STATE NEWS.
The Switchback Railroad will be open j
for the season on May 16.
Over 500 carpenters threaten to strike j
at Scranton on May 2 if their demand j
for a nine-hour day is not granted.
An electric railway connecting Shick
sliinny with Huntington Mills, this
county, will probably be built this sum
mer.
The furniture store of George K.
Kocher at White Haven was badly
damaged by fire on Friday, causing a
loss of over S4OOO.
Work has been started upon the'
Stroudsburg electric railway. The road
will be two miles long, and will be oper
ated by the trolley system.
On Monday night a Hungarian was
stabbed by an unknown man while
walking along Broad Street, 1 la/.leton,
in company with his wife. No arrests,
as usual.
A number of Mt. Cnrmelites, who
went to Indian Territory to work in the
mines under the promise of receiving
good wages, returned home, thoroughly
disgusted with their treatment there.
Burgess Drinker, of Bloomsburg, is
about to have arrangements made to
compel all who refuse or are unable to
pay their fines to break stone for the
streets aud thus earn the sum they are
fined.
Investigation by the Board of Public
Instructon show that the public schools
in the mining counties of the State are
much better supported and attended, and
have longer terms, than those in the
agricultural counties.
Notices have been posted at the Le
high Valley shops in Wilkeß-Barre and
the Jersey Central shopß in Ashley sus
pending all work for the present. One
of these plants will be closed entirely by
the Reading Company.
Rev. Hugh Garvey, who has been a
number of years pastor of the Catholic
Church at Summit Hill, has resigned on
account of ill health, and is succeeded
by Rev. William F. Loughran, who had
been for many years pastor at Mahanoy
Plane.
A Mahanoy City girl named Edith
Hopkins jumped rope in order to test
her powers of endurance. She skipped
over a hundred times and shortly after
fell into a dead swoon. She is slowly
recovering from the effects of her fool
ish feat.
The twenty-second annual assembly
of the Woman'B Foreign Missionary of
the Presbyterian Church will be held in
Mauch Chunk on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of next week. It is ex
pected that between 200 and 300 ladies
will be there.
The Reading Company is negotiating
for the control of the Pennsylvania,
Poughkeepsie A Boston Railroad, which
extends from Slatington to Campbell's
Hall, N. Y. It would give the Reading
a shorter road to the New England
States from the coal regions.
Pennsylvania has now 13,767 schools
in the various counties outside of Phila
delphia, which has 2,794 more. The ap
propriation of $5,000,0(10 for the public
schools of the State for the year ending
June 6, 1892, will be divided in propor-1
tion to the respective school population.
As Hazleton usually claims for itself
the credit of everything that occurs
within ten miles of the "city" limits, it
is welcome to the notoriety it received
from the Stockton and Honey Brook
murders. The "city" and its surround
ing patches should be placed under
martial law.
I.ansford's council has been stirred up :
lately by the Record of that place, and
the councilmen imagine they are getting
even with Editor Malloy by refusing to
publish the annual financial statement. 1
The Record is the only newspaper in the ;
town, and it seems "to prosper despite
the little boycott.
While Hannah Sullivan, a young lady
living near Wilkes-Barre, was trying on I
her wedding gown, late Monday night, j
she was informed of the sudden death
of the man to whom she was to have I
been married yesterday. He was John !
Foy, a driver, and he was instantly kill- j
ed by a fall of top coal while driving {
along a gangway.
Part of the workings of the Lytle Goal
Company's colliery, seven miles from
Minersville, were flooded yesterday af-1
ternoon from an old working. It is re
ported that eight men lost their lives,
and that two others are imprisoned, 1
One of the two imprisoned men was tak
en out late last night, and the rescuers j
at last accouts were still at work.
Weekly Coal Report.
