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Ilenrjr A. Parsons, Jr., -
Editor
THURSDAY DEC. 12, 1878.
. The body of II.. W. Clymer.Oiie of
the victims of the Ponieranla disaster,
has been recovered.
A Council of State In England is
about to discuss a project for taxiug
Cotton Imports from America.
The reception of Lord Lome and
the Princess Louise, at Mou treat, was
as cnthuHiastic as that at Halifax.
One of the Pomernnia's boats has
been recovered with a bag containing
$25,000. The owner of the money is
saved.
The President has signed the com
missions of Mrs. Anne D. IL Thomp
son as Postmistress at Memphis. She
is the widow of the late postmaster,
who died of yellow fever.
The pipe line from Bradford to
Kane, 1 distance Of nearly forty miles,
is now completed, and cars were loaded
at Kane last week. Knne promises to
be a very important shipping point.
The Pall Mall Gazette says : Russia
cannot sutler us to prosecute our suc
cessions in Afghanistan to whatever
Issue we may think fit. That action
will be taken, sooner or later, Is cer
tain ,
Twenty-nine vessels have arrived
at Constantinople, mostly from the
United States, with large cargoes of
rilles and cannon, Turkish troops are
now as well furnished with arms as
before the war.
The" Hulings well No. 2, near
Kane, Is now producing forty-two
barrels of oil per day. Four or Ave
more wells are going down, and this
new territory will no doubt assume
g?eat importance.
A calf signed by a number of
prominent citizens of Virginia is pub
lished, stating that they have organ
. izea themselves into a society to pre
serve the credit of the State, and in
viting the co-operation of every citizen.
The latest arrests of Socialists at
Rome have led to the sei7.ure of docu
ments that have given much informa
tion relative to the organization of the
Internationalists of Italy and their
connection with similar bodies In for
eign countries.
The lumber market at Pittsburgh
is not' very encouiaglng, the prices
varying from five to six dollars a
thousand. Thomas Irwin sold 40,000
feet at $5.50. O. T. "Wheeler contract
ed his lumber, at some point on the
Ohio, at S11.50. He Jhas about 200,000
feet.
The Tennessee peanut crop for the
year ending September 30, was 305,000
bushels, against 500,000 for the year
previous; in Virginia the crop was
40o,000,rgainst 780,000 last year, and
in North Carolina it was only 85,000,
against 125,000 in 1877. The growing
crop, 1. e., for 1878-79, is estimated at
400,000 for Tennessee, 800,000 for Vir
ginia, and 00,000 for North Carolina.
The North Carolina crop promises to
be about the same as to quality as last
year.
There is a wide difference in the
amounts paid lecturers. The St. Louis
lyceum has gone. out of busines re
formed, we suppose, and its records
shoWjthe exact payment to each of the
many people who appeared on its plat
form. The scale of prices run from
Henry .Ward 'Beecher at $800 for a
single night down'to Robert Burdette
t $75- Carl Schurz received $200, $!00
less than he charged for compaign
speeches. Elizabeth duly Stanton had
to be content with $75. Henry Wat
teteon had $150, Wendell Phillips,
$425. The business is losing its grip.
The Oil Citv Derrick's report of
oil Operations lor November, .shows
202 wells drilling and 308 rigs up with
buildings on December 1, which is a
a slight decline from October opera-
, , i nr. 11 . 1..1 on
IIOIIS, ailU WCJIS nmont-u, nuu
aggregate yield of 3,000 barrels. Of
this number, 19 were dry holes. A
large number of wild cat ventures were
made, the same ending in' dry holes.
The total daily production remains
about 40,000 barrels. Saturday was
the most exciting' day expei ienced in
the petroleum trade in many mouths.
It oj.vn.ed at 103, when there was a
-panicky advance of ten cents, followed
by a decline to 08. At the close one
of the largest speculators failed, and
others are sort'y crippled. The sales
were 520,000 barrels. The impression
prevails that the bull movement has
not yet been completed.
In connection with the attempt of
the town of DeRuyter in this state to
Invalidate its bonds, the Utica Herald
Bays: "The town of Hancock, Debt
ware county, has paid her law vers
hundreds of dollars to defend suits
brought to compel the payment of in
terest on her bonds. At the end of
every suit the town has been obliged
to pay not only the amount of the in
terest in dispute, but a heavy bill of
costs. The town of York, in Livings
ton county, has recently met with an
Adverse verdict, in a similar attempt
' to get rid oi us liabilities iroiuu ixuu-
ed debt There are several decisions
by the courts of tins state which de-
- elare in substance that any irregularity
of a technical character in the issuing
of town bonds is not a sufficient cause
to work exemption from their pay
ment, wher the stipulated value re-
AoiveU lias been had. The town of
DeRy ter seems to be anxious to figure
fu another sucu decision in tue law
&tfoW
Judge James L. tiillls.
