. SlTOyU.fl WSiMi is the best j. h. v. ... wmmyl . xj$MPmmmMMm advertising medium tlli . ' county. Ili : . binolk copies, fivk cents. TOMtr4$r Apply for rates VOL.1 Bl'SINEM CARDS H. E. Emerson, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE in Drug Store on Broad Street. ' J. H. Van Etten, Attorney-at-Law, OFFICE, Brown's Building, MlLFORD, Pi KB Co., Pa. John A. Kipp, Attorney-at-Law, . OFFICE, opposite Court House, Milford, Pike Co., Pa. CHURCH DIRECTORY MILFORD. First Prrbbyterian Church, Milford j Sabbath services at 10.80 A. M. and 7. BO P. M. Sabbath school immediately after the morning service. Prayer meeting Wed nemlny at 7.8U p. M. A cordial welcome will be extended to all. Those not at tached to other churches are especially In vited. KKV. Thomas Nichols, Pastor. Church or tub Good Shepherd, Mil ford: Servtons Sunday at 10.80 A. M. and 7.80 P. M. Sunday school at 8. 00 p. M. Week-day services, Friday at 4.00P.M. Seats free. All welcome. B. S. L ARBITER, Rector, M. E. Church. Services at the M. E. Church Sundays: Preachlug at 10.80 a. m. and at 7.80 p. m. Sunday school t 8 p. m. Epworth league at 6.46 p. m. Weekly prayer meeting on Wednesdays at 7.80 p. m. Class meeting conducted by Wm. Angle on Fridays at 7.80 p. m. An earnest Invitation is extended to anyone who may desire to worshsp with us. Rev. W. R. NErr, Pastor. MATAMORAS. - Kpworth M. R. Church, Matamoras. Services every Sabbath at 10.80 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sabbath school at 8.80. C. E. meeting Monday evening at 7.80. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7.80. Everyone welcome. Rev. F. L. Rounds, Pastor. Hope Evangelical Church, Mata moras, Pa. Services next Sunday as follows : Preaching at 10.80 a. m. and 7 p. ra. Sun day sohool at 8 p. m. Junior C. E. before and C. K. prayer meeting after the even ing servtoe. Mid-week prayer meeting very Wednesday .evening at 7.80. Seats free. A oordtal welcome to all. Come. Rev. J. A. Wieoand, Pastor. Secret Societies. Milford Lodge, No. 844, T. te A. M.: Lodge meets Wednesdays on or before Full Moon at the SawkiU House, Milford, Pa. N. Emery, Jr., Secretary. Milford. J. H. Van Etten, W. M., Milfori, Pa. Van Deb Marc Lodge, Mo. 888. L O. O. F: Meets every Thursday evening at 7.80 p. in., Brown's Building. Geo. Dau man, Jr., Seo'y. John I Gourlay, N. O. Prudknce Rebkkah Ixi doe, 197. I. O. O. F. Meets every second and fourth Fri days In each mouth in Odd Fellows' Hall, Brown's building. Mist Minnie Beck, N. O. Katie Klein, Seo'y. Advertise in the Press. leyeleel layelMl! I wish to announce to the people of Milford And vicinity that any orders for Rambler, Iyer Johnson or Ideal bicycles can be left with me and will be promptly filled by P. C. Bond, agent at Port Jervis, Bicy cles, from $45 up to $100. I have one at this office and will cheerfully show it at any time. The Post office department at Port Jervis adopted this wheel and took eight of them for carriers and messengers and they require a first class wheel for their work. Call and see me. yours respectfully, W. F. Kimball. iKserttst Is Pensioners. . Captain George W. Skinner, pen sion agent at Pittsburg, has sent out the following circular : "By an act of Congress approved March 23, 1898, section No. 4784 R. S.,'TJ. 8., has been repealed. The act repealing said section abolishes personal payments of every charac ter, and revokes the authority of pension agents and of clerks desig nated by them for the purpose to administer oaths in the execution of any pension voucher, either at the agency or elsewhere. It is operative immediately, and will be strictly en forced. A pension check cannot on der anv circumstance, be delivered to a pensioner, except by mail. 'The Justice of the Peace and Al dermen who execute the pension vouchers, must have a certificate of their official character on file at the pension agency, and the notaries public must use their official seal on the vouchers they execute. Atten tion i called to the fact that the tiension certificate must In every In stance be exhibited to the officiating magistrate. f THE PORT JERVI8 HOSPITAL ftargaons and Physicians n Chargs and Treatment of Cases. The Press has received a hand some little brochure sent out by the Port Jervis Hospital, " An Associa tion of Physicians for Mutual Bene fit, a Corporation for General Hos pital Purposes." The following compose the staff : Drs. Cnddeback, Swartwout, Med rtck, Banks and Skinner, of