge across the Rayatewn
gland,
The first car built at the Huntivgdon Car
Works will be a tool and derrick car for the
Broad Top.
F. D. Parker, Esq., has been appointed poet
master at Greenwood Furnace. A good ap-
pointment.
_ Mrs. Stewart Foster, of West township, died
very suddenly, on Tuesday of last week, of
heart disease.
Long, of the Pres:, interviewed Broad Top
City on the Anniversary. He is not going
into the coal business.
The "Enterprise Passenger and Baggage
Transfer Company" is what the new baby has
been christened.
A Luzerne county lady, some time since,
gave birth to two colts and four calves. And
her name it was Colt.
Johnstown's favorite child—the District
Court—organized last week and thenadjourn
ed over the heated term.
The New York Herald was handsomely hoax
ed on the "Cateaville, Bedford county, Pa.,"
nitro-glycerine explosion.
City people are flocking to Bedford. The
Araudale, Cramer Cottages, and other board
ing places are filling up rapidly.
The harvest, tvhich has just been secured,
is one of the best cut for several years. The
farmers "feel as happy a big sunflower."
That tub race, on last Wednesday evening,
was fine sport for the Portstown people. It
will result in a funeral some of these days.
Langdon thinks he has a leetle the fastest
stock in town. So say some others who think
they are judges. What say you, Horatio?
A keg of beer, green fruit, and cholera mor
bus. They go band in hand. Such was the
case not a hundred miles from Huntingdon.
When everybody is striking out to watering
places and pleasure resorts, printers can't get
money enough to live respectably at home.
Doctors Thompson and McCarthy keep up
the health of Mt. Union to such a degree that
undertakers and graveyards are at a discount.
Harry Bloodgood's Minstrel Troupe will
drop down here on Monday evening, the 21st
inst. The troupe has an excellent reputation.
Our garden got into our neighbor's hogs the
other day, and, of course, the garden got the
worst of it, but it was a clever thing for the
hogs.
The question that agitated a female's mind,
on the Ridges, a Sunday morning or two ago
was, "who is that fellow with the yellow
hair ?"
Tuesday moraing the rain storm heralded
its approach by the lightning striking a shock
of wheat, on the island, and entirely consum-
ing it.
One of Long's livery horses broke the
Crooked Creek bridge, in Walker township,
the other day, sustaining injuries from which
he died.
A clothes-basket containing a keg, covered
with a table cloth, accompanied a pic-nic
party on the 4th. It was as handy as snuff in
a rag.
A. B. Shenefelt, Esq., of Juniata township ,
accompanied by his two daughters, has gone
West to Omaha and other points to spend the
The most uncouth and disagreeable practice
known to society is bawling, at an acquaint
ance, on the street, from a second or third-story
window.
After the delegate election the Leaguers,
who now crtemplate a heavy raid on the
tax-payers, will retire to the Woods and enjoy
the Shade
The "Huntingdon" boys do not feel like ex
ulting over the vanquished. All they say is
if you want to try it over, "we are your huck
elberries !"
Dr. H. Orlady has returned from an eight
weeks' sojourn in Wisconsin. He is as brown
as Mr. Lo, the Poor Indian. He is much im
proved in health.
Revs. Doyle and Jaokson, of the United
Brethren Church, talk of starting a new quar-
to church paper at llarrisburg. ' Success at
tend the enterprise.
The K. K. A.'s, (if anybody knows what
these cabalistic letters mean,) and their duck
ies, held a picnic, on Thursday last, near
McConnellstown.
Track laying is going forward rapidly on
the E. B. Top. if parties interested will let
us know we will accompany the first passen
ger train over the road.
A drunken fellow, on the 4th inst., fell from
the bridge at the foot of Fourth street into
the canal, and would have drowned I;ad not
s..me one rescued him.
A crazy man was removed from the West
End, one evening last week, by chief of police
Westbrook, who caused considerable commo
tion for a short time.
Lytle, the operator, as a climber of telegraph
poles, is sot a success. He mourns the loss
of Sunday segars. He is now looking for a
heavy weight to operate against.
Read advertisement of Milnwood Academy,
under the head of "New To-Day." This is an
excellent institution, and we would recom
mend it to parents and guardians.
Sixteen thousand dollars are the estimated
expenses of the Alms-House for the ensuing
year. Elect League delegates this year and
it will be $20,000 a year, in the future.
On the 30th ult., as a freight train, John
Stewart, engineer, was passing the narrows,
above Mt. Union, a half grown cub bear cross
ed the track ahead of the train, and swam the
river.
We do wish somebody would send us a dol
lar or two, just to enable us to revive old im
pressions. It is so long since we have seen
anything of the kind, that we feel anxious
about it.
There is no town in the State, with an equal
population of Huntingdon, without a public
water supply. Let us have water works. They
may as well be put up now as again—they are
a necessity.
!Climber fellow, with a musket strapped on
his back, passed us ou the street the other
day. This face indicated that he had just par
ticipated in the fierce and destructive "battle
of the Kegs."
The Trustees of the Huntingdon Academy
have resolved to build a spacious Academy
building on the lot now occupied by the.pre
sent building. A building committee has been
selected and ground will be broken in a few
days.
The citizens of the Third Ward were dis
turbed by a drunken fellow, a short time since,
and they seized him and tied him up to a post.
It whipped him effectually. This is the first
introductien of the whipping-post into the
West End.
A soldier's orphan, named Howard Kane,
aged about twelve years, whose mother resides
near Osceola, Clearfield county, was drowned
in the creek at Cassville, Huntingdon county,
on the sth inst., where he was attending the
orphan school.
Lightner has been off to Cape May, Sarato
go, or Niagara Falls. Can't tell which. After
seeing all the sights he has come to the con
clusion that WestHuntingdon possesses great
er charms for him. Pass round that hat,
brother
"he Sunday School of St. John's P. E.
Church, (Penn Street, opposite the Court
Souse,) we are authorized to say, will open,
on Sunday, July 20th, at nine o'clock in the
morning. The children of the town are cor
dially invited to attend.
Happy as a big sunflower—The chap who
was hugging his girl, while crossing the War
rior Ridge, the other day. His situation was
rather doleful, however, when he ordered his
horse to "git up" and he traveled for the big
timber at a rapid gait.
The big brakeman, known to everybody
along the Middle Division of the P., has quit
breaking and gone to baggage smashing. Af
ter his experience in braking he ought to be
a successful "smasher." Whew ! but he makes
the "kennels" howl!
