A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Tioga http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1700 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52304 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: The School Directors' Convention Article Text: The School Directors' Convention. The Slim Attendance - Superintendent Cass Re-elected. The Triennial Convention of School Directors for the election of a County Superintendent was held at the Court-house in the borough last Tuesday afternoon. As it was generally understood that there was but one candidate for the position to be filled, the attendance of Directors was very light, only about one-fourth of the total number being present. The Convention was called to order in the court-room at 2:15 by County Superintendent Cass, and C. C. Ward, of Elkland, was elected chairman. F. E. Smith, of Tioga, and J. D. Campball, of Nelson, were chosen secretaries. The Chairman then asked for nominations for County Superintendent, and the incumbent of the office, M. F. Cass, of Nelson, was named. There being no other nomination, a motion was made that Mr. Cass be elected by acclamation; but the Chairman said he thought the better course would be to call the roll, so that each Director present might name the person for whom he voted. Secretary Smith then proceeded to call the roll of Directors for the several districts, and 68 Directors from 29 of the 41 districts of the county responded to their names, each of them voting for Mr. Cass. The chairman thereupon announced that Mr. Cass had been duly elected County Superintendent for the next three years. Mr. Cass then came forward and thanked the members of the Convention for the confidence and faith they had shown in him. Referring to the slim attendance, he said that many Directors had written him that as there was no opposition they would not come unless they were needed an were sent for. He said he had done his best for the past three years, and he could only promise to do that for the time to come. So far as the schools are concerned, he thought some advancement had been made, and some Directors has taken hold of the work with renewed zeal. The local institutes had done great good wherever held, and he hoped that the work might go on. He wished every Board would have at least one member visit the schools in company with the Superintendent. It was impossible for the Superintendent to hunt up the Directors in the townships, but it would be better if some one of them would go to the schools with him. As it is now, he would sometimes go into a school and find it impossible ! to tell whether things had been fixed up for his visit or not. When he found a teacher engaged in crochet-work instead of teaching, he knew his visit was not expected; but sometimes he suspected that it was known in advance that he was coming. There was another thing to which he wished to call the attention of the Directors and that was the lack of proper apparatus. Some schools have no blackboard and many have not enough. Some have a little 2 by 4 board and some school-rooms haven't any. If he was teaching school he should have to have more blackboards. The decoration of the school-rooms is another thing that does great good and creates a great interest in the school. One secret of having a successful school lies in making the room a pleasant place. This has a greater effect than you may imagine. It stimulates the boys and girls, gives them more respect for the school and for themselves and inclines them to behave better and to get better lessons. The division of the school year into terms, boarding the teachers around, and the frequent changes of teachers are among the drawbacks of the schools. The Directors should also look after the proper lighting of the rooms. Many children are being made near-sighted by badly lighted school-rooms. The windows should be put behind the scholars and not in front of them as many now are and the blackboards should be placed in front of the children. The Directors should also make the teachers sign contracts and see that they live up to them. Now many teachers are engaged without a written contract, and they teach or not just as they please. He went to visit one school and found the teacher had gone off to attend a circus, and the school was shut up. The teacher should be made to forfeit a dollar when a day was dropped, unless he had an excellent excuse. The Directors should also see that the school is taught six hours each day. He was sorry the law did not have it taught longer. He thought Americans were getting altogether too lazy. In Germany the children go to school ten hours a day for six days in the week and all the year round. He hoped the time would come when we might have continuous terms of school. The law, in fact, knows nothing of two terms, and in come counties the term is now continuous. September, October and November are excellent months for school, and in our climate any child can go to school in those months and generally in December. But the people themselves need educating in this regard; in some districts they insist on a summer and a winter school. A Director inquired how many holidays a teacher is allowed by law. The Superintendent replied that there were too many legal holidays - seven in all. The teacher can also get pay for the time spent in attending the County Institute if the school is then in session. It is not so with the local institute; that is not established by law, but in many cases the local institute is worth more to the district than the school. The Directors can, however, make the teacher contract to teach a certain number of days exclusive of the holidays, and then he will have to teach for the number of days stipulated. The whole matter thus rests in the hands of the Directors. But the holidays must be paid for unless they are excepted in the contact. A Director inquired what per cent of school-grounds the Superintendent found well kept. Mr. Cass replied probably five per cent. The Director remarked that he thought enough attention was not paid to this matter by the districts. He thought every district should provide strong fences and shade trees for the grounds, and that the school-houses should be fixed up better than most of them now are. The Convention then adjourned, having been in session about three-quarters of an hour. