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FULTON COUNTY NEWS.
Published Every Thursday.
B. W. Peck, Editor.
McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
Thursday, May 17. 1900.
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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
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