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BBAOB UP! came, but it was almost entirely ruined. [From the Bally of June 3.] The Sun and Banner was the only I The people of Williamsport know full well by this time that they have been daily paper in V/ifliamsport that didn’ visited by an awful calamity. The ex¬ give up the ship. While the other papers tent of the damage cannot now be esti¬ despaired anu talked blue, this journal mated any more than reliable details of told the people to brace up and be of the loss of life and casualties can be had good cheer, and many compliments are by the press. Much news has been given pouring in on us from the people for the out that is not authentic, and doubtless staud we took while the people were there have been many fatalities of which frightened and dismayed. It is the duty we now know nothing and the sad details of a newspaper to be courageous and of which are yet to be recorded. But one cheerful in the hour of need, and now thing we do know, and that is that no that the danger is over we are deeply matter how serious our calamity no good gratified to bo told by the people that will be served by sitting down and look¬ our policy during the dark trial is under¬ ing blue, while on the other hand much stood and appreciated. ® is to be gained by keeping up bravely. .JJayor Poreshan’s attention is here¬ Bet us all stick together, fortunate and by directed to the immediate necessity of unfortunate, and we will come out right sanitary precaution. Let him take in the end. It behooves all to relieve the prompt measures, or have the proper present needs of the distressed, wherever committee take measures, to have sev¬ they are found, and we hope soon to an¬ eral wagon loads' ? lims brought up nounce that some definite action has from the lime kilns. ? hie is a powerful been taken by the authorities and citi¬ disinfectant and absorbs njojsture. A zens looking to the establishment ot bushel of it should be dumped into every headquarters for relief. While Williams¬ cellar that was inundated, after the cellar port has received a blow that may crip¬ is cleaned out. ple her, she is far from being in a hope¬ What’s the matter with'Williamsport? less condition,and the people will see the She’s all right! Our own people have day when they can look back to this raised over 810,000 for relief, and when it Black riday with all our industries, and is known that the majority of contribu¬ prosperity re-established on as firm a tors to this fund are the heaviest losers basis as ever. Have courage! Many the remarkable vitality of our city be¬ logs, it is reported, have lodged not far comes apparent. below us, and it is believed that there will be more sunshine after this great The morning paper was somewhat night than we expected. rattled by the flood. The calamity was Brace up ! Let us be men 1 overwhelming, to be sure, but nil des- perandum. Although the flood was a TO THE PUBLIC. big one, Williamsport does not mind a The Sun and Banner, laboring under little thing like that. almost inculculable disadvantages, has managed to appear through the great How this calamity does show up human' flood without missing a single issue ex¬ nature, to be sure ! Our people seem to cept on Saturday evening, at which time vie with each other in good-heartedness. there were six feet of water in our press One touch of nature makes the whole I room and business office, and when no world kin. paper in the city could publish. Not- j Let us not think of our bad luck, but withstanding these drawbacks, we have of our good fortune. Bad as it was, it surmounted the greatest difficulties and might have been worse. printed the most complete reports of the flood of any other newspaper. By reason What’s all that talk about a flood in of the fearful havoc wrought in our sup¬ 1865? It wasn’t a oircumstance to 1889, ply ot raw news paper we are obliged to No Williamsport household is com¬ publish a half sheet,but we hope in a few plete without its boat. flays, when we can get a new supply of paper, to appear in our usual shape. We God bless Williamsport I elivered papers to all city subscribers Tuesday, and from this time on our car¬ Children Born. rier service will work regularly. We re¬ During the flood a child was born to a tamrly named Guiner in Fisher’s row. i quest advertisers to indulge us until our A child was born on Woodward’s hill | uew supply of paper arrives. We had a 'i Sunday morning to one of the refugees. carload of paper on hand when the flood I There was no bed or physician, the little one being born right out in the open _Leld. What a dreary, rude ushering 2,000 of the second edition and will into the world was that! enough to satisfy all demands. i A house floated down the river Sun- , day in which was a woman who had just WHAT WE NEED, heen delivered of twins and who was still Williamsport needs a“ in bed. At South Williamsport the wo- j man and her children were saved by a provisions. Money is lost man named Calvert. The tether should chase clothing for name her children June and Hiawatha, theirs, and to build houses fcrth^P ^ TGsnectiveiv, in commemoration oi ^h.© people whose homes wer^ expense day. It is said the twins were taken to the Home for the Friendless. ruined by the flood. rebuilding our of cleaning our streets, - ^ rain The Women of Williamsport- bridges, and repairing every- The disaster through which we have* iust passed “held the mirror up to* where, will be a we believe ! nature” and showed the noble, apd V ignoble attributes of human nature. It shoulders of our citize « ^ntributed developed the true woman and gentle- that sufficient money will be «int man as well as the boor and the churl, by the good people of > State to _s the man as well as the hog. Especially did the noble women of Williamsport show their colors. Mrs. Donald McDon¬ ald’s generosity was but one of a hundred that are coming to light. Mrs. H. G. MoCormick gave provisions from her house and did all in her power to relieve the distressed, and there were many XaTe WmiSS^i^wfrSely more like her, whose names are not now should be secured at once. known. Send in the names of these good atreet and alley and every cellardaffiP women, that the people may know them. a»4 a»A with a tbe <>'"»“• “ p dod maj AND * BANKER. . Williamsport in the lace, 1889. .vwuta. °< FRIDAY, JUNE 7, ca..8t,opWwobavo,aatP^tb»|gn ^ SECOND EDITION. Our most urgent and preseipg . The demand for the Flood Edition of w. of df.iDf^ »% The Sun and Banner has been so great that we print a second edition authorities to secure a plentiful Over 4,500 copies of the first and have it liberally used through the edition were printed and so • city. Let the Mayor at once see The second edition contains almost that at least a bushel of lime, » entirelyfentirely wwthe same matter—- that was', free if necessary, to every habitation, ed in the first edition, and where change bo»» and stable, Id the city, and oompd are made they were introduced to mk^ the occupant of every nouse to put it the edition more complete than L cellar, where it will absorb the mois^ when originally issued. The * 1 lood Edi tore, take up the noxious exhalation,. tion,comprising the news publishedm our and purify the air. _ „ tally editions of Monday, Tuesday, Sanitary precautions to be e& . should be prompt. We trust and 6, contains the most complete »nd importance of this warning will be under¬ compact history of the great; fldpd of June stood. ___ 1, 1889, at Williamsport, of any journa As soon as our new stock of paper ar¬ published. The paper on which it wa rives The Sun and Banner will appear went through the flood, having $Sd in regular size and with all the regular been submerged all of Saturday and Sum features. A new stock is on the way, day last in our press rooffi, and it is o which was ordered by telegraph the first that account a unique souvefilr of this day the wires began working, through calamity to save as a relic or to se the courtesy of the Pennsylvania Rail¬ away to friends. After the flood the nlper was taken to a kindling wood mill, road Company.______Jut ini dry kiln and dried. The Flood ApLE-BomEDmen who reffise to work Edition is a relic that tells its own story. should be refused relief. There sboul The price of the paper is 5 cents a copy, be a svstem to make all who can work do or we will wrap, addieis and mail them so on the streets or wherever they are to anv address free of postage at 6 cents a needed. ____, copy.' Parties desiring to get extra copies ^ Drowning of Mrs. Platt* Of this edition can seoure them at The Toney Piatt, who came down from Field’s Station Wednesday, relates the

• : ’/J" lift-. drowning of Mrs. He says that Mr. * 'consisting of husband, and daughter, were in tjhe house 16 DROWSED! when the water rose. Platt, who Was on the opposite sideoi the oreek, motioned to the family to get upon a tree that was near the house and they finally did so. j When the worst came and the family had been exposed to the storm four hours.the News From Pine Creek poor people bade each other good-by and kissing each other dropped into the water. The man got to shore, the woman was drowned and the daughter floated Received at Last. downstream. This was after dark. A ory for help came from the daughter and Mr. Piatt and tWo Other men lumped Into the water, swam down to where the daughter was and reecU0d her. These men performed one of the most heroic tiemim mi deeds of the flodd, because when they leaped into the'Bt?§am they thought they were going to certairkdeat Much Lost of Life Reported—Woods-1 FLOTSAM AND JETSaSh men Drowned in (heir Beds, j Can you get your doors shut yet ? ’Squire H. H. Blair’s loss Is $1,600. It’s a Wise man who carries a lantern Three Rouses Left at j o’nlghtsnow. Eight persons were drowned at Morris and Trout . Jersey Mills. The old stone gyist mill at Larry’s Creek was swept away. Thieves tried .unsuccessfully to tap GENERAL LOCAL INTELLIGENCE Scholl Brothers’ till last night. The first trainstarted to Milton on the Over 525 Families Fed by the Relief Com¬ and Erie at 12:25 Thursday. Repairs are. b^hag made as rapidly as mittee Yesterday—News from possible on the Northern Central Rail¬ road. . There are 21)000,000 feet of logs be¬ tween the month of Loyaleock Creek and Muncy. The Sun and Banner is enabled to¬ day to publish the first detailed news of Thomas S. Hagerman .arrived home the flood up Pine Creek that has been last night after traveling all over the received. From reports at hand the in¬ ~tate nearly to get herb. dications are that there has been a great ^_ A carpetiter’s chest- of tools was found loss of life in that section and that the < bdlow Loyalsock Creek. The owner can devastation has been complete. Cal ! getcrat. itit. by applyingfl.»nlv1na tnto Mr. PotPerson. Lusk,'of this city, was at Samuel Car- Cablegrams have been sent tothTwir- son’s bark camp on Jacob Ruh last week. y liamsporters now in Europe apprising When the waters began to rise be started them of the safety of their friends here, for Williamsport. He left Cedar Run but nothing has as yet been heard from last Friday at 6 o’clock in the morning them. and reached here Tuesday morning, hav¬ ing walked the entire distance, fifty-three Charles Sholeriberger contributed a miles, day’s labor Gleaning up at the Home for the Friendless. He and Guy May saved OVER ROCKS AND WASHOUTS fOany families Saturday, taking them to and rqined highways. Lusk reports that the Home on rafts. there was an eighteen-foot flood in Pine The Sun and Banner is under obli- Creek, which is three feet higher than ' to Mr; Garrett L. Crouse for the that stream was in 1865. His reports are j use. of the dry kiln at b is kindling wood given as follows: i All the railroad and other bridges this millUAAAA In theIUU FirstAUOe ward,W Off **• where weTV O ilttVUhave been enabled to dry considerable of our side of Blackwells are washed away, ex¬ news stbok. cept the iron county bridge near Water- j i Relief Committee w$l have to be il how thoy dfcpeose thpir provi- AT WATEKVILEE. ( Somo of the applicants fbr relief Haryey Milner and family are safe, but indeafeuviog. An at$8»badJ|ea.-man badly flooded, and are feeding forty refu- i gees a day, although food is scarce. John I ^ seat but oftewn. B, Emery’s saw mill at Cammal was ium£5«gv tbp wafer out swept away, the engine aioneremaining. the tysek on West On Sunday Tom Ramsey and four other itweetf wMi' sweet ftaa men started down Pine Oreek for Wil¬ «dey ana- was liamsport la a foot-boat, but were cap- eUglUd is still: | sized. They were reported drowned, but aed- tS© is gbfifg down aifowly. iS^^bBtyrfoittr koua.-the" 14581 *' ' : 4

escaped with their lives by Bwimming might be in ne : and reaching trees. with hilp ft . anver.**~ v*—. a loaf of'breaa.asorewu . several U 18 browned on barb’s creek. a tack hammer, ^oma - QthWf 4lgea- ' It is reported that eighteen men in the I bark woods on Banb’s Creek were sheetstible atid of ihdJBestime articles. Afterperilious one drowned. The water rushed in on them of the melt^austmg W ^ they at night and they were overwhelmed of the mas* TSTam-ed by m_— and drowned in their beds. Six woods¬ men were drowned in this way oa Trout 85J®|-JsasW\8a. Run pear Cedar Run. AT JERSEY MILLS. and was eomP011®^ Ma valuable package Tn Tersev Mills three houses are left standing bul we .cannot say whether ggJSSfc 5lS5§V« “a*rto»,or * there wle loss otiife. Horses Rattle and bite of blotting paper.

1 1 their lives. LATER FROM PINE CREEK. , H. S. Cowles just arrived Thursday from Blackwell’s on his way home to Montoursvilie. He reports as fo.lows. j gMWuLno doubt the same padule that Da^ijy at morris. sssa°sss£ jssaffasJSKJStSfflyg. now stands. When first found it had i Lock Haven. One uirknown man was. some five or six scalps placed on it. ; frnnd at Morris, drowned. Keltz s store The Telegraph Business- was swept away', and Mr. IMtz escaped At 11 o’clock Thursday over seven hun¬ with the clothes on his back and S9. Iloyt dred telegrams had been received in this Bros.’ tannery is damaged ?4®^>90- J.? _ Htv since Wednesday morning and over total loss in the town is estimated at 5/5, fifteen hundred had been sent from the 000. Sty At that time the wires were being : ' AT BLACKWELL* 0. used bv Williamsport in sending to Phil- Three houses swept away. Cue an(j Philadelphia was holding contained four children and five men. MW*”". f»*“! f„ Some were taken out by boats aod others to be sent as soon as the wives can be climbed through the upper windows used. From five to eight operators are when the house topp’ed over and escaped busy all the time have. on trees. Enoch Blackwell's loss is $4,000. Walter Bros, lost their stock of ThSp Feptr Was Is the Flood. 1 logs and dam. The upper on which this copy of the | Cedar Run is not much damaged. son ASb Banner io printed went The body of one of the men drowned on through thn flood. It will be worth sav¬ Trout Run was found Tuesday at Dtce.er. ing alt ShThe pap« was takentoa Nobody could identify him and he was dvI^Mj on steeteb* buried. When foudd the body had noth¬ ****** 1 _^ ing on but a pair of hoots. The man was --THE CITIZENS' MEETING. - \ 5 Feet, 6 inches, about 85 years old, sandy •u - , \ Thousands Already Raised for the Relief x. , W"!o SApetSttoJWllll.m.po* the Sufferers. dropped near Pine Creek. At 2 o’clock Monday a citizens’meet¬ ing was held at the Academy of Music. { safe- . --- Many prominent business me . tt KILLED HEBE THURSDAY. there and Mayor Foresman pr^ided H. , Fatal Oave-In of ft Pavement on West Third Street. iSiiess a fervent invocation wee oflered I John Brookens, of Penn street near W rir Gray. A preamble and resoiu Sons were Offered by Elias Deemer and I Third, while standing in front of Duncan provided for the appointment of a j

and Kov. Grant, and Colonel Corcoran Another Adventist Stranger. 2 00 I made a few happy remarks, comparing Cash.,..,. 2 00 the condition of the city to that of stricken T. M. B. Hicks..:...,. 3 00 Milton a few years ago, when everything F. T. Weed..... 25 00 was destroyed lay fire, and showing that J. J. Crocker. 25 00 as Milton was now far more prosperous, F. R. Weed Estate. 200 00 ; so Williamsport was just as likely to b9. . L. Crouse...... 50 00 Jacob Wertman. 50 THE CONTRIBUTIONS. H. R. Rhoads... 50 00 Wire Buckle Suspender Co. ?500 00 Peter C. Morgan. 5 00 Payne, Cochran & Co. 1,000 00 First National Bank. 300 oo ; R. J. C. Walker,. 500 00 I. W. Pierson. 25 00 Elliott & Loomis. 500 00 W. M. ’Harrison'.;.*;.:'..... 100 00 A. . Hermance. 2-50 00 Ed. N. MacCollin,/.. .. 5 00 Wm. Emery. 250 00 J. J. Reardon.h. JO 00 E. Deemer A Co.. 100 00 Merriman

Vlnoky Wllllamspoft, PMladelphH Times. LOOKING AT THE PJJINS The people of Williamsport don’t! pro¬ pose to get left In iboir business, even if ^Werner Beaver’s State Flood Commission a flood does eotne along and sweep their hundreds of tnilaona feet of logs and @ Arrives in the City. sawed "lumber awfcy. They understand that they must hold tbg Lumber City as the centre of the lumber trade of .the ON A SPECIAL VESTIBULE TRAIN. | State, and they pul? themselves together and get right dobra to practical business. They have fhftde a prompt hunt for With Mayor Foresman and Prominent Citizens They their fugitive logs apd found about 100,- Make a Tour of the Town, 000,000 foci straggled along the river be¬ tween Williamsport and the month of th6 Juniata, and they have arran ged with the OUR ESTIMATED LOSS NOT PLACED HIGH ENOUGH Pennsylvania railroad on favorable terms to have these logs gathered np and A special train, bearing the Philadel¬ railroaded back to the Williamsport phia members of the State Flood Com¬ boom to bb manufactured there. It is in¬ mission, who, in conjunction with Gov¬ tended also to bying back all logs found ernor Beaver, will have charge of the between the mouth of the Juniata and the distribution of funds for the sufferers, Chesapeake, but it is probable that most rolled into the Philadelphia and Erie of them will never be recovered. passenger station, this city,at 8:40 o’clock This is solid robust pluck On the part a. m. Tuesday.^The train consisted of en¬ of the Williamsport lumber dealers. gine No. Ill,"in charge of Engineer Al. There might be more immediate money Wheelock,of this city,and two handsome in following the fugitive logs and manu¬ Pullman vestibule cars, one a dining facturing them at various centres along room coach, “The Ponce T>e Leon,” and the river; but Williamsport is nothing the other a sleeper, ‘‘Xsion,” in charge of if not the lumber centre of the State, and Conductor Toole. Williamsport pluck will maintain her DISTINGUISHED PARTY ABOARD. groat trade for fh® future. Pluck is a very commendable quality in eeasoug of The train came right through from great calamity, and Williamsport is a Philadelphia, and the party consisted of shining exemplar for every suffering Hon. Edwin H. Fitter, Mayor of Phila¬ community in Pennsylvania. delphia ; Thomas Dolan, John G. Huber, Robert C. Ogden and Francis B. Reeves, all residents' of the Quaker City. General The Steamers Mobbed, Agent Latta, of the Pennsylvania Rail¬ The steamers ferrying between this road Company, and a Philadelphia Press city and the South Side having been ( correspondent, were also of the party. charging twenty-five cento passage each Governor Beaver did not accompany the I way, on Tuesday a mob collected on the party. On the way up to this city the - South Side stncl atoned tbs boats,refu8ing train stopped over a short time at Sun- to let them land. 4 Soyth Williamsport bnry and Milton,and took in the situation Council held a special meeting last night at! those places. and decided to let no boats land unless they reduced their pried to Wb cents, the A LOOK ABOUT THE CITY. | bridge toil rate. The DOato hadjffiduced At the station the party were joined by their price to five ftphts. The HS&Wstha Mayor James S* Foresman, Hon. H. H. stopped running, but the Golden (rate is Cummin, also a member of the Commis¬ making regular trips BOW at two coats. sion; E. R. Payne, J. Henry Cochran, Congressman McCormick and Hon. R, lie Bids RteatiS-i. — P. Allen. The party then took, the Phil¬ adelphia and Erie special to Newberry, The body discovered near Montours- where they surveyed the ruins of the ville Wednesday afternoon, a description flood, after which they walked over to ! ol which appeared in the- second edition the Philadelphia and Reading tracks, of The Sun and Banner, hs§_ l;e6n where Superintendent Lawler was in identified, as that of' Cr.iTtu miller, of j waiting with a special train. They Were South Williathsport. Tie was a cabinet- soon aboard ana a run was made down % maker af Qttq’s factory and had $2,000 the Reading Road to Chestnut street, in insurance bn his life. the lower end of the city. The train stopped at different points on the way to ' Nippsnoae Valley. give the Commission a chance to See the We have reliable hews to the ef¬ destruction caused by the flood. fect that the roads and farms in Nip¬ VISITED A FLOOD-SWEPT STORE. ponese Valley were badly devastated, but no loss of life. G. W. Clark’s house Arriving at Chestnut street the party was carried . away through the Antes took carriages and were driven through Fort Gap. Every bridge in the valley the principal streets, stopping at the large was swept away. dry goods store of L. W. Cook’s Son & Co. This they went through and thus Odd Fellows Loss. gained a general idea of the damage sus- | In the Johnstown disaster the Odd Fel- talned by our merchants during the great iwsiost 33 tbembers, 34 wives and 190 flood. children: 300 members lost their house- OUR LOSS NOT OVERESTIMATED. ads, and 225 owned houses and The Commission, daring their tour of i which were lost. the city, were much impressed, especially Mayor Fitter, with the general destruc¬ tion wrought by the flood, particularly ue river trout, where so many poor .ilea lost their ell. They expressed began to _Gihselves to the effect that the Com¬ ward ma_ mittee here had not overestimated the a sinall bo&t loss to Williamsport, and if anything it close that Mr. Crouso had not been placed high enough. Mayor having hold of the bou Fitter told Maybr Foresman that they per hoW much he would tak6 to ro did not nay any attention tb the reports Sown to Fourth street, where the in the Philadelphia papers. boats were running. OFF FOB BOCK HAVEN. »»! can’t take you,” was the reply; this boat only holds one.” The party again boarded the special “I know it only holds one, bat it will train at the Philadelphia and Erie pas¬ hold two this time,” replied the would- senger station about 11:15 o’clock, and bp passenger. “This water is getting proceeded to Bridge No. 1, on the North¬ unpleasantly close to my lower lip. It s ern Central, where they looked a* more a matter of life and death with me, and destruction, after which the train backed if you don’t want to Carry two your boat down to the Junction and the Commis- will carry one—but I’'he the one that ! gton were whirled away to Lock Haven, ridps in ft.” * where they will look at the condition of The fellow in the boat realized that that town. From there they go to Al¬ this talk meant business, and the two toona and then on to Johnstown. Judge started down town. At Pine street Mr. Cummin accompanies the party- and will Crouse waited for a big boat another not return home, perhaps, until Thurs- huff?, and when he finally found cue US day. _____ Was Shivering with cold. The two men HIS THBILLI3G BSPEBlEUaE. i'n tfid boat engaged to ftm him home for 85 and they started. It was just S5 o’clock Hew Garrett L, Grouse Beached Home in the wh^u thSy Teached their fleattuatioru Plod Ldt Saturday. where they rowed to thejL s There has been BO end' of thrilling ex¬ stable andlQSiid tvV-0 up to periences in the recent flood. In fact, th*1” tlocjis in the flood. thrilling experiences and hhirpreauth “What will you charge to take these escapes have grown Common, and the two horses to Old Oaks Park 9” he asked. recital of them scarcely elicits comment, “Ten dollars apiece.” where ordinarily they would excite as¬ “I’ll pay it.” tonishment and terror. Among the many They then rowed to the harness room, remarkable experiences of our towns¬ got the bridles, rowed back to the horses, men was that of Garrett L. Crouse, pro¬ and bridled them. They first took out prietor of the lower kindling wood mill. the brown horse and landed her at the Mr. Crouse lives on the north side of Park, Mr. Crouse holding her behind the West Fourth street, between Walnut and boat, Thev returned for the grey ana ; Campbell. On that memorable Saturday, staffed out with her, but bad scarcely \ June 1st, he like many others was doj~ left the stabfe when tier head fell to one f ■ oo , side. Fright had already exhausted her. j . „ ... . . I any flood They took her back to the house porch, i m the western part of the "city. At 11 whither Mr. Crouse led her up stairs and iolock he started tf> go home and put her in a bedroom, where she stayed j vuntered leisurely up Fourth street. He high and dry all night. On Sunday ad gone but a few blocks when a friend morning the folks who were cleaning up hailed him with: “Where are you going?” WJre surprised to see a gray horse and ft “Home.” mats backing down a plank filled With “You can’t walk there on this street.” eisAte out of the front door of a Fourth He soop learned the condition of things, - tj. —aa ferret Crouse started for Lycoming street, and was street residence. /".J^L-hen the neigh- Soon In front of the Ris'ibg Sun Hotel on and his the scene of Walnut street, wading in the water, bors saw it they tumeci iro warmly ap which came nearly to his neck. Boats desolationaboUtthem master. And passing and repassing refused to take him plauded both &easi »“ t man got this is how ^eWmianuspo ^ hig its, notwithstanding fie was so close to his house. The water continued to rise and he detached a pieoe of boardwalk, hold? »°“8 “a 00,‘ ing oh to a convenient tree. In this po¬ him $25 tb do it. sition he stayed two hours, in the vain TELEGRAMS OOMIHG 13 hope that a boat would finally take him the on, when finally, at 2 o’clock, abd after From All Over the Country Offering Aid to two hours waking within little rnofe than a square from his house, he decided to The following cheering telegrams have return down town and run his chafttxs of scouring a boat on Fourth street.’ been received ^^^“mne 6,1889. With a short pole in hia baud he pushed off down Walnut street, turned into Ed¬ To Mayor Foresman. clothing, j We nave seven care of provi ^ aaci j ock win apd floated down. It was his inten¬ tion to branch off to Fourth street at El¬ blankets, etc., be sent from PHil- Haven. More clotnmg w directed several mira,but when he reached that thorough- 1 fare his raft was drawn in the opposite direction and he was borne by the swift current north, bringing up near the Phil¬ adelphia and Erie freight depot. Here be abandoned his craft and started for a fence, but before be reached it he found ilkmsport toitake^narge> °ft£^£yer oft himself again up to his neck. Tfeo riaipg road WTreTwni Luch erowcRd. Have yo.u CouderspoRT, Pa., June 6,1889. anything new Jambs A. Beaver. To J. S. Foresman, Mayof: Philadelphia, June 5, 19S9. Draw on us for another $100. W. K. Jones, Banker. I sent yesterday in behalf of the Lumber- j men’s Exchansefof Philadelphia,two carloads BloomsBURG, Pa., June 0,1880. ^provisions/Wire what you need. Our Ex¬ Bloomsburg sends oar 125 barrels flour for change to-day subscribed tJUef °f sufferers,noon to-day, Pennsylvania Railroad. your people. William M. McCormick, Citizens’ Committee. CURWBNSVILLE, Pa-. June 6>1889-. Phillpsburg, Pa., June 14. ’ Draw on me at Curwensville, &r $30fffor The citizens of Phillpsburg ^xa Vicinity Williamsport sufterers. John Patton. heartily sympathize With w e citizens of Wil¬ Erie, June 6,1889. liamsport in their distress, and we We sepd disinfectants and clothins by ex- send you r’r‘u0 pokes of clothing for distribu- among your needy people. We will be press to day. * ■ A- „ able to send you a contribution of money ear Titusville, Pa., June 6,1889. ly next week. To Judge Cummin: — W Very respectfully yours, What kind, of supplies are most needed to JOHN Gowland, cover immediate wants, and to whom shall Chief Burgess. we consign them ? JohN SchwM^or. June 14, 1889. Five dollars ($4.99), to be given to some poor Pottsyille, Pa., June 6,1889. old woman whom the late flood has made To Mayor of Williamsport: more destitute than She was before. From Draw on Safe Deposit Bank of Pottsville, for Seventy-two, ftKflO O. xi. 1YSOJN, 20 Oxford St., ■ ■ ' Treasurer Relief Committee. —-Cambridge, Mass, Scranton. Pa., June 6, ’89. .fv’. Banking House ob To Mayor Foresman r F. V. Rookafellow To the Mayor of Williamsport: Do yon need any assistance in the way of . Chairman Relief Committee. provisions ? Answer quick, Canton, Pa. Grand Forks. Dakota, June 6,1889. The Mayor replied and requested that To J. Si Foresman, Mayor: the provisions be sent. City of Grand Forks, North Dakota, donates carload of flour for sufferers. ^ „ if Williamsport Won’t Bo Downed. ales. C. Mather, City Auditor. Hughesville Mali. YORK, Pa., June S, 1889. In our opinion Williamsport will not To Mayor Foresman: be so badly hurt by the late flobd as was Can you use 1,000 loaves of bread to-morrow? at first supposed. She has wide-awake B. C. Wilkinson. and energetic citizens, whose ambition • corning, N.Y., June 5. will not permit the city to suffer long. The proposed project of the Lumber¬ Hon. R. P. Allen, Williamsport: men’s Exchange to recover 100,000,000 You are authorized to draw on the Fall Brook Coal Company for $1,000 to aid those in feet of lumbar that was swept away is an your place who are suffering from the recent vaid'ertaking that will merit the appl£v;<;o flood. George J. Magee, President. Of everybody. Williamsport wijp hot be Coudersport, June 5, 1889. downed even by a great flSixf. She will To M&yor * arise from the watermud, shake her Draw on me for $100 for relief fund. List of wings and soar aloft as proud and pros¬ subscribers by mail. W. K. Jones, Job'll K6.r. perous as eypr. FHILABELPHIA, June 5, 1889. Pull of News- To the Mayor of Williamsport: Warwick (N. Y.) Advertiser. Draw at sight on me for $200. John 0. Hughes, Miss Belle Ennis left at this office op Firm of Hughes & Patterson. Monday, a copy oi the Williamsport SuN Baltimore, -Md., June 5, 1889. aN» Banner, a daily paper from that flooded city which is remarkably lively Draw on us at sight for $100 -for sufferers. THE Tunis Bumbbk Co., considering the trial it had passed E. B. Tunis, President. through. Its office had been flooded Northumberland, June 0, 1889. over the tops of the presses and the paper i. To James Foresman, Mayor : that edition was printed on had been The oitizens of this place have contributed under Water two days. The paper missed thirty-bne sacks flour, five Ddrrels and two but one day’s publication. It was just boxes bread, and other provisions for the s uf¬ rail of lively flood news. ferers by tne flood. Will forward soon as possible. -A- Hawley. It Says Amen, @ Cleveland, O,. June 5, 1889. Scranton Times. To F. Coleman, Williamsport., Pa.: The Williamsport Sun and Banner Have Mayor draw on us for $100 for relief arrived for the since the late fund. floods" It __a most graphic| account of Cleveland saw mill & lumber Co. terrible ordeal through which the R. K. Hawley, who used to do tmei- i people of WilUsmsport—*" • ' recently passed, ness here, is a member of the above firm. j and'is printed on paper that went through a poi •‘&od Bless Williamsport” la feet above- ’65 raark- ^iiQg deadline. We aay, Amen. river was surfau th logs, and Wh> piles of lumber, i _Sturbed, Were seen Enterprise that 11 Oanght OniM floatinguA.-rai.iuB *uin *rapid■»*.— succession down the i HoghesvlUe Mail. giant water, until it wm thought that THE Sen and Banned, with its com- not a single board was left in Williams¬ | mendafcle enterprise, issued a ‘‘Flood port. People who were safe from the Edition” on Friday iast. It contained a flood at home were watchibg the destruc¬ full report of the flood and was printed tion from the high grounds, whilo others op paper that had been under water two were doing what they could to save their diys. About 5,000 copies were printed neighbor. Great effort was made to save and sold. _ the Philadelphia, and Erie Railj, road bridge below the town. Men Another Body Fonnd. and boys were seen walking on the The body of a young lady was Wednes¬ bridge shortly before it went out,but for¬ day found in a house on Canfield’s Island, tunately no lives were lost. Tji6 bridge lb the louse Was a trunk marked with was loaded heavilv with Cars Containing the nfeme ol Morrison and several letters coal and pig iron. The Mur;,-^ wagon and , Signed William H. Jackson. A photo¬ railroad bridges reached here in sections I graph of the yoong lady was also during the afternoon, but did little .dam¬ found and Is now ih the possession of age to the bridge. Several spans passed | Mr. Eerby, on Mackst sSfeet._ under the bridge, greatly demolished, J MONTGOMERY. While two spans lodged, piling up great i masses of lumber and debris, and at 0:10 | The Flood’s Devastation in the Town-Work of the middle span yielded to the immense , •> Repairs—Semo of the Losses. q pressure and was swept down. At 9 o’clock the remaining four spans on the Special correspondence. Montgomery side were swept away. It The heavy rain which reached this sec-1 produced a fearful crash, with fire flash¬ tion recently was a very destructive ele¬ ing from the grinding irons and the ment at Montgomery, devastating a great breaking bars. There were four spans amount of property, and making sad left on the Dewart side which were in a havoc among the people who lived with¬ very dilapidated condition. Through tho in the irresistible sweep of the mighty heavy rain fall a slide was caused just be- - waters. The rain, coming from the east, low the town on Friday night, and the was incessant on Friday afternoon and track on the Philadelphia and Erie road evening, and on Saturday morning it be¬ was buried for some distance, the im¬ came evident that damage would result mense quantity of rocks and earth com- • from the rapidly rising waters. The ing from the perpendicular rocks^ abovb small streams were spread out over the about five hundred feet. The slidj* “was low lands and meadows, sweeping before removed on Saturday and Sunday, and them bridges and fences, tearing up the the work train from Watgoutown, that thoroughfares and laying waste the crops. was caught on this side of the bridge, did Black Sole Creek, which runs through service from here to Williamsport. the lower part of the town, was turned | The greater part of Montgomery into a large and rapid river. On Satur-; was flooded with very damaging day morning those inhabiting the lower results. Brock street was entirely art of the town began moving their under water. East Main street which is ousehold goods to the second floor. To¬ very low, running toward tho river, sut- wards noon began the rapid rise of the f6red great loss, and what property was j river.E By actual measurement it was! deft ’was badly damaged. Houses were , I found to rise over a foot an hour, and | f standing in water to the eaves. Front i I when the back water came in it was | street was in water from four to six feet. | tested at one inch a minute. Those I Houston avenue was partly flooded ano. j moving to the second floor felt perfectly l other low parts of the town were m. safe and secure from the flood, but soon i water from ten to fifteen feet. Those the lower part of the town was deluged people living on Main street east of the. to the eaves of the houses, and was one Reading. -.ainoad sustained the greatas*. vast lake of muddy water. The beauti¬ 1"^' ' John Canoor lest all his property. ful valley lying east of Mont¬ H "f. Nubs lost all hia buildings, te¬ gomery and south of the railroad was aser with all their contents. Mr. entirely submerged. This is one of the HalL near the railroad bridge, i finest and most productive valleys in the was cleared of all he possess^ \ county. Some of the houses were in Of this world’s goods. Benjamin B.fofdo water to the second floor. Huge trees were torn up by the roots, seemingly lost his buildings on hia farm. A. B. Henderson, C. H. Derr, D. H. Roup, At with no effort. Orchards were laid waste Hayes and Charles Dawalt suffered great and the beautiful farms converted into losses. Others met with losses by wash¬ bne vast body of water. When the water ing out foundations, household effects, subsided it was found that some farms etc. Mongos’, across the river, were in a had five to ten feet of sand on them-, precarious condition in water to the sec¬ which renders the soil useless and un¬ productive. People were hemmed in on ond floor with little or no way of escape. It is hard to estimate the losses accurate¬ all sides and some were giad to escape from the upper windows in boats, leav¬ ly- now but it is moderate to say that ing their goods and valuables behind. 825,000 will not cover tho damage. On Monday morning began the hurried About 1 o’clock the Philadelphia and work to repair Montgomery bridge in ; Reading Railroad was partly under wa- ; order to get a line through from East to | ter, ana at this point the water had j West. This was the first work done on | reached the mark of the ’65 flood. fbo line. Over four hundred men from People were then terrorised at the im- ^ .New York division were at work | mensity of the water, which was still until Saturday* shortly after 4 o’clock, when the first tram passed over from tho The Torrents Rose Mountain Dewart side. The dynamo car of the Cumberland Valley railroad furnished a brilliant electric light which enabled the High Alon£ the West men to work all night. Our mills,shops and factories are again in running order and although our losses are heavy we . Branch feel content that they are not larger. No mail reached our town for one Week. Wire communications were established oh Monday. The recent flood of ’89 will long be remembered as the greatest TO DEAL DEEP RUIN, event recorded in the annals of history in the West Branch valley. And Inundated Williamsport LITTLE TBIfl&S WOBBT'^gEH, One Man Who Was More Interested In His From Mountain to Mountain, Vinegar Jag Than Sis Wrecked House, “I’d just like to And’that vinegar jug,” said a man on •'-Mill street yesterday. “She last tiffiS I saw it she shot out the CHEESE PRESS WEST DOWN! Cloorwith a Whiz,” and the man accom¬ panied this last remark with an explan- atjve movement of the hands. The River Was 33 Fast 1 Inch Above ‘.'Didn’t you lose anything else during the flood?” asked a bystander. Loi-Water Mark, 5 Feet 9 inches “Oh! yes; I lost nearly every thing,but I’d like to find that jug,” and the man went down along the river and soon re¬ Higher Than in 1865. turned bearing the jug triumphantly aloft. “Here she is!” he shouted, as a broad smile overspread his.countenance. SUNSHINE! Another sufferer wa§' standing along¬ side a pile of cord wood. “No*t here e this wood,” he said. “I just got this Follows the Gloom, For Out of the V/reck load in the day bsiOre tho flood, nnd now look at it.” And ho washed: the .dirt oh Many Logs, It is Believed, each stick carefully. His house was standing at an angle of 45°, but he didn . Have Been Caught. mind that. The Wood was what worried him most, . ______10,000 LIVES LOST!

The City of Johnstown Swept Away and Ten Thousand People Are Drowned. The City Lives-Her THE LOSS OF LIFE HERE. [From the Dally oCJupe 3.-] In the last issue of The Sun and Ban¬ ner, published on Friday evening, we People are notified the people that in al) likelihood there woulu he % 25-foot flood and that the boom would go out, Much as we hoped this prediction would prove false, ^ the flood was worse than the most reek- j less prophesier expected. The water, j ' which came on so rapidly and has now J passed, was higher than ever knowfl in i the history of the West Branch valley, 1 But it las the Greatest and has damaged the whole sec¬ tion to a vast extent. It is be¬ lieved that 400,000,000 feet of logs Flood in all Our and sawed lumber, worth at least $10,000,000, have gone down. Of this amount the Williamsport boom lost History. 150,000,000 feet in logs, and our lumber¬ men lose probably 100,000,000 feet, in- ' logs and sa wed stock on hand of • “ 1,000 MEN AT WORK. * and last year. All our river and creek bridges are lost or ruined, our mer- Building the Philadelphia and Brie Railroad from -haftts lose their goods, and many Harristurg to Williamsport. Frank Thomson, Vice President otere nnor B^nle lose their homes. It is now Pennsylvania Railroad, is near A Sorted that ?£ the and lum' gomery, where he came up on I nu; ^ • ber has lodged not far belowthia city Superintendent Westfall was fer*i across the river here Sunday, mounted a . and that the amount thus saved W J horse and rode to Montgomery, where he reach 75,000,000 feet. This is good news. communicated with Mr. Thomson. The Along the river front, where the houses Pennsylvania Railroad have 1,000 men are as a general thing built of wood and at work all along the line, and wiUbmg a railroad from Sunbury to Williams but of one and two stories, the scene of port. Their loss is mfllions ot dollars, devastation is complete, and the in^ab^‘ their main line from Harrisburg to Ty tants, receiving the brunt of the flood, rone being destroyed,, the flood in the Juniata having been higher thanthat m had to flee for their lives. The whole I the Susquehanna. As they^nassen- city, with the exception of Newtown and these tracks they will send their passen the high-built quarter above High street, 1 gen by way of Williamsport and west was submerged, and in some houses the ' byEtevenVbridges were washed away be¬ water reached the second stories. The tween Williamsport and Ralston, or water kept rising all Friday afternoon most these bridges the a1™tments were until 8:30 o’clock Saturday night, when aMo swept away. Two of these bridge it began, to fall. As we go to press we were iron and have been swept on one side of the river. They are twisted and give the news as reliably as it can be had, bent in ©very imaginable shape, -i-ne and from as authentic sources as we can Queen’s Run and Bald Eagle bridges are reach. It is impossible to fully report all rieht At Queen’s Run Trainmaster Quigfle and Division Operator Klinger the loss of life and until several days were stationed on Friday and Hve not elapse and the people are able to report since been heard of. ^he F o laoiUtms the missing ones, a reliable estimate or are that with a orew of carpeuters and linemen they are making their way to list cannot be had. A Perilous Journey. WSupertetendent Meade,of Elmlra,part¬ ed from that place Monday mor^ The first person to reach this city tom oompanied by a largecrew of carpenters the outside world, so far as known, was and will work his way to this city. J- E. T. L. Bersenger, a Pennsylvania Rad- supervisor of the Northern Central road road courier. Bersenger left Sunbury walked from Ralston to Williamsport Snndav morning at 5 o’clock, being sent and examined every portion of bis track with (dispatches from Vice Prei^fI}t Frank Thomson to Superintendent West- to this point. He reports that in many nlaces along the line the road bed is fall. Bersenger started on his perilous washed out, leaving excavations from iourney on horseback and reached Mont- iornory. At this point he left his horse, “ “SS! ?Sn»ylT»l» rail¬ was taken over the river in aboat,.and road division engineer, wiie m l.nftwood ne the rest of the way on foot. Hav- and in company with J. K. Jr. -tiau, oi ■ delivered his dispatches he started on St Marys,started for Williamsport,where ’•eturn homo at once. they landed Monday morning at about Feeding the Sufferers, 11 o’clock They left Driftwood this r popular Democratic County Chair- morning on a locomotive and were taken C. J. Reilly, Esq., beeped the^ Re¬ to Sinnemahoning. At this place they man majority Sunday. The eomred took a row boat and in that voyaged the I people in the vicinity of Graffius run rest of the trip,making about eight miles went into the Park Avenue Sunday an hour on the river. When passing the I school, and Mr. Reilly With E. G Abaa- spot where the terrible drowning of the lom Walter Gerson, W. L. Mcuoiium, Youngman families occurred they saw rnd'Mr. Sterling, formed a relief com- persons on the bank and went ashore. nittee gathered provisions and fed them, Here they saw six of the bodies of the dr. ReiUy is as good a relief chairman drowned, the rest having been taken away. One of the two Youngmen hoys is political chairman. who were saved while istruggling in the Blight Tiros. arms of his father, who was trying to There were three fires started by lime save both of the hoys, cried : during the flood. On Saturday the Vick¬ “Let roe go, papa, I can swim ; let me ers’ stable, on Court street, caught fire go!” Finally he slipped from his and the firemen had to work in water up parent’s grasp and floated until he struck a tree, in the branches of which he to their necks, hut they put the to® out before much damage was done. ’Eater lodged and was saved. The magnificent iron bridge of the in the day a small fire occurred in the rear of Weaver’s coal yard, from the Beech Creek railroad between Pine and Wayne was entirely washed away and same cause, and Greevy & Snyder’s lime four spans of the Philadelphia and Read¬ house was partially burned. ing bridge at Sunbury are gone. A Ferry Started. THE P. & R. RAILROAD. The steamers “Hiawatha” and “Golden Gate” are now acting in the capacity of An Interview With Superintendent Lawler -The ferry-boats, and are carrying people Werk of Repairing the Road. across the river, above the Philadelphia and Reading round house. A Sun and Banner ffiatnasnocT to in¬ AT DUB0I8T0WH, terview Superintendent C. M. Lawler, oi the Philadelphia and Reading RaUroad, Great Devastation Eeported Among the Farmers Wednesday, and went to that official s of Mosquito Valley- office with the expectation of finding him The damage at DuBoisto wn was serious, there. Being told that Mr. Lawler was there being five feet of water in the [ out on the track just below the station, houses. There was no loss of life. The the newspaper man started down the reservoir in Mosquito Valley and two river front, climbing over debris of all dams burst, and the farmers in the Val¬ kinds, crawling up the trestle in mapy ley lose a great deal of live stock. places where it was bent in the forrn of an arch, the centre being twenty feet A Boy’s Miraonlons Esoape. above ground, and sliding down the The 10-year-old son of Charles Living¬ other side. Finally on reaching the stone, and his cousin, aged about 26,were lower end of the city the portly form of in the house above the Northern Central the indefatigable Superintendent came in railroad bridge. The house was wrecked view. He was in the midst of the car¬ and they jumped for their lives, landing penters and laborers giving directions on a tree. The boy caught a part of a and aiding in all the work. Upon being clothes press and swam to Abe Good’s approached and questioned he saidi Our yard from which he climbed to a tree on road Is in a terrible state, but as you see which be remained until jie was rescued. we are hustling for all we are worth and He received an ugly wound in the head, expect to have trains running on this but is now doing well. His cousin was trestle by to-morrow night. The road is also rescued,..,. all right from Sunbory bridge to Muncy and bv to-morrow, perhaps to- False Humors, Dnufea — trains to the The rumors that there were ten bodies day, we will manage no - - city by carrying passengers from bun- of drowned people at Page’s undertaking bury to Montgomery on our road anu establishment and eight dead people at ti er transferring to the Pennsylva¬ Grace M. E. Church, have been investi¬ nia, by whom they will be brought gated by our reporters. There is no truth to the city. All our energies are in the reports. being directed toward getting trains Drowned on Franklin Street into the city, after which we Jacob Mutchler, of Washington street, will direct our attention to get¬ drowned on Franklin street Saturday ting things fixed more permanently. night in six inches of water. Ho fell on If we only had the timber to spare w e a step, face downwards, became uncon¬ could much more easily build a new scious, and drowned before he could be trestle than repair the old. One of the greatest disadvantages under whioh we s»7ed._ labor Is caused by the immense amount THESE FAMILIES SWEPT AWAY. of debris which covers our tracks and which must of course he removed.” Fifty Twelve Lives Lost on Antes Greek—Thrilling carpenters arrived from Philadelphia last Escape of the Yonngman Brothers/© . , j night and are now at work. This crew A sad story of death and destruction ! fixed all the small bridges and breaks on comes from Antes Creek, where twelve ' their way to the city. The line of the lives vfere lost, including the families ol i road'swarms yrith workmen, laborers re- George and William Youngman, sons of moving debris, carpenters at work 8>nd George W. Youngman, Esq., of New¬ linemen working on poles and lines. No berry, and brothers of Dr. C. W. Young¬ expense is being spared and all the fore¬ man and Samuel L. and James M. men were directed by the Superinten¬ Youngman, Esqs., of this city. dent to await no further orders but to se¬ Dr. Youngman, who went up to Antes cure all the tools and supplies necessary Creek Sunday afternoon with Lynn Mc- to hurry the work. After seeing mat Minn, of Newberry, to see about the re¬ everything was moving smoothly the ported drowning of his brothers’ fami¬ Superintendent and newspaper man lies, got home Monday and told the awful boarded a locomotive standing at the details of the catastrophe to a Sun and lower end of the completed trestle Banner reporter. The doctor and his , and were quickly returned to the companion had a terrible time reaching statioD, from"which Mr. Lawler went to Antes Creek. They drove by wagon, interview Superintendent Westfall on rowed in a boat, and walked until they 1 the transfer of passengers. Just before got there, when they witnessed an awful parting the big-hearted and generous sight. There were three houses at the railroader drew from his pocket his purse Woollen Mills on theoreek until 3 o’clock and extracting therefrom $200 placed it in Saturday morning, when the dam broke and a wave twenty feet high arose ana The Sun and Banner man’s hand saying; “If convenient will you please swept every house away, net a vestige of hand that to ths Treasurer of the Relief them being left. The first house con¬ Fund, Judge Cummin, as ray personal tained the family of George YouDgmaD, subscription? Our company will sub¬ and all of these were drowned except the scribe, but what or how much I cannot husband, who floated one-half mile and tell, because we cannot get our wires to struck a tree on the side of the moun¬ tain. He escaped. He had a little working. I, however, know that from three to five cars have been loaded with girl named Emily Hull, who lived in Newberry, in his arms, and supplies by the company and will arrive iust as soon as they can be got through saved her. His family, which was drowned, consisted of his on either road.” All honor to the noble- wife ; daughter May, aged 16 ; Ralph, hearted Superintendent for his generous aged 6; Phoebe, aged 4 ; Charlie, aged 2. contribution. ______and a babe,l month old; their governess, Miss Lizzie Phelps, of Albany, N. Y, 'll M / taimnga number of gentlemen at his * also drowned : also Maggie Pfoutz, cabin on Antes Creek, when a water¬ of Jersey Shore, who was voting them spout occurred and the water arose rapid- His son Reynolds floated down the creek lv in the cabin. Grasping a sledge ham¬ a mile, lodged in a tree and was saved. mer, one of the party smashed it against Of Will Youngman’s family his wile, the roof, breaking a hole in it. The party son Walter, aged 10, and daughter climbed out.the water following pouring Emily, aged 4, were drowned. WilJ in after them. Prom the roof the party Youngman floated 200 yards from the got on to a tree, in the branches of which house, lodged in a tree and saved h'ui- they stayed until the water went down. self. He remained there from 3 o clock Saturday morning till 10 °’ eeS morning. The other house at the creek Tbe Bhrer Bridges, contained the family of Harman Three spans of the Philadelphia and A son, Ray, aged 4, of this family, was Erie Railroad bridge on the river are still the only on® who was drowned. Dr standing—two on the south end and one Youngman got an undertaker and did a on the north end, the four centre spans he could looking to the disposal of the having been swept away. , bodies, when he came home. The Market street bridge is all gone, | Mrs George Youngman was a daugh¬ the heavy iron structure being 6 I ter of David8R. Mahaffey, of Newberry ; river all twisted out of shape. The May- > and Mrs. Will Youngman was a daugh¬ nard street bridge is all swept away. ter of Dr. M. Reed, of Jersey Shore, Houses Undermined. | aIsad bobnb. The citizens of Williamsport should be ; watchful of their houses now that the The Seven Members of the Drowned Youngman water is receding. In many instances Family Bnried Wednesday. the foundations of the buildings have One of the saddest scenes ever witness¬ been washed away and the houses are m danger of collapsing._ ed in this city was the funer^iat *0f. o’clock Wednesday from the residence oi David R. Mahaffey, in Newberry, Height of the Flood. where the seven bodies of George W. City Engineer Faries measured the Youngman. Jr.’s, family have beenlying height of the flood at the police station cold in death since Monday. The ser Monday, and found that it was 33 feet vices were conducted by Rev. Boal,ofthe 1 inch above low water mark. The Presbyterian Church, Newberry, assisted flood of ’65 was 27 feet 4 inches, thus by Rev. Mann, of the Methodist churoh. making this one 5 feet 9 inches higher. There were tkree sets oi pall-bearers, comprising eighteen altogether, and it Oliver Wolf, of Jersey Shore, came down to Williamsport from Renovo in a reci uired four hearses and a spring wagon to convey the bodies _to Wlldw0(J. Ceme' boat Monday morning, having stopped t«rv The wife ana mother with tne at Dock Haven over night. He says the people were going around in boats in baby clasped in her arms occupied 0^ casket, ancl it made strong men weep to Lock Haven’s streets, but he heard c?t nc,/ look at the sad sight. Never before was loss of life thero, there such a funeral in Newberry. A butcher from the country stood on MILL STBEfiT, The Sun and Banner corner Saturday morning and sold meat until his wagon A Section of tne City in Whioh the People Sof- and stand became nearly submerged with fared Most From the Flood, water. One on the Court House pave¬ A walk through Mill street revealed ment also stood it as long as he could. a state of things unheard of before locality. Up near Hepburn street the Cflnefelter

_a norm ot town and slept on the ning out itself, while others will have to ^ud all Saturday night, pumped out, and it will keep the pumpers busy for awhile. The son of Michael Welker went down with the Maynard street bridge and A newsboy standing on the corner of spent the afternoon on a tree, Fourth and Pine this morning was call¬ ing out, “Morning Paper; only 3 cents; It is said that people living in South awful account of the flood.” Williamsport did not suffer as much as Those grocerymen who are charging those on this side of the river. exorbitant prices for provisions should John Wanderley, who lives out past be remembered by the people and be left i the Poor House, cared for eleven horses to be their own patrons. from the city during the flood. The hoot and shoe dealers sold out all The railroad officials have every avail- the rubber goods they had, and the By- ! able man at work clearing up the debris coming Rubber Company was kept busy | and putting the tracks in shape. delivering boots to the stores. | Any number of people fell into the The Pennsylvania Railroad Company I water on the streets, and it Is wondertul attempted to save their bridge beloyr | that so many escaped drowning, town by placing loaded cars upon it-, but i They think that the Mac Taylor mill they lost both cars and bridge-. ! eaa be returned to the city,as it is lodged The 8-year-old daughter of WillDeit- i below the city in good condition. rick, residing in the Sixth ward, was ; One of the meanest young fellows in drowned and Monday the body was found town is the one who kicked because he near where she was drowned could not have cream in his coflee. The citizens of the South Side will pre- Ivlanv drunken men were on the street sent_ _ X a_ handsomely J engraved-w-rm4 gold watchnrn f/ih Saturday aud some of them had very to Calvert, the man who rescued the man 1 narrow escapes from drowning. from the Market street bridge. - Some of the boatmen were hogs and Putnam & Crockett lose very little took advantage of the occasion to extort lumber. Their logs lodged in the canal money from those who were helpless.^ below Market street and the stock they A Hepburn street man came near being had up the river was not touched. drowned in a fight to ^e a pieoe of Ex-Mayor Jones gave a fellow who scanning that wasn’t worth two cents. was begging alms the grand bounce. No ,' Market Clerk Morgan rescued a man able-bodied men need suffer. There is 1 from a sewer on Market street, and re- plenty of work for able-bodied men. i ceived an ugly gash on his hand m doing Opposite Montoursville is a wonderful large drift consisting of saw mills, wagon so. The men who said^n^gy that the and railroad bridges, lumber, logs, tXty^t flo^TrcieaM Vould houses, barns and no telling what else. hurt* WiUiamsport are keeping quiet to- The old Beaver mill started out at 3:50 and passed along the river as majestic¬ ally as a ship. It struck the r-lh-oad bridge and swept two of the spans away. PaJks Saturday night. Many were taken M ike Costello on Saturday was faith¬ fully working all day to save lives. Mr. ^At Idurmy a house occupied by ® Costello never ate anything all day, but his wife and children, was caught and took people from the second floors and thl woman and children saved, but the gave them food. man was lost. A man was riding a horse on Lyooming Several freight cars on the Philadel¬ street Saturday, got Into a sink hole and phia and Brie road, above Pine f only saved his life by abandoning his are being used as homes by people who horse and swimming to a fence. The were flooded out. horse was drowned. The water came up to the ^ ? The report that the family of John the City Hospital and the patiente bad to Hall, living on the island below the Phil¬ i be quickly removed to the second story adelphia and Erie Railroad bridge, were "4 of the building. . , drowned is false. They were saved by The Sun and Banneb’s loss in stock Mr. Hall’s son, Elmer, i- limit *1 000 Our two newspaper There were thirteen in the house of ex- presses were entirely submerged, but we Mayor Jones when the flood was at its hope not ruined. height, and Mrs. Jones was glad when a The two improvised ferry boats, the yellow dog swam into the house and steamers Golden Gate and Hiawatha, ate broke the unlucky number. doing a lively business carrying people All the dynamos at the Edison light aoross the river. station are rained. New ones have been | Among the heroes of the day were Doc telegraphed for and on their arrival the ; rr-ftiav d floated eight miles, where they The family of Willis Platt, at Field’s iged in a tree. Several of them were Station, were oaught in their house and [•owned, it is said. Their names could the building was swept away. Willis got Sit be learned. into a tree and the tree gave way and lie finally managed to get ashore. His The report that there were thirteen daughter was also rescued a short dis¬ iple drowned at Collomsville is incor- tance below, but Mrs. Platt was swept it. Mr. Daniel Knauff, of Colloms- down the creek and drowned. « le, states that nobody was drowned at _ lace, although the town was thor¬ Edward C. Phillips, a house painter on oughly inundated. the South Side, had everything he , possessed, including his clothes, in his The pavement and part of the yard in ’shop where he kept his paint. His shop ear of the Court House caved in early on was swept away by the flood and landed ' ,turday and underneath the surface it about one-quarter of a mile away. When looked like a subterranean passage found by him some vandals had broken whfire the water boiled and foamed in a open the building with axes and had perfect torrent. taken everything out, leaving the man Mr. Elias Deemer says that the Wil¬ nothing but the clothes on his back. , liamsport Lumber Company will not Leo Krimm, of Washington street, was Hose as much as was at first thought, caught by the waters near Fourth and heir mills, with the exception of the Pine on Saturday and could not get leaver, are all standing, and very little home. His wife was caught below Mar¬ Lumber was lost. ket square. Each worried about the An enterprising photographer stood in other, and yesterday afternoon, wben tbe the water Up to bis waist Saturday morn¬ waters subsided, they i. n against each ing, and took pictures of a boat load of other in the crowd/ It was a happy people, and other scenes on Market meeting, and doubtless was only one of street. Other photographers were also many similar ones. at work all over the city. S. L. Youngman, George Hardennerg It Wfts rumored that when the May¬ and another man, who were fishing up nard street bridge went down it carried at Buck Horn, cam© down Friday, ar¬ from forty to fifty people with it, but riving here Saturday evening. They diligent inquiry falls to discover that walked from Perryviile over the moun¬ here was anybody harried away except tain. They report that L. Maxwell, at boy who lodged on the Market street Cogan House, lost some lumber; Craw¬ idge, ' ford & O’Hart’s grist mill dam went out, 6. L. Nichols arid A1 Wood, of the ! and the mill was moved several feet; nearly all the bridges over Lycoming othopotary’s otfifse, at the risk of their creek' are gone; sixty feet of George Har- rp liyes.ss/Ve’d an old man from drown- denberg’sdam went out, and four nouses, g in the Court House. The old man as drunk and the young men had great went away on Larry’s creek. ifficulty in rescuing him from a watery Henry A. Solomon, the confectioner, 'grave. went down to the planing mill, corner Hundreds of people took refuge Satur¬ Third and Hepburn street’s, Saturday- morning, and while looking at the ad¬ day in the Y. M. C. A. rooms and seemed vancing waters, with several others, got jto consider it a haven of rest. They were surrounded and eq.uid not getaway. He as comfortably quartered as circum¬ stances would permit and, barring pro- ne ver thought Of his four horses at home, as he was evoked, but several men res¬ ' visions, got along nicely until the water cue^. them, however. Solomon stayed subsided. Off the mill roof until yesterday. Lewis G. Gundrum, of DuBoistown, The “Golden Gate” steamer was up on jjrresoued two men from the Maynard West Fourth street Saturday afternoon, '•street bridge when the water was almost having brought several families from over the bridge floor. He rowed to the ! along the river to the McCormick block, bridge in a boat and took the men off corner Fourth and William streets. The after the boom steamer had made several steamer, after landing the people, went ineffectual efforts to save the men. down to W. H. Amer’s residence and One man was foolhardy enough to re¬ took his family out of the second story main in a street car near the Park Hotel window, as they were afraid the house on Saturday afternoon until the water would go down, the brick wall on the got up to his neck,when he loudly called west having bulged out. The “Golden for help, and was rescued with a boat Gate” also steamed down the Philadel¬ from th® hotel. Before that he wouldn’t phia and Erie Railroad to the Seminary, let anyone take him out. and clear out against the hill. © The Court House tower was crowded The Maynard street bridge went out with people while the water was rising Saturday. At the time it was swept* Saturday morning, and from this eleva¬ away a man was standing on the bridge. tion a good view of the river and town He succeeded in getting on a hou@e roof could be had. Persons up there saw the that was passing and floated to the mid¬ Beaver Mills go and also the bridges, dle span of the Market street bridge, The County Jail tower was also filled where he was able to get on to what was with people, " y • left of that structuysj As his dangerous situation became apparent to those on 1 ^ SECOND EDITION. ! the shore an feftort was made by several Th '1 demand for the Flood Edition of boatmen to rescue him. Henry Coder The Sun and Banner has been so great . d several attempts' To get near the •»n, but the current •was too swift. Fi¬ ... nally, after repeated efforts, a maii his rescuer to be eareful and not named Calvert got the man from the shirt. bridge In safety, and seven minutes af¬ terward the bridge went down. He Dove Under the Bridge. Reuben Ross, the 17-year-old son When N, Borrows Bubb, of George Reuben Ross, blacksmith for the Con Babb & Sons, wholesale grocers, visited solidated Lumber Company, was swef their warehouse, in the rear of their store, after the water went down Sunday from the house with the Edward' family. Young Ross clung to a bush lot morning, a curious sight met his gaze. over an hour. From this refuge he wa j There had been number of bags of rock salt pUsd up there, on the top of swept away and swam down the creek] diving under the Northern Central Rail, whiol^ was a show cash with a convex way bridge, standing about forty feet , glsssi front. The salt was minus, of below on the Newberry shore,from which Course, and the bags were lying flat upon he was taken by some men. the floor, with the show case on top of "thefn. in; the show case was a large white, cat, hut how it got there and lived At Enghesyilijj. is a mystery. The front of the case had Hughesville was not damaged. Or a piece of glass broken out, over which a street had wate r on it, but that was a! piece of newspaper was pasted. There The Williamsport and North Bvaiul was a hole in the paper, and the cat must iPtatlroad is badly wreoked by washouts have crawled through an opening in the and a small railroad bridge.at Tivoli wa warehouse, then swam to the show ease carried off. No news Iras been receivct and broke through the paper. It was a from above Tivoli or from Suilivai strange incident of the flood, no matter county. how it happened. Spegial Policemen. Mayor Etjrosman has decided to- so Tdhber AND MILLS, point oncfhum’red special policemen fo The Dodge mills lost nearly all their the purpose of watching the lumber ant sawed lumber. gogds of merchants. The thieves hav< 'ft'ia stealing whatever they could las Thomas J. Duffey’s jack mill, west of their hands on. Maynard street, was swept away. The Star mill was spared,but nearly all the lumber went down the river. SOMEBODY’S DARLING A great deal of lumber and logs are lodged in Potter’s basin and along Mill The Little Waif of the Flood Now at the street. Home for the Friendless. Howard, Perley & Howard lose about ten million feet of lumber, but their mill stands. HOW THE INFANT WAS RESCUED Colonel Corcoran had 7,000,008 feet of lumber in the Caledonia boom which The Matron Tells a Reporter All About It—Ltoy< went out Friday night. Warner’s Heroic and Daring Deed, It is thought that there is about 50,000,- 000 feht of sawed lumber lodged between EVERYBODY WANTS TO ADOPT THE CHILD. Williamsport and Sunbury. The Consolidated Lumber Company’s A Sun and Banner reporter re three mills, two at DuBoistown and one cently visited the Home for th< in thp western end of the city, still stand, Friendless, where the baby that wa: but their stock of lumber is gone. The rescued from the cradle during the flooc company loses about tea million feet. , is now being kindly cared for. Tin - newspaper man was invited into the par¬ In Jeffer&iSn Couaty. lor, and when the Matron, Miss Saral The big dam of John B, DuBois, at Wilson, came In he said : “I came uf the tunnel on the Low Grade Division of here to get some information regarding the Allegheny Valley railroad, is gone. that baby.” The water, forming a new channel down ‘‘Ohr toyed.” replied theMatron, “I wil Sandy creek, saved John E. DuBois’ tell you all I know about it, but I don’t logs and lumber, but below DuBois, at know much. The baby was brought tc Reynoldsville, A. C. Hopkins & Co. lose the Home last Monday”evening by Mrs 10,000,000 feet of'logs and lumber. At Boyd, who lives on East Third street Brookville Walnwright & Bryant lose This lady had it and eared for it ev8i 12,000,000 feet of logs. Sandy creek and since the day of the flood. Her bfpther the Red Bank river are completely swept Lloyd Warner, a telegraph operator,whe of mills, logs and lumber clear through resides at Milton. was on a visit to her to the Allegheny river. ) and on the day or tike flood he was Stand ! ing near the tower where the Philadel A Segro Saved, phia and Erie Railroad crosses the Phil During the flood A colored man named adelphia and Reading, in the lower par George WasMSgton got Into deep water of the city, watching the debris go dowi on Lyccining street and would have the river. drowned had it not been for the efforts of “All at once he noticed a cradle cominf one of the workmen at the Government down the stream, and, without waiting f building who was boarding at the Jack¬ moment, he plunged boldly into tin in House. The workman threw a rope water and’swam out to it. When hi 10{,of the second story of the hotel and reached the cradle he saw a little babe li Geo$e caught it. The colored man was it, and at once grasped the infant in hii arms and swam back to shore, landing whereat is Jhr a reasonable length of | safely with hia precious Freight.-'' *“ in order to see if its parents cannot | “What kind of a dradle was it ?” asked be discovered. If no tidings are heard the reporter. from them, then some one will likely get “Why, from the description we got,” She little waif. When the reporter left replied the Matron, “it must have been the baby was still tugging away at the a cradle with open sides. It had a pillow bottle and seemed as contented and happy in each end, and had the appearance of as though there had never bean a flood. having been also occupied by an older Lloyd Warner, the man who rescued baby. There were a lot' of playthings, the baby, deserves the greatest praise for including a balfy's rattle, in the bottom lais heroio and daring act in plunging of the cradle. It was a heroic effort on Into the seething waters on that teyflbla the part of the young man to attempt iay and rescuing the infant, ana it is such a thing as to save a baby in a flood hoped that the little one will live to thank like that, but he did it. And it is a won¬ him for risking his life to save its own. der that the cradle kept afloat, but I think there must have been a heavy mat¬ MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL. tress in the bottom that kept it up.” "And you know nothing about where Action Upon the Recent Strike, Ac.— it came from ?” interrogated the reporter. Message from tlie Mayor—Resolutions “Nothing at all,” replied the Matron. of Council—The Strike and Riot Con¬ demned. “But I don’t think it came far, for I can’t see how it could float a great dis¬ Monday Evening, Aug. 19,1872. tance. Someone said a cradle was seen Council met as usual, President White in goiog down the river near Jersey Shore the chair. After the presentation of some on the day of the flood, but I don’t think it QOUld have been this one. We cannot petitions, the following message from the tell whether the baby’s parents are Mayor was received and read : drowned, either,” the Matron continued, “and they might have been drowning mayor’s message. and sent the "baby adrift, thinking it To the Honorable the City Council of Willliams- would be picked up somewhere and port : saved. You can see the baby if you want Gentlemen:—The trying events through to.” which we have recently passed, and with The reporter acquiesced, and was which you are familiar, render it properdin ushered into another room, where the i sight of a weenty-teenty babe, all covered my opinion, that you should, in your capacity I up in a baby carriage, met his gaze. The as the official representative body of this infant was vigorously tugging away at a 1 city, make some suitable acknowledgement to nipple attached to a bottle ot milk, with J the authorities of the State who so promptly eyes half closed, as the reporter entered, ! came to our aid in the time of danger and dis- but looked up and emitted a little baby¬ ! tress. The Governor, by his effixitive response ish crow when the Matron took it from to our requisition for a military force, gave us ^ its bed. It is a pretty child and has dark peace when wc had no peace ; restored order, brown hair—what there is of it—large, when we were cursed with mob violence ; in- dark bright eyes, and has behaved itself sured the supremacy of law when all authori¬ right well since it came to the Home, the Matron says, being just as good as a baby ty had been trampled under foot, and rendered five or six weeks old could be. It is a confident assurance of the protection of per- . being kindly cared for, and is receiving sons and property when the rights of both every attentiCib, aijd, kb it appears like a were disregarded by an infuriated crowd of perfectly'healthy child, it will probably misguided men. grew up to be a strong, robust boy, aa it The scenes of the 22nd of July wiH not soon doesn’t se6ru lo be any the worse for its : be forgotten by any who witnessed them. All ride on the river on that eventful June 1. peaceable and orderly citizens were filled with It seems to take to the. bottle naturally, apprehension and dread ; workmen and em¬ and there will be flo trouble in rearing it ployers were deprived of their freedom of con¬ in toajj'way.' tract and of action in their mutual relations, baby W&a nicely dressed by Mrs. and the principal industry and source of Boyd, before she brought it to the Epotae.” said the Matron, “and she would wealth of our prosperous city was threatened liked to have kppt it herself if she could, with destruction. The local authorities were bflt shekhougnt it better to bring it here unprepared for so extraordinary and unex¬ and try ana And its parents, if it pected an emergency. A military force was baa any.” needed to aid in bringing order out of this “And whaj are yon going to do with chaos of riot and recklessness. The Governor it 5*’ asked the repqrter. of the Commonwealth being appealed to, sent "Well, we are going to find its mother hither such a force as at once and completely if wq easy’ said the Matron. “But if we overawed the mob, and insured the triumph don’t succeed in doing so ikore will be no of law and order without bloodshed. An at- trouble in securing a, good home for it. [ 'there have been three or four ladies here tempt to assert the supremacy of the consti- ^ ■Urpady who wanted to adopt it, and only tuted authorities by compulsory power, to be last night ope from Grand Rapids, Michi- | effectual, needed to be thorough. Too small .'Sot was here and wanted to take it. I | a number of troops or any special police force {, think this lady is stopping at the Park 11 could have organized at that time would ,, Hotel.” only have roused defiance and provoked resist¬ While the reporter was at the Home a ance, and the consequences of a conflict be¬ lytfliBg' girl called and said that her tween the mob and the military would un¬ I mother would like to adopt the child, doubtedly have been of an incalculably seri¬ She had lost tyro children last J uly. ous nature. As it was, the effective response ivoOld like a little one now fear as her | by the State authorities to our call for assist- own. The baby, however, will remain 18

