7 w 'mihu FULTON COUNTY NEWS. Published Every Thursday. B. W. Peck, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday, May 17. 1900. Published Weekly. 1.00 per Annum in Advance. AOVBIITIHINCI VATEH. Perwinnre of I? line 8 times $1 50. IVr wiuiire eunh Hiihseiiueiit Insertlmi Ni. All mlvertlwineiilM Insertrri for lew limn three montliK orurKud by the wimire. 1 mos. n mo. I yr. fie.im. 7Mi. Ono-fourth eolunin. One-lmlf rolmnn. ... ( Hie Column 40.H0. .. .. Nothing Inserted for less thnn $1, 1'rufenxlunnl Curds one year ih. A TRAM I AM J A (HKL to ;rii r. COMK The unhappy termination of a correspondence between a Cham bersburg girl and a man with no visible means of support, butwho hoped to marry the maiden, says the Valley Spirit, came when the lliee drove William C. Miller, a German about 24 years of age, out of town and served notice on him that if he returned he would bo locked up in jail. Rosa Dunkel is the name of the girl. She is employed at the mill of the Chambersburg woolen company and is nineteen years old Very foolishly, some weeks ago, she answered an advertisement in a matrimonial paper and Miller, who was then in Henderson, Ky., began corresponding with her. To all of his oilers of marriage the girl very properly answered in the negative. He came here a short time after Easter and ' call ed upon her. If she had thought to meet an attractive suitor she must have been sadly disappoint ed, for the man was a most un couth specimen. Miller is evidently a tramp, for he disappeared after his first vis it telling the girl he would come again. She did not want to see him and tried hard to keep out of his way. He returned and going to the woolen mill insisted upon seeing her, declaring his inten tion of remaining until he could have an interview with her. Bad ly frightened the girl sought the protection of the police and it was then resolved to show the suitor no quarter He was taken to headquarters where it was found that he had but $5, with which he said he meant to marry the girl, .who was also at headquarters. -In the presence of the burgess she for mally declined to marry him and then it was Chief of Police Mull served notice on him that he must leave town. He had been before the police before as the prosecutor in a case in which ho charged three town young men with having assaulted him along the tracks of the West ern Maryland railroad. Ho is not likely to press this suit as he is so badly scared that heisprob ably quite a distance from Cham bersburg by this time. A pho tograph of the man was furnish ed the police It is the picture of a tall young fellow with dark mustache and rather good looking. There was little resemblance between the photograph and the original as Miller left the police station. He was poorly dressed andgaveother evidence of being a knight of the road. He had written from var ious points in Indiana, Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and claims to be a florist and en engineer. George Porter, tenant on the farm owned by Wilson Strohm, in Franklin Ccounty is confined to bed with five broken ribs and severe bruises as a result of being run over by a DOO-lb field roller last Tuesday. His little son was driving the horses hitch ed to the roller when a flash of lightning frightened the animals and they started to run. Mr. Porter tried to catch them and was thrown to the ground. The roller pushed him along for a dis tance of ten feet and then ran ov er him, breaking five ribs on the left side and bruising him seri ously. Dr. Drown was sent for and found his condition grave on account of the shock to his sys tem but he rallied and his recov ery is now confidently expected. When a boy begins to wash his neck without being licked to do it, it is a sign he is passing through his first love affair. AS ACT. To Erect MeConiik'V .it in the County of Kcdfoi I,'-'' ItorotiKh. Six'TioN 1. Be it enacted y the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As sembly met, and it is hereby en acted by the authority of the same, That tho town of McConn ellsburg, in the County of Bed ford, shall be, and the same is hereby erected into a borough, which shall be called the borough, of McConnellsburg, and shall be comprised within tho following bounds; to wit: beginning at the south-west corner of the plot of said town, adjoining lands of George Darrah, and running east with the plot of said town along the lands of George Darrah and Jolin Cook, to the east corner of the plot of said town, adjoining lands now in possession of An thony. Shoemaker and James Ag new, thence in a west direction with the plot of said town, along lands of James Agnow and George Hock, thence running with the variations of the ;ot of the said town, thence in a south direction with the plot o said town along lands of James jg new, to the north-west corner of the plot of said town, thence in a south direction with the plot of said town, along lands of Mary McConnell and George Darrah to the place of beginning. Section 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That it shall and may be lawful for all persons having re sided within the said borough six months next preceding the election, and being entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, on the first Tuesday