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The Weekly Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 3

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MdMa MM! of re ooiuloteDM 1 AT, JULY 28, 1880. BUSINESS BR1BP8. cair I HarKnve Druggist If ealla tbe White. Dellfbted lady I bare a White for jttattee call at the Cotrana HM only to be seen to be appreciated-the While Sewing Machine New tmgglee and wagons always on hand Morrleoa A Broe Mt Peasant Pa Ouaraalfted. 21m8t Did you try tbe White It ia the boss.

All ktttda of legal blanks for sale at the Oovunoflae Dr. Woods, Demist, will be at the Smith tbe first aeven days of each month tf Dr A Stewart will charge only two dott.ua extra for oiling the front teeth of an artificial aet with gold If you would save money, buy vour Drugs fttOP Hargrave'a He sells at bottuni fftaee tf 0. Lytte, Mam street guarantees a per- feft fitting aboe jpJUl Uxid.4 of plain and fanoy job work Outefully executed at tho COITRIBB office, Cotnm building. Water street. Leonid Spiedel 201 Snumwiu Htmt But' fclo, IK 11 a- IT I mi Oil In- fmiuh It un I colds and that It the Hung he knew XATM.ni..--W Reid will furnish all kinds of lumber on short notice Oak, pine, and fencing Heavy timbers a ap-dahy.

Domestic kismntf tin innxl Domestic Blister i i i i ratihuif, him More Domestic Bliss wilt rubbing JulrUne Oil into the Wounds caawxlby tliw ufore-wudto Robert's Poultry Powdin fire guaranteed lo cure poultry of ditefes if given be fan the towels refuae to cat Sure ourt for iolen. tried it. and advisa to Me It. Part lea having houses to leitt or for fwle, will oonanlt their intereet by placing them ia tbe of Gocdchild Real Eatate agent. 1'Jmtf Sana, DiHaKNTcaT COHPOCND Wheu taken according to directions, will mstan- taneoosJy cure Cram pi, Sptsms.SourStom neb, Heartburn, Diarrhcoa, Dysentery, Colic, ttod all other Bowel Complaints.

There was a joung swell in tahutta Tried to write Iwtrli Oil in i When A great big Said when rheumatic panw cmlun The Oil it will cirtamly i urv But that word won rnj mt with uluittu Terrence A Co tat opened a aplandid auortment of light and dark with bright Also new dress aide band new brocades, twvelty trimmings, gnat variety It very dueonraging to tbe industrious farmer'a wife, ai well aa foolish to havo her poultry to die from cholera or any other dis- warn can buy of lier druggist Poultry Powder for a Guaranteed to cure Bcbart Hoiae Powders weto loim rly amoiigil tbe rnnoera and other val but now since the Price has nduct-j to 26 Ceata per Package all to them FOB 8aUL-- A desirable House and Lot three-fourths of an acre, BOOM 5 with kitchen and Situated in Dunbar township, one from Mew Haven Price very lew- E. GOODCHLLD, Agent It as tad but tine tbat many children untimely craves by the neglect tfceir to have Sines Syrup of iBr, Hoarbonnd and Wild Cbei on baud Kvery Ihongbtful mother haa a buttle thia ol the for immediate use law); case where Dr. Stewart fails to until in 30 he will pretax pattant with a wt of teetb free ot Trawltra abonld have a small bottle of Sines Dysvntiry Compound for immediate relief from any Bowel Complaints guaranteed lo tone up Stomach at once toahwllby condition Dr Btewart will 111 common sized cavi. UtB wkh gold for ,1,00 and the largest size tor $1,00, and insure them for ft years and In one out be will put it in free of and pay patient for the time of having done greatly amnaed some since, By one of our venerable who hid BMn bowed down with Khenmatni, throw away his crutches, and declare him young as he uoed be aud now ia reeomonnding Kobert Embrocation to old lady in town. Grout liniment Oo to J.

dmggirt, Water street lor Mra. Freeman's New National Dyes -For and durability of color are OMquald. Color from to pounds IS oenta. Hmytf Snmf DncnBBi Conrotxc warm and glowing sensation thereby IWBOTting all Sharp Paiw, and by its Iran qaaUuuf propert-ea, albiyii those severe of Stomach and occa afewdby npomin or othir cauaea-- cnly OBBU per For Salt --Home and lot. Mam street, Knquln of T.

(lootlchild o.w For A comfortable home situate IB ttw Johdkw Addition Vew bouse and fft of water Enquire of F. leaaWdM, 140,000 Baurac Fox BALL- oMivtr bnck to any part of ConnelU- or Hivou Ordoni nn also be 4(1 With Ruwell and will receive SlBOXH EvllUBel-- I the tth it Uwriiitx IK, jfDr.Tbunuui Eiltrtn 1.1 i I i 1 iuu.1 ut I ii 1 I Ikilte ID im lilt utivi tn I 11 iwrxa) In i 1 1, I Tlir at uftt ra i ti i i ral.lu\. i ri cnml it Hi i i 11 i i i i ir a i i i r- i i i ih I i i i i el tunecluit.h i i I I I I In Mn th Jil LOCAL LACONICS. IUI M. Raked hy RnrabllHc Reporter A yothful paaseuger arrived on schedule timo at the reBidence of Mr John Barron of the Balto.