The general condition of the anthra- I
cite coal trade is good, hut large buyers
are holding off from closing contracts, I
and are only placing orders in a hand-to- j
mouth Btyle at present. The lack of full J
confidence in the new order of things,
which are not yet fully understood By
the trade, and thedesiretoawaitfurther
developments is the chief cause of the
meagre buying. Prices, however, are
being held with great persistence, no
cutting at any point from existing and
actual circulars is reported, and the >
trade is generally coming to the conclu
sion that, as the output is going to be
rigidly held down to the market require
ments, prices can and will be maintained. I
The few individual producers are follow
ing closely in the footsteps of the corpor
ations as to prices and rules named by !
the great powers. The local line and j
city trade, while quiet, is reported fair !
for the season. The recent cooler wea-I
ther has enlarged the retail demand to
some extent. The restriction of produc
tion continues. The Lehigh Valley per
mits production only three days per i
week, and the Central four days each j
week, having already overshipped their
respective quota of allotted tonnage. In 1
the Schuylkill region many unprofitable
collieries are idle, and by this means the
product of that field is being held well
in hand. An advance of 25 cents per
ton in freight to Buffalo was the only '
new feature in the trade during the past |
week.
The total amount of anthracite coal '
sent to market for the week ending
April 9, as reported by the several j
carrying companies, was 649,800 tons, 1
compared with 590,147 tons in the corres
ponding week last year, an increase of
59,653 tons. The total amount of an- I
thracite mined thus far in the year 1892
was 9,937,731 tons, compared with 9,-
000,669 tons for the same period in 1891 |
an increase of 877,062 tons .—/.edytr. I
PERSONAL.
Hugh McGill, of Highland, has se
cured employment at Wilburton, Col-
I umbia County, and went there on
I Monday.
' Miss Nellie Weldon has returned to
her home in Honey Brook, after spend
ing a few pleasant months here.
Felix McGettrick, of Olyphant, is
visiting his parents on Front Street.
Mrs. Harry Williams, of Upper Le
high, is on a visit to New York relatives.
Ralph Sweeney, of Highland, will
remove to Oneida.
Bernard McNelis, formerly of Upper
Lehigh but now of Mauch Chunk, is vis
iting old friends in this section this week.
Miss Nellie Scott left here to-day for
Philadelphia, where she will spend the
summer.
Bart. McClennan and family, of this
place, will remove to Silver Brook,
Schuylkill County.
Hugh Malloy, Jr., and Misses Katie
and Bridget Timony,- students at Scran
ton, spent Easter with their parents.
John Cannon, of Freeland, intends to
remove his family to Silver Brook, where
he has secured work.
The family of George Wagner will re
move to Mahanoy City on Monday. Mr.
Wagner will remain here for the present.
Patrick Shovlin, of Freeland, left on
Tuesday morning for Plymouth, where
he has secured employment.
Miss Julia Dolan, of Hazleton, is spend
ing a few days here with lady friends.
John Maloney, who has been located
in Alabama for some time past, is visit
ing this section again.
Bernard O'Donnell, of Villanova Col
lege, was home on a vacation over
Sunday.
Miss Maggie Lynott, of Wilkes-Barre,
is spending a few days here with friends.
Patrick D Dougherty has taken a posi
tion as driver for Horlaclier's bottling
works.
Peter Mackin had liis left leg badly
fractured by stepping from a wagon in
Drifton last week. On Monday he went
to his home in Syracuse, N. Y., where
he will remain until he recovers.
Miss Mame Wilson went on an extend
ed trip to Philadelphia to-day.
A. Rudewick left this morning for
Wiblwood, N. J., to make arrangements
for the leasing of his cottage to a gentle
man from Philadelphia,
The Republican Ticket.
The Republican State Convention met
in Harriaburg yesterday. A resolution
was adopted declaring that "the earnest
public and party services of Matthew
Stanley Quay entitle him to the thanks
and gratitude of the Republicans of
Pennsylvania." Judge John Dean, of
Blair County, was nominated for the
Supreme Judgeship on the tenth ballot.
Major Alexander McDowell, of Mercer,
ana General William Lilly, of Carbon,
were nominated for congressmen-at
large - _ ~, _
Carried a Barn on lata Bask.
p \ Matthew La Page, of "Woodhaven,
i had a small barn he wished to move to
l ! another site. He told Cyrus E. Smith.
I superintendent of the Wood haven pub
lic schools, of his plans, and explained
that it would cost him considerable to
put the building on a new foundation.
