VOL. 43. 'The Huntingdon Journal. °glee in new JOURNAL Building, Fifth Street THE HUNTING DON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. A. NASH, at s2,uu per annum IN ADVANCE, or $2.50 it not paid tor in mix months from date of sub scription, and fi3 if not paid within the year. No paper d treoutiaued, unless at the option of the pub lisher, until all arrearagem are paid. No pap,r, however, will be sent out of the state unless absolutely paid for iu advance. Transient aklvertisemonts will be inserted at TWELVE AND a-HALF CENTS per line for the first ins,tion, IiEVEN AND A-HALF ctam for the second and FIVE CENTS per line for all subsequent insertions. Regular quarterly and yearly basin ma advertisements will be inserted at the following rates : 3m j 6m j 9m; lyr - • _ - • • ---- - 11l n 183 50! 4 50 5 50' S 001 1 4 coll 9 olis 6015271$ 36 2" • 5 00' S 10 00 12 ImillAcol 18 00136 001 501 65 3 " 7 110 10 0.'14 001 S 00,Mc01,34 00150 00, 651 SO 4 "S 00,14 00,10 00,18 0011 coll3o 00,60 00: 80; 100 All Resolutions of Associations, Communications: of limited or individual interest, all party announcements• and notices of Marriages and Deaths, exceeding five lines, will be charged - MN CENTS per line. Legal and other notices will be charged to the party havi•ig them inserted. Advertising Agents must find their commission outside of these figures. Al, adcertisin7 accounts are due and collectable when the firerfisentant is once inserted. JOB PRINTING of every kind, Plain and Fancy Colors, doe with neatness and dispatch. hand-bills, Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everything in the Printing line will he executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. 9m Iyr I 3m 16m Professional Cards- 111?.. G. B. EIOTCIIKIN, 825 Washington Street, Min. 1/ tingdon. junell-1878 T 1 CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd atreet. 17. Office formerly occupied by /dews. Woo.lo & NVil liamson. [apl2,'7l TAR. A.B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services 1/ to the c..minnnity. Office, No 623 Washington street, one dour east of the Catholic Parsonage. Ljau4,'7l DR. HYSKILL has permanently located in Alexandria to practice his profession. [jan.4 LC. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leister's . building, in the room formerly occupied by Pr. E. J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. LupP23, '76._ GEO. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at-Law, 405 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa.. Ln0v17,'75 G. DODD, Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's new building, . No. 5'20, Penn Street, Iluutingdon, Pa. [apl2.'7l C. M ADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn I Street, Huntingdon, Pa. rapl9,'7l J SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, el . Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doors west of 3rd Street. Lien4,7l TW. MATTERN, Attorney-at-taw and General Claim . Agent, Huntingdon, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of fice on Penn Street. [jan4,'7l LORAINE ASUMAN, Attorney-at Law. Office: Nu. 405 Penn S:reet, Hun tiyglon TPa. IS. GEISF 4 INH ER, Attorney -e-Law and Notary Public, 1. Huntingdon, Pa. ()dice, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo Bite Court Howe. CI E. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., Os office in iknitor building, Penn Street. Prompt and careful attention given to all legal business. [augs,ll-Guma WM. P. & R. A. ORBISON, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 321 Y Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. An kinds of legal business promptly attended to. Sept.l2,'7S. New Advertisements BROWN'S CA PE i STORE, 525 PENN STREET, JUST THE PLACE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS ! 0) FREE STOCK ! CARPE2'S, ALL GRADES AND AT PRICES THAT CAN NOT BE UNDERSOLD FURNITURE, Tho Largest Stock and variety of Chairs, Beds, Tables, Chamber Suits, Lounges, ROCKERS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, ace., 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 1879, can not fail to snit purchasers. Call and see. WINDOW SHADES and FIXTURES in great variety. Plain, satin and figured paper, plain or gilt band shading, spring and common fixtures. FLOOII From 15 inches to 2i 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. UDR W AK ING Also added to the FURNITURE and CARPET BUSINESS. Plain Coffins, Elegant Caskets and Burial Cases, WOOD OR LIGHT METALIC TO SUIT ALL. BURIAL ROBES IN VARIETY. PINE PLAT GLASS HEARSE Ready to attend funerals in town or country. My new clerk and traveling agent, FERDINAND Kocu, will call briefly in the principal towns, villages and valleys of this and adjoining counties, with samples of Wall Paper, Carpets, Carpet Chain, and illustrations of Chairs and many kinds of Furniture, to measure rooms, &c., 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. JAMES 525 PIJNN 5T. • PA. March 21, 1579. There is no "Powder in the Cellar," TONS OF IT IN OUR MAGAZ!NE. DuPont's Powder. WE ARE THE AGENTS 'FOR THE 4 4 4. 4♦ 4 4. 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 t - E-111133ATE11.) 1Pill! 77_7 SEND IN YOUR ORDERS. JE - IMINTI=RrYm & CCD- Apriil`Li,lß 9. , TEITTNTINGD ON, PA- New Advertisements Xi u 0 la F t' Su HERE WE ARE ! At Gwin's Old Stand, 505 PENN STREET. 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 great sacrifice. Winter Goods Wit -. 20 PER CENT. UNDER COST. Call and be e , inv ineed at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn st. RENT AND EXPENSES REDUCED, At S. WOLF'S. lam better able to sell Clothing, Hats and Caps, Gents.' Furnishing Goods, Trunks and Valises, CHEA.PER than any other store in town. Call at Gain's old stand. S. MARCH, Agt. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED The Che‘pest Place in Huntingdon t, 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 PUB have removed my Cloth ing and Gents.' Furnishing Goods store to D. P. Gwin's old stand. t.... Expenses reduced and better bargains than ever can be gut at S. Wolf's 505 Penn Street. March 28, 1879. BEAUTIFY YOUR The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING , Calcimining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, and any and all work belonging to the business. Having had several years' experience, he guaran tees satisfaction to those who may employ him. PRICES .11ODERAT E. Orders may be left at the JonneraL Book Store. JOHN L. ROHLAND. March 14th, 1579-tf. July 18 - , 7879 New Advertisements. NEW STYLES!! 1879, OIL CLOTHS BROWN, A . 1313 P , r ix 1 - ;: lz _A. It ][7. ~ .. :. ?fr . 1 • , e %. t" " ;.: ~. . • 3, ft i r e 4 I II: ‘, ' l.l. - . . :.!.5.. *a- ... .. • ', lt 4. *.:i 4 • ; ' -, ~...., 3 ..e ~ ~ . , ; ..; , • Ot ; '.. ,::-• -AND * * * f i niT lit J J • 'Cy Rinses' `,Ghttr. Man. The glory of man I like a gush of the breeze That leaps from the thunder cloud strong, And lifts up the limbs and the leaves of the trees, And dies as it passes along : Like the wrath of the surge as it breaks on tbe shore, Provoked by the wing of the blast, To melt, as it dashes the rock with a roar, And forever and ever be past! The fame of a man ! like the dew on the turf, Which a glance of the sun has consumed ; Like a dream on the spray, on the brow of the surf, Or the flash of a swift eagle's plume ; An echo, forgot ere it came to the ear; A presence which never was felt ; A shrine, with the footsteps of worshippers near, But lost ere they found it and knelt. The strength of a man ! like a feather sent out To fetter the storm-spirit's feet ; A leaf, in the arms of the hurricane stout; A snail, on the lightning's black fleet ; A mote, to be lost in the folds of the grass ; A sight, in the ear of the gale; A drop, in the ocean to quiver and pass— No echo to whisper the tale. The hope of a man ! 'tis as high as thy' stars; As deep as the fathomless space ; As strong as the earthq lake that breaketh its bars, And swift as the light in its race ; The glory and fame, and the strength shall decay, But the hope of the spirit is cure, And fresh, when the sun and the stars fade away, Will forever and ever endure. No Time Like the Old Time. There i; no time like the old time, when you and I were young, When the buds of April blossomed and birds of spring time sung ! The garden's brightest glories by summer sun are nursed ; But, 0 ! the sweet, sweet violets, the flowers that opened first ! There is no place like the old place, where you and I were born, Where we lifted up our eyelids on the splen dors of the morn ! From the milk-white breast that warmed us, -from the clinging arms that bore, Where the dear eyes glistened o'er us that will look on us no more. There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days 1 No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise I Fame is the scentless flower, with gaudy crown of gold ; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. There is no love like the old, that we courted in our pride ; Though our leaves are falling, falling, and we're fading side by side ; There are blossoms all around us with the colors of the dawn, And we live in borrowed sunshine when the light of day is gone, There are no times like the old times—they shall never be forgot ! There is no place like the old place—keep green the dear old spot! There are no friends like the old friends—may Heaven prolong their lives ! There are no loves like the old loves—God bless our loving wives I LZe itorg-Etiler. THE OAKEN CROSS ! Several year.; ago I was a member of a dramatic company doing the interior Pennsylvania towns! At G-, among ti3e "sights" pointed out to the stranger is a huge tree, and about four feet from• the base the bark has been cut in the form of a cross in dimensions about two feet by three feet. "What is the meaning of that ?" asked I of any "guide"—the clerk of the post office—as I pointed to the cross so deeply engraven in the tree. "There's a story goes with that," said he, "and it's been the cause of me being against capital punishment ever since." "A story ?" "Yes," interrupted be, "and one that even the youngest child in our town has learned to relate. Let us sit here, and I'll tell it to you." Lizhting a fresh cigar, he began the following, and I give it in his own words as near as I can : "Let me see—it's now almost forty years since the events which I am going to relate occurred. Two miles to the west, over there, is an old run oat coal pit, or I should say, a pit sunk for coal, but which never yielded much of the "dusky." One of the men employed in the first working and sinking was named John Harris, a collier from over the water. He was a sort of a superintendent, or boss of a gang of the workers, and had built himself a neat lit tle home about a mile from here, between this place and the pit. His family con sisted of himself and daughter, his wife Laving died in England. The daughter was a beautiful girl just turning her eigh teenth year, and was the magnet that drew all the gay young gallants for miles around. Among the number of swains who were ready to 'fight, bleed or die' fur her, were Henry Lewis and Charles Jenkins. Both figure prominently in my tale; so I will name none of the others who had entered the list for favor from Lucy