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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
THE OLDEST ENGLISH PAPER.
II Is the London Gazette--Pubiishc
First in 1868,

The oldest English newspaper Is,
though few people know it, the Lon
don Gazette, which was, ON its first
publication on November IA, 1865, known
as the oxford Gazette from the fact
of the parliament sitting at oxford
The name was changed on February
5, 1868, to the present one. But though
the London Gazette contains some
items of much interest to certain peo-
pie, such as those who have received
"honors' at the hands of royalty, or
those whose bankruptcies are an
nounced. 1T Is not newspaper in the
usual sense of the term; that is, as be-
ing read generally by the public
The honor of being the oldest news
paper of this class in the British Isles,
and hence probably in the world may
be unhesitatingly awarded to Borrow S
Worcester Journal, which made it's ap-
pearance in 1890, ten years before the
beginning of the eighteenth century.
1t has always had a wide circulation
among the higher classes of it's dis
trict, and is today as vigorous as ever.
But when 1t first came out it was not
under its present name, and this fac
| tor is of Importance in considering it's
claim to the premier honors of the
journalistic world.
Perhaps we ought to award the palm
of being the doyen of English jour
nails to the Lincoln, Rutland and Stam-
ford Mercury, still published weekly
| at Stamford. This paper has now, as
ever. truly great circulation. and an
enormous influence in the Eastern Mid
| land district. It's title is exactly the
same as it was on the day it was first
published, ia years ago. Hence this
| important factor should almost assign
to it the first place among extant news
papers.
There is in the Leicester museum a
copy of the 17l9 issue, consisting of four
| pages deny quarto, it's style that of
the old news letter. In July 1855, its
| circulation had become II 900 a week
| the highest at that time of any paper
out of London. Its price was then two
| pence, but is now a penny. with a cir
| culation of $4,000 weekly. Thomas
Cooper, the famous Chartist poet, was
on its staff in his younger days. The
| political complexion of this celebrated
paper is Liberal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08

Maud Clemow, Alice Maitland, Annie
Williams, Bessie and Edna Brown, Miss
Hunter, of Carbondale; Delta Howe. of
Herrick Centre, and Miss Carpenter, of
Olyphant Messrs. Gardner, Rosser,
Toman, Stone, Myers, Clemow, Baker,
Trip, Cramer John Lewis. II. j. De
Graw, Charles Hoyt, George Myers, w.
b. Thomas, John Rowe, Irwin Gilmore,
Gothic Mosier, Ray Whitlock, James
Baker, William and Henry Stevens.
The Ladies' Aid of the First Baptist
church, Jermyn, on the evening of Feb
ruary 30 will serve an oyster supper.
The invitation Is extended to all.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Mayfeld school board was held on Fri
day evening last, all members present
but Coggans. The secretary was in
structed to notify exTaX Collector
Brady to be present at the next stated
meeting of the board. The school at
tendance for the month of January was
very large. A report was made that
there were some pupils attending school
coming from homes where there were
cases of measles also that there were
some in attendance who had not con-
formed tC the vaccination law. The
principal was notified of the same. The
president reported that he had visited
the school during the cold Weather
to see If the school was properly heated
and found that the heating apparatus
was giving excellent satisfaction.
Mr.. Charles Hoyt, a clerk in the EN-
ploy of Simpson & Watkins, Mayleld
is visiting relatives in Pttston
Kerance Bergen, of Mayfeld Is very
i'll at his home on Lackawanna ave-
nue..
Mr.. Benjamin Mendelson, of Mayfeld
returned home after a few days visit
in Philadelphia.
An ordinance will be offered for pas
sage at the council meeting this even
ing establishing the width of Wyom-
ing avenue in Mayfield borough al
~ feet, 491a feet from the centre line OF
the track of the Wilkes Barre and West
Side Railway company as now laid
also fixing the width of the pavement
and distance of curb and tree line or
said avenue. There will be a specia
council meeting this evening in May.
field, when business of Importance viii
be transacted
Isaac Mendelson, of Maytield, callet
on friends in Scranton yesterday
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
PECKVILLE,

