Tbc Huntingdon Journal.
- - JUNE 29, 1877
FRIDAY, -
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receive I.t:certiseinents fo- the JOURNAL. He has
our best rates.
Laws Relating to Newspaper Subscrip
tions and Arraarages.
The fallowing is the law relating :o newspapers and
subscribers.
1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the con
trary, are considered wishing to continue their sub
scription.
2. 118W...scribers order the discontinuance of their peri
odicals, *he publishers may continue to send theta until
all arreara,?.:es are paid.
8 if subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals
from the office to which they are dir,ted, they are held
responsible nntil they have settled.their hills, and order
ed them discontinued.
4. If subscribers move to other places without informing
the publishers, and the papers are sent to the former di
rection, they are held responsible.
5. The Gotirts have decided that nrefusing to take periodi
cals from the office, or removing and leaving them un
called for, is prima facie evidence of intent ioiml frand.
6- Any person who receives , newspaper and makes use
of it, whether ho has ordered it or not, is held in law to
be a subscriber
7. Irsulsieriben pay is advance, they are bound to give
notice to the publisher, at the end of toeir time, If they
do not wise to ',wahine taking it; otherwise the pub-
Usher i 9 authorized to send it on, and the subscriber
v.ill be responsible until au express notice, with payment
of all arrears, i.e 'mut to the publisher.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Brief Mention—Homemade and Stolen
Take it cool
Grass is splendil.
The grain is good.
Ilay is being made.
Wheat k ready to cut.
No JouRNAL next week.
Don't leave the baby cry. '
Young birds are abundant.
Lemonade is an excellent drink.
Raspberries are coming to the front.
Where are you going on the Fourth ?
Plate and Blue Glass are about busted.
The juveniles are enjoying their vacation.
Cobert gives another version of tle oft told
tale.
Bass fishing Rail be legal on and after the
Ist pox.
Considerable paint is being splashed around
Huntingdon.
A womans question : 'How do you like
nPw hat V
People who go skylarking should leave
their dog 3 at home.
The jurymen in the Rem , ease bore their
confinement very well.
The pret iest g:rl in Huntingdon can't afford
a season at the sea side.
See fir t page for the conclusion of the evi
deuce in !he Reese cl.se.
Numerous Murphy "life boats" are being
stranded os the lager beer breakers.
Tom Thumb, at the Opera [louse, on Friday
and Saturday evenings of this week.
The printer-3 of the Juniata Valley will in
dulge iu their annual loaf next week.
r.ir load after .ar load of bark continues to
find its way hither from Bedford county.
Tom Thumb and company, at the Opera
House on Friday and Saturday evenings.
One hundred and sixty-nine witnesses were
called and sworn in the Reese—Shade murder
case.
What a croaking there is among the frogs
along the Juniata since M. Brasseur didn't
come.
Another drunken brawl occurred in the
neighborhood of the Union depot on Saturday
night.
Maircounty's officials have taken possession
of their respective rooms in the new court
house.
M. Cobert is now paying his addresses to
Miss Pitt. The Huntingdon flirtation turned
out a Miss-ta.i.P.
Guess Huntingdon will not put in a claim
for the 41h. Patriotism will stop at some of
the smaller towns.
The Car Works divided the Committee.—
That proposition wouldn't grind enough axes.
"The old, old story.-
The Hollidaysburg Standard has entered
upon the 32,1 year of its existence under the
Management of its present owner.
There was a Inrge number of persons• hang
ing around the court house yard, on :Saturday
night. "u - aiting for the verdict."
The pathetic and eloquent argument of Mr.
Speer. in the Reese ease, on Saturday last,
brought tears to many eyes unused to weeping.
Mr. Adam Maui of this city, has been ap
pointed foreman of the Huntingdon P. R. R.,
shops vice Al. Greenwood.—Altoona Tribune.
Three or four persons were arrested last
week for violating . the fish law, but we did
not learn what disposition was made of their
eases.
It is a wee tiny boy that makes R. W. Berk
stresse, esq., of Shadyside, walk so erect and
feel such buoyancy of spirits. We congrat
ulate
A friend writing to congratulate us on our
safe deliverance says he never takes any stock
in a man who parts his name or his hair in
the middle.
An enthusiastic meeting, in the interests of
the Plate Glass Works, was held in the Court
House on Monday evening. Progressis being
made slowly, but surely.
There are water closets in Huntingdon, so
foul that the only wonder is that they do not
breed an epidemic, and yet the Town Council
never mores iu the matter.
We hope our people w;11 liberally patronize
the entertainment to be given by the Juniata
Literary society. It deserves to be encouraged.
Let every one attend that can.
Shall we hart' a Ag,ricultnral Fair this
Fall? We would' suggest that one be gotten
np on the principle of the English Fairs, where
selling is combined with exhibiting.
Last. week was n Conrt week. We know
this because we took in just one dollar on sub
scription. Times arc really getting no better
fast. Is it any wonder we complain ?
DOn l tlail to titfe - id the Closing" Exercises
of the Huntingdon Normal School and Juniata
Literary Society, in the Opera House, this
(Thursday) morning, afternoon and evening.
Rumoe has it that a-defalcation, covering a
million or two of dollars, hai been discovered
iu the management of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. We hope there is no foundation for the
rumor.
Travellers often wonder. why their fellow
travelers are so loud in their praise of the
Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia, but, after a
visit themselves, they are satisfied of its famous
excellence.
His Honor. Judge Dean occupied one hour
and forty minutes in delivering his charge to
the jury in the Reese murder case. We would
be pleased to lay it before our readers, but its
great length prevents us from doing so.
During the progress of the Reese trial the
Jorsest, lnreis . bed either manuscript copy or
proof sheets to all the other offices in town.
Our reporter, H. itFDivitt, esq was always up
to filet., hence the run on us by our brethren.
Half the lager beer sold here has strychnine
or other unhealthy drugs in it. Every scoun
drel caught drugging malt or other liquors
should be punished to the full extent of the
law. Strychnine is put in malt liquors to
preserve them.
The rope-walker, who performed in this
place, about ten days ago, while giving a
similar performance, in Hollidaysburg, a few
days later, fell from the rope to the street, a
distance of about forty feet, escaping with
slight injuries.
The Cambria Iron Compeny is importing
Iron Ore from Spain at a co. t not exceeding
eight dollar per ton. It yie ds about 60 per
cent of pure iron. It e.,sts less to import
from Spain than to bring it direct from the
Lake Superior region..
The printers of the Juniata Valley take a
holiday next week, We move tbat the re
spective publishers of the Valley meet at the
Union Hotel, in Lewistown, at one o'clock, on
Saturday, the 6th proximo, to organize a press
association. Who seconds the motion ?
The Hollidaysburg Register reminds the
benevolent people of that town that "while
they are raising money, sending clothing, etc.,
to the heathen, 8003 C of the poor people of
that town are-having their stoves levied on
for taxes." Charity should begin at home.
The Altoona Evening Mirror, that perfect
little picture of neatness, has just turned the
corner and entered upon its fourth volume.—
It looks as bright and c'ear as s. new set of
silver mounted harness. Under lie. Bucking
ham's direction the Mirror is quite a success.
Miss Wheeden, of Ohio, delivered two tem
perar2e addresses in this place, one in the
Opera douse on Sunday afternoon and one in
the M. E. Church on Monday evening. She
is a pleasant speaker and appears to be deeply
interested in the success of th© temperance
cause.
If any smooth-tongued individual attempt 9
to collect any money off of any of or.r farmer
friends who are using patent hay forks, al
leging that the same is au infringement of a
patent owned by him, let him ask th• said
gentleman if he observes anything green in
their optics.
We have had any number of requests for
back numbers of the JOURNAL containing the
early proceedings in the Reese—Shade mur
der case, but we have none of the early edi
tions left. The demand soon exhausted the
supply on bands and now we can only supply
this issue.
