Huniata Sentinel.
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MIFFLINTOWN
Wednesday Morniiig, July 30, 1873.
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COMMITTEE MEETING.
The Republican Standing Committee of
Juniata ccunty will meet at Will' Hotel, in
Mittfintown. oa
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1873,
at 1 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of fixing
the time of holding the Primary Election,
and for the transaction of other important
bui-iue.ss. A full attendance is requested.
The following gentlemen compose the Com'
to it tee :
MiSintown Tl. D. Weller. S S. Wilson.
Fermanagh S. W. Henderson, John Stoner.
Fayette Michael Hoffman, J. B. McAIister.
Monroe S. 0. Shellenberger, S. 8. Baaom.
Greenwood Andrew Zeiders, Millard Wood
ward. r-uquehanna flcnry Frymoyer, E. Long.
TVaware J. M. Stutts. G. W. Smith
Thotnrrontown J. M. Parker, J. Y. Shelley,
Walker Jacob 8. Kickenbach. Sim'l Sieber,
Ptteron P. 0. Rundio, O. W. Wilson.
Milfotd B. S. Mumper, John Balsbach.
Perrjaville J. H. Irwin, -
Turbett S. B. Kitzman, W. W. tandis.
Sr-rnee Hill H. P. Stewart, Shem Eah.
Brale J. J. Patterson.
Tuscarora Thos. Marrow, James Irwin.
Lack J. M. Morrison. M. Stump.
Black Log J. E. Mclntyre, J. H. Lane.
JOHN BALSBACH, Chairman.
Perrysville. July 20, 1S73.
Accidcuts - The Beale Case."
Accidents have exercised such a con
ti oiling influence in determining definite
roles in the administration of affairs
among men, in governments, politics,
science, religion and law, that lite thinker
is almost compelled to ignore tbem as ac
- ridents and accept them as part of the
r law of the great Intelligence that gov
- erns the universe. We do not hero tra
verse the long historic vista for illustra
tions in sunnnrt nf this nosition W
- i r i w
take a case familiar to all Juniata county
people, and which, by a decision of the
- Supreme Court of this Commonwealth,
t has become a law to govern the traveling
public at railroad crossings.
i Oa a morning in the mouth of Septan
1871, Thomas Beale by accident
, killed by a train cf cars at the lower
crossing at Fatterson Station. Through
the distress of this sad case no one even
pupected that the traveling public would
definitely learn its proper relationship to
its own members.
The widow of Mr. Beale instituted!
legal proceedings for the recovery of
damages for the loss of ber husband
. D. Parker became her counsel in the
Court of Common Pleas of this county.
Last September the case was up for trial.
L. W. Hall wes counsel for the K. R. Co.,
and rained the point that Beale had not
(topped before driving on the track, and
looked for danger, and therefore there
could be no recovery. It was left to the
jury to determine from the evidence
whether the approach of the train could
have been seen. . The jury found for the
plaintiff in the sum of $1,000. The
case went np to the Supreme Court with
the following result, as delivered by Mr.
Justice Sharswood. And thus through
a paiuful accident in our midst, the whole
Commonwealth has received a law to
govern the traveling public at railroad
crossings :
' The evidence of the plaintiffs below
rliowed a clear case of contributory neg
ligence in ihs deceased. The crossing
at which he met with the injury which
resulted in his death was a dangerous
one, aud as he was well acquainted with
it there was the greater reason that he
thould exercise the ntmopt care and
caution, by stopping at the railroad be
fore undertaking to pass over. It is
very clear that if he had done so bat a
few minutes the accident would not have
happened. "This evidence,"' said the
learned judge in h'u chargp, "is uucon
trodictcd, that there was a level piece of
ground, about ten feet wide, between the
hill or bluff and the fin t track or siding
on the approach of the track from the
valley, upon which the deceased was
travelling " It was bin plain duty to
Lave stopped at that place, and so the
learned judge instructed the jury, but he
qualified this instructiou by adding "if
yoa find from the evidence that the ap
proach of the trttin might have been seen
or heard from there.,,"This in fact left
the question of his negligence to the
jury, upon a point not material. Indeed
the duty of stopping is more manifest
when an approaching train cannot be
(teen or heard than where it can. If the
view of track is unobstructed and no
train is near or heard approaching it
might perhaps be asked, why stop t In
iuch a case there is no danger of colii-
eion none take place and the sooner the
traveler in a crocs the track the better.
