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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-01-09

pretty pusy husCiihS uP type AZ
their behalf.
A party of young people of La
Porte took sleigh ride to Eagles
Mere, on Saturday evening and en-
Iioyed an oyster supper and dance
; at Hotel EaglesM Mere.
We give the Institute proceedings
else where in this issue. Every ybody
! is interested in the welfare of our
schools and will read the proceed
ings with much interest.
The W. G. T. A. will meet at
Mrs. T. j. Ingham's Thursday Jan.
18th. The temperance social will
/ be held at Mrs. VIM. a Mason's Jan.
9th. All are cordially invited.
A little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Rose of Thornedale, died on Mon
day. Interment in Mountain Ash
Cemetery at this place, on Wednes-
day, Rev. j. F. Glass officiating.
Editor Streby of the Dushore
Gazette, was in town on Monday
looking after his interest with the
new county officers elect. He left
town with smile on his counten-
ance.
Hon. Russell Karns, Representa-.
tive elect of Sullivan county left for
Harrisburg, on Monday. The
House was organized on Tuesday
with Mr.. Thompson, of Warren as
Speaker.
Mr.. Spencer of LaPorte, is stock
ing his mill with goodlv supply of
logs this winter, preparatory to the
large demand for lumber which will
follow in the spring in bringing
Lake Mokoma to the front as a
popular summer resort.
County Auditors Wright, Spencer
and Bird assisted by their clerk,
Atty. Fl. Il. Downs, arc hard ut work
the annual county state
ment. They are first-class board
and our tax payers can expect that
the work will be thoroughly and
quickly done.
Elsewhere in this issue can be
found the proceedings of the meeting
Of the Farmers and Mechanics
Home Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Sullivan county, which
at Forksville, on Saturday
Jan. Sd '9l, furnished us by Ulysses
Bird Of Estella.
Treasurer elect VIM. Murray has
r. M. Stormont his de-
putty. Rob is hard worker for the
success of democratic principles and
is quite favorIte with the bows and
having had some experience in the
Treasurers office renders. him CON-
petent to discharge the duties of
said office at a glance. The ap-
pointment is eminently satisfactory
to all.
The REPUBLICAN will hereafter
contain the legal advertising, of the
county rendering the paper almost !
indispensable to the legal fraternity !
and others interested in such matter.
The REPUBLICAN is the cheapest |
paper and contains more interesting
news than either of its contempor-
aries. Only Sl.25 year, while the
others are $l50 each. Subscribe
for the REPUBLICAN.
Six or eight teams of Sonestown,
passed though town loaded down
with coal, on Monday. 1t would
seem that the people of Sonestown
favor the Bernice coal to the hard
coal az the latter is brought to the
loor of the above purchasers by the
W. & n. b. and sold at about the
same price per ton as is charged for
,he Bernice coal at the mines. Our
people believe in patronizing home
industry.
County Superintendent Black re-
CARDS the late institute held at Du-
shore, as one of the most satisfac-
tory ever held in the county, and
the attendance was larger than at
my previous one. Prof f. Nj. al.
,.,. Al 7
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-01-09

Lis OF Grand Jurors Drawn For Feb
Term 1891.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
A LoNa-TERM PRISONER.
Liberation of an italian Brieand After n
Coniinemeut of Sixty Years.

