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EVERETT PRESS AND LEADER, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1889. EVERETT PRESS LEADER PUHLISHED WEEKLY liY Editors. WM. C. SMITH, AAliON GARBER, Wiped Out Br WATER, KNTERKD AT THE I'UKTOKFICB IN KVKKETT, AT SKC'OSD CLASS MAIL HATIKB.

EVERETT, DEALERS IN Termi of Publication, Tim subscription price nf the EVERETT PKKSHANli l.KADKK Is Si.50 per annum In advance. If not paid wltlilii the year 32wlll be cliargud. JOHNSTOWN SWEPT FROM THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. POWDER Memorial Day In Everett. While the crowd in Everett on Memorial Day was large there is no doubt that many were kept away by the threatening clouds.

The ceremonies were under the direction of Lieutenant Josiah Baughman, post No. 131, G. a. a. The procession consistingof the Post, with the children who'wereto perform the floral services, and the Everett Camp P.

O. S. formed on Main street about one o'clock, and inarched to the cemetery where, after being called to order by Chief Marshal, Dr, E. J. Miller the programme as announced was proceeded with.

The prayer by Rev. Baughman was appropriate and affecting as was also the music by the choir and hands. Rev. F. 8.

Forgeus was introduced, the rain which had been threatening all day began to pour down and the ceremonies were then brought to a close but not until the grazes of the fallen heroes were strewn with flowers. Ar-arrangements were made to have the address delivered in the Hall in the evening and at the appointed time the Hall was filled, and a well prepared and well delivered address was eagerly listened to. The people were expecting something good and they were not disapointed. The prayer at the Hall by Rev. Black was fervent and strong.

As our columns this week are crowd ed we must ask our readers pardon for not giving an out line of the address. The G. A. R. Post waa certainly fortunate in the selection of an orator, and although the weather seriously interfered with the programme the day waa pleasantly and profitably spent.

10,000 or 12,000 PEOPLE ARE DROWNED. Absolutely Pure. Tlita powdor never varleo. A marvel parity, Htrenifih and wbolenomenfKs. Mi economical than the nriHnhry cannot be nM In coin portion wllh the mul UtucJe of low tet, nhort weluht alum phosphate powder.

Solil only In chu Roy Ala Baking Powdkb kw wan n. Fire Then Finishes All That the Flood Left. Special Notice. We the undersigned Merchants of Everett, do agree to close our respective places of business at eight o'clock, p. each evening except Saturday evening, from June Is1 The Whole Horror an Awful Reality-Aid for the Sufferers-Thieves and Ghouls at Work Eye-Witnesses Describe the Frightful Disaster 1889, to September 1st, 1889, H.

Frank Gump, A. J. Js ycum, Williams J. T. Shkkdkii, W.

H. Howard, A. Whetston. H. H.

Laher, D. S. Gump, U. E. Gump, J.

J. Babndollab Son, Baundollar Lucas. To AVliom it 9Iay Concern. Now is the lime to prep ire for co DRY GOODS NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, WOOD AND WILLOW-WARE, TRUNKS, VALISES. FISH, SALT JC.

They have au entire new and clean stock. No old or 8ec-ond-class goods to palm off on customers. They sell only for Cash and can sell at Low Prices because they have no Vad debts to make up from paying customers. fhey Ham But One Price. This shall always be the Very Lowest possible.

They will change to suit the market, but when they change prices for one they will do so for all. They are Daily Receiving: Additions to their Slock. You have been told that they are selling goods at less than cost, when the fact is their store is FULL OF BARGAINS, offered at prices at which they can afford to sell, and at which they expect to continue to sell. They have no SQUARE AND FAIR DEALING is one of their main principles. They allow no misrepresentations el Satisfaction tantesi Sstl As To Quality To Prices.

I It will pay you to examine their goods. You can save big money by buying from tliem. No one will sell lower than they will andno one will do as well for you in the long run. You know them well enough to be certai.i that this is not idle boast; They will leave the blowing and bragging to others. They are the only agents in tow.i for the CELEBRATED "EVLTT" SHOE, which for looks and wear will give bettor satisfaction than any other shoe sold at the same price.

weather. Are you going to put in Steam or Hot Watnr Heat? If this is your intention, please rite, and get the lowest prices for first class material and work. We guarantee to please H. F. Pawling, tf.