But the fact of collision shows the ne
cessity there was of stopping . and there
fore iu every case of collision the rale
must be an unbending one. If the
traveler cannot see the track by looking
out, whether from fog or otber cause, he
should get out, and if necessary lead his
Lor atid wagon. A prudwit aud care
ful man would always do this at such a
place. In the Hanover Railroad Co. vs
Coyle. 5 P. F. Smith, S96, the plaintiff,
a peddler, in the depth of winter, was
driving inside of his covered wagon with
his head muffled up in a thick overcoat,
and it appeared that a traveler passing in
the direction he was going could not see
np and down the track nntil within six
teen feet of it. Yet these circumstances
were not allowed to form any excuse for
bis negligence iu omitting to stop. There
never was a more important principle
settled than that the fact of the failure to
stop immediately before crossing a rail
road track is not merely evidence of neg
ligence for the jury but negligence per te
and a question for the court. North
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. vs. Heilman,
13 Wright. 60. It was important not so
much to railroad companies as to the
traveling public. Collisions of this char
acter have often resulted in the loss of
hundreds of valuable livea of passen
gers on trains and they will do so again,
if travelers crossing railroads are not
taught their simple duty not to themselves
only but tu others. The error' of sub
mitting the question to the jury whether
if the deceasod bad stopped he could
have seen or heard the approaching train
runs through the entire charge and an
swers of the learned judge, below. He
should upon the uncontradicted evidence
have directed a verdict for the defen
dants Judgment reversed.
Prospects for Fall Trade.
A few dnys ago we gave the latest
approximate estimates ot the crop ot
wheat now secured in California, and in
conjunction with the prospects for a large
crop in the Northwest estimated that the
exportable surplus from this year's crops
of that grain in the i-Miited States would
be larger than ever before known There
seems ecarce'y any doubt that this will
prove to be the case. The great ques
tion is : Will there be a rairkct for it ?
On this point the New York Bulletin
has apparently made a tolerably appre
hensive investigation of the probable de
mands of the great consumer, England,
and of the probable supply from other
sources than the United States, and arri
ves at the following conclusions, printed
in an editorial in its issue df the 12th in
stant :
Holland appears to be the only coun
try iu Europe from which the crop ac
counts are unexceptionable favorably.
All the crops are doing well, and the
wheat is described as magnificeut.
In Germany the wheat crop had im
proved, under the influence of the fine
weather in June. It is not expected,
however, that the crops at best can be
more than a fair average. The stocks
throughout Germany are extremely back
ward, so much so that it was necessary
to ship wheal from Danzig to West phalia,
via Diet Jen and Bremen. At the same
time, wheat shipments to Warsaw, a
most unusual thiug, show that the stocks
in the interior of Poland are utterly ex
hausted .
The condition of the crops in Russia
is still serious, if not alarming. Dis
patches from Taganrog report that bar
ley, rye and hay are regarded as lost
Improved weather was necessary to se
cure even a partial wheat crop. All
kinds of crops suffer iu Russia from a
want of rain, while in Great Britain and
on the Continent they are injured by an
excees of moisture and cold Serious
complaints are heard from Bessarabia
and the Danubiau provinces. In the
southern provinces of Russia the wheat
prospects . are all that could be desired.
The Bulletin says all reports of crops
iu Hungary are unsatisfactory. In con
firmation of this Mr. Bayard Taylor, in
his last letter from Vienna to the New
York Tribune says that to cap the climax
of disasters in that part of Europe, be
ginning with the Vienna panic, the rust
has got into the Hungarian wheat crop,
and it bids fair to be almost a total fail
ure.
The Bulletin sums up its survey of
the European sources of supply by the
conclusion that :
The surplus of several grain produc
ing countries will be so far reduced as to
seriously diminish the quantity available
for general consumption, a fact which is
the more ominous in view of the increas
ed requirements of England consequent
on the certainty that the harvest in that
country will fall before last year's defi
cient product. It is even probable that
England may find more than one Euro
pean food exporting country in competi
tion, with, her for a portion of the world's
availabls supply of breadstuff.
If this view of the case should prove
correst, it promises an aera of prosperity
for the United States in the probability
ftbat there will be no falling off in the
foreign demand for the large surplus of
breadstuff in the United States. Every
thing now promises a large crop of cot
ton. In the market for the surplus of
this crop the United States has fewer
competitors than in the sale of breadsuffa
and the probabilities are in favor of a
fair foreign demand. As far, therefore,
as the future can be forecast now, every
thing indicates a favorable condition ot
foreign trade this fall, with its concomi
tants of a comparatively 'easy money
market, active internal trade, and a lower
average price for gold. Chicago Tri
bunt.
