DAILY
TOWANDA REVIEW.
VOLUME 11, NO. 181.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Personal.
GEORGE STEVENS is in Chicago.
.JOHN KIRWIN has removed from Long
Valley to this placa.
JAMES ARCH BALII of Owogo is spending a
few weeks in West Franklin.
Judge HENRY WEBB of Kansas is visiting
his brother, Hon. J. 11. WEBB and other rel
atives in Smitlitield and vicinity.
Miss EMMA MILLER, of Lackawanna coun
ty, is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. T. HALLO
WELL. wife of the pastor of the Baptist
church.
HARRISON ALLEN of Waverly, lias pur
chased the interests of PHILLIPS brothers in
the firm known as PHILLIPS BROS. & NEW
MAN, of East Sniithfleld.
The Ei> LOOMIS store is the fourteenth
store of goods that Sheriff DEAN has sold out.
One of our merchants remarked the other
day that he had never seen goods sold so sat
isfactorily to purchasers.— Troy Gazette.
Rev. J. BARTON FRENCH, pastor of the
Trov Baptist Church, has adopted a soil of
Mrs. WEBSTER aged 5 years, who will be
henceforth known as WILLIE BARTON
FRENCH.
We are indebted to Mr. FLTCH for a pack
age of excellent maple sugar manufactured by
C. N. BEK.R.S, and if there is any one in this
county who can beat it, we should like to see
tho samples.
We learn that LORENZO ACKI.EY, formerly
of Wyalusing, met with an accident on the
Erie road Wednesday which deprived him of
a toe. We did not hear the particulars.
Mrs. SEYMOUR SMITH, of Towanda, Pa., is
visiting her sister, Mrs. JOSEPH BURBANK,
on Spencer Avenue, in this village.-r -Oicego
Times.
Mr. S. 11. SACKKT, of Towanda. has been
in town this week, a guest at the Central
House, returning home yesterday.— lb.
Miss IIATTIE RODGEUS* of Canton, is visit
ing her many friends in this place. She is
the guest of Miss JENNIE SMITH, on Chest
nut street.
MATT W. PARSONS, of New York is regis
tered at the Ward House.
Assistant Postmaster COOLBAUGH spent
yesterday afternoon with friends in Elmira.
Miss JENNIE DKWERS entertained a few of
her young friends last evening. The rain
kapt away some who would have otherwise
attended, but ah who went •• had a splendid
time."
Miss FRANKIK ROWE and Miss AMELIA
HUBERT of East Sinithfieid, have entered
Hiram College as students. Miss DUBICRT
has been one of Smitbfield's most successful
teachers.
Deacon JAMES ELLIOTT, who is nearly 92
years old, resides in the First Ward alone in
part of his own house. Last evening he re
ceived a family visit from hit* brethren and
sisters of the Baptist church. The deacon
welcomed the company in a neat speech
which would have done credit to any man in
his prime.
Miss FRANKIK TEARS and mother enter
tained a party of guests on Monday afternoon,
including Prof. J. D. PHELPS, Mr. and Mrs*
(J. P. SKWALL. Mr. ond Mrs. CONNELL, Prof,
and Mrs. J. T. MCCOLLOM and others. Miss
TEARS returns to CazeUovia next week to
attend the Seminary under Prof. PHELPS'
management— Troy 'Gazette.
11. P. MORSE advertises some very eligible i
rooms for rent.
The attendance upon the funeral of FRANK
SHAW yesterday A f ternoon was very large.
The Jennings house will change hands the
first of next month, Mr. JENNINGS retiring
and B. W. Exxis taking his place.
We are prepared to print the revised con
stitution and by-laws for Odd Fellows lodges
n short notice and very low.
TOWANDA, PA., SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1881.
Don't fail to hear Miss HELEN POTTER and
her excellent company. New features will
be introduced on their appearance the 26th.
C. L. S. C. —The time of meeting has been
changed to Wednesday evening, March 23, as
the president cannot attend at the time an
nouuced before.
The affair* of Troy township are in a
healthy condition financially. The auditors
report #GvS.j !)6 in the treasury and only f 131
47 in outstanding orders.
Rev. Dr. TAYLOR'S subject at the Univer
salis! Church to-morrow morning will be,
"A rational religion." In the evening,
"Nihilism and its victim, the murdered czar."
11. & P. P*CK have sold their steam saw
mill at Sylvania to THOS. and CHAS. COLONY
for £2,000. This is one of the most important
mills in this section and a large district is de
pendent on it for lumber.
Lost, somewhere on Main street or in the
Five Cent store yesterday, a package of knitt
ing work, consisting of a stocking leg, two
balls of blue yarn, ami knitting needles.
Finder will confer a favor by returning it to
this office.
The storm doors in the corrider of the
Ward Ileuee have been removed. Another
indication that " etherial mildness" is at
hand; but a poetical disciple of YEXXOR
says:
There's a blizzard in the west,
So beware,
Don't put on your summer vest,
Now take care,
For when vou freeze your nose,
Your linger tips and toes.
You will want your winter clothes,
So beware.
A good house to rent in the Third ward.—
Inquire of Mrs. 11. W. PATRICK.
WEATHER INDICATIONS FOR TO-DAY.—
Cloudy, rainy; stationary or higher temper
ature.
The News Condensed.
