A PROSPEROUS YEAR. THE PENNSYLVANIA It.AILUOAD COM. I'ANV'rS ANNUAL Itlil'OKT, LOSS BY THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD. A Large Net Gain During the Year—The Destruction of the Company'* Prop erty In the Conemanglt Valley—The Cost of Kepalr—lmprovements Under Way—Some CouipartMuna With Oilier lloarl*. The annual report of tlie Hoard of Di rectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for 1889 just made pubi c shows the gross earnings on the whole system to have been $122,917,337, or SO,- 408.044 larger than in 1888, and the net earnings were $89,100,209, an increase of $3 334.202. These-are the largest earnings in lite history of lite company, a remarkable fact when it is remnnbeicd that curing the whole month of June, owing to the Johnstown flood, the main line of the road was partly closed up. The number of tons of freight carried was 122,104, .18, an increase of 11,220,274 tons, ami ihe number of passengers carried was 78,128,- 957, an increase of 4,120.871. The lines both east and west ot Pittsburg comprise 7844 miles. Dividends to the amount of $5,327,270, or 5 percent., were paid and the balance, $3,328,041, was transferred to the credit of profit and loss less deduction on ac count of the floods, $2,489,954. The bal ance to the credit of profit and loss was therefore increased $338,087, and the item now stands at $20,008,055. That part of the report referring lo ilie loss of the company'by the June floods reads as follows : "On the 31s' of May the extraordinary rainfall began, and following marly the trend of the mountain rangu over which your system of lines passes, caused an unparalleled destruction of properly, not only upon your Main Line, hut many of the other roads forming your system. In the Juniata Valley three of the larg est and most expensive double-track bridges, two of which bad recently been inbuilt, were entirely destroyed, together with several miles of track. TUB JOHNSTOWN FLOOD. " The greatest destruction both of life and property took place hnwev cr on the western slope of the mountain, in the Couemaugli Val ley, where a reservoir (originally constructed by the Statu of Pennsylvania for its canal system) gave way, and com pletely destroyed your road for a distance , of over ten miles, including several large bridges, and nil the machine-simps, round-houses, and yard f icilities nl (Jon emaugli, itl the foot of the mountain, lite destruction being so complete that it was almost impossible to fix the locution fotm erly occupied by your property. Among the properly damaged and destroyed were twenty-four passenger cars, 501 Ireigl.t cars, thirty-four locomotives, some of i tie latter, notwithstanding their weight, be ing carried more thau a mile by the fence of the flood. While this loss of property was appalling in its magnitude, yet it was more thau overshadowed bf tue great de struction of life and properly in the man ufacturing ci'y of Johns'own, a short dis tance below Couemaugh, in tlie same vuiley. •' In addition to the destruction of pinp erty on your Main Lin many of the largest and most important bridges ou the Philadelphia and Brie road weie en- tirely destroyed, while cntlie Blinira ami ' Wiilhunsport line (leased to the Northern Central liailroad Company) several miles of railway, including many bridges, were washed away. " The lota! amount expended to- Dec ember 81si, 1880, in repairing the loss caused by the Hoods to your system was $3,475,423.01, leaving still a considerable sum lo he expended to restore it to its original condition. This outlay does not include the indirect loss from the sus pension of trattle and the serious interrup tion lo the working of your entire system caused thereby. " The services of as many of your offi cers and employes as could be spared from your system of lines both east and west of Pittsburgh were concentrated night and day unon the work of repair ing these disasters ; and notwithstanding their ma.giii'iidc Ihe nwveni nt of traffic was resumed within eight tins. Too much credit cannot be given lo them for their skill, energy, and unremitting devotion lo this work, to which is largely due the fact lliat your properties wen able tu recover so promptly from tin serious disasters which had overtaken ihem." I.ONTKM PI.ATKD I .VIPKOVKMKNTs. Tile improvements under way include locomotive shops al Altoona, a bridge over the Ohio river at Pittsburgh, tbe C instruction of the cut-oil from Down ington to a point near Trenton and a new line from Downington to Lancaster via New Holland, important improvements on tlie New York water front, and large expeditures to avoid grade crossings in Philadelphia and other cities. * The business of tbe Philadelphia. Wil mington & Baltimore, Northern Central, Cumberland Vallev, and other auxiliary lilies are not included iu tbe above fig ure.