and Ohio rond Friday night Smrthe excursion passed through Uny morning Eleven coachen -were on the tram and another wan attached They were a jolly looking crowd Rer Col John A Dnnka, of this place, conducted the devottonnl Mrricee which opened the encampment of the Grand Army Of the Republic at Gettysburg Monday A straw vote taken on the return train ol the Balto and Ohio Railroad Company excursion to their employes, on Saturday, resulted aa follows Hancock, GarfleM, "8, Weaver, 6 no choice, 6 A number of the Grand Army boys at tended the mustering In of the now A post at Mt Pleasant, hut Friday night The new post hai twenty two members and will have autf pn uior at the next meeting Gapt W. Jordan commander. A new schedule went into effect on the Ballo and Ohio load, Mcnday The most important change was in the time of the mail tram which new arrived at 12 57 instead of 10,54 a m. as heretofore It htuiamoe been airanged for the carrying of ihe mail on the train aiming here at 10 2 a Tins change is quite an iin prove moot. W.lham Price, the ol.l man noticed in last week's OOCBIEB, as having pfuwed Ihro iRh town on his wny to McRiCsport destitnte circumstances, is now in the Allegheny county homo He reached Me Keen- port bnt could not find his relatives He then full auk, nnd it was thought best to hi ID lo the above institution until bis friends could be heard from It has just been learned here that Lear, a former employe of the Balto and Obic road, WDM killed recently on the Iron Mountain road, Mibsoun Lear vmiUJ about tux weeks ago He had re tamed to his post and was making his first trip when the arcld nt which resulted in death occjrwd No further particulars could 'x learned Lear was about twenty (uglit years of ngt and autnatried.

Ci IScMBFii Houcook and Fnglirk rlnb No 1, will meet at Dtmocrat headquarttru iti Ilu-miRer's Hall, on luefdny evtning, 7uly J7, t-omplete tbe adept uuifoiw aud ap point uon commiM.ontd officer" The nnnncc rmJ ncn ttiog Cjmtuittees will re port nt tbttt tinit I 3t evtry metubtr turn out and aid in getting thu olab properly Clipped for tUe cnrupaigu Mo HBO Cnptain fi CAMBRIA COKE Cam btia Iran Company ore putting up coke oveos in thin vicinity in ahort crdtr A shot tune it wai noticed by tbe CODE IZH that huutlrtd of their now ovens at Mori ell had fiui btJ aud that it was the of the company to build three hundred uuro Another huoJiod of these flniHhtd Wednesday end now i i tlnst riio third hundred will bo C( in about three weeks, and the fiurtu ond last an noon ns pmttjra. Their oveiia at are nbo in full operfition The coke us ut the torn- par exteimvo iron verbs at Johostowu, and in shipped thereover the South rocd OITTINO IN Proi --A meeting of thu Hancock A English club No 1 was beld at Democratic adquartem, pursuant to ho of Capt Mjrrow Tbe committee rtporttd the bid of a Pittaburg firm on campaign No UU wat mode The optam then appointed tho following cc mmittees Recrait committee, Albert Vohe, John Eomon, it crjje Ham, M. Mortow, I liulter, Churl us Hampton William Shaw, and Jac It chey Finance committee, Pur Tomes Grnv Jobn Soisaon Frank Bradford, Marietta, Samuel Heffluy and George Filser Mr Ooldsmith was Jtictid Trenauier of the club The olub hen adjourned to meet at the cull of tbe A CLOSB CALL --A singular accident oc urrc 1 last Snhudnv evening Martin ichiuiley an employe of tlio Cambria Iron was cutting tbo refuse off somt ibbtge he had bought nt A Bandford A Co when the knife slipped nnd cut him th left vdc in the neighborhood of the mart He attempted to walk to a ianV ho hit i. his wound from which a tream of blond an thick as a tnau finger iowe He had gone but a few when ifl foil Mr Bender nemned him to the ifflce notwithstanding ho hud every ranee of being dend, be soon re- In tbe evening ho wait conveyed to its homo at tbe Cambria Iron Company On his way out he fainted, but recovered, nod is now nblt to around gnin Tho kmfe pooetrated lo quite a an 1 considering the location of tha wound the victim has reason to cciigratu i ate himself CODICIL --Tho Repubh- an meeting, Tuesday evemnp.wns called to ttder by Vito President ckham at fif ten mmutes of nine Aftt the read ing and adoption of tho mutes of the previous meeting Robert Galloway airman, reported th they had se urud Hntl as a place of meeting it port adopted Committee on fiuanoe i the amount contributed Committee au badge askel that their report bt contin i led until next meeting Mr Grave then being called 01 spoke for a few tumutes, thnt the doom bo thrown open and bo I invited to attend tbe meet- iigtt He also suggested ihnttribuung Be mblican literature among the emooruta wLo laiftht so 3 fit to attend followed in a rt speech ad vocal ing orgamzutio i Iho President, in A nef speech umd that the Democrats were V4'y at work aud thought the Kepubh cans should a HO get to work Ue also ra ferreJ lo tbe action of the last mueung excluding a reporter of this paper and said that ut did not bjlieve eloso communion meetings Mr Koid then moved that i corjimtteo of three be appoiuted to ap oiui offlors for a in arching club After iniei ding thu motion until tha original couM not In something was aid, whether it WAS a motion or a of ncitndmenu your reporter failed to learn leouaut. Keul ami Kurtz wuie ap pcmnd th ccmmittee A to ob tain appointed The meeting wra tbtu on motion adjourned, and a Uoi to was loht.

