MAILS AT A DOG TROT
IT TOOK TWENTY-FOUR DAYS FROM
NEW YORK TO CINCINNATI.
Mull Service Less Thiui Sixty Years Ago.
An Interesting Account of the lilg New
York Fire of 183 ft from an Old I.otter
Written at the Time.
It is hard to believe that only fifty
•even years ago, a time within the mem-
Dry of many old residents of this city, a
letter took twenty-four days in transit
between New York and Cincinnati.
Here is a letter addressed to "Nicholas
Carroll, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio," ]>ost
marked "New York, Dec. 18," and also
marked "Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 11," the
difference between the two dates being
three weeks and a half. The letter was
afterward forwarded to New York,
"care of Messrs. Gideon Lee & Co., No.
20 Ferry street." The name of this firm
will have a familiar sound to some
leathor merchants still doing business in
"the swamp."
In addition to the interest which this
old letter has as a curiosity of the mails,
it contains the account of an eye wit
ness of the great fire of 1835. It is writ
ten upon a full sheet of foolifcap paper,
and was mailed, after the fashion of
that time, without an envelope, the ad
dress being written upon the blank
fourth page and the whole sealed with a
wafer. There is no stamp of course,
but the postoffice department has marked
it with a pen, "2P 25-50." The post
marks, in red ink, are much larger and
plainer than those of the present.
The letter is dated New York, Dec.
17, 1835. "It is with the deepest feeling
of regret," the writer says, "that I try
to give you a faint idea of the horrible
calamity that befell our city last night.
It is indeed one of the greatest disasters
that ever visited this country, or prob
ably any country since the memorable
conflagration of Moscow. Almost the
whole business part of the city is one
heap of ruins.
"About 8:45 o'clock last evening fire
was discovered breaking out in two or
three places in the stores in Pearl streot,
just below Wall street, on the sideneaf
est the exchange. There was almost a
gale blowing from the northwest, which
immediately drove the flames across
Pearl street, where they cnveloiied ten
or twelve stores, and in a few minutes
the fire was driven through to Water
street, and thence to the East river,
sparing nothing in its course on the
lower side of Wall street. The shipping
in that quarter was almost every mo
ment catching, and the tide was too low
to float them out into the river, some of
them being aground.
"The fire continued to drive on to
ward the Battery, enveloping the ex
change and making steady progress
down toward Old slip and to William
street, sweeping everything in its way
to a level with the ground. It then ex
tended through Exchange place to Wil
liam street, up William to Wall on both
sides, then through the South Dutch
church, taking the whole block below
through to Broad street, except the
stores fronting on Broad streot. You
can now imagine the whole space from
the block fronting on Broad street down
to the East river one broad sheot of fire
and rapidly moving down to the Bat
tery. The engines had long since given
up all hope of doing anything; it was
utterly out of their power, as the hose
froze as fast as it was filled up.
"I was on the spot a few minutes after
the fire broke out and staid till about
7:30 this morning, helping, as much as 1
was able, my friends to move their own
and their employees' books and valua
bles. It was a bitter cold night, and
this morning you can perhaps imagine
my feelings, but you cannot my looks.
It is now 12 o'clock and 1 have not been
from the stove since I came from the
fire, but I hear that it is raging almost
as much as ever and has burned up
everything this side of Coenties slip.
"Dec. 18—Your letter remained un
finished yesterday, as I thought it weuld
be useless to attempt to mail it in the
confusion necessarily attendant upon
the removal of the postoffice. They
saved everything, I believe, connected
with that department, and are now
under the custom house. The lire is got
under and has not reached below Coen
ties slip. They stopped its further pro
gress in Pearl street by blowing up one
or two stores in Pearl street on the
corner of Coenties slip, where, you will
recollect, the slip is narrow and there
was danger of the fire reaching across.