Mr.. and Mrs. Philetus Snedicor enter
tained number of their many friends
at their elegant new home last Friday
evening. A very enjoyable evening
was spent in social greetings after
which refreshments We're served. Those
present We're: Mr.. and Mrs George A.
Bell, Mr.. and Mrs. William Page, Mr..
and Mrs. M. Il. Wademan, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Barber, Mr.. and Mrs. Windsor
Foster, Mr.. and Mrs. John Berry, Mr..
and Mrs. William Johns, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph G.. Bell, Rev. and Mrs. S. c.
Simpkins, Mr.. and Mrs. William Allen.
Mr., and Mrs. z. p. Tinklepaugh, Mr..
and Mrs. r. ]. Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Day, Mr. and Mrs. Columbus
Hartman, Mrs. Saboth Williams, Mrs.
Thomas Pope, Mrs. David Brown, Mr..
and Mrs. Homer English, Mr.. and Mrs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
ALPINE ACCIDENTS,
Nearly Two Hundred Fatal Ones in
Thirty-siX Years.

From the London Telegraph.
Since the year 1860 nearly 200 fatal
accidents have occurred upon the Swiss
Alps alone. OF these how many We're
occasioned by maladroit, feeble or tim
id climbers? The safety of every
mountaineering party demands in ad-
vance that each member of it should
be practiced and steady climber; that
no serious ascent should be undertake
on by any man who can not rely upon
his own nerve and capabilities, his
power of braving fatigue and standing
cold; and finally that the party should
be accompanied by a sufficient num-
Der of professional guides. Leslie Ste
phens lays it down as rule that the
lCftiest mountain may be scaled with
safety by trained mountaineers, pro-
Vided that fine weather, good guides
and favorable conditions of rock and
snow have first been secured. ION the
other hand" he adds, there is no
mountain which may not be excessive
ly dangerous if the weather be bad,
the guides incompetent, the climbers
inexperienced, the conditions of rock
or snow unfavorable Who, for in
stance, can say with confidence until
he has besil tried that he has nerve
enough to stand the crucial test which
Professor Agassz confesses was almost
more than he could bear, when in lS4l,
he was one of a party of twelve who
ascended the Jungfrau, half of them
being professional guides, with the
celebrated Jacob Lenthold, who died
soon afterward of consumption, at
their head?"
I'VE started" wrote Agassiz, from
the Grimsel hospice at o'clock a. M,
on August 27, 1871, sleeping the first
night at the chal let's of Meril, and COM
peting the ascent of the Jungfrau next
day. our difficulties We're not a little
increased by heavy msts and intense
cold. AT last the ascent became more
and more steep, and every step had to
be cut in the ice. Lenthold kept us
close to the edge Of the ridge of frozen
snow, because the ice yielded there,
more easily to the axe. 1t was, however,
so trying to our nerves that |, for one,
should not like to repeat the expert
ence. The awful precipce beneath. us
was constantly in view, and we could
drive our alpenstocks through the rim
of frozen snow and gaze sheer down
through the hole into vast amphithe-
ater which seemed yawning to swallow
us thousands and thousands of yards
below The apez of the Jungfrau is so
small that only one person can stand
upon it, At p m. we started upon our
downward path, turning our faces to
the icy slope and feeling with the foot
for each step below, these steps be-
ing more than 700 in all, A ll.9O
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
Private Morals in the Public Service

The way to purify the public service is to
improve the private morals of men, The
time and place to begin is in childhood Let
the home and the school be kept pure; and
from these pure fountains will come forth
pure streams. They may become detiled
and unwholesome in spite of their origin,
but they are not likely so to do. Water will
become pure unless polluted by what with
which it comes in contact. AS rule, when
a child is trained up in the way he should
go, he will not depart from it when he
comes to maturity. But at the same time
that child is safer not to come in contact
with evil companionships. The great care
should be taken to protect him from con-
taminatng influences Even those who
have been vacinated had better not expose
themselves to smallpox. Let him that
thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
fail. The Christian Instructor
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AVOC.A.

