Republican News I ten. CHAS. LOREN WINU, tditor. THURSDAY, ,JAX. 18, 1900." "FIRST OF ALL--THIfNEWS/' The News Item Fights Fair. IT ISA:PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPORTE, PA. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.25 per annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should be ad dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. CONGRES3. What Is Going On at the National Capital. The House will devote most of the time this week to the Urgent Defi ciency and Pension Appropriation bills. The former measure may raise the whole Philippine question for de bnte. The Hepburn bill for the construc tion of the Nicaraguan Canal has been reported favorably by the House Com mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com merce. It carries an appropriation of $140,000,000. In the Senate Jan. 11 there was a spirited debate over the resolutions calling upon the President for infor mation as to the affairs of the Philip pines. Mr. Pettigrew, of South Da kota, declared that a systematic effort was bein% made to prevent accurate Information from reaching the people, and that it Was a political scheme to further the candidacy of Mr. McKin ley for renomlnation and re-election. The debate was terminated by a re sumption of consideration of the Cur rency bill. Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, made an elaborate speech on the ques tion of the national finances. The bill conferring additional powers upon the Director of the Census, and a bill in creasing the limit of cost of the In dianapolis public building were passed. Impressive tributes were paid by the Senate Jan. 10 to the memory of Vice-President Hobart. Many personal friends and party opponents were numbered among the dozen Senators who joined in the eulogies. Mr. Hale introduced a resolution of inquiry as to the seizure of the American flour by British vessels, but it was not act ed on. Reperesentative Levy, of New York, has introduced a bill to provide for the payment of interest on all internal revenue receipts now on deposit, or hereafter deposited in national banks of the United States. In the Senate Mr. Beveridge, of In diana, made an address Jan. 9, em bodying his observations in tho Phil ippines and his views as to the policy to be pursued by the United States. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, replied briefly, challenging Mr. Beveridge's statement that the Filipinos were in capable of self-government. Tho House Committee on Naval Af fairs has selected Representative Foss, of Illinois, as acting chairman, pending the absence of Mr. Boutelle. Senator Penrose has introduced a bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the construction of public roads in the United States, the money to be dis tributed among the several states tn proportion to the mileage of their roads. At a caucus of Democrats of the House of Representatives it has been decided to appoint a "steering com mittee," which would have power to formulate Democratic policy on legis lation to come before Congress. Senator Pettigrew has offered a resolution in the United States Sen ate authorizing to offer mediation be tween Great Britain and South Africa. Th House has adopted resolutions for an inquiry into the charge that polygamists have been appointed to Federal office in Utah, and into the conduct of United States army officers during the Wardner, Idaho, riots. Friends of the free rural delivery system in Congress express the belief that the postoffice appropriation bill should carry $1,000,000 for an exten sion of the system. Last year the ap propriation was $300,000. The Secretary of War has sent to Congress a request for an urgent defi ciency appropriation of $750,000 to to suplement the $1,500,000 heretofore appropriated for the repatriation of the Spanish prisoners and their fam ilies held by the Filipino insurgents. The President has created a new military department, consisting of the Territory of Alaska, and assigned Col. George M. Randall, Eight Infantry, to command. Col. Randall will be commissioned a Brigadier General of Volunteers. The Senate Committee on Priv ileges and Elections has taken favor able action upon Senator Chandler's resolution prohibiting the appoint ment of Senators, Representatives and United States Judges to perform executive functions. It has also de cided, by a vote of 4 to 3, to. make an adverse report on the resolution to seat ex-Senator Quay. It has likewise began its investigation of the charges of bribery made in connection with the election of Senator Clark, of Mon tana. FIRE RECORD. The rolling mill of the Danville and Bessemer Steel Company, at Danville, was damaged by Are Jan. 13 to the extent of $50,000. The barns or the South Chicago Railroad were burned In Hammond, Indiana, Jan. 9. Thirty-two cars were destroyed. The loss, fully covered by insurance, Is put at $130,000. In a Are which destroyed the New ark City Home, 207 children, experi enced in the fire drill, marched in safety from the building. Eleven business houses and one dwelling at Prairie Depot, an Ohio oil