Liberation OF an italian fsrieand After n
Confinement of Sixty Years.
The other day, after sixty years of
imprisonment, part of which was passed
in the prison hospital, the italian brig
and chief Domenico Nocchia was lib
Grated, and passed through Naples to
Rome, where it is probable, as he has
no living relative, that he will be
placed in some asylum, for he suffers
from asthma and disease of the log.
This old brigand chief, says the Phil
Gdclpllia Telegraph. was born eighty
three years ago near Viterbo, where Mt
fourteen years of age he killed the
snydic and his brother, a priest, be-
cause he had heard they wanted to have
him arrested After the murder he fed
and joined n band of brigands, leading
the life of highwayman and house
breaker for some years, during which,
he asserts, more than a million francs
passed through his hands.
When he was ut school previously Mt
Montchasconc he had been the COM
panion of Pope Leo, and, being n good
arithmetician, was at that carly age
made to teach his fellow scholars.
When he became u brigand he used to
dress like superior officer, and quietly
frequent the towns of Piedmont, Tus-
cany, etc. Of the Ncapolitan provinces
only the Abruzzi were favored by his
visits. 1t was Il sweetheart of his who
finally enabled the gendarmes to ar
rest him without shedding blood. The
price that had been set on his head was
thirty-fve thousand francs, which the
gendarmes gained.
He was taken, together with five COM
panions, who were all bchcadcd; but
Nocchia was saved by Prince Orsini,
president of the senate, because when
the prince had one evening beefi stopped
and robbed by the band Nocchia had set
him free and restored all that had been
taken. Nocchia was, however, con-
demned to prison for life, but ho did
not ceasc to commit crimes. In 1S41,
being vcXcd with the rcproaches OF the
chaplain because he refused to l1necl
and kiss the crucifix, Nocchia killed the
priest by stratagcm. July Q, 1855, he
had been irritated by n dentist failing
to extract torturing tooth, and had
trcachcrously sharpcned large nail
and killed the dentist with two staba.
In 1856, having made complicated
calculation of all the expense of the
Crimcan war within ten days, while his
prison companions had not been able
to manage it in n month, he gained q
prize of fifty scudi from the command
ing colonel. Twice he tried to commit
suicide-once at Pesaro, where he swal-
lowed blister that had been put on u
companions arm, but, he said, without
result. as it was as if he had merely
eaten pastry. The second time he
had cut vein III his arm, but this, too,
failed
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
a GREEDY / elRL.
sho Broke Her Proinlso anil Cnbba.cd
All tho Raro Ecras.

81 e.tS kNSEO HcrsiS.
~ story was recently told me by Il
lady who had just returned from camp
ing in the Yosemite valley. says writer
in Garden and Forest. A friendly :.uidc,
when asked about the ferns of the re-
Cior, answered that he would have to
know her long time before lie would
be willing to tell her about the kinds in
the valley, and continued; ~ know you
don't mean any harm, but there was Il
young woman here from the bay-a
great botanist-and told her of IL fern
that only grew in two places, so far as
knew, in the whole region. Then she
was wild to see it. told her she might
have some leaves to press in her brown
paper books, but warned her not to
pull up any. Don't you s'pose l know
better than to spoil your fern gar
den" replied the college girl. So 1
showed her where the stuff grew-one
place, where the most of 1T was, under
some dry brush had put there-and 1
made her promise again not to tell any
ole, and not to pull it up. said to her:
i guess there amt but two clumps of it
in the Yosemite, and my idea is it ought
to stay here. 1t would be n kind of
murder to drive it out Then she
looked real pretty, and said she
entirely agreed with me. 1t might be
new species, she remarked, and it
might be named after me if 1 would let
it be taken away, but then was ex-
actly right, and it belonged right here.
Two or three weeks after that her
camp broke up, and she went up the
valley and dug up every root of the fern
that she could find. Fact. 1 saw her
doing it. When went down to camp
to tell them good-by, that cusscd little
hypocritc sided up and begged me to
take good care of the ferns--spccially
of that new kind! No, mum, I'll show
YOU everything in the line of plants,
from the MERGED river to the top of Ell
Captain, except one little bunch Of fern
all that was left by that young
woman from the bav'
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
Tho Rooster in I.olItics.

Every democratic newspaper has on
hand n cut Of "a rooster in the act of
growing. This is invariably printed at
the head of a column announcing n
party victory. The custom originated
in Indiana in 1912, according to ''Politi-
cal Americanisms." There were doubts
as to the result of the local election.
The editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel,
Chapman by name, was accused of pre-
mature growing by the rival wing
sheet, the expression Grow, Chapman,
Crow" being used as q headline. Re
turns showed that the alleged growing
was justified, and Mr.. Chapman, in his
next issue, printed for the first time the
emblem that has become so popular-an
evidently victorious rooster, with the
legend "We Crow" printed underneath.
There arc other versions of the ROSTERS
birth, but the foregoing appears upon
the whole the most trustworthy.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Ways In Which wo Arc Better on Thnn
Our Graudfathcrs.

