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MIDDLEBUEGH, SNYDEH CO., PA., MARCH 9, 1893.
ITEMS of LOO AL INTEREST
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Mrs. Theodore Walter, of Akron,
Ohio, is here on a visit.
Communications mutt reach us on
Tuesday to insure publication.
Miss Mabel Wittentnyer returned
home from Lewisburg on Saturday.
Quite a number of our people are
fluttering from attacks of scarlet rash.
Dr. I. Qrior Barber and his little
son Miles, of Danville, were in town
last week.
A most graphic account of the in
auguration ceremonies will be found
on our inside pages.
County Superintendent Herman
had a whole quarter of bee! stolen
from his summer house last week.
The largest invoice of gentlemen's
shirts ever opened in this county just
received at Oppenheimer's, Selins
grove. tf.
Whiskey and Tobacco Habit cured
or no pay. Don't fail to correspond.
J. L. Cochrane,
Lock box 217. Greensburg, Pa.
A fine lino of hats just received at
II. Oppenheimer's, Selinsgrove.coni-
pnsingall the latest styles. Come
and sco them. ' tf.
IfVouwishto save money go to
Wetzel's Cheap Cash Stole, Frank
lin. All kinds of produce taken in
exchange for goods.
For Sale. A six-year-old Jack and
2 White Horses, 7 and 8 years old.
For particulars call on or address
4w. I. C. Smith, Beaver Springs.
Peter C rman. of Mt. Pleasant
ftTilla ta a .11 Anlnt Jwni a 1 in rv Kiicii-
Q sa-anTT is ' cloifin Jiurtiis winter
ifotock at greatly rofluced prices to
i Ji. HWfrirO-rYn5hi for his Biirin? poods.
leachers ana purcnts should i not
permit their children to eat snow, as
physicians claim that gorms of some
of the most malignaut fevers are con
veyed into the system through it.
Notice. Persons having sale this
Spring can make arrangements to
liave their notes discounted at the
First National Bank, Middleburgh.
The Bank will furnish the notes free
of charge.
The gold watch belonging to Clias
Shouu'cr, which was fouud missing
on the morning of tho burning of
'Jospeph Mussel's house, appeared
last week us mysteriously us it had
disappeared.
John L. Bo-vorsox, who spent the
S winter with his parents in Middle-
burgh, left this week for Cold water,
Mich., where ho has secured u po-
sition as iVtlesman m a Mtoro. Ho
takes with him "bag and bugguge,"
but leaves his heart behind.
Tho report in cii-eulnt
; ing and affecting John O Hi.-muiH
ihas been investigated n.l it. nf.
I fords us pleasure to state there is
not one word of truth in the whole
story. John is still on top and has
j had un accession to his family in the
shapo of a big boy. Zew7ow W e
il'resa.
-Tlnv present winter stands unpre
cedented for having afforded a long
Wd continuous season of sleighing.
From the lust week in December a
period ' f nearly twelve weeks-we
Vivoheui'd the jingle of tho bells,
id when the time comes we will
lothe to exchange their merry mu
le for the dull "rattle of the gig."
Letters uncalled for in thoMiddlo
UrgH post offico, March 1), 18!);) :
T ll-11 Grander. Mrs.
? T TrB ly llev- iL F- Keitw,
T. Barnaby, Miss Alice
! a""-, Ldwm S. McKeim, Miss
j Ja bpangler. Miss Annio Arbogast,
i .isH Eva Bergor.
(t I if, J- W. Swahzt. P. ivr
t ii, xrSsi , iJ,Uie8 wte Soc ety
flhe Midteburgh, U. B. church.
'"V, "-'" us thanks for the
mMmtronage they received at
:x festival during court week.
to tho Grand Army for the loan
Jicir flags ana to the Sons of
yica for tho use of their chairs.
COMJUTTEK.
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Chas. W. Dreese, tho e fliciont and
obliging clerk in Wittemycr's store,
and Amnion Spanglor, one of Sny
der county's successful teachers,
have gone to Philadelphia to stand
examinations for the departmental
service in Washington.
Have you lost a tooth, or perhaps
several, where tho loss shows, and
prefer to have the ill looking space
rather than wear a plate T Do you
know that Dr. Voelkler, of Selins
grove can insert substitutes to your
satisfaction without obliging you to
wear a plate, whether you have the
roots left or not f Ask him about it.