atice insured the immediate and peaceable liamsport, representing the law-abiding and suppression of the mob spirit and the unre¬ well-disposed citizens of this locality, hereby sisted arrest of the,principal rioters, which,it tender to His Excellency, John W. Geary, isI.. 1—^^Jbelieved, could not lunxrfflhave Koonbeen o/'r>Atnnnijhaccomplished Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl¬ under other circumstances. vania, our sincere and grateful acknowledg¬ The conduct of the military while on duty ment of our appreciation of his action in 'here, was, on the whole, unexceptionable and promptly calling out, on the requisition of praiseworthy. The commanding General and our local authorities, a sufficient force of the the officers and men under his orders deserve military of the State to give us peace and to a grateful acknowledgment from us for their insure quiet and the enforcement of the laws; good conduct and efficiency. and we also thank him for the excellent proc Our police force are entitled to an especial lamation issued by him in view of these cir¬ recognition of their fidelity and efficiency cumstances, and whicli embodied a 'thorough during the trying scenes of the 22d of July, and just setting forth of the issues involved, as well as throughouTTlie perfect of our recent and orthe rights and duties of citizens on the troubles. They repeatedly imperilled their occasion. lives for the protection of the rights of per¬ Resolved, That to Major General Merrill, sons and property. All of them received per¬ and to the officers and men under his com sonal injuries, some of them being quite seri¬ mand, our heartfelt thanks are due, and are ous. I think you cannot but agree, gentlemen, hereby tendered for their entirely satisfactory that some substantial testimonial to the servi¬ conduct and thorough efficiency while they ces and sufferings of these men is due from the remained with us. city as represented by you. Resolved, That copies of these resolutions I have the honor to be, gentlemen, and of the Mayor’s message recommending Your very obedient servant, this action, be transmitted to the Governor of S. W. Starkweather, the State, and to Major General Merrill, for Williamsport, Aug. 19, ’72. Mayor. ^ communication to the officers and men on In accordance with the recommendations duty here during our late troubles. of the message, Mr. McCormick offered the j After debate the resolutions were passed following preamble and resolutions: . unanimously. Whereas, our city has been cursed by a strike of the men engaged in the principal industry upon which our prosperity is depend¬ \ ent, causing a large number to remain idle ptratg 'Jiummarg. for three weeks and more, and resulting in a stagnation of our chief business interests, with the loss, directly and indirectly, of an incalcu¬ lable amount, added to the rousing of evil passions, which we fear will not be easily, al¬ layed ; and _ . . Whereas, The culmination of this affair, which we believe was inaugurated, directed, and produced by designing men, actuated by motives of unprincipled selfishness and ambi¬ tion, was a riot of huge dimensions, an unau¬ thorized entering upqp property, a forcible driving away of men-'Jaboring upon terms of private contract, and an outrageous interfer¬ ence with the rights of employers and em¬ ployed ; and Whereas, In consequence of the recklesss m:xjivcy, pa. and lawless aets of the striking workmen on the 22d of July last, our city was given up to mob violence, the persons and property of oar Friday, July 31, 1891. citizens were imperilled, and all our law-abi¬ ding and peaceable residents were filled with dread and apprehension, _ fearing a wholesale destruction of the material of the branch of GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER. manufactures upon which we are mainly de¬ pendent; and 1841—1801. Whereas, In these extraordinary circum¬ stances, our local authorities, composed and prepared only for the ordinary emergencies of OUR EDITORS FROM THE BEGINNING: a usually peaceful commmunity, were totally inadequate to the unexpected and unprepared- Wm, P. I. Painter, Editor 1841-’46. for occasion; and Whereas, The Governor of the. Common¬ Geo. L. I. Painter, Editor 1841-’79. wealth being applied to in these circumstan- Wm. P. Painter, Editor 1879-’88. „ ces, responded promptly and to the _ entire i ■ satisfaction of all good citizens, giving ■ us Thos. B. Painter, Editor 1888-’91. .: peace and harmony, and quieting the mob | spirit which was before rampant and uncon¬ f: trollable; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the City Council of Wil¬ THE LUMIl_ Number and take the names of the offi¬ GOLDEN JTTJUILlSb. cers of that meeting. They were as fol¬ lows : President, William Cox Ellis, Esq. ; Vice Presidents, Dr. Thomas With this issue The Luminary be¬ Wood and Daniel Buck, and Secreta¬ gins its fifty-first volume. Founded in ry, Dr. James Rankin. The speakers 1841 by W. P. I. & G. L. I. Painter were Hon. George M. Keim, of Read- this journal has been published con- I ing, and William Cox Ellis, Esq. The P tinuously ever since, having never pass¬ committee on Resolutions consisted of ed out of the family of its original foun¬ the following: Jacob Cooke, John ders. During all this long period The Montgomery, G. F. Boal, Esq., Dan’l Luminary has never changed its prin¬ Webb, Samuel Shoemaker, Jas. Risk, ciples on any essential points. A full David Lloyd, and John J. Crouse. Of half century has now passed since this all these gentlemen named as present paper was started, and in honor of the on that occasion none survive to cele¬ important anniversary we offer this to brate with us our Golden Anniversary. our patrons as our Golden Jubilee Fifty years ago Muncy was a quiet, Number, having called to our aid this retired little village of scarce six hund¬ week a band of contributors whose ar¬ red souls. There were neither rail ticles cannot fail to awaken the deep¬ roads nor telegraphs in this part of the j est interest in all who care aught for State : traveling was altogether by stage Old Muncy or its Local Journal. or packet boat. In an editorial on It was just fifty years ago last spring “ Muncy as it is,” which appeared a that two young men came over from few months after the paper was start¬ Bloomsburg to establish a new paper ed, a list of the town’s attractions is in Muncy. Their father, Thos. Pain¬ given, closing with the following cli¬ ter, was at that time editor of the Co¬ max: “We have a Presbyterian, a

lumbia County Register, and they had j. Methodist, a Baptist, and an Episco¬ received almost all the schooling they \ pal Church with a splendid organ,'two had in his printing office. They brick school houses and a Female r! brought across the Muncy Hills on a S'eminary, large and beautiful dwel¬ sled—for there was a very late snow lings, energetic and persevering citi¬ that year—an old Ramage press, made zens, and last though not least, intelli¬ of wood, and a few other printing ma¬ gent and pretty girls!” Such was terials of the rudest description which Muncy when The Luminary began had been given them by a friend of to shine. their father’s. The citizens of Muncy This publication started as a five- received the young men kindly, and column paper, the size of sheet being ere long appeared the first issue of The 21 x 28. In 1844 it was enlarged to

Muncy Luminary, being dated April six columns, size of sheet 21 x'31: In 10, 1841. The paper was in mourn- September, 1846, the senior editor, 'ng for President William Henry Har- Wm. P. I. Painter, retired, and G. L. ison who had just died within a month I. Painter became sole editor and pro¬ fter his inauguration, and gave a full prietor, which he continued to occupy account of a public meeting of the until April, 1879, when he retired. citizens of Muncy, irrespective of par¬ The Luminary had a hard struggle for j ty, who had assembled at the old brick existence at first, but after a very few \ school house, at that time on South years its circulation and job work Main street, Wednesday, April 7th, to both increased to such an extent that take action on this melancholy event. its success was assured. In August, Let us linger a moment over the Firsts 1849,it was enlarged to seven columns, 20

oize 24x36, and was published in that shape for twenty-one years. It 1870 editors in fifty years—how many o it was enlarged to eight columns, and our contemporaries can show a simila in 1886 became a nine column publi¬ record ? And here we would not cation, size 28 x 44, this being now that our foreman, John H. Winters one of the largest weeklies published has been in our office since November in the West Branch Valley. Thus 1858, a period of thirty-three years steadily has The Luminary grown Although now past seventy, this veterai during all these fifty years of its exis¬ printer still works in the office ever; tence. And we don’t believe that we day as usual. have stopped growing yet. How many changes have occurrei The first press used in our office was since this paper first appeared. I; a quaint old-fashioned Ramage press 1841 John Tyler had just taken hi made entirely of wood, and but one seat as President as successor to th page could be printed at a time. This lamented Harrison. David R. Porte crude machine was followed in 1849 was Governor of Pennsylvania. Wet by a handsome new Washington hand- ster, and Clay, and Benton, and Cal press of which the whole office was houn, and Cass and other great mei mighty proud at the time and which of that eloquent era were in the mids is still used occasionally for hand-bills. of their usefulness. Slavery was evei In 1870 a Montague power press was then becoming a burning question, th purchased. In 1875, however, a brick Abolitionists growing stronger ever press room was built, steam power in¬ year. Since then our country ha troduced, and a Hoe job-press bought passed through a great civil war whicl in New York. The Luminary office has settled the slavery question am had finally been ->sformed from an many other questions too. The pop old-time country office into a modern ulation of the was thei printing establishment, thoroughly 17,069,453; nowit exceeds 63,000, equipped for almost every branch of 000 millions. work. Yet one more change was ne¬ In closing we can only call the at cessary. In 1886 the Hoe press was tention of our readers to the remarka¬ exchanged for a large Potter cylinder ble contents of this number. W< press, capable of printing a very large consider it one of the finest issues w< sheet. We believe that we have to¬ have ever put through the press. Thi day one of the most complete country Luminary renews its youth to-day, offices in the State, and feel proud of Our Golden Jubilee gives us new in¬ | our work. spiration and new life: we expect tc Not many journals see as few chang¬ grow younger every day until we cele¬ as has this during fifty years. From brate the even Century of our life when 1841 to 1879 The Luminary had but we promise our friends a memorial two editors—W. P. I. and G. L. I. issue fully as interesting as is this. :1 Painter. The former served the paper as editor for five years, the latter for Golden Wedding. almost forty years. Both have been ,

I connected with the business life of With the fiftieth anniversary of the Lumi¬ i Muncy ever since they came here as nary, comes also the fiftieth anniversary, or ; young men fifty years ago. In April, Golden Wedding, of Mr. and Mrs. William P. I. Painter; the groom of fifty years ago, 1879, w- p- and T- B- Painter Al¬ lowed their father in the management having been one of the founders and first edi¬ tors of the paper. This important and interest¬ ! of the paper. The former retired in ing event took place on Monday last. The 1888, since which time the present day, like that first wedding day, fifty years; j [jo, was bright and beautiful, and the oc- data, has prevented a compliance with your : ision brought together a number of friends request of a recent date. nd relatives from out of town, as well as Permit me to greet The Luminary on its ^osts of friends and relatives in the Borough, Fifitieth Anniversary, with pleasant memories 'he reception began at 2 o’clock, and from of the past, with congratulations upon its rat time until nearly ten o’clock at night, present prosperity and sincere wishes for its if ere was a steady stream of callers, old and future progress and welfare. fc'jung, to tender their congratulations and I was not a subscriber for No. 1, Vol. 1, jc|>od wishes for the continued health and hap¬ but at the age of fourteen, was an interested piness of the aged couple. reader thereof, from its title to the last words William P. I. Painter, and Sabina Mensch, in the last column. were married at the residence of the bride’s Since then to the present, through all the parents, at Bloomsburg, Pa., by Rev. W. J. years that lie between, whether dwelling Eyer, of the Lutheran Church, July 27th, 1841. within the limits of “ Muncy Manor ” or be¬ The groom had already settled in Muncy, and yond, its successive numbers have come to soon after the wedding they commenced me as welcome, entertaining and instructive visitors. house-keeping, and here they have resided r ever since, now in their declining years sur¬ May The Luminary live and flourish rounded by their children and grandchildren, through another half century and upwards, and enjoying the fruits of their well spent and may you, or some other Painter, in lineal lives, and possessing the respect and esteem succession, be “head centre” at the One Hun¬ I af a large circle of friends and acquaintances. dredth Anniversary. May you and your j.il Four persons were present at the golden successors keep it still, as in the past, the vjjedding who attended the wedding in 1841.' constant and consistent advocate of sound o others were expected but sickness and politics, social purity and the highest interests er causes prevented their attendance. of Muncy and the Commonwealth. 3/The relatives from out of town who were Yours truly, ■resent, were Mr. and Mrs. R. Pott, and Miss Robert Hawley. nnie Pott, of Williamsport; Mr. and Mrs. —The forthcoming number of Now . I. Taggart, of Savannah, Ga.; Mr. and and Then will contain articles contribut¬ rs. Kreiger, of Danville; Mr. E. G. Painter ed by Miss Susan E. Hall, Mrs. Mary id Mrs. Wm. H. Painter, of Harrisburg; Jane Levan, Judge Charles D. Eldred, rs. Sue Pryor and Mrs. J. Painter, of Mauch Mr. John F. Meginness, ChaB. W. Robb, bunk; Mrs. Metzger, of WilkesBarre; Mrs. Esq., Hon. John Blair Linn, and Hon. Jm. Weaver, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. H*nry J. B. Cummings, besides edito ji Mendenhall, of Montoursville; and Mr. rial notes on various topics of general jid Mrs. H. K. Mensch, of Clinton township. interest. MOther out of town callers were Hon. Henry —The Rev. E. Cutler, D. D , and wife, of Worcester, Mass., are guests of the bhnson, and Mrs. Laura Wood, of Williams¬ Rev. Dr. Dean and family, this week. , port; C. W. Robb, Esq., and Mrs. C. W. ^.obb, of Pittsbnrg; Mr. B. F. Hartman, of jloomsburg; and Mr. Mehan, of DesMoines, THE LUMINARY^ pwa. AND * It was with much interest that we noticed ■nong the callers from our own town and WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED. jicinity, Mr. and Mrs. J. Roan Barr, who Celebrated their golden wedding last year. “ But time and space forbid a more extended AN HISTORIC VALLEY tice of this interesting occasion. The “ex- essions of compliment and congratulation, AND e festivities of this golden anniversary are Lovely Surroundings. iver, but we are sure will long be cherished S one of life’s pleasant episodes by the de- " ;hted celebrants.” A Brief Official History of the Williamsport, July 15, 1891. Painter, Esq. Borough. My Dear Sir : I regret that lack of time p id opportunity for the collection of requisite £3 OUE CHITBCHES. those who might come after them. From th time on the Moravians were frequent visitot to the valley. OTJE SCHOOLS. The flats in the vicinity of Muncy Creel (on a portion of which the town now stands, were first described to the Penns by Joh Chilloway, and his report so pleased ther OUB MANUFACTORIES. that they straightway gave orders to have Manor laid out, which they called Munc) The words, “Job’s Discovery,” were writte Biographical Sketches of the on the first draft. The Manor contained 1,61 First Subscribers to the Lu¬ acres, and on it John Scudder soon afterward minary, Now Living. \ squatted and built a house. As early as 176 Dennis Mullin made an improvement near th mouth of Glade Run, but settlers did not begii INTERESTING CONTRIBUTIONS to come in rapidly until 1768 and 1769 Relating to Persons and Events in our Many law suits followed on account of thi Early History. claims of squatters, but the Proprietarie generally triumphed. Good old Job Chillo way, the Indian discoverer, always remainei Williamsport, July 30.—The Luminary true to the Moravian faith and died Septem will be fifty years old to-morrow. Half a ber 22, 1791, near Detroit. He was a frieqi : century. What changes in political, fcivil and of the whites and saved the scalp of many 1 I military affairs it has witnessed since 1841, the settler from the knife of the savage. year it was founded. One of the most re¬ Later on came the Connecticut settlers fro:|i markable features in its history, however, is Wyoming, but the doughty Colonel Plunke/t the fact that it has always remained under the came up from with a militar control of the family that founded it. The force and drove them away. This was in tht two brothers retired years ago, it is true, but a autumn of 1775. Soon after this the brave son of one of them conducts the paper to-day Captain John Brady built his log fort on the and steadily maintains the reputation it long Manor and brought his family there “to since established for reliability, dignity,honesty permanently settle,” but the bullet of a red of political purpose and fidelity to its party. assassin laid him low in 1779, while home on Since 1850 I have been almost a steady a visit from the Revolutionary army. A reader of the Luminary, and have admired it marble tablet marks his grave in Hall’s Ceme¬ for its consistency. So far as I am aware it tery and a stately Cenotaph in the Cemetery has always avoided what is known as the at Muncy keeps his name and fame fresh in sensational style of journalism, and never the minds of the people. swerved from the right “that thrift might fol¬ low fawning.”. It always had fixed principles and dared maintain them. Its record, there¬ bury. When the borough was incorporat fore, is one that it has reason to be proud of. in 1826 it was named Pennsborough, in hon May it continue in the same course till it of the Penns, but it was changed the sub: rounds off the century. quent year by act of assembly to its prese After all, fifty years is but a span in the name. This was done out of respect, we su scale of human existence. More than a hun¬ pose, to the Monsey Indians, a tribe or cl; dred years before the Luminary was founded that once dwelt in the valley. Bald Eag white men trod this beautiful valley and ad- was their chief and his name is perpetuated : 1 mired its picturesque scenery and magnificent a beautiful mountain which extends from o< mountain surroundings. As early as 1738 posite the town to where his cabin stood ne,, Conrad Weiser, the famous guide and inter¬ Milesburg, Centre county. In after years th preter, passed up the valley on his way to the chief, when old and feeble, was cruel headquarters of the Six Nations, where Syra¬ murdered on the river below Wheelir, cuse now stands, and he was the first man to by a white man. The remnant of his tril tell us of the prehistoric ruins which he beheld found refuge in Indiana, but the last one 0 near the mouth of Muncy Creek. Next came the race has long since perished. The towi that great evangelist of peace, David Zeisber- of Muncie, however, perpetuates their nami in that State. ger, in 1745, wh° tells us that when he cross¬ ed Muncy Creek he found half a deer which The valley of Muncy is one of the richesl -d been left behind by the Indians for and loveliest in the State. Its surroundin

'■ 5” .V ■■ * -r: was likely to become chargeable,” to the are of such a character as to deeply impress newly organized borough. all strangers, and they never tire of gazing on j At an election held at the “Town House,” its beauties, and find language inadequate to March 16, 1827, of which David Lloyd and describe its glories. Lovely cottages, with James Craig were Judges; James Turner, In¬ evergreen surroundings, dot the plain, and the spector, and Henry Wiser and James Hender¬ stately houses of the thrifty agriculturist at¬ son, Clerks, the following offic ers were elected: tract the attention of all. The borough, now j Burgess—James Boal. sixty-five years old, is growing handsomer Town Council—Jacob Pott, Francis Mc¬ with age, and its well shaded streets add to its Fall, Wm. Cox Ellis, John Wendle, Joseph beauty. Its people are noted for their intel¬ Frederick, Amos Heacock. High Constable—Nicholas Merrill. ligence and hospitality, and are justly proud Constable—William Bigger. of their cozy homes and their magnificent Supervisors —Benjamin S. M’Carty, Jacob Normal School building. ; Cooke. May the Luminary continue to prosper Poor Overseers—William Pidcock, Thos. j Van Buskirk. and grow in strength, and when the next fifty This Council seems to have had quite a years roll away, may it still be found under time in “getting themselves together.” We the control of a descendant of its founders. find that they met, March 19,1827, and elect¬ John of Lancaster. ed William Quinn, Treasurer, and James BRIEF HIS TOR Y OF MUNCY. Henderson, Clerk, after which a quorum was hard to get, and it was not until Burgess Boal BY D. B. DYKINS, ESQ. issued his “Summons,” May 26, 1827, that the Council did any business. They distin¬ Benjamin McCarty about the year 1800 laid guished themselves, however, at their first out what is now Muncy borough, on the Mun¬ meeting, by passing ordinance No. I, which cy Manor and called it Pennsborough, in hon¬ forbids hogs to run at large. or of William Penn. The town was incorpo¬ rated under the latter name by Act of Assem¬ The following is a copy of the list of voters bly, approved March 15, 1826. Subsequently, at the election held, March 16, 1827: January 16, 1827, the name was changed to Benj. S. McCarty, Dr. Thos. Wood, Muncy borough. The first election was held Andrew McCarty, Tames Boal, at the old Brick School House, at corner of John P. Schuyler, Dr. Geo. Wood, John Reibsam, Jr. Wm. Bigger, ; Main and New Streets, Thursday, June 15, I James White, Ezekial Walton, 1 1826, pursuant “to an agreement of the ma¬ Jacob Rooker, William Quinn, jority of the inhabitants of said borough, un¬ John Uhl, William Edwards, Joseph Bishop, der their hands and seals, in conformity to Thos. VanBuskirk, Francis McFall, Samuel Shoemaker, the act of incorporation.” The officers of Thomas Colt, Peter Michael, that election were : Judge, John P. Schuyler; Jacob Pott, James Turner, Inspector, Samuel Shoemaker; Clerk, John Peter Wendle, Chas. Lebo, Henry Wiser, Reibsam, and their return shows that James George Dellass, William Michael, Nicholas Merrill, Boal *;as elected Burgess ; Francis McFall, John Pott. James Henderson, Benj. S. McCarty, Isaac Bruner, Thos. Colt John Bruin,., James Rankin, and Jacob Pott, Town Council, Eli Russel, Eli Russel, John Holler, James Bishop, Wm. A. Petrikin, High Constable. Amos Heacock, David Lloyd, Samuel Edwards, The Borough government thus organized Simon Schuyler, John Wendle, John Fogleman, simply set the machinery in motion, for be¬ Peter Reibsam, Isaac Bruner, yond the election df John P. Schuyler, and John Hufer, Joshua Bowman, Samuel Shoemaker as Poor Overseers, De- George Lebo, Philip Reibsam, James Craig, Joseph Frederick, cember 12,1826, this Council, so far the Peter Beeber, Conrad Frederick, records show# met no business, me newiy Jacob Hackenberg, William McCarty, John Reibsam, 5 elected Poor Overseers, however, at once be¬ Philip Reibsam, Elijah Smith, James P. Howland, gan to exercise the authority of their office by promptly removing one Sarah Welden to Lan¬ The first assessed valuation of the Borough caster. This was the first case under the juris- was that of 1827, and aggregated $14,500, i • diction of the Poor authorities of the borough the rate of taxation that year being 5 mills, —and it is worthy of note that the poor un¬ and the levy $72.50 for Borough purposes. fortunate Sarah was not “actually” a pauper, The assessed Valuation for the year 1891 is but by Wm. Chamberlin and Benj. Warner, slightly in excess of $500,000, and there are Esquires, two of the Justices of the Peace, in several individuals who pay a tax upon a larg¬ 1 and for said County it was adjudged that “she er valuation than the entire assessment for 1827. 24 V

* he first list of taxables is as follows: Alder, Wm. J. Michael, William The following is a list of Burg Busldrk, Thos. Jr. McCarty, Chas. each year from 1826 to present times Bruner, Isaac Michael, Peter 1826, James Boal. Beeber, Peter Merrill, Elizabeth 1827, James Boal. Bigger, William Merrill, Nicholas 1828, James Boal. Boal, James McKinney, John 1829, James Boal. Buskirk, Thomas McFall, Francis 1830, William A. Petrikin. Bishop, James McCarty, John 1831, James Boal. Bruner, Solomon Neel, Margaret 1832, Simon Schuyler. Bower,- Petrikin, Wm. A. 1833, Simon Schuyler. Brindle Heirs, Petrikin & Bowman 1834, Joseph Gudykunst. Colt, Thomas Pott, John 1835, Simon Schuyler. Crouse, John J. Pott, Jacob 1836, David Lloyd. Craig, James Pidcock, Wm. 1837, David Lloyd. Chilcot, Rachel Philipu, Daniel 1838, David Lloyd. Doctor Henry, Patterson, Aaron 1839, David Lloyd. Ellis, Wm. Cox Quinn, William 1840, Jacob Cooke. Edwards, Samuel Rizener, Samuel 1841, Jacob Cooke. Edwards, William Rooker, Jacob 1842, Jacob Bruner. Edwards, Able Reibsam, Philip 1843, Jacob Bruner. Frederick, Conrad Reibsam, Lewis 1844, Joshua Bowman. Fletcher, James Russel, Eli 1845, EnosHawley. Frederick, Joseph Reibsam, John 1846, Samuel Shoemaker. Fahnestock, Henry Rothrick, Henry, 1847, Samuel Shoemaker. Galer, George Reibsam, Peter 1848, Samuel Shoemaker. Grange, William Rush, William 1849, Samuel Shoemaker. Grange, Thomas Rankin, Jas. 1850, Baker Langcake. Hall, Thomas Ross, Margaret 1851, Samuel Shoemaker, Huckle, John Shoemaker, Samuel 1852, Wm. P. L Painter, Harlan, Joshua Schuyler, John P. *853. Wm. P. I. Painter. Holler, John Turner, James 1854, Jacob Cooke. Hackenburg, Jacob Treon, Dr. Geo. 1855, Robert Wilson. Hawley, Enos Taylor, Abraham 1856, Robert Wilson. Hass, George De Uhl, John 1857, John Burrows. Henderson, James Weiser, Henry 1858, John Burrows. Haines, Barbara Walton, Isaac 1859, J°hn Burrows. Heacock, Amos Wendle, John 1860, E. M. Green. Hitesman, George Wood, Thomas 1861, E. M. Green. Jones, Benj. Wood, Grissel 1862, E. M. Green. Johnson, Lewis Walton, Ezekial 1863, E. M. Green. Lebo, Chas. Wood, Dr. Geo. 1864, E. M. Green. Lloyd, David Whitmoyer, Geo. 1865, Daniel Clapp. Lebo, Benj. White, James 1866, Benj. S. MerrilL Moyer, Jacob Wallis, Samuel 1867, Benj. S. Merrill. McCarty, Mary Wood, Henry 1868, O. A. McCarty. McCarty, Silas Yoxthimer, Jacob 1869, John M. Bowman, McCarty, B. S. 1870, Thomas G. Down nfr. “SINGLE FREEMAN.’ 1871, William Cox Ellis. ° Beeber, Isaac Hurlocker, Jacob 1872, Chas. A. Bowers. j Bruner, John Lebo, Geo. 1873, Geo. L, I, Painter, 1874, B. Dykens. 4i , Bishop, Joseph Michael, Peter 1875, L, E. Schuyler. Erwine, William Reibsam, John, Jr. 1876, Adam Rankin, Frederick, Thomas Reibsam, Philip, Jr. 1877, Adam Rankin. Fogleman, John Reibsam, William 1878, John DeHass, Fahnestock, Abner Whitmoyer, Christian 1879, John DeHass. The above lists give, as near as it is possi¬ 1880, A. W. Tallman. ble to obtain them, the names of residents of 1881, A. W. Tallman. Muncy at the time of the organization of the 1882, A. W. Tallman. 1883, W. E. Mohr. Borough. The names are those of the pio¬ 1884, W. E. Mohr. neers of this Valley, Some of them fought in 1885, S. E. Sprout the Revolution—some of them in the war of 1886, Baker L. Bowman. 1812 and all of them were patriots. Their de¬ 1887, A. H. Gudykunst 1888, Baker L. Bowman. scendants are yet the prominent men of this 1889, Baker L. Bowman. place and neighborhood—many of them have 1890, Lewis S, Smith. gone into other States and have proved them¬ ^891, George L Painter. selves “worthy sons of worthy sires.” Every At the regular election held March 18th, battle field upon which the Stars and Stripes 1831, Gen. William A. Petrikin was certified, have been unfurled has been enriched by the as elected to the office of Burgess, but the blood of the descendants of those heroic men. election was set aside because “the officers holding the election were not sworn, before proceeding to Business, and that nine persons ! John P. Schuyler, March 15, 1S43. William Michael, December 14, 1844. were elected for town Council, whereas the John Whitlock, May 1, 1849. advertisement calling on the citizens to elect William Michael, July 11, 1857. Borough officers directs them to elect but seven Enos Hawley, July 9, 1861. persons for that office.” A special election PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. was ordered for April i ith following, at which Enos Hawley, April 5, 1869. James Boal was chosen. G, L. I. Painter, March 12, 1873. James H. Fulmer, December 5, 1885. Dec. 12th, 1853, it was decided by the j W E. Mohr, February 29, 1890. Court of Quarter Sessions (No. 29, December Gen. William A. Petrikin held the office Sessions, 1853,) “that the Borough of Muncy for about nineteen years, the longest of any shall become subject to the restrictions and one of the appointees. Mr. Painter comes next possess the powers conferred by the act, en¬ with nearly thirteen years. Enos Hawley, as a titled, an act regulating Boroughs, passed : close third, held the appointment nearly twelve April 3d, A. D., 1851, and the provisions of years. the former chaiter are hereby cancelled so far as they conflict with the act of April 3d, 1851.” Under the act of April 4th 1803, the County This act provided for five Councilmen, but no Commissioners were required to lay out the change was made, and nine Councilmen were county into suitable districts for the appoint¬ annually elected, until the Court, Jan. 12th, ment of a competent number of justices of the 1869, ordered and decreed “That five persons, peace. Lycoming county was, by said act, inhabitants and citizens of said Borough, shall limited to six districts. lie elected at the next borough election for Samuel Shoemaker was appointed one of said Borough, as and for the Town Council; the Justices of the Peace for the Second dis¬ one person as Burgess thereof and all other trict, composed of the townships of Muncy corporate elective officers mentioned in tho Creek, Moreland and part of Washington, general law of April 1st, A. D., 1834, and of May 1st, 1821. At some later date the Second April 3d, A. D., 1851, and to be elected an¬ district was changed to include Penn, Frank¬ nually thereafter.” lin, Davidson and Cherry townships, and By act of June 2d, 1871, the number of Simon Schuyler was appointed an additional members of the Town Council of all Boroughs Justice May 17th, 1827, and John Johnson, was changed to six, and it was provided that January 8th, 1S35. the “several courts of the Commonwealth” The Borough records show that Samuel may upon application * * * * fix or Shoemaker and Simon Schuyler were Justices change the charter of any Borough so as to of the Peace in 1829, and that they both re¬ authorize the Burgess or chief executive officer mained in office from that time until after the thereof to serve as a member of the Town first election for justices in 1840. Council, with full powers as such, and to The act of June 21st, 1839, provided for preside at the meetings thereof.” No such the election of justices of the peace—two for application has ever been made by Muncy each township, borough, &c., and the records Borough, and hence the Burgess is not a show the following persons to have been com¬ member of the Council and cannot preside missioned for Muncy borough upon the dates over its deliberations—remains a sort of set opposite their respective names:

“figure head.” Ornamental on “dress parade” David Lloyd, May II, 1840. but useless in action. John J. Crouse, May 11, 1840. David Lloyd, March 18, 1845. I No record of a post office at Muncy prior Simon Schuyler, March 18, 1845. I to 1800 exists at Washington, but it is proba- Simon Schuyler, March 12, 1850. I ble that there was an office here previous to John J. Crouse, March 12, 1850. W. P. I. Painter, March 13, 1855. that time, and that the records were destroyed Jacob Pott, March 13, 1855. 1 when the British burned the Capital, Aug. W. P. I. Painter, March 13, i860. j 24th, 1814, as there was a large settlement Simon Schuyler, April 16, i860. long before that time. W. P. I. Painter, April 5, 1865. December 31, 1868. The appointment of postmasters at Muncy, Simon Schuyler, April 5, 1865. with date of Commissions, are as follows: Adam Rankin, March 24, 1869. Henry Shoemaker, April 1, 1800. Simon Schuyler, March 7, 1870. Resigned James Boal, January 13, 1803. March 1, 1872. John Brindle, January n, 1815. A. B. Putnam, March 12, 1872. Abraham Taylor, December 28, 1816. John J. Crouse, March 24, 1874, £ William Pidcock, February 22, 1817. Joseph Shoemaker, April 5, 1877. si: George Frederick, Jr., December 4,1819. D. B. Dykjns, September 1, 1879. Ap¬ William A. Petrikin, March 20, 1822. pointed vice John J. Crouse, deceased. D. B. Dykins, March 30, 1880. m§(1 Cowden "S. Wallis,r December ' 22,~ 1840 26

excess of twenty-three men above cphcpn bnoemaKer,Shoemakfer, /\pruApril iu,io, 1882.* quota at that time. jJ. B. Dykins, Aj>ril 18, 1885. Joseph Shoemaker, April 14, 1887. The borough received credit for sixteen D. B. Dykins, April 15, 1890. men furnished and mustered in during the year 1863; thirty-four in 1864. Making a The only material addition to the territory total of one hundred and thirty-three men w ithin the borough limits since the act of in¬ actually mustered into the service from Mjuncy corporation was by act of assembly in 18531 borough, and none of them for less than nine when the northern line was extended from months. In 1865, prior to the close of the the southern line of the lot now occupied by war, sixteen were furnished, few if any ot Henry V. Peterman, on Main street, to its them, however, performing any service. Thus present location, and, embracing the addition ; it will be seen the borough of Muncy, with a laid out by H. Noble, and known as Noble- total population of 1055, in i860, furnished town. An ordinance was passed in 1869 to one hundred and forty-nine men to the Union . extend the lines to the river on the west, army, exclusive of the three months’ volun¬ Muncy creek on the north, the Manor line on teers and the emergency men. This is a the east, and to Muster’s lane on the south; record of which we may well be proud. also an ordinance in ^876 to extend the lines They faithfully served and nobly did their eastward to the Manor line, and to straighten duty in every army of the Union. Some of the northern line so as to include all of Me¬ them died upon every battlefield and in every chanic street or “ LoVely Lane” ; but both of Confederate prison pen—they assisted in es¬ the proposed addition; failed to receive the tablishing the principle that man is fit to gov¬ approval of the Grand Jury and were, there¬ ern himself—they were among those who fore, inoperative. struck the shackles from four millions of The result is that towns have grown up to slaves, putting an end forever to that festering the east of us and to the west of us—that ag¬ curse human slavery. They did heroic ser- i gregate as great a population as the borough vice in demonstrating that this nation “is one j itself—that are practically a part of the town. and indivisible,” and made our present great- • Considering these facts our growth has been ness possible. Those who survive are among healthy and steady. are most respected citizens—they are rapidly j Population in 1840, 662 passing away, and soon the great struggle will “ in 1850, 901 be but an episode of history; but the Union in i860, 1055 they saved will endure, let us hope, forever. (i in 1870, 1070 Our citizens—with scarcely an exception— I << in 1880, 1174 « in 1890, 1310 stood unconditionally by the Government in ; its struggle for existence; true, there were a This brief and imperfect sketch of the offi¬ few men here who lost their spirit of patriot-, cial history of our borough would not be com¬ ism, sunk their manhood, and seemed anxious j plete without some reference to the part taken to obtain a notoriety as infamous as Benedict 1 by our citizens in the great struggle for the Arnold; but they were very few indeed, and j preservation of national unity and the uphold- Muncy borough blazed with patriotic enthu- j Sing of constitutional liberty in 1861-5. An siasm from the time that Fort Sumpter was; attempt was made to obtain the names of all fired upon until the supremacy of the Gov-1 those who went out from Muncy borough ernment was established from the Lakes to I during the five years of the war; but that was the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.1 abandoned as well nigh, if not altogether, impossible, as no continuous record had been SOME REFLECTIONS * kept, and to have published the names obtain¬ ON THEN AND NOW. able would have been Something of an in¬ 1841-1891. justice to those who did not appear. We have been able, however, to gather some BY J. M. M. GERNERD. figures that speak most eloquently of the patriotism of our Muncy boys. When The personal recollections of the writer do the first draft was ordered in 1862 it not quite commence with the advent of the was officially determined that Muncy bor¬ Luminary. But it was soon after that he had put eighty-three men in the ser¬ learned his A B C’s under CaJc. Thomas vice, all for three years (three months’ men, Lloyd, who taught in the old brick school and emergency men, regulars, teamsters, gunboat meeting house that stood on the corner of New men, and men in regiments from other States and Main streets, and he can, therefore, recall ere always omitted from the credit of the a few things of that era, besides what he has ;alittrict in which they resided) and had an heard the old folks relate. The most vivid o.j

‘ ' his early recollections is the way he was pun¬ gaged in this pastime. On one occasion we ished to make him behave. To economize remember he sent John Harp, eldest son of heat a large sheet-iron drum was attached to the brewer, Godfrey Harp, out to cut a few the big old-fashioned ten-plate stove that choice switches, and how that irrepressible warmed the room in winter. The captain humorist, an hour or so later, entered the made me stand on the drum—it was not hot school room and delighted the old gentleman —under the eyes of the whole school until I with as large an arm load of rods as he could resolved to be good. The punishment was carry. We remember also how boldly John not painful, but it was humiliating and ef¬ sometimes set the whole school into a roar of fective. laughter by his droll speeches. The ’squire My next term was in the new Central school one day told him to behave or he would shake house, probably then the most handsome struc¬ him out ofhis boots. “ But you can’t,” said ture of the kind in the county. The desks John, “I have on my shoes.” Poor John! He and all the wood facings of the room were j caught the “gold fever” and started with a beautifully grained, polished and varnished, company of adventurers across the continent and few of the scholars had homes that could for California in 1852, but on the way he fell at all compare with it. Mr. Blank, the teacher, a victim to a still worse fever and was buried chastised his refractory subjects with excep¬ on the great plains on this side of the Rocky tional severity. He one day took me by the mountains. Esquire A. B. Putnam did not feet and savagely bumped my head on the spare the rod either in those days. We re¬ hard floor. William Childs, a pupil, a strong, member how he once had nearly the whole deep-chested fellow, who had just served an school in limp, and because he could not find apprenticeship at the shoemaking trade, could out who had perpetrated the mischief that in¬ not bear to see such a painful spectacle, censed him he flogged the entire rank to make jumped up from his seat, pulled off his coar, sure of punishing the right ones. To the best and commanded the teacher to desist instantly, of my recollection I was not one of the of¬ declaring he would thrash him at once if he fenders that time, though the licking may did not The teacher quickly and gently have been due me on an account not yet bal¬ placed me on the floor head up, and I always anced. after that thought William Childs was one of There may be times when force and physi¬ the grandest men that lived. I would have cal chastisement are necessary, especially in wagered that he could whip any man in Ly¬ the case of such subjects as the schools of coming county. Muncy and neighborhood were composed of Then most, if not all, teachers believed that Then, but instances of this kind are far more the rod could not be dispensed with in the rare than has been supposed. Various other school room, and it was a thing of daily ap¬ punishments, and rewards, can be effectively plication. Perhaps it really was more of a employed, to induce pupils to conduct them¬ necessity Then. School government was not selves properly, and this is demonstrated by then studied and understood, nor made a part the fact that many of our most successful of a teacher’s qualifications, in the sense that teachers Now hardly think of using the rod. it is Now required, and, therefore the rod was They rely on the good sense and better nature always kept in sight and often and freely of their pupils. used to make pupils respect the commands of We imagine that there was an excitement the sovereign of the school room. We well in flogging that the boys Then sometimes remember how Lewis P. Reeder used to craved. Their backs, at times, just seemed give us frequent lectures on the respective “to itch for a whipping.” Perhaps this was merits of birch, hickory and sassafras, and one ef the early and milder manifestations of how beneficial and necessary he considered the combative and pugnacious spirit of the that the application of such sprouts were age. The twin habit of drinking and fighting to the calves and larger muscles of un¬ I Then so common among men must have had ruly boys. Esquire Samuel Shoemaker, ' a bad reflex or sympathetic effect on the boys. the younger brother of Henry, our first Little musters, big musters, election days, po¬ postmaster, was always well supplied with litical meetings, Fourth of July celebrations, the longest of rods, and he appeared at and other occasions, were largely public times to take a positive pleasure in using drinking and fighting days. Fist fights among them, In fact some of the boys seemed to a large class of citizens were about as com¬ rather enjoy a whipping now and then, espe¬ mon as dog fights, and were also about as cially if they could have the satisfaction of natural. Mr. Lloyd McCarty says that when seeing some of the other boys thrashed. The he was a boy he used to crawl to the edge of ’squire was in such dead earnest when he en¬ | the roof of the long shed that then stood on Before the construction of the canal many car¬ the ground now occupied by the First Na¬ goes of whisky were shipped down the Sus¬ tional Bank and the adjoining buildings, and quehanna to eastern markets. Lloyd McCarty, witness the gladiators pound each other in when a boy, once went along with a flotilla the street below. He saw as many as three of four arks that carried a consignment of or four fights in progress at once, each set of 1,200 barrels of whisky. Combatants having a ring of men around About the time that the Luninary was es¬ them to see fair play and urge on the barbar¬ tablished there were thirteen distilleries in ous engagements. this end of the county, and our valley had be- t We merely speak of the drinking and fight¬ come noted for its production of whisky. The ing custom to show what influence the boys capacity of a number of these stills was 40 and 1 fifty years and more ago were under. It is j 50 bushels of grain per day, and the combined | not strange that they were somewhat rougher ' capacity was between 400 and 500 bushels. than the boys are Now, and that flogging in j The daily output of whisky in Muncy valley school was Then so common and so seemingly was, therefore, from 1,200 to 1,500 gallons. requisite. And the combative spirit did not The bulk of this was shipped to Baltimore alone show itself in fist fights, and in the per- and Philadelphia, and we have been told that tuberations and castigations of the school it was no uncommon sight to see a fleet of five room. It was often elsewhere manifest in to six arks freighted with whisky and grain society. It showed itself in the Buckshot start down the river on a summer morning. War, the Whisky Insurrection, and in frequent But a large portion of the fiery fluid manu¬ 'mutinies. If we had time and space we factured was consumed in the neighborhood. might also show how it was often displayed It was Then regarded as one of the necessaries in political campaigns, and how it even of life, and there were few who did not use it. From time to time broke out in religious Besi des its free use on public days, as already circles. But let us not boast of the little im-1 t ! stated, it was also always had in flowing provement that may have been made in this abundance at house and barn raisings, at log¬ respect. Men Now are yet far from being ging and chopping bees, mowing and harvest¬ thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the Pat¬ ing bees, and husking and other bees. It was tern Man of Nazareth, who bade them all to in fact on all occasions, even at the solemn love and be just to each other. Much mig’ •; funeral, a common beverage. The family \ also be said of the “brotherly love” in which that did not set out the bottle before the vis¬ the early settlers dwelt together, and how they itor was regarded as lacking in hospitality, j delighted to help and visit each other, and of Even the pious parson, when he made his 1 their general honesty and simplicity; but they were also human, very human, and some were pastoral calls, was glad to “take a little” just | to refresh him. far worse than others. It can still be shown how freely whisky was The settlers very early began to erect dis¬ imbibed here where it was so extensively tilleries, and long before the era of the Lumi¬ manufactured. On tearing down an old nary the manufacture of liquor had become building above Hughesville quite recently a 1 an important industry in our valley. There single leaf of Grundy Lyon’s day book (dated j were many of these primitive extractors o. February, 1830,) was found behind the plas- I spirit from corn, rye, apples, peaches, etc., the tering. The charges for whisky show how i very sites of the greater part of which are now unrestrainedly the beverage was used by the forgotten. There was one on the Davis (now people sixty years ago. There were nearly 'J Stolz) farm in Clinton township. One erected one hundred charges for the drink made in j : by John Montgomery stood near where his thirteen days on these two pages of the book, son Robert in later years pursued the same and the quantity sold averaged aboul six 1 occupation. Another was on the old State quarts to each purchaser. This was an im- j road to Milton, on the Dimm farm, near the mense retail business for only one concern, at [ 1 county line. A fourth was on what is now a time when the whole connty—then much ! ^ known as Musser’s lane, a short dis larger than now—had only 17,637 inhabit- ! > tance south of town. Jacob Shoemaker had ants, and when it was the custom of many (‘ one north of the creek, not far from the brick farmers to get a portion of their own grain i I distillery that his son Charles afterwards 1 made into whisky, and always to have one, '! erected on the south side. A sixth was oi two or more barrels, of different ages, in the the Ben Shoemaker place, near where the cellar. bold Brady fell. Another was at Pennsville, As the whisky in those days was so pure, and Robert Taylor, the pioneer of Rock Run, and as fighting was Then so common, it seems ’j had one. A list and full history of these pio¬ to us that pure whisky should also be called 1 neer establishments would be interesting now. will make vertised in the paper at that time, “o? ! men boozy about as quickly as drugged liquor. every thing usually kept in a country store, The tippler might not be a week in getting consisting of hardware, school books, milli¬ sober, but he was ready to tipple and get nery goods, pitch, tar, turpentine an d lumber.” drunk again so much sooner. He might no. Of these merchants none are 1 iving but Mr. J. (get the delerium tremens, but he could “trans Roan Barr, who is yet an active citizen of our form himself into a beast” all the same. Borough. Muncy, fifty years ago had several A great change has certainly taken plaCv. manufactories, but we find but four advertised l'he bottle has disappeared from the majority the first year of the Luminary’s issues. The of sideboards. Street and -room fighting Muncy Pottery, for the manufacturing of all seems to be slowly but surely becoming obso- kinds of crockery ware, was owned by Mr. ete. Our schools shoqj a marked improve¬ George Bechtel and was on the north side of ment in every respect. There are Now only the lot where Judge Painter’s residence now three small distilleries in the whole county, stands. A copper, brass and sheet-iron man¬ \nd their united capacity is only about twei ufactory was conducted by James White, in a y two bushels of grain per day. The popu- building which stood where Mr. Oscar Grange ation is four times greater than sixty years now has his shop. A hat manufactory is ad¬ ago, yet we have reason to believe that there vertised by John Keffer, successor to George is not one-half as much whisky consumed, DeHass, in a building south of the Episcopal .hough lager beer seems to have to some ex- church, adjoining the late Dr. James Rankins’ ent taken its place. Yet temperance advo¬ residence. A. & A. Dieffenbacher had a cates have reason to feel encouraged. Long manufactory where they turned out threshing before the Luminary will celebrate its one machines. This according to their advertise¬ hundredth anniversary may we not hope that ment “was on the road leading to Walton’s >ur valley will be forever rid of the curse of landing a short distance above the foundry.” um, and that none of the boys for whom we Isaac Bruner tells what can be found in his 'low build such elegant school houses, and drug store, and dwells largely on Brandeth’s |Pnpport the best of teachers, will become pills as a cure all, for every ill. "llrunkards and be wrecked by the “hot and Wm. A. Petrikin advertises 50 tons of ebellious” decoction of corn and rye! Genessee Plaster for sale. “Henry Johnson Attorney at Law having settled in Muncy COMPILED Borough tenders his professional services to

FROM THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE the public.” We are happy to state that he is still actively engaged in the same profession, flUNCY LUMIIAEY. with a fifty years experience to back it. I — A call is made in this year by James Ran¬ I BY MRS. M. J. LEVAN. kin President and Wm. A. Petrikin Secretary of the first annual meeting of the stockholders | Thinking many readers of the Luminary i of the Lycoming Mutual Insurance Company : ould be interested in knowing who advertis- | to elect thirteen directors. The Muncy Fe- f *n ^e paper at its start, and what was then jmale Seminary, of which James Rankin was presented, we have gleaned a few items also president, is advertised “as receiving mi its columns, principally the advertising Female Pupils, and with Miss Anna Wyn- lumns that occupied the greater part of the koop as principal they hope to give full satis¬ ,per, fifty years ago, and from the issue of faction.” The advertisement also states “that j’ril loth, 1841, give the prices current, that Muncy Borough is a beautifully situated place jre corrected weekly: Wheat, $1.00 per containing about six hundred inhabitants, the phel; Rye, 45c. per bushel; Corn, 40c. per society in which is as good as that of most shel; Oats, 33c.; Cloverseed, $4.00 per villages of its size.” shel; Flaxseed, $1.00; Butter 9c. per lb.; It was in the year 1841 that the building jgs, 6c. per dozen; Tallow, 12c. per pound, was erected where the late Jacob Sheridan jd Lard, 8c. Cowden S. Wallis was Post- had his shop, for John Flack advertises that jister at this time and advertised a list of he “has moved his tailor shop to his new rs quarterly, which consisted of from 60 building immediately opposite the Justice Of¬ 70 names, out of which we fail to find the fice of John J. Crouse.” That brick office is 'est number of persons still living—the now occupied by Hon. Henry Johnson as a cater portion having gone over to the ma¬ law office. ty* Joshua Bowman, Jacob Cooke and J. Hawley, Starr & Co. advertise a Boot, ■j& J. R. Barr were the merchants that ad¬ Shoe and Leather Store, in the building now Hr

^whecl by Mr. J. H. Rooker. The late Enos July temperance celebration, which was a •Hawley was a member of this firm. E. D. great event in our local history. Kittoe, M. D., publishes a “card to the public In 1841 the Lyceum was revived and run generally, stating that during the last winter with much enthusaism by the youn g men of he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine, this place, prominent among others the editors and ■ is fully prepared to practice his profes¬ of the Luminary, the late Morris Ellis and sion.” He also states “that he practices all Dr. Kittoe. branches of Dental Science, and could be We find under date of August 24th a call found at his office over the justice office of for a meeting of the citizens of Muncy and John J. Crouse, Esq., or at his residence on vicinity to attend an organization of a “Regu¬ the West side, North end of Main street.” lar Baptist Congregation, to be held in the This house is now the home of Mr. Thomas Presbyterian Meeting House.” A notice of Clapp, and the last house was that of Mr. Mr. John Flemming being appointed Post Eshbach’s, consequently all north of that were Master of Black Hole, this county, in room oli fields, not even laid out in town lots fifty years I Hugh Donley, Esq.; this occurred Augusl 14th, 1841, and we hope that August 14th, ag°- Dr. Robert H. Watson occupied consider¬ 1891, found no black holes in Lycoming able advertising space at this time and “offers county. Fifty years ago accidents were not unquestionable testimonials of his qualifica¬ so numerous as at the present, owing of tions as a physcian.” course, to the less number of inhabitants and The great pride of our borough were her not so many newspaper reporters, but under military companies, of which she had several. date of August 21st, 1841, we find a thrilling The Muncy Volunteer Battalion had for its account of the burning of the steamboat Major Thomas Wood, and J. Russel Barr “Erie,” on the Lake and two hundred lives Adjutant. The Muncy Dragoons are com¬ were lost, twenty six of which belonged to manded to meet fully equipped for parade and Erie, among those Mr. Philip Dimm, brother drill by F. W. Robb 1st Sargent, who some¬ of our townsman, Mr. John Dimm. The time afterwards was elected Major, which Luminary says, “Mr. Dimm was a young title he still preserves among his Penn sylvania man possessed of fine abilities, was raised and friends. Major Robb is now a resident of the acquired a mechanical trade in Muncy, and State of Nebraska. The Muncy Guards were two years ago went to Erie where he joined another company, and the Muncy Rifle Com¬ the ‘Presque Isle Brass Band,’ and at the time pany were under the charge of Capt. James of the accident were entertaining the passeng¬ B. Doctor. On July 6th, 1842, Wm. A. ers with their music. The accident was caused Petrikin was elected Major-General of the 9th by the explosion of a demijohn of turpentine Division of Penna. Militia. left by some painters near the boiler deck.” During 1841 Henry B. Weaver published Under date of July 24th is printed a very an application for a license to keep a public interesting account of John Wise’s voyage in Inn or Tavern in the house known as the a balloon, written by himself. It was his 30th Union Hotel, (now Watts) and of thirteen ascension, and made from Williamsport anc persons who signed this application none are landed in White Deer Valley in front of Mr living but Mr. Baker Langcake now in his Deeter’s house, considerably frightening twc eighty-ninth year. Mr. John P. Schuyler ap¬ women, who were the only inmates, but hi plies for a license to keep the American Hotel sacceeded in convincing them he was not ai on South Main street, and not one of the evil spirit, and they went out and collects thirteen who signed his application are living. the neighbors to gaze upon the wonder. H John Shaffer applies for a license to keep the was given his supper by Mrs. Shaffer, one c Franklin Hotel, (now Crawford,) and out of the neighbors, but fails to say how he got bad fourteen names attached to this but two per¬ to the city of Williamsport, but he returned i sons are yet living, they are Wm. Brindle and the evening of the day he made the ascension George Gowers. Peter Kelchner kept the old The Muncy Luminary of ’41 containe Petrikin stand, and Wm. Quinn the Washing- no local column as at the present time, an ington Hotel, but in 1842 the latter was run hence we gleaned from advertisements wh< as a temperance house by Elias Benner. little we could to make “old things beeoir During this year Father Matthew caused a new.” great revival in the temperance cause and Muncy felt the benefit of it. Many persons Our Oldest Resident. signed the pledge, and we had temperance .societies, temperance meetings, and a 4th of Miss Ann Phillips, who resides wifi __ ~ i~i»i«V i.Hki G ~t_ Jrs. Fleming Wilson, on East Penn St., The Muncy Telegraph first” made its" s the oldest person in Muncy Borough, appearance in the Autumn of 1831. It. md probably in the lower end of the was published every Tuesday, Judging wunty. She is 95 years of age. Miss from the files that we are so fortunate as It’hillips has all her faculties unimpaired, to possess, it was printed on good paper is a great reader, and by the way d iscard- and the typography is excellent. The iijid spectacles some years ago. size of the sheet is 13x21 folio, each page J Between nicety-three and ninety-four contains five columns-twenty in all. years ago, the father and mother of Miss The first page contains nothing but Phillips was passing along the road, the advertisements. The second is devoted mother carrying the child then less than to politics, reports of conventions and two years old—all their possessions were proceedings of Congress. The third con¬ tied upon the back of a cow they were tains the local news, editor’s chair, mar¬ driving before them. They stopped for riages, deaths, reports of markets, and a brief rest with the grandfather of Flem¬ local advertisements. The last page is ing Wilson, dec’d., then a citizen of War¬ devoted entirely to poetry, select tales rior Run, Northumberland county, and and extracts from other newspapers. when they started on they had left their This is a very excellent arrangement as little girl baby to become a member of all must admit. the Wiison family. Ever since that time Its founder was J. Potter Patterson. she has resided with some descendant of Few objects have greater interest for the man who first gave her a home, serv¬ the antiquarian than the files of old news¬ ing each generation with fidility and papers, especially local ones like the loyalty that was remarkable, and now in Telegraph. To the historian they are her old age, she is as kindly cared for by simply invaluable. The truest index to Mrs Wilson as she would be if she were the public and domestic character of a a blood relation. people are found there. How unfortunate then, so few people in the past have —Samuel Keagle, a well known citizen thought them worthy of preservation. of Muncy Creek township, died very sud¬ In turning the files of this sixty year old denly, Friday of last week, at his resi¬ newspaper we are filled with a feeling of dence in Clarkstown, of appoplexy. He deep reverence for the past, and its peo¬ leaves a wife but no children. Mr. Kea¬ ple. Here are depicted in vivid colors, gle served throughout the entire war as the trials, joys and sorrows of our fathers, a member of Company B., 8th Penna. the tea table talk of our mothers. How Cavalry, and received a pension for many firesides have echoed with the wounds received in battle. He had a mili¬ laughter and lamentations of old and tary record of which any man might be gone generations based upon the informa¬ proud, and the present generation should tion imparted by these old yellow papers. not forget that the blessings of peace and We are sorry that space will not admit prosperity we now enjoy are due to the our making some most interesting ex¬ patriotism and valor of such men as Ser¬ tracts at this time. We trust at some geant Keagle, who met and overcame the future time we will be able to do so. greatest ribellion the world evir saw. Sixty years ago, when Muncy was only THE MUNCY TELEGRAPH. a struggling village, although already incorporated into the dignity of a bor¬ ITS EDITORS. ough, a young man scarcely out of his 9 “teens” decided, after much tribulation,

BY DR. GEORGE G. WOOD. to start a newspaper. He tells us him¬ self of the anxious consultations among his friends before reaching a decision. We can probably make choice of no Some encouraged the enterprise, and more appropriate theme in the com¬ others predicted disaster. He called it memoration of the fiftieth milestone in The Muncy Telegraph. The name of the the life of the Munct Luminary, than young man was James Potter Patterson. give some account of its predecessor. The He was a native of Juniata County, Muncy Telegraph and its editors for the region from which many other resit'en ten years it lived. lows: “On Friday the 16th o of Muncy hud come, so that lie Was., not 1833, were called from a transitory an entire stranger to the citizens. He t nce in this world of pain and trouble, to was a descendant we believe of Captain | life eternal in the realms of peace and hap-1 William Patterson, of Tuscaroa Valley, piness, Hannah and Mary, twin children who commanded the White Men in the of the E ditor of the Telegraph " So pass- battle of Muncy Hills, which took place ed from him the joys of a parent in watch¬ in September 1763. He was a namesake ing the growth and development of his and probably a descendant of General offspring at one fell swoop. The blow to James Potter of revolutionary memory,: e* bis sensitive and fragile frame was severe. who passed his later years as a resident e His friends always insisted that his mor-1>- of Centre County. The prospectus of the t*l enemy, consumption, now first gain- p^per is unfortunately lost to us. We ed a lodgement in bis system. only gather that he intended it to be neu¬ Mr. Patterson was not only a newspa¬ tral in politics. A very difficult matter,! per editor, in the common acceptation of as he subsequently found, for he soon that term, bat also a literary character. h changed his mind and supported the Dem¬ He wrote articles that would do credit to ocratic-Whig party. This stand brought more famous names. He was also a poet; down upon him the denunciations of the many short pieces are scattered through¬ eiuucratic leaders, and charges of brok¬ out the file, under the non de plume of en faith. Many subscribers asked that '■Nosrettap,”Patterson spelled backward the Telegraph be stopped. Gen. Anthony, We are sorry that our space will not ad ” then in Congress, and Gen. Petrikin, in mit giving specimens of his verse. • the Legislature, hitherto strong support- After conducting the Telegraph with L ers turned against him. But our young success for lour short years Ill health over¬ p editor stood to his guns brave’y, and out- took him. He only lived to commence . j lived the battle. He now declared the the fifth volume. “Consumption had like Telegraph should be, if dot neutral, inde¬ a secret foe been long lurking within his pendent in politics, and nailed at the mast bosom, until the accident of his falling at tiead the following motto, which appear¬ his office door,” as his obituary states, ed in every issue: “gave it such an advantage over his con¬ « Thy spirit Independence, let me share; Lord of the lion-heart and Eagle eye, stitution, that he was soon obliged to ■ Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare. yield up his life to his unrelenting enemy. Nor heed the storm that howls along the A few short weeks terminated the strug¬ sky.” gle. He died surrounded by those who The Telegraph must have been a suc¬ loved him. Amidst all the consolations cess from the start, for Mr. Patterson which his situation required.” His obit¬ married within six months, Miss Angeli¬ uary further states: “The paper of which ca E. Miller, a daughter of Thos. Miller, he was the accomplished editor was the who was a landlord of a tavern in the first published in this town. He was | Borough. It stood on what is now known about twenty years of age when he ap¬ ! as the “burned district” and was destroy¬ peared before the public as a conductor ed by fire many years ago. Rev. Jasper of a public journal—in which situation Bennett performed the ceremony on the he acquitted himself with the prudence 19th of April, 1832, before a large num¬ of a veteran editor. He died in his 23d ber of invited guests.- “F. B. F.” con¬ year; leaving behind him a domestic tributed the following lines, attached to circle to eulogize his merits and to la¬ the marriage notice the next week, which ment over his untimely death. He was printers should at least appreciate: talented an inddustrious, and in his in¬ The edition of life, may they work off complete tercourse with society he was amiable On the Press of affection and love, May Picks, Monks and Friars be free from and obliging. He maintained an un¬ each sheet, blemished character, and to crown all. And the Points of esteem never move. we tiust that he experienced the comforts We are told his domestic life was most of the Christian religion ” He died on the happy in the few years he was destined 27th of February 1835, at bis residence in to live. Within the next year came a this borough and was buried in the little domestic sorrow—the loss of his babes. graveyard opposite the Episcopal Church His own pen gives us the account, as fol¬ i Rectory, on South WasTnhgtbn Street, It lias been sail by one competent to where on a neat headstone an inscrip¬ judge, that the “Sorrow of; to day is fol- tion marks his grave. His widow after- lowed by the joy of to-morrow,” and as I ward accompanied her father, Thomas we look back on the condition of affairs I Miller, when he moved his family to the more than fifty years ago, and come dowa (great West. A. Maclay Patterson, pre¬ in watchful care and close observation of sumably his brother, succeeded him as things past and present, we will discover (editor of the Telegraph for the month of a world of meaning in this declaration, March, when J. Kidd Shoemaker became and of great benefit generally to the wLole the editor. The latter takes charge in an human family. announcement of nearly a column in The Muncy Valley, as beautiful by length, from which we extract the fol¬ nature as Creative hand could make it, lowing: “The great end and aim of the about fifty years ago, was only beginning | Muncy Telegraph shall be the public to emerge from its native wilderness con good-, ‘Believing that the public go id (dition. can be best promoted, first by keeping a At that time, from the bosom of the watchful eye upon the Constitution of our earth, was drawn the sustenance of man. own State, and that of the United States* The forest confronted the pioneer in every that the inheritance which we have re¬ direction, and appeared to challenge the ceived from our fathers may be transmit¬ ax-man to mortal combat. Slowly and ted to our posterity.’ Secondly, by advo¬ by degrees, the forest gave way and cating certain public improvements, as yielded to the man of courage the price¬ the construction of Railroads and canals, less products of a fertile soil. This soil in order that the productions of the coun¬ has been cultivated and improved in such try may find a market; the establishment manner and to such extent, as to claim ^ of a properly regulated general system of equality with any upon earth, and can v education; the general adoption of any we wonder then, at the frequent exclama¬ ( plans which may be calculated to benefit tions of so many, not native to the soil, our agricultural and manufacturing in¬ passing around and through this valley, terests.” As for politics he wished to be and feasting their eyes upon its beauties understood that he “does not at present until admiration has reached its utmost wish to engage the Telegraph in the sup¬ limit, they claim it to be the garden spot port of any candidates, either for the of the world. If incredulity can be so Chief Magistrate of this State or that of deeply seated in the mind of any one, as the President of the United States.” to raise a doubt in reference to this mat¬ John Kidd Shoemaker was a son of ter, all we have to say to him or her, is. Samuel Shoemaker, Esq., who died in Come and See. Muncy many years ago.. He married a In those days the agricultural imple¬ Miss Harris whose fath

zation. pastor, and continued until Oct. 1st, 1863. The oldest we have any record of was a Rev. A. F. Shannafelt then supplied the Mrs. Anna White, who died June 20th, 1821. pulpit for six months. She had united with a church in , April 1st, 1864, Rev. T. M. Shannafelt then a British Province, in the year 1751. commenced supplying the church. He soon She settled in Muncy before the Revolution¬ afterwards accepted a call and was ordained ary War. She was a member of the White to the pastorate on the 27th of Oct. Feb. Deer Baptist Church when she died, which 1867 he resigned, when the church called was then the nearest of this persuasion. Rev. Geo. T. McNair, who continued to serve Rev. J. G. Miles, now living in White Deer, until May, 1872. became the first pastor. He continued to Rev. Mentzer occupied the pulpit as supply preach until February 1842. At this time the until the spring of 1873. congregation had no house of worship, but in Oct. 2d, 1873, a council ordained Rev. E. 1841 the present house of worship was com¬ C. Houck, who had been supplying the pul¬ menced, and put under roof, but was not pit. He remained as pastor until April 1876. completed and dedicated until March, 1843. Rev. E. L. Pawling was soon after this set¬ Rev. Edward Ely, of N. Y„ visited Muncy tled as pastor, but to the sorrow of the church I and held a series of meetings, which resulted this excellent young man was called to lay I in much good. He was chosen pastor April I down his earthly labors for his eternal reward. 1843. During his pastorate the church made In 1877 Rev. E. C. Houck was again in¬ a vigorous effort to complete its house of vited and settled as pastor, remaining until ! worship, which was accomplished in the Jan. 1879. _ Rev. R. Kocher entered on the duties of j winter of 1843, and on the I4th of March lt; ' was dedicated. I the pastorate Oct. 10th, 1880, and continued The pulpit was supplied from the date of until July 15th, 1883. Rev. Ely’s retirement by neighboring pastors April 1884, Rev. H. C. Munro became I until the acceptance of a call by Rev. Joel E. pastor and continues in that capacity at the Bradley in December 1843. He was ordain- present time, July, 1891. \ ed at Muncy on the 25th of the same month. The church is united and no doubt will f The newly ordained pastor was a man of more build a better house of worship in the near ^ than ordinary scholarship. He was soon future. Under the present pastor the Picture called to engage in the laying of the founda- Rocks and Montgomery congregations have , lions of educational work of the then proposed built houses of worship. University, now prosperous Bucknell. Two young men entered the ministry from After Dr. Bradley retired the pulpit was this church, Revs. Charles Soars and Willian 1 supplied by Wm. S. Hall and E. Bochnogen Corson. Space will not permit us to speak oi until May 1847, when Rev. J. Edminter ac¬ the many additions which have been made cepted a call and continued as pastor until during these years. June 1848. The church had no settled pastor The following brethren have served as from this time until Jan. 1857. During the Deacons.—Elias Benner, Alex. Fisher, Abraham Page, Samuel Rogers, Samuel intervening time the pulpit was filled by Rev. Doctor, Simon Shoemaker, Samuel Bear, C. A. Hewit and Rev. Geo. Peltz, each oc¬ Beniamin Johnson, L. B. Root, John Snow¬ cupying for a period of two years. den C. A. Stoler, Richard Rogers, George Rogers, James Coulter, L. B. Sprout, Peter Rev. Joshua Kelly, pastor of the M. E. church Frantz, John H. Tyerman. of this place, changed his views, and was Clerks.—Elias Benner, Samuel Doctor, baptised and received into the fellowship of A. B. Putnam, B. S. Merrill, Chas Mozley, ■ the church by Rev. J. R. Loomis, L. L. D., in John Dimm, D. D. Manville, L. E. Schuyler, ' Nov. 1856. He was soon afterwards ordain¬ Chas. Soars, Chas. Downing. -mm-"R"Tirl ed and settled as pastor. He resigned Nov. - .vtASURERS.—Benjamin Johnson, John M. S. Rissel, John Long and Teter D. Beeber. Snowden, M. Johnson, Chas. Mozley, L. B. Another meeting was held at the residence Boot, Geo. Rogers. I of John Long, November 23d, 1852, when . Miss Edith Manville has been the faithful the form of constitution was presented, and organist of the church for atermofjneatx, j * with a few changes adopted. Having now LUTHERAN CHURCH. formed an organization, steps were taken at once to secure a location and erect a house of BY REV. J. A. KOSER. worship. It was finally decided to build where

