i PN ¥ ¥ Eo ‘ E 8. 5th & Beech Aves. - - Patton, Pa. Magic Cough Guaranteed to give satisfaction or refunded. Prescriptions a Specialty. ap SrA AS Po s——— VOL.IL—NO.S6. pr Sha in ah Wp Anything you want from a Monkey to an Elephant. : Come and : see the Baby : . . My Stock. ELEPHANT. Drugs . ~~ Chemicals Stationery Confectionery ; Tobacco ~~ Snuff and Smoker's Articles. Holiday Goods Always Fishing Tackle Sporting In Base Baill Goods Knives " Razors Scissors Shears Strops Mugs Ete. FINEST SODA WHTER. : a ~Manufacturer of— Magic - Drops —and-—. . : money cheerfully I PATTON, CAMBRIA CO., PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 189s. VISIT COOK, SALMOND & COWD: THE CONDITION OF TRADE As Reported by Bradstrent's Commercial Agency BRISK SUMMER TRADE more active. Medicines | | Is Reported From Most of the Larg:r Cities { Still Improving. : : | ness holding up. Retailers report fair . BosTON, July 26.—The general tone trade. Collections seasonable. = : . ‘is firm in most departments of the . JacksoNviie, July © 26.— Business maker 1 have fitted so many feet in MINNEAPOLIS, July 26.—The move- ; ment of merchandise from jobbers’ : 3 os Te hands is now at the usual low point’ Gathered in by a Representa- incident to midsummer, but orders for tive of the “Courier.” : future delivery indicate a good volume | : of business. Lumber and flour "* OLD MOSES PERKINS CHARLESTON, July 26.— Wholesalers ite and jobbers report the volums: of busi- To the Front as Usual With a Few Good Pointers. + Iam so glad that as a verbal shoe- operators yet moderately conducted. | doing in any line. Collections are there is no use kicking; it only maies The fall trade is opening favorably, [slower than for a long time pst. ; : however, and indications point toward New ORLEANS, July 26.—Trade is faults, so have we all, and if you 0C- (Clearfield, 3,811; Gallitzin and Moun- a good general business. The money | ' market is yet dull, but the tone is: rather firmer, insomuch as lenders are asking stronger rates. Business paper’ is quoted at 3(+ 4 per cent., with corpo- ration loans at 2}(«4 per cent. and collateral loans at 2)(«3} per cent. In the shoe trade values are very firm and yet tending upward in sympathy with the strong position of the leather market. The factories are busy, but few new orders are being taken. highest price since the advance be-- gan. Iron and steel continue firm, und values are tending higher. The cop- per market is strong. Lumber is BUFFALO, July 26.—Iron manufac- turers have again advanced wages, and : 0 BIVEN AWA the demand continues strong. Im- FIVE CENT MONEY ORDER. provement is noted in most all indus- trial lines. General trade is fairly active. Anthracite coal is dull and trade very unsatisfactory. it worse. Of course you have your only fair, owing to continued rains. Casionly see a piece of printed matter Withholding the sugar bounty has that catches you in the ribs or rabs caused anxiety among the planters and # soft corn don’t raise a distarbance merchants, and may prove cisastrous about it, but look at it in the right to many. Additional lumber mills have Way. The man who wrote the piece resumed operations, owing to the Probably does not know of your pet brighter outlook. Better prices are ideas and you are therefore only one of looked for. The tone of sugar, rice the many who have the same faults and cotton is quiet. ~Itell you it is bad business to jump ap SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.--Improv- and crack your fists and swear by the ing business and a general hopeful Patton water works, for you don’t Lo feeling are the rule. Wheat is steady help the situation a bit or the water Cure. Leather is firm, with hides strong at at 9% 92} per cental. Freights are system either. - Learn to appreciate firm. At last accounts nearly 200 the fact that people are like mir wheat carriers were on the way here Fors and by studying them you may or listed to load for this port, and ship learn where your own faults are, and owners and brokers are expecting the try to correct them or make them worse steady. with coal dull and featurelsss. present high rates to weaken by De- 48 you see is needed. Just go ahead cember. Three cargoes of burley for 3nd do what is right and if you hear the United Kingdom and partial cargo that you are lop-eared and half crazy for New York was leaded this week. 8iV® the man that says so credit with ToroNTO, duly 26.