rpJSS ISPQBLICJVO LAPOBTB, PA., JAN. 22nd, 1892. LOCAIDEPARTMENT. ~~ February election will soon be here. Mother earth is again robed in white. Lent begins March 2d and Easter falls, on April 17. We have about one half of the county audit, in type. Miss Alma Lauer of LaPorte, is quite ill with the grip. A. J. Uackley of LaPorte, is re ported on the sick list. The out look for an ice crop in this section, is not very favorable at present. We placed the names of six new subscribers ou our subscription book, last week. Bradford county will oulj elect two members this fall, instead ol three, as of yore. The Sullivan county courts con vene on Washington's birthday, Monday February 22. •Edward Pierce of Jamison City, is visiting his mother at North Or well, Bradford county. The county statement will appear in the REPUBLICAN, four times during the month of February. This is about the season of the year when aspirants for Legislative honors express themselves. Mrs. Judge Mason, who lias been ill since the recent death of her husband, Hon. W. A. Mason, is slowly improving. The REPUBLICAN turned out §2O 75 worth* of job work, on Friday and Saturday last. The HEP. ia head quarters for job work. A valuable horse of Stewart Chase of LaPorte, slipped aiid broke his leg, on the Nordmont road, about, one mile from town, on Monday. Hon. E. A. Strong and J. D. lleeser, general merchant, both of Pushore, passed through LaPorte en-route for Muncy Valley, on Mon day A. M. We received several communica tions last week, too late for publica tion. All letters for publication should reach us not latter than Tues day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Karns of La- Porte, were present at the marriage of Dr. C. S. O'Brien to Miss Sadie Cole, at Benton, Columbia county, on Thursday last. We publish a new "Administrator's Notice" this week of the settling up of the estate of Mathias Bostion, late of Davidson twp. E. I. Brun dage, adm'r. The Democratic National Com mittee will meet in Washington, to day, Thursday, for the purpose of fixing date and place of holding their National Convention. Constables and assessors will be elected for the ensuing three years at this spring election. For the latter, the best and most competent business men should be selected. The narrow guage railroad from Sonestown to the 'Mere, will be lo cated as soon as the weather will permit. Chief Engineer, W. C. Mason, of LaPorte, will do the work. The county commissioners award ed James Gansel of LaPorte twp., the contract of hauling twenty-five tons of coal from Bernice to the county buildings, on Saturday last. His bid was SI.BO per ton. The Wyoming Democrat is boom ing M. J. Lull for candidate for Member of Sullivan county this fall. With the Dushore Gazette for Karns and the Democrat for Lull, both can didates will be well looked after. Ex-President David J. Ilill, of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, and his wife have received the $250,- 000 estate of the late Mrs. Catharine Packer of Williainsport. Mr. Hill and family occupied the Meylert Mansion, at LaPorte, during the summer months of 1891. Will there be harmony in the camp of the county Democracy this fall? To a man up a tree, it would appear not. Here is a pretty good chanoe for a collision—two or three aspirants for the honor of Member ; four for Prothonotary and a half dozen or more for Sheriff. The out- Jook for considerable fun in the Democratic convention, is notice ably very good. The Scranton Tribune has a libel suit on band, having been sued by Hon. Joseph A. Scranton, ths editor and publisher of the Republican, for slanderous utterances. It is ex ceedingly rare for a newspaper man to desert his guns and seek shelter from the attack of a contemporary behind the law. "Jack the Slasher" of New York city was captured by the police of said city, on Sunday morning. He has cut the throats of twelve per sons with a razor in the past few months. He is doomed a maniac who is seeking revenge on intoxi cated germans, and for his reason, he says—that his mother was as saulted by one some time ago. Captain Cnase of th-3 'Mere, paid us a call, on Monday, and reports business in the way of erecting buildings at the famous summer re sort, still booming. He 6ays there are three new cottages now under course of construction. The Cap tain, at a recent meeting of the Eagles Mere Land Company, was elected general superintendent and treasurer of said corporation. The county statement will show the county in excellent standing. Liabilities in excess of resources