LocAL AND 6 GENERAL
Levi Bnyder's eealth is improving.
$ STAR still continues to “get there
oth feet.”
stins J. Keim came hotne from Pitts-
, today, on a visit.
Phe father of Adam C. Leplev died
his week, aged 98 years.
John T, Lee orders THE Sean sent to
his ddress at. Arthor, Ii.
would be an easy matter to publish
sensational paper in this town.
ois of *‘green goods” letters are com: |
ing to Elk Lick postoffice these days.
sey suy that our banker and harness
ker are about to start a eat ranch.
: two young sous of Rev, and Mrs.
ns are on. the sivk list this week.
‘Mrs. C. E. Sperry orders Tug Stan
#0 her uddress at Wilmerding, Pa.
nm.‘ Kretchman orders TeE STAR
ent to his son Rarvey, at Davenport,
¢ best California lever ToE STAR
et published appears in this issue.
C. Balliet last week returned from
ntonr county, where he had been vis-
latter part of ‘our California letter,
appears in this issue, i§ of special
tf to the ‘miners,
. John Wright, Br, 3! orders Tae
AR. ent 10, her daughter. Mr. B. 8.
Hooe, Sanfrancisco, Cal. :
"Mr. Billmeyer, our ‘genial, whale:
‘anuled, Defrocratie sawmill man; is being
{visited by a brother of his.
The ever genial Isaac Rees made the
editor # present of an “old coin the other
“day that is prized very highly. :
aa Ghagey | ‘and Nonh_ Warnick, of
Gurreut county Md.. ‘were’ ‘welcome ’ ‘call-
en a Tue Bran office last Thursday.’
We have failed to learn his name.
“ Mach. interesting news is this week
crowded out of our columns. owing to an
unusual large amount of correspondence.
Mrs. 8. A. Lichliter's feed business has
increased to sucli n great extent asto make
it neceseary to rent an additional room.
Every body thought Lou Brown had
killed the Owl, but be didn’t. Lon isa
"bad man’ with a gun, but owls are hard
iim kill.
* Russell Fuller, who for some time had
‘heen holding forth at Dixon, 11, has re:
wnfied home again, He will likely re
main here. :
The editor was in Meyersdale last
. Samrday and noticed that the town was
Yiterally lined with posters printed at 'I'ne
‘BTAR office.
“CT. Hay: with several other appli:
_cante for liguor license, last week hada
rehearing, but no. ndditionsi licenses
were granted. ;
“Jacob. Tinkey, . the: Fayette county
imoonshiner, has been surrendered. by
hig bondsman and committed to jail to
wait his trial.
The Balishury orchestra has engage-
nents 10 fill nearly every week. Every:
seems 10 know where to apply when
asic is wanted.
ph Ohler, of Sand Pateh, fell from
a freight train and was instantly killed
i, Inst Thursday. He was stenl-
a ride. Connellsville.
omas says: “Gentlemen, we
patronize our home paper.”
Fight; Mr. Thomas; that's the way
hear people talk.
against the Fayette and
set connty ‘‘moonshiners” will
e up for trial.in the U. 8. District
t Scranton; this, week.
Some peaple may not helieve it, but all
ame it is a fact that Beachy Bros.
tudding their store room ceiling with
and very large ones, to,
rersdale electric “light plant
good one, but the street lights
ng Joe Hay is going
mn a » big enttle
young |
elerk. But don't get excited, forit wasn't
lisbury's Maggie Lowry, In was a
McKeesport girl, ;
Timothy Higgins, a B. & O: Yoo.
tive engineer, was found on the railroad
track at Cumberland, terribly mangled,
on Monday night of last week. "Foul
play is suspected. : :
As will be'seen by his sbvertisement
in this isste, Wm. Petry has some rare
bargains to offer to thé public. Good
coal oil 12 cents a gallon beats anything
else we ever heard of.
“As will be seen by his advertisement in
this issne, Wilson Hawn is doing a gen-
eral draying husiness. Mr. Hawn isa
first-class drayman and he does not care
how many people know it;
If you have chapped hands, face, or
rough or red skin. from any canse, use
Stewart's Almond Cream. It will please
von and bring quick relief. Only 10 and
25 cents a bottle. Bold by J. L. Barchus.
Theeditor of this paper has visitéd near-
lv all the great boom towns of the west,
but failed to find one that has half as
many natural advantages to make s sub-
stantial boom town as Salisbury possesses.