The "buss" at last is a fixed fact. A com
pany of gentlemen, under the lead of Will De
Armit, one cf the most enterprising men in the
town, has subscribed the necessary stock and
In a few weeks there will be a way of get
ting to and from the depot.
The Harrisburg Telegraph and Philadelphia
Press have cut our acquaintance since the Ist
inst. Twenty cente postage is the straw that
broke the camel's back. We didn't snppose
that the Telegraph could stand it, but were
somewhat surprised at the Press.
Hon. Simon Cameron and family passed
through this place, in company with Hon.
Wayne McVeagh and family, on their way to
Bedford, a week or ten days ago. The Gen
eral is becoming corpulent, while McVeigh is
just becoming the reverse of this.
The Sunday Dawn announces that Hiram
Powers is dead and then Irreverently says that
any man claiming to be a christian who would
chisel a poor Greek girl out a block of marble
ought to die. We would recommend applica
tions of ice to the perpetrator of this witticism.
The camp meeting of the East Districtof the
Allegheny Conference will be held, at Mr. Or
bison's Grove, one mile from this place, to
commence on the 14th day of August next.
Those desiring to rent tents can do so by
making application to Rev. D. A. Messinger of
this place. All are invited.
Those depot fellows are laying in a stock of
coal for next winter. It is but a few mornings
since we saw them quietly gathering up the
better part of a car load. Who says there is
no Steele in that crowd? Well, they had a
fine opportunity. As a train of coal was pass
ing the depot the "trap" of a car flopped down
and scattered the black dust lively.
Rumor says the Bedford Springs will be
purchased at the end of this season for $350,-
000, by the Penn'a. Railroad Company.—Ex.
We would like to know the source of•this ru
mor. We doubt whether there is a particle of
foundation for it.. The Andersons do not ap
pear to have sufficient business tact to do half
so clever a thing.
4, ldaltie," our dearly beloved cat, which was
the admiration of everybody, and the great
pet of the family, is no more. He would hunt
birds, which so aggravated a miserable little
wren that it scolded him incessantly, until
he, in sheer desperation, hid himself away and
died, and now we have a whole family of
wrens chirping about us. Requies-cat in pace!
Is there no way to stop the infernal useless
whistling by engineers through our streets?
We hear no such unearthly sounds at Altoona
or Harrisburg. Is Huntingdon made an ex
ception to the rule ? Five minute squeals to
call in a flagman or signal the coal wharf are
"too thin." We hope the authorities will give
us an ordinance upon the subject and punish
the offenders.
Andy Crisman, Esq., of .Napier township,
Bedford county, is the crack owler. He has
followed one for forty years, and though fre
quently hooted at for his pains, he succeeded
in bagging his game at last. Ho measured
eleven feet from tip to tip. Andy, no doubt,
considers himself much wiser than an owl,
yet be acknowledges that it tookhim a couple
of scores of years to get even with this fellow.
Mr. E. L. Russ, who was for a number of years
connected with the Harrisburg Telegraph Job
Office, and who is experienced and thoroughly
skilled in his profession, is new in charge of
the Jounass. Job Office, and is prepared to do
all kinds of Job work in a manner that cannot
be surpassed by any of the regular city Job
Offices. This is the first time in the history of
the printing business in this place, that one who
has spent much of a lifetime, exclusively de
voted to Job Printing, has been engaged here.
We hope this liberal enterprise will be duly
appreciated by our people, and that all those
who have Job work to do will give us a
trial. tf.
The Leaguers are marshaling their forces
on all sides. They want to run the Commis
sioners' office, the Poor,House, and the Treas
ury. They desire to handle the funds of the
county. Their management of the Poor House
and the taxes in Porter ought to recommend
them. Do the tax-payers want to pay a few
thousand additional taxes? If not, see that
Leaguers do not represent you in the next
Convention.
Prof. Gibson writes to us: "I would like to
know what 'sweet sixteener,' with a two shil
ling hat and an ample supply of pea nuts, ac
companied Prof. Goss from Broad Top City to
Coalmont on the 4th of July lust?" Can't
tell, Professer. We hear of a great many
green exhibitions of this kind. Suppose she
was an "ogling," and it is conceded, we be
lieve, that the Reverend Professor can do as
he has a . mind to with his wards, so we pre•
sums it is nobody's business.
Our neighbor, H. C. Weaver, Esq., has been
orating on the 4th of July. Here is what a
correspondent in the Charleston Journal says
about it: "At 4 o'clock, e. 11., Mr. H. C.
Weaver being present, by invitation, was call
ed upon to make some remarks to the crowd
that bad convened in the new Hall belonging
to the Brotherhood. He acquitted himself in
his usual happy, practical, extempore, con
siderate manner and matter of discourse, il
lustrative of the workings and benefits of the
Order at large, which were well received by
the auditors."
The following officers compose the staff of
Major General Elliott, and were present Mille
review, at :Hollidaysburg, on the 4th inst :
Lieutenant Colonel anu Division Inspector, I.
H. Rawlins, Hollidaysburg; Lieutenant Colonel
and Surgeon in Chief, Dr. E. J. Miller, Ray's
Hill ; Majors and Aid-de-Camps, J. Haw
man, Everett, J. R. Gardner, Altoona, J. H.
Sparks, M. D. Barndollar, Everett, and J. W.
Smith, Yellow Creek; Brevet Major, George
E. Stailey, Ray's Hill ; Orderlies, J. C. Sparks,
Wm. T. Shaw, Alex. Weaverling and Wilson
Hymes, Everett. They made a splendid ap
pearenee on the occasion.