—Trade in whole- being able to discern more than any- sale circles continues quiet, and there One you have previously met, he prob- are no changes of importance. Wool- ably won’t deserve the considerution éns keep very firm, in sympathy with YOu give him, but tell him he is sm.irter . tain, 31,876. Beech Creek, week end- MINING NEWS. | Reports of the Different Districts Strike at i \ ragailty Over. ? i | July is a dull month in the coal busi- | | ness, and a number of Cambria county | | operators are taking advantage of the | slack-up to make needed repairs and | { improvements. Following is the out- | | put of the South Fork district for the | { week ending July 20th: Argyle Coal | | company, 1,769 tons; Stinemsn Coal | | company, 5,631 tons; Conemaugh { Coal company, 773 tons; Dunlo Coal | company, 408 tons. For the week ‘ing July 14th, was 49,108 tons. ; On a visit to the coal regions, in which there are troubles among the. ‘miners over the wage question, Presi- dent Patrick McBryde, of the United | : Miners of America, says he told the . men who were parading with Win- chesters to be peaceable, for in twenty- five years he had never seen a strike won after troops had been called on. The strike of the coal miners at Frugality is over and the men have re- | tarned to work. They were made to understand that the company was fixed in the determination that the unjust : check-weighman must go and they | gave in. ing to circumvent the new law say that : they will sell coal at 25 cents per 100 Ibs. where $5 per ton has been the rate. ~~Coal Trade Journal. ; | The CoUriER has been informed that the Bell, Lewis and Yates Coal Mining : i j i i i | Catholic Priests Preparing to $1.00 PER YEAR. ND & COWDEN'S STORE, ALTOONA, PA smn = ee (IHES HERE IND THERE THE ST. VIGENTS' BEER. tints : F ight the Question. REV. FATHER KITTELL, Of Loretto, Taking an Active Part In the : : Fight Aguinst it it The following is taken from the | Wednesday morning issue of the Johns- merchandise market, with general has fallen off heavily, and very little is - the last few weeic. I tell you readers | ending July 6th, other Cambria county | Daily Democrat: : : | districts shipped as follows: Cambria | | and Clearfield, 24,163 tons; Cresson and | The anti-liquor edict declared at recent ecumenical council in Baltimore, presided over by Cardinal Gibbons and States, appears to have been fruit bearing. attended by the prime dignitaries of ‘the Catholic church in the United But before the pronunciamento was . published to the world there was in four own county a native Cambrian priest who boldly announced himself a disciple of Father Matthew and threw into the scale of the temperance cru- sade a weight of earnestnesss which had not known for years. : : This man was the Rev. Father Perd- inand Kittell, formerly of Ebensburg, now of Loretto, and a member of Bishop Phelan’s official household. most interesting story, and we reprint in full from the Press as follows: ‘For 40 years the order of St. Vin- cent, at Latrobe, had had its parent | by the brotherhood, has been fimous ‘in the Mid-Atlantic states. But the The Greensburg Prees of last evening. "helps. the Democrat to continue the Certain dealers in Pennsylvania try- house, and the St. Vincent beer,brewed |. will redeem them, giving Si oN | as usual at this time of the year is dull, LW an Dollard worth sive Five | and bat little is being done. In dry bought is store w | goods prices are firm, and the season Oent Money Orders, and when Twenty |, air} ii! are presented to us at one time, we been | ¥ Prosperous one. =~ ie _ia8 well as can be hoped for, and the i same state of affairs is found in the ONE DOLLAR sofia” “Cocina sme | what slow, but, as a rule, fairly satis- time towards paying for a bill of goods | purchased at any one time at this } Bore gmounuing vo fifty in or | in cash or merchandise for them; or we | Y: will accept them one or more at a. i i } BALTIMORE, July 26.—General trade raw material. Remittances are fair. than you thought he was and if he : - does not feel like making you prove it ; The World's Coal. ‘it will be because you stand six or An English contemporary says “the even inches higher than he doee. Itis production of coal throughout the a very funny thing that if you disa- | boots and shoes orders are coming in WOTld last year was estimate] at 583,- gree with people they get cross sbout ! i | 700,000 tons. In this total the United it and as sure as you agree with them Kingdom figured for 185,000,000 tons, they get fighting mad. Germany for 74,000,000 tons, Franc? itis too bad that the museum man for 25,250,000 tons, Belgium for 19,500,- was treated so badly. What do yon 1000 tons, Austria and Huargary for think his opinion of our town is? Well PHILADELPHIA, July 26.