The Closing Exercises of the Huntingdon
Normal School and the Junia taLiterary Society
will be held in the L'enu Street Hall on Trturts-
PAY, Juno 29, instead of at the time announced
in last week's papers. Doors open at ah A. M.,
2P. M., and 7f P. M. A 11:ZISSIDNI FUEL. All
are invited to attend.
The local editor of the Bedford Gazotie
thinks that Bedford lost heavily in veal when
the editor of this paper !eft the county. Isn't
that a joke ? Itaw! haw ! haw! ha l hal ha 1
Isn't it barely pesible that they will never
want for mutton while that chap wags a pen
the Gizaft? Ha! ha !halLe ! h ! he!
So?
Bunting-don ha 1 a surplus of pill-venders
during the Reese case, but as they all, with
one or two exceptions, corroborated the views
of Dr. Curwcn, they were an unneccessary ad
dition to the heavy bill of costs arising out of
this case; but, as our friend Speer put if,
"their presence hero was a g:ood tiiing for their
patients."
During a brief cessation in the Reese ease,
on Saturday last, caused by the indisposition
of one of the jurors, some thoughtless person
in the room cried out "down in 'front." Judge
Dean ordered the Court officers to bring him
before him, Unt fortunately for him they could
not discover him &lid thus he C3C3 ped being
'sent up."
The men in shops now work on the
eight-hour system with eight hours pay. A
number of bands have been suspended, in
cluding some thirty-five engiaeers and firemen.
A few of the engineers have been furnished
with positions as firemen, and it is the under•
standing that as soon as the business of the
company warrants it they wiq he reinstated
to their former runs.—Altoona Sun.
The old schedule has been again adopted
on the Pennsylvania and Broad Top Railroads.
The why and the wherefore no one under
stands. The Pennsylvania Railroad had been
running empty trains until the fast train was
put on, then they could scarcely carry all the
travel and now for some over powering reason,
the fast train is abandoned. It is a pity the
Pennsylvania people cannot run their road
without the dictation of Vanderbilt and others.
. The timely discovery of a fire in an out
kitchen attached to the residence of Jadge
Miller, in this place, at 12 o'clock on Monday
night, averted a first-class conflagration.—
When discovered the side of the building was
on fire and in five minutes time would have
been beyond control, and as his residence
cannot be reached by the hose the people
would have been powerless to subdue the
flames. Another argument in favor of water
works.
We had the pleasure of taking by the hand,
on Monday last, our young friend, S. W. Mil
ler, son of Col. John S. Miller. of this place,
,-ho is home on a two months' vacation from
the arduous discipline of the West Point Mili
tary Academy, at which institution he has
been a student for the past two years. Ile
looks well, is pleased with the institution, and
in two years hence, if his life is spared hire,
he will graduate a full•fledged soldier. We
wish him many pleasures during his brief so
journ amongst his friends and acquaintances.
Huntingdon must be cursed with some of
the meanest men in the earth. Here is one
old man named Jimmy Walls, once worth
thousands of dollars but some of the Hunting
don sharks in one way and another cheated
him out of his possessions, and to-day he
walks their streets penniless and friendless
and jeered nt as he passes by. Another case
is an eccentric tailor who is almost bored to
death by parties wills less common sense. The
man is afflicted with erysipelas, but this does
not seem to have any effect iu keeping off his
tormentors.—Newport News.
A sad and fatal accident occurred to Mr.
John • Denithorne, of Phoenixville, Chester
county, this State, father of Mrs. Richard
Langdon, of this place, on the morning of the
17th inst. Mr. D2nithorne, who was a man
of great vitality and energy, though aged
about seventy-five years, heard some noise
beneath the window in the room in which he
was sleeping, he hastily aro;,..e and went to the
window and in looking out, endeavoring to
get a glimpse of the intruder, lost his balance
and fell to the ground dislocating his neck
and causing instantaneous death. We deeply
sympathize with his relatives here.
Charley Myers, the young man who figured
so conspicuously as a professional affidavit
maker against the hotel and saloon keepers
of this place, at the April Court, and who was
employed by Mr. David Long to assist him in
his truck garden, stole about thirty dollars
from his employer, on Tuesday last, and start-'
ed West on a freight train. The money was
taken from a bureau drawer, and the wily
scamp had several hours start before Mr.
Long discovered the theft, For several
months past be had been playing the pious
role, but an ordinary physiognomist could
easily detect the scoundrel in him. Efforts
are on foot for his arrest, which we hope will
prove successful.
Two USEFUL INVENTIONS.—Our at
tention has been called to some new and use
ful cooking utensils recently invented. One
of which is known as the Centennial Cake
and Baking Pan, made of Russian iron, and
is so constructed that after your cake is baked,
you can instantly remove it from the pan
withont injuring it; and having a raised bot
tom the cake can not possibly burn. It is
also provided with a slide on the bottom so
that when you remove the tube, you can dose
the hole, making a pan with plain bottom for
baking jelly or plain cakes, bread, &c. An
other—the Kitchen Gem—is also a very useful
and long needed household necessity. It is a
plated wire boiler or steamer to hang inside
of an ordinary iron pot, for boiling or steam
ing vegetables, which, when done. can be
easily removed perfectly dry without lifting
the heavy, sooty iron pot off of the stove,
avoiding the danger of burning the hands with
the steam in pouring off the hot water. And
the vegetables can not possibly burn, if the
water boils dry, as the steamer does not touch
the bottom of the pot.
These goods are sold exclusively through
agents to families, giving universal satisfac
tion, and present a splendid opening for some
reliable lady or gentleman canvasser of this
county to secure the agency for a profitable
business. For terms, territory, etc., write to
D. E. Brown & Co., Nos. 214 and 21G Elm
Street, Cincluati, Ohio.
JOTTINGS BY "Bon."—On Wednesday
of last week a son of Mr. Oppel and John Kel
ly were coming down the side of Shade Moun
tain, in Black Log Valley. with a wagon load
ed with bark, they stopped and got under the
wagon to shelter themselves from a storm of
rain. Kelly sat down on the chain that one
of the .cheels was locked with ; a sharp flash
of lig_tning and thunder frightened the hor
ses, and they starting suddenly down the
mountain threw Kelly underneath the wheel
and dragged him about twenty rods and then
passed over him, tearir.g and bruising him in
a terrible manner. The wheel had a heavy
rough-lock on, and the wagon was loaded with
two tons of bark. Dr. McConnell, of Shir
leysburg, was called, but could do nothing to
save the unfortunate man's life ; he lingered
until Saturday evening when death relieved
him of his suffering. The deceased was an
inoffensive, harmless man, and was aged about
25 years.
Mr. James Forshey, of Shirley township,
lost a valuable mare on Saturday night last,
❑e put her in pasture, seemingly all right, in
the evening, but on Sunday morning he found
her lying iti the field dead.
WANTED—To borrow $2OO for 9 months
or a year. Will give 10 per cent. interest and
good security in real estate for use of same.
Address "8.," Care P. O. Box 26,
June 29-2t.] Iluntingdon, Pa.
Henry k Co., are the agents for the IM
PROVED CELEBRATED 'WILLOUGHBY
GUM SPRING GRAIN DRILL. [Jun29-3m
Peanuts, fresh roasted only 5 cents per
quart s at R. S. Wcstbrook's 420 Penn street..
[Reported by R. MCDIVITT, ESQ.
The Shade Gap Tragedy.
CONVICTION OF THE PRISONER
" Murder in the Second Degree.'
