VOL. In. NO. 63. PATTON, CAMBRIA Co. PA, THURSDAY, FEBRU ARY 14, 1895, $1.00 PER Y EAR. “PEPSIN” FLOUR MAKEF iS THE 5, MOST WHOL SOME: BREAD. $100 Given Away. REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR Written by One of the “Cou- rier” Contributors. “THE GREAT SCOUT. Through the Confederate Lines. -A True ory of the Lute War. {Continoed from inst week. We set out again before dsy, and at about 7 o'clock struck the Leesburg and Alexandria railroad. We thought it best to send two men ahead to the top of the embankment to see if every- thing was open and clear. If they saw any of the enemy they were to turn ‘back; if not they were to pass on. They did the latter, und thinking the country clear, we scrambled ap, when the first thing that met our sight was a body of about seventy rebels coming right towards us. To get over as quickly as possible was now our best course, and a dense thicket of black- berry being neur, we cautiously made our way some distance into it. Here we found a most welcome treat berries, and though 12 imminent dan- ger, we stopped long enough to eat our fill, and then hurried on, knowing that the longed for Potomac could not be more than three miles distant. As we came near 3 road we saw eight Confederates coming toward us. They observed us also, and we could not avoid meeting them. They were on the south side of Broad run; we on the north side. As the bank was two Dry Goods, OI i is ‘Boots and Shoes sa Ziv in | captare them, I suggested and Furnishings | tunity to ' that we jurnp the fence and meet them a8 they came out. All agreed and we Is the best to be had in ~~ the County. Patton Pharmacy C Ww. HODGKINS. Drags Medicines, and Chemi- Stationery, Confec tionery, Cigars and ‘Tobacco. . Agency for COLUMBIA & HICKORY a Bicycles. : Laken Nia othe only Drag Store He We are doing the business .of the town and no doubt about it. Our stock of were in a position with guns ready {just in time. An order to surrender caused them to drop their guns in- ‘stantly, and we took charge of them. , They were not more than fifteen feet ‘from the muxzics of our guns, and Our prices correspond with | were terribly frightened. he x name that tells you Our situation which before was per- WHEE Buy yor wer or tor unin rs on our: Gi aia Our only alternative ‘was to kill them, ' and this we believed under the circum- and that stances would be murder. We hastily is at picked up their arms and harrying ; 09 the | some distance threw the guns in the ot : ‘water, and passed on farther down, {where we baited. Our prisoners in- . Economy | formed os that they had some potatoes; wo J wehad sugar and tes, and we made & : 1 fire intending to hive a square meal ; STORE {We had not tasted bread or meat for’ : = - i four days and felt as if we could eat Vv 3 { anything. Our prisoners had become Of Carrolltown. Haig UF HST a -{ Plosaant, conversation, when two more | i Confederates came towards us. An- When you are in town do | other of our party and I met them with - not fail to call and see us; we |» polite request to surrender. Although will treat you right. | never suspected anything until we | demanded their surrender. They laid { down their arms with a mock gravity, . and were very much surprised when The Big - REDUCTION = he SALE’ is still going on in full blast. Remember the Place, they found it was no joke.. : These soldiers had no guns,and it wae that they had ieft their camp a short distance away 0 wash and fill - their canteens: The knowledge of this fact cut short our dinner and caused us : ; ' to move farther down the run. Going The ECONOMY ; Jou; 4 Same upon a sick soldier and . : : 9 two negroes. We took the negroes : x 0 tort tho ick sa He never Next to Bank, Carrolltown. | snepected us of being Yankees or he . | would have told his friends of our | whereabouts and our doings. As we | moved along we picked up more strag- | glers until we had nineteen prisoners. Picture to yourself, if you can, our! ‘situation at this time. Eleven men | holding nineteen prisoners on their HOTEL ‘BECK, H. C. BECK, Pro. | own ground, with the prospect of cap-- | turing more or being captured them- {selves at any moment. So confident | were the prisoners of our being taken that they began to arrange with us for our arms. One of the Largest Hotels i in! As we traveled along our ears caught - Northern Cambria; shajson > Ary moving. It was now stop, we selected an ‘Conducted 500 ae spot. The water here was -m "dammed by a mill down at the road MODERN STYLE, Boman =a position wais on the right bank, facing Good Table and Bar Supplied | 0 : jlowany Sel Potomac. The rebels were povite that which we were, and of them ‘with Choiest Brands of | crossed at the head. : : | the darkies