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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
sheriTs 8 Sale.

BY virtue OF a writ of Levari FaciaS issued out
of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan county
and to me directed and delivered there will be
exposed to public sale at the Court House in La
porte, Pa, on
THURSDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1895.
at O'Clock p. In the following described proper
ty viz
All that certain piece, parcel or tract Of land
lying and being situated in the Borough of La
porte County OF Sullivan and State OF Pennsyl-
vania bounded as follows:
Beginning at the southwest corner of Cherry
and Muncy streets thence south sixtysix feet
along Muncy street to the northeast corner oi
John Weiks lot thence along said Weik's
north line west two hundred and sixty feet to a
corner in Blackberry Alley thence along said
Alley north sixty-siX feet to n corner in Cherry
street, thence along Cherry street East two hun
dred and sixty feet to the place of beginning
Containing sixty-three perches be the same more
or less.
Land all improved and having erected thereon
a two story framed dwelling house and out build
ings, fruit trees etc.
Seized, taken into execution and to be sold as
the property OF Anna Hill and B. +. Hill at the
suit of r. f. Rolason and II. L. Metcalf
ELLIS SWANK Sheriff
BRADLEY Atty.
Sheriff's Office. Laporte Pa, Nov. II, 1898.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
A PECULIAR ISLAND.
MONEY HAS NO VALUE IN LONELY
TRISTAN D'ACuNl4A.

Its Queer Old tiovernor and the Resssn of
Hi. Being There-A Happy and Conte"ted
People Who Know Nothing of the Out
side World.
Did you ever hear of place where
money was useless? Well, there Is such
a place. II is the island of Tristan
d'Acunha, in the South Atlantic, about
midway between the Cape OF Good
Hope and the Soutl. American coast.
But you mustn't jump to the conclusion
that money has no value there because
the island is unii abited. 1t has a
population of sixty-four. and is the
tiniest of Great Britain's many small
colonies
Once year the British government
sends off ship to the island. Just
why this should be done is not quite
clear. A yearly mail service is quite
unnecessary, for although the sixty
four inhabitants are British subjects
they never receive any mail. They
lead solitary existence. knowing
nothing of the great world beyond their
shores and caring less.
Some time ago, for some reason or
other, the King of Italy sent donation
of two hundred dollars for distribution
among the inhabitants. A gentleman
named Cane, who had visited the is
land, commenting on this fact, wrote a
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
MOUNT DESERTS DEER.

They May Not BE Shot and So Are>on Most
Friendly Terms With the World.
The hunting season in Maine opens
on Oct. 1, but the herd on Mount Desert
! will not be molested, because there is
special law which forbids the hunting,
killing or taking of deer ON this island
| for term of five years. A few deer
on the island are undoubtedly killed
each season, but without the facts ever
! reaching the knowledge of the game
! wardens.
Since the law went into effect two
or three years ago, the deer on Mount
Desert have been rapidly increasing
until now the island abounds with these
| willy creatures. The farmers have al
ready begun to regard the deer as an
unnecessary evil, and complain that
they enter fields and damage their
crops. In several instances the town
officials have been notified of damage
| done to crops by deer. and compensa-
tion has been demanded. AS the deer
have never been hunted, they have he
come quite tame, and bold enough Ito
make frequent raids upon the farmers
fields and gardens. Some OF the AMI
mails even mingle with the COWS and
sheep, and have got on friendly terms
with the dogs. The farmers, no doubt,
find it convenient at times to kill a
good fat doe, but do not boast of it,
for fear of being prosecuted and fined
By the wardens.
Farmer Walls, who lives down at
Otter Greek, was surprised to find a.
handsome doe in his barnyard one
morning this summer. The doe was
standing contentedly in the midst of
the cattle and did not appear to he
frightened when Walls entered the
barnyard The deer had come up from
the pasture and into the yard with the
cattle on the previous evening un-
noticed in the darkness. When the
cows We're turned back into the pasture
the deer followed them. \ few days
later, when Mrs. Walls was washing
out some clothes in her kitchen. she
was startled by the same doe pokiiig
her nose through the half-raised win
dow Farmer Walls. who was in the
stable, heard his wife scream. and go
ing to her assistance, drove the visitor
away.
Two fine looking deer held up 4
coaching party on the N Drive one
day last week by plar dg themselves
directly across the I'D and refusing
to move until d TO do so by the
whip of or de coachmen. The
odd-lookin. 5ons of the tourists, no
doubt, fascinated the animals while the
pleasure seekers were more than de-
lighted to see their first wild deer
The deer on Mount Desert are being
preserved chiefly for the benefit Of
sportsmen who visit Bar Harbor and
the adjoining resorts, and who will find
excellent sport and good shooting when
the Ave years close time has expired.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24