For Sale. A new two-story dwell
ing house, good stable, and all other
necessary outbuildings, good water,
good fruit, on about aero of land
situate two miles west of Middlo
burgh, on tho public road to Troxel
ville. Will bo sold reasonable and
on easy terms. For particulars ad
dress John Walter,
2w. pd. Middloburgh, Pa.
Owing to a misunderstanding we
were lead into the error of stating
last week that Col. A. E. Heed had
resigned tho Superintendency of
the S. St L. It. It. and that O. W.
Croighton lato of tho Shamokin Div.
had been appointod in his stead.
Mr. Rood is still at the head of our
division, likes it, and has no desiro
for a change.
A Nittany Valley farmer says the
wild turkeys are starving on account
of tho deep snows having covered
the ground for so munj Vrvcka. The
turkeys enter tho fanners' orchards,
fly upon tho apple trees and with
thoir wings hammer tho limbs of
the trees until the frozen crKjtfjrnil,
w: '1 -Vest to appease' lii'oVu'
ge . centre Democrat. e
John Lawverand Harrison Ivoia.
ter are now boarding with S'leriff
Bolender. It iB reported tha1, the
boys always had chickens tc sell
when tho huckster cunio nrnind,
while those who made a biuiness
of chicken raising missed theirs
when they wanted a pot-pie. And
thereby hangs a tale which needs
explanation from tho boys.
A fellow is now traveling through
the country trying to swindle parties
with a contract for wire fences. I In
oilers to give enough wiro to funco ii
ton-acre tield if tho party will sign ji
contract to tako tho agency for the
wire. The contract is wheijn the
swindle comes in, for if read closely
it tuins out to bo a promissory note
for Sjtti) after a few words huvrt been
erased with oxolie acid. Look on ,
for him.
The poor quail, pheasants, ruUct i
turkeys and other small gam. m
having a hard timo of it. Main ; n
mers are feeding tho poor cr al , i 's,
but dospito their help, tho bird lis
uppear in wholn covey lots, j ()u,
farmer iu Jackson township in i ins
Ud that a llock of quail that ; lily
ciune to his barn for food was Miss
ing ono morning and a few da , lif
ter the crows wore scon dicing
them out of tho snow drifts nnl de
vouring them.
Thoso in this county who usually
at this timo of tho year engage iu:
tho shooting and trapping of fur
bearing animals will bo interested
in learning tho prices that are being
paid for skins, to wit : Otter. 85 to
88 ; mink, 75e. to 8:1 ; red fox, 81 to
; grey fox, 50o.; raccoon. 25c.
to 81 : skunk. 81 to ft I .Ml
half striped, 55 and 70 cents ; sVuuk,
striped, 20 to 35 cents j hkuuk,
white, 12 to 15 cents : opossum. io
to 40 cents j muskrat, 5 to IK.
Greougoods men koep . seudimr
their circulars into our count v nf.
fering to sell counterfeit money that
looks like the genuine for about 850
on tho $1000. Wo have hei-d of
none green enough to bito at Joast
we have heard of no ono beiiijf bit
ten. If some wag, or a set of cour
ageous wags could lay a plan to beat
these green goods chaps at their
own game, it would bo intort -uiina
reading, to find the chaps had boon
scooped in by some of their country
cousins.
MARCH.
We have entered the mouth of
March, tho first of Spring iu name
at least. Ordinarily it is the most
disagreeable of all the months cold,
snowy and stormy, but we imagine
we need have no anticipation of any
lengthened interval of Arctic visita
tions, since, having Iliad snow con
continuously since the latter part of
December, tho fields covorod with
the floocy material to u depth of iev
era! feet, and roads blocked fence
high, it is likely the supply in cloud
land is pretty well exhausted. Feb
ruary was indeed a wintry month.
Its snow storms were frequent, and
its temperature cluug close to zero.
The several mouths which old Win
ter has kept mantled iu robes of
spotless whito were hard upon tho
homeless, while the sovero and sud
den changes which havo shadowed
tho scasou have left their memen
toes in many a caugh and cold, and
are marked by grief which garlands
many a grave. Still tho season
breathed a recompense in smiles
gladness to the growing grain, and
joy to mauy a happy heart which to
tho answering melody and brilliance
of music and moonlight gaily glided
over the sparkling snow. March is
a blustery, windy, ficklo mouth.
