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atteni'l to.
ortice. second story of Court House, above
Protlmnotiiry's nHice.
jOr.i;UT McMKEX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MIFFLISTOWX, TA.
Office on firidgc street, in the room formerly
occupied by Kzra 1). Parher. Esq.
s
1! L-Ol'DEN,
MTFI'LINTOWX. l'A.,
Offer his services to the citixens of Juni
at ounty as Anc'ioiiecr and Vendue Crier.
Cliirire", from two .o ten dollar. Sutisl'ac
ii,n warranted nuvS-'jm.
Q YES! O YES!
II. H. SNYDER, Perrysville, Pa,
Tenders his services to the citizens of Juni
ata mi I a 'j-iiuinjr C'Hiii'ies. as Auctioneer.
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el s.'siarii, eld",
H'JU.E H'UATIC PHYSICIAN & suitutos
IWine jer'uien'ly loeate-1 in the hcrougli
ol' ! :!;iiiiio n. oiler 1 a p-ofesioii;il services
N iiie cit:rei.s o!' ihis pl.-tce and surrounding
e .umry.
".iice on M -i ill street, over Pei llcr's Orug
St.n-e. ang 18 lV,!-tf
Dr. B. A. Simpson
Trent all for-ns of diense. and may be con
ev.lt.-d io iu: t otlje in Live-pool
IV. every S I III) AY an.l Ml I.V1IA V i.p
p .iaini-iti ":m tie i. ude Tor oilier ::ivs.
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dee 7 Livvrrtjrd. Perry Co.. Pa.
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A I IOUSKV AT LAW,
14 1 SiU TH SIXTH s t i: i: f. T .
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PiilLAUM.rillA.
Pnuities. Pensions, Pack Pay, Horse
CIiikis. S.-:ite Cuims. :.. promptly colleoted.
ho c!i ir?e f;ir iuforiuation. nor when jnouey
is n.jt c.iiieotM oct27-tf
pi.O':,i"-i;;-T?(; 7f A1 K NORMAL
SCHOOL AND
Literary &ai Commercial Institute.
The Kasiilty of hi lustitmi-n aim lobe
ery thi.mti -h in their instruction, and IC
look caref:i.:y after the miur.ers. health and
ttiortU of the students.
saf" Apply for rsialoffites to
li KMiV (.'.VltVCit. A. M..
Sept S, 1-T1 tin Principal.
ATTENTION!
DW1D WAI TS most respectfully announ
ce to the l ublic that he is prepared to
furnish I
SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY
at reduced prices. Hereafter give him a call
at his OLb STAND, MAIS St., MIFFLIN.
Oct 25-tf
Mqw BeCviig Store
IX PERRYSVILLE.
DR. J J. APPLE!! Al'tiil has established
a Drug and Prescription Store in the
above-named place, and keeps a gcueptl as
sortment of
JiSUGS AM) MEUICISFS,
Also all other articles usually kept in estab
lishments of this kind.
Pure Wines anu Liquors for medicinal pur
poses. Cigars, Tobacco, Stationery, Confec
tions (first-class), Sotious, etc., eic.
8"The Itoctor gives advice free
NEW DRU G STORE.
BANKS & HAMLIN,
Main Street, Mfflnttutcii, J'a.
KKU.KKS IX
DRICS if D JIEDiriVES,
Chemicals, Iye Stuff,
Oils, Paints,
Varnishes, Glass,
Putty, Coal Oil,
Lamps, Burners,
Chimneys, Brushes,
Infants Brushes, Soaps,
Hair liruskos, Tooth Brushes,
Perfumery, Combs,
Hair Oil, Tobacco,
Cigars, Motious,
and Stationary.
LARGE VARIETY OF
PATENT MEDICINES,
elected with great care, and warranted from
high authority.
Purest of WISES AXD LIQUORS forMedi
cal Purposes.
35-PRESCRIPTION'S compounded with
great care. malG'70- ly
tV.AT t'Ti? A1!J IV TOWN
IloUolfaiigh's K.iloon.