letter to the London Graphic. which
throws an additional light upon these
strange islanders. He said in part
1T may not be generally known. but
it is none the less a fact, that money
is OF no value to these people. When
| was there, in 1884, | offered money il.
exchange for their curiosities, but it
was politely but firmly declined. They
had no use for it, they said. On the
other hand, articles of clothing such as
woollen undervests and socks, suited to
the rigor of the climate, were received
with the utmost appreciation.
The island Of Tristan d'Acunha
which has been described as the lonli-
est British possession on the face OF
the globe, well bears out its reputation.
1t is mountainous place, the highest
peak rising to an altitude of S,2S6 feet
above the sea level The head man.
OF the island, known as the Governor
is picturesque old fellow named Peter
William Green. He was shipwrecked
over sixty years ago, and when his
shipmates were finally taken off, the
kindness which he had experienced at
the hands of the islanders led him to
remain behind and cast his lot with
them.
He was afterward married to one of
the women of the island So great be.
came his popularity that upon the death
of the then Governor, the islanders I'M
animously elected Peter to fill his place
and this Office he has occupied ever
years old, but is hale and vigorous
His administration of primitive justice
has won him the respect and esteem OF
his followers.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
The Cigarette in Europe.

The cigarette was first introduced
into this country at the close of the
Crimean War by British officers. who
had found themselves under compul
sion to adopt Turkish fashions of con.
suming tobacco, seeing that there was
not decent cigar TO be obtained foi
love or money throughout the length
and breadth of the Ottoman Empire
Pipe smoking was strongly discouraged
at regimental messes forty odd years
ago; indeed, it is scarcely tolerated at
the present day in some of the tone
giving" military and noble" clubs in
Germany
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Trial List, December Term, 1898

l A. C. Haverly, VS. Benjamin Kuykendall, Jr.
No II May Term 1897, Trespass. Plea mot gull
ty'' Mullen, Thomson
Mitchell, Young d Co. VS. A. J. Hackley, No,
l0i Sept. Term 1895, Scire Facias Plea, Payment
payment with cause &c, Hill, Inghams.
3 James McFarlane, VS. W. c. Mason. No. %
Feby. Term 1897. Defendants Appeal, Plea.
Non Assumpsit, payment, payment with leave to
set off. Hill, Inghams
Merritt Shatfer. VS. Sosephine FitzPatrick. No.
Us May Term 1898. Feigned Issue Plea Pay
ment. Inghams, Mullen.
Martin Markle, VS. L. V. Ingham, No. lj4
Sept Term 1897. Defendants Appeal Plea Non
AssumIsit Payment payment with leave sc.
Hill, inghams
f. NJ. Lewis, VS. j. W. Ballard, No bee.
Term 1897: Defendants Appeal. Plea, Men
AssnmIsit Payment, payment with leave Ac.
! F. H. Tomlinson VS. Jacob A. Meyers and
William l. Taylor, No. Feb. +. ls9s Ejectment.
Plea, not guilty. HILL Mullen
$ J. Vim. Allen and Martha Allen VS. Taper
Hunsinger and Rush j. Hunsnger No. 9s May 4.
1898, Replevin. Mullen and Thomson. Hill
and Piatt
Q ]. VIM. Allen and Martha Allen vs. Taper
Hunsnger and Rush ]. Hunsinger, No. 80 May
I. 1898. Ejectment. Mullen and Thomson Hill
and Piatt.
WIN. J. LAWRENCE, Proth.
Prothys. Office, Laporte, Pa Oct. 81 1895.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Registers Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the following ac
counts have been filed in my Office, viz
First and final account of August Marshall Ex
ecutor.
First and final account OF Carl +. Hcess. Guar
dian.
First and final account OF Chas L. Little Ad
ministrator.
First and final account of Peter L. Messersmith
Executor.
First and final account OF Hannah Brobst and
Lyman Is. Speaker, Executors.
Also the following widows appraisement: In
the estate of Miles A. Burns, deceased.
And the same will be presented to the Orphans
Court OF Sullivan county on Monday December
l2. 1898, at 8 O'Clock p. m. for confirmation and
allowance
WM. j. LAWRENCE, Register
Registers office, Laporte Pa, Nov IA, 1895
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Killed the Chief Priest.