A despatch from Salt Lake City under
date of the 2Cth announces the arrest of
Katie Bender one of the Kansas gang.
The arrest was made near Provo, by the
sheriff of Utah county.
There are more
than in Jerusalem.
Jews in New York
Bum Hundred Miles Feet,
BY riOF. i. D. BCTI.EB.
Nils Nysten is a Swede and was
born where his forefathers had been con
tent with "only this and nothing more"
To draw nutrition, propagate and rot"
He aspired higher, but so low was
his birth, and so strong the barriers
around him. that be was three score
years old before he could work Vis pas
sage to America. Three years, ago he
reached Iowa, with his wile, ana pen
niless, stopping first in Mount Pleasant.
While work ice there at his trade of
- a
wagoBmaking, be became convinced that
his best means of further advancement
was to secure a Nebraska Homestead
His mode of making this boon hit own,
is worth telling to encourage others
HOW HB DID IT ?
He walked from his home th Lincolu,
307 miles alone the track of the Bur
lington & Missouri River Railroad
This iouruev he accomplished in about
fifteen days. . At Lincoln he found she!
ter in the Immigrant' Rest, a building
provided by the B. & M railroad where
land hunters may lodge and live without
charge while seeking farms.
Looking at. the maps of public lands
in the Uuited States Land Office there,
be judged York county to afford the
most desirable homesteads. He there
fore walked on thither seventy miles
further. Having picked out the farm
which luittd him best of all those still
vacant he returned to the land office and
filed his claim to it, September 2d, 1871,
paying $14 in fees. His homestead con
sists of 80 acres, in the 34:h section of
the 11th township in the 3 i rango west.
of the 6th principal meridian.
WIIAT. TtjKN !
Repairing again to the farm of bis
choice he made sundry improvements
for a month. He finished him a dug-out
and stacked twelve tons of wild hay.
His purse was now empty, save one
dollar aud a half, but he walked to Lin
coln, and thence home as he walked
hither, daily laying behind hira abont
twenty miles.
Soon after reaching home, at the end
of a nine hundred mile walk, he learned
that his hay stacks had been burned by
a prairie fire having no plow, he had
been unable to make a fire-break around
them But throughout all, he seems to
have lost nothing of heart or hope, and
to have remained as jolly as Mark Tap
ley in Dhuzzlewit.
Through the winter he worked at his
trade sometimes beginning his toils at
two o'clock in the morning. Thus he
finished three good wagons.
Two he traded off each for a mule and
harness Then putting on board his
wife, a barrel of pork, a barrow, all of
wood, made by himself, and some other
needments, be drove westward, by the
same route which he-bad the last fall
traveled on foot.
He took with him three other Scan
dinavian Homestead hunters, each with
a wagon aud his family in it.
lie arrived at Lincoln in dun time ;
rested a little among the old familiar hos
pitalities for strangers, afforded gratuit
ously by the B. & M. railroad, through
the whole sonled keeper John Frost, and
on the 21st of March 1S72, in spite of an
equiuoctial wind, set his face towards his
homestead. His journey thither can
hardly require more than three days,
but, as he must needs be there before the
first day of April, or be egregiously
April-fooled, by forfeiting his furm, he
resolved to make assurance doubly sure.
Hence he took time by the forelock.
Nils Nysten is sixty-two years old,
though he declares himself only forty
when just shaved. His example shows
what others can do. It shames many
faint hearts that are weeping like woman
for lack of a farm, which they have the
privilege of seizing, like men, had they
only Tflanly pluck.
Nils Nysten's homestead was one of
12 304 which had been entered in the
Lincoln United States Land office, before
last New Year's. Up to the same date
the Burlington and Missouri River rail
road, along which Nysten walked, had
sold along their track 47S 988 acres, to
4,525 purchasers, on ten years credit, six
per cent interest, and on sales made since
1872 nothing of the priucipal falls due
until the end of the fourth year, with
twenty per cent, thrown off for prompt
improvement. He who cannot on these
terms make a farm pay for itself, does
not deserve one.
An Act of Cruelty.
