Republican News Item. CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY .IAN. ft, IB9D. "FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS," The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. \t the County Seat of Sullivan Couuty. LAPOBTE, PA. Entered at the Tost Office at Laporte, t:ii eecoiul-claea mail matter. Subscription—sl.2s per annum. 11 paid in advance $ 1 00. Sample copies free. All communications should he ad' dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., The Havana market is crowded at daybreak by Spanish, French, Chinese anil colored cooks of both sexes. Some chefs, who affect the dignity of a coat, are accompanied by their apprentices or scullions, who carry baskets. Span ish cooks, who usually are employed in second-class restaurants, wear flat, red woollen caps, and shuffle along slipshop with their baskets slung over their shoulders, while oblique-eyed Chinese wear all sorts of queer headgear, loose trousers and blouses. Colored women don bandanas, which lend a dash of color to the scene, as they waddle along through the market, their fat sides shaking with laughter, while they boisterously greet their friends as they go from stall to stall, haggling with the market men: Marketing is always done by cooks in Havana, because employers are aware that they can drive a better bargain, even taking into account the perquisites allowed them by trades people. Golden, juicy oranges are symmetri cally piled on the stalls, llanked by bunches of luscious yellow and red bananas, and nutbrown zapotoes which outwardly resemble an Irish potato, but contain a luscious pulp inside. Green cocoanuts contain a sweet liquid like water, as well as a soft white pulp. Other tropical fruits which abound in Cuba are mangoes, chirimoy as and ciruelas, which are juicy and sweet. Fish caught in Cuban waters are • especially nice, and the pargo, a species of red snapper, is very tooth some, as is the cherna, which tastes like salmon. No Havana cook will buy fish unless they are alive, and the fish market with big tanks full of fresh fish, with white marble slabs and scales, is very picturesque. Sea crabs and land crabs are also good. The lat ter grow to a large size, and their bodies stand high from the ground on their enormous claws. Land crabs bur row in holes, and their locomotion is clumsy, sounding like that of a drunken man. Cooks feed these crabs on corn meal for several days before they cook them, as this makes them more palatable. The Pirxt I'M J'lilt Machine. Roger Bacon, in his writings in the thirteenth century, predicted the use of the baloon and flying machine. It is said that Jean Baptiste Dante, an Ital ian mathematician, crossed Lake Trasi meno on artificial wings in MOO. Leon ardo Da Vinci, in 1300, made some ex periments in aerial screws, designed a parachute, and left some sketches of mechanical wings in his notebooks. A famous bishop, named Wilkin, in the seventeenth century wrote on the sub ject of artificial flight, and was so sure of the practicability of it that he de clared the time would come when it would be as common a thing to hear a man, when starting on a journey, call for his wings as for his boots and spurs. In 1709 Friar de Gusman, of Portugal, asked and received assistance from the King in plans he had for constructing a flying machine. About the middle of the seventeenth century a Frenchman named Besnier constructed a pair of oscillating wings, with which he made several experiments. He tried them flrst in jumping from a stool, then from a table, then from a barn, when his progress was interrupted by his falling and breaking his leg. In France the Marquis de Bacqueville, in 1712, at tempted to cross the Seine on wings. He launched himself from a terrace and flew for a short distance, then fell, landing in a washer-woman's barge, breaking his leg, which discouraged him from further experiments in that direction. An Explanation. A recent issue of tho Hardeman (Tenn.) Free Press contained the fol lowing paragraph: "We wish to explain our lack of editorial this week. We was down to Memphis, and a