A
WURTZ
CHAS. R
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Proprietor
B 1d Eagle
EXTRACTS FROM OLD PAPERS
That Mention Some
dents and Inha
Sections
Spat sel
I may be allowed
u the banks of the creek
bark
a straight tall tree:
is a large quantity of spruce pine
black and fine It
thinner,
the leaves
deeper green than other pine
are longer
an excellent ingred
At ten
of Muncy ridge gap between sburg
and Bel H
Nittany valley, rossiog
ain, through McBride's
traveled path then
Potter's,
fonte route was through
Mount
the only
sittary
Gat
the distance to Gen
ns est mated by Mr
pretly correct,
Fithian,
would be nearly and
rode eighteen miles through wild barren
woods without any trace of an habitation
blind,
juented path which I tracked
ir road other than the unfre
at ou
Two or three
with great difficulty
saken Indian camps indeed I saw on the
Creek bank, and a little before
arrived at Capt. James Potter's, at the
bead of Penn's valley, This ride 1
very uncomfortable : my horse lame with
but one shoe, a stony road, I
way in the gap of the
than ten miles of the
sunset |
found
ost my
mountains, more
way I must go and
Hy poor horse without water, I let him
feed, however, in the WOOds
is plenty of good
|
where there
wild gras I ted my.
self on huckleberties. In these woods
are ve
flower , and
arge
ry beautifu
juantity, especi Orange. co
cred :
rea 5
spotted
saw here the first sloe
the
, and is now like a heart cherry
ETOows on a
small bush like hazle, ripens in the
winter
In these woods are great plenty of wild
cherries growing on low spray bu
which are just now ripening,
“Wednesday, August 2nd
gant supper, a neat house, all expres.
hes,
An ele.
ermons,
Sion A
with
most
hope
ithout
Monday,
ther day in
August th I must stay
an the valley Tomorrow |
am to have ¢
Miss
me 0 na
ompany over the mountains
Pott the captain's sister,
After
down the valley to one Mr. McCormick
invited
reak fast rode
we
George McCormick, now Spring Mills
this of the va better
K od
encompassed with
ey
part
‘here is a brisk creek. bottoms. It
is, however, st
mountains. One of the people while
we
were there brought in a fine leer. They
enty of venison : | sec
i write
have 1
¥
no other
these lines seated on a
og, with my pap n the back of my
pocket-book, under a large
close upon the banks of
ipruce Lree
Penn's Creek
which runs on the north side and at the
foot of Egg Hi
me tobe a tall
very » which appears to
pine-covered mountain.
The creek runs foaming by me enlarged
Mr
bot
by vesicrday's great flood Near
McCormick's is a fine spring it
and
is
tom less, rises about fifteen feet
suare from under a great hill in a
fu uff
arge
I think
elo run a grist my
madam, I mn
Mr
na plate of butter,
No.
Potter
will retain the surface
Innocent miss, therefore with great care
for neatness, was holding the butter close
‘What are you at there
says Mis. Potter to Peggy,
to a large fire
‘I am drying
wd on th page, th column
{| ames, In charity, we
BELLEFONTE
DEMOCRACY
[N CONVENTION
of Saturday's Primaries :
Tuesday's Conventior
GOOD RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Nominatic
ind Harmon
ns M
nenda
specia
fmance entalls self
imphant eney
YA!
turned renegades
ark
Wm
Ena
And
AS Nenat i per
legislative 4 th rare
and fide
skill
mstances
IYIDE a8 here And times
k® these w) of honesty
and intelligence
EYOr necessary to ¢ b
ina legisiat more than
at the ed skill and
tisho 8 foe to
1esty of an lusalent
“KR
and rapacion
ciean and wholesome vation
hat it
man who has bes
§ safer and better to stand
} tried and tound trae
y on promisas and pledges of niried
erefore,
1
he
wd party i CY and a lust
oat Interest of the people of
ay ARds the me
Wm. «
3117
Alike
he Hon
it sand a
irirue and de i Yyotion to Demo
crate ples and good govern m 1 d
prin
WHEREAS, eortaln
Henators and
professed
Representatives
Demoerats
(and whose
prefer not to remember)
The one remarkable feature about this
large attendance
when there was practically no contest on
hand to arouse interest.
convention was the
id
{
great
Northern (4
Hire
10s
1
tix
tithe
never a
ning to the «
he was not
Was
the wid
"ar
I
And
the heart
no «
ever «
forego the ble aring® of a
edu
reation of
foot
and
that
the streets,
an |
passershy,
drew (3,
peal
soldivrs’ ores,
ni as !
#0 much to
ovivar
sires gthet
Zeal of President Lun
artin, known a
ar ernor
wae
» x!
Andrew (;. Curt
. Chlled a conver
A tOOna
{ that »
vernors at
i nseqguence
=
mat MYed this
g
"at
® patriotic and resourcefy
lay nor an hour fr
of the
int
the fie
hington » soldiers
WE an
had robbe
Ww
in
wphane at hom
1 of fat} er, brother a:
e great and compassionate
rew GU, Cartin would
of every rejoices that
of a Pennevivania soldier was
mpeiled to ask for charity r to
ommon sel
heart of
be enshrined in
man who
hid
ation
e Sold
ers
Ar
were tl
Ihe bare
! -
fortune by
child foreed
ving upon
that child irying to support
mother by weary appeals to
accidentally appealed to An.
Curtin, The answer to that ap-
Was the erection and support of
schools by the Com.
nealid
monweglth of Pennsylvania.
Andrew G Curtin
idea,
convetved that noble
Curtin was the heart
Andrew G3,
Continued on Page « tolumn 2.
Ihe use of
for the catcl
kers in strean
nhabited by brook tro
The }
lynam
makes it 1 ful to fish with
ex} Wives Of
poisonous
nmiissione
he expirat
They are authorized
point twelve wardens and fix thei:
One of the wardens sha Ibe desig
Ary
nated as chief warden, who shall give a
bond for §
headquarters of the commission in the
00, and have’his office at the
Capitol. The wardens may be removed
at the pleasure of the Commissioners
-
She is a Bird
wife of a Methodist minister in
She Is
Virginia has been married three
Her maiden name was Partridge
t husband
was named Robin, her
second sparrow and the present oue an.
swers to the name of Quayle. There are
now lwo young Robbins, one Sparrow
and three little Quayles. [Oaelgrandfat h.
er isa Swann, and another was a Jay,
| but he's dead and is now a bird of Para.
dise. They live on Hawk Avenue, Bag le.
ville, Canary Islands, and the fellow who
| wrote the above is a lyre bird and an in.
terseted relative to the family,
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