Chapped hands and face are the most
serious annoyances that farmers, and
people who labor much out of doors, ex
perience from exposure. Exposed per
sons, especially children, repeated suffer
intensely from the great cracks upon the
hands, that often bleed. It is cruel to
allow one's self or others to suffer in this
way, when the means of positive pre
vention are so easy to be had, and so
cheaply, as to pay ten cents for a cake
of Hand Sapolio. Hand Sapolio is not
oaly better than the cosliest soap for re
moving dirt, but it prevents chapping,
and renders the skin soft and pliable.
Sold everywhere.
A duel was fought near Augusta, Ga
last Friday evening. The pistols were
loaded only with powder, which fact was
unknown to the challenging party. After
an exchange of shots, honor was satisfied
and the party returned home.
SlNCB our last issue Baltimore has
been afflicted with a great fire that de
stroyed one million dollars worth of
property.
It is stated as a faet that there are
more youths in the south receiving a mil
itary education at this time thin there
are in the north.
Marfan for Matey.
In one of our telegraphic dispatches
yesterday morning brief reference was
made to the murder of Isabella M'Bride,
an aged lady, several miles from Wil-
liamsporVand the terrible beating of her
husband. Since then we hare obtained
the following particulars of the horrible
butchery and the object which impelled
its perpetration : In a firm house near
-Linden, about four miles and a half from
Williamspcrt, equi distant from the Phil
adelphia and Erie railroad and a public
road, resided a couple aged about seven
ty-five years. The building is located
about 300 yards from the railroad and
can be plainly seen by passengers on the
various trains which pass that point.
The house is. reached from the public
road by a lane, and no habitation is with
in 300 or 400 yards of the place. The
couple were known as quiet and unab
trusive people and possessed no social
qualities. They had few visitors and
abataiued from calling on others unless
absolutely necessary. They had lived
at the spot for many years and were the
owners of two large farms in the neigh
borhood. Beside it was generally be
Iiuved that they had secreted in the
house a large quantity of gold some
placing the figure as high as $25,000.
It was known that two wealthy bach
elor brothers of the wife had died, at the
place and bequeathed their possessions
to the aged couple which added to their
frugalityand other circumstances caused
mem to De regarded as among the most
affluent residents of the countrv. The
knowledge that the house contained but
two occupants, aud they old and fecbla.
and that thousands of dollars of cold
were supposed to be in their possession
was communicated to a brakeman on the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad named
Nelson Wade years ago, and on Tuesday
evening he carried into execution the
diabolical design which he had doubtless
nourisnea tor a long period, t he man
and wife were just making preparations
to eat their supper, the edibles having
already been placed on the table ; when
a visitor suddenly made his appearance.
Mrs. M'Bride had gone toward the
cellar on the outside with a crock of
milk, and the door leading to the base
ment being closed she placed the earthen
vessel on the doorstep. As she proceed
ed to open the cellar door she was vio
lently assaulted with a club by the
stranger, and although pleading for
mercy the monster continued his brutal
aud cowardly attacks ou the unprotected
women nntil she lay weltering in her
blood and death ensued. This fiendish
t accomplished Wade took the club
with which he had murdered Mrs. M Bride
and with the blood dripping from it rush
ed into the house and applied it to the
head of the husband until he had sup
posed he had killed hira. He was now
master of tbo Jerrible situation and com
menced a search for the gold which he
thought was in the house. He succeed
ed in obtaining, it is said, about $9,000,
when he quit the scene of his terrible
work.
THE SITUATION DISCOVBEED.
Although the murder was committed
on Tuesday evening, it was not known
by any person but the assassin and rob
ber nntil near noon on Wednesday when
some one had occasion to go to the house
and found Mrs. M'Bride covered with
gore, her skull fractured, her features
generally distorted and her inanimate
form lying where she had been. stricken
down by the murd erer. The crock of
milk which she had placed ou the door
step seemed to have been untouched.
The startled and horrified discoverer of
the woman's fate then entered the house,
where he found Mr. M'Bride still breath
ing but perfectly unconscious His bead
bore abundant evidence of having been
violently beaten, and his face, hands and
clothing were Btained with blood, while
the floor contained" considerable quanti
ties of coagulated gore.
THE TERRIBLE .BWS SPREADING.
Soon after the nearer neighbors were
informed of the tragedy, and by afternoon
hundreds of people on foot and in car
risges were hurrying to the scene. The
most intense excitement prevailed, and
those who witnessed the bloody corps of
Mrs.McBride and her almost dead hus
band were filled with indignation against
the murderer and threats of lynching
were freely made. The country for miles
was scoured by parties in search of the
assassin.