1t used to be the custom when the
chief priest of one of the Congo tribes
showed symptoms Of illness to kill him
forthwith. either by strangulation or
by the aid of club, the natives believ.
ing that il he were allowed to die by
perish
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Pace of CnnleIs.

Seven miles an hour is the camel's
best pace, nor can it maintain this rate
over two hours. Its usual speed Is
about five miles an hour-a slow
lounging pace, beyond which it is dan.
gerous, with nine camels out of ten, to
urge them, or else, as Asiatics say, they
break their hearts" and literally die
on the spOt.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
INCORPORATION Notice

Notice is hereby given that an application for
the incorporation of the Borough OF Eagles Mere
was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions in
and for the county of Sullivan. on the 20 of Sep
tember 1898, and an order then made by the Court
that the same be filed with the Clerk, and notice
thereof given in one newspaper of the said county
Tor period of not less than thirty days immed-
lately before the next regular term OF the court
following the presentation of such application
and the filing thereof; and that a hearing will be
given to said application at the next regular term
of said court.
WM. J. LAWRENCE, Clerk
lNGHAMS Attorneys. Oct lSqS
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24

Pneumatic cushions of rectangular
form are placed beneath the floor. seats
and seat backs of a new English rail
way carriage to lessen the shocks and
jars of the road the frames supporting
the seats being loosely mounted to
have free movement on the cushions
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Glove silver.

Glove silver was the strange name
given to custom which prevailed in
England during the Middle Ages
namely, the granting of certain sum
of money to servants to buy gloves
with ON Lammas Day, or, as it is called
now, Bank Holiday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Card. Inf.sted with Germs.

A distinguished French specialist
says that cards frequently played with
are absolutely impregnated with germs.
On square centimeter of one card he
found no fewer than 6,16O bacteria
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Administratrix Notice.

Estate OF Walter Spencer, late of Laporto Boro.
Sullivan county. deceased.
Letters of administration upon the above named
estate having been granted to the undersigned,
all persons having claims against the same will
present them for payment, duly authenticated;
and those indebted thereto, will please make
immediate payment to
EMMA SPENCER, Admrx
a. J.BRADLEY, Atty. Laportc Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
Executors Notice.

Estate OF Frederick Heinze late OF Elkland
township, deceased.
Notice Is hereby given that Letters Testamen-
tary upon the estate of said decedent have been
granted to the undersigned. All persons indebt-
ed to said estate are requested to make payment
and those having claims or demands against the
same will make them known without delayNto
CHRISTIAN Z. HEINZE, Executor,
Lake Run Pa. Oct, IL 1898.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
County Seat Indices.
AND CHANCES AT THE TIMES.

