Aryl/. 43. The Huntingdon Journal. Office in new JOURNAL Building, Fifth Street TILE CS' f N't:DON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. A. Nasa, at '52,00 per annum IN ADVaNt7C, or 1,1 paid for in six months from date of sub scription. and f,3 if net paid within the year. No paper iiiscont tuned, unless at tie option of the pub until all arrearages are paid. No paper. however, will he sent out of the State unless absolutely ;mid for in itavauee. 'fransieut adVertisentellta will be inserted at TWELVE AND A-II ALF CENTS per line for the first insertion, SFA:EN ANS A-tIALI , cvurs for the second and FIVE CENTS per line for all subsequent insertions. Regular quarterly and yearly linsinms advertisements sell be ins,ted at the tollowang . rat> s: 310 i 6m 8m! lyr s o t . i.i c i! 900 '11.4 00 's37 '$ 36 50, 10 on 12 00 1, 2.01,.18 00,36 00! 501 65 7o„ I.) 1100 18 (10 3 / 4 c01! 34 00150 00' 65, 80 14 00,20 00,18 00 !1 c 01136 00:60 00 80! 100 im Ctni fin Iyr 4 .111 Resolutions of Associations, Communications: of limited or interest, all party annonncensents, and notices of Marriages and Deaths, exceeding five lines, will be charged TEN CENTS per line. Legal Anil other notices will be charged to the party Laving them inserted. Advertising Agents must find their commission outside of these figures. a,lrertisinq accounts are du, and colkciable ~,,,,tisemoof in once inserted. lult P R I NTI NG el every laud. Plain and Fancy Colors, done with neatness and dispstch. Band-hills, Blank , . Canis, Pamphlets, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everything in the Printing lino will be executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. Professional Cards I ) It t . i, (1 ),;(1 B oti. 110TCIIKIN, 825 Washington j .T . r e e l e t t liB ll .B in- T 1 CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods Wil liamson. [apl2,'7l DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services to the comni nay. Offi :e, No. SZI Washington t tr,et, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. Ljau4."ll 11R. 111 SKILL has permanently located in Alexandria 1.1 to practice his professiou. [jan.4 '73-Iy. C STOCKTON Surs , on Dentist. Office in Leister's • in the room formerly occupied by Dr. E. J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. japl2B, GEM. B. MILADY, Attorney-al , Lnw, 405 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [nuvl7,'7s GL. ROBE , Dentist, Mike in S. T. Brown's new building, . N o . Penn Street, 11,4*sipgdon, Pa. [apl2:7l Ti C. M A DDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn . Street, littutingdou, Ya. ra1,19,'71 T SYLVANITS BLAIR, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doors west of 3rd Street. [jan4,'7l T W. MATTER'S, Attorney-at-Law and General Claim Agent, II unting,dou, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of fire on Penn street. jjancil I OR kINE ASllMAN,Attorney-at Law. Unice : No. 404 Penn Street , Huntiwz,rlon, Pa. - -- - • July 18, IS7O. _S. HEISSIN(I ER. Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, J. Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn StrTet,...nyi, Bite CoMI iiollse SE. FLE'IIEN , 4, Attorn.y-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., . °nice iu "Wqrait,,r building, Penn Street. Prompt and careful attention given to all legal business. [augs;74-6mos 'lnf. P. & R. A. ORBISON, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 321 I Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds of legal I business promptly attended to. Sept.l2,'7B. New Advertisements BR OWl\ -- ' S -CAM 14J S ORI 525 PENN STREET, AST THE. PLACE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS I 10, FRESH STOCK ! C.A.ERiIDM - 1'4 5 ALL GRADES AND AT PRICES THAT CAN NOT BE UNDERSOLD, II'UHNI'TITH IH:, Chairs, Beds, Tables, Chamber Suits, Lounge's, ROCKERS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, &c., ever exhibited in Huntingdon county. WALL PAPER ! WALL PAPER ! In this department I have made important changes procured the latest improved trimmer, and my new styles and prices for 1579, can not fail to salt purchasers. Call and see. WINDOW SHADES and FIXTURE:S in great variety. Plain, satin and figured paper, plain or gilt band shading, spring and common fixtures. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS From 15 inches to 21 yards wide. Halls covered with one solid piece without joints. [Bring diagram and measurement.] For PICTURE FRAMES AND LOOKING CLASSES, This is headquarters. Mattresses, Window Cornice, and anything in the Cabinet or Upholstering line made to order or repaired promptly. N i D R 97 AK Also added to the FURNITURE and CARPET BUSINESS. Plain Coffins, Elegant Caskets and Burial Cases, Wool) OR LIt;IIT METALIC TO SUIT ALL. LURIAL LOBES JET VARIETY. C - Ls A_S S A.8.:3E; Ready to attend funerals in town or country. My new clerk and traveling agent, FERDINA_ND Kocu, will call briefly in the principal towns, villages and valleys of this anti adjoining counting, with samples of Wall Paper, Carpets, Carpet Chain, and illustrations of Chairs and many kinds of Furniture, to measure rooms, ,Lc., and receive orders for any goods in my line. If he should not reach you in time, do not wait, but come direct to the store. TAMES 325 T..u; u - Nrir N March 21, IS it). There is 110 TONS OF DuPont's Powder. WE ARE THE AGENTS FOR THE •.•*• • 4. * t il l i t tELEDRAm r p r ••• * fi SEND IN YOUR ORDERS. M 1 R 7" CCD HUNTINGDON, P.A_. ~ i ,, :i - 0 P S, At Gwin's Old Stand Not much on the blow, but always ready for work The largest and finest line of Clothing, Hats and Caps GENTS. FURNISHING GOODS, In town and at gre.tt sacrifice. Winter Goods 20 PER CENT. UNDER COST, Call and be cinvinced at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn at. RENT AND EXPENSES REDUCED; At S. WOLF'S. I am better able to sell Clothing, Hats and Caps, Gents.' Furnishing Goods, Trunks and Valises, CHZAPER than any other store in town. Call at Uwin's old stand. S. MARCH, Agt. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED The Cheapest Place in Huntingdon tl buy Cloth ing, Hats, Caps, and Gents.' Furnishing Goods is at S. wOLF'S, 505 Penn street. one door west from Express Office. S. MARCH, Agent. TO THE PUBLIC.-1 - have removed my Cloth ing and Gents.' Furnishing (roods store to D. P. Gwin's old stand. a~Expenses reduced and better bargains than ever can be got at S. Wolf's 505 Penn Street. March 28, 1879. BEAUTIFY YOUR I - I 0 IVI S The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of HOUSE IND SIGN PIINTING Calcimining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, and any and all work belonging to the business. Having had several years' experience, be guaran tees satisfaction to those who may employ him. 1 -3 11,ICJES MODERATE. Orders may be left at the Journnst Book Store. JOHN L. ROHLAND. March 14th, 1879-tf. [feb . s,' ; Ti NEW STYLES!! The Largest Stock and variety of A. BROWN, "Powder ItUrl"FIIT:11t: IT IN OUR MAGAZINE. Zw• * 4 1 FT. k. . 7.11 , 41 41 . • ••••• t• * t 4 , 11 , 11. . 0 417:1- 0 I If: ti "A. New Advertisements HERE WE ARE ! 505 PENN STREET. -AND New Advertisements: 879. in the Cellar," itcluspaprr 'jistory. Address of Prof. A. L. Guss, of Hun tingdon, before the Juniata Valley Printers' Association at Cres son, September 6, 1879. When the white man first began to make his settlements on the Atlantic coast, this interior region represented by the ladies and gentlemen here assembled, was inhab ited by a nation of Indians called the Ono- jutta-ilaga. They belonged to the Huron- Iroquois family, who were the noblest specimens of the red race north of Mexico. After the Dutch at Albany, in 1640, armed the five nations, commonly called Iroquois. they exterminated many of their kindred surrounding tribes, and depopulated this whole interior. Their plan was either to kill or carry off and incorporate into their own nation all the other tribes, or by sub jugation reduce them, as they expressed it, to the condition of woman, that is of persons who dare not assume the proud honor of being warriors. The Onojutta Ilaga perished at the hands of these armed Iroquois, most prob ably without ever having been visited by a single white man. I find their name in this recion on maps published from 1559 to 1671 ; and from the appended word gaga, which in the Mohawk dialect means peopl or nation, it is clear that the Dutch map maker received his knowledge of them from the most eastern member of the Iro quois Confederacy, commonly called the Mohawks. Much of the inland portions of our old maps were made from informa tion given by the natives. After the extermination of the Juniata tribe this region was an uninhabited in- terior used only as a hunting ground by the Iroquois for the next three quarters of a centuty. The arrow-heads and stone hatchets found scattered over our country are the workmanship of this original or anterior and superior race. The places called "natural meadows" and those grown up with low bushes and hence supposed to be poor land, and called "barrens" by the first settlers, were once the fields in which these natives cultivated their corn, tobac co, beans and squashes. They were much more of an agricultural people than the restless Algonquin tribes on the coast who resided here in later ages. They dwelt more in fixed towns to which they always returned, however far and wide their hunt ing expeditions extended. Many of these town sites, which were often surrounded by rude fortifications suited to their style of warfare, were formerly to be clearly seen in this region, and marks of some of them remain to this day. .One of these has lately been described in the Cambria Free man and I described another last spring in the Huntingdon Globe. I have myself gathered specimens of their pottery on a gentle slope near one of the highest peaks of the Broad Top, where once these and other relics of their workmanship could be gathered by the peck. _ - How we would relish the reading of a complete history of those people! How we would grab at the file of a daily paper published among them, if such a thing were extant ! But they are gone and have left us few traces of their former presence. They are less known, but otherwise not more unfortunate than the.once proud na tions that figure in the annals of the past. But there are some things for which we must cherish their memory. They be longed to the race that bequeathed us the blessings of corn and squashes, and I may add, for the gratification of some of us, the legacy of tobacco, though this our fair sisters will doubtless denounce as a filthy curse instead of a blessing. But they have bequeathed us something else which in terests us on this occasion—they left us their nante--a s word that forms the title of this association and in general terms de scribes its geographical location. Language adheres to the soil when the lips that have spoken it are resolved into dust.. Mountains repeat and rivers mur mur the voices of nations denationalized or extirpated from their native land.