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Tioga http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1700 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52303 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Fatal Accident at Covington Article Text: Fatal Accident at Covington. Mr. John Wilson Run Over and Instantly Killed by the Cars. Last Friday afternoon Mr. John Wilson, a prominent and well-to-do farmer living at Covington was run over by a freight train and instantly killed about half way between Blossburg and Covington. His body was terribly mangled. For some months Mr. Wilson has been ill and the loss of $4,000 of his own and $8,000 of his wife's money by the failure of the Tioga bank, coming as it did while his health was broken weighed upon his mind and made his despondent. On Friday morning Mr. Wilson went to Blossburg with his brother Daniel, and on the way home they stopped at Grant & Co.'s saw-mill. Here he left his brother and went upon the hill. Soon after the freight train going north went by, it being broken in two parts with some distance between the sections. The engineer did not see Mr. Wilson, but after the last section of the train had passed his dead body was seen on the track by the train hands in the caboose. It is believed that he attempted to cross the track near the sharp curve known as Red rock after the first section of the train had passed, when he was overtaken by the second section and killed. There is no reason to believe that his death was other than accidental. Mr. Wilson was about fifty-six years of age, and his family were among the oldest and most respected residents of Covington township. He leaves a wife and one son grown to manhood. The funeral was held on Sunday, Rev. S. F. Mathews, of this borough, officiating, and nearly a thousand of Mr. Wilson's acquaintances and friends were in attendance. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Tioga http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1700 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52302 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Ex-Senator Strang's Death Article Text: Ex-Senator Strang's Death After enduring years of ill health he takes his own life - a sketch of his career. News was received in this borough last Saturday to the effect that ex-Senator Butler B. Strang had shot and killed himself at his residence in Westfield. No details of the event were received here during the day, but a subsequent conversation with a citizen of Westfield enables us to give the particulars of the sad event. The fatal shot was fired at 6:15 o'clock Saturday morning while Mrs. Strang was engaged in rubbing her husband's feet as he lay on his bed propped up by pillows. Mrs. Strang thought the pistol was fired out of doors, but it was so near at hand that she was startled by it. The Senator's son Benjamin was in the next room, and when he heard the report he ran into his father's room and found the pistol in his bed and blood flowing from the wounds made by the shot. It was evident that the deceased had placed the revolver at his right temple, and that the ball had passed directly through his head, coming out at the left temple. The spent ball entered the plaster of the ceiling a little distance and then fell back to the bed where it was found. Death was instantaneous, and there was not the slightest tremor or motion of any part of the body to indicate what had happened. For two or three years past Senator Strang had been suffering from ill-health, his trouble apparently involving the digestive organs and the entire nervous system. For the past few months his condition had been almost hopeless, involving acute suffering, inability to sleep, much mental depression and some hallucination. Either his wife or one of his two sons had been with him almost constantly of late, and it was astonishing to them that he had been able to elude their vigilance and secure and secrete the pistol, which was known to be in the room, but which was thought not to be loaded. His bed was made up Friday noon, and it is certain that at that time the weapon was not about the bed. Coroner Francis, of Knoxville, held an inquest on Saturday, and the conclusion arrived at was that the deceased came to his death by his own hand while suffering under mental depression induced by disease. The ex-Senator's funeral is to be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Strang was in his fifty-sixth year at the time of his death, having been born on the 16th of March, 1829, in the town of Greenwood, Steuben county, N. Y. His father was a Methodist preacher who took up his residence at Westfield in 1840, and there Butler resided all the rest of his life. Of the boy's education we have no record. It is probable it was limited to such common English branches as were taught in the district schools of the period, but it is to be inferred from his subsequent career that he made good use of his opportunities. On reaching man's estate he read law with A. J. Monroe, Esq., of Knoxville, and was admitted to the bar of the county in 1852. In 1856 he was elected District Attorney, and for three years, as prosecuting attorney for the county, he discharged the duties of his office with ability and credit. In 1860 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of Harrisburg, and was re-elected the next year. He was again chosen for the same office in 1867, and he was re-elected three successive terms, his career as Representative this covering six years in all. During his term of service he was chairman of the Judiciary General Committee for two sessions, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means for one session and was Speaker of the House for one session. His standing and influence in the Legislature and his popularity in the county and district are attested by the fact that he was sent directly from the House to the Senate, being elected to the latter body in 1871 for the full term of three years from the old district of Cameron, McKean, Potter and Tioga counties. In 1874 he was re-elected for the term of two years under the provisions of the new constitution. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Judiciary General Committee and chairman of the Finance Committee, and during the session of 1874 he was Speaker of the Senate, being the last man to hold that position under the constitution of 1838, and, we believe, the only man who was ever Speaker of both the House and Senate of Pennsylvania. He was chairman of the Commission appointed by Governor Hartranft to devise a code of laws for the government of the cities of the State, and made an elaborate and well-considered report on that subject, which was accompanied by a bill. Many of the provisions thus recommended have since been adopted by the Legislature. Senator Strang was also an influential member of the Legislative committee appointed to promote the Centennial Exhibition, and he was chairman of the committee that investigated and exposed the bogus diploma business carried on by some so-called "Universities" at Philadelphia. Mr. Strang's conspicuous career as a member of the House and Senate had made him well known throughout the State and prompted many of his friends to urge his nomination for State Treasurer at the Republican State Convention held at Lancaster in 1875. The candidate was rather too independent, however, to suit the managing politicians, and he was not nominated - a fact which he probably never regretted himself, and which his friends had no good reason to regret, for the post was one for which he was not particularly fitted and one that was not commensurate to his abilities. With Speaker Strang's retirement from the Senate his active public career practically closed, although he still continued to feel an interest in political affairs and to take come part in shaping public opinion. In 1880 he attended the State Convention that sent delegates to the Republican National Convention of that year, and on the floor of that State Convention, as the faithful representative of Tioga county Republicans he indignantly exposed and denounced the political usurpers who had set aside Messrs. Schieffelin and Cochran, the delegates chosen by the representatives of the district, to make room for two servile tools of the third term managers. That protest was ineffective at Harrisburg, and the ex-Senator returned home to join heartily in promoting the popular County Convention held in this borough in march, 1880, to condemn the outrage thus consummated. He was elected chairman of that meeting, and made a most effective address showing the manner and nature of the ! usurpation effected at Harrisburg. This was, we believe, Mr. Strang's last appearance as a political speaker. He was afterward appointed United States Marshal of the Territory of Dakota; but he held the office but a short time, resigning it in the spring of 1882, as he found his health was not vigorous enough to enable him to discharge his duties. He returned to his old home at Westfield and to the practice of his profession, but continued and increasing ill-health withdrew him more and more from all active pursuits, and so, at an age when he should have been in the full vigor of mature manhood and in the satisfied enjoyment of his great abilities, he gradually faded from the sight and the companionship of his busy fellow-workers until suddenly, by his own half-conscious act, he passed "from the warm precincts of the cheerful day, nor cast one longing, lingering look behind." Mr. Strang was a man of great natural ability. His common-sense, sagacity and tact enabled him to exert a strong personal influence upon those with whom he cam in contact; but a natural indisposition to continues exertion and a lack of the combative spirit unfitted him for effective leadership of great bodies of men. He had a clear and vigorous intellect that enabled him to see quickly and grasp firmly the essential points of any question, and he possessed that best gift of a debater - the faculty of so marshaling his facts that his mere statement of the case became a strong argument for his position. These qualities gave him great weight in any deliberative body, and, backed by his acquired knowledge of parliamentary law, they insured his rapid advancement to leading positions in the Legislature. In this respect he was probably the ablest representative the county has ever had at Harrisburg, and if he had felt the spur of a more active and persistent ambition and had posses! sed a more pugnacious nature, he might have become a leader in a broader field of action. As a political speaker he was eminently successful. His speeches were always clear, logical and convincing. There was no clap-trap or humbug about them. There were no "oratorical flights" - no straining after effect - no story-telling or attempts to be funny, but there were plain simple statements of fact, a line of argument from whose conclusion there was no logical escape, occasional flashes of quiet humor, exciting a smile but hardly ever a laugh, and more rarely a burst of cutting sarcasm or indignant condemnation. His speeches were not eloquent, but they were most effective and thoroughly convincing. The speaker was never carried off his feet by his theme, and he never labored under it. Speaking without notes, every sentence was perfectly formed and in its proper place, every argument was fully and fairly developed, no essential