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Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
Tho Cnmnls of Mars.

Through the agency Of the Lick tele-
scope, the surface of tho planet Mars
has been marned out with additional
clearness. The canals which can be
very plainly seen, lie in the torrld and
warmer portions of the temperate zone,
and extend from the Northern to the
Southern ocean. They are, In general,
1900 or 5000 miles in length and over
thirty miles in breadth. They are gen
orally arranged in pairs 200 or 800 miles
apart, and so exactly parallel that
usually no deviation can be detected.
They cut up the continent surface 30
there is no spot more than 400 miles dis
tant from one Of these markings. There
is still much surmise as to whether these
assumed canals are artificial or natural.
It is argued that they cannot be artifi-
cial, because of their great width, but on
tho other hand, it is equally inconceiv-
able that the forces Of nature could, by
the laws of accident, have constructed
such an intricate system of markings
and observe an equal width in every
case. Tho late Professor Proctor sug-
gested that the canals arc the diffracted
images of rivers, produced by mists
which hang over the river beds.-Ex-
change.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04

"Under the microscope" says Mr..
Henry j. Slack, L. r. NJ. s., sit is seen
that as animal and vegetable matter rots
away, swarms of fermonts come into eX-
istence. For example, in drop Of water
the flesh of dead water-lea was no.
ticed in commotion while the writer was
engaged on this paper. Thousands of U
shaped vibrions were living upon it. All
were in brisk motion, Strengthening and
bending their bodies with whip-like
flicks.
"They were company of scavengers,
sweetening the water by a chemical Of
process necessary for their own nutri-
tion. Our rivers and ponds would be-
come factories Of deadly poisons. and all
the earth's soil would be contaminated,
il inexpressible myriads of minute plants
and animals did not attack dead organic
matter and cause its elements to enter
into new and useful combinations. If we
find thousands of such little ferments at
work upon fragment no bigger than a
full stop of this print, what must be the
numbers in operation when tons upon
tons are dealt with in the contents Of
our sewers, in the manures we put on
our fields and in the vast multitude5 Of
human and other bodies than perish on
land or sea. Exchange.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
An s.nIonths-old Bride.

An announcement which appeared in
an Indian paper of recent date throws q
most remarkable light upon the child
marriage question:
IAN INFANT BRIDE.-A curious mar
riage ceremony took place at Bamun.
daugah, near JONAH, Hooghly district, q
few days ago, baby, Simonths old, OF
the Brahmin caste, being married to a
Charitri Brahmin, % years old. The
father Of the bride gave the bridegroom
a present of Rs. 200 in cash for marrying
his daughter"
Curious indeed The notion of child
being married" at months is revolving
enough, but the financial side of the
transaction is even more brutal. In
England babies are occasionally bought,
but as a rule parents do not give other
people money to take them off theiI
hends.-London Truth.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
THE PERKS OF CUNNING.
a Sportsman oints Out why There Are S
Many Accidents.

a Sportsman L oints Out Why There Are so
Many Accidents.
4 well-known sportsman, speaking of
the many accidents that occur to gunners
at this season, says " Now that it is
the game season for great many birds,
certain points that have recently been
raised by well-informed English sports
man are deserving of attention. He says
that since the introduction of the breech-
loading fowling pieces, cases of acci-
dental shooting have become painfully
numerous, aud the relative number seems
to be increasing in proportion as the gen
Grafton which began its experience with
muzz!e-loading guns disappears from the
scene. The reason given is that the
use of a muzzleloading gun involves
so much delay in re-charging that
the sportsman was unconsciously more
careful than he is at the present day,
when cartridges can be slipped in the bar
rel with hardly any delay. The old gun
ner would reserve his fire through fear
that by shooting too soon he might lose
an opportunity to take advantage of
chances that would occur moment or
two later. But under existing conditions
there is no need of taking such consider
ations into account, and this has begotten
a carelessness which, with young sports
men, particularly when several young
men shooting together, verges upon the
dangerous. Wild game shooting is an
amusement which is incidentally so
health-giving that it deserves to receive
encouragement; but, like many other out
| of-door sports, it is attended with certain
risks, though the one which we have
pointed out might, 1t seems to us, be
materially lessened if the fact that they
were handling dangerous weapons rested
at all times prominently in the minds of
tho sportsmen.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
To Pass Through Our City.

