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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-02
,coNNELLSBURG BANDS.
p,s,i sketch of the Organi2a-
Gons. Spiccd With Il Few
Incidents.

hands of McConnellsburg
=. aid furnish material for a big
d /, The followingarticle which,
4 oorvse. is much condensed,
aid in bringing to the minds
= ,,o bovs many Of the funny
kngs that occurred during the
+ St forty years,
Erbere are several persons who
4 Nocedat intervals whosenames
\ not now recalled.
|nuripg the days of the Guards
\ other military organizations
4 0ro we're drum corps that won
EItnction in their way, andabout
,cb it would be interesting to
j he, but they must be looked
or at some other time.
EDnnng the summer of 1889,
4 <,entiment in favor of a Cornet
md was awakened, and John
4 M. william Orth, and David
INultv started out with a sub
Eption paper, and it was not
until they had the necessary
ds subscribed, the instru
&nts were purchased, and the
&Ed organized as follows: LIST Il
Bob Divelbis; I'd r. fiat,
rer NJ. Lump; 1st b fiat, II. N.
Miner: I'd B fiat, Samuel Shoe
&ker: lst alto, John Linn; I'd
4 David Goldsmith; lst tenor,
4 am Boerner: I'd tenor, James
. liner; baritone, VIM. Orth;
ks. David McNulty; bass drum,
n. Sterrett; snare drum,
bert Stoner; and cymbals, Ben
bin Sinner.
bandmaster, named Shat
In, of Chambersburg, was
pOyed to drill the boys, and
the fall Of the next year, 1860
" were in good shape to take
in the exciting Lincoln
lgIass-Bell campaign.
During one of the campaigns
len the band was makinga a tour
the county, the members, as
as the political speakers,
e one night entertained at the
&pitable home OF our old Dem
atic friend Bartimeus Smith,
Belfast township. While the
Se was commodioUS, and suf-
Pntly well provided with beds
CcOmmOdate a moderate in
of visitors, this gang proved
many Bart just threw his
open and bade his guests
ic themselves comfortable.
Tcmgnfolks We're generous
ugh to surrender their bed
pms to the band boys, and the
pen bunked in a small room
Themselves down stairs,
fen Smith, Judge MILESTONE
two others whose names is
now recalled, played cards in
kitchen on the head Of the
IS drum all night.
quite a number Of them did not
70 bed, so that those who did,
not get much sleep. TO put
+ letime the boys were playing
q 6s' ON each other. Sammy
n Wemaker had just settled him
IN a big arm chair tilted
against the jamb Of the BIG
place, and was just swinging
INTO dreamland, when Mart
Poer came by and could not
NC the temptation Of kicking
pmy's chair out from under
Tie did so and Sam came
D on his back on the hearth.
was now thoroughly awake
as mad rs Il man could well
and it took about a half Il do2.
% Keep him from doing Mart
lie had the satisfaction,
ever, of getting even before
nmg, Mart got sleepy later
n Went to bed. Not being able
E'eep much, he arose and came
d stairs without taking the
'oIe of dressing. The boys
cned ior an opportunity ano
n III Mart was near the door o.
room in which the women
e'lhey quickly opened it,gayC
Tla Violent shove that landeC
IN the room with the women
'hen held the door shut,
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GLEANINGS.
Items of Interest from our Neigh.
boring Counties

w ullt '0Outll GIN IdlliOdU JNt
freight cars jumped the track at
the tauneryat McrcersburgTues-
day morning
Cards are out announcing the
marriage i'm the Methodist church
at Hancock, at 5 o'clock i'm tho
evening Of August oth, Miss
Cora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Morgrct, and Rev. Arthur
Hart Mckinley, Of Hancock.
Calvin J. Matthews, formerly
Of Mercersburg, who enlisted in
the United States marine corps
at Williamsport, Md, a year ago,
was wounded at Tieu Tsin, ac-
cording to the reports cabled to
this country from the Chinese
city.
Whilcrcturniug FROM Berkeley
Springs to Hancock one day last
week with load of eggs, r. II.
| Cohills team became frightened
and ran about four. miles. scattor.
ing about $500 eggs along the
route The wagon was badly
damaged and one of the horses
was killed
Jobn Mann of - Rlocl, Od.