The trial of ('resswell A. Reese, for the mur
der of Dr. J. A. Shade, reached a final termi
nation on Saturday evening last, the convic
tion of the prisoner of murder in the secand
degree. From its commencement to its close,
just twelve days were occupied in the trial of
the case and some 164 witnesses w , _.re exam
ined. In regard to the length of the trial, the
amount of testimony on both sides and the pe
culiar interest taken in the case, it is without
a parallel in the criminal records of the coun
ty. The huge mass of evidence bearing on
the guilt or innocence of the accused, was
listened to by the Jury during the long weary
hours of the trial with an amount of patience
and attention rarely witnessed, while on the
part of the able counsel on both sides, the
case was fully, fairly and vigorously tried, no
amount of industry, research or oratory being
spared, and the verdict as rendered seems to
meet with popular approval. The undisputed
facts, as elicited by the evidence, seem to be
about as follows :
Cresswell A. Reese'the prisoner and perpe
trator of the murder, is a young man, in the
prime of life, of line physique and prepossess•
ing appearance, now in the 30th year of his
age. lie was born and reared at or near the
village of Burnt Cabins, in Fulton county,
about 8 miles south of Shade Gap, in this
county. He is a carpenter by trade, and in
the latter part of the year 1869 was engaged
in working as a journeyman at the house of
Dr. Shade, in the village of Shade Gap, and
while there formed the acquaintance of, and
married Harriet Shade, daughter of the Doc
tor; the marriage, as alleged by the defense,
having first been planned and brought about
through the agency of her father, the deceas
ed, and soon afterwarli, in the spring of 1870,
they went to housekeeping, and moved on to
a farm belonging to his wile's father, almost
a mile from Shade Gap, where, after remain
ing about a year, he gave up farming, and re
moved with his wife and child to Osceola,
Clearfield comity, Pa., where they remained
until the July following, and returned to his
father's, at Burnt Cabins. After remaining
there a short time they returned to Shade
Gap, where she seems to have left him with
the child, a babe of 4 or 5 months old, at Mc-
Gowan's hotel, and returned to her father's
house. with the intention of remaining sepa
rated from him. Shor:ly afterwards he follow
ed her, and with the infant in his arms, came
to the door of her father's house, close to the
hole!, where an ineffectual effort seems to
have been made, by him, to induce her to re- "
join him or take the custody of the child, he
not only being denied admittance to the house ;
but actually kicked from the door by the fath—
er in-law, the wife refusing, or, as alleged, be
ing prevented from seeing him. His efforts
failing, the child was left at his father's, and
shortly afterwards proceedings for a divorce
were instituted, iu which her father was the
active egoist, and at April term, 1874, these
proceedings resulted in a verdict for the wife,
and a divorce from the bonds of matrimony
decreed. After this, so far as appeared from
' the evidence,no intercourse tookplace between
them until the summer of 1875, when, as al
leged by the defense, negotiations were opened
by her, for a re-marriage, valsich did, in fact,
take place, outside of her father's, at the house
of a neighbor, in Shade Gap, in September of
that year, without the knowledge of her father.
Not long after this they went to Orbisonia
where they commenced boarding, and shortly
afterwards went to housekeeping, and where
they continued to reside till the latter part of
November, 1876, about which time he seems
to have gone to his father's at Burnt Cabins,
intending to remain absent a few days, his
wife also going to her father's at Shade Gap,
they intending to join each other at their home
in Orbisouia. She came there about that time,
but only remained there some three or four
hours, taking the evening train for Mt. Union,
and coming from there to Huntingdon, and
stopping at the house of Mr. Woods, a friend
of her father. Reese came on the next day,
and not finding his wife at Orbisonia, he seems
to have followed her to Huntingdon, and while
here on Thursday and Friday of that week,
sought an interview with her, and also to com
municate with her in writing, without success,
she refusing to see him, returning his commu
nication unopened and unanswered. He seems
to have been greatly disappointed at this fail
ure, and put the blame of his wife's conduct
on her father, and by his words and actions
indicated that he thought she had gone and
left him. On Friday evening he left here for
Orbisonia, where he staid that night, and on
Saturday morning, in company with a young
man named Thomas McGowan, started for
Shade Gap, a distance of 6 miles, arriving
there about 10 o'clock, where be entered the
drug store in the basement of Dr. Shade's
building, and after remaining there an hour or
two a scuffling noise was heard, and loud voi
ces as of persons quarreling inside the drug
store. Dr. Shade was soon afterwards seen
to come out of the drug store, in a stooping
position, and move along the pailings towards
the earner of the yard. Reese was immediate
ly after seen coining out of the door after him,
with a revolver in his hand, Mrs. Shade cling
ing to Lim and endeavoring to restrain him.
The piatol was fired by Reese,according to the
testimony, some five times, one shot lodging
in the door frame and three or four taking
effect in the shoulder and head of his victim,
the last shot having been fired by the prisoner
while stooping down and aiming at his head,
lie being in a prostrate and helpless condition.
The prisoner then went into the house, got a
hat, and started in the direction of Orbisonia,
re-loading his pistol. He was followed by Ex-
Sheriff D. R. P. Neely a few minutes after
wards, and overtaken about a mile and a half
from the scene of the murder, on the road to
Orbisonia, where be was arrested and taken
back to Shade Gap, and the same evening
brought by him to Huntingdon and lodged in
the county jail, where he has since remained.
These facts, together with the former conduct
of the prisoner, his previous declarations and
threats, as detailed in the evidence, it was
claimed by the Commonwealth, showed a
deliberately formed purpose to take life, and
that therefore theprisoner was guilty of murder
in the first degree.
The defense set up by the prisoner's counsel
was, in the first place, that the killing was not
premeditated, even if the prisoner was of sound
mind ; that he came there on the day of the
murder, not in a hostile attitude, but, as shown
by the evidence of Mrs. Shade, in an humble
and suppliant attitude, his expressions being
indicative of a spirit of forgiveness, and desire
for reconciliation ; that the repulse which he
met with resulted in a quarrel, in which blows
were given and received, and that in self de
fence, acting under the apprehension of great
bodily harm, he used the pistol without any
iatention of using it unlawfully and that the
killing would not be even manslaughter. This
was very strongly argued from several of the
attenliing circumstances, amougst which was
the testimony of the witnesses as to the shuf
fling of feet and struggle inside, and the up
ward direction of the bullet in the shoulder I
of the deceased indicating that it must have
been fired when the Doctor was erect, and
Reese down.
It was further argued that in any view of
the case the evidence showed a sudden quar
rel in which the prisoner's mind was disturbed
by previous occurrences ; that in this condi
tion he was incapable of fully forming the
purpose to kill, and that it could at most be
only murder in. the second degree.
In answer to this suggestion the reply of
the Commonwealth was that there was no
quarrel, and that the struggle was but the
attempt of the deceased to avoid his antagonist,
and not to resist him ; that he was attempting
to protect himself; that when the prisoner
first went into the drug store he did not carry
out his fully formed purpose because of others
being present, and that the course of the bullet
could be otherwise accounted for.
The further defense set up by the prisoner's
counsel was that of insanity ; that at the time
he was insane and therefore legally irrespon
sible ; that his mind was overthrown to such
a degree that his reason, conscience and judg
ment did not perform their functions, and that
as a consequence he was irresistably and un
controllably impelled to the act. In support
of this theory a long array of testimony was
offered, consisting of the former acts, conduct
and declarations of the prisoner; that his en
tire habits, actions, character and deportment
had changed since his marriage ; that he was
continually brooding over his domestic troubles
in ail of which - he associated the deceased as
the active moving cause, and that he exhibited
peculiarities indicative of mental disorder.—
Fifty-nine witnesses, all of whom had known
him for a number of years, and some of them
from his childhood, were called and testified
to their belief that on the subject of his family
troubles they ail. not consider him entirely
sane.
To repel this assumption a large number of
witnesses were called by the Commonwealth
who had known the prisoner, and who had
dealing and business correspondence with
him and who testified that they did not believe
him insane. This view of the case seems from
the evidence to have been supported by ...he
weight of the testimony of the medical etperts
produced by the Commonwealth.
The evidence closed, and the witnesses were
all discharged at half past 9 . o'clock on Friday
morning, and the court was occupied in bear
the argument in the case till six o'clock
on Saturday evening. Mr. Woods for the
Commonwealth opened the argument, and was
followed by Mr. Bailey and Mr. Speer in
half of the prisoner. The closing speech was
made by Mr. Dorris. At 8 o'clock on Satur
day evening the case was given to the Jury,
and after an absence of two hours they re
turned with the verdict. The prisoner Ni as
then remanded, sentence being deferred till
the 6th of July next.