A 11001 l WORD FOR THE ENGINEER.—
The following was suggested to Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, during his recent trip from
Harrisburg to Altoona on a locomotive :
A ride on the engine may help to break up
the tedium of a journey. But I confess that I
enjoy the occasional privilege for other rea
sons. I have seldom found a locomotive en
gineer who was not a good fellow. Pilots on
the New York ferry boats, and engineers upon
railroads are entrusted with more lives than
any other men in the community; and when
we consider the immense number of people
who are transported every day, and the small
number of accidents which befall the millions
of people dependent on their vigilance for
safety, it will be seen how worthy they are of
the trust reposed in them. One may point to
the numerous railway accidents, and at the
great slaughter of men and women which so
often shock the public, and carry sorrow to
hundreds of households, as inconsistent with
such a judgment. But, on examination, how
very few of all these terrible accidents are
from the fault of the engineer. He is not to
blame for a broken rail. It is not his fault if
cheap or cheating wheels or axles have been
put upon the cars, the breakage of which sends
the cars and their precious loads a whirling
down the bank. It is not for him to run the
-trains which come rushing like the wind into
him, while he has the right of the way ! An
engineer may be set down, as a rule, as a
cautious, painstaking, intelligent man, who
brings to the care of human life as much con
scientious fidelity as is found in any other
profession in society which deals directly with
men and their interests. Every little while we
read instances of heroism in which engineers
stand to their posts in face of death, and many
a poor fellow who has been crushed under his
own machine might have saved his life, if he
had not bravely stuck to his place, and done
his duty to the very uttermost. Besides, bow
many unreported acts of heroism have taken
place, when, by facing coolly the utmost
risk, the engineer has carried off his train
safely. No reporter was there to note the
danger, nor bow it was avoided. We have
heard from these brave men of the machine,
instances of pluck and coolness and fidelity
which, if seen on the field of battle, would
have brought him universal applause. There
are thousands and tens of thousands of people
who ride from twenty to fifty miles a day, year
in and out, without a scratch, flying through
the air at a rate which, if any accident should
happen through the engineer's incaution or
neglect, would dash them to pieces. But how
seldom do they think of their faithful servant,
or speak a kind word of him or to him I Who
ever hears of passengers making a compli
mentary testimonial to engineers ? Who ever
sees newspaper commendations of their stead
fast services? The fact is, I never come off
from a journey that Ido not feel like going
up to the grand old machine and shaking
hands with the oily fingers of the master of it,
and thanking hi m for his services.
THE FOURTH.—It is decidedly late to
begin to give an account of the proceedings of
this National holiday, but as this is our first
paper since the celebration of it, we desire to
place on record what was done, so that when
the history of 1873 is read in the JOURNAL,
years hence, this portion of it will not remain
a blank.
The day was ushered in by the ringing of
bells, the firing of crackers, and small arms,
and the departure of the Fire Company, with
their apparatus, and the Silver-Cornet Band,
for Hollidaysburg on a train provided for the
purpose. A. large number of persons not con
nected with either the Band or Fire Company
also wended their way to that point. Every
train carried out a large number of citizens
until the town was decidedly dull. Several
small pic-nics were gotten np and participated
in at different points. The town was emphat
ically quiet. No disorder or drunkeness was
manifest anywhere. In this respect there was
a great improvement on one year ago.
The citizens of Marklesburg held an inter
esting pic-nic which was numerously attend
ed by the surrounding country. Dr. Wintrode
delivered one of his usual eloquent orations,
and everything passed off very cleverly.
At Coffee Run, Putstown, Coalmont, Dudley
and Broad Top City handsome demonstra
tions were gotten up, and all persons who at
tended were delighted. We visited, in compa
ny with Prof. Gibson, ofSazton, Father Brown's
picnic at Dudley, which passed off, during our
stay, very satisfactorily. Father Brown knows
how to conduct an affair of this kind and con
sequently everything moved along harmo
niously.
We have not heard of a single accident hap
pening on that day, in this county. So much
for Local Option.
L. FRANK WATTSON, ESQ.—We are
pleased to learn that this gentleman has been
selected and entered upon his duties, at Mt.
Union, as Chief Accountant of the East Broad
Top Railroad. He is one of the best railroad
clerks in the country, having had sufficient
experience in the business to render him pro
ficient in all the ramifications pertaining to
the arduous position. For a number of years
he held a responsible position in the Broad
Top office, at this place,- daring which time he
discharged the duties in a satisfactory man
ner. We congratulate the Company upon
their good fortune in securing the services of
so able a gentleman, and our friend Frank that
his qualifications have been appreciated. We
wish him success in his new field of labor, and
trust that higher honors await him.
THE THREE SPRINGS MYSTERY.—The
Center Reporter, published near the center of
excitement growing out of what is commonly
known as the "Three Springs Mystery," sa3s :
Since the suicide of A. J. Young, there have
been many rumors and conjectures as to the
causes that led him to put an end to his life.
We have not heretofore referred to these re
ports, and would not now, were It not that
they are going abroad, and we think it is time
that some of them be corrected. It is alleged
that a Mr. Kennely, while sick, had made a
confession to Dr. Van Valzah, of two murders
committed in which Mr. Young had a hand,
and one of these was the murder of a sub-con_
tractor on the railroad, named Switzer, who
had suddenly disappeared at Spring Mills
while he had some $l5OO to $2OOO in his pos
session which he had drawn to pay off his hands
with. We have it from reliable authority that
Dr. Van Valzah denies that Mr. Kenuely made
any confession at all to him. Hence we wish
to correct so much of that story. It is a fact
that Mr. Switzer disappeared, and that some of
his debts remained unpaid, and also that his
horse remained th •re and was afterwards sold
at constable's sale to satisfy some claims, but
the horse was of little value. It has been as
certained that not over $5OO was drawn by
any railroader at any one time, and that
amount was drawn by Mr. Van Dyke, and if
Mr. Switzer drewany it was a less sum, and it
is not at all likely that he possessed as large a
sum of money when he disappeared, as tumo r
has it, and it is supposed by many that he
took French leave himself with what funds he
had, leaving his hands minus their wages.
Rumor has it that his brains were knocked
out, by certain parties in Gregg township, and
that his body was sunk in the deep sink or
spring near Duncan's store. There is yet no
foundation fer this story and we trust there
never will be, and it has thus far arisen from
imagination and conjecture, and traveled un
til it has got to be repeated as fact, and has
been gathering as it traveled. All the talk
arising since the recent melancholy suicide
there, is but idle conjecture without fa.,ts to
go upon, notwithstanding there is something
mysterious and hidden which drove Mr.
Young to commit suicide, and pronounce him
self "the innocent victim of a conspiracy.'
Time may reveal it all, while present rumor
may be far from the mark and only do injus
tice.
L IST OF PATENTS issued from the United
States Patent Office, to Pennsylvania Invent
ors, for the week ending JUNE 3, 1873, and
each bearing that date. Furnished this paper
by Cox & Cox, Solicitors of Patents,Washing
ton, D. C.
Threshing Machine, Lewis C. Beckings,
Norristown ; Flange Union, August A. Dame,
Titusville ; Combined Stop and Check :Valve,
August A. Dame, Titusville; Fumigating Bee
Hive, Abraham A. Dellinger, Gordonvilla ;
Platform Scale, John F. Keeler, Pittsburg;
Harvester, Geo. W. Leisher, New Wilmington;
Boring Machine, Harlin Longwell, Mansfield;
Manufacture of Illuminating Gas, Thos. 11.
Miller. Pittsburg ; Clamping Device, Chas.
