The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-02-15
Brief Comments on Affairs
Political and Otherwise.
EVENTS FORESHAD0WED
The Member of the Legislature From the
First District is the Latest Candidate in
the Field For Congressional Honors.
Brumm Reticent.
special HEnALp correspondence.

Special HERALD correspondence.
PoTTsvILLE Feb. Ia The trouble be-
tween the Poor Directors and the Controller
has been amicably settled and hereafter the
latter will make all the contracts for sup
plies and attend to the advertising for bids.
In the new order of things it will take time
before they will run smoothly, but our
! Ben," aa he is now known, will eventually
have everything in good order.
1t is whispered, though tits but a faint
whisper, that our baldheaded statesman will
soon go out to his henchmen through the
county to whooper up for samival / am re-
liably informed that Hon. @. N. Brumm has
| fully made up his mind what he will do in
connection with that Office and will make
known his determination shortly II Hon
| John T. Shoener has not seCureds a quit
claim upon the office he had better hustle,
Notwithstanding the chances seem to favor
| him.
There are few people in Pottsville, or who
visit the town, who are not acquainted with
Lew BOcam, the f ench barber. He has few
equals in the tonsorial profession and friend
tells me that one can spend an hour or two
very prottably listening to recitals Of his
army experiences. When not on the march,
or in an engagement during the war for the
| Union, he was cook for headquarters" in the
96h regiment, and many a toothsome dish he
| served for the officers.
The delegates to the Schuylkill Press AS
socation meeting, held here on Tuesday put
up at the Merchants Hotel. What trans
| piTed at the session will not be known until
| the body alters its resolution of secrecy, but
a gentleman who was near the room where it
was he'd says the scribes had lively time
At times the voices could be heard by the
people on the lower floor of the hotel 1t is
believed, however, that the country is safe
! that the Newspaper men will continue 20 do
business at their old stands, and the Com
missioners and Controller will be permitted
| to pursue their course in their own way of
| thinking. The new spaper men of this county,
as a whole, are a pretty good set. Doyle, of
the Shenandoah Neios was not on hand and
| if he was in the town. nobody saw him. he
| fellows he has denominated as "hOgs" were
| lying in wait for him, but were obliged to
bottle their indignation
| Hon. Joel B. MoCamant came from Beth
lehem on Tuesday and helped celebrate the
| eightieth anniversary of his mother-in law
Mrs Boyle. "Uncle JOel' is in first class
health and never looked better. He is as
hard a Democrat as ever, but not of the
Cuckoo kind and on that account stands
higher in the estimation of his old friends
l believe Mr.. McCamant made a mistake in
leaving Schuylkill county. Had he remained
here he woulG no doubt be in Congress now
Another candidate for Congress has ap-
peared upon the horizon 10 the person of the
Representative of the First Legislative
district. That gentleman is soaring high
these times and he may land there, hotWith
| standing the lateness of the season and the
short ice crop, "Dave" Phillips boom for
the same office is hardly noticeable yet 1t is
| kept in the dark.