The Patton courier. (Patton, Cambria Co., Pa.) 1893-1936, March 28, 1895, Image 1

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P TON, CAMBRIA CO, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 80s.
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Medicines
Chemicals
and Se Articles.
Holiday Goods Always
‘Fishing Tackle |
: | Base “Bal Goods
Knives i
mst "SoD WATER.
: Naaatvor.
Magic - Drops
pind
: : Magic Cough Cure.
Guaranteed to give satisfiction or
cheerfully
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money cheerfully refanded.
Prescriptions a Specialty.
hs OF THEW
Ww ritten by One of the *
rier” Contribittors.
4 | Three Yoars and Five Months vith Old
| Glory—~Peculhir Incide
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4 It is proper to state here that the
Soufl | western army iad up to this time dong enemy at this poh
all the fighting. They said that the
3 Army of the Potomac never did any-
thing except to “‘eat-soft bread and
| wear °° ¥ collars.” Our performance |
at Wauhatehie, Lookout Mountain and |
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sion Shears | their ideas of our fighting qualities. ' right
| Many of their men were heard to say, '
| “The Potomac fellows could fight
some.”
| After our great victory a lively par- |
| suit began in which the western army |
| was determined to show us all about
war. Our corps reached Pigeon Moun- |
‘of November. A portion of some
| western command formed on our right.
oe in front.
, to charge the
|enemy ot $a m. y of our men
' did not He down, in
impending ‘battle, 0 that about 3
'o’clock we were awakened and ready
- | for the order. The western soldiers,
without awaiting orders, advanced at
+ double quick yelling like demons and |
. being in the woods made enough noise
‘to scare “Old Nick.” In fact their
| noise was such that one of their colo-
| nels, who was on horse back, jumped
ot bié Bors aad made good time to
the rear. This coupled with the fact
| that the enemy had left immediately
Te Yew Comury wlan Lia stands
easily at tie head of Mt fully
: renaerscand will success
ly maintain 18 igh shpat in
rs have esiablisked
details concernirg its new
. Ful bs in the Columbia catalogue, |
‘which 3 a beautiful book and full
{ 0f fntietest, Free upon application.
THE BEST ON EARTH.
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| after dark formed an episode which we
‘turned to good advantage in ali our
subsequent relations with the heroes of
the west.
Next morning, Noverhber 27, we ad-
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| vanced in parsait of the fleeing enemy | On the 14th of May a very severe battle Gibson.
| until we reached Ringold, Ga. Just
beyond the town tie enemy wis posted ,
‘on Taylor's Ridge. Without hesitat-
ing 8 moment we formed a line of
| battle with our right at the railroad
and thence to the left about a mile. |
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support us we advanced apon the en- |
‘emmy confident of an easy victory. Alas!
Never were men more quickly de
ceived. As we neared the top of the
hill a most fearful fire was opened on
los snd in ten minutes our
| brigade was almost destroyed. I never
a u sa : wanted a a
yon ss of nes | If
ad just come to the place
: where you can get good goods |°o™
for the least money ynd that
Inatthe ECONOMY.
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You ales sayPyon A a
fine dress at a price
: 7 that will make you wonder
5 have never called at
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Need a pair of shoes, If you
do why we can just fit you out
iece of shoe wear
or everiwill have
f in the finest
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in. Come in and s see our
Sock snd you will
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that we have the firiest stock
at, the least
of any store in Cam-
of Johns-
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nT pit the
Jogfiomy,
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Se fr, Carrolite
saw such a sight. Our poor fellows
-| were rolling and tambling down the
steep hill trying to escape failing into’
the enemies hunds. Fortunately the
oll | formation of the ground protected the
Sompanies A, F and D. These three
companies stood firm and thus saved
our dead and wounded. Even these
suffered severely. Of our
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ican war and was reputed bravest
of the brave. Hig
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brigade, under General about three miles. It will enable the | witness in a case to the triad of which DighS.
The 3d : I jw as > Junction, in a deep cut the engine of a |
train hauling a string of empties to
the track. Seven flat
Green, also suffered a heavy loss. At
8 o’clock p. m. we took the hill, and
ber of men from other regiments, feil
back to Bridgeport, Ala.; built winter
quartersand remained until May 1st,
1864.
Tne winter at Bridgeport was un-
eventful so far aa movements of troops
were concerned. The only apparent
activity was the erecting of two im-
i mense buildings on the bank of the
Tennessee river, a short distance above
- {the railroad bridge. These buildings
were intended to hold the supplies for
the next campaign. When they were
fill two or three steamboats were kept
' | moving the stores up to Chattanooga.
