wet Jt At Jeffery’ When in need of anything in the line of Groceries, fancy Fresh Bread, Books, CALL A\Tommmnc. THE LEADING Confectionery, Stationery, peer Areas Pure Thompson's Notions, ete. Iron Manufacture in this County. In any record relating to the growth | of the iron industry in this state, Som- ersct county is not to oe left otit of the account. Some of the first efforts in | manufacture of the metal from the raw | { material lying immediately underneath the surface, were made in this county. Circumstances of one character { another intervened to prevent the in- sROCERY. Space iy too limited to enumerate all my bargains here, Call and be convinced that 1 sell the best of goods at the jowest living prices. My business has grown wonderfully in the past few years, for which I heartily thank the good people of Salisbury and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit your future patronage. rT J. I. Opposite Posto llice. Respectfully, JEFFERY, Grant Street. Grain [lour and Heed! tous S.A. ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the want's of our customers in ALL KINDS OF Lichliter is doing business at the old stand. STAPLE Wiih greatly increas- GROCERIES, Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Ftc. In short OF CARBON OIL load lots. We are also anything to feed man or beast. and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car- | J : y {erty reverted to Thomas Vickroy. i November, Furthermore, we are JOBBERS Ticadquarters For Maple Sweets. We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Fresh Iggs. what advantages we offer. S.A. LICHLITER, Come and see | Benjamin Salisbury, Pa. i below 11 32 = Ia i = [Le 2 Pronounced by Etperts the Standard of the World. Ask your dealer for WINCHESTER make of Gun or Ammunition and fone ino other. Fi EE =-Our | new lllus M EANS fe | rad Piper built ated Catalogu: years, ployed at the forge in a clerical tity, i on horseback to this THE WONDERFUL REMEDY FOR map lt is not a BRE-ALL, hut it is a Specific for RREUMATIS MA. ford | from the Conemaugh Salt Works | bar iron as a return load. ai Scott manufacture of bar iron on Laurel 1]ill | | the | Mr. | theumatism One hundred and forty-four bottles Cured 100 cases of RHEUMATISM. TIKO i 2 medicine taken INTERNALLY, the only methed by which RHEUMATISM can be successfully. treated. fies its remarkable success. Its price is $1,00 per bottle, ot three bottles for $2.50, Druggist has not got it, it will be sent to and if yous It cures the CAUSE, and therein you, by Express, ALL CHARGES PAID, on receipt of price. Add ©. - BR QR QT ress, coe PURIKTON MEDICINE GOMPARY, Detroit, Mich. DLW GO HRB RTD WB ITC f have used Nlipans Tabules with so much satis- faction that I can cheerfully recommend them. Have been troubled ior about three ye with what I called billous attacks coming on regularly once a week. Was told by different physicians that it was cansed by bad teeth, of which I had geverzl. I had the teeth extracted, but the at- ticks continued. I had geen adverisements of Ripans Tabules in all the papers but had no faith in them, but about six weeks since a friend In- duced me to try them. Have taken but two of the small 5 cent ho »f the Tabules and have had norecurrence of the attacks, Ilave never given a testimonizl for anything before, but the great amount of good which I believe has been done me by Ripans Tabules induces me to add mine to the many testimonials you doubtless have in your possession now. A. T. DEWITT. I want to inform yon, in words of highest praise, of the bene I have derived from Ripans Tabules. I am a professional nurse and in this profession a clear head is alwuys needed. Ripans Tabules does 11. After one of my cases] found myself compictely run down. Actingonthe advice 2 Mr Geo. Bow- er, Ph. Newark Ave., Sy € , I took Ripana Tabules with gran: results. Miss Drusis WIZDMNAN. - < | | | 598 i) | cine : Mother wes troubled with heartburn and sleeplessness, cauccd by fndigestion, for a good many wears, One day sho sa\7 a testimonial in the paper indorsing Ripans Tabules. She determined to give them a