The Central colliery of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal company will resume work
to-day. Old Forge will be idle during
the week.
Rev. ID. II. Smyth, of Hamilton
Square, n. j.. the newly elected pastor
of the Langcliffe Presbyterian church.
entered upon his duties yesterday at
both services. There was an unusually
large congregation present.
The Ladies' Home Mission society
will meet in the class rooms of the
Primitive Methodist church this after
noon. A full attendance is request
ed as business of Importance will be
transacted.
Mrs. II. Hines, Mrs. Hattie Bell Mrs.
w. Fl. Welles and Mrs. M. a. Mcclure
have been elected delegates to the w.
c. T. u. convention that will be held
at Wilkes Barre on February 10 and H..
James Allen and family, who resid-
ed in this town for number of years,
but recently have been residents of
Providence, will return in a few days
and will take up their abode in the
North End.
The Sarstield fair will reopen on Feb
ruary 16 and Will continue for about
| ticles will be CHANGED off, among them
being the white Shetland pony.
Mrs. Mary Purcell of the West Side,
| is seriously ill.
The remains of John Castner, who
| died at Pittston on Thursday, We're
| brought to this place on Saturday and
| Inferred in st. Mary's cemetery.
Mr.. j. J. Gordon, of Scranton, was
a visitor in town on Saturday.
! The Daughters of st. George will
meet on Wednesday evening. All mem
bers are requested to be present as
| there will be an initiation of Candi-
| dates.
| A peculiar accident befell Michael
| Lacuta, a resident of Dupont, on Fri
| day, which will probably result in fatal
| injuries. Peter Lacuta, a brother OF
the injured man, is about to erect a
residence, and during the past few
weeks the work of eXcavatng the cell
| lar had been in progress. Several days
| ago the laborers We're about to remove
some large powders by blasting them
| with giant powder They placed d
| quantity Of thl explosive among the
| rocks, and as thy uaC no ILs. at the
time to ignite it, they went hons anG
left the powder imbedded in the stone
| ON Friday, when Michael was about
to complete the work begun by the
other men, and while tampng the pow.
der, it suddenly exploded and he re.
| ceived the entire contents about the
face and hands. There We're severa
| severe gashes about the head and it /!
feared that he will lose his sight. DR.
| Pier was summoned and did all tina
was possible to alleviate his sufferings
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PRICEBURG.

Peter McGeterick visited in Olyphant
yesterday.
The political situation in this bor-
ouSh is very warm, The many ward
heelers are loudly demonstrating their
powers among the ignorant voters and
each candidate is confident OF victory.
The biggest fight is being put up by
the many aspirants for the Office of
tax collector, and it is rather ditFcult
to say which viii be the choice Of the
people.
Prof. John f. McCawley, of Carbon
dale, visited friends in town yester-
day.
The Priceburg social and dancing
class meet in Fadden's hall this even
ing.
Miss Eta Vail, of Carbondale, is the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. William Me
Laushlin, of North Main street.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr.. and Mrs. William D. Bryan, of
Washington, d. c., are visiting his sis
ter Mrs. I. E. Burr. Mr.. Bryan is one
Of the editors of the Washington Star.
lie is now taking a vacation, seeking
full recovery of health after a severe
illness of typhoid fever. His father,
Rev. E. D. Bryan, was formerly pastor
of the First Presbyterian church in
this city.
w. NJ. Lathrop spent Sunday with mis-
sister, Mrs Bevan, of Patterson, n. j..
NJ. f. Manley, of st. Mary's Seminary,
visited friends in this city Friday.
Edward Kinse, of Susquehanna,
called on friends in town Saturday.
Mrs. S. b. Mills, Mrs. O. c. Moore and
Mrs. George Burrill have issued cards
for a reception at the Mills residence
on Birllett street for next Friday.
The new Century club will meet with
Mrs. c. 7. Mealler on Monday after
noon, February Sth.
Miss Carolyn Mercereau, of Scranton,
is visiting Miss Josephine Burr.
Miss Annie Nealon has returned from
a visit with friends in Pittston.
Miss Anna Senny was visiting friends
in Waymart last week.
Miss Jennie Gerrity, of Pike street
is seriously ill.,
Misses Belle Histed, Lizzie Wylled
and Carrie Price Were the guests OF
friends in Pittston over Sunday.
Miss Emma Foster, of Scranton
spent Sunday with Miss Susie Jadwin
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Dove spent Sun
day with friends in Port Jervs.
Miss Lizzie Finlon is visiting friends
in Plymouth.
Miss Name Charlesworth, Of Scran-
ton, spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
II. w. Harrison.
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o'clock p. nj. we reached the chalets of
Meril, which we had left that morning
at the earliest dawn of day" The least
imaginative mind can readily surface
SO steep and slippery that 1t is mpos-
sble to think of it without a shudder
would have involved In the worst ac-
cident that ever happened on the Mat
terhorn-that which befell Lord Francis
Douglass and his three hapless COM
panions-it is notorious that one false
step made by an inexperienced climber,
and followed by the breaking of a rope,
was the sole cause of that terrible trag-
edy,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08