Stout, Waverlylleights ; Shirt, Joseph Weiser,
Williamsport; Vault Cover, Wm.R.
Indiana Township ; Binder for Loaded Wagons
and Sleighs, Jacob Pall; Lawrenceburg;
Washing Machine, John E. Anderson, Boiling
Springs ; Method and Mould for Manufacturing
Glass Works, James S. Alterbury and Thos.
B. Alterbury, Pittsburg ; Fraction Engine,
David H. Ball, Sinnamahoning ; Photography,
Edwin L. Bergotresscr, Hublersburg ; Head
Block for Saw Mills, Geo. B. Getty, Blooms..
burg ; Chair Fan Attachment, Benj. L. Jordon,
Mercersburg ; Grain Binder, Quincy A. Scott,
Pittsburg; Metalic Roofing, Patrick Wall,
Allegheny City.
PROTECTSON TO PASSENGERS ON
STREET Cans.—The decision of the New York
Supreme Court in the Putnam (car-hook) mur
der ease is one of general interest to people
who use street cars, and are sometimes dis
turbed in them by drunken ruffians. The
widow of Avery D. Putnam obtained in the
court below a verdict of $5,000 against the
Seventh Avenue Railway Company for injury
sustained through the murder of her husband
by William Foster, on one of the company's
cars. The case was appealed, and the general
term by a majority decision has sustained the
judgment, Chief Justice Barbour dissenting.
The court holds that a common carrier is
bound "not only to guard each passenger from
violence and assault of its own agents and
employees, but from the assaults and violence
of other passengers carried in the same con
veyance, and from other causes of discomfort
or injury which could have been reasonably
anticipated or prevented." Judge Barbour is
of the opinion that while the rule may hold
good as to steam railways and steamboats, it
does not apply to street cars, from which a
passenger menaced by violence can at any
time escape.
THE SKUNK BUSINESS.—An Act to
change the sixth section of an act entitled
"An Act for the protection of wild turkeys and
squirrels, and for other pur poses, in the county
of Huntingdon.
Sac. I. Be it enacted, &c., That from and
after the passage of this act the provisions of
the sixth section of an act entitled "An Act
for the protection of wild turkeys and aqui,
rels and for other purposes in the county of
Huntingdon," approved the eighth day of
April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-seven, be, and the same is
hereby changed and altered so as to require
in all cases the production, by the person or
persons claiming the premium therein men
tioned, the head with the scalp thereon of any
fox, wild-cat or pole-cat for which such pre
mium is claimed.
GEO. 11. ANDERSON,
Speaker of the Senate.
WY. ELLIOTT,
Speaker of the Rouse of Rep's.
DTATH OF MR. GEORGE E. SWOOPE
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Geo.
E. Swoope, brother of the Hon. H. B. Swoope ,
which occurred yesterday morning at eleven
o'clock, from typhoid fever. The Chronicle
says : "The deceased was not quite twenty
four yeurs of age. About a year or more since
he commenced the study of law in the office
of his brother, and gave promise of a life of
usefulness and high attainments in his chosen
profession. He had made hosts of friends du
ring his residence in the city, having fine so
cial qualities and being possessed of a genial,
kindly disposition. He was a member of Dr.
Scovel's church in this city, and in . .thechurch
circles as well as in all others in which ho
moved was esteemed for his excellent traits of
character. His death will be learned with re
gret by a large number of intimate friends
and acquaintances. His remains will be taken
to Alexandria, Huntingdon county, for inter
ment."—Pittsburg Commercial, July Id.
A FIRE ENGINE FOR TYRONE.—Bitter
experience having taught the people of Tyrone
that they were lacking in apparatus for the
prompt extinguishment of fires, the council of
that borough has purchased a third-class steam
fire engine, of the Silsby manufacture, paying
the sum of fire thousand dollars therefor.—
The engine is expected to arrive in a few days
and will then be given in charge of the mem
bers of the Neptune Hose Company. We note
with pleasure that the property of the people
of our neighboring town is to receive better
protection from the ravages of the fire-fiend
in the future.—Altoona Tribune.
The spacious room of Buchanan k Son has
been fitted up to attract. Call and see them.
They sell every thing that belongs to the tin
and stove business.
CONFERENCE OF THE COUNTY SUPER
-STENDENTB.—At a conference held at Harris
burg, by the County Superintendents of Clear
field, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Ju
niata, Perry, Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin,
York, Franklin and Fulton counties, June 3d
and 4th, 1873, the following resolutions were
adopted :
Resolved, That we deem the holding of local,
district and county institutes of great advan
tage to teachers, directors, patrons and pupils
and recommend that greater efforts be put
forth to make them a success.
Resolved, That in conducting institutes, cit
izens and directors should be invited to take
an active part in the exercises.
Resolved, That we consider only two regu
lar professional instructors necessary at a
county institute, and that teachers should be
afforded a full opportunity of participating in
the exercises.
Resolved, That the Committee on Permanent
Certificates after their organization at the
county institute, appoint a regular time of
meeting for the examination of teachers, and
give due notice thereof.
Resolved, That we regard the practice of
granting the use of school rooms during the
summer season to persons not holding legal
certificates as injurious to the cause oeeduca
tion, and recommend that it be discontinued.
Resolved, That we recommend the policy of
raising the grade of provisional certificates, as
fast as the circumstances of the several coun
tics will permit.
Resolved, That the theory of teaching should
be made a specialty in examinations.
Resolved, That where schools are graded,
they should all be subject to the supervision
of the principal of the higher department.
Resolved, That the subject of proper out
buildings for schools is too much neglected,
and in view of the evils resulting from this
cause we recommend radical reform in this
direction.
Resolved, That we strongly recommend the
more frequent visitation of schools by direc•
tors and patrons, and of patrons by teachers,
believing that great good is accomplished by
these agencies.
Resolved, That we recommend that directors
submit their plans to the County and State
Superintendents for approval before erecting
school buildings.
Resolved, That the State Superintendent be
requested to devise some plan by which greater
uniformity in the grading of certificates
throughout the State may be effected
Resolved, That we heartily endorse the plan
adopted by the State Superintendent in calling
local conferences of County Superintendents.
MURDER OF A CHILD NEAR SAXTON.—
On the 3d of July inst., ilr.rvey May, residing
near Saxton, murdered his wife's child by
strangulation. May appears to be a weak
minded, jealous-hearted man, who has not
been very successful in his matrimonial alli
ances. His first wife deserted him for more
congenial quarters, owing to his jealous dispo
sition. He then "took up," as they say up in
the mining region, with the present woman,
who had an interesting child. He is repre
sented as having been very kind to it in the
presence of neighbors, but invariably when
he found it alone be abused it shamefully.—
He came home and found the mother absent
on a number of occasions, on several of them
he declared if he came home and found her
absent again he would kill the child.
