Republican News Item. THURSDAY, MAY 19. l*9X. Ignorance is the mother of J <! scepticism. Ignorance does J V n^t,abound to any great extent t • in Sullivan County. W So that there $ J \ is But Little # J J Scepticism £ <[ about the Value of ifcbelflews J \ ITtem l *As a Profitable £ ilHbvertistng I j; flDebium. i <|Read it, Your neighbor does, 112 0 Subscribe, Don't borrow. J County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. Like thieves, in the dark, With an electrical spark, 'Twas done in the night by Spain In God's broad daylight, In square open fight, We make thetn remember the Maine. —This is a great war for mileage. —Spanish ships float better than her debt. —Cervera's fleet is just out for the benefit of the voyage. —The umpire will soon begin to call strikes on Sampson. -Admiral Cervera of the Spanish fleet hain't lost a man. —Grass is growing almost while you look at it these days. —Will Kiess of Sonestown was a caller in town on Sunday. —Judge Dunham is holding court in Wilkes Banc this week. —Mrs. M. C. Lauer and son Ernest were callers in Eagles Mere Sunday i —Constable A. E. Tripp was in | Jamison City on business Monday. ; -Ex-Judge Phillips was a pleas ant visitor at the county seat Satur day. —Thos. E. Kennedy and F. W. Gallagher were callers in Bernice on Tuesday. —W A. Cole and J. P. Kennedy of Jamison City were callers in town Tuesday. —Geo. C. Birdsall and wife of Estella were county seat guests on Monday. —John J. Webster of Jackersville was transacting business in town on Monday. —Harry Paulhamus of William sport was transacting business in town the early part of the week. j —Harry Crossley and Geo. Ranee of Benton, visited with F. M. Cross ley and family over Sunday. John Hileman of Dushore is at work dressing stone this week at the | courthouse, for bases of the windows j in the building. —Messrs. Fradk Herdic and Fred J Payne of Williamsport are the well entertained guests of Gallaghers Hotel this week. The gentlemen' are on a fishing expedition. —A base ball team has been organ-1 ized at this place with Chas. Lauer i at the head. It is to be hoped that j they play better games than the i diamond dandies did last season. —The P. O. S. of A. at this place have purchased a new flag and have it flung to the breeze from their hall window. —Silas Henry of Eagles Mere was a pleasant caller in town Sunday and a welcome visitor to the I. O. O. F. Saturday evening. —Mrs. Mary Kline of Shunk was in town Saturday attending to the legal matters in the estate of Patro clus Kline deed, late of Fox twp. —Found, on Saturday, May 14, a sum of money comprising one bank note, in the woods near Lake Mokoma Owner can have same by calling on John Minnier and proving owner ship. —Proverbial wisdom is again jus tified. Numbers of marriage licen ses are being issued to soldiers. None but the brave deserve the fair. —lf it's so that the Havanese are eating mules it means the obstinacy in that city will be less when it comes to a demand for surrender. Lost, strayed or stolen, a fleet of : alleged fighting ships belonging to the little King of Spain. A liberal reward will be paid for information |of its whereabouts. Address,: Samp | son, High Sea. | —The Eagle Hotel one mile from ; town is opened to accomodate court i guests at 60 cents per day. —ln the absence of a stable govern ment in Cuba, they have a stable diet in the shape of horse flesh. — l That Spanish fleet is about the fleetest thing out in evading Samp son. —As further evidence of martial spirit the new baby that is christen ed Dewey is likely to be immediately up in arms. —The newly appointed postmaster John C. Scher, accompanied by Chas. Lawrence of Dushore was shaking hands with friends in town Saturday. —Spain's Cabinet is rather upset. But when a nation is about finally moving from one continent to an other that the furniture should be broken is only natural. —When a man is on the up grade the world falls behind and pushes. When he is on the down grade the world again falls behind and kicks him farther down. The world is bound to help a man going either way. This is a friendly world after •ill. —The boarding house conducted by Mrs. Andrus at this place will be prepared to take court boarders next week. —The editor recently started out in real estate speculation and pur chased a lot on Muney street, and is now sinking his capital in the hole. Geo. Smith ol' Cambra, is engaged in blasting a well, assisted by Win. Finkle and Sam Mahaffey. They are driving our real estate up at a rapid rate but the (£) mark-et is suff ering however. We want to sell. —Keep at work. War is not go ing to ruin the country. It will not paralyze business. It will not stop the mills. It will not keep people from eating. It will not destroy the necessities. It will not remove the demands for clothes. The world will