Ceneral Sherman commanded the de-
partment and it was his intenticr to
sccumulate immense quantities of sup- |
plies 50 that he could dispense with bis
primary base at Louisville, K. Y., for
months at s time. The enemy's cav-
airy unde: ‘orest and Wheeler made |
repeater’ *s to destroy our com-
mani at without effect.
yr (1864 found an army of |
ith that incomparable
mmand. He was seo-
men 3 Generals Geo.
. EB Hooker, H. W.!
‘oward, J. B. McPher.
| tain a little after dark on the 26th day |
|The enemies camp fires were visible
| Aon and John A. Logan “ighting
Te 9 Howker! commanded the 20 So
was the old 11th and 12th co
Sh The first week in oy]
'OU- we received the order to advance. Judges Barker
Hooker was on the right so that after
passing through Missionary Ridge we!
turned to the right taking the Lafay-
HAST. |THE STARS ¢ & STRIPES ette pike, and keeping a southwest |
‘course, we reached Dug Gap-
through one of
Dalto: where theo
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ridges covéring
nemy 56,000 strong |
Johnston awaited |
No atfack the
it, The ridge was,
‘heavily wooded on both sides of the!
‘road and was fortified and heid by a |
‘strong force. Very little coald be seen
on account of the timber so that we got |
quite close before any firing began. |
Our regiment was on the extreme
and was near the top of the ridge |
before they fired upon us. Their fire
| was 80 continnous and heavy that itis
| doubtful if any of us would have
‘reached the top. Our officers very
‘wisely ordered us to halt. While in
| this position I saw a number of the
| eneniy through an opening in the wood
coming towards our left. [ asked our
‘captain to let me fire at them, and
; with his reluctant permission I sent a ©0sts
ball in their direction. 1 could not see
the
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guess. The route was that about a
THE MARCH TERM OF COURT
rand Miller are |
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MR. READ SENTENCED
Five and: One Hall Yours in ihe Western |
Penitentiary snd $250 Fine.
At 10 o'clock Monday’ morning the |
reguli- Mapch term of court for the
trial of the civil lisc-agmmanoed with |
Judge Barker on the Beno His
Honor’s illness two weeks ago, and the |
Joss of time occasioned thereby, od®
‘with the large number of cas®® for |
trial, made it impossible for J
Barker to make much headway
| and Judge Miller, of Mercer count?’
assisting him this week.
When court convened the first bas | |
mess transacted was sentencing the
prisoners who were convicted during’
the first week of this term. The |
heaviest sentence given was to Ellis B. |
Reed, who, in a very sensational trial,
| was convicted of raping Leona Spencer. |
He was ordered to pay a fine of $350,
on the Bench.
PATTON PUBLIC SCHOOL.
A Monihly Report Prepared by the Prine.
ple, W. H. Thompson.
The following is a report of the Pat-
ton Public School for the month end- |
ing March 15, 1885. This report shows |:
the condition of the different depart- |
ments daring the last:
Number enrolled in high school |
during month, miles, 9; females, 30;
total, 30; average attendance, males, 8
females, 20; total, 37; per cent. of . at-|
| tendance, mules, 95; females, 86; aver |
age per cent. of attemdance, 91.
Number enrolled in grammar school,
males, 27; females; 32; total, 50; aver
| age attendance, males, 21; females 25;
total, 49: ‘per cent. of attendance,
males, 90; females, 93; average per
cent. of atfndance, 92.
Number enrolled in ateriodiite de-
i® partment, males, 33; females, 19; total,
| 81; average attendance, males, 20; fou |
| males, 17; total, 46; per cent. of at-
tendance, males, 92; females, 39; aver
age per cent. of attendance, 91.
‘Number enrolled in. second §
| males. 3%; females, 28; total 6
age attendance, males, 29; fen
itotal, 53; Per bsp of »
males, 96; fo.
costs of prosecution, and to undergo | . cent. of attendanu.
an imprisonment in the Western Peni- | xumber enrolled in
‘them when they stopped, #0 I fired by | tentiary for a term of five years and six males, 39; females, 31; tots.
| months. Charles Glavon and Daniel
| age attsndance, males, 35; fem.
. safer position. One of them, joss fora] | conte, and five months in jail. William | males, 04; females, 91; average :
joke, sent a ball through the top of my | Boyer, for stealing a sum of Money | cent. of attendance, 98.
cap, -but [ continued to fire in
direction and succeeded in scaring
many More away.
Wa continued the battle until even. |
ing. A namber of our company were
wounded, but none were killed. After | | raised the Cambria Iron company check | | cent. of attendance, 92.
dark we fell back to an open fleld
where we remained for a short time.