Among our acquaintances burned out
are Cheesebrough, lost all his clothes,
saved $15,000 out of $70,000; D. Stouton
burgh, John Birdsall, etc. People are
more cool today, and say the loss is be
tween $30,000,000 and $50,000,000."
"The case now stands thus: Begin on
the lower side of Coffee House slip and
come up Wall street to William, thence
diagonally back of the Phoenix bank to
the stores fronting on Broad street; then
it has made a clean sweep within this
circle to the East river down to Coenties
slip, where it is now burning. Every
thing within this is destroyed—the ex
change, postoffice, A. Tappan & Co.—
everything is gone. Everybody wears a
gloomy face this morning, and with
reason. Some of the effects will be the
failnre of all fire insurance companies
in the city, and people coming in while
I am writing say that at least half u f the
merchants in New York must fail, and
half the lianks. In short, there is no
end to the misery that will be produced.
The loss at the present time is variously
estimated at from $50,000,000 to SIOO,-
000,000 in goods and property. The cause
of the Are has not been ascertained."
People were not cool enough even on
the second day to reach rational figures,
for the loss by the great fire of 1835 was
afterward computed at $18,000,000. The
houses and stores destroyed numbered
648. There was no Croton water then
to fight fire with. The Croton system
had be en determined upon a year before,
but it was not opened till 18-12. The
first transatlantic steamship entered the
harbor six years later, in 1841, and in
that year the first telegraph line was es
tablished. The writer of this interest
ing reminder of a half century ago was
Edwin It. Treauin.- New York Times.)
l'tillcd Out of IIIh float by m Fifth.
I am more and more convinced that it
is not wise on all occasions to question
a tall fish story—a story that on its face
seems, to put it mildly, very improba
ble. Thomas Jefferson, of Stillwater,
N. Y., was fishing in the Hudson river
and returned home wet to the skin and
said that he hooked a big fish which
pulled him into the water from the boat,
and very promptly the man with the
historic name was classed as an A1 fish
liar. A day or two ago a pike of twenty
peven pounds weight was found dead or
dying in the river, and in its mouth was
found Thomas Jefferson's spoon hook,
and attached to his hook was his line.
The fisherman had told the truth. He
was standing up in his boat and the fish
caught him off his balance and pulled
him in.
I personally knew of a fishing com
panion being pulled into tlie water in
something the same way by a lake trout
of less than half the weight of the pike.
The angler hooked the fish and at
tempted to stand up in the boat. He
was cold and cramped from sitting and
the lake was rough, and over he went.
The funny part of it was that his boat
man, who was looking ahead, did not
see him go overboard, nor did he hear
him. The boat felt lighter and, looking
around, the oarsman found himself alone
in the boat and it was more than a mile
to shore. The boat was backed up and
the angler caught the gunwale with one
hand and clung to his rod with the
other, and fish and fisherman were both
saved.—Forest and Stream.
Erneet Kenan.
An enchanting and multiform artist
in ideas, a curious mind implanted in an
amorphous body, M. Renan offers in his
writings a brilliant monument of con
crete skepticism and a complete exposi
tion and apology of that dilettanteism
which is certainly ravaging the intellec
tual classes of modern Prance. We say
"ravaging" intentionally, because great
and exquisite as may be the joys procured
by dilettanteism, they are of a noncre
ative and unvirile kind. Indeed, if we
had not imposed upon ourselves the im
personal attitude of the compiler of an
inventory we should be tempted to call
attention to the harmony of M. Renan's
physical and intellectual personality,
and to compare that great shapeless
body to some huge polype or anemone,
floating helplessly in the sea of proba
bilities, rising or sinking, inclining to
the right or to the left, as instinct, or a
ray of sunlight, or the hazards of a cur
rent may inspire; hut in any case merely
floating and otherwise incapable of
choosing a direction and following it.