Harris. It appears that Lewis, a quiet, orderly young fellow, had the inside track in the affections of the divine Lucy, and accom panied her to all the merry-makings, feasts, etc , to the envy of all the others, but to none more so than Jenkins, who flattered himself that, were Lewis only removed from his track, he would come in winner of the hand of the fair one. Old man Harris really favored the latter' being, as he often remarked, a 'youngster of the right sort, and nor.e of your milk and water babies,' which eulogium of the ta• lents of Jenkins was occasioned by the fact that old man Harris in his drinking bouts, found a right good companion in Jenkins, and one who could 'down' as much '..noun tain dew' as he, while, on the other hand, Lewis was about the only teetotaler among the visitors at the Harris house. In his carousals, the old man swore roundly that Jenkins alone should possess the hand, if not the heart, of Lucy, and forbade Lewis from coming to his house. Clandestine meetings, of course, followed between Lucy and the latter, but not unknown to the vigilant Jenkins, who was watching the lovers far all that was out. HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1879. "Things reached a crisis when the old man, informed of these meetings, took to drinking harder, and swore by all the gods to rid the earth of that dough-faced baby who was trying to steal his child away from him. Lucy, who had of late been treated shamefully by the old repinbate, used to come here to this spot to hold tryst with her lover, and to weep alone in anguish over her unhappy life, made now doubly wretched by her continued opposition to her father's wishes. "Jenkins came to the holpe one beauti ful day in May, and having brought a plentiful supply of whiskey with him, the old man was soon under the 'influence,' and Jenkins was not far off, either. Lucy, seeing how affairs stood, silently stole from the house, and wended her way to her favorite spot—here. She was seen to leave the house by Jenkins, and he immediately followed her, ascertaining first that Harris was in a drunken sleep, and oblivious to ail around him. "The knoll yonder near the trees was the only place around here for quite a distance free from brush, and through a little lane Lucy would come here to pray, weep, or meet her lover. Just as she reached here on that fetal day—fatal to her, at least—she heard a crackling in the bush, and thinking it was Lewis who was kuping his tryst, her eyes brightly kin• cried and a smile illumined her face.— But when the burly form of Jenkins burst into the clearing., her smile changed, and a look of loathing and olntempt greeted him as he rudely acc•)sted her. " 'Thou,;.lit it was the other one, did you ? Well, I'm tired of this shilly shall)ing, and I'm going to end this thing. You have got to be mine at last, so you can make up your mind to that.' "'What do you mean ?' asked the ter• -C. D. STUART, fled Lucy " 'lt means that you are in my power now—no one is near us—and I'm going to make you mine by all means.' "He seized her as he spoke, and, not withstanding he was a powerful man, her strength and the liquor he had imbibed made the struggle a desperate one. See ing that be would probably be fbiled in his evil desires, and now thoroughly mad dened by the whiskey he had drank, and the girl's almost superhuman exertions, he whippet out a large pocket-knife and threatened to kid her unless she quit struggling. The sight of the knife lent extra strength to the unfortunate girl, and just as she was about to overpower the brute the knife was sheathed in her bosom. She fell at his feet, and again and again did the murderer's knife seek her heart. After his paroxysm of rage, the sight of the now inanimate body died him with fear, and, dropping the knife, he ran from the spot. He quickly made his way to the house, where the old man still lay in his stupor. Then did the first thought of concealment of the crime enter his mind. He raised the old mLu from his slumber, and easily convinced him that he was but just dropping off to sleep when he roused him, and bantered him to finish the bout. The old man took it all in, and together they had a right merry time finishing the jug. Here was an alibi; fur he could make the old man swear that he had not left him a moment that day. "A short time after the murderer had fled from his victim, Lewis, who had an appointment with Lucy at that hour, has tened to the rendezvous. Imagine his hor ror when his eyes gazed upon the one ob ject on earth dear to him, cold, lifeless and bloody. With an awful shriek he clasped her in his arms, trying to warm her back to life by his own heart beats. Then, kneeling by her corpse, he swore to avenge her death, and then, almost crazed by the blow, he continued to call on her he loved. "Some miners passing that way discov ered him, and taking him into custody, delivered him to the authorities at G—, who, notwithstanding his protestations of innocence, lodged him in jail on a charge of the murder of Lucy Harris. Public sentiment was about equally divided, and when the trial came on the court room was crowded. The defense was a denial of the murder, and the knife, which was proven to have been the prisoner's, he claimed to have lost several days before the murder. The prisoner could not be roused out of the apathy which had seized him, and to all the exortations of his friends he made answer that the sooner all was over the sooner he would join her above Notwith standing an able defense by his lawyers, he was found guilty of the murder, and sentenced to be hanged. "The trial and verdict convinced nearly all