On last Thursday be came home and li
found the mother absent and heproceed
ed to strangle the helpless little one. His
story is that he accidentally fell upon it and
kill-d it. A post mortem examination was
made by Drs. Fleming, Alleman and Kelly,
in the presence of a Coroner's jury, who fount
indubitable marks of
,strangulation, and
the verdict of the jury was that it came to its
death from this cause. May was arrested and
lodged in jail at this place to await his trial.
NOTlCE.—Having other business requir
ing all our attention, we offer our Mercantile
business for sale.
Our store has long been known as doing a
good trade in the better class of goods, and as
always having a good cash custom, for a lino
of goods affording the merchant a margin.
Our sales in Carpets, Oil Cloths and Mai
lings from our Carpet Room have never been
more satisfactory than during the present
season.
The rooms are the most comfortable and
best finished in this part of the State, and will
be leased favorably to the party purchasing
the stock.
Our terms will be found very easy, and our
books showing our sales are open to the in
spection of any one desiring to purchase.
This is a rare opportunity of engaging iu a
well established business, in which success is
already assured.
Possession given the coming Fall.
FISHER & Sovs.
Huntingdon, Pa., July 16, 1873-4 t.
THE BAPTIST FESTIVAL.—WiII be held
on Tuesday 'and Wednesday evenings, July
15th and 16th, in the Castilian'Garden, where
will be all kinds of Refreshments of the Choi
nest Kinds. Onthe evening of 16th there will
be given to the boy contributing the largest
amount of money to the Festival ONE SMALL
PONY, broken to single or double harness or
under the saddle. Also, to the Lady contrib
utingthc largest amount of money, one Lady's
Double Cased FINE GOLD WATCH. Also, to
the Gentleman receiving the largest amount of
votes, one Combined Patent GOLD PEN and
PENCIL. Also, to any one person raising the
most money, ONE CHILD'S ROCKING CHAIR .
Also, to the Lady receiving the most votes
ONE LADY'S FAN, extra quality. The Hun
tingdon Silver Cornet Band will be is atten
dance each evening to add to the enjoyment
of the occasion, and for the benefit of lovers of
music. Come one and all, and enjoy your
selves. Tickets of Admission ten cents.
COMMITTEE OF ABRANGRMENTS.
SEVERAL half-barrels very choice Dry Salt
Roe Herring, and l's, 2's and 3's Extra Shore
fat Mackerel in kits, quarters andhalf-barrels,
still on hand, at Lewis' Red front Grocery. 2
W. H. Rodgers' Market Car will arrive at
P. R. R. sideling, on Wednesday evening next,
and remain over Thursday.
Buchanan & Son have the largest and best
lot of Cooking and other Stoves in Hunting
don. Call and see for yourself.
HUNTINGDON AND RUOAD TOP RAIL
ROAD-Report of Goal Shipped: TONS
for the weekending July 12 2 1873.- ..... -5902
Same date last year 6805
Increase fur week
Decrease for week 903
Shipped for the year 1873 241,277
Same date last year .A 59,004
Increase for year 1873,
TWO HUNDRED
WEST HONTINGDOE LOTS
Fon SALE.
Apply to
R. ALLISON MILLER,
No. 2281 Hill St.
FRESH ARRIVAL OF MILLINERY
GOODS.-Miss E. M. Africa has just returned
rom the east with a large and fashionable
stock of bonnets, hats, notions, assortment of
children's aprons, &c., &c. And every thing
in her line. tf.
A responsible person wishing an Estey
Cottage Organ can proeure one, a one-half
cash and the balance in nine or twelve months.
Apply to Box 234, Huntingdon, Pa. [tf.
Twenty-nine styles of Rocking Chairs, for
young and old, at Brown k Tyhurst's Furni
ture Store. [jy2-2t
Buy your Wall Paper,Window Shades, Books
and Stationery at Langdon's Book Store. It
is the cheapest store of the kind in town. tf.
Buy the HOWE if you want the BEST Sewing
Machine. Strong and durable. Call at Brown's
Carpet Store. [jy2-2t
_
Carpets and Wall Paper, at reduced prices, at
Brown's Carpet Store. [jy.2,lt.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
The East Broad Top Railroad.—No. 2.
When completed, the East Broad. Top Rail
road will extend from Mt. Union to Honck's
Mill, about to o miles from Broad - Top City.
Its entire length will be-thirty•one and eight
tenths miles, overcoming a difference in al
titude of about twelve hundred feet. The
first division extends from Mt. Union to Or
bisonia, ten and seven-tenths miles. The
distance to Scottsville, (er Three Springs
borough) from Mt. Union, is about seventeen
and two-tenths miles ; to Sideling Hill, twen
ty three miles ; to Rays Hill twenty-seven and
two tenth miles; to Cook's Mill, twenty•nine
and one tenth miles. It will require the
making of a tunnel eight hundred and fifty
feet long to get through Riddling Hill, and
another eleven hundred and fifty feet through
Rays Hill.
The track will have been laid, by this time ,
as far as the Brick Mill, about four miles from
Mt. Union. It is expected that the grading of
the second division of the road will have been
completed as far as Scottsville by next fall, so
that the track may be laid to that point before
winter.
The principal awes and shops of the rail
road will be located at Orbisonia, when the
road has been completed to that place. Mount
Union, being at one terminus of the road
and the point where it connects with the P. R.
It., may also receive some consideration, and
a shop or two might possibly be built here.
The company owns fifty acres of land im
mediately adjoining Mt. Union, and a farm of
sixty acres about a mile from the town, on
the line of the road. On the first mentioned
lot a car yard has been laid out, and is being
leveled up. In It have been built and engine
house and a shop to contain the passenger
cars ; a well has been dug, and a water tank
is being erected for supplying the engines with
water; a turn-table has been placed in posi
tion, and a number of sidings have been made.
Of the rolling stock for the road, two en
glues and more than fifty cars have been re.
ceived. The engines are described by those
who have examined them as being "beauties."