HOME INCIDKNTS OP JUS MFE.
From the Mount Plonpnnt (Iown) Jnurnnl,-
November 14th is always an inter
esting day to our esteemed townsjiian,
Judge J. L. Gillis, bringing vividly to
his mind some experience of his army
life, which are especially Interesting.
Meeting him last Thursday, he gave
us ail outline Of his experience, which
we jotted for the Journal.
At the breaking out of the war of
1812 Mr. Oillis, then quite a young
man, joined a company of New York
cavalry, and was attached to Colonel
Harris' regiment of regular dragoons.
Soon after the battle of Lundy's Lane,
he was out with a foraging party, and
when three miles from Fort Eric, wi(s
captured by some of His Majesty's red
coats. This was on the 7th of August,
1814. He was paroled at a place called
Reimport, below Quebec, between the
mouths of the rivers St. Charles and
Montmorency, his parole limiting him
to a space extending three miles from
the river. November 14, 1814, (sixty
four years ago last Thursday) he was
with twenty-five other prisoners, taken
from his parole and put on board the
transport ship "Stately," about to sail
for England, under convoy of a man-of-war.
Not relishing a voyage across
the Atlantic, undcrsuch circumstances,
Lieutenant (.Jillis, M'ith five others,
concluded to make an effort to regain
their liberty. And while their fellow
prisoners indulged in loud songs and
revelry, himself, Captain Hunt, Lieu
tenant Clark, a Lieutenant Fontaine,
of Richmond, Va., and a captain from
New York State, escaped from the
ship, climbing down the vessel's side
on a "raddle," or rope ladder, into the
long boat, taking With them for ra
tions, one bottle of rum and one loaf
of bread.
Lieutenant Gillis had first passed
out at a cabin window, cut the rope
holding the long boat, returned into
the cabin holding on to the rope, draw
ing the boat close under the ship's
stern, when, after the party got down
into the boat they drifted on to the
chain of a frigate and were hailed by
its watchman, but the night being
dark they escaped,, his detection, and
drifted away, landing two miles below
Point Levi, Onjfhe opposite "side of the
St. Lawrence. Leaving the boat, they
climbed the precipitous banks, sat
down, ate their loaf, drank their rum
and started for home, going towards
the river Sandeia, which empties iuto
the St. Lawrence abovo Quebec.
Striking the river at daylight, eleven
miles from Quebec, they took to the
woods, going up that river, as they
thought.
Traveling all that day in the woods
they kept the woods throughout the
following night the second out and
on the morning of the (second day ar
rived at a Frenchman's cabin, he tell
ing them that they were not on the
Sandeia river, but a branch of it. He
gave them a breakfast of oatmeal cakes
and cooked onions, which, in their
condition, were very palatable. Their
host gave them three bitter oatmeal
cakes, and put them on a short line to
the Sandeia river. After wandering
for three days through spruce and
brush, on the third day' they reached
a beech tree ridge and feasted on the
nuts of that tree, Lieutenant Fontaine
eating shell and all, which gave him
the colic. Soon afterwards striking a
road, they came to the cabin of another
French settler, and no one being at
home, they consulted as to whether
they should go in, help themselves to
food and leave money to pay for it, or
go on. Concluding to leave the cabin
unmolested, they pursued their weary
march, and soon after met the owner
of the cabin, who, with his family,
were returning from St. Mary's. The
Frenchman informed them that bills
were up at St. Mary's, offering lu0
reward and the King's bounty a
guinea for the capture of each one of
the refugees.
They returned to the Frenchman's
cabin, who gave them food and agreed
to pilot them through St. Mary's as
far as St. Francis, stating that he had
brother at the former place, who
would assist.
After nightfall, with their friendly(?)
guide, they set out for St. Mary's, ar
riving there at a late hour, and rousing
their guide's brother, were taken in.
