A— THE LAW OF LICENSE. %_ABLY EXPOUNDED BY JUDGE CUMMIN, OF LYCOMING COUNTY, WiLLiamsport, March 13. —Judge Hugh H. Cummin, in graoting and rejecting applications for license, gave an impertant general oral opivion yesterday that is considered a note- worthy one by the bar, sud is favor ably commented on by every one as being the ablest and most concise ex- position of the law that has ever been uttered by the bench. In suspendiog a number of applications for further informasion aud consideration, the Court delivered substantially the fol- lowing opinion : “Notwithstanding much has been said from time to time by courts on the subject of contested licenses, there still remains much apprehension and haziness about the real points at issue in such cases. Courts are just as much bound to grant licenses in pro- per cases as they are to refuse licenses in improper cases. Courts do not make the law; their only function is to administer it. What are the ques- tions involved in a contested license case! The applicant must, in a mao- ner prescribed, present in his petition the following facts : First, that he is a person of good repute for nonesty and temperance; second, that he has the accommodations required by law; third, that his house is necessary to _ accommodate the public and to enter- tain strangers sod travelers. “The statute also provides that it shall be lawfal for the Court to hear remoustrances against such applicant. It follows that such remonstrance mast traverse all or some of the facts . alleged io the petition, snd should, in ~gubstance at least, set fourth that the -applicant is not a person of good re pute for honesty and temperance, or that the applicant has not the accom modaiions required by law, or that the applicant’s house is not necessary to accommodate the public and to en tertain strangers. Thus we discover that the questions to be determined are questions of fact, not questions of political ecouomy, not questions of morality, not matters of sentiment. The points before stated are the only ones that can arise in the covtroversy aod are the only ones the Court can pass upon. This is true, not only from the manner of the procedure, but because the statute of April 14, 1859, section 1, decides “that the sev~ eral Courts of Quarter Sessions em- powered to grant licenses shall have and and exercise such direction, no other.’ “The point of issue beicy thus clear- ly defined, how shall the facts which the Court is to act be presest’ ed? This is easily answered as to the first and second points, because they are susceptible of positive proof, bat how shall they be presental as to the third point. the necessity of the Just here it may be observed on house ? that on this point the Court is not called upon, nor has it sathority, to decide whether it is better that such public house shouid or sh ald not sell intoxicating drinks. The only question before the Court is whether such licensed house is necessary for the accommodation of the public, and the entertainment of strangers and “When the application is per- travelers, for a house not before licensed, haps the only evidence of its necessity isto be found in the papers filed, having due regard to the number and character of the petitioners and re monstrants. Such a case, however, should not be determined oy merely eounting the number of petitioners and the number of remonstrants, and deciding in recordance with the pre ponderance of numbers. That method would clearly meet the important rule, viz. the characters of the signers. By the word character, as here used, is not meant only the moral or relig- ious standing of the signers, but their probable knowledge of the subject on which they speak and their ability to form an opinion thereon, “When persons sign a petition for of a remonstrance against a license, touching the point of the necessity of the house, they »ay to the Court, ‘We kuow what palilic houses av needed "for the sccommodation of the public and the entertainment of strangers travelers in our township, ward h, and we have ihe ability | postage and some ability to form an opinion thereon, and do form an opinion. Signatures to the petition or remon. strance are therefore to be valued by their number, by the character of the sigoer, and having regard to their knowledge of the subject and their ability to form an opinion thereon.” The Court has ordered that in all suspended license applicatiovs the ap- plicants must file affiiavits setting fourth the number of lodgiogs and meals furnished by them the past year, holding that with such proof in thease the question of the necessity of the house would be of easy solution, It is inferred that houses which have not been patronized for lodging and meals do not come under the require ments entitling applicants to licenses, and will be refused, The ilems of meals do not include free lunches, chesase crackers, pretzels, etc., furnish. ed with drinks. 