of May next, and on the first Tuesday of May in each and every yeaF thereafter, to meet at the house now occupied by Mary Scott in the said borough, and then and there elect by ballot be tween the hours of twelve and six o'clock in the evening, one citizen residing therein, who shall be styled the burgess of the borough, and four citizens to be a town council, and shall also elect a high constable who shall reside in the bounds of said bor ough; but previous to tho open ing of and such election, the said inhabitants shall elect three citi zens, one of whom shall preside as judge, one to act as inspector, and the other to perform the duty of clerk, according to tho directions of the general election laws of this Commonwealth, so far as relates to the receiving and counting votes, and shall be subject to the same penalties for mal practice, as by the said elec tion laws are imposed, and the said judge, inspector and clerk, before they enter on the exer cise of their respective duties, shall take an oath or affirmation before any Justice of the Peace on the County of Bedford, or burgess of said borough, to per form the same fidelity, and shall hold the said election from time to time as occasion shall require, receive and count the ballots and declare the persons having the greatest number of votes to be duly elected; whereupon dupli cate certificates thereof shall be signed by the said judge, inspect or and clerk, one of which shall be transmitted to each of the persons elected, and the other filed among the records of the the corporation; and in case of vacancy by death, resignation, refusal to accept, or removal from said borough of any of said officers, the burgess, or in his ab sence or inability to act, the first named of the town council shall issue his precept directed to the high constable, requiring lum to hold an election to fill such va cancy, he giving at least ten days previous notice by advertise ments set up at four of the most public places within said borough. SkctkJn a. And be it further enacted by tho authority of tho same, That the burgess and town council duly elected as aforesaid, and their successor forever there after, shall bo one body politic and corporate in law. by the name of the Burgess and Town Council of the Borough of Mc Connellsburg, in the County of Bedford, and shall have perpetu al succession; and the said bur gess and town council and their successors forever hereafter, shall be capable in law to have, acquire, receive, hold and pos sess lands, tenements and 'here ditaments to them and their suc cessors in fee simple or other things of what nature or kind so ever, not exceeding the yearly value of three thousand dollars; ' aad d'30 to give, grant, let, sell ! aud as? I'm the same lands, tene ments, hereditaments, rents, g.jods an 1 chattels, and by the nam j aforesaid they shall be cap able in law to sue and be sued, plead and bo impleaded in any of the Courts of this Commonwealth or elsewhere, in all manner of actions whatsoever, and to have and use one common seal, and tho same from time to time change and alter. Suction 4. And be it further enacted by tho authority afore said That if any person duly qualified shall be elected a bur gess or a member of the town council as aforesaid, having been notified as before directed, and shall refuse or neglect to take upon himself .hj execution of the office to wf" hi shall have been elected, c ."y person so refusing or neucthig shall forfeit and par t ip 2am of ten dollars which f r.o and all other fines and for feitures incurred and made pay abi i in pursuance of this Act or cf t he by-laws and ordinances of thd burgess and town council, shall be for the use of the said corporation: Provided, That no person shall bo compelled to serve more than once in three years. Section 5. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That it shall and may be law for the burgess and town council, or a majority of them to meet as often as occasion may re quire, and appoint a town clerk and such other officers as may be necessary for the repairing the streets, lanes and alleys, and for removing the nuisances and obstructions therefrom, for reg ulating partition wall and fences, to enact such by-laws and make such rules, ordinances and regu lations, assess, apportion and ap propriate such taxes as shall be thought by a majority of the bur gess and town council best calcu lated to promote the foregoing purposes, and to do every matter and thing incident to and for the good of the said borough for the preservation and peace and good government within the same, which by-laws, rules, ordinances and regulations shall not be re pugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of this State, but no person shall be punishable for any breach of the by-laws, rules, ordinances and regulations unless after the pass ing of any ordinance the same be set up at four of the most public places within said borough; and no by-law or ordinance shall have any effect sooner than three weeks after such publication: Provided, That no tax shall be laid in any one year on the valu ation of taxable property exceed ing one cent on the dollar, unless some object of general utility should be thought necessary; in such case a majority of the tax able inhabitants of said borough by writing under their hands certify the same to the burgess and town council, who shall pro ceed to assess the same as before. Section 6. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the burgess elected agreeably to the directions of this Act, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue his precept to the high constable command ing him to collect all taxes asses sed from time to time as afore said, and all fines and forfeitures that may become due by this Act or by the ordinances or regula tions of the corporation, and the same to pay over to the treasurer to be apixrinted by tho town coun cil, and to carry into effect what soever is enjoined on him for the well ordering and good govern ment of the said borough; all debts, taxes and forfeitures to be removable in the same way the laws of this Commonwealth di rect; Provided, That it shall and may be lawful to and for Jus tices of the Peace of the said bor ough and all and every Justice or Justices of the Peace aforesaid residing or being in the said bor ough to do and execute every act or acts pertaining to their office agreeably to the powers confer od on them by the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. Section 7. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the Burgess shall be and he is hereby required to cause the by-laws, rules, ordinances "and regulations made as afore - said, to be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose, and he shall carry tho same into full ex ecution without delay after the publication thereof, us directed by tho sixth section of this Act, and it shall bo tho duty of the town clerk to attend all meet ings of the town council when assembled on business of thecor poration, and perform the duties of clerk thereto, and keep and preserve the common seal, re cords, papers, books and other documents relating to said cor poration, under the penalty of being answerable to any person ! concerned, for all damages, and removal from office by the bur gess on complaint of a majority of the council; aud tho high con stable shall preform all the dutes on him enjoined by this Act, and the by-laws and ordinances of the town council under like penalties and manner of removal: Provi ded, That if any person shall think himself or herself aggriev ed by anything done in pursu ance of this Act, he or she may appeal to the next Court of Quar ter Sessions, to be holdeu for the County of Bedford, giving surety according to law, to prosecutehis or her appeal with effect; which Court shall take such order there in as shall bo just and reason able, which order or judgment shall be conclusive to all parties. Section 8. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the burgess shall take and subscribe an oath or affirma tion before one of the associate judges or justice of the peace for the County of Bedford to support the Constitution of tho United States and of this State, and an oath of affirmation well and truly to execute the office of burgess of the borough of McConnellsburg; and when so qualified he shall ad minister the same oaths or affir mation to the council and high constable and town clerk, before they shall crater on the duties of their respected offices. John St. Clair, Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives. P. C. Lane, Speaker of tho Senate. Approved The twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Simon Snyder. HE FOUND HIS FORTUNE. Walter Adamson, of Durand, Mich., is heir to $4,000,000 in England, and has been roaming around for several years uncon scious of the fact. He was lounging in the corri dor of the Boody House says a correspondent of the Philadelphia Record when he picked up a New York newspaper and began to de vour its contents. Suddenly his face lighted up and ho exclaimed: "Well, by Jove! That's my picture, and I am the Walter Adamson advertised for!" Adamson says that two years ago he left NewYork for the West, and has drifted from place to place, so that his relatives have been unable to keep track of him. In 1702, when Queen Anne as cended the throne, John Adam son, wealthy and honorable, died in London, and his estate has been handed down until E. B. Humphreys, of New York, found that Alexander Adamson was the only living heir and had seven children, of whom the Durand man is one. The elder Adamson died in 1889, and the relatives have been looking for the wanderer since. Adamson immediately left for New York to claim his vast wealth. A Woman's Awful Peril. "There is only one chance to save your life and that is through an operation" were tho startling words heard by Mrs. I. B. Hunt of Lime Ridge, Wis., from her doctor after he had vainly tried to cure her of a frightful case of stomach trouble and yellow jaun dice. Gall stones had formed and she constantly grew worse. Then she began to use Electric Bitters which wholly cured her. It's a wonderful Stomach, Liver and Kidney remedy. Cures Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite. Try it. Only 50 cents. Guaran teed. For sale by W.S. Dickson, Druggist C. V. council, Royal Arcanum at Chambersburg, initiated twelve new members at their meeting last week. 1 POINT OF HONOR, A TRUE STORY OF THE HEROIC AGE IN OLD