Bedding was put up at the windows
to conceal their presence, and they
were told that they could not cross the
river until the lights were put out in
the buildings situated on the opposite
side of the stream. The brothers then,
on pretext of going for a boat, went to
the guardhouse and reported the pres
ence of the Americans the guard was
ordered out, the house surrounded, and
about thirty militia, armed with pitch
forks, clubs, shotguns, etc., marched
In, the captain carrying a long sword,
shouting, at the top ot his voice, to
the boys, "Surrender!" more fright
ened than were the unarmed Ameri
cans, who, tired and footsore, had been
endeavoring to get some rest. Captain
Huut, who was something of a wag,
seeing the militia captain with his
long sword, raised himself up from
the floor where he had been sleeping,
and asked the stalwart captain :
"What in h are you going to do with
that toad spear?" The boys realizing
that they had been betrayed, and un
armed, made a virtue of necessity, and
of course surrendered without cere
mony. They were well treated by
their captors, taken to comfortable
quarters and provided with a good
breakfast. After daylight the uews of
the capture having been circulated in
the village, the prisoners became he
roes, were visited by all the French
girls, who took quite a fancy to the
Americans, blacked their boots and
brushed their clothes for them. Each
of the prisoners having been put in
chame of a guard, and Lieutenant
Oillis, while taking a walk, cut a stick
and on bis return to their quarter,
meeting one whom he supposed to be
the fellow who had betrayed them,
fell upon and gave him a drubbing,
the unfortunate Frenchman crying
"murder," when Hunt and Clark
coming up, told him he had beaten
the wrong man.
Each prisoner was placed in a calash
and with a driver, also with a guard,
were started back to Point Levi. The
one having Lieu. Oillis in charge was
the same Frenchman ho had beaten,
and on the way, at every slopping
place, he amused the populace by tell
ing how he had been mistaken and
whipped for the betrayer, saying that
If ho looked like the treacherous pilot
ho deserved whipping. The party
was two days and a half making the
return trip to Quebec, and arriving
there were put in jail for safekeeping,
the fall fleet having sailed for England.
After three days they were taken be
fore a magistrate and arraigned on the
charge of having stolen His Majesty's
long boat, and the penalty for stealing
was death. Our prisoners employed
a yankee lawyer named Cuthber't,
formerly of Boston,, to defend them,
and he shrewdly took the position
that the British having taken them
from their parole, they were at the
time of the alleged stealing, lawful
enemies of His Majesty, the King,
and added that If the prisoners had de
stroyed the entire fleet, they would
have been justified by the laws of war.
Tills plea saved them and they were
acquitted, when they were put on board
a brig and sent as regular prisoners of
war to the prison on Melville Island,
where were gathered about 1100 other
prisoners. There they were confined In
a building composed of stalls, in each of
which were swung 27 hammocks.
While in that building they again at
tempted to Escape, but were foiled by
the cowardice of one of the night
guards, whom they had bribed, and
who at the last moment, betrayed
them. For this attempt one of their
number, a sailor, was put into a dun
geon for ten days, and given only
bread and water but his comrades
managed to supply him plentifully
with rum and rations so that he fared
very well. Here they were kept about
four weeks and then again paroled at
Dartmouth, opposite Halifax, where
they remained until April, when
peace having been concluded, they
were sent to Salem, Mass. At Salem
they were royally entertained by one
Crowninshield, a resident, who was
with them at Melville, and who was,
the Judge thinks, the brother of the
Secretary of the Navy under Jefferson
or Madison.
Thus ended our townsman's military
experience, which forms an interesting
chapter in his life
In 1S18 Mr. Gillis made a journey
to Michigan territory, on horseback,
being in Detroit when there was only
one brick house and but few of any
other sort in the place. There he met
the celebrated Lord Selkirk, of Scot
land, who having located a colony at
Manitoba, was then on his way to
Montreal, to attend a suit brought
against him for trespass by the Hud
son's Bay Company, having come to
Detroit in a conveyance drawn by
dogs. Ms Gillis accompanied Selkirk
as far as Aneaster, at the head of Lake
Ontario. The Judge describes him as
a thin visaged. tough, sharp Scotch
man. Not until four years ago, during
a cruise with his son on Lake Superi
or, did he learn what particular tres
pass Selkirk bar? committed, when he
fell in with a Mr. McLaren, in the
employ of the Hudson's Bay Company
who gave him the particulars The
Company had agreed to furnish Sel
kirk and his colonists transportation
from Ft. Chippewa, but on their ar
rival there refused to' comply with
their agreement. This was a great
disappointment to Selkirk, and he
determined to obtain by strategy
what was denied him. Accordingly
he invited the officers and other occu
pants of the Fort to dine with him,
ami succeeding in making the entire
party drunk, while they were under
the Influence of his rum, Lord Selkirk
helped himself to boats and whatever
was necessary, aud put out for his des
tination. Hence the suit.
