OUNTI)GDO) JHHE' 111\AL:,
BY. JAMES CLARK
VOL. XIII, NO. 7,
RECEIPTS 4 EXPENDITUIIES
OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY.
From the Bth day of January D. 1847, up to and including
the 7th day of January, d. D. 1848.
RECEIPTS.
Years. Collectors. Townships.
1840 George Kelly, Dublin,
1841 James Leonard, Barree,
1842 Josiah Clossin, Antes,
1843 Michael Bossier, Woodberry,
1845 John R. Hunter, Barree,
Robert Peterson, Dublin,
John Brumbaugh, Hopewell,
Benjamin Bowers, NVoodberry,
Charles Cowden, Barree,
Jacob Crotsley, Cass,
Michael Bernd°llar, Clay,
John H. Blair, Dublin,
John Zentmyre, Franklin,
Samuel R. Boggs, Henderson,
John Russell, Hopewell,
Robert Mcßurney, Jackson,
William Hilemon, Morris,
Jacob Koligh, Porter,
George Bowman, Shirley,
George Taylor, Springfield,
Jacob Hegie, Tell,
Henry Houpt, Tod,
James Hampson, Union,
William Hutchison, Warriorsmark,
Samuel Ewing, West,
John Osburn, Walker,
Robert Massey, Barree;
Joseph Z. King, Brady,
Daniel 1. Logan, Cromwell,
Lemuel Green, Cass,
Moses Greenland, Clay,
Thomas W. Neely, Dublin,
John H. Stonebraker, Franklin,
John Flenner, Henderson,
Jacob Russell, Hopewell,
William B. Smith, Jackson,
John M. Tussey, Morris,
Andrew McClure, Porter,
John Anderson, Penn,
John Shaver, Shirley,
William Ramsey, Springfield,
Adams Houck, Tod,
John Butngarner, Sr. Union,
James Ganoe, Warriorsmark,
Samuel Ewing, West,
John Heffner, Walker,
Jacob Vantries, Esq., proceeds of sale estrays,
John Oswalt, on account of Note,
Samuel Caldwell, for gross on Court House lots,
Joseph Law, for Coal,
County Tax on Unseated Lands, '
School , 1 o
Road " ic
1846
184.7
Redemption money of Unseated Lands paid in since
last settlement,
Amos Clark and J. P. Snare, on account of forfeited
recognizances,
John Armitage, (late Sheriff) fines and jury fees,
Balance in the Treasury at last settlement,
Note.—The intereQt on State Tax of 1846, amounting to
$31.45 is included in the above amounts received from Col
lectors in 1846.
EXPENDITURES.
Attorney General and others, on criminal pros
ecutions,
Grand and Traverse Jurors, cryer, &c
Constables, making returns,
Do. advdertising spring election, and ser
ving notices,
Assessors,
Judges, Inspectors and Clerks of elections,
Road and Bridge viewers,
Inquisitions on dead bodies,
Sundry persons, premiums on wild cats, foxes,
and wolves,
COMMISSIONERS—
John F. Miller,
Daniel Teague,
Robert Cummins,
AUDITORS—
William Hutchison,
George Wilson,
L. G. Kessler,
W. S. Africa, Clerk to Comm's and Auditors, 1846,
do. 66 " on acct, 1847,
A. K. Cornyn, Esq., Counsel to Comm's,
County Printing—James Clark,
Whittaker & Raymond,
William Lewis,
John Dougherty
Saxton & Fockler, for 15 tons of Coal,
W. B. White, delivering fire wood to county jail, 1846, 36
John Kerr, on acc't, 64 1847, 40
Mary Gibson, sweeping and scrubbing the Court
House,
Jane Keim, washing for prisoners,
BRIDGES—
Robert. Madden, (of Hugh) in full of Bridge across
the Little Juniata river at Graysport near the
mouth of Spruce Creek,
Aaron Stains, on account, of Bridge across Sideling
Hill Creek, in Springfield township, 450
Aaron Stains, on account, of Bridge across Augh
wick Creek in Cromwell township,
William Taylor, on account, of Bridge across the
Raystown Branch of the Juniata River near Con
rad Snare's, in Hopewell township, 1200
William Walker and John Huyett, on account, of
Bridge at the borough of Alexandria,
Alexander Carmon, on account, of Bridge across
Crooked Creek in Walker township,
Thomas Irvin and Wm. Chilcote, repairing Bridge
at Vandevander's,
TIUNTINGDON, PA.,. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1848.