There fif nt KopublJcauit have evidently Um that tley an well ts all other inor- a Imbfe to auitke Five car loads of meiooa passed A throuBb town over the Balto and Ohio road, ed nesday A brilliant inetjeor was noticed Saturday night. It dwapptitired quietly behind the horizon Brown, who is now visiting hia par entahcre, will lea TO for western Montana in a few dnys, There will bo no Sunday semoea in the Methodist Protestant church nnti the 1st of September Tho attention of tho proper authorities la called to the condition of Chestnut Hili Cemetery It should be attended to Tho Mtithodmt Protestant ohur has ID Bt rue ted ite delegates to tbe Annual Confer' enee to request the return of A Brown, as pastor for another year Jo-tiah Kurtz Esq, John Munuon, Will Reynolds Samuel Reisingcr, Everett For tor and Bniley Mitchell took Bmythe's, excursion to Norfolk It is eald that five mm were killed by lightning iu county, last Thursday Sqmro HcritchfleUl was killed In Hpnngfleld while the other accidents are reported to havo occurred the vicinity of Pinkorton State Superintendent Wiokersbatn has given notice thftt outstandiog warrants Is sued to school districts for the appropria tion of 1879, numbered ap to l.KOO, will bo paid during tbin month, and all warrants from 1 'XX) upwnrdii will be paid dm ing August The handsome brick residence of Mr David GHmore, on the White farm mDun bar township, caught flra loot Friday after noon, nnd burned down A spark from tho chimuey set flro to tho roof and WM not discovered until too luto to successful.) fight tbe flamen Tho loss is esti uatod at No lusuranco Tho liftUimore nutl Ohio Railroad Com pauy gave tho men employed here together with their families a free exonisiou to Ohm Pyle, SaturJay A special tram of fivx conches took the txcti joiii8tn to their (lei tmalion where 'hey enj iyed them eh OH in various ways until evening Every oiie pronounced th trip cust enjoyable ouo A grand olonrsnco wilo is advertised lt forrenco A Co of Now Haven a littlu danger of of any kind i i on thoirshtlves i bave iLualved to iiniko it clean sweep cf the goodg on handw, order te make room for an iramount Htock of fall goods It IB rtainiy remark ible how low tnui firm sell goods Ttit OIL brRiEn of run uing a loctinotiVB with oil jtisteacl of coal is igam being mud by tbe Balto A Ot 10 Company here The tiptninent wan tried a few months ago but did uot pan out, we I is stud tint the pretcut trial is more auo iful Crude oil is used us fud Fn tbe few tho machint tms panned us office we would Huggest that they try tbe xperiiuent of ruuning an engine with te fumta nruuig from the oil It forth no uncertain odor Ihe Jiffera uiau Huicock nuj Emliah club met Bolnlev a Hull, Fmlav evening Quite amiiaberof inthusiaslio Dtmo rats were tl baud furnished goo! UIUSH Mnj Swearmgen the prcs- Uent elect, WBH pr sent and in a few neat IIK! (eitm ut remaiks, accepted the honor ouforred on him ind them to hard ffittivo work A sciies of resolutions i ere presented and after some discm ion, idopted 8 Cox and Matoy then el vice presidents A great deal of club buDinetu u-j special interest was transacted, and some twiaty five or thirty persons hud signed the roll the meeting adjourned uutil Saturday A BOLD, MAS --Joy Colwell came town from the Jay drunk, Htrango as tt may appear, aud proceeded to make things livelv Officer Me oiimck run him iu but after sobering up mi paying his fine he was allowed to go Ie swore vengcani on Ihe officer, and with the purpose of getting even attacked McCormick Tho litter doesn't generally allow obstreperous individuals to got away him aud this CUM was no exception He wasagaiu placed behind the ban The next morning is fined $10 and costs. Chia he concluded aot to pay, bnt on tbe arrival of a bcottdtilu constable with a warrant the prisoner changed his mind and wanted out He fintilly paid hia fine and costs and made bntisfactory with thu Scottdale party, when was al owed to depat iu peace Jny will in the tture probably seek a town where the ohoo are not so much on their muscle. CITY COUNCIL Tho town council hna leld two special meetings since their last regular session The flrat meeting was held ast lliuradny evening, and tho second on Monday evening At the former, every member aiiHwered nt roll call A motion WBH made that the bills or the Street Com misstunert) be panned in Accordance with the correction of tho strcctcoramittee and clerk and that orders bo drawn for the amount as corectod, tbat sum being $154,00 Tho motion was corned The next business wforo the council wan the grading of Aple and Prospect itreets, and the macadamizing of Pittsburg street. It was flnnlly decided to award this contract to Rockwell danetta, ho being required to furnish tie curity for the completion of the work and comply with the conditions imposed by the oouucil The street cc mum tee was intruded to prepare the article of agreement and bond for the above work and iubn.it the anrae to council at their next, mooting A motion wan made and cnrried nstruetmg the committee on public build nga to rent the market house to the beat advantage Council then adjourned At the meotiug Monday evening, every member, except Bahtley, was present at roll call Mr Balsley came ia during the meet in Tho hood of John Brown with Dushane and Kurtz, ns security for borough tax for 1880, was approved On motioo, the specifications and agreement with the contractor for the grading of Apple and Prospect streets and the mncadarnizin? of Pittsburg street, were adopted The bond of Rockwell Marietta with Josiuh Maiietta AH security for Ihe ftbcvo couract, was approved Mr Henry Wickbam was peimittcd lo expend thirty dollars grading Ninth street and filling up Gibbon avenue were drawn on the Treasurer in or of Alex Oakes and Frank McCormick Each order waa for $3 for police nermeHon show day The street committee was authorueil to make plans and estimates of bridge to cross Mount i foot of Second street, and report at next meeting Ihe council then adjourned Hyndmav, wife and child hare returned from Cape May James Harr and wife, of PHtaburg, are visiting relatives here Col A Dauks has encampment at Gettysburg.