point was omitted and no extraneous matter was lugged in to distract the hearer's attention. Among Mr. Strang's popular political addresses two! delivered in this borough are worthy of special mention - the one made in August, 1872, in defense of Hartranft, and the one made during the fallacies of the Greenbackers. The deceased ex-Senator was a sound lawyer, and he was gifted in an eminent degree with what the lawyers are wont to call a legal mind - the faculty of accurately applying the rules and principles of jurisprudence to the ever-varying affairs of men. The public offices he held naturally interfered much with the practice of his profession, but for many years he was one of the leaders at the bar here, and his ability as a lawyer was widely recognized. As a man of shining abilities, as a Republican leader and advocate and as a useful public officer Butler B. Strang was a man in whom Tioga county felt a justifiable pride and whose sad death will be regretted throughout the Commonwealth. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Tioga http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1700 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52301 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Local and Minor Matters [Part 2] Article Text: Local and Minor Matters Facts and Comments. Local News Gathered Here, There and Anywhere. [Part 2] - A new time-table went into effect on the Fall Brook railways yesterday. The running time of passenger trains is only slightly changed. No. 6 leaves this borough ten minutes earlier, 6:10 p.m. and No. 3 leaves Corning ten minutes earlier, 6:15 p.m. - The Sunday-school convention of the Tioga Baptist Association is to be held at the Baptist church in Middlebury on Wednesday and Thursday, the 21st ad 22d instants. The programme indicates that the session will be of more than usual interest. - The rope-jumping season has opened, and the first disastrous result comes from Ashland, in this State, where a little girl has lost the use of her legs from excessive jumping. Parents should be careful in regard to allowing their children to use the rope to excess. - On account of the absence from the county of most of the elder members of the bar it will be impossible for them to attend ex-Senator Strang's funeral at Westfield today. It is understood that a meeting of the bar will soon be held to take appropriate action in the premises. - In consequence of the recent forest fires and the large amount of hemlock timber killed, large quantities of bark will be peeled this season. It must be taken off this year or not at al. Therefore there is a ready demand for laborers in the bark-woods and fair wages are offered. - Messrs. Johnson & Van Dusen are delivering some very large flag-stone in this borough from their quarry at Blackwell's. One was brought in yesterday four inches in thickness and measuring eight by twelve feet. It weighed about 6,000 pounds, and will be placed in front of the Toles & Gardner block on Main street. - The viewers appointed by the Court at the last term to appraise the amount of damages to the farms of C. L. Hoyt and G. N. Bulkley at Osceola, on account of the building of the Addison and Northern Pennsylvania raliway, have awarded Mr. Bulkley $250 and Mr. Hoyt $1,200. - Mr. Ed. C. Deans and wife, of this borough, leave for Montrose, Susquahanna county, tomorrow. Mr. Deans will go on from there to Harrisburg to attend the meetings of the Grand Lodge and Encampment of Odd Fellows next week, as representative of the organizations in this place. - In a paper on "Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati," to appear in the June Harper's, Mr. W. M. Dickson gives an interesting account of Old Abe's first meeting with his great War Secretary, Mr. Stanton. The latter was then the bigger man of the two, and virtually elbowed Mr. Lincoln out of the case he was to argue. - The agents of W. D. Andrews & Brothers, who claim to own the patent on the driven well, are again makind demands for royalty in the neighboring counties. The amount demanded is $10 on all wells put down prior to last September and $6 on wells put down since that time. The patent expires on the 14th of January, 1885. - Four teachers employed in this borough have been married within the past year. Some of the School Directors think a clause should be inserted in future contracts preventing this kind of thing. But that will hardly be done, and eligible young ladies shouldn't be frightened away from Wellsboro by rumors of such absurd proposition. - The marriage of Jefferson Harrison, Esq., and Miss M. Louis Jones, of this borough is announced in another column. Miss Jones has been a successful teacher in the public schools in this borough for several years, and Mr. Harrison is a prominent member of the bar of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have gone to San Francisco on their wedding trip. - Last Wednesday night James Mooney, of Blossburg, was robbed of $500. He is over 70 years of age. The money was taken from his dwelling-house. The next day John Mooney, the old man's son, and Patrick Dwyer were arrested, and after a hearing they were held to bail in the sum of $1,000 each, in default of which they were brought to this borough and lodged in jail. - The latest petty swindle is for strangers to go from house to house in a city or village, and ask for umbrellas or parasols to mend, representing themselves to be the agents of someone in the place who is engaged in the business of mending umbrellas. They promise to return in a few days such articles as may be given them, but instead take them out of town and dispose of them elsewhere. - A Blossburg correspondent of the Advertiser says that Mr. Richard K. F. Fox, stakeholder for the Steele-Herbert race, has appointed another race for the $_,000, to take place on the Brooks running-ground at Blossburg, to-morrow. Even if Herbert should be on hand, and the race came