The DEMOCRAT contained full account
of the meeting of the International
American Congress yesterday morning,
ard their proposed tour through the
United States. The party will arrive in
Altoona on November 9th, and visit the
machine shops, and then the party will
proceed on their way and pass through
our city on the 11th, and as they propose
stopping at Altoona they ought not to for
get Johnstown, for 1t will be grand
sight for those that know not what des-
truction is here.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1889.
SECOND VOLUME.

Wednesday we commence the second
volume of the DAILY DEMOCRAT. Though
year and over a month have elapsed since
The first tissue, it has been printed only
twelve months, owing to an interregnum
of over thirty'days occasioned by the ever
memorable flood of May 31st. We need
hardly say that the work of starting a
daily and putting 1t upon a running basis,
is attended with hard work, embarrass-
ments and some grievous disappointments.
We had learned enough Of the troubles
incident to publishing a weekly to know
hat the work of establishing live and
successful daily would require money,
patience and diligence. But with our
years of experience in a printing office,
and with the facilities we then had to
run daily, we felt that where others had
succeeded our chances of success were
sufficient to encourage us to embark in
The enterprise.
Up to the time of the food our most
sanguine expectations were more than
met; but that terrible catastrophe came
so near wiping both the Weekly and
Daily out of existence, that for weeks it
was question as to whether either could
eyer be resuscitated. The loss sustained
by the destruction Of so much
Office material, one of the presses
being utterly destroyed ahd all else
injured to an extent as TO be almost
worthless-it required some courage to
think of resuming. Patience and perse-
Terance, however, have enabled the
Daily to surmount all obstacles, and with
a passably fair appearance, and pretty
well filed with advertising matter, and
freighted with an abundance of general
and local news, it finds its way every
morning to an encouraging list of sub
scribers.
Its past success and present status en-
able US to say that the DAILY DEMOCRAT
is permanent fact. Though its publica-
ton since the flood in new aad some
what temporary building, aud on presses
badly shattered, and by a wheezy old
engine, has been heavy draft on both
our money and our patience, we congrat-
ulate ourself on the fact that it has made
its regular daily visits to lis many patrons
in town and surrounding points.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
THE LAST SAD RITES.
Funeral of Rev. Father Davin-Eour
Thousand People ePresent-solemns Services
at st. Columba's Church.


Funeral of Rev. Father Davin-Eour
Thousand People ePresent-SolemnS Services
at st. Columba's Church.
The remains of the late Rev. Thomas
DAWN, arrived from Denver, Colorado,
Monday morning on Atlantic Express.
They were removed by Undertaken Howe
to Cambria. There was large concourse
of people, mole than the church could
contain in attendance, The solemn and
impressive services were commenced at
10 o'clock, consisting of the reading of
the "office," high mass of requiem and
a eulogium. The funeral procession was
formed and started for the Lower Yoder
Cemetery, where the remains of the great
and good man were laid to rest.
The church was draped in deep mourn
ing, and the members of the Emerald
Beneficial Society werein attendance, and
stood guard while the remains were
viewed by that vast concourse of people.
Mass was begun at precisely 10:30, Rev.
Father Ryan was the celebrant. Deacon.
Rev. Philip Brady; Sub-Deacon, Rev.
Martin Meagher, of the Diocese of Erie;
Master of Ceremonies, Rev. James Don
nelly, of Gallitzin.
Rev. P. ]. QuiIter, of Sugar Creek,
preached a very eloquent and touching
sermon during the mass, paying splendid
tribute to the life and character of the
dead priest. The services were concluded
at 1890, when the cortege started for the
cemetery. The pall-bearers were Patrick
Boyle, Patrick Connolly, James Burns,
John McDermott, John C. Ryan, and
John Bowling.
There were several beautiful floral
tributes and on the hearse an elegant de-
sign, "The Gates Ajar," bearing the in
scription, " Our Spiritual Advisor" the
offering of the Emerald Society. AT the
head of the procession were carriages con-
tanning Bishop Phelan and the priests.
Followed by St. Columba's Band and tie
Societies St. Georges Uniform Rank, st.
Columba's Temperance, Young Ladies'
Sodality, Temperance Cadets, Emerald
Beneficial, Ancient Order of Hibcrnians,
and the congregation. The cortege en-
tered the cemetery at the west side where
the priests alighted from the carriages.
The priests chanted requiem as the
casket was borne to the vault, prepared
for the remains. It is estimated that fully
four thousand people were in attendance.
The following are the names of the
priests who were in attendance Coad-
iutor-Bishop Phelan, of Pittsburgh Very
Rev. Father Wall, Vicar General, and
Fathers f. McCourt, F. Devlin, j. Shee-
han, NJ. Lambng, Il. Keane, j. P.
Tahaney, Constantine, G. p, William
Kittell, Alto, o. S. B., Louis Camp, G. Il
R., Dohovan, II. McHugh, James Don
nelly, Martin Ryan, Simon, G. p, e. w.
Trautwine, NJ. II. Ward, John Boyle, w.
Graham, Pulitzer, T. Rosensteel, p.
Molyneux, Lambing, Bush, p. Brady,
Joseph Gallagher, j. G. Bigham, McEvoy,
o. Callaghan, Dennis Gallagher, Martin
Meagher, Sheridan, O'Reilly, Jordan, Ed
ward Dignan, Corbinian, o. S. B., John
Price, Edward Bush, Francis Brady j.
Il. Toban, T. Briloy, John Farren,
Lowekamp, James j. Romelfanger, John
Doyle, o. P. Gallagher, and Brother
Lawrence, of st. Francis College, Loretto.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
A STRANGE, SAD STORY.
Its Sequel, an Improvement on That of
Enoch Arden.

