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f love and sympathy for all. 1 low tru remark, “Bro. Graves is a good man. 5 i He has had a successful year at Strasburg and returns for the third time. (interesting letter from rev. ill In various parts of the church sat JAMES K. RAYMOND- id several others. S. T. Kemble reported a P successfull year at Bristol. J. S. Lame pi Ministers Wlio Have Served Middle- . is not far from Middletown—Cornwall, town 31et.!jodist lEpiwcwpal Church. ISome Middletowucrs still remember some !C^ When you consider that all the min¬ 'of his sermons on Heaven. He is a gen¬ isters of the M. E. church sent to Middle- ial and popular man—when sent to Corn¬ i town since it has been organized into a wall, a year ago, he had to resign the separate charge, in ISoG or 57, are living Presidency of the Philadelphia Preachers? to-day, with but one exception, (Rev. Meeting. L. B. Hughes comes up from Allen John, who was aged, and died of a hard field of labor with an encouraging >i general debility while stationed there), report, including $200 more salary than ^ ! it would seem that it is not such an un¬ that estimated at the beginning of the healthy appointment after all. year. G. G. Ilakestraw, that enthusiastic, I At the last session of tho annual Con¬ holy man, who believes every word he ference, held in the Twelfth st. M. E. j preaches, and makes you believe it too— Church, Phila., all these ministers were the first pastor of the church, when set present with but one exception, he being apart as a station, now, for the first time, I unavoidably detained in another part of begins to look venerable, and takes his ' the city, (Eastern Penitentiary.) The place with the fathers of the Conference. ^ j Pastor of the church in which the con- J. T. Swindells was there, than whom re '! ference was held, Rev. S. W. Kurtz, was iUiddletowners have never seen a harder g th one of the first preachers sent to Middle- worker. Sometimes beginning his s 01 town charge. I couldn’t understand Itow vices at 5 o’clock in the morning; preachy it was that the writer had so pleasant a ing on street corners, at the railroi conference home, and so convenient to pitching a tent for Gospel services if ,vl the church, until I went to thank the neglected parts of the town; keopin, <3 everything moving; his musical ■ 1 pastor. He told me it was for two { Bt reasons—first, because I bad so good a uow ringing burning words ofexhorr.ati ut father, and second, because there was a that made your very hair stand on ei n nice young lady at that borne—a state¬ again tuned to the sweetest, most path, U, pitch, the cords touching your very sc 1 ment characteristic of Bro. Kurtz in two si fearless in denunciation of evil; zeal j particulars: He never forgets an old 'U almost to a fault, spontaneously cal ! friend, and is always brim full of good !k. lil IS humor. He has been very sick during forth pity that he would work so , the past year, but has regained bis Bro. Swindells name is written de>j'ERE health. upon the hearts of many Middletow and upon none I think, more .deeplj , f! On the platform sat two of our former I0W j pastors. I. G. Grove is Assistant Secre¬ upon the writers’. To his many frit ti tary of the Conference. He has a most I cannot speak in greater praise that o delightful charge at Coatesville. There say he is the same earnest, pure-heac I was presented to fee Presiding Elder, a Swindells. The last year has told so), for what upon him. He seems a little el walk petition, signed by every official member mds, 1 but I think better able than ever to re anc-j5 of his church, asking for his return for 1 his third year. To all who were, ac¬ the hearts of such.as have passed throe “ Oh lei quainted with feim when stationed at. great tribulations and misrepresentat ;,Pe1r“ Middletown, it'would be a great surprise W.H.Fries is liaviug a successful timt 0 If he were not popular with young and Bridesburg. lie is one of the “good st 440 is old. No man has at that place, been held around workers.” He reported 80 varie- 5?ationers, a very .good report. It Tele- lo | in greater esteesv than Pro. Grove. Just e book -re back of the Bishop sat Morris Graves, during the first year of Bro. Fries private esl Assistant Statistical Secretary, the same istry that the writer gave his heart + ‘would 18, i zealous, pains-taking worker be proved j —of course then we are attached * ion the gb ingular t | himself to be at Middletown. Pull of other. Some of the young peor p0°se t0 0f — <*. -- prominent in the church, were cor ra;[y un- nal ath ana\ ring his pastorate^ including the S. S. that'du-iv is ;vfj;0Soib'4)ty of iiis fallin; ■Superintendent. There in front sat from it. WelCdid Pai)i say he exerci jThojnas Montgomery. No man in his care lest iiavinjy preaeped to; others, be Ministry labored harder, and in more dif¬ himself should become a castaway. Mar ficult fields of labor than he. Hovr glad have read >jth deepest regret of Ufa lye were to see him there! When liis'l Millet’s downward course.. We have1 » ai"° was eadod he passed from the heard he has repented and God has for J t'anks of Supernumerary, (which relation ; given hint. Of course, he will never re¬ ie took last year on account of his failin* gain the hold lie once had, but there is a -2-_ — ‘ n i a >. — . . * World beyond this one, arid by the looks health), to Superannuated. He has borne ef his snow white hair and his bent form, he is not far from that World. I hope ! was present also L. II. Broun, a man | e may be among the redeemed in whom we ad love, who can look back Heaven. Let no one despair because he ' upon his Middletown record with pardon¬ ft has wandered from G«d—the promise, able pride,. Many young people were i “Him that cometh unto Me, I will in taken into the church in his time. The jj nowise cast out,” is just as much for the h'-autiful editicc in which the Methodists fallen, the hack sliders, as for him who arc now worshipping, was erected during never was ‘’horn again."” Ijjs }-i:-ui!ate. entailing upon him labor And now we have concluded the list, •fjtfw .. an appreciate, and bringing Metliod- at least 13 of the 14 have been holy men j fem into greater prominence in Middlo- of God. It would be difficult to find in tov> n than it ever before held. He also this conference of nearly 300 ministers 13 was an inspiration, to the Sabbath school more devoted men than those who have], nd young people’s work in general, served at Middletown. Many of the souls hikoney city, where ho has just been they have gained for the Master, are out, can pride itself on receiving one of awaiting in Heaven the coming of these he best; men on the loll of the conference pastors to enjoy an eternal re-union; and one who leaves undone nothing he can many more are pressing the mark for the , and who dues more th.au he ought to prize of their high calling in Christ Jesus . Bro. Brown will never be forgotten constantly helped by the inspiration and Mkhlletowners, regardless of denomi- labors of these men of God. I believe I tional preferences. am one of the many who thank God for f any man says Middletown is un the privileges of having sit at their feet lthy. we will point to your present to listen to their explanations of His to-; nevertheless persons, as well as Word. >gs, are not always what they seem, .Tajiks K. Raymond, we know Bro, McKee has not been Moores, Pa., April ITS, 1888. well. No man ever brought a better j t from Middletown than he, to the DAILY TELEGRAPH; conference—over 100 conversions, 70 ationers, 500 scholars in the 3 Sab- HARRISBURG, FA schools, over ci.000 paid ou churoh and every interest flourishing excell- FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 28, 1888. The writer regards it one of the DEATH OF EBIASJS. KINZEIt. ileges of his iife to have been per. Peaceful End of ai? Active Business I.ife ot Over I-lnlt a Century. ced some 15 months ago to listen to Elias E. Kinzer, E>q., the well-known earnest, practical, heart-reaching real estate agent, died on Thursday at hi nous of Bro. McKee, Middletowners residence, 306 North Second street, after an j e a privilege they ought to estimate illnes3 of several weeks, beginning with j congestion of the lungs, affection of the Sly. I isow many of them will be heart, and culminating in dropsy. On the ling the reports of the General Con- 6th of November last he left Harris- | nee next month to see if the pastoral burg for Missouri, where he had i extensive landed interests, and whilst i is to be extended, that they may there was attacked with pi urisy, him longer than the three years, the and was confined to bed for several days. ; ent rime-limit. Ho recovered sufficiently to start for home, e name has been omitted—T. B. aud arrived here on "Thanksgiving Day. Since then he has been suffering, and was una¬ <•—how fervently he preached, and ble to attend to business, all the time being a gift lie had fur preaching! Yet no confined to his room. Up until the present "ain a position so high but •i vigorous man","hazily what tl day’s
8lCMr?SK:!nzer was born in E^rl township, Elizabeth, deceased and wife ofSal Lancaster county, on the 23.1I of Maf hof81his and was therefore m the 75th Jja ot IMcLenegan; Jonas, Simon and Abrahal? o ,e He was one of a family of ei„t jof Sleelton; John J. of Harrisburg and children, born to his parents, George* Margaret EllmaUer Kinz^ S x of th I Auneita, wile of Harvie Dean, of Har¬ iris! urg, all of whom attended their still survive, viz: Col. . Levi of Sian Francisco, Cahtoim * mother’s funeral. Mrs. Bodner became Kinzer, of Pottstown Montgomery county I the second wife of Iiilareus Bodner, a Mrs Maria Yundt, now 89 years * * Riue Ball. Lancaster county, 'well-known citizen of Highspire, who survives her. Her grandparents were John Jacob Parthemore (1766—1848) Van Bu8I»'k’he°folJ°f Ind best known in and Elizabeth Alleman (1781—1835) and s was one of the okiest * WM a sister 1 ! are buried in ihe Reformed grave yard | ofanthe1arteCOAmo^ Ellmaker, of Lancaster, in Middletown, and her great grandpar- j of the iaie aw Pennsylvania from ents were Philip Parthemore, born 181 lUo ^819?nand the anti-Masonic candi¬ date for Vice President on the ticket wi t April 29, 1736, in Sprenlugen Province | William Win. of Virginia, for Prosident Rhein Hessen, Germany, died January •„ -iqoo Mr. Kinzer came to itaupuin 1797 and Ann Eve Hypsher, both are j county in 1836, first as a clerk at the Manada furnace, in East Hanover township^ and buried in the Reformed grave yard. ' subsequently became manager and hnaUy Philip Parthemore came to America one of the proprietors of the same. Alt with his father, landing at Philadelphia ward he became proprietor and manage! o October 20,1744. His father John Fred¬ Ellendale Forge, near Daupnin -last before he removed to Harrisburg he was erick Parthemore, died in the year 1752 manager of the Cove Forge in Perry county. in Derry township. Philip Parthemore For the past fifteen years he has been >n the was the ancestor of the surviving decei] real estate business in this city, arl ^ He leaves two children, Mrs. A. E^King- Mrs. John Winagle' port, of this city, and Mr. William P. Kin- zer, of Wooster, Ohio. . The death of Mrs. John Winagle or He was a familiar figure on our streets, Wentnagle, mention of which was made and will be greatly missed in basinesa. cir¬ in last week’s issue of this paper, calls to cles. He was a member ot Market bquai e Presbyterian church, very attentive to all recollection one ot the earliest German church duties, and throughout his long busi¬ families to settle in this borough and vi¬ ness career lived an exemplary, temperate cinity and an early communicant of Old and Christian life. St. Pater’s Lutheran Church. Mrs. Winagle’s husband, John Win¬ the pb: agle, born December 12, 1818, was the son of John Mathias Winagle, (born l.o. NiSSLEY, Ed. and Prop- Nov. 2, 1788, died June 6, 1846), and Anna Mary Bodner. Elizabeth Rupp, 'born July 3 1795, died Mrs. Anna (Mary Bodner, who died March 10, 1838), and grandson of John December 13, 1890, in Highspire, and Mathias Winagle, Sr. (born Feb. 11 1749, was buried ou Tuesday last, was the died January 8, 1792), and Agnes Early daughter of John Parthemore (1799 — (died January 8 1792), all residing and 1S63) and Annie Hotz (1800—1883). She dying in Middl town. The great grand- 1 was born December 3, 1823 in Middle- father and progenitor of the family of town. August 29, 1844, she married Winagle was Mathias, born of Evangel- | Abraham Fetrow, born January 7, 1823, ical Lutheran parents, the year of the I: in York county, Pa., died December 24, Redeemer Jesus Christ May 14, 1716, in 3861, in Highspire, where he resided, Germany and died February 28, 1786 at following Iris trade of cooper. He was Middletown, Fa. Thus have passed the son of Jonas Fetrow (1799—1859) away by heath and removal a name I)1 and Margaret Svveilzer (1802—1862). He once so numerous in this county, until left a widow and following issue sur now but very few remain, and it will re- named Fetrow: Cordelia, wife ot Sarn- qnire onl&a few more yeirs until they', Crone,. of Philadelphia; Margaret ] ames of manv other Ger- i f chased a lot and erected^agoocPsued square 1 j I *.nR bumling lor the ncfPmmodation of his I family, llut in business concerns he was ! i-town, telling them who once were never prosperous, owing in part 'to want of I 'The early inhabitants of the' town; and tact, but more to defective training in early ,T life, but most ot all to the deleterious in- f they too are fast passing away, judging fluence of the convival habits he had con- from their present shameful neglected ! traded during his military career, which the | usages of society did not at that day tend to ! condition caused by the remaining de¬ j restrain or reform. Mv heart still throbs I scendants of those who lie within, not : with emotion at the recollection of thecrush- attending to the same; -referring to the j iug misery and suffering which these unhappy habits entailed upon his euduring wife and oldest Lutheran, Reformed and Presby¬ \ helpless children. terian burial places. I When I was but 7 years old, a brother-in- j l!lw °t my father, named Eerguson, stopped with us for some days; and having no child- . ren he prevailed with my parents to allow I , me to accompany him home. He lived near Colebrook Furnace in Lancaster county, ana I was the proprietor of a snug farm and quite well-to-do in the world, I stayed with him a year, when ray mother brought me away. A VISIT WITH HIS GRANDFATHER, ! In the summer of 1797 my grandfather j Kyle spent some time with us, and on his de¬ parture induced my parents to consent to my ) accompanying him’ to liis residence In Ly- I coming county, about seven miles north of "Williamsport on the west side of Lycoming creek. * * * * * The valley of Lycoming creek, though narrow, abounds with rich bottom lands along ,'xtract its borders, The adjacent hills are inter- • sected in many places by dark ravines, the ! channels for sparkling rivulets, which of a Noted Pennsylvanian. abounded in the summer season in rich past¬ urage; and up these ravines it was the daily custom of the cattle to make their way in le Early Struggles of quest of food, and as duly my task to follow i them and drive them home in the evening. | Known Harrisburg On one occasion in consequence of a heavy ! and continuous rain during the day, Ij. did ! Publisher — How a Self-Educated not find them in their usual haunts," and con- I tinned my seureh for them in various and Self-Made Man Rose in Life directions until darkness overtook iuj when a mile and more from home. Eluding ,my efforts to discover them altogether vUin, 11 ’o tlie Editor of the Commercial Gazette. gave up the pursuit and turned my face I homeward; but the darkness thickened sol- Sir—To the kindness of George Plu fast round me that I soon lost all trace of the ' Smith, Esq., of Philadelphia, I am indebted obscure pathway. My efforts! to regain it also for the privilege of reading the very inter- proved unsuccessful; and lest I should in- f 1 esting autobiography of James Peacoek, j volve myself more deeply in the forest and from which I send you a portion of some local perhaps stray still further from home, I gave interest. It is to be regretted that the whole over the attempt and settled myself down as comfortably as I could for the night at the is not accessible to the public, as it is not base of a large tree. only interesting but instructive, and would The “pelting of the pitiless storm” around encourage many a poor boy in bis struggle to me was terrifying enough to mv young and improve himself and his condition. I. C. untutored imagination: and the’ni’oanings of JAMES PEACOCK, the forest, and the frequent crash of a falling branch ot a tree, heightened my terror by Editopand Publisher, also Long Pots- suggesting the thought that it was caused by , master at Harisburg. the advancing steps of a hungry wolf or bear. [Extracts from ills Autobiography.] These animals had sometimes crossed my I was born on the 8th day of April, in path in broad day; how much greater reason the year of 1788, in an humble log building had I then to dread an encounter with one of which my father had erected on a corner of [ them in the darkness of a tempestuous night, Uncle Thomas McArthur's farm, soon after “when all the beasts of the forests! ins marriage. No vestige of the building do move” in quest of their prey. now remains; but the late Thomas Elder, You may conceive the terror which! Esq., of Harrisburg, informed me soon after possessed me duriug this drenrv and ■ I took up my residence i:i Harrisburg, that almost sleepless night, but I cannot adequate¬ he remembered having assisted the erec- ly describe its degree. I had some snatches! tion of the edifice. * * " * was just ot terrified slumber and filled up every mo¬ year old when the family ren d up ment ot waking consciousness by repeating . ;i;iata river and my earliest the Lord’s prayer, the only devotional exer¬ r to persons and incidents ; cise I could call to mind; and thus the wearv night passed away. At earlv dawn I re¬ sumed my search for the cow-path, which T speedily found, arid then hastened home. On C. —HJfl 1 1 calculate s ~o h his next season's crops. If there is a failure of the latter be will bo uuable to pay his debt, and of course this will greatly Incon¬ venience the man to whom ho owes the money. The receipts at some of these sales reach $3,500, while $i,000 is an ordinary sum to be realized at a public vondue. As the sale is nearing the end there are a bus.* lot of womon in the house. Great preparations had been made for the sale day. For days tho farmer’s wife and her help had boon baking bread, cakes, and pies, cooking meat, and some¬ times roasting turkeys lor the big meal on sale day. A general invitation is issuod to those present. A substantial collation is often served to hundreds of persons. The visiting women usually help to wait on the table. It is a merry¬ making meal; everybody is in a good humor, and heie again the auctioneer is the centre of attraction. His jokes provoke rounds of laugh¬ ter, and when he leaves the table there are always many who want to imitate him. The farmer always has a number of men to help him on snu> day, to take care of the horses of the visitors and render other assistance. The early part of the day is generally devoted to the Inspection of the various horses, cattle, and agricultural implements for salo. Some of the most successful officeholders in Berks, Lebanon, aud Lancaster Counties started out In life as auctioneers. It is a capital vooar . >ov then A tion to make a man known. The shrewd orier will readily ingratiate himself in the good v stories to reliev graces of the voters, and awaiting the oppor¬ pioneering. tunity he will become a candidate for office. As ibis time until near tlie 1st of a a general rule he is a hard man to defeat, be¬ cause bis only enemy is his competitor in the ■ endue season, and scarcely a day -..-res auctioneering business, whose dislike he will Hat there are not a half dozen puhlio sales, naturally arouse. he tenant farmer has the sale. He has decided These country sales are beooming more pop¬ ular each year, and those advertised for the quit his present farm and remove to another, MMB.