volunteed to bring us some | questions. His manner convinced me veling in a direction which induced I a ho oratt to the side op- { who came in sight of the breast of the Reiquors. dam crossing there, while all others The Popular | Westarted a fire, and the eldest of (corn, not feeling like trusting him, I took him aside and asked him some ATT | that he could be trusted, and I told: of PA ON. fio i, HE 8a ey tier | « of { we were dressed in our uniforms they Our - He took: a shelter tent, and in a short time al with as much as he could All hands went to work romst- | ryan lig. While thus en- gaged ve saw some stragglers coming np the opposite bank. Determined | to take no notice of them, we warned , our prisoners against making any sign or movement that would direct ss picion toward us. When they came opposites to us, they stopped, looked over. and then passed on. Our appenr- © ance wis well ealeniated to deceive, us the greuter number of our costs were gray, and the practice some of them basi of stripping dead Union soldiers and wearing their clothes accounted We passed the day here, and I be lieve fully two hundred Confederate . soldiers passed up the stream on the opposite side and viewed ns across, but ROBE Game aval Lo Yat uk. We passed a pleasant day with our prisoners. They were all tired of fighting and anxious to get home. We promised to have them immediately paroled, telling them that General Banks would grant any reasonable re- guest we made. 1 tock the names of the prisoners with the regiment and company to. which each belonged, and while I can- not recsll all of them the following were: of the number: Thomas Brazwell, 8th Texas, and A. C. Murchison, 12th Georgin. Murchison was the son of a rich planter living near Macon, Ga. and was the only intelligent man _hillers,”” or a the darky put it ‘po’ | white trash.” Night once more cast ber shadowy ‘mantle over the earth, and we prezared to move on. Two men were sent for- “ward to examine the road znd report if there were woods on either side. They soon came back and reported everything favorable. We then must- ered our prisoners, and found to our dismay tha® four were missing, among ‘them the young darkey. fellows: would report the situation as “soon as they could, and pursuit would begin ut once, as a mater of course. Arranging our prisoners in the best manner possible to prevent their re- peated attempts 10 escape we started. A short march brought us to the road. We found it passiag around a bluff, where it crossed the dam, and We now feit that our capture was inevitable. These I BEAL WESTERN BLIZZARD. ' Snow and Howling Gale With the Merenty Sc down to Zero. TRAFFIC PA RALYZED. On he Cambria a 4 Clnartald Sud Bard Creek Railrownds. ‘The grest bligiard which Was pre. dicted to reach this section of the country Thursday, February 7th, did above ro. Navigation: on the Pot | 14s SUP 10F dbvuit H3tY Wilks Suwa 6 practically at end, the big steamers that ply ction this city and Norfolk, Va At the . Pennsylvania Railroad station the officials report that the situation showe little or no encouragement, and say but little siccess attends efforts to move traine. Trains from ail points are be- | iated from six to twiive hours. Georgia. ATLANTA, Feb 11— Marshaliville, in the beart of the peach belt, are to the effect that the young Sok Sevives. on wCheddie Huy, Vu oF. suds have Seon Willd, sit Vat tae rived in plenty of time to “suit” the natives. Heretofore the weather had | been still and extremely cold, the mer- cury ranging from sero down to as low ss twenty-thrée below, noticed to any great extent The this place about 10-30 Thursday evening and continued at a furious rate until sometime the following Monday morn- ing. All the public highways leading to and from Pation were completely blockaded for Several days. A large number of people were compelled to remain at their homes, not daring to venture out by foot least they be snow- bound and frosen as during the farious gale the thermometor registered at the zero point. The Cambria and Clearfield railroad was blockaded from Friday morn ing until Monday momming. The - Pennsylvania passenger train which among them. The rest were sand W3* due bere on Friday morning at 7:23 did not arrive until about 9 o'clock and only proceeded on its journey as far as Dristol, a station about two miles south of Bradley Junction, where it was compelled to stop on account of “huge piles of snow on the track. When the train arrived at Bradley Junction two extra engines were attached, but which was not CrazLesTox, Feb, 11.