Port Jervis, Carpenter, of New York, Wenner and Emerson, of Milford, Birdsall, of Susquehanna, Johnston, of Shohola, Pa., Crocker, of Nar rowsburg, Cole, of Hainesville, N. J., Mc Williams, of Monticello, and Writer.of Otisville, N. Y., Miss Kate Sheehan is matron and W. It. Hall, druggist. It was established Jan. 1, 1889 by J. H. Hunt since deceased. There have been treated 1,012 pa tients. Tables are given showing the various forms of diseases treated and the results. In regard to the 28 cases of alco holism treated, all being classed as extreme, 14 are permenontly cured, 13 have relapsed after periods rang ing from one month to one year, and one died before the treatment was fairly begun. Of the nine morphine cases,8 have remained permanently cured. A training school for nurses is also es tablished In connection with the hospitol. Three hundred dollars endows a bed for one year, and five thousand dollars entitles any per son or association to have a patient constantly at the hospital. House to 1st. Furnished house to let, on Har ford street, Milford, seven rooms and bathroom. Address Charles Weir, 16 Charles St., New York. 3t Pike's Holiflouo Orienlittlons. A correspondent of the Gazette writes in regard to Pike county that she has 23 religious organizations with 22 churches and halls, proper ty of tho value of $61,160 and 1.28- 9 communicants or members, classed follows: Roman Catholio 260, Methodist Episcopal 444, Reformed church in America 108, Presbyteri an 80, Protestant Episcopal 60, Bap tist 22, and Methodist Protestant 15. The per cent of church members to the population is about 14. In Sus sex county, N. J., 33.42 and in Sul lvian 24. Pike's religious organizations should be up and doing. Adjourns Court. Court convened April 20. All the Judges being present. Beaver Run Hunting and Fishing Club application to amend charter to increase the capital stook from $7,000 to $9,000. G. T. Williams licensed as a how- ker and pedler for one year, to tra vel with one horse and wagon. Reasons for new trial In the case of Bridget Sheriden vs. The town ship of Palmyra having been filed, application made and rule granted to show cause why a new trial shall not be granted. Returnable to next term. No jury term for June. Court rose. New stock of girls and boys latest style straw hats at Rynian & Wells. Plenty ol Fruit. If the old fashioned weather pro phets prove true, the coming sum mer will see a most proliflo yield of fruit. According to popular theory, if the sun shines bright on St. Pat rick's Day, as it did this yaar, there is a large harvest of fruit and the people who have watched and noted the conditions in a period of fifty years say it holds good. It is to be hoped so, for a good fruit crop, what' ever else goes wrong, usually means a fair amount of prosperity. A Lackf Escioe Froa Death. Rusling Dewitt, while shingling on the roof of Brown's new building last Wednesday afternoon, slipped and fell 6 feet when he caught on supiKrt and saved himself. He is badly shaken np and his body sev erelv bruised. The building U 30 feet high. Sketch of Re. Peter Kanouse. In the Historica 1 Memorial of the Presbyterian church, of Succasunna, N. J., is the following character sketch written by Rev. Dr. J. F. Tut tie, of Rockaway, N. J., Rev. Peter Kanouse was fourth pastor of this He was tho son of Jacob Kanouse, church who was born in Wittenberg, Germany, and Mary Pierre Kanouse it descendant of the Hugenota in the .south of France and was born Aug. 20 1784, In Rockaway Valley, Morris Co. N. J., about one mile northerly from the present city of Boonton. He died May 29, 1865 while pastor of the Presbyterian church of Deck ortown, Sussex Co. N. J., and was burled there. His early advantages for education were very limited. When Rev. Barnabas King came to Rockaway in 1806, and permanently in 1808,he found Mr. Kanouse faith fully tolling in his blacksmith shop at Rockaway Valley. Ho was an earnest christian, full of religious zeal, eloquent and attractive, eager for knowledge, ond desiring an edu cation. Rev. King encouraged all these aspirations. After the death of his wife about 1816,and tho child ren were in the care of his wife's re latives, he went to the Bloomflold Academy, then under the care of Dr. Amzi Armstrong. His educa tion classical and theological was under that great teacher. Mr. Kan ouse was a man of groat power in and out of the pulpit. His work in the Clove church, Boemerville, undinhis old age at Dockertown, attest this'. The renvois at Want age and other fields proved him to be a very remarkable minister and preacher. He was for a time in Newark, N. J., and Owego, N. Y. In person and manner he was no blo and lovable. Rev. King led hiin into the ministry, and they were ever bosom friends. His residence which he built in Succasnnna is still standing and is one of the choice lo cations in tho village. He was or dained and installed at Succasunna, Jan. 22. 