smart Alec at the tavern put train oil on our greens, and said it was vinegar. Of course, we were horse dew combaw for three days, and now that we are able to talk, our language is not fit for pub lication." » A Biff Apple Tree. Alexander Bates, a Bowdoinham, Me., orchardist, has just sawed down a mammoth apple tree, the biggest in the town and perhaps in the whole state. It was 28 inches across the stump, six feet trunk, then branching out in long branches. It must have been nearly or quite 100 years old. Dook of Marble. At the Strozzi palace, in Rome, there is a book made of marble, the leaves being of marvelous thinness. A girl can't be in love and have a bad cold in the head at the same time. pip BE ; Dolliver's Hidden Wealth in Maine Was Stolen and Taken to Montreal. IT WAS $42,000 IN GOLD. The Tremendous Amount of Work and Money Expended Trying to Find !t. Estimated That More Than 12,000 of Hard Labor &nd 30,000 Ton* of Kartli and Stono Were Up Look ing for, the Trmliiire-A lteuimrkable iSearvli. More than forty years ago old Jim Dolliver, a rich owner of timber land and mills, buried ?12,000 in gold some where near the town of The Forks, Me. lie had come from Montreal along the old French voyagei.r's trail, and reach ing The Forks, had told the landlord of the hotel that he had been followed by a party of French and Indian out laws all the way from the St. Lawrence River. "I have nearly fivescore hundred yel low sovereigns in njy batteau," said he, "and if 1 do not bury my money now the crazy, devils will rob me before I get to Waterville." He left the hotel at 10 o'clock that nisht, and was away three days. On his return he. remarked to the landlord." "Well. I've put that money where the archangel Gabriel can't find it." Then he took h Jiearty supper, went to lied, slept two djtys and two nights, and awoke a ravijig maniac. For a week ho fought Indians and buried un told treasures in hi* delirium, and died in the act of shooting a Mohawk chief, who had invaded h!s sick fancy for the ourpose of robbing him. Papers found imong his ( fleets showed that he had drawn £8,500 in English gold from a Montreal bank a month before he ar rived at The Forks, and as this sum did not appear in the inventory of his estate, it was believed generally that the money was buried within a day's journey of this Post Office. For a dozen years after Dolliver's death his heirs advertised for the mlss | ing wealth and increased the reward until the finder was entitled to 75 per cent, of all he should discover. Having I spent nearly s:l,oo<i iu advertising, the l heirs gave it tip as a bad job, after ! which the people who knew the story ontinued the work at their own ex pense. For twent; years the digging went on at all seasons. Whenever a man or a boy ran short of money and :..u !.<.;• >• t > do he shouldered a ilck and shovel and, taking a week's 4apply of food on his back, went into he woods between Murphy's and The j Forks and went to digging. Some lo cated the treasure in dreams, others made deep excavations in mellow hill sides where the labors were light, and very many hired expert diviners with apple limbs and witch hazel rods to help them along on the road to wealth. In October, ISSO, Saunders Atwood came here from Winterport and brought an electric battery with him, which, ife said, could detect an English farthing under four "fathoms" of solid earth. When he went away two weeks later he showed a handful of English overeigr;s all stamped with dates thir ty or more y< ais ago, and said that he had unearthed the whole of the miss inj. wealth. But while the people ac cepted his theory that the proper time •o dig was on the dark of an October moon, they repudiated the story that he had found any of the missing coin. This fall, when the muscles of the farmers had grown hard from digging potatoes, about forty men packed up a few tools and made ready to start on another search for Dolliver's money as soon as the old moon should change. They were loafing about the hotel and stores one night when word came from Montreal that Eugene Beaupre, an aged and rich Frenchman