trial, was gre By reiiavel by their us } ONE GIVES RELIEF. prtstteasirtetetessistcste 10 s y. “Sho keeps afew cartons Ripans says che will notbe with- rn and sleepl indizestion riis' tt tty years of health and spirits; als VEARELAEA4QCOIMLLA R:I'PANS The modern stand- | ard Family DMedi- Cures PETIA AS common every-day ill of humanity. CPUS PP OP POP LOD BFF US HHUA {and Charles Ogle, I have been a great sufferer from constipaticn for over five years. Notiing gave ine any relied. My feet aud legs and abdomen were bloated 80 I could not wear shoes on my fect pnd only alooss dress. I saw Ripans Tabules advertised in our dally paper, bourht some and took them as direct- ed. Have tazen them about three weeks and there 1s such a change! I am not constipajed any more and I owe it ail to Rigans Tavules, Le am thirty- seven years old household dat He has had the Si and I am trying Ripans Tabules for him, He feels gome better but it will take rome time, ha has been gick rolong. You may use my letter and name as you like, Mra. 21A2® GORMAK CLARIK. froin headaches ever I could neve? rideina car or gu into a crowded place without getting a headacheand sick at uy stomach. Ihcardabout Ripans Tabules from an aunt of nine who was takiug them for catarrh of the stomach. She had found such relict from their use sheadvised moa to tako then too, and I have Leen doing so siuce last October, and will say they have complete- ly cured my headaches. I am twenty:-nme years old. You are welcome to uso this testimonial, Ars J. DROOKIIVRE. I have heen suffering since I wos a little girl, esos FF PPPIIIOILFICITIY the AW coven-year-old boy suffered with pans in his lead, constipation and eomplal SO aid cat aid not ag with lm. He wasthin anid of a saflron color. Reacing seme of the testime nlals in faver of Ripans Tabules, I tried the 1s Tabula nos only rel leved but a 11 the headuc ocd condition & stomach. Ie isnow ared, chubby faced bo won ul change I attribute to Li z i=flad that th n to eld age) iL taken aceordd i 3 n never comp iiine of bh is This | i account I James MM. | ean { thority on the iron and steel industry: | 1808, | ment | Furnace, I, Clo. | about 1830 oth 16ers. | Fotorenls. by i close {the mouth of | was named - after Mr. Piper’s wife, who | i was a daughter of Thomas Vickroy and | { sister of Joseph tingston was | Kimmel the establishment was run by and ceased operations about 1815. i plies of pig metal were obtained from | Catalan forge on Casselman river, led in the immediate vicinity [ from Laurel { about 1823. I unsuccessful i Shade built in 1844 by John Foust, and subse- quently operated by Custer & Little; | Somerset lin | Ross Forward, 1 { Tron Company. agement of Gr. | furnaces { bar iron directly from the ore—a | tedious and expensive as well as a most | primitive { forge of the kind in Luel t who built | Berlin, | an with Sherman,” i the most gaseous, {| Pegram’ { dustry from getting itself established {on a growing or even lasting basis. but | enough was done to prove that the re- and that we are not the most important sources are here at a loss forone of means of industrial development. Johnstown Tribune, Ameri- Steel Association, and a high au- “Shade Furnace was built in 1807 and was the first iron in Somerset county. built on the banks of Shade about forty rods below or est It creek, informed me that it was built by Gerehart & Rey- nolds upon land leased from Thomas { Viekroy. and lease were sold by the sheriff to! | ] i : : y | think it was in the fall of 1864.” who were | i succeeded by Thomas! Gahegan, Being in debt, their furnace Ogle & Kimmel, of Somerset, who gave way toone Dunlao,when the prop- In 1813. Vickroy advertised Shade Furnace for sale at a great bar- ain..