1823. His labor began thsre in the summer of 1822; dismissed June 1828. The fruit of his labor was fc'iundant. ' More than fifty were added to the church in the five and one-half years of his pastorate. His wife, Mary W., united with the church at Succasunna in August 1824. He was thrice married ; first to Mary Osborn, of Rockaway Val ley, who died leaving four sons, sec ond to Mary Wolverton Bassett.Oot. 19, 1822, and his children, who grew to adult age : Elizabeth, Theodore, Ann Maria and Harriet, By his third mrrriage with Amanda De Camp he had a son, Charles A. Kan ouse, who, with much of his father s spirit, entered the ministry at an early age, and after sixteen years of devoted work in the ministry, died in Princeton, Kentucky. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Blooming Grove. H. Alfred Free man and wife to Junis J. Powell, dated June 1 1892. lots in Brook- wood, con. $50 ent'd April 17. Delaware. Cornelia Van Gor- den(widow) to John D. Heater dat ed Aug. 16 1888, 8 acres, 108 ps: con. $14 ent'd April 19. Delaware. John C. Heater et. ux, to. Harrett A. Raitt, dated Oct. 18, 1895 8. as 108ps. con. $50 ent'd April 16. Palmyra. James Milham et. al. to Sarah J. Philips dated Feb. 24 1896 lot No. 4 on Big pond con. $150 ont'd April 20. Lehman. Harriet N. Cook, to Sarah E. Walter dated Doc. 27, 1886. 6 acres con. $i50 ent'd April 20 1896. . Lehman. Sarah E. Walter and husband to Catharine Eshback dated April 20, 18 96.6 ucres con. $300 ent'd April 20, 1896. Palmyra. Andrew J. Xyce, (. ax. to Lturnham K. X n: r 1 A-; . 21 51 acres co . i ..t'J April 21. Blooming Grove and Lacks waxen. Joseph H. Thompson i Aaron K -lan dated July U 1 . I LI ", ; acres con. $1 and exchange :itVt Apull'3. SVestf.ul. Frank P. ReiVy to Robert Henry Wi.lmms, dated Apr. 30 lot 9 con. Si ent'd April 23. MILFORD, TIKE COUNTY, PA., FBI DAY, AMU 24, 1896. OBITUARY. MRS. ELIZA J. LUTES. Mrs. Eliza Jane Lutes, widow of the late Smith Lute-i. ,'lied of con sumption at the residence of her son Marcus Lutes near Unionville,1 on Tuesday April 14 nt 10 o'clock p. m. Her age was 70 years, 8 months. She was a daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Coons Hough, and one of a family of nine children, of whom only one survives : Alvah.of Port Jervis. She is al so survived by two children : Dy two children, Marcus at home, and Fannie at Milford. Pa.. The funeral services were held at the residence of Marcus Lutes last Fri day afternoon at one o'clock. Rev. Mr. Newson, of Unionville.ofllciated. Interment in Clove cemetery. MltS. SARAH SHAFER. Sarah wife of Moses Sliafer, of Delaware township, died suddenly on Sunday April 19th. She was seated at the window observing the carriages returning from the funer al of Miss Niles, when just as the last one passed, she was stricken with Apoplexy and expired. She is survived by her husband and five children, one tin infant but six weeks old. Hie family have the sympathy of the whole community and this will especially go out to the motherless littloonos, bereft of their best friend. The funeral was held Tuesday. REUEOCA MONTGOMERY NILES. Miss Niles died suddenly of apo plexy at the homo of her brother Ruport P. Niles with whom she lived in Lehman township last Friday morning April 17. She had up to this time been in her usual health, and death came without warning. She was an exomplary woman of do mestic tastes with highly cultured mind. For a number of years she has lived with hor brother who will most keenly fool her loss. She was born in New York forty seven years ago and came to this county with her parents in 1864. Surviving hor are her father Capt. Justin Niles and two brothers Pierre M. and Ru pert P. The funeral services were held in the Reformed church at Dingmans last Sunday afternoon. Rev, W. G. Mylos offlcating. SARAH ELLEN VAN ETTEN. Mrs. Sarah Ellon.widow of Hiram C. Van Etten died at her home on Broad street in Milford Saturday April 18th,of paralysis aged 62 years