NEGOTIABLE PAPER.—.9u important
' Opinion by 11e Supreme Court.—Folicitig is
the opinion of the supreme court (Judge
Sharswood) in the case of Woods vs. North—
error to the court of common pleas of Hun
tingdon county :
It is a necessary qualit7 of negotiable paper
that it should be simple, certain, unconditional,
not subject to any contingency. It would be
a mere affectation of learning to cite the ele
mentary treatises and the decided cases which
have established this principle. It is very
important to the conimerc 7 al community that
it should be maintained in all its rigor.
Applying it to the note sued upon in this
case, we are of the opinion that it violates this
rule. If it had been payable at sixty days,
with five per cent., it would have been objec
tionable as usurious on its face. It would
not, however, on that acconut have invalida
ted the note or destroyed its negotiability. A
negotiable note may be made payable with
int rest from its date, and if more than lawful
ii.e.ereet is stipulated for, it does net, in Penn
sylvania make the contract void, but only the
usury. Hence such a note is sufficiently
certain. It is payable at maturity with lawtul
interest. But in the paper now in question
there enters, as to the amount, an undoubted
element of uncertainty. It is a mistake to
suppose that if the note was unpaid at matu
rity the five per cent. would be payable to the
holder by the parties. It must go into the
hands of an attorney for collection. It is not
a sum necessarily payable. The phrase "col
lection fee" necessarily implies this. Not
'only so, but this amount of percentage cannot
be arbitrarily determined by the parties. It
must be only what would be a reasonable
conepensation to an attorney for collection.
This, in reason, and the usuage of the legal
profession, depends upon the amount of the
note. Five per cent. would probably be con
sidered by a jury as a reasonable compensa
tion upon the collection of a note of three
hundred and seventy-seven dollars. But it it
were three thousand dollars they would
probably think otherwise, and certainly so if
it were thirty thousand dollars. Now, then,
can this note be said to be certain as to its
amount, or that amount unaffected by any
contingency?
Interest and costs of protest, after non-pay
ment at maturity, are necessarily legal inci
dents of the contract, and the insertion of
them in the body of the note would not affect
is negotiability. Neither does a clause waiv
ing exemption, for that in no way touches the
simplicity and certainty of the paper. But a
collateral agreement as here, depending, too,
as it does, upon its reasonableness, to be
determined by the verdict of a jury, is entirely
different. It may be well characterized, like
an agreement to confess a judgment was by
Chief Justice Gibson, as "luggage," which
negotiable paper, riding as it does, on the
wings of the wind, is not a courier able to
carry.
If this collateral agreement may be intro
duced with impunity, what may not be? It
is the first step in the wrong direction which
costs.
These instruments may come to be lumbered
up with all sorts of stipulations, and all sorts
of difficulties, contentions and litigation
results. It is the best rule obsta principles.
Judgment reversed.
The effect of the above opinion by the
supreme court will be to relieve endorsers of
notes on which there is the printed stipulation
that five per cent. collectioc fee shall be
allowed. The supreme court holds that this
clause destroys the negotiability of the paper
so far as the endorser is concerned. The
incoporatiou of that clause in mortgages and
bonds has been held to be legal, and in view
of this fact it has been supposed by bankers
and others that negotiable notes would not
be impaired by having it introduced into
them. Thousands of these notes have been
given the past few months and the decision of
the supreme court (reversing the judgment of
the Huntingdon county court in a case raising
the question of the negotiability of such paper)
will, in numerous instances, seriously affect
the interest of those who have loaned money
on these notes. It is said that several millions
of this kind of paper are held by bankers and
other business men.
THE CAUSE OF COAL OIL ACCIDENTS
—ln concluding an account of a fatal kerosene
accident the Philadelphia Times deals as fol
lows with the cause of them : The greater
number of accidents are due to the ignorant
or careless use of the article. In the present
season the oil is subjected to great heat dur
ing the day, and if the lamp is half full, as is
usually the case after an evening's consump
tion, an explosion or at least au ignition is
likely to occur. Many who use oil, being
unable on account of poverty to 'meet the
expenses of using gas, place the half-filled
lamp behind a hot stove where it is suffered
to remain during the day, the unfilled portion
becoming packed with gas. Besides, many of
the burners in use are unsafe. They contain
hollows which become filled with gas, and the
little holes that are usually made to permit it
to escape aro allowed to clog with dirt. Some
careless persons fill the lamp while the burner
is hot and the wick still lighted, which is
dangerous to say the least, even if the flame is
held a considerable distance from the lamp.
Others use benzine or "combination fluid" one
night and petroleum the next, and the mixture
is not safe, Dealers have been known to pour
benzine into barrels of oil in order to make it
hold out, much as shrewd but conscienceless
grocers mix white sand with sugar, or liquor
merchants stir up whisky and water. When
ever this is done the oil is reduced and at once
becomes unfit for use. Some of the most ter
rible explosions have resulted from such erim
inal tampering with the inespected article.
Varioas other tricks are known to the trade
and practiced.
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.—The numbers
of The Living Age for the weeks ending June
2d and 9th, respectfully, have the following
noteworthy contents : Mr. Wallace's "Russia,"
from the Quarterly Review ; Montenegro, a
sketch by Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Nineteenth
gentury ; Relation of Mind Body, Church Quar•
tvly ; A Dutch Milton, Cornhill ; The Anglo-
Indian Tongue, Blackwood; The Alkaline and
Boracic Lakes of California, •by J. Arthur
Phillips, F. G. S. Popular Science Revielo ;
Whist at Our Club, Blackwood; 'Social Posi
tion, Whitehall Review; Light Emitting Flow
ers, Leisure Hour; The Celts, The Fireside;
The Storing of Literary Power, Spectator ;
with installments of "Pauline," a remarkable
new serial, and of Wm. Black's new story,
and choice poetry and miscellany.
For fifty-two numbers of sixty four large
pages each (or more than 3000 pages a year),
the subscription price ($8) is low ; while for
$10.50 the publishers offer to send any one of
the American $4 monthlies or weeklies with
The Living Age for a year, both post paid.
Littell & Gay, Boston, are the publishers.
Tom Tuumß.---It will be seen that the
above named little gentleman will visit our
town. The following notice is from the Bath
Chronicle ;,-,g.Ttie Australian Tom Thumb,
Bingisif Lilliputians, is without exception the
mightiest mite of manhood alive at this time,
The General is several inches less in stature
than Charles Stratton and has infiuitely,more
ability than any little gentleman we have ever
seen. He is at once a well formed minature
man, a versatile comedian, and sings and
dances admirably. His personation of "Capt.
Jenks," "Come along, do," and his Irishman
and jig were exceedingly farcical and brought
a demand for encores. Professor Millar in
troduipd the General and gave a lengthened
series Of feats of legerdemain of the most
pleasing and astonishing character. The Pro
fessor is the most accomplished illusionist
traveling, and to witness his clever perform
ance is both amusing and instructive. Miss
Nellie Millar, who acts as accompanyist de
serves a genuine compliment for her piano
playing. Her execution is bold, her manipu
lation skillful and brilliant."
MURDER WILL OUT.
A few years ago 'August Flower" was dis
covered to be a certain cure for Dyspepsia and
Liver complaint, a few thin Dyspeptics made
known to their friends how easily and quickly
they had been cured by its use. The great
merits of GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER became
heralded through the country by one suffer to
another, until, without advertising, its sale
has become immense, Druggists in EVERY
TOWN in the United States are selling it. No
person suffering with Sour Stomach, Sick
Headache, Costiveness, palpitation of the
Heart, indigestion, low spirits, etc., can take
three doses without relief. Go to your Drug
gist S. Smith 8; Son and John Read & Sons,
Huntingdon, Pa., and get a bottle for 75 cents
and try it. Sample bottles 10 cents.
May 18, 1877-lyeow
Farmers, when you have a wagon load of
Vegetables, Fruit, kc., to sell, take it to R. S.
Westbrook, in the Diamond.
