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Henry A. rarson, JrM - Editor
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1881.
Entered at the Post-office Ja
KlDOWAY, PA., AS SECOND CLASS
MAIL MATTER.
For bill-heads and note-beads call
at the Advocate office.
New York, July 23. Ex
Judge Robertson took the outh of
office as collector of this port to-day.
White Hall, N.Y., July 25.-John
Nicholls and Mr. Anderson residents
of EUznbctlitown, New York were in
stantly killed by lightning under a
tree where they had gone for shelter.
The men of N.-braskn will vote
next year on a constitutional amend
ment allowing women to vote, and a
systematic agitation of the woman
suffrage question has already been
commenced there.
Wednesday of last week, in Erie,
Mamie Anthony, a girl seven years of
age, went to the Erie Forge Works, to
carry her uncle's dinner. Owing to
some accident, a huge red hot shaft,
weighing nearly a ton, fell upon her,
crushing her to death.
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Port Jar vis, July 22. Colonel Au
thony P. Kerr, a well known runner
residing at the foot of Mount Eve, in
this county, went into a field a few
days ago to catch a horse, when he
was knocked down by the animal and
trampled to death. He was sixty years
of age.
The treasury department ordered
the transfer of $4,104,466 in gold bul
lion from the New York assay office to
the Philadelphia mint to be coined
into eagles and half eagles. This makes
about ten million dollars in bullion
similarly transfered during the present
month.
The story is told of an absent
minded farmer In Iowa who lost live
of his cows. He discovered his loss in
the evening when he went to drive
them from pasture, and spent all
night and the next day searching for
them. He finally discovered them in
the stable, having neglected to leave
them out the day before.
The veterans of ex Governor Har
trauft s regiment held a meeting at
Lewisburg recently and concluded ar
rangements for the annual reunion,
which will take place at Lewisburg,
Union county, September 14, 1881.
Hon. A. Wilson Norris, of Philadel
phia, will deliver the annual address,
David J. Hill, President of the
Lewisburg University, the address of
welcome. Hon. J. Merrill Linn, of
Lewisburg, is chairman of the execu
tive committee of arrangements.
"Never before has such a demon
stration been seen so unaffected, so
deep, so word-wide, as the sympathy
for President Garfield," the Man
chester (England) Examiner says. It
attributes it to the fact that the mass
of the world's people think that he is
one of them, and because his family
life brings hiin close to the popular
heart. In the respect of coining from
palace and workshop, the Examiner
thinks it is the greatest tribute yet
paid to any man since the beginning
of history.
Little Rock, Ark., July 22. The
outlaw troubles in Perry county have
broken out afresh. It will be rcmcm
bereed that a few weeks ago Judge
Harris and J. AV. Matthews, editors of
the Forest Valley Times, were ordered
by a "select'' band of outlaws to leave
the country. Affairs haci reached
such a crisis that Governor Church
hill sent General Newton .commander
of the State militia, to the scene to
investigate the matter. A truce was
temporarily effected which was broken
by the cowardly assassin of Mr.
Matthews last night.
A bit of flirtation proceedings
came out at Reading the other day.
A bachelor of Philadelphia, with his
twin brother, went to Reading to
spend the summer holiday. Of
course, being wealthy and good look
ing, they made the acquaintance of
two of Reading's best girls. They
walked, rode and flirted, all inno
cently, for all the parties were emi
nently resDectable. They attended at
pic-nlcs, and these four were every
where present. Soon, however, one
of the girls had a warrant served ou
one of the brothers cbargiug him with
the larceny of a gold watch. On the
trial, the 18 year old girl testified that
the old batch gave her the watch, and
subsequently snatched it from her
hand, at a jewelry store, and walked
away. On the other hand the fellow
testified that he gave the watch con
ditionally ; that the young lady failed
to carry out her part of the agreemeut,
and that he determined to get hack
his property. He admitted taking the
watch as the witness hud testified, but
the consideration had been love and
kisses, which she did not hand over.
She hud allowed the fellow to kiss
her, hut had not responded to her part
of the contract The Alderman re
quired the fellow to give bail, holding
that a gift from a person of sound
mind was the property of the one re
ceiving it. The prosecution will bo
stopped by the prosecutrix taking
back her property, and the defendant
paying the costs. The girl is modest
and does not wish to be further ex
posed. After having gone so far she
might as well have ''gone the whole
hog." The girl's same was Lizzie
Morgurie, aud his James Barwell.. All
this, and but one corner of the veil
raised
mmim
Conkling'.i SnrccMor.