Mies Annie Kimmel went to Connells- |
ville last week, where she had intended
to make her home for some thne, but on
account of sickness was compelled to re-
turn home the day after her arrival in
that city. . ;
The Meyersdale Register still speaks
‘| of the **Meversdale coal region.” Will the
Register please tell us where that region
is and what mines are in it? The State
Geological maps show no Meyersdale
coal region.
"The Berlin correspondent to the Som-
erset Standard thinks it would be a good
plan to trade off some church members
for sinners, and adds that it would: ben
good thing for the churches, but mighty
hard on the devil,
Albert A, son of Archie Warnick, ‘and
Araminta. daughter of Jacob Gnagey,
were united in marriage at the home of
the bride. near Grantaville, Md., Feb.
24th, by J. M. Evans. THE STAR sends
its congratulations. :
Dun’s Mercantile Agency recommends
_ | Balisbury as the most. promising business
center in Somerset county for capitalists
to engage in business. Dun’s Mercan-
tile Agency is the best authority in Amer.
ica upon such matters. ;
The Meyersdale Commercia) is off its
‘nase again, but. that. is the predicament
it is in most of the time. Itsays THE
S7ar has surrendered to the electric: road.
No, ne, Bro. Lou, it hasn't. There is no
{aleetrie road to surrender 10. ;
And. still: onr community staigereth
along in its old rus, handicapped with
ils many names. -.It seems strange indeed
that our representative citizens ‘are not
up and working to bring about a change
inthis most important matter.
An absent-minded. Toronto woman. n
her hurry ta start for ehurch took from’
a closet a pair.of her husband's trouserp
for. her. dolman, threw them over ber
arm, apd did not discover her mistake
until she bad thrown. them over the back
of a pew in front. of her,
Now is the time. w consult Prof. “Sam
uel 8B. Little, the Graduated Optician of
Cumberland, Md., about your eyes. He
mnkes a specialty. of testing and fitting
the eye with properly. adjusted glasses.
At Dr. Lichty’s office, March 28rd and
24th. Examination free.
C.J Burkholder informs Tue STAR
that Mrs. Simon Folk hanged herself to
a bed post last Friday and was discov-
ered just in time to save her life. Mrs.
Folk lias been acting strangely for some
time, and it is sgid that she frequentiy
threatens io cammpit. suicide,
Salisbury should lose nu rime in
organizing a board of trade. There are
at all times manufactures looking for lo-
cations, and our town should have a
board of trade to set forth the great ad-
vantages that Salishury has over all the
other towns of the county as a mannfact-
uring center.
The man who last week killed Fireman
Niland, at Yoder’s Station, is Elvin Fuhr-
er. It now appears that the deed was
committed in self-defense, as the engineer
testified that the two men had been quar-
reling and that Niland approached Fuhr-
er in a threatening manner, with an np-
raised coal pick.
The Owl, that wonderful paper that
makes its appearance once in a while, says
it hopes that Tar STAR will not think
hard of it, as it believes this town is large
enough to support two papers. The
Ow] can rest assured that THE Star will
not go gunning for it, as competition is
the life of trade. The Owl can hoot in
peace, so far as THE STAR is concerned.
but, really, it shouldn’t get too “owly.”
Do all you can toward the completion
kof the oil well. The test must bea
thorough one. The indications for oil
are excellent, and a big gusher is almost
a sure thing. * You all remember the pub.
lished statement that the Directors made
in last week's STAR; therefore, do all
you can toward the speedy “completion
of the well.
than likely to prove a good investment.
Solicitors are out raising money for the
Salisbury band, which ig to be reorgan-
ized, providing enough money can be
raised to purchase several new instru-
ments, new music; etc., etc. Everybody
should contribute liberally, as -the band
ned to again lead all the
nity. Every live town
band, especially dur-
Elk Lick oil stock. is more!
“an exchange. has truthfully ssid: HI
city down in which it is published. how
soon would everybody in the whole
country find it owt and Sow quickly
‘would they be kicking the editor ut the |
first round. - But he can puff up his city:
day after day and sing its praises in six
different languages and some people nev-.
er seem to know it; think nothing has been
no single thing begins to work as much
for a city’s prosperity as its newspaper.
* On Monday evening Prof. Sam Liven-
gnod's orchestra favored THE STAR fami-
Iy with a rare musical treat. Every mu-
gician of the aforesaid orchestra is a very
that Salisbury may well feel proud of.’