• . next few months largely exceed those of the I;.li ipcrhapa seek another vocation in life less corresponding period last year. , /rdensomo than tilling the soil. He -will have Irge and attraotive sale bills printed, and the luntry weekly will publish gratuitously the 'pouncemeut of his “ vendue ” each week 'til the day of sale. Ho will eugage the most DAILY TELEGRAPH uiular auctioneer, ana this fact will be pub- shed on the sale bill. A good crier Isa great lTawing card. HABRISBURG, PA., - on the appointed day the farmer’s friends and leighbors will be on hand to give him a good THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1892. •scud-off.” The politician finds these sales are jxoelient places to see his friends. In Lancas- er and Berks Counties there are more of these sales than anywhere else. The attendance TREES IN CAPITOL PARK. sometimes is marvelous. As high as 3.000 per¬ sons are pretest; then again the number docs not reach oOO. Of course these figures do" not THEIR NAMES AND NUMBERS HERE lnuicato men only. Women are quite numerous, they do not, as a rule, come to buy, but simply ; ceompany their husbands. Frequently the •dug men agree to take their sweethearts to All to be Labeled, So You Will Know sale of a well-known farmer, aud It is not an lueommon thing for them to mako ut> parties Them. Tr such occasions. "'he "orier” is unquestionably the most popu- m;an on the ground. At the time of begln- ils familiar cry of “ O, yes, and another O, Ask aiiy citizen of Harrisburg who, for to., is heard, and the crowd will swarm years past, has been accustomed to walk him to hear the conditions of the sale to and fro through the Capitol grounds, le reads along in English and then he reiterate the most important parts in Penu- how many trees are in the park, and, I .vivania Dutch. He is generally paid on the leuten ciidiiicc/bchances toiu one,uuc, Hehe wouldvv vuj ct. say:• 1 Oh jercentage plan, and he will naturally eudoavor about a thousand or so, perhaps more,per¬ Jio get good prices. haps less.” But in saying so, he would > articles tor sale are, as a rule, plaoed in «* around the farm premises. The auctioneer be very far from the truth. ’ V'oro one artiole to another followed by the There are at present in the park just 440 ..d. Ail the while he keeps everybody m trees, comprising sixty-two distinct varie¬ humor by a happy allusion or a humorous neut on the articles he is selling. He never ties. Two years ago the Daily Tele¬ os, notwithstanding that he docs the same graph offered a prize of a handsome book .lay after day for three mouths without to any student in the public or private lission, except Sunday. Horses, cattle, of all Kinds, farming implements, house- schools, or to any one else, who would i.cles of every variety, besides those prepare and give us for publication the 'Inch oome under the well-worn term of names of these different trees. Singular — 'irous to mention,” are rapidly sold to relate, there was not one response to ( r's credit is generally given on pur- this offer. A person would naturally im¬ n-er .. sum> which latter is paid agine that a love for botany and forestry u. \\ uile the system of giving such a long ,* generally c isconutouanoed it has a len- would have prompted some one at least to ^ i to make purchasers more plentiful. The make the attempt. But no one did. c“’" ”'"'t?ca a year's oredit generally. For the last twenty years iLj--r-?.bcen the^ _ Yj9uai?.)L .. unoccupied domain, and also'tteefs oTiS&J boats, which after having borne their : hotel of the place ami 1 can ohry reply that to maiket, had to be poled and tugged I was determined in my choice, as well by against the current. Amongst the emigrat the general reputation of the house, as by a classes, 1 was particularly interested by desire to mingle in better society during my novel spectacle of a respectable white fa sojourn, than I could have expected to do in attended by a numerous retinue of neg one of an inferior grade. It was situated ou perhaps one of the famed but now soinewb the “Diamond,” as I believe the quarter was mythical If. F. V.’s, emigrating to sou called, and was the resort of a better class of territory, where their favorite “dome citizens, as well of most of the respectable stitution” was held in honor. travelers who passed through the town. On the morning of the fourth day, con During my stay at this house I struck up an that on which I arrived, I felt it my duti extemporary acquaintance with some of the set out for home, notwithstanding the former class as well as with sundry inter¬ abled condition of my horse, and aceordii esting individuals belonging to the latter, with no little trepidation summoned my 1 among whom was a Polish exile who had lord to a reckoning, I had painful mi fled to this country for personal safety and in ings that his demand would exhaust my li the hope that he would find here that free¬ stock of cash, hut to my great surprii dom and security which were denied him in well as relief, it amounted to bul $1! his own. He had been a soldier of rank, and handed him the money with an animated ; his person bore uumistable marks of wounds knowledgement of the moderation of received on the battlefield, especially one charge. ana went “on my wav rejoicing.” from a sword thrust clear through his body. did not attempt to mount the pony, but 1 He was reserved on the subject of bis and drove him alternately during the “hair-breadth ’scapes" and only spoke of journey of that day, and you may ima them in reply to the request of those around 8 with what industry I prosecuted my jo nine him. But this is anticipating, und I must when I state that It exceeded forty miles, return to my narrative. exerted myself to accomplish this di: because it brought me to the residence < EXPERIENCE IN PITTSBURGH. farmer, some miles east of Greeusbur My first care on my arrival was to find ft whom I had a letter of introduction fri farrier to doctor my horse, but with little or gentleman in Lewistown, and at whose no advantage, as his condition improved but I was sure of free quarters as long as 1 ell little during my sojourn in PittsDurgh. The to sojourn. I reached the place before d: next morning I called upon Judge Roberts, and met with a hospitable reception from t (2) and executed the commission with which I gentleman himself aud his very nice famii was charged to him. He was a very gentle¬ Here I remained contentedly for the manly man, in the prime of life, and treated part of a week, during which time, th me with much kindness and courtesy, and his the skillful treatment of my pony lady, to whom I had the pleasure of being kind entertainer, I was enabled to presented, made a most favorable impression plish the remainder of my journey upon me. To them both I was indebted for parative satisfaction.- The roads at all time gratifying attentions all the time I spent in indifferent, were now in a deplorable cond Pittsburgh. tiou from excessive rains, and the trave While waiting for my pony to recover from the iron-freighted wagons plying be his lameness I found employment in ranging Huntingdon and Pittsburgh. The frag through the town, visiting printing offices of shattered wagons aud the bleached sk and manufacturing establishments, and ex¬ tons of defunct horses attested the peril ploring the banks of the Allegheny and Mo- and difficult nature of the travel along tbs nongahela rivers, but, as I was then a green cheerless route. I reached home, lioweve traveler of seventeen summers, aud neither without further accident or interruption, an thought of “taking notes” nor “prentiug” with an unexpected balanceof half a eloze them, my present recollection of objects and coppers out of my stock of $0 at the begit localities is too vague to warrant an attempt uing of my journey. at describing what I so imperfectly remem¬ NOTES. ber. I recollect, however, that on the mar¬ (1) This was the “Black Bear tavern,” whl< gin of the Allegheny, some distance above old-lime residents wilt rerolleet, the town, was a garrison, (3) occupied by a (2) After the Impeachment of Alexander A party of soldiers, with a nicely arranged vege¬ dison as judge of the Fifth oirouit, tlion coi table garden attached, all of which lias long posed oi tho counties of Allegheny, Wostuior land, Fayette, 'Washington, Greene and Beuvc since disappeared from view, and the space Gov. McKean on the 30th of Ai>rll, 1803, cot it occupied been overspread by the widely- missioned Samuol Roberts of Sunbury, Pn extended city. A horse-race, which occurred judge of' the circuit. Mrs, Roberts’ uialut while I was there, was the most stirring affair name was Maria Heath. They were the gra parents of Col. R. Biddle Roberts, Kdwai that I remember, inasmuch as it drew awav Roberts and John Roberts. Judge Robert to the west side of the liver, a large portion sided on the north side of Penn avenue ju of the inhabitants for the better part of the low Fitts street (now Fifth street) in the day, (4) afterwards owued and occupied for many INTERESTED IN THE BOATS. by William McKnlght, a drygoods mer But the objects which excited the greatest tho west side of Market street, near whore t! degree of curiosity in me were several good- Union National bank now stands. sized ships (5) lying at the wharves on the (3) . This was Ft. Fayette: it occupied t Allegheny, ready to be floated down to New ground bounded by Hand street, Liberty stret Garrison alley and tho Allegheny river. Orleans whenever a sufficient depth of water (4) . The first racc-course here has be was found for the purpose. Having never described by Brackenridge .n his “Recolleetio seen a vessel of that description, 1 boarded of Persons and Places in the West,” as betwe and explored them with feelings of deep in¬ “the Butch church ” (corner Smithfloid n terest and wonder. There were also to be seen Sixth streets) and the Allegheny river. 1 not recollect ever hearing of a raoe-courso large floats of lumber descending the river the north side of the Allegheny river. aud ponderous arks or broadhorns, roofed (5) . From 1802 to 1806 four ships, Plttsbu over and freighted with produce and the fur- Louisiana, Gen. Butler and Wester '''we and farming implements of emigrant ‘hreo brigs, Doan, Nanir.a and Blue ■I three schooners, Amity, Alle JTn -i jcs in the state of — (rest, wore b\ji^—F--* of Uncle Sa> j aim of every Superintendent of Public Hales'ia Tetraptera, silver bell tree ' J Buildings andGrounds to have these trees Cornus Florida, flowering dogwood 1 1 classified and properly labeled, but no one Prunus Serotina, black wild cherry.. 1 could be found competent and willing to Viburnum Prunifolium, black haw .. 2 undertake the task. Viburnum Opulus, snow ball. 1 About a year ago Major John Lockhart, Aralia Spinosa, angelica tree. 1 the present efficient Superintendent, de¬ Buxus Sempervirens, box. termined that he would label the trees, Quercus Macrocarpa, bur oak, mossy even if he were obliged to import an ex¬ cup oak. pert to give him the classification. This, Quercus Palustris, swamp oak,. however, proved not to be necessary. Castanea Vesca, chestnut. While conversing with a friend on this Fagus Sylvatica, var. Cuprea, copper subject, he accidentally learned that one beech. of the finest botanists in the State resided Enonymus Atropurpureus, burning in Harrisburg. This gentleman is Mr. bush.. 1 William Fahnestock, supervisory princi¬ Fraxinus Americana, white ash . ... 20 pal of the large school on Fourth street, Fraxinus Pubescens, red ash. 20 near Maclay. Mr. Fahnestock studied Fraxinus Excelsior, English ash. 10 botany in the Harrisburg high school un¬ Betula Nigra, red or river biren. 2 der the instruction of that good old Eetula Laciniata Pendula, cut-leafed teacher, Prof. Howard Worcester Gilbert, drooping birch. who taught here from 1863 to 1867. Laburnum Vulgaro, common labur¬ What Prof. Gilbert did not know of num . 1 botany and the ologies was hardly worth Larix Europea, European larch. 1 knowing. Moreover, he was singularly Thujah Occidentalis, arbor vitae. 4 successful in imparting his knowledge to Cupressus Thyoides, white cedar. 5 his pupils, many of whom reside in Har¬ Taxodium Distichum, bald cypress... 2 risburg to-day, and still retain a kindly Juniperus Communis,common juniper feeling for the good old man. Juniperus Virginiana, red cedar savin Major Lockhart sent for Mr. Fahne¬ Abies Excelsa, Norway spruce. 10 stock, and after consultation that gentle¬ Abies Nigra, black or double spruce.. 10 man agreed to classify and name the trees 1 Salisburia Adiantifolia, cinkgo tree.. 1 of the park. He devoted many spare Pinus Austriaca, Austrian pine. 10 hours to this most difficult task, but it re¬ Pyrus Pinnatifida, pinnatifid pyrus... 4 quired a long time, and many hours of re¬ Rhus Continus, smoke-tree, Venitiany search through “Gray’s Botany,” to sumac. complete the work. Acer Pseudo Platanus, sycamore The task is now done, however, and the maple. 15 Telegraph has the pleasure of printing Acer Dissectum, cut leaf maple. 3:1 Mr. Fahnestock's list, as prepared for Negundo Aceroides, ash leaf maple.. 3 i Major Lockhart. It is as follows: Tillia Americana, linden basswood... 16 Robinia Psendacacia, common locust 20 Number Gleditschia Triacantiios, honey locust of Trees. | Liriodendron Tulipifera, tulip tree... 3 Gleditschia Triacanthos var. Inermis, Ulmus Fuloa, slippery elm. 25 thornless honev locust. Ulmus Americana, white elm. 15 Some of the above trees were planted by Acer Dasycarpun, silver maple. 25 prominent people. The late General Cam¬ Acer Rubrum, red or swamp maple.. 10 eron planted a tree near the Mexican ,< Acer Saccharinum,rock or sugar maple 20 monument, but his favorites of all the Acer PIatanoides, Norway maple_ 25 trees in the park was a huge clump of Gymnocladus Canadensis, Kentucky “button ball ” trees,long ago cut down on coffee tree. 5 account of decay. Cercis Canadensis, red bud.’ g Benjamin Harris Brewster, late Attor¬ Catalpa bignonioides, Indian bean... 15 ney General of the United States, also fl rEsculus Hippocastanum, horse chest¬ planted a tree. Governor Geary, Gover¬ nut.;. 10 nor Hartranft, Governor Hoyt, Governor iEsculus Glabra, Ohio buckeye. 3 Beaver and Governor Patti3on have all rEsculus Flava, sweet buckeye. 15 planted trees. An inspiring sight a year Celtis Oecide ntalis, sugarberry, hack- ago in the park was Governor Pattison , berry . 5 with a huge shovel in his hand filling in Platanus Occidentalis, buttonwood the earth around a tree. sycamore. ] Several of the city schools also have * Juglans Nigra, black walnut,...... ' 3 trees there, and even the newspaper men Populus Alba, Abele white poplar. are represented. Col. Rodcarmel, a few . Populus Grandidentata, large-toothed years since, planted the “Mikado” tree, s aspen... 2 and a Telegraph man the “newspaper” c Populus Dilatata, Lombardy poplar.. 3 tree at the end of the main building. .e Salix Babylonica, weeping willow. 1 Both of these trees are aiive and flourish- ,gj Salix Caprea Pendula, Kilmarnock ing. . i848 weeping willow. 3 The famous large elm at the entrar though ‘Salix Caprea Cineria, wavy willow .. 2 the park, corner of State and Th ag noj kA.ilanthus Glandulosus, Tree of one of the most noted trees in the ports of Heaven. 15 How old it is no one dare say,.ose mat v onanlhus Virginica, fringe tree. .. 4 is supposed to have weathered the oortance •s Ru^ red mulberry. 1 of a century. It was there whej have ’e iij pj-gf -ach Philadf / / —, special cor’" arris deeded the ground to the Common- the school room, having no little trouble •ealth. Big branches have been broken with nearly sixty boys. He certainly . from the old elm, and-of late years it has needs exercise, which we hope the honor¬ been necessary to brace it with iron rods. able directors will not refuse to him or to ' There are also other trees in the park us: Thomas J. Osier,Jolm Fager, S. bteli- pmade firmer by iron rods, but none of ley, Alplieus B. Wood, Clias. C. Bom- I them are as old as the ancient elm. baugh, Abraham Oves, William M. Hear¬ Some of the trees in front of the Treas- ing" Wm. C. John, A. Chayn, A. Piper, j ury building were planted sixty years ago. I. H. Chayn, J. 11. Colder, John D. ■ Christian Heater, of North street, who Weeler, J. Morsch, I). Maeyer, G. Duc*b ; was then a young emigrant just from Qer- J. Wiestling, Jacob Campbell, Joseph L. 1 many, assisted in this work. Here and Smaltz, Alexander McMillin, D. Cole- i there through the park are trees showing stock, S. Schwartz, S. Wiestling, G.Osier, great evidence of decay. Major Lock- John H. Smaltz, Wm. Weaver, Wm. i hart will remove these and substitute Shunk, Samuel R. Stewart, G. Laird, W. i young trees. Just now galvanized iron Shannon, R. Shannon, R. TIPa718’ G. Davis, S. Mouiy, Lewis Weeber, labels are being made for the trees by J. William McGlaughlin, George JN. W. Brown & Co. They will be affixed . Scott, B. Sclilehr, John Gamp- this summer, so that he who sits in the ' bell, John K. Plitt, Luther Hymcka. cool shade may read and grow wise. Among those who signed, Thomas J. Since the disappearance of the American Osier, was afterwards a teacher, and now forests the study of native forestry has re¬ resides in Canada. A Chayne, is a well- ceived a patriotic impulse. Nowhere can known resident of Harrisburg, as arc .'it be studied to better advantage than in also David Maeyer, S. Wiestling, Wm. j CaDitol Park. . _^_ Weaver, Lewis Weeber, Wm. McLaugh¬ A UNIQUE OLD-TIME PETITION lin and Wm. Shunk, the latter now en¬ gaged running the line for the Inter-Con¬ tinental railroad in South America. G. ssip was recently shown a most in¬ Duck, was the late Dr. George Dock. teresting document which will call up George Osier is our present sanitary , Weasant .recollections for some of our older policeman. There are others on the list citizens. It is a petition from the boys of who no longer live in Harrisburg, but 'the Harrisburg high school of 1834 to the their names will be familiar to many of school directors, asking that but one ses¬ our older residents. sion a day be held, owing to the hot weather, and every boy in school attached his name, as was but natural, under the circumstances. This petition is as follows: JU. To the Directors of the North Ward of Har- j -ft A Ury—Sins: We the undersigned (schol-! ars. of the North ward) do humbly beg of the directors of said ward, that the exer¬ cises of the school may commence at eight o’clock in the morning and dismiss at jkjix half past one, having none in the after¬ noon. Tii ic may appear absurd to the gen¬ VALUABLE RELICS. tlemen, but when things are taken into 1 consideration, they will find it a much A Copper Tea Kettle 172 Tears Old, and a better plan than the one now pursued. Petrified Hickory Slick. The f Slowing are some of our reasons Mr. Joseph Wk'nrhjb, of 227 South Sec¬ why \ve think the plan pointed out by us ond street, has in bfs possession a copper should be adopted. We think it veiy tea kettle on the'-nandlc of which is the hard for any boy to be attentive to his inscription, “1720—G. Youse.” Ho studies in a hot afternoon,worried by these purchased it a number of years ago at a ittlc vexatious animals—-flies—and suffer- sale of second-hand articles for the small ng from the heat, which is (sometimes) sum of twenty-five cents, and has since almost intolerable. There are many more been offered many times that amount for 'which could be given, but we do not wish it. It is still in an excellent state of |to occupy the valuable time of the di¬ preservation, and Mrs. Wenrich keeps it ’ rectors in reading that"',which, perhaps, bright and nicely decorated as a memento, j hey would call nonsense. If the school It was made and hammered by hand, and hours were so arranged, we could enjoy I has a home-like appearance not peculiar ourselves in the country, or we could go to the machine-made articles of the into our cool gardens and study our les¬ present day. sons for the following day, or we can go Mr. Wenrich has also a hickory slick «p to the Capitol and listen to the two feet long which he found thirty speeches and improve ourselves in elocu- years ago in the debris of a carpenter f ‘ion; and in fact, gentlemen, we can itn- shop belonging to the late John McKee, 1 Cvc ourselves in a thousand ways,which which was located on Meadow Lane near was inot sitting in school with the head- Second street. It was petrified when he I, ®ee" lerhaps), slapping and knocking at y found it, and no knife has ever sinefe been: Iterest8, il^so think it would be bene- able to make any impression upon it. It, laige ^r- Ingram, who it must be ac- looks as if it would make a good hoiiji and po'ted -is confined a great deal to j for the sharpening of a razor or knijj ' / A Ualaxy ol Great Men. —jr ■r ''■‘■mi An immense Whig mass meeting was held is rarely to be found in any bistofica | on the historic ground of Fredericksburg, work of its class. We have had man; Virginia, during that campaign, which was histories of Pennsylvania and of portion: addressed by Ogden Hoffman, of New York; of the State, but until the admirabh William C. Preston, of South Carolina; work of Dr. Egle was prepared, there has ■ Henry A. Wise, Governor Barbour and John been no one publication that could be S. Pendleton, of Virginia. What a galaxy accepted as approaching the complete¬ of great names. Hoffman was one of the ness and accuracy which should mark most brilliant lawyers New York ever pro¬ the history of a great Commonwealtl duced. He was a brother of Charles Fenno like ours. Dr. Egle has given years ol Hoffman, the gifted but unfortunate poet. tireless preparation to determine the Preston was perhaps the most eloquent orator i many disputed points of local interest.— ever born in South Carolina. An incident, The general history of Pennsylvania ia told me by a gentleman who was present, in given in half of the first volume, present¬ Mr. Preston’s speech on this occasion,is well ing a brief but concise record from the worth relating to show his peculiar style of beginning of the seventeenth century tc oratory. Speaking of Mr. Van Buren he 1876, and it is a most admirable text foi said: “Like the serpent, leaving his slime the student of dates and events which behind, he is creeping up the mountain to the mark the various epochs in our progress. White House. But General Harrison, like Then follows a history of each county, the eagle, is descending to capture him.-’.’