of that city, had lately died, confessing on his deathbed that he bad seen Dolliver conceal his I gold in a hollow pine stub and had i gone and taken it away after the right i fal owner had returned to The Forks, j This Information was verified later by an announcement that one Eugene Beaupre, late of Montreal, had died and left ail estate amounting to SCO,OOO to different charities in Canada and Maine, saying in his will that the gift was made as a "partial atonement for a grievous sin committed in the State of .Maine in October, 185G." Conservative estimates indicate that I more than 12.000 days of hard labor ; have been expended in digging for Dol j liver's wealth, and that fully 30,000 ] tons of earth and stone liavo been dug ! up and turned over by men who were I looking in .Maine for money that was | afely invested in Montreal real es- I tate. Mntclip* from Paper. : Paper matches are the latest product ! if modern science. The new matches are considerably cheaper than those made of wood, and weigh much less. The sticks of the matches consist of rolled paper immersed in a solution of i wax. steraline and similar substances. Th<> Kiisttali Litngußfte. There are now over 250,000 words in ! English language, acknowledged by •i:e best authorities, or about 70,000 ! ; .;ore tliau in the German, French, finish and Italian combined. A Codtly Crown. i i tie royal crown of Persia, which ji'i. les back to remote ages, is in the farm of a pot of flowers, surmounted by an uncut ruby the size of a hen's iZ% I Parsnip Complexion It doe* m>; :..|tsir- a» '• \\.cr: t.ijleteci the stiU'erer irotn I- illl■ <_• trouble. * Tin hollow cheek*. the sunken i vt>, the • L»i U i jmtly eirele* tinder th« i; ly. tin- fallow pnrMiippoloreil complexim. indicate* il. A plnsioiau would :t U :: vou had i licit mat ism. ii dull pain or ache in the bael, or over the hips. stomach trouble, ilesiri to urinate oileti, or a burniiijr or scnldinj in passing it: il'alter pur there is ;u uiiKiitistit'd t'eelitif? as il" it must be sit onci repeated, or ifthe urine hi.". a brick dtts deposit or strong odo!. When these symptom* are present, in time should bo losed in removing tin cause. l)elay may lead to gravel, eatarrah 01 the bladder, inflammation, causing stoj page, and sometimes requiring the draw ing of the urine with instrument*, or ma; mi into IJright's Disease, the most dsn icrotts ot Kidney trouble. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the grea discovery ot'theeminent kidney and blad ler specialist, is a positive remedy toi such diseases. Its reputation i« work wide and it is so easy to get at any drui store that no one need suffer any lengtl of time for wart of it. However, il you prefer to tirst lest iti wonderful merits, mention the Uepublicai News Item r.nd write to I>r. Kilmer «&Co. Hinghainton. N. Y., for a -ytnple bottk and book telling all about it. both sent absolutely free by mail. ,1. VV. liuck has some oi' his holiday goods on hand already. 2Rj3? A Famous School In a Famous Place. Tin- EAST Stkoi IXSHLKG, L'A., NOK malj offers superior educational advantages. Healthful and J'ietures<|ue Location in tlie resort region of the state. Buildings net'' and modern. Students Room furnished with brus sets Carpet. No other school pro vides such /usurious home comforts. The Best Boarding. The Most Reasonable Hates. The first Normal in the state to introduce Plain ano Fancy Sewing. College Preparatory, Music and Elo cutionary Departments. Write at once for a catalogue, free. ! JLWIN'rEK Tkhm oim:ns Jan. 2, '99. I Add res Geo. P. Bible, A. M., Principal. "*Kor good qujdi7y"ot' underware at rea sonable prices go io J. W. Buck s store. I For gum boots and rubb.-rs goto ,1. \S . j Buck, Sonestown. Insurance Meeting The twenty-first annual meeting of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Home Mutual Fire Insurance Com pany of Sullivan county will be held at the office of the company in the Borough of Forksville on Saturday, January 7, 189".», at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpos of electing a board ol directors and other officers for the ensuing year and the transaction ol such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Survey ors and auditors will meet at the Secretary's office for the settlement of accounts on January 0, 1899. M. 11. Black, Pres. B. I). Lancaster, Sec. Forksville, Dec. 1, 1898. /A. T. ARMSTRONG,!! '*"* SONESTOWN, PA DEALER IN Flour Feed and Groceries I,IA pounds of pure Lard lor SI.OO Baking molasses. 