- A was eTected in 1810 to Iark Richards, Anthony S. and Johns, of New Jersey, con- stituting the firm of Richards, Earl who operated the furnace down to In 1820 they built a forge, Shinde; three-fourths of a which was carrid on William Earl for four or five years, afterward by John Ilammer and In 1849 it made t! The furnace g sale A Earl walled mile he furnace, by and tons irty of was continued, rarious proprietors to the of 1858. Daniel Wyand, is death in September, 1877, was the last owner of the proporty. About 1811 Joseph Viekroy and Con- Mary Ann Forge, Stonyereek, about miles Shade Furnace, and a half a mile below Shade creek. The forge at h set, five below Vickroy. David Liv- forge, and Richard John W. G the wither of Gov. time Geary, fa eary, was at one cem- Pig iron was sometimes packed forge county, the horses taking salt 1810 Kimmel a forge for Peter built In 1809 or the creek, in Jefferson township, in western part of Somerset county, shortly after hdrew. and Mr.Scoft. wit | Subsequently it passed into the hands of Henry Benford and Jacob Ankeny, Bedtord and Fayette counties. About the year 1810 Robert Philson erected a in Turkeyfoot township. The ore was min- I1ill. investment, The The enterprise was operations ceasing next furnace in the county was Jackson Furnace, near the Pittsburg turnpike, Laurel 1Till built by Irvin Iorrel, Philip Murphy, about 1825. It was their hands. About a bad On in 183s put it in blast, only to be overcome by speedy In 1832 there disaster were three furnaces and three forges in the | county. © Rockingham Furnace, 2 on Shade creek, was miles above Furnace, Furnace, at IForwardstown, was built by uber, Linton & Meyers, 1846, and afterwards owned by. G. and Wellersburg Fur- by tlie Union Coal & in 1856, under the man- Eorward. ngce was built Ross ty have been abandoned. made T Philson’s Iorge blooms and mo=t the the county method. It was Philson, living in his eighty- Philzon, an son of Robert the Somerset county, forge, is now in sixth year. may still be seen.” —. HE FIT WITH GRANT. At Least He Said He Did, but Soo: Changed His Mind. New York World. “Yer, sir, I {if old Blow, the most conscience- all rs gentiomen, said the shifi- around: ii less and the brassiest of less of daily s storé at the crossroads. reiterated old Sam, “me and Grant we fit side by side at Ilar- set lounge “Yes, sir,” "2 83, Ferry, and | them battles. The | following, clipped from the | is from. the pen of | Swank,editor of the Iron Age, | | Philadelphia, Secretary of the 1blish- was | {that the junction of | Clear Shade and Dark Shade creeks. | i David Rodger, an old resident of Shade | many years ago | | Joe | | per’s Ferry an at Bull Run, an at Why, gentlemen, at Bull | | | Stone River. Run we had our out from under me and Grant did, but grabbed our guns and tore along foot, Grant to ‘Give. it to Give An it way at Iarper’s fit side by hostess shot us, an sys me, says he; em, Sam! ‘om jesse! was the same me an Grant we side”— “Aw, give us a \ Joe Todd. rest,” interrupted old “Grant never fit He fit Chickamauga at none o’ at and”’— “I meant Chickamauga.” “And at Appomattox.” “Pidn’t I say Appomattox? “No, you never. You said Bull Run.” “Well, I meant Appomattox. I reck- on my tongue slipped. “And Grant fit at Shiloh.” “Didn’t I say Shiloh?” “No, you didn’t. You said River “pid 1? begin with an mistake. 1 91 Stone Well, Shiloh an Stone both meant Shiloh, and was here that me hull rigiment by Grant he says to me, an selves, an says he”’— our two “T.ookee here, Sam Blow.” broke in Todd again. “do the battle of Shiloh was fit? “TI ain’t very good on dates, but 1 “Like thunder it was! 6th day of Eebruary, 1862.” “No it was, come to was.” “Yes, an I was married to my second wife 600 miles from Shiloh that very now Jane Iawkins, stood up with us, an it was the year after that that you bawl a mile because you had to go. What you got to say to that?” “Well, what of course my me ain’t it was once, an J—I—anyhow mory | great Scott! an they was a man coming to my | to see me SKomer- | on! ! sweat subsequently the owner of | operated it for several! comes | him working at the bit with his tongue capac- | As ho from DBed- | | not and | | will grip, lay back his ears, and one can and | Sup- | [the leg, or foot, | ward and roll fecut off by a jagged piece of shell, a | or hauled | » | wounded himself will i with his set of | ment throws 3 Joseph and William Graham again | | less All the | and forges in