Bough, cold and boisterous as he
usually is, March is nevertheless
welcome. Kudo and blustering,
with whirlwinds and lierco storms
in his train, ho clears tho atmos
phere, dispels the snow and brood
ing miasma, dries up stagnant pools
fraught with death, and rushes into
the forest arches and chuses away
the vapors that rest JArk
is always it blusterer. A March
wind is proverbially a drying one,
and it takes up the moisturo loft by
melting snows with un astonishing
rapidity. And thoso winds also fer
teliso tho farmer's fields. As they
r.ipidly remove the water from tho
surface more comes up from below
by capillary attraction, bringing
with it tho plant food it holds iu
solution. As this iu turn is evoporat
ed, whatever it contains is loft in
tho soil within reach of the roots of
tho crops. It is therefore very fool
ish to fret about March weather.
However disagreeable it may bo, if
we look with believing eyes we can
see that, every dispensation of na
ture i.i ever working for our good.
The origin of M irch is traceable to
tho lloiuans, who regarded it as the
first month of tho year until the
stvlo v;n changed iu 1752.
Important Cases.
lleub:-u Krcumcr, who tried tho
curative powers of tho Arkansas hot
springs for rheumatism, lias return
ed. We have not heard what effect
tho water produced on him.
1. 11. Bhoads has received his
spring slock of stoves. They are of
the latest designs and cheap. He
also has u number of second-hand
stoves which ho will sell at a bargain.
Tho Republican Standing Commit
tee last week decided to hold tho
primary on Saturday, March 25th,
and the candidates whose names ap
pear elsowhoro in this issue, are out
in their war-paint. The campaign
promises to bo short, shurp, uud de
cisive Wm. J. Long, father of Mrs. Ellen
Auraud and former resident of this
place died at his homo in Yicksburg,
Mich., on March .'Id. Mr. Long had
received a paralytic stroko several
years ago from which ho never fully
recovered, whon finally dropsy set
in and death was tho result.
Sarah Jane Kroichbauni, sister of
our townsman, Jacob Gilbert, Esq.,
diod at her homo in Youngstowil,
()., on Monday, March G, aged about
47 years. Mrs. Kroichbauui had
been separated from her relatives and
lost for nearly forty years, and her
whereabout became known only
about two years ago. Sinco that
time sho twice visited her relatives
East, spending soveral weeks with
her brothor and family here, where
she mot and mado friends of n any
jpeoplo who still hold her in fond
, remembrance.
Tliore wero two cases of import-
uicfUried in the February court.:
1 1 irst one was Tho Mifllin County j
ilXBank vs. Jacob D. Miller. This
isermed in law a "FeigneilIssue,"
biffc'as near as tho writer could
a eoliftin, a wager ; in other words,
t e IJank wagered that they had a
n t4 against the defendant, Jacob
If Miller, iu tho num of $5,000. The
tipenaant wngereel that tuo Jiank
illdo,'t: have any such paper of his,
li iice tjie trial, which was hotly con
listtfrom beginning to end. TJio
ljuiil bfforod tho note in question in
cjniffio as a genuine instrument,
undttuod a great many wiluesses to
sipii it. Mr. W. B. Baum testi
fied tnaV Jacob D. Miller signed tho
it(i that others were present
uhii h4 defendant signed similar
iipteiC. ?Ihe Bank called as anexpeit
Br.l'irsif er Frazer, who had a scien
tific 'bory for tho detection of
feigheJiOy forged signatures, who,
Iry ti king a number and superimpos
ing tneuTiiud then photographing
the lifferent signatures, claimed in
this iaso that the signatures did not
vary kaaterjally, therefore the ono in
quesjion Was pronounced genuine,
Mr. JaSHinoro Williamson, of l'liila.,
au expert, testified that the signa
ture pf Jooob D. Miller was genuine.
Thishowever, was offset by tho de
fendant .calling Mr. E. II. Bauch, f
Mauh Chunk, an acknow ledged ex
pertvyho Bald that the signature iu
his i'piujon Tus it feigned one. The
dofeildunff and his sons denied thut
ho 1M ever lnudo or signed such a
note i-r) thp ono iu question. The
jarfy, lu,, "?r, rendered a verdict in
.Of ( V Un . , v L-ij"
The other caso was it'
Wugner vs. Spring tov- .,q.
history of this caso briefly stated is
as follows : Somo timo in the sum
mer of 181)0, tho plaintiff ia this cip-o
was moving his traction engine and
throsher to tho farm of Mr. Mitchell.