onlv one thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents. This is only $1G6.90 more than it was last year. S lid increase of expense of the county is ac counted for by the many improve ments put on county bridges and the expense of a trial in court — Sullivan county vs Lorah. Several witnesses of LaPorte and vicinity, were called to Williams port on Tuesday to testify in the case of A. M. Mints vs 11. T. Ames, executor of the estate of the late A. It Sprout. The suit is for damages. Amoug the witnesses from here, were: Walter Spencer, A. L. Grim, Alphonsus Walsh and E. I. Brun dage. The case will be argued by : E. P. Ingham and others for pill, and Dunham and others for the deft. W. M. Davidge of the Firm of Davidge & Sherwood, hub manu faotnrers; Frank Barrager, general superintendent TOE Davidge it Sher wood : Thos. E. Kennedy, general superintendent of Thos. E- Proctor's store ; E. J. Flynn assistant superin tendent for Proctor; Thos. Sheehan who superintends the rolliug of leather for Proctor and Chas. Landon, boss carpenter, all of Jamison City, were calling on friends at LaPorte, Sunday. Walter Spencer aged 13 years, and son of J. H. Spencer of LaPorte, while playing with one of his as sociates Loo YVrede, on his return home from school Friday evening last unfortunately broke his right leg below the knee joint. Dr. Herr mann of Dushore was summoned and bandaged the broken bone and Walter at this date is reported in cheerful spirits and doing nicely. The misfortune occurred in a wrestle between Leo and Walter and it is said that the former feels very much aggrieved about the accident. It has been discovered that an error was made by the last Legisla ture when it attempted to amend the liquor license law so as to allow bondsmen for license applicants to reside in any part of the county in stead of the ward or township in which the applicant resides. The amendment was intended to apply to the Brooks act approved May 13, 1887, but whether through error or intentionally, it was made to apply to the act approved May 24, 1887, which relates to wholesale licenses. The error is calculated to cause trouble, as well as inconvenience. Rutter, of tlie Hughesville Mail, is a good adviser of public safety. In his issue last week, he %ays: "'Beaver dam is frozen over solid." In another instance he records a number of boys and girls skating on the dam with terrible result. The ice broke underneath Miss Van- Buskirk and she was rescued from a wattery grave. Here he says : "The ice is too thin for skating and it is dangerous to try it." For in formation about the safety of the ice, so far as Ilulter's quotations are con cerned, we imagine the people of Hughesville will be obliged to in vestigate. The solid part of Rut ter's head, judging from his paper, is his neck. Prof. Black of Forksville, was in town, Wednesday. Henry Green Esq., of Towanda, was registered at the LaPorte Hotel, on Wednesday. Whom to Pity. Tbe death of the Duke cf Clarence and Avondale, eldest sou of the Prince of Wales, on Jau. 14, while it has excited great interest and sympathy among subjects of the British Crown in all parts of the globe, is to be deplored rather on account of the personal sorrow which it causes to his mother, the greatly loved Princess of Wales, and to tbe young woman who was to have married bim in a few weeks, than on account of any great im portance it may have ou the future of tbe British Crown. Even royalitv beneath tbe iron mask which court etiquette compels it to wear, is but human, and no one, however ardent against monarchism, need hesitate to express sympathy for the dead Prince's mother, and for the young girl placed in almost the saddest position which a woman can occup}'. Saloon Keepers Liable. The Supreme Court of this state has aflirmed the constitutionality of the law which holds saloon keepers liable for damages when drunken persons to whom they have sold liquor are injured, Tbe case brought before the court was one where a jury awarded damages to the widow of a man who contracted pneumonia while drunk, the widow having sued the saloon keeper for furnishing her husband with the liquor through which she lost him. A jury found for the widow, and tbe case was carried to the higher oourt on the ground that the man was guilt}' of contributory negligence in voluntarily drinking the liquor. In discussing the point the court said : "Every drunkard not only takes liquor voluntarily, but whenever be can get it, and because of his weak ness the law makes the saloon keeper responsible for selling