So M. Renan's mind, thanks to multi
form appreciation combined with vast
inattention, is amused and fascinated by
the many sidedness of phemomena. It
sees at once ten or twenty phases, and
being incapable of the effort necessary
to decide which is the best, it sinks back
into the joys of submarine mirage, and ]
reflects tho beauty of things on its poly
chrome facets that have the prismatic
and illusory charm of sea flowers.—The
odore Child in Harper's.
When Muu Was In Darkness.
Man was once in comparative dark
ness when the sun went down. His
primitive habitation was a place of rest,
unlighted by tho oil which prolongs the
hours of labor, doubles the speed of
progress and shortens life. After ages
of groping about—feeling for the key
hole on tho wrong side of the door, so to
speak—he stumbled on the fact that fat
would make a light. Looking around
for something to hold the fat the skulls
of animals wero found useful, and so
the antediluvian discovered the princi
ple of portable illumination.
From skulls and seashells light pro
ceeded to vessels of burned clay, dish
like, with wicks of flax, rushes and
other fibers. Many of these primitive
lamps have been found in the ruins of
Pompeii, Herculaneum and elsewhere,
but the invention of the lamp is sup
posed to belong to the ancient East In
dians. Until the beginning of the Nine
teenth century there was little im
provement in lamps. Tho candle kept
humanity in seinidarkncss, which was
relieved by the introduction of mineral
oil, which stimulated invention and
brought about the lamp of beauty and
utility of the present. Mechanical
News.
The Six© of the Gulf Stream.
| People think the Mississippi a great
stream, and it is so in truth, so far as
land rivers go, but great as it is it would
i require 2,000 such rivers to make one
i Gulf Stream. The great ocean river is
an irresistible flood of water, running
i all the time, winter and summer, and
year after year. It is as difficult for the
mind to grasp its immensity as it is to
I realize the distance of the nearest stars.
I At its narrowest part in the Straits of
Florida it is thirty-nine miles wide, has
an average depth of 2,000 feet and a
velocity at the axis—the point of fastest
flow—of from three to more than five
miles per hour. To Bay that the volume
j in one hour's flow past Cape Florida is
00,000,000,000 tons in weight does not
' convey much to the mind. If we could
evaporate this one hour's flow of water
and distribute the remaining salt to the
: inhabitants of the United States, every
man, woman and child would receive
nearly sixty pounds.—Detroit Free Press.
Oscar Wilde's Little Joke.
Oscar Wilde does not appear to have
lost his nimble wit. At a dinner party
in London the other night the coffee had
been sipped and the men were becoming
weary of the tardiness in bringing on
the cigarettes. Suddenly some one re
marked that a lamp was smoking.
"Happy lamp!" exclaimed Oscar, and
the hostess took the hint.—Excliange,
A C'lumUigger's Earnings.
The Cliincoteague clumdigger works
during the greater part of the year, and
a very spry man in a spot where clams
are thick can tread out a great many
hundred in a day. Clams fetch from 11
to $1.50 per l,oooat Chincoteague, which
hems a great deal for the money when
one thinks of clam chowder at a fash
tliable restaurant.—New Vork Bnn.
WITH A SCARAB TO A FRIEND.
Day by day, and milo by tnile,
AH I journeyed up the Nile,
Pen In hand.
Taking Hketchcs, making notes
Of temples, tourists, lioHts,
Palms and sand;
Labyrinthine tombs exploring,
Climbing pyramids, adoring
Gods of old;
"Anteekah" hunting, trying
My 'prentice hand at buying,
licing "sold;'*
In tho midst of these excursions,
"Fantasias" and diversions
Without end,
I bought a tluy scarab
One morning from an Arab
For my friend.
It was once the sacred token
Of eternity unbroken
And divine.
Some long vanished priest or king,
Lord or lady, owned the thing—
Now 'tis thine.
—Amelia B. Edwards.
TEMPORARY HOBBIES.
The Instinct in Human Nature That
Finds Expression in Fads.