VIRGINIA. HY UKOItliK CARKY ICOOLKSTON. In telling this story I shall use fictitious names. Otherwise the tale is a record of facts. The principal ersonago, whom I will call Carleton Coxo, because that was not his name, was not a rich man as we reckon riches nowa days. But in Virginia in the old days ho was regarded as very comfortable. That is to say, he owned one plantation near Rich mond whose lavish hospitality ex ceeded its productive capacity by several thousand dollars a year, and two plantations in Mississip pi that wore profitable euough to make good tho deficiency, with ten or fifteen thousand dollars a year to spare. Better still, his credit was un disputed, aud to the Virginian of those old days credit was vastly more important than cash. I shall never forget how ho made mo ride forty miles through a cruel winter storm iu order to pay a few hundreds of dollars to a friend to whom ho owed the sum. The friend observed that as nothing in the world could tempt him out in the storm to use the money, he could not see why Mr. Coxehad made anybody face the bitter weather in order to place it in his hands. But when I repeated his remark Mr. Coxe said: "Never in my life have I failed to pay a debt big or little on tho day that it was due. That is why my credit is always good." But he enjoyed another kind of credit that was even better. He was the best loved and most hon ored gentleman iu all the country side the one man whose word was law to all his neighbors. He had a friend whom 1 will call William B. Arkwright. He was a man of as "good family" as any in Virginia. But he was not prosperous. His planting was successful enough, and he might have lived comfortably upon its proceeds. But he was visionary. He was given to projects, each of which he expected to yield him a great fortune, but each of which left him with a somewhat heavier debt than before to carry. It was in his enthusiasm for one of these projects that Ark wright one day asked Carleton Coxe to help him to funds by en dorsing his note. The request was declined on the ground that the project was visionary and un certain, and would probably have no other result than that of plunging its author into new diffi culties. Three months later, Carelton Coxe received notice from a bank in Richmond that a note for $5000, indorsed by himself, would fall due in a few days. He went to the bank and asked to see the note. It had been ex ecuted by William B. Arkwright. It bore Mr. Coxe's indorsement, forged by its maker, unquestion ably in full confidence that he would be able to meet the obliga tion and thus wrong no one. It was tho old story of good inten tions thwarted. Without a word as to the for gery, Carleton Coxe took up the note, giving his own obligation in its stead. Meantime, Arkwright went South upon some plea of business and his family hoard no more of him. Nevertheless, a name that had always beon held in honor, was saved from dis grace by the act of self-sacrifice. And tho self-sacrifice was tho greater because that year a gin house fire had burned Coxe's Mississippi cotton crop and thus deprived him of his income. Arkwright had disappeared, but no shadow of scandal rested upon his name to grieve his wife and render his children outcasts by an inheritance of shame. Tho country South was infested with bandits at that time, and the dis appearance of any man traveling there with a good horse, was not difficult to account for. Tho hon or of a distinguished family was saved, and evon to his own wife, the man 'who had saved it at so dear a price, breathed no word of the hideous truth. ' A month or two later, Mr. Coxe was sumuTonod to serve upon the grand jury of his coun ty. He went to court, for ho never shirked and never equivocated and his soul simply could not consent to a lie. But he declined to servo on the grand jury. When questioned by the Judge ns to his excuse, he replied: "I have none. I simply de cline .to serve." "But, Mr. Coxe, thero must be a reason," said the Judge. "There is. It is a reason touching my honor, and I am bound to indicate it to you. The oath of a grand juror Wnds him to bring before the grand jury any facts that ho may know con cerning any offence against the law committed within the last six mouths. "I know of a crime committed within less than that time. But it in no way injures the commun ity, and so no public duty re quires mo to reveal it. I alone am its victim, aud for the sake of the innocent whose lives its publication would blast, I have decided to keep sileuce. I can not take the'oath of a grand jur or to-day." "Do you not see, Mr. Coxe," said the Judge, "that the very reasou you givo for refusing to serve imposes an imperative obli gation upon me to compel you to serve?" "Very possibly, " was tho reply "But I cannot serve. My honor forbids." "But don't you know that it is my duty, if you persist in your refusal, to. fine you to the full ex tent of your property, and to im prison you until you yield?" "Your honor knows best what your duty requires," replied tho stately old gentleman, "and I have no doubt that you will unflinch ingly do your duty as you under staud it. But, pardon me, I mean no disrespect when I say that and no other human being, must deter miue what my honor re