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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-02-11

Smith d Fleisher, mating, dc. ~ 02
j. w. Williamson, spittoons..... 10 90
" J. A. McCrosky, wind'g clock, 10 90
G. Spahr, stove and repairing, % IL
" q. A. Roush g. Bro. cabinet
making ........ ......... ,.,, \ o5
" David Clouser, putting down
mating ..-;;... ...:.... ..... . 90
" III. q. CAN'T, wood and pine. 3 90
j. Fenstemaker, water pitch.
er, etc. ......... ......... ...... ~
4" Ed. Clouser, carpenter work.. 60
Total" 49,. .... osi OF
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-02-11

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WE, the undersigned, Commissioners of
Perry County, Pa, do certify that the FORE
going statement of the Indebtedness of Perry
county, IS correct to the best Of our knowl-
edge and belief
Witness our hands the 18th day of January,
1879.
HENRY SHUMAKER,
JOHN w. CHARLES,
j. w. CAN'T,
Commissioners
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
Why He Didn't 90 to the Circus
Oil City Derrick.

II say, John, did we see the circus?"
yelled little boy to another last even
ing.
"No-o-o, l didn't see the circusl"
sneeringly said John, who had been
kept in the house for disobedience.
"Humph! Ought to been there;
biggest show you ever seed; elefant, and
carmels, and boa contwisters, and
everything. If [ could't 60 to circus
I'd run away"
"Who wants to go to yer old circus?"
yelled John. II had circus all to my
self. Tied the milk pitcher to the cats
tail, and the cat knocked down two
fower-pots, and smashed the pitcher,
and broke pane of glass. Git away
wild your old circuses; been to more'n
four hundred, an didn't have so much
fun; an didn't get licked nuther;" and
the boy who had been to the circus felt
as if he'd got hold of the castor-oil bot
tie by mistake.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
Tampa (Ga.) Guardian.

Some three years ago a colored boy,
TOUR years old, the child of Rliza Spots
wood, living on the west side of the
Hillsborough river, near Rocky Creek,
wandered away from home and was
lost. A thorough search was made tor
several days afterwards, but in vain was
the search, and it was finally eonclud
ed that the child had been devoured by
alligators, until last week, while Charley
Allen, a colored man, who lives in that
settlement, was out cow-hunting, when
he came upon herd of cattle and dis
covered boy following along among
them, with his body covered with hair
So soon as the cattle became aware that
the hunter was approaching they broke
off towards a hammock, near by, and
the wild boy went jumping and leaping
along with them. We learn that
party went out on last Saturday to look
for the child and discovered his tracks
in several places, but up to the, writing
of this he had not been captured. It
seems almost incredible to believe that
a human-being could subsist so long in
the wild woods without clothes, shelter
and food, but Allen says it is the same
child.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
Sunday liz the London Parks.

1t is proposed to allow the sale of tea,
coffee, and other drinks Of non-intoxi-
eating nature in the London parks on
Sundays. An English journalist thinks
that London is as well provided with
parks as is any other city in Europe.
The regents park is as far superior to
the champs ell ysees as are the champ
elysees themselves to the grand park at
Brussels" He apprehends "no danger
of the continental Sunday if we allow
iced water at a halfpenny the glass, and
tea at a penny the cup, to be sold in
the regents park. 1t is in the regents
park on Sunday afternoon that the true
geois and onvrier life Of London shows it.
SELF" The first commissioner of public
works has been appealed to by depu-
tation who asked also that the sale of
tobacco might be permitted. With re-
gard to that @'all he could say was that
as most people took their pipes into
the parks he could not see why they
should not have the wherewithal to
charge them"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
FOOliSh.