Ways In Which Wo AFRO Better or Thnn
Our Graudfathers.
Men are prone to look back at old
times as good times when the world
went better than it does to-day and the
sun shonc considerably brighter. The
mists of years soften outlines and round
off angles The man looking backward
sees things thus softencd and poctized.
At least too often for truth the ordinary
man so sees the past and depicts it to
the present. There are some men who
are SO gifted with the ability to put
away illusions that they can paint the
past as it was, not rs it might, could,
would or should have been. Col. S. C.
Wrightington comes within this cate
CORY, says the Boston Transcript, and
. his picture of labor in New England
manufacturing town fifty years ago is n
revelation to this generation and n
"Reminiscences whose fidelity will be
recognized by all who were toilers at
that time. life and labor in the mills
in the time described were hard. The
operative worked longer than the opera
tive of to-day, and under conditions
moro uufavorable to his comfort.
Neither were the laboring classes SO
we'll fed and housed as they are to-day.
1t does not appear, however, that the
laborcrs of fifty years ago felt their
lot to be n particularly hard one. Every
body laborcd long and hard then. The
mill people lahorcd with the rest. That
the moral and intellectual tone of mill
operatives was much higher than it is
today is undoubtedly u fact. 1t is GER
titled by the fact that SO large n pro-
portion of them came from the hardy,
intelligent yeomanry of New England.
The operatives were intelligent, not be-
cause of their surroundings, but DESPITE
them.
The laboring classes of to-day are
better paid, better clothed, better
housed and better fed than their fathers
were. They have more money and they
spend more. 1t is often said of them
that they spend ALL but that this is not
the truth is demonstrated by the ire
mendous growth Of snvings-banls de-
posits. The progress of the laboring
class in the matter of wagc-carning is
often lostsight OF by them, and is care
fully kept out of sight by professional
agitators, who fatten on the discomfort
they stir up. In reality the improve
mcnt OF their lot has kept pace with
the improvement of the general lot.
Making due allowance for the cost of
preparation and study, we doubt if the
ordinary professional men as class
earn incomes as greatly in excess Of
those their fathers earned us arc the in
comes of the laboring men of 1891 over
those of 1S+l.
The improvement in the lot of the
laboring classes has been due to the in
PRODUCTION of labor-saving machinery,
TO better transportation facilities, to
tho growth of the belief that recreation
is not wasteful but necessary, and to
the opportunity our government offers
for working reforms without causing
revolutions, ''-'
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
Roman NIarket-rlace at a Fair.

a novel fair was recently held in
London, the main feature of which
might lend variety to some similar
American festivity. The Bazaar was
arranged to represent Roman market
place of the classic period. The stalls
were in the shape of pillared temples
and were draped with blue, crimson
and yellow cloth, bordercd with n large
key pattern and Topped up with cord
and tassels. A large scenic picture rep
resenting the house of tho Roman his
torian, Sallust, was stretched across
one end of the hall, while the statues
and casts were grouped effectively in
every possible space, and classical and
NEUROLOGICAL suggestions abounded.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
Angling in the Tihames.

Last year was generally considered
to be the worst for Thames angling
that had ever been known, ass crts a
London correspondent. Perch and pike
seemed to have disappeared, and large
Dream, though numerous, were seldom
captured. Barbel, again, which to the
coclSncy aree what salmon are to the
northern angler, could hardly ever be
induced to feed. Lately, however, The
Thames seems TO have recovered its old
reputation us n fishing stream. Dur
ing the last few weeks large quantities
of barbcl have been taken ut Staincs,
Sudbury, Windsor, NARROW and Ham
bledon. Some unusually large perch
have also been captured, but it is
doubtful whether the Thames will ever
again be n good stream for perch-fsh-
ing, because the wash of the steam
launches throws the young fry in hun
drcds on the banks.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
USES OF THE BAMBOO.
1t Serves More Purposes Than Any Other
Plant That Is Cultivated.