— Throughout all the world extinct nations by these geographical vestiges assert their claims to an inheritance in the past. Ju niata, that lovely word which enters into the title of this association and distinguishes the most of the territory from which we have gathered, is derived directly from the Onojutta•haga, the original inhabitants of this region. Unchanging nature has re tained the appellation which was given by those whose villages have disappeared and whose tribes have become extinct. As stated, the latter part "hags," means nation. The stem word or roil of the fortuer part is the Iroquois word "onia," meaning a stone, or "onaeja," as given in the Onondaga dialect by Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary. They were the peo ple of "the stone." The terminal "ta" denotes the kind of a stone people they were, for there were different kinds of stone tribes. The first letter, "J," which in early writers also took the form of "CII," "S," "Y," and "IC," is only a breathing as commonly used by the Iroquois pronun• ciatioo, and has no significance whatever. The Huron Iroquois language in all its dialects was destitute of labials—that is, they had no words requiring the use of the lips in pronunciation. Such sounds they regarded foolish, childish and undignified. Their orators did not need to close their lips during the delivery of a whole address. There being such a succession of vowel sounds coming up from the throat remind ing Captain John Smith of a voice from a vault, that it was necessary to ease the or gans of speech by preceding words and even syllables with such breathing sounds as made "onia" sound like "junia," "cho w nia," "chinnia," "soglinia," "yuclinia," ‘.koonia," etc. Perhaps we can best illustrate this by referring to the cognate tribe of Oneidas, who were also a stone nation. They were the red granite stone people, and their sacred legends taught them that when the Great Spirit made the world he made their country first, and their ancestors then came up out of the ground just as the trees. Being first created they considered themselves the original. Simon-pure In dians, superior to all others, and having the very eolur of the ground from which they sprang. This red granite stone at Oneida, N. Y., was the totem—the sign or wark of the nation, and the name was au epitome of their history ; and, to the in telligent Indian, carried with it the whole story of their sacred legends as to their origin All the tribes of that family of nations told the same story of their origin, but varied it to suit each particular case. Each had connected with its name a legend of its origin. They bad not come from the west as the Algonquins, but were autoch thons, sprung from the ground itself, or as one of their orators said at Lancaster in 1744, "our ancestors came out of this very ground." HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1879. In the middle of the Juniata valley at the present town of Huntingdon, is where the legends of . the Juniata tribe located the origin of their nation. Here they were autoebthons—here the Great Spirit caused them to spring up from mother earth like trees; awl the ever memorable event was marked upon the spot by the erection of a monumental pillar as an evi dence of the important tact. It stood as a token of the Divine favor, ever reminding them who they were and from whence they came. Signs and symbols were cut upon it. Their exploits in war and the chase were there represented with such figures as they understood. A superstitious rev eranee associated it with the perpetuity of the nation. It was guarded with a zealous care. As its origin and the signification of its hieroglyphics were txplained to their dusky sons, they drank in deep lessons of Indian patriotism. It was indeed the first newspaper in the Juniata valley—a pro pagation of ideas by Inc ins of written characters. It was a four column con cern—or at least, like many of its succes sors, it had four sides. According to the testimony of John Ilarris, the founder of Harrisburg, who is the only white man that saw it, and left a description of it on record, it was 14 feet high and 6 inches square. It is said to have been covered with hieroglyphics denoting victories and other important events. If this be so, there must have been some "pretty tall reading" at the top. It' it was not a reg- ular newspaper we can claim at all events that it was an "imposing stone," and that the "chase" and the "shooting stick" were upon it; and if the characters wen , carved upon the upper part of it we may be sure the "forms were made up" on it, while the naked "form" was on the "bank" and the "devil" made "pi" of the editors captured in war. Moreover, AA these things did Hiawatha, Show unto his wondering people, And interpreted their meaning, And he said, "Behold your beacon, Go and carve it all with figures, Each his own ancestral totem, Each the symbol of his household ; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane and beaver." Songs cf war and songs of hunting, Songs of medicine and magic, All were written in these figures ; For each figure had its meaning, Each its separate song recorded, Each invented as a token, So that those that follow after May distinguish them and know Weal. —From Longfellow and the other frllow. There can be no reasonable doubt that the name "Standing Stone," as applied to the locality of Iluntingdun at the earliest date known, is a translation of the Indian name which we now pronounce "Juniata." When the Delaware Indians came into the valley in later ages they translated the name into their language and called the place Achsinnink. The English traders learning its meaning translated it to Stand ing Stone. The Onojutto haga inscribed on the Dutch map, twu hundred and twenty years ago, were the Standing Stone peswle and that name ever lives in the ever rippling waters of the Juniata, "Blue Juniata' may answer for a love snug, but it is neither Indian nor truth. Sc, much fur our name and the first efforts of human kind to propagate knowledge by means of written characters in this region now bless ed with more than half a hundred news paplks. The territory comprehended within the limits of this association comprise nine counties. The body of it was purchased from the Indians in 1754. As much of it as is situated north of Bellefonte and west of the Allegheny mountains was purchased in 1768. Permanent settle ments in this region only date some ten years prior to the Revolution, but our mountain valleys sooned filled up with no ble specimens of the white race. This I infer from the appearance