that he was indeed the murderer, and the most charitable gilded his fearful crime with 'emotional insanity.' However, guilty or not, the preparations for his banging went on, and the eventful day drew nigh -0. W. HOLMES. "Jenkins was the loudest voiced of all firm believers in the guilt of Lewis, and it was observed that he of late drank heavier, and the sun never rose nor set on him ex. cept as a drunkard. The night before the day appointed for the hanging he was seized with delirium tremens in the then principal saloon of the town, and, to the astonishment of the bystanders, in his de lirium he again went through the bloody tragedy. The Judge who had passed the dread sentence was sent fur, and, giving him into the custody of several constables, he had a magistrate take down the sayings of the now raving maniac, and all were soon convinced that the real murderer of Lucy Harris was now before them "The Judge went to the cell of the con demned, and with a glad heart he com municated the joyful news to the prisoner, and told him be would be a free man to morrow, and thanked God the real mur derer had been found, and that an inno cent man had not suffered. The Judge and magistrate, on their own responsibility, released Lewis, and the trial and convic tion of Jenkins soon followed; for when accused of the murder and shown the damning self accusations, he wilted and made a clean breast of it. The gallows erected for Lewis served to "shufila off" the real murderer of Lucy Harris, for Jen kins was swung off in a , iirort time after wards. "Lewis, as soon as released, came to this spot, the scene of the tragedy, and carved that cross on the tree, and every day, du ring life, he would come here, kneel and pray to be worthy of being united with her above. His reason was shaken by what he had gone through, and the Judge cared that he wanted for nothing. The people here call that 'Lewis' Cross,' and Heaven knows he did carry a heavy cross. Ile kept it white and clean while living, not allowing a fiber to grow in any of the incisions. He died about fifteen years ago, and once in a while one of the Cown people cuts out the cross as it fills up, so as to perpetuate 'Lewis' Cross' as long as the tree stands." grtopapa 'l.9istoril. Address of Prof.. A. L. Guss, of Hun tingdon, before the Juniata Valley Printers' Association at Cres son, September 6, 1879. BLAIR COUNTY The Hollidaysburg Standard, five col umns, was started with materials of the old Huntingdon Gazette, by P. L. Joslin, with George R. McFarlane editor, in the spring of 1838, and was owned by stockholders On January 1, 1841, 0. A. Traugh and H. A. Dego took charge, and on January 1, 1843, differences occurring between the editors and stockholders in regard to the Portage railroad, Traugh and Boggs started a new paper with new material called the Beacon Light, six columns, which was con tinued until June, 1845. In the mean time John Dougherty purchased a lot of new material and resumed the Democratic Standard about October 10, 1844. Alonzo S. Dougherty purchased the Standard, Traugh purchased the interest of Boggs in the Beacon Light, and Traugh and Dough erty merged the papers into a new series of the Democratic ,Standard, May 1,1815, and in May 1, 1846, Traugh became s ule proprietor and has continued to this date, now thirty four years, and making thirty eight years in all, counting both papers. The Standard now has eight columns and keeps the cleanest office in the valley.— Among the assistants on this paper form eny well known was U. J. Jones and in late days William 11. Schwartz. The Blair County IVhi7 was started about 1845 or 1846 by Jacob L. Slentz, who now resides in Washington. After about three years, or about ISSO, it was purchased by George R. Raymond and William S. Wilson. Subsequently Ray mond alone conducted the paper. He is said to have been murdered at Camden, N. J. After a suspension of a month or two it was purchased by John Brotherline, whose death has just been announced.— During part of the time (1861) Brother line had John 11. Keatley associated with him, and he also changed the name to the Radical and Blair County Mai, about 1866. May 18, 1868, it was purchased by M. Edgar King and James 11. Irwin and the name changed to Blair County Radical. The office moved to Altoona, and since May 18, 1869, has been pub lished there by Messrs. King & Irwin. It is Republican, and now in its 33rd volume. The .durora was started at Hollidays burg, August 29, 1833, by T. P. Camp. bell, and was afterward conducted by Sample Bros. It suspended after a year or two, and was again revived in the I?ey inter in 1836 The Canal and Portrge Register—a name suggestive of what was considered a big thing in those days—was first issued by John Scott and Gray, July 2, 1836. Gray sold his interest to John Penn Jones October 26, 1836. Scott and Jones con• tinned until April 11, 1838, when Jones became sole proprietor, — aud he enlarged the paper to five columns, and changed the name to Hollidaysburg Register and Hun tingdon County Inquirer.