to such per sons. He has not the will power bo resist the temptation, and for this reason the sale to him is forbiddeu." —Ex. If the above is correct, why not call on tbe landlords of LaPorte to settle the bill contracted by Gorman, who fell while intoxicat ed ami broke his leg after which l:e was for six or eight weeKs a town charge at the home of Henry Horn. Our overseers of the poor should look up this matter before levying a poor lax oil the people to make this bill good. PREPARE FOR THE ORIP. A Young Woman Has Figured the Symptoms Out. From the Chicago Tribuue: A Wabash avenue doctor: I have a young woman patient who has made all arrangements whereby she will know when she reaches the grip, or when it reaches her. She has been studying up the symptoms and there she has written out aud hung in her room. The list is in paragraphs, as follows : Backache. Headache as if you had been out all night. All the bones ache. You can't see. You can't smell anything. You can't hear anything. Your eyes run water. So does your nose. Ditto your mouth. Don't care for anybody on earth. Nobody seems to care for you. You are glad of it. All these are the grip. Every day that young woman ex amines herself and if she has any of the symptoms set down in the fore going list she cbecks oil the same and then her mother sends for me. BORN. To Mr. and Mrs. John Con nolly of New York, on Jan. 11, a girl. Mrs. Connolly is the young est daughter of Mr. Bernard Sheehan nee, Miss Xellie of LaPorte twp. Mr. Sheehan received a telegram from New York on Wednesday evening stating that Mrs. Connolly is dangerously ill and that her re covery is doubtful. To Mr. and Mrs. Newell, of Du shore—a boy. On Sunday January the 10th. To Mr. and Mrs. James Gansel, of LaPorte twp.—a girl. On Jan. 13th. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Horn, of LaPorte—a girl. Ou Jan. 12th. WILUAIH 11. PAINTON OF NONESTOWN, SULLIVAN COUNTY, MIST HAKti. New Trial Related Hliu and He IN Sentenced to Die. From the York Duily Jan. 18. A large crowd of people assem bled in the courthouse Saturday morn> ing at the opening of court to hear the result of the motion and argu ment for a new trial in the case of William H. Painton, the convicted murder of Mrs. Michael Strominger, of Lewisberry, than has ever as sembled at any bearing of this case. The doorway and aisles were crowd ed with spectators, anxious to see and hear. Judges Latimer and Rittenger were on the bench. Pain ton, guarded by deputies and heavi ly handcuffed, sat in the prisoner's dock, with a nervous look. Judge Latimer soon brought matters to a climax by directing the prisoner to stand up. Painton nervously faced the Judge, who stated that he held in his hand an opinion which he would not read, in which he dis missed the motion and rule for a new trial in the case in which he had been tried and convicted by a jury of his own selection of the highest offence in the annals of crime. He also stated that as a last resort he could take the case to a higher tribunal, where he under stood it would be taken. The Judge then said, "Have you aught to say why sentence should be imposed ?" Painton replied, "I do not think I had a fair only one request to make, and that is that you may make it as short as 3'ou can, so that I may get out of persecution." The Judge then said that only one thing remained for him to do, to pronounce the sentence. "The sentence of the court is that you be taken hence to the county prison, from whence you came, and thence to the place of execution and there to be hanged by the neck un til you are dead. And may God have mercy on j'our soul." The prisoner took his seat and was soon afterward removed to the county jail. At two o'clock in the afternoon the court bouse was again crowded to hear the accomplices of Painton, Daniel W. Smith and Franklin L. Smith, sentenced. Daniel Wesly Smith was first called up. when the Court said that the Commonwealth out of no sympathy for him, but for the reason that they thought the ends of justice would be more justly reached by accepting a plea of guilty for the crimes of burglary, robbery, and larceny and receiving stolen goods, in place ot trying him for murder ; that he had not at any time approved of this manner of dis posing of the cases, for if he was guilty of the crimes to which he plead guilty, he was guilty of a much more serious crime, that of murder, and therefore he was not disposed to be lenient in imposing the sen tences. He, therefore, sentenced him to separate and solitary confine ment in the Eastern penitentiary