Newmyer from hla new houses on Professor Oooke hole returned fro-n putting in a drjm Grave street a teachers examina- in the public school building, Tuesday Our youths wn boya will lay the Mt Pleasant mt in a game of bane ball, Saturday. A trai i of five coach on, took the Methodist Sui day School to the Falls yesterday morning The funeral of Mrs John Johnston, which took place Friday, was an extremely large one William Minor is about to commence the brick work of his new house on the Johnston addition Rev Qilson, formerly of Uniontown, but now of lagomer, preached for llev. Bnrnett, last sabbath Lightning only killed one man in Fay ette county lait week The other one hilled waa a dog --National Issue any relatives lately, Cal Mr John Wilbelm, of this place will complete his contract for fifty coke ovens uearSewukley this week HIB contruot for the new oveuti between Tiptop and Vnlloy will al bo comf leted this week While James Conneil, of this place, was gathering whortleberries on Bald Hill, a wild cat carna prowl my aroun James always admire? tbe plaint.va music of the wild cat yell--al distance -and ho ac cordingly made rematkably good lime toward home On Tuendsy as William A Evans, a ma chinist the Balto A Ohio shops, was working at bis lathe, a small piece ot dot steel struck htm in the. eyo The metal between tho ball of the oye and lid and for a time it waa thought that he would lose the sight of that nyo, bat a physician succeeded removing the next day It mav uot bo generally known by school ire and othors that of tho Logis- ltture of this State panned in 18 4 aud 1862, make it punishable by fine and imprisonment for a school rector or other person ixunected trith tbe school, to become agents for any school supplies or in any way in ter tod iu the furnishing of books or any other supplies for the pchools with rhich bo ccnnocted SHAH -William Bishop machinist in the Balto and Ohio shops, waa picking blncibernca tbe mountpius, nliout a mile from town, on Tuesday evening On rum ug around he noticed a large copperhead glide toward a in the rocks Just reptile was entering the hole Bishop seized it by tho tail and jerking i out, threw it on tha ground He then killed tho make Hardly had bis enake- fihip given up the whea Bishop noticed a numbtr of small copperheads is Filing from the body of the derelited He commenced to slaughter them and in a short lima hnd killed them all The entire number of junior snakes waa forty The aged copperhead about three feet long BAVD ---The mombeia of Band drparted for their annual ourney to Bidwcll Taevday morning The arty this year numbered about fifteen That th a went prepared for all emergen les, including suake biten, may be judged rotn tbo fret tbat an extra car was to hold luggage A special despatch from the camp, dated on Wednes ay, rt ports everything moving off mootbly Shortly after their arrival, morn me, a heavy rain aet in which interfered with the fishing and made bo sleeping accommodations for the night amp and somewhat unpleasant, but on the allowing day the warm rays of the sun ried out tho damp ttraw nped for beddlog nd the remainder of the stay prom IPOS to ie plrasant The fit it day's catch footed ip 141 fish, principally Hack bass Tbe mtiation ceremonies which wero poet- toned last night on ace unt of the bad weather, will take plau; this evening They rorni8o to bo interesting Several other ishmg parties are reported In this vicinity, targe numb of Allegheny anglers being nonraped about three milei above, while a Jelluvernou pnrtv and a jolly of boys, ecu Hinting of Messrs Innnam, Hood, Stone and Soyder, were oe a tod just below, at Egypt oscpb piscatorial band are to arrive home bin (Fnday) afternoon. List of Unclaimed Advertised 13, 188-) Baily, Honry II Boyd, Mrs laker, David Brundaje, Jowmnn, Mrs.

Bory. Benj Jlark. Coopar, Miss Mary Hale. Jaa Craig, Robert Ctirch, Coi, Patrick )awfion. Qeo Emery, James iiumnns, Gray, Mrs Jane Gates, Goo George, loward LiZ2ie HadneM.

Mra. Ia. hfield, Andrew Hogh, Carrie Hock, Jro Hart, Alber oaes, Bonj Jonaen, Ella ones, Marian Kmge, Kathenne Lyon, Mason, H. dmard, Henry MofJormiek, IcMerer, Mr. McGraw, Mrs.

S. MuCann, MoManea, Thos Wm O'Dounell, Maggie 'orter, Delia Piokett, lobbina. Sade Rose, Jennie lobinson, Mrs. Bobley, Wm RaymaD, Conrad Smelzer, Nioholn-f iwig( Wm Seesa, Jacob line Miss Mary Tayman. Francis "honi, Roaby Trumph, David Woracell, Annie Workman, E.

Wood, A FoiusoN. Kelly, Ned Molgy Frank Advertised July 20 Blaugh, Mtry Brown, Ghas Brett, Jno Cunningham Urn Carr, Wm Downey. Juo )erhiu Juo 0 Dull, Abraham )aly James, Dunnton, J. (2) Esworthy, Robt Gray, James ienry.Mre. Margaret Hartman Mrs, Sallie Lint, A LaTelle, Miller, Mooney, Jno (2) Monaher.Mra.