Two for 5 cents. Also, the Freshest Lager,
the Largest Oysters, the Sweetest Cider, the
Finest Domestic Wines, and, in short, any
thing you may wish in the
EATING OR DR1SKISG LIXE.
at the most reasonable prices. He has also
refitted his
BILLIARD II ALL,
so that it will now compare favorably with
any Hall in the interior of the State.
June I, 1870-ly
B. F. SCIIVVEIEB,
VOLUME XIVI, NO. 17
Xora. 3lbutrtisincnls.
JUNIATA VALLEY BANK
or
MIFFLINTOWN, TENN'A.
JOSEPH POMEKOY, TretiJeut.
T. VAN IltVIN, Cashiei.
IlIRECTOtS.
Joseph Pomeroy, John J. Patterson,
Jerome X. Thompson, George Jacobs,
John ISalsbach.
Loan money, receive deposits, pay interest
nn lime deposits, huv and sell coin and Uni
ted States Uonds. cash, coupons and checks.
Kemi: money to any pari of the United States
and also to England, Scotland, Ireland and
Germany. Sell ltevenue Stamps. ;,
In sunn of ?-Jtll at 2 per cent, discount.
ln-sume of Sr00 at 'Ji per cent.' discount.
In sinus of SlUOi) at 3 per cent, discount.
The Piscc for Good Grape-vines
IS AT THE
lunula IhUIrn-lHiunarbs,
AM) URAFE-T1XE MRSERT.
'PIIE undersigned would respectfully in
1 torin the public that he has started a
Grape-vine Sursery about one mile northeast
of MiiHintown, where he has been testiug a
large nuniher of the different varieties of
Grapes , and having been in the business for
-even tears, he is now prepared to furnish
VINES OF ALL THE LEADING
VARIETIES, AND OF THE
jjost ri:o!ISIXG
KINDS, AT
I, O V It A T K .
by the single vine, doien, hundred or thou
sand. All persons wishing good and tbriftv
vines will do well to call and see for them
selves. Jia-Good and responsible Agents wanted.
Address,
JOVAS ORERHOLTZF.R.
. Mifflintown, Juniata Co., Pa.
New Store and New Goods.
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, &C.
llain Street, Hifflintorn.
rjAVIXO opened out a GROCERY AXD
tl PHOVISIOX STOKK in the old stand
on Main Sireet. Mifflintown, I would respect
tiilly ask the ai tent itin of the public to the
following articles, which I will keep cn hand
at all times :
StyiAR, COFFEE, TEA,
MOLASSES, RICE,
FISH, .A. L T
DRIED AM) CANNED FKUIT.
HAM, SHOULDER, DRIED BEEF,
Confectioneries, Nuts, &c,
Tobacco, Oijsrurs,
GLASSWARE,
lloni-, Food, &c.
All of which will be sold cheap fir Cash or
Country Produce. Civ me a call and bear
my prices.
J. W. KIRK.
Mifflintown, May 2, 1871.
The ''Gil per1 Market Car.
rpi!E undersigned, having purchased of
X S. II. Jtrown the renowned "Guyper"
Market Car, desires to inform bis friend of
Mi.ilin. Patterson and vicinity, and I lie pub
lic generally, that he will run the car regu
larly, leaving Mifflin Station every Monday
noon for the Eastern markets, and icturning
on WEDNESDAY, loaded with
FRESH FISH,
OYSTERS,
APPLES,
VEGETABLES OF ALL KINDS IH SEASON.
And EvervtliiHe I sunlly Carried in a
Market Car.
Al:3, Freight Carrisi, at Eoascnable
Eatss, Either Way.
Orders (rom merchants and others solicited.
SfciT Pionipt attention to business will be
given and satisfaction guaranteed.
Orders left at Joseph Penuell's store in
Patterson, will receive attention.
G. W. WILSOX.
April 28, 1871.