Ridpe.comDleted his 5tst harvest
this wear rs a cradle,, He and
John Flowers cradled four crons
this harvest and cut some of the
largest rye ever crown in this
county ON tom of Sideling Hill
One dav they cut % dozen of rye
between 5 and 4 O'Clock, Ham.
cock Star
n,bo u.;ro ,f % mon, ,,,,od nf,on
oyor in h,onIin oo,,oty nrosortod
him with g fine how mis- was o.
new moon. The father celebrat-
cd the event bv drinking and was
soon q halls larar ful. moon
When he avol,a he'd +wonty-gye
cents. This WAS ,lelast quarter
| His mother-in-law beat him over
the head with a club. this giving
him a total eclipso
A Iooono+iyo pam oyo,. , ,yonon
ot ,bo robrs+o,r, s,otio, tho o+,
or d,yo,d or, oro of ho,.lous off
ohovo tbo I,noo nh, snr,oro,. ,,,o :,
hrrriod oc,oy 3, , ,,,o,.,,, ho.,,;t
oI. and chilo tbo .ovoro1 loo was,
left LIVING ON the pIatform = few
minutes some scoundrel stole
from il one hundred dollars in
banl, notos which the woman had
placed in ,ue stocking for safe
keeping
stron,o, ,o.sinn ,b,.on,,b
po,h 1rollo,, ~. I1r;d.r nam WI
law, IIm ,ro,,1d ho,o i,,,o,,i,od ~
n,,,o,,,, ,,.,. ,oi,,,. ,o,,,,od 90 o.a
10 Cbina II, al drooti,ns mo,,
,,oro ,nnni,o ,yitb 'is,ols or a,,,
G,o a,,m NAV conId ont thoir
hond. on MIA, ,,,oro no, ,,ai,,o.
to China, however, but were in
search Of mad dog which had
come over the mountain from
Orbisona. They got him and shot
him near Willow Hill.-Franlllin
Repository
The teochers of fine various
schools nj Mercersburo and tbeiI.
salaries are MS follows. Princi.
n,I Prof + L. Finafrocl, $50.
| Assistant pl,inciuul Sadie NJ
Porller. a83 Granmar Marry r..
Patterson. $50, Assistant Gram
man, Rebecca 4 Ayuew s2s. Intel.
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been temporarily housed in the building of
Mr.. Joseph Hodgson, on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. above 21st street. On November a
fire here destroyed nearly the entire war
records OF the government but one volume
being saved. On June 20 following a fire
broke out in the Treasury building, but
though 1t was confined to a few rooms val
liable records We're destroyed. That the
building was not entirely destroyed is
probably due to the government having at
hand one of the simple fire engines of the
two purchased for that department at
cost Of $oo1 ., under an act passed a week
before leaving Philadelphia: These build
south of f street IN
The Post Office Department had found
lodgment at the corner of 9th and streets
and other offices, some with but one en-
ploye' were conducted in private houses.
Ihe state Department was then under
John Marshall of Virginia, who, having
made reputation as tan officer in the revo-
luton, as representative IN Congress and
diplomat, passed from the department to
the bench of the Supreme Court, filling the
1885. ~
Mr.. Wolcott Was Displeased.
Oliver Wolcott of Connecticut. who sue
ceeded Alexander Hamilton in Washngton's
cabinet, came with Adams fas Secretary OF
the Treasury, but served only till Deem
Der 81, 1900. Mr.. wtolcott evidently was
not overpleased with the removal, for he
refers In letter to the government hay
ing left the comforts of Philadelphia to go
to the Indian place with the long name in
the woods on the Potomac" Samuel Dex-
ter of Massachusetts came in charge of the
war Department, but was transferred to
the Treasury. Mr.. Stoddert was in charge
Of the Navy Department as its first Sec
rotary. He was at home here. having his
residence In Georgetown, and was largely
interested In property there and In the
lands taken for the new city. Joseph Ha-
bersham of Georgia, who became Postmas-
ter General in 1795, was continued In JEFF
eral was Charles Lee of Virginia, appointed
in 1895. Important were his services to the
city In the matter of advising the President
and the commissioners in regard to the TAX
ing and disposal of property, etc. and for
the time being at least much of their work
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officers have since resided and conducted
the ordinary business of the government in
this place.