Jennie Montgomery Lizzie UcPherson, Marian McPherson, Will Newmyer. a Parkbill, Lulla Powel, Jno. Raphael, Rev (2) Stnver, Qeo 8u her, Anthony Vonavaure.JpoliteM WiUon, Wui Wilson, Challton Matlhiw youngest child of Crawford Still died Tuesday night and waa burled Wednesday The colored camp meeting which has been going on for the past ten days, on Davidson's Ishmd, will clone next Sabbath ROT Herbert, of Union town, Rt Sampson, of Elizabeth, Rev Prossen, of Wheeling, Va Rev Lewis, of Pittaburg, Rev A. Palmer, of Parkenburg and othera are present and a great deal of good ia being done IMPQOVOIO OHOOL BUEUDIWO --A grea' many very necessary repairs are being made in and around the public school building Tbe principal i aproroment to note is tho making of two school rooms The men are atill at work on them, but they will be finiHhed in the near future Various other minor improvements are being made The two rooms now being finished will bo furnished with iron bound school desks, a very comfortable and convenient seat The entire coat of the two rooms and furniture will be 1484.60. RAILBOAI WHICH --An accident occurred on the Balto Ohio Road at SnydorX about aix o'clock yesterday (Thursday) morning which may yet result fatally to ono man.

Tram 50 going west was tho unfort unate oue The tram wai divided in two seotlona and the second ran Into tha first the above earned point white running about aeven milett an hour The conductor of first sootion, Bailes, of this place, be ing in tbo caboose received a broken leg and it is feared is injured internally The flagman. Walton, escaped injury Seven hoppers and the caboose were thrown from the track The ongiu, 737. was disabled, but not materially injured Mr Bailoa was btoughl to hia residence on Water street where his in juries are now being oared for He was the only one injured, TJIBCon-ncLLaviLLB COMPACTS Domoa --Tbo OonnellsvitlQ Coko and Irou Com pony are gridually getting their enterprise luto active operation The shaft now down to a depth of a hundred and fifty feet The entire depth will be tha neighborhood of 350 feet probably not BO deep Burobaugb, of Graensburg, late oaudidhto for legislative honon. on the Greenback ticket, has a contract for th masonry and is now engaged in building the dry wall foi the coke yard Ran km, of McKsosport who haa contracted to build forty tenement hoiues has the major Ity them nearly completed. One huud rid men an employed at Ihe works.

Tbe branch road from tbe South West Railroad to the is to be begun at an early date Tho route runs from Ntw Haven up Toisurn run to the Conueilavtlle Gu Coal Company Works, better know as Wick bams, and thenca to the Ccnuetlsvlle Cuke and Iron Company Wurkv. Work on tho railroad wilt be begun a we. or two, and the fact that the Pennsylvania railroad company is builduig it insured its early completion Tbe New York World is one of the best Democratic published It rapidly working way to the front The Philadelphia is out a new dress The Pretw is the best fiepublican newspaper 10 Pennsylvania The Elizabeth Herald of last week con tained an eiceedingty well written editorial, Our reason for this opinion is Unit tho arti Ie appeared iu Hie Philadelphia Times about two weeks ago and that journal nev er admits tr ish Charka 0 firien, of Ptttabnrg, hu brought against the McKew port Times, for libel He thinks an article publwbod that lively little sheet, relative to acme financial trane action, injured him $5,000 wor -AROUND ABOUT. or mm Hear borhood. Westmoreland exact population la J8, 077 The Oreeiuburg papora cUmoroua for water worln Ths Oreeiuburg boys ore geMug up a young nun'n Hancock club The South Went Road is erecting new engine house at the GreoOBburg junction Jordan, of lit Pieman Ihe paawuwr of a $1,000 team of Kentucky horses Mr.

John R. King him been poatma ter ut Nev Stnntcin, Westmoreland county The oldest peraon Somerset county is Mary Herring, ot totmahip, aged 93 yimrs The Somerset Mechanical Works, Lim ited, capital $10.000, han been organized (hat borough Work on the grade of the branch railroad from Iron Bridge to Mt Pleasant is progressing rapidly Fourteen theological students SI Tin. cent's college, near Latrobe ttero last week ordained to the priesthood Measrs. Frtok A Co have btiilt an addition to I heir store-room at Broadfoid, and and have brightened up the whole with a new tout of paint Mr Abe Overholt, who was injured so severely at West Overton, a fow weeks ago, is rapidly recovering, It won found necessary to amp itate his arm Messrs McClure, of McKeusport, oave contracted for the erection of a botel aud store house at the Alice uimes of John Schoonmaker, Ut Pleasant The Democrats of Dawson, had a pole raising Saturday I Johnson, was the principal speaker The pole measures one hundred and seventy five feet. A nine yenr old son of Charles Siegfried, was drowned in the Conemaugh river, at Blainville, but Friday morning The body was recovered tbe same aftainoon.

John C'ocbrane, bow miner at the Meyersdale Coal Company, was killed by lightning at Meyendale, Thursday fie was aged abont L'i years and unmarried. 0- M. Landweher's extensive planing mill, at Cumberland, waa burned Friday evening with all the stock aud machinery Loss nearly $1A 000, partly insured It is said tbat the Balto fc Ohio Railroad Company as purchased tho Berlin railroad running from Oarrett, on tbe A hue, to Berlin in Somerset county, for (30,000 The Meyersdale Commercial regards aa a certainty tha eitenaion of the Pennsylvania Railroad) from Buffalo or Man's Choue, Bedford county, to the Meyendale coal fields, and aab the active co-operation qf iti oOMtitomoy. Joseph charged mth having stolen a sum of money at Johnstown, was arrested by Detective Joe A.ualin at tbo Un on depot, Pittsburg, as lie dismounted a train on Lha-p on Saturday. He was taken back to Johnstown Mr B.