for the term of ten years for the first offence, burglary, the term of five years to begin at the expiration of the lirst sentence, for robbery, and 3 years, to begin from this date, for larceny and receiving stolen goods. Franklin L. Smith was then called up and the court said for reasons stated in Daniel W. Smith's case, be would, inasmuch as there was only one indictment aga<nst him, sentence him to the full extent of the law, ten years at separate and solitary con finement in the eastern penitentiary. The prisoners did not seem much affected by these sentences. TRI ENNTA'LAPPEAL. The County Commissioners will hold their triennial appeal in the several bor oughs and townships, as follows : LaPorte boro and township at Commis sioners office in LaPorte, on Monday Feb. Bth, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 4 p. M. Davidson twp., at Tlotel Mngargle in Sonestown, on Feb. 9th, hours —10 A. M. to 3 p. M. Shrewsbury twp.. at the residence of Mathew Taylor, on Feb. 10th, hours —8 A. m.to 13 M. Hills Grove twp., at Hotel Mcßride, on Feb. 11th, hours— B A. M. to 13M. Fox twp., at Hotel Letts on Feb- 12th, honrs—B A. M. to 12 M. Elkland twp., at the residence of Joseph Grange, on Feb. 12th, hours 2 p. M. to sp, M. Forksville boro and Forks twp., at Hotel Hannon in Forksville boro., ou Feb. 13th, hours —8 A. M. to 3 P. M. Dushore boro and Cherry twp., at Hotel Carroll in Dushore boro., Feb. 15th, hours—9 A. M. to SP. M. Collev twp., at Hotel Hunsinger, on Feb. 16th, hours— lo A. M. to 3P. M. S. K. McIiHIDB, ) W. M. Ch&nky, - Com. D. W. SCANLIK ) Com. office, Jau. 11, 1893. *E. G. SYLYARAKr DUSHORE, PA. DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOTS, K AND SHOES/ CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF' THE PRODUCE BUSINESS ANDJAT ALL J [fIMES" PAY THE' HIGHEST PRICE INJCASII FOR WOOL, BUTTER AND EGGS. K G. S J. L fi£K unilM BOOTS AND SHOES. I have the largest and best stock of hand -made Boots and Shoes for the' Fall, trade made from tbe best Hemlock, Oak Jand French Kip. I Guarantee Prices Lower and GoodeJjßetter than you can buy from anyone else in thej trad®. Ladies Fine Shoes. I have all styles and widths from? $1,007 to fc-LOO. Lace, Button and Congress. You will alwaysjfind the Best jGoods for the_least money .at'my store, J. S. HARRINGTON, NAXE'H BLOCK, MAIN STKEET. ™ DUSIIORE," PA". LAWR EN C E B R o_S.j0 _ S.j Mm klets and Undertakers. We have just received a large new line of Fall Goods of the latest designs and styles. A great variety of Parlor Suits, Easy Chairs, Spiing Rockers &c. A full line of Bed-room Suits, Spring JMatresses, and Feathers. The linest assortment of Office Desks, Cabinets and Writing Desks ever kept in Dushore. We also wish to call special attention to our fine assoitment of Couches, Lounges, Picture Mouldings, Ofllce Chairs, Bar-<- room Chaiis, Dining-room Chairs, jKitchen Chairs &c. Everybody is invited to CALL AND SEE; OURJj NEW GOODS UNDERTAKING In Undertaking we have a large assortment of COFFINS AND CASKETS. EMBALMING WHEN | REQUIRED. An elegant hearse will attend all funerals. Apportion of the publicj patronage is espectfullvjsolicited. LAWRENC]!] BROS.,"l>ushoreTPk. * "TO thk PTOLKS ~ o-o—o-o-o—o—o-o-o—o—o—o-o-o I am prepared to meet any prices or quotations with a first class and well selected stock ol MEN'S, YOUTH'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING. HATS, CAPS, AND GENTS EURNISJIING GOODS TRUNKS, BAGS AND UMBRELLAS. I also have full linesjof Samples from two Merchant Tailoring Estab- Custom Work. Perfect fits guaranteed. Call and get prices, "Yours Respectfully etc., F. P. VINCENT. CRONIN'S NEW I?LOCK, _ _ _ DUSHORE, PA. la A kUXIK TUAT AJ*PlJia WITH PICLLUa FORCE TO SCUOOLB. Xfc WILLIAMS & ROGERS' RCHESTER BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, Stands at the head of the list of commercial schools in its character as a mediumjfor supplying the business men of the' country with trained and capable assistants, us a means of placing ambitious young men and women on the high road to success, and in the extent elegance and cost of its equipment. THOROUGH COMMERCIAL,SUOR ['HAND AND PRACTICAL ENGLISH COURSES. The Twenty-seventh Annual Catalogue will be mailed to any address. JLOYAL SOCK COAL. The best and cheapest coal in the market. To customers from LAPORTE and VICINITY. THE PRICE'IS REDUCED AT TIIE BREAKER TO K)O per qi Li ox o N. AND AT.THORNKDALES3.OO PER TON BY THE CAR. The State Line & Sullivan R. R o. I. O. BLIGHT, Sup'U
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