Hon. El bridge Gerry Lapham, who
was elected last Saturday aftnrnoou to
succeed Mr. Conkllng In the Sen
ate for the term ending In March,
1885, g the son of the late Judge John
Lnpham, aud was horn In Farmington
N. Y., October 13, 1814. He was
brought up on a farm and during the
winter months attended the public
schools. He spent some time at the
Canandaigua academy, where he was
a classmate of Stephen A. Douglas
and also studied civil engineering.
After spending some time In work
upon tiie line of the Michigan South
ern Railroad, Mr. Lapham studied
law, and in 1844 he was admitted to
the bar. He settled at Cunanduigua,
whero he has since practiced law.
Soon after his admission to the bar
Mr. Lapham formed a partnership
with Judge James C. Smith, which
continued until the latter was raised
to the bench. He attained a high
rank in his professsiou, and has
always been a most successful advo
cate and dangerous antagonist, es
pecially in jury trials. As a lawyer he
stands among the first of the members
of the New York bar.
Mr. Lapham made his entrance
upon a public career In the constitu
tional convention of 1SG7, but did not
become a candidate for u strictly polit
ical office until 1874, when he was
elected to Congress in the Twenty
seventh district embracing the
counties of Livingston, Ontario, and
Yates and has since been three times
re-elected, Ids vote last November
standing 15,(573 to 12,203 for his Dem
ocratic opponent. In the house he
has been u useful and active member,
and lie materially advanced his reputa
tion as a lawyer by the part he took
as one of the managers of the Im
peachment of Secretary Belknap
during Grant s second term.
Originally a Democrat, Mr
Lnpham
acted with that party until
1848, but
he supported the Wilmot proviso and
the Van Ruren ticket in that
year, and was a delegate to the
Buffalo convention. Since the organ
ization of the Republican party he
lias been an active and zealous mem
ber of that party. Of lute he has
been rather prominently indentitied
with the so-called Stalwart faction.
He advocated the unit rule and the in
struction of the delegates to Cincinnati
to vote for Conkling for president in
the Syracuse convention of lS7(i, and
worked at the Utiea convention last
year to make New York instruct for
Grant. Rut, although he M as selected
as one of the administration caucus
candidates for the Senate because of
his Indentification with the Stalwart
faction, it is not believed that he will
follow in Mr. Conkling's footsteps an. I
make war upon the administration.
When Piatt was nominated by the
Republican caucus for Senator in
January last, Mr. Lapham was an
aspirant for the nomination, but re
ceived only four votes. During the
memorable contest just closed he has
been voted for all along, and ou the
twenty-second joint ballot he got as
many as twenty -six votes for the short
term, while for the long term he re
ceived from one to eight votes before
his nomination by the administration
caucus on July 8 for the short term.
When Presidents Have Died.
A fraction more than one-third of
all the presidents of the United States
(not counting the two ex-presidents
now living nor President Garfield)
have died in the month of July.
Those who met their fate in this
month were Jefferson and Adams
(July 4, 1826), Monroe (July 4, 1881),
Van Ruren ( July 24, 1802 ). Taylor
(July 9 ,1850), Johnson (July 31, 1875),
Four others Madison, Jackson, polk
and Buchanan died in June. In
those two months, therefore, exactly
half of all the presidents the republic
has had departed this life. The follow
ing list may be of interest in this
connection:
Preslucnt. IMtnl. Age
1. Washington......... Deo. U, 17OT 7
2. AdtiniH July i, I8'.ti Ml
3. Jefrerson...M. July 4. I82ti 83
4. Mudlisnii. ........ June 2S. 1846 83
5. Monroe Inly 4, I8.il 72
8. Adnms Feb. 24, 1848 81
7. Janknon .. June 8, lHi.i 78
8. Vau Vuren July 21, 1882 80
0. Harrison April 4, 1841 68
10. Tyler....- Jan. 17, 1802 72
11. Folk ...... June 15, 1849 04
12. Taylor. July 9, 1t0 W
13. Fillmore March 8, 1874 74
14. Pierce... ()rt. 8, 1WI 65
15. lHi-hHniiU. .... June J, 1868 77
16. Lincoln .. April 1, IStK 56
17. Johnson July 31, 1875 67
The oldest Presidents at the time of
his death was John Adams, and the
youngest was James K. Polk. Next to
hiin was Abraham Lincou, who was
assassinated. The average age of the
seventeen Presidents on their deatli
was seventy-two and two-thirds years,
and of the sixteen who died from
nutural cause, seventy-three and
three-fourth years. General Grant is
now fifty-nine years old, ex-President
Hayes is fifty eight, and President
Garfield is fifty.
