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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.
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DUSHORE, PA.
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We have just received a large new line of Fall Goods of the latest
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The linest assortment of Office Desks, Cabinets and Writing Desks
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