Its Sequel an Improvement on That of
Enoch Arden.
Vienna Letter to London Standard.
A trial involving circumstances of an
exceptionally romantic character will
come before the tribunal of Ragusa this
month About twenty years ago peas
ant of the neighborhood of Ragusa, being
no longer able to support his wife, en-
igranted to the United States, leaving his
better half in charge of tie village priest.
From the first luck smiled on him, and
he was able to send the priest 80 florins
month for his wife. AS his position i'm
proved he increased the amount of his
monthly remittances. But the rascally
reverendo only handed 5 florins
month to the woman. This went
on for fifteen years, when the
worthy clerical gentleman forged
certificate of the husbands death, and
placed it IN the hands of the wife, whose
death he likewise certified in a forged
document and sent to the husband in
America. Shortly afterward he piouslY
betook himself to Corfu, where he hoped
TO spend the remainder of his days in
peace, rejoicing in the remembrance of
his good works. Fate had decided other
wise. The unfortunate woman, his
victim, was forced to get her
living by begging from the passen-
gers of the Lloyd steamers that touched
at Ragusa, and her husband sought conso-
lation in remarriage with rich American
lady, by whom he had two children. AT
ter twenty years absence he resolved to
make a tour in Europe with his family.
He visited Paris, Vienna, Triest, and
finally Ragusa. On landing at that har-
Dor beggar woman accosted him and
asked for aims They recognized each
other simultaneously. The beggar wo-
man was his wife, whom he believed to
have been dead for several years. The
priest has been arrested, and will be tried,
when, in all probability, the second mar
riage viii be annulled.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
DisgracefuI Sight.

About 4;30 last evening while, re-
porter of this paper was going up Bedford
street, he witnessed one of the most
brutal and disgraceful fights that ever
could occur between two drunks" 1t
did not last long, but while the fray was
going on they bit each other like dogs,
and was finally separated by some men
who were passing by.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
Lnnrna-. nr,lPnr,, rnterr.

