The Huntingdon Journal
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Brief Mention—Home-made and Stolen .
Advertise in the JOURNAL.
Loafers are not so numerous.
The "Climax Binder" is a success.
Johnstown is to have an organ factory.
Blank books a specialty at the JOURNAL
Store.
Paper stockings are among the latest in
ventions.
The prettiest girl in Huntingdon wears No.
2i gaiters.
Note paper as low as five cents a quire at
the JOURNAL Store.
Blair county Odd Fellows will picnic at
Roaring Springs on the 13th prox.
Eieven cars composed the accommodation
train for camp meeting on Sunday.
We have some handsomely printed blank
deeds for sale at the JOURNAL Store.
Potatoes are selling in this market at thirty
cents per bushel, with a downward tendency.
When finished there will be a neat carriage
road leading around the basin of the reservoir.
Pencil Pads, wholesale and retail, at the
JOURNAL Store. Rare bargains in these goods.
Mary Hockenberry is a female horse thief
who now languishes in the Clearfield county
jail.
George T. Warfel started; on Wednesday
morning, for Colorado and a trip through the
West.
Beautiful Panel Pictures, already framed
at the JOURNAL Store. Cheap and very hand
some.
Lewistow•n's Sunday afternoon open-air re•
ligious services are popular and largely at
tended.
Smoke the "Electric," manufactured ex
pressly for the JOCUNAL Store, where it can
only be bad
Three hundred and two excursion tickets,
for the Newton camp, were sold at this station
on Sunday morning.
Only very little girls should wear low
neck and short-sleeve dresses; on full grown
girls they look vulgar.
A little son of Andrew Zinn, of this bor
ough, had an arm broken, on Saturday last.
by falling off a see-saw.
Weighmaster Westbrook is giving his per
sonal attention to that hitherto neglected
source of public revenue.
An occasional tramp is to be seen begging
from house to house, the new tramp law to
the contrary notwithstanding.
The post office at Belleville, Mifflin county,
was robbed of fifty dollars' worth of stamps,
and sis in money a few nights ago.
Some persons say that a paste made of ashes
of willow wood and strong vinerar is recom
mended as a certain cure for warts.
Harry Thomas, as usual, runs the accom
modation train between this place and camp.
We know of no one more competent.
There is evidently a new pencil shover
about the Tyrone herald establishment, or
else Capt. Jones is letting himself out.
Mrs. Martha Weston, of Mapleton, was un
fortunate enough to tall, the other day, and
fracture one of her arms above the wrist.
The harvest is past, and those chaps who
promised to pay us, but have failed to do so,
should do well toremember the fate of Ananias.
The fore-bay at the penitentiary reservoir
is being built of cut stone, and when com
pleted will be a handsome and substantial job.
Fine cutlery has just been added to the
varied assortment of articles to be found at
the JOURNAL store. Ladies' knives a specialty.
Sold by all druggists. Send for pamphlet
Pr. Giles, 120 West Broadway, N. Y. Trial
bottles 25 cents. For sale by John Read &
Sons.
The best assortment of Blank Books ever
brought to Huntingdon has just been received
at the JOURNAL Store. Good goods at low
prices.
We are sorry to learn that our clever friend,
and Altoona's popular merchant tailor, Jacob
Snyder, esq., is suffering from a severe attack
of "rheaaaatiz."
From all sections of the county information
reaches us that the corn crop will be immense,
the yield exceeding that of any season within
the past decade.
Several large derricks have arrived and will
be put up on the penitentiary grounds to
facilitate the handling of the large stone to be
used in the foundation walls.
The waste water running along the McCon
nellstown road, from the reservoir pipes, is of
sufficient volume to be utilized for manufac
turing purposes.
Two compositors on the Philadelphia Record,
named T. P. Lambert and J. E. Gaither, are
reported to have drawn $7,500 each in a lot
tery. If true, that was a "fat take."
It is said that the Juniata Valley camp is a
great financial success this year, which will
be welcome intelligence to the holders of stock
in that large dividend-paying bonanza.
Mr. William Hazzard, of this place, who has
long been a sufferer from a pulmonary affec
tion, died ou Sunday night, aged about 54
years.
We were in error in stating in last week's
issue that the Directors of this borough bad
reduced the school term to seven months.—
The school will be kept open nine months, as
heretofore.
Every business man who has examined the
"Climax Binder" says that it is just the
neatest thing ever offered the public. To be
had only at the JOURNAL Jub Rooms. Call
and see it.
The wild chimpanzee carries a club as a
weapon. The connecting link is the blonde
young man with eye glasses, who parts his
hair in the middle and lugs a huge stick ander
his arm.
"The Electric" a new cigar manufactured
expressly for the JOURNAL trade, is the best in
the market, and lovers of the weed are loud
in its praise. Everybody smokes it, and they
love it.
While the towns to the east of us and the
towns to the west of us have been visited by
one or more professional pedestrians, Hunting..
don has so far escaped the affliction of a visit
from one of these nuisances.
Mr. Henry Hague, a prominent liveryman of
of Altoona, was thrown from his carriage,
near Hollidaysburg, on the night of the 11th
inst., and so severely injured as to cause his
death a short time afterwards.
A snow squall, ofseveral minutes duration, is
reported to have prevailed, on Friday a week
ago, about nine miles north of Somerset,
Somerset county, this State. A snow storm
in August is certainly a novelty.
Miss Emma McCauley, of this place, has
been appointed to the charge of one of Hun
tingdon's schools. Miss McCauley is a very
successful and competent teacher.—Williams
burg correspondence Altoona Tribune.
The “man with the iron jaw," known to the
amusement-going people of our town, passed
in his checks at heading, a few days ago. lie
died from injuries received in attempting to
lift a barrel of water with his teeth.
"Cooney" is the best advertised man in the
Juniata region. We don't think we have picked
up a local exchange during the past two
months in which his name has not appeared.
Ile seems to be übiquitous. Give us a rest.
Van Stan's Stratena Cement at the JOURNAL
Store. The best in the market for mending
all kinds of articles, from the tiniest piece of
china to a sett of harness. Only 25 cts. per.
bottle. Every family should have a bottle.
We are unable to furnish our correspondent
with the information desired in regard to the
recent geographical changes in the Turkish
Empire, but would respectfully refer him to
Mitchell, the geographer, who is always up to
the times.
Always keep them on hand, as delay in
creases suffering; and if you feel sickness
coming upon you, take a dose of Dr. Bull's
Baltimore Pills. They can do you no harm,
and may save you from the sick room. Price
only 25 cents.
It is reported that silver ore has been found
in Tyrone township, Perry county, some of
which was sent to an assayer in Philadelphia.
We venture the prediction that Perry county
will never pan out silver ore in sufficient
quantities to pay.
An exchange says "striped parasols have
taken the place of striped stockings." If this
he true we are more than anxious to see sonic
fair one sailing up Fifth street with a stocking
drawn over her head and a pair of parasols
attached to her feet.
On Monday last we had the pleasure of
grasping the hand of our friend and patron,
Col. John A. Doyle, of \Vashington, D. C. who
is spending a few days in our town. The
Colonel looks bale and hearty, and is the same
genial gentleman as of yore.
Rev. A. Nelson Hollifield and family, who
spent the past mouth on the Jersey coast, re
turned home on Saturday evening. The
Reverend gentleman was met at the depot by
a number of the members of his church who
gave him a warm welcome home.
When at fellow carries his flask filled wish
whisky to camp meeting he should take the
precaution to conceal it from public view. U
that chap at the depot, on Sunday morning,
had exercised more care he would not have
been the observed of al; observers.
A Bedford county farmer, named George
Imber, raised five hundred bushels of wheat
from twelve acres aground, being an average
of almost forty-two bushels to the acre. When
such a yield can be had what's the use of
Pennsylvania farmers going West thinking to
better their condition ?
Stop it at once. If you see your nurse
giving the baby either laudanum, paregoric
or any soothing remedy containing opiates,
stop it at once. if you want a good medicine
for your children, get Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup,
warranted to contain nothing injurious, but
safe and efficient. Price 25 cents.
J. Breckemidge Taylor, a former citizen of
Bedford county, is in the Clinton county,
(lowa,) jail, for the murder of his wife, on the
22d ult., by poison. He poisoned her one
day and the next evening was married to a
courtezan named Mrs. Underhill, who had
purchased the strychnine for him. He has
confessed his guilt.