• From May 1, 1839, to February 24, 1840, D. B. Wil- Hams was associated with Jones, after which Jones continued again, and March 4, 1546, changed the name to _Hollidays burg Register and Blair County Inquirer. About 1854 or 1855 the name was changed to Hollidaysburg Register and Blair County Weekly _Yews. September 23, 1861, Jones took in H. A. Caldwell as a partner, and they sold the paper to John Dean, now Judge Dean, October 21, 1863, from whom it passed in 1863 or 1866 to Samuel Hoover & Son. March 18, 1868 it was purchased by David Over and his brother Jacob Z. Over. January 9, 1870, the name was changed to Hollidaysburg Reg ister. November 27, 1872, Jacob Z. Over retired, and David Over has continued its publication to this day. John 11. Keatley commenced the publi cation of Tice Leader in 1866, in Holli daysburg, but after a little over a year it ceased, and the material went to Dr. J. P. Thompson, Williamsburg, who started the Temperance Vindicator in the spring of 1868. About 1870 the paper wits said to Col. George F. McFarland, who removed the office to Harrisburg, but the press, etc., went to the Bedford Press office. The Shield was a paper published about 1849 to 1850, in Hollidaysburg., in the interest of the Catholic Church, by Iladen Smith. The Cove Echo was published about 1874 and 1675, in Martinsburg, by Henry and John Brumbaugh, and subsequently by B. F. Lehman, but the Echo soon ceised for lack or the original sound. The Tyrone Blade was established by J. L. Holmes, June 1, 1870, who sold the office to George Stroup, November, 16, 1872, who changed the name to Tyrone Democrat, and has coutinuel its publica tion to this day. The American Era, started by a stock company in Tyrone about 1856, with W. S. 11. Keys as editor, afterwards Ben Jones. The material then went into the Tyrone Herald, by Robert Stoddard, which sus pended in about a year. It was revived and called the Tyrone S!ar, by N. 11. Jolly, afterwards it watconducted by Cap tain James Bell. It suspended about the beginning of the war. It was revived again and called the Western Hemisphere, by a stock company, with J. W. Scott and Cy rus Jeffries as editors. The paper sus pended again, and then revived in August, 1867, by H. R. Holsinger, under the old name of Tyrone Herald, and August, 1867, sold to J. L. Holmes and C. S. W. Jones, in April, 1868, and after April, 1869, Jones alone conducted it. W. H. H. Brainerd was a partner in 1871 and 1872, and Al Tyhurst in 1875, 1876. Jones con tinues to this date. The first newspaper enterpris) in the young town of Altoona was by William 11. and J. A. Snyder, who in the spring of 1855 published the Altoona Register from materials of the Standing Stone Banner. After five or six months it was discontinued, and the materials purchased by Ephraim B. McCrum and William M. Allison, who commenced the Altoona Tribune, January 1, 1856. May 1, 1858, Allison disposed of his interest to 11. C. Dern. July 19, 1875, the interest of McCrum passed into the hand d s of llugh Pitcairn, who with Dern has conducted the paper to this day. April 14, 1873, MeCrum and Dern began the Daily Tribune, which after two years, on April 14, 1865, was discontinued. Jan uary 28, 1878, Dern & Pitcairn resumed the daily edition, which has continued to this day. Adam J. Greer has bean on the editorial staff of this paper fur a number of years. The Evening illirror started June 13, 4874, by Harry Slep and George J. Akers. It was a penny daily, four columns. Sep tember 11 it was enlarged to five,columns. W. J. Fleming entered the firm November 15. May 30, 1875, it was enlarged to six cilumns, price 2 cents, and 40 cents per month. November li. 1877, Slep became sole proprietor, and his health failing, Slep sold, on December 1, 1878, to W. K. Buckingbain and W. S. Nieodemus, who enlarged it, changed it from an independ ent to a Democratic paper, and named it the DpnweratZe Call, and is still published -by them, the former having charge of the editorial and the latter the business de partment. The Altoona 17ndicator started May 1, 1868, James F. Campbell, 7 columns. In the summer of 1869 the office was nearly all destroyed by fire. New material was secured and the office sold December 10, 1869, to D. W. Moore, who changed the name to the sdltoona Sun, June 1, 1870, and it was conducted by Moore & Son, by Moore & McKinney and again by Moore alone. John W. McKinney entered the firm February 10, 1871. The Daily Sun was started May 2, 1870 and continued seven months. It had 5 columns and was half the size of the weekly edition. On May 10, 1874, the office was purchased by N. C. Barclay and his brother, Cyrus N. Barclay, who enlarged it January 1, 1879, to 8 columns, and continue to pub lish it to this date. This office has an ele taut outfit for job work and has steam power to run four presses. The Sun is of the Democratic persuasion. The Deutsche,. Vollesfuehter, the Ger man people's leader, was started by Henry Slep, March 28, 1878. It has eight col umns weekly and is the only German pa- per printed in the Juniata valley. It is not political. In 1874, D. B. Ream commenced a tem perance paper in Altoona called the Liv ing Aye, but the age• of its livine , soon ended and the materials were purchased by George J. Akers, who established a Sunday paper called the Globe, and which, after a couple of months, he converted into a daily in the beginning of 1877, which ran for some time, but for lack of oil on the gudgeons the Globe ceased to revolve daily, and the office was purchased and run by John Tomlinson as a Greenback paper, but this enterprise also failed. The Town Talk was started in Altoona by J. H. Ewing, in May, 1879, but it soon yieled to the printers' colic, a disease worse than town talk, which alone would kill even a woman that would listen to it all. The Gospel Trumpet is a small gratui tous paper printed by a committee of rail road men. The Altoona .I(lvance is a gratuitous paper by T. P. Ityuder. BEDFORD COUNTY Bedford is the oldest county is the dis trict and has the most singular newspaper history. There have been fewer papers, less editors anB the least change in names of 4he papers. The Bedford Gazette has been published under-.that name for al most three