-. If they were the gross earnings would be more than $130,000,000. The gross turning of tbe Pennsylvania Bail road in 188!) were $85,000,000 larger than its largest trunk line rival, the New York Central, nnd more than double those of the Beading, triple those of Ihe Lacka wanna, and more than live times the amount earned by the Baltimore A Ohio, On the lines east of Pittsburgh, fbe com- puny earned $61,514 445, tlie net earn ings were $10,375,487, an increase of sl.- 143,192. The gross e rrnings per mile on the main iine were 481,788 against $77.- 034 during (lie previous year. The main line and branches made $10,870,341 net, the New York division $138,712. and the Philadelphia & trie lost $10,310. The profit on the New York division is the lirst. for many years. The pencentage of local freight lo the whole trnttie fell from 87.08 per cent, in 1888. to 80.89 per cenl. in 1889, the change being made by opera tions on the New York division. The percentage of through freight was 13.13 per cent, against 12 42 per cent, last year. On the main line the percentage of through freight was but 7.11 per cent, on the Philadelphia & Brie 9.50 per cent., and on the New York division but 30.58 percent. On the main line the percent age of through East bound freight in creased 4 23-100 per cent. The local freight shows an increase of 7 51 100 per cent. East bound and 18 49-100 per cent. West hound. The average earnings from each passenger per mile was 2.082 cents, against 2 092 cents in 1888; the cost of transportation was 1.527 cents, against 1 543 cents in 1888, and the profit was 0 555 cents per passenger, against 0.549 cents in 1888. The average distauce trav eled by each passenger was 18 1-10, against 17 9-10 miles in toe previous year. The net gain on business west of Pitts burgh for the year was $1,184,009. There was an increase of 5,089, 480 in the nam her of tons of freight carried, and 1,193,- 929 in the number of passengers. The income account shows that out of net profits east of Pittsburgh, for the year amounting to $10,992,747, $2,333,835 was deducted for payments of interest, sink ing funds and extraordinary repairs and improvements. The balance which is tlie net profit ot ihe Company, from a stockholder's point of view, is $8,055,911 against $7,040,982 in 1888. These profits are equivalent to more than 8 per cent on the stock of the C utipauy on which a dividend was payable. ■ml list rial Urlm-alion at Iml Inn a. In I lie Manual 'Training Department, ot the In liana Normal, Pn„ to rollers learn how lo use their hands. We have two large shops titled up. We have an expert. at tlie head ot It. teachers learn designing In folding paper, In cutting paper and in lay ing paper. They learn color-work, modeling, moulding, carving, Jdn ery, forging, making physical apparatus, sew ing and cooking, .spr ing term opens March Sist. Tlie Ait outage* ot .Morl-rii Appliance* Well I Itristrat-rl in Iti-nnelt Nee*' tele phone Line lo GeUtowm -Mr. Bennett Nets, of (leistmvn, says that his telephone line is Living hint great satisfaction. Although hot in operation a short lime numerous parties of his friends have alrea ly taken advantage of the convenient arrangement to order sup per, so that when they arrive t verything is ready for them. Quite a distinguished parly from tins city, in this way hud an elegant feast prepared for them on Tues day night. If lie coal I only get some modern appliance fur bringing him tlie morning paper Mr. Nees thinks he won d have all the advantages of residents in lite city, in addition to the pleasures of country life. Avoid ippe.truiicvM. A worthy gentleman, having an un usually red nose was long suspected of being a tippler on lite sly, by those not will acquainted wiili ins strictly tem perate habits. II s unfortunate disti ure uicnt was readily cured by the use of Ayei's Barsaparilla. Poor iitiioinity t The common lot Is one or sorrow Bay-at least -tlie pessimism, they who look at the worst side, certainly what WOUid otherwise he a m ight existence, 1 often shadowed uy some ail ment that ovei iiungs It like a pail, obscuring perpetually ihe radiance thai, else would light ihe path. so. han allmeut, and a very common one. Is nervousness, or in other words, weak ness or lire nervoussysiein. a condition only Ir remediable wUeie irieittcreot or linpiopermeans are t..ken lo relieve it. 