Republican News Item.
THURSDAY, DEC.I 4, 1890-
County Seat Indices.
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—Court is in session this week.
—Dr. Willson wade a business trip
to Williamsport on Friday.
—Silas Henry of Eagles Mere,
spent Sunday with town friends.
—Lumberman Ed. F. Ives of
Muncy, was a business caller in town
on Saturday.
—Prof. M. R. Black of Forksville
was transacting business at the coun
ty seat on Saturday.
-Architect A. S. Wagner, who
drafted the plan for the courthouse
at this place, died at his home in
Williamsport on Monday.
—The Laporte Hotel and residence
of M. E. Rceder had long distance
telephones connected with them this
week.
—Artie Willson, a young man of
Picture Rocks had his right arm
shot off at the shoulder last week
while out gunning. The same old
tale, accidental.
—A business meeting of the Ep
worth League is called for Thursday
evening immediately after prayer
meeting. Hakkikt E. (JKiMMjl'res.
—Mrs. E. M. Dunham received
word on Friday, of her mother's sud
den death. The Judge and Mrs. de
parted for Towanda on the evening
train.
—"The Good Samaritan" is the
subject of a lecture to be given by
the I. O. O. F. of Forksville, in the
>l. E. church at that place on Tues
day, Dec. 10, 1891). Rev. R.IL Hart
of Lock Haven,-will be the address
or, and will be of great interest to his
audience.
—The severe wind and heavy rain
storm that passed over this section
Monday night, blockaded the road
with fallen trees between this place
and Eagles Mere, which prevented
the stage from making its usual trip,
Tuesday.
—Theo. Mencer of Oaleton, Pa.,
spent Thursday last pleasantly in
town while on business. Mrs. Mcn
cer's health has been very poorly
the past year and has survived three
painful operations.
—The prices on paper has advanc
ed :»o and 10 per cent, since the trust
has formed. Surely the paper trust
is "benevolently assimilating"
the country editor. With this trust
and his subscription trust, he will j
have to TiirsT in God, if he keeps
his body and soul from separating, j
The new Laporte Hotel is filled I
to overflow with court guests this
week and is evidently meeting the
public ideal of a stopping place. J
The rates are so regulated that rich
and poor alike are highly satisfied
with their accommodation and the
price asked for it. At this house
guests feel themselves well cared for
and have all the privileges and com
forts that a flrsi-class house can pos
sibly give.
—The Williamsport Sun says,
Hughesville now has fourteen mails
a day to handle, under the new rail
road schedule. Laporte, one of the
ounty seats of the Keystone state,
has only one outgoing mail daily,
South, except the one sent on the
freight which gets as far south as
Sonestown and is then brought back
to get another start the following
day. What does our contemporary
think of that ?
—Judge Lynch of Wilkes Barre I
presided over our court Tuesday in
the absence of Judge Dunham who
was able to take his seat Wednesday.
The Court was opened on Monday
by Associate .indues Line and Kraus. 1
Alviee Dunham was appointed fore
man of the grand jury which was
discharged on Tuesday, after acting
upon four pills.
—A government by the people!
and for the people is exactly the
kind of a government that should j
own and operateall its railroads,tele-!
graphs and all means of communi
cation the same as it operates its I
postal system. The profits would !
then goto the people and not to!
men who have already made many
millions. The postal business last !
year would have paid for itself and 1
had a balance on hand of $15,000,000
had the railroads not been doubly
paid for hauling the mail. They j
set their price, what's to prevent it.
Public enterprises in a country like
ours should net be conducted on
private capital with the sole purpose
of greedy gar* at the public's ex
pense,discomfort and jeopardy of life, j
as has too often been shown. How \
long are the people going to wait:
before they push this issue to the!
front with vigor'.'
—Since the noon passenger train
has been taken off this end of the
line, the county seat finds itself sore
ly dealt with in regards to the I*. S. j
mail service, and judging by the
general feeling it will not take long
deliberation of the public to decide
what they propose to do about it.