Foreign Sympathy.
London, July 23. The Standard
in an editorial this morning says: In
England every Incident of President
Garfield's illness is watched with keen
but mouruful interest. Had he been a
British statesman it would have been
hardly possible for the English people
to have manifested a truer sentiment
of sympathy than that which they
have extended to his family aud to his
country. In no part of the United
States will the news that Mr. Garfield
is out of danger be more Joyfully
received than In England. Iu no part
of the Union will tidings of his death,
should that melancholy event occur,
excite deeper or more genuine feeliug
of sorrow than tbey would produce
throughout her Majesty's English
speaking dominions.
NATHAN CLIFFORD.
Death or the Uulteit Slate Supreme
Judge at the Ago of Seventy-eight
Portland, Me., July 2.5. Justice
Nathan Clifford of the United States
Supreme Court died at Cornish at 9
o'clock this morning.
JUSTICE CLIFFORD'S CAREER.
Justice Nathan Clifford, who has
been for more than a decade the senior
member of the United States Supremo
Court, both In age and length of ser
vice, was born at llunmey, N. 1L, on
the eighteenth of August, 1803. After
a high school education he studied
law aud moved to Maine, where he
soon made a figure in his profession
and also in politics. He was repeat
edly chosen to the legislature, and was
twice electod speaker of tho assembly
before he was thirty years old. For
tho four years after 1834 he was At
torney General of tho State, and for
the next four a representative in Con
gress. President Polk made him At
torney General of the United States
iu 184H, and lie held this position for a
couple of years, after which lie was
sent us commissioner from this
country to Mexico and later made
United States minister to that repub
lic. Returning to Maine, he resumed
the practice of his profession at Port
land, and was so engaged when
Prenident Pierce, on the twelfth of
January, 1857, commissioned him as a
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Benja
min R. Curtis. The Judge was In his
fifty-fourth year when he took his
seat, but he was the youngest of the
whole bench, except John A. Camp
bell, of Alabama, who resigned in
18(il to go witli his state Into secession.
Indeed, Judge Clifford constituted one
of the last links which connected the
present federal judiciary with the pe
riod of the last Democratic adminis
tration. When he was commissioned
Roger B. Taney was Chief Justice,
and was just on the point of rendering
the notorious Dred-Scott decision.
His associates were John McLean, of
Ohio, and James M. Wayne, of
Georgia, who bad been appointed by
Andrew Jackson; John Catron,
of Tennessee, whoso commission
dated back to 18;)7, and who, although
born in 1778, kept his place until
deatli in 1805; Peter V. Daniel, of
Virginia, Samuel Nelson, of New
York, Robert C. Grier, of Pennsyl
vania, and John A. Campbell, of
Alabama. With the exception of Mr.
Campbell, the Chief Justice and all
the associate justices of that- day died
years ago. Nor is there to day iu
service a single circuit judge who was
ou the bench In 1827, and only three
or four of the over fifty judges of
United States district courts holding
commissions signed, like Clifford's by
Franklin Pierce.
Judge Clifford was never a great
man, but he was always industrious
and faithful. Until attacked by para
lysis last summer ho bore up very well
under the assaults of old age, having
inherited a vigorous constitution from
his New Hampshire parentage and
looked carefully after his health. Sub
sequently to his paralysis he was
attacked by gangrene aud was forced
to undergo an amputation of the foot.
For mouths lie has been beyond hope
of recovery, and latterly he had been
unable even to write his name, and
was almost an imbecile.