'ihe concurrent experi ence ol neivoua people who hate petals ently used nostetier's Moia cU i.ltiers Is, itut It con quers entirely super ensltlveuess 01 the nerves, a.s well as dlneases-so called- which li e luvbed a d sustained by their caronlc weakness, is the nerves gain stamina from the great tonic the trouble disappears. Ine tlie Hitters tor inalivli, rUiuuiaiUin, biliousness ami kidney troubles. ♦ II Millard's Tlirnal ami l-iiog Italsain. Fed I hroal and lung l roubh s I his remedy has nooqu l, H Is gua anieed to cure consumption 111 Is tliisi stages, anil even in advanced stages of t lint disease it relieve- coughing and induces sleep. You may li ive. i cougu or a eol i at any lime, i her lore no house old, especially with •libdrcn, alroul 1 be williout li. r'or all alTee. tlons of ino throat, lungs and chest, croup, ivhuoplng cough, hoarseness, sprung or hi oil irid all pilinonury dlseas slf has no equal. Prepared only by itheumailc syrup co„ jack son i leh, A k youe druggist for It. l-'nr sale at slater s drug st ore. corner ol M iln street and Park Place, Jotitisioii u. Pa. icb-gf-sd-w-iy. When Baby was sick, we gave her Co! .oris, When she was a Child, he cried ferCastorla, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, Mrs. M. J. Carroll, of tlie Ninib ward, relumed last night ou Fast Lint: from having visiietl friends on tlie mountain. We wish in call utu iiuon hi me adver tisement of Chamberlain Institute in this issue. Tliis school has had an unblem islicd reputation for forty years. Dr. Howards, tlie prisenl Presitleat, has been connected with it for twenty y ars, antl parents and guardians may safely com mit the intellectual, moral, and social training of their children to his care. It will he noted Hint the spring term opens Murclv 18th. Klieiittiiitlsui Can be Cured, It has banted the skill or our besi. physicians, nnd there are 10-duy inore men. women, and i h lib i suffering ri oni thlslenlhie (Use in- tin n e,cr In-fore, and the optiilou seems unlversui that li it s incurable, but this is a mistaken Idea, for b can Ik- cured by using as directed lilbburits itheumailc syrup and strengthen lug Plasters Prepared by Itheumatlc Syrup i ompuny. Jackson, Mich. I'dcegl tierbottletr six buttles fur tt>; 0-. we will send It to any a- - dress on receipt of price. t-or.Halo at Slater's drugstore, corner of Main street and Park Place, SISTER ROSE. GERTRUDE. She Is Oioln-- to tin .villi to >1 InlKtf-r to the Lejiortt. Miss Amy Fowler (Sister Hose Oer trudo), a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic of the Roman Catholic church, is 011 her way through the United States to Hawaii to take up the work left by Father D union at his death among the lepers. How simple this announcement, yet how much is involved in it. An English girl, having learned of the sacrifice of one who fell a certain victim to the most dreadful of till diseases, freely offers her self to take his place as tin- soldier steps into the tracks of his comrade shot down in a storming party, with this differ ence—that the soldier acts under a fever ish excitement and may not lie killed, while the woman gives herself deliber ately, and for her there is no ho[ie The oldest and best known legend of the sacrifice of a young girl is that of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon . and Clytemnes '~j > tra Iler father. Jv- IJ\ so goes the Jeg f \y' \ ''lid, having of- I ) \ fended the God / / •. dess Diana, vowed V,-, 1° "> nke ulone 'regy merit by a saeri flee of the most W beautiful tiling VJ born within the •' 11 year hap •tl it fill petied to l>e Iphi- I> I m Jii cnia. Agameui ;" VY /SI M noti long delayed / Vf I hit sacrifice, hut \y -j |t when tlie Trojan expedition ap- SISTEU ROSE OERTKI'D E. , , , , m- ii •• ■> i .i preached, an d [From Pall Mu I Budget. ■ ~ , tlie Greek fleet was detained by a calm, Chalchus. the soothsayer, told him that he must keep his promise. When Iphigenia was brought to tlie altar she disappeared, having been carried olf by the goddess to Tauris, where she became a priestess. Such is tin- legend iliat has been for centuries perpetuated in song and story, on canvas and in marble, till the whole world is familiar with the name Iplti genia. Yi t how much more is there in the case of Sister llose Gertrude to stir the emotions. The Trojan girl was sent to the altar by her father in obedience to a vow. The English girl goes of her own free will to spend what time may be granted between her arrival at Ha waii and her death from the disease— which, unless she' is curried off earlier by other means, is sure to follow—among stricken IK in -.s l. pt in a pen to prevent their contaminating the rest of the world. The woman who thus offers herself is the dun hi . hold sea's in that &"• V,?, : .v body for Mon- f tana. 110 is em- L, t „„, Sp j phaticnlly "a tys v - ; western bustler," | one of the kind so ... i/ often described in ,f romance, of th, west, one whose business career is : "f . i T'-'i a sort of romance, " \ £- '/ /.'