She was an estimable woman and her loss will be mourned by her friends and acquaintenances. Sur viving are two sons, Remy, of Mil ford, Alvah, of Port Jervis, and four daughters, Mrs. Carrie Hicky, of New York, Mrs. Martha Turner, of Milford, Mrs, Minnie Colo, of New. ark, N. J., and Evaline, of New York. The funeral was hold last Monday morning at 10 o'clock Friend after friend depart it, Who hnth not lost a friend! There 1 no union hure of hcitrts That hath not hure an end: Were this frail world our final rest, Living or dying, none we're blest. Pine Hill Firm. G. E. Hursh, proprietor. Rose comb white leghorns.eggs for hatch ing, broilers in season and dealer in poulty supplies, incubator.brooders, wire netting, roofing felt, &c, trees, plants und vines, furnished to order, Office at farm, Layton, N. J. m The lut Sole leather Tannery. The hist sole leather tannery in Wayne county, that of E. Beach & Son, at Milanville, has shut down for all the time. In 1871 Wayne produced more leather than any county in the United States, and was awarded the honor of possess. ing the largest tannery in the world that of Robertson & Co., iu Cherry Ridge. At one time Wayne county had 23 tanneries within ita bounds, em ploying hundreds of men and teams and producing over $3,000,000 worth of leather annually. Senator Quav cut the Gordian knut of the chairmanship of the State committee by accepting the position mmsell No honey without a stin,?, no rose without a thorn. Persian i'roverp High School Report. Report of Milford High School for month ending Wednesday, April 8, 1896 : Whole number in attendance, 61 : average attendance, 42. Visitors : Linda Klaer, Jemima Bull, Fred Klaer, Walter Angle, Harry Terwilliger. The following pupils were neither late nor absent during the month : Harry Armstrong, George Turner, Ernest Gehrig, Harry Boock, John Aldrich, Clarence DeH itt, Roswell Palmer, Anna May Cortright,Loui8a Klaer, Etta. Decker. Bertha Boyd, Merin Uoyd, Phebe Davis, Daisy De- Witt, Cora Htrnule, Annie Kipp. S. Albert Johnson, Teacher. Report of Primary Department of Milford schools for the month end ing April 9th ! Whole number in attendance, 52 : average attendance, 40 j percent of attendance, 81. The following are deserving of special mention for faithful and punctual attendance : Frank Gehrig, Henry Klaer, Lantie Steele, Archie Steele, Emmett Steele, Joe Latti- inore, George Heller, Ernest Kipp, Willie Wruble, Ured Kurtz, Charley Boock, Harold Armstrong, Florence Lnttimoro, Nora Degen, Myrtle Ry der, Lucy Showers, Pauline Frieh, Frances Taylor, Mabel Van Etten, Phelio bhowers. Subscribe fpr the Press. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. A. D. Brown to-day Friday at four o'clock p. m. All members are earnestly requested to be present. ITEMS Or INTEREST. The new St. Paul office building now being erected on the site of the old Herald building corner Broad way and Ann streets N. Y., will be twenty-five stories or 307 ft. high above tho pavements. Its founda tions rest on concrete beds and rol led iron beams planted in the wet sand. To prevent the enormous mass from settling unevenly.the ar chetects have introduced a system of hydraulic jacks, on which the whole building is balanced, and any side of it can be raised or lowered to maintain the proper level, and one man can do it. The safe makers have formed a new trust which now practically embraces all the manufacturers of note. It seems unneccessary to raise the price, for most people are like the boy who bought a new pock et book and had no money left to put in it. Preibytory of Hudson. At the meeting of the Presbytery of Hudson held in Hillburn Chapel, Ramapo, April 20th. Rev. Adolph Pope, of the Nyack German church was elected moderator, and Rev. R, B, Mack, of Ramapo, and Rev. Paul Marton, of Palisades, cle. rical delegates to the general assem bly and Elders Pierson, of Hilburn, and Wheeler, of Nyack, lay. A committee consisting of Rev. Chas. Beattie and Elder Hanford, of Mid- dletown ; Elder Robert Hickok, of Port Jervis ; Re v. Thomas Nichols, of Milford ; Rev. Mr. Bonner, of Flo rida, and Rev. Mr. Forsythe, of Montgomery, was appointed to in vestigate the difficulty in the Mont icello church of which Rev. Jas. A. McGown is pastor. Who it Patterson, of Paf Democrats 1 We have good men who will make solid presidential timber, such as Camibell, Ohio, Patterson, of Pennsylvania, and others. Do not let us be led into the suicidal path of a third term nomination. No matter how excel lent a man Grover Cleveland may be, the third term nomination would be a risk which our party can not afford to take the chances of, Wantage Recorder, New stock of meu's and boys sum mer caps at Kyman ec Wells. To tifl in r.hft wnvlil Vmr. Tint. it if , .