Cough on our, while driving from this place to Mt wan se verely injured by bemR thrown from his buggy, his horse having frightened at a passing tram below Pennsville, to which place he ran without being stopped 1 The minors at workfi, Stoner ville, atrtack last week for an increase of wages They were getting twenty five per wagon find ttruck for thirty The matter was compromised by the firm paying twenty seven cents per wagon The Lomison Opera House, in Greens burg, will be completed and open to tho public during Fair week which will be tho last of September It will bo oue of tha finest Opera hou es in western Ponnsylva nia, outside of thi city of Pittsburg Work la progressing satisfactorily on the Homertiot and Cambria railroad, but not at rapidly as desired, on account of the com parativcly email number of hands eugaged upon it. Severel hundred additional laborers can find employment on the line A Hancock and English club wns formed at Mt Pleasant la-t week with names Tbe intention uovr IP to have fully organ ized marching clubs in all the small towns near there consolidating them into a battal lion for big occasions, fully officered by old soldiers, of whom tho party have a large surplus A few dujs ago a boy named Craig, aged ten fears, accidentally Hhot himself while out hunting near Joues county Ihe ball entered the groin and passed from there to tho stomach, causing a fatal wound The boy resided nt Black cretk, ume miks from Donegal Barclay bam, in Donegal township Westmoreland couuty was bum ed on Friday eight, the Hlh mat with its outtre contents Tho building dad just been finished, aud tha last load of giftin had been liauled in tho previous All tho farming implcmoutH were destroyed fho will of tho late Cot Ituoel Pamter admitted to probate at Gn'onsburg, Saturday The document nbows the deceaa ed (o have been the heaviest real estate owucr csimoreload counly His will dated Julj 1872, and waa dittwn up by Hon Foster Hu estate after all dcb(4 are aid to be worth James Allison, the oldont Postmaster in the State, haa tbiown up his commission on account i old age He was ap pointed Poitmuter at Hearight this i jnn- ly, during President Folk ad amiHtratlon, aud beld tho office over since His resig nntion has been forwarded to Washington, and Eho i Hatdeld, appointed his successor Meurs Frick Do are building a num her of new tenement bon es They hava nine in com ie of erection at Broadforrl, 'our of which are under roof ttu at Mor gan seven of which are under roof, and hree nt Shernck under roof There are also ten double tenements in com so of erec tion at Summit mines A horse longing to Mr Samuel Byerly, of East Huntingdon township, Weslmcre and counly, became frightened at an ap- reaching freight tram a few days ago, anj breaking loose from tbe hitching post, starts 1 down tho railroad, keeping pace with the tram till near Haskoyo station, where it attempted to cross the track ront of the engine, when it was struck aud mitaiitly killed Ihe McKeesport Times has ascertained hat Umantown has the oldest tavern keeper the State, not the eldest man, but the itdest iu continuous service as a tavern He keept the Wbltt Swan Houee ind his name is Nathaniel Brownfield He born ond raised in the house, and took iharge of it, upon coming cf age in the 1831, which was forty nine years ftgo, ind he has it ever since TBE Four Oil. notice waa given in the Oreensbutg Garotte of Nov 8th, 18)1) "We are informed that Mr ohn Gibson, formerly of this place, bay, boring for salt water near Georgetown, on the Conoiuaugh Blver, atrnck upon a opious supply of Seneca oil, which our nformaut naos from the bottom of tbe ell, now 207 feet deep, and floats on the water at the top He mppoaes that a bar- per day might be procured Still wagon, of Tyrone township, has a thrifty littlo vineyard of nine hundred waring vines, all enclosed by one of tbe most neatly kept hedges we have noticed in ayotte countv During a recent visit, we had the pleasure of sampling some of the icellent wine, of which Mr StOlwagon manufactures a liberal quantity every year, and we found it of a supeuor quality both respect to flavor and bodv Isaac Banks, of Greenaburg, waa injured in an affray which occurred be ween him and a stone mason named Dan. elt-ring at that place, Saturday, Tbe wo men bad fought early in the day and he latter had been woisted He then atohed his opportunity and struck bis ellow workman ith a hoe on the top of be head, inflicting injuries which may arove fatal Kettering has made good bis scape. The Mt Pleasant Times, of Saturday, aya The crash ot lightning during tbe torm last Wednesday morning, waa more de tructiva in Its effecU than was first suppos- At Upper More wood shaft it struck a corner of tbe shaft 90 feet mid nir, shivered into splinters and then descended the side of the shnft and passed off to the ground an the iron roof of tbe boiler house The night fireman whose name wo failed to earn was stunned and thrown a dislanon of en feet or more by the shock PBOJIOT ABANDONED --1 he McEeesport Times of a recent date has tbe following to aay in regard to tbe proposed connection of McKeesport with tbe mam line of the Pennsylvania road The project of build ng a U.