The exorbitant tribute drawn by
the railroads from the Post-otfice De
partment is 5<35,000,000 a year. Half
of that amount would bean extrav
agant figure. Since the weighing of
all mail matter by postmasters dur
ing the month of October it was
learned that the average rate paid to
the rail-roads for hauling the mails
was *lO per ton per hundred miles.
That is 40 cents per ton mile; think
of it. The question now arising is,
are the railroads going to make their j
own prices and carry the mail when j
they so please. If such be the case,
have pity on Uncle Sam. He will
have to watch out or the combines
will get him. The closed pouch ser
vice on the freight train is worse
than no service at all; no one knows
its hour of coming or going. The
stage driver whose compensation is
not commensurate with the service
he performs is now obliged to wait
at the station three or four hours at
a time waiting for his mail. We do
not know whether these conditions
are expressed in his contract or not,
but we hardly believe he will accept
the reward of ignorance.
nillsKrove.
On Monday, Dec. 1, the grim de
stroyer Death visited our communi
ty and removed John If. ltogers,
an aged and highly respected citizen.
Mr. Rogers was born Oct. 10, ls2(i
on the farm where lie was living at
the time of his death, and has spent
nearly his entire life oil the banks of
the Loyal Sock. About the year 'SB
lie was atllicted with palsy which
prevented his enlistment in the civil
war. lie acted as enrollment officer
for Sullivan county during the war,
discharging the duties in a very
commendable manner. Though suf
fering constantly from palsy since
early manhood, Mr. Roger's life has
been a useful one. lie was a natural
mechanic, a firm friend of education,
a supporter of the Uaptist church,
and a lile-long Republican; though
unable to walk without assistance
for the past Mi years, he lias voted
at every election except the la>t.
lie was an unmarried man and
though ever kind and courteous, he
showed some aversion to the fair sex
but was a great lover of boys, and
was never so happy as wlieh direct
ing them in some useful occupation.
Hiseharacter was without reproach
and though an invalid he possessed
marked business ability by which he
was enabled to earn for himself a
comfortable fortune, the bulk of
which he willed to his brother, Rob
ert, and his niece Miss Anna Ives.
The funeral occurred at the I'nion
church on Wednesday. Rev. Frazier
officiating. Interment in llillsgrove
cemetery.
A Pill KM>.
A public entertainment will be
held in the Christian church on Sat
urday evening, Dec. HI, 'OO, by the
I'. o. S. of A. to celebrate the fifth
anniversary of their organization.
J. Harry Shoemaker Esq., of Mon
toursville, will deliver the address.
A banquet will be held at the resi
dence of W. A. (Jumble; the cost of
which will be 25c for each plate. All
are cordially invited to attend.
THE NE WS IN mm
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
* of the World
Mrs. Edward Lahey, wife of a i r ,iii
inent contractor of Danbury, Conn.,
died In a dental chair from heart dis
ease.
A movement is on foot in Ariz na
to have tha% territory admitte 1 to
Statehood at the present session of
Congress.
E>.-Senator Warner Miller, of New
York, will build a trolley line from Spo
kane, Wash., to Republic Camp on the
Columbia 1 liver.
Ex-Governor Atlgeld of Illinois, is
said to be bitter against the new cur
rency bill to be introduced early In this
session of Congress.
T. F. Callahan, superintendent of th •
Cleveland and Eastern Railroad, u a**
run down by a car on a switch :.t
Chardon, Ohio, and instantly killed.
Thi negroes of Kentucky have pre
sented to Governor Bradley a ROld
watch, chain and chajm, as a token of
appreciation of what he has done for
their race.
Ceneral Otis reports from the Philip
pines that Aguinaldo the leader of the
native forces is completely surrounded
and that his capture is only a question
of a few days.
Texas has admirers of W. J. Bryan
who have offered to purchase the Ne
braskan a home if he will agree to re
side in that state. Mr. Bryan has not
yet replied to the proposition.
It. is said in Washington that the sec
ond and third wives of Congressman
elect Lirigham H. Roberts will prob
ably be subpoenaed in order to prove
the polygamous charges made against
him.