There is nothing else in Somerset connty
that can compare with it, and we will
venture the assertion that there isn’t an-
other town in thie state, the size of ours,
that bas so good an orchestra. This will
be a great drawing card to get theatrical
companies to come to Salisbury when
Beachy’s fine ‘opera house is completed. |
+ Last Saturday the following persons
subscribed for Tne Sram, and it whit
a very god day for subscriptions, eitlier:
8. C. Hartley and Thomas Rees, of Mey:
ersdale: Griffith Thomas, John P. Reed,
Samuel ‘Lowry, Joseph Logue, Wm.
Hause, and Geo, Mav, of Boynton; John
Blake, M. G. Hartline, Phineas-Christner,
Josephene Eckard, Henry Gray, Milton
Meese, Francis‘ Devore, Chas: Reckner,
Hesekiali Reckner, Geo. Mull, Isaac
Rees, J. F. Ohler.and Jolin Mull, of Elk
Lick. Twenty-une subscribersinongday |
isn't s0 bad, byt it isn’t as well as we
have done some other days. Tue Stan
seems to tuke. wherever it- goes—north,
east, south and west, Asan: advertising
medium for, the southern past of Somer:
sel Sounty it takes the lead. .
Wants No Germany in His. 2
Casper Driller, who for yesrs has Deen
well known: to. many of the peaple of this
vicinity, returned from a visit t‘Germiiny
| 8 few weeks ugo.. In speakii t eds
itor concerning his visit, Mr, Driller ire
marked that he wants no Germany in bis;
He says it is better 10 be a dog" i
ca than to be Aman in Ge
says the man who has a tonging to: again
make the “Fatherland” his ‘home can
soon get all’ that yearning taken out of
him by going there and visiting 5 few
weeks; He sAVS ix weeks:in Germany
was almost more:than he conld stand.
In speaking of the price of merchandise,
fie said while it is ‘true that Clothing and
a few uther articles of “iércfiindise PRA
be ‘bought chienper there’ thar” Phere.! at
the trouble ie tv get thie MONEY 10 buy
as wages are sd low as to make’ tha Bil
ing even of cheap goodséWlimést ‘in fa
possibility. “No, no,” he ‘nid? ‘nb Ger
many for me. If ah Ameriéan dc i wiiita
stay there, it would Jdst: Te Bi Searisd “lie
France is a good’ country
men; but not 80 with Gemhi
A tabular ta of the Property fxabiotor
county and state ‘purposes, as returned by. the
several Assessors 9} Somerset Sounty for the yes
1892. ha hie
Addison Township
Alieghenv Township _ J
. Berlin Borough 2
Black Township '*
Brothersvalley Township
Conemaugh Township
Casselman Brough
Confltienice Borough
Elk Lick Township:
Fair Hope Township
Greenville Township .
Jefferson Township’
Jenunertown Borough
Jenner Township
Larimer Township
Lower Turkeyfoof Township
Lincoln Township
Meyersdale Borough
Middlecreek Township
Milford Township
New Baltimore Borough -
New Centerville Borongh:
Northampton Township
Ogle Township :
Paint Township
Quemahoning No: 1
‘Quemahoning No.2"
Rockwood Borough
Salisbury Borough
Somenget Borough
Shade Township
Somerset Towhship
Southampton Township
Stoneycreek Township
Stoyestown Borough ©
Summit Township -
Upper Turkeyfoot Township
Ursina Borough
Wellergttizg Borough
: 200 |
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EOITOR, REMARKS.
To KAISER BroLy: i Your porena)
bravery excuses much of your “tomfool? |
talk.
Tae importance of the stibject y
not take the dryness out of Congress
al tariff speeches.
Hg who leaves Uncle Jerry Rusk Jit
of the Presidentiul race may be sorry for
it one of these days. Sh
AEC
‘Ganzi eludes his pursuers as. engy #8
‘the office does the politician who goes.
after it with a brass band. Sit ped
Tae report that day Gould had the
grip was a vile slander upon the intell
gence of our "Russian guest.
MR. BLAINE'S manly defense of is
wife has the right sort of ring to it. Ev
idently he Yuan fogotion his arriage)
vows.
7
a newspaper were to begin to run the |
dove, anyway. Yetaes matter of fact]
able performer, and the orchestra is one.
th
063 day,
to It
{pete with the Washington Rewspamer 5
correspondents.
Carex only ‘injured erecht when she
‘declined to take part in the World's Fair.
If she can afford to stay away this coun-
ry hus no reason to complain. -
“Ir is said that Senator Hill has spent
very little of his time in the company of
1adies. If this be true ‘where did be get
80 wel! posted In ‘the arts ofa skilled
coqustie?