—The strike 10,250,000 tons, and the Uniied Sitates it makes no difference what the man of the carpet weavers is still on, and both sides apparently determined to hold out. A few of the smaller manu- factarers have yielded to the strikers, {but the larger mills are shut down. tons in British India.” for 170,000,000 tons. It is estinnated thinks, he did not have to charter an that 5,000,000 tons of coal were raised express car to move his ten cent pieces Jast year in Australia and Nev Zealand, that he received here. Public patron- 4,000,000 tons in Canada, and 3,000,000 age is not so heavy on such cards as it was three or four years ago and in con- | Dry goods jobbers have a fair outlook Received Their Orders. C. W. HODGKINS, » onion a Stop and look at these | for fall business; orders booked for fall = Orders were issued Satardsy by J. J. | delivery are said to exceed those of the Murphy, captain of Company H, Fifth {same time a year ago. Leather and regiment, N. G. P., to all members, in- | morocco still continue active, with a structing them to prepare for the an- | bright outlook for fall trade. * pual encampment of the Second | PITTSBURG, July 26.--The volume of brigade which will be held at Glen- | business continues large, notwithstand- | cairn Station, on, the Alleghany Valley {ing the fact of summer dullness and railroad, from Aungust 3 to 10 inchasive. i stock-taking. Every indication points J. R. Cornelins, the furniture merchant | to increased fall trade, but travelers of this place, who is quartermaster {have not yet been started except in sergeant of the Sheridan Troop, will i special lines, and no estimate can be spend the week there. formed as yet of actual conditicn of So. So. Bro. Pennebaluir. sequence the smaller towns are getting the benefit of the golden opportunity of seeing much for very little, and - very little for what is now very much. May he have better success in his next stop. , : I wonder Where the council is? - If the Board of Health is——-—? If the Fire company is to continue? If all Correspondents .copy errors, when tliey copy matter. . Moses PERKINS. "The P. and E. R. RK. : BARGAI NS. | buyers where stocks: have been held to | _ For dirty journalism tie Public immediate wants. Large supplies are Sing uo being received in the produce markets All Summer Cloth- and prices rule slow. Collections are ji I not satisfactory, which has a corres y > . An exchange speaks of the Pittsburg Spirit takes the lead. It dosn’t know ang Eastern railroad as follows: “The the first principle of conduciing a 2on- ,,nteactors on the Pittsburg and East- troversy in an honorable way. The! em rajirond are hustling for all there is i i" ‘ing reduced to 25 per cent. ‘Straw hats reduced to cost and below cost. Son tunity of getting one. ~ Men's and Boys’ jdhoes in all Prices | who bave made liberal purchases. De- i and Styles. 5A fine line of Gents : Furnishings, Etc. Percale shirts, black soft shirts at 50 cents. Light colored ones, former price 75 cents, now 50 cents. Every thing else is marked down. ‘posed of fou) names shows neither good sense nor good breeding, but what else could be expected of that Savage? counts. The iron and steel market is {active. All furnaces in operation have ‘sold up for several months to come, | and idle plants are being put in blast. { Sales have been made at higher figures " ! | than last week, and the outlook is still | Dr. C E. Belcher, of Muhsos; ex | encouraging. = - Sheriff Cook, of Centre county; John A Camping Party. | - Don’t miss the oppor-, CLEVELAND, July 26.—General trade Haires, of Snow Shoe; -(louncilman ' conditions remain . practically un- 'Wiliam A. Selts and W. E. Stutzman, | changed, and the usual midsummer Of Jersey Shore, and J. M. Robinson, | quiet prevails. Collections fair. of Patton, are camping at Bald Eagle CHIC AGO, July 26.