Regular Secretion Essential to Health
The regular secretion and flow of the gastric
juices, and of the bile which the use of Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters promotes, are effects
which conduce materially to the restoration
of health, when the system is discarded. Food
is not digested in the dyspeptic stomach be
cause the gastric fluid is deficient, superabund
ant or vitiated ;—the liver becomes congested
and the bowels constipated because the supply
of bile is inadequate or misdirected. The
Bitters rectifies all this, and removes every ill
consequence of non-assimilation and bilious
irregularity. Furthermore, it stimulates the
action of the kidneys, by which impurities are
so to speak, strained from the blood, and any
tendency in the urinary organs to grow slug
gish and d;sordered counteracted. Whether
it be used as a means of regulating gastric or
bilious secretion, and relieving the overloaded
bowels, or to promote complete, and therefore
healthful, urination, Hostetter's Bitters may
be relied upon with confidence to accomplish
the end in view. junel-itn.]
PULLMAN I'ALATIAL HOTEL CARS
These Celebrated Hotel Dining Cars are now
running regularly between Qhicago and Oma
ha, on the California Exprels Trains of the
Chicago 4 North Western Railway. West bound
they leave Chicago daily, except Sunday, (and
:il every 11T i r;=d7rFr ia =.0m t eVrell=-eet
depot, at 10:30
, and arrive at Ome.TiTi,
next morning. East bound, they leave the
'rauifer depot, opposite Omaha, at 5:15
daily, except Saturday, (aria every third Sat.
urday) and reach Chicago the next afternoon
— N - OOTher road west of Chicago runs these
celebrated Pullmah Hotel Cars or any form of
no:el Cars,
It Has Wood the Test.
If you doubt the wonderful success of Shiloh'.
Cewrumpt low Cure, give it a trial; then if you are
not perfectly satisfied, return the bottle and we will
refund the price paid. It has established the fact
that Consumption can be cured, while for Conghs,
Hoarseness, Asthma, Whooping tough and all
Lung or Throat troubles, there is nothing like it
for a quirk and positive curt., and it seldom fails.
11l cents, 50 emits, and $1 per bottle. If your Lunge
are sore, or Chest, or Back lame, use ~S'h iloh:s
rrats Plaster Price 2.3 cents. Sold by Read , Sons
and Smith and Son.
DR. SHILOH'S SYSTEM VITALIZER. is no
doi!ht the most successful cure for Dyspepsia and
Div,: Complaint we have ever known. otherwise
wt could not guarantee it. In cases of Consump
tion, where General Debility, loss of Appetite and
Constipation exist. it will restore and regulate the
system while SHILOH'S CURE allays the iutla
tnation and heals the lungs. Price 75 cents. Sold
by Smith A. Son and John Read Sons.
If ACK METACK, a rich and fragrant, perfume,
Sold bt Smith ,t Son and Read k none.
a prll-titueow.
TO DESTROY CUCUMBER 131 - o§.—The
Western Reformer has the following timely
advice in regard to ridding the garden of the
bugs, etc.: "To destroy bugs on squash and
cucumber vines dissolve a teaspoonful of salt
petre in a pail full of water; put one pint of
this around each hill, shaping the earth so it
will not spread much and the thing is done.
—Use more saltpetre if you can afford it—it
is good for vegetables but death for animal
life. The bugs burrow it, the eal3ll at night
and fail to rise in the morning. It is also
good for the "grub" in peach trees only use
twice as much, say a quart to each tree.
There was not a yellow or blistered leaf on
twelve or fifteen trees to which lt was applied
last season. No danger of killing any vege
table with it.
Virgiai% liquir dealers have raised a
fund to resist the introduction of the gong punches
provided for under the 11'2W whisky Itiw, just en
acted in that state.
HUNTINGDON AND BROAD 'for RAlL
acuu—Report of Coal Shipped: TON t 4
For week ending June 23, 1.877 ...... 3968
Same time last year 4982
Increase for week ..
Decrease for week
Total amount shipped to date.
Same date last year
Increase for year 1875....,
Decrease
A CtiRTAIN 11 EADACHE CURE.-11 you suffer
from sick or nervous headache, morning sick
ness or neuralgia, go to your druggist and get
a ten cent trial pack of Dr. 'leisley's Victor
Headache Powders, or J. H. Heisley & Co.,
Salem, N. J., will mail them post paid. A sin
gle powder actually cures the most distress
ing cases in ten minutes. It is purely vege
table, entirely harmless, a physician's- discov
ery and we guarantee it to do all we claim.
You can get the 50 cent packs or the -10 cent
trial size at Frank C. 'West's in Huntingdon,
and at all other first-class druggists. every
where: Convince yourself. Dan26-ly
ATTENTION, ATTENTION, YE PEOPLE!
If you want Dry Goods,
If you want Notions,
If you want good Groceries,
If you want Queensware.
If you want Ladie's & M is•es' Shoes and Gait-
crB,
If you want Gent's Gaiters,
If you want Men and Boy's Brogans,
If you want good mackerel,
Call at the cheap store, corner Bth and Wash
ington streets, and Decker At Shaffner will
take pleasure in. showing their goods. You
will then be convinced that they do sell the
cheapest and best in the town.
A CLEAN and agreeable substitute for Sul
phur Ointments, and other greasy unguents,
used as remedies for obnoxious skin diseases,
is Glenn's Sulphur Soap, which cares far
more rapidly and completely and does not soil
the linen. Depot, Crittenton's, No. 7 sth. Av.
N. Y. Hill's Hair .3; Whisker Dye ; black or
brown, 50 cts. June 1 Im.
We have just received an additional supply
of "cuts" suitable for embellishing sale bills,
kod are better prepared than ever to do this
rand of printing. Orders from a distance will
ieceive prompt attention. tf.
If you want to make the hearts of the little
ones glad, buy them some of the handsome
juvenile books for sale at the JOURNAL Store. tf
If you want Wedding Invitations—beanttful
and cheap—go to the JOURNAL Store. tf
LITERARY NOTICES.
Lireircorr's Manazian.—There are several
very attractive articles in Lippincutis Mag
azine for July, the opening number of .ne twen
tieth volume. "Edinburgh Jottings," by Dr.
Alfred S. liibbs, U. S. N., gives a chatty account
of the quaint and interesting relics of forme- gran
deur that abound in tho famous f‘eotch capital,
with numerous illustrations that help to vivify
the descriptions. The splendid engravings that
accompany Lady Blanche Murphy's third paper
on the Rhine are a feast to the eye, while the let
ter-press gives many curious and picturesque
details not familiar to the ordinary tourist.
Henry James, Jr., makes his first appearance in
Lippincott's with one of his most sparkling papers,
"Au English Easter," in which the sailient char
acteristic of the people, including the highest and
lowest classes, aro sketched with a free and point
ed pen, but with no lack of fairness and discrimin
ation. C. 11. Harding describes the educational
system of France; David her gives a glimpse of
Russian travel under the title of "A Days Marsh
through Finland;" and Mrs. Sarah B. Winter
writes with enthusiasm of the great French critic
Sainre-Beuve, adding extracts from hit recently
published note-books and correapondenee.
The opening chapters of "A Law unto Llama"
a now serial by Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, are
in the author's best web, and include a piquant
description of a spiritual scenes. There are two
or three pleasantly written short stories, and sev
eral chapters of "Macdonald's Marquis of Louie."
which is fast drawing to its close. The poems in
the number are by Sidney Lanier, Emma - Lazarus,
and Mary B. Dodge, and the contents of the edi
torial departments are full and varied.
PICTIRSON't4 liimuzmin for July is on our table,
ahead as - usual of all others. The prisoial steel
engraving, "Cherry Ripe," after Meyer Von
Bremen, is one of the most beautiful we have ever f
seen, even in this magazine. Then follows a!
mammoth colored steel fashion plate, with Ave'
figures. a miracle of lowliness. In addition to tpis
there are some twenty other engravings of fasbion F.