off, probably it will be witnessed by a smal crowd, as the folks take very little stock in Herbert in that region. - There are now six prisoners in the county jail, namely: George Traviss, the murderer; an old woman who is awaiting a hearing in the United States Court regarding a fradulent pension claim; Mooney and Dwyer of Blossburg, committed for theft; John Smith, of Ward, committed for carrying concealed weapons and making threats, and Jacob Huck, of Delmar, also charged with making threats. The latter is over eighty years of age. - A forgotten bit of history is brought to light by a writer in the forthcoming (June) Harper's. It seems that it was not only New England that tried witches, for this paper brings forward the record of the trial at Princess Anne Court-house, Virginia, of the witch Grace Sherwood, who was said to have crossed the Atlantic on an egg-shell and grought rosemary to Virginia-which last would nowadays scarcely be a heinous offense. - A meeting of those interested in the new Free-will Baptist Church was held at the Court-house yesterday. S. B. Warriner, Albert Saxbury, Joshua Bernauer, Rev. G. Donnocker and S. Day were elected trustees, and D. Knapp, Chas. Orr, Rev. S. Butler, W. R. Campbell and Russell Lawson were chosen members of the building committee. It is expected that some progress will be made toward the erection of the new church building this year. - The dwelling house and barn of Madison Spencer, in Union, were burned on the 2d instant. A quantity of hay, grain and farming-tools in the barn and a portion of the contents of the house, including $210 in money, were destroyed. There was an insurance of $700 on the whole, which will partially cover the loss. The fire is supposed to have caught from some brush and logs which were burning near by, as a strong wind was blowing at the time the fire occurred. - On the 3d instant Mr. Ed LaBarron, of Bailey creek, in Rutland township, was returning home from Roseville with his two children, a boy of three years and a girl of ten, when, just out of town, his horse became frightened at a broom stuck in the whip-socket and started to run and kick. The animal ran up a steep bank and fell over backwards upon the buggy and its occupants. The little boy was injured severely about the head by a kick from the horse, and the others escaped with a few slight bruises. - At the close of the formal business of the Court, yesterday, the death of Hon. B. B. Strang was announced, whereupon the Court ordered that out of respect to his memory the courts should stand adjourned until the first Monday of June next, which order was entered upon the minutes. A meeting of the Bar Association was then held, at which Messts. Mitchell, Sherwood, Niles, Elliott, Wilson, Merrick and Allen were appointed a committee to draft appropriate resolutions, which are to be reported to a meeting of the Association to be held on the first Monday of June. - A young man named Longwell committed suicide last Thursday morning in Rutland, about amile and a half east of Roseville, by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been employed as a farm hand by Mr. W. H. McClure, and on Wednesday night he came into McClure's room complaining that he could not sleep. In the morning he did not eat his breakfast, but went to the barn to attend to the stock. He turned the catle out, and after some time Mrs. McClure noticed the barn-door standing open and went out and found Longwell's dead body. He was about eighteen years of age. - Last Tuesday William E. Chilson, Esq., of Troy, was admitted to practice at the bar of this county. On the same day a special cash tax of five mills was ordered to be levied in Chatham township, to pay the debts of the township. Yesterday, in the divorce case of Joseph P. Hiltbold against Angeline B. Hiltbold, Henry L. Jones of Wellsville, N. Y., was appointed a commissioner to take testimony. In the case of Clarence S. Houghton against Clara B. Houghton, E. B. Young, Esq., was appointed a commissioner to take testimony. The Sheriff acknowledged deeds for the various lots of land sold at this term. - Mrs. Lloyd, an aged inmate of the County Poor-house, was seriously burned last Sunday by her clothes taking fire from her pipe. She is about 70 years of age and an inveterate smoker, and is too infirm to take her meals in the dining room. The accident happened during the dinner-hour when few persons were about the halls. The old lady's dress was burned, and her neck and face were seriously blistered, but she is expected to recover. But for the timely discovery of the accident she would have been burned to death. She has once before set the building on fire by her pipe, but on account of her age and infirmity she is not denied this one comfort of her life. - The Register says that a gang of supposed professional bank robbers, eight in number, were recently hanging around Blossburg for several days, and it was thought that they were laying plans for a raid on the bank in that borough. Four of the men went to Troy, and their actions around Pomeroy's bank were very suspicious. They entered the bank about noon when, as they supposed, only one officer was present, and while one of the party engaged him in conversation another slipped around with evident intention of entering the rear of the office, but he found a man in the back room, and the attempt to enter there was foiled. Other members of the gang went from Blossburg to Liberty, where it is suspected they meant to make a haul of some money bags which the well-to-do farmers in that region are said to possess. - The enormous damage inflicted upon timber tracts, as well as upon rural and village property, by the recent forest fires suggests the desirability of a remedy, but suggests no remedy. Forest fires are accidental, as when they result from the fall of a wad from an exploded gun, or when the sparks from the farmer's burning trash pile are borne on the wind into