Smith laughingly offered to move the
barn for nothing. La Page ridiculed the
idea, when Smith asked to be shown the
spot to which the building was to be
carried. Upon learning this he visited
the barn, which is a shell, weighing
about 500 pounds. He rigged a number
of ropes so that he could take the weight
across his shoulders. Harncased in this
fashion, the man of muscle lifted the
barn with ease, carried it twenty-five
feet and set it easily on the new founda
tion.—New York World.
A New Mimical Instrument.
The "pedal clarionet," as it is not very
happily called, stands an octave below
the bass clarionet, and in one of its two
varieties produces the lowest note yet j
uttained by any instrument, with tho |
one exception of the organ. Its tone is
wonderfully distinct, even in its deepest j
notes, and it is far more agreeable than
that of the double bassoon, with which
|it is most closely allied in compass. It ;
has a range of three octaves. Its qnali
ties were elaborately exhibited by Mr.
Bretonneau, of the Paris opera.—Bos- |
j ton Courier.
The Green Carnation In London.
The credit of introducing the new
flower, the green carnation, to English
society has been given to Oscar Wilde.
While it is true that he wore one in his
buttonhole the evening on which his |
play, "Lady Windermere's Fan," was
first publicly enacted, it was already
known to a few leaders of fashion in
Great Britain and was becoming popu- !
; lar there without waiting for his sane- I
, tion. The green carnation had been
worn for weeks before that time on the
Paris boulevards.— New York Tribune.
Colored Statues.
Boston has a new fad. At the Mu- i
seum of Arts two statues, one the
Hermes of Praxiteles the other Venus
Genatrix, both colored in the manner of
the ancient Greek statues, are displayed.
The statues are in the colors of nature,
and the critic** are enthusiastic as to
i their beauty. The artist is Mr. Joseph
Lindon Smith.—Boston Letter.
Advance Information.
I The straw hat, with one of those wide- |
wale, whipcord-summer-weight nnlined !
suits, and a waistcoat selected to com- I
port therewith, is an aggregation that
typifies tho correct ensemble of the sum- j
mer young man either in town or doing
the piazza of the summer resort hotel.—
Clothier and Furnisher.
Mr. Dixon's Carnivorous Mule.
Mr. J. B. Dixon, of Frederick. Md.,
owns a innle that caught a calf in ita
teeth the other day and devoured it
piecemeoJ.—Cor. St. Louis Globe-Demo
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BRIEF ITEMS.
An Italian butcher shop has been open
ed in the Points.
Rheumatism is quickly cured by using
Arnica & Oil Liniment. Sold by Dr.
Schilcher.
Enma Yincent is having a large store
erected near the Polish Catholic Church
on Ridge street.
James Timony, of the Points, had his
hand badly lacerated in his father's
bottling works last week.
A delivery wagon is being built by A.
W. Washburn for the Midvalley Supply
Company, of Columbia County.
A literary society has been organized
by the young men of St. Ann's Church.
It starts out with several members.
An exchange tells its readers that
"trout can now be caught, according to
law." But Buppose the trout refuse to
bite?
William R. Jeffrey has accepted the
Freeland agency for Arnold and Krell's ,
brewery, and will commence work at ,
once.
Next Monday ground will be broken
for St. John's Nepomicky Slavonian
Catholic Church at Ridge and Luzerne
Streets.
The second anniversary of Camp 39,
Patriotic Order True Americans, will be
celebrated at the Opera House to-morrow
evening.
Said a noted man of 60 years, "my
mother gave me Downs' Elixir for coughs
and colds when I was a boy." Sold by
Dr. Schilcher.
The organization of another tribe of
the Independent Order of Red Men is
talked of by members of Machemleck
Tribe, No. 221.
George Hudockhad liis left leg broken
by a fall of rock at No. 4 Upper Lehigh
yesterday morning. He was taken to
Hazleton Hospital.
J. Neuburger has removed to the P. O.
S. of A. Building, and the storeroom in
the Birkbeck Brick will be occupied af
ter May 1 by John Smith.
Half-time does not suit the miners of
Highland, and the old residents of the
town are leaving as rapidly as they can
obtain employment elsewhere.
Mrs. Kate Griffiths, widow of the late
Richard R. Griffiths, of Upper Lehigh,
will reside after next week in Pottaville,
where she intends opening a Btore.