The history of the Lutheran congregation, of our edifice now stands, in-as-much as the other Muncy, covers a very short period, as compar¬ churches were all located in the upper portion ed with that of the history of Lutheranism in of the town, as a number of houses were Muncy and vicinity, having an existence of about to be built in the lower, and because of but thirty-nine years, while if we were to at¬ other inducements of a pecuniary character. tempt to furnish a history of Lutheranism of Annoyance by flood, such as we have since ex¬ Muncy and vicinity, we would be required to perienced, were not dreamed of by the Fathers. go back more than one hundred years to be¬ A building committee was appointed and the gin our record. “Old Immanuel’s,” not far work of securing funds and building com¬ from town, some times spoken of as the moth¬ menced and carried forward with vigor, though er of Lutheranism in this portion of the State not without much discouragement and dif¬ —one of the first, if not the first church within ficulty at times. the county, must have been organized as early The fact that the edifice was ready for dedi¬ as 1785, as there are records of baptisms of cation Oct. 19th, 1853, less than one year after children performed in that year, who were organization, shows that there could have been born 1780. For many years the Lutherans of no delay in the work. At the feast of dedi¬ Muncy and for many miles around worshipped cation Rev. J. Winecoff, of Lewisburg, preach¬ in an humble log church, which stood on or ed the sermon, taking as his text I. Kings, near the site where now stands the more com¬ 8:27, “But will God indeed dwell on earth; modious brick structure. Here also stood the behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens parochial school building “with its log sides cannot contain him; how much less this house and clapboard roof,” where the Grandfathers that I have builded.” The following ministers and Grandmothers of many in the Lutheran were also present: S. Sheeder, P. Born, P. Church to-day were educated. Willard, S. Yingling, D. H. Bittle, C. J. But the time eventually came when the Erhart and the pastor of the congregation, Lutherans of Muncy felt the need of a church Rev. Geo. Parson. It is said money was in their immediate midst. The distance to secured on the day of dedication to pay all “Old Jerusalem Church,” as it was sometimes remaining indebtedness. The first election of called, though not thought of by the Fathers officers was held in the fall of 18531 ar-d re¬ and Mothers, became a barrier to their child¬ sulted in the choice of John Long and T. D. ren, and on account of this some were dispos¬ Beeber as Elders, and M. S. Rissel and Wm. ed to unite with other churches. Rissel as Deacons. After giving the matter very careful and The first administration of the Lord’s Sup¬ prayerful consideration, it was finally resolved per was on Easter, April 16th, 1854, when 20 I by the Lutherans living within town that they new members were added to the congregation. I would form themselves into an organization. The record shows twenty-two communicants I As to the beginning of this new enterprise we * at this time. Rev. Geo. Parson being pastor i I find the following record: when this congregation was organized con¬ I “At a meeting held in the house of Bro. M. tinued his ministry with this people until June I S. Rissel, on the 7th day of November, 1852, 1st, 1865, a period of 13 years, serving the I the following resolutions in reference to the congregation in connection with Hughesville , I formation of a new congregation were offered and other points. He admitted 148 to mem- j I and adopted: I 11 Resolved, That it is our deliberate opinion bership. I that the interest of the Evangelical Lutheran Rev. A. E. Sharretts assumed charged I Church in Muncy Valley and the welfare of April 12th, 1866, and continued three years, the church in general call for the formation of P adding 94 to the membership. He was fol¬ a new organization in the borough of Muncy. I “Resolved, That a committee of three be lowed by Rev. A. R. Aughe, who also re¬ I appointed to draft and propose a constitution, mained three years, increased the member- I to be submitted at a subsequent meeting, on . ship by 37, and added 22 feet to the church f I which we may unite to organize a congrega- edifice, which the steady growth of the con- j I tion agreeable to the previous resolution.” gregation demanded, at a cost of $2,500, all I The following constituted said committee : “■ .——------f which was provided for on the day of re- parsonage or church property. pening. The building committee upon this METHODIST CHURCH. ,ccasion consisted of M. S. Rissel, T. D. '.Beeber and Philip Heilman. BY REV. A. R. LAMBERT. This congregation was now stricken from the charge with which it had been in con¬ The history of Methodism in Muncy covers I nection, and left to care for itself. After a a period of seventy years. The first sermon period of vacancy and much discouragement. i was Preached by Rev. John Rhodes in the old Rev. H. C. Haithcox was called as pastor, as¬ Log School House, on South Main Street, in 1821. suming charge April ist, 1872. He remained two years and nine months, during which 52 Among the early itinerants who Breached were added to the membership. here, were, Revs. Eetei McEnally, Henry ‘ ‘ Rev. J. A. Hackenburg became pastor May Lenhart, Thomas McGee, John Bowen, Chas. ist, 1875, and remained two years and five Calpheua, Edward Allen, William Prettyman, aonths, during which 77 additions were made, Thomas Tanneyhill, James Ewing, Henry g! • t.was during his pastorate that the parsonage Dill, -Waring, J. A. Ross, -Castle- ■ as built at a cost of about $i,goo. man, and others. Oct. 1st, 1878, Rev. E. H. Leisenring ac? For a number of years, Muncy received Cepted a call and became pastor, remaining preaching but once every four—afterwards ix years and one month, 119 were added to two weeks; being a part of a large Circuit, of the church by him. It was during his in¬ which the following were the principal preach¬ cumbency that the Muncy congregation and ing appointments: Muncy, Hughesville, Mon- St. John’s, of Blackhole Valley, united in toursville, Billman’s School House, Dimm’s formation of a pastorate. School House, Moreland, Jamestown (Gort- Rev. M. S. Cressman took charge Feb. 1st, ners), Heilman’s School House, Wallace’s 1885, and continued three years, adding 26 to Run, Loyalsock School House, Montgomery, the membership. During his pastorate the and Clarkstown. audience room underwent extensive repairs, The first Church was erected on the site consisting of the frescoing of the walls, put¬ where the Church now stands, in 1830, and ting new cathedral glass in the windows, etc., was a plain, one story, frame structure. In at a cost of about $700, all of which was 1854, this building was displaced by the pres¬ promptly provided for. ent structure, a two story, brick building, at a The present incumbent, Rev, J. A. Koser, cost of $7,000, Rev. Switzer being pastor in entered into pastoral relation with this people charge. Conspicuously connected with the Aug. ist, 1888, being now with them not fully erection of this edifice was J. H. Rooker, a three years. Thus far under his pastorate 136 member of the church, who collected all the have been received into church relation with monies for the same; a large portion of which this congregation. It was during his incum¬ was received from the citizens of the sur¬ bency that this people were visited by the rounding community, and from members of great flood of June ist, 1889, when the water sister churches, thus showing the spirit' of assumed a depth of six feet and one inch in liberality and brotherly love which was mani¬ the lecture room of the church, being five feet fested towards the denomination during its and six inches more than during the famous incipiency, and which has ever since prevailed. flood of 1865, when to the astonishment of Four years later, the gable end of the church the oldest citizens of Muncy the water cover¬ and the roof were completely destroyed, by a ed the same floor to a depth of seven inches. severe wind storm; to replace which required, In the flood of Tune ist, 1889, both organs a heroic effort on the part of the handful of in the Sunday School rooms were destroyed, struggling members, at an additional cost of together with the Sunday School library, while 81500. the rooms themselves were much damaged, as During the pastorate of Rev. A. W. Gib¬ well as the building and parsonage property in son, which began in the spring of 1884, the general. The repairs necessitated by destruc¬ church was remodeled and renovated, at a tion by the flood, in church and parsonage, cost of $2,500; the present parsonage and lot together with newroof’on church, recarpeting were purchased from the heirs of Rev. Drake, of audience room and Sunday School rooms, a retired Episcopal Minister, and was remodel¬ new stable, new kitchen to the parsonage, etc , ed, refitted and refurnished, at a cost of about etc., up to this time during the present pas¬ $3,000; all of which was provided for save torate have amounted to about 81,000, all of about $1500. which has been paid. The congregation now This sum was reduced to $1200 during the numbers 335 members. There is no debt on j \

pastorate of Rev. A. E. Taylor, and the bal- j were bmployed as “occasional supplies until ance provided for last year, 1890, under the j May, 1854, when the Rev. William Life was pastorate of the present incumbent, Rev. A. I engaged for the supply of the pulpit. In R. Lambert. April, 1857, Mr. Life was installed pastor, and The membership of the church now rejoice was dismissed in January, 1868. in the possession of a commodious, comforta¬ The Rev. Archibald Heron was employed ble church property, worth about $15,000. as stated supply in the spring of 1868, and This part of the record would not be com¬ retired from service in the spring of 1871. j plete without at least a brief mention of one In June, 1871, the Rev. Lyman D. Calkins of its members, Mrs. C. Clapp, who by her was called to the pastorate, was ordained and. liberal contributions from time to time, has installed in September of the same year, and; literally won the title of benefactress to the was dismissed in November, 1873- church. The Rev. S. T. Thompson was installed In 1869 Muncy was organized into a station, pastor in the summer of 1874, and resigned of which the following are the names and his charge in the spring of 1878. dates of her pastors and the years of their The Rev. Nicholas F. Stahl commenced incumbency. serving the church as supply in the summer of 1869, H. M. Ash; 1870-1, J. B. Cuddy; 1878, was installed pastor in May, 1880, and , 1872-4, M. L. Drum; 1875-7, A. S. Bow¬ was dismissed in November, 1883. Oc j man; 1878, D. B. McClosky; 1879-80, Jas. casional supplies were engaged until July. | Hunter; 1881-3, A. R. Miller; 1884-6, A. 1884, when the Rev. Edwin B. Raffensperger, W. Gibson; 1887-9,A- E- Taylor; 1890-1, A. D. D., was elected pastor; in the autumn of R. Lambert. the same year he was installed, and died in During the past year about one hundred May of the year following. members have been added to the Church or. In July, 1885, the Rev. A. Dean, D. D., confession of faith, making a total member- took charge of the pulpit as pastor-elect, was ship of about 225. 1 installed in the ensuing October, and con¬ tinues to the present time in active service as PRESB YTERIAN CHURCH. pastor. A house of worship was early erected by BY REV. A. DEAN, D. D. the congregation, and was dedicated June 5> The Presbyterian Church in Muncy was 1835 ; was enlarged, repaired and refurnished organized in July, 1834, in the Brick School in 1859, and was re-dedicated in the spring of House in Muncy Borough. The sermon on i860. The pipe organ now in use was pur¬ that occasion was preached by the Rev. chased in the summer of 1884. The parson¬ Phinehas B. Marr. Thomas Hutchison and age was built in 1873. Dr. James Rankin were elected elders, and In addition to the two original elders, the fol¬ later in the same year were ordained by the lowing persons have been ordained to the office j Rev. John Bryson. of ruling elder: Robert Risk, J. Roan Barr, In 1852 the church was regularly organized Thomas M. Giffen, Gen. William A. Petrikin, under State law, with eighteen charter mem¬ John Sample, Dr, William M. Rankin, Adam bers, of whom four only are now living: Rankin, Dr. Hugh Montgomery, Fleming namely, Mrs. Jane Noble, Mrs. Jane Lang- Wilson, S. S. Alexander, William J. Wood, cake, Mrs. Catherine Risk, and Mrs, Belinda Samuel E, Sprout, and William R. Peoples. Smalley. At the present date, the church numbers The Rev. S. S. Sheddan was ordained and just one hundred members. installed the first pastor of the church, in Mrs. Belinda Smalley, wife of the Rev. | October, 1835, and was dismissed in 1842. John Smalley, opened a select school in 1846 The church had occasional supplies until in the house now occupied by Mrs. Opp, on April, 1843, when the Rev. John Smalley, Market street, near the Methodist Church, and hen a licentiate of New Brunswick Presbytery, afterward removed the school to the house on was engaged to supply the pulpit. In 1846, Main street, now occupied by Major Bruner. Mr. Smalley was ordained to the Gospel Mrs, Life, wife of the Rev. William Life, ministry, and in the same year retired from (now Principal of the Female Seminary in the service of the church. A little later, he Rye, New York,) opened a select school in was invited to resume his labors as stated sup¬ 1855, in the house on Main street now oc- j ply, and in that capacity continued to serve cupied by Mr. Lee Root; afterward the school the church till July, 1850. The Rev. Messrs. was removed to the “Central School House,” 1 William Simonton and Phinehas B. Marr then to the house now occupied by Mr. Levi ' "Y~ S 39

i James Church, held at Emmanuel Church of the E.chb., and finally to *« Er“" ll0'‘sl‘- j man Lutherans in Muncy Creek township, Lycom. corner of Pepper and Main streets. ^ County, State of Pennsylvania, on the 30th of Aug- These schools were of marked excellence, ! ust A D 1819, officers were chosen, namely : Sam¬ uel Voemaker, Clerk of the Vestry; Thomas Adlum, and to this day Mrs. Smalley and Mrs. Life John Shipman, BeDjamin Shoemaker, Mathias Wood- are held in the highest honor for their invalu¬ ley, Deter Dimm, Vestrymen; Edward G. Lyon, Ja¬ able services to Muncy as educators of her cob Shoemaker, Esq., John Opp, BeDjamin Smith, youth. Wardens.” 1 In these ten representatives is seen the evidence of ST. JAMES’ CHURCH. a considerable congregation, but just where that con¬ gregation had been worshipping since the year 1797 by rev. william heakes. is not related. There may be those in Muncy who at this time can tell. The history of the Episcopal Church, in Muncy, | It is probable, however, that what was known as should he written by the “oldest inhabitant Hi the “Guide” school house was sometimes made to do personal acquaintance with people and events of by¬ j duty as a place of worship, for on the next page of gone days, if it did not guarantee absolute accura y the copy hook, and dated as will be seen, about four of detail, would at least furnish the requisites of a years and a half later, is the following entry : “At a meeting of the congregation of St. James’ is g0With°one less distinguished the case different Church, convened at the Guide School House near He is obliged to depend upon such written records^ Pennsborough, the following persons were unani¬ he can find, and when it is discovered that those «c- mously chosen church officers, until supplied by oth¬ aa,, months and yesrs apart.refer only tocer^ ers, viz: Samuel G. Shoemaker, Clerk of the Vestry; Tain official acts of ministers and ^stries the writer : John Bobb, Benjamin Smith, Benjamin Shoemaker, realizes what it is to be “as one born out of due time. Benjamin Jones, Esq., Wardens j Thomas Adlum, Such records as there are, though especially m e John Robb, Edward Adlum, Benjamin S. McCarty, earlier days, they answer to the above description, John Van Fleet, Vestrymen. nave at least the merit of being accurate. “Signed by order of the meeting. But the record of the official acts of rectors a “Jan. 21st, 1824. “Sutmi Shoemaker, vestries, however accurate, is no “Late Clerk of ihe Vestry.” a parish than the recorded doings of kings and par “Also at the same time and place John Robb was liaments is the history of a nation, ^[innately appointed and continued by the Wardens and Vestry % there is in existence an able and carefully written present elect, to collect the subscription to the sup¬ Rev. pamphlet, composed by the late A.P. Brush,and port of Mr. Hopkins. read by him on the occasion of the fiftieth anm “By order of the meeting. eary of the formation of the parish. Erom this pamph¬ “Samuil G. Shoemaker, let from the records mentioned above, and from the “Clerk (elect) of the Vestry.” undoubted testimony of iiving and honored witness¬ The school house thus used as a place of business es the following facts have been elicited . meeting was perhaps used also as a place of worship, Nearly a quarter of a century has gone by since ,s is so often the case in regard to school houses at the parish of St. James celebrated its fiftieth anm the present day. By this time it is evident that Mr. , Hopkins had then been chosen rector of the organ¬ ized parish. He “was the first resident minister in Muncy some twenty years before a parish waaorgan- this vicinity who preached in the English tongue In the latter part of January, 1824, he removed o '"It appears that sometime in the year 1797 the Bev. Angelica, New York.where.it is said,he died shortly Caleb Hopkins came to Muncy and held a service afterwards. . . Mr Hopkins was a missionary and a pioneer. He In tracing the history of the parish from this point described as a man of “vigorous intellect and of stal- it will not he possible to do much more than give the , wart frame.” During the war of the Revolution he names of the rectors and the dates of their sncces- was a 'lieutenant in the American army . Having sion and resignation. _ faithfully served his country, he laid aside his swor Mr Hopkins was succeeded by the Rev. Willia at the conclusion of the war only that he might f Eldred, who, as a young man, had practiced law in tber “endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus England. He was ordained in this country and came to Muncy probably in January, 1826. It is recorded 1 “missionary work began at Milton in the year that on the first day of February 1825, he baptized 1793 From thence it extended to Jersey Shore, “Francis Marion, Son of Samuel and Rosanna Shoe¬ Bloomshurg, Sugar Loaf, Muncy and ot^r Places maker.”- , near by. In those early days Muncy was known as The history of his life is most interesting and pa¬ Pennsborough, a very small settlement in a county thetic. He appears to have been a man of unt.rmg that numbered only 1,255 inhabitants energy and industry, possessing in addition the mar¬ Just where the first service was held ib not record¬ tyr’s spirit of self-sacrifice. It is said that he walked ed but as there were no places of worship in the vi¬ j from here to Philadelphia and back, in mid-winter, cinity at that time, in the absence of any record, it to be examined for ordination. may be safe to say that it was held in a burn care- “In addition to his labors here, he preached a por¬ fnlly swept and furnished for the occasion; and 1797 tion of the time at Danville, Jerseytown Blooms- belongs to a “time whereof the memory of man run¬ burg, Sugar Loaf, Sunbury, Milton and Nortbumber- neth not to the contrary.” An old-fashioned copy hook was sufficient to hold UIn the year 1827 he reported to convention 14 bap¬ the minutes of the official proceedings of the parish tisms, 4 marriages,3 burials,28 communicants, 3 Sun- for twenty years. On the first page is found this en¬ day schools, 150 scholars, and 16 teachers. try: “Worn out by three years’ incessant labor, pnva- •‘ At a regular meeting of the congregation of St. and exposure, ♦ ' * ?"Eedied jan.16,1828.” 1 collectively, the warmest affection. May God con A* His body rests in the old German churchyard across tinue to bless the Parish, as he has blessedit in yeareftj the creek, and in St. James’ Church, Muncy, is a that are passed. Edwin N. Ligbtnir.” \W stained-glass window, placed there to the glory of The Rev. John B. Calhoun, M. D., followed next! God and in loving memory of this devoted saint and and began work on the 22nd of July, 1844. | hero—the second rector of this parish. During this rectorship the renting of pews in 8t. The Rev. Lucius Carter followed Mr.Eldred and James’ Church was abandoned, and the church made became rector on the 7th of December, 1828. In July free. This was accomplished on the 1st day of Jan¬ of that year a notable event occurred—the parish uary, 1845, and since that time the church has been was visited by a bishop. Many people did not supported by the voluntary offerings of th congre¬ know what that was, and thought of it perhaps as a gation. Dr. Calhoun resigned on the 15th of May of living phenomenon, such as is sometimes advert’sed the same year. on flaming posters. When, however, he actually ! On the 25th day of the following August he was.: came in the person of the Rt. Rev. H. U. Onderdonk, succeeded by the Rev Colly Alexander Foster,who re-1 •‘the young and energetic assistant bishop,” it is re¬ rnained in charge a little more than two years,resign lated that he soon won all hearts by his eloquent ad¬ ing his charge on the 31st of October, 1847. dress. He officiated in Emmanuel Church and con¬ His stay in Muncy, though brief, seems to have been a gratifying one to himself. On the eve of his firmed 33 people. Another event that distinguished the rectorship of departure he records “with gratitude the fact that Mr. Carter was the erection of the first Episcopal the people of this parish had ever shown him the ut¬ Church in Muncy. It was built on the site of the most kindness,” and prays God may “bless them one present church, and it is described as “a plain, brick and all.” building, about 36x40, finished at the cost of $1,946.” Within the next year St. James’ Parish had two This church was consecrated by Bishop Onderdonk, yectore. June 9,1832. On the same day Mr. Carter resigned The Rev. John Gaulter Downing took up the work his charge and went to CaBtile, New York. February 27, 1848, and, “ in consequence of sickness i The parish was without a rector for rather more in his family,” abandoned it February 12,1849. than a year. On the 10th of August, 1833, the Rev. Two days after the Rev, George C. Drake became Isaac Smith was called. In 1834 Mr. Smith reported rectcr. He continued in office until the 27th of Jan- ! to the convention 39 families and 60 communicants. nary, 1867, nearly eight years. During that period j At that time there was a debt of about $900 on the the rectory was built. It owes its existence to the I parish which was not paid off until May, 1839. Mr. entsrprise of the ladies of the parish, by whom it was 1

Smith served God faithfully in the parish for six fcegum and carried ta> completion. One of them was j years, and resigned charge on the 1st of August, 1839. promised a rich gown by a distinguished gentleman On the occasion of the acceptance of his resignation in the neighborhood when the work was completed. by the Vestry is this quaint and somewhat interest¬ Like sundry other sceptical people he did not believe ing minute: that any one of them living would see either the rec- | “Whereupon it was unanimously agreed that a tory or the gown. But he lived to present the gown, , subscription be taken up to defray the expenses of and the lady lived to wear it, and within less than the abasement story, and the building of the fence three years the Rev. Mr. Drake was living in the rec- j round the lot of the church aforesaid to the amount tory. of said expenses when ascertained; also, that a com¬ On September 15, 1857, the Rev. Albra Wadleigh mittee he appointed of correspondence respecting a became the tenth rector of the parish. parson for the church aforesaid during the ensuing We now enter upon a period that is familiar j year.” to most readers of the Luminary in Mnncy, and Mr. Smith was succeeded by the Rev. Edwin N. needs not to be dwelt upon at length. Lightner on the 1st of February, 1840. Mr. Lightner's To the present generation Mr. Wadleigh’s rector- j rectorship lasted but four years, but during that time ship is the “golden age” of St. James’ Parish, and one j he infused such life and vigor into the parish as it with which all subsequent rectorships must expect to had never known before, and laid the foundations of be compared, and to stand or fall by the comparison., lasting prosperity and strength. He was In the full¬ Then it was that the present beautiful church build¬ est sense of the word a missionary. In consequence ing was erected. Then “a new era in the history of of his zeal and efficiency as such Muncy is to-day the the parish was inaugurated, and rapid progress made mother parish of the parishes at Williamsport and in churchly knowledge, liberality and enterprise.” Lock Haven. The new church was designed by the celebrated Mr. Fleming W. Robb, so long an honored resident church architects, Messrs. Richard Upjohn A Co. of Mnncy, and for fifteen years a member of the Ves¬ The Rev. Mr. Wadleigh, Messrs. James Hall, Joseph try of St. James’ Church, remembers distinctly tak¬ Gudykunst, Wm. P. I. Painter and Henry Johnson ing Mr. Lightner to Williamsport the first time that were the building commit tee. On the 15th of Novem¬ he held a service there. That was fifty years ago. A ber, 1859, the church was consecrated by the Rt. Rev. long letter from the Vestry to Mr. Lightner, on the Samuel Bowman Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania. occasion of his resignation, expressing their warm The church was built at the surprisingly low figure of $9,000. personal regard for him and their appreciation of his This, however, does not take into account the gen¬ services, ends in this way: erosity, industry, and entefprise that served to keep “We cannot but acknowledge our sense of deep down the price. There arc those who love to dwell upon those days, and to speak in words of apprecia¬ gratitude to Almighty God, that so many improve¬ tion of those to whoso zeal and devotion the parish ments have been effected through you as his chosen owes it that a stone church was built at all. They tell of one, whom they delight to honor, who went about instrument for our good.” enlisting the interest and services of those who could The following is the last entry made by Mr. Light¬ help, of the farmers who crossed the ice with their ner in the parish register: teams and brought stone from the quarries on Bald j Eagle mountain, how, daj after day, the men were “I have received naught but the kindest treatment provided with “a good warn dinner” at the rectory, from my Parishioners, and I desire now to record that and how for all this—for (ime, for labor, for provi- I shall always entertain for them, individually ay sions—not *, cent was asked. After a re.’^rship of neffly nine years Mr. Wad¬ leigh res'- - '"n the 6th of|Febrnary. 1866. 41

baptisms, A. D. 1780, Elizabeth, The Rev. A. P. Brush s^cceedei of Jacob and Catharine Gortner, horn Novemhe of the same year. , 1778; sponsors, John D. Hill, Jr., and his wife " It was during his rectorship that the panel brated the fiftieth anniversary of its existence. I bare.” A more devoted and faithfcl rector than Mr. Brush | “A. D. 1781, Susan Catharine, daughter of Henry the parish has never had, but if his usefulness was 'Philip Gortner, born December 20, 1781; sponsor, signalized in no other way, the ably and accu¬ Susan Gortner, widow.” rately written history of the parish which he has It is manifest, from these and other records, that left should commend him to our respect and grati¬ these early Lutheran settlers had the servioe of a tude. 5. | pastor, or pastors, for several years before the erec- Here for lack of space, mmu narrative must end with the Hare mention of a feT facts and dates. | tion of their first church edifice. Mr. Brush resigned in 18T4 and was succeeded by THX FIRST CHURCH ID1FICB. Rev. P. B. Lightner some time in the same year, who continued rector about four years. This was erected on land donated to the congrega¬ Then followed in rapid succession the Rev. F. Dun¬ tion by Henry Sehumaker. The plot of land con- can Joudan, the Rev. Francis D Canfield, the Rev. i sisted of thirteen acres. The deed conveying the Wm. H. Johnson, the Rev. David L. Fleming, and the Riv.Wm Heakes. property was executed April 5,1791. The erection Mr. Fleming was rector from 1885 to 1888. During of the church'edifice was commenced the same year. that time there is a record of 69 baptisms and 66 It was quite a large structure, nearly as large as the persons presented for confirmation. The present rector entered npon his duties Febru¬ second edifice, and was constructed out of logs, and ary 1st, 1890 was afterward weather-boarded. There were galleries In the minutes of the Vestry, December 24, 1868, it on three sides, with a “storm glass pulpit” on the is recorded that a resolution was pot&ed thanking Mrs. James and Miss Susan Hall for a silver com¬ other. The pews were high-backed affairs, about as munion service presented by them to the parish. high as the heads of the worshippers when seated This beautiful memorial gift is in constant use. upon them. The last Class of Catechumins confirmed There are those who will be interested in reading the following facts and figures. Some of the Vestry¬ in this church was in 1832. men of St. James’ Parish: A constitution was adopted for the government of Benjamin Shoemaker, 1819-1837,18 years. the church in 1794. The following are the names ap¬ Thomas Adlum (Warden), 1819-1840, 21 years R. C. Hall, 1832-1837, 5 years. pended to the constitution .- John J. Crouse, 1836-1840, 4 years. “Jacob Gortner, Henry Schumacher, John Boeber, Dr. Thomas Wood, 1839-1862, 23 years. J. George Doctor, Gottfried Fiester, Gerhard Schus¬ James Henderson (Clerk). 1840-1857,17 years. ter, John Nicholas Beeber, Philip Gortner, Conrad Baker Landcake, 1840-1841,1 year. I Schumacher and Benjamin Schumacher.” Fleming W. Robb, 1841-1856, 15 years. These persons were no doubt prominent represent¬ Joseph Qudykunst, 1844-1887, 43 years. Wm. P. I. Painter, 1846-1870, 24 years. atives of the congregation at that time. Others, George L. I. Painter, 1847-1891, 44 years. however, who were prominently identified with the Henry Johnson, 1858-1867, 9 years. church are found in the records soon after. Among Dr. Henry Shoemaker, 1859-1871,12 years. Charles Hall, 1866-1868, 2 years. them we mention the Dimms, Artleys, Bucks, Stecks, Bakers, Dishes, Froutzs, Harmans, Fagues, Turners and many others. EMMANUEL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH. Though the church, as to its constitution, was Lutheran, yet it was frequently used by the ministers BY REV. J. M. STECK. of other denominations. Some occasionally, others at stated Intervals Among the latter were the Ger¬ man Reformed and Episcopal pastors. We think that But few, if any, of those who took part in the or¬ it was the first church edifice erected in the county ganization of Emmanuel’s Lutheran Church, were limits. born in Germany ; they were descendants of those SECOND CHURCH EDIFICE. who fled from their fatherland early in the eigh¬ The second edifice was constructed of brick. It presented, at least to our youthful eyes, an imposing teenth century on account of the calamities of the appearance. The audience room was similar in con¬ “thirty year’s war.” struction to the first edifice. Jonas Yeakle was the A war which was inspired by the persecuting spirit builder. We have no knowledge as to its cost. It was erected iu the rear of the first edifice, so that ser¬ of Catholocism, and which had desolated with fire vices were held in the old edifice until the new one and sword, and watered with tears and blood, the was completed. fairest lands of Germany. Speaking of some of these The corner stone was laid April 25,1832. The ded¬ ication took place June 2,1833. Rev. Charles P. Mil¬ German emigrants, who came to our shores at that ler was assisted in the services by Rev. J. G. Anspach, • time, Bancroft says of them : Lutheran , Rev. Freese, Reformed, and Rev. Patter¬ “They were, indeed,a noble army of martyrs, go¬ son, Presbyterian. Rev. Freese preached the dedica¬ ing forth in the strength of God, and triumphing in tory sermon and Rev. Patterson preached an English the faith of the Gospel, under the severest hardships sermon in the afternoon. I and the most rigorous persecution. They were mar¬ THE PRESENT EDIFICE. shalled under no banner but that of the Cross, and This was erected during the pastorate of Rev. D. I were preceded by no leaders save spiritual teachers Myers. The building committee consisted of John | and the great Captain of their Salvation.” McConnel, Francis Beeber, Samuel Buck and Charles I Early in the eighteenth century a number of these GortDer. The corner stone was laid August 28,1869. ' emigrants came to Pennsylvania and settled in the Rev. A. H. Augey assisted the pastor in the services. The church was dedicated May 1, 1870. Rev. U. | more eastern portions of the State. It was from Graves and Rev. A. H. Aughey, Lutheran, and Rev. j some of their descendants that this church was orig- L. K. Evans, Reformed, assisted the pastor. The cost I inally organized, and from which the present mem- was $3,480.25. A school house was erected at about the same time ! bership of the Lutheran Church in the valley has beiow the declivity, which was used for a parochial ) largely descended. school which always went with the erection of a Luth¬ Some of the families who assisted in the organiza- eran church in those days. These school houses had an important bearing upon the early educational in¬ l tion settled in the valley before the commencement terests of our State. S of the Revolutionary war, as early as 1773. Most of PASTORS. , them were from Berks county, with, however, some The first minister on the territory, of whom we I representatives from other counties. They gradually have any knowledge, was Rev. Lehman. He baptized made their way up the Susquehanna, seeking for, Susan Catharine Gortner in 1781. It is probable that hs was pastpr of tfie congregation sometime previous finding, and settling upon the finest agricultural to the erection of the first Ba ifice If the baptismal portions of the State. Among those whose names are record was kept by him we would conclude that he found earliest upon tha records of the church are the was pastor as late as 1796. The record of baptisms does not g ve the names of the pastors who officiated Hills and Gortners. The earliest record found on the until many years later. Church book is the following:

( .or was Victor George Charles Stock, After his resignation Rev. A. B.Erhart served them - at Sunbury. We do not know how long one year. /sb pastor, but we know that he was pastor as Rev. A. C. Felker was then chosen as pastor, and ■jr as 1801 and as late as 1809, and that his sus- in the midst of a successful ministry his work was .sor, Rev. Frederick Engle, was on the ground as ended by a cail from his earthly labors. ,arly as 1812, during which year he baptized Rev. The present pastor is Rev. Marcus M. Havice, who Jacob Miller, and a year later Jacob Dirum. has rounded out the first century since the erection Rev. Jacob Repass became the successor of Rev. of the first church edifice amidst encouraging sur¬ Engel. We dp not know the exact time when he be¬ roundings as to the future history of ths church. gan his work, but have learned from a baptismal cer¬ w tificate that he was pastor as early as 1816 and as late as 1823. How much longer he was pastor we do not FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE. know. Rev. Repass is said to have been a man of pre¬ possessing appearance and captivating eloquence. His charge embraced parts of Northumberland, Union BY JAMES ECROYD. and Columbia counties, as well as this congregation. Rev. Kepass’ successor was Rev. William Garman. One of the oldest places of worship in Mun¬ He commenced his labors in the church in 1829, and received a class of Catechumins numbering twenty- cy township, is the Friends’ Meeting House, nine in 1830. The list of communicants at this time numbered 118. He was very successful in his work. near Pennsdale. It was built in 1799. Wil¬ To him, more than any one else, belongs the honor of liam Ellis, the father of the late William Cox erecting the second church edifice. He developed the interest which led to its erection, secured the first Ellis, was active in promoting its erection, subscriptions, and remained with the congregation until the corner stone waB laid and then resigned, to and the largest contributor. the great regret of the congregation, because he be¬ The names of some of the earliest members lieved the time had come when the congregation ought to have a part of its services in the English are familiar to many of our citizens. Jesse language. Rev. Charles P. Miller was the next pastor. During Haines, a minister of that meeting, was fre¬ his ministry the second church edifice was completed quently heard in preaching and prayer to the and dedicated. On his resignation Rev. C. F. Staver was chosen close of his long life, which was only six pastor and began his labors November 20,1836. He ~v hold of the work with vigor. November 18,1837, days short of a century. Mercy Ellis, who, ^«v. Staver received thirty-eight into the church by according to the belief of Friends, that wo- confirmation. In 1838 he received quite a number more. | men as well as men are commissioned to Rev. John T Williams became Rav. St&ver's suc¬ cessor in the fall of 1839, and continued pastor until preach the Gospel, was also a minister, and 1843. November 7, 1840, he reoeived twenty-nine continued to exercise her gift up to the eighty- persons into the church, and in 1842 twsnty-two more, and in 1843 forty-nine. The communion list seventh year of her age. Both of these adorn- ai this time numbered 227. Ho was the first pastor to introduce revival meetings in the congregation, e d the doctrines of the Redeemer by the up¬ and he was very successful in his ministry. Consid¬ rightness and purity of their lives, and hearts ering the length of time he was pastor no greater re¬ sults followed the labors of any pastor who ever filled with that Divine charity that breathes served this congregation. “peace on earth and good will to men.” One of the first marriages in that house was Rev. George Parson, D. D., became Rev. Williams’ successor and began his labors December 8,1844, and William Watson and Hannah Walton, in 1800; | resigned June 1865. We need not go into details as Job McCarty and Jane Walton, in 1808; Jacob to the results of his ministry with so many witnesses of its results still living among us. Hundreds were Haines and Rachel Ellis, in 1815 ; John War¬ received into the church during his pastorate. One new church edifice was erected in Hughesville, an ner and Louisa Atkinson, in 1821; Henry other at Muncy, two in White Deer valley, and two Ecroyd and Catharine Whitacre, in 1823. more in the bounds of the Lairdsville charge, and congregations were organized in them. Thus the Many others of later date have followed. The way was prepared for the formation of new charges on the territory once cultivated by the pastor simple yet solemn ceremony of the Friends, of Emmanuel’s Church, and nearly all of which and their care previous to allowing a marriage was embraced in the territory from which the mem¬ bership came at an early day. On this territory there to be performed, seem to have been blessed are now nineteen churches served by seven pastors of the Lutheran Church. We question whether there is and rarely has the vow to be “ loving and a Minister living to-day, in the bounds of the General faithful until death” been broken in the histo¬ Synod, who devoted all his time to pastoral labors whose work was more potent in far-reaching results ry of their Church. than Rev. Parson. But the new churches organized told largely For nearly one hundred years have the against the communion list of' EmmanBel’s Church. doors of their meeting house been regularly After the resignation of Rev. Parson, for 'a time, nearly two years, there were no services held in the opened every week, and they gladly welcome j old wooden church. Those only of the multitudes who once thronged her courts who were near her all who are willing to come in at any time! now were the sleeping dead. But the Dimms, the and unite in their simple mode of worship, j Gortners, Turners, Beebers, Bucks, Harmans and Mc¬ Connells came to the rescue A new church was erected and the soattered members gathered again for wor¬ ship under the leadership of Rev. U. Myers, and a The Public Schools. bright future is still before the dear old church of so many hallowed memories. Rev. J. M. Reimensnyder, then a theological stu¬ Concerning the history of the schools very 1 dent, supplied the congregation fora short time after the resignation of Rev. Myers, January 1,1871. little definite information can be obtained. ! Rev. George Eicholtz was the next pastor and The records do not appear to have been kept, j served the congregation acceptably for several years. On his resignation Rev. W. R. McCutcheon was and the memory of the oldest inhabitant fails chosen as his successor, and begun his work in 1878 and resigned in 1881. to recall the facts and incidents relative to the t He was followed by Rev. J. R. Sample, who was pioneer schools. One of the first school 'reatly blessed in his labors and served the charch "til April 1, 1887. houses within the present borough limits was j situated at the corner of Main street and the Danville road. It was built of round, un¬ j was removed to Muncy, where the handsome hewn logs, and roofed with bark; the regula¬ and commodious building which had just tion pine slab, with four pegs in it, was used been erected offered the necessary facilities. for a seat. In the year 1800 the Guide school Before the establishment of this school the house was built near the southwest corner of teachers of the county had no acquaintance Muncy Manor, and one George Hog became with the theory of teaching, or school gov¬ the first teacher. Later on another school ernment, and the advancement that was house was built in the northern part of Muncy made was slow and unsatisfactory. Teachers and was used for school purposes many years. labored vigorously for the advancement of In 1834 a law was passed by the State Legis¬ those under their care, but no adequate re¬ lature to provide for the better education of turns rewarded their toils. They knew not the children of the Commonwealth. Under how to work systematically, and the good re¬ the provisions of this act directors or trustees sults attained were more of the peradventure were elected, who should look after the work than Of the effect of definite plans. of procuring teachers and buildings. The Normal teaching presented new meth¬ We find the following notice concerning the ods and theories which were carried into the first election held in Muncy : work of teaching, and the progress that was At an election for school directors held at made was gratifying to all friends of popular Brick School House in the borough of Mun¬ education. cy, the place for holding elections for super¬ visor, constable, etc., the following persons, During the period that the school has now having received a majority of the votes polled, been here it has continually advanced in were duly eleeted : George Roberts, Joseph numbers and influence. The course of study K. Frederick, James Rankin, Joshua Bow¬ man, J. Potter Patterson, Simon Schuyler. has been enlarged, and now includes, besides Witness our hands and seals this 19th day the regular teachers’ course, a college prepar¬ of September, A. D. 1834. atory course, which prepares pupils for ad¬ Orrin Forsythe, 1 T . Samuel Shoemaker, } nsPectors- mission to the leading institutions. Since its Attest: Henry Fahnestock, Judge. inception the school has been in charge of the Wm. Starr, following principals: Ex-County Snperin Clerks. James Henderson, tendent C. S. Riddell; Superintendent Charles Up to the year 1873 the system of schools i.ose, a. m.; Jkmerson Collins, Esq.; W. R. was not a complete and satisfactory one. The Peoples, Esq., and J. George Becht, B. S. I buildings were scattered and overcrowded, The twenty-second annual term opened j and though teachers labored earnestly and July 13th with an enrollment of nearly two zealously yet the results were not in proper- j hundred students. Its circle of influence ex¬ tion to the labor involved. The new building tends to all the neighboring counties, and if was erected in 1873 at a cost of #30,000, and its past success is any criterion from which we thereafter the work was systematically ar¬ may judge the future of its increased useful¬ ranged. A high school course leading to ness is assured. graduation was introduced, the first class graduating in 1881. The course embraces a Biographical Sketches, thorough drill in the common branches, tak¬ ing up also Latin, German, Literature and some of the higher mathematics. It has at¬ HON. HENRY JOHNSON. tracted many students from outside the bor Prominent among the names of those whose ough, and each year finds an increase in the careers have been traced and told from year number of those who wish to avail them¬ to year in the columns of the Luminary is selves of the advantage of this excellent that of Hon. Henry Johnson. He was born course of study. at Newton, N. J., June 12,1819. He received a thorough academic and collegiate educa- THE NORMAL SCHOOL. tion, graduating from Princeton College with The Lycoming County Normal School was distinction when but 18 years of age. After organized at Montoursville in the spring of leaving that renowned seat of learning he 1870 under the leadership of T. G. Gahan, took up the study of law at his native town Esq., ex-County Superintendent, and W. R. in the office of the Hon. Whitfield S. John Bierly, Esq. The number of students at son, his kinsman, and afterwards Secretary o first was small and its influence confined State of New Jersey. After being admitted within narrow limits. Each year, however, to the bar in 1841, having passed an examina¬ there was an increase in the attendance, and tion before the Supreme Court of his native in 1877 the school had grown so large that it State, Mr. Johnson removed with his mother and sisters to Muncy and opened.* Taw office j rising star of the new Republican party. In on the 19th of June of that year. At 1848 he was elected a Presidential elector this period of his life his prospects were il¬ and cast his vote for Gen. Taylor. In 1861 he lumined only by his thorough training, reso¬ was elected to the State Senate from the dis- 1 lute purpose and native ability. If the philos¬ trict composed of Lycoming, Union, Clinton j ophy Of Holmes be accepted, however, his and Centre counties — carrying the Democratic ancestry gave much promise. His grand¬ counties of Lycoming and Clinton. His ser¬ father Johnson lived beyond the green and vices in the Senate extended through three serene age of ninety years, his father, Samuel regular sessions and the famous special ses- ■* Johnson, dying while he was still a child. sion of 1864. At no period in the history of His mother, Rebecca Justlnia Johnson, was a our Commonwealth has the Senate been woman of remarkahle energy and force. called upon to meet so many grave questions She was the granddaughter of Gen. Daniel j as during the years of the great Civil War, 1, Brodhead of Revolutionary fame, whose mili¬ when our Union’s existence depended upon tary career is ever of interest to Muncy from j the loyalty and courage of the Northern the fact of his being stationed in command of States. The Legislature of no State was more Fort Muncy during a part of the great strug¬ prompt to uphold the Federal Government gle for Independence before he was ordered than Pennsylvania. In 'all the deliberations ■ to Fort Pitt to take command of the Western and enactments of the Senate during this Department. Upon her devolved the care stormy and historic epoch Senator Johnson and education of the subject of this sketch. took an intensely loyal and honorably promi- 4 But to his own efforts more than to any and nent part. As Chairman of the Judiciary j all other causes does Mr. Johnson owe the Committee, in his third session, he was leader I success which has paved his pathway from of his party on the floor of the Senate. His ! that June morning when, a stranger in a most important service was performed in con¬ strange land, he modestly opened his law nection with the amendment to the State j office in the then diminutive village of Muncy. Constitution providing for the soldiers to vote From the first he assiduously devoted himself at the front. He was the author of that! to his chosen profession. A practice and cli¬ amendment, introduced it in the Senate and; entage soon began to develop, slowly at first had charge of it then in its various stages un¬ but gathering as time went on and people til finally ratified. He also drew the measure learned to trust their affairs to his careful providing for the manner of its submission to .anagement The volume and importance a popular vote. The amendment having been j of his legal business steadily increased until adopted by an overwhelming vote the Gov¬ he enjoyed a lucrative practice in all the State ernor called the Legislature in special session courts. Few lawyers who ever practiced at in August, 1864, to provide for its being car¬ the Lycoming Bar have enjoyed so large a ried into effect. At this session Senator practice so long. It is doubtful if the name Johnson formulated and introduced the mea- t, of any is connected with more litigation of sure, which became a law, prescribing the ®h importance than his. He early and easily manner of the soldiers’ voting. The far a K ranked among the lights and leaders of a Bar reaching results of this amendment can hardly ! *h< that has always been distinguished. Along be overestimated. Without the soldier votes ; with Judge Armstrong, Judge Anthony, Judge Me Clellan would have carried Pennsylvania j a agr Maynard, Gen. Robt. Fleming and others in against Lincoln and the energy of the war j| ne. earlier years, and a galaxy of bright names in [ party seriously paralyzed. ^ later times, he has ever maintained a firm po- j Mr. Johnson was a delegate to the Balti- I nor sition in th e front rank. Chief among his more Convention in 1864, which renominated IS Con methods and characteristics as counselor and Lincoln. He was among those in the Pennsyl- ' I advocate have been thorough and profound vania delegation who carried her vote for An- }