To think the more man eats the
fatter and stronger he will become.
To believe that the more hours child
rem study the faster they will learn.
To conclude that if exercise is good,
the more violent it is, the more good
is done.
To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.
To act on the presumption that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in.
To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately better is
good for the system without regard to
Interior effects.
To eat without an appetite, or to con-
tinue to eat after it has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste.
To eat a hearty supper for the pleas
ure experienced during the brief time
it is passing down the throat at the ex-
pense of a whole night of disturbed
sleep, and a weary waking in the
morning.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
An Educated Cat,

This story is told by a Michigan cor
respondent Of the Chicago Inter Ocean:
Educated dogs, educated hogs, educated
horses, and even educated mice, have
had their intelligence paraded before
the public. But we do not remember
having read of an intelligent, cultivated
cat, one that could understand and re-
peat (of course very brokenly) the En-
glish language. The following case is
of such unusual occurrence that we
have taken pains to verify the rumor.
A little daughter Of W. II. King, o
West Kalamo, Barry county, has cat,
or large kitten, which has been taught
to repeat poetry or prose after the read
ing of the little miss. Placing the cat
facing her, the little girl will repeat
word, when the cat will repeat it after
her by a series Of news, one NEW for
word of one syllable, two news for two
syllables, etc. 1t is very interesting to
sit and listen to the little miss and the
mews-ical of the intelligent feline, who
seems to be proud Of and realize its
Importance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
A Great Orchard.
Rural Home.

The largest orchard in the world is
doubtless that owned and worked very
successfully by Mr.. Robert McKinstry,
of Hudson, Columbia county, N. Y.
The orchard is situated ON the east
bank of the Hudson river, on high,
rolling table land, and contains more
than $4,000 apple trees, LOO pears, f.
600 cherries, 500 peaches, 200 plums,
200 crabs, 1,500 vines, 5000 currants,
and 200 chestnuts. The varieties
grown are Rhode Island Greening, T.
900; Baldwins, 5000; King OF Temp
kins, county, 1000; Astrachans, 800;
Northern Spy, 500; Wagner, 500; Ora
venste Elm, 400: Cranberry Pippins, 200;
Ben Davis, 200; Duchess of Oldenburg,
200; with Jonathans, Hubbardstons,
Cayugas. Vanderveers, Pearmains,
Peck's Peasants, twenty-ounce Pip
pins, Russets, and others in less lum-
Der.
The pears are Bartlett, B. d'Anjou,
Sheldon, Seckel, and Lawrence chiefly.
Of cherries there are twenty-eight
varieties. The orchards are remarka-
bly, thrifty, and the oldest trees are
about twenty years old. The soil is
dry, rolling gravel, with some limestone;
the trees are planted twenty feet apart,
and DO not by any means seem to be
crowded. The ground is low; except
when thought advisable, it is seeded to
clover. The orchard is intersected by
roads over six miles in length for the
passage of wagons, and is bounded by
continuous row of apple-trees, set
ten feet apart, for four miles and half.
The apple crop of last year is 10000
barrels. Twenty-four men and four
teen horses are employed hauling out
the crop, or in blowing,
The success of this orchard has not
been achieved, nor is it maintained,
without the closest supervision and
most industrious work. Suckers and
sprouts are removed as soon as seen;
the borers are watched and followed
with vigor. Wires were used to reach
them in their burrows, and the
damaged bark is removed with chisels.
AS trees fall, others are planted in their
places.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
Keep Home Matters Private.

Preserve the privacy of your house.
marriage state, heart, from father,
mother, sister, brother, aunt. and all the
world. You too, with Gods help, build
your own quiet world; every third or
fourth one you draw into it with you
will form a party and stand between
you two. That should never be.
Promise this to each other. Renew the
VOW at each temptation; you will find
your account in it. Your souls will
grow, as it were, together, and at last
they will become as one. All, If many
a young pair had on their wedding day
known this secret, how many mar
riages were happier than, alas! they
are.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
Is 1t Haunted!
New York Herald.