(Jis' yet who makes \ll) / romance subsidi- ary to business. J - c. POWER. As carpenter, surveyor, town boomer, government contractor and heavy inves tor in railroad and steamboat stock, he has been always active and often success ful, is very nearly the wealthiest man in Montana anil is still active. Ho was born in 1839 in Dubuque, lowa, and has kept on the border ever since. Ho is be low the medium size and rather sallow in appearance, but his bright eye re deems his face, and lie is ever on the alert. He entered politics four years ago, was a candidate for governor last your, and was defeated by tho Democrat J. K. Toole. Ho represents tho western half of the state. Strict Economy. Science brings about economy, and In these days of varied manufactures, and perfect facilities for carrying tliem on, there is very little waste material in any branch of trade. The Sunday Call in de scribing the slaughter of cattle at New ark, N. J., says that no part of a steer is lost save its dying breath. Nothing is wasted from the tip of the tongue to the brush on the end of the tail. The blood is caught and sold to make albumen for sugar refineries and other manufactures, or to form a cheap substitute for the hard rubber and other plastic material used in the manufacture of buttons. When the meat is dressed the contentsof the stomach are removed, dried and baled as manure, and tliestom ach itself is prepared as tripe. The hide goes to the tanner, the head is skinned and denuded of flesh for the sausage maker, the horns go to the comb maker, who knocks out the pith and sells it to the glue manufacturer, who is ever ready to take all the refuse from any part of the steer. The horny coverings of the hoofs aro almost as use ful as horn for making buttons and sim ilar articles, and the feet can bo used for oil and glue. The shinbones make the finest of bone handles, and nil the rest of the bony structure, which the butcher 13 unable to sell with the meat, finds its way event ually to the manufacturer of bone fertil izer and bone black. A few of the tails are utilized, in cold weather, in the manufacture of oxtail soup, hut usually "the tail goes with the hid," ami becomes spoiled for domestic use while lying about in the tannery. Every scrap of the animal's skin, even the pate, as the skin of the head is called, is used, in one way or another, and the refuse of the tanneries becomes unim portant part of the income of those establishments. Th OKI Man. Bow low the head, do reverence to the old man. once like you. The vicissitudes of life havo silvered his hair and chang ed the round merry face to tho worn vis age before you. Once the heart beat with aspiration, crushed by disappoint ment, as yours, perhaps, is destined to he. Once that form stalked promptly through the gay scenes of pleasure, the beau ideal of grace: now the hand of time that withers the flowers of yester day has bent that figure and destroyed that noble carriage. Once, at your age, he possessed the thousand thoughts that pass through your brain, now wishing to accomplish deeds equal to a nook in fame; anon hnaginging life a dream that the sooner ho awoke from the better. But lie has lived the dream very near through, the time to awaken is very near at hand; his eye never kindles at old deeds cf daring, and the hand takes a firmer grasp of the staff. Bow low tho he-ad, hoy, as you would in your old ago Ka —Stoniervilln Journal. SILKS. If you want a handsome wearable Silk Dress for Spring and Summer, liny the material of us. Samples cheerfully furnished upon request. SURAHS COLOHED: 19 ir.cli at SOe a yard. 1!) inch at (55c a yard. 20 inch at 75c a yard. 24 inch Standard at SIXO. 24 inch at $1 20. BLACK : 19 inch at CO cents. 21 iuclt at 7.5 cents. 26 inch at 75 cents 25 nch at 85 cents. 23 inch at SI.OO. 25 inch at sl.l 0. 24 inch at $1.20. I Itese arc leaders— s> h eted from dozens of gntdes ot Surahs, also Gros Grains, Failles, Atmureß, etc., etc., colored and black, the best values we ever offered. Dress (Soods. Our complete tmw Spring -tick s nar eomph te. This means iht gra trit st array of beautiful goods shown in tl is couatr . Goods and prices are all on "he buyer's side of the bargain. Send for samples. OIIIITAINS. Complete new Spiii:g st< ck. Wiitefor Curtain Circular. Our 1800 Spring Catulotui will he ready in March. Si-,id your mom and you will receive it. -I OS. 11011NE & CO., (>OO-021 I'etiu A venue, l'rnsßUiiGH, PA. NOTICE. jV OTIOE is hereby given to the i 1 stockholders of the l eople's Building and l oan Association that the Annual Meeting of the Association will be held at. the ofllee of K J. O'Connor, Solicitor. 80 Franklin street, on tho 17th of March, at 7:1) 1 o'clock o. m., for the pur po-e of electing others for i lie ensuing year. Bo nce is also given tent a limited numberot shares In t he second scries of stock will lie Issued to date from the third Monday of March, ikdo. The hooks will bo open tor subscription from tie loth to the 17th of March at the ofllee of the Solicitor. JAMES KINU, Secretary. Johnstown, l'a., March 5,1881). atd-iv A mil NIST RAT OR'B NoTlOfl -Notice Is hereby given that betters ot .id . Intstra'lon on the estate ot Charles K. Ilitllen, late of the borough of Johnstown,county or cauibrla and state ol Pennsylvania,deceased, Uave been grant el to James King, to whom all persons Indebted to said estate ure request! d to make payment, i.nd those having claims or de mands will make known the same wTlioui de lay to the undersigned. James kind. A tin Inlstrator. Jo' as' wvn. January l. hski