DAILY
T() WAND A REYIE W.
VOLUME 11, NO. 187.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Personal.
JOHNNIE CORSER is very sick.
C. M. SANDERSON arrived in town last
evening.
O. I). BARTLETT, who now resides in Phil
adelphia, is in town.
D. 11. WILLIAMS, wife and child of Carbon
Run were registered at the Ward House last
evening.
011 AS. P. MOORE has accepted a position
with W. 11. BLIGHT and will take charge of
his Bradford coal yard.
From information received, we infer that
one of the P. O. clerks or her agent was in
Waverly Thusday evening.
Kev. WILLIAM 11. KING, pastor of Bap
tist church, Owego, for twenty-seven years
past, will preach his last sermon as pastor
to-morrow.
TREADWEI.L, the übiquitous representative
of the enterprising Binghamton Republican,
was in town yesterday looking after the in
terests of that journal which is very popular
here.
M. E. CiiunnfCK and wife, after spending
several months at a hoarding house, have de
cided to set up house keeping. They lv.ve
taken one of Mr. KUYKENDAI.L'S houses on
Main street.
RALPH TOZER, of Bethlehem, has been
Spending a few days with his brother at Ath
ens, and was calling on friends iri this place
yesterday. We are pleased to note he was
looking well and appeared in the best of
spirits.
We clip the subjoined items from the Wells
boro Gazette of Thursday:
John F. Sanderson, Esq.. a member of the
Towanda school hoard, visited the Wellsboro
High School last Friday, and expressed him
self as highly pleased with what lie saw dur
ing his hasty tour of observation.
Mr. Geo. Hill, an old and respected resident
of Burlington, Bradford county, has been
spending a few days in town. At the ripe
age of s"Venta-three he does not appear more
than fifty. The principal recreation of bis de
clining years is angling, at which he is an
expert.
Mr. Geo. Est ell, Jr.. clerk in the ITothono
tary's office at Towanda. made the floor of the
Gazette office creak on Tuesday. His avoir
dupois is only 258 pound*. Boh Austin,
whose place of business i> underneath.thought
that one of our "sitting elephants" had broken
loose. A subpiena duces tecum brought -Mr.
Estell and his grip sack to Wellsboro.
Col. J. F. Means, a life-long Democrat and
prominent citizen of Towanda, made a pleas
ant call at the Gazette office 011 Monday. The
Colonel met with an accident at La'wrence
ville last Friday evening, which has lamed
him considerable but we trust not seriously.
He attempted to board the Wellsboro train
after it had been started, but was unable to
maintain his hold and was thrown to one side
of the track, striking heavily upon Ids side.
He returned to Towanda 011 Tuesday.
Have you t:\sted " chips?"
Fresh Chips at FITCII'S this morning.
We hear that a large company from I)u
--shore will attend the HELEN POTTER enter
tainment this evening. Town-people who
have not yet secured seats had better do so
at once. The programme will be entirely
new.
The estimate in which Bradford county
horses (and babies) are held, may be inferred
from a lemark of a.little boy in this county,
who said recently: " I would not sell my
ittle sister for a hundred dollars or a million
dollars, or a real horse!"'
The sheriff's sale of the En. LOOM is stock
concluded on Tuesday, the amount realized
bciug a little rising of $4,700 which was con
siderably below the inventory, which was
quite unsatisfactory as an index of the value
of the goods. The sale was conducted on the
part of Sheriff PETKH J. I)KAN in a highly
creditable and strictly just manner and buyers
have been well satisfied. Sheriff DEAN has
made many friends by bis straightforward
uprightness and courtesy during this sale.
TOWANDA, PA., SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 18S1.
! Bradford county never had a more popular
| sheriff than PETER J. DEAN.— Troy Gazette.
11011. LYMAN TRUMAN, one of the oldest
and best known citizens of the Southern Tier
died at his residence in Owego Thursday
morning, at the advanced age of 7G years. 111
concluding a sketch of the deceased, the
'Owego Times sava: "A great man lias
passed away —one who has left his impress
for good 011 his native county and State.
When the village of Owego was destroyed in
1849. Mr. TRUMAN gave form and infused
i energy into the citizens, so that rebuilding
was commenced, and the Alnvaga House and
the brick stores of Front street soon rose out
of the general ruins. Though partially with
drawn for some years from active life, his
: death will leave a void not easily filled, lie
leaves a wife, three daughters, and many
brothers and sisters and their families and
1 friends to mourn his loss."
The funeral takes place at 2 o'clock this
! afternoon.
WEATHER INDICATIONS FOR TO-DAY.—
i Increasing cloudiness, rain and lower temper
: at ure'.
The News Condensed.
Count Pecci, the Pope's brother-died at
1 Home yesterday.
The wife of the tragedian Booth is ser
%
iously ill in London.
Nearly six hundred students are in at
tendance at Cornell University.
A lady named Mary S. Whiton, living
• in Ithaca, died from bleeding at the nose.
State Senator E. L. Roberts, inventor
; oTthe oil well torpedo, and one ot the
| wealthiest men in the state, died at his
' home in Titusville yesterday,
j The bill authorizing the refunding op
| ten millions of the State debt at lour per
! cent passed a second reading in the House,
s Efforts to refund at 3 and failed.
I
The appropriations committee have de-
J cided to report favorably to the house the
! bill appropriating S2G(J,OOO for the liqui
dation of the normal school debt.
The Democratic caucus decided to re
; sist by all parlimentary moans the adopt
j ion of the pending resolution by which
i the Republicans seek the immediate con
trol of the Senate officers.
Twenty-six creameries have been es
tablished in Bucks county since 1879,
which are making butter and cheese at
the rate of 050 tons ol butter and 2,000
tons of cheese per annum.