Jacob Miller, Dockets and Index Books for Regis=
ter and Recorder's office, 40 42
John Cresswell, Esq., auditing the accounts of the
Prothonotary and Register & Recorder for 1846, 30 00
Wm. Drennin, planting trees on the Court House lots, 37 50
Sundry persons, redemption money of lands sold at
Treasurer's sale, 51 86
Sundry Supervisors road tax on unseated lands, 49 17
Sundry School Treasurer's School tax on unseated
lands, 53 78
Sundry persons refunded taxes and costs of lands
sold at Treasurer's sale, 69 05
Sundry persons, Stationary and Candles, blank
books for assessments and Duplicates, &c., &c., 59 16
F. B. Wallace, postage, 7 22
Jackson Enyeart, for election boxes, 4 00
Henry Myers, for cutting fire wood, hauling, &c., 19 46
Sundry persons, for repairs to jail & Court House, 31 86
James Steel, Esq., Prothonotary and Clerk of Ses
sions fees, and for furnishing stationary for the
Court,
State Treasurer, interest on balance of State tax
for 1846 due and unpaid on the 2d Tuesday of
January last, 16 61
John Armitag e,(late Sh'ff) summoning jurors, com
mission on fines collected, carrying assessments
and Duplicates, &c., 235 91
Joseph Law, Esq., Treasurer, for advertising and
selling lands which afterwards appeared to be seated 30 50
Joseph Law, Esq., Treasurer, notes of the Lewis
town Bank, Susquehanna county Bank and Dela
ware Bridge company received in payment of taxes, 125 00
Jacob Africa, (Jailor) boarding prisoners, 35 30
Treasurer's commission on $23,311 08 a 1i per ct. 349 66
Balance in the Treasury, 420 40
12,040 57
In testimony of the correctness of the above account we
have hereunto set our hands this 7th day of January A. D.
1848. DANIEL TEAGUE,
ROBERT CUMMINS,
JOSHUA GREENLAND,
Commissioners.
attest—W. S. AFRICA, Clerk.
We, the undersigned Auditors of Huntingdon County, do
hereby certify that we have examined the drafts of the Com
missioners of said county, and the receipts for the some, for
the past year, and find a balance in the Treasury of four
hundred and twenty dollars and forty cents.
Given under our hands this 7th day of January A. D.
1848. L. G. KESSLER,
GEO. V% ILSON,
JAMES GILLAM,
4uditors.
Huntingdon, Jan. 7, 1848.]
COUNTY TAT.
List of outstanding balances due by the following Collectors
56 22
14 72
60 32
S. Robison, A:l.gheny, .
1846.
Charles Cowden, Barren, -- - - •
M. Barndollar, Clay, . .
tino. Zentmyer, Franklin, . -
S. R. Boggs, Henderson, - - •
Jacob Kough, Porter, - -
as. Hampson, Union, - -
1847.
32 88
tßoberl Massey, Parree, - - -
°Jos. L. King, Brady, - •
-I.D. J. Logan, Cromwell, - - -
ILemuel Green, Case, - : -
Muses Greenland, Clay, - - -
Thos. W. Neely, Dublin, - -
no. H. Stonebraker, Franklin, - -
tJacob Russell. Hopewell, - -
tWm. B, Smith, Jackson, - - -
IJno. 741. Tussey, Morns, -
Andrew McClure, Porter, •
ohn Anderson, Penn, - -
tJohn Shaver, Shirley, -
IVVm. Ramsey. Springfield,
Geo. Mny, Tell, -
Adams Houck, TM, •
tJno.l3nmgardner, Sr., Union, •
t 4 amuel Ewing, West,
I - John Heffner, NA aiker, - -
$12,040 57
$ 261 '77
2887 25
152 30
109 60
724 37
460 06
120,00
3 50
230 62
•Since pnid in full. -I - Since paid is part,
febB- t
71 50
110 00
61 00
The Rev. Cfesrir Otway, in his recently published paper on
"The Intellectuality of Domestic Animals," gives the follow
ing anecdote, which is by far too good not to receive the ben
efit of a wider circulation :—At the flour mills of Tubbera
keens, near Clonmel, while in the possession of the late Mr.
Newbold, there was a goose, which, by some accident, was
left solitary, without mate or offspring, gander and goslings.
Now it happened, as is common, that the miler's wife had
set a number of duck eggs under a hen, which in due time
were incubated ; and of course the ducklings, as soon as they
came forth, ran with natural instinct to the water, and the
hen was in a sad pucker—her maternity urging her to follow
the brood, and her selfishness disposing her to keep on dry
land. In the meanwhile up sailed the goose, and with a noi
sy gabble, which certainly (being interpreted) meant, leave
them to my care, she swam up and down with the ducklings ;
and when they were tired with their aquatic excursion, she
consigned them to the care of the lien. The next morning
down came again the ducklings to the pond, and there was
the goose waiting for them, and there stood the hen in her
great flustration. On this occasion we are not at all sure
that the goose invited the lien—observing her maternal trou
ble—but it is a fact that she, being near the shore, the hen
jumped on her back, and there sat, the ducklings swimming,
and the goose and hen after them, up and down the pond.