Il congratulate the people of the United
States" President Adams continued, ION
the asSemplage of Congress at the perma-
nent seat of the government; and l con-
graduate you, gentlemen. on the prospect
of a residence not to be changed. Although
there is cause to apprehend that accommo-
dations are not now complete as might
be wished. yet there is great reason to be-
lieve that this inconvenience will cease with
the present session.
1T would be unbecoming for the repre-
sentatives of this nation to assemble in this
solemn temple without looking to the Su-
preme Ruler Of the Universe and imploring
his blessing
May this territory be the residence of
virtue and happiness. In this city may that
purity and virtue, that wisdom and mag
nanimity, that constancy and selfgovern-
ment which adorned the great character
generation. Here and through our coun-
try may simple manners. pure morals and
true religion flourish forever.
1T is with you gentlemen to consider
whether the loca! powers over the District
of Columbia vested by the Constitution of
the United States should be Immediately
exercised. If in your opinion this impor-
tant trust ought now to be exercised you
cannot fail without performing it, to take
into view the future probable situation of
the territory for the happiness of which
you are about to provide. You will con-
slider it as the Capitol of a great nation.
advancing with Gnexampled rapidity in
arts and commerce, in wealth and in oopu-
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pursue, in his opinion. would be to push
forward the completion Of the Capitol, so
that the building would be in readiness at
least by the fall of 1900, when Congress
was expected to meet in the new city.
1t was found necessary in the year 1888
to make appeal to Congress for money
reluctance such a measure was finally
enacted by the national legislature, although
not without eliciting from some of the
members unfavorable criticisms on the en-
tire undertaking. 1t is curious to note that
during this discussion it was proposed to
abandon that part of the plan which pro-
posed the erection of house for the Pres
ident, and some thought the building be-
gun for that purpose might be adapted for
the use of Congress. Up to the year 1898
the Commissioners had bent their entire
energies to providing houses for Congress
and for the President, and had made no
attempt to erect buildings for the executive
departments. However, in that year ar
rangements were made for building what
came to be known as the Treasury Depart
ment building. 1t a plain tWo-story
structure of brick and stone. with an attic
and basement and contained thirty rooms.
This structure occupied the site of what is
now the south front of the present treas
ury building.
A structure similar in design and size was
begun prior to the year 1900, but was not
completed when the executive departments
were removed to this city. This was To-
Gated to the west of the White House on
a line with the Treasury building. and was
known in later years as the Navy Depart
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steps at the entrance. The removal from
Philadelphia bad been anticipated three
years before by the passage of an act di-
rccting the damaged and worn furniture of
the Presidents house to be sold. There was
an appropriation on May Z, 1900, of s15,O,D
for furnishing the house here, and in that
year less than 5000 were expended for
furniture. 1t is not surprising that Mrs.
Adams shortly after her arrival should
have written as followsi
I'VE have rot the least fence, yard or
other convenience without, and the great
unfinished drawing room ] make drying
room of. to hang the clothes in. Six
chambers are made comfortable: two are
occupied by the President and Mr.. Shaw:
two lower rooms. one for a common parlOr
and one for a levee room. Upstains there
is the oval room. which is designed for the
drawing room, and has the crimson furni
ture in it,
In another letter she speaks of the house
ION a grand superb scale, requiring
about thirty servants to attend and keep
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tude. involving many difficulties. The site
selected for the new city truly described
by the writer's of those days was a wilder
ness. For the most part the land was
thickly wooded. A great arm of the Poto-
mac river. which was fed by the Tiber or
Goose creek. large stream which had its
origin in the northern part of the city and
passed along at the foot of Capitol Hill
made the region south of Pennsylvania ave
nue. vast swamp. When the line Of Penn
Sylvania avenue was cut through the
ground was thickly covered with under
brush and was for the most part under
water.
Where the Capitol stands was a dense
woods. This land had to be cleared the
foundations laid for the Capitol building
and the White House and provision made
for securing not only the necessary build
ing material, but men to do the work One
of the many details which fell upon the
commissioners was the erecting of houses
for the accommodation of the workmen
There We're practically no houses on the
site of the city. Here and there We're farm
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MALAGA GRAPES SCARCE.
Great Damage Suffered by the Vines
In Spain.