Our movement was a feint to enable |
General McPherson to advance on our
right and take possession of Swvake
Creek Gap. Having secured this Gap
the army rapidly advanced towards
Resacoa, a railroad station 12 miles
south of Dalton compelling Johnston |
to abondon his strong hold at Dalton. |
was fought at Resaoca, in which the
enemy suffered fearful losses. General
McPherson, on our right, placed 12.
guns on a hili commanding the ene-
my's position from which he poured
broadiide after broadside into them |
going on our corps massed in solid |
column and advanced in our front
capturing four guns. This was all we
| could accomplish that day. We ail
| thought that in the morning the de- |
! cisive battle would be fought, but dur-|
ing the night the enemy escaped leav- |
ing piles of dead behind. g
CANTEEN.
To be continued. |
A New Road. -
A few months ago a petition was
' handed into court asking for a pubiic
road to be built irom Patton to a point |
on the road leading from St. Lawrence
to Chest Springs. The proposed road
Soupany CF) I do not remember all of Will intersect at the Anthony Kline :
the causslities, but Lieutenant Peter place, where Jacob Stevens lately re-| The ‘popular Park was crowded at
Kaylor, J. W. Stevens and John Lane sided. The length of the road will be both performances yesterday
were mortally wounded. Lieutenant ' about one mile from the borough limits “Side Tracked,” a. new railroad com-
oO wae dows GEE Solr and to the intersection, a direct line from | edy, was
was wounded in every battle he took beginningjio end with the grade ox- ‘time. The railroad scene is side-split- |
tremely favorable. The Las long |
been needed and will sh 2 the dis- |
tance between Patton and St. Lawrence |
residents of St. Lawrence and Coaiport |
and points between these places and
this ended olir campaign for 1863, and ' Patton to reach here without the long enjoyment. There are many special-
© after falling back to our old camp at drive around by Baker's cross roads. | ties of a high character and a funny
Wauhatchie we built winter quarters. The order was granted at a recent musical
It was at this time that the regiment term of coart and the viewers, E. C. (0.) Daily Morning Journal, February
reinlisted and went home. The re- Brown, engineer, J. R. Cornelius and | 124,798. At the Hastings opera house |
mainder of the regiment formed a T.M. Sheehan met on March Ist and Friday evening, March 29th.
- | company of 100 men, who, with a num-
on the following day located the road.
The people of Chest township should
be unanimous in advocating the build-
ing of this road, as it is much to their |
interest in the way of travel, ete.
Now that spring is about here do not |
let the scheme drop.
: Was a Good show.
A large number from Patton at-
tended “Little Trixie” at the Hastings
opera house last Friday night and re-
tarned home very much pleased and
speak in the highest terms of the play.
Manager McNeelis is to be congratu-
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lated in securing good companies. | sisty-nine-cen t rate.
“Side Tracked,” which will appear in
the same opera house on Friday night, |
March 20th, is equally as good, if not
better. A large number should go
to Hastings that night.
: Modern Housework.
May be done more easily, more con-
| veniently and with fess expense on the
| Cindrella Range than with many oth.
ers; all the old objections to ranges re-
i It will save you time, money
‘and hard work. It is a good baker
{and is sold with that understanding.
{Sold by A. M. Thomas. ;
| Colornds Sabet Woy’ wis.
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izations are Beneficial to the Workmen. |
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from a fellow-lodger, in the Eighth
Ward Hotel, Johnstown, got a fine of gi “1S UT "on™ Carage at. |
| $20, costs, and one year and three |
| months in the Penitentiary, William |
| Petrukivitch, the Hungarian who |
| from $18 to $46, received a reminder of |
' $10 fine, costs, and six months in jail.
The court then called the Bar list, |
and the result was the presentation of
a large number of petitions.
Institute Program. :
Program for local institate to be
held in Ashville, March 30, 1895, at 1
o'clock p. m.:
Vocal music in public schools, TL
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Square and cube root, J. W. Leech.
Mental arithmetic, R. H. Biter.
Penmanship, G. E. Hippe.
Grammar, R. E. Davison.
Ideals, A. J. Swope.
What relation should exist between |
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Without a single plece of artillery to during the entire day. While this was. teacher and pupil, N. Neason.
~ Spare momenta, D. L. McMuarren. |
Evening Session.
Fmprompta class, Stella Will
Exercises by school. :
Patriotism, D. L. McMprren.
Recitation, Jennie Abernathy.
Debate: Resolved that Labor Organ- |
Afirm—R. E. Davison, D. L McMur-
ren. Deny--George P. Bell, Martin
McCartoey.
STELLA WILLA,
D. L. McCMURREN,
A. J. BwoPR,
Committee.