of their off spring here gathered on this, "the back bone of North America." Once "old Mother Cumberland" stretch ed her wide arms over all those lands and many of our townships in the eastern and southern parts of this district were chris tened at Carlisle, whither our forefathers went up to court. Then came the carv ing out of new counties. Bedford was or ganized in 1771. Then Huntingdon was sliced off Bedford in 1787. Mifflin took another slice off old Mother Cumberland in 1789. Centre came in 1800. Cam bria and Clearfield were twins of 1804. In 1820 Cumberland was bereft of the last portion of her trans Kittochtinny posses sions in the formation of Perry. In 1831 Mifflin was divided, forming Juniata. Last of all came little Blair, gobbling up the odds and ends of the surrounding' counties. At first the settlers looked to Carlisle and other older towns for their newspapers, but the formation of new counties soon created a demand for new papers, and soon a permanent office was established and often two of them at each county seat. Already in the last Century time were at least three efforts made to establish newspapers in the Juniata `'alley—at Mif flintowu, Lewistown and lluntingdon. Though Bedford is the oldest town, I could learn of no newspaper there prior to 1805. But it is possible tho knowledge of it may have perished, for, of the three above named, the very names of two of them have perished, and but a single copy of the other one is known to be extant. Printing is said to be "the art preservative of all arts," but I am sorry to say to you that in this region, it has not preserved itself. To gather the history of the sev eral newspaper enterprises of this district is no easy task, as your speaker has amply experienced, but it is a work that should no longer be neglected. Moreover, it is plain, my friends, that if the task is ever performed it must be performed by us. The living editors must take this in hand and rescue the history of journalism and journalists from oblivion. 'A great boast er once upon a time being reproved for blowing his own horn, excused himself on the ground that unless he himself blowci his horn no one else would do it for him. Let us take a hint; unless we preserve the history of our craft and of our predecessors it wilt not be done and we will be justly at fault, seeing that the matter is not only interesting, but to the philosophical read er is highly instructive. But few efforts have hitherto been made to collect sketches of newspapers. Your speaker has only attempted to start the ball in motion—has only tried to collect names of papers, names of editors, and dates connected therewith. Even this matter has accumulated beyond the proper limits of the hour alloted for rehearsal, and I shall be compelled to cull the older and more interesting portions. I have had also to forego entering upon that ever tempting field, the biography of the editors. This department would furnish food for several addresses. At every point I have felt like branching out on men, but I was forced necessarily to curb my desires. It is to be hoped that this will lead to the collection of the chief biographical facts in the lives of tha members of the fratern ity, especially of those who have crossed the swelling floods from which no one ever returns. What we know of the edi tors and papers of the past, is only a drop in the bucket, compared to what we do not know, but by proper effort may yet find out. An examination of old papers printed in this re g ion in the old days shows a most wonderful contrast, when compared with the present papers, in many particulars, most noticeable among these is the fact that formerly the papers were almost des titute of the local news, whit,' now the lo cal page is the most desirable part. Many old papers examined by me contain not a single reference to anything in the coun ty in which they were printed. Now most people take a county paper only for the local news. Of course there is a reason for this. 'Then, as now, the editor mould- ed his paper to the public taste. The reader got what he wanted, and this fact throws a flood of light on the advances of human society. The spread of news was dependent on means of communication. The few items of home news that interest ed the people were supposed to be known or communicated orally or by private let ters. 'They took papers to learn what was going on in other parts of the world. The opening up of reais, turnpikes and the ca nal not only increased the inhabitants, but also made news and created a demand for news. Last of all came the railroad, car rying news and making news, awakening the people along the whole valley, making them see and hear what other people do and how they live. It has created a new taste, painted the farmer's house, white washed his barn and ornamented his gar den fence. It has brought comfort to the thruily circle, so that the newspaper con taining the local news of his vicinity, is a luxury indispensable in every well regula ted household. We do not sit down, as our ancestors often did,and write four pages offoolscap of news to our relatives who have removed to a distill:tee. If they want the news let them subscribe fur the paper. Thus we sec the whole style of journalism has changed. Roads, canals, postoffices, railroads, and improved printing material have filled our villages with periodicals containing not only general and political but especially local news, and he is wise who expends his best energies on his local department. The setting apart of the third page to local news, now adopted by most papers, is of very modern origin. So far as we know Col. J.'M. Bowman, when in charge of the Johnstown Tribune first set apart the third page fn. local matters and other papers were quick to adopt it. HUNTINGDON COUNTY The first paper published at Huntingdon was called The Huntingdon Courier and Weekly