In 1822 Mr, Giilis left New York
State aud moved Into Jefferson county,
Pennsylvania, then a sparsely settled
region, his nearest neighbors being re
spectively lOand 'J4 miles distant. He
there was appointed Associate Judge
of the county, by Gov. Porter, serving
two terms. He also represented that
county in the legislature, was first
elected In 1810, and served three yeais
in the House and three in the Senate,
of that State. In 1850 he was chosen
to represent his district in Congress,
serving one term. He made his first
vist to Iowa in 1851, coming out in a
buirirv. and when'he returned home
found that his Democratic friends were
again running him for legislature. He
again came to Iowa in 1802, locating in
this city, where he has ever since re
sided, universally esteemed by all for
his many noble qualities ot head and
heart, and although in his 87th year,
is in excelleut health, takes an intel
ligent interest in afiairs generally, and
seems so young and active, it is ditfi
cult to realize that ho had seen so
many years. lie nail a wiue spreau
acquaintance with the leading politi
cians and statesmen oi iuu .u,iui.
was an intimate acquaintance anu
a friend of James Buchanan, aim was
member of the convention mat nomin
ated hirii for the presidency. Of the
Judge's nine living children, (a tenth
i fiHreuHcd.) two sons reside in this
citv, one daughter resides in the state
of New York, one in rennsyivauia,
Di'trnit. and one ill Baildstown,
III.; oueson resides In Pennsylvania,
aiouriialist. in Richmond,
Va-, while his son, dipt. Jas. Oillis,
i. i.ub i,Mn in the Kuvv for thirty
years, is now commander of the
t. .w,i utotu kliin "Franklin." Ill
concluding this sketch of one so full of
.o..,, i-Anui-t mid honor, we do but
express the unanimous wish of all who
know nun, uii tu"i",u '-
happiness may attenu uo
throughout his remaining lite
Judge
Hoi Writ Against Sharing.
The Cleveland physician who main
tains that shaving is a crime against
health and good looks, has been ran
sacking his Bible for texts. He finds
In Leviticus the Injunction i "Neither
shalt thou mar the corners of thy
beard." He infers that the children
of Israel, while in bondage to the
Egyptians, imitated many of their
heathenish customs, and the shaving
of the beard was. one of them. Hence
the great Lawgiver condemned It most
emphatically, , and a careful study of
history shows that the Hebrews gener
ally discarded the use of the razor, ahd
the primitive Christians generally,
Imitating their example, wore their
beards long." Tertulliau, an eminent
Christian writer and father in the
church, says : " The practice of shav
ing the beard is a He against our face,
and an impious attempt to improve the
works of the Creator." The doctor
wishes to know if David's men, who
were shaved, only half shaved, by the
order of Vanun, looked any better?
Not then, In their own eyes, nor in
the eyes of King David, nor in the
eyes of all the Jews and Gentiles of
their time, for one reads that "the men
were greatly ashamed, and the King
said larry at Jericho until your beards
be grown and then return." The doc
tor's argument is based upon natural
history as well as scripture. The lion
has a flowing beard which distinguish
es him from his weaker companion ;
and likewise in man the beard marks
most distinctively the chief peculiarity
of the countenances of the two sexes.
When a man shaves ofF his beard his
face approximates that of a woman
more uearly than nature designed.
Accordingly he argues that if nfen
wish to preserve their ascendancy as
the lords of creation they must put
away their razors.
How a Man Becomes u Hog.
At Vergennes, Vt, Win. Laduke
wagered that he would eat in ten hours
two pounds of pork steak, four large
potatoes, one-half of a pie, two slices
of wheat bread, each one and one-quarter
Inches thick, one quarter pound of
butter, half a bushel of apples, and to
drink two cups of tea. At 7 o'clock
in the morning the gourman began
his task by eating five apples. He
then ate one pound of pork steak, two
large potatoes, one slice of bread, one
quarter of a pie, one-eight pound of
butter, and drank one cup of tea. The
remainder of the forenoon he spent in
walking about and eating apples, of
which he had devoured twenty-three
at 12 o'clock. At noon he ate one
pound of pork steak, two large potato
es, one quarter of a pie, one slice of
bread, one-eight pound of butter, and
drank two cups of tea. He was then
weighed, and found to have gained
seven and one half pounds. For the
next three hours he averaged about
two apples per hour. At 5$ P. M. he
ate the last apple and won the bet
with half an hour to spuir. His weight
when he began was 145 pounds, and at
the close 153 pounds, showing a gain
of eight pounds in nine and one-half
hours, fcseveu and one-half pounds of
this he acquired in the first five hours,
the last five hours adding only one-
half pound to his weight. The half
bushel of apples was "heaping" meas
ure, and numbered just sixty-five ap
ples. Laduke is 20 years old, five feet
seven inches in height, and has never
experienced a sick day in iiis life. He
is a thin, spare man, and has worked
out for his living, usually among
farmers. .He experienced no iiuuiual
difficulty from his square meal, and
offered to bet ?5 that he could" eat
another peck of apples the same eve
ning.