They are not nearly as large as the_ engines
used on broad guage railroads, but they are
large enough for the work required of them ;
and farmers, residing along the route, who
imagine that these engines will not be large
enough to knock cattle off the track, will think
better of the matter, and conclude to keep
their cattle off of the track after they have
seen the said engines perform. The engines
weigh ten tons each, and cost $9OOO. They
have six drivers and two pilot wheels. The
weight is nearly all on the drivers. The
drivers are three feet in diameter. The cyl
inders are ten-inch and the stroke sixteen
inches. The pressure of steam carried is same
as on large engines, one hundred and ten
pounds to the square inch.
All the coal ears received thus far are four
wheeled dumps—not dummy* as some papers
had it. The box cars are not as large as
box cars on the P. It. It., but seeing them
where not is proximity to the latter, would
cause one to imagine them to be nearly as
large. They are certainly much larger than
wo expected to see box cars on a three foot
railroad. Yet, large as they are, they are
just as well proportioned, and as little likely
to tumble over as would be any cars of the
P. 11. It. The floors of the freight cars are
very near to the rails, the diameter of the
wheels being only nineteen inches.
But nothing about the outfit of this read
will disappoint the expectations of the novice,
so much as the passenger cars. No one would
believe, without seeiug them, that passenger
cars, for a narrow gauge road, can be so
large and roomy, and yet of such excellent
proportions that no fault can be found with
them. They appear to better advantage than
nine tenths of the passenger cars on any
broad guage road we have ever seen. They
are, thirty-five feet long,. and seven feet wide,
and weigh fifteen thousand pounds each.
The wheels are two feet in diameter, and
the main sill stands twenty-seven inches
above the rails. (In passenger cars on large
railroads the main sill is forty-five inches
above the rails.) The total height of the car
above the rail is ten and a half feet, leaving a
height of nearly eight feet inside of the car-
An aisle runs, not through the center, but at
one side of the center of the car. On one side
of it is a row of double seats ; on the other
side single seats. Midway the car, the aisle
changes to the other side ; and in the other
half length of the car the rows of double seats
and single seats change places, preserving the
equilibrium ; and yet this turn in the aisle
does not mar the beauty of the interior of the
car. We dont propose to describe the mould
ing, the veneering, the painting and the up
holstering in and of these cars. They look
like palace cars. They will seat thirty-six pas
sengers each. The cars on large roads only
seat fifty passengers. There are two passenger
cars and a baggage and smoking car. They
cost $3OOO each. Of Mt. Union at another
time. Uastosa.
Mt. Union, July 12, 1873,
A Trip Through Jackson, West, Porter
and Franklin Townships.
M'ALEVY'S FORT.
This village is about 18 miles from Hunting
don and 14 miles from Petersburg, is situate
in a very beautiful, romantic, heartsome and
productive section of country. It is not nearly
out of the world as many really imagine, but
on one of those beautiful spots designed for
man, nod surrounded by scenery that gladdens
the heart and pleases the eye of the skeptical.
It is not hemmed in by mountains as many
suggest, but has outlet by good roads through
the valley in various directions. You ask,
What valley ? Stone valley. Different people
have their different presumptions. Some
presume this valley owes its title to the great
quantity of adamantine species found in it.
'Tis not so. • You call that country immedi
ately on both sides of Shaver's Creek, Shaver's
Creek valley, also that on both sides of Spruce
Creek, Sprucd Creek valley. Here we have a
country on both sides of standing Stone
Creek. Hence the name Stone valley. The
people are, by no means, as the school houses
of this country indicate. 'Tis true, they are
models of the past—were suitable in their
time, but very insufficient for the present age.
A community is generally known by her in
stitutions of learning, but, as I mentioned, is
no criterion in this case. The farmers, mostly,
are shrewd, thorough-going, aetive and ener
getic. They possess ability, incline to moral
ity, and tread the paths of respectability.
On the main road from McAlevy's Fort to
Petersburg, we pass several villages, which I
will mention in their turn.
82,273
ENNISTILLE,
A small, yet neat village. Its position is
slightly elevating and on the right bank of
Standing Stone Creek. The Smith residences
—which are two—add beauty to this place.
They are nearly of the same model, stand
nearly together and are neatly enclosed.
SAULSBCRG,
Some, hat larger than Ennisville. Tis very
quiet and the people look at passers by very
inoffensively.
MANOR HILL ,
This surely is a place of morality. How can
the people be engaged otherwise than in ways
that are right, and deeds that arb good ? Slabs
of marble prominently stand in memory of
hundreds gone before. Indeed, it is a village
of the dead.
Can it be possible that this is the plaee of
fifteen years ago? Is that building onyonder
hill, once a monument of science and litera
ture, now, a monument of folly? Fifteen years
ago you advanced in literary nursuit ; you put
your shoulder to a noble enterprise, but where
are you to day? Fifteen years ago you pos
sessed the prope - spirit and abundant means
to carry on such a soul cheering work, but
where is it now? Instead of shining as a
beacon light it dimmed, tottered and fell.
One of the beauties of this place is Mr. Harry
Neff's yard. We presume Harry realizes -
"There is no place like home."
WILSONTOWN.
A village of very hospitable citizens.
At Petersburg we learned the P.. R. R. Co.,
is erecting a reservoir and making other im
provements near Warrior Ridge station, so
that locomotives can take in water "on a
From Petersburg we hurried across the coun
try to
ALEXANDRIA.
This is your good, old, moral, temperate
town. it is true there are numerous places of
the same character since the adoption of
"Local Option," but this ancient borough re
ceived the credit beforehand. This place is
remarkable for her old citizens. There are
twenty-one over 70 years. The following is
the venerable list: John Bisbin, Nicholas
Cresswell, Wm. Christy, James Estep, Elijah
Estop, Israel Graffius, - Gregory, Jacob.
Hoffman, Abram Isenberg, Daniel Crouse,
William Moore, Jobe Porter, Charles Porter,
John G. Stewart, Alexander Stitt, Henry Wal
heater, Jacob Hoffman, William Walker, Gee.
Whittaker, Daniel Wolfred, and George B.
Young. Mr. Gregory, the oldest, is 87 years.
At this place we met several old acquain
tances, among which was A. McPherran, now
on P. R. It. He is on the Fast Line west to
Altoona, and Pacific Express east to Phila
delphia. He is a bunchy, pussy, weighty,
clever fellow. He looks like a railroad man.
During our stay here we enjoyed the hospi
tality of Dr G. W. Hewitt and lady. The
doctor is a specimen of good health, a budget
of sport but chuck full of politics. On the
other hand Mrs. Hewitt is small beside the
Doctor, but the heart of one will compare with
the heart of the other. From this place we
passed through Morris and the greater part of
Franklin townships. From the beginning to
the mid of our journey, wheat proved flatter
ing and rye good. Oats are growing rapidly,
and look well, but corn is very short and un
even, yet, occasionally a good field can be
seen. Fruit will be a failure.