Bedford. V. A Hero. town, and the Conemaugh and Stony creek rivers join together at the bridge, offering a reaemblatice to the "Point" by Pittsburgh, except Johnstown lies lower and is in a sort of a pocket. Now the raging current of the two rivers coming down, piled up all tbe debris right against the bridge, and in less time than it takes to tell it the river was blocked, and the water could not proceed, and therefore backed right down into the city which lies near the river and over the embankment to the Cambria iron works.

The Gautier steel department is also flooded. The main part of the town is gone, but there are many houses located on the surrounding hills." MUCH WORSE THAN KEl'OUTED. Division Operator Shaffer who viewed the wreck, on Saturday says the horrors are much worse than reported. "I can safely say without any exag-greation, that the newspapers have not nearly done justice to the matter. Why, one man can hardly comprehend the enormity of the disaster.

I have no knowledge of the number of people killed, but from all the information I could obtain, I should say that between 5,000 and 8,000 persons perished. The station agent of the company state that fully one-third of the population in the valley had been drowned. "I stood at the foot of the hill above the Johnstown bridge and looked down into the place. The whole lower part of the town was a vast lake of water, with not a vestige of a house in sight. The only houses to be seen in the town are those that are on the hillside.

"Everything has been cleaned out of the town of Woodvale. The beautiful village has almost entirely disappeared as if it had been swallowed up in an earthquake. The only thing left in the town is the large woolen mill. The houses were swept away about as easily as I could sweep a lot of checkers from a table. FAMILIES GO DOWN TOGETHER.

"It was a common sight to se large frame houses floating down the stream with the families perched upon the roofs. All at once the building would Btrike something and turnover. The family, clasping one another, would go down beneath the water, and heavy beams and all kinds of material would strike and crush the life out of them. It was an agonizing sight to see a mother clasping her babe to her breast, as both were swept beneath the torrent. "In our walk this morning from Conemaugh to Johnstown, we came upon about 50 dead bodies lying on the bank of the river.

Most of them were mutilated and bruised beyond recognition. The trees along both hanks of the stream reminded one of clothes lines. Upon every limb hung all kinds of clothing, which shook and swayed with the wind every breeze. GHASTLY OBJECTS IN THE TREES. "Between branches were thousands of household articles, such as pictures, books, shelves, etc.

While looking at them, one would imagine that he could occasiouly see the white and ghastly face of a corpse. It was a picture that could not be looKed upon without a shudder aud I never want to see it again. "It was the greatest miracle in the world that we got across the dangerous spot before the break occurred. There were five or six feet of water in the lower part the town before the flood came. It is folly to talk about getting out of the path of it.

You might as well have tried to run away and leave behind you one of our fastest passenger trains. The people who tried to get out of the way were picked up like corks in a guttor and dashed head downward in the current. The water was so swift that the majority of them would be lifeless if they rose to the surface. CRUSHED TO IKATH AFTER FLOATING 68 MILES IN HIS OWX HOUSE. A house was seen floating down the Kiskiminetus yesterday, near the intersection with the Allegheny.

In an upper window was a man quietly trusting to fate. The house swept down and crashed against the railroad bridge at the intersection, and with it the man, who was seen no more. WIFE AND CHILD DROWNED. Justopposite Lacolle a man, his wife and child clung to a tree all night lone In the morning the people on the other side called to them to hang on and they would rescue them. When the water had fallen a little the man dropped down from his positien.

In assisting his wife and child they stepped on the same debris, which gave way beneath them, and they were rushed out to the door. I saw people the water ahead of me and ail around me. Many of them were struck by the crashing timbers and killed outright. They were so badly hurt that they fell into the water and drowned at once. SAVED FROM THE WRECK, JiiBt before dark people living on the north bank of the Conemaugh, opposite Bolivar Junction noticed a lad clinging to log that the force of the current had carried over in the rivel- nearest to them, and James Curry conceived the idea of lassoing him.

A long line was hastily procured, and a man ran along ttie bank, ready to throw his rude lasso in an opportune moment. The noose fell true to its aim, over the boy's head and under his nrnn, and the feat was greeted by cheers from a hundred throats, and in a moment the drenched, poverty-stricken little fellow was hauled to the bank, and for a minute was not a diminutive, but a real great big hero. Motherly hands soon took him from the men who were almost devouring him, and soon warm food and dry clothing hiid restored him to his wonted composure. M. OTT'S EXPERIENCE.

