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