Condy 0, Boyle resigned the Freeland
agency of the Rochester Brewing Com
pany, and the firm's business here is
now conducted by Fred. Horlacher.
Work was commenced upon the Bethel
Baptist Church on Monday morning.
[ The structure will be two stories in
1 height, not three, as stated last week.
A cocking main of three battles, for
i SSO a side, was fought near town on Sat
r urday evening by two parties from Upper
f Lehigh. Considerable money changed
i hands over the result.
Charles Brisey and Linna Grossman,
' both of Hazleton, have been granted a
' marriage license and will be married at
St. Luke's Church to-morrow morning
by Rev. A. Beimuller.
William T. Williams, of Slatington,
and Miss Maggie Walters, of Freeland,
' will he married at the residence of the
0 bride's parents on Saturday. Rev. Allen
• J. Morton, of Kingston, will perform the
* ceremony.
C'has. H. Coswell, a Philadelphia
drummer, spent two days here this week.
Charlie says he has traveled the greater
1 portion of the U. S., but found nothing
1 to equal Freeland as an all-round wide
i awake town.
1 P. B. Cunningham, at one time a
resident of Freeland, but now living at
Allentown, was visiting friends here to
day. Mr. Cunningham is the owner of
i the property on line of the proposed ex
tention of Pine Street, which is yet un
settled by the courts.
When you are troubled with dizziness,
your appetite all gone, and you feel bad
generally, take a few doses of Dr. Henry
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters, and you will
he surprised at the improvement in your
feelings. Every bottle warranted to give
j satisfaction. Sold by Dr. Schilcher.
.
When Baby waa alck, we gave her Caetoria.'
When she waa a Child, she cried (or Caetoria.
When ahe became Misa, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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Where to Find Him!
j Patrick Carey has removed from the Ameri
can hotel to John McShea's block, 85 and 97
j Centre Street, where he can be found with a
I full line of Mcdicul Wines, Gin, Brandies, Hum,
! Old Rye and Borbon Whiskey. Any person
, who Is dry and wunts a cold, fresh, large
! schooner of beer will be satisfied by calling at
Carey's.
Good Accommodation For All.
SIX DIFFERENT KINDS OP BEER ON TAP.
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1 CURB THAT J
! Cold j,
AND STOP THAT | \
ill Cough. II
I In. H. Downs' Elixir 11
II WILL DO IT. ||
' | | Price, 25c., 50c., and SI.OO per bottle. I I
I | Warranted. Sold everywhere. I |
| . EMIT, JOHROOM I LOU, Prop.., gulllgta, Vt. I |
I Sold at Schilcher's Drug Store.
~ ill OF iil!
Having closed, cut my
entire stoclc of groceries,
in tire fu.fva.re I -will car- i 0 tj?
ry a largre and assorted.
StOCIE Of
DIY Wi SIMS;
IIIS ii 11*
Which I will sell
20 Per Cent. Below Former Prices.
To do this I will curtail all expenses and
FOR STRICTLY CASH.
j. p. MCDONALD.
South, and Centre Streets, Preeland.
tolil Readj Paj.
Flour $2.45
Chop sl.lO
Bran 55c
Ham 11c per lb
Cal. ham 8c " "
Shoulder 74c " "
English wall nuts 10c " "
Mixed nuts 10c " "
Hazle nuts 124 c " "
Chestnuts 10c " qt
Hickory nuts 8c " "
Pea nuts 5c " "
Buckwheat flour, 25 lbs for 60c
1 quart peas 5c
' 1 quart beans 8c
1 pound barley 5c
, 1 can sardines 5c
i 2 dozen boxes matches 25c
1 piece sand soap 5c
4 pounds currants 25c
, 300 clothes pins 25c
3 pounds good raisins 25c
4 pounds raisins 25c
1 pound coffee 20 and 23c
1 pound good tea 25c
5 pounds soda biscuits 25c
5 sticks stove polish 25c
3 pounds mixed cakes 25c
3 pounds coffee cakes 25c
5 pounds best sugar 25c
6 pound, rown sugar 25c
5 pounds lima beans 25c
3 pounds bologna 24c
3 cans lime 25c
3 boxes axle grease 25c
3 dozen pickles 25c
2 quarts baking molasses 25c
2 quarts best syrup 25c
3 quarts cheap syrup 25c
3 pounds corn starch 25c
3 pounds bird seed 25c
6 pounds oat meal 25c
6 pounds oat flakes 25c
1 pound hops 25c
2 packages Ivorine (with spoon in).. .25c
Muffs for 40c up to any price
you want; all have been reduc
ed to cost.