S. j. Calender, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Barnes Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Graham,
Mr. and Mrs Asa M. Scott, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wells c. Warner Mr.. and Mrs. 5.
M Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Mason Pick
ering, Mr.. William Peck; Misses Reba
Simpkins, Grace and Florence Taylor
and Olo Rogers, Peckville; Mr.. George
Connor, Miss Lena Shone, Mrs. j. w.
Price, Misses Edith and Hattie Price,
Mrs. William Skies and daughter, Ma
bel and Frank Calender of Scranton;
Mr. and Mrs. William Pyne and daugh-
ter, Jennie, of Dunmore, and Miss Bes-
sic Reese, of Jermyn.
Benjamin Phillips, of Hyde Park,
has been awarded the contract for the
rock tunnel of the Sterrick Coal COM
pany.
Robert Craig, the locomotive engi-
neer at the ontario colliery, and Miss
Emma Treux, of Herrick Centre, We're
married last Saturday. Mr.. Craig and
bride arrived in town yesterday and
will stop at the home of Minor Craig
for short time.
William Sykes, of Green Ridge, spent
Sunday in town.
The Sterrick Creek Coal company has
purchased the property of JeWett Nc
Cormick on Main street, adjoining the
Harrison House, and will erect a store
building.
Blakely council Junior Order United
American Mechanics, will hold special
meeting this evening to make arrange
ments for the funeral of their deceased
brother. Wellington A. Taylor.
All members of Oriental Star lodge
Free and Accepted Masons, Will meet
| at the Ladyard hall this evening to
make arrangements to attend the fu-
| neral of their deceased brother, Well
| ington A. Taylor. BY order of the Wor-
| shipful master, George A. Bell.
Archie Dunlap has been indisposed
for the past few days with throat trou
| BILE.
Albert Chapman and Leonard Simp-
kins will return to resume their studies
at Wyoming seminary this morning.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
Pleasant Entertainment.

James Walker, Of Powderly road
gave a social party on Friday evening
in honor of his sister, Miss Margaret
Walker. of Chicago, a former resident
of this city. A pleasant season was
enjoyed in dancing and social games.
Vocal and instrumental selections were
rendered during the evening by Daniel
Dempsey and Peter Sheridan. Among
the guests were: Misses Rose and
Anna Lee, Maggie and Lizzie quinn,
Anna, Mary and Bridget Joyce, Anna
Gerrity ana Mary Ruddy; Messrs. VIII
lam McDonough, Francis Lavelle, Mark
Hart, Thomas Walsh, Martin Casey,
Peter Bradley, Patrick McAllister and
Peter Sheridan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
MARRY HOME MEN.
Good Advice to Young American
Women About to Marry
'ittsburg Daily News.

From the Pittsburg Daily News
The discovery by the Princess de
Chimay that it is a mistake for an
American girl to marry 70 eigner
Is not new nor surprising. American
girls who allow themselves to be car
ried away by some titled European
generally find out that titles will
neither pay debts nor afford con-
geniality for girl who has been
brought up to look upon herself as the
equal of anything in existence.
In Europe there is no equality.
Everybody, from the woman who SITS
on the throne to the girl who peddles
beer at the public house, is continually
agitated as to her rlace in the end
less procession of precedence. Which
being the case, the Individual counts
for nothing and station counts for al.
Foreigners cannot understand the re-
gard which Is felt for women by Amer
leans. They cannot comp etend that
an American girl in America is as fit
to have precedence of the queen as the
queen is fit to have precedence of the
girl. Foreign ways are so differ nj
from our ways, and liberties so sadly
lacking abroad, that no American of
spirit can go abroad and live there
and become one of the people.
Nor is the re,a'ion between TIL
sexes such as to- inspire respect for
foreiGn men, no matter what their
station. In Europe women work in
the fields and break one on the roads
| and carry hods to masons and are
are yoked uo with dogs and COWS to
pull carts. They are kept in a posi-
ton of servitude, 10 matter whetr e.
| of high OF lowly birth, the mastei 5
being the males of the family. A wife
| is a slave. A foreigner settling in
| this country is not good man for an
American girl to marry. Foreign
customs are too widely different from
| the freedom that prevails at home. 1t
| is perhaps sweeping statement, but
| it is doubtful if ever an American Cir
married abr-ad and lived as happ ly
as if she had married an American
| and lived in her native land.
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TAYLOR.