move along about as usual, and the man who works will not be the one who will complain of hard times and the tightness of money. —The Spanish fleet must be übi quitous. We hear of it in every quarter,—now at Cadiz; now at the Verdies; now going through the Suez Canal; now off Nantucket; now rounding Cape Horn; now tucked away among the Canaries ; now good gracious, what's that! Coining up the Big Sock already. Well, never mind, Lauer's base ball team is mobilizing,—they will take care of the Dons. A few swift curves will blow them out, and then Madrid can rejoice over another Spanish victory. —lt would appear as if adversity in the shape of disastrous fires can not disturb the equanimity of temper or ruffle the spirits of that prince of good fellows "T. W." Beahen. He has purchased the Lamoreux proper ty on Main street and will soon appear among us again as a landlord with greater vitality and bouyant spirit than ever. The house is being remodeled into a hotel which will be ready for his occupancy by court week. The Associate Judges, last week, transferred the license granted to the late Laporte Hotel. —The proudest man in town just now is Rev. Patton, pastor of the M. E. church. He is proud because his church is prospering, and his congre gation have manifested, renewed and increased confidence in, and attach ment to, their pastor; proud because the American warriors are knocking all the empty pride out of Spanish enemies; and exceedingly proud be cause lie has composed a beautiful song in relation to the present war, entitled "Uncle Sam's Rallying Song." It will be published in sheet music and put on the market soon, and we believe it will become de servingly popular. —Jerome Iteed on Wednesday moved from this place to the house built by Merrit Sehaffer in Laporte | township. —John Minnier has moved into the residence vacated by Jerome Reed. —Peter McDonald is on the sick list suffering with rheumatism. | —Having its hands full of domestic trouble is another reason why Spain is slow in the use of its arms. —Since there's talk of making a > trade of the Philippines with England i what's the matter with exchanging them for Ireland. I —Don't talk on the war question | unless you carry a pocket geography. BERMICE ECHOES. Continued From Page One. which sapped out her vitality until at last she succumbed. Premature old age, bring the chief causes of her death. She is survived by three sons Micheal, John and Daniel, and four daughters, Mrs. Rosa Hoffa, Mrs. Frank McMahan of this place, Mrs. Frank McMahan of Dushore and Mrs. Cornelius Dorigan of WaverlyjN. Y., and 10 grand children. Interment at the St. Francis cemetery Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock May 10. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Hannon visited friends in Dushore Saturday. Miss Alice Gilligan of Lopez visit ed friends here Sunday. Standing on the corner may not mean any harm but it does not look good in the eyes of the bachelors. Some of our readers seem to think that we write too much society news. For their special benefit we would say that any secret society news seen in this column is written by special request, also that we are glad to get any society news that may be of interest to the reading public. Please don't try to make fun of us, for we do the best we can, though our efforts at journalism may be improved. We don't claim to be a Mark Twain or a Bennett. H. E. Watson attended the Great Council of the I. O. 11. M. at Ilones dale Pa. this week, as representative of Katonka Tribe No. 336 of Bernice. A number of capitalists from Pittston are opening a coal mine on what is known as the Jackson tract one mile west of Berniee. G. W. Gunton of Pittston is general mana ger and engineer. The above coal field has been operated by the S. L. tfc S. It. R. Co. previous to 188"). In theSpring of that year the Jackson heirs raised the royalty and the com pany refused to pay the increased royalty and suspended operations. This lead to a lawsuit which was fought through the several courts of the state resulting in a judgment in favor of the Jacksons of nearly SIBOO. This money laid in the Towanda banks for years and is there yet. We think as the heirs refused to ac cept it, in the mean time the com pany had removed all their roads and other machinery from the mine and it is now in a delapidated con dition. The new company are put ting in their opening in the north western corner of the property and will ultimately reach the old work ings. They have begun the erection of a new breaker which will be fin islied as soon as possible. At the place of the new opening there is nine feet of good coal, but this will not last, as the average height in the old workings was less than six feet. They estimate that there is about 350,000 tons of coal on the tract but this is doubtful, as