Flour! Flour!
rpiIE undersigned begs leave to inform the
JL public thai he has purchased the GRIST
MILL, in Milford township, recently owned
Vy Jacob Lemon, and, having remodeled and
otherwise improved the same, is now pre
pared to accommodate all who may favor him
with their patronage.
Wheat Floor and Sided Corn Meal al.
ways on hand and Tor stile, whole
. sale and Ketail.
Aho, Shorts, Bran, Sh'p stuff and CA"p
Fur Safe.
Flour and Feed will be delivered to fami
lies if desired. His wagon will visit Mifflin,
Patterson and Perrysville three times a week.
Persons needing flour or feed, can leave
their orders at the Store of John Etka in
Mifflin, or at Pennell's Store in Patterson,
or addressing a note to Box 35, Patterson
Post Office.
GRAIN OF ALL KfXDS BOUGHT AT
MARKET PRICES.
P. II. IIAWN.
Jan. 3, 1872-3sa
WALL PAPER,
Rally to the Place where yon can buy
your Wall Paper Cheap.
THE undersigned takes this method of in
forming the public that be has just re
ceived at his residence on Third Street, Mif
flintown, a large assortment of
WALL PAPER,
of various styles, which he offers for sale
CHEAPER than can be purchased elsewhere
in the county. All persons in need of the
above article, and wishing to save money, are
invited to call and examine his stock and
hear his prices before going elsewhere.
P!uLarge supply constantly on band.
SIMON BASOM.
Mifflintown, April S, 1871-tf
fsT'JCHtaTA Skstiihi $1,50 oer year.
MIFFLINTOWN,
Xroetiy.
- PUT DOWN THE BRAKES.
No matter how well the track is laid,
No matter bow strong the engine is made,
When you find it running on the downward
grade,
Fut down the brakes!
If the demon of drink bas entered the soul,
And his power is getting beyond his control,
And dragging yon on to a terrific goal,
Put down the brakes !
Remember the adage, "Don't trifle with fire,"
Temptation you know it always a liar ;
If you want to crush out the burning desire.
Tut down 'he brakes !
Are you tunning in debt by living too fast?
Do yon look back with shame on a ptofitlcss
past.
And feel that your rnin is coming at last ?
Put down the brakes?
Whether for knowledge, cr for honor or gain.
You are fast wearing out your body and
brain,
Till nature no longer can bear the strain,
Put down the brakes !
The human is weak since Adam's fall,
Beware how you yield to appetite's call,
Be tpmperaie in all things," was practiced
by Paul,
Tut down the brakes ?
Ah. a terrible thing is human life !
its track with many a danger is rifs !
Do you seek for. the victor's crown in the
strife?
Put down the brakes !
S!cle;t Story.
DICK'S BOATING.
Ballou's Magazine.
"Boating good ? '
"Excellent."
Tbeu I'll go !"
"Dick, you're a fool !"
"Why!"
"Why ! Because, you are I You're
bankrupting my faith in human intelli
gence !
"Am I ?"
"Stupid ! Don't etare at me in that
way ! By jingo ! I'll throw the ink
stand if you dou't stop!"
"Aiut anything in it."
"A mutch (or your head then."
"Anything uj'ire'u your opinion that !"
"Bat Til prove it! Listen: Been
here three years, haven't yon ? reading
bad proof, and writing worse articles all
night, and sleeping all day. Now you
have a mouth off, and calmly propose
spending it iu a search of new ideas from
old journals; just as though anybody
cared whether the point of an editorial
had been dulled by a century's use, or
whether it had never been bright and
sbaro at al ! You haven 't seen an acre
of land without a hundred houses on it,
nor a female face except your landlady's
and the cross-eyed waiter girls for a year ;
and now you propose banishing even
these, and going it blind over musty files
tweuty hours out of the twenty-four!
You'll be having your meals sent in
through the keyhole next, I suppose.
Brains weie given for civilization, my
boy, and when a fellow's actions make
him a barbarian, it proves he hasn't auy,
that's all."