THE politicigns, of all parties. a are anan-
imous in their belief that the free coinage
of silver is surrounded on all sides by
sharp spikes, which accounts for their
reluciance to handle it.
Tak People's ‘party has patriotically
| selected the 4th of July as the date for
holding its national convention, and the
T'suggestion is made that it would be only
{sticking to its P's by ‘nominating Polk
ina Powderly.
Ir was a waste of time for Senator Hill
" deny the report of his intended mar-
riage, sent out from Washington. :BEvery-
one knows that he is entirely too busy to
even think of such a thing now, ‘although
be might find a pretty bride a strong card
io plav against baby Ruth.
Tag unanimity with which the gray-
beards in political life advise young men
to keep out: of it is wonderful, and re
riinds. one ‘of the preacher who, being |
somewhal careless in ‘his mode of living;
told his congresation to do as he tod
Hem to do, -and not as he did.
SR —
Way not colonize. all the Spring posts
in. Ajgeria, which has a river of ink?
cents a. pound—a contract was made the
other day ata fraction’ less than that—
the poets might print their own effusions
and give the poor editors a rest.
A Bust of James Russe) Lowell “will
be placed in Westminster Abbey about
same time that an American hecomes
Pope. We think a .goud. deal of our-
selves over here, but in, Europe we Are
still, generally regarded as a nation of
semi: ‘snvages, with the money-getting
| facolty veryifully developed. This isn’t
Pleienny, ‘but it is true. A
x
memes
RepreseNTarvEs of Congressional dis-
triets containing tywns that have no
public building ean hardly be expected
to gnthuse aver the resolution repopted
from the committee on: Public Buildings
and Grounds. declaring ‘it. “unwise and
inex pedient - 40 enter upon legislation
a to the. construction of new pb
Ye: buildings.” o
"A Comiobs coincidence In the history
at the present time, From
So, Washington to Ben-
on ht
Rams anled: ttopt!
elseted, with. the: ati of: the
elder. Harrison, who died one month af:
ter, big inanguration. A further remark:
able fact i is; that no president whose name
did not end in ‘‘on,” with two exceptions;
Grant and: Monroe, ever served a second
term. This coincidence, if such it be,
points strongly to the re-nomination . and
re election ‘of Bem jamin Harrison.—
Hyndman Bulletin.
TIT
“Tue following notice of our ‘Attorney.
General appears in. the New York World;
Atgrney General William Uhler Henge,
of Pennsylvania, in whose. hands rests
ihe, people's flight against the gigantic
cogl’ monopoly, is 8 young and ails man,
a bachelor editor and lawyer. “Hen-
sedis about forty, has flashing ri eyes,
aclean shaven face indicative of great
4 | resoliition. a solid educational equipment
far public nsefulness and unblemished
s9s0 | record. In the famons old *‘Pennsyiva-
82 | pin-Duteh”
| he lives and publishes his excellent atter-
town of Lancaster, where
noon newspaper, he isa leader in all
mavemenis for the public welfare and is
esteemed one of the substantial citizens
of one ‘of the most substantial cities in
tlie’ country.
Ir is not generally known that George
Washington never saw the flag of his
eolntry, you such is the cnse. George
and thie flag of the union, as we see it to:
.except with the addition of new.
‘stars, was adopted by Congress and-ap-
proved by the. President on. the 4th of
April, 1818, and on the 18th of the same
‘month was unfurled for the first time on
= {the hall of the House of Representatives
at Washington. In 1859 Congress passed
La vote of thanks to Captain Reid, the de-
signer of the Aang. Washihgton, of
course, saw the makeshift flags that from
‘time to time were used after the Revoln-
_:f1ion up to the date: herewith mentioned,
but the flag as it is today, officially
: {adopted and established, he never saw.
= ACCORDING to. a late decision of the Su-
preme Court of South Carolina, no out
side court, a tribunal of another state,
‘is competent to. pronounce a decree of
divores in marriage contracted in that
‘state. A South Caroline marriage can
only be set aside by the action of a South
Carolina court. . Thus if a South Caroli
nian deserts his wife at home. and posses:
{sen property in that state, that wife's in-
terest in such rveaslty can never be de
= stroyed by a'divoree granted 1o the bus-
band in any other state.’ If in such a di-
vorce the husband remnrries, ‘his second
wife cannot fequi
With: ink free and white paper only three |
of pre identinl elections is peculiarly |
- of Gents’ and Boys’ Hats and Caps,
value for your mogey.
patronage, I remain your friend,
| grades ut fo
Old Gold, de pir ‘winter
and quality.
as Fiat S s bost.
by the carload.
patronage in custom and exchange work.