THE TELL-TALB OOLD THB MUBDEBEB
CAUOUT IN A BROTHEL.
On Wednesday night a man apparently
intoxicated and with a swaggering air
entered a house of prostitution in Wil
liamsport and was very extravagant in
the expenditure of his money. He ex
hibited more gold coin than is ordinarily
possessed by individual, and the mistress
of the house, having been informed of
the murder near Linden and of the sup
posed robbery of gold, began to suspect
the visitor as the guilty party and slipp
ed to the outside and communicated her
suspicions to the police authorities of
Williamsport. Tbey soon made their
appearance at the house and took the
man into custody. He was examined,
and in his pockets were found about
$9,000 in gold. He offered no resistance
to the officers, and after a brief interval
confessed that he had committed the
murder and stolen the gold after the per
petration of the crime, besides making
revelations as to how he had proceeded
about the bloody business. The fiend is
now in irons in the Lycoming county
prison, from which he will not emerge
until he is brought out for trial.
THE CONDITION OF MB. M'BRIDE. ...
Yesterday morning the condition of
Mr M'Bride, who received the brutal
treatment at the hands of Wade, teemed
to be somewhat improved, but he had not
yet been restored to sensibility. .The
severe injuries complicated his enfeebled
constitution are almost certain to lead to
his death Harriibung Patriot, July
25th. Jt
PULL CONVBSBION or NEL80 E.'WADE,
THB MURDERER.
We have given the particular of the
nnrder of Mrs. Isabella McBride. and
the probable fatal wounding of her hus
band, John McBride, near Linden, Ly
coming county, on Tuesday last week.
We now present the confession of Wade
the murderer, which is as follows :
"I am American born and have rehv
tives living near hye ; I was born out
on the Blooming Grove road, beyond the
Poor House ; the afternoon I committed
the murder, I walked up the tow path
from the city ; went to McBride's house
and calculated that it was about the time
they had done their milking ; last win
ter when I was at Glosser's near by
Mrs. Glosser told me of the trunk np
stairs ; and while I was there last win
ter I made it my business to find out
bow much money these old folks had.
On reaching the house on Tuesday after
noon, I was met in the yard by one of
the dogs which barked at me. I soon
made np with him and walked into the
house, when M'Bride wanted to know
what I wanted there : I told him I
wanted a drink of milk, when he told
me to go to the cellar where the old lady
was ; she asked me if I had money to
pay for the milk ; from the cellar I re-,
turned to ask the old man for somelfread
but found he had bolted the door ; when
he uubolted it I shoved my foot in and
the old man struck at me ; I then knock
ed him down with my fist ; the dog then
made at nut and I knocked him down.
I then struck the old man with the
stick three times, when be cried murder ;
I then hit him another rap with the club ;
I then went to the cellar and struck the
old woman ; but. as I have told you sev
eral times, I did not eboot her, as I had
no pistol, but bought one at Trout's yes
terday. When I came out of the .cellar after
killing the old woman, the old man was
up and the dog was licking the blood ofl
his hands ; I then hit him again I
then procurrcd an axe went up stairs
and broke open a chest and found the
trunk I had heard Mrs. Glosser talk
about ; it was too heavy and I made two
trips that night carrying away the mon
ey.
The club I used was cut in the woods
near by with a small j ick kuife. If they
will look in the coi nfield they will find
where the grass is ttatnplcd down, that
is where I looked over the money. I
got between sixty and seventy thousand
dollars. I will not tell where it is.
When I come to die, I will tell some
poor man where it is ; but uo rich roan
shall have it- There are two bags buri
ed in the city two above, and two oe-
low.
"I have bad fifty names in my life
time, but kelson h. Wade is my right
name ; where 1 to Uo tnis over agsin 1
would exchange all the silver for paper
money ; that's what bothered me, it was
so heavy."
Sheriff Piatt then remarked to him,
'you must have nerve to do this deed,'"
when he replied : Yes, sir, I am harden
ed. When a child I dreaded the word
murder, but after going through the re
bellion, and on the frontier with Kit Car
son and others, I shrink not at any crime :
They may take me out and hang me to
morrow ; I have only once to die ; I
have killed several women before this
one ; in regard to tbe money 1 got ex
changed otic hundred and eighty dollars
in twenty dollar gold pieces at one of tbe
banks in the city, aud got fifteen per
cent, for it. They asked me where I
got it. I told them I was a cattle specu
lator from Canada.