connection from Port Ferry to tLis place has been abandoned after all tbe prospect looked so encouraging (or a time A letter waa received hut evening from the Company addressed to J. White, Wood, Thos Hoore, et si The rcaso-i assigned for abandoning plojoct was that tbe ground is too brojtuslt making the flrat cost too heavy to ttj ivlfclitng about the cost of maintaining tha road. IB tho opinion of tbo Company, the available connection to bridge tho Monongahela but they say nothing about what they would do tbat event We regret to make the anuouuc a mont of abui- (Jonmeut of the connection 1 he loutown rac are billed tor Thura day and Friday of this week Roth roads will well cxourrfou Wayneftburg and Washington rn rojid will not be gold as was eipectptl Iho enjtird cloim for which the road wns lo linvo btjen Bold amounttd to but $2,000 A daughter of John Knux, postmaster East Flnley, Washington county, WHH so horribly burned Monday uijjht by the up- Betting of a lamp that che will uot recover. She is about fifteen years oCnge Tho Cambria county colony which wtut to Kausas about oightoou tnoutbs ago have met with a regular aeriea of nmfortiuies The Idlest reported is the total destruction of their oorpa by a torrifio atorra Mr John Johnston census euumarator of Deny and Coketon districts iu Wast more- land county, Kays that tbe population of Cokoton In ruu, nnd of this number U'tlivo four houses We prosuma the bouses are large ones It WAS reported that another gstubhbg affray had occurred at Groensburg, lust Friday night, and that a promiiiont citizou hud been reriausly stabbed It haft siucu transpired that there was nothiug whatever of truth in tho affair shipment coal from all of tho Mouongahula river pools for the first HIX months of tlm yodi wore 410 buwh els, 23,007 670 having been mui out from pool IX 2 alone I be total shipment IH the largest for any correiipondmg pi nod for tea years Tbe large baru ofllcnry Went llethlelnm township Washington counly was Htruck by lightning Friday afternoon The burn and con hinting of 4ft fleeces of wool, fiOO JOZCUH of wheat ttnd variety of farming irnplementuwero entirely destroyed Peter HughoM, a conl minor in tbe em ploy of the Caui'iria at Johnstown, wan pre paring a blast Mouduy afternoon when a spark from his lamp fell iu the can of pow dor clowo at hand and an explosion foUow ed He wan tor ibly burned about the face and body hut it is possiblu ho may recover Booth Flinu aro pushing forward as rapidly us tbeir contract on the SomoiBtt and Camlma Railroad The aeo tion whii nru working is seven miles south of town auJ three imlea from the Hummer hort known as Scalp Level They make their headquarters at the vil agd named The woul tiade iu Greene county, Pn is not verp hvuly an ytt few clips huve boen Bold at 40 cents, but the Jarnitus generally aro not willing to lot it go at thru price It IM thought 4 cents would taka the bi Ik of tlie wool 11 tbo county This price has been obtained eiLopt a fe uxtrt. lots In WuHhmgtem county theip aro more than .00 ptisoiia named pro win In West Fmley township they inunbtr just 100, an I East lmliy fit Iho females who have changed their names would number about the same Jiuy ara nil atanuch Repubh cana except out sin nil branch of tho family Him aro desccnduuU of John Sprowla, who moved into tmley towuship, from Ireland, 80 yean ago Ono day last wu youug mau named Witlian Burchell, met with (juite a serious accident while ut work tho coal pit of Evorson, McCrum A to, al Scottdalo, by having his head cnught between one of tho pit wagons nnd the side of tho bank, cutting a gash from the left temple above tho ear, then up over bis head, then toward tho foitheal agnm making in all a cut about nine 11 length, laying hero his skull Although badly hurt he will likely recover Mra Lide McMillan Lash, of Washington coutity met with an accident on Saturday last whioh resulted death Tuesday The accident happened uenr Beutljsville, on the Hopkins form Urn Laah had been pick ing berries, nn i on htr return paaed through the field whero her husband was at work hauling hay Hhe mounted tho load to iide home, aud when p.isning over a trench sho wan Mul off and alighted on her bi with the ubr results Deceased was 23 years of age Robert S.

Austin, of Unioutown, waa found dead hu bpd last Friday morning. He had for a long time suffered from nen ralia anJ rheumatism and was in the hubit of usmx morphine to all via to the pain -It is thought that some time in the after part of the night he is awakened with severe pain and took an overdose of the narcotio, and dfrd from its effects He was a house and sign painter, cabinet maker carpenter, carver nutl designer by occupa tion. and obtained quite local celebrity as a portrait painter crayon sketchist nnd caricaturist He was aged fifty-four years, and was brother of Wm Austin, ksq late of Pittsburg, Rev. Richard Auatfn, of Philadelphia, and Chris, Aasti n. Union town A BAI CBOWD --Tho show which travel- led through this county and victimized so many of our citizens, has come to grief A Lutrobe constable arrived Greonsburg, Friday night, with 8 Peters proprietor of the Boyd and Peters show and three attaches of the establishment The cause of their arrest waa an information made by Johu Burkett, of Bhsnluville.