When the important decision was
given by the Supreme Court, May 1,
1877, alii ruling the constitutionality of
the legal-tender acts, Judge Clifford
read an opinion dissenting from the
majority, in which lie was supported
by the Chief Justice and Judges
Nelson and Field. That dissenting
opinion, which made great talk ut the
time, held that the act of Congress, so
fur as applicable to contracts made be
fore the passage, is repugnant to the
constitution and void, uud also that it
is repugnant to the constitution and
void so far us applicable to contracts
made since its passage. Justice Clif
ford, could, in fact, always be
depended on to take ground against the
federal idea in our government. One
of his last acts was to concur with
Judge Field iu a dissenting opinion iu
a test case sustaining the federal
election laws. Again, a Massachu
setts Judge of Probate having, iu
1871 refusing to pay his income tax,
or paid it under protest, claiming that
the salaries paid by states to their
officers were exempt from federal
taxation, the Supreme Court affirmed
that view; and Justice Clifford, in
pronouncing the decision said :
" Counties and other municipal
corporations were created by the
states ; but the states were not created
by the United States, as the states
existed as independent sovereignties
even before the Union was formed."
An interesting story is told illus
trating the strict integrity und high
sense of duty displayed on the most
trying occasions by Justice Clifford.
The Justice was president of the
famous electoral commission, and a
firm believer in the validity of Til
dcu's title. His position made it
necessary for him to sign the decisions
of the commission. The preparation
of the papers in the Florida case fell to
Senator Hoar ou account of Senator
Edmunds' illness, aud their comple
tion wus delayed until witlt a few
minutes of noon of the fourth of
March. Justice Clifford, by insisting
upon a careful personal scrutiny of the
papers, could have put off their execu
tion until too lute, and prevented the
inauguration of Mr. Hayes. He did
not, however, throw the smallest ob
stacle in the way of the work, but
showed almost equal anxiety with
Senator Hour in hurrying it forward,
and promptly affixed his signature as
soon us the documents were completed.
But he never went to the White
House during the Hayes administra
tion, so bitter was his feeling in the
matter.
Tho Uraml Encampment.
INSPECTION DAYS APPOINTED FOR
TUB VARIOUS BRIO ADES OF THE
NATIONAL OUAR1).
Headquarters National Guard of
Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's
Office, Harrisburg, July 21, 1881.
General Orders No. 12. First the an
nual Inspection will be held during
the encampments announced in gen
eral orders No. 4, division head
quarters National Guard of Pennsyl
vania, current series.
First Brigade, Pottstown First
regiment infantry (Tuesday, August 2,
9 a. m.; Second regiment Infantry,
Tuesday, August 2, 3 p. m ; Gray In
vincible, Wednesday, Augusts, 8:30
a. m.j Third regiment Infantry, Wed
nesday, August 8, 9 a. in.; Frst troop,
Philadelphia City cavalry, Washing
ton troop, and buttory C, Wednesday,
August 8, 2 p. m.j Sixth Regiment
infantry, Thursday, August 4, 9 a. m.;
State Fenclbles, Thursday, August 4,
11:30 a. in. The brigade will be re
viewed by the Commander In-chief, tit
4 p. m., on the fourth of August
Second Brigade, Saltsburg. Eigh
teenth regiment infantry, Thursday,
August 11, 3 p. m.; Fourteenth regi
ment infantry, Friday, August 12, 9
a. m.; Tenth regiment infantry. Fri
day, August 12, 3 p. m ; Fifteenth
regiment infantry, Saturday, August
13, 9 a. in.; Sheridan troop and buttery
B, Saturday, August 13, 11 a. in.;
Sixteenth regiment infantry, Mon
day, August 1,5, 9 a. ni.; Fifth regi
ment In ran try, Monday, August 15, 8
p. in. The brigade will be reviewed
by the Conimaiider-in-chief on Satur
day, thirteenth of August, at 4 p. m.
Third Brigade, Wllkesbarre Thir
teenth regiment infantry, Thursday,
August 25, ( a. m.; Ninth regiment
infantry, Thursday, August 25, 2 p.
in.; Eighth regiment infantry, Friday.
August 21, 0 u. m.; Twelfth regiment
Infantry, Friday, August 20, 3 p. m.;
Fourth regiment infantry. Saturday,
August 27, it a. m.; Battery A, Satur
day, August 27, 11:30 a. m. The Commander-in-chief
will review tho brig
ade on Saturday, August 27, at 4 p. m.
Second The inspections will be
rigorous. Especial attention will be
given to care and condition of clothing
and equipment and number of articles
of each on hand. Attention is called
to paragraphs two, three and four of
general orders No. 10, headquarters
Nationnl Guard of Pennsylvania,
series of 1880. The report called for
by paragraph three of that order will
be required. All rolls must be com
pleted us near us may be before leav
ing the rendezvous.