Terrible Visitation of the Cholera at Mt.
Vernon, Indiana.
Mt. Vernon (July 18) Correspondence of (be
x.vnsvuie journal. j
To give yon some idea of the ruin that
has followed close upon the heels of this
"demon of the Ganges," I will cite a
few cases. In a family named Bell two
are left alive out of seven persons : in
one named Hovey, relations of General
Hovey, two died ; in that of Sheldens,
four deaths. In that of the Woodeys,
proprietors of the foundry, the utmost
havoc was made. One of the proprietors
died. In his brother's family a wife and
two children were buried, and so great
was the excitement and fright that, I am
told, the husband had to prepare the
bodies for the tomb. In their father's
family all but two were buried. These
are individual cases. But I failed to
find a single person who has not had
cholera symptoms, more or less violent in
their effects. Every house is pervsded
with the odors of disinfectants , every
person smells ot assatcetida and cam
phor ; everything possible has been done
to stay tbe disease. Rosin, pine, tar, and
coal were burned by orders of the Board
of Health, so that one could feel the heat
all over the place. From my room at
midnight I could hear the noises of fu
nerals. They were compelled to bury
the black corpses at these hours in the
hope of partly concealing the havoe and
preventing contagion from the stench.
You cannot understand to what extrem
ities the citizens and families have been
driven. Medical aid was insufficient.
Yet the physicians have all acted- hero
ically with a, single exception, whose
leaving with his family has excited a
storm of iudignation ; but up till to-day
he had worked bard.
Scarcely a business house waa open
today; the streets were deserted, the
banks closed, and the depot thronged
:.. .;;aia fl;n I think at least
wimb n
700 persons have left to-day alone. Peo
ple living in the lower land, or flats'; and
who Cave been unable to leave, have re
moved to storerooms and warehouses,
hoping to escape. No place of the di
mensions of this in the west has ever
had sucban experience, and the loss of
life, ereat as it has been, is enhanced by
the loss of trade and decay of business.
Every one will mark the July of 1873
as tbe most calamitous in the town s bis
tory, and .the tombstones will tell of the
ravages long after those who survived
the plague shall have been forgotten.
Tbe town has had the reputation of
being as healthy as EvansviIIe, and one
of the most healthy of Southern Indiana
Tbe adioing tracts are not swampy, and
tbe bluff on which a part of the city is
built is the highest between bvansville
and Cairo. Some attribute it to .the use
of well-water; but every house has a
cistern, from which the water for cooking
and drinking is obtained, and the water
of wells was probably used here' less
even than in other places. It is certain,
however, that it came in spite of cleauli-
ness and the application of scientific
truths.
SHOBTiTEMS.
Vanderbilt is nearly eighty, and never
drank liquor.
More thau 4,000 people were married
in San Francisco last year.
A ton of hay 'sells in Buffalo for twice
as much as a ton of corn.
Ice two feet thick was discovered in
one of the Hartford sewers a few days
ago.
The Shah has resisted all invitations
thus far to leave Lis $1,000,000 overcoat
on a bat-rack.
It is said that Plymouth Church has
SI7.0GC on deposit' in the Brooalyn
Tru?t Company.
A number of saloon keepers in Altoo
na have been held to answer for infrac
tions of the Local Option law.
The Beaver Falls Cotton Works em
ploy six hundred hands and produce
twenty thousand yards per day.
The Hon. Asa Packer, of Pennsylva
nia, has given $1,000 000 and fifty six
acres of land to the Lahigh University.
The territory occur, ied by coke barn-
era in Westmoreland county is five miles
wide and fifteen long. Tbe number of
ovens aggregate 3,550.
A Massachusetts woman went before
a justice the other day and swore that a
neighbor woman had bewitched her into
having cramps and spasms.
Some Nevada miners, who were drill
ing at a depth of fourteen hundred feet.
recently tapped a vein of water so hot
that they boiled eggs in it.
Tbe people of Lebanon, Ind , tore
down a house of ill repute, recently, and
are determined to do the same with
others, unless the inmates leave the town.
A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says
that the Iowa train robbers are believed
to have been traced into Nodoway coun
ty, Missouri, and it is thought they will
be captured.
A Green Bay man, named Chester,
has requested tbe President to let bim
have the hanging of the Modocs. He
will furnish ropes and bear his own trav
eling expenses.'