1t Serves More Purposes Than Any Other
Plant That Is Cultivated.
1t is hoped by the department Of agri-
culture that the bamboo may yet be Gull
tivated in this country as it is in China,
where it supplies large part of the
wants of the people, being applied to
more than five hundred different pur-
poses, In the fowcry kingdom it takes
the place of both iron and steel, says
the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The farmer
builds his house and fences out of it,
his farming utensils as well as his
household furniture are manufactured
from it, while the tender shoots furnish
him with most delicious vegetable for
his table.
The roots arc carved into fantastic
images, shaped into divining blocks to
guess the will of the gods, or cut into
lantern handles and canes. The taper
ing culms are used for the props of
houses, the framework of awnings, the
ribs of sails and shafts of ralkes; for
fences and every sort of frames, coops
and cages; and the handles and ribs of
umbrellas and fans. The leaves are
scwcd into raincoats and matches. The
shavings and curled threads furnish
material for stuffing pillows, while
parts supply the bed for sleeping, the
chopsticks for eating, the pipe for smok-
ing, the broom for sweeping, the mat
trcss to lie upon, the chair to sit upon,
the table to eat on, the food to eat and
the fuel to cook it with, etc., etc. In
fact, its uses arc almost without num-
Der. ~
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
HE DoDaEo THE WEDDING.
Why No Tears Were Shed When tho
Grenndter Guarda Left Bcrmutla.

Why No Tears Were Shed When tho
Grenadter Guards Left Bermuda.
1.-The recent departure of the Grenn-
dicr Guards from Bermuda did not
cause many regrets among the island
crs," said well-llnown Bermudian to
representative of the New York
World recently. Though the officers
of the guards are the cream of the Brit
ish military, they and all other swell
soldicry have fallen into disrepute
down there owing to the treatment one
of Bcrmuda's most popular young ladies
received.
when the officers of the guards had
secured their cntree into the best is
land society this girl fell victim to the
blind god. and everybody, from Gibbs
Hill lighthouse to st. George, was glad
TO hear that n big wedding with an Off
Ger would result. The prcttiest of
trousscauX was secured at New York
and all the arrangements for the cere-
Iaony were made with great clabora-
ton. The brides father is rich and of
social position, and the affair was to he
memorable in the social history of the
islands
The night before the wedding the
bridegroom gave farewell dinner to
his bachelor friends. In the morning
he was gone. A ship that had weighed
anchor during the night was supposed
to have carried him off. lie left no
word and at first there was wonder
1T was tho first time such Il trick
had been Played on 4 bermuda belle,
and it was something the natives could
not forget. Gradually Indignation
arose which came to manifest itself in
social Indifference to the entire body of
soldiery. This was why no tears were
shed when the guards left Bcrmuda.n
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
WEDDING SUGGESTIONS.
ssTho Scottish People Much Givcn to Be-
lief In Old Says.

ssTho Scottish People Much Glven to Bo-
lief In Old Says.
In the matter of courtships and we'd
dings Scottish people preserve an extra
ordinary number of peculiar customs
and fanciful superstitions, writes cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript.
1t is deemed unluclSy to alter the first
width of an engagement ring. Many
troths have been broken as result.
The giving of brooches and pins by low
crs is full of i'll consequences. Noyoung
man or woman, in the tender relation,
will take n pin from the other without
returning the same after use. Pins,
needles, etc, are all -emblematic of the
cessation of friendship and affection
1t is very fortunate for the bride to
wear some borrowed article of apparel
at her wedding. Ifswine cross the path
of the bridal party before. it, 1t is an
omen of the <iirc.,t import; but if they
should cross its path behind the party
it would he happy augury. A we'd
ding after sunset entails on the bride u
joyless life, the loss of children and an
carly grave. In the south of Scotland
rainy day for marriage is an I'M
lucky one. The bride is then called "a
grectin bride;' whereas, "Blest is the
bride that the sun shines on" TO rub
shoulders with the bride is sign of
speedy marriage; the first among the
unmarried female friends who succeeds
in doing it will be the first to wed; and
SO / have myself witnessed scrambles
on the part of buXom Scotch lasses for
precedence quite closely approaching
fisticuffs. AS newly married wife
first enters her new home, some elderly
person must throw cake of shortbread
into the door before her. One securing
piece of cheese cut with the brides
own hand before she has left the we'd
ding feast is certain to be shortly hap
PLY married. And it is everywhere in
Scotland as inauspicious for the brides
mother to be present at q wedding as it
is unfortunate in our country to have
the Same individual arrive to remain Mt
any subsequent period.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
SAL EN-
SALEM IN BRIEF.
The Happenings of a Day Briefly
Told.
ROANOKE inns BuRxAp,