. arranged alphabetically, and giving with Wise, Barbour and Pendleton had no supe¬ special minuteness the facts which are riors as public speakers. Mr. Pendleton was least likely to be accessible to the general called “The Lone Star,” from the fact that reader. Not only the organization of the at one time he was the only Whig member in counties and all matters of interest relat¬ the Virginia delegation to Congress. ing thereto are to be found in these vol¬ Some Antiquarian, umes, but the first settlers are rescued or some one intimate with the history of the from oblivion with a fidelity that gives a i past, and I know of no one more competent for rare charm to the book. Indeed, there is the task than Colonel Boas, should give bis little in regard to the settlement, organi¬ recollections of this and other events so zation and progress of the counties of fraught with importance to the welfare of public moment that is not found in Di\ the country at large. Metaphorically speak¬ Egle’s instructive pages, and what is ing, I have only been on the skirmish line omitted is that which is of limited inter reconnoitering, and the main body of the est in such a history, because of easy troops can now be brought in action. Or to access to all. Not only in the text but in iuse a modern phrase, coined by and belong¬ the illustrations as well it is evident that ing to my old friend Colonel M’Clure, “Let no questionable material has been used the band play. ” The Old Fellow. , by the author, and taken all in all, it is Lafayette College Honors a HarrisbnrgerT ! Ai.s near to a perfect history as it is possi- j blip to furnish at this time. It should We have received official information from President Cattell, of Lafayette Col¬ com-mand from the people of Pennsylva lege, that the honorary degree of Blaster of [ nia te wide circulation, for no library Arts had been conferred by that institution withiWtbe State can be regarded as com- on Dr. W. H. Egle of this city, as an ac¬ | piet^ without it. knowledgment of his services as a historian. Dr. Egle has richly earned this high honor and just recognition for the zeal he has A REPORTER’S REMINISCENCI- ever manifested in the pursuit of historical - \! research, his labors alone on Pennsylvania LEGISLATIVE REPORTING FORTY history having given the State numerous YEARS AGO. valuable papers, and a volume of general history which will favorably compare with any similar volume prepared and published How tUe News Was Gathered nnd Sent - in the country. We congratulate the to Philadelphia by Mail—Some Fa¬ Doctor on the honor thus handsomely con¬ mous Reporters—Distinguished lilen <3 ferred, because we know he has as fairly in the Senate and House. e earned it as any man upon whom it has been conferred by an American college. tic Written for the Telegxaph. ,,, y The History of J'etinsylvania, by Wil¬ liam H. Egle, M. D., issued by DeWitt Very different troin those now exist,! /< (3. Goodrich, of Harrisburg, is the most were the conditions under which the doi careful and thorough compilation of our I of the Legislative Solon s were laid before 1 State history that has ever been given to ! public when the writer occupied a desk the public. It is embraced in two large i the Senate chamber about the year 1848, at volumes of nearly six hundred pages for several years following. Although tl. each, printed from clear type in the best " telegraph was then in use, it was not em style of the art, on tinted paper, and it ployed, as now, in giving full reports of th proceedings, but only of those matte- displays a degree of patient research in which were deemed of great importance, aj sifting the truth from the imperfect re¬ of which the public should have e ‘ cords and traditions of the early settle¬ I notice. In lieu of this, each Philadc ments in Pennsylvania, and a scrupulous | daily newspaper had its special ^qprr' and intglliggnjLcare in presenting it, thgA- ! ent at the % t- tetter containing all matters of general in- ; Esq., afterwards a member of Congress and terest, and such of a local character as con- j clerk of the National House of Representa¬ cerned the city'or its immediate neighbor- ! \ tives, and still a prominent Republican poli¬ hood. It was necessary that these letters ( tician. “Ned, ” as we called him, was a man should be mailed by about twenty minutes of wonderful industry, and that trait of char¬ past 1 o’clock, in order to reach j acter had clung to him in all the after years. Philadelphia in time for the morning He was then the regular correspondent of edition of the paper. After the ses¬ tbe Philadelphia North American, and had sion had fairly commenced, both Houses sat his seat in the House, preferring that noisy until 1 o’clock, and we used to take turns in body to the quieter atmosphere of the carrying the various letters to the office, as Senate. He was ahead of all the rest of soon as possible after the adjournment. us in the quantity of matter which he sent Many a time the mail carrier for the day was to his paper. If some important report was . obliged to hurry down the board-walk in i made during the morning from one of the breathless haste to reach his destination be- ! committees, he was sure to get hold of it fore the mail closed. But the postmaster first, and generally copied the whole of it in was very accommodating, and the mail was time for the noon mail. He wrote with always kept open until the last moment, so 1 marvelous rapidity, and I have often gone that, so far as I recollect, there never was a to his desk to find him thus employed, his failure to send the bulletins through. Some-1 pen never stopping, even when he occasion¬ times, if anything of great importance trans¬ ally raised his eyes to the clock above the pired early in the session, we sent an extra door, to see if he had time to finish the docu¬ letter down to the office by the hands of the ment. How the compositors managed to messengers, so that it, at least, would he sure follow his copy, prepared under these cir¬ to go through in time. cumstances, was a mystery, but they were In those days there was very little steno¬ used to his manuscript, and generally printed graphic reporting, except when some ambi¬ him correctly. tious member or Senator desired to spread In addition to the Philadelphia correspond¬ himself for the benefit of his constituents, i ents, the weekly newspapers of Harrisburg— and wished his speech reported for publica- | for there were then no dailies—had their tion. During the years that I spent as a own regular reporters. The Telegraph, legislative cOi-respondent we had but one at that time owned and published by the late pt ofessional 'stenographer in our corps, and Theophilus Penn, was furnished with the he was a character. Very pleasant is the proceedings by Erederick J. Penn, the , memory of “Admiral” Drake, as we used to brother of the proprietor. He was not a call him, as I look back over the intervening stenographer, but made excellent reports, years. He is dead now, but all over the giving the current business and sketching all State there are men yet living who knew him important debates. The writer, during one well in his palmy days and had the benefit of winter, reported for another of the Harris¬ his services. I owe him a del t of gratitude burg weeklies. When to this was added the for the information and assistance he gave labor of preparing a daily letter, it gave one me when I first came into the halls, a mere no idle time during the morning sessions. tyro in legislative proceedings. When not When private bills were the order of tho day, required to be present in the lower House to as they generally were in the afternoon sit¬ report some member’s speech, he occupied tings, there wei e longer intervals of leisure. a desk in the Senate chamber, near my own, In fact, those afternoon sessions were often and kept a note of the proceedings, prepar¬ very tiresome, especially in the early spring, ing his letters, as did the rest of us, when- when the weather was growing pleasant, in¬ er there was an interval of leisure. Our viting one to breathe tbe out-door atmos- j Jiustom was to exchange onr rough notes j phere. with correspondents who sat in the other These were the days of the famous House, and thus each made up his letters for ! “Omnibus” bills, those unique specimens |he day, taking in all of the proceedings. j of legislation, whose existence was happily Drake was an Englishman, I believe, perhaps cut short by the Constitution of 1874. An descended from the famous Admiral, and innocent little private bill, of perhaps one ! as not, I fear, a total abstainer, though he section, would be introduced by some mem¬ ways kept himself in trim for the1 ber or Senator, and when called up for : ' fes of the day. One of his favorite consideration, section after section, upon “bs, repeated so often that it became every variety of subjects would be offered * bt in modern times would provoke and adopted as amendments, until the response of “chestnut,” was let off original proposition would be entirely lost ■ 1^ any . of us, returning from the | sight of. After all had been agreed to as jLr House, looked over his shoulder to see separate sections, the title would be amended Kyit had transpired in our absence. On accordingly, and this sometimes tasked ^jse occasions he would repeat softly, as if . severely the ingenuity' of the clerks. I have ./ himself, whilst his pen kept running known important public bills inserted in this long the paper, “I would write more, but a way, in the midst of sections relating en¬ «g Ti-ishwwts «»looking over my shoulder to tirely to matters of private interest. As a see what I am writing.,r This was always j case in point, the noted married woman’s act followed by a low chuckle, and a peculiar! of 1848 was put through in an omnibus bill rk of the head. during the closing hours r f the session. This Among the legislative correspondents was kind of legislation was very pernicious, and v well-known Wm. C. Tobey, now dead, the Constitutional Convention wisely de¬ set-/rote under the sobriquet of “John of livered us from it by a clause in the new *uici ;■ father was Edward M’Pherson, Irganic law. terest n .gea i. - . - ~ ’ large flo — L L:x... ' ‘ .1 3 \ W y arrival I was surprised as well as morti¬ forever and betook myself once more to . kt'| c'd to find my absence during the "night.had labors of the farm in order to provide my sell-. In excited no concern from the fait that on a with an outfit before entering myself as an former occasion, when I had been overtaken apprentice to some genteel trade. I made darkness, I had made my way to the choice of the trade of a printer, and in No- 'tj ibin of a settler among the hills; and they vember, 1803, was regularly apprenticed to very naturally concluded that I had done so Mr. Edward Cole of Lewistown, Pa., who, n the present occasion. besides being the publisher of a weekly news¬ KITTEN BY A SNAKE. paper, was employed by some of the book¬ Another adventure befel me in the autumn sellers of Philadelphia in printing books. of that year, the consequence of which proved UNDER A GOOD TUTOR. to be more serious. In the mouth of August, Mr. C. was a man of good mind and exten¬ while gathering the cattle together in the sive information, and in addition to. his evening twilight. I Jwas bitten on the in¬ other duties had the charge as librarian of a step of my left foot by a venomons reptile. I small but well-chosen collection of books, the was barefooted, and in the waning "light of property of an association of geutleiueu resi- the evening had doubtless set mv foot upon ident in the town and neighborhood. Here was the tail of the serpent who naturally resented a new and rich mine of enjoyment opened up the injury by planting his fangs in my naked to me, and I seized upon it with a flesh. The pain was intensely severe; and on zest and keenness almost incredible. The Iglancing my eye towards the ground I per- fragmentary anecdotes I had heard and read jceived the white or light colored belly of the of the early life of Franklin inspired me 'snake turn up as it squirmed under my foot, with r.n ambition to equal him in steadiness which still held it fast. All of this occupied of application, if not in the extent of his at- u but a moment of time aud on the sudden im¬ tainniRnts, and if I fell immeasurably below T pulse of terror I started for home with all him in the. latter it was not for want of iu- , speed. The effect of this race was that my dustry. but from the vast disparity between , blood became unduly heated and thus accel¬ us in intellectual endowments. The duties t erated the circulation of the poisou through¬ of the printing office engrossed my time very r out my system. I shall not enlarge upon my fully each day from early morning until sufferings, mental and bodily, during the 9 or 10 o’clock at night in the winter and " succeeding Imght, nor attempt to depict the until sunsetting in the summer, thus com " ' consternation into which the family were pelling me to do all my reading before an n thrown by this accident. after working hours. In the winter mornin 6 Suffice to say that every means known to I rose at 4 or o o’clock and read until da ,,i< my uncle and within his reach were promptly light, and I seldom laid aside my books-. « i resorted to, but with no apparent benefit dur- night before 12 o’clock. In summer I ros.'i p > ing the night ; aud in the morning there ap- early and read an hour or two, and in the al i peared but little hope of my recovery. At evening again until late bed-time, and as | early dawn the succeeding morning my uncle there was then no stated religious started on horseback in pursuit of a person service by any denomination held in who was reported to be familiar with the mode Lewistown on Sunday, I generally devoted t of treating such cases, and in the course of the the chief part of that holy day to the sanies- day symptoms of a favorable nature began employment. Owing to early aud almns’ro- to appear. Months, however, elapsed before continuous separation from my mother an jre- a radical cure was effected. AVhat kind of a the general indifference manifested in regal,, to snake it was that inflicted the wound I could to the subject of religion by those amon0nc not possibly, in the agitation and terror whom ray early years were passed, after lea-] n whioh possessed me when I discovered I was ing mv uncle’s roof in Lycoming county n-flaj bitten, undertake to say; but judging from religious views and impressions were very u . the malignancy of the poison it was supposed defined: and when I reflect how mm to have been a copperhead. in my tender years I was brought in BACK TO HIS HOME. contact with the profane and licentioi In the summer of the year 1800 my grand¬ of all ages, I deem it an interpositioJll father conveyed me back again to my own and nothing less of divine Providence tiiat-he home, where I found matters much in the retained any sense of religion at all. Thaf-is same condition as when I left, three years did net become utterly contaminated by th An Old Hostelry. ing until within a few years. Its palatial rooms, of which there were two, were last The old tavern stiudm Royalton, Dau¬ occupied, I believe, by a negro family. A phin county, whlchth* been in a dan¬ fort was erected this side of the residence gerous condition foJsome time past was and named Fort Halifax, but was generally torn down yesterday. It is said to have designated as the fort at Armstrong’s. been standing considerably more than, The gay and festive copper colored sons JO0 years. _ ! of the forest and Belial roamed at will over ^ 7- W&k'i these hills and valleys and hunted their brothers, the wild cat and skunk. As a 0/;? /!; , J version they occasionally took the top .y* of some of those who sought to enjoy *- ! dom of domain upon their territory. With these trophies of their skill they decorated i 47 f.?_ yyt/x^ / j 7 " ^ their wigwams. There are some who clai: that the aboriginal occupants of this “net^ THINGS PICKED UT of woods” were peaceable and well dispost to the white pirates, who came tc stc Concerning Oar Village and Its People, Past and Present. their land or barter for it a handful of gla beads, or a cracked jug of bad mm. Tho, I was requested by the editor to write whose experience differed from the above, some reminiscences of Halifax, for the Ga¬ like the jedge’s nevvy, “never come back to zette. A partial promise was made at the deny it,” and so, nem. con., it stands for a j time, I scarce knowing when or how the fair sample of early settler truth. promise would materialize. In conversa¬ Among the early settlers were the Lew tion with a friend a few evenings since, family. The mother of Catharine Johnsto reference was had to an incident which oc- i has often told the writer that Sim'® Girt) curred “in the long ago." One only lead the renegade, often came to her father’.^ to another, which in its term brought forth house. And the Lewis brothers, whose yet one more and so on. I then made up story runs contemporaneous with the Indiac my mind to embody these and others in a difficulties of western Pennsylvania an series of papers and submit them to the j Kentucky, and who were comrades a tender mercies of the Gazette. companions of Simon Kenton, sprang Let me say of the occurrences that may be j the same stock. noted that many of them happened so long j The oldest landmark now standing is ago that I never had personal knowledge of log house on the Harrisburg road, n them, and as the witnesses are all dead, Market street, now occupied by the there is no use of demanding proof of their truthfulness. Of those which fell within named Catharine Johnston. Attention was early called to Hali my span of years, I can say that there is no law, either divine or human, that can com¬ reason of the elegant shad fisheries on pel you to believe them, but you had better island shores opposite town. In the e> believe them than “lie awake onights” de¬ part of the present century, or the la bating with yourself as to their probability. part of the last, Halifax was considered Of the whole matter it can at worst only be more importance, as a business prin‘. said of it as a certain celebrated indi¬ Harrisburg. Many of tfoi reside vidual did once of another’s statement of Lancaster county, with the^view of facts, there was in it much that was true ^ ing their condition, left their and passedthroug^^^iAur ( ( ___ . , 1 ry, born 6th February, 1793. in the use of tools as to attract the SB Catherine, born 17th September, 1794. ration of his neighbors. Hence, Samuel John, born I3th January, 1796. Bear, ever Bolicitous to multiply good me¬ Andrew, born 6th December 1797. chanics in the hamlet of Skoi-Yase, offer¬ largaret, born 27th March, 1800. ed him a lot gratuitously ou condition of Elizabeth, born 15th December, 1801. his becoming a citizen of the place. But Jonathan, born 20th!February, 1804. as Jlr. Bear soon died, the otter was not George, born 7th May, 1806. accepted and the removal delayed. Sub¬ Jadob, born 22nd May, 1808. sequently, however, and as late as 1809 or Frederick, born 21st February, 1811. 1810, Mr. Schott bought the lot now Lancelot, born 15th August, 1817. covered by the Whartenby tile factory, Tho journey of the family in coming to including the site of the brick house Fayette, covered a space of nearlysix on the east, and there settled his fam¬ ,'J'il ( ■weeks. To Newtown, now Elmira, it was ily. During his residence in the vil¬ ;made chiefly by water, but it was'so lage, his three daughters were married, ow and fatiguing, that the family re- aud his farm passed into the hands of to complete it on foot. Hence, Martin Miller, one of his sons in-iaw. ng Indian trails, when serving Here also w ere born his two younger sons, purpose, and bearing the younger Frederick and Lancelot, the former of tildren on their back,according to the In- whom is yet a citizen of the place. But iau custom, they reached their destina- after a lapse of a few years, Mr. Schott tion near the close of the fifth day of their found that, the constant and unrelieved pedestrian march, as weary of traveling pursuit of his trade was too severe a tax by land as they had been by water. Foot¬ upon Vi is health and strength, anu he, sore, hungry and well-nigh exhausted, therefore, purchased the farm of fifty they were welcomed to the home of the ■ acres belonging now to Jonathan Miller ider brother Frederick, and to such en¬ his grand son. He here built the front chainment as was compatible with the part of the residence occupied by Mr. Mil¬ Q0|vations of the wilderness. After a ler, and also a blacksmith shop, the relics 0g|ef season of rest the family, unwilling and cinders of which are seen to this day. ^ remain the guests of even so near a The quarter of a century covered by sman, sought a home of their own. I the residence of Mr. Schott in Seueca , Schott in penetrating the forest was county, was a season of snuggle to the areful to blaze the trees that he ■ early settlers. With a large family, it igh'c find his way back, and as was difficult, even with great industry and the result of his search, purchased the economy to keep one’s indebtedness with¬ farm now held by Joseph Marshall. Near in the reach of ready payment. The : he south line of the lot was found a log circulation of money was stinted, prices ibed or barn, built by unknown hands, were low, transportation difficult aud ex¬ iiud for a long time resorted to by strayed pensive, and credit while necessary often ilomestie animals as a cover from the subjected the honest debtor to much anx- iforrn and the cold. Forbidding and i iety and crouble. Creditors also were of- A thy as it was, by thorough cleansing, it 1 ten debtors, merchants who had bought d! came the family shelter and housekeep¬ goods on trust, were pressed for payment, er .. £gaiu negan. The next step was the compelling them to collect payment from survymg of the forest to the sun’s rays, their customers by resorting to legal of tj/preparing the soil for the seed, to be measures when others failed. Incon¬ no# in the following season. That the veniences thus induced were matters of i jgjning winter was a time of scanty ra¬ common experience and Mr. Schott, al¬ tions, and some suffering, we need not though conducting his affairs with great -attempt to say, but the family was hardy prudence, was not able to escape aud resolute and determined to make the them entirely. An instance related best, of the situation. The elder children by his son may be given. soon learned the use of the axe and em¬ Tho financial pressure of others had com¬ ployed and hardened their young muscles pelled the forcible payment of an indebt¬ in felling the forest. The eldest of the edness on his part altogether unexpected. children, now ninety years of age. has in¬ In the legal process, a judgment was ob¬ formed the writer, that herself, together tained, and to meet the claim his farm with a younger sister and brother, cleared was exposed for sale. To prevent the five acres of the farm with their own loss of his farm he spared no effort. He hands. Considering the time in which tho took journeys to distant friends to secure family occupied the premises, this eldest a hundred dollars to pay the debt, but daughter could scarcely have reached only to be disappointed. Great anxiety - her eight enth year when this work was seized the family test the farm should be * completed. It was an incident worthy of sacrificed, and great hope entertained of 'c record too, that the subsequent suitor of obtaining it by men willing to make gain this daughter, first saw her in her father’s of other’s necessity. But by a kmd open¬ barn, threshing with a flail, and where, ing of Providence, and through the hands we must suppose, he was so conviuced of of a stranger, help came in time, so that the Whig Senators brought in by the rain , ants Still Living. and tariff storm of 1846 from strong Democratic districts, were Boas, of Lehigh, afterwards a resident of Written tor the Call. our own city, and the venerable i Few there are who do not wish ofttr Philip Smyser, of York. The latter always | to kuow of their paternal and matei used a little earthen-ware foot stove filled ancestry and wonder why no record with hot water, which one day in the midst of kept of their lives. We seem to live in the session exploded with a noise like a small decade full of veneration aud remembe cannon, to the great consternation of the ance of the past with celebrations o’ Senate. family gatherings, centennials of Countie^ A feeling of sadness comes over me as 11 States, churches and even of the adoptio! look at the names I have just written, and ' of our own State Constitution. Our ow remember that with the exception of one or S native county, Dauphin, has sent hersonl two who still survive, those who bore them , and daughters to the west and soulf are no longer .among the living. In fact, many year6 ago and also to our sistJ nearly all who occupied seats in the Senate state New Yolk, and among those th/t0 forty years ago have passed over to the ma¬ left old Dauphin the beginning of jority. Some of them reached or passed the century is the Schott family, a name allotted three score years and ten; others I familiar in our county and whose rel passed away in the prime of life. Among run out through the best families o.1 the latter was Henry A. Muhlenberg, of county viz: the Mammas, Alleni Berks county, who, had he lived, would have Whitmans, New mans, Parthermores, attained higher honors, probably, had his j sells, Nissleys, Ulrichs, and others, party retained its ascendancy in the State, | to the means of travel in those days it ca reaching the Gubernatorial chair. He be-1 better be told as follows together with a longed to one of the old Democratic families, history of the above mentioned family: and was a lawyer of fine abilities. Among the early settlers of Waterloo, The Speaker of the House during the ses¬ N Y., were two brothers, Frederick and sions of 1848 and 1849 was William F. Packer, • Andrew Schott. The former came tc of Lycoming, who entered the Senate in Fayette—then Washington—in the yeai 1850, and in 1858 became Governor of the 1802, and settled on a farm about two Commonwealth. He is too well known to miles south of Waterloo, and known b ’ need further mention, and his death occurred the poplar trees that line the front of tt only a few years ago. With this slight ref¬ family residence. The brother, Andrew erence to him, a man whose friendship I en¬ came in the summer of 1805. The read joyed, and whom I highly esteemed, I close will allow a reference to his family (_ these reminiscences. With the mem¬ cord as an introduction to a sketch of his bers of the House during the pe¬ life. Our pleasure in this reference cor¬ riod of which I write, I was not so responds with the length of the record, intimate, though I knew the most of them. for we hold that “children are a heritagil My daily intercourse with the Senators, among whom I spent most of my time, en- ; of the Lord,” aud that “bappy is he tha! ables me to recall more readily their names hath his quiver full of them.” Audrew Schott was born at Middl and faces than those of the members of the ! other branch, many of whom occupied their town, near Harrisburg, Pa. on the 6th seats for only a year. I have mentioned of October, 1767 and was married to A some of the most prominent, but there are garet Alleman on the 17th of April, 1) many others, who are now resting quietly The births of their eleven children weij “after life’s fitful fever,’’memories of whom follows: come thronging over me as I peu this sketch | —.rJcaD1 y t.