The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-02-17
STREET GOSSIP.

A tall, skeleton structure resembling the
frame work erected over bore-holes that
are sunk down into the mines, was carried
along Main and Coal streets yesterday af-
-ernoon on a huckster wagon People
looked at it in wonderment and tried to
make out what the two men on top of the
structure were trying TO do Some thought
the men were acrobsts and that an e1h-
bition Of acrobatic leaps would be given.
Others said it was an invention of Jim
Smiths for reaching the Indifferent voters
who might seek the seclusion of their
rooms in the upper stories They we're all
wrong. The frame work belonged TO the
electric railway company and the men on
top of it were engaged in connecting the
trolley wire with the lengths of wire
stretched across the streets and connected
on each side with the poles of the electric
railway poles,
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Work on the electric road, by the way,
is PROCESSING very favorably now. The
cribbing and foundation work for the long
trestle at Dovey's crossings rapidly near.
ing completion. The road is now COM
pleted from Dovey's crossing to Lost
Creek, with the exception of finishing
touches on two small trestles, and the rail-
road crossing at Lost Creek The road
between the latter place and the base ball
ground is also completed. The surveyor
will lay the road from the latter point to
Girardville this week. One of the engines
is in place in the power house.
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Charley Gibson is revising his old-time
song so as to have it conform with the
period. 1t will be Riding on the Electric
Railroad" hereafter.
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People have not yet tired of talking on
the big Reading deal. l formed one of 3
group at the corner of Main and Centre
streets yesterday and heard an untold
number of supposed plans to be put in
operation as a sequence of the great change.
1t is said a new and commodious passenger
depot is to be erected by the Reading at
Ashland and that it is to have location
much nearer the town than the old one and
that the Reading passenger traffic between
Mshanoy City and Ashland will be con-
fined to the Lehigh Valley railroad as far
as practicable and that the present Read
ing depot in town will be principally used
for freight This will throw most of the
passenger business TO the Lehigh depot and
probably result in the abandonment of the
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located. 1t is additionally rumored that
the "Pennsy" short line will eventually
become link for the Reading to make
eJnnection with its own road at Frackville;
and that the terminus now at thst place
will be transferred to this place:
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SAM Hollopeter who visited the
South, lately has fund of stories that are
very interesting, Among the number are
the following;
A man was on trial out there for very
grave offsnse. The jury was slow in COM
ing to an agreement and many people we're
waiting about to know the verdict. At
this stage Of affairs colored bailiff came
out of the jury room and fastened down
one of the corridors
Hold on hold on p' called out a man
who was waiting, Have the jury
agreed p
"Yis, dey dun agreed, said the bsiliff,
grinning.
whats the verdict ?'
WELL boss" said the bailiff, "ye SEQ
twas dis erwsy; Dey was some on EN-
wanted sandwiches an some on EN- wanted
pie an bum by dey done greed dey'd
hsb some crackers n cheese an dey sem
me out fer to iotch EN-"
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While at Washington sam" was in
troduced to a number of Congressmen,
among them Speaker Mills, ex-Speaker
Reed, Springer, rs being the opponent of
Congressman Reilly in one Of the latter 5
contest Sam didn't take water, but stood
his ground and enjoyed the Joke. In the
evening Sam and Reilly went to the theatre
and this is what threw our townsman into
oonvulsive merriment: In minstrel
scene the interloeutor told "Bones" of the
remarkable request made by lawyer
named Strange, who had recently died.
He had asked that on each of the four sides
of the monument to be erected on his
grave he wanted this inscription Here
lies the remains of an honest lawyer"
Bones said that if that should be the only
inscription the people could not tell whose
remains were inferred beneath the monu-
ment. why" added the interlocutor
don't you see ? When the people read
the inscription they will say that ia
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