The Courier-Journal vouches for the
fact that a Kentucky widow was hauled
to her husband's funeral the other day
by the same mule that kicked the breath
out of his body.
An Iowa girl has been arrested and
held for trial on a charge of twice at
tempting to poison her father. She says
her father attempted to ruin her since the
death of her mother.
A St. Louis man advertises that, his
wife having left him without provocation
after two weeks of married life, "he shall
consider himself parted should the same
not return within three days."
Tbe first white woman hanged in Geor
gia was named Eberhart, and she was
executed in 17S5. The last one also
bore the same name, and the Eberharts
talk of emigrating from that State.
A little boy was caught in the gearing
of a patent churn, at Clinton, Wisconsin,
the otber day, and though bis scream
was first rate, he failed to make good
bntter.
At Mount Sidney, Va , recently, a'
blind horse stumbled against a hive of
bees and knocked it over. Tbe bees at
once attacked the poor animal and stung
him so severely that he died in a few
hours.
When a wife in Turkey forgets to keep
the suspender buttons sewed on her hus
band's trowers she is patted on the back
for half an hour with a pine board an
inch thick.
Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, has com
muted the sentence of Sturgeon, sen
tenced to death for the murder of John
ny Murphy, to imprisonment for life at
hard labor.
One of H. A. Meloy & Co.'s . powder
mills, near Tamaqua, Pa , was blown np
on Monday morning a week, and Sam
uel Miller, of Tamaqua, killed. The
ohock was felt for several miles.
Francis Gustave Colberg. a natural
son of the late King of Sweden and
half brother to King Oscar, has been
arrested in New York and held on a
charge of smuggling kid gloves.
A mongage for $799, upon which 18
months' interest had accumulated, was
declared null and void at Lyons, N. Y
recently, on tbe ground that $25 paid for
services in procuring the money for which
the mortgage was given constituted usury.
griv fMvtttismtvts.
Hotioe to Settle Tp.
THE books and accounts of John C. Doyle
from the 20th of April, 1872, to April
20tb, 183, have been placed in my haada for
collection All persons interested are re
quested to coma forward immediately aai
make settlement.
-. J GEORGE GOSHEN.
- July 25, 1873-ai
Caution.
ALL persona are Lerebj cau'toced agaiaat
hunting or in any other way trespaaatag
on th lands of the undersigned la Walker
and Fermanagh lovcahip. All perroa a
offending wilt be dealt with to th full ex
tent of tbe law.
Daniel StouCer.
Amos Slouffer.
Jonas Kauffman.
David Diven.
Daniel Auker.
John Gingrich.
Jamoj Adama.
Joseph Dysiager.
Alton Adams.
David Kurtz.
William Adam.
Joseph Rothroek.
Daniel Sieber.
ilinbael Sieber.
July SO, 1878.
w
ILMIN-QTON AND ft B A D 1 9 Q
' RAILROAD -
7 PER CEST. BONDS,
FREE OF TAXES.
WE ARE OFFERING
SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS
or THIS COMPAJtY
AT 83 ulSD ACCRUED INTEREST.
Interest payable January and July.
THE BO?DS ARK IN
lj)00, 50CU AND 100s, .
' ADD
CAN BE REGISTERED
FREE
- OF EXPENSE.
THE COAL, MISCELLANEOUS FREIGHT
AND PASSENGER BUSINESS
it!
, CONSTANTLY INCREASING.
Th increas for y ear ending No
vember I. 11 2, over year end
ins November 1, 1871 S7I.295.37
The increase for year ending No
vember I, 1871, over year end
ing November 1, 187,0 ... 79.773.52
Increase in two years $161,074.60
Increase for firet six (8) month.
laid, over hret aia (b) months,
1872 $22,710.76
Bonds, pamphlets, maps and fall ir forma
tion can be obtained of
DE HA VEX & BRO ,
40 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
JulySG
PHILADELPHIA.
Trial List for September Term, 1873.
1 State Bank vs. Neal McCoy.
2 Joaeph Rothroek, Ez'r of R C Gallahtr.
deo'd, vs. Noah A Elder.
8 Jacob Droleabaugb v John Peck.
4 Joseph L Rarner v Daniel Mingle.
6 John W Stonebreaker vs Sam'l Lauvor.
Same vs same.