- -«_^_5gg^aBHCgaa——i1 »w 'rti»'*'he was chief cleric in one of the houses What, with the discussion of interns, lere, and August 7, 1848, was ing subjects, the reading of able paper? APPOINTED DEPUTY SECIiST.UCT and the social features incident to the an¬ Hof the-esinmouwealth. When Hbn. Townsend nual meeting of the State Medical So. Haines-, who occupied the position of secretary ciety, the physicians and surgeons have of the ocKimonwealth under Gov3rn- TWO-STORY GRAND STAND. just passed^ it was announced that a GROUNDS ON THE ISLAND. JB new club woulu be formed here to occupy new grounds on Hargest’s Island, in the The grounds of the new club are said to J Susquehanna River, a most beuatiful ioea- be the finest in the State. They are reached j10 " A number of base ball admirers met by a splendid new iron bridge just opened last January and organized the Athletic As¬ by the People’s Bridge Company, and oc- \ sociation with the following officers: Presi¬ cupy a spot in the upper end of the J dent and treasurer, George R. Fleming- island facing North. The grounds are easily ^ directors, inn. Aldinger, James Russ, Dr! reached from the bridge by a driveway Ghernck Westbrook, William Bates aud at the foot of the incline, shown in the fl Joseph Kahn. Mr. Fleming is a prom¬ illustration, and a capacious foot walk. a inent young lawyer, who has always Manager Farrington resides on the land .1 taken an interest in athletics, and while in a neat cottage that escaped being svept '• at Princeton College was the mainstay of away by the big flood of a year igo. f tile foot ball team that defeated Yale and | The grand stand is a splendid stru won the championship. Mr. Aldinger is a ture, consisting of two tiers, over well-known hotel man, who, next to the all of which is a commodious room11 national game, loves a good horse and drives tor the reporters and directors. The seatsj- one. Mr. Russ is a hotel man, as well- are of the folding pattern and number iiav known to Philadelphians, almost, as he is thousand. This is an innovation in Harris to Harnsbtirgers. Dr. Westbrook is a lover of burg, and a very welcome one. The firsijl nela sports and always ready to encourage tier is for ladies and their escorts, au^ it® them. Mr. Bates is a wholesale commission may be said (hat at every game there :e c nierciiant, and Mr. Kahn conducts the larw- many fair patrons who watch the r- ;l est clothing establishment in the city Other ing with keen interest. The second tlvf ' stockholders are John Westbrook, the is for gentlemen only, and smoking is al- a midge contractor, Joseph Montgomery lowed. Altogether the grand stand can sea* owner of the Peiplier line of ears on the ' 1400 people comfortably when the additiona 6 Reading system, andEd. Myers, the State printer. chairs are put in place. The bleaching boards seat 1200 people comfortably, and to 1, j Ute first move of the new club was to en¬ the right aud left there is ample room for-,, gage Manager Farrington, of last year’s carriages. - f- club. This being done, success was assured, One gratifying feature of the new ground £ as the entire team of last year followed Far- 1 is that it is cool ail the time on the island. 1 lington into the new organization. Of The Susquehanna River is a mile wide at course, there were objections to this by the this point, and on the hottest summer °,w“e,'3 of last year’s club, but the new people can enjoy the game and the Susqw club offered to pay them any sum decided u-cn by arbitrators, an offer that was pre- hanna zephyrs at the same time.\u emptorilv refused. With two clubs knock¬ The view from the grand stand up tn ing ior admission from Harrisburg the tne river is uaequaled in the new Middle States League was in a It is intended, when the season opens, quandary, but it quickly cut the tablish a ticket office at the TTarrisbi^rg en¬ trance to the bridge, and a ticket, for the Knot by admitting the new club, ithaving the appearanceot greater stability, and that diffi- game will also include passage .iver the cuity was settled. The old club, however, I bridge, thus facilitating matters tp a great ex ten t. opened negotiations with the famous Cuban 1 Giants and succeeded in signing them, in-1 The grounds are destined to be Harris¬ tending to play as au independing club with I burg’s Summer resort this year, aud the, visiting organizations. A better field was managers of the club already'have on loo1 1 opened to them in the past month, and other schemes besides base ball for thr3' Manager Kreiter has succeeding in locating amusement of the public, one of them ieiii. r. ? firework exhibitions at night. The Harr,' lL!S c'aul *n and landing it in the Mid- Btates League, so that things have been burg Rod and Gun Club li -•* seciir ~T'e»£sJi«iiQrilv ail afipiind &L. 1 b as . ^ __-- laid, and it is ilie intention DR. JOSEPH A. REED .stful lv- t(,Tay out a half mile racetrack ve seVeral weeks of racing. Death of the Esteemed Superintendent of LA “T % public is anxiously awaiting the Dixmont Insane Hospital. ning of the championship base bafl h 'aggie, for they f»el assured that with such In the death of Dr. Joseph A. Keed, superiub I splendid management and on new grounds dent of the Dixmont Insane Asylum, the C< I the old reliable team will again carrv off the monwealth loses one of Its foremost alieni] f 2>unnant. T" j Next to the late Dr. Kirkbride, Dr. Reed was most prominent and widely-known superint, dent of the insane in the State, having devq himself exclusively to this work for a period nearly thirty years. Bora in Washington, ]v in 1823, he graduated from Washington Colle; at the age of nineteen, completing his medic from l^CLn-njjAuJLCU- education at the University of Pennsylvania at Jefferson Medical College, of this city, from 11 latter of which institutions he received his <3 9 gree of M. D. in 1847. He spent ten years in t tltjujcA . practice of his chosen profession in Alleghe: City. In 1857 he was appointed Medical Super tendent of the Western Pennsylvania Hospi DATE I.ILTlSL tl. for the Insane, located at Pittsburg. He si ceeded in enlisting the Legislature in hissene: to build a great hospital for the insane on an I proved modern basis, and in 1862 opened commodious and now widely known lnstilut: ‘"IIMliliTiili'J at Dixmont. Under his efficient mauagem : Death of Jonas J. Untiy. it soon became one of the most successful Inst; tious of the kind in the United States and Ed. Pateiot : While I fully subscrih annual reports for upwards of twenty years do all that has been stated in the daily Justly regarded as a valuable addition to the Telegraph of last evening, I desire to add erature of his specialty. Reports derogatory j the management of the hospital have led toe™ a might to tho high character of Jonas J. or three Legislative investigations, which, h Iltudy. Associated with him in the post ever, failed to develop any serious abuses office from 1833 to 1842, and having a su- few irregularities discovered belruj-'ts worthless employes, who is pervision of his acts as carrier, I rejoice in selves upon the managers. wj 5 5 the fact that no letter or package was Dr. Reed has been a trusted pj s / i Jver delivered to him that was not a< pertaining to the erection o $ $ _ j asylums, having been a mem ei kmnted for in the daily settlement (f sion appointed by the Legisi ’4 jho delivery boob. At that early day Danville Asylum. ^ ihousands and ten of thousands of dollars passed through his hands enclosed in ffiu Tatters committed to his charge. After the appointment of Amos Kendall as post ■ master general under Mr. YauBuren’s ad TftUis'tration, Mr. lludy was the only cm , Joyee in tho office that gave a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties. Prior tc Prat his salary was two cents oa each let .-■r and one cent on each newspaper. Aftki hat his salary was fixed by Mr. Kendall $400 per annum. This 6um was much W-S3 than the per centage as carrier, .hough his labors were nealy doubled. “Without a murmur he.continued to the end J/.ithful. honest, sober and industrious. J^fo died as he had lived, a Christian gentle- of the old school, and it may truly jf'e said of him without an enomy upon 18.arth. He has left us for the untried reali¬ ses of, I hope, a better world. Peace to bis thes. ts. ,n)'Jjune 17, 1879. jfi saFiai rhen c. ng sou ;roans f}'- ng pas -'gfe ,nd tl aped, He It v her, t adust7» 187.. urg d resuo. rho c nprk ad alle Tbp t ne thfi i'.- :pers who had boasted that the ex- TmTlJmted States Colored Troops,'' d farmarm would boodlsoon oebe uwi«.theirs. , 25th Army Corps. He was afterward 5u#owever, embarrassed^ and^tned. fcsubject of our sketch was able to pass promoted, and became the Chief Medi¬ ^ouffh the most rigid ordeal with char cal Officer of the Second Division, of the same Corps. Since the close of the War, Dr. Egle |j has kept up his interest in the Colored •1' xnd consistent Christian. H® ‘“Jli hhinffs the peer of the most worthy early Troops, being active in placing their settles of our community and a« .nob, history before the public, in order that , 1 bauds dUn to the subsequent genera- posterity may be informed of their valor. ■. « Dr. Egle is a genial gentleman, a “■«p Three sons andi threeo“ h rdaughtersr Mh:s . warm friend, kind to the poor, an ear¬ “Te'tamoug'tbe living, foa: ojjtl.esix re. nest Republican, an honest man, and maioing in this community, and two ha would make an excellent Mayor or. settled "in the state of Michigan The other executive officer. family has been marked by a leugt i years illustrative of the promise with THE LATE PROFESSOR ESPY. fon^life will I satisfy him and will sho !X Seme Current Misstatements Itelalive hlSneyo'Sr““s" deceased reached the to His Early Eife Corrected. To the Editor of The Post: Will you allow me, a near relative of the late and 96 Who will not pronounce this an Professor Espy, to correct soma errors in < hr honored family, whether considered in its numbers, or eharacter, or the measure sketch that appeared In the Press, of Phila¬ delphia, and afterwards in your paper o life attained by the majority of us mem the 22d of July? Mr. Espy was but twe ^8Mr. Schott departed this life in the year years old when his mother removed to 1830,'at the age of sixty-three years aft Kentucky, hence he could not have furnishing an example to the wona “tramped” such a distance. His father’s honesty persevering industry, and piety, iamily, being people ot educated tastes, and like other worthy pioneers, preparing could not have suffered a child to grow up. a home for descendants in one ot the most in ignorance. His cousins, nephews of hi ' charming portion, of the eartt^surface. : mother—two of them, lather and son—wer successively presidents of Jefferson college. • ’ DR. WM. XX. EGLE, in Pennsylvania, the late Dr. Mitihew ( ;Vho was first named for the place, is Brown ami Us son. It is hardly possible, io well and favorably known in Hr.rris- with such relatives, that a bright boy should jnrg and through the State, that it is have been so lamentably ignorant. lardly necessary to speak of his h istory, As to the incident connecting Mr. Clay’s name with Mr. Espy, while very romantic 3xcept to refresh the memory of his and acceptable to the taste of those Amei i- friends. . TT cans who are lond of supposing that ali on; Dr. Egle is a native of Harrisburg, distinguished men were paupers, it is c;i m‘ * ? ll necessary to say that Mr. Clay and M \ and for many years past has bee n iden¬ Espy were very nearly of the same age, und tified with all of the important ii iterests that at the time this incident was sue of the City. The integrity and busi- posed to have occurred, Mr. Clay was sU a boy in the “slashes ot Hanover.” ■ iess capacity of Dr. Egle are bo well "When Mr. E-py’s father died hia iamily mown, that for any service of impor¬ found themselves impoverished by the depreciation in value of the “continental tance in city affairs, he is among the currency,” and in consequence the eldei first suggested. . brothers decided upon removing to Ken Dr. Egle’s executive ability if i so well tucky,taking with them their mother and hex, infant son James, afterwards thed-tin-L ecognized that it was natural that he guished scientist. They traveled on horse*- back, sending their household go dels di/r,... should be suggested to take upon him¬ the Ohio on a flat boat, then the on!;, self, as the Republican candidate, the ■T. means of river transportation. The family v*| duties ot the Mayoralty. were of old Scotch Covenanler blood. de-Jlc^ scended from the French Huguenots, and- Dr. Egle is a full-blooded Republi¬ naturally lound slavery distasteful. Foi)arj can, has been ever since the war began, ihat reason they remained but a lew years u; o Kentucky, and having purchased a tract o a and evinced his devotion to the cause land in the beautiful Miami valley of Ooio, n by early enlisting in the State and Na¬ removed to that locality, leaving Ja'ue‘‘yu| tional service. He never was afraid of (Professor Espy), with a sister who ha,V ,1 married near Lexington, where he becam,“w(, our color. As an excellent physician as a student in Transylvania university, ' ' well as Republican, the Doctor knew ere received his classical education, r ’bile o....still a very young mau ho return that the color would not rub off. So he I di ^ *msylvania, v^ere b Felix, Mordecai 127th P. V. I - M’Comas, Martin 7Sth P. Y. Filler, J. II. 55th P. Y. i Masten, James 21Ctli P, V. Forster, R. II. 148tli F. V. R M’Bride, Jacob H. 17th P. \r. cavalry, Geiger, John 77th P. V M’Bride, AVilliam H. 17tli P. V. Gastrock, T. J. 40th I‘. Y. Moore, J. E. 5th P. R. corps. Geiss, B. L. 15th U. S. I. Mingis, M. H. 20th P. AX Gardner, Peter 127th P. V. Maloney, M. J. 77tli P. V. Gembe, Christ. 77th P. AX Maloney, Michael F. 78th P. Y. George, S. 14th Y. C. 1 M’Carroll, Daniel 104th P. AX Grave, A. W. 130th P. V. M’Murray, John Gtli U. S. I. Grrss, John A. 1st Md. cavalry. Ma9ten, S. B. 130tli P. V. Gembe, Frank 77th P. Y. Mingus, John 15th U. S. 1. Gowen, Thad. T. 127th P. Y. m M’Farland, Samuel, 1st P. R. Y. cavalry Gembe, John 77th P. Y. Mascher, Herman, U. S. E. Hippie, W. n. 127th P. Y. Mortimer, James, 14lli U. S. cavalry Hoenicb, A. R. 4thP. Y. cavalry. Xeeley, W. F., 49th P. AX Hassell, Jos. A. 2d R. I. cavalry, Nutt, John C., 11th N. Y. AX lianes, Frank d9th X. Y. V. Oborow, Charles, 201st P. Ah Hamraelsbaugh, Jackson 200th P. Y. Orth, Charles, 194th P. Y- Hay, F. H. 127tli P. V. Ogden, Samuel, 33d N. Y. AX Harvey, Hamilton 57th X. Y. Y. Tond, Janies S., U. S. navy. Hoffer, G. W. 7th P. R. V. C. Porler, IT, W-, 4th M. cavalry Moke, J. \V. 18th P. Y. cavaliy. Powers, John, 177|h P. Y- Hiller, E. S. United States navy, Itelly, John A., 210th P. V”. Hopkins, John A. 199th P. V. Rice, Edward, 4th P, AX cavalry. Householder, Fred. 213th P. V. Revan, John, 175th P.Y. Hayes, J. R. 72d P. V. Ransh, W. F. Sheridan’s cscoit. Howard, John A. 21st P. V. cavalry. Rose, Henry, 207th P. AX Hoffman, Harry independent company, Reel, Adam, 127th P. AX P. Y. cavalry. . ■ Ruff, Jacob, 137Ui T. V. Jacoby, D. B. 3d P. Y. cavalry. Ryan, J. P., 33d X. Y. \X Jenkins, H, S. 1st P. V. cavalry. Rupp, John, 87th P. V. Johnson, James A. 6th U. S. cavalry. Ruse, Wm., 7th P. V- Keirne, B. Franklin engineer corps, U. Ricn, John, 177th P. AX 5. A. lledifer, Samuel, 7th P. \ cavalry. Kuipe, Joseph I*’, major general 1st divia Shefler, John A., 4Gtli F. AX | ion 2d corps, LX s. A. Spottswood, E. C.j 11th P. A7. Kennedy, Thos. S. 72d Indiana. Shartzer, Aaron, 87th P. vX Kelley, A. 1st P. R. V. C. Seiler, R. II., U. S. A. Kennedy, George K. 2d P. artillery. Smith, M. S. 201st P. AX Kingport, A. E. 127th P. V. Shippens, Wm. 2d Ohio. ,, Kohler, George D. 12th Conn. A". Summers, AVm. 14th IX A-_ithstand- Kerchner, J. A. 8th U. S. I. SheatlciJ^^itnea p v miJUa Sample, A.M.127tliP,V. Shillen ,.T.F.10thN.Y.cavalry. Smith, Jas.F.13thP.V.cavalry. Spicer, C.A.7thP.Ft.Y.cavalry. Shinofan, reter5thM.U? Shillen, Thomas12tliP.R.V.cavalry Sellers, John77thP.V. Sullivan, C.1stP.V.cavalry. Smith, George201stP.V. Scott, 'FrankR.7l)thP.V. Shumaker, George12t.hP.Ft.V.cavalry atonghton, L.B.15thU.S.infantry. Tagg, Wilson47thP.V. Troup, W.L.5thIT.S.eayalry. Stroll, ]>.L.50thX.Y. Sanders, Frank87thT.V. Thurston, J.A.4GtliN.Y.V. Trostle, J.L.205thP.V. TJmherger, BenjaminF.201stP UpDeGraiF, C.E.1stX.Y.V. Tagg, JamesI).47thP.V. Wallower, Reuben70thP.V. White, Lucas5GtliP.V. Warwick, Peter192dOhio. Weyant.W. H.UnitedStatesnavy. Weirman, Frank19thP.V.cavalry. Zimmerman, Henry201stP.Y. Wolf, H.J.187thP.V. VYahleven, Henry190thP.V. Waterberry, Ed.L.55thP.V. Winnell, Jackson2dU.S.cavalry. Wilhelm, Charles207thP.V. Shott, JohnK.127thP.Y. Ziegler, Ed.J.48thP.Y. Wheeler, J.C.77thP.y. Jenkins, HenryS.1stP.V.cavalry. Frey, Wm.W.200thP.V. Stife, A.J.127thP.V. Yentzer, JohnH.0thP.R.V.O. Snyder, JohnA.9thP.V.cavalry. Stipe, Andrew0thP.V.cavalry. Floeh, AlexanderIT.S.dragoons. Brandt, BenjaminF.127thP.Y. Kacy, James47thP.V. Weaver, RobertD.96thP.V. Embick, FrederickS.93dP. Y. Fortney, AllenB.9tliP.V.cavalry. Ruth, Francis,123dP.Y. Klineline, John127thT.V. ileachler, John9thP.V.cavalry. Killian, JamesM.58thP.Y. Bretz, Jacob127thP.V. Hippie, Henry187thF.V- Lutz, John9thP.Y.cavalry. Wheeler, W.H.127thP.Y- Wyninge, H.J.7thP.V.cavalry. Stager, FFeniy 201st P.Y. 1 rely,Samuel127thP.Y. Tnley, JohnH.203dP.V. Poorman, Henry7tl>P.Y.cavalry. Emhiefe, JohnS.12thP.V. Wissler, JohnL.9thP.Y.cavalry. Hippie, JamesP.101stY. Raupabapk, Valentine101st.P.Y. Lagant, WilliamCthP.Y.cavalry. Embick, ElijahS.SOOdthP. Lutz, Johu08thP.V. Ciiover, Adam13thP.Y.cavalry. Willis, Henry9thP.Y.cavalry. Msttis, Jessie 87th P.V. Hawk, GeorgeW.93dP.Y. Dougherty, James 1,101stP.Y. Duggan, John 130(h P.Y. Uders, John 200thP. \. p Candran,George7thP.V. works (lateNovelty)yesterday afternoon. covering anareaof40,000square feet,issit¬ la capableofmelting eighttonsofironper one hundredfeet bysixtyfeet,withacupo¬ uated immediately011the Pennsylvania Mr. J.C.Martin,ivepaida visit1othese modern conveniences attached. hour, a heavy1crane, core oven,and allthe railroad, atthefootofThird street.Itcon¬ This largeaniextensive establishment, Machine. Works.—Atthekindinvitationol No. 9.—ThellareizhurgSteamEngineand sists of | Kohr,William143dP.V. Visits tollAUTUSRmioivianufactokies, It was our goodfortune toho present Stager, Cyrus18thcavalry Sweigart, Levi45thP.Y. Jackson, JosephA.188thF.Y Sides, David193dP.V Kohr, Jacob93dP.V Rauch, AugustU.S.navy. Beidleman, Elias93dP.Y Keyser, JacobS.127thP.Y Shubert, Henry91stF.Y Kehoe, John14tliP.Y. Harmaney, John21stcavalry, Dyer, Cyrus12thIll.cavalry Gardner, S.10thN.Y.cavalry. Miller, JohnE.200thP.V. Clay, John9thcavalry Broglie, Jacob1stcavalry. Dersli, Herman3dU.S.I. Sickway, C.11thcavalry. Milligan, Samuel201stP.V. Seacrist, Philip194thP.Y. Crain, GeorgeW.201stP.V. Kohr, JohnW.12theavalrj. Sanders, Orlando9thP.Y.eavaliy Stoup, John7thP.V.cavalry. Brennemau, William18thOhio. Fritz, J.87thP.Y. Koons, Geo.H.200thP.V. Rehrer, Areholas127thP.V. Gray, Geo.W.0thP.V. Mattis, Silas87thP.Y. Poorman, John4thcavalry. M’Gjunkpn, Samuel201etP.V. Diehl, Samuel99thP.V. Myers, R..J.87thP.Y Gattsehuli, Geo.9thP.V.cavalry. Hauser, Jacob,200thP.V. Gattsehuli, William13thP.V.cavalry. Ilertriek, Daniel13thP.V.cavalry. Gatschull, Daniel13thP.V.cavalry. Fortney, Christian13thP.Y.cavalry. Wolf, William9thP.V.cavalry. Repman, John173dP,V, J.ong, Augustus,3dP.y.artillery. Campbell, James7thF.V. Candron, William93dP.Y. M’Xair, Alvin0thcavalry. Guckis, Henry9tliP.Y.cavalry. Cox, John0thP.V. Lirandt, Henry200thP.Y. Lennis, JohnCthcavalry. Landis, RobertF*194thP.V. Fisher, Henry20thP.Y.cavalry. Cobaugh, E.B.136tliP.Y. Martin, James83dI*,y. Parsons, II.n.93dP.Y. urns.John 187th A nnicicFOUSDIIY, louut lor, I extricated myself ThertTW;fid out of it window...... Tire_ night >, ■first sebipcerA1111 ana the cries of the in- -oft "•In* sp £ yard^i,yards, i- . ut the air in a sickening c planer. The ear in which I was o 1 caught fire, and I immediately set to ■v woikto extinguish the flames. 1 suc¬ 1 ~ ceeded after a hard fight. Going to the i part of the car where I had been seated, I found that I was / i i 1 the only one who had escaped. 7 I took out four bodies within a lew feet ■ Sk t < of where I had been sitting and I consider ( myself a lucky man.” Buffer's clothes Ai fc- were saturated with blood, and he was 1 " ■ . barely able to walk. i? - 3 ft fa § < < *» CO , PI S£«. I r! 6 S^i "1%: * j* i\ « a* A s HOW THE SIGNAL SERVICE IS COX- DDCTEI) AND SOME OF ITS RESULTS. i 5 & c* \n Admirable System of Weather Observa¬ 1 ii ii .... tions—Illustrative Chart*—Reports for J supplement me general predictions oTXSTS Set- Ten Years—Statistics of Real Value vice with local predictions, which1 have un¬ —The Office in this Clty> doubtedly been of great value to the country ^ Th^, usual forecasts, coldness and storm adjacent to these cities. Other great'journals, war Dry, de g. 3 3. Pe rcent age of humi dity. with the daily weather indications by telegraph at the expense of this service. The service has continued the issue 0 weather crop bulletins each Sunday mernin. 