the vein is very irregular and may run out at any time. There is only about 12 feet of covering over it and in some places not that much. Owing to the exceedingly brilliant victory of Admiral Dewey so early in the war, the events which have occurred since then have appeared tame and it has seemed to many that no progress has been made. This is only apparent however. Such an opportunity of achievement as that which confronted Admiral Dewey at Manila does not occur every day, and should not be expect ed. Since then the work of prepara tion has been going on, the levy of 125,000 volunteers is almost ready for service, arrangements are now completed for sending an army to the Philippines to finish the work so well begun by Admiral Dewey, and as soon as the matter of the Spanish fleet can be attended to the men and materials will be ready for a descent upon Cuba. The fleet will in all likelihood, be located this week, so that whether a naval battle takes place or not it will no longer be an uncertain factor in future operation and will scarcely interfere with the main movement of the war—the occupation of Cuba. Those who think the latter move ment an easy one, to be undertaken on the spur of the moment, should remember that not only have we the task of reducing the island to poss ession and of maintaining the army necessary to accomplish that task but that we will immediately have to maintain the insurgent army, feed the reconcentrados and ultimately, when we take them prisoners, feed the Spanish army itself. We will have to be prepared, in a short time after our occupancy, to practically provision all the people of the island. This is no light task in itself leaving out the problem of conquest. The war will be only a month old on Saturday next. As its beginning found us with an army of only 25.000 men, scattered over thousands of miles of territory, it cannot be said that we have done so badly. Goto J. W. Buck, Sonestown, for rubbers, blankets, carpets, clothing and dressgooil* at December low prices. 11 igb est prices paid for butter and eggs. QOCRT PROCLAMATION, WHEREAS, HON. E. M. DUNHAM, President Judge, Honorable* John S. Line and Conrad Kraus Associate Judges of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Deliverer, (Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans Court and Com mon Pleas for the County of Sullivan, have issued their precept, bearing date the 3» day of March ISiW, to uie directed, for holding the several courts in the Borough of La porta, on Monday the 23d day of May ITOB, at '2 o'clock p. m. Therefore, notice is hereby given to the Coroner Justices of the Peace and Constables within the county, that they be then and there in their prop er person at 2 o'clock p. m.of said day, with their rolls, records, inquisitions examinations and other rememberauces to those tilings to which their otlices appertain to be done. And to those who are bound by their recognization to prosecute against prisoners who are or shall be in tlie jail of the said county of Sullivan, are hereby notified to lie then and there to prosecute against them as will be Just. ELLIS SWANK. Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Laporte, Pa.„ Apr. 14, 189S. Trial List, May Term, 1808. 1 Henry McDermott vs Thomas Mahaffey, No. 56. May Term lts9s. Trespass, Plea, "not guilty". Dewitt | Collins &■ Inghams. 2 H. J. Shaylor, vs Stewart Chase, No. 33. Sept. Term IS'JS. Replevin, Pica, "Property <S C", Hill | Downs &. Crawford. 3 Mitchell, Young & Co. vs A. J. Hackley, No. 101 Sept. Term 18M6. Scire Facias, Plea, "Payment, payment with cause <Stc, Hill, | Inghains. I Frank Middendoif, vs The Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company, No. 60 Sept. Term 1596, Tres pass, Plea, "liotguilty". Mullen<fc Walsh | Thom son 4 Streeter. & James McFarlane, vs W. C. Mason, No. 92 Feby. Term 1597. Defendants Appeal. Plea. "Noil Assumpsit, paymeut, payment with leave to set off. Hill, | lugliums. 6 R. H. Brewer, vs The County of Sullivan, No. 47 May Term 1897, Trespass. Plea, "not guilty". Mullen, | Bradley A Inghams, 7 A. C. Haverly, vs Benjamin Kuykendall, Jr. No. 71 May Term 1897, Trespass. Plea "uot guil ty". Mullen, | Thomson. 8 Merritt Shaffer, vs Sosephine FitzPatrick, No. '.IS May Term 1898. Feigned Issue. Plea "Pay incut. Inghams. | Mullen. 9 Durward Saddlemire, vs C. H. Jennings &B. W. Jennings, trading and doing business as the Lopez Manufacturing Company No. 51 Sept. Term 1597. Trespass, l'lea, "not guilty". Hill, | Ing hams. 10 Martin Markle, vs E. V. Ingham, No. 152 Sept. Term 1897. Defendants Appeal. Plea "Non Assumpsit Payment, payment with leave 4C. Hill, | Ingham's. II F. M. Lewis, vs J. W. Ballard, No. 5 Dec. Term 1897. Defendants Apjieal. Plea, "Noli Assumpsit Pavment, payment with leave At'. Mullen, | Walsh. 