There are also colored patterns of butterflies and
flowers for applique embroidery, besides a dosen
or more other patterns in crochet, embroidery ,tc.,
ko., for work-table. Mrs. Hooper begins a pow
erful novelet, "Blue-Beard's Closet;" Mrs. Stephens
continues her "Dependent Cousin," a story which
is alone worth the subscription price; and in ad
dition,
Frank Lee Benedict, and the author "The
Second Life" have thrilling tales ; while all the
rest are far above those usually in perlotlieals.
"Peterson," in fact, is celebrated for its stories.
This is, undoubtedly the eitecipest and beet of the
lady's books• i and it combines more attractions
than any other. A new volume begins with this
number affording an excellent opportunity to
subscribe. Price, two dollars a year, with great
deductions to clubs, and premiums to persons get
ting
up clubs. Specimens sent, gratis, to those
wishing tt) get np clubs. A,ddress CHAS. J. Ps-
TERION 304 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
ECLECTIC MAGAZIN/C.—The July Eclectic, he
ginning a new volume, is ti convenient number
with whioh to begin a subscription, and its con
tents offer a good specimen of the sterling limn
ties of this excellent magazine. A fine steel en
graving, entitled "The Burial of the Bird," forme
the frontispice, and is alone worth the price of the
number. The leading article is a statesman-like
essay by Goldwin Smith, entitled "The Political
Destiny of Canada," and this ie followed by a
curious article on "The Religion of the great Py
ramid," by Richard A. Proctor, and a most useful
and instructive one on "The Kitchen and the
Cellar," which deserves to be widely read. Thew
)mes a sonnet on "Montenegro and the Monten
egrins," by the Right Hon. Wm. E Gladstone.
Other noteworthy articles afe "Barry Cornwall;"
'•The Levelling Power of Rain ;" "Translations
from Heine," by Theodore Martin; "The Hopes
of lheologv." by Dean Staoly ; "My Neighbors
Wife," by rred,•riek Locker; "Evidences of the
Age of ice; "Slavery in Egypt ;" Curious Did
covc.ries concerning Vi'ion; and a pathetic poem
entitled "A Mother's Heart." Besides all these,
tlu•re are three additional chapters eft—Mta.
Ott phancit interesting noel, "Ye urti Mintrck"
and sonie ttn pamtioferaisable eadirialttotee OA
new honks, foreign literary gossip, science and art,
_
and miscellaneous topics.
Published by E. T. Pelton, 25 Bond Street, New
Terms, $5 per year; single number, 45
cents. - The Erlect;c old any $4 magazine to one
addreem for $B.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
LETTBR FROM MR. GOBBRT.
1111 GIRARD STRY.F.T, PHILADISLPIIIAZ '
June lOth, 1577.
EDITOR HUNTINGDON JOURNAL—Dear Sir :—I
have just received yourpaper of thealiikkinst., and
read the aftiete'therOn_ eon tairreft; re/tore) AI the
erection of Platt GliinewOrks, at Itiariatig‘lbt, and
toy connection there With.
As-some facts stated in that article are not per
' fectly correct. I will ask an opportunity at your
hards of rectifying theta before your readers.
When r came to li until:Oen, in the early spring
of this year, I offered to the leading citizens of
your town to build a complete Plate Glass Works
capable of producing a thousand feet a day, fd;
the sum of $550,000, payable $350,000 in cash aad
$200,000 in paid up shares of the company pro-
posed to be organized. What has been called my
subscription to the stock of the company was
therefore conditional upon my receiving the con
tract to build the works. For the above price of
$550,000 I proposed to bring over at my expense,
the necessary workmen and machinery from Bel
gium, to furnish the,rtocessury plans and drawings,
to superintend, togettier with Mr. Brasseur, the
eenstructien 'of the works, and to guarantee that
they , should produce a thousand feet of polished
plate glass per day, a; a cost of not over 00 cents
per foot, or TOcents if we include the iutereat on
luvestmaiLui a part .of the 'cost price..
The consequence of this guarantee was to be
that, if I did not fulfill my contract in all these
respects, the work= erected Tou'd become the prop
arty of the company and I would not only hat e
lost all claim to the shares of stock hat would have
become liable to an action rur atty loss that (night
have been sustained.
This proposition of mine, was at tho request of
Philadelphia capitalists referred for examination
to Messrs. Wilson Brother.? A . Co., of 410 Walcut
Street, Pniladelphia, consulting engineers of the
highest authority.
After an investigation' ef several weeks, and con
aultb.tion with experts in furnace and machine
building, these gentlemen made a full report, sta
ting that the ousinesswas in itself it very profita
ble one, and that the works aldne wenticost $375.-
000; This estimate of NlCF:jr2. Wilson Brothers
Co., does not inetu ie any profit whatever to Messrs.
Brasseur, Durfee and inyi.elt. nor any expenses al
ready incurred and to be incurred hy no, en faring.'
tog ever Belgian week:nen and ththe fitnilies„aasti
in starting the works in aceoretance, veith the pro
posed guarantee.; the fq.ccs 0(X315,00D represents
sitriply the lowest actual iityst.prless-of the works.
Thtis it will be,eeen thlitlirmy original orenosi
!ion bed been aecepted. I would have had to bring
to this eatinlr 4 y 4 least $25,t100 in cash, and to
have sOstnined the- expenses already gone to in
the negotiation ;:nd the subsequent expenses of
bringing out workmen ii•••.i t:arting the works ac
cording to guarautee.:
Messrs. Wilson Brotittc!rs I Co., after examining
my propositiOn,,eonotted - eaglet it was not only fa
vorable to me but also t the shareholders of the
proposed company it promised them s dividend
of from 15 to 20 per eefit. on their iihvestment.
**3 , :n this report had been put before.,the com
mittee of your townsmen they thought it would, be
better to start the business on a smaller scare and*
asked me if I could not contrive to start the works
on a reduced capital. After much communication
blekwards and forwards, I on the G:h of
June, at 2 P. M . ., agre:.d With Col: Dorris, the
chairman of the committee, in a private talk upon
the following terms:
Fire. Tics §t :188 works to he reduced one-half;
their production to be inly 540 feet.% day.
Seeott4. Tice car worka, 'in
.West ilantinarrn,•to
boAiought at the price of V45,600"and used - for the .
glass works; thus resulting in a considerable econ-
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our.
rfhird. M. M. B.rasseur and Gobert to receive a
bogus of $50,000 in shares.
Fourth. N. M. Drasseur and Gobert to deliver
the machinery at cost - price, and receive a bonus
of VO,OOO in cash for pitting, work and commission
on machinery.
JYti. If the workt "h 4 11.214 be extended to a ca
pacity of 'tiff() feet a d ty, M. M. Brasseur and Go
hvrt to receive an additional bonus of $25,000 in
cash and $2.3,000 in share s .
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rhos,, terms making our profit $llO,OOO or works
of the capacity" of 150.0 fees a day were accepted by
Mes,rs. Dorris, North, Henry and Fisher and la
jeitcd by the four other members of the committee
Messrs. Blair, Port, Africa and Brown. Theie
fore, you sec -that, tar expectation of matitg a
cool $1.000111(1 or PCOlisia, not too rnrensonable• to ,ke
accepted by four of your bet citizens.
Finally, I wi:l eta te L in answer to your postscript,
that Mr. BeaF•seur islny partner in this business,
and that hetanitpd will do nothing wit4out mo,
that I have — been through We whole negotrationi.
sating on 1119 behalf as well its /4 evAlt, and as I
have kept all my promises to him I have no reason
to fear that he will not keep his promises to me.
Hoping that you will publish-this letter and the
report of Messrs. Wilson Brothers & Co., which
shyold i,e rea.4 top.sloft:anti, tile matte/ thorwaghe
ly, 1 reatain;. 3 ,
Very rtFilieedully; Wats . •
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• . 'At*tig•G# ll 4 l 4 l lgifik...?
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Etem,Przox ,esriv z+ru r.
