Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-09

conduct. Polce-Justice CODDING sentenced
them to pay the costs, $1.70 each, and sent
them home with a suggestion that they had
better be more circumspect hereafter.
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The Wilkesbarre UniOn-Leader, one of
the most interesting and enterprising dailies
in the State, has lately given evidence of its
prosperous condition by donning an entire
new dress, which materially improves its
appearance. Mr.. BoGART is entitled to the
commentator of the press Of the State for
the public spirit manifested in conducting
his journal. 1t is a credit to the fraternity.
MIR. III. Seibert of this place, formerly of
Wilkesbarre, who has for the last year been
with Ed. Williams, wishes to inform the pub
lie that he did the plumbing in the County
House at Burlington and not Mr.. Tate, as
stated in the ArguS. Mr.. Tate did work
there at the time the plumbing was done, but
the principal part of the work was done by
Mr.. Seibert, and as to two of the Commits
sioners highly recommending Tate, is, as we
are informed, not so. Yours, FAIR PLAY.
The WILLIAMS homicida case was cOnclu-
ded Saturday afternoon The closing argu-
ment for the defendant was made bv Col. e.
OvERTON and by b. NJ. PECK, ESQ, for the
prosecution. Both efforts We're listened to
with the closest attention not only by the iu-
rors but large number of spectators. The
charge of the Court was very plain and eX-
plicit. The jury were only out a few minutes
and their verdict of acquittal w as anticipated
by most of those who had listened to the ey-
idence.
An absurd story has been going the rounds
of the papers to the effect that the switch at
Tioga Point was turned causing the recent
disaster at that place, is a mere fiction, the
work of some imaginative mind. Ton DE-
WITT, the engineer of No. II that night, saws
that the switch light was all right and the
switch as it should have been, and this is cor
roborated by all evidence in the hands of the
Erie officials ElRirU AdUertjSer.
And our esteemed cotemporary the Adcer-
hSer, was one of the first papers to give the
story credence by printing it.
HIGHLY COMPLEMENTARY TO TOWANDA
MANUFACTURES.-Mr G. F.. DAYTON, our
enterprising harness manufacturer, has shown
us telegram received from Port Townsend,
Washington Territory, six hundred miles
north Of San Francisco, ordering set of his
harness. The same gentleman, Mr.. d. in
forms Us. has purchased several sets from
him before. 1t is highly complimentary to
the character of Mr.. DAYTON'S work that it
finds a market nearly four thousand miles
away, and that customers are willing to pay
in freight nearly the cost of the harness to
get them.
CREDIT TO WHOM CREDIT IS DUE A
notice having appeared in the last Argus to
the effect that the plumbing at the poor house
was done by Il Mr.. TATE, Commissioner
HURST makes correction in the following
card:
The plumbing at poor house was done un-
der the direction of Edward Williams, of
TOWanda, and those employed by him, and is
entirely satisfactory So far.
j. w. HURST, Commissioner.
If the plumbing at the poor house reflects
credit upon any one, Mr.. WILLIAMS, who had
the contract is entitled to it, and it is hardly
fair IN our cOtemporary to cheat him out of it.
Mr.. HAIGH, proprietor of the LeRaysviIle
Woolen Mills, was greatly surprised one day
last week AT seeing the ponderous water wheel
which drives his machinery come to a stand
still. The only way he could account for it
was a surmise that miSchievous boys had
- shut down the gate" but an examination
proved that The water was pouring upon the
wheel as usual and the difficulty proved to be
a mammoth eel fastened by its head in the
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