When the subject of this sketch was twelve years the borough treasurer and a school A , years old, his father moved his family to director. Lewisburg, coming up the river in one of the In 1835 he took his first ride on the rail- j ^ flat bottomed boats known as “River boats.” road, going from Columbia to Philadelphia.ia. ' These boats were usually poled up stream by The cars were drawn by relays of horses. In J several men, but owing to the favorable di- 1842 he joined the Odd Fellows at Muncy. | rection of the prevailing winds the Weavers When the Luminary was started, in 1841, hei . sailed their boat the entire distance. In 1829, was among the original subscribers and has ! when about eighteen years old, William received every paper issued up to the present Weaver came to Montoursville. It was then time, and with a few exceptions has read every a straggling little village of three or four number. Best of all, from the publisher’s I houses; and Williamsport, the County seat, point of view, he has always paid in advance. j was a sleepy town of five or six hundred A subscriber from the age of thirty until past I inhabitants. Mr. Levi Coder is the only per¬ eighty, he has well earned the right to sign son now living in the borough, who was an I “Constant Reader.” A reader of the Lumi- inhabitant of Montoursville at that early day. ! nary for half a century, having changed with Work was in progress on some of the lower it from Whig to Republican, he can to-day levels of the West Branch Canal, but they had read this anniversary number of his long time not yet reached Montoursville at that time. favorite paper, in the enjoyment of good Mr. Weaver was married to Anne Whee- health, and bids fair to read it for another land in 1835, their married life extending over decade. in this neighborhood and adjoining county F. W. ROBB. during their stay, but on closer inquiry into Among the first on the list of subscribers for the circumstances giving currency to this re¬ the Muncy Luminary, fifty years ago, is the port, we have ascertained beyond a doubt, name of Maj. F. W. Robb, and he has taken that the only cause of complaint that could the paper ever since. We do not care to give possibly be sustained, was the immense amount the date of a man’s birth in all cases, especial- of p oultry that disappeared about that time, ly when it is currently reported in some sec¬ and that none survived the contest except a tions of the country, that persons can be found, few old stagers that had learned from observa¬ in this valley whose early life dates back to | tion, and perhaps some experience in the the time, or about the time, when Christopher chase after them on Sundry occasions, that Columbus first landed and took possession of their only safety consisted in roosting very property which did not belong to him, and high. * ] handed it over as a royal gift to the King an Some of these survive, and now at early Queen of Spain. morn may be heard daily proclaiming their Under the care and training of a devoted fortunate escape from the chopping block of mother, who, sometimes no doubt had oc¬ the destroyer. casion to raise the subject of our sketch by But in a few years, all these will have passed hand, as he started in the race of life for de¬ away, and others less conscious of danger oc¬ velopment into manhood, he became a good! cupy their places-—then Maj. Robb and wife citizen and did his part in labor and mechani¬ can come again, and fully enjoy the hospi-1 cal skill, so necessary in a community where tality of their many friends, for all are friend j industry and frugality are the chief requisites ly here—and all will join hereafter, as here¬ of ultimate success. tofore, in giving them a kind and cordial! He was born in Muncy township, and wont¬ ed upon his father’s farm until he arrived at welcome. the age of eighteen. He tSien left home and) baker IAnggake. Baker Lafigcake, one of our oldest arid went to learn the tanning business under the most respected citizens was born at Frank- direction of Thomas Maxwell, Esq. ford, near Philadelphia, on the 23d of Janu- After serving his apprenti ceship,he went to ary, 1803. His parents were from England, j Williamsport, and obtained employment under g " The name is an English one. A Col. Lang- j Mr. Fields who then carried on an extensive j cake distinguished himself greatly during the j tannery in that place. -- 'Crimean war ; his mother’s name was Baker.1 He afterwards became the owner of a tan¬ Mr. Langcake married Miss Janet Hepburn, j nery in Muncy Borough, and carried on the of Williamsport. He first located in Wil-1 business here for many years. liamsport and was engaged in mercantile ; He married Miss Ellen Montgomery, a pursuits there for some years, He has re- j most beautiful and accomplished daughter ol John Montgomery, Esq., and after spending b the highest respect and esteem of the entire several years of their married life in this place, s community. Mr. Langcake was one of the th. removed to Nebraska, where they now reside, a Tt original subscribers of The Luminary, and Syr and are located upon a farm about ten miles whi one of the few now living who began with from Nebraska City, where land is as rich and tba Vol. 1, No. 1, and taken it ever since. productive in its natural state, as it can pos- ag r Af' si bly be made in other places under the highest net MlUINTCY ~ old state of the most approved cultivation. as a wh Though making their home in Nebraska, no\ MANUFACTURING TOWN. Goi they never forgot the beautiful valley of their Con ami n ative place, and as often as circumstances shi- Its Advantages as a Location for Manu¬ would permit, they have come back with bri facturing Purposes, and a Glance lo ; I joyful hearts to visit the companions of their at Some of its Leading dp* •outh. Enterprises. 'in their visit here last winter, it was mani- The prosperity and progress of a town or o every one, that attachments formed in city depends largely upon its manufacturing e arly life, were not weakened by lapse of enterprises. Their prosperity usually means years, and though rather beyond the meridian prosperity to every one directly or indirectly of life, they were free in action as children connected with the business or industrial life just let loose from school. It is said, how¬ of the community. The tendency of modern ever, they caused some suffering while here j life is to centre in towns and cities, which be- ' i COme vast hives of industry. A town to be port. Mr. Coulter and the Messrs. Rogers truly prosperous, in this present day use of have for many years been identified with the I * e wor<^ must becom8 a manufacturing cen- woolen industry of this section, and Mr. Me¬ tre of greater or less degree. The two ways ghan has for more than twenty years been in which this much to be desired end is connected with the dry goods trade. reached is to attract outside enterprise to locate Their large mills on Market street, near the j in the town, or to evolve them from within by canal basin, are but a few rods from the Muncy i the formation of corporations and partnerships extension of the Reading railroad. The build¬ or by the slower process of development from ings are of brick and present a handsome small beginnings. architectural appearance; the main building Muncy, from its geographical position, offers is three stories with an attic, 110x55 feet, an excellent location for various business and with a three-story wing 60x30, and a one- manufacturing enterprises. Its situation, at story engine and boiler room. the confluence of Muncy creek and the Sus¬ . The first floor of the main building contains quehanna river, makes it the natural entrepot the office, presided over by Mr. George H. and outlet for a large section of farming and ' Rogers, as genial a gentleman of his weight lumbering country. Its railroads afford ample as one could wish to meet; and the finishing shipping accommodations, and guarantee that I and packing rooms are under the vigilant care competition in freight and express rates which of Mr. Samuel Rogers, where all the blankets adds to the value of a business or manufac¬ are finished, inspected and packed for ship- turing site. The railroads and the West ping. The looms, 16 in number, are on the Branch canal insure an abundance of both second floor. S. B. Coulter has charge of the soft and hard coal at reasonable prices, while weaving, and although Mr. Coulter is yet a the Williamsport and North Branch railroad young man the quality of the work turned out places within easy reach the vast forests of shows him to be an expert. On the third floor Sullivan county with their great wealth of the carding machines and spindles are located. | hardwoods and hemlock. The completion of Mr. B. F. Miller has charge of this part of the the proposed extension of the Pennsylvania work, and to spin the 150,000 pounds of wool railroad up the east side of the river, from used annually by the mill keeps him and his Montgomery bridge to Williamsport, will add assistants busy—they run 1,000 spindles. The greatly to the railroad advantages of the bor¬ fourth floor is used for storage purposes. In ough, and thfc extension of the Lehigh Valley the wing the sorting, dyeing and drying are railroad, to connect with the Williamsport and done. The power to move the machinery is North Branch, will give a new northern route furnished by a 6o-horse power engine under and open up the coal and lumber of Sullivan the charge of Engineer John Schodt. The and Columbia counties. These improve¬ whole plant is under the superintendeney of ments are bound to come within a couple of Mr. James Coulter. The firm employs from years, and will be of great benefit to the ma¬ 50 to 60 hands. terial interests of Muncy. The Muncy Woolen Mills make a specialty Among the many merits and advantages of of the “Muncy 100 per cent, all-wool blank¬ Muncy as a desirable location for business and ets.” These blankets are celebrated the coun¬ manufacturing purposes are: Its accessible try over for the purity of their material and the location, its proximity to the eastern markets beauty of their finish, and are sold from Maine and to the supply of lumber, coal, iron, etc., to California. Last year they manufactured plenty of available land at moderate prices, a and sold 30,000 pairs of blankets. Besides good water supply, cheap rents, excellent blankets the firm makes some yarn and a few schools, a moderate tax rate two banks, und flannels. its being the centre of a riot . nd prosperous The Muncy Woolen Mills are complete in agricultural country. everything that goes to make a first-class plant The manufacturing interests of Muncy have and are busy and prosperous. increased greatly during the past decade, and to-day the products of her factories have a THE MUNCY MANUFACTURING wide reputation. Among the leading indus¬ CO (LIMITED). tries of the borough are the following : The making of furniture is one of the grow¬ THE MUNCY WOOLEN MILLS. ing industries of Central Pennsylvania, and Coulter, Rogers & Company, proprietors, were now gives employment to a large number 01 founded m October, 1882. The gentlemen men and boys. Muncy is especially well lo¬ composing this prosperous firm are James cated for the advantageous production of fur¬ i\°ulter> George H. Rogers, Samuel Rogers, niture, and in the Muncy Manufacturing Co. yMuncy, and Uriah Meghan, of Williams¬ has a valuable and growing plant. This com- shops, Amos Berger; the machine pany was organized in 1887. Geo. H. Rogers Brewer; stone dressing rooms, Eli Pealer; woo is president of the company and A. B.Worth- I working department, Lloyd Winegardner; ington superintendent and treasurer; W. erecting rooms, Henry King, and the milling Brittain is secretary and bookkeeper. Their j department Milton Shipman. The motive factory, located near the Reading depot be- , power to run this splendid plant is supplied by tween the railroad and canal, is an extensive a 40-horse power Corliss engine. Ihe rm affair, consisting of the main building, iIOX4° employs 45 men throughout the entire year, feet and two stories high, which contains t e and last year paid out $17,168.01 in wages machine floors and cabinet rooms; the large j The factory was destroyed by fire in 1888, three-story building in the rear, in size 110x55 , but was immediately rebuilt without unneces¬ feet, and used for finishing, storing and pack- j sary delay. ing furniture, and the engine and boiler room, Waldron & Sprout build milling machinery, 33x34 feet in size. The plant is supplied with such as bolters, purifiers, French burr mills, the “Automatic Fire Extinguisher system, and a short system of milling buckwheat which with both tank and water works connection, is meeting with much success. Their French and is run by an engine of 50-borse power. burr feed mills are used for chopping, for The machine floors are under the supervi¬ paint mills, and in the South are in great sion of Foreman H. T. Elliott, while M. C. demand for grinding cotton seed. In connec-, Worthington looks after the cabinet rooms, tion with the feed mill they make a corn ear and James Laird has charge of the finishers. and oil cake crusher. This department of The company manufactures hardwood their business is growing rapidly and gives chamber suits, side boards, and a line of com- promise of becoming very extensive in the near j mon beds. The work turned out is of such a future. . , nature that it commands a ready market, and The Sprout hay elevator and the Sprout i is substantially made and well finished. They single and double hay fork, manufactured by make a special effort to put out none but tasty this firm, are recognized throughout the United and handsome designs. Their trade has been States as the very best in their line, and to¬ steadily growing and now, with ample capital gether with the hooks, grapples and pulleys \ behind them, the outlook for the future is used in putting them up form an important } bright indeed. The prospects for a good fall branch of the firm’s business. Thek lignum- 1 jad winter trade are looking up and Wd &x vitse pulley, used with the elevator, needs no l W %mt more than raalwad.- t oiling. 1 The company gives eitiployment to from 50 The factory of Waldron & Sprout is a * to 60 hands, and. turn. out goods_value to the value 1 model one, and one in which every citizen of of $100,000 annually. Mr. A. B. Worthing-, Muncy takes great pride. It is a splendid ton, the superintendent, has had years of ex-j example of what energy, push and well df perience in the production of furniture, and is rected business enterprise will accomplish. an energetic and hustling furniture man,whose ambition is to see the Muncy Manufacturing S. E. SPROUT & SON. jl Company push on to the front in the manufac¬ Fruit growing, within the fast few years, j ture of good, substantial furniture. has become one of the most pleasant and pro- j fitable of agricultural pursuits. The annual j WALDRON & SPROUT. production of fruit now realizes many millions , One of Muncy’s most enterprising firms is of dollars. This great development in fruit production is owing largely to the improved I that of Waldron & Sprout, composed of Mr. methods and facilities for canning and evap- John Waldron and Charles H. Sprout. ey orating the fruit. Drying—or rather evapor- manufacture milling machinery and haying ating, if the fruit can be so manipulated that tools. Their factory, located between the Muncy Branch canal and the Reading exten¬ while preserving the fruit it retains its nutri¬ ment and palatable taste—is by far the most ! sion, is built of brick with slate roof, and economical method of caring for it. The is 170 feet long 80 feet wide one Williams Evaporator, manufactured by S. E. and two stories in heigth. The large plant, Sprout & Son, has successfully solved this though under one roof, is divided into a num¬ ber of distinct departments. Each department problem, and is to-day the leading evap¬ 'min charge of a competent foreman, and the orator. Mr. S. E. Sprout was the pioneer in whole is under the superintendence of Chas. the manufacture of evaporators, and has built H. Sprout. The several departments are un¬ up a fine trade for the Williams. They have der the supervision of the following foremen: erected the Williams Evaporator in every The foundry, Newtow Bare; the blacksmith fruit producing section from New Brunswick to California, besides having erected them in This, while one of Muncy’s youngest enter¬ the West Indies, and in Asia. Within the past prises, is fast forging to the front and is sure two years the efficiency of the Williams has to become of great importance. The gentle¬ been greatly increased by substituting steam men composing this firm are all practical men heat for the hot air furnace formerly used. and by close application to business and an This improves the appearance of the fruit and honest endeavor to make none but honest avoids all danger of scorching or burning the goods are steadily building a reputation for fruit. their goods second to none. The Williams Fruit Evaporator is in the form of a tower, 35 feet high and 5 feet square THE MUNCY BLACK FILLER CO. at the base. The fruit is placed in the screens The Muncy Black Filler Company, com¬ at the bottom of the tower and is thoroughly posed of William Eliott, of Williamsport, and evaporated while ascending and descending Levi Hill, of Muncy, was established in 1888. the tower, being removed from the opposite They manufacture a carriage, car and safe side from which it is put in. The process is filler of a superior character, which is now a continuous one, fruit being put in and taken used by every leading safe manufacturer in out constantly. It takes from two to three he United States. These fillers are suscept¬ hours to evaporate peaches or apples. The ible of a high polish by rubbing, and are. capacity of the large evaporators is from 150 J therefore, much used by carriage and cai to 175 bushels of apples or peaches every 24 ouilders for fine work. They also make hours, ready-mixed paints—in all desirable colors_ These machines cost from $800 to $1,200 for house and outside painting, and Hill’s Complete and set up ready for work. Mr. S. roofing paint, an imitation of slate. This has erected as high as one hundred evapor¬ oofing paint makes an excellent protection lor ators in one season. tn and iron roofs, and has great durability 1 In connection with the building of evapor¬ ind lasting qualities. Hill’s roofing paint, ators the Messrs. Sprout do a general planing being composed wholly of non-oxydizing mill business and give employment to from 12 minerals and oil, makes the very best kind ol to 25 hands, owing to the season. The firm 1 coating for iron and tin. is composed of Mr. Samuel E. Sprout and The factory and office are located just south j Willis S. Sprout. f the Reading depot, and are commodious Mr. Samuel E. Sprout is a gentleman of an [ .nd well arranged. They use the black shale inventive turn of mind, and now has ready j °und on the Musser farm, which is a solid, ] for trial an evaporator and condenser which, ! impervious shale, composed of about 50 per j, J while evaporating the fruit, will save the mat- rent, silicate, 14 per cent, carbon, and the — : ter that otherwise would pass off with the va¬ balance iron, magnesia and moisture. pors. He is anxious to try this new idea on peaches. In drying, peaches lose thirty pounds THE KEYSTONE PAINT CO. 1 to the bushel, and if this escaping matter has Tbe manufacture of the Keystone Black any commercial value the new machine will make it known. | Filler was begun by Mr. R. E. Gray in 1S73 i ' j *ater the Keystone Paint Company was or- J THE MUNCY TABLE WORKS, ganized. Elisha Gray, of telephone fame, is Ritter, Ort & Gundrum, proprietors. This president of the company and H. T. Ames. _ firm, composed of Charles P. Ritter, Richard Esq., of Williamsport, secretary and treas- I P. Ort and Ellis Gundrum, manufacture ex¬ urer. Their plant, located on the west side i tension tables, book cases, ladies’ secretaries of the canal near the Reading depot, consists and small stands. Ground was broken for the of a main building 200 feet long by 60 feet erection of their building on the 4th of July, wide, two stories and a basement; a mixed 1888. The wood working and cabinet build¬ paint building, 75x24 feet, and a boiler and ing is 50*30 feet, two stories; the finishing engine room, 32x32 feet. This company building is two-stories, 20x30 feet, and the I manufactures the celebrated “Keystone black other buildings are engine and boiler house ! f'Uer,” the leading filler for car, safe and car- and the dry kiln. The factory is located east ! ‘ iaSe work , the “Keystone black lead,” a of Washington street in the rear of the Trac¬ mixed paint for carriage work, and the “Key¬ tion Company’s buildings. The firm employs stone slating paint” for blackboards, than IS men and turn out 35 extension tables per 1 which there is no better made. These fillers week along with their other specialties. They jand paints are made from a silicated-caibon use hardwood entirely ind turn out none but shale that crops out from under the Muncy first-class work, which finds a ready market. hills near the river and about half a mile be- ’work in his line on the shortest possible notice. .ow the railroad bridge. The company an¬ nually manufactures 600 tons of the black j CLINTON GUYER, MACHINIST, filler and from five to ten thousand gallons of | Among the infant industries of Muncy that the black lead. The development of this in- j are destined to flourish and grow larger is the dustry is the work of Mr. R. E. Gray, who machine and engine building shop of Clinton first recognized the value of rock as suitable Guyer. Mr. Guyer is a young man of great for a first-class filler. The demand for this energy and much mechanical skill and ability. valuable filler has always kept ahead of the His shop is located at the corner of Water supply, and as the supply of raw material is inexhaustible the business is capable of in¬ and Washington streets, where he has carried on the business for the past year. Mr. Guyer definite expansion. is prepared to do all kinds of machine work the LYON LUMBER CO. j in the best manner, and makes a specialty of the smaller sizes of horizontal and upright James M. Bowman and Howard Lyon engines. Mr. Guyer is one of the inventors compose the Lyon Lumber Company, manu- of the Stayman-Guyer Automatic Engine. i facturers of hemlock and hardwood lumber, This engine is pronounced by those capable roofing and plastering lath, pickets, &c. Their mills are located on Big Muncy creek, near of judging to be one of the most compact and Tivoli. Their annual product amounts to steam saving engines on the market. The 10,000,000 feet, and they give employment to engine is automatic—self-oiling, self-contain¬ 75 men at the mills and yards. The mills ing—and will run with less steam than any are under the supervision of Mr. Howard other engine of its horse power. It has a Lyon. The offices of the company are lo¬ vertical double cylinder and a short stroke of cated at Muncy and are in charge of Mr. Jas. great force. These engines supply a maxi-1 M. Bowman, assisted by C. H. Sones. mum amount of power, while they occupy a minimum amount of space and require the j least possible amount of fuel—things very im- j CARRIAGE BUILDERS. portant where the power must be loeated in j Muncy has no large factories engaged in crowded rooms or on the upper floors of j the manufacture of carriages and wagons by buildings. Mr. Guyer employs two men be-1 machinery, but she has three good shops, in sides himself, and turns out most excellent; which first-class work is done by competent work. Industries of this class are worthy of mechanics. These shops annually turn out encouragement and should receive the patron¬ quite a number of fine carriages, buggies, age of the people of Muncy and vicinity. wagons and buck-boards. Without the latter Muncy would not be complete, for it is emi¬ PETERMAN & PAINTER, nently the home of the buckboard, both sin¬ This young firm, composed of J. Dell Pe¬ gle and double, and that useful vehicle is j terman and T. B. Painter, about one year ago ! found in all its plebian usefulness and aristo- ( began the manufacture of wire goods, such as | cratic beauty. The carriage shops are run by , belt hooks, staples for barb-wire fences, poul-1 DeHass Bros., John Gable, and J. A. M. Mc¬ try netting, staples, bed spring staples, etc; | Daniels. These shops give employment to They met with success from the start and their j [ several skilled workmen. business is steadily growing. They are at j THE MUNCY AGRICULTURAL present cramped for room, but expect to rem-, WORKS, edy this in the course of the year. They are j now building several new machines which, John Artley, proprietor, is one of the oldest when completed, will allow them to greatly of Muncy’s manufactories. They manufac¬ increase the line of goods manufactured. 1 he ture the “Old Muncy bull plow,” the Muncy wire goods business is at present mostly con¬ Iron beam plow, the Muncy shifter, and the fined to New England towns and foreign 1 Muncy “straddle” or corn plow. While the countries, but there is no reason why it can-, modern chilled plow has superseded the se not be developed into a paying enterprise here j plows in many sections, they are yet exten¬ in Pennsylvania. Messrs. Peterman & Painter J sively used in many sections where the land have a good thing and propose to develop it j is newer or rough and rugged. The Muncy carefully and thoroughly. The goods turned, plows were in great demand for many years, out by them are well and evenly made and of; but the demand is not now so brisk, though a superior finish. The belt hooks turned out still quite large. Besides the making of plows Mr. Artley does a general repair and foundry by this firm are excelled by none. business, and is prepared to do any kind of WILLIAMSPORT’S MASSACRE. occurred. The men who ran after¬ Jane 10th, 1778—one hundred years wards reported that on looking back they ago to-day—an Indian massacre occurred oould see the Indians tomahawking the on the ground now occupied by the Hall women and children, whilst brave ^ foundry, or West Branch iron works,near Campbell was fighting hand-to-hand with | the corner of West Third and West an Indian. Peter Smith ran into a rye streets. According to the records a party field near by, and on looking back per¬ consisting of Peter Smith, his wife and ceived some one following him, and sup- ” six children, Mrs. William King and two posing it was an Indian, ran faster, but children, Michael Smith, Michael Camp¬ on climbing the fence he discovered that bell, David Chambers, Snodgrass and it was his little daughter, who, with out¬ Hammond, seven men, two women and stretched arm?, was following as fast as eight children, started from Lycoming she could and imploring her father to creek to proceed to Fort Muncy in a four wait and save her. Ha stopped a mo¬ horse wagon. It is supposed that they ment, seized the child in his arms ard had settled on the flats near the creek, fled for life. He escaped to Fort Muncy. j but the Indians becoming troublesome What became of the other men is not they were forced to fly for safety. They stated in the recordp. had traveled but a short distance when When the boy gave the alarm at Ly com- they were met by a messenger from the iDg creek his story was misunderstood, fort below, who informed them that con¬ owing to the excitement under which he siderable firing had been heard about was laboring, and the men thinking it was Loyalsoek that day, and it was not con¬ a canoe that had been attacked in the sidered safe for them to proceed, as hos¬ river, seized their guns and ran in that tile Indians abounded. Smith,who seems direction. It was now dark, and as tfce to have been the leader of the party, in¬ massacre had occurred about sundowD, formed the messenger that he would not Colonel Hepburn, who had started with a be deterred by the firing from proceeding. party from Loyalsoek, came upon the The messenger returned with all haste spot, but not ascertaining the extent of and reported Smith’s intentions. A small the damage, pushed on to Lycoming party of men was then detailed and or¬ creek. Early next morning they returned dered to advance and meet them. This to make a search for the killed. Arriving party is supposed to have been Colonel on the ground they beheld a revolting Hosterman’s. It was nearly night when and horrible sight. Peter Smith’s wif they anvanced and did not meet the fugi¬ was found shot through the body, tives. stabbed, scalped, and a bloody knife ly¬ According to the evidence that has ing by her side. William King’s wife was been preserved, Smith’s party advanced tomahawked and scalped, but still sur¬ unmolested until they reached the spot vived, and was sitting up when they of ground occupied by these machine came. Her husband approached, when shops, when they were suddenly fired I she: recognized him, leaned on him, upon from the bushes by a band of In¬ and almost immediately expired. Al¬ dians supposed to number about twenty. though apparently sensible when they At the first fire Snodgrass fell dead, when arrived, she could not speak a word, and I the savages rushed on the parly, toma¬ *-. \ presented a horrible eight, her face being, hawk in hand, to complete the work of covered with clotted blood. A little boy slaughter. The men immediately jumped audfgirl were found killed and scalped. behind trees and commenced firing, but Brave Campbell was also found shot, with little effect, when the Indians en¬ | stabbed and scalped. He had been shot deavored to surround them. A panic im¬ in the back, evidently by an Indian creep¬ mediately ensued, when all the men, with ing up behind. A knife was also slicking ;ho exception of Campbell, fled, leaving in his body. Everything around indi¬ the defenceless women and children to cated that he had fought desperately with their fate. A small boy escaped and superior numbers and sold his life as making his way to Lycoming creek dearly as possible. His gun was gone, informed several men who remain¬ but an Indian gun was found near his ed at the settlement there what had body broken to pieces. What became of ^'remainder of the children is unknown, bat it is supposed they were carried into fc Y? 02 - < captivity. Yery little plunder was taken from the wagon. The Indians had invaded the valley and made war upon the settlers as far up ■ iV4 • Cu<$i;/3/~fc aa where Lock Haven now stands. Many were slain, their cabins burned and. stock driven off. A panic seized the remainder SSmS in % tUocte. . of the settlers, and hastily collecting to¬ gether a few stores they commenced de- IL8 'Seending the river in canoes, All the — OF — stockade forts from Antes creek to Fort Penas^ania Lumbermen. , Muncy and Fort Freeland were abandon¬ ed, the settlers taking refuge at Fort Daring Deeds and Close Calls. Augusta, where Banbury now stands. A writer from Pine Creek, Penn., shows quite Nearly all the cabins, including the grist j- - graphically some of the dangers to which lumb¬ ermen of that region are exposed in the prosecn- mill erected by Colonel Antes, at the < tion of the work, for the life of the lumberman mouth of the creek bearing his name, in the pine and hemlock woods is always sur¬ were burned, and the valley presented a rounded by many perils, but at the season of the scene of desolation and woe. The mem¬ year, until the logs are run to the dams and orable flight of the settlers at that time booms, the passing of a day without some fatali¬ was called the “Big Runaway,” and as ty occuring to workmen in some branch of the business somewhere in the region is regarded as such it is known in history. After the a fortunate one. savages had slain many settlers, carried One casualty, reported, was an unusually others into captivity, and destroyed near¬ shocking one, resulting as it did in the death of ly all the improvements that had been three men who were at work at the lower end of made, they hurried on to Wyoming to a log slide in the woods. The slide was a long and steep one, and what is known as a “wildcat take part in the bloody massacre that fol¬ string” of logs came rushing down the slide. lowed oa the 3d and 4th of July, 1778, DANGEROUS PLACE. which the people of that valley are now Logs pass down these slides with almost light¬ preparing to commemorate with a suita- ning-like rapidity, and there is a constant dang¬ .-ble centennial observance. er of one or more of them jumping over the sides of the chute and mowing down everything that At the time of '.the massacre we have stands in their path. A man was walking with described there were few, if any, settle two horses along the slide some distance above k merits on the ground now occupied by ■the spot where his two fellow-workmen were en- Jthis fair city of twenty thousand inhabit aged. As the string of logs sped down the slide F tan is. A forest of heavy timber covered jtfae head log jumped from the chute. The man and his team were directly in its [ the flats along the river, and there was range, and it struck him and the horses. The I only an occasional “clearing” to indicate |; an was torn to pieces in the twinkling of an | the advance of the hardy pioneer. One eye, and both horses mangled to death. hundred years, however, have produced Two others heard the noise of the jumping .remarkable changes- a prosperous and) log, and saw it tearing on toward them. They sprang to one side and escaped it, but as it beautiful city bar-'grown up, and on the dashed by them another log jumped from the very spot where this terrible tragedy w as slide and struck both of the men. They were not enacted the hum of industry and thj killed outright, but were so so frightfully hurt whirr of machinery are heard. It is moi that they lived but a short time. musical to the ear than the whoop of thj BREAKING DOWN. Another exciting and always dreaded period savage and the wails of those who fell be in the lumberman’s life in the woods is the neath the stroke of the tomahawk and f “breaking down” of log piles heaped or ranked gleaming knife. at the summits of the long rollways that border the streams. These rollways extend from the tops of high hills and abrupt banks to the water’s edge. There are two ways of piling the logs—one by placing them in regular ranks or tiers, and the other by throwing or dropping them in jumbled heaps on the ground. Is the latter method, the logs lock, cross, and key one another, and so it reqnenfly occurs tfiat so'^HTg HJ ? daogero^ ieen tne work of a moment or of a day, position must be loosened at the risk of life and the time that requires the driver to exercise all limb before the logs have gone down the steep ’ his nimbleness, nerve and skill to escape from hiHsides to their place in the water. This style the rush of pitching, tossing, thundering logs tumble08 1089 19 What '3 Called a rough and that he has started. He leaps here and there and jumps from log to log in his flight, with the fatalities. Fatalities attend its manipulation every year. avalanche of timber pressing close behind him The logs are dumped from the trails and lie in a or perhaps moving in under his feet. ragged, promiscuous jumble from top to bottom Such a rush of a pile of logs down a steep roll- way, is in itself an exciting scene, but with it I! h k !?11Way- The k0y l0S or logs may be at the bottom of the pile or in the water or half chasing a daring lumberman before it, whom the way up the hill. There are always such configu¬ slightest misstep would place at the mercey of rations of the pile that there are many openings the flying timber, it is a spectacle that only the like great pitfalls here and there. At some of boldest can gaze upon. A rush of logs, rolling, these piles the rollways are selected at places tumbling, and roaring into a stream will dash along the creek where the banks are high on the water 50 feet into the air and leave the bot¬ either side. tom of the stream as bare as the shore until the Then high dams are thrown across below, fit¬ water falls back again in foam and spray to its ted with flood gates. By these dams the water place. can be thrown back, and quickly raised and A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. One incident of recent occurenence on one of lowered among the tightly massed logs, so that it lifts them and aids in releasing the jam. But these rollways may be cited as the daily story even where these dams are in use there are fre- almost of them all, although in this case the re¬ quently piles so obstinate that nothing but the sult was a most miraculous and unheard-of es- • skillful work of the lumbermen on the key log cape from a rush of logs instead of the usual will break them down. — sickening loss of life. This incident occurred The logs are often woven together almost like at a jam on the bank at Liverpool Mills. a web, and to the uninitiated spectator the task The logs were in such a situation that to find of unraveling it, as it may well be called, seems and start the log that was the key to the jam beyond human power. But there was never yet was a task of more than usual risk. The men a log pile so tightly keyed that the agile and ex¬ had worked at the jam from the outer edges pert log driver of the Susquehanna could not nearly all day, but in vain. At last three men break it down, although he risks and mayproh- volunteered to go out on the logs, find the key ably lose his life in the undertaking. log and remove it. As they neared the centre of DARING DEEDS. the great pile the man who took the lead shout- led to his brother to go back, as he had found the It seems utterly incredible that men could be log that held the jam, and it could be removed found so daring as to make their way out over without aid from them, so that it was an unnec¬ these icy, jagged and twisted piles, with per- essary risk of life for them to go on. His two haps a thousand logs above them, held, it may comrades refused to leave, and he sent them be, by the obstinate keying of a single log, and above the log on which he stood, saying that ready to thunder down upon them the instant ttat.]og „ „°«d a hall ,„ei they could aid him better there. It was plain afterward that he put them at 'that point only to save them from the fate that But the occasion is only needed on the Sus- ■ quehanna and its branches to produce such men seemed almost certain to follow the starting of Ithe one log that held the hundreds of others in may be60016’ “° matt6r h°" ^ the daDger check. He pried one log up a few inches and The woodsman makes his way nimbly out shifted another to one side, and the trap was with caution over the protruding logs and across sprung. The slippery peeled logs rushed away treacherous pitfalls, frequently disappearing en- under the feet of the three men A BUN FOR LIFE. timbe«Thth SOme Upheaved SrouP of immense timbers as he tries to locate the log or logs that The two younger men, who were out of the prevents the great pile from breaking and com real danger line, managed to reach a place of safety by their agility in leaping from log to log. Pleting its Hghtning-like plunge into the stream The other kept his feet, and with wonderful The log that makes all the trouble may be dexterity made his way along with the moving, crashing, thundering mass of logs down toward peril The woodsman’s quick eye is not long in the creek, working his way to one side of the ascertaining how the key may be most advan- roll way, to reach which meant safety for him. tageouedy removed, and he at once proceeds to The men who were watching him in his desper¬ the accomphshmg of the task. One or two blows ate leaps for life saw him reach the edge, almost with his axe may be sufficient to remove an ob- beyond danger, and gave a shout. structmn that has persistently defied the many At that moment a log was hurled upward from tons of pressure from above. Then, again it the crowding mass, and it came down immedi- atly in the rear of the lumberman. One end ^erhare<1UIrea h°Ur’8 choPPing and prying or perhaps a day’s hard work even to break the swung around and struck him on the leg. He fell, and in a second log after log piled up on the nerve and skill. spot, and a score or more shot and rolled and en the key :s broken, however, whether It tumbled on over them to the creek. , A CLOSE CALL. The instant the rush of the logs was over the cessi- | man’s fellow-Workmen hastened to remove the j The . I pile beneath which they expected to find their. always a J companion crushed ont of ail human form. For borne wi S two hours they worked, and as they neared the was kDown the place of his • bottom of the pile they wbre amazed to hear a however, that he was a —~ -- - - 1 groan. At last they came to him on the man, who, for some reason rti 1 ground with a log across his legs. A big log acknowledge his parentage, but pr ■ that lay end down in the water, firmly fixed in vided the means to insure him a enpe its position against the solid jam already in the education. The plaoe of his oirth, fi creek, had caught the ends of two others as they incidental remarks be occasionL came down in the rash, and held them clear of dropped, is supposed to have been i the ground, a space of two feet being left be- Highlands of Scotland. 'tween them and the ground. | From what can be gleamed concer: inir him, Dr. Coleman was a man o With these two logs he had evidently ability, but eocc-ntrio in his manner, gone down, and had fallen between them, the and habits and disposed to shun sooioty. end of one of them failing across his legs. The Eis first assessment in Loyalsook town¬ two logs had served to keep the great pile clear ship in 1805, was: ‘‘0°Acn11 £ a 11°n ’„if,"'rj’ of his body and saved him from being crushed. one horse, $16; tax, $1.08. In -806 . One of his legs and several of his ribs were bro¬ horse was assessed $30, but bis oci°°“a' ken. He was taken out unconscious, but he re¬ tion was net rated higher. In 1807-8 covered from his injuries. His escape was the the valuation of the horse was reduced most remarkable in the history of Susquehanna to $16, but the rating of his occupation was unchanged. ’ lumbering. As many as five men have been killed m the It is uncertain where his office was located, but from his acquaintanceship, breaking of a single jam at a railway, and the and other circumstances, it is inferred fatality that attends the breaking down of log that it was in the neighborhood of Cemo- I piles in the Susquehanna lumber region would lery street, which was then some dis tance Istartle the public if made an item in the reports outside of the original borough urn its. p of vital statistics. On the assessment book for 1809 the word ‘‘removed” is written opposite his name, which confirms the tradition tha - he left here in 1808. i&azdlt & fiulktin. After leaving Williamsport he made his way to Clearfield county and settled in what is now Penn township. At that MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1892. time it contained few settlers and was w. 71 dense wilderness. While living here he \ DR. SAMUEL GOLEMAN was occasionally called promssionally ,o that wild region, because ne was tne nearest physician, and became acquaint¬ de. SECOND RESIDENT PHYSICIAN Cl , ed with the pioneers. It was a long dis¬ tance to travel. Much of tue way laid WILLIAMSPORT. through an extremely dreary andin- ilhi hosp-ffible country; the roads were little better than narrow bridle paths and fca FACTS OF THE PAST OF INTEREST travelers had to camp out at night. th In the meantime Joseph Boone, whom the venerable Miss Ellen Earns of Wiien ESe Cause Her®, Haw I ons E8e Belleionte, says was a oonsin o, Mrs. Eleanor Winter, (also a Boone,) was Remedied, and When He Settled living at Williamsport, for his name ap¬ in CiearCield County—myate .y pears on the assessment lists for lbUb-7, Surrounding' Hi» History— and had beoome the owner, in part, of Bits Strange Bequest. several tracts of land in Clearfield coun¬ ty. It is related that on a certain oc¬ casion while Boone was serving as sherm In a previous article it was shown that! of Washington (?) John Nicholson was Dr. William Kent Lathy was the first arrested and placed in his custody. He resident phvsician of ^ 1lhams^por- - , escaoed. This rendered Boone liable on his retirement he was succeeded by JJr. his bond and he and his sureties suffer¬ Samuel Coleman, whose name ‘ *j_| ed He afterwards found Nicholson in Philadelphia, who, in order to make pears on the p he Boone’s losses good, transferred to him sock township in l^Ojh T.rthv’s; and bis bondsmen several tracts of laDd came in 1804. Jks, but! in Clearfield county. This was a part name disappeared ^0“; township, as he had returned to mu“~y h t ;g of one thousand acres surveyed in tue and settled on his farm f8p nDsdaie name of Phillip Mecklin and Robert E. now known as the hamlet of Griffith on warrant No. 5933, and dated March 19, 1805. Boone, and the he was still f'^£jpohr ii is | other parties concerned *ith him, were needed at Wi m®P attention | likely, therefore,.that - persuaded Dr. Coleman to ^emi- . - grate to UUarneia county” ~BTid as¬ Uoooe, who was killed at the battle’ sist in building up a settlement which Fort Freeland in July, 1779. This they contemplated making. The land inferred from the fact that the latter'' at that time laid in Pike town¬ purchased a tfapt of land i03 what ii" ship, which was named after General. now a part of the. city of ^Williamsport, Zebulon Pike, the discoverer of Pike’s near Lycoming Creek. Joseph Boone Peak. On the 29th of April, 1814, is also assessed in 1808-9, in Williams¬ Robert E. Griffith. James Hopkins port, with one house and lot, $400, three and Joseph Boone conveyed (see lots, $20, and one horse and cow, $28. Deed B56 (1887) that Boone presented him his Grampian Hill farm in particular. with this land, but the dead disproves He was regarded as a ma i of standing in the statement. i.he settlement, for on the 21st of No¬ Dr. Coleman, when he left Williams¬ vember, 1815, the commissioners ap¬ port in 1808 for his new home in the pointed him county treasurer, and ue wilderness, was accompanied by a negro served in that capacity during 1816. He slave named Otto, who seems to hav9 died in 1819. His will, which was writ¬ been a faithful servant. On their ten April 29. 1819, and probated May 20, arrival they encamped under a rude 1819, (recorded at Bellefodte in Book A, open shed covered with brush, and slept p. 137) indicates that his death occurred on pieces of chestnut bark. Tins was in the early part of May of that year. near a cabin whioh had previous y been 1 here is a tradition among the people erected by Boone on an adjoining hob'c.' iu the neighborhood where he tract. In 1809 Coleman commenced died that he left this peculiar request re clearing land and making improvements. garding his burial: “1 wish to be buried Owing to the peculiar hilly nature of iu the middle of my large field, habited the country he named his place the in my best suit of clothes, including hat, Grampian Hills, a title which it bears to boots and spurs—without a stone to this day. Here he labored industriously mark my resting place* so that the plow with his own hands to clear the ground. shall ever afterwards move oyer my re¬ In a few years ha orected a two story mains!” house of hewn logs at the foot of a hill Whether this strange request is liter¬ dear a spring where he lived and died. ally true, I have no means ol proving, This building was only torn down a few but the oldest inhabitants in Penn vears ago by James Miller, the present township still declare that it is. It ixiwner of the land. Coleman planted an would seem to accord, however, with his apple orchard on the side hill back of strange and eccentric oharaoter. The his house, whioh is still standing, and clause in his will, however, regarding the gnarled and scraggy appearance of his funeral reads: “I will and direct the trees indicate very plainly their that on my decease I be dressed in my , great age. best suit of clothes and buried in them.” It is said tJ)at Dr. Coleman disliked The nnwritted part of the request may j the practice o! medioine, and would oniy have been an afterthought when the will i visit the si°k bed when his presence was finished. There is no positive evi¬ was deemed indispensable. He was, dence that the request was literally car- , ried out, but tradition says that it was. however, the first physician to settle The place of burial was well up on a within the present limits of Clearfield LiU near the edge of his orohard, in county. sight of bis log house, with a thick In 1809 Joseph Boone moved his growth of primitive timber within a few family by water from Williamsport to feet of the grave. If his request to haye Clearfield and settled near the cabin of his grave unmarked was true, it has not Thomas McClure, afterwards known as been respected, for the physicians re¬ “Squire’ McClure. He came from cently raised a sufficient sum of money Cumberland county in 1799, and was to erect a monnment, which bears this probably a brother of Robert MoClure, inscription on the face: who was one of the three first lawyers to locate at Williamsport near the close of In Memory of the last century. Boone was a man of Eoru-i education and endowed with Db. Samuel Cckman, Ooujuierable enterprise. He com- Pioneer Physician, ‘ d to build a mill on Bell’s creek, whs unable to finish it. Boon ITS -1819. ,wmds he took up his resi¬ de • o m the town of Clearfield, and The inscription on the other side of d at> clerk to the Board of Com- ’ the shaft reads: Wisaioners from 1812 to 1820, and as ■poHjonoiury irom 1827 to 1836. Ha Erected by the did in 1837 and his wife Priscilla ad- Clearfield County mistered on liis estate, He came of famous Boone fa .Berks. Medical Society, lSST* X'SX iVCUlUUAJ',Kentucky, ft QCl i brother of the brave Hawkins — e monument stands "about five feet r u on its base, is composed of pure THE REPUBLICAN. n'ite marble, and is an appropriate tribute to the memory of the mysterious TELEPHONE NUMBER 1334. man whose remains lie underneath, and whose name should not soon pas3 into THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1892. oblivion. . , ... In the reminiscences preserved of him it is said that he never nsed profane lan-1 WHO WAS TIM GRAY ? puage, and invariably reproved those | who did in his presence; but he was t TEE OLD TIME HUNTER OV LYCOM¬ occasionally given to spells of dissipa¬ ING CREEK. tion which may have been the cause of his early death. In the trial of James Monks, at Bellefonte, November, 1818, HIS AKGESTRY AHD .HISTORY on the oharge of murdering Reuben, Guild, he appeared as a medical witness Bom iu 1778 on Mill Creek—Serves in the on the part of the Commonwealth. A War of 1818—When and Where He son of Guild said that his father had a Died—Gray’s Run Named hollow tooth filled with beeswax. On: for Him. the jawbone being produced in court, Dr. Coleman detected the beeswax, ns1 For many years the present generation stated by the son, which made the evi¬ has been used to hearing marvelous dence conclusive. In the lives of Doctors Lathy and stories of Timothy Gray, who lived and Coleman several strange co-incidences died at the mouth of Gray’s Run, which are presented. Both died at the age of empties into Lycoming Creek a few thirty-seven; both were of English miles above the village of Trout Run, origin; both came to this country when hut few can tell whence he came and very young men and immediately after when he departed. To the majority of graduation, and each one only remained in Williamsport about three years as persons oi the present day his history resident physicians. and exploits as a hunter are rapidly be-. Dr. Coleman never married, whiltt coming dimmed by the halo of mystery j Dr. Lathy did. Here the co-incidenees which surrounds his name, and if not in their lives ends. As Coleman had no placed in permanent form will soon legal heirs in this oountry he devised pass away forever. Let us rescue them one -hundred acres of his estate to Pris¬ ere it is too late. Boone, cilla, the wife of Joseph and the Who was Tim Gray ? | balance to her son, Joseph Boone, Jr. Ho came of a Revolutionary sire. His Two other tracts were willed to Samuel father, Joseph Gray, was born in Vermont Coleman Fleming and Samuel Cole-] about 1749 of Irish parentage. _ Having man Hepburn, respectively. These two reached manhood, and before tne break¬ young men were named after him. Ihe ing out ot the war for independence, he first was a son of Joseph Fleming, came to Pennsylvania with relatives and and the latter of William Hepburn. others of the name, and tarried for a short Both were very early settlers there. His time in the famous Scotch Irish settle¬ personal property he divided among the ment of Paxtang, a few miles east of the children of Joseph Boone, naming each present city of Harrisburg. Just when| one, and the articles they were to have, he came to the West Branch Valley is in his will, even down to his gun and unknown, but it was probably as early pistols. His household furniture he j as 1776 or 1777. Like hundreds oi owners, gave to Mary Boone, and to “Peggy and he was probably attracted by the flatter¬ -- ~ ’ • v’ -L -and a ing stories of the beauty and fertility of Nancy MoOrackin” each “a ewe the country which reached them at Pax- lam b.” He appointed as his executors tans, and being anxious to secure a home David Ferguson and Joseph Boone anci he was willing to brave the uangers oi the will was witnessed by Bernard Mo- the frontier. The times were perilous. Mania and Thomas McClure. The victorious British army occupied the , The grave of the remarkable man chief cities of the infant Colonies, whilst ,'is only about half a mile from the the red fee assailed the settlements in the little borough of Pennvilie, at the p es- rear> ent, terminus of the Tyrone and Clear¬ Having arrived in the valley he stopped field railroad; and it is easily and at the Loyalsock; along whose banks quickly reached, for an excellent public the nucleus of a settlement had been road runs within sight of the monument. formed. In a short time he selected a The surrounding bills, heavily wooded. location ca Mill Creek not far from its mouth, erected a cabin and commenced lend a charm of romantic beauty to the making an improvement. The terutory poene, and icmiauremind travelers’7 : ofA the then laid in the township of Muncy, (now ( rampian Hills in Bonne Scotland Upper Fairfield,) which then extended Johs OP La IS CASTES. to Lycoming Creek. Beyond that stream, north of the river, the Indian claimed supremacy. . That Joseph Gray was here in L77, wo are assured, for we find his nanr that of John and Thomas Gray. /end- him to hunting ana hshing and 15 „ „ memorial gotten up by the settlers ! pursuits he became noted. After atl_ he Supreme Executive Council prav- ing mature manhood ,he married Eli lor military protection from the sav- | beth Clendenin in 1810. Her lather was Who John and Thomas Gray were j also a revolutionary soldier, and an early _not apprised, but they were prob¬ 1 settler on Lycoming Creek near Trout er brothers or cousins. Tombstones Run. On the breaking out of the war of irk their graves in the old burial ground 1 812 he entered the volunteer service and Paxtang. The former died in 1785 and ; soon rose to the rank of First Lieutenant. o latter in 1794. . He returned in 1814 and lived for sev¬ The tradition of the family is that eral years near the homo of his wife’s Joseph Gray married a Miss Titus, and parents. On the 5th of April, 1820, he earlv in 1778 Timothy Gray was born. settled at the mouth ot what is now Ho came into the world at the most known as “Gray’s Run.” His house gloomy period of our colonial history. stood almost on the famous Sheshequin The savage was on the war path and path, over which the Indians passed threatened death to all who remained m when making incursions into th9 valley, the valley. The settlers were kept in a and near a famous spring, where they constant state of alarm. Excitement in¬ I frequently tarried at night. At that time creased from day to day, until in June, the trunks of the stately trees which 1778, the panic culminated in the night I grew around the spring bore many hier- known as the Big Runaway. According j oglyphical marks, cut by the tomahawk, to accounts the scenes and incidents of which the passing bands of savages read that time are indescribable and stand and understood. Many arrow heads, without a parallel in the annals of fron¬ i stone ornaments and broken pieces of tier settlements. , . , , I pottery were found there for years after- That Joseph Gray, his wife and infant I wards. son Tim, fled with the other settlers thore Here Tim Gray lived and raised his is no doubt, for none remained to face : family; and when his life and character th@ savage foe. And on account of the I are considered, it is quite appropriate that panic which prevailed, many of the set¬ a dashing mountain*stream should per¬ tlers continued their flight down the petuate his name. His wile died Febru¬ river to Paxtang, where they remained ary 3, 1866. aged 77, and he followed her with their friends until it was deemed on the 17th of the same month and vear safe to return. at the mature and mellow age of 88, hav¬ On the 28th ot June, 1778, the name or ing lived five years longer than his father. Joseph Gray appears first on the list of a They are buried iu the Trout Run ceme¬ large number of persons who took the tery under the shadow of the mountain oath before Joshua Eider of Paxtang, j peaks which tower over them as fitting “renouncing all allegiance to George the monuments to mark their humble graves. Third, King of Great Britain, his heirs They left descendants as follows: and successors.” His experience in the Hannah, who married Joseph Younkin ; Big Runaway prepared his mind for de¬ cisive action against the foes of liberty, ! Charles C., Robert, George, John C., the and be soon alter entered the revolution¬ well remembered railroad contractor, ary service. How long be remained in whose resting place near his parents is the army we are not informed, but he marked by a heavy sandstone monument; doubtless participated in the horrors of Abigail, who married Samuel Dale, and Yalley Forge, and the glories of Trenton, died in Williamsport in May, 1891; Wil¬ Princeton and Monmouth. That he was liam, Mary and Henry. Of these chil¬ back again at Paxtang in December, 1789, dren Charles Clendenin Gray is the only we have positive evidence, for the records survivor ; and as he was born December show that on that date he subscribed ten 29, 1815, he is well along iu his 77th year. shillings towards raising a fund to repair He is a remarkably well preserved and “Paxtang Meeting House,” of which Rev. active man for his age, and scarcely shows a gray hair in his head. His wife, John Elder was then the pastor. Soon Harriet Arrance, whom he married in after this he returned to the place of his former settlement on Mill Creek, for wo 1849, died in August, 1879. Thov had seven children, viz: Elizabeth, Charles, find his name on the assessment list for Ellen, Emma, William, Robert and Mar¬ 1796, the year after Lycoming county was garet. The two latter are deceased. formed. Hero he lived until his death, Charles C. Gray was serving as a Con¬ which occurred September 6, 1832, at the stable in Lewis township when John ripe age of eighty-three, and he was Fields killed his brother-in-law, Mat¬ buried in the old cemetery at Montours- thews, in a quarrel about the price of rail¬ | ville. He loft a will in which he named road ties, and in attempting to arrest I Nathaniel Burrows and Clemson Buck- him, May 19,1869, Fields cut him severely ley as his executors. Toward the close in the head with an axe, the mark of of his life he became a Methodist and which he still bears. He lives at Penns- died in that faith, and his descendants dale, on Gray’s Run, near the place where have adhered to that belief.^ his parents lived tor nearly half a cen¬ Timothy was Ihe only child by the first tury. marriage. When his mother died is un- Tim Gray lived a long and happy life, I known, but it must have been soon after the greater portion of which was devoted his birth. By his second marriage Joseph to fishing and hunting. He early became I Gray had the following children : Joseph, an expert marksman and a shot from his jSamuel, James, Daniel, Ann, Deborah, rifle scarcely ever missed the centre. He Jharlotte and Margaret, all of whom are made the hills of Lycoming and its tribu¬ .deceased but Deborah, who is living in taries his “happy hunting grounds,” and Williamsport at an advanced age. in the days of his prime there were few Timothy Grav was reared on the farm I settlers within a radius of a hundred Of his father in Muncy township, and his I miles that did not know him. Blessed ipportunities for receiving an education «£* - - * * •', ' * - • • ■» -ere limited. His tastes early inclined I IU ev [ire. great hard- with the result as stated. ring His knowl- Gray, Tim’s son, says the iphy ao country was smooth and frozen hard, sable. tinet imed to guide the rebound. him like an Indian „ a;h the gloomy Many more incidents in the life of Tim forests and tangled thi 3 of the ra vines, Gray might be given, but the foregoing and he rarely lost He could | will suffice to show what manner of man travel without shoes . moccasins over he was. He quickly responded to th< the rocks and throug i thorny thickets, call of his country to assist in repelling “'re ripening he the foe, just as his father had done in the or.u 1 d -erank^tlie "bu his heel! In dark days of the -Revolution, and showed disposition he was sc_ s genial and com- his patriotism by meeting the British on panionabie, and the re ’t was everybody the Canadian frontier. He made no pre liked Ti m Gray. , tensions to superior wisdom or attain¬ Haring bis long carter he slew many ments ; he loved the chase and was hap¬ denizens of the forest. He shot two elk, piest when pursuing the game of the ' one of which we.ghed HOO pounds, two forest, or in catching the “speckled beau¬ panthers, more than twenty bears, and ties” which infested the limpid stream hundreds of deer, because these animals which flowed by his hospitable hut un¬ abounded in his aistric^in those days. In pretentious home. Such was Tim Gray, smaller game no account was ever kept. the old time hunter of the Lycoming. On account of his uieasant manners, knowledge of the country, and skill with the rifle, his services v/ere much sought after by surveying parties to establish camps, supply them with game and guide them through th6 fastnesses of the wilderness. Hunters, too, were always glad to engage him, fpr if they were unable to secure game, he know where to find and take it, «nd they aiwavs re-1 turned with abundance to surprise their friends! Many remarkable stories of his un- I erring aim with the rifle and strange ad¬ ventures are preserved. It is related that one James Marshall, of Bose Valley, had a great antipathy to clogs chasing deer and would shoot them if he got the Da _/ chance. Several dogs disappeared in this I way, causing much annoyance as well as loss to hunters. On a certain occasion Tim was employed to watch him. The fILLIMSPORT PRESS dogs were started in the valley and Tim glided after them with the quietness and agility of an Indian. Finally a rifle ITS HISTORY FOR A PERIOD OF OYER cracked and a dog tumbled over. Tim at onoo discovered Marshall standing by NINETY-ONE YEARS. a tree and he resolved to frighten him. Drawing up his rifle he planted the ball m the tree about six inches above Mar¬ BUYERS, THE FOUNDER shall’s head. This suiprised him greatly and before he got over his fright Tim IVlien He Came Here and Ills Struggles appeared. “I saw you shoot that dog,” he said, “and.I fired to let you know to Found tile first Paper—Tlie Fong how near I could come to your head Fine of Ills Successors—History of tlie without hitting you; the next dog youi Many Papers tliat. Have Appeared and kill I will plant a ballin your forehead !” ! Then Silently Passed A way-Tlie Week¬ JNo more dogs were shot. lies, Dallies and Monthlies of To-Day. On a certain occasion there was a shoot- j mg match at Koaring Branch and Tim was present. Before the match was over “WhsJ! another daily paper in Williams¬ Judge Lewis appeared, being on his way port,” the reader will probably exclaim on from Towanda to Williamsport. Joining taking np this number of The Times. V liy the party he observed his friend Grav, I pot? Williamsport, with her suburbs, has a when he remarked: “I will bet on | population of fully 35,000, and all signs point Tim.” ‘‘I have but one bullet left,” he replied. ‘‘Fire away,” said Lewis, “and lo increased future prosperity; therefore, why I will catch the bullet in my hand!” not another daily ? We are rapidly advancing Tim did as directed, and his gun in population and wealth, and there is ample had scarcely cracked when the room for another advocate of our industrial en¬ judge felt a stinging sensation terprises without coming in conflict with those in the palrn of his hand which caused already here. him to quickly close it. On opening his There have been many papers in Williams¬ hand imagine his surprise to find the port s' ce the first one was founded ninety-one bullet; very little flattened. Tim was years ago. Many came into existence, sur- cumfounded and looked upon the affair as marvelous. All in fact were puzzled. wived a short, time and then passed away. An investigation showed that Judge There are a goodly number to-day, and in Lewis had stood off some distance on one their respective spheres they are all worthy of side, and the ball striking the bark of a the patronage they enjoy. Let us look over the field since 1801 and soc what papers have come and gone in almost a century of time. nness’ new History of Lycoming County, Section with' Braude” continued it lor a~ ished by Brown, Bunk & Co., furnishes Brindle then retired and Torbe ie data for a compilation of the history of lished the paper alone until 1819, when ourualism in Williamsport, and it is given * (Lewis became a partner. He afterwards be¬ came celebrated as a jurist and finally reached herewith. the Supreme bench of the State. TIIE BEGINNING. How long the partnership of Briudle & The first newspaper in Williamsport, called Lewis lasted is unknown. When Torbert re¬ the Lycoming Gazette, was founded sometime tired Lewis published the paper till July, 1801, in 1S01 by William F. Buyers. On the 26th of when he sold out to Tunison Coryell, who October, 1801, Kennedy’s Gazette, of Nor¬ conducted it until August 1, 1823. It was thumberland, said : “William F. Buyers has then purchased by Henry Miller and John now established a printing office at Williams¬ Brandon. This firm existed until August 1, port.” As lie was born in Sunbury, January 1827, when Miller sold his interest to James 12, 1782, and learned the trade of a printer Cameron. The firm of Brandon & Cameron with Breyvogel, this must have been bis first only lasted till the 19th of December, 1827, venture after completing his apprenticeship. when William F. Packer—afterwards Gover¬ It appears pretty clear from Kennedy’s state¬ nor of the State—purchased Cameron’s in¬ ment that Bayers started his paper in the au¬ terest. The firm of Brandoii & Packer sur¬ tumn of 1801. The young publisher was then vived until August 17, 1829, when Packer be¬ not quite twenty-one. As further evidence came the sole owner. December 19, 1832, he that the paper was started at the time indicat¬ associated John E. Eck with him as a partner ed, the assessment book for Loyalsock town¬ and they published the paper till May 11,1836, ship shows that in 1802 he was assessed with when Packer retired and Eck conducted it “one printing office.” In 1805 he was assess¬ until June 21, 1837,, At this date it was con¬ ed with “one bouse and lot, §75; one horse, solidated with the Chronicle, a rival paper, §16; occupation, printer, $100”; total valua¬ and continued by John E. Eck and C. D. tion, $101. Eldrcd, under the title of the Gazette and No copies of the first issue are known to be Chronicle, till may 9, 1838, when Eldred re¬ in existence. It was printed on very coarse tired and Eck again became. sole editor and. paper, 20x17, and had four columns to the page. publisher, and conducted it Up to June 20, The oldest known copies that have been pre¬ 1838, when he sold out to Eldred.. The latter served are dated 1806 and 1807, and they bear then dropped the Chronicle part of the name his name. A copy dated January 22, 1807, be¬ and resinning the original title of Lycoming fore the witter, is Volume V, No. 45. This Gazette, continued as publisher until the 13th would run it back to 1801. of August, 1840. Those were warm political The earty years of Buyers’ publication were times and the Gazette was a potent factor in attended with many annoyances and vicissi¬ the advocacy of Democratic doctrines. tudes. He frequently missed a publication Seme time in 1340, C. W. Fitch purchased day, and doubtless was often on the point of the paper of Eldred and published it up to giving up his enterprise in despair; but he February 10, 1S42, when John F. Carter be¬ struggled on and succeeded in founding a came associated with him ; May 7, 1842, Fitch paper which has had many eminent men—in¬ retired and Carter continued alone. He was cluding a Governor of the State and a Chief a brilliant and fascinating writer, but slippery Justice of the Supreme Court—connected with and unreliable as a politician. On tbe 11th it. His inducement, doubtless, to establish of February, 1843, John B. Beck became a the paper was the county printing. The partner ; and March 4, 1843, he became pu town at that time was scarcely as large as Lin¬ lisher, with Carter as editor. This arrange¬ den is today. ment, only lasted until the ISth of November IIISTOEY OF THE PIONEER. following, when so much dissatisfaction arose Who was this young pioneer printer and that Carter was forced to give way to Hamlet publisher? He was a son of John Buyers, a A. K «"v - s editor, bnt Beck still continued as prominent merchant of Sunbury foi that time. publisher. Kerr retired August 17, 1344, and After founding the paper be conducted it alone the firm was changed to Beck & Company. until 1808, when William Briudle became a Political strife was rife at this time and the partner, and he soon after disposed of his in¬ factions fought each other fiercely. terest to him and returned to Sunbury. Some On the 24th of June, 1346, C. D. Eldred, who time in.1812 he founded the Sunbury Times, was the “company” with Beck, became editor which he published until 1816 or 1817. When and publisher, and as he was a terse, vigorous the broke out Buyers raised a com¬ and incisive writer, it was not long until he pany of volunteers, was made a captain, and had the scalps of a number of the factionists assigned to the Seventy-seventh regiment. On dangling from his belt. February 17, 1850, P. the 13th day of December, 1815, he married T. Wright, who has long been the managing Miss Martha, daughter of Alexander Hunter, editor of the Philadelphia Eccord, associated of Sunbury; in 1815-18 he served as one of the himself with Eldred. Beck subsequently be¬ Commissioners of Northumberland county. came sheriff of the county, member of Assem¬ In the meantime (1816) he was a Federal can¬ bly and State Senator. didate for Congress, but was defeated. He The nfew firm of Eldred & Wright publish¬ died January 27, 1821, at the age of thirty- ed the paper until February 17, 1851, when the nine. former retired and Wright published and edit- HIS SUCCESSORS. cd it until February 17, 1855, when James W. ' Clark, son-in-law of Governor Packer, took an On his retirement from the Gazette, Buyers interest as partner. The firm of Wright & | was succeeded by I. K. ToTbcrt, who, in con- Clark existed till August 17, 1855, when the r \ uior editor retired to become postmaster in rear of the Court House, & Wil- son Februa was removed in 1890. itter retired c- * August 18, 1658, auii continu- MOKE CHANGES. !■ ed alone till Januai he dis- One the 14th of April, 1874, Herdic employed posed of the egtablfef •iggins. Charles E. Fritcher, as publisher and business The paper was published l tip to manager, with James H. Lambert as editor, September 24, 1SS5,igW, whennueii m gassed into the when Meginniss again resumed the city edi¬ hands of Charles T. Huston & Company torship. About 1875 a Sunday edition was

BECOMES A ■ started and continued a few months, when it was For more than half a century the Gazette discontinued. In May, 1876, -Lambert resign¬ had been puhlislied as a weekly paper, but ed to become managing editor of the St. Louis an important Change was shout to take place Times. The editorship again devolved on in its history. The new firm of. Husion &, Meginness, and J. J. Galbraith was appointed Company resolved to make it a daily, and on I city .editor and served as such until the. au¬ April 9, 1867, the first number was issued as’a ' tumn of 1832. Fritcher soon acquired a con¬ six column evening paper. This was a radi¬ trolling interest and the paper was conducted cal departure, but the times demanded it. On ■ with spirit and vigor for several years. Under the 9th of December, 1867, A. E.' Scholl pur¬ his management it was changed from an even¬ chased an interest and it was published under ing to a morning paper, with an afternoon edi¬ the firm name of Huston, Scholl & Company tion for some time. Owing to the social bpbit up to January 1, 1868, when A. J. Trout be¬ the brilliant young publisher began to neglect came a partner, having purchased the third bis business and it went into decline. Iii the interest of Thomas Smith (the “Company”) spring of 1889, it having become patent to all and the firm wa3 changed to Huston, Scholl & that his usefulness had departed, Fritcher Trout. sold the plant to O. S. Brown, who became On the 20th of Hay, 18CS, the daily was en¬ owner and manager. On the 9th of Novem¬ larged to a seven-column sheet and issued in ber, 18S9, after a continuous service of over the morning instead of evening. This firm twenty years, Meginness resigned to engage continued until the 23d of December, 1868, exclusively in literary pursuits. He was wheii Scholl sold his interest to A. J. Dietriek, soon afterwards succeeded by bis son, W. W. and the business, was conducted under the Meginness, who has continued as editor up to ifirm name ofTIuston, Trout & Company. No the present time, with J. B. McMath as city further change occurred until the 37th of Feb¬ editor, who succeeded Galbraith in 18S2. ruary, 1869, when A. .T. Trout sold his interest Fritcher, who recklessly threw away a mag¬ to Dietriek and the form was changed to Ilns- nificent opportunity, is now living in Syracuse. ton & Company. July 21,' 1869,. Diefrfck pur¬ He was a well equipped man for a newspaper chased Huston’s interest and became sole pro¬ publisher; was genial, bright and popular; a prietor, with John F. Meginness as editor.l first class stenograph er, a beautiful penman Upder this arrangement the paper was pub¬ and an incisive paragraphist. Lambert, on lished until November 22, 1S69, when it was his return from St. Louis, served as managing consolidated with the West Branch Bulletin, 1 J editor of the Philadelphia Times for several under the title of Gazette and Bulletin, and years, and for some time he has been an published by tho Ghetto and Bulletin Pub-! ’■ editorial writer on the Philadelphia Press. lishing Association, incorporated, with a capi- From being first printed on a Ramage hand tal stock of $59,000. Peter Heretic, then in press, the Gazette and Bulletin-, has steadily the zenith of his marvelous career, was the j progressed until it now uses a fine cylinder capitalist and held a controlling interest. E. 1 press, stereotypes its pages and prints, from a W. Capron, who was editor bf the Bulletin, be¬ continuous roll. It is an eight page quarto came editor of the Gazette and Bulletin, with morning paper, and has published a weekly Meginness as city editor; and J. B. G. Kins- edition from the time it became a daily, which loe, Capron’s partner, was made publisher for was changed into a semi weekly a few years the association. ago. Its machinery is driven By electricity, j Fred Kurtz, editor and publisher of the Be-! CHANGES ITS POLITICS, porter, Center Hall, Center country Pa., claims1 Up to this time, a period of sixty-eight to own the old hand press on which tho Ga¬ years, the Gazette had been a Democratic pa¬ zette was first printed over ninety years ago. per, but after its consolidation with the Bulle¬ It came into his hands by purchase, and it is tin it became Republican in politics, and has still used to print handbills. The contrast so continued to the present day. The new between then and now is very great. management changed in a few years by the Some time in 1815 a Weekly called the Ly¬ retirement of Capron, who was succeeded by coming Advertiser was started by Simpson . Brown in 18S9. Cummings, who published it until September j He then purchased a building oij Willow street, j 7, 1836, when G. D. Flared became a partner. | -IC- gs retired April-12,'1837, .whan Eldred ran tbo paper until it was consolidated with On the 0th :he AYest Bran the Gazette, June 21, 1837. A. Boyd Cnm- Bulletin wus -spirted '.as, a serai-weekly by mings, the founder, donated Brandon Park to Join) M. McMinA and. tl3f Rev. Cyru the city a few years ago. It was so named in Jeffries. It was' acted as a sped commemoration of his only sister, who was the advocate of the fond enterprises cen¬ wife of John Brandon, one of the publishers tering-in Williiffisport, as well as the develop¬ of t-e Gazette from 1S23 to 1827. Alexander ment of the resources of the West Branch val¬ Cummings was one of the founders of the New ley. It-dropped back to a weekly November York World ; then of the Evening Bulletin 17, 1SG0, when it passed into the hands of P. and The Day, Philadelphia. He was Govern¬ C. Van Geldcr and John B. Campbell. This or of Colorado before its admission as a State in firm existed until the 31st of January, 1861, 1876, and died March 7, 1879, while serving as when Yan Geldcr became sole owner; October i United States Consul at Ottawa, Canada. A. 26th of the same year J. D. Wallace became Boyd Cummings died in Philadelphia March 1, j one of the proprietors and chief editor. The 1891, in his 85th year. Ann of VanGelder & Wallace was dissolved j August 12, 1862, and Van Geldcr again became The Free Press was started in July, 1S38, by sole proprietor. On the lat of January, 1302, R. F. Middleton and continued about a year, j John A. Woodward purchased a half interest when it passed into the hands of Cramer & I and the firm became Van Geldcr & Woodward; Reed. It was also published by Loehr & Mid¬ dleton a short time, and discontinued in 1S38. April 1st of the same year E. W. Capron added The publication of The Freeman was com¬ a power press and a caloric engiuc, and became menced about 1S39 by John R. Eck and con- [a partner and editor. It was then a six-column tinued by him until 1840, when W. P. & James 1 paper, having been reduced on account of “war |f R. Coulter purchased the materials and started Aimes.” May 30, 1803, it was enlarged to a ' a new paper called the West Branch Republi¬ I seven-column sheet; June Cth Mr. Woodward can. It ceased to exist in 1S42. John Sloan j sold his interest to his partners, and the firm then purchased the outfit and launched a new became Van Gelder& Company, and they con¬ paper called the Lycoming Sentinel. It lived tinued the publication until J une 4,1S64, when about a year, when The North Pennsylvanian J. B. G. Kinsloe purchased the interest of was founded on its ruins by John F. Carter, Van Gelder, and the firm became E. W. but it died in about six months. Capron & Company. On the 3d of August, In 1845 another new paper called The Jack: 1868, the daily Bulletin was started a3 a cam¬ son Democrat was started by J. M. Newson & paign paper of four columns, but it met with G. W. Armstrong. The senior membor soon so much encouragement that it was continued retired, when Armstrong and S. S. Seely pub¬ after the election of November following; lished it about a year. was soon enlarged to five columns, and pub¬ On the 4th of June, 1851, John F. Carter lished daily until its union with the Gazette, commenced the publication of the Lycoming November 22, 1869. Democrat. June 23, 1S51, John R. Eck bo-1 In the summer of 1837 Col. L. L. Tate, “a tamo a1 partner, but retired November 20,1S51. ! man of many newspapers,” came to Williams¬ Carter thou conducted it till the fall of 1852, port and started the daily Lycoming Standard, 'when it died. Under the editorship of Carter with C. D. Emery as one of the editors. In jit was exceedingly lively and gave some of 1809 Andrew Hopkins purchased a half inter¬ 1 the politicians much trouble. est, and in November of the same year he be¬ The Independent Press was started out of came sole owner. It was in the fall of this (the materials of the Democrat in April, 1352, year that Tate had his disastrous tilt with the by J. W. Barrett; in the fall of 1855 he sold 'Gazette and Bulletin, and was so shorn of his laurels as a bully that he never regained his out to a company and F. A. Van Cleve was employed as editor. After issuing a few num¬ I ancient prestige. Hopkins s$&n afterwards bers it Was discontinued, and no paper was is- , sold to other parties, and W. P. Furey became | sued till the spring of 1356, when publication i the editor. He was succeeded in a short time was resumed by J. W. Barrett and C. II. Butt. (by H. L. Dieffenbach; then came Joe. W. The former retired October 1S-, 1858, and was Furey and William Dillon, who conducted the succeeded by Jesse Fullmer. About I860 Dan¬ daily for a few months and then discontinued it. iel Bower became connected with it; Leonard Col. Tate's next venture was the Weekly' Ulmer was also the editor for a short time. Sun and Democrat, which he started in July, I Early in 1861 it was suspended. 1S70, and ran it until 1S80, when he sold out The period Lorn 1829 to 1POO was prolific of to J. Sallade & Son, who merged it in the daily Banner under the title of Sun and Ban¬ many newspapers, caused largely by the bit¬ ! terness existing between rival political fac¬ ner. The last paper started by Colonel Tate tions, mostly in the Democratic party. Dur¬ was the Lycoming Chroiiiclp, which he issued ing the time of the building of the canal the weekly, in 1830, and carried it on until his greatest activity prevailed. Fends were en¬ death, which occurred April 30, 1883, in his gendered which lasted until the canal Was 73d year. sold to the State. The fictions wore constantly A surprised editor. at war—each had-, friends to reward and ene¬ On the 4th of October, 1800, ’^The West j mies to punish. The canal offices were the Branch Democrat, Charles T. Huston editor j < great bone of contention, which enabled John and publisher, made its appearance. In 1805 ) F. Carter, during the existence of tlio Demo¬ the material of the old Lycoming Gazette was crat, to make it exceedingly warm for some of purchased by Charles T. Huston and Thomas the political bosses and office seekers. Smith, (Jolly “Tom”) and the firm became Huston & Company, when the~^ame' Gazette, ann Charles T. Huston was recalled from ids only : was retained. In April, 1S67, the first I Athenian home in Bradford county and made number of the Daily Gazette was issued by] Huston, Scholl & Trout, and July 21, 1809,1 served in that capacity until L M. wolf & Company purchased the plant Huston withdrew, A. J. Dietrick having pur¬ wuen Eev. Henry M. Wolf succeeded him as chased the interests of all the partners. Hus¬ e(Tltor- April IS, 1882, a stock company was ton then located at Athens, Pa., where he organized under the name of the Sun and lim¬ started a paper called The Gleaner. ner Publishing Company, too Messrs. Wolf While conducting the Gazette in the spring retired, and on the 7th of July, 1884, J. W. of lSGfi, Mr. Huston was greatly surprised as Swecly, Ini',lug acquired a controlling interest, I well as complimented by receiving a visit asEumed the editorial and business manage-1 from two such distinguished gentlemen as ment, and Isas continued the publication of Ex-Governor Packer and Ex-Chief Justice the paper up to the present time. John E. Lewis. Both had been editors and publishers Bixler is the city editor. The daily has been years before, and while in the office they gave enlarged and improved from time to time;] an interesting account of their experiences as and it is now equipped with a perfecting press, ; newspaper publishers over forty years before. stereotypes its pages, and prints from a con¬ And to show that he had not forgotten his tinuous roll. It is an eight-column evening trade, Packer picked up a “stick’1- and set a folio sheet. Ah octavo weekly edition is also jfew lines of type with the ease and correctness printed. Electricity is the motive power. of an “old jour,” while Lewis looked on to see that he did it right. This is what surprised daily item and republican. f the'modest editor! An afremoon paper called The Item made I In 1862 the Independent Press was revived its appearance March 21, 1888. The publishers j by John R. Campbell, with Leonard Ulmer as were E. F. Wolf, Eobert Mulligan, 0. 3. Montz, editor. It scarcely survived a year when it Samuel Gersteniauer, W. M. Hoover and Gns- passed up the flume. j tavns Guilka, all practical printers, and they ! ; ran it on the co-operative plan as an indepen¬ Early in 1806 a weekly, called the Union Be- dent paper. It was continued until August 27, publican, was started for the purpose, of sub¬ of that year,- when the plant was purchased by serving the political interests of certain par- Elmer E. Person, who published it until April,) ■ ties. No name appeared at the head of the 1889, when the Kopublican Publishing Com-j editorial columns. It was discontinued in pnny was organized, and May 18tli it ap¬ September or October of the same year. peared under the new name, Williamsport Be- When E. W. Capron retired from the Ga¬ publican, and at the same time a weekly edi¬ zette and Bulletin in 1872, he at once com¬ tion was started. John Bally was business menced the publication of a small afternoon manager with H. L. Collins as editor. In Oc¬ daily called The Epitomist. It only survived tober of that year Daily and Collins retired, a few months under that name. the former to engage in mercantile business In October, 1872, J. J. Galbraith and W. R. and tl;e latter to take a position on. the Phil¬ Bierly, having obtained the Epitomist mater¬ adelphia Eecord. John P. Dwyer, of Ee- ial, started a new afternoon daily which they novo, then assumed the editorial and business called The Register. It was neat, clean and management, and George S. Maxwell became crisp, and ran along at a lively pace until the city editor. In the winter and spring of 1891 fall of 1S74, when, after having passed out of a handsome building was erected on Govern¬ Their hands, it was suspended. ment Place for the daily, which it new occu¬ Next came The Times, edited and published pies. The office is well equipped with presses, by Alexander C. Wilson, which first appeared and the machinery is driven by electricity. April 4, 1877, as a weekly, and was soon fol¬ Eipplcs, an illustrated weekly journal of lowed by an afternoon daily edition. Although humor, sports, society, and current events, •Mr. Wilson had been employed for a number was first published June 23, 1SC0, by L. E. of years as an editorial writer on the New I Kantor and E. F. Whitmer. In November of York Times, and had served for ten years as; the same year it was sold to the junior partner, the London agent of the Associated Press, he) and by him cold to T. C. Fester, December 10, was totally unfitted for Williamsport journal¬ 1890, who is the present publisher. ism and made a bad failure ill his new venture. His paper only survived a few months and lie STJJfDAT PAPERS. left the city in disgust. Appenranter of tile First One In 1875.— A NEW DAILY APrEAP.S. * Tile Succeeding Sanilay Issues. In June, 1874, E. B. Haines, a restless, irre¬ On the 4th of April, 1875, The Sunday Times pressible mortal, with a cheek as hard as iron, ! made its appearance. It was a quarto of forty- commenced the publication of The W'eekly eight columns and was published by E. S. Wat- Banner; February 1, 1875, he started a small I son, S. S. Hetherlin, and J. B. McMath; Em- evening daily, and soon became a thorn in the ■ annel Andrews was the owner of the material, sides of the Democrats. He continued his ca¬ the same having been used by The Kegister. per until October 9, 1879, when, owing to the Before the close of the year Watson and Mc- caloric he had engendered in the party, he was , Math retired, leaving Mr. Hetherlin sole pub- obliged to sell out. G. E. Otto Seiss—Williams- J j lisher. About the middle of April, 1870, Wat¬ - port’s original book-binder—became the own-] son took the place of Hetherlin and ran the er of the plant, but 30on tiring of his purchase paper for a few months, when it was discon¬ lie sold out February 26, 1SS0, to J. Ballade & tinued and Emanuel was again without an or¬ Son, and they consolidated it with the Sun and gan. Democrat, under the title of Sun and Banner, The second Sunday paper, The Breakfast 7

death. His son, William Volkmar, then ie, was founded Marc£T7, 1S79, by John G. 'J? .ctcd it until December 15, 18S8, when miner, J. Willis Dietrick, and S. Vin Der- « a plant was purchased by Carl Tewel, who vah. About a year afterwards J. W. Sweely changed the name to Pennsylvania Tribune, became associate editor, and in a short time ■land made it Democratic. Ho still publishes it. Sweely and Hairy Sterner became sole pub¬ Cotemporary with the Zeitung, the Sendbofe, lishers. The latter soon retired and Sweely a German Baptist church paper, appeared un- continued alone until the Spring of 187(1 when dm- the control of the Rev. Hendrick, and was he sold to J. J. Galbraith & Co., Limited, the , published about two years. In 1804 Jacob firm including Galbraith, T. F. Gahan and O. ■ Heilliecker started the West Branch Beobacli- S. Mont*. They were succeeded in a few ter, which had about'one-year’s existence. In months by John Moore, and he in turn by 1869 the National Democrat appeared under Geo. S. Lenhart, who took the paper in May, ■ the control of a Mr. Stephen, and was publish¬ 1877, and who still publishes it. In March, , ed until 1872, when it was removed to Wilkes- 18S0, he made it a Saturday paper. Barre, where it afterwards ceased to exist. What developed into the third Sunday paper The Beobachter was resuscitated in 1872 by called Pennsylvania Grit, was originated by S some parties in Philadelphia. George Wolf, the Rev. Henry M. Wolf, a Baptist clergyman, for several years before his death, had charge when he was editor of the daily Sun and Ban¬ of the circulation. It is still published. ner. It was at first a literary edition of the daily, published on Saturday. Rev. J. M. RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY PUBLICATIONS. Scott, then pastor of the Baptist church in Jer¬ The Dickinson Liberal, published by the sey Shore, aided Mr. Wolf in the conception Belles Lettres Union Society of Williamsport of the idea and became a contributor. In this Dickinson Seminary, is a magazine of fourteen way Grit was started in December, 1882. pages, which appears monthly from October Soon afterward Wolf retired from the daily, to June of each year. It was established in but be felt that Grit was bis own property. 1877. The editor for 1892 was W. IV. Hart¬ The material of the defunct daily Times was man. then offered for sale, when, in connection with January, 1876, the Rev. T. F. Caskey, rec¬ D. Lamade and W. W. Foster, Wolf purchased tor of Trinity Church, started The Parish Dial. it and the trio issued the paper as a Saturday It was a monthly magazine of thirty-two pages venture. May 26, 1884, Wolf sold out, and on and contained a “record of the lights and the 16th of March, 1834, Grit appeared as a shadows of parish life.” Mr. Caskey „ contin¬ Sunday paper. In the meantime George W. ued it to the close of his rectorship a tow years Rianhard had become a membcT of the firm. ago. It was well edited and in its mechanical The first issue yielded a trifle ever $4 ! Having execution it was a gein. no machinery, “the boys” had their press work Rev. Mr. Foley, the present rector of Trinity done by the Sun and Banner. After much Church, issues a paper called Trinity Chimes, j hard work land many discouragements, which appears only eight times during the (the circulation began td grow steadily and year, to correspond with the seasons of the their receipts sobn averaged $40 a week, but church year. It is now in its fifth volume. the expenses were more than double that Rev. Mr. Graff, rector of Christ’s Church, sum. Foster became discouraged and sold his (Episcopal) also issues a church paper known interest to Fred M. Lam-ado. The reorganized as Christ’s Church Messenger, for the enlight- firm struggled along and final] y succeeded in enment of the people of his parish in regard getting their paper on a paying basis. They ' It work. It is new in its now own a handsonie brick building and have > to the local char a magnificently equipped office, fast cylinder volume. During the Greenback erase an organ called ; ■presses, stereotyping and engraving depart¬ the National Standard was founded in 1877 by ! ments, luxurious editorial rooms and a large Peter Keruic and edited by J. W. Schnckers.’ and paying circulation^ George W. Rianhard, He bad been private secretary to Salmon P. V the editor, retired in the summer of 1892, Chase when he presided over the United States when the firm was reorganized by making treasury, and afterwards became his biograph¬ Dietrick Lamade general manager, E. S. Wat¬ er. The Standard was a model of typographi¬ son managing editor, and Elmer E. Person cal neatness, but it only survived about two city editor. The machinery is driven by years. electricity ' and the building is heated by A temperance weekly called the Star of t | steam. Hope, by A. B. Tate and IT. R. Hanks, made GERMAN WEEKLIES. its appearance September 1, 1877. In 1878 J. ( The first Gernyfo paper ’ started here was I). Wallace became’tLc editor, Tate still con- , called Dcr Demokraffefchc Burger (The Demo¬ tinuing as publisher. W. 0. Dickson was also ^ cratic Citizen) by Lewis Kurtz, who continued associated with it. It suspended in 18S2, it for three years, when he removed the plant when a monthly called Facts appeared in its to Rochester. place. It existed for nearly a year and then A German paper, the Susquehanna Zeitung, suspended. was started as a Republican journal in Lewis- December, 1SS5. Rev. S. P. Hughes, pastor burg in 1882, by Karl Volkmar: January, 1S64, of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, commenced he moved the plant to Williamsport. At the the publication of St. Paul’s Quarterly, which close of the war the Zeitung came out as an was devoted to church affairs. Among other » independent paper. From March, 1872, to excellent features, it gave a history of the November, 1S75, a partnership existed between church from its foundation in 1871. It was Karl Volkmar and Jacob Heilhccker. When suspended on the retirement of Mr. Hughes the latter retired Volkmar continued the pa¬ in the summer of 1891. per alone for two or three years, or^nntil his The Koystone'Kcws, published on Saturday Industrial Union was, the title of a ham as a literary family paper, made its bow to flic some weekly quarto, six columns to the nag, public the first week iit December, 1885, and issued April 23, 1891, with W. B. Tliomp ' ceased to appear the following,‘April. Rimer as manager. It was “published Under the 12. Burlingame was editor, with Noah L, auspices of the Farmers’ Alliance in the inter¬ Houghton as manager. The,- material was est of the industrial elSssce.” After three after ,yards purchased by several young men, numbers were issued it gave up the ghost, who, founded the Merchants’ Printing House, Vacle Veeum, “a monthly journal of practi¬ a ..job printing concern, which is now connected cal knowledge,” appeared June 0, 1S91. It with rac daily Bepiitoljpn, r-***'* contained eight’pages-,• two -columns to. the Some time in 1885 "The Labor Uncord was page, and was edited and published by P. M. founded by IV. M. Hoover and several associ¬ Coup. Two thousand copies of each number ates, under the auspices of-the Knights of were printed and distributed. It lived three Labor, and was the mouthpiece ol'that organi¬ months. zation. It was published about two years, Pile Union, a monthly folio, three coin ran 3 when, in 1SS7, it was purchased by Dan Kiley, to the page, under the management of W. B, who ran it until February 2p, 1800, when it Thompson, appeared in September, 1891. It was suspended and the cases and type stored is devoted to the interests of the various la¬ : in the basement of the Court House. Recently bor unions and their members.” | the material was purchased by the Keystone The Band World, a fourteen-page monthly Lithograph Company. publication, devoted to music and the inter In 1880 A. S. Rhoads and C. W. Hunting¬ csts of the Distin Musical Instrument Manu¬ don started The Dental Reformer, a monthly factory, made its appearance in December, devoted to the interest of the dental profes¬ 1391; Bra a C. Keefer, manager. sion. It was discontinued at the end of two The Mirror, a sixteen-page quarterly, "de years. I voted to men’s wear,” appeared March,’ 1392, The Historical Journal, a monthly record of published by Silverman Brothers & Company; local history and biography, was started May editor, Joseph E. Austrian; assopiatdji Ffedi 1, 1387, and published cue year, by John F. C. Euffhead; business manager, Charles B. Meghmcss. It was issued in magazine form, Harris. Handsomely illustrated. , with thirty-two to forty pages in each number, j The Otzinachson, a monthly magazine, de¬ | and illustrated. One thousand copies were voted to literature in general, was started in f. printed each month, but at this writing nearly April, 1,892, by M. L. Fisher and H. B. Mingle. I all have been sold. It suspended after the publication of the Sep’ The Pennsylvania School Monthly, a six- tembor number. | tcen-page quarto, devoted to educational in- The Index, a monthly publication in the terestsin Lycoming county, made its appear¬ interest of the Prohibition party, was com¬ ance in, January, 1883. H. L. Brewer was the menced in April, 1302. The. names of H. T first editor, with Fred. Buffhead as business Ames, chairman, and C. W. Huntingdon, manager; Prof. IV. W. Kelcliner soon became secretary, appear as the publishers. editor, Euffhead continuing as manager until ChildrciL,of the Brave, a monthly magazino the latter part of 1390, when the entire plant of Bi-xtoen pagesr. devoted, to the interests of was sold to IV. R. Leathers. It was suspend¬ sons and daughters of veteran soldiers, sailors ed after the. issue for March, 1891. and marines, was founded May, 1892, by J On the 19th of September, 1S87, the Lycom¬ V, arc! Diehl, but was soon afterwards removed ing. Recorder was commenced by Charles T. to Philadelphia. Huoton as a weekly Democratic paper. It was The latest monthly, entitled The Williams¬ discontinued Ho voucher 5, 18S3. The Williams¬ port Spirit, by the Y. M. C. A- and the Key¬ port Weekly News, a campaign temperance stone Lithograph Company, appeared Decem¬ r Paper, was issued by Irwin & Hustin from ber 1892. Sixteen pages, illustrated. Officers: ■ April till June, 1889,land resumed in Septem- A L. Scholl, business manager ; Garret Ryan, | her of the same year and published until advertising manager; editor, A. P. Mersh'on. f. November, 1889, under the auspices of the the latest daily. i Prohibition County Committee. MONTHLY, PUBLICATIONS. The youngest publication of all, The Times appeared Tuesday, January 3. 1893. It pu'jl The Church Chronicle, published "monthly, hshed by an incorporated company with the by pastors of St. Mark’s congregation, came following directors: H. E. Ehoads, Garret D, into existence several years ago, and is still linsman, John Lawshe, C. La Rue Munson continued. The present editor is Bev. George Tnomas Lundy and John E. T. Ryan. The G. Kunlde. officers are; President, C. LaRtie Munson- In 1870 or 1871 Bev. A. R. Horne started a treasurer, J. II. Boyer; secretary, GarretT.’ 4xteen-pagre monthly called The Educator, Ryan ; business manager, A. L. Scholl. which he published a few years and then re¬ moved it to Kutztown. It was devoted to the A Prosperous Itallroad. cause of education and was a spirited journal. \'i lien the railroads are doing a largo busi¬ Mr. Horne was pastor of St. Mark’s Church, ness all other kinds of business are prosperous and first Superintendent of City Schools. tor it is only the prosperity of business in gem A monthly magazine entitled Music and rl interest of the rail- Mirth, devoted to the interests of musical or¬ w,*' /^Pennsylvania railroad, in the in- ganizations, was started in May, 18S7, by Wy crazen ot'the Keystone Charles T. Loguo. It has a good circulation ■ 15 proud, ts.iust nowin a“bqornin'>” con chtion, and the continual increase is constant-1 among those who love music and is quite pop¬ ular. ta&SSS&SS? *"* *• ”coi“,“11 l_ TheliUc-si extension in the' executive force ; ts tue creauon °f the position of snperintend- several hours before “turnin’ in.” It ; en^f tej-mmals m Philadelphia, It is expect-1 careless, rough life, this log camp exist* ed that the new department will be officially I yet not devoid of pleasure nor lacking created ip a few days. Flank Elltnakcr, form- things that, to a novice, especially, ar of the. Sunbuty division, quite fas3inating. ... L 1 -tcly ot .he Amboy division, is to occupy the new position. He will hat e charge of the It was late in tbe afternoon when I load irom July-ninth street’on the west to the reached camp in company with the “boss” Heiaware nver on the oast, and from South and the first man whom I met was th> street north to. Manaynnk ami Bristol. It is cook, wb», with several male assistants esamated that ,v,10,000 a month will be added were busily engaged in preparing tbe .to the company's pay roils by the formation ol diis department. evening “lay-out” for tbe thirty hungry men who would be in off tbe slides shortly after dusk. Tbe camp was located fully fifteen miles from tbe nearest raiload depot, and the road leading to it was very rough.