• • t f
• Some weeks er mo,p,ths,ago, I..wzinteut Mott Br
tick headeil as abOie. "Thongli rhinhuch tore
to say upon thegalijecithan I bad time or roam
tp Fay the!). .atiOu, (*sees **eve prevented my
sooner re:timing. In tayjormer article I tuba of
the s.lierings of Wili4ns istio trus...id to the hon
esty of 1 s cuitomers; and *he was so badly dis
appointed. hlow many af4brifeat:ers,of th , JoUR-
I( t. have natl their fattk )44)ply-fellows fearfully
lessened by similar ex_ieriencies ? TV: - ire command
ed to love our nektiSor*. How can we loin them
when *o know that 0 out of 10 of them will ivied
die us (very change ;ley sit .I.f laws are of any
value they should at least command our . respect.
how can we respect laws riat allow our neighbors
to defraud, ns and give ;Lazo ...dress?
Experienee treol7es ua that governments and
laws are necessary for the preservation ofjuat re
lations between nan and man. ''ff all men were
strictly moral, religions, honest and - jttst, then no
eriminal provisions would be needed. If there
11111di, be laws they should be just and equitable,
and not only affect all equally but should be so
trained and executed as to assist in making good
citizens and good - subjects. , 'Caere were no pen.
alty for the crime of theft. would not there be ten
time' the anoint of stealing done that is done
now ? And is stealing any worse ti - an the various
ways of swindling that are resorted to by so many
of our "respected" fellow-eitlsens-? In urging the
passage of laws to compel people to be r. - .ore hon
est I am not necessarily opposing the cause of
"the poor man.",l would , punish the ri man
who gives false hffgaients to his friends a great
deal more severely than I would the poor man who
borrows five dollars from me to be paid to-morrow
when he gets that tonolullans free] mith.atitl,Ahen
lifts that ten dollare, and never payi me; Both
are swindlers and liars and both should be pillo
ried. laying sheuld be considered a crime next to
murder. Yet who has ever been punished for ly
ing since the dais of Anannias awl Sapphire ex
cept now anti then some poor fellow onljaewjtness
stand who is cross-que , Aioned by designing law
yers until he can't tell a straight story ? Why
should not a nitio's word be as good as his oath ?
and why should a man he allented.to slander his
neighbor to his heart's content without fear of law,
but be subject to fine and imprisonment if he
should write down One sentenee of a thousand that
he may utter lawlessly ?
Honesty is not the paynient of just debts alone ;
but the payment of our just obligation has wgreat
deal to do witNbeing.lionest, and it Ir this part of
it, that I am gold s s
tp'speak of nosf. Trt arguing
in fdvor of laws - Wedinpei the payment iff debts
and to punish frandillent obligation al rim net
.
at
gguipg against poor Bleu. ;More liner snertiloqse by
bad debtsthan rich tines; 'end if thet didn't *by
should poor into want laws to give them liberty to
purchase from their neighbors without being com
pelled to make any rotting I am poor, very poor,
myself; but I believe I Live never contracted any
debts that I didn't attempt to pay, nor have I
misrepresented my circumstances or prospects or
an article I was selling, neer made& business prom
ise that I didn't try to fulfill. (This much by way
of explanation as all writers aft a certain side of
this question in the Jouanst., have to go through
a regular course of catechising.)
But here let me give some further iiqtances of
the action 6f the laws - ss now in force.' Over the
way'lives my neighbor Johnson. lle is an able
bodied man, in good health, has but a small fam
ily, and has a cooperatively geed position for
these times, getting a Peary of $BOO.OO a year
representing the interest on a capital of $lO,OOO.
He himself is the capital, and he gets as much in
terest in a year as the owner of $lO,OOO bank stock
or °fa $lO,OOO farm. Add you, could attach or
take for debt all the interest of the money in bank
or all the produce of the farm, and you could sell
$9,700.00 of the capital; but you couldn't touch
Johnson's principal nor interest. And if a mer
chant were to break up with assets amounting on
ly to two hundred dollars, and owing Johnson, the
farmer and the banker each two hundred doltars, I
Johnson would get his money while neither of the
other's would get . anythibr
N
The shoemaker doWn street is very poor. Tie
does nut get his fifty dollars at the end of every
month, what ha gets comes in small dribs, and by
the time he pays for his stook his profits will net
scarcely a third of the wages that Johnson re-!
quires. Johnson orders a pair of boots. They are
finished in the middle dt the month. Johnson
takes them home sad eiU pay the tan dollars when
he gealois net sheet— He gata:the cheek and a
dosea swim but the- ilsoassaker la, forgotten, his
bill retiumdi, and he meet sulina in Wenee the loom
•
of half a months wages, far Johnson lives fast and
don't keep much property about hint--true the
goods in his possession eost $890.80 but thee the
appraisers only rated it at $187'.00, and his ways
cannot be attached. When Johnson wants anoth
er pair of boots he goes to another bootmaker.
Johnson is one of these easy fellows who spends
all his wages as fait as made an who buys as
much more on credit as he can. Rs ran attempts
at all theritores sod didn't pay any WS he amid
got no mare credit, and than he paid a pert of his
aeonut at one and dealt there, never intending to
pay his accounts at dveothse stores. Ha owes the
furniture dealer for a part of the furniture In his
house; be owes the tinder; he owes the doetor ;
be owes the miller; he owes the printer; he owes
everybody thatite can owe; and the only bills
that he does pay regularly and oonselentionely be
sides his rent are his whisky bills. If he would
cease to pay these the supply would be stopped,
and he likes a little whisky.
Now what would there be unfair or unjust in a
law dust would make Johnson amenable to pun
%bluetit for lying and defrauding? and howwould
such a law oppress the poor? Suppose one-half of
his wages were to be attachable for these debts.
Many of his victims get along well on less than
half his wages. Suppose be were convicted of fast
living, of buying things he could pay for and
didn't, of buying whisky with money rightfully
belonging to his creditors, and suppose on these
mints he ware to take occasional exercise at a
whipping post as criminals do in Delaware, who
'meld say that he didn't justly deserve his pun
ishment ? The old English law of imprisonment
for debt was wrong because it took away a pro
ducer, and because -here might often have been
extenuating circumstances that were not taken in
to ',count. But there ought to be some way of
punishing profligate debtors.
fn the same village with Johnson lives a poor
widow. She gets one-third of the income of a
small farm. She is old and feeble and has little to
support her but this miserable pittance of forty
dollars a year. If anybody ought to be exempted
from the payment of debts she ought to be. At a
store where she had dealt, there was a balance of
fifty dollars charged against her, which had been
paid but a careless book-keeper did not cross it
out. Judgment for fifty dollars with interest and
costs was obtained against her, and her income of
forty dollars a years will doubtless be attached to
pay for it. It is not wages and is attachable. So
it goes. Justice and law and law and justice so
nicely balanced that a person cannot propose any
improvement without rendering himself liable to
indictment for advocating the csuso of the rich
and I don't know what all else. But this artiete
has grown too long already and I mutt desist now
until another week. EQUITE.
HUNTINGDON MARKETS.
Corrected Weekly by Flenr‘ & Co
WeiGLIVIALE PSICY.II.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. , June 28, 1677.
Saperilao Flodr
Extra ...... .
Family Flour
Red Wheat, ......
Bark per cord
Barley
Batter
9 GO
1 85
6 90
Broome per doien
Beeswax per pouud 25
Beans pe;*Liediel 2 00
Beet.
Cloverseed f 64 pounds ... 8 u 0
Corn il bushel on oar new 55
Corn fi heilod 55
Corn Heal cwt ...... l4O
Candles V. ib
Dried Applesl4 11): 1211
ri
Dried Cherriee ? lb 5
Dried Beet , 15
Egg. l2
Feathers eo
Flaiseed ? bushel 1 1 till
Rope 11115 2O
.
lianas smoked l2
Should,'" 8
Side - lO
Plaster *tea grmind l2 80
Rye, - 4O
Wool, washed
Wool; unwashed,...
T;mothy Seed, 7 45 pounds 1 25
Hay II ton BOO
Lard ? th new 10
.., .
Largs"Ou ions 30 bushel
Oats
Potatoes 11 bulhe). new. 1 26
Philadelphia Cattle Market.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.