Advertiser, commencing July 4th, 1797. The editor was Michael Duffey. Ile had come from Mililintown, and doub - t• lnought with him the watetials of his offiea. But one copy of the paper is known to 'exist—this is in the hands of J. Simp• son Africa—it had four columns. It is not known how long it was published, but it is probable not over six months. John McCahan started The Iluntingdon Gazette and Weekly Advertiser February 12, 1801. He had worked for Michael Duffey in Huntingdon, and most probably at Mifflintown, as. I know his father then resided near that place. July 9, 1828, his son, J. Kinney McCahan, took charge of the paper and enlarged it. April 23,1834, being published by the McCahans for over thirty three years, the paper passed into the hands of Alexander Gwin, who ran it strong for Porter during the campaign of 1838, and after his election, the editor re tired on a fat office, and the Gazette ceased to exist. The materials were taken to Hollidaysburg. One of the interesting facts connecte with this paper is that the white paper on which it was printed., for many years was made at the Laurel Spring paper mill, near Birmingham in Hunting. don county.. The Huntingdon Intelligencer was start ed by James M. Barbour, September 10, 1813. In politics it was Democratic Re publican. In .1814 the name was chang ed to Huntingdon Republican. Barbour, it seems, had a rough time of it during his career. Ile is said to have been the orig inator of our present three hundred dollar law. lie probably continued until July, 1819. In August, the establishment passed to James S. Patton, late of' the Lewistown Alurcury—a paper of which I heard nothing while at Lewistown—who issued a paper called the Republican. Sd voeate. Either, at the beginning of this enterprise or shortly aft,erwards, Under wood and John Mullay became the pub• fishers. Afterward it. was conducted by Mullay alone, and then by Mullay and Jno W. Shugert, then by Shugert alone, who on Feb. 24, 18f9, sold it to Robert Wal lace, father of Senator Wallace. After a lew years Wallace was succeeded by Au gustus Banks, then by Banks and Thom as P. Campbell, and then by Campbell and George Taylor—known in later years as Judge Taylor. These gentlemen were followed by Wm. R. McCay, Dec. 15, 1836, under whose management it was called the Advocate and Sentinel. It is possible the word Sentinel came from some small paper consolidated with the Advocate. In April, 1841, the office changed hands and a new paper was issued called The Watchnzan, by E. V. Everhart. It only existed a few years. The* materials of this office were then used to print the _Huntingdon .11Iessen. ye r by George W. Whittaker and George Raymond, during 1847 48. The first number of the Iluntingdon Courier curd ../Inti _Masonic Republican was issued May 29, 1830, henry L. McCon nell. The material was new. Afterwards Henry McCrea was associated with No Connell. In 1832 they sold to J. Melville Beckwith & Co , the company being Na than Sargent, and the name was changed to Huntingdon. Courier and National Re publican Monitor. It was a Whig paper, while the Gazette and Advocate were Dem ocratic. It did not long exist, but in its later days was conducted by Dr. W. Yea ger, and finally by Hamilton Sample. The materials were held for rent and sold to A. W. Benedict & Co.,—John Boyle being the partner—who issued the first number of the Huntingdon Journal, Sep tember 23, 1835. After April, 1836, Ben edict, was the sole proprietor. Ile was called "a strolling Yankee" by the Advo cate. In Januiry, 1842, it was bought by Theodore H. Cremer, who sold it to James Clark, August 13, 1815, who died March 23, 1851, and the paper fell into the hands of W. H. Peightal a short time, and was then purchased by J. Sewell Stewart, August, 1851. In May, 1852, J. A. Hall became a partner with Stew art, and afterwards entire owner. Hall sold to Samuel L. Glasgow in 1852, and lie was succeed by Dr. Wm. Brewster, in April, 1854. December, 1859, the Jortruid passed into the hands of S. G. Whittaker. On May 9, 1555, John A. Nash com menced the Huntingdon anzert'ean which was united with the Jourhal on the pur chase of that paper by Samuel IL Whitta ker, and the consolidated paper was issued by Nash & Whittaker and called the Jour nal and Ameriotn. - Whittaker sold his in terest to Robert McDivitt., and the firm of J. A. Nash & Co., commenced December 18, 1865. May 1, 1867, Nash became sole proprietor. In 1869, Theo. fl. Cremer started the Republican, which he sold toJ. It. Durborrow, and it was united with the Journal and Anerican, .Tan. 1, 1871, and the paper was then called the Huntingdon Journal, published by J. R. Durborrow & Co. The interest of J. R. Durborrow was sold at Sheriff's sale and purchased by J. Hall Musser, who after protracted litigation passed it over to J. A. Nash, May 20, 1878, who since that date has been sole proprietor The (lobe had a much less varied exist. mice than any of its predecessors or e.)u temporaries. It was started by L G My tinger from new material, Nov. 22, 1843 There was no rival in the field except the ' Jrntiott. G. L Gent zle was associated with Myting,er for seven months, and died a few weeks later. After July 17, 1844, Mytin ger was sole proprietor. In May, 1848, the office wa4 sold to Thos. P. Campbell who employed J. W. Brewer, of Harrisburg, to run the office. He proved a failure and left. The office being deserted was run a few weeks by Lyons Mussina. Altar the issue of forty one numb3rs under Campbell, the paper passed into the hands of Wm Lewis, who conducted it almost 25 year?. It was then purchased by A. L. Guss, December 10, 1872—" and there was war in those days" which seems like a dream in these piping times of peace. July 20, 1877, Al. Tyhurst purchased the Globe by whom it is still conducted, the paper being now al most :36 years old, and only six names con • nected