All wool blankets have been
reduced to wholesale price.
Ladies' and children's coats
for half price. Drop in and get
some of those bargains.
J. G. BERNER.
Washington House,
11 Walnut Street, above Centre.
ji. Goeppert, Trop.
The beat of Whiskies, Wines, Gin and Cigars.
Good stabling attached.
ARNOLD & KRELL'S
Beer and Porter Always on Tap.
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C. O. M. 22
50 HVC.
It has been in use for more than twenty years;
over fifty thousand patients have been treated,
and over one thousand physicians have used it,
and recommend it—a very significant fact.
It is agreeable to inhale. There is no nause
ous taste, nor after-taste, nor sickening smell.
Send for our book on Compound Oxygen, its
history, nature and results; a book of 200 pages
sent free. It contains numerous testimonials
from chronic patients and those given over by
physicians. You will also find it an interesting
book. Any substance made elsewhere, or by
any others than Drs. Starkey & Paleu, 1589 Arch
Street, and called Compound Oxygen, is spuri
ous.
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN,
1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
120 Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal.
Please mention this paper.
DANIEL J. KENNEDY,
DEAI.RR IN
FINE CIGARS AND TOBAC
CO, TEMPERANCE
DRINK, CONFEC
TIONERY,
ETC.
Centre Street, Freeland, Pa.
PENSIONS
THE DISABILITY 111 1.1. IS A LAW.
Soldiers Disabled Since the War are Entitled
Dependent widows and parents now dependent
whose sons died from effects of army service
are Included. If you wish your claim speedily
and successfully prosecuted,
" ,ld "' ss JAMES TANNER.
Late Com. of Pensions, Washington, I>. C.
Pimjh Jfßfi Bolls,
Blad- Heads,
We mnst all have new, rich blood, which
is rapidly made by that remarkable prepar
ation. Dr. LXKDBX7'S IMPBOVED BLOOD SIAEOHS2.
For the speedy cure of Scrofula, Wasting,
Mercurial Disease, Eruptions, Erysipelas,
vital decay, and every indication of inpovor- j
ished blood, Dr. Llndioy'i Blood Setroher is the I
remedy that can always be relied upon.
Druggists sell it. ' !
THE SELLERS MEDICINE CO.
PITTSBURGH PA.
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HORSEMEN
ALL KNOW THAT
Wise's Harness Store
Is still here and busi
ness on the same old principle
of good goods and low prices.
Two or three dollars for a s/ K Horse
Banket will save double its cost. Your
lorse will eat less to keep warm and be
rorth fifty dollars more.
HORSE : GOODS.
Blankets, Buffalo Robes, Har
ness, and in fact every
thing needed by
Horsemen.
Good workmanship and low
prices is my motto.
GEO. WISE,
Jeddo, and No. 35 Centre St.
REMOVED!
J. Neuburger lias removed his
large stock
ID 118 P. IS. IIA. BUILDIIG,
six buildings above his old stand.
ouuEiunrisrG-
Saturday,
April 30.
The P. O. S. of A. Band will dis
pense music.
WATCH FOR BARGAINS.
Everybody invited to attend.
J. NEUBURGER,
B. O. S. of .A.. Building-, ISTesct Boor to
DePierro Bros. Hotel, Preeland.
BUY THEaB^'CH
Geo. Chestnut, 91 Centre Street, Freeland.
Wt Aft Utiifiifltsi
And Hardware of Every Description.
REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.
We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most
. improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the
I choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil,
selling at 20, 25 and :i0 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed.
Samples sent to anyone on application.
Fishing Tackle and
Sporting Goods.
Q\RKQECK'S,
CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.