In 1928 the mGeteT and governor Of
the Ieper hospital sued the sworn butch
ers of Troyes for default Of their annual
gift of twenty-five beacon pigs, and they
were ordered, instead of the contribu-
tion in kind, to pay to the hospital in
every future year tho sum of twelve sill
Yer marks in the shape OF dozen cups
of fine silver, stamped with the Paris
hall mark, gilt and hammered in the
best fashion. This was again, later on,
commuted for payment of 200 llvres In
coin, which were still paid by the corpo-
ration of butchers to the general hospi-
tai of the town as late as 1860.
This butchers pork tribute bears some
further comment. Louis TX found a
leprous monk feeding on pork, and the
Turks of tho Levant to this day say that
the Greeks contract leprosy from eating
the intolerably bad salt pork of the
country. There is no doubt that the
disease of pigs which we know as mea-
sles was called leprosy, that is, ladrerie,
in the middle ages, and it would seem
that there was belief that it was the
same as the human disease, and that it
was communicable to man by eating
pigs flesh. 1t was wei! known that this
leprosy or measles could be detected
under the pigs tongue, and these two
facts would appear to have been the
origin of the tongue inspectors, (the
languayeurs,) whose active working be-
fore 1875 is proved by an ordinance Of
the Provost of Paris dated in that year.
When leprosy diminished in the hu-
man subject, the inspection of pork be-
came more lax, as Lo Grand d'Aussy tes-
titles in his "Vie Privee des Francois,
j., 3l7. Professor Skeat, it is true, main
tains that the term 'mesel" (which we
have seen above as meZeD for leper
has nothing to do with the word measles ;
but this leading fact about the pig dis
ease seems to have escaped him. Du
Cange, in his observations on the
Life Of st. Louis, says that mezeau "a
form of meseD and ladre "a lazar, a
leper) were synonymous. Tho assertion
that the low Latin noun messellus, a
leper, came from tho very classic dimin-
utive adjective miselus, wretched, mis-
erable, piliable. is almost beside the
question. .-COlnhill Magazine.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Service not Efficient Because of the
Poor Enuipment.

The Service not Efficient Because of the
Poor Equipment.
The firemen claim to be able to demon
strate that they can get up steam in few
minutes, even when the fire is banked,
and the outside of the engine seemingly
cold. They say that they keep their en-.
gines in such shape so that they will have
no trouble at any time TO get up steam,
while the hose is being stretched. The
greatest trouble with the whole business
is that the engines are worn out and are
mighty little good. They are also poorly
equipped, there being scarcely five hun
dred feet of hose all told, and most of that
is too rotten to stand the pressure.
Some one seems to be culpable in not
properly supplying the department with
hose, as no matter bow well the apparatus
is managed, little effective service can be
done with the present equipment. New
hose must be had and it should have been
bought long ago. New engines would
have cost no more either, two months ago
than now.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
Queer Case.

Dir Emanuel Custer, erected a new
house in Moxham, expecting to pay for
the same with profits accruing from a
first class boarding house. 1t was no
sooner opened, when eight stalwart
boarders were procured. Mrs. Custer
being somewhat prepossessing, and an
excellent cook, soon won the hearts of
all, especially of one Jamie, whom
Mr. Custer says, not only claims his wife,
but also all his property real and personal.
Mr.: Cnster is an aged man, and his wife
insists he is no more her husband, as she
married jamie several days ago, and in
tends to live with him as such, even
he cannot hold the property.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
"THE best husbands | ever met, " say

THE best husbands | ever met, " says
the author of "John Halifax, came
out of family where the mother, a most
heroic and selfdenying woman, laid
down the absolute law, Girls First not
in any authority, but first to be thought
of in protection and tenderness. Conse-
quently the chivalrous care which those
lads were taught to show their sisters
naturally extended itself TO all women.
They grew up true neutrality-suspicious.
generous, uneXacting, courteous of
speech, and kind of heart.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
PRESIDENT HARRIsON's THRILLING
EXPERIENCE.

Here is the way the particulars were
wired to Washington, New York and
other eastern papers, under date Of Deer
Park, Md, September "a President
Harrison and Senator Henry G, Davis
caught in a storm. They returned to
Deer Park at $50 tonight, after one of
the most stormy trips that any President
of the United States has taken in the last
quarter of a century. 1t raincd con-
stantly" After reading thus far we were
prepared TO read that they had been
caught in fearful, bowling, destructive
storm while out in the moutains on foot,
or horseback, or at least in wagon but
on further reading, We found they had
been riding in a private Pullman dining
car on the West Virginia Central Rail-
road, and did not even have to leuve the
car for dinner, but dined sumptuouslY in
the car. Such is the account given by a
special correspondent, and published
under a big headline Caught in a
Storm" A perilous time, truly What
next in the line of ilunkeyism, we Won
der
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
Brick Thieves.