Our friend, Mr. A. H. Hight, has been
awarded the contract fur putting . up the fence
around the penitentiary reservoir. The fence
will be six feet high, made of unplaned pail
ings four inches wide. The posts are to be
locust, eight inches at the top, and are to be
planted three feet deep. Mr. Hight is hard at
work, and will push the job to speedy com
pletion.
On Monday morning, as our ole, friend, Dr.
Stockton, was passing down Fifth street,
piece of timber, carelessly aid recklessly
knocked off the bulletin board below the post
office, struck him a severe blow upon the
forehead, which caused him to see stars, and
for a little while stopped his locomotion. had
the missile struck him edgewise it might have
killed him.
The Raftsman Journal has just completed
the 25th year of its existence. The paper was
started by our late lamented friend and
townsman, lion. H. Bucher Swoops. Under
its present management it is ably conducted,
and is doing good service for the cause of
Republicanism. May it live a hundred years
to come, with its present editor at the helm
to Row it safely over the political sea.
Our musical friend, Prof. Jule Neff, leader
of the Altoona City Bind, was visible at the
depot on Sunday morning, and during the
stoppage of the train he alighted for the pur
pose of intertwining digits with his many
friends. His band—twenty-six strong—was
en route for home from Cape May, whither it
had been making music for five hundred ex
cursionists from Altoona who had been spend
ing a day or two at that favorite resort.
We are indebted to our young green grocer
friend, Gil. Greenburg, for a simon-pure Jer
sey melon, of mammoth proportions. lie re
ceived his first invoice of several hundred Jer
sey melons on Thursday of last week, and we
think a handsomer lot was never offered in
this market ; they were large, ripe and lus
cious, and were disposed of in an hour or two
after their arrival. Gil. has considerable
"git up" in Lim, and we are glad to know that
his trade is rapidly increasing. lie deserves
success.
We bare not yet seen one of the new two
cent return postal cards of which we hear so
mach, but some fellow who has been fortunate
enough to get hold of one says it is provided
with a stamp on each end of the card, and
room for writing two messages. If the sender
desires an answer lie must take care not to
occupy all the space. One stamp is cancelled
at the office from which the card is sent, and
the second from the point where responded
to. These convenient postal. will soon be iu
general circulation.
Mr. Wesley Silknitter, a former resident of
this place, who resided on the MeCahan farm,
near Birmingham, died very suddenly at his
residence there, on Sunday morning. The
day previous he bad been plowing all day,
and appeared to be enjoying his usual good
health. Ou Sunday morning he was sitting
near a window, where he could look out upon
a stream of water, and after gazing at it for
some time he remarked to some of his family
that it made his head dizzy, and just as he
finished the sentence be fell off his chair dead.
His age was about fifty years.
A party of fishermen, composed of Messrs.
Lewis, Johnston, Long and Neal, spent Friday
night and Saturday along the waters of the
Raystown Branch, but owing to the unfavor
able weather, the rain falling nearly all the
time they were out, the catch was not as
large as it probably otherwise would have
been. They took about forty eels and some
sixteen bass, two of the latter weighing over
three pounds each. The bait used was a
piece of "melt" off the pouch of a beef, which
goes to prove that live bait is not necessary
for the successful taking of bass. These
gentlemen are satisfied that when bass are
hungry and are feeding they will bite at any
kind of bait whether dead or alive, and this
opinion is shared in by other old and ex
perienced fishermen to whom we have recently
talked concerning the tastes of these game
fish.
Our fellow townsman, Bob Westbrook, seems
to be master of the situation down at the
Newton camp, the efforts to prevent him from
doing business there to the contrary notwith
standing. Some time ago Bob wsnt to New
ton, rented a piece of ground, erected a build
ing, got a mercantile license, and flung his
banner to the breeze as a dealer in all kinds
of vegetables, tinware, notions, and a general
variety of goods, but no sooner had lie done
so than an effort was made to frighten him
from doing business in such close proximity
to the camp ; but he didn't scare worth a
cent, and then the task of fencing him out,—
or rather fencing him in, so that customers
would have difficulty in reaching his 'and—
was undertaken, and the result is that he is
hemmed in by fences on three sides, so that
his place of business can only by reached by
one route, and that is rendered difficult on
account of the fencing process. His friends,
and all lovers of fair play, consider that he
has been unfairly treated, and the result is
that his place has been thronged with cus
tomers ever since the camp commenced. He
intends to continue to do business there after
the catap breaks up, and has already advertised
for 5000 chickens for which lie will pay the
highest market price.
ARRESTED TIIE WRONG MAN.—Our
town was thrown into a fever of excitement
on Saturday evening last, over the report that
Samuel E. Albright, the man who killed Wm.
K. Miller, at Montgomery's Ferry, in Perry
county, on the 7th inst., had been taken off a
freight train, at this station, and lodged in
Fort Irvin, to await the arrival of officers from
Perry county. Upon inquiry we learned that
a man had been arrested on that evening,
under the following circumstances : While
the train was in the vicinity of Lewistown
the man got into a box car attached to the
train, and a brakeman seeing him enter hur
riedly closed and locked the doors, and tele
graphed to this place for officers to be at the
station to take charge of Albright, the mur
derer of Miller. Deputy Sheriff Oaks and
policeman Westbrook were on hand, and when
the train stopped they took the man from the
car and escorted him to jail, where he was
kept until Sunday morning, when he was re
leased, a gentleman who knows Albright well
informing them that they had arrested the
wrong man. The man under arrest gave his
name as Ambrose Quigley, and said that his
occupation was that of a railroader, which as
sertion is no doubt true, as he had a letter of
recommendation from an official of an eastern
road. He is a native of Ireland, about thirty
years of age, and did not look like a man who
could deliberately slay his fellow. He was a
little nervous over his arrest, thinking that it
was for a breach of the peace committed iu
Philadelphia where, he told Sheriff Oaks, he
had had a fight a few days since, but when
told that be had been arrested for the crime
of murder, he smiled and remarked that he
was not the man they wanted. When released
be continued his journey towards the setting
Republican County Convention.
Pursuant to previous call the Republican
County Convention assembled in the Opera
House, in this place, on Tuesday, the 19th
inst., and was called to order by J. G. Isenberg,
esq., Chairman of the County Committee.
On motion, John W. Slattern, esq., was
elected permanent chairman. On assuming
the chair Mr. Slattern thanked the Convention
fur the honor conferred, and in a brief speech
reviewed the political situation in his hap
piest vein. R. A. Orbisou, of Huntingdon ;
Samuel Ralston, of Warriorsmark ; Jno. Whit
ney, of Tod ; Harris Richardson, of Lincoln,
and Isaac Neff, of Logan, were elected Vice
Presidents, and Prof. A. L. (hiss, of Hunting
don, and I►r. J. W. Dun w iddie, of Warriors
mark, Secretaries.
The list of Districts was then called Over
when the following gentlemen presented their
credentials and were admitted to seats in the
Convention.
Alexanilria—B. K. Taylor, W. S. Varner, D
I'. Knode.
Barree--lienry Couprolists, E. Livingston,
Sliadrach Cliques.
Birmingham—Joseph Madison, George W.
Owens, Wm. Schofield.
Brady—S. A. Hughes, 11. S. Mosser.
Ihoad Top—C. K. Horton, Harry Coek.
Nrbon—No representative.
Cass—Franklin Wright, Ralph Smith, Jacob
Chilcote.
Cassville—J. 11. Rindlaub, L. E. Edwards.
Clay—Geo. W. Corbin, Adam Rhitiebart.
Coalmont—Andrew flickers, 2 votes.
Cromwell—B. F. Chilcote, G. M. Harvey.
Dublin—Wm. Clymans, J. E. Harper.
Franklin—W. B. Johnston, Jno. M. Leech.
Benderson—John A. Miller, A. L. Corbin.
Hopewell—George Berkstresser, David Ed
wards.
Huntingdon, Ist Ward—Juno W. Alattern,
John R. Renner, 11. A. Orbison.
Huntingdon, 2d Ward—A. L. Guss, John
Carothers, P. M. Lytle, Henry Snare.
Huntingdon, 3d Ward—S. C. Coder, Henry
Robley, W. 11. Woods.
Huntingdon, 4th Ward—S. B. Taylor, G. L.
S. Baker.
Jackson—No representation.
Juniata—D. W. Womelsdorf, Miles Shene
felt.
Lincoln—Scott Schell, Henry Beaver. Tho.