Mr. M. Ott who visited Johnstown says Frank Howard and I left Everett on Saturday evening about seven O'clock. We drove to Stoystown and took the train and arrived in Johnstown about 10, o'clock. We climbed cars and debris for half a mile to reach the city, and had proceeded about one hundred yards when Mr.

Howard aud I were both made as happy as men could be in such circumstances by meeting Mr. Howard's sister Mrs. Appel. After hearing her experience we tried to reach Mr. Appel who was about half a mile distant, but being unable to reach him we concluded to have some dinner and were furnished an excellent meal for fifty cents, thus showing that the citizens there even in the midst of their calamity had no intention of impos ng upon strangers, although from reliable imformation I learned that some parties outside the city were charging fifty cents for a single cup of coffee.

After dinner we again tried to reach Mr. Appel's place and found on getting there that he had gone to We waited a little until after two o'clock and then met him whom many of his friends here thought to have perished. The four wails of Mr. Appel's house were spread out leaving nothing but the partitions and roof standing, but it was expected to fall at any time. Main street was entirely blocked up by debris and underneath it was a train of cais.

On Washington st eet all the houses Viet ween street aud tiie P. R. R. except two and a portion of the company store are gone. The Gautier milt is entirely swept away.

Wherever there were houses enough left to mark the location of a street I found them all filled up by the debris. In the fourth ward in one room I saw forty dead bodies of women aud children. I did not careto seeany more. Many of the bodies were terribly mutilated. MRS.

A STORY. We had the p'eisure of an interview with Mrs. Appel at her fthr's residence on Tuesday rning. She givs a thrilling account of fie disaster and their escape. Mrs.

Appel says that before nunn the waters rose so high that her husband carried hr to the McMillan building opposi'e their dwelling and returned on a raft tn is own The McMillan building was a larsre substantial dwellinc. About four o'clock while id the back part of the McMillan buildiDg I heard a roar, and saw a big iron bridne and boiler and houses come rushing down towards us, so ne one cried, "we are all lost, run for the third story," We did so. I smarted to go the back stairs when we were tnld to go the front stairs, which we all did but one boy who went the back way. The flood struck the house and carded off the one end and the ty with H. Our part of the-ioue remained and the wa'ers rose to the third story.

Mr. Appel looked oyer to m- and beckoned to me good bye, expecting the nex-minute to be carried off by th avalanche of waters. He was then on the roof of the porch. A large tree then drifted by and hs caught hold of it and threw hirose'f upon the roof of the house. After while the smoke stack of the Gautier wire works floated to the buildiDg and lodged among fallen tre-s and lumber and he got on it aud wa king on it and other drift that had lodged there managed to cliinb along on it to our houe where with a board we raised him into the third story where we were.

Several others from the same tenement building were pulled up by us at the Mart Hartzell, of Somerset county saved twenty-one lives by fastening rope to his body and swimming intojtl: debris at the "bridge of death," au his gum coat was torn to shreads by the clinging of the rescued to hini. One poor fellow tried to assist him and drowned. Two Papers For The To every new subscriber to tl KVKRKTT PRKSS AND LtiADER aCCOITl FLOOD NOTES. Mrs. Harry B.

Aaron, of Loysburg, a daughter of Jacob Furry, and her little daughter were among the Johnstown victims. Their remains were recovered and brought to Bedford and taken to an undertaker to be prepared for burial. They were taken to Loys-bueg on Monday aud burried there on Tuesday. Over one thousand persons attended the last sad sites. Mrs.

P. G. Reinhold and daughter and Mrs. F. H.

Nicodemua, of Johnstown, came to Everett on the first train Monday evening. They were on their way to friends, the former, at Lancaster, and the latter, Huntingdon. They are stopping with Mr. Ma-son Howard. Everett was wide awake on Monday morning and all hands went to work cleaning streets and cellars.

No official action was needed in the matter as Everett's citizens are not composed of that class who do nothing for the town unless compelled to do it, There bd been no mails from the east up to Thursday since last Friday. On Tuesday, mail came from Pittsburgh by the B. O. As early at-- Saturday evening tbe B. O.

opened thoir route to Johnstown and Pittsburgh. No railroad eonmunication was estab-lised east before Wednesday and the B. (t O. expected to have trains ruu-nt-'ng by Tbursda3' by way of Hagers-town to Harrisburg. The only way of communicating by telegraph between the railroad officials at Altooua and Philadelphia was by telephone to Bed-fore from Altoona and there by the Western Union to Philadelphia.