From the present outlook lovers Of the
Malaga grape writes Consul Ridgeley at
Malaga, Spain, In a report to the State De-
partment will find that the fruit will be
scarce and expensive this winter. not only
in the United States, but universally. The
cause for this state of affairs is accounted
for by a succession of rain storms.
The crop of last year amounted to about
800, 900 barrels. and it was expected up to
the 18th of September last that there would
be a more favorable output, but at that date
the provinces of Malaga and Almeria were
visited by a series of rain storms which
brought great loss to the Malaga raisin
crop and considerable damage to the AL
meria grape crop. After this the grape
vines of Amera gave evidence of a good
gathering, but greater loss was inflicted by
the foundations of three successive days in
October upon the great vineyards. The
grapes were not only poor in quality, but
there was a large outright loss.
There were exported last year to the
United States from Consul Ridgeley's dis
trict about 100000 barrels of these grapes,
but it is predicted that the expectation this
year will not reach $4,000. The consul adds
that therefore the luxury will be high priced
and the scarcity will be noticed not only in
New York, but in London and Paris.
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houses occupied by the original proprietors,
who up to this time had been cultivating
the soil. A town known Hamburg had
been laid out on the ground south of Penn
sylvania avenue near Georgetown, and an
other. called CarrollSburg, at what came to
be known as Greenleafs Point. but these
were mainly settlements on paper.
Georgetown was only a small place and
Alexandria but trife larger. the inhabit-
ants in each not being more than three or
four thousand. 1t was found that the soil
of the place was admiral bly, adapted for
brick making, and soon, under the dlrec-
ton of the commissioners, brick yards were
established. Stone was obtained from an
island down the Potomac, while much of
the other material had to be brought from
distant points by the slow method of sail
ing vessels. 1t was found necessary not
only to provide houses for the workmcn,
but also to board them and to secure medl-
cal attendance and to do great many
other things which the primitive condition
of the pace at that time required.
Complaints and Criticisms.
The commissioners further found them
selves hampered by the complaints and
criticisms of the land owners and by the
INSTRUMENTATION Of employees After being in
the service of the city for about year it
became advisable to dismiss Major l. En-
FAINT and Il year later MIR. Eilicott who
succeeded him. in charge of the surveying
department, also left the service because
problem that confronted the commissioners
and continued to remain vital source OF
trouble during all the preparatory years
which ended in 1850 in the removal of the
seat of government to the District of Co
lumbia was the securing of the funds need
ed to carry on the work. The sale of lots
proved u be a disappointment as source
of revenue.
After the first sale of October, 1871, there
another sac in October of the follow
ing year and a third in September, 1888
but few lots were sold and the prices OBJ
tanned were unsatisfactory that the pol
Icy of offering lots at public sale was aban-
doned for the time being and no further
offerings We're made in that way until Oc-
tober, 1897. However. some sales were made
by the commissioners privately, the most
notable being an agreement with Robert
Morris, the fnarc:er of the revolt don. and
his associates for the purchase of some
5000 lots the value of which was over half
a million dollars. However only one pay
ment made. and then. Morris becoming
financially involved, further money receipts
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ment building. Some years later twin struc-
lures to these original buildings were erect
ed to the north and were known to those
Of the later generation as we'll many OF
the present the State and War Depart
ment buildings. AS far as known there is
no picture in existence of the old Treasury
Department building, but from crude rep
reservations 1t is believed that 1t was SIM
liar in appearance to the old State and
War Department buildings, with the ex-
ception, in all probability. that 1t did not
have a portico on its principal front
While this public work was being car
ried on under the direction Of the Commits
soners, who also made roads and built
bridges and issued liquor licenses and per-
formed other functions of a city govern
ment, the population of the city was in
creasing and a number of buildings were
erected In various sections of the city by
individual citizens.
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gressional boarding house had not then
been coined-and as they arrived they
found quarters.
G. Morris Was Mad.
Some, however. were not over-pleased
with their lodgings and were Disguised with
their first impressions. as the follow .ng
specimen extract from letter of Senator
Gouverneur Morris of New York to a lady
will show:
I'VE want nothing here but houses, cell
lars kitchens wel,-informed men. amiahle
women and otf er triiles of the kind to
make our city perfect; for we can walk
here as if in the fields and woods; and con-
siderin? the lard frost, the air of the city
is very pure. enjoy more OF II tnan any
one else for my room is filled with smoke
whenever the door is shut.