10 10 1G 16 15 ! for the previous seven days. On impertan 29.658 29.603 29.698 ;29.fil2 29.7641 29.694 crops, especially cottou, corn, hay, tobacco an, J1.5 71.4 | 60.4 j 47.6 | 42.9 33.4 wheat, many commendatory letters have bcei i received attesting the great practical value o 6 1 such a system, of weather bulletins, whiol j shows the excess and deficiency of sunshine temperature and rainfall for short rcgulv z HU WlDt TY periods. Such information is an importan factor in determining in advance the probabl yield of the great staples of the country, and ,q. 1 has a marked showing on all extended enter N prises. V"| Special bulletins have been issued when need w. I 8 12 9| 16 | 11 7 ful to give warnings of approaching frosts severe or sudden falls of temperature, dan , apply not only to manifold business gerous floods and the probable movement 0 is, but effect the comfort of thousands, dangerous storms. This office continues it . times the health and life of hundreds. furnish indications and forms for display b The importance of early and successful fore¬ any railway which desires to co-operate wit! casts of cold waves is the greatest in the north¬ this bureau. Through the gratuitous co west. operation of the captains of the great traasut The numborof cold wave signals displayed lantic steamships this service obtains regular!; accurate reports of the weather conditions pro ing (deyear has been 1,743, of which 1,249 vailing over the great storm regions of thoNorti (1.5 par cent, were verified, Many other Atlantic. A cablegram is eent each night t, gnats, not marked successful wore followed Professor Maseart,, at Paris, summarising th 'y abnormal falls of from tea to fourteen de¬ grees. sychronous observations, gales, derelicts’ am daugerous ice of the Atlantic for the previou In connection with cold wave warnings, the five days and the weather conditions of th vorceatages in the past have not taken hi I o ae- , United States on the day in question. This in punt the number oi cold waves which have I formation is appreciated by the meteorologies meed unannounced by this service, but the I office of Paris and shipmasters of all nation *’’ow adopted will effect the percentage of j express greatest satisfaction at the suceessfu Slagrvwhenever the official falls to pro- efforts of this source iu promptly collating am Du?gai.eees,itJ of this rule in the public punlishing detailed information’ as to log, ice Dougherty, James L liilsiV toe iomta3 fields and wrecks, since such information egg .Mattis, Jessie 87th F. V. sick I bles them to shape their west’TnTfTf iron nor (~Siders, John 200th P. V. tllfcirB'COVea and nil hr- The iy been able to stop the train, Operator Hayes Says It Was Ills st se mincer didn’t hear any caps. He Operator H. S. Hayes, of the Steelto^ , rds (jnew any to miss exploding. Was tower, who, according to the drift of the; startinvOO yards away when the signal on testimony, is responsible for the accident, ? train oroclc Street tower was first was sworn, and testified that he has been and bdltfr. Kelley said the operator at the employed as an operator since last June. it the hfn tower had thought the block Last night was his first night in the Steel¬ and given him the white signal. ton tower. He is employed as an extra the operator at the Dock Street man. He said that he used his good judg¬ 1 had told him that he had not ment in regard to allowing the second sec¬ an Jed the block dear to the Steelton tion on the bloek before the first section orator. His train was about 22 minutes had left it, not having received word from at Lancaster, and he was running the Dock Street operator concerning the out 30 miles an hour when the first section having left the block. He sh occurred. If no run-in had said he was familiar with the book of ikon place he weuld have reached the rules and thought the first section had u’nion depot but five minutes late. The left the block, as it had passed chedule time allowed between Dock | his tower on time. The hook of rules say Street tower and the Union depot , that in all cases of doubt an operator is two minutes. Always considered j supposed to take the safe course. flagman a safe man. The ! Mr. Hayes was very much an is supposed to have his caps at agitated during the giving of his testi- t 000 yarda from the rear end of his timony, and in answer to the ques¬ Mr. Kelley didn’t care to say tion "Did you violate the rule of the her the flagman should have re- company in regard to allowing two back or not. The rul'cs say that trains on one block? Answered “Yes.” itor is not to declare a block clear He said he used his good judgment, a train has passed his tower and now felt convinced that it Mr. Kelley heard operator at was veiy poor indeed. He thought he : Street tower say that he had not was not wholly to blame. The ed the block clear. It is the duty track-walker and student were in the operators along the line to re- tower with him at the time of the passing the time that a train passes their of the train. He said he was substituting »*»•. He did not see the operator at the for Mr. Good, and that his home was in ek Street tower swing a red light in | York county. He had operated alone at Dn. Engineer Kelley entered the block a number of places before, including High- re Engineer Kirkpatrick left it. spire, Wynnewood. Trainmaster W. Engineer Kirkpatrick, recalled, believed Brooke Moore defined the duties of rat Engineer Kelley’s train had entered regular and extra operator. The lat- he block before liis train left it. ! ter has the same responsibility of a regu I'’he book of rules only allows one lar. on a block at one time. If the Mr. Hayes, in answer to the question as ck Street operator did not report the ,to who he censured for this accident, clear to the Steelton tower operator, J the Pennsylvania railroad company atter was not authorized to display ; or his own carelessness, said that ' ite signal. he could not censure the company. He E. Painter, operator at the Dock 1 admitted that he was responsible for the :et tower, said the passenger trains are accident, as he gave Engineer Kelley what is known as an absolute the white signal to go on The rear end of the first section despite the fact that he had . his block when the second section received no information to the effect of into it. Could prove that he j the first section leaving the i report his block clear to the Steel- , block. He knew that other men 1 operator by his train sheet. The j had done the same trick before, but tW s-walker was in the tower with him j escaped . the serious consequences ; 2 time of the accident. He held the he was guilty of. He had never heard of section because the block was any operator beiDg called to the office I' t clear. Last night was his for detaining trains in cases of K\ night at the Dock Street tower as an j doubt. He did not believe his employers ’ ;• operator. He has been a full-fledged ! would have suspended him for obeying ||j 'v^ >r for the past six months. the book of rules and stop¬ Gly 'elley and Mr. Neill (recalled) saw ping the -train. He is a “sound” light being given by .Operator Painter. operator, but claimed that an extra Painter swung red light because he operator is more liable to make mistakes E to attract the attention of En- than a regular man who is accustomed to «eer Kelley or Fireman Neill. Mr. the calls, etc. He admitted that he had painter was loth to give any testimony no authority-j to allow any other persons 'ting the Steelton tower operator, m the tower beside himself,but said that is |md declined to give any opinion a rule that is violated repeatedly by nearly ,to the negligence of the Steelton every operator along the line. Mr. Hayes rator. Of one thing he felt certain, said . he acted upon the advice that was that he had not declared the of his student in regard to tyrff ' clear to Operator H. S. Hayes, who block being clear. Notwithstand- ' . ,eharge of thje Steelton tower. ing that the witness . ^ ^•cons, nurses ana attendants at the libs-h Chas. H. Hawman, fireman of pital was simply perfect. From the time)* section, who has been in thb cm: the first patient reached the door until alii the Pennsylvania railroad forseve; were laid on cots the force performed its I thought Engineer Kirkpatrick a fi work admirably. There was no excite¬ man. The train was a few minu' ment or flurry, but everybody was cool! and when the Dock Street lo-.\ and collected, had their wits about them reached, they lay there until the c and knew exactly what to do. The gave them the white signal. It splendid discipline of the institution possible when train is in motion I and the skill of those in attendance was cups if the exhaust is on. Kirk most marked. always observed the cap signals the time the witness was with him. It Is Not Black. Harry Neill was fireman on the secoi A dispatch was received from Altoona section, and had been firing for Engin- this afternoon saying that the unidentified Kelley about two months, during whic dead man was John Black, a machinist of time be always found Mr.'' Kelk that city. Mr. Black’s relatives arrived a first-class jengineer. He here .this afternoon, and after seeing the that when they came to Steelton.the; body did not recognize it. They said it ceived the white signal, and gave one was not Black. blast of the whistle near the Pax Eleven Victims Dead. Street crossing. It was raining This afternoon Prof. G. L. Smith, of hard this side of Steel ton. Baltimore, died, making the eleventh vic¬ caps were heard and it was very tim of the accident. Mrs. Granger, of to distinguish the signals. The train Philadelphia, is in a precarious condition, running about 35 or 4.0 miles an hour w and she may not recover. the accident occurred. He saw the " Fred. Colberg, of Brooklyn, is still man on the rear end of the first se< lying unconscious, and the hospital phy¬ holding a red and white signal. He di¬ sicians have grave fears that he will not notice that any signal was given by pull through. It is said he has over flagman. $6,000 on his person. Mr. Hawman, recalled, said that two tracks on the canal side are west CORONER’S QUEST. east bound freight tracks, and the the river side are used by east an He Begins the Investigation of the Accident. bound passenger trains. Promptly at the hour of 2 this after¬ Mr. Neill said the track was clear noon the inquest began in the coroner’s as he knew. The speed of the trai office at the court house. Two stenograph¬ too fast to stop it in time to prevent ers, A. M. Rhoades and John E. Fisher, run-in. The train consistecLof the en took notes for the coroner and P. R. R. two baggage cars and five Pullmans, company respectively. second section left BroadS treet stal W. H. Fisler was the first witness about five minutes late. When St- sworn. Mr. Fisler is a passenger brake- was reached the train was still late, man on the Philadelphia division, and the red signal was displayed the ta was returning from Philadelphia as a opposite the Paxton mill, about “dead-head.” He said he was on the from the tower. Mr Neill thought first- section, and when the train got to distance between the rear end of the tower, the signal to go ahead first section and the engine of the was given. Mr. Fisler was in the section when the red light was first smoking-car, and, after the wreck, was about 100 feet. When the da: look a red light and flagged the east- was first seen, Engineer Ki ! oand freight track for a couple of hoursi reversed the engine and applied Tiie engineer called the flagman in by air brake to no purpose, the speed o four blasts of the whistle. In Ins opinion train being too great and the rails the flagman has always been a very steady slippery to prevent the crash in so shi and careful employe. distance. Mr. Neill was satisfied Joseph H. Kirpatrick, of Philadelphia, Engineer Kelly used every precaution the engineer of the first section, said he stop the train. was stopped at the Dock Street tower by Mr. Hugh Kelley, the engineer of a red light, and when the white light was section, has been an engineer in the shown he called the flagmau in and started. vice of the Pennsylvania rail When stopped at the tower he was on pany for 21 years, an d in that time 1 time. When struck by the second section been suspended for reckless running lie was running from eight to ten miles he came in sight of the Steelton to an hour with <-ight coaches. Mr. got the white signal. Near tl Kirkpatrick always considered Hugh Street tower he received the red Kelley, engineer of the second section,"a whistled again,applied brakes and rev capable engineer. A freight ahead on the the engine as he saw the other train; same track caused the detaining of the ahead on the same track. When the 1 first section. When the white light was section was struck it was sixty yaids v displayed Mr. Kirkpatrick started ahead. of the Dock Street tower. He would 1 section was detained at the been able to discover tbe signal tower some three or four minutes. The tower if t-lie weather had been 1 a-. r,»r*nlfj timo Ivor*!/- 'nd the rails dryer., Unpb-'- - a very serious character, The story of the accident is brief. The first section stopped within a few hundred were also probably fractured. Lizzie Blair had been raised in the G yards of the Union station, and was just I starting when the second section, a heavy/ family, and had intended making home with them in Seattle. Am I train of Pullman sleepers, and one express l and baggage car combined, plunged into the effects of Mrs. Granger was the handsome private car of Westing- purse containing about eighty doll , house and drove it forward, crushing the in money, which is yet mi three day coaches ahead into kind¬ Little Mamie Granger’s injuries ling wood in the twinkling of serious, she being considerably brui an eye. The locomotive ploughed about the head. The shock and her its way through the rear of the private ear, der years may operate against her r but not a single member of the Westing- ery, but the hard-worked physicians < house party was scratched. The porter, press hopes of saving her life. She is a however, W. H. Woodyard, of PLuladel- very patient little sufferer under the cir¬ \ phia, was slightly hurt. In the day cumstances. I coaches the awful carnage was taking Lying on a cot in one ol the side rooms : dace. Many passengers were half asleep down stairs is the badly hacked up body ^ud were awakened by the horrible crash- of Fred. Coldburg, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ! ing and grinding of timbers, the breaking Coldburg is a big, heavy-set man, and his I of glass, and the hissing of escaping matted beard and stained shirt give ample | I steam, while others never knew the late evidence of the serious nature of the inju¬ ries he had sustained. Hi3 leg is broken ' whicli overtook them. and face badly cut. He vomited quite a Saved as by a Miracle. great deal of blood after admission, which Engineer Hugh Kelfv and Fireman was probably swallowed, as the physi¬ Harry Neal, both of Philadelphia, sat in cians do not think the man’s lungs an" the cab of the locomotive which buried affected. This morning Coldburg was in itself in the Westinghouso car. As their a restless stupor, and ever and train rounded the curve at Dock street anon would clutch at his left they realized the awful blunder that some¬ breast convulsively, as if endeavoring to .. body had committed, but it was too late remove some heavy weight whicli was to avert the catastrophe. With a piercing lying there. The chances are against his <■[ shriek the engine crushed into the first recovery. Captain Booth, of the U. S.M section, and the baggage car behind recruiting station, this city, called this,tt' pressed forward by the ponderous Pullman morning, thinking that the man was arl sleepers capped the locomotive with its officer of his regiment who had been i’0 splintered fragments. The smoke stack Brooklyn visiting with his family, but was also knocked off and the locomotive few questions put to the resident physi-' was practically dismantled. As by a cian, Dr. Mulliken, satisfied him that it miracle the cab in which sat the engineer was not his brother officer, and he weirt and fireman wa3 not touched, and they es¬ away again feeling much relieved. caped to tell of their wonderful deliver¬ The wife of Prof. G. R. Smith, of the' ance. Both were stunned by the tremen¬ Normal School at Baltimore, Md., who is dous concussion. Two of the day coaches at Canandaigua, N. Y., was immediately were partially overturned and the helpless informed of her husband’s serious occupants screamed in their agony. Will¬ tion. Prof. Smith had his left leg ampu-!, ing bands helped them to get out of the tated at the thigh and sustained a frac¬ debris, and with blood streaming from ture of the left shoulder joint. He re¬ their faces they presented a ghastly spec¬ sides at 1214 Calvert street, Baltimore, ( tacle. and the physicians look on his recovery The Dead Girl Identified. with considerable doubt. Later on in the morning the body of the W. B. Parsons, aged abont 35, an engi-1 unknown young girl who was found in neer, residing at No. 22 "William street, the wreckage with her head severed from New York. He is suffering from a severe s the body, was identified as that of Miss contusion about the head and wrist, and I Lizzie Blair, of Twenty-first and Dicker- will recover. I son streets, Philadelphia,who was accorn- Mary Anderson, of Sap avenue, Jersey [ 1 panying Mrs. Mary Granger to Seattle, City Heights, slightly injured. j 'I Washington. A portion of the red dress Miss Alma Karstetter, aged about 28, t worn by the dead girl was taken to Mrs. of Iekesburg, Perry county, contusioDs tri Mi Granger and recognized immediately. both ankle joints and lacerated wounds of The Injured. arms. tb'c A comple list of the injured at the City George Burnett,of Newton,N. J.,broken5"1 Hospital follows: leg. W. T. Eastwick, of Mellen street, Pitts 1° Mrs. Mary Jane Granger, of 29-14 Elo- 1a rnand street, Port Richmond, Philadel¬ burg, broken arms. It is thought that.d In phia, who was on her way to Seattle, Eastwick resides in East Liberty. k ,u Washington, with her little daughter W. R. Fluck, of Palmyra, N.J.,slightly1.,.'. a Mamie, aged about 8, and Miss Lizzie injured. wi Blair, whose death was instantaneous, to H. B. Sensabaugh, of Mattoon. Illinois' join her husband, who is employed on the slightly injured. •£ steamship “Seattle,” plying on Puget John J. Cone, of Jersey City, slis Her injuries are about the j injured. ?erry M. Landis .injured about abdomen and ankle of the night having extiau. ^ is. child and she slept as peaceful , Carrie Golden, of Lehigh avenue, lh at home. Philadelphia, slightly injured. .~.n Jacobs, of the first train, whoL Maggie, Smith, aged 25, of Safe Harbor,! jin West Harrisburg, jumped from I N. J., jumped from a ear window and) and escaped with but slight in-f 5 fell on her head, producing a scalp j . wound. There are also contusions of the Tlie Coroner’s Jury. . chest and limbs. Coroner Hoy was notified, and as early] as posable empannelled a jury andar-L The Dead Minister. ranged for holding an inquest at his office 1 Rev. Da Costa Pomerene, of Philadel¬ in 1theiourt hhurt hmioohouse ofat O2 o’clock this after¬n fiw,. I phia, was a graduate of Princeton College, noon. |The names of the jurymen are: class of ’84, and was- about 32 years old. B. W. JCampbell, foreman; Joseph Pyne, _ , Ho had charge of a Presbyterian congre¬ John iferper, Jacob Greenawalt, John Car- j( gation in Salem, Ohio, and was a brother berry atjd. Andrew Murphy. of Atlee Pomerene, city solicitor of Can¬ A Narrow- Escape. ton, Ohio. He left Salem and was later j engaged with the Presbyterian Board of Harry Leonard, a passenger brakeman j Publication at Philadelphia. Hcwa3par- on the Philadelphia division, who was re- j tially blind, and his classmates in this turninghs a dead head from Philadelphia, , city say he was a bright young man and made a narrow escape from fatal injury. c always stood well in his class, He bad- just stepped from one of the jj Dr. Pomerine was on his way to Canton, coaches that was so completely wrecked, I t. )hio, to perform the marriage service of to the platform of the next coach, when t’ vis brother, the City Solicitor. His re¬ the shock occurred. He was pitched for¬ mains are at the undertaker’s, awaiting ward, hut got off with a scratch on his some word from his friends as to their left wrist. A man who was following final disposition. Mr. Leonard was wedged in between the K stove and Die end of the car. In tire Car. As one of the wrecked Pullmans was P. G. O. Ehle, of Buffalo, and two or being taker, to the repair shops this rnora- three friends were in conversation when ing it, jumped the track at Herr street the. accident occurred, and he says the switches, hut was soon put on again. scenes in the car were beyond description. During the blockade, trains were run over Passengers were thrown violently for- - the west-bound freight track to Maclay ,ward and wedged in among the broken street ■ [ and splintered seats. Two men in the At the instant of the wreck the rain rear of the car were instantly killed and was descending in torrents, and those who others were terribly injured. Ehle, who is a went to the rescue were deluged large man, was jammed into a small space, and was walking about the streets shortly Scenes in the Cars. after with a bandage tied about his head. The scenes in the cars immediately fol¬ His straw hat is streaked with blood, and lowing the crash bafflle description. The a gentleman who sat near him, W. R. two coabjies in which most of the casual JFIuck, of 411 Commerce street, Philadel¬ ties occurred were broken in pieces andi phia, wears a linen duster that is crim- the occupants of the cars were thrown in souGhwith his life fluid. every direction. Arms and legs were broken, ;faces were crashed and lacerated, \ Wreck Crew at Work. and scarcely a passenger escaped without, TheJwreeking crews were put to work cuts and braises more or less serious. One clearing away the debris, and by 8 o’clock man shot through the broken top of a the tracks were open and trains were run¬ car and landed alongside the track, ning r< ?ularly. The trunks and satchels not receiving a single scratch. in the'y aggage car of the second section There were many other miraculous es¬ were bfoken and twisted out of all sem¬ capes, the porter in the Westinghouse car blance lo their original shape. Engineer being wedged between the locomotive and Kelly was able to take his broken loco- the drawingroom. He crawled through a mo ti to the round-house. The wreck window not much hurt. The operator at eaugblf; fire, but a few buckets of water toe hteelton tower is alleged to have per¬ extiiMSlished the blaze. mitted the second section to enter the block Died at the Hospital. before tlij first had cleared it. Another Mrs.iUriah Heebner, Rev. Dr. Pom- story is that the rules of the company re¬ erene. $L M. Whitlock-and Daniel Mason quire the engineer to have control of his were ^ive when taken to the hospital, but tram when approaching the terminal ; boint> aQd that the second section was died before daylight. Mrs. Heebner, with >. her hulband and son and little grand¬ ’ not under such control when the accident daughter, Sadie Cox, aged 5 years, were occurred. going, jo visit friends at McKeesport. -pS?1' McClellan, superintendent Death lode with them and the mother ot the Middle division, was amono the and stln are now among the dead. first at the wreck, and personally°took As the'uather laid upon his couch of pain charge of the work. A large number of this naming he anxiously inquired for witnesses have been summoned before the his soiL Winfield, who was at that mo¬ coroner this afternoon. at iii the hands of the undertaker. Be- Good Work at tlie Hospital" h ""t.