quarters of a century, and has had only seven editors. It began Sep teealzpar 21, 12.0475, fottr oolumne, $2 per annum. A bound copy of the three first volumes is in possession of John P. Reed, esq., of Bedford. In 1825 it had already , five columes. September 7, 1832, it pass ed into the hands of George W. Bowman, during whose term of twenty-five years it was enlarged to six columns. August 7, 1857, it passed into the hands of Benja min F. Myers and George W. Benford. August 5, 1869, Myers became sole pro prietor. About August, 1865, George M. Mengel became the associate proprietor, with Myers as principal editor, and it was enlarged to seven columns, and again to nine columns on April 6, 1871. Mengel retired August 1, 1873, and Myers con tinued. April 2, 1874 the office passed into the hands of John M. Reynolds and Edward F. Kerr, who in fact had practical control of it for some time previous, and who, with John G. Fisher as local editor, for some twelve years past, continue its publication to this day. The True American was started at Bed 1-_)rd by Thomas R. Gettys, July 27, 1813. It only had three columns, as seen by a copy, Vol. 2, No. 16, November 9, 1814. It was afterwards enlarged. About 1819, Mr. Gettys suspended the publication of his paper, but revived it again in a new series about August 15, 1821, as we infer from a copy, Vol. 2, No. 22, January 10, 1823. After being published for probably five years, it again suspended, and about October 12, 1827, he resumed under the name of the Democratic lnquirer. August 1, 1831, the office passed to Senary Lea der, who conducted the paper about three yearg,, and in 1834 sold it to Alexander King and John Mower, who conducted it until January, 1838, when they sold it to Jacob L. Sienta, who in turn sold to W. T. Chapman, jr., 1843. The office was then bought by Davi'l Over, January 1, 1850, and by him subsequently' the name was changed to Bedford Inquirer. In 1855 John 11. Filler started the Bedford Chronicle, as a rival of the Inquirer but after six months sold the office to David Over, who consolidated the paper with the Inquirer, under the name of the Bedford Inquirer and Chronicle. About three years after wards the name Chronicle was dropped. On April 1, 1862, Mr. Over leased the office to J. R. Durborrow for two years, and at the es piration of the lease, the office passed into ttia hands B. F. McNeal, who ran the paper one year. During the sum mer of 1864 David Over started the Bed ford Patriot, and after six months it was bought by McNeal and merged into the Inquirer. On April 28, 1865, the office passed into the hands of J. It. Durborrow and John Lutz. On July 15, 1868, Lutz became sole proprietor, and January 1, 1870, Lutz told an interest to S. J. Jordan, and the firm of Lutz & Jordan ran to January 1, 1875, when the interest of Lutz passed into the hands of b. W. Mullin, and the firm of Jordan & Mullin remains to this date. The Gazette is Democratic—the Inquirer Republican. They ara the only papers in Bedford, and with one exception the only ones in the county ; and they have had few ephemeral opponents, and hence jour nalism, in Beford county, io in a very healthy condition, and the Gazette and Inquirer may be regarded as healthy coun try papers. The Bedford County Press, at Bloody Run, now Everett, was founded by James C. Long, Dr. P. 11. Pcnnsyl and E. Hofftnier, March, 1868, neutral in politics. September 14, 1868, D. Stewart Elliott purchased the interest of the two latter and the firm of Long Elliott made it Republican. June, 1869, Long retired and Elliott continued till February, 1873, when Long again became editor; and on January 1, 1876, sold to Messrs. Jordan Mullin, of the Bedford Inquirer, who conducted it under the special charge of Jordan .for two years. January 1, 1878, John Lutz purchased the office, who after a. couple of months passed it over to Mul lin, but at the end of the year, January 1, 1879, Lutz again become owner, and pla ced the office under the management of Colonel J. M. Bowman, except the politi• cal part of it, and so it still remains. Du• ring several years after the retirement of Elliott, J. K. P. Lighteap was local edi tor. 'I he Jackson Democrat was started in Bedford, January, 1850, by J. B. Sansom, and on September 1, 1830, removed to 111cConnellsburg, Fulton county, and form ed the Fulton Democrat on the organiza• tion of the county, which was so named by Sansom. clett nlis crliang. From the New York Tribune.) The Influx of Gold. No one would have believed, two months ago, that the practical value of Itesump tion could be so completely proved this Fall as it has been already. Strong evi dence of the usefulness of specie resump tion had been previously given, and it was expected that the Fall movement would give still stronger, but no one imagined that a drain of currency from the New York banks would arise of such magni tude as to take from them $6,000,000 in a single week, nor was it believed that $B,- 800,000 in gold could be received from Europe at this port in the same week to fortify the market against a continuance of the strain. The general failure of crops in Europe not only causes the unpecedent ed test of the strength of the banks, but, through the simple methods which specie payments opens to us, provides adequate relief. The situation will repay careful study, not merely with a view to wise guidance of practical operations, but as a revelation of economic truth for the in struction of statesmen and voters The banks of New York lost $607,800 legal tenders last week. Within six weeks they have lost $18,174,000, and this has been only a part of the outflow