Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-10-13
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During yesterday afternoon while
things we're very dull out of doors and
the rain drops pattered drearily on the
window pane few old timers gather
ed around Commissioners Clerk Horace
Blue and began to talk over old times.
Somebody wanted to know what be-
came of the deer that used to be kept
ON the Court House lawn when the
ground was enclosed with high pick
ct fence of irou. Another wanted to
know how long ago the deer were re-
moved.
Now the genial Commissioners
CLERK Is not only an authority on
County government. on politics and
the laws governing election, but he al
80 has rich fund of other informa-
tion on hand. Coming back to the
deer. he said, they we're an attraction
about the Court House until about
1890, when they were sold. They were
there for many years. During the in
terval two little fawns we're added to
the number and grew up to maturity.
In 1876, the old buck, known as
Colonel" met tragic death. The
story is remarkable one, but Horace
vouohes for its.truth. 1t was late in
the fall-the day after the election.
The news had just reached the Court
House that Samuel J. Tilden was elect
ed. 1t Is a tradition that at the very
moment when the result of the cleo
tion was announced the buck, always
contented and at peace at the Court
House before, with a single bound
ieaped out of the grounds and escaped
What may have prompted the act is
another matter but it is fact that
the big buck on that day did leap out
over the high fence and escaped to the
woods. The old fellow did not enjoy
his freed ,m very long. The next day
he was shot by Clinton Yorks, a farm
or of Rush township, who mis- took the
buck for wild deer and did not find
out his mistake until some time later.
The deer.it was discovered. |. had struck
the pickets in trying to clear the fence
and had injured himself pretty badly.
19R
The fair season brings into this sec.
tion OF the state an iufux of thieves,
pickpookets and shoplifters They have
become nuisance and curse, aud
the several fair mansgements ought to
organize to break up the business.
There is an epidemic of petty thiev-
ing In the wake of every fair, merch-
ants are annoyed and suffer serious
loss by the depredations Of shoplift.
ers. and the insidious pickpocket is a
constant menace to those who attend
these annual exhibitions. The sppre.
hension of few of them by fcroe of
detectives would tend to keep them
away. A move in the right direction
has been made, however. by the Blooms
burg Fair Association, in securing the
services of two Pipkerton detectives
who will be on the lookout for any
operations by this class of thieves.
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One of the finest corn crops ever
known in the State is being husked
now. and farmers are ohucklin over
the immense yield. The corn has all
been cot and the appearance of the
frost did not catch any one mapping.
The reports from all over Montour and
neighboring couMies are generally of
6ne corn crop and other products Of
the autumn looking we'll. The apple
and pear crops are beating expecta-
tions in some parts where the fruit
dropped and the potato crop Is fine
one. Pumpkins are reported good.