The residents of the little village of
Graniteville, Staten Island, are greatly
exercised over what is said to be
haunted house in their midst. The
residence, fine looking old structure,
village, was until lately occupied by the
family of Mr.. David Decker. The
room over the kitchen, which was occu-
pied by Mr.. Decker's daughters as
bed-chamber, is the room In which the
supernatural incidents are said to have
occurred. The family had occupied
the house only short time when the
young ladies complained Of queer
noises and strange movements in their
room, commencing about midnight and
continuing until about 2 o'clock in the
morning. Mr.. Decker laughed at the
statements made by his daughters, and
told them it was clear imagination. A
few days afterwards the girls again ap-
pealed to their father, telling him they
would rot enter the room at night again
under any circumstances. They said
they could not sleep owing to the fur
niture being moved about the room,
and even their bed being lifted from the
floor. Mr.. Decker concluded to inves-
tigate the matter, and in company with
Captain George Wood and several other
neighbors, all of whom are members of
the old Baptist Church in the village,
spent night in the mysterious room.
They said they had experienced enough
to substantiate the statements made by
the girls, and Mr.. Decker concluded to
vacate the premises, which he did.
Captain Wood, in speaking of his nights
experience in the room, declared that
the iron bedstead On which the party,
seven in number, were seated was rails
ed from three to five inches from the
floor about twenty times. The other
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
JOShiSnlS.

There iz no kure for lazyness, but i
hav known seckond wife to wurrv it
sum.
Much haz been sed about Milk, but
the best thing have ever seen on tit
the kream.
Thare IL only one thing that kan be
sed in favor by tite boots-thay max a
man forgit all his other sorrows.
The musketo il born by poor but in
dustrious parents, but hez in hiz veins
sum ov the best blood in the country.
Man waz kreated little lower than the
angels, and hez been growing little
lower ever since.
Employment IL the CRATE boon ov
life, man withe nothing to do is not
half so interesting as ripening turnip.
Yu kant do ennything fust rate with
a flea OH yu-except sware, and f1eas
Amt afraid ov that.
How kan yu expekt to find two peo-
pie in this world Who are alike when
you kant find one who IL alike half the
time?
Pride il cherries pashun, the peo-
cock IL the proudest Ov all birds, and
the most lonesum one too.
If thare ever IL perfekly happy per-
son found in this world, it will be the
one who haz got but little, and don't
want emmy thing more.
Guessing and Icing are fust cuzzins;
the man who gifts in the habit ov CUES
ing at all things, will soon git into the
habit ov Icing about menny things.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

A CONNECTICUT widower has been
opening proposals in the town of Bark
hamsted for second wife. He offered
a widow 81 900 in cash and the deed of
a farm if she would have him. The
widow said she was willing, and the ar
rangements were proceeding satisfacto-
rily, when the daughter came home,
after visit. The widower liked the
daughter better than the mother. He
offered her So, 900 and the farm; but she
gave him an indignant refusal. He
then renewed his advances to the moth
er, but she cast him off. So angry are
all the women in the town that he can
not breach the subject of marriage
without being turned out Of doors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

persons Of the party corroborated the
Captains statement. Captain "Abe"
Tyson, an old resident of the village,
said that about fifty years ago he and
Captain John Mersereau, now dead,
slept in the same room one night and
heard strange noises from midnight I'M
til about o'clock in the morning. The
family of the Rev. Mr.. Young, while oc-
cupying the premises, were annoyed in
a similar manner. The house, which
stands but shot distance from the
site of the residence of Polly Bodyne,
who was tried for murder and for burn
ing her house about thirty years ago,
has been closed since Mr.. Decker's
family vacated it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

