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MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., PA., JUNE 8, 1893.
NO. 23.
) of LOCAL INTEREST
f oh, why nhotild the uplrlt
I of mortal brprotM
In ft contry Hk our.
Where It Isn't allnwetl
For ft tniin who onetime
Id ofllre liiut been
To nt'vir wfiln hitve nctmnco
To get In r
J. I Murks of Svint foril is
relatives iu Lewistown.
Bibighauso c.f Philadelphia
Sunday in Middleburgh.
choch, w ho spent tho winter
Jlilo, N. Y. in homo on ti visit
i Mitchell ninl wife of Now
1 visited with Joe Cldau and
,-ovcr Sunday
Mint Walter m raising, 1111
Z and building im iiddition to
so in tho emit end of town.
i received a car of No. 1 -1 inch
)s at .1.25 per in.
I A. II. Ui.sii A; Son.
fcleland and l'hilip Spaid left
tulay morning for Lewistown,
let iu laying brick for the new
Jiks.
en Fesslor of Ceiitervillo
a piko in Penns Creek on
lay that measured 22 inches iu
j and weighed 2 pounds.
3. W. Orwig nnd tho editor of
)8T fished Swift Bun on Thurs
t last week and retimed with
sthe speckled beauties every
which was caught ut the lly.
31. Bower assistant general
er of tho West Virginia Cen-
ilroad, with head-quarters at
ferland, Md., visited his parents
ikliu last week.
eiKuiiUo. ami wue of near
Hall, accompanied by-their
icr, Mrs. Dr. Allison of Spring
;nro visiting friends in Middle-
-the guests of merchant John
t
closing exercises of tho spring
lof tho Freeburg Musical Col
till take place i nduy eveum;.
V. A largo ami enteresting pro
i.has been prepared for tho oc-
T vi T. Bohner of Mahonoy, Pa.,
"Enclosed iind l..r0 for tho
for another year. I am a dem-
- 1 41. !.. : . l l: l ... i
niui iuu x I'll in I cpuoncau out
don't matter. It is tho bust
I can get for tho money aud I
-'Vlo without it."
m Barter, of tho Middleburgh
3 is visiting tho World's Fair iu
Igo, and his paper last week
Juito a readable letter iu it from
If he keens on he'll soon size
fith Aleck McCluro. Juniata
H
kt is when we die, aud then we
I'sizo up" with Aleck iu the
hit of "dust"' we make.
tions of Lancaster county are
.ed with lice. So numerous
ioy that tho people aro moving
f the infested districts. There
lindreds of millions of tho pests
lio lives of tho inhabitants are
miserable. When they go
Id they are shunned by cvory.
jhey meet and wheu they stay
ijiie they can do uothiug but
Ch.-Ax.
I necotiatioiiR lmrof
in
ess for the purchaso of Mr
n-'u nnmnvKn 41, - 1?:....4 v..l
1 - k, have resulted iu an ugree
s tipon a piico certain matters
f t.' at ail remain to bo arranged,
i-l they aro satisfactorily adjust
rtuo doubt they will be, tho
so will bo completed, and tho
willtrecta business block on
Id coruer-tho finest location
isinoss purposes iu tho county.
f ph Walter, residing one mile
f town, was given a pleasant
ho party on Monday evening
jlghis will birthday. It was
1 form of a family ro-uuiou and
Jie relatives wero invited,
s the recipient of a number
niblo present among them bo
luster baud tea set, and a
ii gold watch. Ti.o n.:
hy managed and the occa-
as pleasant to Mr. Walter
us uuexpectod.
List of letters uncalled for in tho
Middleburgh post office, June 1, '03:
Henry Burger, Qeorgo Henry, Mrs.
Martha I'ollard, Miss Blanch Brooks
Miss Wackio Trovinger.
J. W. Swartz, 1. M.
"Mistaken SorLs Who Diieam or
Buss." Tho following marriage li
censes havo been granted since our
last publication :
(Wm, M. Fisher, Port Trevorton,
I Izora Meiscr, Memervule,
Milton T. Miller, Kantz,
) Annie C. Shallcr, l'allas.