leeward woods. They are more frequently the results of recklessness on the part of hunters, who build fires beside fallen trees for culinary purposes, or of fishermen, who do likewise. But farmers sometimes collect the bruch from newly cleared fields into immense piles, and waiting for a dry spell to season the mass, set it on fire. Such burnings are highly dangerous, even in the calmest day. The heat causes a powerful up-current, on which burning branches are borne far upward, and then by some upper current into the heart of some timber tract. The underbruch at this season is like tinder, and a fire once started canno! t be extinguished, except by copious raines, until it consumes everything readily conbustible. - The rapid consumption of timber by forest fires and for business purposes is making great inroads upon the timbered districts in this country, and the question of future supply is seriously considered. Mr. Carl Schurz, at a recent meeting in New York to take measures for the preservation of the Adirondack forests, said that reliable statisticians inform us that the timber-supply in this country will not last for twenty years, and perhaps fifteen years, with the growing requirements of our population, the want will have to be supplied by importation. In the same measure as the forests have disappeared from the countries of the Old World has the fertility of those countries disappeared also, until finally when the forests have been destroyed entirely, the fertility was completely gone. There is a spirit prevailing in this country which is an exceedingly dangerous one, and that is to make money to-day no matter what may become of us to-morrow. You can scarcely take up a newsp! aper without finding the statement that a great many of the water-courses of the country which have been sufficient to drive the largest mill-wheels, are now scarcely able to drive the smallest. Ask the Mississippi river steamboat-men, and they will tell you that the large craft that used to navigate the river would now run aground in five minutes. This is the result of the disappearance of th forests from the banks. In New England they are considering whether it is not necessary to begin replanting the forests. That is done in almost every civilized country to-day. They are our great water reservoirs. - It is said that glass works will be built near Eaglesmere, Sullivan county, as soon as the railroad along Muncy creek is completed. Sixty years ago glass works were built and operated at Eaglesmere, and portions of the walls of the old buildings are still standing. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Tioga http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1700 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52297 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Local and Minor Matters [Part 1] Article Text: Local and Minor Matters Facts and Comments. Local News Gathered Here, There and Anywhere. [Part 1] - Straw hats are out. - The mumps prevail at Covington. - This borough supports fifty stores. - The Fall Brook band boys are to have new uniforms. - Trout fishing is said to be much livelier than last year. - Mr. Mark Hoyt, of New York, was in town yesterday. - Keep your eye opened for the ___ tongued sharper. - Rev. E. D. Rawson, of Roseville, was in town yesterday. - There was a heavy frost in this region yesterday morning. - Two rattlesnakes were killed ____ Lawrenceville last week. - A Millerton man boasts of corn six inches high in his garden. - The Westfield street sprinkler costs its patrons $300 for the season. - The copious rains of last week have given the grass a good start. - Mrs. Frank A. Deans, of this borough, has gone to New York on a visit. - Hon. Charles Tubbs is to deliver the Decoration-day address at Osceola. - Senator Mitchell came home last Saturday fron Washington and returned last evening. - Mr. Willia Peake, of Round Top, whose leg was amputated a few weeks ago, is now convalescent. - Rev. John K. Murphy, of Philadelphia, preached at St. Paul's church in this borough last Sunday. - Mrs. Belle M. Allen will open a select school next Monday at the primary school building in this borough. - It is states that the contract has been let for building the telephone line from Blossburg to this borough. - Rattlesnakes are said to be out at Gaines. The smell of the oil well probable enticed them from their holes. - Mr. Theo. L. Weaver, representing the Elmira Advertiser, is looking after the interests of that journal in this section. - Prof. George E. Little, of Washington, D.C., has been engaged to give art instructions at the Mansfield Normal School for a few weeks only. - Mr. A. B. A. Briggs of Middlebury, furnished an instrument for use at the Camilla Urso concert at Blossburg last Tuesday evening. - About two hundred Italians are now employed in building the extension of the Addison and Northern Pennsylvania railway up Pine creek. - A young lawyer died of starvation in New Hampshire a few days ago, but no doubt the crop of law students will not shrink in consequence of this incident. - One thousand shingles wil cover one hundred square feet of surface, laid four inches to the weather. About five pounds of nails will be required for that number of shingles. - The Coal Trade Journal says that the Pine Creek route is likely to be a popular one for pleasure travel between Philadephia and Niagara Falls, taking in the coal regions by the way. - The County Commissioners have let the contract for building a new bridge across the Tioga river near Lawrenceville for $1,152. Mr. W. W. Bentley, of Mansfield, is the contractor. - A new bridge is to be built across Crooked creek near the depot at Tioga borough. The County Commissioners have let the contract to Mr. W. W. Bentley, of Mansfield, for the sum of $1,225. - A few days ago Dr. Wey, of Elmira, assisted by Drs. C. K. Thompson and H. L. Davis, of this borough, successfully removed a thirty-pound