These offices were open all Saturday and Sunday nights. Money is being liberally subscribed all over the United States for the Johnstown sufferers. No news has been received frn'n William Cornell, son of Daniel Cornell of Clearville, arid family and sister Ella. They lived in Join sto and it is feared they perished in the flood. He wasmanied to a daughter of Is ael Koontz of lledfoid.

Two latlies who were daughters of Daniel Barley, and their husbands ere drowned in Johnstown. A daughter and son-in-law of the late William Bai ul'out were aiso drowned. imnied bv $1.50 the cash price, will send tiie Philadelphia Weekly Press tor one year free. To every old subscriber in arrears who will pav to Junel. 1890.

will send the Philadelphia Weekly Press one year tree, ims proposi tion is only open to July 1,1889, Don't wait till the last day, but ac cept this unexampled offer now Show this to your neighbors. Address the Everett Press axd Leader Everett Pa. Tlie most appalling calamity that over befell this country, it is our painful duly to record to-day. Johnstown is no more and ten thousand of her inhabitants are gliirk and cold in death. Friday morning opened on a city full of prosperous, happy people, with life, health and hope night closes, and the city is washed away, and thousands of men, women and children are drowned, their dead bodies strewing the bunks of the relentless rushing down the torrent to bo forever lost in the waters of mighty rivers, the few survivors battling for life on broken houses amid debris, or fleeing to the mountains for safety.

One moment, a city full of people were watching the rain, another, a lake of water, seyentyfeet deep, was falling down upon their heads and homes. No warning sound, no chance ot escape, hundreds of families drowned, the mother and her babe, father and children, all go down in death as suddenly and awfully as though an earthquake had opened and swallowed them up. Many horrors haye occurred in this country, hundreds of lives have gone down in ships, railroad wrecks, by fire and by flood, but this puts them all into littleness. Itisonly parallelled by the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, when the wator of the ocean swallowed up the city. T.nlest From the Johnstown Horror.

Not a mitigating word has come from the scene of the catastrophy. livery detail adds to the horror. The whole civilized world Btands ageast at the calamity. It is believed by the best judges that ten thousand lives have been swept away, possibly many more. The great pile of drift that lodged by the stone bridge covered twenty-five acres and many lives must have been lost by the flames.

In one hole one hundred and sixty bodies were recovered at Sang Hollow. One half of the bodies recovered cannot be identified. The Flood. In addition to what is foun in other columns, the damage to property and lives is immense. The traek and bridges over the Pennsylvania railroad tire so torn and destroyed that it may l- weeks Ik'1'oi-o through trains can be run over the main line.

It is said that one hundred and twenty-three engines and hundreds of ears were washed a way, mostly from the round house near Johnstown. Hie loss to this company can not lie much less then ten millions of dollars. The Huntingdon Jiroad Top expected to run trains ou Thursday. Manager Ciage acted with great energy and promptness. Passengers and freight will be ferried across the river at Sax ton.

Twenty-five lives were lost hy the Hood at Williamsport and millions of property destroyed. A number of lives were lost at Tyrone. As to the wrecked trains, no reliable information can lie obtained. Itissaid that three trains were engulfed in the tlood lietween Pittsburgh and town and it is feared many Hves were lost. It was reported on Monday that i one hundred and twenty passengers were lost on these trains.

This was contradicted and it isclaimed that only a few were lost The truth is not yet known. It may prove to be greater or less than the above estimate. It is said the railroad from Cumberland to Davis is almost washed away. Harris- burg -suffered heavily as did all the country bordering on the Husquehan- na and its branches. The flood as far as heard from, has been the severest ever known in Peun- sylvania, West Virginia arid Maryland, in fact nothing ever before known can i compare with the destruction of lives and property, that theau waters have occasioned.

The latest reports trom the Johnstown horror confirm all the worst that has been said. Some believe the loss to be from twelve to twenty thousand. The dead are lying in hundreds along the banks, for identilica-tion and burial, and it is almost certain that thousands of dead bodies will never be recovered. Buildings of all kinds are turned into morgues for the dead. Decomposition has began and the bodies have to be buried without delay.