"But I said I'd go! '
"Yes ; you 3aid you'd go for the good
boating, and endnre the grand old farms
and the society of the lady- guests, for
the privilege of pulling your hauds raw,
and getting your death or the rheuma
tism by upsetting those infernal club
boats'. You're a brute !"
But I hate 'society,' Rob, and es
pccially country society ; and if I must
dance attendance I won't go."
"Come on any terms, then, and I'll
convert you. I must be off now. I
shall expect you Tuesday morning on
the early express. Remember !"
And so, on Tuesday morning's ex
press Mr. liichard llargrave, editor, rode
out to Meadville station, and eat down
in the rough passenger house to wait for
the carriage his friend I'obert Gray,
gentleman farmer, had promised to send
for hi in.
It wasn't in sight when the departure
of the train left him there alone, and it
wasn't in sight wheu an hour had passed
away slowly enough. He paced the
rough platform nervously, looking at his
watch every three minutes, as the most
stoical will do wheu unaccountably kept
waiting.
Another hour passed, and Dick could
still see no sign of his deliverance. . Only
a neatly-dressed young lady, witb a
flood of brown hair wind-blown about
her shoulders, trudging towards him by
the dusty road leading over the hill in
the direction of the lake, was in eight.
lie resolved to inquire the direction of
his friend's residence and finish his jour
ney on foot. But as she came nearer
him his bashful heart began to give au
audible thumps of consternation, and he
felt a strong inclination to run.
She was evidently a lady of culture,
and a very pretty one at that, with eyes
blue, bright and winning, just suited to
match the hair, a clear-cut oval face,
with cheeks full, without being round,
delicately tinted with carmine, without
being coarsely red, and a mouth sensitive
and tender, which Beemed now about to
break into a hearty laugh as her eyes
seemed for the first time to fall on Dick's
TBI COSST1TUTIOH Til Olio AD TBS OBC1MIIT Of
JUNIATA COUNTY,
PENiYA.,
anxious strides and embarrassed manner.
Surely he could not think of appearing
before her in the robe of alust city gent !
Yet he must do something.
She settled the matter at once by
walking straight up to him, and asking:
"Is this Mr. llargrave !"
"At your service, madam "
Dick tried to speak gallantly, but he
colored terribly, and his voice did not
sound assmoothe as he could have wished.
'I am Robert Gray's sister, Yon
may Lave heard faint speak of Nelly 1"
"A great many times."
Dick bowed awkwardly.
"Yon must be terribly put of patieuce
wailing so long ?"
"Not at all," Dick b? jan ; then think
ing that not quite the thing, he made the
matter worse by saying. ' Only a little
tired of country-scenery hereabouts
the irregularitici in appointments I mean
not quite like'
He stopped short, twilling his mus
tache violently, .fnd colored to the very
roots of his hair. He had evidently
"put his foot in it," and half expected to
see Miss Gray's blue eyea resent the
insult. 1
"It was outrageous !" she said, as
though his remark bad been the most
commohplace'n tfcstrrterj "and w
were so provoked np ' at the house !
Robert was called away on business last
evening, and the ouly horse on the farm
that I can drive sprained his ankle for
the occasion, I believe, and so I bad to
come by way of the lake in a lumbering
old sail-boat ; and then, -to complete my
misery, the breezi went dowuf ! Isn't it
a terrible list of calamities ! and I fear
that it is not full yet, for we must row
back Can you row ?"
"Oh yes ; I like nothing better ! We
shall have quite a jolly time, after all,"
said Dick, merrily, inwardly ploaoed at
the prospect of showing off his pet ac
complishment. Tie was getting interest
ed in the bright face and girlish figure
aheady !
It was quite a walk over the long
sandy bluff to the lake shore, and the
sultry August sun, pouring1 down upon
his head, made the jaunt auy thing but a
pleasant one to Dick,- unaccustomed as
he was to vigorous exercise.
The sail-boat was anything hot a toy
ish aff.iir, and Dick found it no easy
matter to get up even a moderate rate of
speed with the clumsy oars. He struck
out bravely, however, and succeeded in
blistering his hauds finely before a quar
ter of the three milce to Robert's landing
was passed. Uow he prayed for a
breeze !