A fad is described in the dictionaries
as a "trivial fancy, adopted and pursued
for a time with irrational zeal." There
is always a strong desire among certain
people to take up some fad or other that
shall distinguish them from ottier peo
ple. They are usually intelligent, hut
have more or less a spice of the crank
In their temperiuueut and disposition.
They want to he and to do something
that separates them from the great mass
of humanity. Sometimes this is accom
plished with the aid of accident, as of
birth or of training, as of a religious creed
or of nature, when a woman is hand
some or a man particularly good look
ing. But these latter are minor and in
dividual affectations. Where such per
sonal advantages fail there is still
another mode of keeping up a discrimi
nation from the multitude of people. It
is to cultivate a fad. The mildest form
of it is exhibited among moil and wom
en in cultivating a passion for cats and
dogs.
There is a harmless class who collect
old books, rare engravings, first folio
Shakespeares, coins and token pieces,
scarce sets or parts of sets of china or
old yellow lace. These are all quiet
folks with hobbies, and we can leave
them alone, quite confident that they
are wedded to their idols and will never
bo a disturbing force. Most of them are
secretive and hide their weakness from
the profane crowd. Only the elect of
the same taste are invited to look upon
them. There is another intelligent,
more numerous and noisier set who are
bitten with a literary fad. These have
piped at social gatherings and in the
market places since the time when
France originated the Precieusos and
English daines raved over the woes of
Clarissa Harlowe and German women
shed buckets of tears over the sorrows
of Werther. Tho two latest fads are of
Boston origin. There was originated
tho first Browning society, and when "A
Doll's House" was translated they set
the hall rolling toward "an Ibsen craze."
It is a pity that the last ever became a
fad, for apart from Ibsen's social theo
ries, his woman's rights notions and his
leveling principles generally he is a
strong writer and a master of romantic
expressions. As a fad, however, Ibsen
lias run his course, and his followers are
looking out for some other literary
heroes to nurse. Maeterlinck,' 'the Dutch
Shakespeare," has been tried, but on ac
count of the merely suggestive and
ghastly character of his plays he has
failed to materialize. His best subjects
aro disagreeable—the vaguo terror of
death in the midst of a group of the
blind, or his unseen hut felt presence in
an assombled household. The emotions
they canse are "creepy," and will not
boar to be talked about in a club, and
they entirely escape the clumsy hands
of a public lecturer.
There are two literary fads remaining,
but lxjth are English and one is a re
vival. Those who keep the stage at
present before select audiences are
George Meredith and George Borrow.
The reign of George Meredith is endan
gered because he still lives and writes,
and there is grave doubt whether he
will keep himself alive with other
"Ohloes" and "Egoists" or kill himself
off with a succession of "Tragic Come
dians." But Borrow, fortunately for
his admirers and his fame, is dead.—
Baltimore bun.
The Wends.
In outward appearance the Wends are
throughout a powerful, healthy and
muscular raco, whose men are coveted
for the conscription. The first Na
poleon's famous "Bouchers Saxons"—
the Saxon dragoons—were nearly all
Wends. And in the present day it is
the Wends who contribute the lion's
share of recruits to the Saxon household
regiments. Their women are prized
throughout Germany as nurses. They
are all well built, well shaped, rich In
muscle and nimble in motion, liko tho
Lacedaemonian women of old. Next
to stature, the most distinctive external
feature of tho race is their national
dress, which, its in most similar cases,
survives longest and in its most charac
teristic form among women. As be
tween different districts it varies very
markedly, hut throughout It has some
common features.—Fortnightly Review.
An Oild Turkish Superstition.
Au odd Turkish superstition is as fol
lows: If one finds a piece of bread lying
upon the ground he must pick it up, kiss
it and carry it until he finds a hole into
which the kiss can be inserted. To step
upon a piece of bread or to leave it lying
upon the ground is one of the unpardon
able sins and dooms the offender to the
third hell, where ho is perpetually gored
by an ox that has but a single horn, that
in the center of his forehead.—St. Louis
Republic.