25 to 50c. 8 pounds Rolled Oats for 2)e. 7 pounds of Corn Starch for 25c. 7 pounds of Laundry Starch for 2.x:. 2 pounds of Kio Coffee for 25c. 8 bars oi Lenox Soap for 25c. No. 1 mackerel per pound Sc. Best Sugar Coated Hams @llc per lb. Buckwheat Flour 25 pound sack 50c. Buckwheat Flour 100 pounds, $1.90. Yellow Corn per 100 pounds 73c. Corn Meal or Cracked Corn 80c. Corn, (Hits and Barley Chop Sse. Wheat Bran 200 pounds Si.so. Flour middlings, 140 pound sack $1 40. Fine middlings 200 pounds $1.60. Flour per sack $1.20. Winter Roller per sack $1.1.". ; Good Flour 90c. Rye Flour 25 pounds, 50':. Graham Flour I2A pounds 30c. Common Fine Salt ]>er barrel $1.20. Williamsport & North Branch R.R TIIS/IIE TABLE. In Effect Tuesday Sept. 13, 1898. [ Northward - Southward, pm. a. m. : a.m. pm a a-.' 10 2;t Halls 9 I.V 4 40 (5311 (102S l'unnsdalc 1 9 41 f135 i'l 40 10 40 Uughesville 9 3- 4 23 5 IX 104S Picture I'ockß '92.1 I 13 f551 fIOW I-yons Mills -ft22 MOB f5 54 no so Cnamouni 9 20 f4(*i WO2 It Ol (Hen Mawr - 9 14 3S» f612 fll 14! Strawbridge !9 o,'j f3 47 ti 16 fll 17 Beech Glen i"901 f3 42 112, 20 11 21 Muney Valley Xaß 3 40 r> 28 11 30 Sonestow n i» 52 332 r, 15 11 4'J Nordmont K :« 3 15 701 12 us Lnl'orte S2l 257 701 12 11 La Porte Tannery sly 254 (7 20 f1230 Kingrlrtle ifSOft f283 7 ;to 12 45 Satterfield 7 So 2 20 pm. p. ni. am.,pm. All trains daily except sunday; "112" flag i nations. i Connections wiih the Philadelphia A Heading 1 at IIuIIh, for all points north and south, an>L the i Fall Brook and Reech tieek railroads. At i Satt«rlield for nil points on the Lehigh Valley j railroad. At Sonestown with the Eagles Mere ! railroad. K. K. EAVENBON. lieu, Manager HugheivilUP The State Normal School of East rttroudshurg, Pa., furnishes its stu- Jents' rooms complete. The only -ifhool to carpet its students' rooms with fine llrussels carpet. The first mid only .school to introduce plain tud fancy sewing, without additional •ost to pupils. See advertisement in .mother colume. .! W. Buck has :i nice line nt horfe ilanket». To CoiHiiimtiuii Forever. T:tW # <.'ugimretK Cmikiv Cathartic. <u* ':nu. t C. O. full to curt-. urutfKtsiH refund iuouv v Sow lot of rubber* lit W. Buck's his week. DouH Tot»tuv*» hpil uiiti nmolit i»»ui t n,„j, To quit tobn M'O e .slly rml forever, be rrnc? tile, lull of iile. n«;rve un.l \ \ x)i> : . "o 'i'o '»ac, the wonder-worUcf, limt iuuUch v.eui aj* r trong. All druggists,f»o«sor9l. (^ureguar;; 11 c-ed l)iK>klet and miniplp free. A«lurc. ; it »terliriK Iteinedy Co.. Olnc-avo f»r New York Goto J. VV. Buck, Sonestown, for iry goods, hoots, shoes, caps, under .vare etc. 13clu«'iito Your IVUIi t'u^caretH. C.irdy fr>.ilnirik'. cure cm\itlp:ul<m forever. lOc.M". It ( C. (!. fall, druggists refund money. For allocs rttl>l>er« jr<> to •). W.Hnok ■ft, t'lic' I'oiiMtkpiitton forever. Take Cuscarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If c C. <'■ fad »ocur<\ drupir.sis rt'fund money. For liatter crooks go tu \V. l!uok'.«. No-To'ttui 1 for I'l.'.y Ccuii. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure. maUea weak sieri r.tronc, bliMjil j>ur>;. r.oc.#l. All "riipcißts. Fvtirvtmdy fays C:i«(*nri<ta i aiulv t'at\> ii-.'.