Think up your thanks.
-Corbett won't have much of a
Thanksgiving.
Christmas is beginning to show
in the windows.
Added to our other blessings
there is a big bear crop.
Fred Keeler of Nordmont was a
business man in town Tuesday.
Howard Lyons of Williamsport,
stopped at the county seat between
trains Saturday.
Co. Supt. F. w. Meylert is busy
this week making his formal visits
to the schools in Cherry township.
1t is officially reported that an
acid factory employing seventy-five
men will be in operation at Nord-
mont by next spring.
Proth'y Lawrence and M.P.Gavitt
have purchased the Presbyterian
church at this place.
Mrs. William Lawrence is visit
ing Wilkes Berry friends this week.
VIM. Fraley and family left
Wednesday morning for visit with
Scranton friends.
John Chilson an employee of
Milton Reeder, had his led broken
above the knee by falling from a
pile of lumber at the Sock mill on
Tuesday.
Samuel Cole, the popular hard
ware dealer of Dushore, was doing
business in town one day last week.
Lyman O. Harvey of Sonestown
was in town Friday and bought a
News ITEM receipt reaching nearly
to the new century. Sorry we
havn't more subscribers like Lyman.
When death takes one from Il COM
munity, few give the event serious
thought, but when one turns to self
slaughter when in the bloom of
youth as did A. Judson Boyles, who,
rather than to bear the ills made by
his own hand, "fiew to Others that
he knew not Of" awakens in all a
realization. We deplore the sad
event, which seems to be one of those
mysteries we cannot fathom, and ex-
tend tender sympathy for those up
on whose lives has fallen the blight
of this appalling affliction, yet it is
an evil from which moral good can
be drawn. Through this sad deed
shines warning. Nothing so much
demoralizes a young man or woman
as impurity of body and mind. They
lose their self respect and become
brutes in thought and act. The un-
derstanding loses its judgment; the
memory, its retentiveness; the heart,
its fervor; the will, it's resolution.
The eyes are the windows of the
soul. Death, says jeremiah, has en-
tered by my windows, and my soul
is become prey to my eyes. Holy
Job made league with his eyes.
He knew well that the eyes were
the inlets to all the malice of the
heart; and that if he kept a strict
guard upon them and the avenues of
his sences, his interior would be
secure and out of danger. If you,
therefore, wish to prevent evil
thoughts, let your eyes be modestly
reserved, and make league with
them never to look upon anything
which is not permitted you to desire.
Purity is like a looking glass; it is
tarnished by the slightest breath. In
our day, there is special reason why
we should be ON our guard against
low, degrading influences. This is
the epoch of newspapers and OF
money making. Newspapers are
full of miserable scandals that ex-
cite the curiosity of the young, and
just now, rs never before, except,
perhaps, in the time of Lord Byron,
the country is in caldron of immor.
al excitement. Let your reading be
confined to what will elevate, dignity
and enoble your nature.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
As to Lager Beer.

No matter how many orders are re-
ceived, no beer ever leaves the best
German breweries until 1t has been
standing for at least three months.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
BOarderS.

John. " Finkle has opened his large
and comfortable house for the accomoda-
tion ofcourt boarders, and also for rcgu-
lar boarders by the day or week, at rea
sonable rates.
Corner OF Maple and Muncy SITS, ,Laporte.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24

A geologist has figured out that the
burnt at once would not give as much
heat as the sun does in the tenth of
second
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
WilliamspOrt & North Branch R.R
TIME TABLE,
In Effect Tuesday Sept. ID. 1893.
Northward.
Southwark.
pm.lp.n m.

pm p. m. a m. p m
All trains daily except Sunday; "f" flag
stations.
Connections with the Philadelphia & Reading
az Halls, for all points north and south. and the
Fall Brook and Beech Creek railroads. At
Satterfeld for all points on the Lehigh Valley
railroad. At Sonestown with the Eagles Mere
railroad.
R. f. EAvENSoN, Gen, Manager
HughesvWeP
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
rom ON Sue. CannI.

The toll on an ordinary ship passing
through the Suez canal averages about
$4,000. The distance is 80 miles.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24
COURT PR0CLAMATION

WHEREAS, Hon. Z. NJ. DuNHAM. President
Judge, Honorables John S. Line and Conrad
kraus Associate Judges of the Courts OF Oyer and
Terminer and General Jail Deliverer, Quarter
Sessions of the Peace, Orphans Court and Com
mon Pleas for the County of Sullivan have issued
their precept, bearing date the 2S day of Sept
1898, to me directed, for holding the several
courts in the Borough of Laporte, on Monday the
18th day of Dec. 1898, at O'Clock p. m.
Therefore, notice is hereby given to the Coroner
Justices of the Peace and Constables within the
county, that they be then and there in their prop
er person at o'clock p. IN. of said day with their
rolls, records, inquistions examinations and
other rememberances to those things to which
their offices appertain to be done. And to those
who are bound by their reorganization to prosecute
against prisoners who shall be in the Jail of
the said county of Sullivan, hereby notified to
be then and there to prosecute against them as
will be just.
ELLIS SWANK, Sheriff
Sherif's Office. Laporte, Pa, Oct. 81. 1898
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24

Powder, shot, caps, and full line of
hunters ammunition including buckshot
shells at }. w. Bucks.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24