Miller and Waller won the team race
in the six-day bicycle contest in Madi
son Square Garden, New York. They
covered a distance of 2,733 miles and
4 laps, and only received SI,OOO of the
purse—ssoo each.
Thirty-two miners were killed by an
explosion of gas in a coal mine near
Spokane, Washington. There were :i
hundred men at work in the mine
when the accident occurred and only
sixty-eight of them were taken out
alive.
The steamer Niugara, which was
caught in the gale on Lake Erie last
Thursday has given up for lost
together with her entire crew of six
teen men. Wreckage from the Niagara
has been picked up on the Canadian
shore.
Admiral Kautz has transferred his
flag from the battleship lowa to the
cruiser Philadelphia at San Francisco.
Venezuelan Government troops have
moved against Maracaibo, where it
was said the insurgents would sur
render.
The Kentucky Election Board is said
to stand two to one in favor of seat
ing Gen. Taylor, the Republican can
didate for Governor.
Clyde Mattox, the slayer of five men,
has been convicted at Newkirk, I. T.,
of manslaughter and sentenced to the
penitentiary for twelve years.
Lieut. Ledyard, the American officer
killed in the uprising in Negros, in the
Philippines, was a son of the president
of the Michigan Central Railroad.
Work has been resumeel in the Dia
mondville coal mines in Wyoming, with
a force of 175 non-union miners. The
union miners feel their defeat keenly
Miss Mary Halliday, of New York,
will have a SIO,OOO drinking fountain
erected in Cairo, 111., in memory of her
father, Captain William P. Halliday.
Gen. Young routed the Filipinos un
eler flen. Tino after a five hours' fight
in the mountain pass between Narva
can antl San Quinto in the Philippines.
The Mormon leaders are said to have
elecided to order Roberts to give up the
fight for his seat in Congress, fearing
the effect on the church of a full in
vestigation.
James F. Keeley, who gave his name
as James Johnson, has been arrested
in Milwaukee on suspicion of being im
plicated in the shooting of the Cheneys
at Racine.
President John McNaill of the Amal
gamated Federation of Boilermakers,
says that the strike of boilerrnakers
in the I'nion Pacific shops is ended and
that work will be rcsume-d at once.
John Curtis, son of Robert Curtis, a
rich white man. who married inte> the
Cade«> Indian tribe, killed Pete Thomp
son and fatally wounded Henry Smittj
at H'*no, I. T., Friday.
Relatives of Frank Langin of Ken
osha, Wis., who had been searching for
him for years, have learned that he
was sentenced to life imprisonment un
der the name of James Lonegran.
The Stuck River Valley, in Washing
ton State, is reported one vast sheet
of water.
Secretary Cage will ask Congress to
authorize the building of an additional
goh: vault in New York City.
The natural gas interests of twenty
Indiana anel Ohio towns have been con
solidated, with a capital of $8,000,000.
Owing to scarcity of white paper in
Canada, 700 mill owners and large ill
rectors in the- trade are withdrawing
their prie-e lists.
The internal revenue collectors have*
organized a movement to advocate a
new and separate Cabinet office for
their department.
The Northwestern Life Association of
Chicago has decided to transfer its
business to the Northwestern Life As
surance Company.
The hosiery mill of the Nolde & Hoist
(Company of Reading, Pa., was destroy
ed by tire Thursday entailing a loss of
$250,000. Miss Louise Clay, an em
ploye of the mill was burned to death
and about sixty others were more or
less seriously injured. There was an
insurance of $1!>0,000 on the mill.
At Maysville, Ky., a mob of fully 1,000
people took Dick Coleman, the colored
murderer of Mrs. James Lashbrook
from the officers and burned him at the
stake. The negro was frightfully tor
tured by the mob before the match
was applied by the husband of the
' murdered woman.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BY MAIL.