Before closing, allow me to call your alien_
tion to the following items which appeared in
your local columns a short time ago :
"Samuel MPherran, of Spruce Creek, well
known as an extensive railroad contractor,
died in Philadelphia, from an attack of black
measles, on last Friday.
Seven little Modocs swinging on a gate
Ono fell off and then they were eight."
I know_your intention was good, but the man
ner in which the two items appeared was bad.
The friends of Mr. Mc., and they are many, are
very highly offended at such literature. I. Mr.
McPherran was born in Eden valley, near
Spruce Creek, was of a good family, not only
good in principle but stout, able bodied and
talented. The family was large, consequent
ly, the connection is the same Sam. was a
friend to the friendless. He belonged to the
Masonic order, also, the I. 0. of 0. F. He was
a man that made friends rapidly and attended
well to business, as his estate will verify.
* We are sorry that any person should be so
stupid as to connect these lines with the an
nouncement of Mr. li'Pherran's death. By the
same mode of reasoning every other article
following in the the column could have been
considered equally inappropriate.—Bo. Jona-
From "Timon Walley."
Titles WALLEY, 32th, 187 three.
Well 01l Tarbarrozo:—i doit i not rite you a
chin dis sumer, but seet in the Jsusta a
ledder from my pruder grisley, unt i not Beet
him sin he moovet to Orbitonitter, tint i speck
he dinkes he ish one grate faler now, kanse
he Tiff in rich a chrate blase as dot ish ghot to
pe. i chinks, it must pe a grate blase if
crautaddy Grummel is comet pack, out i node
he tied before our Sall was marriet. i chinks,.
i shust laff at grisley's ledder, de olt fool ; if
koot not shpell petter as he dush i woot not rite
for an baper. i chinks, i ish most asbamet to
to git his letters to home vor rear some potty
see tem nut dink i writed tern, he shpell so
batly. He neffct keppcd shkule a tay in his
loif, unt he nose no more apout crammer tint
arshamadick as mine tock, tint he ish spout
73 ears olt now, a crate dime for him to rite,
ant ten he lye apout his name to ; dot kb
mean. He not got any shqoter on his name,
i chinks, no. Dot ish a pig tifer in our name.
Unt him dry to lairn me how to tock to peples.
i ish olter as he ish more as a ear unt, nut
mush smairter ; tady sade so, out he nose - dot.
Unt i ish ter pesht lookin, mit every pody
loikes me pest, unt i chinks, i coult say a beep
more gout dings spout mine selff, put ,. you
mite clink i prag ov mine self like dot fule
cuss toes in his Clope spout his crate self.
It make me Taff wen i reat howe tat fule do
prag, some says he hires beples to prag for
him. i chincks ino how to dalk if i see olt
Crant or tee guffner, i say mishter too, put
not say mishter squoier like my pruder dalks.
bcples Taff at me.
i tont loik te way grisley taulks spout dat
cuss nut de weemens. if he do bike Brickem
Youngs, unt git marriet to all te weemens, it
not pe so pat, put dish way of going IVI3 all to
pert sitters, unt mit all te galls wat lets him,
is not goot relichen i disks, if it was, i do
dink my pruder grisley unt cuss, ter breacher
mans, woult polo peen in to heafens long ago.
grissley no shust so well as i (lush that dat is
wat maked all de droubles between him out
Sowwener, unt Sowwener is shoot goot snuff
vor him. i dolt him wen be marry him he was
olt snuff vor his cranny, put be vont hall him
now be orter be sattisfyed. dot is wy he
dakes Cuss, de breachers pairt, unt make it
sic!, goot relichen. i shoat giffs a beetle hint
as he is mine prodder, i chincks.
Say olt Tarbarrow, day say you. ish a
lawyonr, jab dot so? if you ish shust put is
your next baper if de breemimum ish ride on
Bole catt, unt i no wet she mean den. me
unt Mottalener wash out on to rige hunten to
oxens last suntay, unt we fint a bole cat nesht
mit six ekes in, nut mamey he say we prake
him up, tey hills chickens, unt i say no, no.
i chincks, if de bremimum is rite, dot is wort
tree tollar. now shust say if he is rite, unt i
-chincks we shust let him back. i clinks i now
ware it ish more Bole cat. i clinks dish is one
goot ear for tern. one Bole cat ish worse too
chickens unt tey cost noting to rase tem. dot
isb so.
You no my prodder Jake, i chincks he ish
one shmart faler. Shmarter as Grialey. if
he cout rest unt rite so goot as i can he
woult pe shmarter as any lawyer in dish
county. wi pevore he was fifteen times olt he
coult nock datty down, unt rup his fisht unter
mamey's nose, not shmoke Sechaars, tint trink
more weeskey as datty, unt shwares loik fun.
shpeck lie ish in Orbitonia now. i ish afrate
Grissley gits hurt if he make funs spout dat
long pottle on to dree shprings. wi a coophi
faler coomet up dish walley, tey say tey tiffs
in Beeters Barrick tey have one pig pottle unt
day say he haf legal opshon in him, unt dey
dells me drink, unt i dakes one chorum unt i
chinks he was goot, he was not tree fort water
loike tem loisend tavern keeper make, py to
drinks. no sin, i neffer had so mush shperit
in me singe i shined to meetin. i chinks i
owns every ding loik dot man Cuss vet owns
o Glope baper, unt all to widders unt ell de
tghalls in de countys. oh, he musht feel goot•
Old Tarbarrow, i dinks Grialey lie spout dot
poy eaten ten Bears up at might. i dent dink
it was ever so many .Bears in Orbitonis to
one ht. i hash nopooke got dot in him. i
dinks he hat some logs! opshion in him well
he rite dot, if he ish mine pruder.
if tay elect Sheriff dish time, shust put me
in de baper. we nefar bat one in dish walley
nit Hanry wet was in te chail !Isis i coult do
firsht rade if he wash to go pack to chail to
bjst rater liif mit us any pody ; put all de
beaples here dink it a farnal shame if he be
sent packe, wit tem oter faler wat ish runs
trow the Allow on te witers houses nut after
to ghalls not go tow.