In going thero the plaint ill' was com
pelled to pass over a wooden bridge.
The plaintiff went ahead and direct
ed tho way over it, but when the en
Kino got on to it the bridge broke
down and tho engine fell to the bot
tom of tho creek, doing considerable
dauia;;;). Fortius the plaint ill' sued
tho Township of Spring. ThcTowu
ship claimed that t he plaint ill' ns
guilty of negligence, that ho should
havo examined tin' bridge, ,c, but
since the traction engine has its
rights upon the highway, the I own
shit) supervisors must afford them
as much protection as ol In r vehicles,
audit becomes the duty of the su
pervisors to examine their bridges
thoroughly and completely if they
wish to escape damages. Tho jury
in this case rendered a verdict iu fa
vor of Mr. Wagner.
Capturing a Wild-Cat.
Iiev. J. Shainbach of York is hole
on a visit.
Mrs. Laura Walter ret urned to her
homo in Akron, Tuesday.
Misicai. Coi.i.r.oK. Tho Spring
Term opens May 1st, in vocal and
instrumental music. For cat alogues
address Henry B. Moycr, Fret-burg,
r. a-23
"Mistaken Souls Who Dukam of
Bliss." The following marriage li
censes havo been granted sinco our
last publication :
JWm. F. Boush, Kantz,
( Lizzio M. Nerhood, "
Lloyd Kerstetter, Mahontongo,
((Alice Goodling, Oriental.
Frank, the third child of Dr. Bar
ber of Danville, aged about three,
diod of diphtheria on Saturday, and
Blanch, the oldost, is also down with
the dreaded disouso. Miss Amanda
Wittenmyer left on Monday to assist
her sister in taking euro of tho little
ones.
Spring may be backward, but a
person entering Oppenheimer's
store, Soliusgrove, would not think
so from the pilos of summer cloth
ing exhibited there. Mr. O., is pro
paring for a booming trade this
spring, nis siyios ana prices are
bound to bring trade whothor Bpriug
comes or not.
('II AUI.ES liorsil. TIIK VRTKKAN IIUNTKIl.
CAI'Tt llKS TWO SIN()I.K-IIANI)KI.
Charloa Housh, of Freeh urg, aged
72 years, and oldest son of Simeon
Iloush, dee'd, now has in captivity
two largo, vicious-looking wild-cats
captured by his own hands. Not
withstanding his advanced ace he is
a matt that can still stand a wonder
ful amount of fatigue, and although
ho has the physique of a pioneer,
one would hardly believe that be
hind his mild countenance lurked
tho craftiness, courage and determi
nation that makes him n remarkable
man. Wo havo all heard of Simeon
Uoush, tho great hunter ; how he
was able to follow hishoundsa whole
day on foot, and be w ith them at
tho death of tho deer or fox that
had lead them a hard chase. Chas.
Boush, tho hero of this article, is a
man who inherited all his father's
traits in this respect, and, armed
with his old rusty, flint lock musket,
(which ho still carries and claims to
be the best gun iu tho world) hois
a man, who iu his prime would have
been a typical pioneer and a leader
among men like Boone, Brudy.Croek
et and Kenton.
We drove to Froeburg on Friday
of last week for the express purpose
of renewiug our acquaintance with
tho old gentleman, see his "pets"
and learn tho story of their capture.
Unfortunately wo found him away
from homo, but upon application
we wero conducted to his private
apartment, which boro all the ear
marks of a hunters paradise of a
man who t, too much interested in
--1 J;Uft to tV
a bushel I ttool traps i. in
size from u twenty pound bear trap
to the com mou rut trap. Piles of
fat pine, skins, hatchets, knapsacks,
nets, yc, ornamented the room.
Upon entering his sleeping apart
ment we found the objects of our
search, viz., two monstrous, lean,
lank, vicious-looking wild cats, strik
ing and blowing like adders at every
move we made. Their prison house
consisted of a common store box
with iron bars iu front and a peti
tion in the middle. On top of the
box lay three guns. The one an
army carbine and the other two old
Hint lock muskets with mu.les
like meat stands. One of them
much reseiuliled the gun Used by
.loo Jefferson in Kip Van Winkle.