On Sunday two thousand collins had been used, and three thousand more were ordered. All along the ConemaiiKh to the Alleghany, bodies have been gathered up by hundreds. It is feared that the dead and putrid bodies in and along the Alleghany and C'onemaugh rivers, may cause an epidemic of disease in Pittsburgh as the water from the Allegheny, is the city's only supply and the Connemaiigb empties into it. In one spot at Johnstown on Sunday an average ef twenty bodies were pulled out in an hour, through the day. Par.

ties who have visited the place from here and Bedford have no words to ex. reus the awfulnessof the horror. A Mrs. Flynn was sera who had lost her husband and eight children. She kept with her children on the house until ne by one they perished and she was drifted into a tree where she remained until rescued on Saturday.

Such scenes and incidents are common. Fire. Broke out in a new Place. Fire. C.

W. ASHCOM, EVERETT MARKETS. PRODUCE Beans, per 1 Oo (ij 1 Batter, per uoand w. Bent leave to Inform the public that he ai fine line of Fire rnmirnnf Nw in ttim title Lo pt.iLf.-t your Tak out polltry In ouu of Ilifl uipHuiuH ua phii i Kin ti tt iwiywncre lu Uie i-ttin utterly from tlif of this destruiaivw pim. following excellent conipaultiK 6 10 On Friday evening about five o'clock a lake nine miles from Johnstown burst through its banks and the entire body of water rushed down on that and the surrounding towns.

The lake which -was formed by the damming of the South Fork, covered an area of between (00 and 700 acres. The dam had a base of 300 feet, and narrowed to a width of 50 feet at the top. it was 75 feet high and nearly 1000 feet lontf The greatest depth was 90 feet and much of it aver-nged 70 feet. The property belonged to the South Fork Fishing Club. The dam was first built to form a reservoir for the old Pennsylvania canal, but was abandoned when the great railway was built along the canal.

Some years afterwards the property was bought by tlu: present club, and has time and again been examined by experts and pronounced safe, but Friday's awful work shows their mistake. It is said that tiie lake has been feared by many residents for it was well known that should it ever break, Johnstown would be swept away, and that the rush of water would be so sudden as to cut off all avenues of escape. The account we give to-day of the terrible calamity shows it to have lieen more dreadful than was even predicted by the most timid. To add to the horrors of the stricken city, the ruins took fire and hundreds of txxliea when found were only a mass of charred bones. Two Pittsburgh parties who were eye-witnesses thus describe the scene just after the bursting of the reservoir.

"Just before we reached Johnstown, however the train stopped. Then the whistle blew and we all began to look at eucb other, because we did not know what was the matter. Before anyone had recovered from the fright which tbe whistling had given us, a conduc-torcameiu and shouted 'ForGod's sake, people, FLY FOB YOL'lt LIVES, the reservoir has burst and the water is rushing down the hill I tell you, it did not take us long.to get out. There on the hill we saw the water rushing down like a big bowlder. We all escaped to ihe hill, but before we left we saw the water descend on Johnstown.

The most of us escaped to bensburg, from, whence we got over the mountains to Blairsville and over the West Pennsylvania railroad home. "I have read the papers to-day, but I can assure you they have not given half the facts. From the suddenness with which the water rushed down the hill, I am sure that the people were taken by surprise and that at least 8,000 were drowned. All thesmaller townsaround Johnstown are swept away. Xever in my life have I experienced anything like it and I hope I never will again.

A BABY'S LONG RIDE. One of the most touching sights along the Allegheny river was witnessed Saturday afternoon at Verona. John Grimes, a well known citizen of that place, was out in a Bkitf looking for the drift. lie noticed a pile of debris coming down the stream, which looked as if there might be something valuable among it. Mr.

Grimes rowed out and thought he saw a cradle in the middle of the pile and almost concealed out of sight. lie came down to the debris and was surprised to see the chubby little hands up in the air. lie carefully forged the prow of his skiff through the great mass of debris and sure enough there was a baby there as peucoful and contented as one could wish. Great difficulty was experienced in getting the cradle to shore, but when the landing was made, a hundred hands wanted to graap the little darling. Mr.

Grimes took it home and notified the authorities in this cityof his find. The baby is a boy about five months old. aud his rescuer is wishing that he be allowed to keep it. The little one was quite wet from his ride, but he is apparently none the the worse for his adventure. How the cradle could have passed through the debris all the way from Johnstown to this city, without overturning and spilling out its happy occupant, is a mystery.