quires. Thatlies between me and my God. I cannot serve upon the grand jury." The court room was by this time packed to suffocation, for all the people of the country were thero on court days, aud news of what was in progress had spread over the green outside. The Judge was greatly per plexed. He inquired of tho clerk the amount of Mr. Coxe's posses sions, and was told. Then he made another and almost tearful appeal for compliance, arguing that the mandate of a court ab solve honor of its obligations. The dignified old gentleman re mained smiling and courteously obdurate. Finally the Judge turned to the clerk and said: "Enter a fine of $1 against Mr. Coxe and an order that he be im prisoned in the county jail for the space of one minute, and further enter it on record that in the opin ion of this court I am not fit to be a Judge. Mr. Sheriff, take your prisoner." By this time the court house had tumultuously emptied itself, and when the Sheriff walked out with his prisoner on his arm he found the entire able-bodied male population of the county sur rounding the jail. They were al ready in possession of all the shotguns, axes, picks, crowbars, and tho like in tho village, besides such firearms as the hot-headed young men were accustomed to carry on their persons. Their spokesman announced to tho Sheriff their determination that Carleton Coxo, the noblest and most honored man in that com munity, should not be lockod up iu jail. "It is only for a minute," be gan the Sheriff, but a howl of in dignation drowned his voice. "Bring mo something to stand on," said Mr. Coxe to the Sheriff, "and I will make them a placat ing speech." Ho had been for many years their State Senator, and they were accustomed to hear and heed his words. But this time his oratory failed for its purpose. Ho showed them how certainly anarchy must en sue if the orders of the courts were defied. Ho explained to them that his offense had been a very grievous one. He begged them for his honor's sake to Jet him expiate it by submitting to tho insignificant punishment im posed by the Judge. He re minded them that as their Sena tor ho was a lawmaker and that it would especially ill become him to be a law breaker. At this poiut, an old man of great influence in that commun ity arose and barod his breeze that swept hj,, locks into a halo, jj '! "Thou, God, KWstrS' citizens: Resold,! ,,,', by the people of thj, c ,', mass meeting ilSS(,lnh Carleton Coxe shall the portals of njnilti Jl' A great shout mad,. , lutiou the law ,f ,,(,lmhr "Conn.," said tho si, must report to U, m His return read; p, by the unauinious and it resistance of the emir,' from executing the C.0U., of imprisonment." Said the Judge: "Very well. TheCort 1he temporary dotenii,,, Coxo in custody of the S! full satisfaction of y' ti imprisonment. Mr. Sh,, charge your prisoner. M call the docket." . Sixteen years later th,; to a lawyer on,, day fr Orleans an envelope i !)800-:.,)( M Witl, sixtw'i interest added. AVith il noie saying: "A client of ours, , deuce we do not kunw, au name we withhold by hi desires that this cheek J transmitted to the familv late Mr. Carleton Coxe. understood to have di(., years ago." Thus "tlieiwnutoflnmm inated to the oud.-NV.i World. LICKING CREEK Written (or lust w eek. Quite a number of full this place attended May m at Sideling Hill Sunday, nie lottery, of Belfast to; says she is lnl years ol still, she is as smart as m tho young girls Mr R. Hoop has a severe nl rheumatism.. Some young men, who went l paw to peel bark, have r Mr. Joseph Deshnng ki very ill for several day Smith is treating him. V for Mr. Deshoug's six?' covory Miss Dot Editt ong has come to speudtl mer with her grandparent and Mrs. Joseph Deslic Mr. Preston Doshong au of Everett; Mr. George M ong, of Hustoutowu, am Clara Garland aud family Sunday with their pareu Mrs. Rebecca Hocbensn; this place, left for McK where she will spend soim visiting her uncles, Jam William Sine On Tui May 1, 11)00, at the reside the officiating justice, . Deshong, Elias Deshouga: reka Sharpe were married TortuieJ A Witness. Intense suffering wise; by witness T. L. Martia.ofl Ky., before he gave this evi "I coughed every night uu throat was nearly raw; tin Dr. King's New Discovery gave instant relief. 1 1' it in my family for four)'1' recommend it us the g: remedy for Coughs, Colds Throat, Chest and Luugtr. It will stoo the worst coin: not only prevents but at cures Consumption. If' and 1. 00. Every bottle (' teed. Trial bottle five al Dickson's Drug Store. Studying Tobacco Smf Professor Thomas has ;' tensive article iu a recent U publication on tho con of tobacco smoke, lty U"M au apparatus so as to artificially sinokec pass the smoke throng reagents, the author was a .lotoft nicot ne. mu'- n us car pyridine, as . - and butyric new " vl.it.ilnnil and Cal'DOU wero detected, but no P1 n,AA Tf una I0UUU , ,1 1 I 111 L stump contained a mu- l. IU, A V " y,.,.-,w, nf uicoim" w. The carbon1" l.tnoviatainconsideniu1 and, as blood that is owi od withitconuotbo re t.. .. ,i..ns eleniont- in a u.iubv.. . , smoke is dark brown" " valorous VUlUtllU vi j . rltating ana nm- . worn wiui m " ntn y hndUtillGdwithBWUI1,! i. ! )a pnrv a green, piienoi-o--
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