tumor from the person of a Charleston woman. - Several attorneys from this borough are attending the Supreme Court for the Eastern district which sits at Philadelphia this week. There are more than the usual number of cases to be argued. - Twenty families in the vicinity of Lawrenceville were rendered homeless and destitute by the recent forest fires and ___ appeal for assitence has been forwarded to Elmira by the Burgess of Lawrenceville. - A check for $100 has been presented to the Fire Department of this borough by the Fall Brook Coal Company in acknowledgement of the disposition manifested to render assistance during the late fire at Antrim. - The Sunday-School Association of this county will be re-organized at Lawrenceville some time in June. Hon. H. W. Williams is chairman of the committee on re-organization. All denominations are invited to assist in the work. - Messrs. J. H. Westbrook & Son, farmers, of Tioga township, last week sold their crops of tobacco and potatoes. The tobacco brought fifteen cents a pound and the potatoes, 600 bushels, were disposed of at an average price of 41 cents a bushel. - A new journal is to be issued in this borough about the first of June by a stock company lately formed. The outfit for the new enterprise has been purchased and is already on the ground. We understand the new paper is to be independent in politics. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Schuylkill http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1707 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52269 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: May 3 1733 Article Description: Mary CLARKSON Elopes From Her Husband, Thomas CLARKSON. Article Text: Whereas Mary, the wife of Thomas CLARKSON, of Lewis-Town on Delaware, Pilot, has eloped from her said husband. These are therefore to forewarn all persons not to trust her on her husbands account, for he will pay no debts by her contracted after the publication hereof.l May 3, 1733 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52257 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Boston Gazette Article Date: January 8 1733 Article Description: Death of John MOORE, Esq. Article Text: Philadelphia, Dec. 7. On Saturday morning last died here John MOORE, Esq., Collector of his Majesty's Customs for this place, which post he enjoy'd upwards of 30 years, and was esteemed a good officer, is much lamented, and dy'd in the 74th year of his age. He is to be interr'd this day. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52225 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: December 7 1732 Article Description: Notice to Robert POLLOCK Article Text: Whereas there was one Robert POLLOCK supposed to come over to some part of America in the year 1726. These are to give notice to said POLLOCK (if living) that if he will come to Patrick WILLSON who lives at Batchelors Hall, in the Northern Liberty of Philadelphia, or to Andrew BRADFORD, he may hear of something very considerable fallen to him by the death of a relation. N. B. The said POLLOCK came from North Briton, and from the Shire of Renfrew in the Parish of Mernes. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52134 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: New England Weekly Journal Article Date: June 5 1732 Article Description: Henry SMITH Murders William Half-penny Article Text: Philadelphia, May 25. We have an account from Kent County upon Deleware, of a most barbarous murder committed there near Duck-Creek, by one Henry SMITH, on the body of William HALF-PENNY, for asking him for money due to said HALF-PENNY, the said SMITH stabb'd him with his knife. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52133 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: June 29 1732 Article Description: Servant Named John M'KINZEY Runs Away From His Master, Peter CUFF. Article Text: Run away from Peter CUFF, a servant man named John M'KINZEY, about 30 years of age, speaks broad Scotch, is well-set, of a middle stature, full round face and brown complexion with short black hair, he had on when he went away a new drab colour'd fustian coat with white mettal buttons and lined with shaloon, and breeches of the same, an ozenbrigs wastcoat and shirt, yarn stockings and a new felt hat. Whoever brings him back or secures him and gives intelligence to his said Master in Philadelphia, shall have forty shillings reward and reasonable charges allowed. N.B. He has been a soldier in Flanders, and can speak a little Dutch and French. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52130 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: July 6 1732 Article Description: Servant Named Thomas LANDSDOWN Runs Away From His Master, Obediah ELDRIDGE. Article Text: Run away the 5th of May last, from Obediah Eldridge of this city, Cordwainer, a servant man named Thomas LANDSDOWN, aged about 26 years, he is a Bristol man, by trade a Shoemaker, had on when he went away a felt hat, a drugget coat of a deep ash colour, without cuffs, ozenbrigs shirt, and linnen breeches, yarn stockings, and round to'd shoes. He is of a middle stature, large eyes, and full large teeth, some lost before, he is very round shoulder'd. Whoever takes up the said servant and secures him, so that his Master may have him again, shall have forty shillings reward and all reasonable charges, paid by me Obediah ELDRIDGE. N.B. These are therefore to forewarn all persons to entertain the said servant, at their peril. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52121 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: June 29 1732 Article Description: Estate of Giles CAMBRIDGE Article Text: All persons indebted to Sarah CAMBRIDGE, widow, and executrix of Giles CAMBRIDGE, late of Philadelphia, Shopkeeper, deceas'd, are hereby desired (to prevent further trouble) to pay their respective ballances to Alexander WOODDROP, Peter LLOYD or Samuel POWEL, Jun. who are impowered by the said widow to receive the same, and will be obliged to prosecute those who shall not pay before next September Court. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52108 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: February 2 1731 Article Description: Notice To Persons Indebted to Caleb CASH, Sen. Article Text: All persons that are indebted to Caleb CASH, Sen. are desired to come forthwith and ____ the same to Caleb CASH, Jun. who shall give a proper discharge for the same. N. B. I do forbid all persons above mentioned, to pay any part or parts to Alice, my wife, from the date forward, or give her any credit on my account, she being elop'd from me, Caleb CASH, Sen. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52107 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: April 6 1732 Article Description: Partnership of ANDREWS & POSTLEWAITE, Brewers, Is Ended. Article Text: Publick notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to ANDREWS and POSTLEWAITE, Brewers, (late in partnership) that they have settled their accompts by arbitration, by which it is awarded that Epraim ANDREWS shall receive the respective sums due to them, and that John POSTLEWAITE hath no power to collect or receive the same. And whereas the said POSTLEWAITE hath immediate occasion for his dividend, their several ballances are to be paid to the said ANDREWS, or the debts will be sued for. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52095 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Boston News-Letter Article Date: February 16 1732 Article Description: Samuel BURROUGHS and His Son Drowned. Article Text: Philadelphia, January 25. On Wednesday last one Samuel BURROUGHS and his son, having been at our market, in their way home to the Jersies, broke thro' the ice and were both drowned, the father was taken up the next day, but the other is not yet found. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52085 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: June 10 1731 Article Description: Servant Named Robert HANCOCK Runs Away From His Master Edward SUNDERLAND. Article Text: Philadelphia, June 10, 1731 Run away, early this morning, from the sloop Maryland, of Boston, Edward SUNDERLAND, Master, a servant man named Robert HANCOCK, aged about 20 years, of a middle stature, swarthy complexion, pretty thick set, black hair, has taken with him a dark colour'd duroy coat, jacket and breeches striped red green and white, the breeches have red silk puffs. He has also a sute of light coloured summer cloaths, several pair of stockins, and severalother things. Whoever takes up the said servant and brings him to his Master, or to Mr. Peter BAYNTON in Philadelphia, shall have thirty shillings as a reward beside all reasonable charges. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52084 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: June 10 1731 Article Description: Dutch Servant Womans Time To Be Disposed Of by Anthony FURNAS. Article Text: A likely young Dutch servant womans time for three years to be disposed of, she is a very good semstress at extraordinary or plain work, and pretty handy at house work. Those inclined to purchase her time, may agree with Anthony FURNAS, in Philadelphia. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Chester http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1946 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52083 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: June 10 1731 Article Description: Land For Sale in Chester County by Ann ROBERTS, Widow of Owen ROBERTS. Article Text: A tract of land in the County of Chester, within six miles of Samuel NUTT's Iron-Works; containing about 450 acres, 40 thereof clear'd, with 20 acres of clear'd meadowing, part under English grass,and conveniency to make 20 acres more, a new house but not finish'd, to be sold by Ann ROBERTS, widow of Owen ROBERTS, late of Philadelphia, deceas'd, of whom any person disposed to purchase, may be inform'd of the conditions of sale. April the 1st, 1731 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Bucks http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1749 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52082 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: June 10 1731 Article Description: Servant Named Francis DARBY Runs Away From His Master, Thomas Davis of Bucks County Article Text: Philadelphia May 24, 1731 Run away, yesterday morning from Thomas DAVIS of Bucks County, a servant man named Francis DARBY, aged about 22 years, a short thick fast well-set man, thick legs, full fac'd, having on a light colour'd double breasted coat with white mettle buttons, a seamans jacket, blue worsted stockings, shock hair, and sometimes he wears a cap, he has a bundle of other cloaths with him. He was seen in Philadelphia yesterday at 12 a-clock. Whoever secures said servant, so that his Master may have him again, shall receive forty shillings reward, and reasonbable charges. N.B. He one run away from Capt. HORE, and went by the name of John MOORE. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52069 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: June 10 1731 Article Description: Servant Named Aleander BRINDLE Runs Away From His Master, Antill DEAVER Article Text: Run away the 21st of March lat, from Antill DEAVER, a servant man named Alexander BRINDLE, about 22 years of age, an Irish man, by trade a Weaver, he is a well-set fresh colour'd man, had on a country jacket of woolen, the under part of one of the sleves being blue stroud, a new country shirt, leather breeches, a short leather apron, and a felt hat about half worn. Whoever takes up the said servant and brings him to his said Master, at the head of Bush River, in Baltimore County, Maryland, shall have three pounds as a reward, and reasonable charges. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com