Keith.
Logan—Salomon Hamer, Henry Graffius.
Mt. Union District—James Harper, 2 votes
Mt. Union Borough—Harry Shaver, John W.
White.
Mapleton—S. P. Stone, A. W. Swoope.
Marklesburg—John Householder, .11artin
Hess.
Morris—Z. T. Varnish, 11. C. Tussey.
Oneida—James Foster, H. S. Miller.
Orbisonia--E. S. Orbison, Geo. Wilson.
Penn—Dr. R. Myers, G. %V. Isett, Sy'vest( r
Stinson.
Petersburg—Abraham Renner, B. Rum -
barger.
Porter—A. B. Miller, J. R. Leffard, S.
Sprankle, H. G. Neff.
Saltillo—S. L. Glasgow, 2 votes.
Shade Gap—No representation.
Shirley Township—John N. Lutz, George
M. Spanogle.
Shirleysburg—John M. Clark, Reuben My
ers.
Springfield—W. H. Booth, 3 votes.
Tell—No representation.
Three Springs—George Hecter, Lorain Ash
man.
Tod—John Whitney, I. P. Keith, W. T
Lorton.
Union—Samuel Smith, Madison Wright.
Walker—Samuel Peightal, Jacob Fouse.
Warriorsmark—Hueston Laporte, Samuel
Ralston, T. B. Hyskell, Dr. J. W. Dunwiddie.
Upper West—M. F. Lightner, Wtn. M. Davis.
The Convention then proceeded to ballot
for a candidate for Director of the Poor with
the following result :
DIRECTOR OP THE POOR
John D. Johnston, of West township...l G votes
William Schofield, of
Jacob Ilaffley, of Penn township 73 "
Mr. Daley, having received a majority of
nil the votes cast, Ras declared the nominee
for Director of the Poor, and, on motion, his
nomination was made unanimous.
The Convention then proceeded to ballot
for a candidate for
JURY COMMISSIONER.
Richard Wills, of Warriorsmark 61 votes
Samuel C. Tussey, of Morris 9
David Clarkson, of Cassville 22 "
Samuel H. Grove. of Lincoln if
The nomination of Mr. Wil:s was made
unanimous.
On motion of J. G. Isenberg, esq., John W.
:Vattern, esq., was elected Chairman of the
County Committee for the ensuing year.
The Convention having performedthe duties
for which it was called together was, on mo
tion, adjourned sine die.
THE LONG Acio.—in last. week's Hol
lidaysburg Register we found the following
"Reminiscetice of Old Mother Huntingdon,"
furnished that paper by Mr. John Mahony.
The writer seems to be familiar with the
names of many persons who were residents of
our town in the "long ago," many of whom,
and the greater number, have long since been
called to their fathers. The arttcle contains
much of local interest, and we lay it before
the reade.s of the JOURNAL in its entirety :
In 1829 and 1830, the canal from Hunting
don to Lewistown was finished. The letting
was in Huntingdon, in October, 1823. The
section of the canal through Huntingdon was
made by Mr. Brown ; the next section was
made by Wheelan & Tracey ; the next section
by Henry B. Smith & Furbush ; the next sec
tion by Joel & Dan Cahonn or Calhoun. The
first lock below town, was built by Mr. Hen
perley ; the second lock was built by Ball &
Elliott. The dam at the mouth of the Rays
town Branch, and guard lock, were built by
DeArmont & Rhodearmer. There were a num
ber of taverns in town then. In the Main
street there were 6 or 7, kept by Mr. Dobbs,
W. Morrison, John McConnell, the widow Mc-
Loughlin, Patrick Bowline and Patrick Lough
erry. The principal hotel was kept by Walter
Clark, in the lower street. The other taverns
in the same street were kept by Mr. Cornelius,
Manus, McPike, Thomas Wallace, Mr. Jackson,
Mr. Whittaker, Mr. Rodkey and Jerry Jolen.
There were several stores in town : Mr. Dor
ris, Mr. Miller, Barney Maylin, McMurtrie &
Fisher. and others which I can't recollect.
The oldest citizens then in town were William
Orbison, now of Orbisonia, Mr. McMurtrie,
the father of Colonel McMurtrie, Mr. Reed,
Mr. Dorris, Mr. Miller, John McConnell, Dr.
Henderson, Dr. Coffee, Walter Clark, 'Squire
Africa, Mr. Snyder, (the hatter), and several
others. The three best looking young men
in town then, were Ben. Elliott, Doctor Mc-
Murtrie and Porter Wilson. The handsomest
girl in town then is alive still, a stout, hearty,
and respectable old lady, and is living in
Hollidaysburg. After the canal was finished
to Hollidaysburg, a great many of the people
of Huntingdon, with their families, moved to
this place. Mr. Jones and family, the father
of Judge Jones, now of Washington, James
Orr and family, Dr. Coffee and family, Abram
Van Tries and family, Capt. Williams and
family, Sheriff Johnson and family, John
Mitchell and family, and others I can't recol
lect. Among the young men that came from
Huntingdon, I recollect Dr. Allison, Jacob
Snyder, George Port, Farmer James McCahan,
Robert Williams, John Hemphill, the father of
Dysart, Judge Adams and family, Alexander
M'Cortuick, now of Altoona, Samuel Calvin,
James McCahan, sr., Robert Wallace, the fath
er of Senator Wallace, of Clearfield, and oth
ers I don't recollect. Samuel Calvin came
here in 1836, a young man, the second lawyer
i t town; James Crafford, the first lawyer, pre
ceded him a short time.
THE "Boss" SNAKE STORY.—This
from the Johnstown Tribune of Wednesday,
entitles that paper to the "blue ribbon" up to
date, with Bedford to hear from :
Yesterday Samuel J. Mardis and Samuel
McAdams, of Coopersdale, were hunting for
ginseng root on the "horse-back mountain,"
on the Indiana side of the Conemaugh river,
a short distance below Sang Hollow, when
they suddenly came upon a den of rattlesnakes.
They waded into them with clubs and stones,
killing no less than fourteen big fellows.—
Mardis and McAdams are enterprising men,
and they don't propose being behind any
body in the snake-story line. Atter they had
made a scatterment among the "rattlers,"
they continued their hunt for the medicinal
root until they got tired, when they sat down
on a big black log to rest. No sooner had
they squatted, however, than the log began to
move quite rapidly over the ground. A free
ride of that kind not being on the programme,
they leaped to their feet and were horrified to
discover that the supposed log was an im
mense black snake ! They chased it a con
siderable distance, but were unable to over
take it. The "horse-back mountain" will
doubtless be forever shunned hereafter.—
Somebody may be cruel enough to say that
Messrs. Mardis and McAdams "had 'em again,"
but we are assured that they are temperance
men.
SUMMER BUTTER.—A few years ago no
farmer expected to make good butter in hot
weather, but now by the use of improved
methods, in setting milk, and of Wells, Rich
ardson's & Co's Perfected Butter Color to
keep up the standard color, the bad effects of
hot weather are overcome.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.—For two days
the case of the Comm.nw,:alth vs. Ira T. Con
rad, one of the Warm Springs rape cases, has
been on trial in our Court. The case was
called on Monday afternoon, when the priso
ners Conrad and Moore were brought into the
Court room, Conrad arraigned, and a jury se
lected. District Attorney Orlady opened the
ease to the jury, and called Miss Rosa M. Fry,
the victim of the alleged outrage, to the stand
Miss Fry is a fair young Tunker maiden of 17,
and was attired in a plain dress and white
sun bonnet. Ifer face wore an expression of
deep sadness, even when she was not agitated
by emotion, and her plain unsophisticated ad
dress won much sympathy for her.
. .
Miss Fry told her sorrowful tale which was,
that on Wednesday, the 23d of July last, she
lived as a domestic iu the family of Rudolph
Gahegan, a farmer residing on the Worm
Springs farm. The family was composed of
Mr. and Mrs. Gabegan, herself and a hired man
named John Straitiff, and two children. On
the evening of that day she went a short dis
tance across the Warm Springs Grove for some
water, when she was accosted in the grove by
Conrad ; a word or two about the springs was
spoken ; she procured the water and took it to
the house. Conrad and his companion en
gaged in talk with the hired man, and Rosa
went for the cows, fetched them, and Mr. Ga.
began sent her to bring home the turkeys.