"Shall I row now, Mr. llargrave T"
"No indeed ! ' ejaculated he, just ready
to faiut with the snn and work, glancing
first at the sober face just opposite, and
then at the small shapely hands folded
demurely on the prettiest of pink aprons,
"But I row a great deal with Robert,
and he even praises me sometimes. Let
me try, please ; yon are getting tired.,'
Dick assured her that he never felt
more like rowing in his life, realizing all
the time that he was growing pale from
exhaustion, and pulled away lustily.
"What beautiful clear water !" be
finally stopped to say, laving his blistered
bands from the side of the boat, when he
could row no further without resting. It
would have been an excellent ruse, only
he did not notice that he bad stopped
where a black bottom gave the water the
appearance of anything but crystal.
"I really Bhall feel ill natured, Mr.
llargrave, if you, do not let me share
some of the glory of our undertaking."
Dick thought he caught a glance of
both pity and merriment in Miss Nelly's
eyes as she spoke, but he arose from the
seat, saying :
"I submit then ; but only because the
penalty is so severe "
He tried to speak gayly, but it was a
sad failure. He was actually dizzy, and
just then his fuot struck against some
thing in the bottom of the boat, and down
the poor fellow went not into the boat,
but into the lake.
He isn't positive to this day how it
came about, but it is certain that when
Dick came to the surface, he was helped
into the boat by no less a person than
Robert Gray; and it is just as certain
that two boats lay rocking on the aunlit
waters where only one had been before !
"I am glad to see you, old fellow,"
laughed his friend, as Dick stood shiver
ing in the boat, with fountains of lake
water gushing from clothes and hair.
"What on earth has Nell been doing
to yon ? Excuse me, Dick, but it's so
comical !'' And Robert, holding, his
sides with both hands, laughed long and
loudly.
"All my own awkwardnt-ss !' Dick
finally stammered, not daring to look
into Miss Nelly's face, yet feeling that
she was laughing at him.
"I'm sure I don't know what I should
have done but for you, Rob," Dick, con
tinued. "It was fortunate you were near
by."
"Yes; I retained sooner than I ex
pected, and rowed down to meet yon and
NelL I came in front, and, as yon
were rowing, yon did not see me. - Bat
we can never get home in that tab," he
f4 1'
THE LAWS.
APRIL 24, 1872.
went on, laughingly, pointing to the
clumsy boat Dick had been rowing;
"get into my boat, and I'll soon briag
you home."
He was as good as his word, and poor
Dick was soon selecting a dry suit from
his trunk which had somehow, not
withstanding the scarcity of horses and
drivers, arrived before him.
And now comes the delicate part of
my story. I don't believe in having he
roes and heroines listening to improbable
conversations about just what they want
to know, in all sorts of outlandish
places ; but then, if I leave out what
Dick heard from his chamber window as
bo put the finishing twist to his necktie,
I leave out the best part of it all, and
that, you know or ought to won't do
at all.
"And so your friend literally rowed
himself into our presence, if not into into
our favor," he heard some one saying.
"I actually heard that was all he came
here for; and that we girls had such a
rival iu Rob's new boat club that the
battle was lost already. But I really
did not think that he would begin so
soon !"
A burst of silvery langhter from half
a dozen giilish throats followed the
peecfi, and Dick felt his cheeks burning
red a he listened to Nelly's voice.
"I say this is too bad, girls. He did
splendidly rowing that old scow all loaded
down with stoues ! I was sorry I had
anything to do with it when I saw him
getting so tired He was quite dizzy
when he got np, and that is why he fell
overboard. I really pitied him !"
"But isn't it a glorious joke !"' a new
voice said. "And won't it be jolly if he
is utterly disgusted with rowing ? He's
handsome, anyway !"
"Hueh, Jessie ! hs will hear you.
No, I. don't think he will go rowing
again right away," said Nelly.