Seashells for Cooking Ctensils.
It is not generally known that large
numbers of seashells are imported from
tropical countries every year for cook
ing utensils. These shells are used
largely in the hotels and restaurants as
baking receptacles for lobsters and crabs.
—Philadelphia Times.
DRIFTON ITEMS.
Miss Maggie C'arr lias returned to
West Chester Normal school to resume
her studies.
Willie Kissel, a lad who is employed
as an errand boy in the main oilice, is
lying dangerously ill at his home in No.
Frank Welliver and Henry Miller
were on a fishing trip to the Lehigh
river last week.
Work was suspended at all the mines
on Saturday.
Miss Hannah Gallagher, of Philadel
phia, is here spending a few days with
her sister, Mrs. John Curran.
W. E. Davis buried a child in the
Freeland cemetery yesterday. This is
the eighth of the family that has died.
Miss Katie Kennedy is on the sick list
for the past week.
A partial examination of the D. S. &
S. trainsmen was held on Saturday. It
will bo continued at every opportunity
until all the boys are examined. So far
they have all stood the test successfully.
John Sullivan, of Philadelphia, is
among the many people visiting here.
Henry Hartig removed his family
from here to Freeland last week.
The member of the Fearnot base ball
club are making preparations to hold a
picnic in the park on the 17th. It
should be well patronized, as the boys
worked hard all summer to represent
the town creditably.
The delegate election passed oft very
quietly here on Saturday, but as usual j
the healers were out in full uniform |
doing the forbbiden act. This was to be j
expected, and indeed if it was otherwise i
it would be something out of the general j
order. Authority is dreaded as much
here at a delegation election as if it was I
for president. Of course, the bosses (
don't have any hand in stich small
affairs. No, not them. It's forbbiden.
Frank Brogan and Joseph Gallagher
left this morning for West Chester Nor
mal school.
Miss Jane Lambert, of Shenandoah, is
spending a few days here with friends.
The Misses McGlynn, of Bristol, are
visiting relatives in town.
Mr. and Mrs. John Curran buried a
thirteen month old child last week.
Mrs. E. J. Sweeney returned from
Wilkes-Barre, where she was visiting
friends.
UPPER LEHIGH NOTES.
A large number of our young people
attended the Odd Fellows' excursion to
Mountain Park on Saturday. They re
port a good time.
A child of Wm. Mellon's is lying very
ill at present.
Bernard Heeney, of Jersey City, is
spending a few days with his parents
here.
Our young men have quit driving to
Lattimer of late. Lansford and Maueh
Chunk are all the rage since the fire
men's excursion.
Pat O'Noil has the finest stock of brush
dogs in the county. The breed is known
as the Boner's.
Daniel J. Ferry is looking happy these
days. It's a boy.
A german was held at the residence
of Miss Gertrude Kemmerer last week.
Many visitors were in attendance.
Miss Mary O'Donnell, of Hazleton, is
visiting her parents here for a few days.
"German" says that shoemakers
should charge for shoes by the pair, and
not for the quantity of leather that they
have in them. We feel for Johnny.
Mrs. John McCauley, of Eckley, is
nursing her daughter, Mrs. D. J. Ferry,
who is lying ill.
Andrew Sheemen, a Hungarian, was
married here on Saturday. A grand
wedding followed in the evening, in
which many of our boys took part.
Geo. McGee was elected to attend the
Democratic county convention in Wilkes-
Barre.
Quite a number of our boys lost their
tin at the Jones-Landmesser battle on
Saturday night.
P. B. Ferry will take a short trip to
Ireland in the near future.
Jas. Welsh, Jr., of Patterson, Schuyl
kill county, made a trip here on Satur
day to visit his parents.
Some of the small boys made a raid
on an ice cream freezer at the party held
here last week. The guilty ones have
been ferreted out and suspended from
the breaker, where they work, for two
weeks.
JEDDO NEWS.
