The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-07
The News OF Susquehanna Reduced to
Short Metre.
ONE WIDOWS THOUGHTFUL cow
Every Night She Brings Home on Her
Horns Enough Fuel to Last the
Next Day--singuIar Tastes of a
South Gibson Pony and Other Vera
cious Chroniciings from the North
eastern County.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Wnen the COW comes home to be MIXED
she brings enough wood and brush on
her horns to keep her mistress in fuel
for the next day. If her pasture ground
Is needed for bleaching purposes the
COW goes into a neighboring cowfleld
to eat. She always rests under a tree
during the noon hour, and starts to
eat again at l o'clock precisely. The
cow is Of a sky-blue color, dappled
with yellow.
A resident of South Gibson has a
pony which, besides feeding as horses
usually do, will satisfy carnivorous
tastes If he gets chance. He has been
known to devour very young chickens
straying within his reach and the sud
den disappearance from the stable of
q litter OF kittens, while their un-
suspecting mother had gone away for
few moments change and rest, from
parental duties, has been charged to
him.
HEARD ON THE BOULEVARD.
over 1880 Susquehannars on Mon
day sizzled and fried on the streets
of Binghamton, witnessing the parade
and corner store laying.
Hon. w. w. Mumford has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Starrucca.
The Erie shops were closed on Mon
day and Susquehanna people celebrat-
ed "the 5th" away from home
Rev. E. F. Allen, for some years
past in charge of the church in Wells
burg, N. Y, has accepted a call
to the pastorate of the Susqueharna
Baptist church
delegation Of Susquehanna and
vicinity people is preparing to take in
the great Epworth league gathering in
Toronto.
Several Susquehanna people received
invitations to attend Tammany Halls
celebration of the Fourth of July.
MONTROSE'S LATEST FREAK.
Our stately friend, the Montrose Re-
publican, seldom permits sensation
al story or a joke to appear in it's
columns, hence when the following was
found on it's local page on Saturday,
some of the older readers fled to the
mountains: about two weeks ago
three-legged chicken was hatched on
the farm of George C. Campbell, of
Chicago formerly the Passmore farm,
In Bridgewater township. Mr.. Camp
bell is going to send it on to a Chicago
museum" The Republican is getting
there" with neatness and dispatch. 1t
Is entitled to membership in our club.
RAILROAD MENTIONETTES.
Traffic on the Jefferson branch was
partially suspended on Monday. The
presence Of a man and a theodolite
serves to revive the antiquated rumor
that the Delaware and Hudson COM
d. II,
of its own between Lanesboro and Car
bondale.
There is a heavy run Of coal on the
Jefferson branch.
There are rumors of increased work.
ing hours on the Erie in the various
shops.
The cost of the Starrucca viaduct,
at Lanesboro, built in cheap times, was
about SS25,000 1t was built in two and
one-half wears.
The original cost of the old Cascade
bridge, four miles east of Susquehanna,
was about 100000, and, to fill up the
entire space beneath it, some years
later, cost $275,000, and consumed ten
years time.
The Erie has discovered that some
body has been counterfeiting it's 1000
mile books
The Brooks Locomotive works, of
Dunkirk, is shipping locomotives to
China and Japan. Several passed over
the Erie last week.
Nearly all of the locomotives on the
Delaware and Hudson road on, Satur-
day were decorated with flags.
REASON FOR PSAI.MUEL'S FAITH.
Brer Psalmuel More, the sage of the
Great Bend Plain-Dealer, in comment
ing on the alleged finding of terra cot
ia and coal at Steam Hollow, Great
Bend township, says: I'VE have had
great faith in the final success of this
enterprise ever since Mr. Hollenback
informed us years ago that a fortune
teller in New York who knew nothing
of the mining interests here had pre-
dicted that there was mineral wealth
to be discovered in Steam Hollow. Be
sides this he had dreamed of such sue
cess. We are a believer in dreams
when they come to pass, and as a re-
suit we are not surprised that there is
terra Gotta clay in Steam Hollow"
COUNTY CURRENCY.
The Democratic county convention
will be held in Montrose, August 8.
Montrose is to have hypnotic enter
tainments this week.
A consignment of silk from japan
has been received at the Hallstead silk
mill.
Sheriff Deacle has the usual quota of
summer boarders.
A number of the smaller towns Of the
county made very creditable celebra-
tions on Saturday.
1t is said that a new-style cabbage
bug is preparing to devour the sauer
kraut timber in some parts of the coun-
ty.
A NEW REMEDY.
Peregrinating Brer Ross, of the
Honesdale Independent, comes to the
front with a new remedy for the whoop-
ing cough The three-year- child of
Ledgedale family had the whooping
cough in a severe form. An old lady
happened along and told the father to
go to the brook, catch trout, mark
the place where he caught IL and bring
1t alive to the house. He did so, and
the woman took the trout out of the
pail, shook the water from 1t and held
1t so that three drops of water fell from
the mouth of the fish into that of the
child. She replaced the trout In the
pail and directed the man to put it back
where he caught it, remarking: THE
boy is cured of the whooping cough,
but the fish will die of it," The child
recovered. There is no record of the
death of the fish.
PARAGRAPHED NEWSLETS.
The funeral of an infant daughter of
MIR. and Mrs Benjamin Hobart, of