i. Nj. Mclaughlin, formerly of Salem
Va, but late Of Roanoke, was In the
CITY Yesterday on business.
7. w. f. Allemong, president of the
Salem Improvement Company, is erect
;np an elegant residence on Peunsyl-
vania avenue.
from short visit to her sister, Mrs. W.
A. Phelps, at Pulaski City, Va.
The remains OF the late Rev. Dr. w.
w. Houston passed through Salem
Tuesday night accompanied by his son,
Archie w. Houston. He will be buried
at Lexington, Va, Thursday.
"Cab" Mattux, of Washington, D. c.,
was registered at the Lucerne yester-
day.
Judge Blair has returned from Craig
county where he has been holding cir
cult court.
e. B. Dolin' has gone with the Roa-
noke Machine Works Band to Black
stone to mako music for land sale.
A largo crowd of Salemites left yes
terday and Tuesday for tho Lynchburg
fair.
J. Is. Richardson, proprietor of Salem
Mattress factory, informed g TIMES re-
porter yesterday that the Baptist Or
phanage of this place had ordered fifty
Z mattresses and 100 wooden blankets for
the Orphanage, of which portions of IL
are fast assuming shape.
ID. B. Strouse and wife have returned
from trip to the North extending over
a week.
G. B. Strouse left yesterday for Balti-
more, where lie goes to perfect arrange
ments to enter his fast horse, "king
Boy" in the Richm fair next wcok.
The Salem Carriage Works received
two premiums at the Fincastle fair, one
for seaside surry, the other for ladies'
ph@ton.
Rev. j. R. Bridges has returned from
q call meeting of Presbytery at Lynch
burg. The meeting was called for the
purpose of ordaining and installing Rev.
Tazewell w. McCorkel, of Lynchburg.
A large. well-shaped nine-pound rad
ish was on exhibition at Capt. L. G.
Burdette's grocery store yesterday. Tho
radish was raised by William M. Mont
gomery. on Pennsylvania avenue. Above
the radish appeared the unique sign,
.tResult of Salem's Boom-RADISH,
Nine Pounds"
Boiling. the 13-year-old son of Rev.
w. E. Hubbard, of the Episcopal
Church, while playing around his faith
er's horse, was kicked in the breast by
the animal He was knocked down,
and struck his head on a rock and cut
it severely. Medical aid was summon
ed, and tho little fellow at present is
resting as easily as could be expected.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
A Small Fire.

Fire was discovered in the rooms over
Mrs. Jackson's store, No. AZ Salem ave-
nue., yesterday morning at 6:15 o'clock.
Some of the occupants ran to tho fire
department and several members came
and eXtinguished the flames with buck
cts without turning in an alarm. The
rooms are occupied by Mrs. Brody. 1t
is supposed that the fire was caused by
a defective flue, as portion of the cell
ing through which the flue runs in the
kitchen was all that was burned.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
No BalI LyncI,burc.

The Roanoke Baseball Club did not
go to Lynchburg to play during tho fair.
as had been advertised. But it was
through no fault of theirs that they did
not go. They had made all arrange
ments to play in Lynchburg and had
gone to the depot when Manager Henry
received telegram stating that it was
impossible to raise q club in Lynchburg.
Mr.. Henry went to the billy city to try
and arrange series of games, but was
unable TO do So
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
Work on the Terry Building.

Another story of the Terry building
has been nearly completed. 1.-THE win
dow frames have all been set and the
worhmen have the brick work nearly 10
the top of them. Tho walls at this
point are not near so thick as those of
the first story and will gradually be-
come thinner as the bidding increases
in height.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
a Sunday Morning Row.

The police have just gotten on to the
particulars of cutting ARRAY and a
general fight which occurred in saloon
on Railroad avenue Sunday morning. 1t
is said that the barkeeper knocked a
man down with a mallet, and that
another man named Roderick was flu
riously assailed with knife. receiving
Zine gashes on his back. All the parties
have been summoned to appear before
tho mayor this morning.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-22
Payday at the Machlne Works.

Yesterday was payday at the Roa.
noke Machine Works, and about S32, 200
was distributed among the employees Of
that great Industry. The paymaster
began paying off at o'clock yesterday
morning and got through ABOUT 900.
The merchants and grocers wero all
busy throughout the day strengthening
up accounts, and money eened to be-
free and more generally in circulation.