Village, were burned on Sunday night. Life of a Foreign Guard on a Train Not a Happy One —Mandarin's Ser vants Without Tickets Take Pos session of a First-Class Carriage. Mr. Cox, who was recently assaulted near Peking, has had many similar ex periences during the dozen years he has been railroad building In the Chlhli province, and has only extri cated himself by dint of tact, pluck and good humor. He has practically for years carried his life in his hand. Several years ago, for instance, dur ing floods, a mob, led by the soldiery of Lutal, a military camp near Tien- Tsin, cut the railway embankment and destroyed seven miles of line, their offi cers encouraging them, and the en lightened Viceroy Li Hung Chang, in his yamen, a few miles off, "layin' low and sayin' nuffln'." The cause alleged was that the embankment prevented the flood water from running off, which as there were frequent outlets, was ut ter nonsense. Previous to that at tempts had been made to wreck trains, and the lives of the foreign employes were constantly threatened. The life, too, of the foreign guard on a train is not always a happy one. Mandarins' servants without tickets take possession of a first-class carriage, eat, drink and sleep in it. Perhaps they light a pan of charcoal to warm themselves, If the weather is cold. Charcoal has certain asphyxiating ef fects; the other passengers complain, and the servants have to be ejected. Too much violence might lead to a gen eral attack on foreigners and another Tien-Tsin massacre, while too little would not be effective. The unhappy guard has to follow the "happy" mean between a good, hard push and a mild knock-down blow. There have, of course, been many ludicrous, as well as dangerous, inci dents on-the North China line. When It was first opened Chinese would come to the booking office and try to bargain for tickets. When told the fare, they -would offer half, and grad ually raise their bid, much disgusted that they should not, in a business spirit, be met half way. Ono day a country gentleman, on bis first ride in a train, seeing his house midway between two stations, flying past, deliberately opened the door and stepped out into space. At the pace tho train was going a European would cer tainly have been killed, but the supple celestial, after a prolonged series of Bomersaults, was seen to pick himself and bundle up, dust his clothes, and set off home across the fields, much pleased with bis short cut and the convenience of the "fire-wheel car riage." An unfortunate railway coolie, equal ly ignorant of the laws of mechanics, did not get off so well. Seeing two trucks coming at a snail's pace down a siding, he placed hie foot on the rail to stop them. To his astonishment, it was cut off, and he learned, like Ste phenson's cow. that momentum is made up of mass as well as velocity. But. in spite of everything, railways are bound to prosper in a country where traveling is otherwise so slow and so difficult, carts and ponies in the north and boats in the south never do ing more than thirty to forty miles be tween dawn and dark. First Names In 1379 more than half the men were called John or William, says a writer in Notes and Queries, while more than threeouarters were called either John. William, Thomas, Richard or Robot, which in common parlance must have been Jack, Will, Tom, Dick or Hob. since among the commonest patronymics are Jackson. Wilson, Thompson. Dixon and Robson. Other names are less usual, Henry and Adam being each three per cent., Roger and Hugh are only two per cent., while Walter, Simon, Ralph, and Nicholas aro one per cent. Still fewer are Geof frey. Alan, and Stephen; Dennis and Jacob occur only once in four hun dred names. Martin and Peter once in eight hundred. In the thirteenth century William is the commonest name. In the four teenth and following centuries John is first, with William second. Thus in Bishop Hatfield's survey forty per cent, of the men are named John, fol lowed by William with twenty-two per cent., while if we add Robert and Thomas, eighty per cent, of all the men's names are accounted for. From the York wills it appears that in 1630 John heads the list with sixteen per cent. William follows close be hind with fifteen per cent. Thomas is twelve per cent., followed by Richard and Robert with right per cent. each. Henry and George :.ve only half as mi crotis; still fewer ;.re Roger, Ralph, Nicholas, Edward, Charles, Francis, Humphrey, Anthony, Gilbert, Lawrence and Joseph. Orphans' Court Sale. By order of the Orphans' Court of Sull ivan County, I will expose to public sale on the premises at Glen Sharon; in the township ol'Davidson, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st day of JAN., A. I). 