The company is having a lame addi
tion built to the office here- This was
needed badly, as the place was entirely
too small.
Ambrose Harkins, of this place, had
the misfortune to have some of his fin
gers amputated at Bochester, N. Y., last
week. Ho got them caught while coup
ling cars.
P. D. Gallagher has been laid up with
a very sore eye for several days last
week.
Barney Ileeney, a former resident of
this place, was here last week spending
a few days.
Miss Annie Johnson, one of our popu
lar young ladies, is visiting friends in
Kumrait Hill.
John Dwyer, of Mt. Scenery Hotel,
and Wm. Walters were in town on a
political tour on Saturday.
Miss Maggie Burns of Hazleton, spent
a few days here last week.
To-morrow will be pay day here, and
all are anxiously waiting for their mite.
Some of our boys were in Freeland
last week, and as a rule when they strike
the city, they becomeabove the ordinary
with the Freeland lassies. This was not
the case last week. After getting shook
several times, three of them came home
leading a dog by a chain. However, it
was not for the value of the dog or chain
but simply to have something home with
them. Boys if you intend to go into
this business you can have dog home
with you every night for a month, as
there is an over supply in Freeland.
On Saturday evening there was one of
most exciting delegate elections ever
held here. Orators were in abuncance
and discussed the merits of the campaign
and the various candidates with skill and
vigor. Men who were never known to
speak before took to the stump, and as
many as five speeches were going on at
the same time. A. McGill and John
Quigley were the delegates to be voted
for. McGill was out in the intere st of
McGinty and Quigley independent.
Such hustling was never seen here be
fore. The independent man won easily.
PERSONALITIES.
Hugh Shovlin, until recently an oper
ator at the Freeland station, is now at
Green's Bridge, l'hilipsburg, N. J.,
where he is operating for the Beading
system.
Attorney John D. Hayes left on Satur
day morning for Brooklyn, N. Y. He
will return on Thrsday evening.
Miss Margaret Garahen, of Honey
Brook, was here among friends on Sat
urday.
Miss Annie Carey, of Centralia, is
visiting at the residence of her friend,
Miss Bridget Carey.
Mrs. P. H. Kane, of New York City,
was visiting friends here on Saturday.
Kev. M. J. Fallihee returned on Satur
day evening from a visit to Allentown.
W. A. Slattery, of Shenandoah, is
spending a few days among friends
here.
Misses Johanna O'Brien, of Alden,
and Annie Canty, of Freeland, enjoyed
a drive around our city Friday evening.
—Nwnticoke News.
Fatal Accident at a Game.
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday
at Lansford during the progress of a
game of base ball. Thomas Donnelly, a
member of the Locustdale club, was at
the bat and Gormerly pitching for the
Lansford team. The latter threw a
strong in-curve ball, which Donnelly
misjudged and struck at it, instead of
moving out of the way. Ihe ball hit
him in the ear, knocking him to the
ground. He was hastily carried off the
field and a physician summoned, but be
fore the latter arrived the injured man
died.
A Olinker Printcr'H Proverbs.
Never send an article for publication
without giving thy name, for thy name
often secures publication of a worthless
article.
Thou shalt not rap at the door of a
printing office; for he that hcareth the
rap sneereth in his sleeve and loseth
time.
Thou shouldst never read the copy on
011 the printer's case or he may knock
thee down.
Never inquire of the editor the news;
for behold it is business to give it to thee
at the appointed time without asking
for it.
It is not right that thou sliould9t ask
him who is the author of an article, for
it is his duty to keep such things unto
himself.
When thou dost enter his office take
heed unto thyself that thou dost not look
at what may concern thee not, for that
is not meet in the sight of good breed
ing.
Neither examine thou the proof sheet,
for it is not ready to meet thine eye,
I that thou mayest understand.
Prefer thine own town papers to any
other, and if thou hast not already done
so, subscribe for them immediately.
Pay for them in advance and it shall
be well with thee and thine.