We have made preparations
kjBJ for taking care of the wants
of our two million customers
wlio live In every portion ol
our 304 page catalogue Is
everything to Eat, Wear anil
|Es3i use, ana oilers particular
UOOKCUSPS, Bicycles, Brass
TittV floods. Cabinets, Candies;
Cliiua Closets, Cigars, Clocks,
Guaranteed Watches Couches, Commodes, Desks,
09c. to $75 00. Draperies, Fancy Chairs,
Fancy Tables, Fountain Pens,
afield Pencils, Groceries, lland
kerctiiefs, Jewelry, Mufflers,
Lamps, Musical Instruments,
Neckties, Ornaments, Pocket
Knives, Pictures, Rockers,
Shoes, Silverware, Sterling
Silver Novelties, Stools,
Tables, Watches, etc. *
Our Lithographed Catalogue
shams Carpets, Jiugs, Portieres,
Art Squares and Lace Curtains
in their real colors. Carpets
Oak or Mahogany tewed free, lining furnished
Desk, f3.95. free, and freightprepaid.
Our Made-to-Order Clothing
§ Catalogue with samples of cloth
attached offers Suits and Over •
coats from $5 95 to $20.00. F.x
pressage paid on clothing every
where. If,'t also issue a special
Catalogue of Pianos, Organs,
Sewing Machines and Bicycles.
We will make your Christ
mas buying more satisfactory
than 11 has ever been before.
J. H. & Son Flour, Which Cataloguo do you
Pes Barrel, $3.50. want? Address this way:
JULIUS HIKES & SON.
JIALTIMOUK, ND, Dept. 009.
The County Institute.
The thirty-seventh annuiil teach
ers' institute l'or Sullivan county
will be held in (jlnrey's Mali, I)u
--shore, I'a., during the week com
mencing January 1, 1 !UMI. The in
stitute will open at '2 o'clock Mon
day and close Friday noon. The
law requires that all public schools
be closed during the week and pro
vides for the payment of teachers in
attendance at the institute.
The instructors are as follows:
Hon. Henry Ilouck, Deputy Supt.of
Public Instruction; l)r. O.T.Corson,
Columbus, Ohio; Dr. A. T. Smith,
Prin. Mansfield Normal School; Dr.
Byron \V. King, Pittsburg.
The list of evening entertainments
is as follows: Monday, Dr. <). T.
Corson; Tuesday, iron.HenryHouck;
Wednesday, Dr. liyron \V. King;
Thursday, The Parker Concert Co.
The enrollment clerk \yill be at
the hall to enroll teachers at 111
o'clock, Monday, and it is earnestly
hoped that every teacher in the
county will be enrolled by U o'clock.
To receive pay for Monday teachers
must be present.
Wednesday, January :'», will be
observed as Directors' Day. The
Sullivan County Directors' Associa
tion will meet with the institute at
l:!>il p.m. when addresses will be de
livered by Deputy Supt. Ilouck, ex-
State Supt. Corson, and Dr. Smith.
A large attendance is desired.
A cordial invitation to all the ses
sions of the institute is extended to
all who are interested in the cause of
education.
F. W. Mkylkht, Co. Supt.
You can find a nice Christmas
present for your friend at T. J.Keelers
Services in M. K. church: Sunday
School, 11 a.m. Epworth League,
> p.m. Preaching, 7::! d p.m.
lam disposing of a large lot of
mens' youths and boys ready made
clothing; also a lot ol' mens' and
youth's overcoats for the next •'!<!
days, below cost. Now is the time
for bargains. T. J. Keeler.
Strike while the iron is hot; a fine
display of Christmas goods at T.J.
Kcolor's, to suit all ages.
Express Companies as Brokers.
Washington, Dec. 12.—A delegation of
bankers. ' representing the American
Cankers' Association, and an attorney,
representing the American Express
Company, haT'e had a hearing before
Attorney-General Griggs. The hearing
was held on account of the complaint
of the Bankers' Association that the
express company is practically evi ding
the recent decision of the Commiss oner
ol' Internal Revenue. The bankers rep
resented that since the commissioner
deciared that express companies sell
ing foreign exchange and letters of
credit were liable to pay taxes as brok
ers at each office where such business
is conducted, the American Company
has transferred all its foreign exchange
business to a few offices. This, tho
bankers say, avoids the payment of a
large amount of taxes.