1 Wve tho selfs Fariobe Soom asd Shae
Wa nesd mors Shops, Factories, ns ete., in dir commu
Have fost received & nic It of Cashmees, Delaias, Ginghams, Caticos, © ele. ao
aloo. rs ete Shen, which
-1 also carry the purest and best of Groceries,
My motto is: “FAIR DEALING, ALWAYS squazs,
AwNxious 70 FLkdan.” : Thanking
GEO. XK. VALTER, a4. :
nity, and we
Jorth our best efforts to get them here; bu stop: We should patronias those
A. Reity ak Roller Flouring
* West Salisbury, Pa,
wanvraTURERS oF AND DEALERS 15
1 now er to the trade and pubic five di
n ‘earth, ‘Minion, acs
wheat patent. - Ro
winter wheat. straigh Parity, whit
These flours will suit any and everybody
of the Yow priced ois offen /
lings, Ww beat Bran, Prosi of all i Kinds, Chat Pratt
try and Cattle Food, ofc, Aways ¢ on hand, Con ar
Farmers, I will pay you highest: market prices for your, pha and 7 kindly solicit
Will evchnage. on either grads Jove.
pounds Purity eur for bushel good red wheat; try * Fepeayuiy. Li
claim us his heirs therein,
bas laws equal in terms to this statute,
but there is no doubt about the justice of
such giatytes Bx :
ah ee
New York Times, the most persistent |
free trade journal in the whole country, |
contained the following remarkable ue:
knowledgement:
“Now the country, is unprecedentedly
wealthy. [ts debt has dwindled to an
“Vinsignificant. amount,
are ready toextend their lonns at 2 per
cent, We hnve au currency every ‘dollar
of which is equal to a dollar in. gold
We have all the specie we want. and can.
get all that we may need. We are feed.
ing the world. We ure powerful, rich,
prosperaus. practically out of debt.”
«No misinterpretation of this statement
is possible. It amounts to an explicit
confession by a leading free tnade news-
paper that the United States has pros:
pered under Republican rule in a degree
lither to unparalleled; that the agrieul-
tural, industrial and financinl interests of
the nation are ina healthful condition;
and that the free trade prophecies of in-
evitable calamity to follow the enactment
of the McKinley law were stuff and 1 non-
sense.—N. Y. Press.
THE use: "of few words grates. on the
8. nsitive ear more harshly than the con-
stant iteration and reiteration of the
word ‘‘once;” as Come here once”
‘Did yan come back once?’ ete. It isa
iali fi ny loealities orig: |
Washington died. on December 14, 1799, provinclalim, confined fe §:
inally retiled by Germans or Pennsylva-
nia Dutch. and fathered by the idioms
of the former language, and the latter
diaslect. It has no place in English
speech. and is seldom or never heard oul-
side of Pennsylvania. Itis only one of
many provincial idioms we eling to, butis
one of the commonest and one of the first |
we ought to rid onrselves of, if we wish lo
k the English language ‘a8 she is
a e.”—8omerset Democrat.
THE STAR can say amen to the ahove
and go the Democrat. one better. We
have in onr mind the word still.” which
is so often wrongly used in Somerset
county and other localities in Pennsylva:
nia. Buch expressions as “That's the
way we used fo do still,” “I told him
still not {0 do 80.” etc., can be heard in
Somerset county every dav. and frequent.
ans. The word “still” sounds very bad
when itis used iu that way, and those
addicted to such use of it .should rid
themselves of the habit.
ean
Down in Kansas a school teacher in-
troduced a new method of tpaching spell-
ing. When one of the girls misses a
word the boy who spells it correctly has
permission to kiss her.
that the boys are improving wonderful
{in Spelling, while some of the &irls, ‘miss
children by that marringe set up & valid |
Nu other state |
A Ruorwr wditorial } in the. Domveratin)
and its creditors’
ly too, among well educated Pennsylvani- |
The result is}
Also wil] it Ping you alter Vetng tricked
er misrepresentations. No matter what
you buy 1 guarantee you full’ w 2!
and the best qualify for the lowest
onedn town.
I desire to inform the public that 1 haye agdod
team and wagon and am well prepared to
kinds of draying, hauling and anything i
be done with a team. Prompt attention given wu
all business entrusted to me, and charges
able, :
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