- - - - v , to use it without abusing it this u me uuty wmcn we nuu ii so nam to follow. Stanley. The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed 'in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it, hir W. Temple. PERSONAL.. Thomns Sykes, of Philadelphia visited Milford this week. Judge Purdy and Honck attended adjourned court Monday, April 20. Mr. F. A. Boa del is again sojourn ing at the Dimmick House. Rev. Thos. Nichols and Elder Win. Mitchell attended the Presby tery of Hudson this week. Mr. J. Yenny. of Patterson. N. J.. came to Milford to attend the funer al of bis son Will. Mrs. Thomas Sangster returned to her home in Brooklyn, N. Y. Sun day afternoon. Miss Nellie Swejieniser is learning the milliner's trade in a Port Jervis establishment. Mrs. C. H. Van Wvelr lina return ed to Milford from Washington and j. euro sua. Mr. Garvillo. of Dinemnn town ship, lost a valuable horse last Mon day. Henry Huston. Esn.. of Newton. N. J., was last week appointed judge to succeed James F. Conklin dee'd. Mrs. Cornelius Van Etten. of Btroudsburg, is confined to her home, on Ann street, by illness. Mr. Frank Van Camnen wears n very broad smile and the cause of it is the arrival of a youutr daugh ter. Mr. William L. Bovd will this week remove his family to the Wells house on Water street. Mm. Emily Bourninun hns rented her residence, corner Harford and sixth streets, to a Brooklyn family. Harold Thornton, of New York, is visiting his brother. Charley, of this place. All his many friends are glad wj see mm. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Noves nnd daughter, Miss Ethel, returned on Saturday from New York, whore they spout a few days. We are in receipt of a conv of Smull for 1896, from Hon. Thos. J. Edge, Secretary of Agricultural for which he has our thanks. W. G. Moehrins. of Now York. died suddenly last Monday. He was a Drotiicr-in-law of Hy. T. Baker, Esq. and E. II. Noyes of Milford. Judge Houek says they are full of business having an order for 500.000 traps with which to ensnore the fes tive cimex loctularius. Thomas Stomple a prominent and wealthy citizen, of East Stroudsburg Pa., died of jwiralysis at his home April 17 aged seventy years. Emanuel CoyKendall, of Matamo ras,' who is supervisor of Westfall township, and a good one, was in Milford Wednesday. John B. Van Auken, of Delaware township, has concluded to try the peas anu oats, ana purchased a sup ply for sowing this week. Mrs. Atkinson wife of Josenh At kinson, of Hawley died a t her home Wednesday morning April 22, after a long illness. Alonzo Klein and Mark Ryder left for Pond Eddy for a visit to relatives, after which they will walk from there driving a cow. That is a way to show pluck. W. S, Ryraan, of the firm of Ry- man & Wells, has been in New York this week buying a new stock of goods. This firm keeps up to the times in quantity, quality and price. See their new "ad George H. McCarty, who with his family moved to Ashville, N. C, last fall has returned and will occupy the Frieh place in Dingman town ship ' Curleys " many friends will be glad to note his arrival. George B. Cronk, who rented the place near the bridge formerly oc cupied ny Kurtz is a practical car riage painter and will engage in that business in connection with his trucking. Edgar Van Etten goneral Superin tendent of the N. Y V. R. R. of New York, Amos Van Etten a lawyer of Kingston, N. Y. and Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Van Inwegen, of Port Jervis. were in Milford the first of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Wi'.iam Ryman n. - ..ting fi-umds u" '. relatives N. iii-'t . N. J. Mr. Uyman will uio isit Now York for the pur pose of buying goods to stock his store for the spring. The Hot Wave. The excessively warm weather which visited this country last week was unprecedented for this season of the year. It is unnecessary to say it was hot, but we want to make a record so tliat in future it may stand in cold type that thermome ters in this section registered be tween April l-'th and lath from 79 to 94 iu the shade. Whew 1 Grand display of new goods of every discriiition iust