SNOW IN THE FOREST. It had snowed all day tbe day previous, and the hemlocks were loaded with a fleecy coat, while the log shanties in the camp looked much like ice palaces or Esquimo bang-outs. ’ But inside they were warm as toast,sad when one gets hot biscuit with good strong coffee, a slice of bam, pota¬ toes, and baked beans, it is a meal that is not to be sneezed at away back in the lum¬ ’LOGGING IN ber woods, where one’s appetite gets as sharp as a blizzard. After dark tbe men began to arrive from I How the Forests Are Cut Down tbe »lides. The noisy teamsters and their horses could be heard nearly half a mile away, and when tbe first consignment of l Started to the Saw Mill. woodsmen arrived in camp they made things lively with snatches of song, bois¬ terous laughter, aDd witty sayiDgs. Suddenly there came a clanging sound TEE BACKWOODS. from tbe direction of tbe cook shanty, it was the big gong announcing supper, and tbe men lost not a moment in trooping over I to the tables, where already great bowls of The Great Log- Slide, and How It Is fragraat black coffee bad been placed along- side each tin plate, and piles of hot biscuit Made—A Glimpse of a Night in were laid at regular intervals in tbe center of tbe table. It would cure one of the dys¬ a Logger’s Retreat. pepsia to see a gang of meD such as this get away” with their mealsTlor the manner in which they proceeded to care jlor the inner man was a sight to see. Willi a ms poet, Jan. 19.—A vigjt to a AN AFTER SUPPER SOCIABLE. log camp in ihe Pennsylvania lumber Supper over tbe men ail went back to the woods jost at this season is not only full big “sitting room.” where in an immense of interest but excitement as well. The fireplace a rousing blaze from hemlock cold weather of the past two or ’ three wood sent a glow and a warmth that weeks has created a snap and bustle on penetrated tbe remotest comer of tbe bant - log jobs that is seldom seen in any other like apartment. But it was interesting , I see bow comfortable the men made the*3 line of business, and the horny-banded, | selves. In a remarkable short time all wer^ striped-stockinged woodsman these days is , engaged in something. as busy as a squirrel in nut season, while [ At roughly constructed tables, knots cf tbe hours constituting his day’s work are I tbe vadegated bloused woodsmen gathered almost unlimited. about and with a deck of cards that looked Like farmers, who “make bay while as though they bad done duly in a coal the sun shines,” lumbermen slide logs mine, they were soon engaged in games of seven-up, old sledge” or euchre, and, when Jack Frost is most active. Lumber¬ if playeci with a vim that was interesting \ men and their work are governed largely Others would find a convenient place near \ by tbe favorableDess of the weather, and one of the big lamps, whera, with news- ' during cold snaps, at which times slides are 'papers they wbiled away tbe time reading Way over in one corner of the room one at their best, tbe task of getting tbe logs ot tbe men was trumming on a banjo,while to the streams, preparatory for tbe Spring anotber accompanied bim ou a squeaky ac- floods, on which they are floated to tbe cordeon, and shortly afterward still another booms, goes on night and day. took rrom a shelf a set of hones, and with this abbreviated orchestra tbs crowd w.-.s About a week ago a Press representa¬ furnished music, tbe entertainment beivtv tive visited a log camp in tbe upper Pine stili further enhanced by a yonDg fellow Creek regions and remained there three m bis heavy lumberman’s boots executing a Jig that would have been creditable cn days, watching the progress of the work the stage. Then the banjo and bones were living as the lumbermen lived and taking discarded and most of tba men joined fu part in their fireside pastimes after the ipsrsuading one of their number-a of a youth—to favor them with a song. The i long day’s duties were aver and tbe men uug fellow seemed loth to comply with gathered in the “sitting / to spend be request, but finally cleared hisr tbroat ...

dancing in the OA-BIN. _ — T3~ Tbe "neiFmorning"at the sbile^ail wss ajhd asked : “Well, wbafc shall I si^?” Instantly everybody was all ears, the S-w-.jr i-SSE1 c&rd players even discontinuing then ga slides with the velocity of an express tiaiu. to listen to the lad sing. In reply,,to ,bl question somebody said be ^bould »ing ' troughs bS/to th. “most anything.” Clear as ia flute t1 . „ sang with effect “Tbe Old Oaken Bucket sars “hS f 'Hearsed afterward that the young fellow I bad run away from bis borne , t | ling.N.Y., because of the “e'f ''eat®he^ rvsSi '.‘s’ s , 1 shown him by a step-mother. He bad work is called “driving. found work in tbe lumber camp ana building a slide. among tbe men was a general favorite. The slide in connection with the camp “sliding” good thts yeak. which I visited was nearly two miles \ B. The weather was cold during my visit to and at some places very steep. The man tbe camp,and tbe woodsmen informed roe uer in which slides are constructed is ve y that at no time duriDg the past ten year simple. First heavy pieces of timber are was siidiDg so good as then. At e V ]3id crosswise of the liae chosen or was in camp they usually arose at 3 o_ crock glide—which is generally down a ravine, l in the monring, abd after a burned break¬ "one be convenient-and firmly fastened to fast went to (he “job” about a mile away the grounaground .bDy_ju£Q“'»-y means,r^ of ---rheavy stakes—-1 Consequently tbe evening. 8/°UBd dtbke,orf rTben twoTogiTare laid lengthwise on these l fire was somewhat abbreviated, an (foundations,and pinned to them with white o’clock every msn bad “gone to roost oak pins fully fifteen inches in length. Then these logs are hewn °ut s0 tb.at tbe? form a trougb-like Btiucture, and in this with a liard mattress on which to Jle ®“u wa^their construction is carried on con¬ tinuously uatil the creek is reacb.d SomeJ times in order to prsvent a too suaaent 65

THE COOK’S CABIN AND KITCHEN. Might. Slides are always built in the Sopi- task than aJHing, for often the mer time, so that when cold weather sets in the work of sliding can be proceeded men are compelled to .wade in the ice cold with without delay. water waist deep, while if the logs “jam,” The necessity of cold weather will be ap¬ the work of cutting them loose is extremely parent when it is known that successful dangerous. It is estimated by lumbermen log sliding depends altogether on the in this section that next season will witness frozen condition ef the slide. In order to tbe floating of the fccoms of several million keep a slide well iced a barrel punctured more feet of logs than was the case last with hundreds of small holes is tilled with Spring, because of tbe very favorable water at the head of the slide, then allowed weather that has attended sliding operations to pass slowly down over it, so that the in tbe woods. water finding its way out through the small The open Winter of two years ago put holes, will freeze in the trougfi, making it the lumbermen to their wits ends to find so slippery that logs, iD the language of a some way in which they could slide logs woodsman, go down it like “greased light¬ other than in frozen troughs. Finally oil ning.” was experimented with, and proved quite a Log sliding is attended with great dan¬ succys. While expensive, yet with a lavish ger, for crooks in sticks often cause them use of tbe grease the slides were kept suffi¬ to veer from the trough and go plunging ciently smooth to send the logs* to the wildly and indiscriminately down the creek banks, and in this manner a good- mountain side, often breaking large trees, sized stock was gotten down off tbe moun¬ smashing rooks and killing men who are tain tops. so unfortunate as to be in their course. Tbe wages paid men in the woods are Death in this manner is frightful, for it fair, considering the fact that their board¬ is often the case that a man’s body is ing is “found.” There are those who re¬ thrown fifty feet in the air wben struck vive $2.25 per day. and from that amount i'. by a runaway log. Wben slides are too down to $1.50, depending largely upon 1 steep and the speed of tbe logs cannot be their ability to perform «he worK required. controlled, steel teeth are fastened in the The men generally go iDto the woods early trough to check tbe sticks in their down¬ in the Fall and remain there until the ward race, SDd it is often the case that r Spring thaws arrive, during which time these teeth have to be located at half a dozen different points along tbe slide. GETTING IN THE LOGS, llany of the logs are hauled to tbe head of the'slide during the Summer, but after tbe ground is frozen or sufficient snow has fallen to make sleighing the work of get¬ ting tbe timber to the slide is carried on more rapid. At tbe head of tbe slide the logs are piled up in tremendous heaps, and when the slide is in good working order thousands of lie sticks are sent sailing to tbe creek below in a day. On the bank of the creek another force of men are em¬ ployed in stocking tke logs preparatory to setting them afloat in the Spring. This is done in such a manner that wben a “driving” flood arrives in tbe Spring these logs can be rolled into tbe streams in s couple of hours, tbe cutting in two of one support often liberating several bun- Itired logs. Log driving is a more disa- I runs this way : Tn the year 1784 John .Sutton | : acquired the title by letters patent for a tract of land called New Garden, lying west of , Lycoming' creek, containing 321 acres, a part Of which he had surveyed and laid out into town lots, streets and alloys, which town he, called iNewberry. Dec. 23,.1801, he sold the, land to Alexander Smith for the sum of $1,529, | Water street was' the eastern line or street of the so-called town, and the lot or parcel of | ground upon which the subject of this sketch j The Slide Down the MouDta is located was known as lot No. 4. many of them draw only enough of tbeir HISTORY OF THE HOUgE. salary to keep them in shoes, stockings, The name of the person who erected the and tobacco. When Spring arrives they have coming to them a pretty good “roll.” first log house is not known, as it was but a Then follows a period of dissipation, for log cabin, and was probably put up by permis¬ after being up in the mountains for four sion of John Sutton by a woodchopper about long months the young woodsmen Who have one hundred years ago. William Clark, a | no families dependent upon them “let young cobbler, having learned his trade with j themselves out,” so to speak, until their a man by the nameiof Tallman, in the little vil ,money is all spent. But during the time it takes to spend it they live gloriously. lage of Williamsport in the year 1804, had oc- j The choicest in the land is not too good for casion to come to Newberry and in course of j them, and they generally “treat the nouse” time was attracted by the charms of a young whenever they drink themselves. lady and was, a short time afterwards, mar- rihd. Being an industrious young man he started in business for himself in the log I cabin. In course of time he divided the; From cabin into separate rooms, one for a living \ room and one for a work shop. The adjacent | land was covered with dense woods, scrub pines and large forest trees, from which the logs for the cabin had been cut. George Sloan came into possession of the land shortly after¬ Date ward and suggested to Clark that if ho would fenlarge the cabin, by making it a two story building, he could have all the timber he might need by cutting, hewiug and hauling it himself. Clark accepted the offer auu cut the timber from the land which is IT WAS BUILT NEARLY ONE HUNDRED now covered by the residences of Harper, Holmes, Kessler and Dr. Crawford, below the YEARS AGO. graveyard. Shingles were split by hand with the use of a splitting iron. The old cabin was raised up and from a seven foot coiling to a ENLARGED IS TIME ADVANCED nine foot ceiling, which at that time was a surprise to the nation. The idea of a nine j The Cnlldcr of the House—Scenes That foot ceiling! It Might Depict and Tales It Could HOW IT WAS IMPROVED. Tell if Given an Audible Voice—Now It was a valuable addition to the embryo Changing to Decay and Passing Away. town, and Clark was quite delighted, but when the great fire of the next year (1817) destroyed nearly all of the adjacent propeity, When the motorman opens the door and including the old sacred edifice, the church, Bays mechanically “pass out at this end,” the he thought, that as soon as he could afford it passenger can be assured that he is at the end he would put on afire protector. In tne of the line, and at Newberry, for at no other meantime he purchased tho property, paying place does this occur. The first attraction to . $90 for the lot, and was granted a deed, April a stranger (after he has passed out tho front fl, 1825. Here he continued to live until the end and reached the pavement) is an old peb¬ day of his death, about twenty years ago. ble-dashed houso at No. 24 Arch street, which The old house was coated with plaster and would not be unattractive save that at the pebble-dashed by William Kamsey about fifty south corner the plastering has fallen off. ex¬ years ago as a protection against cold and fiie. posing the old logs somewhat decayed and Mr. Clark married for his second wifo the reminding one of days of old and prompting granddaughter of John Sutton, who, up to the hhn to say as many do say, “This mnet be a time of her death, a few years ago, was able very old house.” to give a vivid description of the scenes of AGE OF THE HOUSE. ' early days in Newberry, and had in her pos¬ Probably the exposed old logs have been session papers of rare valne relating to the more than a century at that place,but the old < struggles of the fair play men, the squatter house, as seen by an observer, is only about and the settler. seventy-five years old as a two-story house. The old house cannot speak in audible tone. There is an odd history concerning this .building and few have heard the story. It V yet. the ancient corner now so ^ ■ cci?lcl- lf given tho power of speech, , na, with a modest protection of willow" ' story far morg interesting than pen could gfown islands at its confluence ; to the loft, vmte. The red man might be told about, the rising in majestic granduer, the mountain days of its companionship in the forest as a pine range, with pine clad heights, broken only by tree where bear and panther strove to gain the a great ravirie where crystal streams How mastery, the woodsman’s axe, which made guardedly beneath the birchwood branches and sounding notes Of music to the trout ,the Plne ***» fail to earth, dragged like a dumb within its rippling waters. Such is the pic¬ . victim to the altar to be a monument toman’s ture, as one gradually becomes an interested Invention now only a rotten reminder of its observer of nature’s work, when standing in former power. bold relief like a monument of ancient days, PASSING AWAY. appears tbe attraction of our story.' It is historical, not only for itself but for its sur¬ Everything is only 'for a little while, the roundings and many recognize at once the I scenes of to-day will be forgotten to-morrow familiar spot, but few know the whole his¬ | and the inarch of time will soon .destroy the tory. All stories have a beginning and few j last vestige of the old log cabin. Thus tbe historical points record their creation. i connecting link binding tbe two centuries is to THE INDIAN CAMPING GROUND. 1 severed, and as tbe reader steps from the The natural terrace opposite the mouth of great invention of the new century the elee- Pine creek was in years gone by a camping tric car, he can say as a tribute word to the ground for Indian tribes, and at the jutting 1 old house, ’Father time with his scythe cuts point, five hundred yards below, fish were j down the yeaTS as they go by, and along with caught in the primitive way. The ground is ! dymg years the monuments of time shall too i well supplied with arrow points, sinkers and be effaced and many of them unwritten a my fragments of flint to this day. The hunting ► ’U.d path for deer and other game extended up the | side of the mountain stream until it was lost on the top, overlooking Nippenose valley beyond From,. | the mountain. About one and a half miles down the river was built, in 1776, a fort, by Colonel John

-£Zr't: J Henry Antes (who has a place in the history j of the West Branch valley) for the protection ■ of the early settlers from the fury of the In- Fate, './/(/ j. | dians. Colonel Antes settled in the vicinity , of the fort,-built a mill for grinding grain, J was married twice and was the father of thir- j teen children. One of his sons, Henry Antes by name, when coming to manhood erected a log cabin near the site of the present old stone mansion, in tho year 1785. A few years after¬ ward another brother built a still house on the i mountain side, about one-fourth of a mile from the river. Jacob and, William Antes | (balf-brothers to Henry) took out a patent jSOME INTERESTING POINTS IN THE for tbe river traot (Henry having removed to, the old homestead near the Antes creek,» VICINITY OP JERSEY SHORE. I where he died,) and in 1823 leased to Harvey, and Robert Bailey, for a term of ten years,', the ground near the cabin, where they erected jthe stone building for a still-house, and from > INDIAN CAMPING GROUND rye and other grain distilled whisky. THE LITTLE STONE HOUSE William Antes sold his interest in the tray11 The tmie Stone House Erected by to his brother Jacob, who in 1825 tore do Jacob Antes Tbe Wonderful Pear the old log cabin and erected the little stoj Tree and Unexplored Cave-Old house near the spring at the cave. Here Wblshy Stills and a Remarkable I lived for eight years, until the lease of tj Spring-Changes That Have Taken I Baileys expired, and they moved the distillm„. Place in tbe Vicinity. to Jersey Shore, when he fitted up the big. ! stone building for a dwelling house, and in it, j lived until ISIS when he died. His executors $ C' j Dr. Asher Davison and W. W. Antes sold the, \ery few passengers, gazing from the car I property to Elizabeth Aughanbaugk (motile ; windows as they speed along, fail to notice an 1 of the present owner) in 1858. Tho heirs o. old stone house, standing to the right of the Elizabeth Aughanbangh sold the place t Pennsylvania railroad, about two miles west George A. Aughanbangh in 1872. The prop 7 ot Jersey Shore station. The scenery along : j erty has never changed title from the descend 1 ents of Colonel John Henry Antes. is section of the line is picturesque and Between the two stone houses stands , romantic—the placid waters of the Susque- large pear tree which has not failed to boa ' nanna river, and beyond lying fertile acres of fruit for nearly three-quarters of a century j evel farm land, dotted here and there with I It is supposed to have been planted by Henry commodious farm houses, barns and thrifty Antes before he died, probably about 1821. orchards ; in the distance the silvery waters Henry Antes, another descendent (now liv- ing at the age of 75 years) says he remembers 01 Pine creek rushing toward the Susque- J the pear tree in 1832 when tbe Baileys were running the distillery, and it was a largo tree flien. The fruit is luscious and large' and no such variety is found in the descriptive cata¬ I BRIEF SKETCH logue of the modern tree agent. TIIJS SPRING AND THE CAVE. 4e was Born in Northumberland Conn« Near the little stone house is a flowing ty-hearned the Plasterer’. Trade. spring of ice cold water, gushing out from the i limestone rocks of the mountain and during Taught School—Entered Politics and the hottest days of midsummer this spring is j Served Efficiently in Office-He Ha# . cooled by a draught of air coming from the Been a Consistent Democrat and d crevices of the rocks and no such purity is Valuable Citizen. found in any spring water for miles. Incred¬ ulous as it may seem, the water is notaftected by the strata, of limestone formation. It has To-morrow the venerable Horace H. Bla:$ a health giving and vigorous effect, refreshing and his wife will unostentatiously observd and pure hut, unfortunately for its locality, is their golden wedding and receive the congrat*1 interfered with by the construction of the i ulations of a few intimate friends. There are railroad which was built over it in 1859. I few men in Lycoming county more widely oi About twelve feet from the spring is an nn- favorably known than ’Squire Blair, as hiS; explored cave, extending far into the rocky friends and acquaintances persist in designat¬ depths of the mountain. Many amateur ad-1 venturers have sought to penetrate its inner- ] ing him, and a brief summary of the mere most chambers, hut their efforts were frus- important events of his career will serve the* trated by either fear or obstruction. Recently double purpose of recalling to many of Mr. a railroad, laborer, with lamp in hand, made Blair’solder fellow citizens interesting mem¬ an effort and succeeded in reaching the second ories of the past, and of showing the stepsj chamber, where he found a remarkable speci- that make up a career that reflects honor on, menof bone, apparently hidden on a shelving him whose face is turned to the setting sun. rock° Here is a field for research and prob¬ CAME OP REVOLUTIONARY STOCK. able wealth to reveal. Horace H. Blair was horn in Chillisqr.aqnQ the geeat linwood teee. township, Northumberland county, March 9,) Below the old stone house stood for many 1814, the son of Samuel Blair, who was a vet-1 years, aland mark to rivermen, a snubbing cran of the late Kevolntionary war. He came* post to raftsmen, and a noble specimen of the of North of Ireland stock, and the Irishman S beautiful linwood. Storms and floods, ice proverbial love of humor still lurks and logs failed to effect the mighty giant; the ishedin the ’squire’s eye. At 12 years men and boys used it for a target and as the age he was apprenticed to a plasterer, and in. leaden pellets penetrated its heart it finally two years became a journeyman. years old he worked at his trade in became troubled with heart disease and suc¬ and taught school in winter. The jpnblic cumbed to the force of the wind November school system had not yet gone.into°Pe™£° J 1891 It measured across the stump, thiee and the terms were short. In if43™6 sc“?°| ' and "one-half feet. After its destruction the board of Lowisburg recognized tbe ability and success which distinguished him a^ al boys found in the hollow of the stump many .teacher, and he was called to Lewisbur|,| pounds of shattered bullets. taught school there eight years and served P Improvements have recently been made three years as county superintendent. mtr the property. The Pennsylvania rad- road has built a side track and erected a CAREEE IN LYCOMING COUNTY. watch tower. A station is here located, April 1,1851, Mr. Blair came to Lycoming called “Aughanbaugh station. A neat county, assuming control of the hotel at Port; dwelling house is upon the crest of the table land overlookingns the mouth of the line Penn,' Muncy Creek township, which he con- creek. A summer cottage is ready for some tinned eleven years. During this period luff one who feels the air too oppressivem the city ’ interest in the educational progress °f the ' during the summer. An arched culvert spans vising generation was attested by the fact ’ the little mountain stream, and close alon^, that he served six years as school director, j side is the boundary line of Clinton county being secretary ofthe board. reminding one that “over the fence is out. In 1862 he took the management of the , Petrikin house, at Muncy, and acted the part of mine host two years. 1 hen, in theMall l, 1863, he made his first strike in politics, and; was elected by the Democrats register and, From, .. i recorder, transferring his residence to this citv In 1876 Sherifl' Kobert McCormick ap¬ A -r 7) pointed him his deputy, and he served in rj2r FuC that capacitv eighteen months, uisplaying .. . such ability and integrity in that responsi ) e position that Mr. John Piatt, Democrat, and ji Mr. Samuel Van Buskirk, republican, nho, Date, ./X ■ .... succeeded Mr. McCormick, retained him.Jim- j in» their respective tern? of oihee. Ihen, n t 1874 Mr Blair again came before the people | ft attv imm of his county and won the battle for he pro- mm mam thonotaryship, serving the people with Dm same ability and consideration that had won him such high esteem in the past. I IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS. During the summer of 1878 he visited Kan¬ ' T KB. AND MRS. HORACE H. BLAIB sas, accompanied by his two sons, °“e " \i BBRATE IHE EYENU whorn acquired large interests there. On his return h was uppointod^idmnan Ito the use ano purpose of each article of his tr> fin twrdmnd “• ths next Section chosen exbiblt. Another feature of the collection is to fill that office tor five years. In 1886 he that the specimens are perfect in form and became an overseer of the poor, served three |finished and displayed to advantage. ?8soSraS sec,;ctary of the board and. retired in •ii Tliat thankless position wdth the AX INSTRUCTIVE STUDY.’ U will of less people than falls to the lot of Hardly a Boy to-day, but who can tell an line average retiring poor .overseer. Since his arrowhead from a piece of slate, yet their retirement from office in 1889, Mr. Blair has abstained from all active business, and enjoys knowledge of its use is almost a mystery. To a happy and well earned life of leisure at his detail the description of Mr. Martin’s collec¬ nne residence on Pino street, north of the tion, would reqniro a chapter of Indian history Philadelphia and Erie railroad. and carry thc reader into, the mysteries of HIS FAMILY. abonginal lore, a process too perplexing to (prove interesting to the average* reader. May 11, 1S43, Mr. Blair married Miss R. D. (Enough may he said, howe ver, to describe I lie Gulick, in the historic Wyoming valley. |Curiositics, with their most simple descriptive From this anion there sprang five children, names. The most attractive specimens of the stone age are brought to notice by their im¬ of whom three are living: Charles L., Ella mense size, and peculiar form, and designated I. and Florence P. Blair, while Eder and Indian axes, with single and double grove, |Lilly are dead. where the binding ol the handle found a j Luring his whole life Mr. Blair has been an holding place. ardent Democrat, bat he never allowed the FROM INDIAN VILLAGES. | zeal of politics to carry him away from the 1 moorings of toleration, and this, together T There arc specimens from DuBoistown. W1 j i his rugged independence .Duunstown and ancient Indian village sites; .and straightforward adherence to his friends a long point grooved axe from Conewaug .and ms principles won for him the respect Island; stone tomahawks found at DuBois° r“l!r.nuration ofa11 '"'bo came in contact town ; three notched tomahawks from Dunns- with him, and the hearty congratulations of many who read these lines will be extended town, a very valuable double stone tomahawk I the venerable conple, with the hope that their' from southern Kansas, where the old Ar¬ years may be prolonged. kansas trail crossed the plains; a number oi stone hoes, from Monseytown flats, Great Island and Dunnstovn; pestles, celts oi chisels from Yonngwomanstown, onepartiem lar pestle beiug found near the mouth oj .clicks run, in a grave where eight Indians had been bnried; two game stones or hammer ^ stones from Liberty plains and Great Island i la great variety of sinkerstones used by the r laJ?-S wbeu tishinS i stone knives,, ol flint in number; gorgetstone, or ornamentals of fine finish and delicate workmanship; five ancient pipes, a 9 carved to the nature of a totem, one of which , rIaiS/r?m tbe celebrated blowing spring, on I Bald Eagle creek, near Great Island; one !ceremonial stone, of rare symbolical virtue, tonnd on the south side of the Susquehanna (opposite Montour’s reserve; one green aton (pipe at tne head of Cfreat Island ; one trans¬ parent with a totem resembling a fish, found 7 The Rare Collection of a DuBois- gt Westport; many specimens of picks, or war club stones ; a paint cup found in a grave i town Citizen. besides the remains of four Indians, near Lock Haven ; a spherical flint war club stone • an Indian gorget, or breast plate, taken from a grave with the paint clip, and of which ref¬ A PARTIAL list of articles erence is made in the “History of the West Branch \alley;” stone beads and orna¬ mentals ; soap stone pottery, clay pottery, and fragments found at Dunnstown. Mr. Dudley A. Martin Hus Accumulated arrowheads in abundance. an Array of Relics of Rare interest. Of the collection of arrowheads or lance and Many of Them of Great Value—A (spear heads, the number is almost countless, I “Times" Representative Notes Some being c* all colors, sizes and form, coming s Of Those Most Worthy of Mention. from Pine creek, Lockport, Level Corner, ' Shamokin and along the ; also Indian hand mill stone and implements I In a neat cottage home in the borongh of of every conceivable shape and design. , DnBoistown lives Mr. Dudley A. Martin, who Among the collection are iron tomahawks, and besides the local specimens he has a his- ~ lenii T Dt /loubt one of thc most complete .collections of curiosities, mostly thc pre- ton cal collection from old Fort Edward, New ' A oi k,aniron axe found near where the noted .histone implements of the original people of .lane McRea was murdered, in 1777, which tho West Branch valley—tho Indian tribes, had engraved on it the British crown : several / -in Martin has arranged his collection in per- I bullets from the fort; sections of brick • a L ctor<[er an

A GENEOLCGICAL TREE. the tract then bearing his name was "settled and improved by Mordecai Another matter of interest is a geneologi- » McKinney.” His daughter Mary was j cal tree of the Brady family which has be- married to John Buckalew, and these I come famous in this country through the great - young people became the grandparents [Hugh Brady. This tree traces the family of onr visitor, Capt. John M. Buckalew, : back to the mother country and traces the of Fishing Creek. They had just re¬ '! branch of the family which remained on the cently been married and came here with j other side of the ocean. The great Hugh her parents to make themselves a home i Brady as may be seen by this document in what the famous spy and guide, Job came of a long line of noblemen Cliilloway, had not long before pointed | and bishops. Coming down to a I later period and one which is within the out to the Proprietary, or his agent, as memory of most of us Mr. Meginness has a one of the choicest and most beautiful i fine collection of matter relating to the late 1 ■ spots of the West Branch Valley. At ! flood. Most people at present, do not care to the time Brady was waylaid and shot investigate this matter of history and have by the savages on Wolf Run, Captain ! continual reminders of it thrust upon them Buckaiew’s grandparents were in the daily, but this collection will be most valuable i Fort, and on hearing the reports of the in future years when other lovers of retro- | spection attempt to “summon fiom the past rifles were among the persons who J tliR -forms that once have been.” jf ;| rushed out with Brady to learn the sad fate of the unfortunate pioneer. After the fall of Brady the valley of the West Branch was soon almost de¬ populated. Among those who never returned to the Muncy Valley were the McKinneys and the Buckalews. Al- I though our Commissioner, Captain Buckalew, was the youngest of his father’s family, he is now almost a septegenariau, and says it was often his privilege fifty and more years ago to hear the old folks of his acquaintance who were then living, talk about Fort HISTORICAL!. Brady and the early settlement of j Sites of the Old Forts In Pennsylvania Muncy. . to be Marked. After viewing the site of the Fort he went to the Brady Cenotaph—which i An interesting visitor in Muncy on stands on the Southern border of wliat Thursday of last week, shown around was once his ancestor McKinney’s land— and entertained by J. M. M. Gernerd, and with the graceful outlines and was Captain John McKinney Buckalew, . artistic proportions of which he declared of Fishing Creek, Columbia County. himself most agreeably impressed, in¬ ;Mr. Buckalew is traveling this section sisting that the simple shaft_ was far of Pennsylvania to ascertain the loca- more pleasing and commanding than ; tion of the Forts erected by the early the pictures of it he had seen led him to i settlers for protection from the Indians, suppose. But he was especially pleased he being one of the several commissioners to see in this beautiful monument a con¬ .1 appointed by the Governor to perform vincing expression of the fact that the i this task. It is proposed by the Com- patriotism of the gallant Brady was 1 monwealth at an early day to mark the appreciated, by the people who now sites of these fortifications in some suit- ioccupy the valley he lost his life l : able and durable way, so that they can idefending. —Muncy Luminary. not be forgotten, a token of respect to i the memory of the pioneers, to which j every thoughtful citizen will cheerfully : assent. Captain Buckalew naturally felt a i special interest in the site of Fort Brady ! and its immediate surroundings, because i it was his great grandfather, Mordecai I McKinney, who was probably Captain Brady’s nearest neighbor. His ancestor’s I land—consisting, as noted on the original draft of the survey, of "three 'hundred acres and one hundred and thirty-nine perches, and an allowance of six per cent, etc ”—joined the Defender’s j tract on the east. A considerable portion of the present domain of the borough, and the lands now belonging to Dr. j George G. Wood, George S. Stolz, and others, comprised what was then the ! McKinney tract. McKinney came from New Jersey, and was one of the first eight settlers on the Proprietorie’s Manor of Muncy.

-T Corner Stone Laying The above cut is a picture of Jersey Shore’s new Presbyterian church, the corner-stone ofj which will be laid September 20, ISM. The cut is taken from the architects drawings, andj represents the church as it will appear when completed. The architecture is Gothic modern ized, and the building will be constructed of light buff sand stone. The seating capacity, in¬ cluding chapel is about 700 The seating is arranged in amphitheatre form, with organ and choir on the left of the pulpit recess. The total cost of the building will be about $20,080. t

Outline History of the Jersey Shore tion. It seems, however, that Mr. Presbyterian Church. Grier did not assume his regular pas-l toral work until the spring of 1794,and The beginning of this church is very in the meantime he had been licensedj ' much like the beginnig of some ancient and ordained to the Gospel ministry. S nations—a knowledge of which is pre His pastorate continued from 1794 to served only by tradition No records 1809, when he removed to Northumber¬ ■ can he found which give us a detailed land. account of its organization. But tra- From 1806 to 1814 the church was i dition says that the church was organ¬ without a regular pastor, but it is prob¬ ic, ized by a committee of Carlisle presby able that the church was. more or less, levy under a tree near the southern ter¬ regularly supplied - with preaching minus of the Pine Creek bridge, as by members of the presbytery. Sep¬ early as 1792 or 1793, and was called the tember 6th 1814. the united congeega- Pine Creek congregation. Not long tion of PincCreek and Great Island gave1 after the organization, a church edifice a call to the Rev. John H. Grier toi was erected at or near 1 he spot where assume the pastoral office in the said* the organization took place. The congregations. This call is still in ex¬ , structure was a plain frame building, istence. In it each congregation obli-j and no doubt was in keeping with the gated itself to pay Mr. Grier the sum surroundings of that early day. of $275, per annum. On the 18th of; The first pastor of the church was August 1829. the subscribers from the! _ Rev. Isaac Grier. He pTeached his Great Island congregation were releas first sermon to the congregation June ed from their obligation assumed in 28th 1792, and was called to the pastor¬ the call, and the fact was so noted on ate June 19th 1793. This call was giver that document. The Pine Creek con¬ jointly by the Lycoming (Newberry), gregation was thus left alone in the sup¬

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of Mr. Grier’s time, and so when in ing spring application was made by the 1842 some dissatisfaction arose in the session of the church to the presby¬ congregation, the matter was compro¬ mised by engaging ti.e services of Rev. tery of Northumberland to have the Daniel M. Barber for the other half of jname of the church changed from the time not indicated in Mr. Grier’s (“Pme Creek” to ‘ Jersey Shore” on the call. During a period of nine years role of presbytery. Action was, how¬ -. Messrs. Grier and Barber performed ever, deferred until the fall meeting, tlieii pastoral work jointly until the when the petition was granted. Since spring of 1851, when they both resign¬ then, the church is known as “The ed. Presbyterian church of Jersey Shore.” At the time of the church’s organi¬ During the month of August 1851.the sation the town of Jersey Shore had no ;Rev. Joseph Stevens supplied, for a few existence. It was only in the jear 1800 sabbaths, the pulpit of the church, that the land was laid out in town lots which had become vacant several But from that time on the town began months before. Shortly after this, he to grow; and in the course of time a was unanimously elected to the pastor¬ number of Prsbyterian families located ate of the church. He commenced his in or near the hamlet of Jersey Shore. duties immediately, and continued in In 1832 the Presbyterians united with the service of the church for about the Baptists in building a commodiua thirty five years. 'brick edifice, at the corner of Broad Not long after the settlement of Mr. Jand Seminary streets, which for years iStevens in the pastorate of the church, was called the‘'Union Church.” Grad¬ the “West Branch High School” was ually the centre of Presbyterian influ¬ organized under a supplementary char¬ ence was changed fron Pine Creek to ter of the church; and the church edi¬ Jersey Shore, and in 1836 the congrega¬ fice abandoned in 1852 was changed in¬ tion was virtually transferred to the to a school building known, afterwards latter place, The old Pine Creek build as “West Branch High school House.” ing was converted into an acadamy, The school was conducted for a number and was used as such until it was de¬ of years with admirable success, until stroyed by fire a few years later. In the public high school, in its improved 1844, the Presbyterians bought out the condition, begau to interfere with the Baptist interest in the“Union Church” needed patronage. The enterprise was and from that time on it has been finally abandoned in 1888. In connec¬ Presbyterian property. It was not tion with the school, an association long, however, before a change of loca¬ with the chartered name of the “West tion began to be agitated in the con- Branch High School Boarding House Mgregalion, and at a congregational Association” was organized, and meeting, held October 20th 1849, the through its efforts the large three story matter was discussed, and it was finally brick building, on the adjoining lot, |decided to build a new church on Main was built as a dormitory for students

street. During the month of March i from a distance This property was I860, the bid of Henry Hippie and sold by the sheriff, March 4th 1891, to George Cramer, to build a new brick sasisfy a mortgage held by the Presby¬ jchurch according to adopted plan for terian church, and was bought by the $5 920, was accepted. This edifice was trustees of the said church. building for nearly two years and a half. The church building on Main street The first service in the new building was constructed very substantially, ; was held on the first sabbath of Oct. ’52, though originally it was very plain in land on the 28th of November 1852, the its decoration. It was, however, grad¬ 'church was dedicated to the service ually improved and beautified until it and worship of the triune God with ! presented a very good appearence. In appropriate cermonies. 1873, the audience room of the church In the spring of 1850 the church ob¬ was beautifully frescoed, and other im tained a legal charter, recognizing it provements. were made. The improve¬ as a corporate body in civil courts, ments, at different times, probably ex¬ under the title of ‘’The Presbyterian ceeded the original cost of the build- church of Jersey Shore” The follow¬ ling. 74

j.'he pastorale of Rev. Joseph Ste-| years of aspiration iu that direction, vens, D. D , came to a close ill 1886.| were about realized. On the 11th of September he notified The congregation’s enjoyment of the the congregation of his proposed resig¬ sanctuary in this form, was, however, nation. and at a congregational meet of short duration. Ou Wednesday ing held the same day, the congrega¬ evening, September 13th 1893, after < tion united with him in requesting what seemed a very solemn and spirit- presbytery to disolve the pastoral re¬ lations. Presbytery at its fall meeting,1 ual prayermeeting, the congregation, a few weeks later, acted accordingly. left the building, little^thinking that During the vacancy which followed,the -s that was to be the last service held in Rev. Phaon S. Kohler. Ph. D. occupied that building. At about 11:50 o’clock the pulpit of the'church on sabbath fire was discovered in an adjoining November 26th 1886. This was follow¬ building, and soon the flames common- ed by a £all from ttle congelation, at a icated with the church. At 12:20 a. m.j * i meeting, convened for the purpose, the fire had already reached the steeple ary 8th "fS87. He aoeepted the and stopped the clock, which soon d assumed the charge of the | afterwards fell amid the ruins of the paste -'ffice February 15th 1887, and church. The same night, before all; and is Idiug the said office at the the flames of the church were extin-1 t. present me. guisned, the officers of the church J Although the church was nearly a decided to hold a congregational meet-! ij century old, it had no parsonage until ing that aftein >on in the M. E. church, i January 1888, when the congregation permission having been given bv the! I directed the trustees to purchase the trustees of that church. At this con-|J present parsonage. This property was gregational meeting, it was decided tol j improved the same year and made more repair the building, abandoned as a| j convenient for its intended use. The church in 1852, and abandoned as aj| great flood of June 1st 1889 damaged school in 1S88. During the two sab- I the church property very much, so baths following, the congregation wor-' J dhat extensive repairs had to be made shipped with the English Lutheran ■ " in the sabbath school room. This was congregation. In the mean time, the ] done in the fall of the same year. And j the West Branch High School building ij at a congregational meeting held De¬ having been sufficiently repaired, | cember 29th 1889, it was jleeided to regular services were commenced repair and beautify the audience room therewith the prayermeeting, Septem-| of the church. The wails and the ceil¬ her 27th. The congregation worships! ing were re-frescoed, the wood work re¬ j there now. painted. and the floor re carpeted, and Being reduced to such circumstances,! beautiful stained glass windows substi¬ the congregation began to agitate the! a> tuted for the plain glass ones then in subject of rebuilding. It was decided., di October 7th that the church rebuild;H iz the building. Up to this time no pipe organ was in and ou January 28th 1894 the trustees! ter any of the churches in town. But on were instructed to purchase the proper , m: the 30th of June 1892. it was decided to ty on the N. E. corner of Main, and ea have one placed in the Presbyter ian Thompson streets,as a site for the new Pi church. Mr. John Brown, of Wilming¬ church. At an election of trustees,H afl ton, Del., received the contract. The February 8th. the newly elected trust-1 w: organ was built and erected before the tees were constituted a building com- j* til close of the year On Dec. 21st 1892, mittee with power to proceed in the s! Prof David D. Wood,the blind organist matter. And acting under this author¬ ai of St. Stephen’s P. E. church of Phila¬ ity, the trustees adopted, March 12th, B si delphia, gave a very entertaining organ the architectural plan of Messrs Wag- s recital The first use made of the tier & lteir.meyer of Williamsport, and . organ for public worship was on Christ¬ engaged them also as supervising archi j mas morning. With the completion tects. The contract for the building, | and erection of the organ the church according to the specifications, was . seemed not only complete, but also at¬ awarded, April 14. 1894, to Mr. W. II. 1 tractive-, and in the handsome appear¬ Waltz of Williamsport, for S17.206.S3, ance of everything,it seemed as though with the agreement that the building shall be completed within one year. is a law partner of George E. Chamberlain, , |Esq., attorney general of the state of Oregon. This contract does not include the win¬ The letter was as follows : dows, pews, furniture, organ and beat¬ "It is with much regret that the Oregon branch of the Thomas tree announces its in¬ ing apparatus. ability to be present with you. It is with you The work of excavation was com¬ jin kindred spirit, however, and wafts to you on the gentle Oregon "Chinook” its message menced the latter part of April, and of good cheer with the sincere hope that when was about finished when the flood of thg sun again shine3 on this reunited host, I the webfoot contingent will be with you both May 21st put a stop to the work for I in body and spirit.” some time. It was resumed the latter After the dinner was concluded, the fol¬ part of July, and the first stone in the lowing officers were elected: President, W. W. Thomas, Newberry; vine presidents, Wil¬ foundation was laid August 7th. The liam Thomas, Montgomery, and Gideon work has now progressed far enough Thomas, Larry’s Creek; secretary, Clinton Thomas, Montgomery; corresponding secre¬ to lay the corner stone, September 20. tary, S. C. Thomas, Williamsport; treasurer, The present officers of the church S. P. Thomas, Salladasburg; executive com¬ mittee, H. J. Clinger, C. A. Thomas, C. H. are: ^tcv. Phaon S. Kohler, Ph. D.. 1 Thomas, George Thomas, C. B. Seely, Dr. G. . pastor; Messrs Jacob Bubb, John Seb- F. Bell, Mrs. W. W Thomas, Mrs. Sarah T. Bussler, Mrs. Anna Thomas, Mrs. C. B. Seely, ring, Hamilton B. Humes, and J. Har¬ Mrs. M. E. Thomas, Mrs. Sylvester Mnssina. iris McKinney, elders; Dr. Uriah Beed. A brief sketch of the family is as follows : | Messrs John E. Potter, Robert MoCol- THE THOMAS FAMILY. The records of the Thomas family, j have been carefully gathered by Dr. R. H. Bussler, who, for quite a number of years, has been engaged on the genealogical record and is historian for the reunion this year. It seems that John Day, an officer in the English army, came to this country early in the eighteenth century, preferring American free- ’ dom to English tyranny. He deserted the English cause and.joined the American army, j aDd changed his name to John Thomas. Of his history there is hnt little known, except that he was the father of "Iron John” Thomas, who received that name from having au iron forge on Larry’s creek. He was born July 28, 1770, and was killed by being thrown from a sleigh on the narrows of | Larry’s Creek, February 20, 1843. He was married December 24, 1797, to Mary Murphy, jand had fourteen children, of whom Gideon Thomas is the only living heir. From the birth of “Iron John” the record of the family is complete. There are over One Hundred and Fifty Members As¬ four hundred direct descendants of whom 280 are living. The average of the first and see- / sembled at Vallamont. ond generations was by years : "Iron John” I lived to he 73; George W., the firstborn, to 78; I Charles, to 78; John, to 79; Gideon, still liv¬ ing, at 76; Jane, to 71. The Thomas family is represented in nine states and none had to |THE OLD OFFICERS AND THE NEW go to Canada. It has had 82 farmers.' Their many bi’ole names are familiar; Gideon, Mary and Martha, Joseph and Samuel. IA Dinner Served on tile Grounds—A The first reunion was held at William Thomas’ home at Montgomery. The second | Ldst of Persons Sitting at toe Tables. at Larry’s Creek and last two years at Nip- , A Brief Sketch of the Thomas Family. peno, where in 1893 one hundred and sixty- three sat down at the table. I Will Meet at Vallamont Mext Year. PERSONS PRESENT. Williamsport—Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Mus¬ I - sina, son Graff and daughter Maud; E. J. I The fifth reunion of the Thomas family was Wilhelm, Fred Mackey, Robert Otto Clinger, i h®ld to-day at Vallamont. Notwithstanding Mr. and< Mrs. H. J. Clinger and family, • Jthe appearance of rain, there was an attend¬ Mrs. Elizabeth Hyman, Martha M. Thomas, ance of about 150 persons, Maud Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Metzger, ] The officers of the year ending to-day were: Mrs. J, W. Brillhart, Mrs. Paul McBride, 8Gideon Thomas, president; C. W. Thomas and Margaret J. Russell, Mr. and Mrs C. A. Klham Thomas, vice presidents; S. C. Thomas, Oda Thomas, Dr. W. F. Kunkle, omas, secretary; C. A. Thomas, correspond¬ Mrs. Ann Thomas, E. L. Kiug, Mr. and Mrs. ing secretary; S. P. Thomas, treasurer, S. C. Thomas. j .Tables were spread iu the grove with an Newberry—Mr. and Mrs. A. T. McCormick. ; abuudant supply of good things to eat, and at Mr. and Mrs. W. K. McCormick, Mrs. S. T. 12 o’clock the whole company was seated. Let¬ Bussler, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Bussler, Mrs. ters were received from absent relatives re¬ John Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Buzzard, , gretting their inability to be present, among Ezra Buzzard, Pearl Bovee, Fora Fessler, iwhich was an interesting letter ■ from Mr. Ocic Creasy, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Kasbridgo, Warren E. Thomas, of Portland, Oregon, who Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Taylor and two daugh¬ ters, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. _ McClarin, Lura Ida, Raymond and JUolla MeCIarin, Fred Hi ear and Car) Bussler, Miss Edna Bussler, Bussler Mr. Ball, who is in iris...... Bovee, Mr. and Mrs. W. \V. Thomas, L. B. year, takes great pride in showing Thomas, J. L. Thomas, Oella, Comic and valuable collection of papers, books, en Mabel Thomas, Dr. and Mrs. G. F. Bell, Bos- He is hale and hearty for cue of hie ue.. coc, Dalton and Lalla Bell. and is possessed of aP Lis facnltkr^whiot Larry’s Creek—Florence Williamson, W. in itself, is retnarkoble. He can at T. Thomas, Bert Cline, Agnes Douglass, M. the E. Thomas, Blanche, Bessie, Maud, Lloyd, moment’s notice roier to any of Georgia and Olive Thomas, George Ginter, dates iii connection with Hie early his¬ James and Edward Ginter, Mr. and Mrs. L. tory of this oity und oonoty. Mr. Halt W. Ginter. William Ginter, Nora and Grace has kept a oarefullv edited diary for the Douglass. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Cline, Mrs. | pa«t thirty-two years, aud in it is chro"- Jane E, King, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ginter. ioled many important incidents in con¬ Jersey Shore—Samuel Seely, Mary Seely, nection with bis busy life. Myron C. Thomas and daughters, Mabel and Among his early papers he Has a copy Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Seely, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Williamson, Thomas and of The Lycoming Gazette, dated Tues¬ Bubie Williamson, Miss Florence Biugman. day, April 16, 1822. The Gazette was Saladasbnrg—LI. IT. Ten Brock, Miss Jen¬ then pubhsbed weekly by Tuniaoa nie Pepperman, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Thomas, Coryell, In this paper appears th« first Maggie Thomas, Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Feigkt, statoment of orders drawn 'by dja Com¬ Miss Emma Feigbt, missioners of Tioga county, commenc¬ .Montgomery—H. IT. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. ing'October 11, 1820, and ending Bep- William Thomas, Nellie and Maud Thomas, tember 22, 1821, W. W. Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Thomas, Toledo, O.; Another old paper is the Lycoming Mrs. Wiliard Mturge, Weedsport, N. Y.; Miss Chronicle, dated Wednesday, January Weidensall, AUenwopd; Lewis Thomas, Miss 28, 1835, printed and published by Alex¬ Rachel Thomas. White Deer; A. C. Bussler, ander Cummings, Jr. In this paper are Glean, N. Y.: Ethel D. Baker, Washington, reports of meetings held at Canton, D. C.; Mrs. Belle M. Baker, Raxton, Balti¬ Troy, Elmira, Geneva and Williams¬ more county, Md.; Mr. C. L. Thomas, Mont¬ the gomery; Miss Emma Thomas, Mifflinburg; port for the purpose of bui'dmg Nellie Thomas, Mifflinburg. Williamsport and Elmira railroad. It was decided to hold the next meeting at • Mr. Hall is the possessor of a copy of Vallamont park, the second Thursday of the Ulster Comity Gazette, published at Kingston, Ulster county. New York, Saturday, .January 4, 1800, by Satanai Freer & Hon. This paper contains a full aooount of the death and baric! of General . An old e:rouiar ana catalogue of the Williamsport Heminary dated November, 1848, is another valuable relic owned by Mr. Hall, The seminary was located on the west bJ,- oi Pine street-- b.elow-.- the— old-ana oaual was under the care of Misses Al. A. t Date, t... Hey?muu and Phoebe Hall, a sister of Mr. Hall, The 1 iat of references for the seminary as they appear are: Rev. John P. Hudson, Joseph B. Anthony, Esq,. Jacob Grefius, Esq., Mr, John B, Hah, Tunisou Coryell, Esq., John H. Cow- den, Esq., A. Y, Parsons, Esq,. Wil¬ liamsport; Hon, Asher Davidson, Jer¬ sey Hhore; Captain Richard Edwards, Farraudsvillo; Air. William Grafius, OWNED BY JOHN B. HALL, OF Ballefoute; Rev, Samuel B. SI, ad den, THIS CITY. Mnncv; Charles G. Donnell, Esq., -Em¬ bury; Mr. William Donaideon,Danyilie, Mr. Hail is the only one, whose names appear oa the above list, living. Itlauy InlereailiiE l»oeu«n»i» •'» 1 aeseimi OS I'Jie VeejeraiPt® EP WSto is Now ill His Niuoiy-

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The venerable John B. Hall, of West Third street, Ucs in his possession soma . valuable copies of old newspapers wmon a representative of the Gazette and BunLJiTiN had the pleasure of perusing at that gentiemau’a home yesterday, Bate, .l^L afternoon. 1 . . _ 1 77

originally from Argynsmre, and con¬ nected with the famous Campbell clans of the Highlands of Scotland, and emi¬ grated to Ireland about 1600. After fiving there for many years John Camp¬ F Will bell, with a family of 10 or 12 children, removed to America in 1726 and settled first in Donegal, Lancaster county, It Was Carried in the Battle of where we find one of his sons, Patrick. Campbell, born in Ireland in 1690, serv¬ King’s Mountain in 1780. ing as a coustable in 1729. About 1730, .John Camnbell, with three of his sons— Patrick among them—removed to. RARE REVOLUTIONARY RELIC Augusta county, in the rich valley of Virginia. Among the children of Patnc>t Camp¬ Its Descent Through Various Hands Till It bell was one named Charles. He be¬ came a prominent pioneer of the Augusta Landed in Williamsport—Death of the valley, aud early married a Miss Bu¬ Hero and Grief of Lafayette. chanan. From this union sprang William Campbell, born in 1745. His father The Campbell Family. dying wbeu he was a young man of 2~-, William resolved to remove with hii* mother and four young sisters to th^ As the time for the opening of Lycom- frontiers of Holston. -T here they settled |ing county’s centennial draws near, aud he soon became a prominent citizen, Shistorical relics of great value are con¬ and subsequently led the Scotcb-Irislr. stantly coming to the surface, and the patriots against the British and Tories, under Ferguson, at King’s Mojintaiu. antiquarian exhibit promises to he un¬ and immortalized his name in the cause, usually full, interesting and valua¬ of freedom. ble. The latest developmtnt in this line He rose to the rank of a brigadier is the sword of General William Camp¬ general, and was with Lafayette in th*» beginning of the Virginia campaigu bell, carried by him at the desperate which ended in the capture of Cornwal¬ battle of King’s Mountain, October 7, lis. He was taken suddenly ill and died 1780. Campbell, it will be remembered, Yugust 22, 1781, in bis 36th year, beforo commanded on this occasion, and his final vip.t.nrvvictory perchedTorched on the patriot)patriot bat-*ban¬ ners. When Lafayette received in¬ brilliant victory paved the way for telligence of the death of his friend ha Yorktown and independence. was greatly affected, and issued a gen-» The historic sword is now owned by oral order announcing the sad effect, George C. Campbell, of No. 160 East and characterizing General Campbell a?» j Fourth street, Williamsport, and the “an officer whose services must hava | line of its descent can easily be traced, endeared him to every citizen, autt -uL | When General Campbell died his sword particular to every American soldier, passed into the hands of his daughter rhe glory which General Campbell ban Sarah, who married Gen. Francis Pres¬ acquired in the affairs of King s Moun¬ ton, of Kentucky, and became the tain and Guilford Court House, will do mother of Hon. William C., Gen. John his memory everlasting honor, and n S. and Col. Thomas L. Preston. She sure him a rank among the defenders died in 1846 at the age of nearly 70. liberty in the American cause. The sword then became the property Members of the Campbell famif of James Campbell, (great uncle of the branched off north and south from Lan- present owner), and at his death it fell caster county. One brauch settled iu , to Patrick I. Campbell, grandfather of Herkimer county, New York, and[from | George C. Isaac Campbell, his uncle, this branch George C. Campbell, of WiL \ next became the owner, and it then liamsport, the present possessor of t i , passed to Adaliue (Campbell) Hess, sis¬ historic sword, descended. Ho is - ( * I of the opinion that the Campbell farm ; ter of Isaac, who gave it to George C. Campbell, her nephew, of Williamsport. of Pine Creek (Cammal) came fiom tb . Thus it is seen that the historic blade, Lancaster county ancestor. He is led U. I so successfullv wielded at Kings Moun¬ this belief by the similarity of famu f tain aud Guilford Court House, has names which prevails among them A been kept in the family for over 110 It is needless to say that the Swoi . / years, and is treasured as a priceless of CampbeLl” will take its place among . . heirloom. It is still in splendid con¬ I the war relics to be exhibited in Center.- // dition, the blade is bright and keen nial hall, and that it will serve its par;. K but the scabbard gives visible signs ol as a reminder of the dark and gloom / ! ao-e. As a weapon, however, it is still days when the patriots of the Revolute n ready for service in the cause of liberty struggled for freedom and equal right... swugg John of Lancaster. I and independence. The Campbell family from which the jhero of King’s Mountain descended were •i*IY HISTORY OF NEWTOWN. ~l . From Newtown thd people bad a clear, open view to the river and neighboring ■In the year 1850, when Williamsport mountains and mauy plea taut moments wks .just” begiimiirg to bud, the sixth were spent watching the packet boats postal'or addition was united to the origi¬ pass up and down the canal, or the rafts nal borough. This addition was formed of gigantic logs with which the river out of the farm owned by Messrs Lloyd was crowded iu the spring of each year. and Updograff. The building lots werej An illustration which will show bow large, but the streets narrow and were greatly the hill has been leveled off is traveled so little lliat the cows from the this: Mr. Dittmor built a two-story | borough would wander up the hill and house on the northeast corner of Frank- ; graze on the clover that grew in the lin and East Ross streets, aud a few streets. The boundary of the borough in years afterwards it was necessary for 1850 extended only to Academy street ou; him to build a story to the bottom of his the oast and north to a line over which house; while at the foot of the hill ou the Philadelphia and ISrie railroad ran. Fourth street a house was built entirely The sixth addition was bounded on the out of ground, now the first floor is but north by Sloan alley, on the east by a foot higher than the street. Penn street, on the south by the Phila¬ In 1855 Ferring and Hoffman estab¬ delphia and Erie railroad, on the west lished a small brewery in Newtown, by Elizabeth street but not including which changed owners every few years the land occupied by Dickinson sem¬ till at last it passed into possession of inary. Jacob Flock. Under his management the The sixth addition soon received the business was greatly enlarged until at name of isleustadt.ej the English of I present it is one of the largest breweries which is Newtown; at first tbps name in Pennsylvania. was only applied to Franklin street, to In the rear of Dickinson seminary Washington street and a few houses on there was a spring which supplied the both sifes i» each direction ou Wash¬ seminary and many of the surrounding i ington street. The name Newtown \y*s families with water. There was a'so a j given to this district by tfe early in¬ well dug in tke rear of the seminary and habitants who were mostly Germans, sulphur water was found. This wi ll | who thought that $ pew town would bo stood for a number of years and many formed before the interceding distance drank of its sulphur water. The well was between Wifiamspert and .Newtown finally abandoned and has since been would become settled. The wqy from 1 lost. Newtown to the borough w.-s down But the most interesting spot in the ! Franklin street, which was at that time early history of Newtown is still to bo ■ a very steep bill, aud np Fourth street, described This was the park i which was not half as wide then as it is called Spring Garden. This park was i now' besides there was no bridge over situated in a small dell on the east, side of Franklin street, bordering the P. & Grafins mb. E. railroad, and was owned by Mr. The first settlers were, Jacob Merklp Espenshade who bought the place from who built for himself a home in 1850, Mr. Green. Mr. Espenshade, with the situated on the second lot from the aid of natural resources, which were corner of Franklin street, on the north¬ plenty of largo wide spreading trees and east side of Washington street, the house a largo magnificent spring, soon con¬ still being inhabited by the man who verted the place into a beautiful park. built it nearly half a century ago; George On account of its nearness to the bor¬ Zimmerman also built a house ip 1850 ough this park was used for picnics and on the northwest corner of Franklip aiul many were the people who came to i East Itoss street; in 1853 Mr. Zinuncr- lounge or romp about in the shadow of 1 man established a bakery at his. home the trees and drink the fragrant waters ; > on Franklin street, in which business he that gushed forth in laige quantities j continued for twenty years. The old from the ground. This park was f house was in later years removed to the |abandoned in the year 1878. rear of the lot and replaced by a large i But all this was Newtown 40 years brick oue. William Edler, in 1851 built •ago. Since then nearly the entire a house on the southeast coiner of Eighth ward has received -the name of i Franklin street and Wilson alley; the Newtown. The place has become I house still stands and is occupied at the thickly settled, and has now three pub¬ ' present time by the Farmers Alliance. lic, many private industries and largo The settlers during the year 1851-50 were buildings. Newtown is inhabits i by ' I Messrs. Putman, Gowland, Eller, many of Williamsport’s most industrious ' Geratenlauer, Seigler, Bay, Stelnhelper, and patriotic citizens. Salwachter, Drummer,Green, Stuempfle, ; John Edward Hess, |ji . Leubear, Dittmer, Felknpr Jfijgele and Salbach. In 1857 Mr. Steinhelper entered the grocery business and a few years f later Mr. Claudie also established a grocery store. Beginning with the year 1855 Newtown steadily advanced iu area and population. _ _ ...» (mused from her slfitubers, began to doa her habiliments to bid a joyous welcome to all within her borders. Incoming trains last nigbt brought large delegations of visit¬ ors from nearby towns, who intend to re¬ K From,, ChttAAs.| main here during the entire demonstration. Today the number of strangers was swelled by large additions from the county, travel¬ ing chiefly in vehicles. Not uutd tomorrow will the big crowd arrive, when it is ex¬ pected 10.000 visitors will be here. Elmira alone will Bead 1,500, and the neighboring boroughs and towns in Central Penusylva- ► Date, C „\ 2—./£v J ] oia will bring the grand total to the above figure. _

SUNDAY SCHOOL PARADE. 1 11 I I I t I Thousands of Bright Faced Children March Through the Streets of the City. ' The feature of today’s celebration, and one of the most interesting and impressive scenes that has ever been witnessed in this city, was the parade of 3,000 Sunday school children. So well managed was the whole affair that very little delay was experienced whatever in following the program. The formation in Market square was skillfully directed by the various marshals, so that by 10.15, just fifteen minutes after the lime ! Indications of a Successful fixed, the procession moved out Market street. The streets were lined with people, Celebration. it being estimated that 10,000 people saw the . parade. Not nearly the full complement of the Sunday schools was represented. The best showing-was made by St, Bonifnce aud THE CITY FILLING UP the Churoh of the Annunciation schools, the former having 300 aud the latter 400 in line. The St. Boniface children wore sashes and carried pretty colored Japauese para¬ Hundreds of Visitors Arrive to Wit¬ sols. The line was made up as follows: Chief marshal, W. C. King ; chief of staff, H. II. Russell ; aids, John B. Beck, L. E. ness the Sights. Whiteman, Watson F. Updegraff, H. H. Galbraith, John B. Euibtok aud Prof. W. W. Kelohner. The Fisk Military band preceded I1 GRAND SUNDAY SCHOOL PARADE the first division. FIRST DIVISION. Marshal, Ed. L. Taylor ; chief of staff, D. , Oyer 3,000 Children, Tastefully Dressed, H. Foresman ; aids, W. M. Danley, Charles Reed, Robert F. Trainer and Brook Ans- in the Procession. pach. The division, consisting of schools west of Market street, headed l»y the boys' brigade ot Sunday school cadets, with Cap¬ MEETING AT THE COURT HOUSE tain W. L>. McCausland commanding, formed on West Third street, resting on Market square. Following was the First , Address of Charles M. Clements, Re¬ Baptist Sunday school, 150 strong, with Rev. t E A. Woods, D. D., pastor, marshal. Frank > viewing the History of the West (Mannings, Esq., W. P. Bradley, Esq., Mar- / Branch Valley. tm O'Hehir and T. B. McCaffrey attendee , as marshals to the Church of An->1\ nuncintion school, numbering in all 400. \ AT THE EXPOSITION HALL Then cauie Shiloh Baptist Sunday school I .With forty scholars, led by W. H. Johnson. IT, M. B. Hicks, Esq , marshaled the little army of 300, the deputation from the Piue Nature smiled her grandest this morning at suunas wl>en the salute from Brandon Street M. E. Sunday school. The Ebenezer park ot niuateen guns echoed and rever¬ Baptist school, with thirty, was under the berated from hillside to mountain top, for¬ direction of Davis Thompson. J. N. Kltnef mally announcing the opening of the three aud Rev. J. M. Auspaoh were the marshalaV cb'/s' celebration in this city in commemo¬ (or St. Paul’s Sunday school. Preceding ration of the one hundredth anniversary of this delegation of 175 little people were Mas¬ the formation of Lycoming county. Not a ters Shiffler Wise, Daniel Klme aud U. Me J cloud was seen from zenith to horizon as gahan, Jr., who bore the Sunday soho^ Old Sol slowly, majestically came into view bauner of crimson silk. St. Mark’s Lut above the Muncy hills, and shone with un¬ eraa Sunday school of 150 followed wit w. F. Rick and Mrs. James Quicel n„. dimmed splendor upon another and event Stoetzel ns marshal and aids, ending th ful day — perhaps the greatest thus far in the history of Lycoming county, and in fact first division, northwestern Pennsylvania. SECOND DIVISION. The detonations of the artillery had I scarcely

Wheu tlie oration was concluded, the AT THE “SUN’S’’ BUREAU. choir saug a selection, after which tie The Sun’s Bureau was a grent centre of Rutter*011 WaS prououaced by Rev. L. C| attraction, and hundreds of people called -_ ; | curing the evening to see the press run, THE EXPOSITION OPENS. listen to the phonograph, register their rnarne aud get the almanac or a Centennial It Was an Auspicious Event and Everybody edition. The Sun’s Bureau is pleasantly located in the oentre of tho buildiig and the Was More Than Pleased, many visitors were pleased with it beyond measure. A crowd was around the phono¬ Tbe great Exposition bui’ding at Fifth graph all the while listening to a piece from I an , ^'P® slreots is now open to the public Gilmore's baud, a popular air from some ! and £oJ teu days to come thou¬ well known author, a song or a speech on sands of people will surge through the the merits of the greatest newspaper iu i avenues in the big hall and admire and Central Pennsylvania—The Sun, aud every¬ be astonished at the gigantic array of i body was delighted. Some people couldn't relics and curio3 displayed everywhere, in I get enough of it. | every nook aud corner of the spacious iU' 1 tue exposition edition. tenor. It's a grent display, and no mistake : and some idea of its extent can be gained The Sun s little Exposition edition came when it is kuown that the city of Wil- out this morning on time, and it was given Hamsport and the borough of Montgomery '■ ! awaV to the people, who were more than alone have on exhibition exactly 10,973 dif- | pleased with it. They will take it homo rerent articles. The other boroughs and the ! 1 with them aud preserve it as a souvenir of i Jownsliip8 receipted for their exhibits in i Lycoming’s Centenary. This edition,which their various districts, so that the total is issued to give visitors an ideu of what is I number of exhibits will not be kuown until going oa iu the Exposition hall, will be the books are returned by the committees issued twice a day, at tl a. m. and 5 p. m. but it is safe to sny that fully 20,000 exhibits during the Centennial. .are in tho display. ARE TO BE CONGRATULATED.