of currency to the interior. For the Sub-Treasury has also paid out, since Saturday, August 2, $4,890,011 21 in currency more than it has received. This date is selected be cause it coincides with that of the bank statement, six weeks ago, and because the comparison thus shows that all the cur rency paid into the Treasury by the banks in answer to the large drafts from, the 2d to the 11th, and nearly the whole of the $5,000,000 drawn from them on the Ist of August, have been returned to them, though in exchange for gold which the banks have obtained from abroad. For the banks have gained $224,500 in specie during the six weeks, while the Treasury has gained $13,400,000. Since the bank statement of Saturd iy, August 2, the banks have sent into the interior, there fore, $.3,064,011 in legal tenders, and other items of the statement indicated that the amount of bank notes sent out during the same period has been about $l,OOO, 000 in excess of' receipts. And yet, not withstanding a drain greater already, by about $5,000,000, than the entire outflow from the banks last Fall, the reserve has not been reduced below the point of safety, and the loans of the banks are now only $10,319,700 less than they were August 2. The extraordinary drain has been due, in the main at least, to the extraordinary demand for American grain and other products in Europa. But that demand has also brought hither the gold to pay for the grain, and. thanks to resumption, the coin and bullion become almost intantly availa able as part of our currency. September will undoubtedly surpass any previous month in the history of this coun try, in respect to imports of specie. The amount received here during the last week was $8,800,000, which is more than dou ble the largest week's receipts of specie ever before recorded, we believe, and, with $3,5E7,910 during the first week of the month, makes $12,687,910 in less than half of September. The shipments from Europe on Saturday alone amounted to $5,000,000 more. Within six weeks, $21,- 515,543 in specie has actually arrived at this port, and enough more is on the sea to swell the receipts to about $30,000,- 000. It is significant, too, that no seri ous effort has yet been made by the Bank of England to keep back its specie, in part because the outflow does not as yet come mainly from that bank, but from France, and in part because the plethora of specie is so great that a large outflow from the Bank of England itself' would be viewed with positive satisfaction. We have drawn from Europe $30,000,000 already, and there is still nothing in the position or course of the Bank of England to warrant a belief that as much more could not be drawn without any serious reistanee. Unquestionably England will have to pay to this country, in some form, a much larger sum fur the food it requires during the cominc , year. An elaborate article in The London Ec6nomist, received last week, computes that Great Britain will require from abroad 146 000,000 bushels of wheat, at a probable cost of $228,000,000, and says, "at a moderate estimate we may ex " pect to have to pay fifteen millions or sixteen millions [575,000,000, or $BO,- 000,000] more for our bread this year " than last. The immediate effect on our money market may be to cause some " stringency ; a further effect will certain " ly be to deter that return to better times, " for which all classes have been anxipusly " loooking, to a later date." In Saturday's issue of the same journal, a telegram re ports, it is remarked "that gold will be taken from this side only in the last re " sort, other means of remittance, such as " goods and bonds, being preferred." But fact is better than hopeful theory, and it does not appear that the increase in im ports of goods is likely to be nearly as great this Fall as the increase in imports of specie. For the last six weeks, the in crease in imports here has been 87,289,- 721, while over $21,500,000 in specie has been received against $850,045 last year. Bonds to some extent have been sent to this side, but it does not appear that the individual holders of good and saleble se curities, which are sure to appreciate with the growth of the country upon which England now depends for bread and meat, are very anxious to exchange them at any price for securities in Great Britain, how ever much British bankers and economists may prove that it is highly desirable for them to do so. In short, it seems proba ble that gold will continue to come hither, with little intermission, until the surplus of capital abroad has been so reduced, and the rate of interest there and here so near ly equalized, that other means of settle ment will be found more advantageous. There is good reason, therefore, to ex pect a more easy money market here than has been seen for some weeks past. So long as the gold comes freely from abroad, l in amount quite sufficient to supply even 1 the extraordinary drain upon the banks which the large movement of produce causes them, there appears to be no cause for any other than a momentary strin gency. such as the manipulation of opera tors may at times produce. By the mid dle of October, too, the return of currency to the banks from the country will proba bly exceed the outflow, and the tendency is, therefore,toward a glut of unemployed money here not unlike that which is seen in Europe. though due to wholly different causes. The next step will be the rapid investment of that capital in more perma nent forms, in connection with great in dustrial enterprises. In effect, our wheat and pork and cotton and petroleum are purchasing from Europe the means where with to build us