The Pennsylvania state fair will be
held in Scranton, in conjunction with
the Lackawanna county fair, on Septem
ber 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Premiums
amounting to SIO,OOO have been offered
in the various departments and in speed
purses.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria."
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she hod Children, she gave them Castoria.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
JjXiU CONGRESS—
JOSEPH J. McGINTY,
of Wilkos-llarrc.
Subject to the decision of the Democratic
Nominating Convention.
TTX)R SALE.—Two lots situated on east side
J? of Washington street, between Luzerne
and Carbon streets, Five Points. Apply to
Patrick McFaddcn, Eckley, or T. A. liuckley,
Freeland.
SALE.—Tho undersigned will offer for
J? sale his house and lot, situate on the north
side of Front street, (next to Citizens' Hank),
lx>tween Washington and Centre streets. For
further particulars apply on the premises to
Neal McNeils, Freeland.
IOST.— From the residence of the under-
J signed, at No. 3 Upper Lehigh, a ml cow
(fresh), with white Bix>t on her head, left horn
broken on tip and wliite tail. A liberal reward
will be paid for her return to John Curney,
House No. BT>, No. 3 Upper Lehigh.
I7TARM FOK SALE.—A line farm containing
J? 102 acres of land, f>o of which are clear;
house, 20x20 feet; kitchen, 12x16 feet: barn, :Kx4o
feet; line spring of water near the house. The
property is situated in Ilutlcr township, Lu
zerne county, three miles from St, John's |n>st
office. For terms apply to Reuben Flieklnger,
on the premises.
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WE NOW BEGIN
Neuburger's Annual Clearing Sale.
We will offer our entire stock, which is the largest in
this region, at prices that will astonish you. Call
early if you are looking for bargains as this sale will
last f
POK TIN DAYS ONXY
During this time we will sell goods at prices lower than
were ever before heard of.
In the Dry Goods department you can buy:
Handsome dress gingham-print calicoes, (i cents per yard; re
duced from 10 cents.
Apron gingham will be sold at 5 cents per yard.
All the leading shades in double-width cashmere, which was
sold at If) cents is now going at 10 cents per yard.
As handsome an assortment of Scotch and zephyr dress ging
hams as you have ever seen, which we sold at 20 cents, will
now go at 121 cents per yard.
Lockwood, best sheeting, we will sell at 171 cents per yard,
reducing it from 25 cents.
Fifty different shades of Bedford cord, Manchester chevron
and Henrietta cloth, which were sold at 45 cents, will now
go at 25 cents per yard.
Hosiery department quotes the following:
Men's seamless socks, 5 cents per pair.
Boys' outing cloth waists, 15 cents each.
Men's outing cloth shirts, 20 cents each.
Ladies' ribbed summer vests, 4 for 25 cents.
Ladies' chemise, 25 cents.
We have just received an elegant line of ladies' shirt waists
and will sell them from 35 cents upward.
Shoe department makes the following announcement:
We have just received a large consignment from the East,
and have not yet had time to quote prices. But we will
say that they will go at prices on which we defy competing
tion. Call and examine them.
Clothing prices are marked as follows:
We are selling boys' 40-cent knee pants at 25 cents.
Men's $1.26 pants are now going at 75 cents per pair.
Boys' blouse suits, 50 cents.
Men's $6.00 suits reduced to ¥3.00.
Men's Custom-made ¥O.OO wood-brown cassimere suits re
duced to ¥5.00.
Men's absolutely fast-color blue suits at ¥0.50; reduced from
¥IO.OO.
We have lowest marks on all goods in our lines of
Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps,
Trunks, Valises, Notions, Etc.
BARGAIN EMPORIUM!
P. 0. S. of A. Building, Freeland, Pa.
Wt Mm
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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
choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil,
selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed.
Samples sent to anyone on application.
Fishing* Tackle and
Sporting Goods.
BIRKBECK'S,
i CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.