On her way she passed the porch of the de
serted Warm Springs Hotel, on which Conrad
and Moore had arranged to spend the night,
and was accosted pleasantly by the men, she
replying to their remarks. Ou her return she
milked the cows, and put away the milk in
the spring house in the grove, where she was
again met by Conrad, who offered her some
assistance in putting away the milk and keep
ing some troublesome calves away from it.
While helping her, he asked her name, and
told her his name was E. 11. Conrad. After put
ting the milk away, Conrad went with her to
the spring for some fresh water, assisting her
to carry it, for which she expressed her grati.
tude. "Then," she continued, "he said, 'would
I set down and talk ?' I told him no, I would
not, I never did and wouldn't now, I would
go into the house. Then he said 'Do they
watch you so close ?' and I said they didn't,
but Straitiff might come down, and more than
that I knew it wasn't necessary for us to talk
and I would go into the house. I went in and
they started toward the big house, and that
was the last I saw of him that day.'
It appeared subsequently that Conrad and
Moore were fishing for eels. They arose early
next morning, got their fish and a snapping
turtle, and returned to the Warm Springs
about 7 o'clock, as Rosa was milking. Mr.
Gahegan had just gone to town for a load of
manure. Mrs. Gahegan and the chiidren had
beets away all week on a visit, and StraitifT
was out in a wood chopping about three quar
ters of a mile away. Rosa continues:
"They tUonrad and Moore) were standing
up near the corner of the fence, near the big
house. They asked me if I saw any wagon
going past yet. I told them I hadn't ; sail it
was quite a pity that they hadn't been there
about ten minutes sooner, for Dolf had just
gone to town. Conrad said, "where was John
Straitiff, would he go to town ?" No, I told
him that John was chopping wood down be
low there, that he wouldn't go to town, there
was but the one team. Well, he said, they
would have to wait a good chance. Then lie
came down to where I was, and lie had a big
snapping turtle—be had no fish in his hands
then—and he minded the calves while I put
the milk away. I went after some water then
and when I came back Moore said he had
caught some kind of a bloody toad in the
spring—"blood and zounds" was the name of
it—and he asked me if it wasn't nice, and I
said I didn't suppose they would call it nice.
Ile said they were fit to eat, and I said I
wouldn't like to eat a thing like that, and I
went in the house. After a little while Con
rad came up with my bonnet which I had left
in the grove, and he handed it through the
bannisters and I thanked him and went to
turn around to go in the house and he said
a calf had fallen in the big spring, and if it
hadn't been for Moore it would have drowned,
that lie had pulled it out. I went out on the
porch and saw the calves were under a tree
all right, and tben he talked awhile about the
calves being in there. Then he said he
wished a wagon would come along, that he
wouldn't like to walk into town. I told him
to stay there on the porch and wait, that
there was still teams going to town, and there
would shortly be a chance and it would save
him a good deal of walking, and I went into
the house. He came in and sat down
by the door and spoke about the spring,
and asked how soon I would be done with
the dishes. I said I was then, and I cowmen
ced to sweep and he said it was no use sweep
ing, and when I went to throw some crumbs
out he caught me by the left arm as I came
in; I got away from him and he caught me
by my right arm with one hand and the left
with the other, and asked me to sit down with
him on the wood-box, and pulled me down
beside him on the wood-box, and put his foot
across mine and I couldn't get out."
Here poor Rosa began to sob, but presently,
glancing upwards as if in mute appeal to
Heaven for help as well as vengeance, pro
ceeded to tell how Conrad foiled her every at
tempt to escape; how, after several unsuc
cessful attempts upon his part to get her into
an adjoining room with him, she agreed to
go if lie would leave her free, thinking to fly
from the house as soon as she was released,
and upon his freeing her from his hold he
caught her again as she attempted to escape,
and finally pushed her into the room by force
and threw her upon a lounge, where she was
utterly powerless and then accomplished his
iniquitous designs in spite of her resistance.
* * * The next thing she re
membered of she was sitting on the lounge,
he with his arm around her—and he said I
was a bad girl. I asked him why. He said
I was contrary, headstrong and mean. Then
he asked me if I would write to him. I was
afraid of the man, I said I would; I didn't
know what to do ; I was afraid he would take
nay life. He said I shouldn't say anything
about this, and he was so ill-looking I didn't
know what to think; I thought maybe he had
told me his wrong name and I was afraid of
what he would do if I would tell. Then I
told him I wouldn't say anything about it
because I felt afraid of him, I told him that
story, and then he said would I write to him?
I told him I would. The he started, and he
said he would write to me for sure, and I
thought it he would I wouldn't need to an
swer him. He said he was from Huntingdon
and he was a single man. Then he went
away. . . .
She remained in the house, and in about
half an hour Moore came in, as was shown in
another part of the testimony, and it is alleged
made an unsuccessful attempt to ravish her.
Moore himself was put on the stand to testify
for the defendant, and admitted making hide.
cent proposals to her, but he said that this was
because he expected to be a witness in the Conrad
case, and wanted to find out what kind of a
girl she was, that in case she consented he in
tended to desist !!! Ile was an Evangelist,
he said; had been in church and temperance
work for some time and was known in Hunt
ingdon as 'Moody' Moore. "I sympathized
with her," this remarkable witness said, "and
told her she shouldn't make so free with
young men. I told her it was a nice thing to
be a Christian and to have faith in God," "and
it is too," he added. "1 told her I belonged
to the chura."
Miss Fry testified that after Moore was gone
some time she went to a neighbor's house and
stayed there for some time, tearing to remain
at Gahegan's, and after dinner she went home
and got dinner for Mr. Gabegan and the hired
man, and after dinner she went home to her
mother's, about three miles, and told her of
the outrage. Mrs. Gabegan came home that
evening, and the next morning Rosa told her
of the outrage. On Saturday she again
walked home to her mother's, and on her re
turn to Gahegan's, she saw Conrad and Moore
in the road—one of them standing behind a
tree—but she avoided them by a circuitous
route. When Conrad left her on Thursday
morning she admitted that she said 'good bye'
to him from the porch. This fact, aid the
fact that she did not cry out at any time, nor
fly at once and tell her story to the first per
son she met, were strong points in favor of
the defendant, because they have been handed
down for generations as guide marks to the
truthfulness of the story of the prosecutrix.
Yet her candor and simplicity were so evident
that one could scarcely see and hear her tes
tify without coming to the conclusion that she
was telling the strict truth, or else was the
victim of a powerful delusion. The theory of
the defense, which was sustained by the sin
gular conduct of Miss Rosa, but more par
ticularly by the incredible story of Moore,
was that Rosa bad accepted the attention of
Conrad as a lover, and that instead of be
ing guilty of rape, Conrad had only com
mitted adultery with her, and that it was
not until after she discovered that he was a
worried man that she thought of charging
the more heinous crime against him. Wit
nesses were called wbo testified to Conrad's
good character for chastity. The cause of
the Commonwealth was represented by Mr.
Orlady, and that of the defendant by Mr.
Speer, and the jury was sent out a little be
fore 7 o'clock, on Tuesday evening, and re
turned on Wednesday morning with a ver
dict of Guilty.
The case of the Commonwealth vs. Moore
was taken up on Wednesday morning, and
after great difficulty iu getting a jury, the
case went to Pia!, but bad not progressed
far before the Commonwealth abandoned the
prosecution for attempt to commit a rape,
and the prisoner plead guilty to the charge
of assault and battery. lie was remanded to
prison to await sentence.
As we go to press on Thursday morning,
the Court is occupied in trying the Saltillo
robbery case.
PICKINGS FLIOM "OUR PAPER."—
Samuel Rupert of Clay township, has just
finished a new bank barn. J. H. McCort*
(lid the carpenter work.
Mr. R. Ashman has just given the finishing
touch to the new house he has been building
at the upper end of town.
N. K. ('overt, esq., has filled the office of
Secretary of the M. E. Sunday School of this
place, fur eleven consecutive years.
A neat monument has been placed over the
grave of George D. Iludso 1, deceased, in the
cemetry at this place. Au honor that was
due.
Mr. H. Ashman has two large apple or
chards, the trees are loaded with choice fruit.
Tlie crop is estimated to yield 1500 bushels of
apples.
Rev. E. Shoemaker has commenced the
erection of a new house on his farm above
this place. D. M. Heck has contracted for the
carpenter work.
Orle day last week while William C. Hud
son was engaged in plowing on the farm of K.
L. Greene, in Clay township, be chanced
`o drive too close to an abandoned ore
shaft, when one of his horses fell in back
wards, descending a distance of about 20 feet.