And this was not a solitary event : day after day the hen was
seen on board the goose, attending the ducklings up and
down, in perfect contentedness and good humor; numbers
of people coining to witness the circumstance, which con
tinued until the ducklings, coming to days of discretion, re
quired no longer the joint guardianship of the goose and hen.
300
200
40
248
20 00
15 00
41.1 75
700 00
950 00
200 00
Why is a rotten potato, like a bee-hive?
Because, one is a spec-tator and the other is a bee-holder
50,00
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1840
316 07
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370 81
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- 158 13
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AN ANECDOTE
POETICAL,
[From the New Year's Gift.]
THE CHILD'S DREAM.
4 . 0 mother! mother ! such a dream as I have had
to-night.
Such fields, such flowers, such bright array, and
such a heavenly light;
Methought, as slumbering on my bed a mighty
angel came,
His eyes were stars, his vest was gold, his wings
were tipped with flame.
He hung above me, mother—yes, as erst my
father did,
Before they bore him far away, beneath the coffin
lid ;
And tender were the words he spoke, and beaute
ous every flower
He bound around my burning brow, in that en
raptured hour.
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0 mother! once methought his foes- look'd like my
father dear,
But then the tears crept to my eyes that were be•
fore so clear,
"lip, Lilian! up," he softly said ; and far away he
flew,
By clouds, and stars, and rosy bowers, all silvered
o'er with dew.
And up, and up, we vent: and still the stars
were every where,
And mild and murmuring music rolled along the
balmy air:
And 0 ! I wilt not of the change, so sudden and
so bright,
But mother dear, I stood before a throne of burn
ing light.
And angel forms, in thousands, stood in robes of
brilliant sheen,
Sweet hymns and songs of joy they sung, and
struck their harps between:
And then me thought, that angel bt fight did beck
on Me away
To where there eat a little child, as lovely as the
day !
And, mother, 'twos our little one, for whom you
wept so much.
I ran to clasp him in my arms, but could not feel
his touch :
His cheeks were like the blooming rose, his hair
was silver bright,
His lips were rubies set in pearl, magnificently
white!
He said. ~ why does my mother stay so long away
Item ma I
Here is my sire, and thou art here, but where oh !
whet e is she?"
I turned to see my father's face; but he had soar
ed away
My brother, too, was gone, and I upon my pillow
lay,
Now, mother, ponder well my dream, the meaning
tell to me ;
And I will be a loving child, and tender unto
thee."
Alas," the weeping mother said, "thy dream
I well may know,
All, all are gone, save thee alone; and now thou
too must go."
And so it was ! That gentle child pined, sickn'd,
drooped and died ,
They laid her in her brother's grave, her lonely
couch beside,
And oft the matron's waking hour's renew that
infant's dream,
And prayers are sigh'd, and tears are shed, upon
the mournful theme.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Our own Treasure
The superiority of our countrywomen
does not rest solely in the loveliness and
the attractions of their persons; is it in
the powers of the understanding, in the
extent of their information and acquire
ments, and in the possession of all those
qualities which elevate the sex as intel
lectual beings also, that they excel the
women of all other nations. If they are
less lively and brilltant than French
women, they are more natural and sin
cere; they are not domestic drudges as
the Belgian and Dutch women ; .they do
not indulge the metaphysical and vision
ary imaginings that lead the uneduca
cated women of Germany into numerous
indiscretions; they do not require the
prying oye of the duenna who attends
the Spanish women ; nor do they indulge
in the shameless levity of the dark-eyed
daughters of Italy. The love of the
English woman is a pure and unalloyed
sentiment ; in her conjugal union, she is
the companion, freind, and counsellor of
her husband ; constant and faithful ; her
maternal affection is deeply rooted;
whilst her religious faith, founded on
conviction, is the regulator of her con
duct, the safeguard of her virtue, and
the solid foundation of all her hopes
here . ar.d hereafter.
$5714 60
RESPECT DOE TO CONSCIENCE,—When
you frequaut places of public woship,
as I mould have you go to all tile differ
ent ones you way meet with, remember
that, however erroneous, they are none
of them objects of laughter and ridicule.