—The contin- ped stress of cold weather has compiet- od the destruction of the vegetable and the delay of the berry crop reported a few days ago. The lowest point reached by the thermometer was 17°. A Trip Yarough' we ¥ Gabie’s Store at Altoona. During s recent visit to Altoons the oocasion | em- porium of Wm. F. Gable & Co. and as we were enjoying a short interval of jeisure, a request to be shown more thats § pleng glance was generously - and the . visit through this metropolitan establishment will be ' remembered with delight. Itis a well knowh fact thut this isan Were this fact alone is not the. rage that attracts myriads of purchasers to its counters, but in well defined and an- | even with the assistance of the two ad- ; ditional engines, the train ¢cuid not raove any farther than the aforesaid mentioned station, Dristol. The snow bound train had on board twenty-«ix passengers including men, women and children, who were taken into the large and cheerful home of W. J. Buck, whose house was but a short distance from- the train, where they were cared for until the storm had passed over and the train was able to move on ita journey, which was literally covered with sleeping Con- federaie soldiers and brightly burning fires. We baited, and on looking back saw two soldiers coming close up to our renr with corn in their arms. A single suspicions movement by any of our party, and they would know us and give the alarm. I said in a Jow ice: ‘Come on,” and started down the bank. We bad to pass right through them, and 1 could have kicked some of the sleeping enemy on either side. My heart jumped up to my throat, and | confess we were all pretty badly scared, as were also our prison- ers. Flad an attack been made, they, being sarrounded by us, would have fala badly ander Sry aa We. CANTEEN. {To be continged. | Important te Fishermen. H. (0. Wilbur, president of the Penn. sylvania Fish Protective Association, sends out a circular requesting all persons desiring to aid in the increase of edible fish in the waters of the State, to apply to the Pennsylvania Fish Pro- tective Association, No. 1,020, street, Philadelphia, where they can obtain piacards containing informa- tiom as to close of seasuns of the different varieties of fish, and other information pertaining to the same; also, blank ap- plications for procuring trout fry, free, from the Pennsylvania Fish Commis- ‘sioners, will be supplied by the Asso ' ciaticn on application. Miners Strike. A dispatch from Pittsburg says that the Banksville coal miners in the Saw- mill Ran district, to the nomber of 600, sre out on strike for an advance in the rate of mining coal to 79 cents per ton. The miners had heard of fancy prices being charged for coal during the cold weather and demanded their share of the advance, which was promptly refused by the company. Liquor Sellers Quaking. : The Indiana Messenger says that a good many liquor sellers of this county are quaking in their boots lest Jadge Barker, who is engaged in hearing the Blair. White contest in Indiana cranty, will he unable {0 sit at the Cambria county license court and that Judge White, of that county may be called to pass upon the license petitions of this | county. Keep Warm. Keep warm by burning the best coal “in the market at James Mellon's bank. Leave order at office opposite Palmer | Department | Bureau at § o'clock SIEMy wa 5°; house. -83t3, crew on engine No. 7, Arch ey bad abated. Assistant Roadmaster W. H. Moore, of this piace, secured a large force of men here who were escorted to the scene of embarrassment on Condoctor * A noteworthy example of their ex- tensive advertising may be gleaned in the fact of their havimg used during the month of December, 1594, over 3,000 inches of advertising space, which Patton COURIER The store is splenided in all ite np- Advices = | REVOLUTION of LABOR. Master W ork Sovereign ‘Talks of an [Upheavel. HE PREDICTS A CRISIS. sere the Soctad Rerun Wi Win age Systems Must be Abolished. According to a disputeh from Phils- delphia dated February 0th, General | Master Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor says the following in | an address at the Labor Lyceum hall will be a serious upheaval in this country within twelve monthw Every move on the social chess board indicates it. Capitalistic tactics are forcing the ime and organised labor will be the victor. It will be i peaceful revolution, sc- complished without the aid of win- -chesters and Gatling guns. “After the fight is over. people will say, when they see a Knight of Labor who has been steadfast throughout the great strife, There gues an American ‘petriot.” We want you to enlist for the war, to become ari integral part of ‘our grand organization until there is gathered within our fold sufficient by the Eternal God yoo shall go mo farther.” . These rather forible concluding remarks of the general master work- : vy 4 disnouree in