A SENSE of duty often causes some
ludicrous mistakes. as the following
story will illustrate: Near Dumfries
lived pious family who had adopted
an orphan who was regarded as half
witted. He had imbibed strict views on
religious matters, however, and once
asked his adopted mother if she did not
think it wrong for the people to come
to church and fall asleep, paying no bet
ter regard to service. She replied she
did. Accordingly, before going to
church the next Sunday, he filled his
pockets with apples. One bald headed
old man, who invariably went to sleep
during the sermon, particularly attract
ed his attention. Seeing him at last
nodding and giving nasal evidence of
being in the "land of dreams" he struck
the astounded sleeper blow with an
apple on the top of his bald pate. The
minister and the aroused congregation
at once turned round and gazed indig-
nantly at the boy, who merely said to
the preacher as he took another apple
in his hand, with sober, honest express
sion of countenance: "You preach, III
keep 'em awake"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
acknowledge that her sons choice was
not so bad after ALL

not SO bad after all.
Years have passed, and manifest
changes have taken place since the oc-
c,1rrences narrated. Mrs. Garrett has
been gathered to the tomb, leaving Ter
immense wealth divided equally be-
tween her three children. The two
sisters are happily married, and live in
other portions of the city, whilst George
and his beautiful bride occupy the
home mansion. Two lovely children
boy and girl-have blessed their
union. The girl is named Mamie, after
her aunt, whilst the boy has been
named for his noble father. Clara's
parents are still living, and at times
visit their daughter and her husband,
who always receive them with affec-
tomato cordially.
George Garrett is connected with the
firm of Garrett & Carvalie, bankers
and brokers, on Wall street, and when
the memorable Black Friday" catas-
trophe took place, and swept so many
business houses out of existence,
though suffering severely, the firm, by
prudence and good management, sue
ceeded in breasting the storm.
Clara Garnet still MARBLES the favor
tie air that won her such noble and
affectionate husband. Even little Mamie
has been taught the sweet strains, and
with the mothers accompaniment on d
superb piano, she delights all with her
superior vocalization.
Clara has long ago forgiven her hus-
band the rllSe he emDIOVed to win hpr
as wife, and the identical paint brush
he used when she first saw him, is sac
redly preserved to remind them of the
time and circumstances under which
they first met.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
Carrier Pigeons in Germany.

Every large fortress in Germany is
provided with trained carrier pigeons,
and the officers are made familiar with
their use, so that in event of war they
could be made of immense advantage
in communicating with various points
independent of the telegraph, which
might be tempered with.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
THE VOYAGER.

Friend. why goest thou forth
When tho wind blows from the North,
And the ice-hillS crush together:'
1.-THE work that me doth call
Heeds not the ice-bills fall,
Nor wind nor weather"
''But. friend, the night is black,
Behold the driving wrack
And wild seas under"
''My straight and narrow bark
Fears not the threat ming dark,
Nor storm nor thunder"
'But oh, thy children dear,
Thy wife-She is not here
Let me go bring her?'
''No-no-it is too latei
HuSh-hushl l may not wait,
Nor weep, nor linger.'
'Hark! Who is it that knocks
With slow and dreadful shocks,
The very walls to severe
SIT is my masters call,
go, what'er befall;
Farewell forever"
r. W. Glider, in Scri6ne,'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

A son of the Siam csc Twins is achiev-
ing high honors in an eastern college;
which leads funny man to ask: "Why
shouldn't he rise in the world? His
father was we'll connected"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

SCIENTISTS say the sun will cease to
shine seventeen millions of years hence,
and by that time Edison's electric light
will be in complete working order
NO7YastOaDn Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

THE new double postal card which is
soon to be issued by the government is
not any longer than the present one but
will have stamp on each corner and
will cost cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

The Southern Pacific railroad COM
pany has opened station at Casa
Grande. Arizona, 1873 miles east of
Yuma, and GA miles distant from
San Francisco.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