Tho wild deer captured by ex-sher
ill" Nor B. Middlcsworth and a party
near McClure on Saturday last is
quite an attraction at tho Sheriff's
barn at present. Hundreds of per
sons have been there to see thelittlo
pet. It is supposed to havo been
formerly tamed by some person, yet
lie showed quite a spirit of light
when captured. The Sheriff and
party talk of starting a Zoological
garden.
Governor Battison vetoed tho eel
weir nnd fish basket bill. Tho gov
ernor says that tho placing of fish
baskets and weirs in tho streams
of the state are destructive of tho
works of tho stato fish commission,
as these devices catch and destroy
all kinds of fish and particularly
jeopardize tho future shud produc
tion. If you owe anybody pay it as soon
as you can. The man to whom you
aro indebted may bo indebted to his
neighbor and is unable to pay on
your account. A dollar may pay a
good many debts iu a day's time if
kept moving. Dou't carry money
around in yout pockets wheu it be
longs to someono else. By keep-
iug money nice up, times can bo
made easier by far than they are at
tho present time.
There are reports on tho way tell
ing of a man who stops at a hotel
claiming that ho has a car load of
horses coming, gets sale bill printed,
engages an auctioneer, stabling f.r
his horses, & etc.. and then pretend
ing ho is short a httlo of cash, tries to
borrow. ' He is aged about 55 years,
nearly six feet tall, wears glasses,
ono eyo defective, short dark beard,
a good talker, German accent, lio
worked Towauda early iu April,
Bloomsburg about April l.'th, aud
Lewistown April IJOth.
Chas. F. Orvis of Manchester, Vt..
is rapidly becoming known as ono of
the most substantial dealers in fish
ing tackle in tho United States, and
thoso porsous who havo thus far
failed to find a dealer who can sup
ply their every want will find it to
their interest to address him and
get his catalogue Thoso who have
tried Mr. Orvis in this section of tho
stato speak very highly of tho treat
ment they havo received from him,
claiming that his goods are all of
tho highest grade and his prices but
little above jobbing ratoB.
A successful festival was held in
New Berlin, May 27, 2, and 2Uth for
tho benefit of tho U. B. church of
that place. Tho trustees of tho
church have decided to hold another
festival during tho comiuencment
week, and engaged tho Towu hall
for that season, to raise tho funds
for carpet and matting for their
church. All tho friends and tho pub
lic, in general are cordially invited to
patronize them iu this enterprise
aud tasto their most excollont Ice
cream and other refreshments. Largo
plates will bo served for little money.
Tho Oriental Labyrinth and
Panopticon, ut 2D2 Wabash ave, tho
latest addition to Chicago's amuse
ment resorts a spoctaclo of oriental
grandeur. Tho labyrinth is an im
portation aud exact reproduction of
tho famous labyrinth in Stockholm,
Sweden. Tho statuos in tho panop
ticon aro modeled from well-knowu
paintings and opera scenes, as "Bien
Klosterbicr," "l'arolo d'Amour,
"Bathers in Normandio," "Dolce far
Nieute," "The French Masquo Ball,"
Faust," etc, ; iu short, a coutrally
0
located palace of amusement for
visitors to tho World's Fair. Chi
etiuo Timet.
The Fool Killer.
Take a walk through any of tho
cemeteries throughout the country
find you will believe with us that the
fools aro slowly but surely passing
away. You pass tho last resting of
a man who blew into nn empty gun.
Tho tombstone of him who lighted
tho fire with kerosene. Tho grass
carpeted mound covrs the remains
of the man who took the mule by
the tail. The tall monument of the
man who didn't know it was loaded
over-shadows tho man who jumped
from the cit s to savo a ten rod walk
Side by sivlo lio the ethereal creature
who kept her corset laced up to the
last hole, and theintclligent idiot who
lode a bicycle nino miles in ten. min
utes. Here reposes the doctor who took
a dose of his own medicine, and the
old fool w ho married a young wife.
Bight over yonder in tho northwest
corner, tho breezes sigh through tho
weeping willows that bends over t lio
lowly bed where lies the fellow who
told his mother-in-law sho lied.