But he did, though ! And he asked
Miss Nelly to go with him that very
night, and many pleasant nights there
after. And before long they came to be
such good friends that Dick told her how
he found out about the "job they put
upon him." as he expressed it, and then
was so ungenerous as to refuse to forgive
her for bar part in the effort to "disgust
hira with rowing," unless she would
promise to "let him row her through
life."
"And I hope it will be without any
extra weight of wettings," he said laugh
ing. And Nelly hoped so to, for she had
told him "Yes !''
A Raw Irishman, just over,- went into
a restaurant, and was asked by the waiter
what he would have! "Why wittles to
ate, ave eoorse," was the reply. A
plate of hash was placed before him
"Fot's that 1" demanded Mickey "That's
wittles," was the answer. Mickey eyed
the compound suspiciously for some time,
and finally exclaimed "Be japers, the
man that chewed that can ate it !"
An Erie dispatch of the 7 th inst. says
A woman named Grace Plucker, about
forty years of age, was found dead in bed
in a little shanty near the land light
house to day. Her face was black from
apparent strangulation, and there are
marks like finger prints on her throat.
The only other occupants of the house
were her husband and little son. Her
husband has been taken into custody to
await a coroner's inquest
The Supreme Court ' of the United
States having decided that a husband
can recover damages for the loss of his
wife proportioned to her nscfulness and
capacity to earn money, a Boston man
whose spouse pcriehed in a recent rail
road accident was allowed by the dis
criminating jury exactly six cents.
The youth who stole a watch and re
turned it to the owner, who promised
'no questions asked," is in jail. The
owner was as good as his word, bnt he
arrested the youth without asking ques
tions. A Western orator thus winds np a
definition of eternity "Why, My friends,
after millions and millions of years had
rolled away in eternity, it would be a
hundred thousand years to breakfast
time."
A keeper who was taking two convicts
to the State Prison, recently, when the
train stopped at Siug Sing, called out :
'Step out, gentlemen; fifteen years for
refreshmente.'
Knoxville, Tenn., is so healthy, that
the undertakers go about the streets, and
despairingly ask those whom they meet,
"Ain't yoa dead yet ?''
Mrs. Sarah Newcomb, of Illinois:, re
cently ruined a handsome bedpost by
dashing out the brains of her husband
with it.
Brudder Bones, is snuff injurious to de
braiul Oh, no, Guff; for nobody that
has any brain eber takes snuff.
Newsboys are never broke, for they
always have an extra two cents.
Nebraska has an editor so lazy that
he spells wife, yf.
A cowe'd down city Chicago.
EDITOR AXD FKOrRIETOR.
WHOLE NUMBER 1311.
6 AXE AND FISH,
The following is a synopsis of the
game and fish laws of the State, which
it will be well for. persons Interested to
preserve for reference :
It shall not be lawful for any pert on
to kill, hunt or take by auy device,
means or contrivance whatever, sell or
expose for sale, have unlawfully in his
posession, or worry or hunt with hound
or dogs, any deer or fawn Letween the
3 let day of December, in any year, and
the 1st day of September, in any year ;
Provided, that nothing in this section
shall apply te tame deer or those kept in
parks.
Any person violating the foregoing
provision of this act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall like
wise be liable to a penalty of fifty dol
lars. PHEASAXTft, PARTRIDGF8, TURKEYS, &C.
No person shall kill or have unlaw
fully in his possession or expose for
sale, any ruffed grouse or pheasant, be
tween the 20lh day of December and the
1st day of August, or any quail or Vir
ginia aprlricfge between the 12th day of
December and the 1st day of October,
or any wild turkey, between the 1st day
of January and the 1st day of October,
or any fox squirrel or gray squirrel, or
rabbit, between the 1st day of January
aud the 1st day of August, under a pen
alty odfive dollars for each and every
bird or squirrel so killed unlawfully and
in possession, or exposed for sale.
WOODCOCK.