The Senate committees were reorgan
ized with Republican chairmen yesterday.
There were less street parades than
usual throughout the country on St. Pat
rick's Day.
Hon. A. 1). White will return home in
j July and resume his duties as President
| of Cornell University.
Placards congratulating the Nihilists
i on the assassination of the Czar have.
bee posted in Paris.
Gen. Edgarton, the new Senator from
Minnesota, like eight other Senators, was
born in New York state.
There now appears to be but little
doubt that an extra session of the forty
seventh congress will be called to meet
early in May.
Baltimore and Ohio RK. stock is now
selling at 203, an unprecedented ligure.
The stock has advanced seven points in
the past two weeks.
It has been decided by the republican
caucus at Washington to increase the
membership of the Senate Finance Com
mittee from nine to eleven.
Ex-Governor William Beach Lawrence
of Rhode Island, an eminent jurist, is dy
ing at a hotel in New York city, age 83.
Judge L. S. Graham died in Atchison
0 J
Kan., on Thursday from dissipation and
exposeure. He was once Judge of the
District Court there but had become a
drunkard.
Secretary Breuuan, of the Dublin Laud
League cables to the Irish World that a
movemect has been started to present
Davitt with £IO,OOO on his release. An
Helen Potter's Pleiades.
Mereur Hall, Saturday, March 26,1881
Specially organized for this season and pronounced by popular
acclamation the most attractive, enjoyable and thoroughly
artistic Lyceum entertainment before the public.
COMPRISING THE FOLLOWING TALENTED ARTISTS":
Harriet Earnest, Soprano.
J. Williams Macy, Buffo.
THE CELEBRATED
EICHBERG STRING QUARTET
Lillian Chandler, Violin. Lillian Shattuck, Violin.
Lettie Launder, Violin and Cello. Emma Grebe, Viola.
Anna Ring Greene, Pianist.
Harry St. Ormond, - Director.
Appearing in new and attractive programs in combination with the
" Queen of the Rostrum,"
HELEN POTTER
whose dramatic genius, acknowledged by the press and public at
large, places her pre-eminently at the head of all American Elocu
tionists, Readers and Impersonators.
appeal for subscriptions will be made to
this country.
A prospectus will appear next week of
the European, American and Asiatic Sub
marine Telegraph Company, to lay lines
to Canada and European and Asiatic con
tinents. It is reported that the actual
expenditure will admit a uniform.tariff of
a shilling a word for messages over the
company's lines.
A number of prominent New York
bankers went to Washington 011 Wednes
day to consult with President Garfield
and Secretary Windom in relation to the
financial affairs of the Nation, especially
in regard to the disposal of the balance
of £104,000,000 of four per cent, bonds
which the Treasury is authorized to issue.
The committee of the House of Repre
sentatives made a report in the case of
Palmer, the correspondent of the Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette. They reported
that the charges made by Palmer were
unwarrantable and unjustifiable, and that
in making such charges he had violated
the privileges of the House. The report
was adopted, after which the resolution
expelling Palmer from his seat at the re
porters' desk, was taken up. Considera
ble discusssion followed but the resolu
tion was finally adopted.
W. Wilson, a Sunbury merchant has
mysteriously disappeared. Foul play is
suspected.
DISSOLUTION. —The co-partnership
heretofore existing between Charles Johnson,
N. M. Eichelberger and Peter Mclntyre, under the
firm name of the " Johnson Manufacturing Compa
ny," is this day disolved by mutual consent, Mr.
Peter Mclntyre retiring from the firm. The liabili
ties of said firm will be paid by Charles Johnson
and N. M. Eichelberger, and all notes and accounts
due said firm will be paid to them.
Towanda, Pa., March 12, 1881.
PRICE ONE CENT.
DR. T.B, JOHNSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
; Office over H. C Porter's Drug Store, • Residence
i corner Maple and Second Streets,
ELSBREE & SON,
A 7 TORNEYS-A T-LA W,
South side Mercur Block, Towanda, Pa.
N. C. ELSBUEK. | L. ELSBREE.
FL. IIOLLISTER D. D. S.
• (Successor to Dr. E. H. Angle.)
OPERATIVE AND MECHANICAL DENTIST.
Office oirState street, second floor of Dr. Pratt's
| ofllce - 10jan80
F THORNTON,
TUNER AND REPAIRER
Of Pianos and Organs. (Over 17 years experi
ence.) Orders received at Holmes & Passage's
! Music Store.
GW. RYAN7
■ o O UNTY S UPERINI END EN 7
! Office Patton's Block.
GF. MASON7~
" A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W,
; Office over Patch & Tracy, Main street.
HENRY STREETER,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW
TOWANDA, PA.
J W I N" WTC o D D I NG7
A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W,
Office Mercur Block, over Klrby's Drug |tore.
o~~b. KINNEY, ~
A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W,
Office, corner Main and Pine Streets, Towanda, Pa.
PECK & OVERTON^
Attorneys-at-Law, Towanda, Pa.
D'A. OVERTON, | BEN J. M. PECK.
WILLIAMS, ANGLE & BUFFING
TON,
ATTORNEYS-A T-LA W,
Office formerly occupied by W. Watkins.
WOOD & HALE~
Attorneys at Law,
Office corner Main and Pine Streets Towanda. Pa.
JAS. WOOD. | JAS. T. HALE.