It Is runiered that Win. Walter Phelps,
just nominated for Minister to Austria,
was among the victims of the Nice opera
house fire. Phelps' partner in New York
telegraphed to Nice for information.
Attorney General Palmer decides that
the Act of 1874. allowing members of the
,
Legislature extra compensation, is un
constitutional, and members are not en
titled to more than a thoueand dollars
pay. #
The bureau of statistics at Washington
reports that the value of exports of pro
visions, tallow and dairy products during
February was $14,72.8,1)00; February last
year $9,243,000. The value of exports of
dairy products for u thc ten months end
ing February 28th, was $22,219,000 and
same period last year $15,100,000.
After being out twenty-four hours the
jury in the Kalloch case yesterday after
noon brought in a verdict of not guilty.
The verdict was received with much ap
plause. The defendants were heartily
congratulated by their friends. When
Kalloch got in a carriage to go home an
.immense crowd took the horses from the
11 elen Potter's Pleiack\s.
Mereur Mall, Saturday, March 26,1881
Specially organized tor 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 Maey, Buffo
TIIE CELEBRATED
EJOII BERG STRING QUARTET
Lillian Chandler, Violin. Lillian Shattuck, Violin.
Lettie Launder, \ iolin and Cello. Emma Grebe, Viola.
Anna Ring Greene, Pianist.
Harry St. Ormond, - - - Director.
Appearing in new and attractive programs in combination with the
" Queeji of the Rostrum,"
HELEN POTTER '
whose dramatic jenius, acknowledged by the press and public at
large, places he pre-eminently at the head of all American Elocu
ti mists, Readers and Impersonators.
vehicle and pulled him to his house, some
three miles.
It is announced that the charter of the
Livingston Medical University at Charles
town, West Virginia, has been repealed
because it has-been selling bogus medical
diplomas. The New England English
University ot Arts and Sciences, at Bos
ton, has been detected selling diplomas
in Europe. It has been put on tlie fraud
list of the Post Office Department and
the delivery oi registered letters stopped.
The State Department will send circulars
to Europe to check the nefarious busi
ness.
A good girl wanted for a few days to assist
in moving. Apply at this office to-day.
Lost, yesterday', a pair of gold-bowed spec
tacles, marked " 11. Mix," 011 base of how.
The tinder will be rewarded on returning to
H. Mix.
Bargains in Glassware at C. P. Welles'
Sweet potatoes at George Ridgeway's,
Bridge street. 187
Being about to break up housekeeping, I of
fer my household furniture for sale at a bar
gain. Gall at jay residence on Ward avenue
before April Ist." J. L. KENT.
You can get everything in the grocery
and canned goods line, except poor and stale
goods, at Swarts & Gordon's. Every article
on their shelves is of the best quality, new
and fresh.
I had been a great sufferer from Neuralgia
for years and had consulted a great many dif
ferent physicians, but got no cure until I took
Dr. Burr's Neuralgia and Sick Headache Fills; |
they cured me and I have recommended to ,
over fifty persons and I have never known
them to fail. They are also the best nervous !
and dyspeptic pill i ever saw.
SIDNEY BROADRENT. j
Master Mechanic, Dickens Manufacturing
Company, Scranton, Pa.
Best galvanized slop jars only $1 at C. P. j
Welles Crockery Store.
PRICE ONE CENT.
Moving Household (roods and all kinds of
draying done on reasonable terms by Murray
Watts, who lias one of the in town
and a good team. Orders left at G. S. Ack
ley's otlice will receive prompt attention.
Foil S.vr,p.—A new Singer Sewing Machine
and a new Davis Machine, for sale 011 time.
For particulars call at this office.
Cows Foil Sale.—l have eight, good young
milch cows for sale. \Y\ J. Dklpkuoh.
Horn Brook, 2—23. " Boars' Den."
Ten ribbed umbrellas only 99 cents at C. I*.
Welles crockery and 99c store.
DI S SOLUTION. —Tho partnership
heretofore existing between Haml. Woodford
and Jno. VanDorn under the firm name of
\Y oodtord & VanDorn, is tliis day dissolved iiy mu
tual consent.
The books and papers of the late lirm are left in
the hands of Saml. Woodford, to whom all debts
due the lirm must be paid and by whom all debts
owing by the firm will be settled.
SAMUEL WOODFORD.
JOtfN" VANDORN.
To wanda, March 18, 1881.
DISSOLUTION. —The co-partnership
heretofore existing between Charles Johnson,
N. M. Eiehelberger and Peter Mclntyre, under the
tirm name of the "Johnson Manufacturing Compa
ny," is tills day disolved by mutual consent, Mr.
Peter Mclntyre retiring from the firm. Tho liabili
ties of said tirin will bo paid by Charles Johnson
and N. M. Eicholberger, and all notes and accounts
due said firm will be paid to them.
dTowanda, Pa., March 12, 1881.
'TH*'XKCUTOU'N NOTlCE.—Letters tes
-J-—> tamentary having been granted to the under
signed, under the last will and testament of
(ieorge Card, late of tho Township of Wysox, de
ceased, all persons indebted to the estate of said
decedent are hereby notified to make immediate
payment, and all having claims against said estate
must present the same duly authenticated to the
undersigned for settlement.
WM. H. SMITH, Executor.^
Towanda, Feb 24.1881—6w
EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE. Letters
testamentary having been granted to the un
dersigned. executrix of the estate of Ethan B.
Moore, late of Ulster, deceased, all persons indebted
to the estate of said decedent are hereby notified to
make immediate payment, and all having claims
against said estate must present the same duly au
thenticated to the undersigned for settlement.
LOUDiA MOORE, Executrix.
Ulster, Fob. 24, 1881.