1he Court holds that general rentgnstrances are of no value and that only citizens of the township, ward or borough in which the house is located should sign peti- tions or remonstrances. Fs—_— |X CODE OF LOVES LUNACY. If you have a distant creditor who is capable of taking a delicate hint you should, without eomment (silence is golden), inclose his unreceipted bill in sn envelope bearing his address, and having placed the stamp upside down on the right upper corner, mai| it. In the language of the post office this means “no more.” “Just about the summer of the year,” said the veteran assistant postmaster at Brooklyn, Mr. Smith, | “a very large proportion of the letters mailed to the various summer resorts, and in ninety-nine cases out of a huo-| dred, addressed to Mis So sod-, | have the stamp placed in some peocu- | liar position. This doubles the work of the canceler, gnd sometimes results | in these letters being rejected at first as unstamped. It is only of recent years that the practice has assumed the proportions Of an sutusl puisavce. The force of habit impels «11 sensible men and women to put the stamp on the upper right hand corner of the en- velope, straight up and down. Only lovers and lunatics stick it on wher, the canceler has to hunt for it.” Last week a young man of uoques- tionable intelligence and old enough to claim American citizenship visited Mr. Smith in & pitable coodition of dispair and wanted bim 10 stop 8 let ter addressed to 8 youag lady at the Katterskill House. He bad dropped it into a letter box fastene!l to a Ul L- ton avenue lamp post. | “Is the address wrong 7" asked the | assistant post-master, “No; the address is fatally correct,” replied the youug man bet ven puss for breath, “Isn't it stamped 7’ further 1ugu Mr. Smith, “Yes, and that's the trouble,’ the young man. “You see lady and I are not exactly but we would be if it wasn't said the yourg | engaged, | f her mother. She is down on me, and teads all my letters to her daughter, | So we don't say much in our letters, | but speak unuiterable things by past. | ing the stamps according to the code. | Her motherisn’t aware there 's a code. | I got the stamp wrong on the letter | I mailed today, and will give five dsllars for a chance to fix it.” wr The assistant postmaster finally con- sented to one of the carriers looking over the mail from the Clinton avenue route. The letter was found. The young man was oo happy to speas. He was not allowed to mutilate the envelope, which was stamped on the upper left hand corner straight up and down. Bo with feverish haste he pro- duced another stamp, and glued it over the first one, but upside down. Blushing with the heat aod conscious ness of acting like a lunatic, he ex- plained : “Upside down means ‘I love you.” Right up and down means “Good-by, sweetheart good-by.” What would she have thought if that latter had reached her 1” Mer, Smiths curiosity was aroused, Here was a cipher mystery that he had always attributdd to the transi tory idiocy of unsettled minds. Fill. ed with gratitude the Young man gladly disclosed the glowary of may be conveyed by placiog the stamp crosswise. By swerving the little parallelogram to w right angle the dreadful ronfession, ‘I hate you’ stands revealed, In the event of your wife becom- ing so much interested in the nature of your correspondence as to wish it 10 cease, all that she has to do isto! hotels to accommodate the people who damp your letters for you in a thoughtful wifely way, and by simply putting the head of George Washing ton upside down on the right hand upper corner, tell the fair nuokoowo to “write no more." Very coyly the maiden you jove | may say you may, by putting tne stamp | in the centre of the lower edge of the envelope, which may coutain only a formal note of inquiry after your health or nothing at all. With equal coyness she may convey the glad tid- ings of “yes” by planting the bost of George ln the middle of the top bor. der. Perhaps you are in serious doubt as to her real feelings toward you, des pite the fact that she danced with you uot no little comment was excited, You dare not ask her if she loves you. To write might seem equally pre- sumptuous, note of invitation to the theatre and mail it with the usual tax receipt ad- hearing to the lower right band cor ner at au angle of forty-five degrees toward the name of the State. Her perfumed missive politely but firmly decliaing your invitation, will reach you with the stamp affixed to the up per left corner, but crosswise which tells you that your life is wrecked be osuse she loves soother. Had you been wise you would have asked only ber friendship and have waited snd [worked for her love. You might have dove this by stamping your in- vitation obliquely in the top corner on the right, or better still, you might { have impressed her with the humility of your spirit by placing the stamp at a right angle on the lower corner on the left, which means, “I seek your acquaintance.’ Later on you could have asked her to accept your love by boldly gluing the mask of the batchet hero rigidly up and down on a line with the surname toward the left. Should the stamp be at & right angles although io the same place, she ex- presses her longing to see you so Gn- mistakably that it is doubtless a case of love at first sight, It sometimes happens, but very sel’ dom, that a woman writes a letter without a posteript injunction to, ply immediately.” Occasionally ae | puts this in the body of the lelter and | has 10 think of some other excuse for | a poweript. Should this be forgotten letter is sealed and directed, much trcable may be saved by cavsing stamp to cling upon the middle of the right hand edge. It is understo d that the Post-mas. heey uot the the pwtage ter will | and several more are in not au importsot Florida hotel that has not 4 band or orchestra that plays ench aftirooon and helps 10 divert snd amuse the guests during the eve ning hours. Muny reports have reached the North sbout the sal number of winter visitors 10 Florida, but it is au error and arises from the fact that there are »0 wany wore come, 80 that whereas formerly a few hotels were crowded there sare now numerous large hotels, none of them full. Sul} Bt. Augustine i8 now the fashionable place of the Bouth, except | in the case of consumptives sud a few other invalids. The absence of inva- lids who avoid the sea auld seck out inland and dry atmospheric places like Tampa makes St. Augustine all the desirable 10 pleasure seekers, As for several seasous past Lhe favorite quarters with Pniladelphians is the San Marco Hotel, which is situ- ated outside the gates of the city, and, Jike so many of the other improvments here, built by capital Nearly opposite the Smith Moorish cottage Mr. Fiagler, the Boston mill- jonaire, bas partially completed what Northern I ted to be the grandest hotel in | Font d is expected g ust peu a dispassionate | tbe United States the Ponce de Leon | —covering a square in the old Moor- ish style, with domes, many arcades | and vestibules, exterior arched prome. | vades on all the floors and built en tirely of enquina, similar to the shell accumulations Ansastatia Island, out of which the walls of the city were built, the quarrying sod building by slave blacks aud Indian captives of of Spaniards wking over a hundred | years. have cost $2,000,000. Immense pum. bers of men are working upon it night and day. Mr. Bwmith al contem- plates a grand hotel adjoining bis | | Labor ss peurile, and seys that vearly | one-third of the men belonging to the | j organization are Respecting the charge that the associ- ation is a secret o der, the Cardinal says property immediately opposite, and designs have already been made. Be- sides the hotel Mr. Fiagie has prom- ised other improvements, including | among other projects an improvement of the streeis, which are very bad, at his own expense. But great as is the Pooce de Leon Hotel, it is possibly excelled by another, that of the woo- derful Cosa Monica, now partly opens aod with immense additions io process of erection. This strange medieval strustare, with its towers shaped like a bishop's beretta, will be one of the most remarkable specimaos of reviv’ ed Spanish drchitecture in the South. The Sunny Side close by, the old 8 - | Augustine, the St. George, the Mag- teristics and a patronage of their own, contempla- ] » { Lion. One of the great trips which nearly | | everyone who comes here takes is up | the Oklawsha, or Crooked river, by | ter employ a special | bost to Silver Spring, a new place, | street was the great place It is intended to be finished | on the first of January vext, sod will PAS i TN 0 mse A peuny snd a nickel dropped into it can each be distinguished st the hot (tom, Eves a pio and u needle can be seen side by side, The wool voattended with | danger and on the downward trip the trip is | other day the pPRsBeLZErs Were sur. prised to find the bont stopped in {root of & sturdy plametto resting on each bank that completely spanned {the river. It did uot sarprise the | captain, who backed the boat up sud | after several vigorous rushes on it | broke the trunk in 1wain. The ude [in ove direction is 80 furious that it | will carry a steamer as rapidly as it usally goes with steam up snd fre | quently trees are washed fro.n the side in a vight in this way, The progress | of the steamer, however, is vecessarily very slow and cautious, as the miles, It ig no wonder tractions and opportunity tare such as this #0 { Florida. many . - Rome and tho Knights Roux, March 4. —The | Bishops take a favoribie American of vVew RERRERA EAR CPA 1 1859-1887. Great Reduction PRICES! i turys | are abrupt aud the river often bends | back upon is own eourse for many | that with at- | for adven- | come Lol i i i the | | organization koow in the United States | BIG BARGAINS. [#s the Knights of { Gibbons bas plsced befora the Labor. Cardinal’ Vatican | & formal statement a« to the nature of the orgaoization and the attitude which {the church should adopt towsrd it. the Koights would be not ouly but highly inopporiupe, and | might alienste the sympathy Useless that | American eburch, the and might hamper the mission laboring classes from {of the church, 10 the lam ring poor. In } ops . 