Olt Tarbarrow, you want hostage now; dot
wash not in te bargain; pnt mamey says, not
make a fuss apont tem ten cent, tint we will
sell some akes now soon ; tem ish ghitten
mosbt all rotten anyhow, unt we not use de
rotten ekes, unt den we seats you dem ten
sent.
tern says dat olt faler wat not use charms
bare expecterrater lib's too in Orbitonia, unt
keeps weeskey wet gift some to dot pearse
man frose to det, unt shunt soon as he was
,meted, sount unt weller as effer, he shust
tied his lasht, dot ish so.
i kant rite no more dish time. der kows is
gone din too weeks ant we have no putter,
unt us onest beoples wat make our money
fluently not &von to pay 12 cent a pount like
you town falers wat Bits your moneys shunt
anyhowe. we doesh mit out any, not tare, i
chinks, see dot ploot on my baper? dot plamed
olt bowu he choompt up mit shnst ntoled all
our breat off to taple now, not Motelener he
shtrike at him mit the roler pin to get breat
packe for our dinner, he hit me lint misht to
tock, dot wet maked my nose bleat, ant now
der breat nut tock ish linter to house. i
chinks won't dot make late diner ?
MISEITZB YOHONIS Z. SQUIZII,
A Correction.
EDITOR JOURNAL :-The letter in the Globe,
dated June 14th, signed "Who," seems to per
sonate me as being the author of the commu
nication in the JOURNAL, signed "Lover of
Justice." I take this method of informing
Mr. Rinelaub and those concerned that I was
not present during the services on that day—
on the contrary I was with my family at Mr.
David Swoope's, in company with Mr. Solomon
Mierly and others. I also deny being the au
thor of the article in question, and have no
knowledge whatever as to who the author is.
Having no near relatives buried there, conse
quently I have no interest in the affair, and
further comments at present are unnecessary.
July 7th, 1873.
[Mr. Chilcote was not the author of the
article attributed to him.—ED. Jou2NAL.]
HUNTINGDON MARKETS,
Corrected Weekly by Henry f; Co.
Superfine Flour
Extra Flour 7 50
Family Flour 8 50
Red Wheat 1 50
White Wheat 1 411
Bark per cord
Barley
Butter
Brooms V doz 250
Beeswax V pound 25
Boons V bushel
Beef —7% 8
Cloverseed V 64 pounds 4OO
Corn Ti bushel on ear.........._54
Corn shelled it.
Chickens V lb 8
Corn Meal VI cat 1 75
Candles V Bo 12%
Cranberries V quart ls
Dried Apples iFt lb 6
Dried Cherries V lb I:
Dried Beef - 20
20
Truvc
Eggs
Feathers
Flaxseed VS bushel 125
Hops ',I pound 2.5
Hams smoked—
Shoulder
Side
Hay' .. 12 09
-ay p ton
Lard 41111 new ll
Large onions 41 bushel l5O
Oats - 33
Potatoes ? bushel - - .
Plaster iii ton ground .......... - ...... ........---.. l3 00
Rags 3
Rye 75
Rye Chop it cwt 2 00
Rye Straw 'f bundle l5
Wool washed 40a45
Wool unwashed
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS,
PHILADELPHIA, July 14, 1873.
Bark is dull but steady at $35 IA ton for No. 1
quereitron. Tanners' bark is nominal.
Seeds—ln eloverseed and timothy r °thing doing.
Flaxseed is scarce and firm at $2.25.
The flour market presents no new feature, the
demand being very moderate, and confined to the
better grade of families for the supply of the'vrants
of the home consumers. About 600 barrels sold in
lots at $3.75@4, for superfine ; $4.25(:05 for ex
tras ; $6.25®7 for lowa and Wisconsin extra fam
ily; ®7.50 for Minnesota do. do.; $7@8.25 for
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana do. do., $8.50@
9.50 for fancy brands Rye flour sells at $3.75@
4. In cornmeal nothing doing.
. .
There is no improvement to record in the wheat
market• Sales of Pennsylvania and western red at
$1.58@1.63; amber at $1.65@1.70, and white at
$1.70@1.80. Corn is very firm and meets with a
steady inquiry; strictly prime is very scarce and
commands full prices; the bulk of the offerings
consists of damp and heated, and these take a wide
range ; sales of 4,000 bush at 58®58c for yellow;
57@571c for mixed and 40@500 for damaged and
heated. Oats are 1 cent higher; sales of 8,000 bush
western at 46@i47}c for white and 46@48c for
mixed. In barley and malt no sales.
Coffee is held without confidence, and we notice
small sales of Rio at 181®19ie, gold. Sugar is
firmer, and may be quoted at 73C;8c for fair and
good refining. Two cargoes of Cardenas molasses
sold at 50e.
CATTLE MARKET.
Prices to-day for beef cattle ranged Best
beeves S/3@7; the generally rated first quality $5.-
12 Q 6 ; medium or good fair quality $4.12®5.12;
ordinary thin steers, oxen cows $3.75@4.12; in
ferior and lowest grades of cattle no sale; general
average of the market to-day $5.62; extreme range
of prices $2.75(37. Most of the sales were from
$5.25 to $6.00 11 100 lbs.
Miscellaneous
W. DUCH ANA N
BUCHANAN & SON.
509 HILL STREET,
HUNTINGDON, PI.
We have the the largest, cheapest and best as
sortment of
COOKING STOVES
West of Philadelphia. We constantly keep on
hand
SPEARS',
CALORIFIC,
EXCELSIOR,
OLIVE BRANCH,
PENN,
MORNING LIGHT,
COTTAGE,
STAR,
REGULATOR.
EVERY STOVE WARRANTED
WOOD and WILLOW WARE,
JAPANESE WARE,
TIN AND PAINTED WARE,
TOLEDO PUMPS,
ETC., ETC., ETC. ETC.
Persons going to housekeeping can get every
thing they need, from a clothes pin to cooking
stove.
ROOFING, SPOUTING & JOB WORK
done at chart notice. Give in a call and we feel
catisfied you can save money. 10april.
MACHINERY AND TOOLS
J. A. POLLOCK
Manufacturer of, and General Agent for the sale
of new and second-banded engines, machinery,
and tools, agricultural implements, L.
AU kinds of Machinery repaired.
Lathes (for iron work), Planers, Drill Preesee,
Moulders, Shapers, Moriuoes, Tire Benders, Bolt
Cutters, Bolt Heads, Boring Machines, Scroll
Saws, Gas Fitters Tools, and Tools and Machines,
of whatever kinds want ed by iron or woodworkers,
furnished, at manufacturers prices.
All enquiries for machine 7 or tools will receive
careful attention.
Architectural and mechanical designs prepared
in the finest style of the art.
J. A. POLLOCK,
Huntingdon, Pa.
apr2-3moe.
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r, PA., July 15, 1813.
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