AN AUSPICIOUS OPENING. Too much credit for this grand exhibition j The formal opening of the big exposition j of relics gathered from the dim and murky jinst evening was a most auspicious one aud past cannot be given to \V. VV. Champion, jau instantaueous success. The members Esq., chairman of the autiquarian commit¬ ,ol the Ladies’ auxiliary, who have labored tee, and Mrs. C. LaRue Munson, the chair¬ man of the ladies’ auxiliary. Both have , so long and so earnestly for the success of this feature of Lycoming’s ceutennntnl worked zealously and arduously for weeks to make the display what it is, a great big suc¬ gave an informal reception, and they must have felt gratified indeed when they saw the cess, and they are to be congratulated. big crowd of visitors and heard the excla¬ 1 hose interested in the Centennial have no mations of admiration and astonishment on cause for regret in selecting these two tire¬ [every hand, as the people walked about and less workers for the beads of their commit¬ j gazed at the curios. tees and the glorious result shows that no better selection could have been made. Mayor Elliot end wife were amoug tho To the army of ladies, the members of most interested of the many visitors nml the various vrard, borough aud township found much to admire and praise. Luring committees, who labored with the chair¬ the evening his honor was attacked with a men, great credit is also duo, aud they also , ' slight illness wheu near The ;Sun bureau, have cause for much congratulation, [I but soon recovered. The mayor’s sudden Everybody should be pleased with the con- J j illness caused some excitement for n time summation of this grand work, and no j and many people crowded around, anxious |for his welfare. doubt everybody is. If “SUN”, BUREAU CALLERS. ?V A STREAM OF VISITORS. The following visitors hud registered at The doors of the big building opened on The Sun bureau up to noon today: i ► schedule time at 7 30 o’clock, aud from that John B. Euibick, Mrs. E, Andrews, M. A hour on till 11 o’clock there was a constant Champion, M. H. Morgan. L. \V. Tallmau stream of visitors pouring in. The first per¬ John Ellis, William Applegate; W. If. Hink¬ son to purchase a ticket at the box office ler, Jr., Harrisburg; William V. Emery '/ and pass through the turnstile was C. Ruby Thomas, Clare Levi, Elizabeth Milter '( lhomas McC.arin, the W6ll known minority Estelle Watson, Edith Johnston, E. M. Sil- \ county auditor. As euch visitor entered verman.L. Yochsburg; G. Morcrip.Towanda; they were given a check with their number Minnie Swartz, Carrie Swartz, Nellie Page, thereon, this being a pretty and unique cou- C. W. Bastian, W. Z. Scarborough, Ray Ap¬ ceit of the Vailamont company. One side plegate, Elizabeth E. Knapp, Mabel S. Tay- 1 ® °brr,ck raad8' Centennial visit No. - lor, Mrs. J. Sidney Taylor, city; Mrs. 1&J5 The other side reads: “Lycoming phael Austrian, Miss Adrienne Austrian, n1793' Williamsport, ohnr- Reading; Miss Annie Bryau, Gertrude tered ffifiS. Valluuiout, bom 1S9I. Keep Bryan, South Williamsport; Wier Baker this till it grows.’’ f Max Emery, H. W. Smith, City; Mrs. Ed A SCENE OF GRANDEUR. Hecht, Lock Haven; Mrs. M. Levi, Mrs. I. jC. Wenck, Mrs. T. R. Winder, J. S. Tnwuey Under the glare and glimmer of tho many I William M. Berger, H. L. Hnrtranft, Annie ajgjdghts the interior of the mammoth - 84

Kate Kaufman, YYiinam £. Atwater, ot the orchestra in one corner of the build city M. Rosenbluth, Sydney M.Koseublu.h, ing late in the evening, end attracted a big Wilkesbarre; Janet S. Petrikin, Montoura- crowd of admirers. ville; Mrs. J. E. Austrian, E. F. Matt. C. E. A small leather trunk, liued with Euglish Cromley, John Gibson, Jr., Clyde F. Welsh, j parliamentary documents, heaving the date Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Munson, J. G. 1 mtt, of 1653, is loaned by Mrs. Edgar Munson, Mrs. Dr. N. L. Johnson, Mrs. M. C. Ran- aud an old ‘‘Breeches” Bible printed in Bom, Mrs. F. M. Gilroy, C. La Hue Munson, j 1645, by Edgar Munson. v Frank M. Painter, Katio O’Connell, L. E. i James Thomas, the agricultural imple¬ Craig city; 0. Harry Shoemaker, Montours- ment dealer, has a fine exhibit. If includes ▼illei’w. W. Champion, John P. Orth,James a plow, nickel and copper plated, that took P. Meliclt, H. B. Chapman, city; W. S. Bar¬ ythe first prize at the \Vorld s fair. It ^ tue rett, Milton; Henry Metzger, John btayor, product of the South Bend Chilled How William Burkhart, Mrs. Dr. William IE company. Hull, James B. Coryell, Elizabeth G. White, The Hays block, at Fourth and Pine Margaret Smith Embick. G. W. Newton, H. ! streets, was tastefully decorated this morn- P. Maine, John Bloom, Jr., J. L. Bloom, E, ! jng by lodge 106, of the Masouic fraternity. H. Coney, A. M. Waltz, city; M. L. Menoh,. 1 Last night the decorators finished the Hess Owen L. Meuch, Jersey Shore; Robert Mil¬ , budding, opposite. Both maUes handSome ler Bam G. Roush, J. H. Elmer, O. B. Hum¬ I additions to the already pretty effect m that mel, Frank M. Painter, Mrs. D. M. Hinkel, city Mrs. E. J. Montelius, Mt. Carmel; N. l0°Ihe smallest locomotive in the world, per¬ Dayton Ruuklo, W. Baldwin fect in every part, whieh runs by Bteam ot J Ray Kramer, Towauda; Mrs. J. W. Er.e, ompressed air, is exhibited by its builder, Binghamton; Mrs. E. A. Rowley, oity, F. Van Fleet, of Williamsport. George Tall man, Ralston; Mrs. John Mrs Mary C. Ransom, who superintends Heisne, Montgomery; Eleanor Mahalfej, the aid aud modern kitchen, also Fas an. attractive educational display. The e^uca city; J. George Baoht, Cogan Station; i tion of a century ago is represeuted by old G. G. Olouoer, Shenandoah; Mrs. 0. H. books aud that of today by a and Hilliard, Mrs. D. W. ghollen bsrger, Mont¬ books ana turn bat oars, cigarettes and a deck of cards. gomery; Florence C. Parsons, Abram TJ. The exhibit is labeled “Then” and Now. Gibson, 0. Blanchard Gibson, Charles H. Eklon, C. H. Sloan, city; John L. Sen^n, Tbe Wire Buckle Suspender company's Advertiser, Blossburg; Jean Rosenheim, corps of lady operators are prettily attired in Sarkersburg, W. Va.; Josfcphine Kauffman, sailor blouses and caps, of dark green and t. Louis; Ida Strasburger. Jennie Stras- white material, and many visitors are inter burger, city; Isabelle W. Hippie, Lock Ha¬ ested in seeing them make souven.r sus¬ ven ; J. P. Sheats, T. J. Striae, George H. . penders The following ladies operate the Grove. William Hoffman, A. S. Husselton, machines: Louisa Eggley, Mrs. Crossmore, J. H. Long, Marie C. Brennnn, city; Mar- Sadie Myers and Emma Webster. I he first gavet M. Lennon, Sarah Lennon, Elmira; pair of suspenders turned out in the build- Dr. Z. E. Kimble, Liberty; Mayor William fn" was presented by Mr Freeman of the G. Elliot, G. L. Crouse, Layton S. wive Buokle' company, to Mrs. George B. Lyon, S. Van Brown, Giorge C. Schneider, Maxwell, a member of tbe Ladies auxiliary. city ; Abraham Meyer, Clean House, Ethel This evening tlie eiitertammont .iommit- P. Abcrorombie, Flo; e ice Edna Hughes, tee will present the following Marion A. Boyer, Em' i3 A. J. Taylor, A. P “America ” in which Miss Sadie Updegraff Atwater, W. B. Thompson,_ Jennie Craw ,1 sju£,' “The Star Spangled Banner; ford, Mrs. M. Pidcoe, city; J. B. Little, Pic¬ | I? ^Family” "and a W ture Roeks. ton Reception," in costume. By request or EXPOSITION ECHOES. the ladies Mrs G. M. Repasz has consented 1 to sing m ibis tableau. Her principal song Beware of pickpockets. will be “Today I am Sixty two,” as ren¬ A long distance telephone has been placed dered by her twenty-five years ago. Be in the building. will be accompanied on a piano U1 7 The visitors began to arrive immediately old, by Charles Gleim, one of Williamsport s after the parade. well known musicians. Another big lot of visitors were enter¬ tained by The Sun’s phonograph today. TOMORROW’S PROGRAM. All borough chairmen are requested to re¬ turn their receipt books at once to the The Military and Civic Parade and the Court proper parties. All the portraits in the east end were House Meeting. labeled today, and more light will be pro¬ The official program of exercises for to- vided at night. A curiosity is an ancient girdle made from bible clasps in Rotterdam, Holland. It is owned by Mrs. 0. La Rue Munson. The Lycoming Rubber company has a fine display, as also has John N. Stearns & | Co., the proprietors of the silk mill. “:“i| E. A. Fancher’a great exhibit of firemen’s I relics arrived this morning from Lock Ha¬ First Division, Mmshll-'v C. KJng aud Aids. ven, and was placed on exhibition. lir 1 Twelfth Regiment. K G. E. The members of the Ladies’ auxiliary wear encampments 0. R. PO^ of G. A. R* handsome badges, which were secured by Sons ot Veterans Camps. Mrs. C. Lallue Munson, their chairman. Just before opening W. IV. Champion called all the guards together and instructed them to be oolite but firm aud see that the **Esq" Encampments ot P. t>. S. ot A- "lies of the building are observed. American Mechanics. Gibson and Mary Moltz Maxwell -step and a waltz to the music Knignts or Pythias. Knights of the Gol en Eagle. Odd Fellows. A O. Knights of Mystic Chain, Etc. Third division—Marshall, Fi nnic l*. Cummings. Esq. Aids—w. P. Bradley. Esq., Robert J. White. M. J. Costello. Thomas J. Reidy. Jr.. Charles J. Reilly, Esq , M. J. Dunbar, Louis E. Whiteman, P. M. Mu loy. Charles Krtinm. Fred Reiter. Fisk Cornet Band. Divisions of A. O. II. F. M. T. A. Society. F. M. Cadets. St. Patrick's Society, St. Bonltace Society, etc. Fourth division—Marshal, W. M. DuFotlr; John K. Hays. Esq., chief of staff. Aides. Dr. N. R. A Fine Time We Hubbard. J. Fred Coder, W. II. CYockett. James B. Krause, Marcus Mlllspaugh, William J. Fisher. Harry II. Sweet. Albert E. Eschenbich. Distln Band. Williamsport Turn Vereln. , Are Having. Seven Wise Men. Unasslgned societies, etc. The parade will form at 11 o’clock a. in. sharp. Wednesday, July 3, and will move at 11.15. The first division will forth on Market street, north of Third, facing east, right resting on Market street. The second divis'on will formon Market street, south of Market square, facing west, right rest¬ THE SECOND DAY ing on Market square. The third division will form on the south side of west Third street, right resting on the south side of Market street. The fourth division will form on the south side of West Third street, facing north, right resting j on Court street. Civic and Military Parade and •Line of march will be as follows: Down Third | to Mulberry, Mulberry to West Fourth street. West Fourth to Mayn art. Maynard to West : Third. West Third to Walnut, Walnut to West i the Civic Exercises. Fourth, West Fourth to Plue. Pine to Centennial building, where parade will dismiss. Each or- j ganizatlon In line Is requested to appoint a mounted aid to the marshal in charge of tho division. James B. Coryell, Frederick A. Snyder, Chief Marshal. Chief of f-taff. Exercises to he held at the court house at 3 p, m. . HON. CHAS. TUBBS’ AOORESS Music by the Fisk band. Prayer by Rev. Arthur E. Woods. Introductory remarks by J. B. Duble, chairman ! I of committee. Patriotic song by Singing Section Williamsport Turn Vereln. A Patriotic Effort Full of IntemlfRg and Recitation by Miss Augusta Helen Gilmore, Poem Entitled "Lycoming." Valuable Historic Points-—The Parade Address by H. C. Parsons, Esq. Historical Address, by Hon, Charles Tubbs, of a Failure From a Numerical Stand¬ Tioga County. Song by Turn Vereln Choir. Benediction by Rev. Elliott C. Armstrong. point-Successful Balloon Aeftension Committee in charge—J. B.Duble, B. B.Dvklns, H. L. Beck, John E. Potter. William N. Jones, and Parachute Leap—A Big Bicycle; William E. Sprague and David Bly. Balloon ascension and parachute leap will take Parade Last Evening—Interesting T-alp, I place at 4 o'clock from the old fair grounds. Prof. Frank H. Kepner. of Sturgess, Mich., Is the aero- nout, alid he will ascend not less than 3,000 feet leaux in the Exposition Building—Elab-p before cutting loose with ids parachute. Antiquarian exhibition open Irom 7 a; m. until erate Program for Tomorrow, 10 n. m, v * <=» ■*» vs+’j- j- /■ ,r. ... •• j . -7

% t UlUl’btU' arranged and composed «n the Exposition From, J(jUO? •f Visitors to ths building are in- News ?eg^ter h!-V UK?les °“ The Evening wuh thST' Any ltem ot news received Evening News Department, Exposition Building, July 3. If there were persons iu Williamsport who had the idea in their heads that Ly¬ coming county’s centennial celebration Nearly 800 wheelmen, headed by me i Newberry baud, took part in the bicycle I parade last night. There was a number | of handsomely decorated wheels in line and the display made was a very credit- j able on«- LAST NIGHT’S TABLEAUX. An immense audience gathered in the exhibition building last evening and en¬ joyed the tableaux given under the direction of the ladies’ auxiliary commit¬ tee. The first tableaux was “America,” produced by eight young ladies in cos¬ tume. Next was the tableaux, “George Washington’s Family,” produced by four persons. Next was a representa¬ tion of the first reception terj(ered Washington in Philadeipb’j^ Gf theta .were eminent!v socmo'ssfu.l and greatly enjoyed l>v ^ audience. . The 0Df°r-^inntent Was 'cld«e* *i With a song 1U costutao by Rozella Repas^ “To-day Cm ftixty-Two.” This is p. character song as sung by Mrs. Re- pa.SE twenty-live years ago, and was ac¬ companied on a piano 103 years old by (Charles Gleim. The rendition of the | (song was received with rounds of ap-j W. W. CHAMPION, plause, and Mrs. Repasz responded to the encore by singing “Coming Through Chairman oT ttre Antiquarian Committee. the Rye.” Miss Sadie Updegraff sang' was not going to be a success, that idea “Star Spangled Banner.” The enter¬ was -dispelled from their “minds before tainment was certainly a treat. they went to bed last night. Nothing Bike it was ever before seen in Williams¬ TODAY’S EVENTS. port, and probably will not be again trite Military and Civic Parade a Failure. for the next 100 years. The streets in Meeting at tlie Court House—Hon. the centre of the city last night were one Charles iTubbs’ Address. mo', mg mass of humanity. At Pine and Promptly at 6 o’cloak this morning Fourth streets it was almost impossible . N boom of the cannon notified Wil-| to crowd one’s way through the throng. isporters prepare fqr the second day’s celebration, While ' particular hurry, and everything the oily bedecked with nags ^and bunt- went even if it had to be pushed—baby carriages, for instance, I As a rule, the marketing was done , earlier than usual, and although tne nrst. And, by the wg,y( dM ahyone ever see' ■event of the day—the military and ciVic | finer weaihe’? 5* '•seems as if Nature, parade—was not Scheduled id take plabdj herself reoag-n^dd that a great celebra- until 11 o’clock-, iofig before that hour | * tion was gVJing on herein Lycomiifg the streets \Vhie lined with people, who , county, ^nd that she is expected Id ub! we are sorry to say, experienced their her bet’c to assist. fin.t disappointment, in connection witn THE PA HAtnY; TE LEAP. the celebration. For the parade was a The fair gboVmds were black with failure, numerically considered, ness people yesterday afternoon to witness than 1,200 people were iU linfe. Cuts) *tfee balloon ascension and parachute of the Irish and G erman Catholic socie¬ Sesfip, which had been scheduled to take ties, but Olie civic organization—the ) jpiace at 4 o’clock. It was 5:30 o'clock Jr. O tJ. A. M.— turned out. / before the crowd of patient people 'Saw The parade was headed by a platoon ot the big balloon and the 'cerohallt, Pro¬ mounted ipoliee, consisting of Chief fessor Frank H. Kepuei-, shoot up through Russell, Captain Worrall and Patrolmen Vthe air. After ascending to a height of Thompson and Wasbam. These were jabaut 8,000 feet, the feronaut pulled the followed by Chief Marshal Jambs B. * cord which released him and his para*- Coryell and staff. , . ", “shute from the balloon, and he started The first division consisted of JVlarsUal on his downward course, alighting on W C King and aids; Twelfth regiment, iberra firms near Rural aVeuue and Cherry N' G P.T 112 men: Baptist Sunday street. Like ail other events, the ascen¬ school cadets, 45; a carriage containing sion and parachute leap were in every four survivors of the Mexican . war, Ji. way successful. - THE J3ICYCLE PAEADE. 87

O. U. A. M. baud pf Muttcy; Jr. U. U. A. M.jlQrt. J Hon. H. C. Parsons then delivered ate The second division consisted of eloquent address, after which Hon. Marshal Frank P. Cummings and aids; Charles Tubbs, of Tioga county, the Fisk Military band; divisions of A. O. orator of the day, deli vet ted an histori¬ H., 158 in line; Distin band; St. Boni- cal address relating to Lycoming coun-i facus Sodality, 80; St. Bonifaciusjsociety ty, which was in part as follows: 112; St Patrick’s society, 44; Father By diligent search ,we IfiiicLly'e^re erililled Mathew T. A. B. society, 48; Cadets ef to record one bA.ttm U-V.iT the Indians as I upon our territory, in' Temperance, 40. Southwest corner of L- ' By actual count, including bands, r W^uUlted in 17H5 village^oHcft- marshals, aids, etc., there were"but 1,155 Ifc was ail Indian village of some men in linp, 30 oi 40 houses situated on the eastern bank of the Allegheny river. It tyas tltc stForgi hold of Captain Jacobs Wfld hinges, some COURT HOUSE. Indian chiefs, and the w_nch they distributed their war The exercises at the court hoqsf inis Jpamea along the frontier. The Indians. afternoon were very interesting. The Were well supplied with the munitions of b isk baud furnished music for the oc¬ wai by the French and were gathering a •t

The children hear their mother’s call. -Scendiiig the river in canoes-, {tin in or From east and west and north cre^k Vi^ue Conewango laey conte, in loving haste, to pav eilhi- Jw,L,etranV dU° aTCrres of C01'n and Their tribute to her worth nil,-a piuddder.VI^KdiSeg nl7STln<:i And while the hills and valleys ring ploaeh. Aside fro- ,, -us fled at his ap- with tlie sa- two encounters \V itn fongs of pra'se, they rear rec' oa •*age our Indian history is soon An altar to commemorate Her first centennial year. Our territorry In the historic period whs ?w\TT,^U“do’-r sAay ®fi bif tbl Oh. happy day with memories . iqqums or Six Nqtkips dnd lo ’hat part of Of richest blessings fraught, U' Paifl --5 dominated by the And filled witli tokens of the change ° -J1” wily Senecas. The Senecas A ceuiury has wrought, Vm-C by far the most numerous and power- C ire?AC0^derat?d- ravages Imong "rViS800S-

S and near Mahoning the battles i for dinacy between them and the white , a‘bn*S'”y™St Oj ihi jn took place at Wyoming, at Newion, western bank of the river, this expeditio at Fort Freeland in the great valleys just l halted and with stately ceremonial buried outside o£ our territorial limits. By the a leaden plate. There was an inscription treaty made at Fort Stanwix in October,, j upon it to this, effect—“Buried tins P‘ate at 1781, the Indian title to northwestern Penn- 1 I the confidence of-the, rp-ya-da-koin th s sylvania was extinguished, but when the, •>nth davof jdly. 1749, EeaF the river Ohio, time came -for the former lords of the otherwise Beautiful river, as a monument soil to abandon their hunting grounds they of renewal of possession.” Then they passed did it with great reluctance. Outrages and on and performed the same function at murders were committed alou.&jthebor m^ otherfiK The French .did not limit their Acts of jposstssion to this stately ceremoiiy. J4 17& Captain Joncaire built Fbrt Machafilt at Franklin, where they had t”n ensued at Fort ^to«i; buried the leaden plate,alid A was decupled bv a gar rison of French soldiers. At tunes j Ppipt; Foyt ®lra»^^Tda^nderHannar and anamy wasiathe fieid^ina^ r the.de-. as many as a thousand men composed the St. Clair, and dt was not u ,al Wayne in garrisom All the territory ol which I write along the Allegheny river was within; the claim of the French, The great water, way that led into it, and gave access to it, section ?f the f “te was the lattin h<, .„vy under the guns of Fort Machault. Inj Tiflv 17E$ the fortwas evacuated and thus the Indian titlewas acqu ded back a »r thVend of 10 yeftre from the burial of. the 1789, however, °ur legislatu ^ ^ Allegheny: leaden plate the French corps of observa- calledtract of Jen-ne-se-da-go 640 acies o- laa tot 5 tnethe senecant the chief, Cornplantev, upon which \n 1836 This UThe nex^explorer of our territory was the Rev David Zeisbermpr, ..He eA^Usfe! a Moravian miss oil it ii6/ among the In fi>ans at Croschgoschunk near the site of the iviflage of Tionesta, the county seat of I Forest county. During Hia sywvvspace Viof twoV r» w tract of land in the State 01ref«Uol/ exists .a hTfiTade ^ev’efaV' jofiffteys tp this where the of our local today. The caipf infrequent use of , annals will rott tM^™1 ^earas, mo q n- ! Indian nlame.*toa P^f the counties formed along the c“?“^“.sAlloet1eny, down which from ili0iic© to His minion from rrrr«Sirsa

“•Athens. Of Jimnina only Venango has fSSjMffSSg* ffli Porter were the Pennsylvania eomtB-ji-i-rP ; it honestly btMO“^3 Aow 8he escaped bemp , ers They were accompanied by quite a large party of helpers. Following the ssa sorts I SSSi* 'w^s;1 jsg" j sfs-MS 3S‘S appropriate lucUa'i ^esque, Os way o,

edge of whakl»®iel them by the way. , . iTiw nevo elpiblurs Of oUr territory came m 4790 They were Samuel Maclay, Timothy Mat lack and^John Adlum. They were mem¬ term Pine «r.eek, and 10 has bers of a commission aPP®111^^ :hfl ancient Lycoiinog C h ^mon desig- beenset reside for theory g ^e8 fpr ,1 *UCIU* rr. 1 the'most saxm *®6 tv* roads or canals with babe Erie go3n.«Olff hetl by their fugged iilid characteristic acoentsfoT the*vanl^h^d rape of whom they are pow the gplj perp ,g qu remaimn," jQe5Q9UalS-1 \t out.’” . , otiv Waters, we hjay POt . jQ A within w Vian til© whit© menu. ...-fyvippD of sbih© Sinnemahoning, were near where the ItliTsfcec.t;itprviilely dtil o? tfidid lUfjefeirAy. ^“^n-ho have left records of lesuit missionaries, o^ ^ {rom Canada oi Iresssss their journeying soui“a’,ur first European northern New yorh, was om explorers visitor. . Among the At st veigeg. f tke

country °on on ll§:fe?glSlthe P''VO:fn1onary ^.ondttipps wliich had ing up ^nKuSes. The yourig obiameddmmgcoioniav.ce _n the army men wft,o. had s.en s v humdrum and LtSalle and uPtonatieg Ryowick brdkB a%vay from tbe slow a^ formed th they gave to th .„,iefiheW lf1!enes,eecoiintry,DvblOO^eal ^t west. In Wrst V’fnffew^ newspaper and no tele- tendedifioUntalns. To rnn.kebxfifine P noOcliiWtiqrimf a ^ { Qana . thda, ;p gra^m wSS fiP:bt q- Ue uve claim, Gallisonieje, g P command of 300 I sent M. ,de C, Canadians and Indians, qn V. 89

£®5J.'?ee'1 ?. sreat advertisement. Voting after hearing tne case, cie- ;*r!Jactive, adventurous spirits were sided that Sutton had the right to !^C rV„nCLtake«a ,iand in,ttie game of subdtt- mg Indians, fighting tbe Permamibes, and “Indian Land,” whereupon he took .VV hR" tije flgtitivith ttie | possession the second tinip, and named t lie til, most of it Newberry, Williamsport was known as> “The fpL|i"“ isvi^.'V•’ ■Voimumilbj nere today, .An- Port.” The descendants of Michael ptiler olententof our nohir J 1 V^ourppbP .alien bailie frOtti Ross claim that the name was bestowed rfh*L h n I hi Jdiu W ? ut 1 ie- comriioriwealth. Unr Pntmdelphift land owners had seeii to it by him in honor of his son William, and so galled the town “William’s Port.” The friends of William Hepburn claim ,cli. Oyer that the citizens proposed to call the b now alid place Hepburn’s Port, but he objected colonies-of sturdy^i^,^18" and manyl and suggested it be called Wifliarafs ples^"----Uof these iietergeneous peo- Port. The descendants of Joseph Wil¬ p 0«,Uu^icuon cne vergeof the wilderness liam maintain that his game was the one 6V within its gloomy depths, mother Ivy- prefixed to the word “Port.” doubt coming strotched her protecting arms. Population increased and the work of de¬ all three persons exercised gu influence velopment went on. The time for separa¬ over the uame, tion. had . come. ■. Events had . trioved with' The name “Muncy” is fleriyed frqtn a rabidity i ISOO. Centre, Armstrong, Venailgo, War¬ tribe of Delaware Indians, named MqR ren are each bidden to go forth free from seys, who were found here by the white's. maternal tutelage. 1803. Indiana receives her portion and en¬ Whsp the tribe moved west the remnants ters upon her own career. of them settled at what is now the town 1804. Tioga, Potter, McKean, Jefferson of Muncie, Indiana. and Clearfield are each given their endow¬ ments and gently pushed from under the Salladasburg was founded by Captain home roof. One by one. thereafter go out Jacob P. Sallada, in 1837, at which time the the various decendants, until the 18 in he cprpmenced to lay out lots. their differing degrees of relationship, have departed; To set forth in detail or, even in Pine Creek yws formerly called Tia- heileral tei'nis, the life history of each, is daghton. The-# is a pjystery, however, beyond the limit of this paper. At the hun¬ as to how Pine Creek received jts name. dredth anniversary of the corporate life of Mother Lycoming, taey come in one great 1 The name Pine Creek in Delaware sisterhood and lay at her feet most grateful means Cawen hanne, a pine stream or a acknowledgement lor the wealth with stream oy a stream flowing through pine which she endowed them. land. This name is appropriate, as After a song by the Turn Verein choir, , thorn was a dense forset of pine Rev. Elliot C. Armstrong pronounced I trees on its hanks. the benediction. ' | Antes Creek derives its name from the HISTORICAL SKETCH. i celebrated Colonel Johi> Henry Antes, who was a conspicuous as well as repre¬ With Reference to Matters of Interest, of sentative man in colonial times. Early Settlers and Indians In Larry’s Creek takes its uame from y.ycojning County. Larry Burt, an Indian trader, who once had his cabin near its mouth. BY RUTK S«U4TlJf. Antes Fort was called “The Fort,” Jersey Shore was first settled by but was afterwards named Antes Port, Reuben Manning and Thomas Forster, in honor of Colonel John Henry Antes. from, Esses county, New Jersey, in Etienne By«lp was doubtless the first ! 178J5. The place was at first called white who visited the Susquehanna Waynesbjjj-gj about the year 1800, but as valley, in 1615. the settlements iuarp^sed in number it The second white man who visited the began to be known as the f‘Jergey was Conrad Shore,” because Manning and Forster Weiser, in 1737, nearly 120 years after were Jersey men. At first the name Etienne Brule. I was applied in derision by the Irish Samuel Wallis was the land king of settlers jn ^ippenose bottom, across the the county. He came here as surveyor, river. The »ar»e “Jersey Shore,” how¬ iu 1768. He was of Quaker origin, born ever, became the more p.qpjflap, and it in Hartford county, Md., about 1730. |being legalized by the act incorporating The oldest house still standing within the borough, it has been known by that the original limits of the county is the name to the present day. stone house that was built by Samuel Moatoujpyillp was formerly called Wallis, iu 1769, near the mouth of Car¬ “Montour’s Reseryp,” bq gamed after penter’s run. Andrew Montour, who yeepiyefl a gpapt The first grist mill west of Muncy hills of the land containing 880 acres. was erected by John Alward in 1779. It Newberry was first settled by John was no doubt rudely constructed, but it Suttou, in 1772. It was then known as served the purpose for which it was “Jndian Laud.” Sutton staked out a erected, and was of great service to the claim. When he returned after a period pioneers. of absence he fqgnd Robert Auther on Under date of December 14, 1765 his land, he having bqgght jt from John Moses Harlan made an affidavit before Boak, July 10, 1776, for" &3S'. Jho John Rannells, that in 1761 the imjtrove-

~T::". 0 Tories and British upon the settlers ar at on Bowyer Brook’s tract consisted Wyoming in the afternoon of July '■ of about four acres of cleared, half- 778 and which ended the day by fenced land, and that of Robert Roberts, dreadful massacre, is a historical event made same year about three acres of unusual interest of the county. Col¬ • cleared, each with a dwelling, and those onel Hunter fearing for the safety of were undoubtedly the first houses in the people on the West Branch especi¬ Lycoming county. ally those living west of the Muncy ' In the fiight of the Moravian mis¬ hills, sent word to Colonel Hepburn sionaries, they encamped opposite Long order them to abandon the country and Island,which is now Jersey Shore. They fly to Fort Augusta. The settlers were had great trouble with the rattlesnakes.! alarmed and began packing and getting Within half an hour after their arrival readv to leave. Horses were let loose. one of the horses was bitten; as it was Thoce things which could not oe t^bon; werfburied. *The people at Antes Fort raining at the time, the remedy failed to take effect and the next day the animal had not heard of the coming Iudl*ns, It was a dangerous journey and tbey h*d, died. ^ some trouble in getting a messenger to| Warrior Springs, near Tort Penn, is a carry the news to the people at that place of much historical interest. It was a favorite camping place aud many n’ace Two men finally decided Indian chiefs and warriors met there to \S' V »"d' went* ov*r the counsel with each other when the tunes Raid Eagle mountains where they knew Indians would not likely be met. grew gloomy and the cold finger of des¬ tiny began to beckon their tribe west-j Pfmoes rafts aud all manner of floats were hastily collected and loaded with ward. Nothing of unusual interest occurred household effects and provisions, when the women aud children were placed op in the vicinity of Fort Muncy until the 11th of April, 1779, when Captain John board aiid tbe motley fleet etarteft down Brady was waylaid and shot by three the river. The mothers had a hard Indians, about one mile east of the fort. tfrne to prevent their babies fromcryimr Brady had made himself somewhat aud so attract tub acteThmn of Indians obnoxious to the Indians on account of lurking along the shore. The men his activity in opposing them. He took i walkod along the shore to guard off the an active part in Colonel Hartley’s ex- Indians. As It W%s a bright day in July, * pedition and attracted the attention of they could see the light of the buimng the Indians by bis bravery. Having wheat fields reflected on the sky. At been ordered to remain at homo from the last they arrived at Sunbury, where they Continental army to assist in guarding stopped. 1 the frontier, he was active as a rangel¬ And thus we might fill page after and the savages thirsted for his blood. page of interesting matter, relating | The Pine Creek declaration, in 1778, ineepotea and adventures qt the early is also an interesting fact worthy of re- settlers and the Indians. . . momborance. When it was rumored that Lycoming county, although originally the contemplated much larger, is to-day the second largest declaiming the colonies independent, county in the state and one of the most the people of the West Branch were important. Since iH formation there greatly in favor of it. Accordingly on has been no decrease m its development, the 4th of July, 1776, they mot in mass and its population is at present without l meeting on the plain a short distance doubt not far from 80,000. Throughout west of Pine Creek. From the little its 1 213 square miles comprised m its knowledge they had of conducting a present area the children are to-day m < meeting it was organized, when its object happy unison engaged in the animating, i was stated by one of the leading men. inspiring and patriotic duty of recalling The proposition was warmly discussed the incidents of one hundred years ago, ) and a number of speeches were made, which liistqrical fapts will result 1U oplj / when it was decided to indorse the betterment as mem aqd woniep. proposition under discussion in congre ss \ by a formal declaration of independence. A series of resolutions were drawn up aud passed, absolving themselves from all allegiance to Great Britiau and hence¬ forth declaring tfiemselves free aud in¬ dependent. It is remarkable that the continental congress and the ‘‘Squatter Sovereigns” on the West Branch, separated by more than 200 miles, should declare for freedom and independence ! about the same time. ! The big runaway which took place within the county at the same time ol I the attack of a strong force of Indians, tu

- ,.OGRAM FOR TO-DAY. 6 a. m.—Sunrise cannon salute. 7 av m.—Chorus of bells and whistles. 10 a. m.—Great industrial porade over the following route: Down Third street to Grove, to Washington, to Franklin, to Fourth, to Park, to Third,

I Third, to Market Square. 1 Booming Foul Mi lie Glottis 2 p. m.—Public exercises in court house; historical address by C. La Rue Munson, Esq.; patriotic /address by Cenienniui-GGnnons, its Hon. Emerson Collins; reading of Dec¬ laration of Independence by John oil Bells. It G. Reading, Esq. 4 p. m.—Balloon ascension and para- I chute leap, near old fair grounds. 8:45 p. m.—Magnificent fireworks dis¬ play on high hill just west of Athletic ill! REDDY 10 HUE. | park. „ -

— The weather yesterday was all that i could be desired and the city was MANY FEATURES FOR THE crowded with people. Every incoming VISITING THRONGS. train brought large crowds of visitors I who departed in different directions I seeking quarters. The first event of the day was the PARADE, ANTIQUARIAN EXHIBIT AND FIRE WORKS military and civic parade, and long before 11 o’clock in the morning, the hour announced for the moving of the Yesterday Passed Pleasantly and all In- column, the streets were lined with

j coming Trains Brought Thousands to people. There were only a little over 1,000 people in line all told. It Is to be j the City—The Feature of the Morning regretted that only a few of the so¬ Was the Military and Civic Parade— cieties turned out. There were only C ivic Exercises in the Court House in one or two visiting organizations. the Afternoon—Address Made hy Hon. The column was made upas follows: Chief Marshall James B. Coryell I harles Tuhbs, of Tioga County—! he and .staff. Balloon Ascension and Parachute heap FIRST DIVISION. a Success—Exposition Building Crowded Repasz Band. the Entire Day and Evening. Marshal W. C. King and Aids, Companies B, D and G, Twelfth Regiment, N. G. P. Boys’ Brigade, Artillery , Melhuish Gun Carriage containg veterans of the Mexican War. Muncy O. U. A. M. Band. Muncy Council O. U. A. M. Williamsport Council O. U. A. M. SECOND DIVISION. Marshal Frank P. Cummings and Aids. Fisk Military Band. Division 1, A. O. K. Division 2, A. O. H., Bodines. Distln Band. St. Bonifacius Society of Young Men. St. Patrick’s .Society. Father Matthew T. A. B. Socitey. Williamsport Cadets of Temperance. The route of the parade was down Third to Mulberry, to Fourth, to May¬ nard, to Walnut, to Fourth, to Pme, to Centennial, countermarch to Third, The weather to- to Market Square where they were dis¬ stay. missed.

‘VW THE SECOND DAY’S MEETING. j county. His address follows: MR. TUBBS’ ORATION. Splendid Addresses listened to In the j Court Honse,Delivered Ijy Charles Tnbhs, I I There is a singular fascination about Esq., Don. H. C. Parsons and J. B. ! those employments of the mind in which we seek to recall and reconstruct Dnhle—Mrs. Pnrvis’ Contribntion to tire the past; whether by the play of the Centennial. Imagination, the effort of memory, or The public meeting in the court house the wider sweep and severer exercise while not very largely attended, was ,a >of thought in gathering and comparing most enjoyable event for those who testimony concerning past ’events. The were present. Music was furnished by charm is one that many feel most pow- the Fisk Military band. ful, and yield to most readily, when J. B. Duble presided and delivered imagination leads the way and the poet an entertaining «■ and eloquent intro and the novelist evokes the semblance . ductory address. Prayer was offered of things that have been. It is a charm ^ by Rev. E. A. Woods, after which M'issj acknowledged by others to whom verse Augusta Helen Gilmore read Mrs. Kate and story have little attraction, yet B. Purvis’ tribute to the centennial in whose sober thoughts recur, with an interest that grows stronger as the, poem, entitled i the form of an original years go by, to the olden time of which follows: | ’‘Lycoming.” It was as they have heard, and of which their fathers have told. thbm. Undoubtedly LYCOMING. ' the chief satisfaction of the mind in Beneath the arching summer skies dealing with the past is found in those Whose mellow, golden glow labors by which the facts of the past Illumed her lowly cabin homes A hundred years ago. are ascertained. Hifficult, baffling, often disappointing, this study is one T.vcomiug stands in queenly state of which we never weary. To tempt And fondly, sweetly calls ug on, as by means of the slender rec¬ Her absent children back again ords that remain, we seek to live over To their ancestral halls. the past and to reproduce it for others— Her lovelv features wreathed in smiles to tempt us and to help us on there are Bear not a trace of care. the immutable things of nature; the For have her early hardships lelt scenery of the drama of human life The faintest impress there. that has been acted beneath these She looks upon the garnered wealth arching skies; the hills, the streams, Of many happy years, , the fields, the paths that were traced The countless sheaves of ripened giain throngh the wilderness in the early Which oiice she sewed m tears. settlement and have been trodden And points with pride to heirlooms rare, these hundred years; the sites if not To relics quaint and old the dwellings where the fathers lived. Of ruder times and simpler tastes Through all these changes man himself Before this age of gold. remains the same. The joys, the trou¬ The children hear their mother’s call bles, the toils, the sufferings that break From east and west and north up this life of ours have been known They come, in loving haste, to pay form age to age. If change there be to Their tribute to her worth. record, it is a change for the better. And while the hills and valleys ring On the whole there is progress. It is With songs of praise, they rear with this thought deeply impressed An altar to commemorate upon the mind, that we meet to cele¬ Her first centennial year. brate to-day, the completion of one Oh, happy day with memories hundred years of the corporate exist¬ Of richest blessing fraught, ence of Lycoming county. And filled with tokens of the change I am to discourse for a few minutes A century lias wrought. about the descendants of Mother Ly¬ With visions grand and beautiful coming—those parts of ’the original Of cycles yet to be, ,_. territory in the north and west that When progress shall go hand m hand have been detached to form other With world wide liberty. counties or parts of other counties. Thrice welcome all who come to share Of what did Lycoming originally con¬ The mother’s sacred ioy, sist at her formation in 1795? Let us And claim her children s heritage look at her as she was. On the north Of peace without alloy. lies the state of New York; on the east And whether they who bought that peace the county of Luzerne, as it then exist¬ Sleep on our holy hill ed; on the south an irregular line along Or rest in distant, unknown graves. the summit of the Nittany mountain, They are our heroes still. a projection of which strikes the AU- As long as yonder stately shaft gany river near Kittanning and on the Reflects the light of heaven. west the Allegany river and the Cone- To heroes living—heroes dead, wango creek. Gathered about Lycom¬ All honor shall be given. ing as she is to-day, and within these enclosing lines, lie the counties of i After the reading of this L^nduc- Tioga, Potter, McKean, Elk, Cameron, | poem. Hon. H. C. Parsons was ntrodue Clinton, Clarion, Jefferson, Venango, ! ed, and in an eloquent five minute ad Armstrong, Indiana, Clearfield, Cen¬ ! dress told of the greatness of tre, Union and Bradford. We restrict : county, its wonderful development an our vision to those sections lying to patriotism. Enthusiastic applause the north and west. A bird’s eye view of this vast tract 8 PresklenT Dubie then introduced Mr. of some twelve thousand square miles Tubbs, the orator, who spoke for Iioga would disclose a tableland rising to an elevation of twenty-six hundred maps as the Allegany, our uraina II feet above the level oi the sea in the opens at a point the most remote of | V county of Potter and gradually sloping any within the bounds from the At- I down to the valley of the Allegany on lantic coast. It not only opens there || the northern and western border and but for a period of nearly fifty years I to the valley of the Susquehanna on all we have to record is what hap¬ / the east and south. This immense pened along the beautiful river. j plateau would be seen to be gashed THE INDIANS. I and seamed all over its rugged surface By diligent search we find we are 1 by the tributaries of these mighty entitled to record one battle with the . rivers. This is the theatre where our y Indians as having taken place upon history is to be enacted. our territory. In the extreme south¬ ‘ 'Horatio Seymour, Governor of New west corner of Lycoming as constr- York, standing upon the field of Sara- tuted inl795 is the village of Kittan¬ : toga at the centennial anniversary of ning. It was an Indian village of some the battle said: “Our mountains and thirty or forty houses situated on the j rivers have been the causes of so many eastern bank of the Allegany river. It of the great facts in the history of this was the stronghold of Captain Jacobs I country; they are so closely Identified 1 and Shingas, some of the most active j with the social and political affairs Indian chiefs, and the point from that they seem to become sentiment I which they distributed their war par¬ actors in its events. We are compell- | ties along the frontier. The Indians ed to speak of their bearings upon the were well supplied with the munitions causes of war, of commerce and of of war by the French and were gath- j civilization.” The location of hill and ering a force to attack Fort Shirley^ j valley tended to produce historic events In September, 175G Colonel John Arm- ; at Saratoga. Sometimes they have a strong with the active co-operation of contrary effect. The location of hill the Provincial government raised an and valley has tended to carry away army of about three hundred men who historic events from the counties form¬ descended upon the town and destroy¬ ed from Lycoming in the north and ed it. The Indians fought with great west. The natural thoroughfares by resolution refusing to surrender when | land and water lie to the north and provincial troops failed to drive them ouf south and to the east and west of our I of their houses and as their sheltered J location. Our mountains have held off j position allowed them to do great exe- ! and pushed away, both in peace and ■ cutlon upon their assailants recourse war, the events which men call historic. was had to burning their buildings. 1 When the French, in the consumma- This had the effect to explode the kegs of powder of which they boasted they uon ■ of a grand design bisected ?Eis had enough stored away to supply j continent with their line of forts thier needs for ten years. Some of the . reaching from the great lakes to the enemy fled to the river and were either ! Gulf of Mexico they built Presque Isle, killed in the water or arownea. Tin- LeBoeuf, Machault, just outside our total loss of the enemy was about forty j boundary line upon the west. When lives much ammunition and other j the Moravians made their exodus from valuable supplies. Many prisoners were j Wyalusing in 1772, of which Bishop released from captivity. It was con¬ Ettwein has left such an interesting sidered a great victory and the corpora¬ record, instead of going due west tion of the city of Philadelphia struck through Tioga, Potter, McKean and a medal in commemoration of it, and Warren to their destination they made in honor of Colonel John Armstrong. a detour and ascended the West Branch It was a severe stroke on the savages*) of the Susquehanna and its southern Such of them as were of Kit tanning affluents. When Colonel Thomas Hart¬ refused to settle again on the east slue ley wished to punish the savages after of the river, as they feared that m .great treaty is to be held in 1790 the their absence on war parties, then led 'his expedition along Lycoming wigwams might be reduced to ashes. creek to the eastward of us. When In 1779 Colonel Daniel Brodhead led General in 1779 fought an army of six hundred men, rank and the and carried file, upthe Allegany river. The object , devastation into the heart of the In¬ of this expedition was to attack the In¬ dian country he passed to the north¬ dians in the western part of their do¬ ward of us. When Captain McDon¬ minion at the same time that Genera, 1 ald and old Hiokoto led their hordes Sullivan assailed them in the east. of combined Indians, British soldiers Colonel Brodhead reported to General and Tory renegades to the destruction * Washington that he landed on the eas. of Fort Freeland in 1779 it is down the side of the Allegany river at Mahoning Loyalsock and across the territory of near which he dispersed a band oi mother Lycoming, east and south of forty Indians who were [descending us, that they take their way. When a V the river in canoes, killing many. great trety is to be held in 1790 the Above the mouth of the Conewango trend of the mountain and the current creek he destroyed five hundred acres of the rivers carry the high contract¬ of corn and eight Indian villages. He ing parties to the east of us to Tioga also obtained much plunder. The In¬ Point. It is not strange then, in this dians fled at his approach. Aside from view of the case that the earliest events these two encounters with the savag.., of which we have records, in the ter¬ our Indian history is soon recited, it ritory of which I write, transpired does not figure to any great extent in along that open, magnificent water the Colonial records, and there is nc way known in our early annals as the long correspondence to sift and reduce Ohio river but now laid down on the ’ » ... it reasonable limits. Our'territory in name of "Atneiia. me parts or tr ie historic period was entirely under i counties formed from Lycoming only the sway of the chiefs of the Venango has a name of Indian origin or Six Nations and in that part Of and I rejoice to say it honestly be¬ their domain, that was dominated by longs to that locality. All honor to the warriors of the wily Senecas. The Venango? How she escaped being Senecas were by far the most numer¬ called Rome or Utica it is hard to un¬ ous and powerful of these confederated derstand. savages. Among them, here and there, j We have however, all over this re¬ were set down several tribes of Mon- gion, a thin sprinkling of beautiful and sey, Shawanese, Wyandot and other i appropriate Indian names. Among subject peoples who were shifted about1 "them we might mention Cowanesque, from place to place to suit the whim, Oswayo, Honeoye, Tanaungwant, Cone- the caprice or the policy of their im¬ wango, Kinzua, Tionesta, Kittanning, perious 'masters. Northern Pennsyl¬ Mahoning, Punf^sqtawney, jDagusca- vania and the region of the Allegany honda, Moshannon, and Sinnemahon- was a hunting ground into which the ing. In Tioga county we have discard¬ Senecas descended from the seat of ed the use of the picturesque appella¬ their power upon the Genesee. There tion "Tiadaghton” for the prossaic were their castles and there they kindl¬ term Pine Creek, and in another sec¬ ed their council fires. Within our bor¬ tion of ancient Lycoming “Chinklaca- ders there is no record, nor tradition moose” has been set aside for the very of the existence of large villages, ex¬ common designation of the Clear-field. tensive settlements or dense popula¬ These names for the most part apply tion. In the county of Tioga no vil¬ to streams. They will go on through lage site is known by the name given the ages reminding those who inhabit it by the Indians. There is slight evi¬ here, by their rugged and characteristic dence of conflicts among themselves, accents, of the vanished race of whom and aside from the fight at Kittan¬ they are now the only permanent re¬ ning and near Mahoning the battles maining memorials. “Their name is for supremacy between them and the on our waters, we may not wash it white man took place at Wyoming, at out.” Newton, at Fort Freeland in the great EXPLORERS. valleys Just outside of our territorial When the white man first set foot limits. By the treaty made at Fort within this territory of ours, is a sub¬ Stanwix in October, 1784, the Indian ject of some uncertainty. Most likely title to northwestern Pennsylvania was one of those Jesuit missionaires who extinguished but when the time came have left records of their journeying for the former Lords of the soil to southward from Canada or northern abandon their hunting grounds they New York was our first European visi¬ did it with great reluctance. Outrages tor. In Sagard’s history of Canada and murders were committed along the (1632) there is a letter written by Jos¬ borders, there was a state of unrest eph do la Roche ’Allion, a Franciscan among the savages, and of apprehen¬ missionary, dated July 18th, 1629, in sion on the part of their white neigh- which he tells of crossing the Niagara bors. • , _ . river and traveling south until he came Further negotiations ensued at Fort to a section of the countlry “where McIntosh and at Tioga Point; Fort the Indians had a good kind of oil.” Franklin was kept garrisoned; an army Charlevois in the journals of his voy¬ was in the field under Hannar and St. age and travels under date of May Olair and it was not until after the , 21st, 1721, records that M. de Joncaire decisive victories won by General had assured him that he “had seen a i Wayne In 1795 that a sense of security fountain that tasted like oil.” Who settled down upon the frontier along can doubt that these Frenchmen had the Allegany. Our section of the state ; visited our oil regions? At a later was the last to which the Indian title date we can leave inference and state was acquired. In March, 1789, however, facts. Among the first veritable ex¬ our Legislature oeded back a tract of plorers were those who took posses¬ i, six hundred and forty acres of land sion of the country on behalf of France. The French did not plant a colony or upon the Ailegah^called jen-ne-se- a settlement on the Allegany, they took da-ga to the Seneca chief a formal possession of the country. upon which he spent the remainder of They based their claims on the orig¬ 1 his life. He died in 1836. This tract inal discoveries of Marquette and La of land is still held in fee’ by the de- Salle and upon the consruction they 4 scendants of Cornplanter who reside gave to the treaties of Ryswick, Ut¬ Vupon it. We thus have in Warren recht and Aix le Chapelle. Early in ) county inside the limits of ancient Ly¬ the eighteenth century Bancroft tells coming the only tract of land in the us that “Not a fountain bubbled on state of Pennsylvania where the In- the west of the Allegany but was claim¬ dian tribal relation exists to-day. The 1 ed as belonging to the French Empire,” careful student of our local annals will I and this claim was extended until it note the infrequent use of Indian reached the Allegany mountains. , To names applied to streams, mountains Imalte proclamation of this claim Gal- or localities. Of the counties formed lisoniere. Governor of Canada, sent from Lycoming only Tioga has a name M. de Celoron in command of three of Indian origin, and that did not orig¬ hundred French soldiers, Canadians inally belong to the locality. The peo¬ and Indians, on an expedition down ple of the places designated "Tioga” by ! w.„. _they got awax from ey entered the river by way of the streams and into the mountains, 'he newango creek thus passing over the , waterway which formed the western map they made of the boundary line I boundary 'of ancient .Lycoming'. On gave important knowledge of the new the western bank of the river this ex¬ and hitherto unknown country. Aside pedition halted and with stately cere¬ from.the map there is scanty knowl¬ monial buried a leaden plate. There edge of what befel them by the way. was an inscription upon it to this ef¬ Ellicott wrote a few short letters to fect—“Buried this plate at the con¬ fluence of the To-ra-da-koin this 20th the Supreme Executive Council of day of July, 1749, near the river Ohio, Pennsylvania, from which we quote: otherwise Beautiful River, as a monu- “The Seneca chiefs who attended on • ment of renewal of possession.’’ Then behalf of their nation will expect two they passed on and performed the same functions at the other points. The rifled guns." “We arrived at the Caw- French did not limit their acts of pos¬ wanishee Flate (Lawrenceville, Tioga session to this stately ceremony. In .county) on the 11th day of June, 1787, 1755 Captain Joncaire built Fort Mac- where the ninety mile stone was set hault at Franklin where they had up last season. We sent our instru¬ buried the leaden plate and it was ments up the Thyesa (Cowansque) in occupied by a garrison of French sol¬ canoes about ten miles; our water car¬ diers. At times as many as a thousand riages then failed; we had recourse to men composed the garrison. It was at our pack horses but the ruggedness ot the country at the heads of Susque¬ this fort inl753 that Lieutenant George Washington, aged twenty-one, in the hanna, Genesee and Allegany rivers service of Governor Robert Dinwid- soon killed and rendered useless about die, of Virginia, visited Captain Jon¬ two-thirds. We were ordered by the Indians to discontinue the line until caire to inquire into the designs of the French upon the Allegany. All of the after a treaty should be held. We territory of which I write along the met them at the time and place ap¬ pointed, explained the nature of the Allegany river was within the claim business we were about and were final¬ of the French. The great water way ly permitted to proceed.” Andrew El- that led into it, and gave access to it, licott offered to sell to the state of lay under the guns of Fort Machault. Pennsylvania ‘such observations as we In July, 1759, the fort was evacuated made on the soil and natural history and thus at the end of ten years from of the country thro’ which we Passed the burial of the leaden plate the for the sum of £150, hard money, but French corps of observation departed. I regret to say the state did not make The next explorer of our territory the purchase and the manuscript has was the Reverend David Zelsberger. He established a Moravian mission in since been destroyed. • The next explorers of our territory 1767 among the Indians at Goschgos- came in 1790. They were Samuel Mo- chunk near the site of the village of Clay, Timothy Matlack and John Ad- Tionesta, the county seat of Forest Urai. They were members of a com¬ county. During a space of two years mission appointed by the state to sur¬ he made several journeys to this place , vey the West Branch of the Susque¬ and preached to a tribe of Monseys hanna, the Sinnemahoning, the Alle¬ that the Senecas had permitted to re¬ gheny and other rivers for the purpose main there. His route into the coun- ! of ascertaining if connections could be try was along the Chemung and Can- 1 opened by roads or canals with Lake isteo rivers and from thence to the Erie for the purpose of drarving trade Allegany, down which he floated to to Philadelphia. These men spent the j his destination. He then describes the summer of 1790 in the very heart of natives—-“I have never found such our territory. Samuel McClay kept a heathens in any other part of the In¬ daily journal of the incidents of an dian country. Here Satan has his kinds that befel the commissioners m stronghold—here he sits on his throne the prosecution of their duties. This —here he is worshipped by true savages delightful journey was brought to light, and carries on his work in the hearts annotated and published after it had of the children of darkness.” He kept laid dormant for an hundred years, by a journal of his travels in these wilds. that most indefatigable local historian, It is in the archives of the Moravian John P. Meginness. These commission¬ church at Bethlehem. It is of great ers passed the last habitation of a white interest. It records the descriptions, man at he mouth of the Sinnemahoning, impressions and experiences of a first they were near where the Allegheny explorer in a new country. It is all crosses the state line. There they found writen out for our delight and informa¬ the Cornplanter and his tribe. In sur¬ tion. His mission was broken up by veying these water ways and portages the Senecas who ordered the Monseys they describe for the first time the inter¬ to leave that locality in 1769. The next explorers who have left any record of ior of this great tract of -wild and rug¬ their journey were the Commissioners ged country, about the outer edge of which adventurous explorers had been who surveyed the boundary line be¬ so long traveling. With their report the tween the state of Pennsylvania and work of exploration was flninshed. New York in 1787.Andrew Ellicott and HAND TITLES. Andrew Porter were the Pennsylvania Commissioners. They were accom¬ It would seem at this time that the country was ripe for settlement; the panied by quite a large party of helpers. 'ollowing the course pointed out by forests had been explored, the Indians ’*■ ; ;,y ? »^l[I ' disposed - of.What was^the difficulty 1802, of the most severe and . now? The difficulty was to know, after character and enforced It with „- the extinction of the Indian title, what vigor, By It she cut up by the roots white men had the right to govern the the title of the Connecticut claimants territory and dispose of the lands. No in this section of the state.,Rev. David considerable number of intended set¬ Craft, discussing this subject in his tlers will remove into a new country history of Bradford, says: “Want of to build up homes, if there is any ques? support, the increasing number who tion as to the title of the lands. In were securing Pennsylvania titles, de¬ this case there was a controversy. Two fection in their own ranks and the sets of white men claimed the lands. growing power of the state, finally in¬ This controversy between these two duced the Connecticut claimants either sets of men was an ancient one and to submit to the laws regulating titles I during the period of forty years the or leave the state.” Thus this question issue was fought out on the battlefield, was disposed of and out of the way. in the courts, in the legislature and During its pendency nearly all of the before a commission appointed by Con¬ lands in the counties formed from Ly¬ coming were purchased largely by gress. In the phrase of McMaster, “Heads were bruised, bones broken, Philadelphia capitalists and speculators crops destroyed, settlements plundered from all quarters. Some of these capi¬ and even lives lost and the peace of talists and speculators were Jacob the Susquehanna was destroyed by a Strawbridge, William Bingham, John feud, worthy of the middle ages.” Keating, Jacob Ridgway, Samuel Fox, As this controversy retarded the set¬ James Trimble, B. B. Cooper, The Hol¬ tlement of ancient Incoming for several land Company, The United States Land Company and others. Now that they years I will briefly state the grounds owned these lands, and that thefr of if In 1620 King James I, of England, titles were confirmed, they wished to granted a charter to the Plymouth Com¬ dispose of them at a profit. They wish- pany for the ruling and governing of, td to induce large and extensive set¬ New England in America. This char¬ tlements. In order to do this it was ter covered North America from the necessary that the Indian trails through forty-sixth degree of north latitude and the forests and the paths of the^sop^. from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. the hunter and the trapper shou The Plymouth Company proceeded to replaced by some sort of roads. sub-divide its territory. In 1631 it The Legislature was besieged to aid granted a charter to the Connecticut in this work and at a very early day Colony which practically covered the laws were enacted creating state, roads. apace between the forty-first and forty- Sometimes it happened there was a very second parallels of north latitude and close connection between the land own¬ extending west to the Pacific Ocean. In er and the legislator, as witness the ita westward reach, this grant included following abstract from the Acts of ancient Lycoming. In 1662, King Assembly approved by Thomas Mifflin, Charles II gave a new charter to Con¬ Governor, April 10, 1792: “Be It enact¬ necticut, confirming the act of the Ply¬ ed that the Governor is hereby em¬ mouth Company. Nineteen years later, powered to appoint commissioners for in 1681, this same monarch, in the grant the purpose of laying out a road from of "Pennsylvania toWilliam Penn, in¬ on the West Branch cluded a portion of the same territory of the Susquehanna to the Tawanisco already given to Connecticut. Jt also Branch of Tioga, and to extend up to contained cur original county of Lycom¬ the one hundred and ninth milestone. ing. The Connecticut claimants map¬ (.Signed) ,W IPiiiAM D1JN Or-H. AM, ped' out what is now the counties of speaxer juouse .representatives, Tioga Potter and McKean, as far west xne speaxers signature suggests as the Tuna Valley in connection with practical politics. William Wfison, vast tracts of land south of them, into Esq was one of the viewers and Sam¬ townships five miles square, designated uel Scott was the surveyor. It was each by a name, opened a land office for the most part on the surveyed and and offered them for sale at a low price. marked out site of this road that the Many of these townships were located famous Williamson road was built m and surveyed by the purchasers and the fall of 1792—at least that part of then occupied. My own ancestors pur¬ it which runs over the Laurel Moun¬ chased land in Tioga county under a tains and to the “Tawanisco Branch Connecticut title. The place where I of Tioga.” The work of constructing reside wa,s called #s ' many of us (their descendants) here world. as ■ to-day. Another element of our popu- But stranger and more surprising tr gifts were in store for those sistera 1, t lation came from the lower counties is w of the commonwealth.As before stated, who took their portion in those lands our Philadelphia land owners had seen that lie near, or border the banks of a J. to it that roads were constructed, hav¬ the beautiful river. Stored away in the ing a trend from south to north. They bowels of the earth, beyond reach of ran up the Lycoming, up Pine creek, pick and shovel, but obtained with der¬ up the Sinnemahoning, up the Drift¬ rick and drill, lie those mysterious foun¬ wood branch. Over them, came from tains of mineral oil that have enriched the southwards, now and then, a Quak¬ their possessors “beyond the dreams er, a few Scotch Irish and many col¬ of avarice.” onies of sturdy Germans. Tour descendants gather here to-day 1795. Over all these heterogeneous under the ancestral roof tree. They are y peoples gathered on the verge of the confident of parental commendation for wilderness or within its eloomv denths. the part taken by them in the war ol’ Mother Lycoming stretched her protect* the Union—for the fact that when arm¬ ing arms. Population mcreaacu and ed rebellion raised its bloody hands the work of development went qn. The against the life of the Republic, your 1 time for separation had coP^-, Events ascendants sent forth their hardy sons in one generous, continuous stream and yet been accomplished. This is the day of on. opportuuli v to do honor to those pioneers who where there^as danger to be met, suf¬ 1 aid Lycoming’s foundations, remembering, that fering to be endured, or glory to be won, like them, when another centennial dawns upon they were among the foremost. Stal¬ her history, wart blows they dealt and their blood ■•We all within our graves shall sleep. has enriched and their bones whitened No living soul for us shall weep.” every battlefield. Tour descendants So now we place this milestone In the path of gathered here are confident of maternal her mighty progress, showing to those who come commendation for such success as they alter us that we were not unmindful of our duty, have attained in the commercial and not. lacking In that patriotism always so pre¬ business world ; for the railroads they eminent In the character of her citizens, nor have built, the telegraph and telephone wanting in that respect and honor, so well the due of our ancient county. . lines they have constructed, the news¬ A hundred years is but a little thing In the papers they have published, the relig¬ Illimitable arc of time, but for the American ious, charitable and educational insti¬ citizen of today the past centiu-y lias covered a tutions they have fostered and main¬ period so momentous In our nation’s progress, tained. that we note with wonder the mighty changes It With such a record in the past, confi¬ has evolved. Rolling back the wheels ot time and placing ourselves, lor a moment. In the dently they go forward to meet the period of the year 1T95, Lycoming’s natal day, duties, labors and responsibilities of we are compelled 10 observe the great contrast the future. with our country of the present. Our nation was The Singing Section of the 'Wi'liams- then but a youth, its existence having been less t ”1 Turn Verein then rendered the than fourteen years; our independence had been recognized by the treaty of Parks only twelve “Scar Spangled Banner” in most beau¬ years; while our constitution—the noblest instru¬ tiful effect, the benediction was pro¬ ment ever written by the hand ot man—the very nounced by Rev. E. C. Armstrong, and bulwark of our liberties, had been ratified by the the meeting adjourned w-; states of the Unlou but seven years earlier than our county’s birth. Iu number the United States were hut fifteen, all lying east of the Mississippi river, and covering less Utah one-third of our present vast territory. The great Louisiana pur¬ chase of 1803, obtained from Napoleon at a cost but trilling compared with Its present enormous value, but sufficient to obtain munitions of war. whereby ho hoped to become the master of Europe;'the Texan annexation of 1815. and the Northwest and Mexican cessions of 1846 and 184S, trebling our territory and so vastly Increas¬ ing our wealth and importance as a nation, all these were in the womb of time when Lycoming county was erected, and were outside the dreams of the most sanguine American. The entire population of the United States was (lien but little more than four millions, and was almost entirely confined between the Alleghenies and the Atlantic, tho most thickly settled por¬ tions being along the chief river courses and about commodious harbors. But five c.ties num¬ bered a population exceeding 10,000. There was no . lficago; no St. Louis; no San Francisco; no TWO INTERESTING twin cities of the Northwest; none ot the hun¬ dreds of cities, many of them now boasting au enumeration in the hundreds of thousands, aud but few, and these widely scattered. 01 the thou¬ sands of prosperous villages now clotting our fair land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and all In¬ cluded within the domain of a great nation, the most powerful, the moA progressive, and the 0, La Rue Munson, Esq,. Discourses on most divinely favored in all the wide world. i the Ancient History of the County, In 1795 we were looked upon by the nations of the earth as but aa experiment, and a doubtful one at tha>; our institutions of government were most novel, and our constitution almost untried, ENTERTAINING REMINISCENCES and wholly unproven; Jealousies existed between the states; sectional feeling was most intense; we were far from being a homogeneous people, Tells of the Declaration of Independence and many of the wisest and best of our nation s leaders trembled for the future, fearing, aud by the Citizens of Pine Creek, with no little cause, that our Unlou of states 1 was not cemented by bands certain to hold them July 4, 1776. together under all the changes which they foresaw must come upon our country. When Lycoming county was named; George Washington was the president of the United states. Thomas .Teffer- EMERSON COLLINS’ SPEECH son. John Adams. Alexander Hamilton and many other statesmen, were at the helm of the ship of stale, and through their patriotism, and by the Below will be found the addresses made guidance of an overullnjr Providence, a founda¬ by C. La Rue Munson, Esq., aud Eon. tion was being laid fora Union, which has proven one and indissoluble, permanent, and continuing Emerson Collins at the meeting held in the and destined to remain while tune Itself shall jourt house yesterday afternoon: last. Of these early leaders It has been well C. DA RU15 MUNSON’S ADDRESS. said that they were, Under the permission of a Divine Providence ■•Men who their duties knew. .ve are assembled to celebrate the completion of But knew their rights, aud knowing, dared rnaln- / Due hundred years of our county's history, to 1 tain; , „ placo npoa Lycoming’s brow her centennial ; These were they who built the state. '.rown, and to mark the auspicious commence¬ ment of the second century of her existence. Not onlv in Its political situation, but as well in Backward, we glance over the record of her pro¬ its materia’, advantages, our country was then gress, years fraught with resplendent memories vastly inferior to her present condition. At tho of tl'.e past: forward, we look into a future to be close of the eighteenth century the mighty power tilled with achievements more glorious than have of steam was dimly known, and only crudely ap¬ plied as a motive power; the nil,road, the tele- 99