Down there in tho potter's field, with
his feet sticking out to tho cold
blast of winter and. tho blistering
rays of tlm summer sun, is streched
the earthly remains of the misguided
regulator, who tried to lick the
editor, while tho broken bones of
the man w ho wrould not pay for his
paper aro piled up in the corner of n
fence. Over by the gate reposes tho
boy who went swimming tin Sunday,
and tho old woman who kept bakiug
powder sido by side with strychnine
iu tho cupboard. The old fool-killer
gathers them in ono by ono, and by
and by we will havo n pretty decent
world to live in.
'Thcbifore Erdly is building a new
barn on his lot immediately back of
tho Reformed church.
Tho Ghu Union Lumber Co.,
Glou Union, Clinton county, Pa.
want twenty-fivo good, practical
teamsters and wood choppers.
Wages paid according to tho man's
ability aud usefulness. !?1 to t.2."
per day and board. Men who drink
rum and get drunk need not apply.
C. K. Soukii, (ieii. Supt.
Tho editor of a weekly journal late
ly lost two of his subscribers thro'
netuueiuaur departing irom uie
beaten track in his answers to cor
respondents. Two of his subscrib
ers wrote to ask him his remedy for
their respective troubles. No. 1, a
happy father of twins, wrote to in
quire tho best way to got them safe
ly over their teething, and No. 2
wated to know how to protect his
orchard from tho myriads of grass
1 . ml , i
uuppuiB. iuo euuor irumou ins
answers upon tho orthodox lines,
but unfortunately transposed their
twonanios, with tho result than No.
1, who was blessed with tho twins,
road in reply to his query : "Cover
them carefully with straw and set
fire to them, aud tho little pests, of-
ter jumping around iu tho flames n
few minutes, will speedily bo set
tlod." No. 2, plagued with grass
hoppers, was told to "give a little
castor oil and rub their gums gently
with a bono ring."
A letter was recently received at
the pension department from a wid
ow in a little town in Ohio, who said
sho had lived a widow for thirty
years and found it too lonely. There
fore, sho asked that a plank bo put
in her pension that would enable
hor or any other who lived single
since 18'.'2 to marry, aud at the same
time keep hor pension. Sho added
that sho was row too old to get
much of a husband, ono who was
ablo to support her us well as her
pension had, and consequently she
must take what sho could get, but
did not feel liko again venturing ou
tho matrimonial sea unless sho
could do so and still continue to re
eoive her quarterly remittance from
the pension department. A widow
who can state hor caso so cleverly,
aud whoso utterances bear every
evidence of candor aud sincerity,
ought to have lit r wishes complied
with, if this be at all possiblo under
tho law, or eveu by stretching the
law a mero trifle I
A Snyder County Convict
Commits Suicide.
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Adam Comfort, wlm was convict
ed of shoot iug John Snyder with in
tent tokill at Slnmokiii D.iin, on the
night of January 1.1, 1KH, and sen
tenced to three years imprisonment
hi tho Eastern Penitentiary ut tin
February court following, commit
ted suicide on Saturday night, Jun
M, by throwing himself under a coal
wagou in the Penitentiary yard, r
ceiving injuries from which he died
iu the hospital a few hours after.
Immediately upon Mr. Comfort's
arrival in the Penitentiary in March
IS'Jl, he was put to work at shoe-
making, at which he remained until
December 2D of last year. On tho
date meutioned Comfort's mind be
came affected, and ho intimated to
several of his associates that lie
was going to kill himself. Tho keep
ers, ou lrninff this, placed him iu
iuo kiOpp'.ttu ana aettiueu two oiIW
convicts to watch him, so that he
could not injure himself. His con
dition was improved, and on Jan
uary l'l, 18M, ho was assigned the
duty of keeping a part of tho yard
of the fifth block clean. After his
release from the hospital he again
threatened to do himself harm, and
it was decided to continue watching
him. Ho acted very strangely lately
and never spoke to anyone. For a
time ho refused to eat anything and
once went without food for a week
Ou Saturday afternoon about 2.:io
o'clock two wagons belonging loC.
H. Binns, coal dealer, brought loads
of coal to the institution. Tho vc
hides entered the entrance to tin
yard where Comfort worked. After
tho coal in tho first wagon had been
weighed by Keeper Joseph M. Mor
gan, tho vehicle started up tho drive
way to the coal house. The other
wagou started iu the same direction
shortly afterwards. When the first
wagon had gono about thirty yards
the driver noticed the horses take a
sudden spurt, as if they had been
frightened, and on looking back the
driver saw Comfort lying on tho
ground over which the wagon had
just passed. He went back and
learned that he had been run over
aud hurt. Comfort was immediately
taken to the hospital, where he was
attended to bv the prison phvsicain,
Dr. M. V. Bull.