No person shall kill, capture, take or
have in his or her possession, any wood
cock between the 15th day of November
and the 4th of July, under a penalty of
five dollars for each and every bird so
killed or had in his possession or exposed
for sale.
INSECTIVEROfS BIRDS.
No persou shall at any time, kill,
trap or expose for sale or have iu his
possession after the same is killed, any
night hawk, whippoorwill. finch, thrush,
lark, sparrow, wren, martin, swallow,
woodpecker, dove, bobolink, robin, or
starling or any other iusectiverous bird,
nor destroy or rob the nest of any wild
birds whatever under a penalty of five
dollars for each and every bird so killed,
trapped or exposed for sale, and for each
nest destroyed or robbed.
HUNTING ON eCSDAT.
There shall be no shooting of birds
hunting or trapping on the first day of
the week, called Sunday, and any per
son offending against the provision of
this act, shall on conviction, forfeit and
pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five
nor less than five dollars, or be imprison
ed in the county jail where the offence
was committed, not lees than ten days
nor more than tweuty five days for each,
offence,-
TRAPPING BIRDS.
No person shall at any time feed, bait
or build blinds for the purpose of killing
or to trap or snare any wild turkey,
rufled grouse or pheasant, quail or Vir
ginia partridge or woodcock, under a
penalty of five dollars for each and every
bird so taken, trapped or snared : Pro
vided, that nothing in this act shall be
construed to prevent individuals or as
sociations for the protection, preservation
and propagation of game from gathering
alive by net or traps, quails or Virginia
partridges, for the sole purpose of pre
serving them alive over winter, from the
fifteenth day of November to the first
day of January, and for no other purpose
whatever.
black 8as
It shall be unlawful for any persons
to take, catch or kill, by any means or
device whatsoever, any black bass in the
Deleware or Susquehanna rivers, or any
of their tributaries, until the first day of
August, A. D. 1873. Provided, That
the accidental taking of black bass shall
not be construed as a violation of this
aet if the same shall be immediately re
turned alive into the said rivers and
tributaries The fact of any prison having
such black bass in their possession shall
be accepted as prima facie evidence of
their having been taken from said rivers
or tributaries iu violation of this act.
Any persons violating the above provis
ions of this act shall, npon conviction
thereof before any justice of the peace,
pay a fine of five dollars for each and
every fish so taken or had in possession,
without being able to prove that they
were not taken from the said rivers or
streams, and in default of the payment
of such fine to undergo an imprisonment
in the county jail for a term of ten days.
PIKg '
The species commonly known as Sus
quehanna salmon, pike, perch and jack
salmon, shall henceforth not be taken in
any of the streams meant to be included
in this act during their spawning time,
this is to say between the first day of
February and first day of June iu any
year ; and the mode of proof of such
taking and the penalty for the same
shall be the same as in the case of black
bass.
TROUT.
No person shall at any time, with in
tent so to do, catch any speckled brook
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
All advertising for less than three months
for one sqnara f nine lines or less, will b
charged one insertion, 75 cents, three f 2.00,
and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion.
Administrator s, Lxecutor s and Auditor's
Notices, $2,W. Professional and Business
Cards, not exceeding one square, and inclu
ding copy of paper, $8,00 per year. Notices
in reading columns, ten cents per line. Mer
chants advertising ij the year at special ratss
3 ronthf 6 month. 1 year.
One square -$ 3,50 $ 5.00 $ 8.00
Two squares 5,00 8.00 11,00
Three squares.... 6,00 10,00 15,00
One-fourth coi n. 10,00 17,00 25,00
Half column 18,00 25,(0 45,00
One column 30.00 45.00 80.00
trout or any speckled river trout, with
any device, save only with a hook and
line ; and no person shall catch any such
trout, or have any such trout in posses
sion, save only daring months of April'
May, June, July, and1 the first fifteen
days of August, under a penalty of five
dollars for each trout so' caught or had in
possession ; Lut this section shall not
prevent any persons or corporations from
catching trout in water owned by them,
or npon their premises, to stock other
waters in any manuer or at any time.