We picked it up, and removing lie
leather cup, opened the lire-pan and
found it full of powder. "it is'nt
loaded is it" we remarked. "(). yes.
he never shoots except to kill,'' was
tin- response. We replaced l In
leather cap over the breech and
carefully laid it down while fond
memories of our childhood days,
when we too curried such u weapon
to kill tho wild pigeon crowded
each other iu their pace. But alas,
and sad to say, that royal game
with the gun of that period has
passed away.
Tho story of tho capture of tho
animals is most interesting, and es
pecially tho last ono was a most
dangerous undertaking single hand
ed. This cat is tho largest and most
savage he ever owned, for she is
utterly unapproachable and must be
fod with a stick. Her meat is fast
ened to tho end of the stick and
passed through tho bars. Without
tho slightest movement of her blaz
ing eyes which are constantly rivet
ed on tho visitor, her foot comes up
liko a flash of lightning mid the meat
disappears under her haunches. Even
this friendly act seems to anger tho
beast and her appearance is simply
terrible. Mr Boush captured her
about two weeks ago. The hard
winter had driven her out of her lair
and tho hounds came across her
truck on Shade Mountain. Tho cut
becoming Hard pressed took to a
hole iu the rocks. Mr. Iloush, who
is always prepared for such emer
NO. 10.
minutes, and soon the dog hud
enough of it and started to come
out. Mr. Boush removed tho net to
let tho dog out whon "pop" comes
the cat after. Not having his net
ready, ho put his foot in the holo to
keep her in until ho could arrange
his net. A few rips from her ter-
ible claws tore his strong leather
boot into stnithorooiis.but he hastily
placed his net and she darted out and
into it. An ordinary wild-cat would
have been safe, but not so with this
one. One or two rips with her,
claws and the net begun to give
way. She was lighting viciously.
and Mr. Uoush finding his prize
about to escape ho dolibcruti.lv
threw himself on her and dexterous
ly slipped another net over her, then
throwing h er across his shoulder he
started for homo. Arriving thero
lute and being tired, lie dropped
the cut into a wash-boiler which In
covered with a board uud set it
aside of his bed. During the night
he heard a commotion in the boiler,
aud, looking up, ho found that the
animal had again freed herself from
the net, had pushed the board aside
and was about to spring out at him.
A tap on her head with his hand sen t
her back. The II. I was fastened nnd
tho animal retained until he had his
iron cage prepared for her reception
which still remains her prison housi...
Mr. Boush occasionally removes
the partition and allows the. ani
mals to exchange courtesies, but he
keeps a constant watch over them
for fear they do each other injury.
Friendsi,(if the Post.
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goucies.sent ono of his dogs jto tho
holo after tho cat and tlieomoiVi bis
net over the opening..
nandomonium in. t lyT!T
,r r.iii-HR $5 -loo.ooo, ar
"U in tin so crei.'iiH oi , ,-
per please notify ns :
(l iintlmii-il from lust week.)
Jacob Sheiuory,
Geo. S. Kline,
(!. C. Walter.
Willis Schumhuch,
Judge Middleswai'tll,
Nor B. Middleswarth,
Howard A. Ulsh,
John llill.eit,
Win. P. Beaver,
Jacob Jarn t,
II. Luudelislager.
11. S. Bilger,
W. II. Kline.
Henry I oil .apple,
Frank Dock,
W. 1). (lannaii,
Josiah Jiiugamuii,
Uelllieii J rcese,
I'rof. I). S. Boyor.
hew is Mongol,
livill H. Walter.
Miss Klillil.i Bowel'sox,
Valentino Waller.
James Aigler,
r'riiul; Et t inger,
Aaron ('. Waller.
Solomon Vi tler,
John S. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii I.
Isaac Krebbs,
W. F. KantVinai),
Samuel SI rawser,
Albei t Dreese,
Isaac Xapp,
Calvin (). Bow-rso,
J. W. Stiver.
Jacob Middlcswurth
John D. Kessh-r,
. T. (leinbeiliiig
Henry 1'. Denver,
J. S. Gumby,
V. H. Wagner,
W. M. Belif, I,
Arthur C. Bow,
Clyde O. Smith,
E. Hummel,
Jacob Kramer,
llev. J. Schumbucb,
James W. Klingler,
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STBOUBTOWN.
Flittings are on tho program and
many people aro changing homes
this spring..... E. S. Stroub will
movo to Meisorvillo in tho uear fu-
turo whero ho iuteuds to keep store
Sleighing is about gono nnd
peoplo aro wishing for
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