In the Senate Thomas jefferson was the
presiding officer, with 5. a. Otis OF MaSsa-
chusetts secretary. and in the House Theo:
Sedgwick of Massachusetts, Speaker. and
j. W. Condy of Pennsylvania, c.erk. W men,
on November IL. the houses met the Sem
ate had a quorum. but the House did not,
ter had sufficient number to enter upon
business. The usual committees were dp-
pointed to wait on the President and no.
tify him of the fact.
In compliance with this notification the
President appeared before the members,
who were assembled in the Senate cham
Der, and iead his annual address or mes
sage The first portion of this dealt with
the removal of the seat of government. He
said that Immediately after the adjourn
ment on May II he gave directions in COM
pliance with the law for the removal of
the public offices, records and property,
which had been executed and the public
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Early Difficulties

Early Difficulties.
Thus was the Congress established in our
Capitol and the several branches of the
government complete though some of the
buildings were incomplete. The north wing
was sufficiently far advanced to be used
by the legislative branch. The central (ro-
tunda) portion was wanting, and a temporary
covered way across this space was main
tanned for the use of the members and
others passing back and forth. The Sem
ate chamber was used in part by the jul
dietary, the Supreme Court of the United
States and the Circuit for the District of
Columbia meeting therein. The Senate
chamber was the scene of the first trial
for murder in the District-that of Patrick
McGurk, for killing his wife, for which
crime he was executed October %, 1902.
AS stated above, but little of the land
had been cleared in the neighborhood of the
building. Until several years after there
were no measures taken for grading the
grounds, and not till about 1910 was the
west part graded, and then only to a circle
which did not reach as far west as what
would be Half street had it been run
through The east park was not inclosed
till after the war of 1871 nor were the west
grounds extended to 1st street west till in
he 30S
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PITTSBURG FERRY MAID.
Girl of Sixteen supports Her Mother,
Brother and Sister.

Girl of Sixteen supports Her Mother,
Brother and Sister.
From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Young in years, but full of vigor and
buoyancy of youth; pretty Bertha Walz,
a girl of sixteen, has a career as a ferry
maid on the Ohio river that for the novelty
of its features is rarely surpassed
For months the young girl has been the
sole support of her mother, younger sis
ter and brother. Week in and week out.
unaided and alone, she has piled her big
ferry skiff back and forth across the Ohio
to secure means for providing for her help
less mother and sister.
Bertha lives with her mother in an old
but neat-appearing houseboat on the banks
Of the Ohio river, near the Pressed Steel
Car Company's works, in lower Allegheny.
This boat has been her home for the past
six years.
The idea of running a regular ferry came
to her through the suggestions of mill men
who cross the river at this point to the
McKee's Rocks side to and from their work
in the big mills
Partly through the efforts of generous
contributors a skiff was procured and the
girl entered upon new career. She found
her task rather arduous at first, and her
fair young hands were covered with many
a blister at the end of days toll. But
soon the muscles of her arms babe fair to
rival those Of the crack oarsmen of
rowing six or eight stalwart men over the
river on single trip. Some days she
makes as many as forty trips, and has
been known to take in as much as So a day
as a result of her toll.
The widespread popularity of her ferry,
however, aroused the ire of less favored
ferrymen living in shanty boats near by.
First, her best skiff was stolen, and later
new one was turned loose on the river.
Finally she was not permitted to land her
skiff on the McKees Rocks shore at the
large landing, but was made to run her
boat in at some obscure point. Consider
able trouble arose over the ownership and
use Of pair Of wooden steps leading down
the river embankment to the shore. The
climax was reached one night last week.
Richard Griffeths, a ferryman, tried to
lay violent hands on her. Only the timely
appearance of mill man and the presence
of her faithful dog, which usually accom-
panies her for protection, saved her from
serious injury at his hands. AS a result
suit was promptly entered against Grif-
feths on a charge Of disorderly conduct be-
fore Alderman Lynch. At the hearing
Griffeths was fined $40 and costs or twenty
days in Jail. The steps claimed by Grtneths
as personal property were declared to be
government property, and it was decreed
that the foir prosecutor was fully entitled
to their use.-