with it as _editors. The name Huntingdon Globe, used by Lewis for some time, has again been restored by Tyhurst. The Standing Stone Banner was started by Simpson Africa and Samuel G. IVhitti ker, June 14, 1853, and at the end of one year the Banner was taken down and The Standing Stone stood two years longer. The material was new and afterward went to Altoona and formed the start of the Tribune office. The Union was published from August, 1859, to January, 1861, by It. Milton Speer, at Huntingdon. The Mrkintinzen's .thlrocate commenced March, 1860, by W. F. Shaw and B. F. Miller. It ceased after a few months. The Broad Top Miner, at Coahnont, was run by Al Tyhurst for six months, beginning February, 1861. The material came from the defunct Workingmen's Ad. vocate, and were sold to Owen tior the es. tablishtuent of the Monitor. The Ilantingdwa .111oni'or was started September 3, 1862, by Albert Owen. The office was destroyed May 19, 1863, by soldiers of the 125th Regiment. It was re established by - J. Irwin Steele July 4, 1863. It suffered again July 25 and Au gust 3, but Mr. Steele held his ground until October 4, 1865, when S. A, Mc Kenzie had charge of the paper during an interval of two months when it fell into the hands of J. S. Cornman, December 13, 1865. September 19, 1874, It was passed over to S. E. Fleming and M. M. McNeal, the latter withdrawing June 1, 1876. The paper has since been conducted by the the former. It is proper to say that some of the persons engaged in destroying the office were arrested, tried, convicted, fined and imprisoned for the offense. The JOURNAL, Globe and Monitor arc all eight columns and the same siz.3, printed on power presses. _ _ The Loral .11rews was commenced by Hugh Lindsay, March 10, 1874, and since the 14th of September, 1874, has been is sued semi-weekly! Since February 10, 1875, Frank Willoughby has been a part ner. It was enlarged to five columns March 11, 1878, and has a power press. The _Huntingdon .ote, a German paper, was published a short time about 1835. Young ./Interica, another ephemeral con cern, was born August 18, 1875. It died May 5, 1876. It was followed by a Busi ness Journal, issued semi-occasionally.— Both were conducted by Olin 0. Leabhart. _ _ The Greenback Nationalist was started April 11, 1878, B. F. Fries, editor, who was succeeded August 15, IS7B, by J. R. Durborrow, who changed the name to the llnntingdon Nationalist on the Ist of Jan uary, 1879. Its career ended February 27, 1879. _ _ _ The Sh;tleysimq Herald was published by John Lutz and several times suspended and resumed. The Orbismtia Leader has been leading :he people since November, 1875, by J Lt. Coons. The Mountain Voice was started about 1875, by White Nixon and was conducted afterwards by Dr. B. F. Gehrett. The Mount Union Times was establish ed by 11. E. Shaffer, February 6, 1873, material new. July 15, 1875, sold to Dr. G. W. Thompson & Co, and the name changed to People's E, u, edited by Cyrus Jeffries and Joseph Bardine. November 12, 1875, the piper was sold to J. M. Bowman, who changed the name again to Mount Union Times. July 1876, the office was repurchased by 11. E. Shaffer Samuel Miller, who rented it to Bowman, July 26, 1877, sold to Webster T. Bair, then editor of the Shirleysburg Herald, who conducted it until August 8, 1879, when it ceased. Besides these political newspapers, there was a literary publication called The Hun tingdon Literary Museum and Monthly Miscellany, devoted exclusively to amuse ment and instruction, by W. R. Smith and Moses Canan. Twelve numbers were is sued during 1810, when it died of the usual printer's disease—an empty purse. One religious paper is also published.— It was started at Marklesburg, James Creek postoffice. It began January, 1870, called the Pllyrint, by H. B. and J. B Brumbaugh. It was a church paper of the denomination of German. Baptists or "Brethren," often called "Dunkards."— At first it was semi-monthly, but it has been several times enlarged and made a weekly and removed to Huntingdon in the fall of 1874. In December, 1876, it was consolidated with the Primitice Christhtn, before this published at Berlin, Somerset county, and since that day has been pub lisped by Quinter & Brumbaugh Bros. It has 16 pages and three columns to a page. The Honte Monthly was a papr startel by E. B. Swanc in Huntingdon, Jan. 1, 1579, and devoted to entertaining miscel laneous reading for the family. On the night of June 28th following, the office was destroyed and the materials thrown into the canal by some unmitigated scoun drels. As the paper contained no-person al matter, and the editor was an inoffensive young man, it is hard to conceive the mo tive for this dastardly aet. Sciccz ~Czscc~l~in~. A Retrospection. Ali, how. How the %sheds of time sreed round—how the gathering years crowd thick and fast—how the maelstrom twirls as we are drawn near the vortex— how old tempus does fugit. And yet it was not always thus. Looking back over our shoulder—to see if the girl is flirting—to the years that now, alas ! are past and gone, we see a fAir haired boy. Ah, but his hair was fair—fairer than the luscious strawberry nestling in the fraudulent box in the early spring time, at eighty cents a quart—fairer than the.golden carrot as it swims among the grease drops on the sur face of a plate of soup—fair as the lily. the marigold, the daffo down dily. Fair. fair. How long the days were then. Tl.e forenoon was an epeh ; the afternoon a measureless cycle of time. A piece of bread and butter at half past nine, and another at eleven, mitigated our sufferings and stayed our hunger which consumed us during the lapse of tim,, between break fast and dinner. After the doses would have to be ropeated in the afternoon, and just before going to bed. What a change in all this twenty years has wrou.dit.