received. We can give you some of the best bar gains you ever saw. Please give us a call. Rymuu & WelU. No. 26. BRICr MENTION. Mr. Shubigof lias his- new hotel about enclosed on Water street. Mr. Christian F. Seitz, has his building ready for the-plaster. Shad fishing has begun, but so far the catch is light and the fish small Mrs. T. A. Mott is renovating her home on Broad street Carpenter Seeley has charge of the work. Mrs. M. D. Mott is building over the Smith house on Ann street pre paratory to making jt hor residence. Mrs. Van Wyck ha s the masons te work on tl foundation for the the addition tb Van Auken house. Mr. J. F. Pinchot is building up the store building adjoining Mrs. Cahill's residence. In these dull times it is due to our Borough to note th e numbers of new buildings in course of construction. This section wos visited by quite a severe hail storm last Tuesday evening, but no damage occurred from it. Arbor Day exercises will be held at the High school this afternoon. An interesting occasion is antici pated. Trailing arbutus are out in all their fragrance, but owing to the hot, dry weather are not as lieanti ful as in former years. Our genial barber, Henry Wohl brandt, will remove his shop to the coi ner of Catharine and Broad streets on Tuesday, April 28th. The Raines bill is making some very dry Sundays in New York, and it is not much moister oyer in New Jersey, hence the "personal liberty" chaps are howling. , . ' Delegates elected to the' Nfi-'- tional Convention so far are 64 6 and 1 they are assumed te stand a fo 1. lows : Reed, 96 ; McKinley, 318 : Morten, 67 ; Cullum, 12 ; Allison, 44 ; -(iuoy, 40 ; Bradley, 16 ; doubtful, 53. Baron Hirsh, the famous phil anthropistand founder of the Hirsch fund in America, died suddenly of apoplexy in Austria on Tuesday, aged 63. He was estimated to bo worth $200,000,000 and devoted largo sums to charity. A big green goods game is said to have been unearthed at Port Jervis . from which point it has been opera ted for some time past. So far the matter seems to rest on rumors and an article from the New York Jour nal of Wednesday. The enterprising firm of A. D. Brown & Son ha ve three under way and are furnishing material for two others. Their payroll is over $175 per week. George Daumann's new residence begins to show its propor tions, Mr. Daumann gives it his per sonal attention.- Two children, one a boy seven years old, named John C. Gough, and the other, a girl of eight named Mabel Blarney, traveled from Eng land alone recently on the Steamer Rhynland. Tags were sewed on their clothes giving their names and distination which was Ohio. . Judge Mestrezat, of Fayette county, has decided that a publio sohool teacher is not entitled to compensation for teaching on legal holidays. The teacher sought to recover for teaching on New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday and Good Friday, but the court entered a non-suit. The gentlemen from Centreville who took . twenty-three trout on April 13(Sunday) will probably be called upon to pay enongh for them to make the taste of them linger a long time in tho mouth. The law says twenty dollars fine, and half to the informer. What say? Pothonotary Westbrook has re ceived the commissions of the fol lowing Justices of the Peace who were elected last lebruary and whose terms of office will begin the fli-st Monday of May next. William Angle, Milford Borough ; Chus. L. Heller, Lehman : P. R. Cross, Palmyra ; P. B. Clark, Porter and H. J. Knealing, Shoholu. In Ontario county, N. Y., pota toes are so cheap that farmers are throwing them away in preference to carrying them to market. One man is burning them in his stove, and he says that once started they make a very hot, steady fire. At some country auctions potatoes sold at 2 and 3 cents a bushel, and in many instances found no takers at any price. Did you ever see the spring fev- er come on with such a rush? it al most makes one tired to see the bud s expand, and the grass grow so rapi dly. The languor of the weather is overpowering, and one can hardly resist the impulse to doff the flan nels, and roll on the grass. The children have found some arbutus, and. its delicate perfume floats to me as I write. The poet who sings of the beautiful spring during such weather as this will thrill a respon sive chord in the breast of every one who loves nature at her best. Tho I lovely spring time.
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