The hole being about 3 fee. by 4 feet in di
mensions, the horse wedged in so tightly that
e was extricated only by the aid of a large
force of men with rope and tackle. The un
fortunate beast received such injdries as to
result in its death the following day.
An eight year old daughter of Dr. R. I.
Hunter, of Well's Valley was so unfortunate
on the 9th inst., as to have her clothes take
fire from the cook-stove. No one being pres
ent at the time she called for help, when her
father came to the rescue. He, failing in his
efforts to tear the burning clothing from the
child, elapsed her in his arms and thereby
extinguished the flames, but not until the
child had been burned severely about the
hips and back. The Doctor's left hand was
also severely burned in his effort to save the
child. We are glad to learn that both are
doing as well as could be expected.
AN HONEST Boy.—For the purpose of
showing the truth of the old adage, that
"honesty is the best policy," and with a view
to stimulating the youthful readers of the
Jot 'MAL to be honest iu all things, we copy
the following from the Lock Haven Republi
can. That paper sap that W. A. Blackburn,
son of Thomas Blackburn, of that city, turns
up in Atchison, TZansas, when last heard from,
and has a streak of luck. He found a pocket
book containing $920, in currency, in an out
house on the Atlantic hotel premises. Ilis
early training: came in good play ; he took
the money to the clerk of the hotel, and told
where be found it. The oxner was a mer
chant of Sumner county, and when he went
to pay for a bill of goods pu_chased of McPike
& Fox, he first learned his loss. He hastily
made his way to the hotel, found his money
and learned Blackburn's story. The merchant
gave the boy five dollars and left fifty more
for him on deposit with McPike & Fox. The
senior of this firm was so pleased with Black
burn and his conduct that he sought him o.it,
and it is said, has offered him a position. So
much for correct principles. lie may get
away far from home; his mother sleeps be
neath the clods of the valley, yet "when
jeered at by some bystanders for not making
off with the money," he bravely said, "itly
mother taught we that honesty is the best
policy," and he obeyed her teachings. "Though
dead, she speaketh."
LOST His FATHER.—Henry E. Beatty,
of Gibson City, Illinois, wants to know if any
body knows anything about his fiither, who
enlisted in the army in 1861, since which
time he has heard nothing of him. The fol
lowing is Mr. Beatty's card, as published in
the National Citizen-Soldier, of Washington :
"EDITOR NATIONAL CITIZEN SOLDIER. Kind
Sir :—Excuse the liberty I take, but I desire
a favor at your hand. The subject I am about
to write you on is one that I know but very
little about but I desire to get information
fromyou. Can you in looking over the list
of soldiers, find a man by the name of Beatty ?
He was a very small man ; he was I think from
Indiana county, Pennsylvania. He went in
the service in 18GI. This man was my father.
Soon after he left, my mother went off I know
not where, leaving four children of which I
was the youngest and from that day to this I
have not heard from father, mother, brother
or sister. Ido not even remember father's
f rst name, I was only two or three years old,
but if you can give me any information of said
man it will be very kindly received.
Yours with respect,
HENRY E. BEATTY, -
Gibson City,
Ford co., 111.
Newspapers feeling disposed to aid in this
hunt for a lost soldier can render service by
publishing the letter.
A POETICAL Cuss.—An esteemed
friend of ours, in sending his annual remit
tance •f $2 for a year's subscription—in ad
vance—for "the handsomest and best paper in
the county," accompanies it with the follow
ing poetical effusion :
My dear brother Nash, as your name rhymes with
cash,
A thing little known to your craft,
I thought I would try and bedazzle your eye
With the eight of a little sight draft,
To pay my subscription, you know.
It seems very queer, that year after year,
The printer must go seeking alms;
And I often do wonder why the Editor's thunder
Don't blister the conscience with qualms
Of those non-paying fellows, you know.
I had a vision one night, and the plight
Of the man who had cheated the printer,
Was a sight to behold and run the blood cold
As an iron pump-handle in winter,
When the tongue eticketh close as a brother.
Old Nick down below held him up by the toe
And broiling him, jeeringly !Take—
"lt is true you have been to the printer quite lean,
But to me are a very fat take,"
And he bit off a piece of hit "cheek."
A CHILD KILLED BY AN ACCIDENT.—
Yesterday forenoon an accident occurred to
the wife of Mr. Thomas Kooken and Miss
Annie Rowlett, of Birmingham, Huntingdon
county, while ou their way to Union Furnace
by way of Eden Valley. The particulars of
the accident, which resulted in the killing of
a babe of Mrs. Kooken, besides dangerous in
juries received by Mrs, Kooken and Miss Ron
lett, are as follows: About 9 o'clock they,
for the purpose of visiting a brother-in-law,
about half a mile from Union Furnace, left
their home, everything moving along all right
until they attempted to descend a large hill
within one and a half miles of the furnace.
About midway down the bill Mrs. Kooken
drove to the side of the road to permit a team
to pass by, when the horse she was driving
commenced backing and precipitated them
over an embankment of about thirty feet,
killing the child instantly and seriously in
juring Mrs. Kooken and Miss Roillett. The
accident was first noticed by ex-Sheriff Hen
derson, of Huntingdon county, who resides at
the furnace, and who happened to be on the
opposite side of the river at the time.—Altoona
Tribune of Saturday.
BACKWARD, PIN BACKWARD —tll
strolling along Penn street, a few evenings
since, we thought we "heard an angel sing
ing ;" we stopped and listened and this is
what she sang :
Backward, pin backward, my skirts in their
flight, make me small again, just to-night, I
am weary, and my skirts are so long, sweep
ing the payments as I walk along, gathering
the dirt from out of the street, looked at by
every one that I meet, mother, dear mother,
1 know I'm a fright, pin 'em back tight.
Mother, dear Mother, the days are so warm,
am: I'm so tired of this dress I have on, it is
so clumsy asd don't fit me right, pin it back,
mother, pin it back tight, now I am ready,
don't I look sweet? Smiling on all I happen
to meet. I'm in fashion, so that is all right,
pin eel' back tight.
Mother, dear mother, I know it's a sin, to
wear dresses that show off one's limbs, but
what is a poor girl going to do, if all the
world wears 'em too, it is only them who aro
thin, that are afraid to show off a form that
is not well made, you may laugh, but you
know that I'm right, pin 'em back tight.
Call and examine The large and splendid
line of samples of Fall Goods just received
at MONTGOMERY'S Square Dealing
Clothing House. All new styles. Fashion
plate of Fall Styles just received. Meas
ures taken and good fits guaranteed. Suits
made to order a speeialty. Prices rock
bottom. 1 4t.
Why suffer such distress from Piles and
Constipation ? Kidney-Wort will cure you.
LITERARY NOTES
Considerable edu-ational flavor is imparted to
the September Scribner by the three essays of the
number—l. Professor Boyesen's interesting il
lustrated paper on "The University of Rome," an
institution but little known in America, and one
which gives the writer occasion to discuss the
peculiar characteristics of the Italian school
system in general; 2. Mr. W. C. Brownell's expo
sition of the unique methods of teaching in "The
Art Schools of Philadelphia," these methods con
sisting largely in immediate drawing with the
brush, meager study of the antique, and the study
of anatomy in the dissecting room—principles
which are somewhat reflected in the illustrations
of the paper, which are all by pupils of the schools;
and a. Professor T. It. Lounsbury's discussion of
the arguments for and against "English Spelling
Reform,"—the writer taking strong ground in
favor of the proposed reform, which, he predicts
must soon become a living issue.
To balance this element the number contains a
large quantity of light summer reading, including
the following papers : "Signs and Symbols," by
Mr. Frank B. Mayer of Annapolis, including some
striking illustrations of old American inns, and
one superb engraving by Mr. Cole entitled "Bring
ing in the Boar's Ileac"; "My Lord Fairfax, of
Virginia," an into; _eating sketch of the sixth lord
and some of his wore noted ancest irs, by Mrs.
Constance Cary Harrison; "An American Home
on the Amazons," by Mr. Herbert 11. Smith,—
being an account of the success of Mr. R. J.
Ithome's experiments in the cultivation of cane,
tobacco, and other Brazilian's staples, accompanied
with drawings by:Mr. Chanapney; '•Sandy Hook,"
by Mr. George Iloughton, with picturesque draw
ings by Mr. F. S. Church ; and a sketch of Mr. W.