The driver saw the dead convict
gathering debris on the side of the
path. Ho did not see him run to
wards his wagon. The driver of tho
other vehicle, which was following,
said that he saw the man stop work
and, running to the first wagon, de
liberately place his head under one
of the hind wheels, which passed
over his neck. Another convict
known as "A Slim," who witnessed
the accident, corroborated the dri
ver's story. Other witnesses say
that tho man attempted to cross the
driveway and was knocked down by
the whvt'I.
Miss Daisy, J. . Keed' sbeautiful
aud accomplished daughter of Sun
bury, will please accept our thanks
for mui invitation to attend the
eleventh annual commencement of
tho Suubury High School in the
Lyon's Opera House on the 25th
ult. Although too late for tho ex
ercises it is never too lato to return
our thanks foe the kind remem
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f ' T
brance.
A Visit to Chicago Slaughter
Houses.
"Every human mouth is a slaugh
ter pen !" Whether we dreamt this
or heard somebody say it wo do not
know, but the idea never before so
forcibly impressed itself upon our
mind as it did on Thursday morn
ing, May 2.1, wlieu tho firm of Nel
son, Morris . Co., chartered a spec
ial train ou tho Michigan Southern
and conveyed the National Editorial
Association to their packinghouses
iu Chicago to witness the "slaughter
of theinnocents" to feci hungry man.
This company owns and controls
part of the MJ'l acres in South Chi
cago justly railed the "City of
Blood. Thirty-two packing houses
have hero been erected in dose
proximity for 11. e sake of eonveience
to tho Mock yards, which occupy
:V-'i acres more. Armour. Swift.
Morris and Hammond, generally
known as "the Big Four"' are the
largest. Armour's buildings alone
cover 40 acres w ith a total lloor an a
of 1:1.1 acres, haing a storage capac
ity of Iii.ikk) tons of meat.
Upon our arrival at the slaughter
house our ears were greeted by the
bawling of calves ami the bleatingof
sheep, ami as wo ascended to the
fourth lloor our own voice almost
became inaudible from the squeal
ing of pigs. Hero wo were ushered
into a kind of a balcony. Under
neath iu a pen were probably live
hundred pigs. At one end was a
gangway and here stood a mau with
a pair of nippers which ho fastened
to tho hind legs of tho animals, aud
before they knew what had happen
ed they were hoisted to an ti rial
railway and hans suspended before
see Hog-sticking, but the scientific
manner in which this man perform
ed his part so interested us that wo
could hardly get near enough. Ho
stood in blood up to his shoe laces.
His right arm wss bare to tho shoul
der and ho was blood all over. Tluco
hogs per minute passed through his
hands, although he could have easily
stuck a dozen per minute, for it re
quired but one single movement of
that terrible right arm, aud the
blood would shoot si feet away aud
the hog would slide down the rail
against tho other dozen or fifteen
that hung there still kicking. At
the terminus of this railway each
successive hog is automatically
dropped lifeless, Voiceless, and
bloodless into a vat of boiling wa
ter, which soon put his hide into a
condition so that tho bristles can
be easily removed. The carcass
continues its exciting progress down
a long inclined table between two
rows of men, each with a long, keen
knife; it is rapidly deprived of its
ititerior organs, and assumes tho ap
pearance familiar to every visitor in
a butcher shop. It is then hoisted
to a perpendicular position upon an
other serial railway, and disappears
within the cool aud vast interior of
tho "chilling room."
Think of the old-stylo country
butchering where it required a
whole neighborhood from three
o'clock iu tho moruing till ten at
night to kill half a dozen hogs.
Their capacity iu this one house is
4,5i0 per day, and the skill with
which some of tho meu perform
their part is almost inci editable.