For gum boots and rubb-rs go to j w.
Buck, Sonestown.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-24

j. w. Buck has some OF his holiday
goods on hand already.
The record-union., 1898-03-07
Mabel Heating, the Notorious Pick
pocket, Fatally Wounded.
Receives a Bullet in the Breast Fired By
Jerry Sullivan.
Wing Tung to be Hanged at San
Quentin Next Friday for the
Murder OF His Uncle at San
Francisco in September Last.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 6.-Mabel
Keating. known from New York to san
Francisco as The Queen of Pickpock-
cts" was shot and fatally wounded this
evening by Jerry Sullivan, a City Hail
janitor. IN the saloon of her husband,
who also received a bullet from the
same revolver.
Just before I o'clock Sullivan entered
Keating's saloon, on the corner )f
Grant avenue and Morton street, and
called for a drink. Before serving him
Heating demanded payment of bill
alleged to be due. Sullivan made an in
sulting reply, which brought Mrs. keat-
ing to the front. Her remarks enraged
Sullivan, who drew his pistol and shot
her in the left breast, in1licting a wound
turned his revolver on Heating and sent
a bullet through the back of his neck.
The wound is not considered dangerous.
though it caused the janitor's victim To
fall to the floor.
Sullivan was Immediately arrested
and locked up in the City Prison. He
is said to be an opium fiend, and bears
a bad reputation, having attempted TO
kill his sister several months age.
Mabel Heating is stated by the police
to be a notorious confidence operator,
and is reported to have cleared over
/ $4,000 by disreputabe practices at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago.
The record-union., 1898-03-07

ishers coming on and taking possession
OF both those places. He does not be
lieve that a fight Will result between
the Uaited States troops ana the N 1unt-
ed police unless the latter are over
bearing or iHSolent. In fact. il is be-
lieved by the more conservative ele-
ment on the passes that the mounted
police VIII Withdraw, under protest,
without creating any disturbance.
The position taken by the Canadians
in encroaching upon American terri
tory is We'll understood in officials cir
eles al Victoria and Ottawa. The Ca
nadians, who are attempting 20 secure
possession Of the passes and trails to
the Klondike, seek 10 secure an inter
probation Of the clause allowing the
United States a strip of thirty miles.
that viii draw the boundary thirty
miles from the open sea, regardless Of
inlets. Skaguay and Dyea would
under such an Interpretation, be over
fifty miles inside of the British boun-
dary, inasmuch as they are located at
the head of Lynn Canal. which pro-
Jects over 100 miles inland
The record-union., 1898-03-07
STAND FOR AMERICA.
Patriotic Words OF Father Malone
to Irish-Americans.

DENVER. March G.-The biggest
gathering of IrishAmerican citizens
ever assembled in this city filed the
Broadway Theater this afternoon The
occasion was the celebration of the
centennial anniversary of the Irish re-
belion of 179S
The orators were Rev r. H. Malone.
S. J. Donlevy, National President of the
Centennial Association of America; II.
NJ. Patterson and 2. j. Sheridan.
Father Malone's address was a critical
and historical review of the movements
of the united Irishmen. Incidentally,
he alluded to the recent speech of
Father Weber of New York "As Irish
men and Irish Americans, said Father
Malone, our cordial sympathy goes
out to all people struggling for freedom
As Irish Catholics We cannot too se-
verely condemn the words of that mis-
guided priest in New York. who said it
was the duty Of Catholics to support
Spain in a conflict with this country.
We stand for America against every
other country on earth, and the promp1
disclaimer Of the great Archbishop OF
New York for responsibility for his
priests utterance meets a hearty re-
oktitSS nun t4lC SdtilViiCS VI THE NrSt
The sentiments were loudly cheered
S. j. Dunlevy's ringing declaration
that Irish nationalisn was neither Cath
olicism or Professionalism was loudly
applauded. The speaker received an
ovation as he declared for an Irish re-
public, a free people, free land and Il
nation self reliant on all essentials
The address of Messrs. Patterson and
Sheridan were also we'll received.
a delegation was present from each
Irish-American organization in the
State
The record-union., 1898-03-07
MOUNTED INSPECTORS.
q New Feature in Customs Dis
tricts in the North.

PORT TOWNSEND. March Ga fea-
ture heretofore unknown in the Puget
Sound Customs District has been inau-
gurated. 1t consists of mounted in
spectors. and the first man appointed
to position on horseback is Enoch f.
Plummer of this place. Collector Hues-
It's was recently authorized by the
treasury Department to establish
mounted inspector patrol on the bound
ary between eastern Washington and
british Columbia, With headquarters at
Northport A mounted inspector is al
lowed salary of So 30 per day and is
expected to cover the boundary lire for
a distance of from twenty-five to forty
miles as often as possible.