A VERY prepossesslng young lady, can
vassing for popular book, stepped into
the Office Of broker, and finding him
apparently at leisure, asked him to look
at her book. The gentleman informed
her that it would only be waste of
time, as he could not purchase it. ooh,
never mind that!" calculated the viva
cious young woman; sit won't cost
any thing to look at it, even if you don't
buy. I should like to have you read
some portions Of it, and see what it is.
The accommodating broker took the
volume, and glancins at the title-page,
commenced perusal of the introduce
ton. This finished, he began at the
first chapter, and read carefully and
leisurely along. 1t was about nine
o'clock when he commenced, and an
hour passed silently away, when the
book agent began to show signs of ner-
vousness, which were apparently I'M
noticed by the broker, for he never took
his eyes from the volume, but read
steadily on. Eleven o'clock came, and
the lady began to walk smartly around
the room, glancing occasionally out Of
the windows. At noon the broker was
still reading, and the agent wore de-
cidedly troubled countenance. A few
moments before one o'clock the broker
laid the book down, leisurely donned
his overcoat and hat, and remarked:
THAT is a very good book. I am sorry
I can not read more of it, but I am
obliged to 60 to dinner. If you call
this afternoon, 1 will continue reading
it."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28
Queen VictOria's Family.
st. Louis GlObe-Democrat.

BY the birth in Germany, on Monday,
of a daughter to the Princess Charlotte,
Of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Victoria be-
comes great-grandmothe before she
has attained the age of 60. The Queen
herself, the daughter Of the Duke of
Kent, the fourth son of George Ill. was
born on the Oath of May, 1919, and her
great-grandmotherhood will be rem en-
bered when her next birthday is cele-
brated all over her empire. A relation
ship such as the Queen now bears to
her youngest descendant has been gen.
orally associated with extreme old age
and the decline of the faculties. But
Queen Victoria is still as vigorous in
health as she was when, in 1887, as a
young girl, she assembled the throne
made vacant by the death of her uncle,
William ". Her industry and her in
tellectual aptitude for the discharge of
the duties of the first magistrate of
Great Britain. are as remarkable as
ever, and during her late visit to Bave-
no, in Italy, when state ceremonial was
relaxed, she showed that her mind was
still more alive to the simplest enjoy
ments than most women at IS. Her
second daughter, the Princes Alice, of
Hesse, with one Of her children, died
early last winter, and a grandchild,
the Prince Waldemar, not many weeks
ago. But the Queen has still eight chill
dren living, of whom the two youngest
are unmarried, twenty-five grandchil-
dren, and now a great-grandchild. To
be the head Of such a family as this
falls to the lot of but few women, but
fertility in some degree approaching to
it may now possibly be the boast of her
eldest daughter Victoria, the Princess
Imperial of Germany and Crown Prin-
cess Of Prussia. She was born on the
21st of November, 1910, and is now
grandmother, six months before her
seth birthday. Her own eldest daught-
er, Charlotte, who herself became a
mother on Monday, was born on the
Oath of July, 1860, and was married on
the 18th of FEBRUARY, 1878, to Bernard,
Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
and Hildbourghausen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

Inspector to grammar class: "What
is syntax?" Answer by the child of
hard drinker: ''It's the government
duty upon spirits"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-28

duu she COulU UuG WOuUGI WldL IulS dI
mes Mt. A full explanation followed,
and Mrs. Garrett, ringing bell, ordered
a maid to escort the Young bride to suit
able apartments.
A long conversation ensued between
mother and son, in which the latter
gave detailed account of his SUNNI er
transactions. At the very outset George
discovered that his mother was terribly
displeased at his conduct, but as he was
free man, he argued that he had a
sole right to select wife for himself,
regardless of the dictations of anybody,
so he determined to brave it out, be the
result what it may.
At the proper time the dinner-bell
rang, and the family all appeared in the
parlor in full dress. George introduced
his wife to his proud sisters, who had
previously been apprised Of the mar
riage. The greeting was what might
be termed freezing politeness. This
was anything but pleasant to Clara, but
she concluded to bide her time.
Dinner over, the family adjourned to
the parlor, where little formal CONVEX
sation was INDUCED, and then the Wis
itors retired to their room. Poor Clara!
her mind was filled with establishment,
and she could scarcely realize the trans
formation that had taken place. For a
| while the naughty sisters treated her
| with frlgld reserve, but her gentleness
of manner, sweetness of disposition and
determination to win their love, soon
gained their affection and esteem. The
mother, too, was cold and formal, but
gradually her heart melted towards the
gentle rustic girl, and she was forced tc