Somerset coun- | kick. only [ they SR you spread yourself original { If you reprint an : o { can’t Home remains of the forge | | the ladies is to the effect Lif you i one eontinual round of If it ain’t after 2 o'clock, house at 2 I got to be off, gentle- men.” -> The Horse in Battle. Buffalo iforse World. A vete the horse partakes of tle just the the -eolumn ran cavalry bopes and fear of bat rider. As and grows nervous over the waiting. is spun out he will and grow apprehensive been six every to advance same as’ his swings into line waits, wail months in service fie bugle call. As the cal the rider feel has knows can to get it between his teeth. [ moves out he will either seek to get on bolt. The lines Ie can- will car- a minute he faster than he should or bolt, however ry him forward and after his sadden resolve to done with it feel worst and have as soon as nossible. A man seldom eries out when hit the turmoil of battle. Ti with a horse. struck saddles breast is re-out of HE hit vith a bullet a within a or shoulder, when their minute. it the up hands, and they get a heavy fall; if in fall for- with a foot or off. arm, they Even is only when that he horse will not drop. Tt shot through the head or comes down. ed, but hobbles out of the fight to right or left and stands with drooping head until of blocd brings him down. The horse that loses his rider and is un- heart loss continue fours until some him out. galloping here and there, neighing with fear and alarm, but he will not the field. In his racing about he may get among the dead and wounded, but move- Then he goes | he will dodge them if possible, and in any case leap over them. When he has | come upon three or four other rider- and keep to- | steeds they fall in gether, as if for mutual protection, and the “rally” whole of them into ranks in a body. - ar — - An Editor’s Hard Lot. A melancholy pieture of an editor’s life in the State of W by the Roslyn (Mich.) Sentinel: “There are always those who will some will say joint. vou don’t print something to smile at, If and write a good, with whiskers on them, you otight to be in a lunatic ay vou are a pessimistic fossil. article, they will say itis tolen. article, they say you dezerving if you write.” If you word for a man, you compliment the and if you don’t the ve that say 2 are partial; ladies, the men are jealous; your pa- | per is not {it to use in the construction of a bustle. If you are afraid to remain on the streets; If look you are squandering your mon- you stay in your otlice, do, you are lazy. you saedy, ey; if you wear good clothes, dude and don’t” pay for them. If you play a social game of any kind and get stuck, a fish; If you are a tin horn, and s0-it goes through com- you are a you are you win, pleasant zations.” pli we | on! ‘S) an that’s how I made Grant routed a | you know when | It was on the | think of it, so it | day, an you an Jane Linnus, she that is | 1. the horse | If the | tremble si ! If ol brave the | in! the same | IFive troopers out.of six go their | He may be fatally wound- | to run | leave | on the bugle may bring the | Vashingtonisdrawn | IFor instance, if you publish jokes | If | srdiet of A G: orgis | Glant. Calhoun (Ga.) Dispatch. John Ferguson, a remarkable physi- the title of the “Mountain Giant,” lives in this county, and eke< out a bare liv- | ing at farming, although it is certain he could earn his bread in much great- | er ease if a dime museum manager should make a trip here forthe purpose of inspecting him. old, and is feet. in height. | ITe weighs 318 pounds, but so evenly distributed is his weight that it be impossible to eall him a fat man. over eight The development of his strength has a very peculinr history. of 20 years he was an invalid, but after that time he increased in brawn and muscle with miraculous rapidity, [at the age of 30 he was, as he is now, a veritable giant. One of his favorite amusements is to take a shoulders and carry it any distance on La‘wager or for the amusement of his friends. prenticed to a blacksmith, and when- | ever an unruly mule was brought in to | be shod, Ferguson