Somerset county, charging them with abducting his daughter The girl left home with the circus, and traced to Ligouler, Wwt- moreJand county It is said that oeven men had ravished her near Jenner Cross Roads and that she afterwards followed the snow through the influence of her abdaot- or. They were granted a hearing and then ooiumttted for trial COBOOBAM 8 FllO Plttsbtirg I patch of Monday contained the following "Jobn Corcoran, of Soho, waa brought to the Mayor office on (nrday aigLt in a dtlaplda ed condition His nosn WAS broken, his right discolored and closed and bia face frescoed until it looked like Bulgarian war mnp Mr Corcoran said he wanted to make an information ngninst Lije Donglftsa et al who had hammered him at Broadford Corcotau Hind he had been up to Coime.limilt) to collect sorao money due from Liju brother, and hfn namp followers got on the train at Broadford for the purpose of making the awauli Corcoran nays Lijo slopped up to him aud iu friendly manner named him and his hand for the usuil ralufation. Instead of shaking handa, howover, Corcoran aays Lije landed out with hm fiat armed with bucklers, (hat a party named Charley Oroaaloud said "give it lo him, and the whole joined and hammnred him into iufunsibility Dr Ea'e? drewod tbe HKUIOW 4 gua gives tbe following aMouat of a 1. fnl acciden' which occurred hut mfcr! Friday Mr O'Meil and ton, of Uetrj ship, stated to a funeral In a buggy, coining to a water trough by the the son very foolishly bH mt ot the horse mouth In order to Maa to drink The hone, freed from thul KV stramt, became uumanagtabU, and in efforts tho to get away knocked young man dowu and tramped him severely fathi in attempting to jump oat, had foot caught in one of the wheels, and la thla condi'ion he was dragged ootu.idera- ble diHtance and shockingly Injured--tbe flesh being torn c(f one of hia legs, leaving hare the bone from the foot to tho Utbjfh. He IB in a critical condition, and it is not likely that bo can recover The intnrlM ol the sen were not so severe and be ia dolog well JtnmNo A JAIL --Four eaeapad from the county jail at Uuiontowo, lion- day evening While thai Sheriff's aon taking the supper disbee from jail to the kitchen, the door was for a moment left unguarded and four of theinmaUs advantage of the opportunity and effected their eacRp? Their uamea are 7to- mait colored, of Cniontown, who ia charged trith an assault from tbe of which hm victim, Kobert Murphy, died, Thomas llemafl, colored, of Brownsv'ile, charged with assault nud battery Wm OolUns, of Connollaville, charged with an aaaault with nn agK lult with intent to kill officer Hunt Mc( oruucK, and Charles also of CimuelUvillc Dozens of men and boya atartod in pursuit, and Froman anon fouud secreted in a clump of berry on the hilside north of tho jaiL He surrendered in the face of hah! a revol- volvera When Froman was escorted back to jail bo was detained temporarily in lutchen of tbe Sheriffs dwelling stau ling there beside a table he maaagad to get his hands on an immense bntehtr knife Concealing it as welt ha able he asked that Heury Bailey and Beiill bo brought in These men actively aiwted in capturing him.

HiB singular request provoked inquiry, aftd ita object being readily divined, the Lmfe was taken fiom him but not without some very pro- 1 me objections on his part will probably be captured Bichard a mac has been charged with assisting them to escape AM Ex-rtNinvB SKKIBTON --A huge skeleton mi unejrthad in Springfield township, a few since by JamcB Leonard. Hr Lconnrd waa plowing around one of raou ida that are frequently found in mountain diM.ncU, and occasionally fa SttttkmcutB, and supposed by many people to ha graves of India ia belonging to aboriginul tribes. Tbla skeleton waa seven feet length, and of uniform Mr Leonard pi iced the skull of it over oivn head and there were three of hpico all nrouml hia head and tbe of the skeleton Ho also took i bone of the skeleton and placed it ovtr his own, and could run his up between the two Tha bones of re an thick as an ordinary man's leg, and the thigh bones equal to Ihe trunk of an ordinary tree The feet wen nioun, and the teeth were large than of a horse Tat. PKB8IDIXO ELDERS WIPB. IV, 30, 1878 UR rexiKft Frodotila your Blood ua I Iv I Ittiiiiftly ata Norvo Tunic, Hud ftlio (Vxuh lluucv two i I jiirfetnlly 1 cu tatUty Hint ilioy i ju nil you cUlmfor them Oar fiuiljr hm I rir moru benefit tram laelr tatta (ram i -Hi me II Ine W.

tuntur nuiLiiO them to nil i MBI BKV WABMX Dr Fennera Blood and Liver BeBudy and Nerve Tonic may well be called conquering hero' of the times has "the bluea should take it, fur it rtfU- and the diaordered lyatem that givea riBe to them. It always UCSK and Liver Complaint, Jaundice, Dya- pepsia, Constipation, Headaches, PIVEB AOEE, SPLEEN Eiiuaaanarei, Scrofula, erysipelas, Pimplea, Blotches aad AUL Skm Ennrrioxs and BIOOD DaoBDXaa, Swelled Limba and Dropay, Impaired Nerves and DcblUtn Bestorea flesh and strength when tbe agnuta is running do wo or going into decline; cures Female Weakness and Chronic Bheu- uiatism, and relievos Chronic Bronchitis, aud all Lung and Ibroat diffloultiea. It does those things by atnkmg at tha root ot" disease aud removing ita cauuee. Dr Fennel's Improved Cough Houy wfll relieve any cough in one hour "ffg a sample bottle at U) cents Dr Fetmer's Golden Relief any pain, aa Toothache, Neuralgia, Colic ox Headache in 6 to 30 minutes, and readily relieves Uhe'iraatiBin, Kidney Complaint. Diarruha Try a sample at 10 Ir Fenner Vegetable ad and Liver Pills I ho best family physic known.

For aale by U. McCurmick. Vain Rtewt for Additional Loral Matter See Second Page. COUB. lli- coke trade decidedly flat.

tiavc droppaj. to almost nominal -We quote thla week at 1,50 per ton, on baud can at ovens. Corrected weekly by Frlsbee, Cooper 4k Oo wuolewlo and retail dealers In Oonenl Mer- ha ndlse, Hilu street, Oouneliiville, ra Apples bushel Apple Butler gall Butter (Fresh Boll) Buckwheat Flour fl cwt Corn Meal cut CoHee (green) I) Coffee (roasted) Chec-o f) Carbon Oil ftiaU. Dried Dried Fetches Eggs doz Hour yl tjl.l Honey Lardflk Molasses Kail Potatoes nusb Bice Sugar (broiut) ft (renued, 1C gall Halt tilil. Tea 6 Tallow ft at ao ov CONHBL.L8VI1.1J weekly by Kelt tlie New Baveu Finiitef Mlllav 1 i-w.

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