12 Viola Jennings, vs George 11. Moore. No. 42 Dec. Term 1897. Interpleader. Hill, | Mullen. 13 Russcl Karns. vs llarry Paulhamus No. 59 Dec. Term 1H97. Defendants Appeal, l'lea "Noli Assumpsit" with leave to give special .matter In evidence. Karns, | Bradley. WM. J. LAWRENCE, Proth. l'rothy's. office, Lajiortc, Pa, April 9, IS9B. Notice is hereby given that the partnership lately subsisting between Smith Boudman and John Manuel, 01 Shrewsbury twp., Sullivan Co.. I l'a,, under the partnership name of Boudman A. Manuel have this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts owing Ui the said purtneishi) are to received by said John Manuel, and all demand 011 the said partnership aje to 1 >e present ed to him or his attornev. SMITH BUI DM AN", JOHN MANUEL. A. J. BRADLEY. Atty. La|orte,Pa., April 1, '9S. Register's Notices. Notice is hereby given that the following ac counts have been tiled in my office viz : First and final account of Joseph l'ardoe, Exe cutor of Joseph Mccarty, deceased. First and final account of August Hartung, Ad ministrator of Eva M. Traband, deceased. First and iinal account of A. L. Smith, Guardian of Jennie Bentteld. First and tinal corrected account of Jasper Clark, Administrator of Mary Clark deceased. Also the following widows' appraisements have been filed: 111 the estates of D.D. Dieffcnbach, decd.;Daniel Porter,deed.; and William Waddell,deceased. And the same will be presented to the Orphans' Court of Sullivan county 011 Monday, May 23, '9B, at ;t o'clock p. 111.. for confirmation and allow ance WM. J. LAWRENCE, Register. Register's office, Laporte, Pa., April 25, 1898. Administrator's Sale of Real Estate. By virtue of an order issued by the Orphans' Court of Lycoming county, Pa., dated the 7th day of March. A. I). Is9B, and supplemented by an order of the Orphans'Court of Sullivan county, there will be exposed to public sale, at the court House, in the Borough of Laporte, Sullivan county, l'a., Saturday, May 28, 1898. at 1 o'clock, p. in. The following described premises of the estate of Charles D. Eldred. deceased: A strip of laud situated in Elkland township, Sullivan eount>, known as tile "Ridgway Lot," being the west end of said lot, and all of said "Ridgway Lot," after reserving tliirty-tive acress 011 the east side: bounded by the James Bryan tract 011 the north. H. coolv 011 the west, Bowers, Kneiperand Tolan on the south, and the reserved part of said lot 011 the east, and being part of the John Bryan survey. TKRMSOF SALii as fixed by order of theCouit: Ten per cent in cash 011 the day of sale, which shall be considered and retained as stipulated damages on failure of the purchaser to pay the balance of the purchase money, which balance is to be paid upon confirmation of the sale by the court aud tender of deed by the administrator, and possession then given to the premises. DAVID W. BUFFINGTON, Admr. Of the Estate of Charles L). Eldred, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore subsisting between John J. Webster and M.A. Wurburlon under the tiim name of Webster & Warburton was dissolved 011 the 30th day of April 1898, by mutual consent. All debts owing to said partnership are receiveable by said John J. Webster to whom also all claims and demands against the said partnership are to be presented for |>aymeut. JOHN J. W EbSTER, M. A. WARBURTON, Estella, April 30, 1898. Executor's Notice. Estate of Edward R. Phillips, kateof Davidson Township, Deed. Letters testamentary on the above estate having been grunted to the under signed, all persons indebted to the said estate are re quested to make iwyment, and those having claims to present the same without delay to. DANIELS. PHILLIPS, Executor. Sonestown, Pa., April 16th 1898. Executors' Notice. Letters Testamentery have been granted to A. B. Kilmer and C. N. orter on the estate of Daniel Porter, late of Fox twp., deed. All persons in debted to said estate are requested to make ]>av ment, and those having claims to present the same duly authenticated to the undersigned without delay. A. B. KILMER, Shunk, Pa., April 0,1898. C. N. PORTEIt. Williamsport & North Branch R.R ti:n£e table. In Effect Monday Sept. 0, 1807. Northward. Southward pm. a. m. a.m. pm 515' 10 40; Halls 945 440 f5 20(11045. Pennsdale 9 41 f4 35 531 10 58 Hughesville :9 32 4 21 540 11 07: Picture Rocks 925 4 11 f544 flllll Lyons Mills f922 f4OS f547 112 111-1 Cnamnuni 920 f406 554 11 21 1 Glen Mawr. : 914 400 ffiOl fll 30 Strawbridge f907 f.147 f6 09 f1136 Beech Glen f9 02 f:!40 612 11 40 Muncy Valley 8 49 3 38 6 18 1146 Sonestown 852 332 634 12 01 Nordmont 8 37,3 15 654 1225 LaPorte 8211257 657 12 28 LaPorte Tanner)' 8 19 254 f7 33 fl2 45' Ringdale f8 of> f2 33 727 100 Satterfleld 7552 20 pm. p. m. iam. pm. All trains daily except Sunday; " 112" flag stations. 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