— There is no "piecing between meals" now; no, indeed. And dinner seems t 3 come so soon after breakfast that we are almost in clined not to be bothered with ir. And supper is a thankless task. The years seem to ;tither momentum as they pass; each succeeding one being shorter than its predecessor. We see how it is—we are on the down grade, and there are no brakes. We are rushing along with increasing velocity—to day we are bald headed, to morrow we shall be toothless, next day gray, and then—ah, then, the silent bone-yard. It is not a pleasant prospect. Let us look the other way—let us shake them back. What was it that caused us to fall into this train of thought Oh, yrs—this aged bill from a shoemaker. We promised to pay the man next week, and now the account is outlawed! It beats all. Time should not fly so fast. . Rapidity of Time. Swiftly glide our years They follow each other like the waves of the ocean. Memory calls up the persons we once kuew, the scenes in which we once were actors. • They appear before the mind like the phan toms of a night of vision Behold, the boy, rejoicing in the gayety of his soul ! The wheels of Time cannot move too rapidly for him. The light of hope dances in his eyes; the smile of expectation plays upon his lips. He looks forward to long years of joy to come; his spirit burns with in him when he heats of great men and mighty deeds; he wants to be a man; ho longs to mount the hill of ambition, to tread the path of honor, to hear the shout of applause Look at him again. Ile is now in the meridian of life ; care has stamp ed its wrinkles upon his brow; disappoint ment has dimmed the lustre of his eye; sorrow has thrown its gloom upon his conntenanco. He looks back upon the waking dreams of his youth, and sighs for their futility. Each revolving year seems to diminish something from his stock of happiness, and discovers that the seasons of youth, when the pulse of anticipation beats high, is the only season of enjoy went. Who is he of aged locks ? Ills form is bent, and totters; his footsteps move more rapidly towards the tomb. He looks hack upon the past ; his days appear to have been few Ole magnificence of the great is to hint vanity; the hilarity of youth, tally; he considers how soon the gloom of death mint overshadow the one and disapioint the other. The world pre sents little to attract and nothing to de light him. A few years of infirmity, in sanity and pain must consign him to idiocy or the grave. Yet this was the gay, the generous, the high souled boy who beheld theistseending path of life strewn with flowers without a thorn. Such is human life ; but such cannot be the ultimate des tinies of man. -- ---•••---- am. - -4.--- The Best Cure for Sorrow. Attempts to drown the sense of misfor tune in strong drink are the climax of hu man folly. Intoxication eventually aggra vates and intensifies every evil which it is invoked to alleviate. It has been thus from the day when man first "put an ene my in his month to steal away his brains," and thus it will be to the end of time. No safe and sober man denies the fact. Even the habitual drunkard, in his brief inter vals of reason, shudderingly admits .t. Yet thousands of intellectual beings—many of them endowed with nrmtal rifts—ieek consolation from the b)ttle in the hour of affliction ; though revelation, history, ob servation, and instinct alike teach them that of all the broken reeds which weak ness ever leaned upon, th.-, false excite. ment caused by liquor is most treacherous. It is passing strange !—one of those an• omalies to which philosophy furnishes no clue, and fir which we CAL only ac count by supposing that a power indepen dent of themselves, against whose influence mere reason is n) sure protection, betrays men into ruin. There are only two genuine salves for sorrow—prayer and work. Trust in heav en and keep doing, is the best recipe for every human care. There are no wounds of the spirit whie'a it will int heal. Strentgh, fortitude, patience, resignation, are as sure to be vouchsafed to the unfor. tunates who earnestly pray for them, and at the saute time are diligent in the per formance of their temporal tasks, as the harvest is to !Wow the planting of the seed. Duty is balsamic. l'eace is the child of worship. 4.••• A Former Slave of Jefferson Esther Jefferson, of St. Louis, Mo., died there recently, it is claimed, at the remark able age of 117 years The case of Aunt Esther, as she was called, is worth more than a passing notice, not only because her alleged longevity is authenticated by very strong evidence, but also she was a slave of Thomas Jefferson. Esther Jefferson and her husband subsequently earned money enough to buy their own freedom. A permit, signed by Ilenry Chouteau, clerk of the St. Louis Circuit Court, in 1831, gives permission to Esther Jefferson, a negress, sixty-nine years of age, "to live in the State of Missouri as tong as of good behaviour, and no longer." If the age stated in the permit is correct, the former slave of Thomas Jefferson was fully as old as she is now said to have been. SKILLED pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. A Strange Experience. There re , ides near Oak Ilill, in Utah, a man by the name of William Garrett, who has a remarkable history as one of the few survivors of the terrible Mountain Meadow massacre, in 1858, where nearly two hundred men, women and children were slain by the Indians and Mormons, under the leadership of John D. Lee, who recently expiated his crime with his life. At that time Garrett was a boy ten years of age, and with his sister Malinda, then six years old, was captured by the Indians atter they had butchered his parents, and fir twenty lung years he remained a cap tive. During the Indian campaign in which General Custer was killed he was captured by United States soldiers, and being I;nitel to be a white man an investi• ration finally resulted in establishing his identity. lle was taken