Rev. John Morris, of Bellevue, vis-
tied in this town on Saturday.
William Richards, of the First ward,
who has been on visit to Wales, re-
turned home on Friday evening much
benefited from the trip.
Misses Grace Lowry and Rosie Drear
have been visiting relatives at Ran
som for the past few days
officer Edmond Carter visited Price
burg on Saturday.
Plank street walks are badly needed
on North Main street, as the residents
have to wade through mud and water
ankle deep before they can cross to the
opposite side.
Professor Lewis Watcyns and his
class expect to give an entertainment
in the near future. The class meets ev-
cry Monday evening, and the members
are making rapid progress.
The employees of the Taylor silk fac
| tory We're paid on Saturday for Janu-
ary.
Mrs. William NJ. Evans, of Hyde
Park, visited relatives in this town yes
terday.
Mr.. and Mrs, j. E. Davis spent Sat
| urday at Priceburg.
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A mine car was thrown from the mar
row guage road, leading from Carbon
dale breaker on Friday, and dashed
upon the tracks of the jefferson divis-
ion of the Erie railroad. Fortunately
party of miners returning from work
on the car saved themselves from the
fall by jumping out. The car came in
collision with a small mine engine used
on the road and was lifted from the
track and thrown down the steep bank.
Engineer Schuester seeing the car com
ing was able with great effort to save
his engine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
officers of Rock Cliff Water Company

An adjourned meeting of the stock
holders of the Rock Cliff Water com
pany was held at the Miners and Me-
chanics' bank on Saturday. The resig-
nation of w. II. Hankins as director
was accepted and L. "A. Paterson was
elected to fill the vacancy. The former
board of directors was reelected as
follows: w. A. May, r. II. Patterson,
Thomas Leyison, E. NJ. Peck and Will
lam Bowers. No dividend was de-
clared an account of heavy expenses
for improvements during the past year.
The board then elected w. y. May,
president, and l.. A. Patterson as sec
retary and treasurer.
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Some unknown miscreant on Friday
evening between and 10 by powerful
blow with some kind of instrument de-
molished an entire window in the home
of Mrs. S. a. Briggs. The sash and
the large window panes We're complete
ly wrecked. Mrs. Briggs and lady
friend had just returned from relig-
ious service when the crash came that
startled the household. The miscreant
was heard to hurry away. No reason
can be given for the outrageous act.
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A Claim TO Autiuuity.

Mother" said thoughtful Boston child
to his maternal relative.
What is it, Wado?"
rs Philadelphia older than Boston,
mother?'
"Of course not, my son. The first set
tlement was made in Charlestown in 1880,
while William Penn did not arrive on the
site of Philadelphia until tifty-two years
later"
THAT was always my impression, mo-
ther, but how is it that Philadelphia is
mentioned in the Bible, while Boston is
not""-Pttsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08
Ifthe Baby Is Cutting Teeth.

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for over fifty years by mill
lions of mothers for their children
While teething, with perfect success II
soothes the child. softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie and is
by druggists in every part of the world
Be sure and call for Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup" and take no other
kind. Twenty-Five cents a bottle. ss
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The NIaytieId Hotel.

Contractor A. E. Tiffany, of this city,
has signed a contract to rebuild the
Mayfeld Yard hotel, which was de-
stloyed by fire few weeks ago. The
building, three stories high, with a
mansard roof. will be made larger than
the former structure. Masons are al
ready at work upon the foundation
walls and the hotel is to be finished by
the first of April.
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CARbONDALE:.

tReaders will please note that advertlse-
ments, orders for job work. and items ior
publication left at the establishment ol
Shannon & Co.. newsdealers, North MAN
street, will receive prompt attentloh' oi
flee open from a. m. to 10 p. MI
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-08

Funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. Betsey Dimock will be private this
morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Y. E. Jepson
officiating. The interment will be made
at Prompton.