Leprosy in New York.
Just now there are three cases of
genuine leprosy at the Charity hospital,
Blackwell's Island, New York, the
one of the most interest being that of
Abraham Brown, forty-five years of
age, a native of New York. The vic
tim was stricken only last April, and
admitted to the hospital in June. The
progress of the malady has been viru
lent and rapid, commencing, as usual,
with thickening of the skin in spots,
with loss of local sensibility. Accom-
paning this came a strange debility I
and lassitude, with occasional exalta
tion of spirits. The disease has now
attacked the solid tissue of the boner,
and the man's hands and feet present
a sight that one would never care to
see twice. Some of the fingers and
toes have already dropped off, while
the rest, ulcerous and loathsome, hang
loosely by their rotting and disfigured
joints. The brain remains unaffected,
and the victim converses with intelli
gence. According to his own story,
Mr. Brown, who is a gas engineer by
profession, emigrated thirteen years
ago to Santiago is Cuba, where he was
employed In the gas works for three
years lie returned to ew, l oik ten
years ago without a vestige of the dis
ease that ha3 since reduced him to a
living skeleton. Brown attributes his
misfortune to exposure to the heat of
the sun aud the breathing of air loaded
with foul vapors while pursuing his
profession in the West Indies.
Mr. Case, a hotel keeper at Sara
toga, was horrified to find the head of
a woman on the piazza of his hotel.
A dog was eating flesh from it. Fol
lowing the trail of the dog to a spot in
a grove about 200 feet from the hotel.
the amis, legs and other portions of a
woman's body were found, all of them
being in a decayed condition. A small
pistol was found near by. The head
had a bullet hole in it. The remains
are recognized as'those of a seventeen
year old girl, Alice llefyea, whose
parents lived in Saratoga. Several
weeks ago she was employed as a ser
vant In Case's hotel, but disappeared
suddenly. No trace has since been
had of her until her horribly mutilated
remains were found. It is supposed
that the girl committed suicide."
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The undersigned auditor, appointed
to distribute the fund in the hands of
Jacob McCauley, Esq.. administrator
of the estate of John McCoakcr, late of
Fox Township, deceased, will attend
at his ollice, in the villageof Ridgway,
on the Itli day of January, 187S, at
10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of
hearing claimants, when and where all
may Attend who see proper.
GEO. A. RATHBUN,'
43-3t Auditor.
Valuable Fnn for Sale.
Thirty-nine acres of land, about two
nd one-half miles from Ridgway, on
which is a two-story frame dwelling
muse lx2G feet, with cellar. Also
iarn and other necessary outbuildings.
A bout u loy.cu fruit tees on the place.
(lit acres under cultivation and
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Ridgway, Elk county, Pa.
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RULE TO PLEAD.
Oeorge A. Johnson,
heir of Ralph Johnson
In the Court
of Common
Pleas of
Elk county
No. 78, Sept.
Term, 1878.
EJECTMENT.'
vs.
Win. E. Wykorr. with
notice to John A.
Wykoff.
And now to-wlt: November 21,
1878, upon motion of Messrs. Hall &
M'Caulcy, attorneys for Plaintiff, the
court grant a Rule on the Defendants
to nppcar and plead to the above en
titled action on or before the fourth
Monday of January, A. D. 1879, or
Judgment will be entered against them
by default.
Summons in Ejectment having been
Issued by Plaintiff against Defendant
for all that certain tract of land situate
in Benczctte township, Elk county.
Pennsylvania, being an undivided
two-t.h'irds part of two hundred and
eighty-eight acres, part of warrant No.
5023, and bounded on the north by
warrant No. 5012 ; east by warrant No.
64H0; south by Coleman Johnson and
others and remainder of warrant No.
50211; and on the west by warrant No.
6022, containing two hundred and
eighty-eight acres, to enforce specific
performance of contract between Ralph
Johnson and said W. E. Wykoff, dated
June 2d, 187(1, the sheriff having made
return thereon that thesaid Defendants
cannot be found in said county.
From the Record.
Attest
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