to the home of his childhoed. and at once rem:mixed the place. Ile has an uncle living at his old home in I f airy county in Missouri. The girl long since had become the wife of Red Cloud, the well known Sioux Chief, and has by him three children. Shit prefers remaining with her Indian friends. When rescued Garret had t;)rgotten his mother tongue, and was as wild as an untamed sav age. lie remembered only his own and his sister's name, and•the horrible scenes of the massaere, which nothing cauld blot from his memory. lie visited the Mirror (Ace recently, and gave some interesting incidents in connection with his twenty years' life among the savages. In appear ance he is alittle above the medium height, erect and muscular, with dark hair and beard, florid complexion, and bright, keen blue eyes. He says the Mountain Meadow massacre was undoubtedly planned by Brigham Yount-. lie remembers visiting Salt Lake with the Indians and seeing the Mormon leader pay the savages for the scalps of men, women and children, thus offering- them an incentive to murder those not of the Mormon Nth Garrett was adopted by the "mediciae man" of the tribe, and inducted into the mysteries of the treatment of disteve by the Indian method, and became a great Indian doctor, a fitet which he has turned to account since his restoration to civilized life. He has the reputation of possessing great skill in the treatment of the sick in the neighbor hood where he has married a wife, pur chased a farm, and now resides. He has sufficiently mastered the English language to make hi - nself understood, and is a man of more than ordinary intelligence. ire is devoting a portion of his time to study, with the design of publishing a narrative of his life in the wilderness, and a work on Indian medical knowledge. Classically Drunk. 'rile lights were out, the streets were still, and all other pre , :ences were silent in the presence of the peaceful night. And at this time th'e - soft, but slightly unsteady tread was heart) approaching the station. He toi,k a chair near the door, dangled his legs over . the chair's arm, hung his peaked hat on the toe of his boot, and in a low voice addressed the officer : "I was here a year ago and listened to the song of your cricket under the mat there, and I want to hear it again. That cricket comes into my life ex tett ) , He sings and all his green-coated comrades sing of the dying summer. Thera are a million of these Huh. uHurners under the leaves to night, and they all have one song of pensive sad• !less. There is a cricket in my heart. There used to be summer there. lam a sort of an old cricket myself. I crawl in to the natural formed grape grottoes on the highway and sing my own sad song there. Speaking of cool wild graperies reminds we that I am athirst. Say, ser geant, can't you send a sleuth messenger to the Club of the Purple Cluster, and tell the vinous triumvirate that are clowning their chaste and marvellous brows with beautiful chaplets, to send me, not an old Roman punch even, nor a Grecian alma ranthe julep, but a tod, a mere modern t)d. Tell them I am always with theni, and I often commune when on my pr 4. miscums pilgrimage with their disembot tled—patuon me. I mean disembodied spirits; I see their faces wrapt and purpling with the blood of the broken hearted grape of the Garter stream. But say, sergeant, my blood is turning into the channels of melancholy. This must not be. Here are three coins. I put one to wine and the world flushes up for me; a second coin, and I own that block there ; am Mayor of Pawtucket, I walk on thrones; a third, and I hear rapturous music, I float on fair rivers, my old coat becomes as the garment of a great ruler; I put my warm heart against the cold marble of the world and I warm it with its generous glow. The world is no !.inger a marble tomb to me. It opens and enchanting forms come forth and embrace we and bid me go on. The gates of eternity open with a majestic welcome to the man who defies fortune and dares to grandly live it out." "But these ara not coins," said the officer, "they are buttons." " Well, but • tons, so let them be—ah ! that song again, the song of the cricket. Officer, let we sleep here under the magnetism of the mighty midnight heavens, and let the lady crickets serenade ine."—Proridence Jour nal. ---. -.....-- The Responsive Chord. In the early spring of 1563, when the Confederate and Federal armies were con fronting each other on the opposite hills of Stafford and Spottsylvania, two - bands chanced one evening, at the same hour, to begin to discourse sweet music on eith er bank of the river A large crowd o f the soldiers of boil' armies gathered to listen to the music, the friendly pickets not interfering, and soon the bands ben to answer each other. First the band on the northern bank would play "Star Spangled Banner," "llail Columbia," or some other national air, and at its concla• sion the "the boys in blue" would cheer most lustily. And then the band en the southern bank would respond with "Dix ie," or "Bonnie Blue Flag," or some oth er Souther melody, and the 'boys in gray' would attest their approbation with an "old confederate yell." But presently one of the bands struck up, in sweet and plain tive notes which were wafted across the Rappahannock and caught up at once by the other band swelled into a grand an them which touched every heart, "Home, Sweet Hume''' At the conclusion of this piece there went up a simultaneous shout from both sides of the river—oheer Mow ed cheer, and those hills, which had so re• cently resounded with hostile guns, echoed and reechoed the glad acclaim. A chord had been struck responsive to which 41)c hearts of enemies—enemies then—could beat in unison; and, on both sides of the river, _ ‘•Sornetbing down the soldier's cheek, off the stain of powder:* NO. 37.
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