The attorney for the express com
pany argued that it had the right to
transact its business in its own way
as long as the laws and its charter are
not violated. Attorney-General Griggs
withheld his opinion.
Government Treasury Statement.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 12.—The of
ficial statement of the condition of the
Treasury shows: Available cash bal
ance, $287,266,130: gold reserve, $240,-
838,642; net silver, $9,380,052; Cnited
States notes in the Treasury, sls,BNfi,-
027; Treasury notes of ISHO,
total receipts this day. $1,965,360; total
receipts this month, 51ti,296.347; total re
ceipts this year, $254,330,737: total ex
penditures this day, $1,750,000: total »x
--penditures thispnonth. $13,720,000: total
expenditure; t'r. •
posits in nation.-el banks. $82,P68.26t>: sil
ver bullion. S2OIJ'2B.
Died in a Dentist's Chair.
Danbury, Conm. Dec. 11.—Mrs. Ed
mund Lahey. 42 yoars old, the wife of a
prominent contractor, living at 7 Clark
street, dropped dead here as she was
taking a seat in a. dentist's chair. The
excitement of the visit to the dentist
and probably the dread of the ordeal
brought on an attack of heart disease.
!Campbell, The merchant,
IA Merry Christmas to you All.
II you are not as merry as you should be, call at
my store and 1 will make yon merry if
Low Prices for ist-Class Goods will do it.
.
I am opening up the finest line of HOLIDAY <JOoDS ever
br< ugiit to this part of the county; consisting of presents, both
useful and ornamental. Please call and inspect them before
going elsewhere.
stock ol clothing, merchandise, hats, caps, hoots and shoes
luinhermans' felts and rubbers are complete, and no trouble to show
t 14*111 . Don't forget that I keep a general line of merchandise ami
can supply von with anything at the lowest possible price.
Thanking you for your patronage in the pan!, I>y honest and
lair dealing i hope to merrit it in the future.
.
Sours verv respectfully.
.A., lit". CAMPBPLL.
The above named price on several hundred
Very Swell, Very Pretty,
Excellent Suits.
I lie fabrics are pare wool in fancy patterned clothing as well.as plain
l> lack and blue; shapes of coats arc single or double breasted, and the entire
appearance and serviceability of these suits are ei|iial to any which you
may have made to measure at s2">. There is a reason why we sell these
suits at this low price, but it concerns you not, it has no I■«•»rin<ron <|itn 1 it\
or price. There arc rich picking* for early coiners. This is an opor
(unity which should not be lost.
J~ "W CABOLL- teil. <: " rron Dumu.UK. 1'
LAPORTE Clothing Store.
Our New Fail and Winter
Goods
Consisting of everything you mant in
3lotluii9, )3oots, Sfioes,
Ladies' Capes, Skirts, Wrappers,
Shirt Waists, Corsets, Etc.
We Can Save You From Two to Three Dollars on Each Suit.
From 2">c to I.on on every pair of shoes and from i!d to Hi cts.
on every article you buy of us.. We sell our goods at very small
profits. We have no extra expense and are satisfied with the
Small Profit System.
JOE COOPER, The Clothier.
CLOTHING ! (3- fcafier,
X-::; ' " Of LAPORTE,
Desires to call the attention of bincts of clothing to the fact that lie represents
Th American Woolen Mills Company, Chicago,
in this locality, the World's Largest Tailors, and that he has a full line of
Kail and Winter Samples ol suits, pants and overcoats, in all styles and at prices
that will defy competition. Also a lull hue of ladies' and gentlemen's Water proof
(ioods. Call and o.auiinc bis line ol goods and prices before purchasing elsewhere
All orders tilled promptly. Perfect tit and satisfaction guaranteed.
< 'orrespondency solicited throughout this section.
A. A. BAKER,
LAPORTE, PA.
Wright & Haight,
Furniture '
and b"iiaertawtnq,
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Prices Invariably Lower. Try us.