- llit» tiKir.t Wi>n- j lerlui niifdicHi v ol in.t pie.iA- i tnt ninl reli'i siiuiif to tbc tanic, vict ' mil i»is tiva'Jy on killnt\' liver nud liowela, i ■lcaii.tiii/ 'iiir entire svsi rn. dispel rolds, I ;ui'<' lii'uilaehe, if-ver, lmbil.ital c<ni«vi|>a'ion j ind biliousim**. J'lease liny and try a hox I )f <•. (J. In-iu;. ; 10, -Jr., "so ,-eti: s. Sold and juarnnteed ro cure by all dmupista. G. A. Rogers 10KK8V1L1.K. l'A (Successor to 11.VT. Fnwecit.) Watches, Jewelery, Silverware, Etc. Bicvclc repairing. HicvcK 1 sundries. | Pishing tnekle. at lowest possible j Price. MONEY SAVING OPPORTUNITIES INAUGURATED IN General Merchandise At prices barely shading over wholesale cost. To quicken the selling of our large line of • Horse Blankets we marked them at a very low figure. Yoil can safely buy any article from our large stock as new goods. Its one of the occasions of rare good fortune that care ful buyers are quick to profit by. No Shoddy Goods. Everything first-class at at MODERATE PRICES. E. L. Place, LAPORTE, PA. I FALL and Winter Every corner of Uie store is bright, with the newest things for Women's wear and Men's wear and Children's wear. I "We are glad to have you come in and see the new life of the old 1 store and look at its excellent line of goods. • Underware for Men, Women and Children. In conjunction with the inviting varities, all prices will be found more than ordinarily small. I Grocery Department A new and fresh sup ply of Groceries have have just arrived. Vernon Hull, Hillsgrove, Pa. W.L.Hoffman's HILLSGROVE Three Big Stores- MUNCY VALLEY, " - ' - PROCTOR, PA. Have Bounded Into still Greater favor You know we beat everybody on Genera! Merchan dise, not alone on quality but in lowness of prices. We intend to make this year a memorable one in our business and for this reason we have reduced prices that will make it profitable for you to do your trading with us. AN AVALANCHE OF NEW GOODS. Our supply of Christmas Goods is extraordinary Three big stores sparkles with new styles and colorings of Fashions' latest creation for XMass presents. General Merchandise. Our prices always touch the lowest ebb in General Merchandise. Our stock is absolutely complete. At prices all too small. JENNINGS BROS. r Sl <s^. We keep in stock at our mills a complete line of dressed lumber in hemlock and hardwood. MANUFACTURERS OF Gang Sawed and Trimmed Limber. LOPEZ. PA. SPECIALTIES Hemlock Novelty or German Siding, Hemlock Ceiling 7-8 or 3-8 stick, Hemlock Flooring any width desired. Hemlock Lath both $ and 4 feet long, Hardwood Flooring both Beech, Birch or Maple, The same woods in 3-8 ceiling. CORRESPONDENCY SOLICITED. Buy Good Goods! And you will be surprised how cheap they are in the end. We have just unpacked such a Htock o' coatn arid ciipee to whirli we are pleaded to call vour special attention. We do not preiend to handle the cheapest coat* in the market, but we do say we have the BEST and neatest fitting garments made. Our coats and capes are made to order, and in the latest otyles with prices to suit everybody. IN DRESS GOODS WE WERE NEVER BETTER PREPARED TO PLEASE YOU THAN AT THE PRESENT, AS W T E HAVE THE LARGEST AS SORTMENT IN THAT LINE EVER DISPLAY ED IN THE COUNTY. Ladies and Misses, Boys and Men, you need not go half frozen 'this winter Tor we have plenty of underwear for you all, both in cotton or wool, red or gray and the pr ces are very low, so low that when you see the goods you will ba aston 'shed that we are able to give you such bargains. One word in regard to foot wear: Our shoe department wna never more complete and if you will ,'favor us with your attention for a few minutes when in town we will convince you that wc have the most carefully selected line of fine and heavy boots and shoes ever brought before the public. On crockery we have just received some very pretty designs in Decorated Dinner Sets to which we invite your attention. The buying of country produce has always been a special feature of oo Business, and we still continue in paying the highest each piices for Butter Egg«and Wool. E C SyIvara PUSHORE, PA. Wright &Haight, SUCCESSORS TO M. R. BLACK, Forksville, Pa. Fiirmture kfndertaltiitq. MANUFACTUBEBB OF Doors, Sash, Moulding, Flooring, Ceiling etc. DRESSED LUMBER Full and complete seasoned stock always on hand. A fine line of furniture etc. The most complete line of Coffins and Casket to select from in Sullivan County. The finest hearse in the county, with equipments to match. Embalming a specialty. Funerals directed with ! safety and dispatch. PRICES REASONABLE.
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