DRUG-UNO FISH.
No person shall place in any fieh wa
ter stream, lake or pond, without the con
sent of the owner, any lime or other de
leterious' substance with the intent to in
jure fish, or any drug or medicated bait
with intent thereby to poison or catch
fish, nor place in a pond or lake stocked
and inhabited by trout or black bass
any drug or other deleterious substance,
with intent to destroy such trout or bass,
nor place in uuj fresh water, pond of
stream stocked' with brook trout, any
pike, pickerel, black bass or red bass, or
other pisciverous fish (salmon excepted),
without the consent of the owner of the
land upon which the pond or stream is
situated. Any person violating the pro
visions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall in ad
dition thereto, and in addition to any
damage be may have done, be liable to a
denality of one hundred dollars.
FIsntNO WITH SEINES.
It shall not be lawful for any person
to fish with seines in the waters of the
Raystown branch of the Juniata river
and its tributaries, nnder a penality of ten
dollars for each offense.
FISH BASKETS.
The sheriff of the county is authorized
and requried to declare fish baskets and
brush nets common nuisances in the rivers
of the Susquehanna and Juniata and
their tributaries, and on failure of the
owners to remove them the sheriff shall
destioy or remove them himself.
A HOLT RATTLESNAKES.
A rattlesnake caught in Alabama was
confined in a glass case, over six mouths
ago. Since that time it has not parta
ken of one particle of food, though it has
been tempted with mice and other small
animals on which the reptile is accus
tomed to feed The snake manifested
no inconvenience from its confinement,
nor did it loee any is size or bodily vital
ity, lis eyes continued to glisten like
magnetic steel, and its f acinatiug tongue
ready to protrude at the appearance of
auy one near the case. Dr. Colton thought
all the while it was a male, though
small rats and mice have been confined
in the case with the Bimke nntil their
own hunger urged them to bite at its
scaly hide, the serpent refused to give
them notice or to partake of food. On
two or three occasions it had taken small
quantities of water. One day lately, on
going in the back room of the store,
where the case is kept, it was discovered
that the snake had given birth to four
young snakes, and by three o'clock she
bad given birth to three more, making
seven in all. Tho young snakes made
their appearance one at a time, aud in a
coiled or striking position, their eyes
glistening and their envenomed tongues
continuously darling out. The young
are each from nine to fifteen inches in
length and in a state of perfect develop
ment. They are quick of motion and
possess no ordinary spinal vitality, as
they crawl readily to the top of tho case,
and move with celerity across it from
end to end. What is moit singular and
contrary to ail resolved notions concern
ing the reptile, each of these young
snakes has a full buttou on the tail, which
clearly refutes the idea that they have to
be six months old before the formation
of the button. The old snake was lying
in her cage in a lethargic state, with some
indications, it was th itiglit, of increasing
her coiling family. The young snakes
coil around her and nnder her aud over
her, and she seem to Lave for them the
natural maternal affection of instinct.
This snake has peen in captivity six
mon'hs, yet during all that period of time
she as part.-tken of not a morsel of food
and has bnvided her seven young. As
to exactly how long from inception the
process of gestation or incubation haa
been going on, there is no means of as
certaining. "
Dr. Co i ton states that he once before
kept in the same case a large sized rat
tlesnake for three years and nine months
and that he studied cloeely its various
moods and changes This snake, be
says, did not partake of a particle of food
for the first nine months, and but litllo
water. He then gave it rats, mice, etc,,
putting them into its case alive, and it com
menced devouring them voraciously. It
would never touch a lame mouse or a
dead one, fresh as it might be. When a
young rat was put into the case it would
plant its unerring fang in some part of
the body, and then wait nntil it died from
thorough inoculation of the poison.
When quite dead, it would turn it over,
take it head foremost and swallow it, evi-
' dently drawing nutriment from the poi-
son its fangs had infused. It ghed its
I skin twice a year, each spring and an
I tumn, a new rattle appearing at each
'shedding, which explodes the popular
idea that but one rattle comes a year.
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