For instance the man who cuts oil'
the heads is an artist in his line. By
a single pass with an ordinary butch
er knife he severs the head from tho
earcasas though he were cutting
cheese. He never misses the joint
aud never dulls his knife by letting
it come in contact with tho spinal
column. Then the man w ho cuts up
the hogs is an artist, and it requires
only live seconds of his precious
time to cut up half a hog. SUudiug
with an uplifted clever the sido is
brought before him. One cut severs
the hind foot, oue tho front, ono iu
front of tho ham and ono back of
shoulder. There you havo it live
cuts in live seconds. Everything
goes by machinery eveu tho men
appear to bo but machiuos so per
fect iu every Action, so correct iu
every movement.
From the pig killingostablishinont
wo passed on to tho slaughter house
for cattle. Here a scene greeted us
that is apt to make tho faint-hearted
tremble at first, but you gradually
become assimilated to the surround
ings an 1 before you leave you bo
como fascinated to tho spot Here
are one hundred head of steers
tho second consignment to the
slaughter room for tho day. They
aro driven into narrow gangways -probably
a docii at a time. Above
them walk three men armed with
common stone. hammers. You see
the hammer descend, hear a dull
thii 1 and a heavy fall. Tho side of
I ho gangway ri.M-s up and Hit! animal
rolls out where a man stands ready
with a pair of damps which are
f i-teiie I to the hind legs and in a
moment the beef hangs suspended
before I he sticker. After him comes
the In a Icr. who eomiiii net s nt the
lelt eye, runs hi , kuifn upand around
the horns walks to the other side
and before you know how it happi ti
ed the head U skinned, cut off an 1
drops to the lloor. We timed the
header and it required ju-t seven
teen seconds to pel form his part.
The beeve slides down an ;erial rail
way where it i.s automatically drop
ped into the hands of tho skinners
under whose dexterous strokes of
the knifo tho hide falls off as though
it were a wet blanket. One thous
and beeves and nearly five times as
many hogs, calves and sheep are
killed in this way every day. The
company employs nearly h,nh per
sons whose wages run from one t
four dollars per day.
Some of our butchers do not un
dorstand how these packing houses
can pay per hundred ou foot, lull
and. deliver tJift -beef ,re
jr irjt u" v cau .., i- ,
our farmers. The reason is this '
tho packer finds his profit in dis
posing of those parts of tho animal
which are absolutely useless to small
slaughterers. Tho hide, lion,,,
hoofs, tongue, liver, heart, tallow .
olt.'o fat, intestines and blood pay
tho cost of killing and refrigerating,
fuel, salt, labor, buying, driving,
etc., which is about 1.75 on a steer
weighing originally l,2t',u pounds,
which costs the packer U. About
fifty-live per cent of tho live weight
of this animal is delivered to the
retail butcher as dressed beef at a
price which is less than tho cost of
tho live animal. The value of the
hide an I thuwa.sto products already
enumerated may be fairly stated at
Sll ; out of which must, be paid the
cost of killing, salaries, rent, fuel,
refrigeration, and whatever profit i
made.
For sale cheap -A Piano box tup
buggy, also a few cushion and
Pneumatic tire safety bicycles.
A. H.Ulsii & Son.
Miss Laura Kieller, after spending
several weeks with her undo Bono
villo Smith, returned to her homo at
Adanisburg on Tuesd'y accompanied
by her ncicc Miss Bessie Smith, who
will visit her uncle J. G. Moyer for
several weeks.
The Bepublieans of I'nioti county
held their primary election ou the
27th ult., and tho following ticket
was nominated : Treasurer, D. 1'.
Higgius ; Uegister and recorder.
W. Shields ; Commissioners, A. A.
Geiubcrhng ami H. It. Hart man ;
lifprtseiitative Delegate, 11. A.
Taylor.
Justices of tho Peace throughout
the country will hail with pleasure
tho new fee bill which went into ef
fect last week. According to the
new bill justices can now charge for
oath and information 50 cents, dock
et entry 'J.1 cents, warrants 50 cents,
transcript 51 cents, filtering dis
continuance of assault and battery
casses 50 cents, entering action 'J5
cnts, summons or subpcou.i 25
cents with 1" for cadi additional
name, re turn of summons 25 cents,
entering satisfaction 15 cents, execu
tion 5U cents, return of proceedings
ou certiorari or appeal 1, receiving
or paying over where tho amount is
over 100, l per Uuudied.