Now comes one more complaint to the
authorities of our city to the effect that
the bricks that the residents have boughl
and paid for, are being stolen by non
residents of the town, and sold very
reasonable so as to "accomodate the suf-
ferers," as the thieves classify it. But
now that the officers have of late been
keeping diligent watch over the bricks
and that two arrests have been made we
think it will stop.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
Great Men and Prize-Fighting.
Times.


According to the Cincinnati Enquirer
it 10 no reflection on a mans character to
be fond of prize-fghting. 1t contends
that some of the greatest men that
America has known have been good pat
rons of the prize ring. Charles Reade,
so it stated, witnessed the Heenan-Sayers
fight and wrote the best description of it
that had appeared in print. Bulwer
made it point to see all the great ring
contests of his time, and Roscoe Conkling
loved a prize-fght and did not like to
miss one He was a skillful pugilist him.
self. When Garfield was President the
officers came very near catching him
among the spectators at a mill between
two sluggers.
What does this all show? Simply the
truth of Robert Louis Stevenson's asser-
ton that beneath the most polished gen.
tleman one can always find the savage if
one seeks deep enough. The fact cannot
be denied. Human nature is of many
phases, the brute included.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04

About thee hundred men will be put
to work to-day in the Stonycreel1 and
Conemaugh, but the probabilities are
that they win not be kept at work over
week.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04

THFRE is fear and trembling in the
house of the Republicans. Their leaders
note the growing popularity of the Dem.
ocratic County ticket and are apprehen-
sive of the result. The Democrats are
united and pulling together and the Re
publicans know what this means.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04

THERE were thirty-four girl students in
the laboratory classes at the Institute of
Technology in Boston last year. This
looks as if the higher education of wo-
man wes in a nourishing condition.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
seotland,s 0pportunities Tor Sport.

The value to Scotland of the opportu,
mites for sports is very large. The deer
forests, of which there are 109, covering
5000 square miles of land useless for ag-
riculture, rent for e100,000 annually.
Gl2, 800 of this goes to the local taxes.
If any forest fails to be rented, the whole
neighborhood feels it greatly in the di.
minlshed amount of money expended
there. The grouse moors rent for g44O,
600, and pay e55,000 in taxes. Mos
salr1on rivers are let with tho moors, but
some are rented alone, and add consid.
erable sum to the total already given
N. Y. Sun.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
NoA1CF.-Notice is

Z y hereby given to the Voters of EAST CON-
EMAUGH BOROUGH In the county OF Cambria,
and in the Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania, that
on Tuesday, the 5th Day of November, A. ID (.
1899, at the time and places for the holding OF
the General Election, an election VIII be held
on the QUESTION or BECOMING A CITY under
the laws OF said Commonwealth.
All persons voting on the said question will
cast a written or printed Ticket labeled on the
outside City Charter;" and those in favor OF 1t
VIII vote a ticket containing on the inside the
words For City Charter" and those opposed
viii vote a ticket containing on the inside the
words Against City Charter"
BY order OF Council,
j. b. KAUFFMAN. President.
P. o. NELL, Clerk OF council.
ROBERT NIZ, Burgess.
East Conemaugh Borough, Sept q, 1889.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04
'NLECTION NOTICE-Notice

FLECTION NOTICE-Notice is
IA hereby given 10 the Voters OF CAMBRIA
BOROUGH, in the county OF Cambria, and IN
the Commonwealth Of pennsylvania. that on
Tuesday, the 5th day OF November, A. -
1889, al the time and places Tor the holding OF
the General Election, an election VIII be held On
the QUESTION or BECOMING A CITY under
the laws OF sa d Commonwealth.
All persons voting on The said question VIII
cast a written or printed ticket labeled on the
outside " City Ch2rter:n ~ and those in favor Of
IL viii vote ticket containing on the inside the
words For City Charter,h and those opposed
VIII vote Il ticket containing on the inside the
words against City Charter.
By order OF council.
ROBERT H.iBBlDGES, President.
JOHN j. PFARR, Clerk OF Council.
EDWARD Z. O'NElL, Burgess.
Cambria Borough, september 81, 1859.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-04

THE Wyoming constitutional conven-
tion has declared itself in favor of woman
suffrage by three-fourths vote, and has
incorporated woman's suffrage clause
IN the constitution. Women have been
voting in Wyoming for The last twenty
years, and the men seem to like it.