Vwt Stanwlx. now Itome. N. Y.. completed me acquisition irom the Indians ot all the territory . graph. the telephone, ana the forces of electricity were In the uu-ure; manufactures and commerce. of Pennsylvania. It should be the proud boast In our land, were In their very infancy; while of every citizen of our commonwealth that all agriculture, the chief occupation of the people, her domain was obtained by fair purchase from was pursued without anv modern aids, and its Its orignal owners, and not by right of conquest, products marketed, if at all. with great diffi¬ william Penn, as well as bis successors, did not culty and meagre returns. In education the depcndriilone upon their grants from the Eng¬ people were almost illiterate, the public school I lish crown. claiming title by discovery, but Se¬ system being then unknown, and the newspaners, cured their lands by honorable treaty with those in number then less than three-score In the who had long owned and occupied them; unlike whole land, being but insignificant and but little some settlers upon other portions of Americas circulated. It is worthy of note, in this connec¬ soil, of whose landing on the shores of the new tion. that the Pennsylvania Grit, a well-known land, it has been so well said publication of Williamsport, now prints as many ■•First they fell upon their knees. copies weekly as were then Issued by all the Anenn by treaties with the Six Na¬ mation of a general movement of the Colonies la tions, concluded April 1, 1701, and aune 7. 1737, that direction, these brave forefathers ot our and Included a part ot what Is now Lycoming county performed an act, as a coincidence uu- county. By another treaty, signed Nov. 5.1766. pavatlelled In history; all the more noble that It additional land was granted to the Penn pro¬ was not within the sound of the applause of their prietaries which, with that made Oct. 23,1784, at I fellow citizens, cr like.y to bring them fame and | honor, but solely upou trie broad ground of a ( «jve lor liberty; taking this rSBOiuiS fctop as men j Indian words Legane-nanue, signifying a sal seeking that freedom which is or God, and even | stream. in that far off region, as dear to their Hearts as The territory of the original Lycoming county was lire itself. These pioneers lived In a section was greater than that ot seven of the states of then In dispute between the white men and thej the Union, extending as far west as the present Indians, the controversy being whether Lycom¬ Klttaulng and including all that portion of Penn¬ ing or Pine creek was the western boundary of , sylvania lying west of the North Branch, bounded the purchase of 1768; the Indians lalsely contend¬ by the watershed of the West Branch and much ing for the former, and the whites claiming the of that of the Allegheny and Clarion rivers. More latter, as the true line. The Proprietary govern¬ than two-thirds ot this spacious region was an ment declined permission ot legal settlement In unexplored an l unknown wilderness. There the debated territory,'SuS refused the protection were but few roads and those only In the eastern of its laws over that section; hence. It became a end of the countv, and no bridges over its many sort of "to man’s land.” and those who did settle and at times turbulent streams. The population Ihere were unaided In their defence from the at- was about 4,000, nearly all being east ot tbe pres¬ tacks of the Indians, more frequent and lisrce by ent Lock Haven. There was but little Improved reason of the dispute over the land, and were ; land and but few dwellings, and these chieflly compelled to frame their own laws, which they the rude cabins of the pioneers, while dark forests did in the famous Fair Play system; as unique as ' covered almost its entire surface, through which it was lust. Under I his system, continuing until lurked the savage Indian aud the ferocious wild the treaty of 1784. all disputes were settled by beast. commissioners, duly chosen by the settlers, un¬ We cannot but pause to contemplate tbe won¬ der thelrcode; which seems to have been on-1 drous changes made in this vast region during tirely equitable, although Its precise terms are | the past century. From Its forests have been now unknowu. These decisions were final both taken timber valued in hundreds of millions of in civil and criminal cases, and were enforced. If dollars and entering into the construction of necessary, by putting the unruly member In a thousands of buildings in this and other sections cauoe, rowing him to the mouth ot Lycoming of the country. Two great oil fields—those of the creek, and there sending him adrift down the . Clarion river and McKean county—have spouted river. The historians of the West branch, lllus- forth untold weal th, while trom the bowels of the tratlng the workings of the Fair Play system,de- I earth have been raised millions of tons of bi¬ light to tell of the answer fit a witness to a ques- \ tuminous coal, furnishing motive power In a Uon propounded by chief Justice McKean, some large section of the United States, and speeding years later, inquiring as to the customs of the I many a mighty steamship over the bosom of the earlier code. “AH 1 can say.” said the witness. J deep. Highly cultivated lands are to be seen In "that since your honor's courts have coma all its portions: prosperous cities and boroughs among us. fair play has entirely ceased, and law dot the landscape; railroads cross its face in has taken its place.” every direction; great andfamous manufactories of the mother of Lycoming, old Northumber¬ are found In all Its parts, and in every .section of land, another has given us an eloquent, aud Its territory dwell a people God-fearing, highly learned account during this our centennial week enllgutened and cultured, while education’s be¬ For twenty-three ye.+rs after her organiz.tUon in nign influence and tbe highest civilization and 1772, the inhabitants of the est branch valley refinement abound on all sides. From its mighty transacted their business at her county seat at area eighteen other counties have been formed, Suribury. so long as the nortnward population in part or In whole; Its meagre population of remained so small, but little tncouveuience was 4.000 has swollen to more than COO.OOO; Its seven felt, and no efforts were made for a change; townships have increased to 400 election districts; but, wltb the giowth Incident to the emigration from one little village of a handful of souls have after the war of the revolution, the settlers of the grown three beautiful cities and seventy-seven upper valleys began to feel tbe need or a now boroughs of nearly 203,003 people, and • rom an county. To reach Sunbury tbe large streams of assessment of but a few thousand 1 has ad¬ Pine, Lycoming. Loyalsock and Muncy creeks, as vanced to a valuation equal to the wealth of a well as the river at Northumberland, must be kingdom. Could we but bring back old Shlkel- crossed and as there were no bridges and the Umy, that great and good Indian, and place him streams were often swollen, much difficulty and upon our highest mountain, how eloquently daDger were experienced. could he utter the beautiful lines of the poet; So. as early as 1786. an attempt was made to "Look now abroad—another race has filled organize a new county west of the Muucy bins, These populous borders—wide the wood recedes. but met with much opposition from the people of And towns shoot up and fertile realms are tilled; Suubury, whose county was the largest lu the New colonies forth that toward the western seas commonwealth and who desired to maintain Its Spread like a rapid flame among the autumnal territory and prestige. In addition to the local antagonism, strenuous efforts against the new trees.” county were made, although secretly, by Robert Returning to the early days and taking up the Morris, the famous financier of the revoluilou, | thread of our historical review, to he conflned to and by other great land owners. The cause for that portion ot the original territory Included 1 this opposition does not clearly appear, hut It is within the present county of Lycoming, we find ! certain that it existed, aud so long as these op¬ the first matter of importance appealing to the ponents prospered the scheme for the new attention of our early citizens, was the location county languished, but when they failed and lost of the county seat. For this honor there was a their influence it b came successful. The move¬ fierce struggle; three embryonic villages con¬ ment for a new county-was delayed for a time by tending for the prize. The most confident of i an effort to remove tbe county seat of Northum- winning was Jaysburg, a little settlement now i berland to a more western and central location; forgotten and long since swallowed up In Wil¬ 1 but. on tbe defeat of that attempt, was again re¬ liamsport. There, temporary quarters had been vived, until, at every session ot tbe legislature established lor the court and its officials, and it during a number of years, petitions for the new was hoped that the selection would be made county were presented and urgently moved to a permanent. Dunnstown was entered tor the successful Issue. The number of the petitioners race by Its sole proprietor and Inhabitant, who had grown troifi very few until, later, they num¬ had set apart land for thp public bufidlngfi. But bered a thousand, and included every settler be- ! William Hepburn, through whose active efforts tween tbe Muncy hills and the Bald Eagle val- I the new countyhaij beensecured,joined byMicMel ley. A greater Impetus was given the move¬ Ross, the owner of the site of the original Wil¬ ment in the election of the lion. William Hep¬ liamsport, presented the olalms of that place as burn as state senator In 1791. Judge Hepburn , being the proper location. Their rivals contend¬ was a distinguished citizen of the West Branch ed that Williamsport was but a swamp and sub¬ valley, and owning considerable property wltbln ject to inundations—aspersions we would nave tbe limits of wbat is now Williamsport, and rec¬ joined with Its champions in maimatnm were ognizing the need for a new county was active in vile slanders—and went so far as to asseic that the efforts made to obtain the division. Soon it existed oaly on paper and could not be filgni- after taking his seat lu the senate he was made [ i fled bv even the name of a village. The battle chairman of a special committee to bring In a; for the location grew more fierce, uniA* Jaj s- bill Lo divide Northumberland county, on March | burgers sent a messenger to the 7,1795, the act was introduced and was Anally , ! armed with affidavits against Williamsport s passed and approved April 13. There was much Qualifications. Tnat the message was uevei de¬ discussion as to the name ot the new county; livered is not denied, but the exact manner of Jefferson, Muncy and Susquehanna, each having , the loss is hid in the mists of obscurity. \V liet her its adherents; but the title was Anally given it,, the messenger fainted by the way, was delayed taken from Lycoming creek, a corruption of the j " ” --- subsequently became a _ by a visit to an ancient lun. or nonnaereu m a ____Central ra Iwav,-followed In itfSB t. swamp, caimot now be told; but It Is certain that the present Philadelphia and lirle; by the Phlta- i the llepburn-Ross party won. and that In this, as delpula and Reading In 1671; the Beech j reck j In all else, Williamsport came out first best. For and Pine creek 1 1 1833. and by the Williamsport some years the courts migrated from tavern to and North Brunch and the Central 1’enDsylvanla tavern for Us sessions; while Its officers were still and Western still more recently; thus giving us j more uncertain, beiDg sometimes in Jaysburg, most excellent railroad laclll lvsover rivalroutes sometimes elsewhere, and often In the pockets of o! transportation, and opening our manufactories I Its only official, the eccentric John Kidd. In pro¬ and the products of our torests and mlues to all 1 cess of time proper buildings for the county’s use the m .raets of the country. ! were erected, which have been succeeded by oth¬ luc that which has made Williamsport mo t! ers still more costly and more suitable to Its famous, bringing her great wealth and enor- ] needs and importance. mousiy inert atiiig her population. Is the manu- | Time falls us to review the growth of our faciure o; lumber and Its kludred products,which couuty from Its small beginnings. All this has has long since attained vast proportions. Tbe been well set forth by our learned townsman and first saw mill ot any importance was erected in renowned historian, Mr. John F. Meglnness, in 1833, known as the Big Water m/11, which in his exhaustive "History of the West Branch Val¬ 1846 became the property ot the late Major James ley.” the "History of Lycoming County,” and his 11. Perkins, one ot Williamsport's most honored various other valuable works. It is a great citizen , and. through his early labors as a plo- pleasure to refer to these labors of love of our Deerln the lumber trade, the admitted father of distinguished citizen. He has written with the that industry In our city. Through his enter¬ pen of a ready writer, and with evidences of pa¬ prise the first boom was placed In the river, tient study and thorough investigation, we catching the fljatlug logs, and was followed by have failed to appreciate the labor of Mr. Megln- the erection of many great m;lls. leading to the nes3 in thus preserving the records of the past, development of the manufacture of lumber and, but> when alt of us shall be forgotten, his words through it. to the prodigious growth ot Willtams- /will remain, and future generations will perpetu- p irt. J he charter for the Susquehanna boom j ate his name as of one who. without hope of pe- v\ as recured in 3840, Its construction being com¬ I cunlary reward, gave his time and means to the pleted nvc years later, and from that time dates perpetuation of the history of the early settlers our commercial prosperity. So great did the lum¬ of these valleys, and of the records of this section ber industry become tbat at one time we were ' of our commonwealth. the leading market tor that product In tne whole Not only is this the anniversary of our county. 1 coumry, reaching an output lu 1S73, the hlfh ! hut it is also the Centennial of Williamsport; and watermark ot the trade, of nearly 3,o,D0J,uuo of the history and growth ot our fair city some teet. Exact figures are not at hand, but it Is not mention Is due. The origin ot its name has Dot an overestimate to say that since the Loom was been undisputed. By some it is accorded to Wil¬ i built. lO.OJO.cOJ.COO of feet ot logs havo been liam, the older son of Mlcnael Ross; others have nutedoutaud manufactured Into products, fur¬ claimed it for Joseph Williams, an early surveyor nishing employment to thousand of men and who was engaged by Ross to lay out the new brlngiug to our city millions of dollars. 1 town; but the stronger evidence and the most We would be derelict in our duty did we not i trustworthy traditions ascribe the honor to Wil¬ refer to another of our citizens, now gone to his liam Hepburn—certainly the most prominent of rest, whose .untiring efforts and wonderful en- [ the first settlers, and by reason of his active ef- i ergy did so much to build up Williamsport, and ' forts in securing the new county, entitled to ! to advance her prosperity aud enlarge iier popu- name Its county seat. He was the first judge of i lation. No public shaft is graven with a record Its courts and a man of wealth and influence; : of his deeds, but in the valley, below tbe beautl- and when, In recognition of his services, the citi¬ I tlful Wildwood where he sleeps, there lies a fair zens proposed to call the town Hepburn s Port, city which. In no smalt degree, is a monument to he modestly objected and suggested Williams¬ his enterprise, more noble and lasting than could port, which was finally adopted. It was at first a he any of granite or marble. Time heals ail very small village, and had not increased beyond wounds and cures all 111 feelings and the day will a population ot 181 at the beginning ot this cen¬ come when, houorlng themselves as well, our tury, an t but very little more when it was incor- | enterprising citizens will erect a stately shaft on porated as a borough In 1806. The first house In ; wh.cli will he inscribed, "To tbe memory of one Williamsport was the Russell lun, at the corner ; who found Williamsport a village and made It a ot Third and Mulb rry streets, erected In 1766. beautltul cliy—Peter Hevdlc.” and destroyed In the great lire ot 1871. T he old¬ Turn we now to a future of our county' and est building now standing Is the brick dwelling, cltv more glorious than has been her past. We formerly the mansion housu of the Hon. William lift the veil from what shall he in the second cen¬ ' Hepburn, erected In 1801, at what Is now the toot tennial of our dear old county. We see agreater of Park street. The growth or the borough was Wllllamsport, crossing the river and stretching i very slow, for as late as 1829 there were but 150 over all the beautlfuil hills on both its shores — dwellings within Its limits, besides eight s'.ore3 shores securely defended from the river’s mighty and eight taverns. Tills equality between the risings; we see Its streets filled with a population number of its places ot business and of liquid re- II of a quarter of a million of Inhabitants; on every lreshmeut Is a curious commentary upon these side magnificent public buildings and beautiful early days. Fortunately for the temperance private residences; we see a people favored of i cause, this proportion has not been continued in Goa and respected ot man, citizens of a still more modern uavs, more glorious nation, and enjoying advantages W lllamspcrt, like other similarly favored ot which man has never yet dreamed. We see a ; places In the state, was materially assisted by county second to none other In the prosperity of j the advent of the caDal. opened here in 1830. Its citizens, five hundred thousand people calling ! one of the chief difficulties suffered by the early It their home and many more looking up to lr. as Inhabitants wa3 the want ot proper means of a dear old mother, toward which they turn their transportation, affording facilities in marketing hearts and faces, at that her second centennial, their uroducts. The first roads were of the. even of greater success than crown our efforts 1 crudest character, and as the streams were with- ; today. ..■?» out bridges, the movement ot freight was very l O fair Lycomlug 1 On thy brow difficult, and ccstly. Prior to the opening of the Shall rest a nobler grace than now. public waterways tbe river was used tor floating Deep in the brightness ot thy skies. arks laden with grain, flour and other products The thronging years in glory rise. ; ot the valley; but as their use largely depended And, as they fleet, upon the stage of the water, and they were often Drop strength and riches at thy feet.” ■ subject to ship wreck, but little cculd be aceom- ! plished. as an Illustration ot the means of HON. EMERSON COLLINS’ ADDRESS. ! transportation, and Its cost, In the early part ol We have this day witnessed the culmination of the century. It Is stated that, in 1817. more tuan an event that will never fade from the annals ot i 11.0M wagons crossed the Alleghenies, each car- our county. We have before this been partici¬ i rying about two tons of merchandise, from I hll- pants or spectators on similar occasions lu com¬ I adelphiaand Baltimore to Pittsburg;, and at a memoration of some landmark In tbe history of ; cost of $140 per ton. Now, In a slng.e day, the state or nation. Today we have crowned a cul¬ 1 Pennsylvun a railroad carries more than all chat | minating series of memorial services held to cel¬ i tonnage between thsoe points, and at a co/si of i ebrate the ono hundredth anniversary ot the i about one-sixtieth the former expense. I organization of this civil division, known as Ly¬ “The first railroad in our county was tbe old i_ coming county. The American people have been ctrap road, between • > Ililamsport and Ralston, passing through a remarkable and in some re- opened in 1837, and still remembered by our older I " ' V ■ - 02

.acts unique epoch of centenary celebrations, rfbe last quarter of a century lias been eventful Kockles to the GoldenGate.openlng to the wealthl j iwltli tlie observance ol some great day In the life of the Orient, that from 1861-1865 out two- j bf nation, state, city or county. 1 hat luminous million men under arms and filled three hundred ! and never-fading- cluster of deeds and days of the thousand martyr graves to preserve a union whose perpetuation meant peace over a conti¬ revolutionary era, ending In the acknowledged nent and In and through It all made good the and unbroken independence of our land, have solemn promise of the declaration that govern¬ been fitly celebrated by a grateful posterity entoylng the blessings of dvll liberty. The es¬ ments derive their Just powers from the consent of the goveVued, is a spirit which from these tablishment of the federal union upon the hrm western shores has been spreading, lo these rock of the national constitution and the success¬ hundred years, throughout the earth and will ful inauguration of tne first administration there¬ never Ole. she Is great In Individuals. What under have been observed. nation In the same time has given to the world a It is Indeed a characteristic spirit of this gen¬ more radiant galaxy of rulers or chief magls- i eration to revere and recall the great landmarks trates than Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and 6f the past, to dwell upon the trials of the found¬ Lincoln; statesmen of profounder thoughts or ing and to glory in the triumphs of the event broader constructive grasp than Hamilton or thereof. It Is a significant and hopeful phe¬ Webster; jurists whose luminous decisions have’ nomena A people once dulled to the glories of lighted the pathway of national life more surely hv^one times, In whom there thrills no feeling than Marshall; soldiers who served the true pur¬ exultation in the contemplation of the growth of pose of their calling wlili more unselfish devo¬ their industrial Interests and institutions, in tion than Grant. Sherman. Sheridan. Hancock, whom there has ceased to pulsate areverence for the heroes who laid the foundations upon which Meade and Thomas; Inventors who have lifted and lightened the burden of labor or aunihilated the splendid fabric of the after structure was reared. Is already afflicted with the dry rot of de¬ space in the more subtle Inventive genius than cay a due respect, regal'd and admnatlon for Fulton, Wliltney, Morse, McCormick, Howe and Edison; or divines, teachers, reformers and hu¬ the past are among the sure harbingers and in¬ manitarians who have contributed more in this spirations for stronger efforts and nobler achieve¬ century of light and knowledge to emancipate ments in the future. man from the thralldom of superstition, ignor¬ It is well then that the patriotic citizens of ance. and wrong and let in the lnsplrlug Lycoming county joined by the no less patriotic sunshine of science,, truth and right than a score citizens of the daughter counties of -comlng of giant figures who have adorned the American | should by civic and military demonstration, by pulpit, rostrum, university or editorial chair. stately parade, by speech and by song, by a dis¬ Upon what battlefields has deathless heroism play of the arts and products of the present and shone with a steadier lustre than from the fields a collection and exhibition with tender care of trod by the American soldier from Bunker Hill the Cherished relics and mementoes that have to Gettysburg, from Yorktown to Appomattox ? come down from the classic days of a centui y This twofold characteristic of the' American and more ago, seek to do honor and fitting justice people combining such superb capacity for indus¬ to the organization of this noble old county of ours it Is well too that this season has been trial development with such splendid impulses of patriotism and enlightened philanthropy, 18 chosen for this Centennial celebration Our pride and rejoicing In our county s giowth and sometimes overlooked. It is upon the national scale akin to that individual Industry, coupled greatness can bn this day swell the pride and re- folcmg we feel in the growth and grandeur of with intense love of home, that makes the strong citizen. In an Incomparably brief space of time our whole common country. tVhat people in all the sweep of the ages have been so abundant y we have subdued an area, continental In extent, to the uses of man, have created a volume of justified In making holiday or any national day as the American people ? Our occaslonfoi thank- wealth vaster than that ever accumulated by any f ulaesa «.nd lubUation,measured by any standard, other people, have so diversified industry, multi¬ plied invention and spread the opportunity for ; well nioii boundless. Under tlie ciegls of con- education as to br ng tlie higher comforts of life stitutlonal liberty our °Pm.e^c(1nmoetitors within the reach of every fireside and made ban- j •nt precedents and outmatched all competitors. piness the common birthright of all and not tlie Mu?uaU the eminent English statistician, in a Inherited privilege of a titled few. Labor has recent ’article ui one the leading periodicals been ennobled. The mUUonshavcenrolled in the mighty army of industrialism Instinct with ac¬ j, tivity and progressiveness. In a.tun has been har- . nessed to serve the race. The products of our !I,afiss & rsSa-'-So: crafts, mines and farms crowd the marts of the ' ancfent.a ormodern. But America is not only world. Ana yet in the midst of this press and ; i ■ great m matters susceptible of being maishalled throb of industry, reverence for the sacrednames i w 1 in the cold columns of the statistical^ tables,but and epochs In our history has not been weak¬ superbl? and supremely great iu these command¬ ened, and abiding faith In a government of. by ing aualities that go to make a state, she has and ior the people, securing to every individualI not only reared mighty cities, reclaimed vast the reward ot his own labor and thrift in fair and I wildernesses to the uses of human habitation open competition In the battle of life, has not and enjoyment, spread civilization throughout! been shaken. a continent, but she has cherished anu developed1, Today standing as we do on the threshold of a j their graces, virtues and qualities in her sons new century for oureounty, we can rejoice In the ' 'and ^daughters everywhere held honorable fact that Lycoming has done her part and con-i among men. Commercial sorcildness and calcu- trtbuted her lull ratio fh the grand total of cur ' - luting materialism have not crushed patiiotiom. Union's mutclUess growth, bhe has not fallen F Through all the upbuilding of this industrial em¬ behind In the race; hergrowth in population In ite pire the spirit of patriotism lias ever held its ncrease morethant vventy fold Is commensurate ennobling and undiminished sway. America is with the. general growth. In wealth and all that! not alone great In her farms and factories, In l.er makes a community happy, respected, self-rell-1 cities and highways of steel, but great In her ant, progressive and prosperous she has kept civil and religious Institutions, great In her edu¬ step with the pace and march of the nation. Her I cational establishments, great In ^ ^arMes- , citizens have been called to high places in the i cweat In her history, ennobled and lofty deeds ! service of state and nation. In every crisis and and ivdolent with freedom ami great in that i la every peril her sons have gone forth to do bat- dominating. Imperial, patriotic, humane spine | tie for the principles and preservation of our gov- J, that pervades the millions gathered beneath her ’ ; ernment. Daniel vvenster, in tnat eloquent emblems, and this spirit will sui vlve. , Though these evidences of material greatness apostrophe to Massachusetts; proclaimed that the bones of her sons fallen in the cause of free- 1 that cover the land may crumble and our throb¬ dom were scattered from New England to } bing cities become ivy-mantled ruins, yet that Georgia. So we can proudly boast that rihe < spirit that nerved the ragged^ sentinel at Valley Forge as he kept watch for llhei ty that pitiless graves of Lycoming’s soldiers who dedicated i winter, that gathered the thirteen feebie, jealous j their lives to' the cause of Independence, of na¬ and scattered states Into one compact and lndis- . tional honor and to the supremacy and per¬ petuity of the Union dot the land from Canada to soluble Union, that walked the slippery decks of Old Ironsides, and In the flash of her broadsides the Gulf. She has not only given her sons to stand made the flag the protector of all It, coveted, that, for the right In the ranks of "Dattte’s magnifi¬ declared that the Mississippi from source to surf cently stern array,” hut they have gone forth must run through a laud acknowledging but one , from her hills and valleys to help conquer in sovereignty that pushed our lrontler from the , other places, the resources of nature and subdue Alleghenies’ across tlie Mississippi, across die I them to the services of humanity. Natives or descendants of natives of old Lycoming are to be wiVfnh rlL8? U'es® driving commonwealths From a Correspondent of The Times. which fi qm the border of Pennsylvania stretch tll?« Pacific- They have added tiieir Williamsport, February _ thf'ir'rrKinhr!via 1’ thelr Patience. Uioir brain, Modern express trains are agents condu¬ iofil1 auci womanhood, to tliat gigantic cive to the successful termination of elope¬ culumecl1n?iS|nianf °n Ule wll(ierne?s andun- ments. The latter day bicycle, too, has oniiiPhf® aJ,ns lbe t'eceat past the seat of been used to clandestinely waft romantic popu’ous states. But, with all her j lovers into the presence of some kindly old anusp ,of 111 e 11 and treasure lu the , parson whose service was necessary to the nrefen/ ??ie® a-Vd wa,r’ sUe Teloices in her ov/n K ind hn? ?:Ildi Prosperity, in the fertile | fulfillment of the elopers’ plan. But a pair aud husj factories within her borders, lu of oxen and a ramshackle, canvas-covered c?Uzenstented bappIuess auJ intelligence of her wagon as a means of.flight for a determined swain and his pretty sweetheart nowadays hPhPfJpn?w~cHteenS' wllen wc contemplate the would create a sensation of sufficient import¬ mtSi nMn 8 tllatllave crowned the estab- tpl3 government, founded upon the ance to warrant mention in every newspa¬ of the people themselves—when we per in the country. There are none, how¬ ffiemP/tre the stable results achieved there- ever, even in this age of rapid transit, but S„a j Its regard for every right and conscr- who will admit that the story of an elope¬ ! in mhp? ,eveP' Ju,st interest to a degree unknown ; i? laU(is of whatever time, let us Qnnly ment behind two brindle steers and a mar- exwrimpnfaSlST bastylnnovauon and hazardous liage by a Squire under a tree at a country- i‘Ht us hold fast to the sacred and cross-roads is sufficiently romantic, even resnuPIr?'^‘tag-e transmitted to us which yields though it occurred a half century ago, to Cniulrf l?p^,0uuHui’au.d pass it onward in un- bear repeating. sullied glory and integrity. Let our progressive- Reuben Hafer and Beulah Sutton were with lbonoclasm Pand in the the principal factors in just such an elope- ri1vPivepm,P3tib?.pasit.tenaclously and conserva- to the tiled and the known until j ment in one of the counties of Central Penn- tn^waat P a.Qd s°berly convinced that change | sylvania back in the early forties. Old tnit mPfpi ?lour governmental or social struc- “Reub” Hafer, as people call him now, is “ improvement, it is well to thus cel- j yet an active individual, considering that fpp th!5 oonnty’s organization and make jubl- j he carries the weight of seventy-eight years rmt Pala (lay of Independence, but let us Ppt forgct that we best honor and do reverence i on his shoulders, and recently when he re¬ tne brave and sagacious men who founded and lated to me the details of his younger-day whnnfrmi^hdo/°Ullda^0Ils of our greatness, or escapade, he grew quite enthusiastic as the wp s,t(?rm an(1 stress preserved all that narrative proceeded. To relate the story in cherish, when we take up the great any other manner than in old Reub’s back- vancpdUZrt° „n°Ply bePn or Patriotically ad- and do In our day and generation that woods vernacular would detract from the nPliPP L° make this land, under the aroma of pioneer simplicity that surrounds newei conditions and the varying changes that the tale from beginning to end, so I will }f^®ntles® time ever brings, all mat then- devo¬ | give it In his own style. tion and heroism so richly deserved. i J10W lives. witl1 bis youngest son on a litt.e farm that is part of the original tract j he acquired just before eloping with Beulah button, and upon which he had built a queer little stone house for her reception. Loo- houses were considered good enough for ordinary folks those days, but Reub Hafer made up his mind that his Beulah was worth something extra, so he built a house of stone. L This house is still standing, scarce a half I

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.mile from the cozy farm house of Reub’s rT!1-. 1S a Quaint but picturesque vine-clad affair on the bank of a murmuring stream lm a _ spot lonely enough for the most ro¬ mantic soul on earth. And just beyond, beneath a spreading apple tree, surrounded with a substantial stone ELOPED BEfllflD fence, are three graves-one that of an adult i and two those of children. A plain white mar- I Ible slab at the head of the large grave bears I A H fJn-C TPi1ti°uU,“BeUlah’ wife of Reuben U , riarer. The little graves are those of thelr-s children. This simple burial plot is the'1 dearest spot on earth to Reuben Hafer, and 1 j HOW REUBEN HAFFER GOT HIS BRIDE here he is said to come and spend hours at a time when the weather is fine. Between UK BEULAH FIFTY YEARS AGO. the stone wall and the wife’s grave there is just room enough for another grave. Here when he dies, old Reub will be buried.

AN ODD OLD COUNTRY ROMANCE Close by the little old stone house is lo- 1 cated a somewhat modern-looking frame I Beulah Has Departed This Life, Unt Reuben structure, that, in after years, when their ! family grew and the hand of prosperity had I Still Dives to Tell the Story and to Show dealt quite generously with them, the Hafers ! ‘ho Wagon in Which He and His Sweet¬ made their home. It was in this house, seven I heart Went Away Xlie Oxen, Too, Are years ago, that Beulah Hafer died. Out in Dead. a low-roofed shed stands the very wagon

A 1 mxmn __ 1 ’nuther the ole man didn’t take well to the way things was a-goin’. He'd give me the as slieka piiir o *ra^f go,Jd thins for cold shoulder straight out an out. I foun out arterwards thet he wanted Beulan to marry a young feller whose dad owned the jinin’ tract o' land. But Beulah warn t.in fer it nohow. She showed a cided prefer¬ ffWATi 'S'2 Vu. U ence fer me, an’ this made the me man madder’n a hornet But ;?wellere asM z i* T‘rs“s‘*sr.s: a™ days war brief, ’specially with fellers as neu ’rivind at my age, an’ afore harvest™ time S1 the most ’proved style, as the newspapers was over I up and popped the Question to gay nowadays. Beulah one night on the road borne t m meetin’. Course she said yaas, but lowed “Ye see I hed been workin’ in the neigh- as how her dad’d never consent to our gittju> hitched. I axed her whether she was wllhn to run away with me ef her parents Jected S? “ r; to our weddin’, an’ she said she wus The truth o’ the matter wus Beulah didn t want right thar an’ then thet she wus the durnd the feller her ole man wanted her to marry., an’ she wus durn willin’ o’ the chance to gu ■hontP 20 ylarfuren T^I wWg Sn 1 outat oo’ hisms sight.sigui. , , , . c..„f nie ‘bech. you know, out as soon , “Waal, afore we reached home thet night as I seed her X know’d as how my time fer we hed everythin’ arranged. I tole her I d single hitch was ove.r-thet is, « shed i come down in this neck o’ woods an uy up hev me Waal, I hed been kind o thrifty i a little trae’ o’ lan’ an’ build a little house Pke an’ ef I do say it meself, I had man¬ ! on it fer us to live in, then ef she wus wil- aged to lay by a considerable sum o re dy 1 lin’ when next spring came ’roun her an 1 cash Now, Beulah know d this, an it would go an’ live thar. P’r’aps in the mean¬ twan’t long afore me an’ her hed struck up time her dad would soften his mind to rwd me an’ we c’d hev a raal weddin . ^“Ofi an’tCon, ’bout oncet a week, beside n-,7 after meetin’ on Sunday night, “Only oncet thet winter did I see Beulah. T’f Ton ^roun’ to the ole man’s house. I I’d c’m down here, bought twenty-five acres c’d *ee thet t’ne^gaX wa^adakin’ « o’ this lan’ as you see cleared up now, got a strappin’ yoke o’ oxen an Jhet fall an mienemd0lto git her f^r good. But somehow or THE STONE HOUSE BUILT FOR THE BRIDE.

winter, with six or seven men to help. I fout friends in the neighborhood. jist a half ! made the fur fly in the way o’ clearin’ a little mile down the road f’m Beulah’s father was ! patch an’ bulldin’ a stone house fer me an’ the home of William Graham. ’Twas with ‘ Beulah to live in. As I said afore, I went him I staid when up tliar that trip, an' him to see Beulah oncet thet winter. I foun’ an’ me jist sot our heads together to beat she’d bin busy as me. She’d bin spinnin’ Beulah’s oie man. an’ weavin’ an’ makin’ things fer the house, “Yo see, Bill said as how he was willin' an’ the fun o’ it all wus thet her father an’ [ to do anythin’ fer me in the matter. We mother thought she was gittin’ ready fer concluded togitber thet Beulah’d better bring ter ruarry Silas Shuman, the neighbor’s son. her things down to Bill's house, kind o’ But she warn’t. She war gittin’ the things piecemeal like, so’s not to ’cite suspicion, ready for our little house yauder, an' she and begosh, afore spring she hed everythin’ lowed as how afore spring she’d hev a whole moved ’cept her wearin’ things. 'Twar in wagon load to tote away with her. I c'd the latter part o’ April thet, accordin’ to our arrangements, I sent one o’ my men up the - —I—_ see thet I wus far f’m bein’ welcome ’roun' creek to let Beulah know when she c’d ’spect thet house, so I cut my visit short like. But me an’ the team. He left a-foot on Monday X didn't go afore Beulah an’ me hed arranged mornin’,an’ I wus to follow in time to git thar all details fer the weddin’—or ruther the by Tuesday night. Waal, me an’ my yoke o' I flittin’, as I called it. Now, we warn’t with- brindle steers got to Bill Graham’s shortly after nightfall Tuesday, an' in a short time we hed ail o' Beulah’s things huddled in thet

> „■- J ■ the old canvas-covered wagon flustered an’ ’cited like fer fear- ketch us afore we c’d git merrled, but the very wagon thet ye see out In yaiicter shei ’Squire wus thar jist on the- dot an we wus thar—an’ she wus ready fer the backward made man an’ wife, while the oxen browsed ■ trip—which, accordin’ to the arrangement, aroun’ on the bank o’ the creek. The cere¬ wus t& begin ’bout midnight. Thet night wus mony wus performed under a big oak tree, a leetle moonlight, an’ X kiu remember jist list on the bank o’ the creek, an’ arter it wus as if it wus yisterday how me an’ Bill Gra¬ over me and Beulah bundled into the wagon ham snuk up to Beulah’s house. We ber¬ agin’ an’ started fer home. We laamed ried a ladder, fer the plan wus thet Beulah arterwards thet ’bout two hours arter we wus to go to bed airly thet evenin’, ketch hed gone Beulah’s dad c’m Tong on his boss, a little nap an’ be ready fer the ’lopement madder’n’ a hornet in July, but when when she heerd a rooster crow twice down heerd as how we hed already been hitched in the barnyard. I wms the rooster. Waal, he gev up the chase. I let out a crow like a half-sick dunghill, an’ a minute later, afore we c’d put the lad¬ “Waal, we moved into our little house yun- der to Beulah’s winder, out popped a bundle der an’ it war nigh onto two years afore any an’ c’m kerplunk down in Bill’s arms. Oh, o’ Beulah’s folks c’m to see us. We wus no; ’twan’t Beulah; it wus her clothes, all spunky an’ jist concluded thet ef they done up in a homespun spread. Bill hustled wanted to know how we wus gittm long they’d hev to come down an’ see. When I off -with the clothes, while I got Beulah down iS&r in a jiffy, hid the ladder back o’ a lot o ker- our first baby wus born twar a boy an’ we rant bushes an’ then started on a dead run named him Dan’nel—arter Beulah s dad down the road, with Beulah a-holdin on to Waal, somehow or nuther the ole man heerd my arm, sometimes larfin,’ then again cryin , as how we hed named the baby arter him an but never slackin’ her pace. we laarned arterwards thet it wus him who “Twenty minutes later seen us a swingm fust perposed to Beulah’s mother thet they into the ole wagon track back o’ the brindle come down an’ see us. They did come. It steers. I tucked Beulah away back in among war on Thanksgivin’ Day, jist afore dinner, her beddin’ an’ with the gad in hand I jist when Beulah see them a drlvln’ down the med them ar oxen skeedaddle. It seemed rud an’ turnin’ into the barn yard. Waal, though they knowd as how suthin’ out o’ sir, it meks the tears come to my eyes yit the usual wus expected o’ them, an’ I don’t when I remember thet meetin’. Happy? Well, b’leeve thar ever wus a pair o’ steers what guess it wus. The ole man an’ the ole woman jist shook bans as though they war runnin treveled likfT they did thet night. We med over with jov—an’ I guess they war—I knowsnow five miles an hour easy, an when the sun as how I wus, jist fer Beulah’s sake wus up next mornin’ we wus well on toward nuthin’ else.” R1 the county line. i 12 “You see, on my way up I hed ranged with! ’Squire Shoemaker to be at the cross roads ’bout three miles f’m his place at 10 o clock Wednesday mornin’ fer to ‘hitch Beulah an’ me, an’ I wanted to git thar on skeddgi time, an’ I got thar, too. Beulah was kaidei ] ftR A N nMnTu r d m^ii i _

alone, carrying her earthly be- done up in a homespun cloth, wung over her shoulder. This tramp, as randmother McGill now calls it, was one of the red letter affairs in her very eventful . life, and she yet refers to it with a feeling flOW OVER JilfiETY of pride. Just across the road from her Woodward township home lives her “baby boy, J. H. McGill, who is now past 59 WHAT GRANDMOTHER M’GILL RECALLS years of age, and who declared, as he OP EARLY PENNSYLVANIA. poked huge sticks of hickory wood into a great, low-hearthed stove, that “mother is spryer than I by a long shot.” To this little pleasantry Grandmother smiled as she FOUGHT WOLVES WITH BRANDS rocked to and fro in a big arm chair, the while regaling me with stories of adventure that are associated with her early West Walked Two Hundred Miles, From Berks Branch Valley life. She is a remarkable old lo Clearfield County, All Alone, When Not lady; she does not wear spectacles; she does her own household work and moves about Fet Sixteen Tears of Age—A Visit From v ith as much sprightliness as do most women Indlaus at Night. at 50 years.

Grandmother McGill was born in Berks From a Correspondent of The Times. county. Pennsylvania, in 1S05. Her maiden Williamsport, Pa., February 28. name was Craw, tier father and his little Seven miles west of this city, in a little family removed to Clearfield county when house on the edge of a pine wood, lives Mary was in her early teens. It was her Srandmother “Polly" McGill, now nearly 91 father who cut the first road from Belle- rears of age, who, when a girl fought wolves fonte to the Ivarthaus region, then a virgin n the Allegheny Mountains, entertained In¬ forest whose lonely depths were the haunts dians in her pioneer home on Pine creek, of wild animals. Mary’s father was a hunter nd accomplished the quite gigantic task of and trapper, and pushed far into the wilds ‘footing" it from Reading, in Berks county, of the hemlock forest before he chose a spot o Ivarthaus, Clearfield county, a distance of for his cabin. The first three days and >ver 200 miles, besides experiencing many nights that the Craw family spent in their ither trials incident to an early settler’s new neighborhood were passed under the ife. Her long walk from Berks to Clearfield shelter of a big hemlock tree, during which ’ounty was made when she was not yet time Crow built a rude cabin of logs. This 0 years of age, and more than this, the structure was their abode for several years, ntrepid girl journeyed the greater part of or until they removed to the Pine creeli region, in Lycoming county. During their stay in the Clearfield wilds the Craws suf-

r Two years parsed and she longed to re-, privations and vicissitudes that turn to her parents, and home In the woods, j were a rt of the life of all the early set¬ In those days a trip of over 200 miles was a tlers of\die West Branch. Grandmother Mc¬ task of considerable magnitude, and her Gill says that many a time have they driven friends repeatedly postponed the midertak- packs of yelping, gnashing woives from their : me FinallY, Mary became impatient, audl doori by Ainflinging or? n c into their midst a bianduiand i one day announced that she would go horned taken from the great open fire-place. The ! unaccompanied. With herjclothlng wrapped Craws owned two cows, and at night the

_ GRANDMOXHJdl MoGILL AT bovules were chained, one eacn suie oFtl- cabin door. Alongside each cow was kepi ^ TiTa Tibmespmi cioth, and this bundle flues a dog for the purpose of giving alarm at over her shoulder, she started on her “double the approach of wild animals. Those days century” jaunt. For seven days she the dangerous and bold panther was among traveled, sleeping in farmhouses at night ant the denizens of the forest, and these animals trundling along lonesome roads from day were feared by the early settlers much more break until dark. A good part of the waj than were wolves or bears. she traveled in her stocking feet, her shoes making her feet unbearably sore. Severa! About a year after tier family moved to times she lost her way, and on these occa the headwaters of the West Branch. Mary sions she sat by the roadside and cried Crow became possessed of a desue to le- then retraced her steps to a point where vislt the old Berks county home. She had ! she could again obtain her “bearings.” Soon the opportunity of returning with .a rela- after her return home_the Crow familj I five who with a team of horses had paid , thef crows ». Visit. Mary returned with him A loved down the Susqiiehanna river to the I rtiiu Pme creek region—a journey of 100 miles, -this trip was made on a timber raft, and during the voyage the, river became so low j that their rude craft lodged on a rock in midstream, and they were compelled to re¬ main there for several days until the waters rose sufficiently to float them off. , bravest girls in the West BranchValley In the Pine creek region, where the Crows built another log cabin, they were visited by Indians. The redskins, however, had lost their murderous instinct, for they were of a tribe that had settled on the creek to hunt and fish, and had become somewhat domesti¬ cated. Grandmother McGill tells of an in¬ cident that occurred soon after her removal into that section. She was left alone with

IS I HISTOfliC CHURCH

Presbyterian Structure on Market Street to Be Demolished.

FIRST BUILDING ERECTED IN 1841

Bttriie.l in 1849-R«buUt and Burned

Again in 1859, When the Prese.it/ Edifice Was Put Dp-Original Deed Prevented Use of the Property tor

OtSier Than Calvtnistic Church Doc- j THE BABY OF THE McGILL FAMILY. trines.

I several younger members of the family while 1 the parents went to spend the night with And thereby hangs a tale,” can qnite ap- , | some distant friend, Just before dark Mary propriately be applied to the old church prop- i- ' i was terrified by the sudden appearance at erty on .Market street, for many years owned lit » I the door of the little house of four Indian bucks, who asked shelter for the night. For and occupied by the First Presbyterian • Sod once brave Mary was afraid. The ugly- church corporation. * 1 * * * * * * I faced Indians almost paralyzed her with "a On or about April I Samuel Obits, the pr?s^ ! strange fear, but she was alone with the ent owner of the property! will begin tearing t children, and knew that to refuse them down the old church structure and a portion of ’ ! lo ‘°’

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any other purpose than foi the h5ch

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S^d. Another church ^jVoV, once erected, and this ,nrn . the church dismayed, the congregation bruit the chu HISTORY OF HUGHESVILLE building ■which stands there to-day, Some Interesting Colonial I>ata About ihich Will soon be razed to the ground. That Progressive Town. ITS FIRST CHARTER. In 1777 David Aspen settled °n ^at; The first charter, which was that of >ncor- is now the borough of Hughesville. He 1 i. L.e wanted to this congregation in was shot and scalped by the Indians the3following year. The ^nd now un¬ STS'».=lb4:i. jat. Qinnn-I. -<-

«»“ ™» Wi'ito F. r»k".! Sy“5th” Hughes In 1816. wM BJJ»« q town which, was called Hugnesou g , This was changed to KughesviUe when the town was incorporated, April s. 1852, with Enos Hawley as ^rgess. I The first tavern was opened by Paul g?£ :i« Benuett, — 1 Willey in 1820, and m 1830 Theodore Wells started a store. Dr. J° VQf , “'gStoco.clna.a lo Ml ppalfi father of ex-Senator Pea »» Clinton county, was the first phystemn 1 1 Vwr church Accordingly a site to locate in the borough, in 1828- -ten a ”Wn^JS^or a chtch and parsonage on , vears later he sold his practice to D . was pureba Third and Mulberry streets, j George Hill, and moved away^ A post- completed and dedicated, office was established in 1827, ana in dore Wells was appointed P03”11^1 '"in the meantime it was agreed among tta« membership of the congregation to dispose ™££ 4T2.tSS »whS - £ Te church property on Market street, bat.

*• f ""'If tmsSs dBJM«fromd Hepburn', SohtSoie" by lae'eb This building was replaced by a large ^ei84ir,pr6vented such a sale. O. H. Beigh- structure in 1875, and again in 1889 it was remodeled and new rooms added. There are at present six schoo

Se, H. H. Cummin, granted June 10, 1881. The church property was according y Tin Mr Patrick McFadden, iwho since then SiSSf4 a M^purch^ and a model church building erected. Z7r,X^ *«*. rsrS& In 1836 an Evangelical society wa^or- l church.

iSSt"-'”'”'' wEfe” ale child bor„1»> M»"««£ paper published m

Hughesvllle ™1 >»« V°Sey s?jrr^f“£H;HEa exhibition of tHe society. ng_ with the close of the • ’10-74 Nin.e P»r'“'s “n'riml,."" *” »»M« loe started The Enterpuse m 18 <4. «®e 1ZSU SS »* &?<."£■ S&saStfli**""*. &kh3s£S£m and Mullberry streets. 111 .-s'

Daniel Riley established The Journal, which was published until 1879. The early pioneers were subjected to great suffer¬ material was then purchased by Buck & Hill, who started The Mirror, which ing and privation. Dr. Weiser is a lineal \ suspended publication in less than a descendant of the celebrated Conrad Weiser, \ year. who was one of the first white men to visit The completion of the Muncy Creek the Indian town which stood here and confer railroad gave an impetus to trade and with the great chieftain, Shikellimy, on mat¬ manufacturing at Hughesville. Furni¬ ters touching the welfare of the Province ture is the leading product, two large factories employing over 200 hands the and the people. And as the dinner was year round. There is a knitting fac¬ commemorative of the 140th anniver¬ tory, foundry and machine shop, wa¬ sary of the building of Fort Augusta, gon factory, washing machine manu¬ the great changes that have taken place in factory, planing mill, and numerous the face of the country and the conditions of smaller industrial establishments. The town has a national bank, electric light the people, were freely commented on. It plant and a good system of water sup¬ wasinjnly, 1756, that Col. William Chap- ply. The population is about 1,500. ham, a young EnMish officer, landed hero with nearly 500 Provinciel militia and com¬ menced the erection of Fort Aogusta. When -of finished it was the strongest and most im¬ lorf nch portant defensive work between the Delaware her From,.a ■ and Ohio rivers, and in and around it some stln- of the most thrilling incidents of the French ' the and Indian war, and the Revolutionary period, were enacted. When fully manned ,incy Jarly '..Mill C\AA*^ this great fort mounted 14 cannon. Here pur- many of the great chiefs of the Six Nations hem frequently eame to confer with the command¬ UP"*' Bate, IAIAlJ^A ing officers, and here the Moravians, those pious advance cooriers oi civilization, long maintained a mission and did a great and good work among the Indians. The only vestige of this great fort now re¬ maining is the underground magazine, where the ammunition of its defenders was safely stored. It is in au excellent state of preser¬ vation, and if protected from vandal hands will easily last another centnry. It was built /, Historian John F. Meginness in one af the angles of the fort, and is within | a few yards of the dwelling house where the 4 Tells About Fort Augusta. dinner party assembled. Hundreds of visi¬ tors come here every year to view this won¬ derful relic of Revolutionary days, and as WAS A GUEST AT A PARTY time passes it will become more interesting, on account of its associations, to the genera¬ The Local Paper at Sunbtit-y Accords a tions. Interest in this curiosity is also en¬ hanced by the fact that it is the only well 12 Line Notice of the Event—The Stale preserved relic of provincial and revolution¬ Will Erect a Historical Monument on ary days now remaining iu the Susquehanna the Site of the Fort. valley. ^ ,

The Snnbnry Daily Wednesday evening One singular fact in connection with the ~11- s ll had the following local item: history of the fort and magazine should notj Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gross gave a very hand¬ be omitted. They were built under the reigner to some dinner at their residence at old Fort of George III., king of England. Now the", it Augnsta Tuesday afternoon. Jay Weiser, of greater part of the ground ou which the fort y Snyder county, and John Mcginness, of 'Wil¬ stood is owned by a lady, Mrs. Amelia Han¬ liamsport, were among tho invited guests cock Gross, who was born in England in 1849, from a distance. Au effort will be made to came to Sonbury 28 years ago and has been sell the old magazine to the state to have it an active and public spirited citizen of the preserved as a historic monument. It is a town np to the present time. pity if it cannot bo accomplished, for in a Tho ground which she now owns comprises short time it will probably be demolished be¬ three acres, and on it stands the Hunter fore the march of improvement. mansion and the magazine. Recently the Mr. Meginuess, the well known historian, house lias been remodeled and improved. A describes in detail the enjoyable time, and wide verandah sweeps around two sides, after paying a compliment to the distinguish¬ facing the river, and an outlook on the roof ed gnests present, branches off' into historical affords an incomparable view of Blue Hill and recollections by saying that the gathering was the adjacent, scenery As the honse contains a notable one in several respects; surrounded, sixteen rooms and is sumptuously furnished, as it was, by the historic associations of the ic will very likely he made a place of enter¬ P ace, it was frequently remarked how the tainment for the many strangers who annnaly come here to view tne site of Fort Aogusta no one is e story of -hdTt's laskrelic the magazine. Colonel S m- its first erec gc taking n;l Hunter,who served as commandant of the place surrounding its site, istory is tray fort dur ng the i erilousdays of 1777, 1778 and ditional and the oldest inhab speak of it 1779, lies buried in an enclosure near the as the old house supposed to' e been cue of house, with nothing but a plan slab to mark the first. It i-s claimed by seme to have been his resting place. He is worthy of a monu¬ tlie home of the founder of Newberry, John ment. Sutton, who purchased the ground from the The commission to mark the sites of our commonwealth in 1786 and laid out the town, colonial forts is now ready to perform that the plot and record of which is to bo found in patriotic duty, as soon as the legislature ap- the register and recorders office. One story nropriates a small sum ot money for that pur¬ of the old house is verified by the condition pose. But instead of putting up a plain stono of the timbers of w ich it was constructed, to mark the site of Augusta, the state would and that story is that in 1783 the founder, show a greater reverence for the spot by pur¬ John Sutton with a company of men engaged chasing the three acres and erecting n suitable in clearing off the timber and monument. As a factor in the achievement undergrowth west of Lycoming ere k of our liberties Fort Augusta ranks next in for the purpose of inviting settlers to importance to Valley Forge. The latter has take up the land. No buildings were to be been secured and will be preserved, the found except here and there a woodman s . former should not be neglected and forgotten cabin erected of rough logs, and the crevices by a state so rich, powerful and patriotic as chunked with clay to keep out the winter s Pennsylvania. What a magnificent oppor¬ ■ cold. This was one of the cabins and the old tunity is here presented for the Daughters of unhewn and unpetled logs give evidence. t. e to perform a great That the building was formerly but one story patriotic work. The object of their associa¬ is evident, but in later years the building was tion is to arou e interest in historical land- enlarged by another story, and made a com¬ tj marks, to take steps towards preserving them fortable dwelling for its time. It has been I so that they shall not bo entirely destroyed known as the Clarke house for more than ! and forgotten. And the people of Saubury half a century, as it was the home of William t should awake to the importance of the great Clarke, father of Jason and James Clark, of | Revolutionary landmarks they have in their this city. Mrs. Clarke was the daughter of ' midst, and not permit their patriotism to be Fiancis McBride, a shoemaker of nearly outdoreby strangers in d rooting attention to quarter of a century ago, and who received it and in advocsttiug its recognition by our from his father the tract of ground now occupied by Central hall i m from the state as an alottmeut for services in the Revolutionary war. Francis McBride erected a log house on the tract which was i v -■ destroyed by fire in 1870. The wife of Mc¬ From, Bride was Dorothy, daughter of John Sutton, i the. founder of Newberry. In the old Clarke : vr r H bouse for years the Clarke family resided until their death within the memory of the present generation. Mrs. Clarke retained all the pa¬ pers and documents of her grandfather until Data, v 12. '-•* .11% i i her death when they were taken by relatives. Mr. Clarke was a reader of the newspapers .-.. // - 1 y and carefully preserved every copy of the Lycoming Gazette from the first. number in 1800 to the year 1860 or.even until the Gazette and Bulletin was started. His file of the 5 early Gazettes were loaned to ex-Governor packer when his homo was at Third and thToldest HOUSE Mulberry streets in this city, and after his I death came the great fire that destroyed so WEST OF IYC0MG CREEL many buildings, together with the Packer home, and the papers were lost. A number of the old papers left in the house have from Was Bnllt When! the Site of Newberry time to time been found and carried away, Was a Forest and Bnt Few and only yesterday copies of the Gazette and Settlements Made. Bulletin of 30 years ago were picked up and The old Claik' hAuse on Arch street in the eagerly scanned. With the removal of the ’Seventh ward is being torn down to make old Clarke house, hut one pioneer house in way for modern improvements and with its Newberry is left, and that owned by Adam demolition another landmark is removed that Fulmer, ou Newberry street, although other connected the present history of the town very old buildings aro hidden beneath the with the scenes of ty. oncer times, 'llie old modern weatherboards of more pretentions house has an unwritten history revenled modern structures. iu the time- wont logs and chunks between the crevices and probably after the time of Brulfi. The Jesuits, too, those irrepressible and fearless adventurers, were doubtless visitors Frc >m., .cC? d. a here at a very early period, for trinkets which evidently belonged to their outfit have been found not far from here. They were bold and fearless; they plunged Into the depths of LLul r the gloomy wilderness, visited Iudlan tribes as missionaries, and, as a rule, they were always kindly received. They were the bearers of the first tidings of a more defined Da te, , ' lrf j 1 religion and of a higher civilization to the rude children of the forest. Next came that pious Moravian, Count Zinzendorf, who passed through here from Bethlehem, on his way to Onondaga, in the early summer of 1745. He was followed soon MUNCY’S CENTENNIAL, after by other distinguished members of the Moravian faith, and they wielded a good In¬ fluence over the native Indians and many of them became converts. When Zinzendorf THE BOROUGH OF LYCOMING COUNTY came here he met Madam# Montour, a French CELEBRATES TO-MORROW. halfbreed, who was living here with her I famous son Andrew, afterwards distin¬ guished as an interpreter and friend of the whites. A History of the Quiet Little Town which Owing to the beauty and fertility of Muncy Keeeiyes its Name from the Monsi In¬ Valley white settlers w«re attracted as early dians. as 1760, before the land had yet been pur¬ chased from the Indians, and some of them

fSPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP THE PUBLIC commenced building cabins and making other improvements. They were simply LEDGER.' squatters” on land outside of the prov¬ Munct. Pa., March 30.—Thursday this ince, but they anticipated Its acquisition by quiet little town of Lycoming county will be the Penns at an early day, and were willing one hundred years old—not as a borough, to take great risks in order to have pre-emp¬ but dating from the time it was first laid out tion rights. The land was purchased'from and lots offered for sale. Located in the the Indians at the treaty of 1768. and the fol¬ beautiful Muncy Valley, on the north side of lowing year the sale of tracts commenced by the Proprietary Government. The territory the range of mountains bearing the same then belonged to the county of Cumberland, name, and surrounded by hills designated as which embraced a wide domain. In 1772, on ‘•speers of the Alleghenies,” its location is the organization of Northumberland countv incomparably beautiful. it fell to her. Muncy takes Its name from the Monsi In¬ The Penns were ever watchful for choice dians, a tribe of the Delawares, which once tracts of land, and their ageDts were in¬ occupied this portion of the State. And long structed to keep them advised of any discov¬ before the advent of the white man It. was a eries. Their policy was to make reservatioi ■' favorite place for the original occupants. and have them surveyed as manors for their K* Here they built their wigwams, dw