1900, at ]0 o'clock a. in. flic follow ing real estate to wit: A lot in the village of GLEN SUA WON, in Davidson township, Sullivan county, Penna. Beginning at a corner on south side of'Sharon street at a comer, two hundred and fifty-eight feet from Park avenue and running parallel with said avenue two hundred feet fo Mill St. thence along Mill street thirty leet east; thence north and parallel with first line two hundred feet to Sharon street; thence along Sharon street thirty feet to the place of beginning, containg an area of six thousand square feet, on which there is erected a trained cottage, late the prop erty ot Mary McClain, deed. Terms of Sale:—One-fourth of the pur chase money on striking down of the properly and the balance on continuation ot the sale. Also at same time and place will be sohi the personal property ut the decedent as follows: Bed room suit and liedding, bureau, wash bowls and pitchers, bed-stead; stand aud looking glass, carpet, trunks, dishes, knives, forks, single lied and bedding, stove, boiler, tables, chairs, table spreads, napkins, towels, millinery goods, books, sitting room furniture, and other articjes too numerous to mention. TERMS ox I'KIUUJX.W. I'lfoi-wrv: —In all amounts under five dollars, cash; larger , amounts, six months time on secured notes with interest. Mrs. A. T.ARMSTRONG, Admrx. of Mary McClain, deed. We^HavefJoved Large furniture Stock TO THE CARROLL BLOCK, Next Door to J. W. Carroll's Clothing Store. .... Telephone call, Hotel Obert. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, A. T. ARMSTRONG, SONESTOWN, PA. DEALER IN Flour Feed; and Groceries 13J pounds of pure Lard I'or SI.OO Baking molasses, 25 to 50c. 8 pounds Rolled < tats for 25c. 7 pounds of Corn Starch lor 25c. 7 pounds of Laundry Starch for 25c. 2 pounds of Kio Coffee for 25c. 8 bars oi Lenox Soap for 25c. Xo. 1 mackerel per jiound Bc. Best Coated Hams @llcperlb. Buckwheat Flour 25 pound sack"4sc. Buckwheat Flour 100 pounds, SI.BO. Yellow Corn per 100 pounds 90c. Corn Meal or Cracked Corn 90c. Corn, Oats and Barley Chop 90c. Wheat Bran 200 pounds $1.50. Flour middlings, 140 pound sack $1.40. Fine middlings 200 pounds SI.OO. Flour per sack SI.OO. Winter Roller per sack SI.OO. Good Flour 90c. Rye Flour 25 pounds, 50c. Graham Flour 12J pounds .'iOc. Common Fine Salt per barrel $1.20. Charter Notice. Notice is hereby given that an application will be made to Hon. E. M. Dunham, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan county, on the 20th day of January, 1H!»!I, for the charter of a corporation to be called "Tne Citizens Cornet Band" of Lope/., Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, the character and object of which is for the purpose of promoting a knowlddge of the art and science of music, to furnish'mu sicand entertainment for the pub lic of Lopez, Pennsylvania, and of having a permanent organization known as "The Citizens Cornet Hand," of Lopez, Sullivan Co. Pa. A. J. Huadi.ky, Solicitor. Laporte, Pa., Dec. 1!>, 1 Hi)?). AUDITORS NOTICE—In re Es tate of Halbjna Hill inn Tubach, de ceased; In Orphans Court ofSullivan County; The undersigned auditor appointed by said Court, to pass upon the exceptions filed to the ac count of Phillip Tubach Adminis trator etc. and to distribute the fund as shown by his account tiled; will attend to the duties of his ap pointment on Friday, February 2, 1!>00, at 10 o'clock a. m. at his office in Dushore, Pa., when and where all persons Interested in, or having claims upon said account must present them or be forever debarred from coming in upon the same. John 11. Ckoxin, Auditor j ASK YOUR DEALER * 112 FOR TKC £ f(Jreighton | I v Shoe u*; J $ ... WARRANTED. ... | $fM $2.00 1 i 1 $2.50 5 «3.00g £ PER 5 * PAIR. * jj* Perfect FUting. Best Wearing and Ji ff SMost "Reliable Shoe sold. ifc For seventeen year; our product has been a •£ standard Shoe for Women, and is to-day con- to be one of the most reliable and thor- JJ m °, ü ß»jy nonest lines o( Ladies' Footwear on T m!!? e Aniencap market. Sold Jhrou«h pur an- "J JJJ thorized Agents. All styles, sues and widths i/) S Bold exolunivoly by W | Mrs. D. H. LORAH, X * SONESTOWN, PA. # MADE BY vjpr || SW. J. Creliiioi & uj. J !2*b* t 1 (rpo 4 35, 1 18 10 38 Picture Rocks 925 11 42 3; 7 f4 39 fl 21 10 41 Lyons Mills f922 IS 34 ft 41 fl 24 10 43 Cnamouni 920 11 37 f3 31 f4 48 13210 48 Glen Mawr 91411 32 323 f556 112 1 41 10 54 Strawbridge f905 11 29' 8 14 5 01 112 145 HeechGlen 112» 01 >.. . ! 3 10 505 149 11 00 Muncy Valley.... 858 11 20 3 06 511 15511 05 8 52.11 15 300 5 26 Nordmont 8 37 5 43 Mokoraa 8 21 5 45 LaPorte 8 19' f602 Ringdale f806! 6 15; Satterfleld 7 561 pm. am. a.m.[p.m. Oonneotion with Phila.ft Beadingfat Halls For Philadelphia, New York and inter mediate stations—LeaveWilliamsport 7:42 a.m., 10:00 a. m., Arrive Halls 7:59 a.m. 10:1 tf a. in. ForShamokin and intermed iate stations—leaves Williamsport 4:30 p. in.: arrive Halls 4.51 p. m. From Phila., New York and intermed iate stations—leave Phila. 10.21 a. in.and 11.36 p.in; leave New York,via Phila.7 30. a.in. 9.00 p.m.; leave New York via Ta mni|ua. 910 a.m. Arrive Halls, 6.34 a.m. and 521 p.m. From Shamokin and intermediate sta tions—leaves Shamokin 810 a. in. Ar rive Halls 9 49 a.m. Connecting with L. V. B B. at Satterfleld. For Towanda and intermediate stations, leave Wilkesbarre 3.05 p. m.; arrive at Satterfleld 6.25 p. m. For Towanda and intermediate stations, leave Bernice 6.40 a.m.; arrive Satterfleld 7.04 a. i