2 The Cardiral says in bis sterement that | { he considers that any condemaation of | it of the | a idition to the above positions recom- | {mended by the statement of Cardinal | hid | Gibbons, the Primate trest the alarmist | theories respecting the Kaights of Roman it is pot & secret society in condemned by the church. and is sure, In Canada the case is beneficial 10 assisting in the ssttlement of the great question proper relation between oaspital isbor, li POPULATION OF NEW YEARS AGO, yuRlKk 100 In 1788 this city had 23614 popu- | and the entire taxes were only 250. Then city had lincorp wrated just ninety vears. Broad. | way ended where the City Hall Park | | now is, and commanded an unminter | rupted view of the Hudson, street was quite a wide street and fill ted with ewstly the residences, Catholics, | the sense | con- | | sequently exempt fron canoniosl ocen- different. Cardinal Gibbons further says that be | considers the organization of the Knights | of Lavor in the United States not only | as harmle s, but that it will possibly be evertual | of the | snd | | nolia | mand the Florida are all large | (ation, of which 2103 were blacks, | | hotels, each with distinctive charac- 815. | been | Wall | Hanover | square and Dock street (Pearl sreet | { bet ween Hanover square and i Broad i or basivess | clerk to keep track nf erratic postage | | Although the dirsot distance is but | and had many handsome hoo se the | sinmps, 80 that at the close of the sea | thirty miles so cirenitous and winding sou he may be abletosurply a reliable | is the river that the trip is expanded | William wa the | t data opon the fluctuations of | matrimonial market, C— W AI—— LIFE IN FLORIDA, Br. Avousrixe, March 10,—The | severity of the weather and other | | causes have directed an unusual | amount of winter travel to this region, especially from Philadelphia, which slways furnishes a generous quoto of pleasure travel winter and summer to the fashionable resorts. Interesting gs it has been for centuries, St. Au cinatingly interesting spots on the American continent. The people whe have been coming here every season for years find changes that give an entirely new character to the city of venerable associations, Many old things have passed away, but the best remain, and the new things embody so much of the old that they have a double interest. A year or two has wrought great changes in the hotels here as well as in other parts of the South, and they are now not only kept as a rule by Northern men (generally experienced men interested fn White Mountain sammer hotels), but are conducted in a style quite equal to anything in the North. Take for instance the one the | item of music. A year or two ago gustine is to-day one of the most fas | | families of the great merchants living | {overhead and the stores beneath. a good street, snd it was | i : to 148 miles and the boat which | | the place for retail dry goods stores. | leaves St. Augustioe in the afternoon | does not reach Silver Spring until | noon the next day. Among a large party who made the trip a few days ago were Mr. Paul and Mr, Beale, of Pittsburg, with their families; Dr, DeForrest Wilard, of Philadelphia; Mr.and Mrs. G. DeB, Keim and Mr. and Mrs, George C. Boldt, the latter of whom is spending some time at Silver Spring on account of the health of her young som The river is eo | narrow most of the way that the branches of each side meet, The boat is low, long and narrow and very sharp bowed. Above the wheel house is & reflector with an immense caal- drom filled with blazing pine faggots which show the way ahead and casts a strange wierd light on everything. Frequently as the boat turns a corver some big alligator, or perhaps several plunge from their perches into the water with a splash, their jaws and eyes illuminated by the ghestly pine light, and at the same time numerous strange night birds and blue herons and wild tarkeys fly from their places across the wake of the steamer or agniust the wheeel-house, uttering cries that are echoed and taken up by other birds in the distance, sometimes the | making a jargon thai keeps nervou, people from going to sleep. The riv- er in the day time, especially around Silver Bpring, is one of the wonders of the South. Though ninety feet in | dept it Took but ten, and the water | M eryaal $9 Kotsous What a contrast 1786 and { 1886! between i RUUBLE CONQUERED } od ¥ am now Prepared bo Give DRY GOODS, Dress Goods from 5c to $2 per yard. NC7 IONS, | Hose from 3c lo $1 per p wr GROCERIES Lower Tan the Low: est. Give us a Call. We Guarantes Satis- faction, Countrv Prodvce On band, and Wanted at all times. GU HOFFE
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