The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-22
OUR POT1SVILLB LETTER
INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE
COUNTY SEAT.
SOMETHING AB0UT THE INSTITUTE
Comments on the zeigler Case
A Number of Interesting Items
on the Movements of
Prominent People
SOMETHING ABOUT THElNSTlTUTE

Special HERALD Correspondence.
PoTTsvILLE Dec. %, 1892.
f----.-- HIS week has been an
3s eventful one at the
W HEM county seat with the
- .N,AsX w enlightenment of the
4 |L3C.b county represented by
Tla5-t AJS Y six hundred school
EZ-Ig5 E teachers who filed into
NT{E n the Academy three
~ IN times day and at
80 tended Institute, lee
ture and concert, tripping happily to aud
from their abiding places the streets aud
other public ac presented an active scene,
indeed. 1t is claimed that Pousville should
be selected as the place for always holding
the Teachers Institute, brcause of its cen
trslity and the superior hotel and boarding.
house accommodations; even, il is said, the
Shenandoah and oth,r north Of the-moUntain
teachers favor this. lt may be selfshness,
but yon may say that your correspondent
also flvors the arrangement and so do all
other young men of this place. Do not print
this in type too bold, because some of our
other sweethearts and wives might catch on
PREcIoUsLY PLEASANT TINE.
All visiting teachers have had a preeiously
pleasant time attending institute lectures
concerts, balls, parties and at shopping
What was nstilled into their minds at the
daily sessions IN the Academy had chance
to become solidited as they sat listening to
the gifted Watterson or drank IN the strains
Of music made by the Bostonlan artists
Tonight they will bask under the entancing
glanees Of the brilliant ingallsand to morrow
they will prepare to take their departures for
their homes and it is beped will reach there
safely, enriched in mind and r8cuperaed in
body. Teachers of youth are a hard working
class and they get little recuperation com
pared to what they need. "All work and ne
play makes for Jack and Jui} very dull
day This quotation may net be exactly
verbutim, tteratua, stacoiam, et p'utctUatpm
correct, but let it pass any teacher will
recognize 1t.
CHRISTMAS TIDE is WITH US.
Next Sunday will lie the 1s93d anniversary
of cur Christian era and you will find that
the celebration of it win be observed as
religiously and happily as Of yore There
will be the usual amount of happiness and
the old record of unhappiness and distress.
With those in atfluence will be a merry
time with those in poverty will be sorrow
and a ioyless time, Bat so goes the world.
Now is the season when only the few have
all the means they ought to have the many
look in the shop windows and wish. That is
Christmas to them.
l notice with pride that the storekeepeIs
who advertise largely do the largest business,
especially those who judiciously patroniae
the columns Of the HEnALD. Your cores
pondeut therefore wishes all merry Christ
mss and happy New Year. Here's your
health and your familys, and may they all
live long and prosper
"REDpF' zIEGLER's CASE.
Murder in the second degree" as pro
nounced by the jury ON Tuesday evening in
the new court house, grated harshly ON the
ears Of a community assembled with whom a
change Of sentiment had taken place. When
our town papers, ia their just reports Of the
Kepley murder painted The crime IN such
bloody colors many people framed their opin-
ions against ziegler but as the tru pro
gresscd and the evidence was elected, sifJed
and weighed it became evident that there
was no murder IN the first degree IN II and
thaJ il was very douptiul WheJuef the eva
dence warrant ed, IL ii warranted any cOnvic
tion at ALL a verdict of more than man
slaughter. There were, therefore, many dis
appointed people in this community when
"Reddyn was convicted of a crime which
may consign him to the penitentiiry for a
dozen years if he don't get a new trial.
There is motion pending for new trial
and will now prophecy that if pushed, the
motion will carry and the new District At
torney will have an opportunity to show his
prowess as a criminal lawyer in a serious case
during the first session of his term. The
speeches of counsel in the trial just closed