^as his little gnye4*L v J 'Hie work of t]m..pbvRicians^'4" T' / what he was saying, and gave athed in bandages, and ly77 iwers to questions automatically, the i, propped up with’ pillows, lie was' in continued firing questions far from cheerful. Asked "to tell what he him that had been answered knew of the occuiTenc° Mr; Timmons iree or four times before. During a re- said: less in the hearing, news was brought in “ We were on time at Middletown, and >f the death at the Hospital of Prof. tilings were going smoothly until we got ’6' Imith, of Baltimore. to this city. Richard Adams, who sat Mr. Hayes was stood aside for a few opposite me in the car, got up and was inutes, and the testimony of Conductor about to go out when the car stopped. I lharles B. Rettew, of the second section, said to him jokingly, * We are a mile away taken. He believed Engineer Kelley to from Harrisburg; you can’t get out here". be fully competent. He looked out of the window—it was The Steelton operator had no authority raining hard—and said: ‘ We are at Dock i I to allow two trains on a block at one street. ’ Then Mr. Adams walked to the time. He has been in the service since front of the car and sat down on the j’76. little cross seat that the brakeman usually Flagman Robert M. Brown, of the first occupies. I wondered why we had stopped i section, who has been in the service of and I got up and walked to the rear of the * the P. R, R. about 8 years, was called, car and went out on the platform. It and said positively that he placed was raining fearfully. As I looked down | a torpedo on the track opposite the Paxton the track the engineer blew the whistle llouring mill. He considered Mr. Kelley for the flagman to come in, and directly a first class engineer. He said that he afterwards I heard the flagman say ‘All was called in and climbed up over the right,” and we moved off. I walked top of the private car attached to the first through the car and picked up my satchel section, signalling the engineer from the and stood by the front door with my hand car. on the knob. What happened then I "a This report closed with Flagman Brown don’t know. There was no crash. Just £| still on the stand. a pushing together of everything, > and it seemed as if I was lying ‘ At the Steelton Tower. still and things were moving over Upon inquiry at the Steelton tower, the me. I was on my back and ■■ i following particulars were learned in re- there was a space above me, but I could \ ; gard to the cause of the wreck: W. M. see nothing and could not move. Directly : Good, the regular night operator, was I felt blood trickling down over my face If i I' j ordered yesterday afternoon to report at and I said to myself ‘ I guess this is the the Branch for dnty last night, and a end of you. ’ Then water splashed into young man by the name of Hays, of Har¬ my face and I thought I was under the risburg, was ordered on duty at the tower engine. As I lay there helpless and im¬ at Steelton. The first section of No. 9 agining what I would do next, I heard a passed into the block on time at 1.2:10 a. m. . little child cry ‘Mama, Mama!’ and it and at 12:17 second section came along and occurred to me that it was one of the I also passed into the block on the white Westinghouse children. I made a final signal. When asked_ why he allowed effort, reached all around me and caught second section to pass before receiving hold of what I guess was the side of “clear block’’ from XL (Dock street), the car. At any rate I pulled.my¬ his reply was that he “ thought first has * self up and out into the open air, and" passed 'XL.’’ When informed of the saw the light, and then I heard somebody I wreck and loss of life he be¬ shout: ‘ You are all right. I’ll help you, ’ came almost frantic, and the Then the reaction came and I dropped day operator was ordered on duty. like a log insensible into his arms. When He further said his block and train circuit I came to my senses I was in a car, and were both open, and that probably the they were washing the blood from my clear block had been given. The rumor face. I am not very badly hurt, in fact, was circulated this morning that Mr. not half as badly as I was a couple of Good was on duty, but such was not the years ago at Shamokin, when I was laid fact, as the orders as stated above up for a long time. ” made the change. Another rumor was to Mr. Timmons this morning telegraphed ; the effect that the operator had been sleep- his wife that he was all right, and would i ing,but having reported both sections and, try to get home to Philadelphia to-night.'’ I only seven minutes apart, that surmise is Insured for $5,000. dismissed. The accident happened at the Richard Adams, formerly of the firnh| Dock Street bridge,about a hundred yards of Adams & Bro., furniture dealers, wh.-ti west of the block tower. is among the dead, was on his way homer from Philadelphia. His wife has been il Mr. Timmons’ Story. for some time and yesterday morning 1 Among the passengers on the car next took her and one of his children to Phi.i to the Westinghouse private car was Mr. adelphia for medical treatment. He wa^l James Timmons, the well-known travel- on his way home at the time of the acei= 1 ing passenger agent of the Pennsylvania dent. Mr. Adams recently retired fir vljS railroad company. He was cut about the the furniture firm of which he was ** I head and hands, and severely shaken up, member and was about to go into busim 2 J^ggUjseriously injured. Sw¬ for himself. He was insured for $5./ m r\n Tt'oo iff, sfloil uc was injurea, ami! __ itoUarri! r jCSterday Frank R Leib, tlie agent here, ious military hospii received a draft for $30 which he intended The News In Norristown. to give Mr. Adams to-day. Nobeistown, Pa., June 25.- Mr. Adams was one ot our most promi¬ Charles Cox received the terrible nent business men. For a number of this morning that her mother, Mrs, Catha- \ years he had been in the furniture busi¬ rine Heebner, and her brother, Uriah ness with his brother, William J. Adams, Winfield Heebner, were killed in the retiring a short time ago. He was wreck of the Western Express at Harris¬ a kindly, courteous gentleman, of burg, and that her father, Uriah Heebner, fine business qualities, and held in the was severely injured. The Heebaers were highest esteem by all who knew him. Mr. en route to McKeesport to visit relatives. c Adams was a prominent and influential Mrs. Cox’s little daughter accompanied member of St. Paul’s Methodist church, her grandparents. The elder Heebner is on Vine street. A wife and family sur¬ an extra engineer in the employ of the vive him. Pennsylvania railroad here, aud the son Mrs. Adame arrived home from Phila¬ was employed by the same company as a delphia this afternoon, and was so seri¬ car inspector. ously ill that she had to be taken to the What Some Passengers Said. hospital. She is completely prostrated by her great grief over the loss of her hus¬ Pxttsbtjeg, June 25.—When the first section of the wrecked train arrived here band. i The death of Mr. Adams must have there were many of the injured passen¬ been instantaneous. His skull was split gers on board. They all pronounced it and both cars were almost torn off. Other¬ one of the most terrible wrecks they had | wise his body was not mutilated. ever seen. Many told startling stories. F. W. Heauy, of Chicago, who is a |6 An Old Man’s Sorrow. commercial traveler, had liis left hand Wending his sorrowful way slowly up badly crushed trying to rescue a man. He Third street from the scene of the wreck said: “I was in the smoker when the this morning, aged James Raymond, the wreck came. We were all thrown horse dealer, who makes his home with out of our seats aud stunned for his son-in-law, Wilson S. Cornman, chief a moment. Right ahead of me was a ? clerk at the Commonwealth Hotel, gave man whom I believe was a foreigner. A silent evidence of the great grief he felt double seat caught him aud the heavy over the loss of his son Robert S., a mem¬ stove fell ou him, also breaking both legs. ber of the firm of Raymond Brothers, also In trying to push off the stove it caught V horse dealers. With bowed head and my hand. The other dead and injured | grieving voice Mr. Raymond told a[ were on every hand. I had been in wrecks l Telegeaph reporter that his son, Charles | before, but never saw so much damage in W., had been down to the wreck and so short a time. John Coulson, of Chi¬ identified the body of Robert. Said the cago, had his arm hurt while jumping 11 heart-broken old gentleman, “My son re¬ through a baggage car window. sides at Columbus, Ohio, with his wife The scene was frightful. He said: “I aud three children, the oldest of which ii never heard such agonizing shrieks in my 16, and had been in Philadelphia dispos life as came from the second car, which ing of a car load of horses. He was on was telescr ped. It was completely broken, ills vay home to Columbus, and had in¬ and not a single person in it escaped in-; tended to stop off with us for a day or so. juries.” And to think that he was killed almost in John Wheelman, of Brooklyn, was oi sight of his father’s house.’’ And Mr. the train, and said: “I, with a friend, Raymond, with tears welling up in his was in the sm k< r, and we were eyes, continued on his way. both about half asleep. Suddenly there was .mi awful crash, and An Accident Thirty Years Ago. before we could realize what had The last great railroad accident that pened we were thrown over five seats happened in the vicinity of Harrisburg alighted ou a cushion, and neither of us was' that of September 26th, 1862, at was injured to any extent. My Men’ Bridgeport, on the opposite side of the Robert Dempster, was slightly bruise river. On that occasion a troop train, and as for me, I was a badly shaken u having on board the Twentieth regi- man.” , ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, known as J. W. Wright, of New York, was the Corn Exchange regiment, from Phila- thrown over five seats and slightly cut. | delphia. and several companies of mili- “I helped to carry out a number of f tia, was on its wav to Harrisburg on the corpses,” he said, “they were all so . Cumberland Valley railroad, at 7 o’clock frightfully cut that th. y must have died in the morning. A heavy fog prevailed, j instantly.” which prevented the engineer from J. D. It offer, a New York insurance seeing a locomotive on the same agent, was badly injured about the head track moving ranidly towards the aud breast. He said: I was in the third aim There - ’7] The inauguration of a new Gove for the State of Pennsylvania, oj should he fill up the term for wh!' a1, was chosen, will close a cento1 ^ T worthies who, by the voice of the te b occupied the Executive chair of out8 monwealth. From 1681 to 177G o eminent was a Proprietary one. V_ .1 other words, Pennsylvania was simpj Province whose deputy governors c-W,'. appointed by William Penn or bi;a>'“ scendanls. With the dawn of the ’’ ■ lution this feudal system ended, an at State of Pennsylvania organized a f!** eminent which*it placed in the hau s en an Executive Council, the presiain. wh • beers of which were termed Presid ;lpap , With the close of the war for Indep, stl ence, a newer constitution was fhi.rua w^ with the present system of Exeownii w.-' authority. Twice since 1790'cn, M, fundamental law of the Comc •,orta wealth has been modified, '’etartte] of that of 1790, three terms were al' ■lei, that of 1837-8 limited it to tw. 7 ‘Boar wo I while under the Constitution of 1 um" single term of four years was the r >'-c‘loaa' ment. During the Revolution, the~Ir idents were Thomas Wharton, jr., .Taa'd Reed, William Moore, John Dieyer' it wi5 Benjamin Franklin and Thomas iue res/ The latter held the office when “ J0mer stitution of 1790 went into a = Or 2V (fleeter] the first, finvnrr 1. Thomas Mifflin, 1790-1799 III. SlMO^ONYDER, 1808-1; 17. ThomAs Mifflin was born in Philadel¬ Simon Snyder was born at Lancaster, phia, in 1744, of Quaker parentage. On November 5th, 1759. His father, An¬ the completion of his education in the thony Snyder, was a native of Oppenheim Philadelphia College, he entered a count¬ in Germany, emigrating to America in ing hous'e. He visited Europe in 1765, 1748. He apprenticed himself at the age and returning, entered into mercantile of seventeen to the trade of a tanner at pursuits. In 1772, he was chosen to the York, and during intervals pursued his Assembly from Philadelphia; and in 1774, studies. In 1784 he removed to Selins- a delegate to the first Continental Con¬ grove, where he entered into mercantile gress. He was appointed major of one pursuits. He was early elected a justice of the first Pennsylvania battalions; of the peace, which office he held for accompanied Washington to Cambridge, I twelve years. He was a member of the !,s aid de camp; in August, was made ; convention which framed the Constitution quarter-master general; shortly after¬ of 1790; and in 1797 was elected a mem¬ wards adjutant general; brigadier general, ber of the House of Representatives, of March 16th,1776; and major general.Feb- which he was chosen Speaker in 1802,1 ruary 19th, 1777. He commanded the serving in that position for six successive •ing party during the retreat from terms. With him originated the arbitra-j 1 island. After the battle of Ger tion principle incorporated with other jwn, he resigned his position in the wholesome provisions for the adjustment In 1782, he was elected a delegate of controversies brought before justices ;ress, cf which body he was presi of the peace, in a law commonly called 1783. He was a member and the “hundred dollar law.” In 1808 he sr of the legislature in 1785; a was elected Governor of Pennsylvania, fite to the convention to frame the j and served for three terms. Upon re¬ ■al constitution in 1787; President of1 tiring from that office in 1817, he was ipreme Executive Council from j chosen to the State Senate, but died while •r, 1788, to December, 1790; and | a member of that body, November 9tb, arnor of the State from 1790 to 1799., 1819. He was interred at Selinsgrove, as during his term of office that the I and by direction of the Legislature a neat I pus, but little understood, so-called stone marks the last resting-place of thi j Pskey Insurrection took place. Gov. first of the German Governors of ouri ' a died at Lancaster, January 21st, State. while serving as a member of the jlature, and lies interred close by the IY. William Findlay, 1817-1820. 'of Trinity Lutheran church, in that William Findlay, the son of Samuel Findlay, was born at Mercersburg, Franklin county, June 20th, 1768. His •r Thomas McKean, 1799-1808. ancestors were Scotch Irish. He received McKean, son of William Me¬ a good English education, and was in¬ ed Scotch-Irish ancestry, was born tended for the law, but owing to the Lester county, March 19th, 1734. pecuniary embarrassments of his father, academic and professional course who met with a severe loss by fire, a 3y, he was admitted an attorney, collegiate course, then considered neces¬ on after appointed deputy attorney - sary, was denied him. After marrying, l for Sussex county, Delaware. In in 1791, he began life as a farmer. He J was elected clerk of the Pennsyl- was appointed a brigade inspector of rssembly, and from 1762 to 1769 Franklin county, the first office he held. number thereof for the county of In 1797 he was elected a member of the ICastle. In 1765 he assisted in fram- House of Representatives. In 1803 he Ve address of the Colonies to the was again chosen to that office, and suc¬ li House cf Commons. In 1771 he cessively until January, 1807, when, hav¬ Tpointed collector of the port of New ing been elected State Treasurer, be re¬ was a member of the Continental signed his seat in the House. For ten ess in 1774, and annually re-elected years he fill ed the latter position. In 1817 (February, 1788. In 1778 he was a he was elected Governor over General [jer of the convention which framed Joseph Hiester. He served one term. At fticles of Confederation; and 1781 the session of the Legislature, in 1821-22, lent of Congress. In addition to Governor Findlay was chosen United -ties, in 1777 he acted as President States Senator for six years. At the ex¬ i ware, and until his election as piration of the senatorial'term, President [tor, from 1777 to 1799, held that Jackson appointed him Treasurer of the ■nd also executed the duties of chief United States Mint. He died at Harris¬ |of Pennsylvania. He was a pro- burg, November 12th, 1846; and is there if and signer of the Declaration of buried. His daughter became the wife |idence; commanded a battalion of Governor Shunk. ,erved under Washington in the |of 1776-77. He was elected Gov- / Y. Joseph Hiester, 1820-1823. Pennsylvania three terms (1799 Joseph Hiester, the son of John Hiesi pinder the Constitution of 1790, ter was born in Bern township, Bert vention framing which he was county, November 18Ui, 1752 In 17 He died at Philadelphia, on he raised a company of eighty men, : June, 1817. “ceived his commission as car- Men the battalion was re-eiected in 1841. During iiis term office the first great discussion over the j tenure of office. In his messages to the reduction of railroads occurred in this j Legislature he took strong grounds 1 .te. The Governor’s course was against the latter and helped materially irked with liberal views and he saga- to prepare the way for the political,, ly promoted the new power wben- j movements against the extension oP1 he could. He also proved himself a slavery. His advanced position on these wise friend and defender of common ; subjects was very naturally followed by schools. He was a man of marked ability. ta reaction, which placed in power p He died at Harrisburg August 6, 1867, /vigorous representative of the old Demo and there buried. ; cracy. On retiring from office. Governor' : j Johnson entered into acuve business life, 1 X. Francis R. Shunk, 1845-1848. j He was appointed by President Johnson Francis Rawn Shunk, the son of | collector of the port of Philadelphia, but John Shunk, was born at the Trappe lowing to the hostility of the United ■ontgomery county,'August 7th, 1788. State Senate to most of that President’s ' became a teacher at the age of fifteen, appointments, he was not confirmed. He in 1812 received the appointment as died at Pittsburgh, October 25th, 1872. in the surveyor-general’s office der General Andrew Porter. In 1814 XII. William Bigler, 1852-1855. marched as a private soldier to the William Bigler, the son of Jacob lefence of Baltimore. In September, Bigler, was born Jan. 1st, 1814, in Shear |81b, he was admitted to the practice of man s Valley, Cumberland, now Perry \re law. He filled the position of assist- county. He received a fair school edu¬ and then principal clerk of the House cation. Learned printing with his opresentatives for several years; next brother from 1830 to 1833, at Bellefonf.e. ne secretary of the Board of Canal In the latter year he established the .issioners; and in 1839 Governor Clearfield Democrat, which he success- ‘’footed him Secretary of the fully carried on for a number of years. th. In 1842 he removed to He subsequently disposed of his paper iburg, engaging in his profession. In and entered into mercantile pursuits. In -44 be was elected Governor of Penn 1841 he was elected to the State Senate, ylvania, and re-elected in 1847. Shortly chosen Speaker in the spring of 1843, and ifter he was stricken with a fatal sickness at the opening of the session of 1844. In md resigned, leaving the office to be filled 1 October following, he was re-elected to W the President of the Senate, William j Ibe Senate. In 1849 appointed a revenue ■■ Johnson, until a new election could be ! commissioner. In 1851, elected Governor lad. Gov. Shunk died on the 30th of of the State, serving for three years. Z' an sinuations illations we: of the cour '.excited t! linned t] iderstai ..necessa ' ;y, alm( her t One would scarcely think that the Signi¬ and then died out. Tne pcople had -he w fied and courteous Judge John B. McPher- worst sort —-ot craze for base-- ball. J tee. “ ison, of the Dauphin and Lebanon district, right after the war, there was no natideu 0 ' nice disported on the diamond, and was re¬ game, cricket w as too slow, aud when a * garded as the best pitcher and the fleetest ball came with all its snap, vim * ™ ' base stealer in the Tyrolean Club. And to science, it was what the people v look at Hon. Robert Snodgrass, ex-Attor- waiting for and they took |)uc T nev-Geueral of the State, it scarcely with avidity. It_was_ extolled in i ,t*ween | S'■ens probable that he caught behind the the local poets. The best men in tl.„al gubj bat and could throw like a shot to the bases. munity considered it an honor to be' jast ey, Many other gentlemen now prominent in the club, and great was the struggle l otessioual and business circles belonged the players to get a place in the ‘‘tirsl ■; i -me or the other of tltesc clubs. It was a tor there were first, second and eve. ; day iu ilarrisburg when a base ball nines in some clubs, the first, of coi • natch” was announced. They were not iug the best, and recruiting its ran'Cond set coiled “games” in those days, but the others. ar*d Dr- matches,” and they were always played FIRST ENCLOSED GltOUNDS.eSlslatu'; tor “blood.” Thousands ot citizens attended In 1SGS and 1869 the Tyroleans c id it was considered a great disgrace to be deleated. on a fenced-in ground—a historic s..