S. Gilbe t, of "Pinafore" fame by Miss Kate Field
accompanied by a portrait.
This element is largely re-enforced by the fiction
of the number, which contains much variety of
style and incident. The second installment of
Mr. Henry James's "Confidence" contains strong
contrasts and much cleverness of intrigue. The
last installment but one of Mrs. Burnett's "Ha
worth's" includes some strong scenes forshadowing
the conclusion. "A Story of the Dry Season," by
Mrs. Mary liallock Foote, strikes a deeper note
and exhibits a wider range than her first story,
"Friend Barton's 'Concern'" (published in the
July Scribner), which has been received with
marked expressions of favo-. "The Documents
in the Case," a short story by J. B. Matthews and
11. C. Banner, possesses the novel feature of a plot
narrated exclusively by a series of documents,
exhibiting much cleverness in realistic rendering
of widely different styles of writing, and giving
glimpses of some little-treated types of character.
The poetic contributions are by 11. 1., Mary
Ainge de Were, Jennie E. T. Dowe (with a draw
ing by Blum), Charles do Kay, David L. Proudfit,
William C. Bonaparte Wyse ; esq., who pays a
metrical tribute to his cousin, the late Prince
Imperial, whose death is also the subject of two
sonnets by Miss Emma Lazarus.
Dr. Holland's "Topics" are entitled "European
Travel," 'A Word About Newspapers," and
"Write it Yourself." A "Communication" calls the
attention of American collectors to some great
paintings and other objects or art to be purchased
in Europe—including Raphael's "Apollo and
Marsays"—of which Mr. Eugene Benson has writ
ten in the "The New York Evening Post" and of
which the editor of Scribner announces a descrip
tion and engravings in an early number. "Home
and Society" is given over to sensible and practi
cal suggestions about Domestic Nursing "by a
trained nurse." In the department of "Culture
and Progress," Mr. Mallock's last book is review
ed by a writer who takes him to task for his
"ignominious and unspiritual stand ;" decided
changes in George Elliott's style and method a-e
noted by a reviewer of "Theophrastus Such";
a full account is given of the long-concealed and
lately published Tory "History of the Revolu
tion" ; there is an interesting discussion of Madame
Bonaparte's "Life and Letters," and other books
are noticed. "The World's Work" has accounts
of "New Drawing Instruments," "Electro-Engrav
ing Machine," "Thermograph," "Copying Pro
cess," "Apparatus for Testing the Quality of Steel,"
"New Flooring," "New Electric Light," etc.
Bric-a-Brac" contains some clever repartees and
other material.
The November number of Scribner will contain
the first six chapters of a new serial story of
Creole Life, by George W. Cable, author of "Old
Creole Days." A lull announcement of the lead
ing features of the magazine for 1879-80 will
appear in the October issue.
Harper'B Magazine for September presents many
striking novelties, and in excellence of illustra
tion is superior to even the August Number. In
fiction, this Magazine is now remarkable for its
three serial novels by Miss Mulock, William Black,
and H. D. Blackmore—a marvellous array of
imaginative power. "Mary Anerley," Blackmore's
new novel, promises to be one of his best efforts,
and William Black's yachting romance, "White
Wings," is an enchanting story.
One of the most novel features of this Number is
a ghost story by Howard Pyle, with eight illus
trations drawn by the author, The story has
something of that charm which made Irving's
tales so fascinating, and the pictures are among
the very best examples of character sketches—as
fine as they are striking.
Not lees striking, though of a more stately order,
are Mr, Reinhart's admirable pictures illustrating
Mrs. Champney's "Newport Society in the Last
Century." The article is one of unusual interest,
relating to the period when the French officers—
Rochambean, and others—made this garrison town
their favorite resort.
Lucy La:com's spirited lyric, "My Mariner," is
accompained by an equally spirited illustration
by Fredericks.
In the second paper of Mr. Benjamin's series,
"Fifty Years of American Art," there are beautifu 1
engravings after paintings by F. E. Church,
Worthington Whiteredge, R. W. Hubbard, J. W.
Casilear, J. F. Cropsey, W. T. Richards, S. R.
Gifford, A. F. Bellows, James Hart, James Hamil
ton, W. 11. Beard, E. Leutze, William Page, Elihu
Vedder, and John Lafarge.
In excellence of engraving nothing could be
superior to the sixteen pictures illustrating Barnet
Phillip's interesting paper, "The King Collection
of Engraved Gems," recently purchased for the
Metropolitan Museum.
Mr. Ernest Ingersoll's "Gold-Mining in Georgia"
takes us into a new and very interesting field, of
which is little is known. The paper is profusely
and excellently illustrated. Nearer New York, a
pleasing subject for an illustrated paper is found
in "The Navesink Highlands," interestingly
treated by Miss F. E. Fryatt.
Besides the fiction already mentioned, there is a
piquant short story by Mrs. Annie Howells
Frechetti. William Gibson contributes a beauti
ful poem, "The Last Rose of Summer." Edward
Howland's paper, 'An Industrial Society and its
Work," presents a curiously remarkable series of
co-operative industrial plans successfully carried
out in Mulhausen, offering many useful sugges
tions to those interested in the welfare of laborers.
The Editorial departments are full of interest.
ing matter. In the Editor's Drawer is a very
amusing burlesque operetta, entitled "II Jacobi,"
by Mrs. E. T. Curbett, with eix illustrations.
St. Nicholas for
the
helps the boys and
girls to begin the new year of schooling with a
great variety of amusing stories, pictures, and
interesting articles. It begins with a large
frontispiece, drawn by Addie Ledyard, and
near the end, it gives young Louis Napoleon's life
history, with a portrait engraved from a photo
graph taken a little while before his death.
There are eight short stories, all illustrated.
First comes "Three brews and a Crew," a tale of
terrible floods and wonderful escapes; then an
amusing story of "Bob's Missionary Work" in the
effort to improve a poverty-stricken quarter of
his town: A thin I tale recounts the excitement
and pleasure of "A Run After Sword-fish";
another details the mishaps of a girl who persist
ed in wearing tine winter clothes in the wild
places of Florida; a fifth narrates a lively episode
of Pennsylvania child-life; another deals with
elves and a tender-hearted German girl ; yet
another describes the bad and good fortunes of a
miner's orphans in the great oil regions; and the
eighth, with a comical picture by Hopkins, tells
of the triumph of a wise old man who could say
"Buttered Pease," in Choctaw.
•'The Chateau D'Oiron" is the title of an illus
trated article on the history of the rare and beau
tiful pottery called "Faience D'Oiron"; "On
Wheels," with twelve quaint outline pictures, gives
a concise account of wheeled carriages of all sorts
and times; "The Frolicsome Fly's" queer and
interesting history is told with the help of two
illustrations.
The installments of the two serials—Frank R.
Stockton's "A Jolly Fellowship," and Susan Cool
idge's "Eyebright''—are intensely interesting,
and make one wonder just how the stories are to
be wound up, as they must be, next month.
Sunday Afternoon ($3.00 a year, Springfield,
Mass,) tor September is the last issue of the
magazine under that name. The new title will be
Good Company. The character of the magazine
will remain the same,
and there will be no (mange
in its management. This number has stories by
Rose Terry Cooke and Elizabeth W. Denison ;
these sketches,—A Dit of New England, A Prac
tical Leaven, The Old Log Sohool-llouse, and
Sketches in Southern California; also an account
of the summer charities of New York by William
H. Rideing.
Rev. B.E. Warner writes about the pernicious
periodical literature for the young now so abund
ant, Rev. Dr. J. M. Whiten about souse peculiari
ties of the books of Esther and Ruth, and there
are carefully prepared papers on Latimer as a
Social Reformer by Octave Thanet, and on the
Public Schools and National Culture by Noble C.
Butler. The Hebrew Hereafter is a reply to the
Hebrew Faith in Immortality in the last number.
There are several poems, including one in the
Still Hour Department.
The Editor's Table has articles on Rink Re
ligion; Vacation Sundays; makes an onslaught
on the trashy periodicals of the day, and expresses
gratification "That the Great International Game
of hop, Skip and Jump in which our Sunday
schools have been engaging every Sunday fur
almost seven years, is pretty nearly ended."