—Dry goods job-. bridge, a few miles west of Mill Hall, bers report increased order sales and a °° the Beech Creek road, this week. — number of interior buyers here, [0k Haven Express. : The Ebensburg Fair. | liveries of fall goods are being made. The annual fair of the Ebensburg | Sales of cloth to the far west are light, | Agricultural society will be held Aug- { a8 buyers are holding off to see how ust 27, 28, 20 and 30th this year. Be- | the corn crop prospects are on the first sides the usual attractions there will { of the month before they load up with be a ten-mile bicycle race, with .a bi- goods. Shoes are selling well, but cycle for first prize and a diamond pin leather is quiet and firm. There .ié no for second. It is expected that a large let up in the demand for steel rails or number of entries will be made for billets, but orders are of small size. this race. : The feeling is strong, and mills refuse : ; : i A Correction. to take orders unless at full prices. ‘ : pi Charcoal. iron is firmer, with an in-| In the sia of the Cot ELIE of July creased demand. Light and heavy ‘18th an article appeared waich stated hardware holds strong and sales have that the eapacity of the duplex pump increased. Trade in other lines are! being put in by the Patton Water com- good for the season and prices are P2RY Was 330 gaitons ber Say. I strong. Wool receipts, 2,446,943 should have read over 350 gallons per | pounds. : hour. ; LOUISVILLE, July 26. — Advancing Grand Pienle. prices in almost all merchandise lines, A grand picnic will be held in Patton has a tendency to stimulate the buyer on Labor Day, Saturday, September to take advantage of present market, 7th, for the benefit of the St. Mary’s | which materially assists in creating a Catholic church of Patton. The place very fair volume of business, and a of holding picnic will’ be announced cheerful tone to nearly all lines of trade ‘later. Everybody is invited to attend. is noticeable. Whisky seems slowest "Council Meeting. to revive, and the question regarding | At a meeting of the borough council the suspension of the production of on Tuesday night, the street commit whisky daring the coming sesson is | {eo was. authorized to repair a sink hole being agitated. | near W. J. Donnelley’s saw mill. No KANSAS Cry, July 26.—Trade is other business of importanie was tran- quiet in all lines. Collections are fair. | sscted. hr i i $ | ponding effect in opening new ac-| act of writing editcrials com- jj, jt putween Mahaffey and Magees. There is much heavy work on this di- vison and the steam plows are shovel- ing out the dirt at an encouraging rate. The streets at Magees are being leveled ‘to get rid of the surplus dirt taken from the cut just west of town At Mahaffey a new residence was recently moved as it stood on the line of the road. It is said that the contract for the forty miles of the road from Glen Campbell to Saltsburg will be let this week. A party of Pennsylvania rail- road engineers are at work at Glen ‘Campbell running spurs into the coal ' fields there.” "The Fire Company Called Out. On Monday evening about 9:30 a pile of rubbish near “‘Billy’’ Banks man- sion was set on fire and being in close proximity to several other buildings in ‘that vicinity, the party in charge of the Pennsylvania engine which stands opposite the depot every night. became frightened and sounded an alarm by blowing the whistle. In a very short time the Patton Fire company was on the scene and soon extinguished the ‘threatening flames. It is generally supposed that the cause of the filth which was being consumed was due to the visit recently made by the Board of Health officers. Several others should follow ‘‘Brudder Banks’ ex- ample. i: : Bas: Ball. : The Hastings club came over on Saturday. but rain put a check to the game after one inning had been played. | Neither side scored a run. The boys were ail in good shape and no doubt | ' would have played a close game. The game will be played on August 3 at Patton, after which there will bea | dance given for the benefit of the base | ball club in the evening. Everybody | invited. : |saraay.™ Te ' company has notified its miners at Du- | priests of the Pittsburg diocese have Bois that they will no longer collect muiude a strong move to have the ‘the check-weighman’s pay at their breweries here closed. 7% office and a mass meeting of the miners! “For two weeks, while 450 priests . has been called for the first idle day to were in retreat at Loretto, near here, discuss the matter. | an organization move was made. The Oniy Saw the Zhotograph. secretly, and a petiti was si a by We were shown the photograph of a al) with the exception of some German little boy from Patton who has a tumor priests, to be presented to Bishop _ almost the size of his head protruding Richard Phelan next Wednesday or from his left eye, and which is con- Thursday, asking him to order the 'stantly growing larger. The photo- abolition of the breweries. It is alleged ‘graph was taken by Ernst Bruer, the that it brings discredit on the church Hastings photographer, and is a good 454 hinders its work. -one.