^■]u \es i site of old Camp Curtin, where scar THE CHAMPIONS MET DISASTER. stf1 years before had been encamped hu The Tyroleans were the champions. They of thousands of soldiers, who went. fced defeated every club in the vicinity, aud fight for the Union. Even at that t-- i hen they sighed for more worlds to con- there stood on the grounds in left field . j quer, they, in an evil hour, induced Al. building used as a soldiers’ hospital, an Reach to bring the Athletics here from Dig Dan Klinefelter, of _ the Athletics^ ■ Philadelphia. Mr. Reach used to be the had the honor of knocking a ball deal!, j umpire in all the championship games here, over the house. There was no grand stand, ] aud his throwing aud batting were regarded no comfortable seats, nothing, in fact, to at¬ j as something wonderful.The Athletics came, tract the people save the bare love of the1 I and on a ball ground in East Harrisburg, game, but thousands went and enjoyed thf): i now covered over by long rows of houses, Tyrolean victories. In 1870 a new club apw iu the preseuce of 3000 people the Athletics peared on the field—the Dauntless, and p, j defeated the Tyroleans by a score of lid to gave tfie Tyroleans a lively hustl" *r: dciei I 11. It was a glorious victory, and old Seip I them Pike, Dick McBride, Al. Reach, Hicks . The Tyroleans disbanded in 1871, am, : Hayinirst, Dan Klinefelter, Thomas Fisher heueforth the Dauntless had it all their owi j and Charles Gaskill pounded the cover oil' way. Among the Dauntless players wer ’ the lively ball and made the youngsters Frecl. Ebel, a prominent hotel man here ; I tired. It may be remarked that the next present; Frank Simmons, Wm. Craved' j year the Athletics returned and again ue- Harry Melvy. Philip Britsch. Jacob Kolleit! ■ Dated the Tyroleans by a score of 111 to 18. Wm. Croft, Ed. Lectford and John Keriu It was in 18G7 that the base ball lever nedy. The.disbanded Tyroleans had num.ri broke out all over Pennsylvania,and scarcely beredin their ranks Thomas Montgomery,,tp a town but had its club. That year a State Convention ot Base Bail Clubs was called Ik MacPherson, J. W. Gross, Spencer Gr. at Harrisburg iu early Summer, and bert, Charles Parsons. William Cun all(j over 200 delegates were present from John E. Patterson, George Zinn Ger lt all parts of the State. A State organization trom the field of battle, where as a b Tlie as effected that lasted for a couple of years won a general’s star), Al BurkCumasomer Robert Ferriday, _ .1 ootl mmmm* BRIDGE TO THE ISLAND. /, Geoi’ge Britsch, Charles Hiester After this the game languished and the lany others, afterwards prominent in fence was seized for rent, the grand stand ssional and business circles, and all was set on fire and with the chairs burned are living yet interested in the national to the ground, and the field, the joy and pride of all lovers of the diamond, was th the coming of the Dauntless into the ploughed up and planted with potatoes, pionship came the junior club known ON BUSINESS PRINCIPLES. High Boys, all chipper youngsters, o were anxious tor glory on the ball field. The dawn of a new era came in 1889—base High Boys numbered in their ranks ball conducted on business principles. m Mcradden, L. K. Scheffer, Thomas M. James Farrington, of Camden, N. J., who es, John German, William Moutgoni- had piloted the old Merritt Club so often tt Geoige King. George Muranta, Al K. victory, bethought him that Harrisburg nger, Robert M. Sturgeon and William would be a good place to establish a club utter, the young pitcher who first t John Montgomery Ward how to and he came here for that purpose. He a curve ball. This was after a game met with little success at first. Cold wate: Haven in which the High Boys de- was thrown on his project. The memory o l Ward’s Club by 40 to 0. good, hard, American dollarssunkin simiiai projects had soured the sports and they saic THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL SEEN, they were not in it. But Farrington was : risburg first saw the professional ball hustler. Cold water did not daunt him in 1S73. The High Boys having Suc- and cold shoulder only stimulated him t renewed effort. He knew the times wer in defeating every club, including the auspicious, for everybody w'as talking has (ess, arranged a game with the fain or ball. Finally he succeeded in indue ub, which had as its battery Mil' ing Fred Ebe, M. M. Grove, Williac -dley, both afterwards famoii Crook, John Nutt, Henry Myers am St. Louis nine. The Eastons several other ardent lovers of sports to pu the boys by a score of 7 their money into the project and the break and the next day turned in of life was blown into a new Harrisbur aid out the Dauntless by 21 to 1. That 3 was too rich for the Dauntless’ blood, Club, which became a member of the Intel it gave np tile ghost, never to revived State League and last year won the cliam i 1874 the High Boys defeated the Active pionship. Grounds were secured at Sixt. and Maclay, a really first-class team was sc ub, a local organization, and this led lected by Farrington and the season opener o the formation of a professional From the very first game the scheme wa bib called the Experts, which included a success. The players worked to wir such Philadelphia players as Henry Myers, Farmington hustled lor all there wa Dixou, Harbridge, Blogg, Say, Carrington, in it. business principles predominate! Blackburn and other well-known proles- great crowds came, and at la: louais. Not to be outdone the High Bovs the city had a club it coul , 'ported some players, but the Experts were tie to. -The season was very successful. I too heavy for them, and up to 1876 the High the eighty-seven games played on the hom Boys played as amateurs, wlieu they dis¬ grounds there was an average attendance < banded. 'the Experts played along for a 700 people, and on holidays the grouuc couple of seasons and finally died in 1879. were so crowded that the players were iute Not until 1882 was the game again re¬ fered with. Everybody was pleased £ vived here, and then the Independent Club around and loud were ihe praises of the cli sprang into existence. Before the season and its management. was over the people had again caught the THE MIDDLE STATES LEAGUE. lever and several imported professionals, among them Hines and Conroy, of the At¬ On the breaking tip of the Inter-Sta lantic City Club, were engaged. In League last year it was feared that the £83 the first Harrisburg Base; would be trouble in securing a placet ,11 Club, purely professional, was I Harrisburg in 1890, but this was obviati tied, and splendid grounds at by the tormation of the Middle Stat d and Muenah laid out. The club lasted j League by President Yoltz, of the o asons and died in 1885, the men at the J league, and it promises to be a vu sinking a great deal of money. Ts* *' lurishing youngster. During « —voiuo ia aion; mynysm-m he S _W.-i.tnKn rw.-- Kid attorneys at the bar state that nothing like Judge Simonton wrapped for order au., ", dressing Mr. Heir said : It has ever before occurred. Directly after court Pi “A gentleman of your ability in questioning a t assembled at two o’clock the case of John Shoop witness would be shrewd enough to gat away r and Dr. Michael Price, charged with horse steal¬ frcm an answer like that by the witness.” ing, was called for trial. Shoop pleaded guilty and This caused further loud laughter, which Mr. !j Herr did not participate in. It seemed to place | was put upon the stand as the principal witness him upon his dignity and with some evidence of for the commonwealth against Price, who was anger in his face, he stepped quickly in front u defended by A. J. Herr and John A. Herman. of the bar and shaking his finger at the court, ° During the examination of Shoop he gave at said: “I cannot accept from the bench a compli¬ ment that carries with it an insinuation.” great length alleged conversations that took This caused considerable excitement and the place between himself and the defendant. On court for a moment became visibly excited. the cross-examination by Mr. Herr the witness “You must understand, Mr. Herr,” said the i was asked if he had given all of the conversa¬ judge with force, “that you must not make such i; tions that took place between [him and Price. remarks.” “But I will when you cast such insinuations ■Witness answered that he had. Mr. Herr then “It is no such a thing. No insinuations were asked if there had been a conversation rela¬ cast.” tive to a division of the proceeds of the “But so I interpret the meaning of the court. f I sale of the stolen h'orse. Shoop first said that There was an insinuation when you excited the I there had been. Mr. Herr then asked him why crowd to laughter.” ’ 11 he had testified that he had given all the con¬ “Now take your seat. Mr. Herr,” continued thd * versations and now admitted that he had not judge still excited. “I want you to understand given them all, when he said that there had that you must not do that.” been a conversation about a division of the pro- “But I will, your honor, when it is necessary, 5 ceeds of the horse. Witness said that the con¬ to protect myself,” replied the attorney, almos^ versation about the division had slipped his as white as the beard on his face. le memory. Mr. Herr again asked witness why he "Take your seat, Mr. Herr. Remember the :r had not given the conversation on his first ex- consequences.” S animation. The witness replied that there had Mr. Herr sat down, still excited, and the wit ninot been a conversation about the division of mess then proceeded. At intervals the feeling: id the proceeds of the stolen horse, but that Price that had been aroused occasionally cropped out tasked him (witness), “Whether they could not Mr. Herr would talk to other attorneys in a low ff, raise a stake- manner and the court would warn him to kee,* I At this point of the witness' answer and as he quiet, so that the trial could proceed. Price wa was about to proceed Mr. Herr interrupted put on the stand in his own defense. He war. j, with another question, and concluded the cross- reprimanded several times by the court, but wa: examination by a sharp remark to the witness to acquitted by the jury. The scene between the . the effect that he was no good and bkould get court and Senator Herr was the general subject I® clown off the stand as they were done with him. of conversation among the attorneys last evdni mg. THE REDIRECT EXAMINATION. |i Mr. McCarrell, the district attorney, then (asked witness on redirect examination to explain ~b <■' ' ' Sew Publications. I about the “stake,” which witness spoke of on “Archives of Pennsylvania, ” second serie H cross-examination. Witness was proceeding volume 1st, edited by John B. Linn and Dr. \ ib svhen Mr. Herr objected to his answer on the H. Egle. Many years ago the Legislature II ’round that the question was not on the subject Pennsylvania authorized the publication of K natter of his cross-examination. •it Tbs court over-ruled the objection of Mr. <1 Colonial Records, ” being copies of the ml: ■;i Terr, and ordered the witness to proceed with of the Provincial Council. Three volu sfes v in lis answer. Mr. Herr again objected, published before the appropriation rs The court in over-ruling the objection a sec- They embraced but a small period in t ., ed md time, went over the testimony of the wit¬ of the colony; but they were found to t ai" ness as developed by the cross-examination, and estlng and valuable that a full publlcatice aid there was no doubt that the question of the series was much desired. Some years after, iistrict attorney was a proper one. appropriation was authorized to publls Mr. Herr, somewhat excitedly, questioned the State papers. The venerable historian, -hw. x correctness of the court’s recollection and an- Hazard, was made the editor of this series, > •’ icaled to the stenographer’s notes. ' ' The court replied that it was a waste of time as he labored over it faithfully for some years, j “ je bad a note of that portion of the testimony result was that thirteen volumes were add# i I timself. the “Colonial Records.” Another series, li i Mr. Herr still insisted on the notes being read, bracing the papers and documents, were eo| nd desired an exception given him. Some re¬ died in the “Pennsylvania Archives,” wh. narks followed when the court allowed the notes were published in several volumes. These pap- o be read. Both the judge and the attorney brought up the history of the province and St.''3 istened to the reading and as the last word from 1081 to 1790, when a new Constitution w hopped from the stenographer’s lips each re- adopted, and the Supreme Executive Council w. harked simultaneously, dissolved. At the cessation of his labors, M “There ! Didn’t I tell you so?” ( Hazard reported with regret that some Imports;; SHARE CONVERSATION INDULGED IN. papers were missing, among which he parMcjs Mr. Herr again contended against the witness larly specified the revolutionary minutes of tl ■oing on, maintaining that the notes sustained Board of War and of the State Navy Boar,** dm in his position. These journals were found at Harrisburg two Judge Simon ton differed and then started to mmarize the testimony,being frequently inter- three years ago, and in 1871 the Legislature a| ipted by Mr. Herr, who was worked up to a high thorized their publication under the direction itch. The judge broadly intimated that Mr. the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Mr. Q.U, :rr had interrupted the witness at the word has entrusted that duty tc Messrs. Linn and E. fake” in the answer above given because thean- aEd those gentlemen have labored over it wi wer was not what had been expected. This pro¬ the enthusiasm of historical scholars. The res. ceed some laughter in the court, in which Mr. is the production of a much handsomer lerr joined and sa' ’ —fi - - -31 than has hitherto been published ^PR^tate^^^T^jeauIlfwl^pHiUe^^onTaSs ’ too, was the grandson oft he founder, hi? Jrnort biographical sketches of the members of the father, Robert Harris, being the oldest' Hoards of War and Navy; embodies the minute1* of those boards, -with the muster-rolls of the ion of John Harris by bis second mar¬ navy, lists of British prisoners, and other im¬ riage with Mary Reed. Mrs. Harris portant matters. Among the Illustrations are re¬ early Identified herself with the Presby¬ presentations of the seal of the Committee of terian church of this city, was an exem¬ Safety, and of the Arms of the State during the plary member thereof, and in all her re 'Revolution, which have lately been restored to use 5 iations of life was greatly esteemed. She under legislative authority. The work Is consci¬ was a faithful and dutiful wife, a loving entiously done by the editors. The State pro¬ mother and a kind-hearted neighbor. Of vides fof the sale of these Archives by subscrip¬ a large family, only three children sur¬ tions, to be made with the county treasurers at vive her: Mrs. Catharine Morris, wife of the low price of one dollar per volume for the William Morris, Esq., of Delaware; Mrs. enti.e set. Elizabeth Kerr, widow of J. Wallace OBITUARY. Kerr, of Harrisburg, and Miss Julia Har¬ E. M. Bollock, an Old Citizen, Basses ris, of the same city. At the time of her Away This Morning. decease Mrs. Harris was the oldest native This morning E. M. Pollock, one of inhabitant resident here. Of those who Harrisburg’s oldest citizens, died at his were her co-workers in the “societies’’ ; residence 207 South Front street, after an of the long ago, jnone remain. In fact illness of three weeks, in his 82d year. when we glance over the list of early Deceased immigrated to America from natives, we find the number very few the north of Ireland when a mere lad who are with us. Time is telling very Lund settled for a time in Philadelphia. heavily on all, and yet time has dealt I He soon became engaged in the book¬ leniently. The age of four-score years peddling business, making Philadel¬ is what few reach. phia his heaquarters. He traveled over I the country in a wagon, visiting the dif [ ferent county seats and supplying law- GEN. A. L. RUSSELL DL*Ai iyersand others with standard profes¬ sional works. Finally he settled in Har¬ A FORMER HARR IS BURGEE HIES IN FOREIGN LAND. risburg and established himself in the book business at the stand in Gen, A. E. Russell Basses Peaceful? Away j South Market Square now occupied by Singular Delay in the Receipt c« the | Dow as a boot and shoe store. He con¬ Tidings of His Demise. I tinued in business until a few years ago. The relatives in this city of Gen. A. lh. Ru He married Miss Martha IIaye3, of Ly- H sell, United States consul at MonteVied 1 coming county, who preceded him to the , Uruguay, were apprised Friday for t] [grave about one year. When his beloved * firrt time of his death, which occurred dra® [consort passed away he had no longer V. the latter part of May. The receipt of IS [a desire to live and frequently so ex¬ Buenos Ayres Standard, of June 2, by a gc pressed himself. His surviving children .Capt. Ed. Pollock, of the United ' tleman of this' city, containing the followi: ^army, stationed at Cheyenne; Mrs. notice of the deceased consul’s funeral, w “sBuehler, of Harrisburg; Mrs. Col. the first intimation of his death: “The su with her husband at his post in den death of General Rnssell, United Stat f, Mrs. James Butler, Middlesbro’, - consul in Montevideo, has caused much regi ul, and Misses Rachael and Martha among his countrymen in the Platte, by whe j k, of this city. The funeral takes he was much respected. The funeral to Ion Monday. Deceased was a mem- place on Sunday and was attended by a ve b the Masonic and Odd Fellows’ or¬ large concourse of foreigners and Orients ations. // / A guard of honor from the United Sta ' frigate Nipsie1 attended to pay the last horn Mrs. Mary E. Harris. to the lamented consul.” There is no Srs. Mary Elizabeth Harris, the widow ACCOtTYTING FOB 'THE DELAY ? the late George Washington Harris, i in getting the news of General Russell’s dea .ed at her residence in this city yester- The last letter received by his daughter in t rciay, January 24. 1884, aged eighty years. city stated that he was slowly convalesce She was the daughter of Dr. Henry Hall, from his illness of several months’ durati 'a native of Cecil county, Md., and a phy¬ Another letter received last Saturday sta sician of prominence in the.early days of that Mrs. Russell would sail for home on our town. He married Hester Maclay, gth of July and expected to> reach New Y< daughter of the Hon. William Maclav, ; by the 12th of August. There was, howei [ who represented Pennsylvania in the not a word about the death1 of the general, first Senate of the United States. The is supposed that prevroueletters miscarri j wife of William Maclay was Mary Har General Russell was a prominent characte: I'lP, daughter of John Harris, the founder, the war history of Pennsylvania. He was b and his wife, Elizabeth M’Clure. Mrs. in Bedford county, where si brother, San [Mary E. Harris was born at Harrisburg i. Russell, esq., the fatho*-in-lsiw of Sen; [in September, 1808, and here almost Uongenecker, still resides. Rater he remo I her entire four-score years were passed. to Pittsburg, where he studied law and ^>he married'about sixty years ago George admitted to the bar. While a resident of 1 ’Washington Harris, then a successful at- ha married a Miss King. During < site ,of historic value is alon; ‘ the Swatafra creek in Dauphin county' from which the learned Grammarian, Lindley Murray, son of Robert Mur¬ ray, Esquire, lived and wrote his, splendid grammar that added a form! 'and classification to the English language which became the basis for 1 elegance and force which it possess-, r. Hamilton Pleads For Marker es today above all other tongues on j For Well Known Gram= the face of the earth. “I make one plea here that our marian in Dauphin Co. Historical Monumental Committee make the site of the birthplace of Lindley Murray, of course a Scot, born in April 22, 1745 on the banks of the Swatara, then in Lancaster county, Pa. He died in England, !e Jl • « iiug XI XXCt iuuwu, last night he¬ February 16, 1826 about 81 years old. 4 i re the Dauphin County Historical He is known to all generations by a '* Aw ociety, made a plea for the marking stone stating he was the father of y a monument of the birthplace in | our present English language. -ast jianover'., township of Lindley j “He received his primary education in Philadelphia in the academy of array,\the diuir>?aished grammar-, the Society of Friends. He was orig¬ y ' ; inally destined for a mercantile life; Hamilton showed the society but having been severely chastised for res and other data which a breach of domestic discipline, leff his father, who was then residing in New York, and taking up his abode in a school at Burlington, N. J., he | Inhere contracted a love of books and study. He afterward studied the law with Hon. John Jay, of New York city, and practiced as a barrister; but in course of time he quitted the bar for the counting house, and having rpaJiKptl a competency, he went, in 1784, to England, and settled at Holdgate, near York. “His ‘English Grammar’ which so long held its ground and has passed through an immense number of edi¬ tions, appeared first in 1795. He soon afterward published th,© ‘Eng- j lish Exercises and Key.’ These were followed by many other school books, and several moral treatises. “Mr. Murray’s daughter married Alexander Graydon, a captain in the Revolution, a prisoner on a British prison ship after the battle of TINDLEY MURRAY Long Island, N. Y. The late Alexander house sketched by Dr. Hugh Graydon, M. D., of Dauphin County, ton, this city, shows the birth- Pa., and also the late Henry Murray e of the well known grammarian, s situated three miles northeast Graydon, Esq., were relatives of Lindley Murray, The widow of Mr. Station on The Reading in over township. Dr. Hamil- Henry Graydon and several ch’ldren it geographically as fol- survive him and are living here at latitude, north, 40-19-3 5; lon- 1709 North Second street, and Mr. west, 76-38-1. The photo- William Murray Graydon, an author >f Mr. Murray was, taken from of note, resides in London." cut appearing in “One Hun¬ ’s Americans,’’ by Helen iprge KouTledgp & Sons, , 1866 by . J,9- tv .v r futun HARRISBURG, PENNA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1914 HARRISBURG FOOD PROBLEMS OF LONG AGO Forestalling and Its Punishment in “The Sixties’ By HELEN, BRUCE WALLACE True, Messrs. O. Barrett Thomas C. MacDowell, t>Se Those of us who stay awake nights neglected to-mention -(bate “E trying to solve the problem of a shal¬ runs so high ton tiki suoject <...... low purse and steep prices must even markets in Carlisle that the burgess lose the consolatibn of thinking our¬ and assistant burgess (who belong, selves the only food martyrs of the to the early birds) have tendered1 ages. Old-time Harrisburg also had their resignation rather than approve , its market problems—and met them late markets.” - If with a grit that bears emulating. Transportation Facilities i Back in “the sixties,” as that It was not easy to get to market in epochal decade is familiarly known, those pre-horsecar days, and, though: I :.v.- prices soared and, people growled Harrisburg was largely swamp above; much as they do today. To read the North street, and there were but five; files of The Patriot and The Union or six houses ori the “Hill,” great joy’ and the Daily Pennsylvania Tele¬ attended the announcement in the; graph would almost convince the Patriot and Union, April 13, 1861: grumblers of 1919 that, Rip-like, We understand that Mr. | they had just roused from a half- George P. Davis contemplates century sleep. starting a market express. Per¬ What did Harrisburgers pay for sons residing in Verbeke town .