AN EXPLANATION TO THE DISASTER. General Manager John Fulton, of the the Gautier steel department, of Johnstown, is credited with saying that if he were present at the time of the disaster he would have blown up the Pennsylvania railroad bridge at this place and Dried Apples pr pound Dried Cherries per pound pitt ed. Raspberries Eggs per Flaxseed per buabel. HM Lard per Potatoes per bushel OnlooB per bushel Wool, washed per fc Wool, unwashed per lb. Country Cured Ham, per lb CouutrySlde, per lb Country Shoulder, per lb ASSETS.

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Oppenheimer's Great Cfothing Department center of the stream, where they sank before the distracted husband's eyes. A RIDE ON A CELLAR DOOR, An old man named Benson, who was rescued at Lockport, 18 miles from the scene of the disaster, says, "up to four o'clock in the afternoon the water in the street remained stationary. The company store and club house and at the point, where it was at least 7 to 8 feet deep before the rush came. In 15 minutes the water rose 10 feet, and in five minutes morel am sure 50 houses floating down the streets. There were time and In all, the building contained twenty eight persons.

Weremaired there all night fn the dark, fearing to strike a match Ist the gas might ignite and bunt us up with the building We saw below us by the stnne br idge an immense lire among the drift of bridges, buildings and timbers, which lit up the whole town showing a sight too a ful to look at. We could see the buildings, with persons on them drifting past and hear their shrinks and cries. Morning came and we slid down from our place of rendevous into a aft which a rescuing Si Jlnl'rcns Clothing Youths' Clothing'. Sc hool Clothin. If il Jt Ik wi 1 4 iffl 1 Mens' co is I 3 if Hoys' Clothing.

CD CD a 0) people in every one of them, aud God only knows how many were lost, as tiiey were carried off The houses were jammed together and againstthe houses still standing, aud in a few minutes they were alt ittered to pieces before they had been carried very far. The house I was in was soon Btnashed to pieces, and I managed tn jump on to a cellar donr. In a few seconds I was rushed off into the flood, and when I looked back where Cambria City stood there was nothing but a great lake of water. It looked to me as if evfciy house had been raised or covered over. The vast sheet of water was full of floating timler, roofs of houses, rafts, boards and other articles, "The scene was indescribable.

The cries of the men, women and children were fearful, and I suppose I added my own yells to the shrieks of the unfortunate. I passed Paddy Madden wife, my son's wife and a man clinging to the roof of a house. I called to them and bade them good-by. In a short time I was caught by the water and turned under every once and awhile. I got into a whirlpool, and more than once almost lost my grip on the cellar party had made for us, by it rowed to some lodged debris which we got on and over trees, boaids, broken houses and dead bodies, landed on Bedford street.

The lxy who had been carried oft with the end of the house was rescued. I saw Col. J. P. Linton on top of his residence; he and his whole family escaped.

When we heard the noise and saw the flood coming a mist rose above the waters like a fog. A son of Col. Linton was at Somerset when the flood occurred and wheu he came home he found in a row of dead bodies his name attached to one of them. It was suppoweed that he was drowned and this was his corpse. The Furnace Sold.

Mr. ThroLp has purchased the Everett furnace and paid down the hand money, not less than $25,000. The total loss of the Cambria Iron Company is over three million dollars. They will repair the works at once and Mr. McMillan, the principal stockholder, says that they will be making rails inside of fifty days.

Hats I Hats I Shirts, Overshirts, Undershirts, gauze and medium weight, underwear for men aud boys, very low, Mens' linen collars, 10c each, Mens' celluloid collars, 2o cts each, of the hest quality. Finest line of 25 cent neckwear in this section, Trunks, Valises and all kinds of Mens' furnishing goods, Mens' kid glove in all sizes and shades, White Military gloves, 10 cents per pair. BEDFORD, Corner Pitt and Richard Streets, SELLY OPPENHEIMER. thus averted the catastrophe. A gentleman says that in his opinion it would be hard to do.

"It is a large stone bridge," lie said, "aud is sixty feet higll. "The bridge lies right near Johns A large stock of Cook Stoves, Garden Tools, Paints, Oils, Glass, and general hardware, at lowest prices, always on hand,.