This name, which.still grew in unpopularity, ouse, siii'rounded it with stockades, was finally discarded by act of January i». 1827, which changed It to the borough or thither he removed his family. The Muncy, which it still bears. When the first fimes were perilous; the Revolution had commenced and the Indians were tiouble- borough officers were chosen, March 16. i■«*<' only fifty-eight votes were polled. The first some and threatening. John Rrady entered assessment of taxpayable property aggre¬ the Continental Army and commanded a gated 814,500, the rate of taxation being & company at the Battle of Brandywine, and was wounded. Having been sent home mills, and the levy for borough purposes was 872.50. To-day the assessed valuation ex¬ to recuperate and to assist in devising plans Sag to pretact the frontier from the savages, he ceeds $600,000. was shot from his horse by three Indians, Since the date of Incorporation the bor ough limits have been enlarged several lurking in the hushes,as he was passing from Fort Muncy to his own house, April 11, 1779. times, and although the population is only about 2500 there Is a thickly settled country His cruel assassination occurred almost in sight of his stockade, and the sound of the around it. The borough, therefore. Is the centre of a population of probably 6000 peo¬ guns was plainly heard by his wife and family. No savage act of the times caused ple living within a radius of four or five more indignation, as well as consternation, than the death of the distinguished Captain To-day Muncy is the seat of a quiet. ■culti¬ John Brady. He was burled with military vated people, conservative In their habRs, but noted for their hospitality. Its manu¬ honor in the graveyard lying under the guns of Fort Munoy, and there his grave can still facturing industries are not large, but there j are several which give employment to a be seen. , . When Lycoming county was organized, goodlv number of hands. The borough Is April 13, 1795, It extended as far west as the supplied with water works, has three banks Allegheny river and to the line of the State of one of which is a national institution. It New York on ihe north. Within its borders Is liberally supplied with churches an were comprised about 11,000 square miles, or schools. and withal is one of the almost one-third of the State, and Muncy most charming places for a quiet residence was the largest settlement tn this princely In the State. It has railroad communica¬ domain, and contir led so for several years. tion and is always in touch with the outer Durln" the Revolutionary War It was a place world. The rich agricultural valley which surrounds it is noted for its fine productive cf some note, and, as It was Iho voting place for a large district, attracted much atten¬ farms, comfortable residences ^ tion The township of Muncy was not dis¬ cottages, owned by people in New York and membered till 1797, when Muncy Creek town- Philadelphia, who spend their summers | ship was created. Afterwards the work of here. Muncy has turned out many cl. zens ! disintegration was continued at intervals, as who have attained to eminence in civil and ‘population increased, until to-day it Is the professional life. Close attention has always twenty-seventh in size of the forty-two sub¬ been given to education. In earlier years the divisions of Lycoming county, and has an seminary, presided over by Mrs. Smalley and Mrs. Life, was one of the most popular area of only 9440 acres. The Captain 'John Brady tract was pur¬ schools for the education of you^adles ln chased by William and BeDjamln McCarty, this part of the State, and it was during the timePof Mrs. Life that Miss Rose Elizabeth ' two brothers, but they did not get a title till 1791. They divided the land between them; Cleveland, a sister of ex-President Cleveland, and, in the meantime, as Ihe settlement had | was employed as a teacher. become quite pretentious, Benjamin McCarty To-day the chief glory of Mun®y Is.lier conceived the idea of laying out a town in Normal School, which was established here regular order.' Accordingly he laid out a in 1877. It has been carefully and ably con¬ number of lots and made sales on the 1st of ducted, and has continually advanced in April, 1797. His brother. William, followed the attendance of pupils and in the influence his example and also made sale of lots. which It has wielded for the good of its This date, therefore, marks the beginning of Datrons The line of study has been enlarged the official existence of the borough of so as to include, besides the regular teach¬ Muncy, which will be 100 years old April 1, ers’ preparatory course, a college prepara¬ (97, tory course also, which enables pupils to The founders of Muncy at first named it prepare for admission to higher Institutions Pennsborough, in honor of the Penns, who P Among those who have made their mark once owned the Manor. It improved slowly, in the world and who have resided here none and as the village presented a straggling ap¬ are more worthy of mention than Mr. J. M. pearance it was nicknamed “Hardscrabble” M Gernerd, the antiquarian, historian and by way of derision. The name Penns- publisher. His museum, composed of more borough was not euphonious and the settlers ' than 8000 specimens of Indian re' c8 «" remnants of the fictile art, all beautifully uiu uuo „- The first eonvey- did not take kindly to it. mounted and labeled, is one.of the most ln- ances of lots were made out in this name. IIV/CO OI o --- teresttng of places to visit. The majoi part 6 On the 1st of April, 1800,------Muncy was digni¬ of these relics were gathered In the ^uncy i fied by having a post-office established, and valley and represent the untutored pe®ple , Henry Shoemaker was the first Postmaster, f postage was high In those days, the malls WCap°tain John Ciy had laid In the grave were carried In saddle bags on horseback, for 100 years without a Stone to mark h s and the letters and papers received were so resting place, or tell the story of his patriot- ‘ few In number that once a week was suf- ism and death to the passing general on. J fleient for an arrival. The longest term of until Mr. Gernerd took it upon himself to service was by General W. A. Petriken, who raise a sufficient fund by soliciting $1 sub- held the office from Maroh 20, 1822, until De¬ cember 22, 1840, a period of almost nineteen years. The village Increased gradually until it reached the mature age of twenty-seven, when the inhabitants began to sigh for nn act of incorporation. Accordingly, on the 15th of March, 1820, an act was passed Incor¬ porating it as the borough of Pennsborough. scriptions to erect a cenotaph In the Muncy —•=. paper was mem; Cemetery to perpetuate his name and fame. County Hjaubridatt goc Hla proposition was kindly received, and In a few months ho had collected nearly 82000. at H!^r,w^n'ty"€,iS'iith “anniversary,. i Ar Captain Brady's remains reated In a grave ,reC&mJy ^ Jolrn *V some three miles away, It was deemed betted earliest times oif which to erect his memorial In the cemetery of the ave any authentic account, the * town. It Is a plain but massive obelisk, queh-anma river -hast figured as an resting on a die and a double base, four pieces portant (factor in .the history of Pi In all, constructed of enduring Maine granite. sylvante. When -the white men came The ceremony of unveiling the cenotaph took place October 15, 1879, In the presence of ft ito 3hia^irT1'd|-!thle 'aboril&in'.e's dwelling- upon great throng of people. Hon. John Blair hadn't?8 ^ lgl't;at "umbers, and they had -dielfeniswve works to protect tbem- Linn, the historian, delivered the oration, and Colonel Thomas ChamberllD, of Phlla* s^lves from the assaults oif their fierce delphia, read a poem which he had specially southern enemies. Even that veraciou, written for the occasion. After the ceremo, CaPtain John Smith, tells nles of dedication were over, a committee that- he found the Susque-hannoeks to ! proceeded to the place where the hero was he gntlat stalwart men, armed with burled and placed granite markers at his f^XeiifUi a°'WS’ fields and spears. That ; grave, so that strangers could have no trou¬ ej lO'V-ed to -dwell on its banks there ble In finding the grassy slope beneath which is n Odoew. This was on account of it he- 1 his ashes rest. ed nrvt'0f flln6 lfislh Jlto waters yil-e-ld- The conservative people of Muncy will In, dulgo In no noisy demonstration to note tha &££& **"’ “ «" i anniversary of their 100th year, but they will Just when, the Susquehanna river quietly observe the event In a thoughtful and was formeu—or how long the process of reverent way. It has been very truly said formic;'on -wias going on—we know not; ‘ ‘that a hundred years Is but a little thing la l uc geologists give us some idea of the the illimitable arc of time, ” but there are Wh-fn rlMch rfsuUed in its ft r-matiion. few sequestered vales within the borders of t h? re th'8 §I ®'lacle'r hore clown from this mighty Commonwealth around which e frozen regions and'mane within one more historic associations cluster than In the hundred raffles Of where HamisKg charming region of Muncy ; and It Is deemed I ihnated’ f1 is> ,p,roba,l)1e that the face of fitting, therefore, that attention should be ! is to-davdi*eTein,t frcn> what it drawn to It, If for no other purpose but to is to-day. Imagine the conditions which educate the minds of the young and teaoh than must IWave existed. It seems hard them what perils the pioneers of 100 years ago to believe that Ice ranging in ‘thickness had to endure when they were laying the from one to two too-usand feet cwS foundations for the higher civilization and rue face of the -country wi'8’iin three the blessings and comforts which the genera¬ hours’ hide from this city Yet seol tion of to-day enjoys. ogLsics assure us- such was the fact- and John of Lancaster. *t® Advanced line from New j4rsev -cioss North em Pennsylvania throu-°-th co-mto^an0d 5h Lazern,e- Columbia Ey¬ ed to fhfe day Cail

W .m’W •*wv' ^_ Tho SusQ'Utl&ilwinia. te -one of -tihe great i ' rivers of the Unlit ed States'; great-as a I drainage *>ana’.; and gre'at as -a f^ume | whiich shows that -the people -of that d y in, the interest of commerce, ^.r-sat were -of-the opinion that it might be sum® off money (have 'been expended to nt-U zed 'for commercial purposes b> 1 make it'i' navigable, but lit still noil's over ! man, as weHHagiby nature to drain the 1 its rooky toed [bidding dedance to man, •watershed on the eastern slope of tn® ait time® St is placid and smooth, then Alleghenies. , . it becomes a resist fee® and destructive But at -that -time there were local jealousies as well as now. The repre¬ Good'William Penn first gazed on its sentatives of Philadelphia i-nteresus be¬ placid -waters -where Middletown now gan to s-h-ow a fear th-at if the Sus-que- stands, and it was after this vasi't that Jianna were made navigable trad® he conceived the idea of £oun-ding a y - would be diverted from -their city to on iit's banks. At that time he knew I Baltimore, -and In a quiet way -they op¬ nothing of the) great country ‘lyps posed the great Object. Their schemes yond or tttoe region through which th-e were finally successful and for a time river flowed from its 'sources. Philadelphia -enjoyed a monopoly of the Coming down to later dates we find , -trade. that the Susquehanna was a subject tor In this connection it may be mention¬ much -discussion regarding inland navi- i ed as a curious 'fact in the (history of gation to facilitate trade and com- | transportation, that in 1(88, large merce. Before 1770 the Philosophical ! quantities of wheat and flour were' Car¬ Society of Philadelphia, appointed a ried up the river for the use of set11® a committee to view the river and ^ew¬ in Northumberland county. In liW, al¬ er fails with ithe view of making at ter -tihe month of March, thirty thou¬ navigable. The committee made a re¬ sand bushels -of wheat -returned down port February 16, 1770, wherein they the -stream to -market from -the same expressed flue opinion that a <*anne>l mfelht toe cut through tihe rocks bellow 0

• ^w^foT^inety-one miles cost £110 and raouired the labor -of twenty mem. a®4 lo schtemie ’(which fills -several . i ■u ar36!5 And th1© sainiiB) fboout in»- i ^^fwTSSSB. i hundr-: d years af- 1 form? 2® the cost Of transporting written, it cootean,plated the form. ■ . t ^ thls overland route flour to oy tn barrel; Z sm,m. «*fw

US™ weighs of $5.00 each, or fifty thou- -ford counties $10.00 ouch. GUt .. - V/M-I was ito be used to the were present. two -thousand acres oim land, . Blaine was made chairman of -the Coxe tE ought could be secured for tog, and after an' -interchange of per aerie. On this land It was pre¬ i't was -resolved to raise a sum of 'm-oney posed to lay off “a town or oily for 'in¬ by subscription for the purpose of re¬ land tradle and manufactures, with moving ‘t-hiet obstructions in the river. streets sixty fe®t wide, to oibltthiys of Solicitors were appointed to raise money five hundred feet by two hundred and dm the -counties noted above, including twenty. TUe comtieta'ts would be three Philadelphia. It iwas than resolved that square miles. ’1 with a frontage of two Ephriam Blaine, Robert Whiiteh'ill, Joihn miles on the river anid running back one Bratto-n, George Gale and Samuel and a half miles. Tthe lots were to be Hughes, be appointed commissioners to twenty feet front and one hundred .delip, ] superintend and direct the appl-icaiti'on. and there were to he about 'twenty-s'ix and expenditure of th-e money. Stacy thousand. (Different kinds of dwelllng'S, P-otts was -appotoit'ed Treasurer to re¬ c iSting certain figures, we re to be erect¬ ceive the -money from the solicitors and ed, .together with Bill kinds of manufac¬ pay out the same on vouchers given -by tories. Among 'them was to be one mill the commissioners. of.‘'about five hundred 'spindles for Chairman- Blaine issued a circular in spinintoig flax, hemp and combed wool ” th-e form of an appeal to the pelople to wih'ich wia.8 to cost '$6,000. There was to I subscribe money to aid to carrying -out the proposed 'improvement. Consider- - be one English printing office costing $500, and one German costing $300. Ten able im-on'ey was raised and spent at one time or another, but after a lapse off a grain and fruit distilleries, costing on an average of $2'50 each, were provided century the Susquehanna remaine for. together with one malt house and unnavigable. In other words, -the “crooked river” (is still master of the brewery costing $6,000. There'were to sii't-uat'i'on. Canals came and flourished be four school houses and one church for all denominations. f-o-r a time as great waterways, -and then disappeared, but the rocks, fails The projector of this sdheme thought the settlement WGuld form a town ,of one and ripples -off -the river still remain. It no'w remain's to- be -seen Whether ihns- thousand houses, useful -workshops, etc. toiry will rep-eat itself duirng -the next “And,” he continues, ‘being on the river hundred years by the res to ration of the Susquehanna, a very great and ex ten- ** canal system, -oin-a larger scale as a com¬ sive natural canal * * * the position petitor wilth steam and electricity. for the toiwn must be' considered as One thing is -certain, however, if some¬ warram'ttoig a presumption that the lots would be more valuable.” thing i® not d-one soon (by -the Legisla¬ ture to -prevent t-h'e 'increasing contam¬ Eut time and space forbid further ination -of the "water, tlua Susquehanna Mflereuee to this curious town which will become the -great sewerage canal wks projected oin the Susquehanna more of Central Pennsylvania With the de¬ than a hundred years ago; Any one de¬ struction of the forests, -the clearinlg o-f sirous of reading the story in full can I the land, the stieiady 'increase of popu¬ go up to the State Library and ask my lation- in -oWies. towns and hamle't® along esteemed friend, the worthy President of your society, to look ;tio Coxe’s “View the shores, it requires no prophetic mind 'toi tell What the result will be, un¬ of Ithe United Sltates,” and on 'turning less .science and restrictive law-s shall to page 385 they will find the account devise something for the preservation to full, which 'is unknown to nine-tenths of 'the present generation. of ‘the -purity of it® waters. Ail of us have 'heard of western towns “For three years we have never been On paper, and of towns that have been without Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and projected and boomed: but no western Diarrhoea Remedy In the house,” says A. town, was ever laid out on a grander H. Patter, with E. C. Atkins & Co., In¬ scale than this town on the Susque¬ dianapolis, Tn-d., and my wife would as hanna The only difference Is that soon think Of being without flour as a bot¬ nearly all western town® have had their tle of this remedy 5n the summer season. id booms; Coxe’s town never had a boom. Tie have used it with all three of our chil¬ Harrisburg, which had been founded dren and It has never failed to cure—not on the east bank of the Susquehanna, simply stop pain, bu-t cure absolutely. It is overshadowed Tench Coxe’s project, and all right, and anyone who tries it win And so far as known, ft never got further It so.” For sale by L. L. Walton and than 'the plan on paper. Just where it Frank W. Ely. was to1 be located never was, so far as I am -awaits), definitely fixed. The pro¬ posal was to build (it at some point be¬ tween Middletown and No.rthumber- liand. T.f the project to build it on the west side of the river had been carried out some point below Harrisburg must have bielen selected; or if above here, Perry or Snyder coun'ti'ea would no w be enjoying the honor of having the great clity. Among the last great meetings—if not 'the very last—to consider plans for making the Susquehanna navigable be¬ low Wrightisvtlle, was held in Harris¬ burg August IS, 1795. Represieintative® from Lancaster, York, Dauphin, Cum¬ berland, Mifflin, Huntingdon and Nortfh- umberland counties in Pennsylvania stirring address, which was received with great enthusiasm by his comrades. The minutes of the proceedings of the reunion hbld at Jersey Shore a year ago were read and accepted, with a few j alterations. GATHERED IN THE HOME OF Comrade Robert Grier, of Jersey Shore, moved that the present officials RENO POST. be retained in office for another year, stating that he thought he was voicing the sentiments of his associates by Eleventh Annual Reunion of the such actions. President Chamberland Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania was of the opinion that if there wan ■ Reserves—Business Meet¬ good to be realized out of the presi¬ dency, it should be handed around, ing and Camp and that he felt like giving away to his Fire. friend, Major McPheran. Grier wouldn’t have it that way. He held that when they had “a good thing Conspicuously about tbe city all of they should cling to it.” The discus¬ yesterday and last night, fastened to sion was brought to a close by some the lapel of men’s coats, were a halt one moving to amend Grier’s notion hundred or more handsome badges, by affixing the name of McPheran to bearing the inscription: “11th Annual the list of vice-presidents. The amend¬ .Reunion of the Association of the ment prevailed, and the old. officers Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Re¬ were re-elected. serves.” The wearers were the major¬ Northumberland was chosen as the ity of the few remaining heroes who next place of holding the reunion, the went to the front in response to a call time fixed being the second Monday in issued by the father of the “Reserves, May, 1899. Andrew G. Curtin, May, 1861. They After transacting a few minor de came here to meet once more, enjoy tails for the wellfare of the association, each others society, transact such an adjournment until 8 o’clock.in the business that might come before them evening was reached, an invitation be¬ and return to their respective homes ing extended to all to come back at that the better for having come. hour and participate in “a camp fire.” Although nearly a half century has THE CAMP FIRE. rolled away since the days they im¬ Thre was a large attendance at the periled their lives for flag and country, camp fire. The meeting was presided the old veterans talk of war and what over by Robert Grier, of Jersey Shore. they could do if permitted with as much “My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” was sung vim, fervency and enthusiasm as any by the audience, followed by an earn¬ of the “youngsters” now in training est patriotic prayer by Rev. Charles F. for the present fray. They are fairly aching to get down into Cuba and give Qreen C. La Rue Munson made the address the Spanish a little of the medicine of welcome. His remarks were full of they dealt out to the “Rebs back in zeal, patriotism and love of country. the 60’s. He extended a hearty welcome to the I The reunion was held in Reno Post veterans, and then showed at length rooms. During the morning nothing that every war fought on this side of of importance took place. After sign¬ the Atlantic had been justifiable; that ing the roster, the “old boys” found an through them good had come out of abundance to engross their attention evil. To-day the South can call the late in moving about the room, shaking civil war blessed. Through it the spin- hands with comrades and talking over ning wheels and other industries have scenes and incidents encountered dur¬ 1 been set in motion. The present war is ing the late great conflict, in which one of mercy. We are battling for the they won so many laurels. freedom of a people in a more wretched The present officers of the organisa¬ bondage than even the poor slave tion are: President, Colonel Thomas Chamberland, Philadelphia; vice-pres¬ whom you assisted in freeing years ago, were ever in. For that Spain is idents, Captain Evan Russell, Wil¬ responsible. We are doing our duty, liamsport; Captain John E. Potter, nothing more. We are going to free Jersey Shore; Captain S. B. Reed, l Cuba, take the Philippines and if our Lewisburg; Captain J. M. Rhodes, Mu- , enemy is not very careful we will ton; Captain David McGhanhey, Clear¬ make Spain a republic. Spain is igno¬ field; recording secretary, J. W. Shock, rant. She has been taught to believe Mifflinburg; corresponding secretary, that we not only shoot buffaloes in Ho- W. Hayes Grier, Columbia. , boken and kill deer on Fifth avenue, A business session was held in the , but that we have men with feathers auditorium of Reno Post. In opening President Chamberland made a short. D; Lewis Kyle, Milton, H; W, Northumberland, Lycoming, Cl intin, cy, A; George M. Slifer, Lewisburg, D; \ Clearfield and Centre. The regiment Jacob Cole, Taximos, B; James Ken¬ was originally commanded by Colonel nedy, Williamsport, H; William Seneca G. Simmons, but later on in the Young, Northumberland, B; Thomas J. conflict by Colonel Joseph Fisher. It Painter, Pottsgrove, H; W. A. Harper, was called into service June 21, 1861, Williamsport, H; Elias Page, Mount and mustered out June 15, 1864. The Union, Jefferson county, Ill., D; A. K. battles engaged in, bravery displayed Carothers, Newberry, H; S. A. Reed, and hardships endured by the members | Newberry, D; H. F. Mann, Sunbury, A; of the “Reserve” have been pictured William Sealy, Lewisburg, D; George too vividly in the pages of history, W. Schock, Mifflinburg, D; Captain I. chronicling their deeds of heroism and B. Read, Lewistown, D; Alex Hamil¬ valor, to be referred to now. Only a ton, Jersey Shore, A; Henry Yeager, few are left. Since the conflict they Williamsport, H; Frank Fullmer, Wil-. I have, one by one, answered “Here” to liamsport, F; Thomas Crawford, Mil- the roll call of the Great Commander ton, D; James Bonnell, Arnot, D; above, and the survivors are entitled to Charles Washburn, Roaring Branch, the honor that a God-fearing, country- D; Lewis Kyle, Milton, H._j _ loving, patriotic American people can bestow upon them. and true to best of his Knowledge and belie , AIW.HEllliiH.il. Sworn and subscribed before me this doth dav of June, A. I)., 1889. II. M. BUBK, I. P. [i . s.l

STRAY LOOS. List of saw-logs lodged on .Scasholtz's island in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, Penn’a, on June 1,2 ami .'!, 188‘J. a l ull copy of which is entered on my docket, Luo logs more or less and each of said iogs bear one or I'tlie other of the following marks viz: SXB: T over DY: SINT: HIX over 2: YAL: D plus H: H over JS: 166: 4 pointed enow: s in a can: BfjP: JGK: 10 over IK: I plus M: M171: S3: Sin square: heart: R&H:W4:X with —: 2 in heart: HJ: X in circle: HJ over 2: R2: OK: spec¬ tacles: 5 in square: PMS: JH: Wit: 1 over B&P: k in circle: MN: ICY'over NW: HJ overLHJ: | Miff of Saw-logs and Inmlier JLodgetl EDS: 77: ED: CAL: J | (!: 5 | 20: DUI), B in heart: and Taken Ip In the River Snsqne- MES: ST over 11: ME2: N | G: OYs meet at base: tianna. 64: XX: M&C: CPWP: 2 over BTP: (i pointed u CHAS: RB over M: WJ over B: A plus D:( \F( T Notice is hereby given to the owners and L: L over CC over 1): H over K: APC: DVM: 2.1: others concerned that a list of saw-logs .which Jr: L over CC over I: JSW: US; HIX: R&H: U came loosely Heating down the River Susque¬ X over 2: JH3: S and T over H: MES: H in t-ala- hanna, between the town of Northumberland bash: cross with bars on ends' of horizontal line: and the line of the State of Maryland, which 111 in circle: X0EP: .IPS:-VXD: L over CC over were not rafted together, nor under the pilotage 5: PM: SIN: W plus H: umbrella: W.I over ii: S or control of men, lodged on “Herrolds” island in hexagon: DVM: FY&Co: apron: TAY: BB2: in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland OIL: 4 Ns on cross: LDS: o within (>: hayfork: j county, Pa.; that said island belongs to Abel hatchet with | : clover lear: egg with two—s:U: 3 Herrokl and is occupied by him ; that said saw- J | G: LD over plus over CO: >: PO over TS:BA I logs lodged on said island and were taken up by Y: N in circle: SUN: 5E5: M in C: AT: HJ over 5 Abel Herrold on the first and second days 3:1 over BP: MA: RR: L&F: JRP>: 10 in circle: 1 of June, .1889; that said list of saw-logs was 7X7: KTC: square: FD3: HAS: OX over 5: CH 3 lodged with me by Abel Herrold, who sub- over OW: B2; R&P: BO over AZ: P.OPC: FRO ! scribed the same and was sworn to by him >V: RS: DH over H'2: L&F and others. J the 25th day of June, 1889, and on the same Northumberland county, ss. I day was entered on my docket. There are John Downey after being duly sworn says that (about five thousand 'saw-logs, more or less, the above and "foregoing list of saw-logs and the lof good quality lodged and taken up, each facts and circumstances set forth in the said list lone of -which bear one or the other of the fol- are true and correct to the best of his knowl¬ llowing marks, viz. : W J over B, L y over M, edge and belief. 12 in heart, MS, X1H, L over CC over 3, PAN,6 over Ixt>, FAY. C I 5, 'N | C, M over y, 5 point star. FD3, Sworn and subscribed before me the 27tli day I III in circle, KB over il, S T over H, 0X5, XX, 10 of June A. D. 1889. Im circle, SXV, L over CC over I), S, XXL, BXS, B. M. Bxtbb. J. P., [l. S] ! M :•••;. 1— 1, 166, SXB, DXH.T; over CC over 4, XEP, | PM'.’, CWP, RB over &1, SUN, Axl), B&P, PO over STRAY LOOS. IT S, Z with stroke, OIL, LD over C, , 10 over IK, 1IX over 2 L over CCovei-4, Hina D, 8 in circle, List of logs caught and captured floating loose on IjCH, CECH, MP3, AFC, BOX, J I C, ML2,4over2, the Susquehanna river in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county. Pa,, Jnnel, 2. 8, 1SS9, by »CHAS, cross, )M), 64, L over CO over 9, BO over Z, |DH over H2, Fy&Co, M zl, H over JS. WJ over B, William Eotharmel and John Canral, 16.5 logs bear¬ DUD, JW in circle, DVM, J2, JM, ABC, half clr- ing one of the following marks, viz.: B2. CL, Sx B, DNR, four N on cross, heart XEP, HJ over 4, hit, ■ cle over T, HIX3, DWoverHS, J3, H in heart, L , over CC over 1, snowflake, CPB, LF, 8 in D, YMD, 8 on hatchet, H iu heart, ■?, clover leaf, SDx, PM, u, cross with 8 points, I-1IX1, 8 on calabash, HA 2J. S, B&P, IxM, NIC, PM-q, ME:;, R&H, SINT, t over P T, 1 in heart, 79. 11 7, II on calabash, EXH. CRoverOW, BAY,"DHx'ovor H2x, 33, WxH, APC, I *, PL Co, C K over OM. 7X, [HIX], RB over 1, HIX CECIL, G, JW over B, WIT, FRAY, M ovef LS, ' over!, F&P. HAS, ED43, boot, M on barrel, Lover ED3, ill in circle, R&II, 8 T over H, S in circle, 8 in MC, HK, CH, S2, JxH JW in C, B on box with top, circle, XOovei'5, hayfork. ML3, DxII, 7, CL over EXH, Kin circle. B&P. calabash, 5, point arrow, DC, LO 5 over 3, CWP, HIX, HI4, DUD, plus with over B, JlsVAL, HXI), B&R. L&P. A over 2, bars on horizontal line, LC2, RB over M.CLC4, OIL, PMS, CECIL, 7x7, 0 over M ill circle, FEW, JB2, JH4, J2, LCCO, CHAS, K in circle, SUN, jRW. LHa HIX over 2. SAW, Ku over W, AT, XIX, B3P, 21i, DH, L2, HJ, 70, L&J, circle, S in circle, pinchers, 76, 0X2, 8 point, W4T, IIJ, LI) over CO, CRoverOW, H2DR, AT, circle in 9 point *, CROW, 5'In square, 4R, JBE, A2, ME2, AYJ over B, 2 in 33 CCCo, O K, JC, 3 in box, 2 in heart, 77, R &H, spectacles. S, B&P over 2, X in circle, HJ over 4, heart, H in heart, IR, JIC,dw over h3, B in hatchet, KV overXW, OST, lyre, 4 in circle, B in shoeing xx, pick axe, LGG5. tongues PMl, heart, PM, BAY, £ W5T HJ over 3, The above information was lodged with me and SXB, 2J, SINT, TFon.J, JS, *2, 4 oil J, RB over M, sworn to and entered upon my docket this 26th day of June, 1889. HIX2, IM over GW, 4 X on cross, P M3, 8 in box, Witness my hand and seal at my office in Lower Jp, 5E5, PB&C, L L over CO, B2. PM)(, I‘PO over TS, RJ over CW, WxH 64, AB, umbrella, JG1I, Mahanoy township, Northumberland Co., Fa., this PMC, clover leaf, M 2n C, ED, 5 over 20, 5 in box, 26th day of June, A. 1). 1889. HJ4, Eb3, 1 in heart, 2al, FMF 10 over IK, ME3: B. M. BUBB, J. P. [L. S.l 1HIX, W7, XO over E XEB, QC over H, SVI), anti STRAY MldS. -dfist of lumb.er which came loosely floating List of logs caught and secured floating loose in < FcffiVn the River Susquehanna between the town Susquehanna river on June 1, 2, 3, 1889, by John All- man and Charles B. Zerbe, at Mahantongo- Part of 'ft i pi Northumberland find the line of the State of logs are in Northumberland and part in Dauphin y Maryland ; That said lumber consists of boards, counties, Pa. 509 logs more or less bearing the fol¬ i plank, scantling, palings, plastering lath and lowing marks, viz.: JBE Wxl ZZ BOX Ji WR SX i roofing lath. There is about one hundred thous- B S snowflake B&P T in circle P JIIS 8 in circle 4R I j and fbet, more or less of said lumber, and about four ) on plus sign FBW SL HJ circle in 9 point * |./ sixty thousand feet is of good quality and the JCK over L1I7 two ) on plus sign ED:! umbrella OK ■ other not so good; that said lumber lodged on LF DVM AR heart 1 in heart 2 in heart 4 in heart 2RLXLR&H fourN on cross LH over COR B2 r ‘.‘.Herrold’s” island in. said river, in Lowpr AY5T 3 in box 5 point arrow W4P PMX C’L CLC over k ] Mahanoy township, Northumberland Co., Pa., 5 CLC over 4 166 XEP 5B CWP'MW KB over M 1R ■ ij which island belongs to and is occupied by Abel 8R KH Pm2 * XX H2DH 1)L over 3C' 10 over IK Pm j Herrold ; that said lumber lodged on said island R over PT WJ over B EJ Ox over 2 X over LY OT '' and was taken up by Abel Herrold cm. the first 97 spectacles HIx K in circle E3T2 AI’Q o\V )) ED and second days of June, 1889 : that said lumber HJ over 4 clover leaf J I C RVH Dxi i X j C u in box consists of wlptq pine, hemlock and oak, and mE2 B2 DUm DAN BAY plus sign in circle OH 79 RUB HS over ST nick axe IJjfFLC CLC over 3 Pm 3 if as'no visible and intelligible marks on it. PO over TS HJ& broad axe HJ over 3 JI'S N over G : NoltTHTMBERlAKD COUNTY, SS ; LH. The above information was lodged with me and sworn to and entered in full upon my docket on #hel Herrold after being duly sworn says that, the 26tli day of J une, 1888. the facts and circumstances set forth in the above and foregoing list of lumber is correct STRAY LOUS. MP3; Af x I: ME; MK2: ME2; -M over J,\P 1,,u1' List Of logs caught floating loose on the River Sus¬ N on a cross: N | c; O; H in circle: < )IL;()X over quehanna, in the Borough of Sunlmry, Northura- 5; OLc over 5; II in circle; OK: 1\ in circle: OX I Borland county, Pa., on June 1, 1889, by Janies W. over 2: PM): PMB: PO over TS; PM over LY; I Lyon & Bro. 's., one hundred and. nine logs, more PM2: PM; PAIIv; l’HACo; PMli: PEN: I’Z over 9 PLcO;Q&f ;QB; RJ-pVer «W:KB over AI; RAM: RS: RAP RE over PT; S; SX H:ST over IPSFN: 5 anil T over PI; S over H; T N I B: T over D y; L « >) 111 111 Udd&CiV| w over B S; V A P: V 1 I; w.\4i: w 5 T; w -J over lover XO, spectacles, sint, OK, 3 in square, 84, KEP, B; w PI over I: vv J over E; w 4; w 4 T: w A T; w WAT, L over CC 5 under, H.I3, 1 in heart h in circle, B; w J over B J: w P; X E P; X X; Z with —: Z J HS4, Box, jPs, M over LY, H in heart and others. 1 C; Z — X; 2 J: 2 R: 77: 33; 10 in circle; 5E5; IU; The above information was lodged witli me and 111 in circle; 8 in circle; x in circle; umbrella; o I sworn to and entered iu full upon my docket on the pointed *; (i pointed *; 8 pointed *;, bearing ’the ''following Witness my hand and seal at my office in marks, viz ; 4ft, JBB, 3R, EDS, heart, Jackson township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, this 20tli day of June A D 18S9. | B2. 3 in square, SXB, 357, and others. Geo. Dei'pex, J. P. [l. s.] The above infornjatiqn was lodged with Also about five hundred logs more or less on j me and sworn to and entered in full iq Hall's or Hoover’s island-in Bower Augusta I my docket the 3pftH payifif June, 1889. township taken up by George Hoover on the Witness my hand and seal at Sunbury, first and second days of June, 1889, lodged in the ,Pa., this 27th day of June, A. D. 1889. same manner as foregoing and composed of the same marks. Also about live thousand feet of g A. N. BRICE, J. P. sawod lumber on same island. All of which is taken up by George Hoover and marks lodged Notice oi SawLogs anal Lumber Lodged with me. anal Taken Pp in (lie River Snsque- Witness mv hand and seal this 27th day of liaima. June, 1889, in Lower Augusto township. T. A. Campbell J. P. [l. s.] Notice is hereby given to the owners and others concerned, that a list of saw-logs which | Not ice to tke Owners of Saw-Yogs, Sawed came loosely floating down the River Susque¬ Liiniber, Ac., Hiat Lodged upon and hanna, between the town of Northumberland lias been taken u p on Buyers’ and the line of the State of Maryland which Island in the Susquehanna, were not rafted together nor under the pilotage nor control of men, lodged on ■ Hall's" or about one mile below the Shamokin Dam, in Hoover’s” island in Jackson township North¬ pursuance of the Act of Assembly approved umberland county, Pa. ; that said island he- the 20th day of March, 1812, and the several sup¬ longs to Charles Hall, who leased it to George Hoover, and is and was occupied by George plements thereto, relating to “The taking up Hoover; that said saw-logs lodged on said is¬ lumber in the rivers Susquehanna and Lehigh land and were taken up by George Hoover on and tlieir branches ” the first and second days of June, 1889; that said list of saw-logs was lodged with me by Notice is hereby given that John Buyers lias George Hoover, who subscribed it, and was made information and lodged the same with sworn to the same and entered on my docket me, that lie lias taken up and into his custody the 20th day of June, A. D., 1889, There are saw-logs, timber, boards and lumber, which on about sixteen thousand saw-logs, more <>r less the first and second days of June. A. D. 1889, of good quality,on the said island in said town¬ floated down the Susquehanna river, not under ship, each one of which bears one or the other the control or pilotage of any person or persons, of the following marks, viz.: or rafted together and under such control or pilotage, and lodged upon his island, land and V i AxP: AZ; A P < k AL; A X I); A cross D; A F P; A over 2; 15 O: B U X: B 2; B K: 15 A V- premises, situated in the said river and county, B & P: B C O over 4 M; B Y S: BXS; CECIL and located about one mile belowthe Shamokin ' L c o over 3; (’Leo over 4; C L C over 1): CL- Dam. in the township of Upper Augusta, county C m a square; C M; C L C over 2; CD; CPC and State aforesaid, the said saw-logs and tim¬ over 5: C P B: CHAS; C W P;C 8 R; C P: C P ber bearing tlie marks, and being in number, over O \V; 1) XH; D V M: D W P; D \V over quantity and quality, as follows, to wit: Eight H 3; Dill); 11 M over H3; D L D; D x E D; DIP thousand saw-logs anil squared timber, esti¬ DAN; E D 3; E I; E D: E D 8; four F’s; FAY- mated, consisting principally of hemlock, some C R over O W: F Y * Co; F R AY; F D; H I X white pine, oaks and other hard woods, esti¬ m bottle; HIX: HIX over .3; HIX over 4; HIX mated to contain about 1,300,000 feet of good I over 2; 41 over JS: HJ over 3: HJ; Hxll- HJ average quality, bearing the following marks : over 4: HIX over 1; INI; I x M; JRB; JBE over VT -VPC BAP. BAA’, B2, BOX, F L above 2 C, P; JC; JS; JIO; JCCO: JFK; JFM; JBE; JWS: CPB FL2 FP'.FH, FLF, CWP, CR above OW, KTZ; KS: KZ: J 1C; KU over \Y: LD3; L & E- F L above 5 C, ('HAS, F L above IF C, G B '"“i LAY: PD: LX IS: LAP: PC: PH J; BSE; BX above 3 C, F L above 0 C, DH above H2, 11 plus H P>VAT, PAIR. DW above H3, ED, FRW, liqulf'llllfl; AFC: ill;'41: W.J over If: 111 over PM3;DAN; ll IX over-1:2.1: j»m2: vase; Cl 8 in an octagon, 7R; HIX over 1; \ \l, ■ rr-.v,: N | C: 166;CECIL; t: ME2:.TO u: fit,arts: P< • " ci . above 2, 1 plus M, J | U, ZJ, .it's, Jun, TS; ('HAS; ten pointed 's»?i mvl’: n."|;t. lhvn. JBK, KTZ, l.,vr. LDE, LM above C, MLS, ME2, 235, FAY, C L over 4 C, 7x7, b2, speetatles, um¬ M above LY, ME5, Lour N in cross, OX over 5, brella. AY, K ill a circle, E, CPU, li.MIl. mI.Y. OK. OX above 2, OIL. PM, PMH, PM3, PZP And* 1 * * * 5 the said boards and sawed lumber being over », PMO, KB above M, R&H, 2R Rd above .in quantity, number and quality as follows, to CW, S T above H, 8, SUN, SINT, SXB, TBW, wit: Estimated at about two thousand live W x. VAL, WIT, W above B, W in a circle, hundred feet, composed of pine of good quali¬ W5T, XoEP, WJ above B, XX, 77, 64 3 in a ty, and hemlock of average quality, bearing evi¬ square, 3R, .!'. 5R,'8R, M in circle, 5E5, 79 phis, dences of marks before being sawed not clearly 10 over IK, 5 over 20, I | 7, 2 In heart, 5 in square, decipherable. 33, pins sign with bars on ends of horizontal There are several characters used in the line. H in heart, clover leaf, hatchet, £, HX in “marks” which could not readily lie defined, curved horizontal lines, E on each side of a .but an outline of the same appears upon my triangle, 3 pointed arrow in -s, 111 in circle, docket. The above information was lodged, heart, K in circle, HIX o.ver I, plus Sign with with me and sworn to and entered in full upon half circle upon each extremity, five pointed my docket on the 25th day of June, A. D. 1889. star, spectacles, * pick-axe, arrow, umbrella, Witness my hand and seal at Upper Augusta heart with figure 1 in it, M in a basket, three township, Northumberland county, Pa,, this short lines radiating from a common point and 26th day of June, A. D. 1889. a having a half circle upon each extremity, S in a IRA SHIPMAN, J. 1*. [r-s.j hexagon, J with line crossing middle-part, gov¬ Notice of Saw-foss and Lnmber, todsfd ernors, ten pointed star, plus sign in a circle, hoot, top in a circle, J over M in a half circle, ami Taken Tip ill tlie River Susque¬ figure 8 with horizontal line across middle, hanna. WinC OIS, Q.&T, EY&Co, WT, crossed arrows, n Notice is hereby given to the owners and 1R, KAY, LD over CO, 8, ECIL, A plus D, DUD, others concerned that a list of saw-logs which A over 2, ED3, HIX over 1. HIX over 1, HJ came loosely floating down the River Susque¬ over 3, lij over KY over NW, N | C, PLCo, 4, hanna, between the town of Northumberland PO over TS, HIX over 3, 7 plus 7, six pointed and the line of the State of Maryland, which star BO over AC, BMI;CEB; bottle;!' over DY; were not rafted together nor under the pilotage BO over AZ: C m a, circle; double Arrow, loft; or control of men, lodged on Clarks Island in JOK; ARC; DE over J4; BERY: 10 in a circle; Lower Augusta township, Northumberland Co., MLS; anchor; PM7; 166; PM2;DAN:SH; 5 in a Pa.: that said island belonged to Ja_eoli Wag¬ circle; KZ: CECIL; 2J; OX oyer 2; W plfiS.H: ner, how deceased, who before he died leased ,TC; HIX over 4; balloon; A plus D:. H oxer-tili^,- the satire to Carle A. Rarre.tp and Geo. W. Ster¬ ICS; INI; HIX in curved horizontal lines; WB; ner for one year. ftom the first day of April, RJ over CW; R in a receiver. 1889 and the said island now belongs to Mrs. And the said boards and sawed lumber being | Ellen Vfagnpr ; that said saw logs lodged on in "quantity, number and quality as follows, to | sfihl island and were taken up by Cane A. Bar¬ wit: Estimated at about fifty thousand feet, rett and George W. Sterner on the first and coinnosed of pine of good quality, and hemlock second days of June, A. D., 1889 ; that said list of average quality bearing evidences of marks of saw-logs was lodged with me by Carie A. Bar¬ before being sawed, not clearly decipherable. rett and George W. Sterner who subscribed the There are several characters used in the same and was sworn to by Carie A. Barrett, “marks” which could not readily he defined, and was entered upon my docket the 24th day hut an outline of the same appears upon my of June, 1889. There are about six hundred and docket. The above information was lodged two saw-logs, more or less, of good quality each with me and sworn to and entered upon niy of which bear one or the other of the following docket on the 25th day of June, A. D. 1889. marks, viz: CE, JBE, PAH, SH CWP B DF Witness my hand and seal at Upper Augusta EDS &J, CP, hatchet B, BXS, R B over M, W J township, Northumberland county. Pa., this over B, SVN, SXB, EP, LC, ML2,Z over XI, 2 in 26tli day of June, A. D. 1889. heart, A T, S IC P, Iv in circle, H 2, DAN, H 3, ' . IRA SHIPMAN, J. P. [J..S.] snow flake, umbrella, W W W, M E 3, scales, R Z H, I K, A R T, C R over OW.FA Y, spec¬ Not ice to tlie Owners of Saw-logs, Sawed tacles, J X O, clover leaf, L & F, M E 3, V A L, lumber, that, lodged upon and . Xo E P, 4 R, J I C, J P S, O K, P W X, X T Z, lias been fallen up on Kramer’s 5 bar in a circle, octagon, 5 R, H J, P w x, 1 slaiwl in the Susquehanna, X I H over 2, C over 5, Pup, Bay, B & P, heart, ■ 1 P O D X H, 3 Ys, 1 in a heart, E L W, HI X below the Shambkin Dam, in pursuance of the over 2 F V & G, S, R, X 64, 4 over H J, heart Act of Assembly approved the 20th day of with H in it, 7 X 7, P V M, 5 over 20, box with March, 1812, and the several supplements there-, 5 in it, E P 3, 4—-i —< — 2 B, s a w, I E 3, 2 J, W J over B, W X H, 5 D, R O over S T. X. to, relating to “The taking up lumber in the SI N T, L D over X C Z and others. rivers Susquehanna and Lehigh and their Notice is also hereby given to tlie owners anil branches. others concerned that a list Vi sawed lumber, to wit: boards, plank, juice, roofing lath, plas¬ Notice is hereby given that Silas Kramer has tering lath, palings and other sawed lumber >e made information and lodged the same with which came floating down the river Susque¬ me, that he has taken up and into his custody hanna was lodged with me by Carie A. Barrett saw-logs, timber, boards and lumber, which on and George W. Sterner, a justice of the peace t.lie first, and second days of June, A. D. 18S9, in and for Lower Augusta township, Northum¬ rl floated drwn the Susquehanna river, not under berland county. Pa., where said lumber lodged j the control or pilotage of any person or persons, and was taken up bv Carie A. Barrett and -‘j or rafted together and under such control or George W. Sterner, the lessees as aforesaid of .! pilotage, and lodged upon his Island, land and said island on the first and second days of June, t premises, situate in the said river and county 1SS9 ; that said island is situated in Lower Au¬ ' and located about ooe-half mile below the Slia- gusta township, Northumberland county, Pa, mokin Dam, in the township of Upper Augusta, That there are about two thousand feet of county and State aforesaid, the said saw-logs boards, plank and joice; seven hundred feet and Umber bearing the marks, and being in roofing lath; eleven hundred plastering lath number, quantity and quality as follows, to wit: and forty palings and are all of good quality. Two thousand saw-logs and squared timber,esti¬ This lumber bears no visible or iutclligable mated, consisting principally of hemlock, some r that said lumber is now lodged and white pine, oaks and other hard woods, esti¬ marks mated to contain about 300,000 feet of good -WfiAteitefihp as aforesaid. Witness' my hand and Peal at, my ofl.ccni, average quality, bearing tire following marks : ■f 1 T.IVWOV AAtsnisH tcvwnsuq*,^ qrthunvbeiland ( o., SXB: ED3; double arrow; CR over O W; PMT; ,vA •>•/•.* iff™* A "IV 185$.. plus sign with bars oil horizontal line; 64; DUD; P., llu S.} J I C; 33; DH over H2: XX; SUN; S T over H; SIN; GwP; S; BOX; 1 in a heart; L&F; SIN J, STRAY 1.068. plus sign in a circle; W5T; mE3; B&P; three short straight lines crossing each other at a List i common point; OK; OX ever 5; W plus H: p plus queliaunat, H; RBm; W4T; I plus M; DVM. OIL; XE1; C L over 3 C; BAY; M in a half circle; FRw; HJ4; four N in a cross; plus sign with semicircle upon the extremity of each line; 3 in a square; • A , 5 in a square; Z with horizontal

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San Domingo or Susie islands, in Lower Aug¬ STotice to tlic Owners of Saw-Togs ami usta township, Northumberland county. Pa., Sawed T.miilier Taken lip and Lodged and were lodged and taken up by George P. Fisher and Susan Fisher, they being the owners on (lie Islands in tlie Susqnelianna of said islands, on tlie first and second days of River. June, 1889; that said logs are now where they i Notice is hereby given to the owners and lodged and were taken up; that said saw-logs others concerned, "that a list of saw-logs was were loosely floating in said river and were not lodged with me by George P. Fislier and Mrs. rafted together, nor under the pilotage and con¬ Susan Fisher, and entered by me on my docket trol of men. There are about tour thousand of that came loosely floating down the River Sus¬ these logs so lodged and taken up; that each one quehanna. between the town of Northumber¬ of these logs hear one or the other of the fol¬ land and the line of the State of Maryland, and lowing marks (some of them have no marks), lodged on Big or Hawks, Ducks Harbor and and are of good quality, viz.: 2J, ME2, DVM,

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M_ 3 up by them ; that said list of lumber lodged on i i 2R, OIL, 166, SUN, MF3 CECIL PM2, CWP, Bi»- or Hawks, Pucks Harbor and San Domin¬ PM I slNT, BOX, 7X7, \AIi, KrZ, go islands, and was taken up by George P. DUD, SXB, PoB. B&P, ED3, RJ. KS, %k, AN Fisher and Mrs. Susan Fisher, the owners of nip DR"VV 5E5 CVD, CPK, CIL, L&b, LD3, said islands, on the first and second days ot Jline F\Y BAY7R18f, S, FD3.L8F, HJ3, XLH, 1889 which islands ars situated in Lower Au¬ ATF'l'P&H. 'AT WB 79, 77. H&R, WO, EDS, gusta township, Northumberland county, la.; 97 DBB B'2 CL B&E, 64, 2HV, E&P, 06, HB,33, - that there are about ten thousand feet ot such 1 SWP OHAS,BOX, OK,W4T,JBE,tAN,JPS. lumber and of good quality ; this lumber bears Notice is also hereby given to the owners,anil no visible and intelligible marks; that said linn- others concerned that a list of sawed lumber, ber is now where it lodged and was taken up. L such as boards,' scantling, plank, plastering and Witness my hand and seal at Lower Augusta I roofing lath, palings and other saweu lumber, township, Northumberland county, Fa., tlus| which came loosely floating down tire Kivei 22d day of June, A. Df, ^ p ^ g Susquehanna was lodged with me by George P. Fislier and Mrs. Susan Fisher and was taken

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John R. Kauffman and lodged and were taken! ME2; dvm; xep; fd: cd&ow; rb&m; hxd; edS; up by him on the first and second days of June, I bar; 166; pnri; wit: c; r&h; pz; cwp; vas; the; ebb; 18'89: there are about five thousand feet of such I sxb; xih; 33; ibe; 5edb; dxh; val; cvp; cpr; b&pj sound lumber of go>od quality; that said lumber! hix; l&f: tr; ed; box; exs; cpb; s; cec; ok;me; f; r; hears no visible or intelligible marks; said lum¬ dud; sain; ch; bk; wij;sint; dxh; 2j; 7r; Cecil; ol; ber is now most of it where it lodged and was | 2ri; oil; bav; dum; hi; 5e5; p0p; £; aU ami others. List of lumber taken up and lodged on the is¬ taken up as aforesaid. John R. Kauffman being duly sworn says that lands of John R. Kauffman in the Susquehanna the facts and circumstances set forth in the river such as boards, scantling, plank, plastci- above and foregoing are true and correct to the! ingdath, nailing, roofing lath and other sound liest of his knowledge and belief. lumber which came loosely floating down th Sworn and subscribed before me this 2oth ua> river; that said lumber« lodged v...on TomnyI andI of June, 1889. I. J. Renk, J. I’., [ms] Woodlingislandsw oounug isuuiiB «,in LowerT AugustaA” township, Northumberland county, Penn a, belonging ta m SPIT T jsmS&k j/ : 4 Upper Auugusta township, owned hy A trick, per■ K. C. Fiss, agent, E. T. Hettrick, T. J. Hettrick and Mrs H. V. Fryling, in t lie ttocdl of .Tune l and 2,1888. (1,000 logs, more or less,! composed of the following'marks, viz.: PUB

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■At, Bay, HJ, S, SR, aa, JBE, WAT, 4R, C!T, and sworn to and entered by me on my docket i ami various others. Also 200,000 feet, more or in, the Borough of Sunbury on the 22il day of less of sawed lumber, consisting of white pine dune, 1889. and hemlock boards, scantling, joists, lath and Witness my hand and seal at the borough quare timber. aforesaid in my office this 22il (lav of June 1889 The above information was lodged with, me A. NT. BRICK, .1. !>. [L, s.J ~ove^ owpiroail ;ixe; pick axe; Day; ktz: Ico; jic; STRAY LO^S, box; jal; pm; four N on plus sign, shoe tongues; fun; J liix, ia over co; clias: rs; po over ts; re over pt; m ii\ last of logs caught and captured floating loose circle; jhe; eds: dxli 2 over b&p ape; umbrella; xeyi: I on the river Susquehanna in Bower Mahanov live point *; fy&z: c&p; Cecil; barrel h in heart; ok; township, Northumberland county, Penn’a bv oiuO; h arrow p; be over ac and others. i ,! loon0?—1>8 marks, viz: cw; h in heart: pm2; liix; ed; tc: day of June, 1889. ,, , Witness my hand iiiyj seal at Lower Malianoy ;,ll8: ’! . *> Jke; o; xieip; four n’s on cross; township, Northuiriherlaiiil county, Pa., this 27tli ¥ 111 l^cart; o pointed ;f; s; rt; bπ cwp; 77; 1)2; dav Of .June. A. I *. 1889. ' 'S i pointed arrow; po over t.s; bp; pm; 38; bs: co 1 B. M. BUBB, J. P. Ct.S.l nVfiV olme. ml... 01,4. __'i nr. ’ i STRAY LOtlS; Xotice is ■ hereby given to tlie owners ; w.i over 1>; ee over ci; ee: fc; bottle; .'! in square; ox; wj; o in square: hj over J; mp7; xf; that'tlie following' list and marks of logs dw over ic; mi: square: ell: mi over li: 8p: sun: caught' and captured floating loose on the imj: sxb: bs: 8r: et.8: cwt: h: p over v: dii over li2 Susquehanna river, ip flower Mahanoy hd: 2i: fcvtco: far: Setfesi: h2: llc2: at: 5c: cecil: ixl : 4r: lr: 2r: bxs j xyp; (isold-nry) :• barrel: w5t township, Northumberland county, Pa., and others. 1 hy John II. Seagfist, June 1st, 2d apj[ The above information was lodged with me 3d, 1889,numbering 102 logs, eontainik* and sworn to and entered in full on mv docket on the 33th day of June, 1889. Witnessmyhand and hearing the following marks ; PM, Una seal in Lower Malianoy township, North¬ FRW, K in circle, JBE, 1 R, 2 R, 3 R, 4 umberland county, Penn’a, this 25tli day of ,R, 5 R, 7 R, II with stroke across hwb June A. I). 1,889. B. AI. Bubb, J. P. [L.s.j i m zontal line, B2, II with I over 1L lx, M, STRAY lobs. HJ, H.TT, L over c c and >„ SjtNT, B&P, List qf nyirks mnl number of logs lodged on Tim- ME2, heart, 1 over hwt, one in heart, I j o}hy, Briar and Miller lsland8 in the Susquehanna river opposite tfeorgetown inLowyr Malianoy town¬ S&B, three no/mted, arrow, APO, OX with | ship, Northumberland Co., Pa., by David wait, in line under, RlX in square, LWP, B&P, 1 the Hood of Junel anil 2, 1889. 1,419 logs more or less composed of the following marks: heart: OIL: RB pycf M, 2.T, RMO, 4 in circle, Wj oyey 1 : Pm2: t: CPB: Pm3HJ over 8; 5 over OX; S4: 77; R IIJ, OIL, LXL, 33, F. 3 in hox B over ME3: CLC over 5;plus sign with barsacaosshorizon- tal line; WJ over B; Hj: plus sign in circle;me2; four fopr NNNNs, R&II, HYP, L over OO and D, L over CO, fhw strokes in circle, 64, i WJ ( PMB, 2 l.h hcM't, 4 in heart, 8 in circle, over 4; dh over li2; dvm; cwp: C'lc over 4: four'1 IQ Qj qjl'pie, VI over LY, RJ over CW,W5, plus sign; n over L S; cross arrows: 1 1 7-; Box; 1 in heart; DUD; L&fr Pm; m2; 33: N ! N; li, w4t; 8 in INI, spectacles, *, and other marks. circle; ed; K in circle: LHL; time;'spectacles;snow- The above information was lodged with flake; cli.a: bottle; ra on basket; 1 over liix; sint; in over IK; 10 in circle; tilt; dan: as ;h in calabash;;", I i,id and sworn to and entered in full upoi\^| m circle: eil3: 5,e5; i!j: 2 in heart: 3 over liix: LHu r&s; fhw: lit: Hid: pm I, 111 in circle: b&p; 7X8- cr my docket on the 27th day of June, , Witness my hand and seal in Rcywer Ma¬ hanoy township, Nortluunbv\Hand county, j Pa. this 27th day of pone, A. H. 1889. B. Mj,_ BUBB, J. P, Lb. s.i ' I STRAY LOUS. List o! saw-logs captured and caught by Abraham Adams, in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, Pa., containing or bearing the following marks, viz. : Lc, DXH, 5R, .€, CRB, AXD, SXB, 10s over IK, clover leaf, B1I, H2, POTS, un heart, 77, RB over M, VAL, CWP, MLB, four point arrow, 5E5, 2R, DY, ME, IRS, per E5, over LO, S, 10, ML2, RB over PM, CD WO, RM, HJ over 8, S, three strokes in circle, EDO, EPB, 2J, XIH over 3, PM2, TIIIO, X0EP, L over CC 3 under, 4R, 79. SUN, L0D3, umbrella, W4T, BAY, 79i, L over CC 5 under, LHL, WJ over B'J OIL, OR, EP, AT, ML, JIG, MB over M, LH-t, JHJ, HIX over 2, PM, 3 in square, R&H, 160, RR, WXH, HJ4, Mffl, 79, JBE, 33, B&P, PY&Co, NYN, AXD, 5 in a square, OK, CMP, W5L, B2, WST, CUP, PXQ, LIO, 1 in a heart, NIM, HJ, C0o5, BIC, HJ over 4, IXN, SH, 2 in a heart, XIH, XI, H in heart, three, short lines starting from a certain point with half circle cvn each end, H in pear, 4HI, D over II?., T over 11 S, 5R, J, 31c, 7R, K in * circle, 35L, 3H, 3H.1, P, EP, UH, Ytt, spectacles, three parallel lines with one horizontal across middle, WxJ over B, BOH, CIIAS, BOP, DNR, CR over OW, * PMS, CECIL, 7X7, 16, CL over 9nc, ER W, hatehet with 3 on blade, OX over 2, 04, H in C, CLC over D, BO over AZ, DH over H2, ED3, 2 in heort, RB over M, H in circle, A over 2, ME2, CC | over D, R under half circle, plus mark in circle, EL, PMX, N over 0, PWP, IE2, L over CC 3 under, WM, BK, and others, there being 138 logs, more oi; less. C/5 Northumberland Comity, ss. Abraham Adams, after being' duly- Following is a brief sketch °f sworn, says fbat the above and foregoing Georce A Dodd, formerly of Lycoming list of saw logs and the facts and circum¬ county, who was wounded while brave¬ stances set forth in said list are true, andl ly leading his troop at the batt correct to the. best of his knowledge aaidl Juan, Cuba, recently: belief ABRAHAM AD AMP;. Captain Dodd was borh ff Sworn and subscribed before roe She* !XrVanyd Emily Dodd.e Artery, 27th day of June, 188&, competitive exami military B. M. BUBIY the appointment to West ^oi grad_ academy m June, ■- ^ commls- uated June 14, 1?‘\ano„+ ,n the Third sioned a second '^‘““ ^te June 15, United States cavalrjr, _ t lieu_ iRTfi He was advanced to n tenant in the same regiment i e . ^ 1880, and to captain Aug. 31, 1889. He ■ v,- has been constantly in active^ \ith | cepting- foy^ojears be^inn October, 1888, wnen ne hlch he ing detail at Philadelphia, ired

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A—Brass Circle. B-Arms at right angles to each o.her.^ -fourth inch in diameter. . q—Circular bole one acknowledging their obligations to in active duty against hostile Apaches, Captain Dodd for the valuable assist¬ Among the fights and campaigns in ance which he had rendered to the civil which he participated were the defeat authorities in preserving the public of the Southern Cheyennes in the fight peace in time of excitement and dis¬ of the Big Horn, .Nov. 23, 1876; cam¬ order, and in protecting their people paign against Chief Joseph’s band of from violence and abuse, a copy of res¬ hostile Nez Perces in 1877; actions with olutions passed being sent to the sec- hostile Cheyennes in 1879; the expedi¬ retary of war. tion for the rescue of Major Thorn¬ He returned to Fort Riley, being sta¬ burg’s command on White river, Col., tioned there at the time of Chicago's in 1S79; against the Ute In- i| riot in 1894. He was ordered from Fort dlans in western Colorado in 1880; [ Riley, to participate in restoring order the engagement of Big Wash of J in Chicago, where it will be remember¬ Chevelou’s Fork, Arizona, .July 17, 1882, ed that while in command of Battery when the Indians were badly defeated; F, Second artillery, and several troops against Geronimo’s and other bands of of cavalry, while on exercise march, an hostile Apaches during 1883. ; <¥3ilosionof a. caisson caused the death He commanded a troop and the post i of a number of soldiers and gre«- de¬ at Fort Hancock, Texas. From Fort struction of property, on Grand Boule¬ Hancock he was ordered to Fort Riley, vard, July 16, 1894. The cause of ex¬ 'ICansas, from where he was sent with plosion was a defective fuse. The Sun his troops to Oklahoma, to aid in open- t giving a full description of the accident ing the Cherokee strip, he having com- 1 at the time. While at Chicago he gave mand of the troops stationed in County several exhibition cavalry drills at Fort “L,” at Pond Creek, from Sept. 16, un¬ Sheridan, which was the beginning of til Nov. 25, 1893. Upon his departure bringing his troop, by their daring from Oklahoma strong resolutions were feats, into public prominence. passed at a mass meeting of the citi¬ Captain Dodd took up the idea of zens of Pond Creek and County “L,” training the horses and men in 18B8; and since that time has made the sub¬ the effect gib ject a specialty. For the purpose of As a citizen Lieutenant Dodd was pos¬ •learning all that could be known on the sessed of a high sense of honor, justice subject it is believed is what led Secre¬ and integrity. As a soldier he was tary of War Lam on t to send Captain brave and generous to a fault, showing Vxi Dodd abroad in 1895, where he visited an utter disregard of danger in action the various foreign countries to fa¬ and fighting for country and principle miliarize himself with all their cavalry rather than for advancement and self- tactics. As a result of his efforts ' aggrandizement. Troop F is today regarded as the best drilled body of horsemen in the United RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS. States cavalry. Every trooper is a The following resolutions were adopt¬ skilled rider and the body executes its ed at a meeting of citizens of Pond manoeuvres and tactics with a.unanim¬ Creek, Oklahoma, upon the departure ity that is perfectly amazing. It is of Captain Dodd for Fort Riley: said bv army officers who have seen Whereas, From every other county in these drills, that there is not a body of the Cherokee Outlet are to be heard cavalry in the world that will show a violent denunciations of the several better drill than Captain Dodd has companies of soldiers who were respec¬ shown with Troop F. and that there is tively in charge thereat; and, not another troop in the world that will Whereas, The shadow of a general perform the f^ats the men of that com¬ denunciation may fall upon Capt. G. A. mand do, and none have attempted it. Dodd, who since the 16th day of Sept, Captain Dodd has been stationed at until the 25th day of Nov., 1893, has Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., since October, ; been in command of the troops sta¬ 1894, until he was ordered with his regi¬ tioned in County “L;” and, ment, the Third cavalry, to Cuba. He Whereas, The entire people of Coun- left Tampa bay June 13 on board the i tq “L” singularly and collectively steamship R[o Grande, arriving near recognize in Capt. G. A. Dodd, not only Baiquiri. Cuba, about ten days later, the chivalrous soldier, but also the and after landing proceeded at once in higher character of a manly and val¬ the movement against San Juan, where ued friend, and entertain for him the he was wounded. warmest admiration and respect; and. While stationed at Fort Ethan Allen Whereas, They have for him , his he was for some time in command of Lieutenant, and his troop, only recol that post. Owing to the many calls lections and words of commendation, upon the war department for Captain and kindness, therefore, be it resolved, Dodd and his troop to participate in First, that we are pleased toacknowl- different charitable entertainments he edge our obligations to Capt. G. A. was for a time released from post duty Dodd for the valuable assistance which in order that he might respond to some he has rendered to the civil authorities of the calls. Last year he and his of our county in preserving the public troop made a march from Fort Ethan peace in time of excitement and disor¬ Allen, Vt., to Bangor, Me., giving ex¬ der, and in protecting cur people from hibition drills as per order of the war violence and abuse; department in different cities in Ver¬ Second, That we regret that he and mont, and Maine. It his company cannot remain longer with , will be remembered that Captain us and receive more substantial proof I Dodd’s troop was, the_only_troop of of the high regard in which they are United Stales cavalry selected to par¬ universally held. ticipate in the military tournament at Third, That we sincerely trust that Madison Square Garden, New York the misunderstandings which have oc¬ city, which was given for the benefit curred between the military authorities of the New York State National Guard and the people of the other counties of hospital, and which was a grand suc¬ the Outlet may in no way militate cess, there being over fifteen thousand against or reflect upon Capt. G. A. dollars raised during the week’s enter¬ Dodd and his troop, and tainment. Fourth, That those concerned in the SON OF A SOLDIER. passage of these resolutions subscribe a copy of the same for transmission to Captain George Dodd is the son of Capt. G. A. Dodd at his home in Fort Alien Grinned Dodd, who entered the Riley and to General Miles, and the war of the rebellion in 1862, responding 1 Secretary of War. to a call of Governor Curtin for volun¬ 1 [Signed.] R. M. Harrison, teers at about the time of Lee’s first i Chairman. invasion of Pennsylvania. He remain¬ [Signed.] W. H. Nelson. ed continuously on duty with the One Secretary. Hundred and Seventy-seventh Penn¬ sylvania Volunteers until honorably INVENTED A RANGE FINDER. mustered out of service with his regi¬ In 1877, one year after Capt. Dodd ment in August, 1863. In August, 1864, graduated from West Point, he origin¬ he again entered the service as first ated a range finder almost identical in lieutenant of Company I, Two Hundred construction with those now in use in and Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers. the army and navy. He was at that He participated with this command, time at Camp Cheyenne, W. T., and was j then a part of the Ninth army corps, unable to procure the material from in all the campaigns and fights in which to make an instrument and was which it was engaged up to April 2, compelled to abandon it. Since then 1865, on which day he was mortally the range finder has been invented by wounded while leading a battalion in a other persons and is now a most valu¬ gallant charge on the enemy’s works in able adjunct to gunnery on land and front of Petersburg, Va., dying" from Capt. Dodd’s description of his idea of a range finder and a sketch of the same accompany this article. It will be seen that Capt. Dodd’s idea was a most practical one and had he been able to procure a model his inven¬ tion would have superseded by many . years the range finder now in use. DESCRIPTION. The circle A is to be made of brass plate about % or 1-12 of an inch in thickness, % preferable, with the dimensions indicated in the figure, and to be graduated into degrees, minutes and seconds, in such a manner that the zero of the graduation shall be at the extremity of one of the arms at B. On the outer edge of the circle and direct- . ly opposite the zero of the scale a two¬ pronged spring is to be attached of such a shape that it can be placed in the muzzle of a gun and of such strength that it will support the weight of the circle and telescope hereafter described. The length of this spring will be 1% inches and the distance be¬ tween the two branches such that when i>az compressed it will measure a little less that 45 inches from tip to tip. A small telescope 5 or 6 inches in length and not over Vz inch in diameter, of sufficient strength to clearly define objects at a distance of 2,000 yards is necessary. The field glass is to be crossed by fine spider lines intersecting each other in the axis of the band of the telescope. One line is to be in the horizontal and the other in the vertical axis of the telescope. At a distance of 2 inches from the field end of the tele¬ scope and on the outside of the barrel will be placed a c-ylindrically shaped arm of !4 inch in diameter and % inch in length, said arm to be inserted in the circular hole O of the brass circle A. The arm is to act as a pivot, about which the telescope will revolve, with the axis of the barrel of the telescope perfectly parallel to the face of the cir¬ cle, motion be given to the band by means of a thumb screw placed on the side directly opposite the arm or pivot. On the barrel and near the field glass will’be attached a pointer or indicator, so placed that a vertical plane contain¬ ing the axis of the telescope will con¬ tain the pointer and likewise the fig¬ ure indicated on the circle. If a clamp screw can be placed either at the point¬ er or at the pivot so that the telescope can be clamped in any particular posi¬ tion on the circle, it is desirable. These are to be constructed with the greatest care and accuracy. If possible the parts will be of the dimensions indicated. The telescope may be somewhat larger. MAY BE PROMOTED. Capt. Dodd’s friends are endeavoring to secure promotion for the brave of¬ ficer. The government recognizes his fitness to command anything from a, company to a brigade and it is prob¬ able that the captain will be made a lieutenant colonel or a major. Con¬ gressman Packer, of this district. Is in¬ teresting himself in Captain Dodd half at the war department and cutive mansion.