• via** food, and what did they do and say and the outskirts of the city will f about it, back in the days when we no doubt avail themselves of this ihad just outgrown the borough stage, opportunity to save their muscle. i and had bur. 14,867 inhabitants? Perhaps because of the early start, I Perhaps it may toe of interest to bear the man of the family was marketer- " a message from the mar); ete.rfj wf in-chief, from the Governor down. thfcvVil.o ■of.nbw, Market Sheds The Chronicle and Harrisburg Ad In passing, it may be well to re¬ in-find the young and the newcomers vertiser, September 28,*1818, says: Governor Findlay has not been that, in IS60, we had no commodious market houses, though Verbeke Mar¬ seen in market, we are informed, ket was being built. Market Squaie. ■ during the whole of last sum¬ not -nnadornedly hideous, as at pies- mer; the venerable matrons have ert was filled with two picturesque leave now to alight from their old’ market sheds, then dilapidated, ponies and take care of their . out later repaired and used until the eggs as they please, and the old erection of Chestnut Street Market men get none of the hearty shakes by the hand and ‘Hoo de "1889 h. those markets in the Square! ye doo, and hoo de ye doo. I long open sheds, one below, the There are enough marketers left r above intersecting Market who frequented those old sheds in each with a central market the rain to appreciate the Patriot narrow outside aisles, all and Union’s feeling that October with stalls and heaped morning of 1860, when, under the uce and lighted by flicker- caption, “A Terrible Nuisance, they announced: tefoits. ■ ose gas jets were necessary: Saturday morning was ,pecu¬ liarly adapted to enable us to Even en there were mutterings o,f rebellion. In November, 1860, the realfte the beauties of the mar¬ Patriot and Union announces that ket, in all their sublimity. It citizens are called on to sign a peti- was raining, blowing, muddy, and the weather was pretty bad “to fix 8 a. m. for opening mar- —especially when you were oinstead of 3.30, the time it now compelled to set down your market basket, and use the weeks later it'comments on united strength of your arms to ^j^ss of the recent “daylight keep your umbrella from blow¬ Carlisle, which under a ing away. , . ia.:ce started at noon: Of course everybody got in¬ ight piark'ets wherever side, and in consequence the 3am I shed have proved a, de- was intolerable, especially m ^ uccess and become popu¬ those detestable narrow passages lar with both seller and pur¬ ■which flank the main building. chaser. .Why is it that our “City If you did not relish the heavy Fathers’j hesitate about inaugu¬ market baskets tickling y°ur rating this excellent system? It ribs, or umbrella handles punch¬ would be\an accommodation to ing your unfilled bread basket, the farmers during the winter all you had to do was to take to season a.nA a great convenience the street and wade in themmk to our citizens. The rain of the night had We can assure Council that kept away a great many of the prompt arid favorable action in noble Romans who bring us our this matter would be universally butter and eggs; consequently orm heartily endorsed by the there was a scarcity, whereof ^severe? gn eople-’ they repre- they did not fail to take advan¬ tage and apply, “t*1® Principle. - mm evil in jY in e per¬ FEBRUARY 2, 1889, MARKET HOUSES SOLD il of our 1889. •’6ct, is in- refusing- to brave the storm, and Everything was up m avily fir.>^ on is, are we forthwith a half dime is added ures or diminished i: vith such mar- to the price of butter, and eggs Even the meat offering iodations ? Op go up a couple of cents on the butcher was a nickel o se in the maj- pound more, and one fej it and demand d°Ofncourse, this is piling it on the cohsummate assuia _especially such of us as ask us a dollar for a tuij hive a limited amount of means Job could have licked I and watch the chance to get the rounds; while another jjfl largest amount of Pr0Je^ler f0 the least amount of reaay. 'Everybody knows krained terribly Friday night and Sat urday morning and it was still -i be a coming down when we reached e knov the old dilapidated sheds which i n the by courtesy are called market houses. We expected a slight lit aoj rise from the" heavy rams, but r-axottAi in inquiry we found a- ^ost de¬ WUJ 5 termined disposition on the Part r' nf our rural friends to run the ;iq.ic stu noq q on itiSir :hv' 'A’.iJs umibf im'ately taking i circumstances. I* a heavy rain -ceding market IHi))ng;ency that apHir p> ■Tl"1.,.I,.'emand. in Ssome of the inddaughters * iii ODD CITY MARKETS IN MARKET SQUARE—USED FROM 1790-1 Jr; Ha! oldTeT' said we’ tL is a God in Israel’—and Think' of that unfortunate de¬ Up the Susq m.k. re is—rand if our country nizens of Harrisburg, who must niata both pot ke<*3 don’t believe it, just let are very plentj not ?o [EAT MARKET, WITH FISH AND FRUIT STATUS OF “POPPY” RUSS IN FOREGROUND reeted September, 1885, for Dauphin County Centennial at instigation of Dr Greene Patent ist. Band concerts frequently given from (it, with Prof. Paris Chambers-»- as star cornetisU’ 1' heels of every war. Why ? Better days ahead if— weaken.” Back in August, [arrisburg Chronicle” tells The United States, continues the ?3 a bushel; flour $15, and “Chronicle,” entered upon a war il. “Great apprehension without preparation, with a stock the fact that grain can- of provisions in the country only sufficient to meet the demands of lined in many of the in- the population in time of peace. s at any price." The waste necessarily attendant Yar and Prices upon armies and the subsistance : 29, 1816, speaking of the of a vast body of men produced an of Provisions” it said: unavoidable encroachment on the ; ifferent effects which capital stock of the nations. And n produced in Great neither can this diminution be im¬ id America in relation mediately remedied. ices of provisions by a It will be a long time before the truly striking. In the prices of the necessaries of life iuntry 'the necessities of | will resume their accustomed cheap and abundant as level. Economy in the consump¬ a considerable profit tion of animal food would be the shipment to the United best remedy for the evil, and if hilst in the latter they every individual of the com¬ so scarce and dear as. munity would bring less to the ce the mode of living of table a vast public good would be mass of the population..”.'! j accomplished. e seen for many weeks, | The food problems of 1816, 1865 and deces of beef at twenty- j 1919 are mighty similar. The house¬ per pound, and potatoes, keepers of today think they have n growth at twenty-five “pared down” to their limit. Let them .If peck. Neither has the keep it up a bit longer, studying nu¬ een local. It has existed trition as well as economy. Above it the continent, and in all, let them keep a stout heart. At le western counties of least they need not eat the bread of has been so severely despondency—our Fathers wrestled some of our fellow crea- with H. C. of L. and thrived on itj ;ti e been actually in want So can we! o while the cattle and (ve died for want of pro- it .firitain, a warlike nation jj3t of her agricultural ,jji cattle for the Army found herself at the a :d end of the war with ed market and low < ■■■ < peach and other choice fiult, constituting «u i« Kmble of color, tint and shading which cm ^ only bo excelled by tho highest perfection of nature. Tho picture Is onclcsod In u inasiive I' gilt frame, 20x30 Inches, and when it lire the advantage of a proper light, elicits the admira tlun and favorable criticism of all who exam- vino It. Accompanying tLo picture was a written Us timonial, to which each of the subscribers to tho fund bad appended their names. The sen- I Haunt of ths testimonial Is as follows: , PRESENTED TO WILLIAM W. IRWIN, Committary General of the Stale of Pcnntyloaii’4, As a Testimonial of tho High Respect which is entertained for bis Official Acts, And the Warm Esteem in which He is Held^ Personally by bis Friends, the under- \ signed. The presentation took place last evening, in tire Law Department of the State Library rooms, whore tho subscriber* to the fund had been as¬ sembled, and where also the picture had been hung on the gallery of that room. Up to thi very moment of being Introduced into the room] Qen. Irwin was unacquainted with the purpoi of these assembled there; and, indeed, no until he was addressed by Qeu. R. Biddle Ribfl erts, did he become fully apprised of the object/ 1 of his fr lends. It was a genuine surprise in every particular. Immediately after Qen. Ir¬ win bad been seated, Qen. Roberts rose and addressed him as follows: Qeh Ibwih—Sib:—I have been fortunate or unfortunate, as the case may be, in having beem, selected this evening, to express to you the high esteem in which you are held personally, and the great confidence with which yon are re •vrded officially by your friends here assembled ' it Is their desire, too, that this feeling o ,a and confidence should show itself ir ta te“. - more tangible than words. HencA something ^ prepared the magnificent pro- they have . ,bjcb now adorns the gallery of ductien of art w , „ pre£entjng it to tins room for the * £ £}(, and a rich y°V3* Hdren. When it cncs embellishesber^uf8u the waitswalls of >.’’Our , the own proof home, of you> be| I can regard it in after years a* 4 by those who esteem In which you were helu - ... have had official and personal Inte. co“™e WIth yon in the capitol of the Commonw/*ll“: “ Is, sir, indeed a testimonial worthy 01 luo donee and'the donors. , Sir, speaking for myself alone, I can free./ bear witness te the faithfulness with which you have discharged your official duties. While I had charge of a regiment and while my com¬ mand was subsisted by the State of Pefinsylva- nia, my troops never murmured. It was only alter we began to draw our ratioos from the National Government, that we began fully to appreciate the Commissary General of Pennsyl¬ vania. However excellent was the subsistence f the U. 8. Oommisferiat, my men were drawing/? ^tofii FROM W Date- . 0.4 ,\ &^3. iYMHim utt>Oot’NtT Thut‘umVi’iland (louu ! j IwioUiitt luktiluU mill u'uuui tit iVicchau . .«l og, ini Wtnl'1 ** ,li i, thivuihci i*xl Iriiu >>( t urt ♦'ll ctunie.nO dm thoj rt M..ii,l iy i l Nov«hIki. — Piol Lee and I ImVD boon giving mhUdtioi » til liMi’.u t, Till* In tSttllalo On 'Ihttmday iiiornlng, / a point neat bowvllh', o»» tln< I'uml'i'ilm.il , KfA\«y Railroad, (bo axle of a ear In a flight 1 li fit Highly ItrrsBtsrrsa PaoctEDiNOS — rreunta- liow of a Rare Work of Art, to W. IP. Inwin, Com giiuMry General of the State of Pennsylvania.—Tho R-lends of W. W. liwln, Coiumhsary General of Ke State, recently conceived the idea of xeerg- ^'iiring hie groat services as an officer, as well as acknowledging his many goed qualities as a man, by presenting him with some fitting testi¬ monial. It Wes agreed upon to select und pur chare a rare production of art. In the possession of W. id, on Third street, the work of one of the most gifted artists In the couutry Ao.ord- ingly a stH»crlptlon was started and confined exclusively 'to the intimate personal friends of the General, and after the contribution of an ade¬ quate mm, the work in question was purchased and devoted.to the purpose designed. The sub- : ject of the arfct in this instance, is of a flora1 ; character, in which be blends the colors of AL‘ mrest exotics, with the soft hues of thegva| ■! i By MARIAN INGLEWOOD dislsches Wunderspiel,” printed in 17B4 on writing paper, with most °| "Among' all the things which men the space given to staff lines filled have or strive for, there is nothing out most painstakingly by written, better than old wood to burn, old notes. friends for company, and old books A One-Page Book to read." If you want to read old And there’s one. very long and books, go to the State Library. very thin, by Benjamin Padliq^w You’ve noticed those alcoves on the “Eine Ernstliche Ermahnung an second floor, haven’t you, with the Junge und Alte." It’s a broadside gates so carefully locked and barred? —consists of only one page—and is Well, that’s the sanctum sanc¬ the earliest specimen of printing in torum for the old, old books that German type ewer done in America. Y'ere printed hundreds of years ago. There are only two copies of this hey’re one of the most precious broadside known to exist; one is issessions the State Library has, owned by the Historical Society of nd under no consideration will you Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and e allowed to take one out. 'But if the other is in the State Library at ?u promise to be good, Miss Brady Harrisburg. The State Library ho has charge of this section of bought its copy from the Penny- le library, will unlock the doors for packer collection of books. iu, and let you take down some of These old books are arranged on re dusty old volumes and feast on the shelves in alphabetical order ac¬ ■ => very things our forefathers treas- cording to the place where they were ed centuries ago. printed, then the name of the pub¬ There are old, old Bibles there lishers, and the date. The author th clasps and with the corners re- doesn’t seem to amount to much. orced with metal, some of them Harrisburg has a fine showing of dded like hob nailed shoes. The such publishers as Allen and Wyeth, V oldest is the first Bible that was Cameron and Krause. Mowry and - printed in America in any Eu¬ Cameron, J. S. Wiestling, etc. They an language; it was printed in are mostly Bibles, New Testaments, nan in 1743 by Christopher Exhortations, Compilations of Re¬ • or Sower. The first Bible that ports, etc. But there’s one little book •rr printed in the English lan of ninety-five pages by Benjamin n America is there, too; it Franklin, “Reflections on Courtship ted by Aitken in 1782. One and Marriage ” consisting of letters the titlp page in red and to a friend wherein a practical plan rgeous at one time, no is laid down for obtaining and secur¬ cded now and yellow. ing conjugal felicity,” that every Bloody Mirror” judge of a divorce court would surely ~ e other volumes, large recommend reading in these troub¬ ,. with metal clasps and lous times. It was printed by Allen i likely think are Bibles and Wyeth in 1793. ey’re not. They're some Brother Beaver’s Story opies of "The Bloody There are minutes of conferences ! ~ 'of the early mar- held with Indian chiefs, sachems and j ..ecr'imC German by the warriors, ‘way, ’way back before the j Brethret -^>.t Ephrata. Revolution, so carefully printed in j icker says it * the largest large type, with the ‘s’ made like | Mine respects the most re- f’s. There’s the story of what . book of the Colonial Pe- Brother Beaver did, and the report * * The Ephrata breth- of what Brother Teeduschung said, .v; ■ ertook the laborious task, and Brother Catepackeaman and the translation, manufactur- Brother Tayshiccomen. paper, and doing the printing And most precious of all are the inding. Fifteen men were kept colonial records of the Provincial during three years, though not Council of Pennsylvania from the ut interruption as the supply of time there was any council 'way „ sometimes gave out.” Heavy back in 1683. These records as well -.umbersome, this book with the as all other Pennsylvania Journals d title took the place next to printed before 1800 are kept in the ible in many a Mennonite home safe in the law department of the elped many a time to bolster up State Library. The minutes and pro¬ eight of an ordinary chair, ceedings of the old Continental Con¬ little visitors came and there gress are there too; old. old volumes ' enough high chairs to go that George Washington and Benja¬ min Franklin used to consult, lov¬ Ephrata brethren loved ingly guarded now, safe from fire 11 as stories of martyrs, and flood. vmn book ever printed Others there are, too, oh, hundreds s printed in Ephrata, of them—a complete set of English g der Einsamen und Parliamentary reports from the time Taube, Namlich der of Henry VIII, the only complete set re. There are 378 in the country, and scores of lofty d by the brethren tomes, the edges of their pages in 7 ike complete this curled and torn, and looking old, so ^onely and For- old and yellow you’d think seeing ve, the Christian them would make evbn Methusaleh there’s the ‘(Pa.ra- feel young again. .11 J- THE OLD CLARK’S FERRY BRIDGE And so they’re going to tear down County earth the western end res the old Clark’B Ferry Bridge, the upon. w Shares at $25 Each dear old ramshackle thing that has The shares for this first bridg stood the storms of a century or company were to be sold at $2 more, and in its place they’re going each, one-tenth of which had to b to build a brand new one, “a con¬ paid upon subscribing and the bal crete structure,” so they say, just ance upon the instalment plan When 1000 share? were subscribed as they tore down th§ old Camel the commission were to inform tl Back Bridge and erected the concrete Governor who would then incorp Market Street Bridge in its place. rate the company. The building y It's the last of the old wooden cov¬ this bridge was a considerable ered bridges that used to span the dertaking for that day; it was to Susquehanna, the Clark’s Ferry a part of the great highway extei® Bridge is. ing across the State, and men f n * Just why they should have cov- five counties were members of 1 . ered those bridges of long ago, I commission which was organized for never could quite figure out, unless its erection. The commission organ¬ it was for the protection of travelers ized May 22, 1818, by electing John who might be caught in thunder Boden, chairman, and Christian storms and who usually hastened to Gliem, secretary. Mr. Boden came a covered bridge at such a time for from the part of Cumberland County shelter. It’s one of the nicest places which is now known as Perry, and in the world to be in a spookey old Mr. Gliem came from Dauphin. covered bridge with the lightning In 1828, a report of the Pennsyl¬ flashing, and the thunder roaring, vania Canal Commission states that and the rain pouring in torrents on by a unanimous vote of the board . the roof. it was determined to erect a “towing The first thing we hear of this path and tumnike bridge by the help Clark’s Ferry Bridge is in an act of which trade of the Susquehanna passed by the legislative body, and Juniata canals will pass into the March 23, 1818, authorizing the eastern division through a dam now Governor to incorporate a company being for ."od in the river. The Sus¬ for “the purpose of erecting a per¬ quehanna division has been extended manent bridge over the river •Susque¬ accordingly and it is contemplated hanna in the counties of Dauphin that the Juniata canal shall join it nd r/mberland, at or near Clark’s somewhere on Duncan’s Island.” ’ar Cumberland County at that Bridge Popular at Once “ y included all of what is now After the ooard had finally decided ■ $0H* . Mr i'IEW CONCRETE STRUCTURE E OPEN FORTRAFFIC SATURDAY Ancient Bridge Used! For Canal Boat Passage For Many E Years; Destroyed by Flood and Wind Several Times From January 2, 1824 to May 30, all founded, and out of the way of 1925 is a far cry, but both are dates low water. A year later, in the of extreme importance to the Clarks minutes of the Pennsylvania Canal Ferry Bridge. For the latter is the Commission, an application from Mrs. ). date on which it is hoped to open Duncan for permission to travel free o the new modern structure to traffic over the proposed bridge was filed, and the former, more than one hun¬ but no action taken. dred years ago, is the date on which January, 1830, found the first Representative Stinson presented a bridge accepted by the engineers l- petition in the House of Represen¬ and superintendents of the canal di¬ ie tatives "from sundry citizens pray¬ visions. The Legislature was in¬ ing that a company be incorporated formed late that same year that the to erect a bridge over the Susque¬ bridge cost $73,454.85 to complete. hanna River where the Great North¬ In the meanwhile Robert Clark put ern Turnpike crosses." forward his claim for damages, An appropriation was also prayed which was to take as long and ard¬ for as aid in the erection of the uous course. Its total was $43,650 X r bridge, -and during the ensuing at first, but he was later convinced months of that session, some twelve that the amount was considerably e other petitions, all to the same ef¬ too large when the committee voted fect, were introduced. Governor J. to award him $500 damages. It was Andrew Shulze . then signed an act finally voted, after not inconsider¬ March 29, 1824, authorizing the ap¬ able heated discussion, to give Mr. propriation ' 0^ a bridge-building com¬ Clark $2,100. pany. A year passed, and repairs were First Formal Act voted for the new bridge, costing j Tliwas the first formal act, but $3,500 to put it in first class order, I it J,as been more than 100 years and “render it safe and durable,” as ^•ji'fore an adequate structure is at the report set forth. Children were nst realized. The bridge designed given freedom of toll across the r- Frank M. Masters with collabora- bridge on the way to school in 183,2, /n_(n of Ralph Modjeski, is one of and that same year saw the bridge fiTiii most beautiful in the country of undergoing a thorough repair, / Thi type and is attracting engineers llailly Built thou/-/> all parts of the United States. Four years later, so poorly was IonFiller» followed a series of acts, the first bridge built, the Legisla¬ lonjmendments, suggestions and ch anges ture was forced with another mo¬ gTa'f one sort and another, comrais- tion to build a second bridge at the tfjp-ions being appointed and subscrip- same point. In a report u£ the canal in tions to the capital stock the commission, it was shown that "the R company being urged upon the State. bridge at Duncan's Island continues Among the early commissioners th to be a source of vexation and ap¬ named were Christian Gleim, (Henry bov prehension—-construction of a new Buehler and Dr. Benjamin Kugler, bridge is the best remedy that can rAY of Dauphin county; William Foster, be adopted.” A recommendation of Thomas Gallagher and (Peter Ritner, $60,000 for a new structure was pro¬ for Perry county. posed. *• In 1826 a report from William December 21, 1S36, Archibald Orme, 'tX Strickland, engineer, containing his superintendent of the Eastern Divi¬ plan and location of the eastern di¬ sion of the Pennsylvania Canal was vision of the Pennsylvania Canal re¬ directed to advertise for bids for fers to an open dam and guard lock a new bridge to be designed as a at Clarks Ferry and Middletown. In towing-path bridge and for other tfiis connection he estimates the cost purposes. Mr. Orme traveled from of a dam across the Susquehanna, Paxton Creek to the dam at Millers- 700 yards in length to be $10,500. Up burg for $2. : t