factories and mills, to open new mines, and to become still more independent of foreign industries. Fire-Flies. The insects termed fire flies in America, and which lend such a charm toair um. mer nights, are soft-winged beetle f the family Lampyrider, which have the prop erty of emitting from the abdomen flashes of soft, phosphorescent light. There are several distinct species of these so called "firs flies" indigenous to North America. This insect most abounds in the South west, where, during summer evenings its constantly recuring flashes of light beauti fully illumine the air. The perfect insect is of oblong form, somewhat flattened, and varies from one half to five eights of an inch in length. The wing covers are dull black, margined with pale yellow. The thorax is yellow, with a central black spot ; having on each side a patch of rose color. The under side of the abdomen is dark brown, with the exception of the two ter minal segments from which the light is emitted, which are sulphur yellow. The manner in which the flashes of light are produced is not yet satisfactorily deter mined, but would seem to be the result of sudden, irregular inspirations of air ac companied by a peculair voluntary action of certain abdominal muscles. The larva of this species, which may serve to illus trate the larval habits of the family, lives in the earth and subsists mainly on earth worms. It is of an elongate slender form, each joint having on top a horny brown plate, which is ornamented with a central straight line of white, inclosed between two curved lines of the same color. The sides are soft, and rose colored, with the white spiracles situated on elevated brown patches. The under surface is cream color, and each segment is marked in the center with two small brown spots. The puns is formed within an oval cavity in the earth, and is white, with a tinge of crim son along the back and sides. It remains in this state only about ten days. Both larva and pupa have the power of emitting light, though in a much less deiree than fue mature insect.— Professor A Man and a Gate and a Woman. The gates at the passenger depots which shut out all people not having tickets for the trains were yesterday closed at the Union Depot against an elderly woman wearing spectacles and using an umbrella for a cane. "Can't pass without a ticket," said the man at the gate as she came in. "I want to see if there's anybody on that train going to Port Huron, she answer ed. "Can't pass without a ticket, madame." "I've got a darter in Port Huron, I have." "Can't help it, please. My orders are very strict." "I tell you I want to send word to my darter'." she exclaimed, adjusting her spectacles for a batter view of the official. "Yes, but we can't help that you see. Please show your ticket." I want this 'ere railroad to understand that I've got a darter in Port Huron and she's got a baby fiur weeks old, and I'm going to send her up w,rd in spite of all the gates in this depot !" "Please show your ticket, madame ?'' "I tell you once more--" "Please show your ticket, madame." She gave the old umbrella a whirl and brought it down on his head with all the vim of an old fashioned log raising, and as he staggered aside she passed him and said : "There's my ticket, sir, and I've got more behind it! `Tebbe one man and a gate can stop me from sending word to my darter to grease the baby's nose with mut ton taller if the weather changes cold, but I don't believe it." And she walked down to the train, found some one going to Port Huron, and came back carelessly humming the melody of the "Three Blind Mice."—Detroit Free Press. The Long Branch Pier. The pier is one of the boldest bite of en gineering ever attempted. It has been talked of for years and laughed at by many, who said that the first winter gale would knock it all to pieces. But laughter never kills anything, and the structure, thouph not yet quite completed, is an acknowledg ed success. True, it has not encountered winter storms, nor have any ice bergs floated against it. The weather since its opening for traffic has been for the most part placid, and the boats have generally been able to land without much difficulty. Considerable trouble in regard to this was feared. The pier is now about 600 feet long, and will be, when completed, about 1,000. It extends from the bluff into the sea, directly in front of the Ocean hotel. It is supported by about 110 iron piles, each one of which is a tube, forced far down into the sand and clay which form the bottom of the ocean. These tubes arc firmly braced together by iron girders, and the structure thus combines an immense amount of strength with elasticity enough to resist the force of the waves. Even when the sea is as rough as it has been at any time since the pier has been erected, no motion is perceptible to one who stands on the floor or deck. In appearanee the thing is light and airy as to suggest the possibility of its being swept away. All fear of such a calamity vanishes at once from the mind of the passenger who sets foot on deck or stairway. At the present ocean end of the pier the depth of water is about twenty six feet. Thus the biggest boats can be accommodated. A VETERAN observer says that "Old friends are like old boots. We never real ize how perfectly they were fitted to us till they are cast aside, and others, finer and more stylish perhaps, but cramping and pinching in every corner, are substituted." A DETROIT female of just twenty five was married to her fifth husband lately. All the gentlemen are alive, and the first four arc doing well. NO. 38.
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