The numbers of The Living Aye for the weeks
ending August 9th and Dili respectively, contain
the following articles : Wordsworth, by Matthew
Arnold, and the Mirabeaus, Macmillan ; Food and
feeding, by Sir Henry Thompson, and Moose
Hunting in Canada, Nineteenth Century The Last
Jewish Revolt, and Chloral and other Narcotics,
Contemporary; The Evangelical Movement, Its
Parentage, Progress and Issue, by Mr. Gladstone,
British Quarterly; The Birth, Life and Death of
a Storm, Popular Scicnce Review; How to l'opu
larize Wordsworth, The journey of (3olonel
Prjevaleky toward') Tplpt, 74e Influence of India
on China, and the Lessons of Prince Napoleon's
Funeral, Spectator ; Egyptian Exiles, Saturday
Review ; The Chances of War, Natal Mercury ;
and in the way pf Fiction, The Ghost of Mocar's
Tower, the Grey, and installments of Jean Inge
low s "Sarah de Bereneer ;" and Sarah Tytler's
'The Bride's Pass"; and the usual amount of
Poetry.
For fifty-two such numbers of sixty-four large
pages each (or more than 3,000 pages a year,) the
subscription price ($8) is low; while for $10.50
the publishers offer to send any one of the Ameii
can $1 monthlies or weeklies with The Living Age
for a year, Loh pm-tpaid. Littell 5c Co., pub
lishers.
That old and standard fashion Magazine,: Go
dey' s L u
. y'B Book, for September, is already upon
our table, richly freighted with good things in
Art, Fashion and Literature. The frontispiece is
a handsome steel plate engraving of a farm scene,
and is of itself worth the price of the book for a
whole year. The colored fashion plates are exceed
ingly handsome, while the patterns are of the
latest style and will prove useful to the ladies.
The book is furnished at the low sum of $2 per
year. Address Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia.
IDLENESS LEADS TO DRUNKENNESS.—
A friend of ours informed us a few evenings
since that he had had a short talk with a liquor
manufacturer, in this place. and in the course
of tile conversation had interrogated him con
corning his business. The liquor man said
that there had been a perceptible falling off
in his trade during the past month or two,
and accounted for it in this wise: lie said
that lie was dependent, in a great measure,
for the sale of his liquor to local dealers, sad
that of late their orders were so few that his
business was not pay;ng him at all. He re
remarked that since work had become plentier
and men could find employment, they did not
drink half the amount of livo • they did whet
loafing about the streets in idleness. Whe - i
men are unable to get emplo3.nent is the time
that liquor dealers make money.
We believe this is true for we have often
noticed that men who were unable to buy
bread for their hungry little ones could al
ways manage to procuac liquor sufficient to
make them drunk.
SNAKES ! SNAKES !—Two young lads
of this place, named Will Gipple and Lloyd
Boring, while •ut on a hunting expedition, on
Monday last, came across a nest or den of
snakes in a strip of woods about one mile from
this place, on the road leading to the Warm
Springs, and known to many as the United
Brethren Camp Ground. The lads were on
their. teturn home, and in passing through
this strip of woods sat down on a stump to
rest. While sitting there they observed .a
snake a short distance from them which one
of the boys shot and killed. They went over
to where the dead snake was lying, beside a
decayed stump, when they were startled to see
the place alive with copperheads of all sizes,
which they proceeded to kill, and by the vig
erous use of clubs they succeeded in killing
all that were visible, and when their work
was done they found that they had slaughtered
thirty-one snakes—and it wasn't a good day
for snakes.
To PENSIONERS OF HUNTINGDON COUN
TY.—The circulars accompanying the vouch
ers for the September payment, requesting ex
amination, were sent out by the Pension agent
at Pittsburg, in June, prior to the approval of
the act of Congress repealing the law under
which the examinations of previous years was
made. No examination of pensioners or ap
plicants is now made, except upon an order
received from the Commissioner of Pensions
at Washington, and those who do not receive
such orders need not present themselves for
examination.
A. B. BRUMBAUGH,
U. S. Ex. Surg. at Huntingdon, Pa.
M'CONNELLSTOWN MITES.—
Rev. Schontz preached in this town on
last Sabbath.
Dr. Allen left here yesterday, (Monday,) for
his home in New York city.
A few of our citizens attended the camp
meeting at Newton Hamilton.
We have some eminent fishermen in our
village. On last Thursday some of our elderly
citizens brought from Raystown Branch fish
lreasuring nineteen inches in length and
weighing over four ponads.
ONE Box Oft Six BOTTLES.—If you
are suffering from a combination of liver or
kidney diseases, and constipation, do not fail
to use the celebrated Kidney-Wort. It is a
dry compound as easily prepared as a cap of
coffee, and in one package is as much medi
cine as can be bought in six dollar bottles of
other kinds.
E. F. Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron.
Gives tone to the stomach, improves the
appetite and assists digestion, excites the
bowels to healthy action, expelling all the
foal humors that contaminate the blood, cor
rupt the secretions and offend the breath. It
excites the liver to a healthy action and
st •eng*.hens the nerves, imparting that glow
to life that proceeds alone from perfect health.
Thousands in all walks of life, testify to the
virtues of this excellent medicine in correcting
the derangement of the digestive organs. Get
the genuine. Sold only in one dollar bottles.
A.. 1 for E. F. Kunkel's Bitte? Wine of iron,
and take no other.
DYSPEPSIA ! DYSPEPSIA I DYSPEPSIA
E. F. Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron, a sure
cure for this disease. It has been prescribed
daily for many years in the practice of emi
nent physicians with unparalleled success.
Symptoms are loss of appetite, wind and ri
sing of food, dryness in the mouth, headache,
dizziness, sleepletisness and low spirits. Get
the genuine. Not sold in bulk, only one dol
lar bottles.
Do you want something to strengthen you?
Do you want a good appetite ? Do you want
to get rid of nervousness? Do you want
energy, sleep well, or be cured of dyspepsia,
kidney or liver disease ? Try E. F. Kunkel's
Bitter Wine of Iron. Every bottle guaranteed
to do as recommended. Depot and office, 259
North Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Get
the genuine. Sold by all druggists. Ask for
E. F. Kunkel's and take no other. All I ask
is a trial of this valuable medicine. One
battle will convince you. Get six bottles for
five dollars, one dollar for one.
TAPE WORM REMOVED ALIVE.
Tape Worm, Pin, Seat and Stomach Worms
removed alive in from two to four hours. No
fee until head of Tape Worm passes alive and
in one. Ask your druggist for Kunkel's Worm
Syrup. Sold only in one dollar bottles. Used
for children or grown persons. It never fails.
Or send for circular to Dr. Kunkel, 259, North
Ninth Street, Philapelphia, Pa. Advice by
mail free. send three cent stamp for return
of letter. August 1-Im.
TO THE PEOPLE OF HUNTINGDON
AND HUNTINGDON COUNTY.
About August 25th I will open in Mr. S. S.
Smith's room, (the one formerly occupied by
T. J. Lewis), an exclusively cash Dry Goods,
Notion and Trimming Store, which it is my
intention to keep a good store, to carry a
stock of good goods, and I will sell the same
as low as they can be bought anywhere in
Pennsylvania.
Coming with a view of locating permanently
in Huntingdon, I hope, by strict and careful
attention to business, to merit a fair share of
your patronage. Please give me a call.
Respectfully Yours,
WM. REED.
Huntingdon, Pa., Aug. 6,1879-3 t.
MEN ARE WANTED TO WORK AT THE
PENITENTIARY, And we want to supply the
same men with overalls at 35 cents, working
shirts at 35 cents, good brogans at $1.25, and
everything else at small profits. Measures
taken for clothing, which can be delivered at
four days notice, with assurance of good goods
and neat fit, and for less money than at any
other clothing store. We will not sell them
at cost, but only at small profits. Give us a
call. Wm. MAReit & BRO.
aug.ls-21.
A RARE CIIANCE.—We have just re
ceived a large quantity of FLORIDA WATER,
from the first class establishment of E. F.
Kunkel, of Philadelphia, which we are selling
at the low price of seventy cents per bottle.
It is an excellent toilet article, and sells the
world over for $l.OO Now is the time to buy
cheap. tf.
BUTTER MAKERS must exercise great
care through the hot weather to keep up the
standard quality. When the pastures begin
to dry up and butter gets light colored use
Wells, Richardson & Co's., perfected Butter
Color. It will enable you to get the top price
in market.
AN OLD DOCTOR'S ADVICE.—It was
this: "Trust in God and keep your bowels
open." For this purpose many an old doctor
has advised the habitually costive to take
Kidney-Wort—for no other remedy so effect
ually overcomes this condition, and that
without the distress and griping which other
medicines cause. It is a radical cure for piles.