was sent for, and he would hold the hind legs of the infuri- ated beast while his employer placed | the shoes in I inches | the waist. position. Ile wears No. 13 shoes and | a No. 8 hat. The Local Paper. The local newspapar goes into nearly every family and becomes a member thereof. If edited with intelli- l gence and most it is care, as the home. A newspaper edited by an enlighten- | conscientious is worth town than a factory, a and a bank, with their combined By an enlightened and more to a od man, influences. man is meant a person who strives to be of of and tolerant and feelings idgment, the: in Lis own jt | the others. opinic 8, ries religi unmistak- and blindness aud Intolerance, whether over ys is an or political matters, able | Ness, evidenes of ignorance mean- Tt begins in self- in an ignoble reli- rather than u and ends {lance upon prejudices pon facts and opinions.—Ex. ~~ For Farmers. An exchange says farme stantly finding a Not long thought be cultivated, experiment by will soon far short time for he | their soil. since a mer that he in a would that the tried with good | and he thinks others that it: pays. This { every other fluke wing the wheat sixteen inches apart, up for the planted double the quantity of tle then cultivated i rains and at warded with while the rest of i old way produced onl oa George Got His Wheel. said | wheat | says has Success one man learn farmer took from his drill, but to make harvest time he was forty bushels to the acre, the field sown twenty. New York World. time. Last year his birthday was em- bittered by the fact that he did not awaited the day this time with anxiety. During the wesk before he regularly { and earnestly resorted toprayer thathe have his desire granted. really feared for ain be disappointed. might faith, parents his should he ag fore on the morning of found awaiting him by his bedside | beautiful new wheel. When his mother entered the room, she found him delightedly gazing npon | it. “Well” he ealled out thought the Lord nerve to refuse this time.” cheerfully, “1 wouldn’t | How President Lincoln Stopped Man Swe.ring. ITere’s another story about President Liteoln, the truth of which was vouch- ed for by the late Col. Jesse W.. L One afternoon Mr. Lincoln was ing leisurely through Lafayette Square when he noticed a young man who was i using sulphurous language in a manner alarm the Mr. the what the trouble was. knowing Mr. Lincoln, the low said that a blakety-blank clerk in the Treasury Department had had him culeulated to natives. Lincoln stopped Not young fel- asked iting there for months to collect a small note and he couldn’ get ty- blank cent out of him. #1} is pretty>bad, “hut I'll teil you what you will promise me to up profane words, I will guarantee to col- a blank- wad coln, give leet the note for you.” After a little further talk the proposi- tion was agreed note a Lincoln, w wryte Lincoln.” When it to the collector and his eyes fell on the ‘mame, he unconsciously mumbled, { “Well, 1’ll be damned.” then quickly f apologized to the President, who shook to. The young man pro- nd handed it to Mr. the back, was handed back duced the ho on cal specimen of manhood, who has won | Ferguson is 50 yenrs | { Don’t See What You Want, Ask For would | { building looked at the sign and walked Up to the age | until | 500-pound bale of cotton on his | At the age of 30 he was ap- | Ferguson is 48 | around the breast and 44 around | { They never have dwelt in the world ol store | good | fair | [Still they was | rs are .con- | way to get the best of | been | out i thus | distance he wheat. | after the spring re- | in the | 1 . ! George had wanted a bieyele for along i Unless he's got the get the much coveted wheel, and so he | much | His | | is admitted There- | his birthday he ! | edited with extreme care, than quantity. have. the | 2 ! the gospel of Jackson. | walk- | i torial, society, near young man and said Mr. Lin- | Pil. do IT] using | + abroad. wy his hand, cautioned him to remember his compact and then resumed his af- ternoon stroll. It is needless to say that the was promptly