Honest error is to be pittied, not ridi
culed. The object of all the public wor
ships in the world is the same ; it is
that great eternal Being, who created
everything. The different manners of
worship are by no means subjects of rid
icule ; each sect thinks its own the best ;
and I know no infalible judge, in this
world, to decide which is the best--
Lord Chesterfield,
[From Downing's -Horticulturist.]
PROFITS OF FRUIT CULTURE
Dr 0. D. DOSWELL, PIIILADELPOTA
Having seen in a late number of the
Horticulturist, an account of a cherry
tree that produced ten dollars worth of
fruit in one season, permit me to give a
chapter of facts on fruits, most of which
are within my own personal knowledge.
C. A. Cable, of Cleaveland, Ohio, has
an orchard of an hundred cherry trees,
now 22 years old. In the year 1845 his
crop sold for upwards of one thousand
dollurs. Mr. C. managed his orchard
better than any other person in the
Union, so far as my knowledge extends.
The trees are planted out twenty-five
feet apart, the ground kept properly en
riched and cultivated, but no crop is put
in.
Elisha Swain, of Darby, near Phila
delphia, has the remains of a cherry or
chard, numbering seventy trees, mostly
of the maydulce variety. la the heighth
of the season his sales amount to up
wards of eighty dollars per day. Mr. S.,
to ensure a gocd crop every season, digs
in a horse cart load of manure to each
tree in autumn.
Hill Pennell, of Darby, has twenty .
pie trees of the Early Redstreak, and
Early Queen varieties, that stand on
half an acre of ground. In 1846 these
trees produced three hundred bushels of
fruit that sold in Philadelphia market
for 75 cents per bushel, or two hundred
and twenty-live dollars for the crop.
Mr. Pennell has a grape vine of the
Raccoon (Fox grape) variety, that cov
ers the tops of fourteen apple trees. It
has never been pruned, but produces
seventy-five bushels of grapes yearly,
that sell for one dollar per bushel. The
apple trees produced good crops of fruit,
and under the trees is produced a crop
of grass ; thus making three crops from
one lot of ground.
James Laws, of Philadelphia, has a
Bolmar Washington plum tree, that pro
duces six-bushels of fruit yearly, that
would sell in market for ten dollars per
bushel. Five of the above plums weigh
a pound.
Mr. Laws has a small vineyard of Isa
bella and Catawba grapes, near Chester,
sixteen miles below Philadelphia, three
eights of an acre of which came into
bearing in 1845. The sales amounted to
three hundred dollars, at eight cents per
pound, or at the rate of eight hundred
dollars per acre, from only four years
old.
Brinton Darlington, of West Chester,
Pa., has a Catawba grape vine, that pro
duces ten bushels of grapes yearly. This
crop is worth forty dollars at market
prices.
Jacob Steinmetz, of Philadelphia, has
a Blue Gage plum tree, that produces
ten bushels of fruit in a season, worth in
market thirty dollars.
.51y friend, Elwood Harvey, Chadd's
Ford, Pa., the present season gathered
thirteen quarts of gooseberries from one
plant.
A gardener, near Philadelphia, has
two rows of gooseberry plants, one hun
dred and fifty feet bong. One afternoon
he gathered, with his pwn hands, six bu
shels of fruit, and the next morning sold
them in Philadelphia market for twenty
four dollars.
A gentleman of Philadelphia, having
two apricot trees, that produced more
fruit than his family could consume,
concluded to send the balance to market,
and expend the money it would bring, in
wood for the poor. The surplus pro
duce thus sold, amounted to forty dol
lars in one season.
Judge Line, of Carlisle, Pa.,
has had
two Syrian apricot trees that have pro
duced five bushels of fruit to each tree
in a season. In the Philadelphia mark
et, they would have commanded one hun
dred and twenty dollars, in the New.
York market one hundred and forty dol
lars.
Hugh Hatch, of Camden, N. J., has
four Tewksbury Winter Mush apple
trees, that in 1846 produced one hun
dred and forty market baskets of apples.
Without any extra care, ninety baskets
of these were on hand late in the spring
of 1847, when they readly sold at one
dollar per basket.
The following facts relative to fruit
growing near the North river, I have
never seen published :—Throe years ago,
Mr. Charles Downing, of Negurgh, N.
Y., informed me that a fruit grower of
his acquaintance in Fishkill Landing,
N. York, had gathered fifteen barrels of
Lady apples from one tree, and sold them
in New York for forty-five dollars.
.
The same gentleman you speak of, in
your Fruit and Fruit Trees of America,
as having sent to New York, sixteen
hundred bushels of plums in one season,
has sent to New York apricots, and re
ceived fourteen dollars per bushel for
them. The above gentleman has often
said, that his plum trees, which are set
out about the buildings and take up but
little room, pay him more profit than the
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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
WHOLE NO. 629,
whole of his valuable farm of two hun
dred acres. Another fruit grower in,
your neighborhood has sent four huudred
bushels of Frost Gage plums, to market
in ciao season, and received twelve hun
dred dollara for them.