Third These encampments arc held
under the provisions of and by the
authority of the law. It is manda
tory and requires the attendance of al.'
who hold commissions or arc serving
a term of enlistment. Excuses for
absence will be entertained for such
reasons alone as would, prevail in
actual service. Officers and men can
only be absent from this service by
permission of the brigade commander.
Dean Stanley's Funeral.
A (IRK AT CROWD AT WESMINISTEK
AH11HY THE FLORAL DECORATIONS.
London, July 25. Although 3
o'clock this afternoon was the time
announced for the opening of West
minster Abbey for tho funeral of the
lute Dean Stanley, a crowd began to
assemble at noon, and by 2 o'clock
fully twice us many persons were
present as could possibly be accom
modated. The Prince of Wales was in
attendance, and other members of the
Royul family were specially repre
sented. Dean Stanley's coffin and
the room in which it was placed pend
ing the funeral were decorated with
wreaths and crosses eoinjKised of the
choicest flowers, which had been ar
riving at the Deanery from an early
hour of the morning. The decora
tions included a wreath of roses sent
by the Queen with a note in her own
handwriting bearing the words: ''A
mark of sincere affection and high
esteem, from Victoria." There were
also wreaths from well-known Ameri
cans in Loudon. Matthew Arnold,
the eminent writer; Right Hon.
William King Smith, the Bishop of
Exeter, Right Hon. William E. Fos
ter, and the Duke of Westminister
were among the pall-bearers. The
Archbishop of Canterbury presided
at the grave. Many persons were
deeply affected. Among the others
present were professors Huxley and
Tyndall, Rev. Dr. Newman Hall,
Cardinal Newman, Cardinal Manning,
Lord Shaftsbury, the Bishops of Teu
nessee, Peterboro, St. Albun's, Glou
cester and other prominent clergy
men, tho Dukes of Argyll und Rich
mond, the Marquis of Salisbury,
Lords Derby, Aberdare and Slier
brook, Mr. Gladstone, Sir Stafford
Northcote, Sir R. Assheton Cross, Sir
Bar tie Frere. Sir Robert Lighton, and
the Baroness Burdett-Couts.
An Importunt matter has Just been
concluded at Harrisburg in awarding
to a New York firm, who gave f20,000
security to perform the contract, the
publication of the Pennsylvania State
Reports of Supreme Court cases. The
Lancaster Intelligencer says : Under
the contract they are to furnish these
reports at $1.16 per volume to mem
bers of the legal profession, or any
body else who want to buy them,
each volume to contain seven hundred
pages; and as their contents are fur
nished by a State reporter, they cau
not be unduly swelled. This is done
under the act of 1K78, by which also
the State reporter is paid $3,000 salary
and has no profits from the reports.
Heretofore his emoluments consisted
iu his copyright of the reports, which
he sold at from $4 to $4.50 per volume.
These prices, about three-fold the
val ire of the book, were a severe tax
on the profession, alike on old law
yers ksepiug up their libraries and
upon young attorneys forming their
collections. The chauge will bo a
grateful one.
Oil in ft Warden.
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PROSPECTING IN POTATO PATCH KS,
Memlvlllo Republican, July 22,
A month or so ago Sebastian Huchn,
a blacksmith living in Mechanic
street, Titusvlllo, was spading in his
garden after a heavy rain. As he
turned up the earth he noticed that
little pools of crude petroleum formed
In the cavities made by the spnde.
Ho dug a pit four feet deep. It filled
up with oil to such an extent that he
dipped out five barrels full. The oil
was of excellent quality, and Huohn
sold his five barrels to the Octave oil
refinery. Week before last Huehn
dug another "well" In his garden. It
responded with a yield of two barrels
an hour. The well attracted great at
tention. It produced eighty barrels,
and then ceased to How. The excite
ment over the novel oil territory died
out soon afterward. Ou Monday last
the news spread through the city that
Haehn hud opened another well In
his garden, and that it was yielding at
the rate of thirty-six barrels u day.
Hundreds flocked to the scene of the
new oil operations. The well was lo
cated in the southwest corner of
Haehn's potato patch. Witli a large
tin hand pump the owner was taking
out of tho "hole"' two barrels of oil an
hour. His previous well had also
started uguin. From that one of
Haehn's sons was taking oil at the
rate of twenty barrels a dH.y.