Corsets! Corsets ! The finest Reid hest in
town, for the least money, ki,t W. MARCH &
Bao's. iaug.ls-2t.
Chew JACKSON'S BEST Sweet Navy TQbaccQ
N0v.15.-1y
NOTICE TO ALL.—Goods have advanced Wit
Wm. March & Bro., are offering their large
stock to the public at the old prices. Go and
see them. It will pay you. [aug.ls-2t.
Housekeepers, tin cans 65 cents per dozen;
glass :rail jars, 70 cents per dozen ; the lissom
self-sealers, 90 cents per dozen, at WM. MARCH
& Ban's. [sog.ls 2t.
The finest line of samples of summer goods
can be found at Parker's, No. 402 Penn St.
Huntingdon. Made up cheap for cash. Fits
guarrauteed. [june6-4t.
NEW ARRIVAL -WO pieces new prints and
dress goods of the latest styles just opened
and offered at small profits by WIC MARCH k
Bao. [aug.ls-2t.
USE DR.•VAN DYKE'S SULPIIER SOAP,
FOIL all affections of the SKIN and SCALP;
also, for the Bath, Toilet and Nursery. Sold
by Druggists. may 2-Iom.
Ladies, all kinds machine needles, 4 cents;
machine oil, 10 cents 0. N. T. spools, 5 cents,
at Wu. MARCH & Bao's. [ang.ls-^t.
The celebrated HEART SHIRT for sale at
Parker's, 4021 Penn St. Guarranteed to fit.
june6-4t.
Lades, great reduction in summer goods,
such as lawns and percals. Go for them to
Wm. MARCH & Bao's. [aug.ls-2t.
Shoes! Shoes! of all kinds. A large stock
and well made, and sold very low, at W.
MARCH & Bao's. [ang.ls 2t.
A CARD,
To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, boas of manhood, Ac., I will send a
receipt, that will cure you, FRET OF CHARGH,
This great remedy was discovered by a missionary
in South America. Send a self-addressed envelope
to the Rev. JOSEPH T. Isms, Malian 11, tier
York City. Feb.l4,llo—ly
HUNTINGDON MARKETS
CorroctAct Weekly by Hour• d Co
HUNTINGDON, A. August 21, 1879.
Superfine Flour 'pl bbl.l96tb 943 75
Ext.ra, Flour , el bbl. 196th
Faintly Flour it 1,61. 196th 4 7:'..
Bed Wheat,
Bark per cord 5 tit,
Barley 440
Butter l5
Browns per dozeu - 175
Beeswax per pouud xs.
Beane per bushel 1 75
Beet
Clorerseed 7% cts per pound
' -
_
Corn # bushel un ear 54)
Corn Shelled Su
Corn Meal cwt 125
Candles '1 10
Dried Apples 31 D.
Dried Cherritm # lb 5
Dried Beet # SD l2
Eggs lit dozen ti
Feathers 54)
Flaxseed # bushel 1 4141
Hops* n, 2O
Hams smoked C
Shoulder 6
Side • 6
Plaster lil ton ground
Rye,
Wool, washed ii lb
Wool, unwashed, . 2ug025
Timothy Seed, 11 45 pounds 2 21
Ray* ton
Lard"). tb new.... ..... ... .... .......... .. oT
Large Onions 16 bushel 2.5
Oats lai
Potatoe.l3 bushel,
Philadelphia Produce Market.
PIIILADIMPITIA, Aug. 20.
Breadstuffd move slowly.
Cotton is dull but fion, at 111(412e for mid
dlings,
. .
Bark is nominal at $3O per ton for No. 1 quer.
Citron.
Flour aed Meal—Flour is dull and easy. Sales
of 700 barrels, including Minnesota extra family
medium and good, at $5®5.50; Pennsylvania do.
at 4.87i®5.15 ; western do. at $5.30®5.90, and
patent and other high grades at $5.70®7. Rye
flour is steady at 3.20®3.25. Cornmeal is nomin
ally unchanged.
Grain—Wheat is dull but firmer. Salerno( 3,500
bushels, including rejected at 80c®$1.01 ; red and
amber, at 21.07} ®l.OB ; and No. 2 red, elevator at
sl.oBi. At the open board, first call, sl.oB} was
bid for August; $l.OBl for September, $1.091 for
October, and sl.oo} for November. Sales of 5,000
bushels at the latter rates, Rye is in fair demand
at 53 ®s4e for new, and 57®58c for old Pennsyl
vania. Corn is less active but prices are firmer.
Sales of 6,000 bushels, including rejected and
steamer at 47®47}c; mixed and yellow at 474®
48ie, and sail, elevator, at 443. At the opeu
board, first call, 47ic was bid for August; 404 e for
September; 471 c for October, and 47}e for Novem
ber. Oats are quiet and steady. Sales of 5,000
bushels, including old white at 30(4370, and new
at 38®343.
Whiskyis unchanged. Sales ofso barrels west
ern at $1.071.
Philadelphia Cattle Market.
PHILADELPHIA. August 20.
Cattle market fairly active; sales 2,700 head;
prime, 54c; good, 5c ; good, 41@410; medium 41
(4)41c; common, 3}®4o.
Sheep in fair demand: receipts, 6,000 head;
extra good, sc; good, 41(441; medium, 4®4}o;
common, 3i ®4c.
Lambs active; receipts, 1,200 head ; prime to
extra good, 6@qc ; good, s&®6e; medium, 41®
5o; common sl@2 each.
Hogs in fair demand; medium to good, 54(4)51e.
New Advertisements.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
INDIANA. PA.
BUILDING, the best of the kind in the United
States.
ACCOMMODATIONS for 400 Boarders.
SCHOOL, first-class in all respects.
DEPARTMENTS, Normal, Classical, Commercial,
Musical.
THE FALL TERM of 15 weeks will open on
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1879.
EXPENSES as low as those of any other school
affording equal advantages and accommodatioas.
For Catalogue, address
JOHN L. FRENCH, LL. D.,
PIIIMCIPA L.
Ang.B-2t.
SEIERIFF'S SALES.
By virtue of sundry writs of Fleri Facies
to me directed, I will expose to public sale, at the
Court House, in Huntingdon, on
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st., 1879,
At one o'clock, P. r. , the following described Real
Est:ste, to wit :
All that certain tract or parcel of !and,
situate in Juniata township, Huntingdon county,
Pa., bounded and described as follows : On the
north by lands of Henry Mark, on the south and
east by Rudolph Brenensan; on the west by Calvin
Corbin, and northwest by Mary A. Mountain,
containing fifty-six (56) acres and al;ovranes,
about twenty (20) acres of which are cleared and
he balance in timber.
Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the
property of George R. Mountain.
. _
ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground,
situate in Wharton, Miller and Anderson's addi
tion to the borough of Huntingdon, fronting fifty
(50) feet on the west side of Mifflin street and ex
tending back in depth one hundred and fifty (150)
feet to an alley, being lot No. 10, in block No. 18,
in the plan of said addition.
Also, all that certain other lot of ground, situ
ate in Wharton, Miller and Anderson's addition
to said borough of Huntingdon, fronting fifty (50)
feet on the east side of Moore street and extend
ing back in depth one hundred and fifty (150)
feet to an alley, being lot No. 8, in block 14, in
the plan of said addition.
Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as
the property of W. 0. Cunningham.
TERMS--The price for which the property is
sold must be paid at the time of sale, or such other
arrangements made as will be approved, otherwise
the property will immediately be put up and sold
at the risk and expense of the person to whom it
was first sold, and who in case of deficiency at
such resale shall make good the same, and in no
instance will the deed be presented to the court for
confirmation unless the money is actually paid to
the Sheriff. Purchasers who are lie■ creditors
must procure a certified list of liens for the Sheriff,
in order to apply the amount of bids, or any part
thereof, on their liens.
BAWL. 11. IRVIN,
sheriff.
Aug. 1,1819.1
THE COMMON SENSE
FRUIT JAR,
Manufactured by C. A. BARNES t CO., of Lockport,
N. Y.. is decidelly superior to any Jar ever before offered
to the public. No mouldy fruit nor loss of flavor ;
yet scientific, in its construction ; the most complete fruit
preserver in market, no metal coming in contact with the
fruit—in fact, a common some jar. lt should hare a trial
in every family. July 18-Im.
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