“side Tracked.”
with
was presented.here for the first
ting in its drollness and every char-
'acter true to life. Besides the side- |
tracking of the tramp, an important
he is hastening. There are many
other minor realastic scenes of great
Miners Will Win,
The following 1 ssn from a
this morning, at which they heard ve- |
ports from the different districts, and
upon which they prepared suggestions
for this afternoon's meeting, Several
thousand miners are striking for the
ct oa —
on Monday annpuncing the sad intelli-
gence of the death of his father who
resided at Karthaus, Pa., and on Toes:
day he departed for that piace to attend
op pp
leaves two sons and three dsaghters.
pected at any time during the past
Yoar. i ————a—
Huve you tried John Tramaa's coal
Joba P. Bonner received a telegram |
the funeral which was held Wednesday. |
The old gentioman has bovn very fheble
Total enrolled for month, males, 139;
| tendance, males, 123; females 134;
total, 247; per cent. of attendance,
93; females, 91; average per
CLEARFIELD COAL POOL. :
Operators Form an u Association to Kimit
: the Protection,
The demoralized condition of the
bituminous coal trade in Pennsylvania
is to be corrected by the operators
Sanibel sone
region met in Philadelphia on Thure
| day and formed an organization to be
known as the Operator's association of
{the Clearfield region. The object of
the meeting was to discuss the curtail-
decided that the output should be les-
sened and that the principle of the as-
sociation would be the pooling of the
| production of the entire region.
The following were elected officers of |
| the sssociation: President, E. J. Ber
wind, of Berwind, White & Co.; first
| vice president, John C. Scott, of Jobn
| Scots & Co.; secretary pro tem, Wm.
| C. Scott, D. E. Williams, Edward J.
BOROUGH COUNCIL MET
In Extra Session. on Monday :
Evening And :
ELECT ED NEW MEN
To Pili the Yacseies of Chivl-sf-Poliee
Street Cotamissioner and s Coanefbman, .
The Patton borough council met in
uxtra seasion in the office of Dale &
Patterson on Monday evening, Mareh
35th, with the following members
present: President John F. Bonner,
P. P. Young, B. F. Wike, 8. M. Wilson,
Ralph Leisch and John Boyce. The
minutes of the last two meetings were
| body was the seting on the resignation i
of Councilman Jobn Boyce, which was.
‘Then came the
| of Chief-of-Polive Jas. McMullen, which
uly deceptedt.
~ pames of 8. E Jones and John
‘were presented to coune®
« for Chisf.of-Police.
vesulted in" the ele
* GPG Crawl,
The names of Frank Campbell, L. 8,
Bell and Joseph Marks were voted for.
to fill vacancy caused by resignation
' of John Boyoe from cosncil. A ballot
| being taken vesulted in a tie vote for
| Frank Campbell and iL. S. Bell. The
‘| vote of the president being received
resulted in the election of Prank Camp--
bell. :
The council voted to pay the police- ;
to wear a uniform provided by council,
and the cost of same to be deducted
from his salary.
The: following Sills were presented
and orders drawn for the same: Pat-
ton Publishing company, printing, .
$22.65; A. M. Thomas, hardware, $8.43;
Will L. Thompson, suditor, $12; F. H.
Kinkead, auditor, $12; H. 7). Winslow,
anditor, $12; Jas. McMullen, police
| service up to date, $43.33; Harvey Pat.
terson, clerk for two montis sian,
$10.00.
Council then sdjorrned to meet at
| regular meeting night.
The following, taken from the Amer.
|J. Nicolls. The following board of The
directors was also elected: J. B. Coryal, |
‘John C. Bradley, Wm. H. Piper, John
Brown, John L. Mitchell and Thomas -
C. Heine.
After the meeting an operator who | Wien
| wai present stated that the object of
the association at present was the car-
tailment of the output, but eventually
it would. result in an rene i the
price of soft coal. oe
Beech Creek Wrecks.
Patton
were piled oun top of it and the engine
~The Columbus ¥™
EE cam, eS pint, rook acccurred on
a ton. The directuts hol: & MOSUNG) the save rus below Pusle. Which du-
nth bet own.
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EEE the Jeus 1h pays.
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place run re a § disgrace the
Preaching by the Pastor at 10:30 &. m
and 7 p. m. Class-meeting at 9:30a. m.
Sunday school at 2 p. om.
All are cordially invited to sttend
| sexvices,
W. A B Little, - Prominent Ben
chant of Loretto, this county, made aa
assignment Saturday morning for the
gaged in general merchandising. The
extent of his linbilities is not knows. :
: © Wall Paper
Geo. 8. Good has just seceived a very
fine Minchin’ of Wall. paper, all the ~
man a salary of $50 per month and be .
benefit of his creditors. He was en-