liquidated when presented, note next Callel For It. Chicago Tribune. On the wall hung the sign in gilt let- ters and elaborately framed, “If You It2 The stranger who had entered the up to the man with the pen behind his ar. “Are you the proprietor?” he said. “Yes, sir) “Well, T want the keys of this estal- lishment.” “The keys?” “Yes, sir. IT don’t see them, am compelled to ask for them. sheriff.” and TI I'm the ~ - ree The Conqueror. The barkeeper’s wife has a sealskin coat, But mine has an old plaid shawl; She has jewels for finger and ear and throat, But mine has none at all. { Hiéronly ring I stole one night! And I pawned for a poisoned drink! Ob, mother of mine! Bring back the Of youth and the strength to think! light The barkeever’s child has books and toys,— My children have want and woe; Joys The barkeeper’s child may know. At a tiny doll my baby’s eyes Would dance and her heart would swell, jut Ive always taken the price to buy A cup of the liquid hell. { Oh, the girl I wooed in the good, glad years, newspapers | are, it is as good as a school teacher in | got drafted, and they could a-heard you Whose pure lips touched with mine,— I swear to banish her bitter tears In the strength of a love divine! And hearts so broken and sad, to-day, With new-found bliss shall thrill, For the devil of rum I'll cast away, God helping me, IT will. - Perssverance. d to say that Ira Webb was around the ching They claimed he'd got the secon men that wing Had lots they said; And yit, weeds come ey u kind of jaw of perseverinee, or should |} somehow, his crops weve poor, and uD inst nd stered things away, end; Tried raisin’ sheep cattlejand h always give ‘en up about the they'd start to pay. one respect in which he never would give ing Te stuck t to it, rain through thick and thin! 3efore he’d cot to middle age menced tog And laws! tho stuff make it 5 Every solitaryaight He'd get his bottle down and go head. or shine, likewise his hair com- QO, he used to git to try to FOWL he went to bed to rubbin’ before of his I knew ’im fully time, IH 5 He never give up hopin’ that thirty years, and all that wear, he'd still eit his hairs nd debts back Farm run down a increased; this and that, and then d give it up and switch around to some- rn? el : Went from the farm ut Ira kept day. tried Ie? worse, and so they took away, on tryin? hair. restorer every We buried at’im there, But all tary And I couldn’t help a-thinkin’, as I studied that ’ere ¢chin— The kind they say the men that win- That perseverance, after ler dear ‘im not long ago; I looked down rubbin? hadn't brought a -oli- iis hair, you're apt to sce upon all, may cost a fel- sense to Know jist how to persevere. —Cleveland Leader. - The Thnes has a larger circulation by many thousands than any other daily newspaper published in Pittsburg. This even by its competitors. The reasons for it are not hard to find. The Times is a tireless newsgatherer, is Spares no ex- { pense to entertain and inform its read- ers. It prints all the news in compact { shape, caring aiways more for quality It at the Nothing that keeps its columns clean, but same time bright. is of human interest is overlooked by it. [It aims tobe reliable rather than sensational. It believes in get there, but it getsthere with due respect for the facts. Tost any department of you choose—po- litical, rel s. markets, sporting, edi- town news—and you'll find the 7%ncs may be depended upon. $3 a year, 6 cents a week. -— Star, the Nickell Magazin York Weekly Tribune, and all one Tue the New { year for only $2.00, cash with order. By this arrangement you got ty paper, a good city paper class illustrated mag a good coun- r and a {irst- azine all at a trif- all ling Address orders to Tue Sra expense. Rr, Idk Liek, Pa. a Order Tne Stan your friends It letter the old home to them and they will ap- sent to will be like a fron preciate your kindness, ~~ Notice to Erdhanges. Some of Ti exchanges i please take notice that our post-oflice address is Elk lick. changes are not being received regular- ly. on account of being addressed *Sal- isbury.” tf Some of, our: ex-