which he outlined, from a Knight of Labor stanipoint, the differ- ing pointments and the general effect aR both attractive and inviting, a recent addition in interior decorations being Myers’ work train, which was stationed at Patton. On Friday Conductor Wm. Cramer, Engineer C. C. Coulter, Fireman Jesse Starr and the two brake- men, R. W. Delogier and Wm. Arm- ‘strong, composing the Beech Creek were given orders to depart for the scene and offer their assistance, but on their way were compelled to. stop a short dis- tance above Patton on account of snow and remained at that point, an- lable to move until 9 o'clock Satur- day morning, when they returned to | Patton. On Sanday they again started for Dristol and by considerable work . succeeded in making an opeaing merly been compelled to stop and ar- rived at Dristol in time to help the already large crew of men to clear the | track. : train in Patton since Tharsday of last week was on Monday afternoon. The Beech Creek line between this place and Williamsport was badly blockaded and traffic was generally delayed. The first mail to arrive in Patton since 6:12 on Tharsday night was at 11 o'clock Monday morning. The mail bags were so numerous and Peavy laden that it required a horse and sleigh to carry them to the Patton postoffice. The storm was one of the greatest and extended over a longer period than any reported for years. The mea “oldest inhabitants” will have a story to tell to future generstions that will . make the boys and girls of fifty years from now open their eyes with wonder as the history of the bifizzard of Feb- ruary, 1585, is related. : Report From Neva Scotia. HaLiFAX, Feb, 11.—The latest infor- mation from Cape Breton indicates that the recent storm has been the most destructive experienced there in thirty years. Great damage was done at Sough Ignonish and for thirty miles along the gulf shore " Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The ther. mometer at the Weather The following is & report of the Pat ton school for the week ending Feb- roary S: Number enrolled in high school, 49; average attendance, 34; number en- rolled in grammar school, 57; attendance, 5); number enrolled in intermediate department, 55; attendance, #4; number enrolled in see. 80; average atiendance, #4; Pa roliment during the week, 384; aver- age attendance, 208. Two were added to the school during the week. A Merry Party. The following named people com. evening, by calling at their home and passing a very enjoyable evening: Mr. and Mrs Joseph Snyder, Mr. and Mrs James Mellon, Mrs. John Yabner, Mrs. Harry Scanlan, Mrs. Prank Campbel’, Mrs. Helena Mellon and Mrs. J B Noonan. Net Open Yet. . ‘Word has been received from Ebens- edporgmmps esd ape sta bills to rise. Thereupon the afore ~ yet kindly. ‘How is it my friend’ be | said, ‘that you are the only one anong tatingly, and these my brothers who rose jus now are all subscribers, and’ —Bus the minister interrupted him hastily. Let as pray,” he said.” A Fine Journal. ] The Connellsville Courier, published ‘by HP. Snyder, at Connellsville, Pu., the centre of the great coke region, reached the exchange tabie of the Cou- RIER Monday. This is one of the old- published in Western Pennsytvanis and 'is one of the best printed snd «dited ' sheets which the Patton Corning has received. H. P. Snyder, the enterpris- ing editor, is an ex-president of the ‘od by J. L. Mitchell & Co., near Bens ‘and instantly killed by one of the party. borg stating that the Branch which Pennsylvania Editorial Association, runs from that place to Kaylor is not and on his return from a convention yet open, but there is & large force of held at Harrisbarg a few weeks igo in men working om it and trains will the interest of the above named asso- probably ran Wednesday. Those who ciation, the representative of this paper started from the south of the county had the pleasure of forming bis ae Tuesday morning arrived all right — quaintance. driving from Cresson in sleighs Pablle Printing Ofce Burned. dP Zl ].-H. TZ On Snnday morning fire destroyed About 30 Hungarian miners emyloy- the state printing office at Harrisbarg with nearly all its contents The loss Creek, gathered in one of their jes Tuesday and proceeded to get Sh suliide Sf avers Jags of Whieaey. celebration wound up by John Were destroyed. ph through the heart Get a Valunine. C. W. Hodgkins, the drugght, has © just received the finest line of walew- Rev. Chas. W. Wasson, pastor of the | tines ever you laid your eyes on. Don’t Methodist Episcopal church, will preach miss seeing them. in this place on Friday evening at 7:30. | Pepain flour will 3id digestion. FReyunly Yom » sack. 00. P.8 Ca
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