7 Jonas Alexander vs Samuel Alexander.
8 Joseph Rothroek, Ex'r of R C Gallaher,
dee'd, vs Cornelius McClellan.
9 R E Parker, endorsee of John H Clay,
tit ff Do'y, Adm'r of John Robiaon. deed.
10 West ey Tocmy vs 8 B Carenv at al.
11 B G Powell vs Simon B. Albright.
12 Mary A Tyson v Joaeph Blanchard'.-
13 John Varner vs Isaac Pile.
1 1 John S Lukene, Adm'r of T W Lnkena.
dee'd, vs Irvia D Wallis, Ex'r of Jemima J
Lukens, dee'd.
IS Jacob Drolcsbaugh vs Anthony Hock
enbury. IS Joseph Bell, foraia, vs Administrator
of L Uoughawout, dee'd.
17 John Wilson vs .Mich ail Bare.
18 Samuel Dimm vs William Cox.
19 Jacob King v-Stephen Winters.
20 John S Lukens va DaviJ Shnman.
21 Joseph Blanchard Christian Lanver.
22 William Pry vs John Pry et al
23 George T Frev vs Jacob Sbelloy. et al.
24 J M A- E M Hibba v Jacob Shelley
et al.
25 Jeremiah Brnner vs Jacob Shelley et al.
20 -Catharine Fiey et al vs Jacob Shelley,
et al.
27 C W Flemminz, for nse, va Jacob Bel
dler. 23 William Carl vs Jacob Watt.
29 George M Graham va Overseers of Tar
bett township.
30 Joseph L Barner vs Am Milter.
81 Margaret M Hunter vs H R Shearer.
32 William Given vs Wilber MoCahan.
, 31 David Sechriet v Amos Snyder.
34 J English West vs J M Lane.
S5 Nieodemus Brocius. for use, va Absa
lom Barner, Adm'r of Nicholas Brocius, da
ceased. 3t William M Allison vs Absalom Baroerv
Aim'r of Nicholas Brocius. dee'd.
IRTIX D. WALLIS, ProlA'y.
Prothonotary' Office. Mifflin-1
town, July SO, 1873. J
' To Contractors and Builders.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by
tbe Commissionera of the oounty of Ju
niata, at their office in Mifllintown. nntil on
o'clock P. M. on MONDAY, AUGUST 11th,
1873, for the erection and enlargement cf a
Court House in said town. Proposaia moat
state :he sum in gross for furnishing all the
materials, except the brick, and doing all
the work according to th plan and specifica
tions of tbe same. ,
The Commissioners reserve th right to
reject all or any of tbe bid which they shall
consider incompatible with the interests of
tbe county.
Plan and specifications can be seen at the
Commissioners' office on and after th 28th,
day of July, 1873.
WILLIAM ULSIT.
WM. VAN SWERINGEN,
DAVID B. DIMM.
Attest : Commit tioiurt.
James Dkak, Clerk.
N. B Bidders will hold themselves lev
readiness to enter into a bond with security
on the day or the letting, for the faithful
performance of the oontraot, if the same is
awarded to them.
July 16, 1873.
Administratrix's Notice.
Ettate of Jacob M. Click, dectmi.
Ml HE undersigned, to whom Letters of Ad-
1. ministration on the estate of Jacob M.
Cleck, late of Walker township dee'd., have
been duly granted aecurdiog 10 law, hereby
give notice to all persons indebted to said
estate to come forward and make payment.
and thos having claims against it. to pre
sent them properlv authenticate! for settle
ment. SUSANNAH CLECK. Adm'r.
July 23, 1873-fit -
Caution.
ALL-person are hereby cautioned against
hunting or gathering berries, or in ires
passing in any way on tbe lands f the un
dersigned in Fermanagh township. All per
sons so offending will be dealt with to the
full extent of tho law.
EMANUEL MOVER
DAVID RENNO.
MICHAEL STONER.
JOHN RENNO.
ABRAHAM STOSER.
JOHN BYLEK.
July 23, 1873.
CAUTION.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against
trespassing by hunting, or in any ohr
way, on th farm on which I reside in Fer
managh tnwnahin. All nersons offending
will be dealt with the full extent of the
law. WILSON BOBiaua.
..Caution.
ALL persons are hereby eauttoned against
Hunting, Fishing, or in any way tres
passing oa the farm occupied by th under
unrnnt tnwnahin. All nerson so
effendlaB will He dealt with te th fall extent
of tb lw. jvofirn u