Yet with all these facts before us,
there is no full supply of any kind of
fruit in the Philndelphia market, except
peaches. Many farmers and gardeners
neglect setting out fruit-trees from a na
tural negi:gence ; others dislike to pay
fifty cents for a fine plum tree; others
again are afraid that every body Will go:
to fruit growing, and bring down the
price to almost nothing. But te would
ask, if there is: any more danger of every
one commencing on a large scale the•
culture of frhit, than there is that every
body will commence the raising of onions,
or the making 0 . ...raz0r strops, or the cal;
tivation of roses.
HOW 808 PARTRIDGE
"Done the rear."
BY AN OFFICER TF THE V. S. NAVY
"Fellers?" said Bob, "didn't I never
tell you 'boUt that fight I had with the
old griz'ly."
"No' Bob, you didn't ; give it to us
now," said we.
‘6 , trell,. I guess I will ; it's right anly
yet:* but let's take a drink all around
fust, not cause I care a cuss about the
licker," said he; with a wink— ,, but it's
kinder dampish like, here, an' a feller
might .catch the roonratix. That are
argerdente ain't bad to drink, is it V' he
continued—" noel don't take much to
make kfeller feel good all over, neither.
"It's pretty gooerstuff, Bob, but it ain't
the story; come, ',cut your patchin,'"
"Well, me an' Bill started out one
mornin"fore light arter elk' caiise you
see it's best to take them felloWs while
they're feedin, seein' we dont never hunt
'em with dogs here.
"We'd gone 'long a pooty good piece;'
I guess; Bill'd gone round one side
hill, an' I was a crawling round tother,•
kinder softly-like, through th' bushes,
when I seed five great big uns a lettin.
into th' grass about twenty yards off.—
One of 'em riz his head up and pawed
zer he scented something, but I jist
drawed a bead on him with old Brown
back, here, (his rifle) an' they rust thing
he knowed, he never knowed nuthin !
The rest on 'em left sudden ; an' I load
ed up an started on arter em, knowin
they weren't wild enough to run fur.
"Arter l'd followed em a ways,' seed
they was a goin right round where Bill
was so 1 thought I'd jist take keer the
one I'd killed ; but when I got within
'bout 50 yards of th' place, the lust thing
I seed, was a big griz'ly a welkin ofr
with my elk, jist th' same zef 'twas hisen.
Lord ! wasn't I mad , . I riz right up and
growed a small boy in about a minute.—
But lie didn't go fur, he didn't ! 'Cause
you know I never pints this old iron, and
pulls ther trigger, 'less somehin comes
of it. Tain't no use to shoot them fel
lows though, I've seed one live three
quarters of an hoar with a bull straight
through his heart.
"Th' old bar dropped the Elk an' made
at me right off, a growlin' like thunder.
I know'd there- wern't no child's play a
cummin,' an' !hadn't no time to load
agin so I jist drawed my knife an' pitched
into him . Them bars don't hug, but
they tear a feller awful ! He fit 'cause
'twas his natur, an' I fit 'cause I hates
Ingins and griz'lies , an"bove that he
riled me when he jirked my elk.
"Over an' over we went 7 him a paw
in' like mad an' givin' me fits ; but every
time I struck you could hearth' old knife
go tker-sock ! All at once I thought 'bout
my terbacker, so I drops ther knife,
hauls out one piece an' then touther,
an'
slaps 'em both right in his eyes. Lordl
the shines he cat! he couldn't see he
kept a goin' round and round like a spin
in ginney. Now was my time, says I I
so I jist grabbed the knife, give him one
good 'un where he lived, an fetched him.
It was a leetle the tallest fight I ever had,
fellers. He was regler„ griely when
we begun, but afore we quit I done him
brown, by the living jingo !"
SETTLING ACCOITNTS.-A gentleman
introduced an Infidel friend to a minister,
and remarked that he never attended
public worship!
"Ah," said the minister, I am almost
tempted to hope you are bearing false
witness against your neighbor."
"By no means," said the Infidel," for
I always spend Sunday in settling ac
counts."
"You will find, sir," was the minister's
immediate reply, "that the day of Judge
ment will be spent in the same manner."
IL-"Is your horse fast 1" inquired a
man of a Vermont horse dealer. "Bents
all creation." "Good bottom'!" "He's
ull bottom. Why, I have driven him so
fast in one day that it took two to get
him back again."