—Hastings Tribune. It's a cold One of the priests of this city said day when the Tribune hasn't a big 154s | tamor or a cancer or something of that that 5 brewery shonld be operated i sort in stock to tell about, though they ' oirtuall | are usually successfully operated upon | protherhood of priests. - Everywhere I | by Dr. So and So.—Ebensburg Moun- | oe. in town or country, I see the sign taineer. : “St. Vincent's Beer Sold Here.” Ib Xx Good Job. makes my cheeks burn with shame to Contractor E. IL. Smale, of Lock think that the name of this saint should Haven, who had the contract for do- | 2¢ coupled with such degradation. The ing the brick work on the new school | MAOrity of our priests feel the same building at Patton completed the job WWY-’ a : ‘on Wednesday of last week. - Mr. ‘‘Bishop Phelen is noted for his con- ‘Smale is a workman of many years’ Servatism, aid he does not care about experience and his work here speaks ; making innovations. Since the brew- in the highest praise for itself. Geo. €TrYy has been in operation unopposed ‘Salmon, also of Lock Haven, who was | 80 long (although only in the last eight foreman over the crew of men for Mr. | years hus its product been put on the ‘Smale, proved himself to be an effi. | market, some priests believe he will cient mechanic, and won many friends | refuse to precipitate dissensions among { his clergy by taking sides. : . ‘The Rev. Dr. Ferdinand Ki Everything Went, chancellor of the diocese, is the nell A parody on a game of base ball was |,» 4. ,pposition. Should Bishop ' played at Carrolltown Sunday after- | py olan refuse to act, Mgr. Satoli will ‘noon between that club and Chest , appealed to. : Springs, in which the home team were | | 3 da ath [hie horove: ~ No show wag given thet “The order of St. Vincent is wealthy visiting gentlemen as the score was 9 and influential and has property in all during his stay in Patton. ‘to 8 in favor of Carrolitown. The the southern states deeded by planters heart in the eighth and ninth inning | St: Vinvent's college 10 be educated, fouls counted. Hipps, umpire for 30d Who were too poor to pay their seven innings—good; manager Car- | ‘tuition. The aggregate wealth of St. roiltown club, umpire last two innings | Y:ncent’s order is $60,000,000. rank. . Below is a telegram from Pittsburg, The Sisters of St. Joseph, although pi | . p Phelan of Pittsburg diocese urged by directors and patrons of the | or the Catholic church will this week yehioels at Gailian an. y U0 ACCEPY| receive a petition from the priests of positions as teachers in the schools and | |. 0 0 king that he take leat the Sousslinionality of ihe Garb action to close the big breweries of the bill, persistently decline to do so, 81V-| g; vincent Brotherhood at Latrobe ing as a reason that they will not violate | The priests have long regarded the a law of the State, however unjust or smoking stacks of the 1 Be. bev: unconstitutional they may regard it, | 0 oy Gisfavor. Dur g the re. and, 48 # SORyo hanes : Be whools in ‘treat at Loretto, Cambria county, these’ places w) : Wet ¥ | which came to a close last week, the teachers. matter was brought to a crisis by the de- termination that the priesthood should The Johnstown Democrat says that |DOt be tarnished any longer by the Tough on the Bird Cage. a Vintondale girl, while picking rasp- | liquor business, if their petition would berries met a bear among the briars.{2vail. The brewery of St. Vincent's ‘She turned to run and tore her dress|bas become famous, particularly in on a briar so as to expose her patent | the states of New York, Pennsylvania | wire bustle. The bear, mistaking the 8nd Ohio.” bustle for a circus cage, struck for tall : hie Wanted ‘ timber, leaving the girl without aE 4 ‘hugging until fh ik closed | Bids will be received by the Patton his store at 9 o’clock next evening. Hehool Bowed until Tuesday, August | ; mr 13th, 1886, for the furnishing of coal for Contract For Building Railroad. | Messrs. Geo. S. Good & Co. have | good quality and free from dirt, weight | been awarded a contract for buiiding | or measurment to be certified to be- | : ' forty miles of railroad between Ham. | fore settlement. The Board reserves | ton and the Welland canal, Canada. | the right to cancel contract at any | Work on the new job was begun last | time in case of dissatisfaction. ay: ‘It is a disgrace to our church y under its sanction, andbys dated July 30th, in regard to the the coming school year, coal to beof | | | 1 { HE | | i J ‘Gmo. H. CURFMAN, See. | i dap a AAR AOU i a i y oe
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