Cattle active; a shade higer ; sales 2,500 head•
dheep dull; priees about the same as last week ;
sake§ 7,000 head.
Bogs dull; prioes about the earns as last week;
sake 3,000 head.
gkitar.
KAAEMER—HALL.—On Thursday evening,
21st inst., a* the residence of Dr. GiLson Bower,
Myerstocrn, Pa., by Rev. Geo. Wolf, D. P., as
sisted by Rev. B. Ilausman, D., Louis F.
Kraemer, esq., of Reading, Pa., to Yles Ella
Hail, of Huntingdon, Ps.
Zhe
WOODS.—In this place, on Saturda., evening,
231 inst. Miss Nettie Woods, aged 21 years snd
8 menthe.
ISE:ZBEF G.—At the residence of his grandfath
er, in Shirley township, on the 20th inst., Sam
uel Lawrence- only son of Milton W. and Emma
Isenberg, of Altoona, aged 2: 2ars,4 montLi and
• 20 days.
New Advertisements.
PENNY WISE
AND
PrIUND FOOLISH
In nothing fa the above more illustrated than tr- the
course many pursue in certain kinds of disease. In order
to save a few cents they have what they call their own
prescriptions, such as Balsam Copabift, Turpentios,
little knowing the l.anefui influence these drugs have on
the con .titution. the disgusting smell from the breath,
aid, with all ~ ,ese disadvantages, there is no saving of
•money, a' the dose has to he ret..,wed over ant' over again
until at last the condition of tho patient becomes alarm
ing: then other rat ...ns have to be rreorted to. Reed the
words of a sufferer
Desmond & CO, 916 --ace Street, Philadelphia : I appeal
to you, sad if there Is any ear:hl- reii f fur me I wish
you would do • - nnething for ma. 'About eight slontbasgo
I got Into tro_..,le. I took captinles, want se doctors, and
it bag cost me one hundred dollars—first for this medi
cine, then f, that—without any benefit, A few day. ago
a friend told me of the Samaritan's Gift; he said it would
certainly cure me. This is why I address you for advice-
Let the above be a warning to others. When you get
in trouble procure at once the Samaritan's Gift, and you
will be all right in two or three days, for remember the
bad effects that follow the use of these injurious drugs are
often worse than the original trouble. Price—Male pack
ages $2; Female $3. Sent by Mail Ina plain envelope.
Sold by John Read & Sons and by pruggists.
MaylB '77.1.i.
Tuscarora Seminary
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
14 6.. A Home School. Beautiful Scenery.
N 4 healthful Climate. Full Course. Mu
sio a speciality. Modern Languages.
Experienced Teachers. No LAW way
work. N.3xt session begins Sept. sth
,
1377. send for Circular to
C. P. KOLBE, A. M., Principal. Academia,
.run,..ta Cou .ty, Ps. Punel-3m
KIRK BATT & BERWIND
• •
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND -
Commission Merchants,
130 North Third Street, Philadelphia
Offer for sale a large and well selected stock of
GROCERIES, TEAS, SPICES, &c,
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF COFFEE AND STROP.
OUR FINEST DRIPS IS HEAVY BODY, FINE FLAVOR,
LIGHT IN COLOR, AND FREE FROM ACIDS. WE
SPECIALLY SOLICIT MAIL ORDERS, AND FILL
THEM WITH AS MUCH CARE AND AT AS DOW PRI
CES AS IF PARTIES WERE PRESENT TO MAKE
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PROCTOR,
-I: , 6 206 PENN STREET,
HUNTINGDON, PA
Agent for
SCHOOL BOOKS,
and
SCHOOL & CHURCH FURNITURE.
Readers,
Spellers,
Geographies,
Arithmeties,
Grammars,
Writing Books '
Composition Books,
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Writing Charts,
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Webstees Dictionaries,
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School Desks Teacher's Desks,
Globes, gte.
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dence with School Directors, Clsurek Trustees, and
Teachers, cordially invited. All communisations
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A MERICAN HOTEL,
MT. UNION.
S. B. WOOLLETT, Proprietor.
"This old and well eitablieleed hotel, nada $
ROW proprietor. gives 'Tory astisfagtion
traveling public, 'live 4241.1. (Nr4;l4
GREAT INDUCEMENTS
- TO
Encourage Improvements.
FOR SALE :
CHOICE BUILDING LOTS,
IN THE NEW EXTENSION OP BEDrORD,
NEAR THE SPRINGS.
Will offer at private sale, at low price', and on
easy terms and conditions, •is:
ONLY ONE-FIFTV CASH REQUIRED ON
PURCHASE, BALANCE PAYABLE IN
equal payments in Bonds, with interest at six per
centum per annum, payable semi-annually, secu
red by Mortgage.
The owner offering to the purchaser (if desired)
chat at the expiration of the fon, years, should
the purchaser be dissatisfied with his purchase,
will refund the original purchase amount as ex
pressed in the reeeipt (or Deed in the hands of
Messrs. Russell A Longenecker until all the pay
ments are made), and have the Lot or Lots reeon
verted on repayment of original purchase sitioent,
providing the Lot or Lots are free from inenw
branees, same as when bought from owner.
For particulars, apply to
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HOMESTE A I)
47 00
9 00
Is published by the Land Department of the Kin.
sas Pacific Rai!way Company, to soppty the I.irge
and increasing demand fur information re•spe,tiug
KANSAS, and especially the magnificent b..dy of
lands granted by Congress In aid of the conortie
tion of its road. This grant comprises
OVER FIVE MILLION ACRES
OF LAND, consisting of every odd section in each
township, for a distance of twenty miles , 161 both
sides of the road, or one-half the land in a - brit
forty miles wide, extending to Denver City, is
Colorado, thus forming a continuation of the belt
of country which, from the Atlantic coast west
ward, is found to be, in climate, soil, and every
production of nature, the most favore.l.
To aid in the settlement of this superb (ion's,*
with an intelligent end industriess people, is thg
object of the 11031ESTRAD It is intended to
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nor will it ever give, intentionally, say statement
that will not, upon investigation, be fully auetaie.
ed.
The Company obtains its title to these lands
from the Government of the United Stntes.
They are being offered at prices lower than any
other lands in the West, that will compare with
them in soil, climate and ge.ieral advantages. The
terms of payment, as will be found on a careful
examination, Sr. more liberal in all essential fila
tures than have heretofore been offered by any
railway company.
THE HOMESTEAD
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All nommunioations in reference to the lands or
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Qu: eopiee any errittig WITHOUT Water,
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ters, every business W.A. clergymen, oorteerpea
dents, .ravelers it is lavaluabis--sells at might.
Send $3. 1 9 rad we will send a MO page Book, let
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month in the business we fornith
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dollars a day right in their own loealities. Nave .
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OF
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For which we will pay the highest market pries
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CHEAP FRESH I GOODi
GROCERIES and PROVISIONS,
No. 512, Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa.
All kinds of Country Produce taken is exchsagis
for goods.
G. MILLER, Agt..
mohl6l7]
TAKE THINGS EASY 1
SIDDALL'S
MAGNETIO SOAP
SAVES HALF THE WORK
AND MAHE& WAIIII-DAT
A PLEASURE
BOTH WINTER AND SUMMER
Makes clothes Sweet and very White
without BOILING or BCt LDING.
NO WASH-BOILER,
• NO ROUGH HANDS,
NO YELLOW CLOTHES,
NO STEAM in the HOUSE.
$5O penalty if it injures the Clothes !
Bold by Grocers, sr a Family Package seat by
Express, freigki prepaid, on receipt of MM.
F. 11. BIDDALL,
sepl•y] 106 Market St., Philadelphia.
For sale by DR. J. C. NAMING & CO,
Plifilf ClPpop
To ton Wonaise Ciass.—Wo we now prepared
to foralsit all Mason will.- - at employment at
Agar
I home, t h e whole of the time, or for 'spare ago
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per eveniug, sad a proportional rasa by devoting
their whole Una to the basis's,. /lays sad skis
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as are not well tatieliod we will semi ow dollar to
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