Immediately following this strike
of tho lucky blacksmith a great de
maud for leases of adjoining gardens
arose. Such an oil field had never
been heard of before. Without capi
tal, and with no tools but a shovel, an
operator could sin If a well and strike
the "sand" in half an hour. The
right to dig on four feet of a man's
garden became wortli $5 bonus and
one-fourth of the oil. For three days
Mechanic and adjacent streets have
been thronged wijh excited spectators
of the new operation in oil production,
und parties anxious to get "a piece of
the territory." On Tuesday night
Theodore Avery, Who lias a coal yard
adjoining Haehn's garden, put down
a well. At the depth of four feet he
struck oil. The yield was a barrel an
hour. He has put down four more
wells since. The live wells were yes
terday yielding eight barrels an hour.
The success of the Haehn und Avery
ventures led to a wide extension of
this strange territory. A vacant lot
on Washington street southeast from
Haehn's was yesterday the scene of
active operations. Three producing
wells were put down. The rest were
"dusters." dipt. Pickering went to
"wildeating" under a shed near thti
Buffalo, Pittsburg and Warren rail
road truck south of Haehn's. He dug
to a deptli of eight feet, and got a well
good tor ten barrels a day. Two
wells were put down ou the ground of
the Octave refinery. At live feet oil
was found. One of the wells is pump
ing twenty-five barrels a day. The
McKeown Garden, east of the refinerv,
was leased by J. P. Thomas, Win. Mc
Kenzie aud J. M. Briton. Thomas
took the northern half of the garden.
He got two five barrel wells of excel
lent green oil. The other parties
struck oil, but it whs of a red hue, und
had the appearance of being mixed
with tar. 1 n the gardens along the
east side of Washington street several
wells "came in" us good producers,
but the oil was of an interior quality.
All the property along Oil Creek,
between Washington and Franklin
streets, lias been leased by A. J. Kraff
crt. He will develop it on a large
scale.
The original Haehn territory main
tains its yield, and is being further
developed. Haehn has made, u trench
all around his garden und one through
the centre. Into these the oil collects
rapidly. The operator is putting up
tanks to receive his oil, as there is a
great scarcity in barrels. Haehn's
garden Is now yielding 100 barrels a
day. He expects to increase it to 2U0.
The oil is wortli at the tannery $1.10
a barrel. Tho price of one barrel de
frays all the expense of putting down
a well. Operations are carried on day
and night. That part of the city is
lighted up all night by the flaming
torches of the oil men. The weird
scene is witnessed nightly by hun
dreds of people. There are no indi
cations of any decline iu the yield of
this oil, and Haehn, the lucky discov
erer of the field, is laying away not
less than $100 a day as clear profit.
There ure many theories in regard
to this unheard-of presence cf petro
leum in large quantities so near the
surface. One is that the oil is the
leakage of tanks and pine lines,
which has sunk into the earth until it
readied the gravelly deposit in which
it is now touutl in pools. Another is
that this deposit has been forced up
from the true petroleum sand stratum
by some unknown agency, and cauuht
and retained iu the stratum where it
now lies.
A Funny Old Story.
Tom Marshall was engaged in the
trial of u case in the iuterior of Ken
tucky, when a decision of the judge
struck him us so bad that he rose and
said :
"There never was such a ruling as
that since Pontius Pilate presided on
the trial of Christ."
'Mr. Clerk," responded the judge,
"fine Mr. Marshall $10 for contempt
of court."
"I confess, your Honor," continued
Tom, "that what I said was a little
hard on Pontius Pilate, but it is the
first time in the history of Kentucky
jurisprudence that it is held that to
speak disrespectfully of Pontius Pilute
Is contempt of court."
"Mr. Clerk, make the fine $20 for a
continuous contempt," said the judge
solemnly.
"Well, judge," Tom added, "as
you won all my money lust night at
poker, lend me the twenty."
"Mr. Clerk," cried the judge,
hastily, "remit the fine. Tho stute
can afford to lose the money better
than I."
"I congratulate the Court upon its
return to a sane conditiou," suit! Tom,
resuming his seat amid roars of
laughter
From the Hub.
There is perhaps uo tonic offered to
the people that possesses as much
real intrinsic value as Hop Bitters
Just at this season of the year, when
the stomach needs an appetizer, or the
blood needs purifying, the cheapest
und best remedy is Hop Bitters. An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure, dou't wait until you are pros
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