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=52339 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Interesting Items From Our Local Exchanges Article Text: Neighboring Counties Interesting Items From Our Local Exchanges - Potatoes are selling at 12 cents a bushel at Allentown. - Mr. S. W. Alvord has retired from the Towanda Review. - The debt of Lycoming county now amounts to $174,650. - The buildings upon the streets in Canton are to be numbered. - It is said that Me_eke's trial at Elmira cost the State $2,595.45. - Eighty two liquor licenses were granted in Elmira last week Monday. - Lycoming county had $11,738.21 in the treasury on the first instant. - There were fifteen cases of small pos reported at Asland, Pa, last week. - A large black bear was killed on Reed run in Potter county a few days ago. - Mr. Charles P. Hill of Lindley, N. Y., has been appointed Postmaster at that place. - Mrs. Burdette Barnum of Canton was bitten in the leg by a vicious dog a few days ago. - Several Bradford county hotel keepers have been arrested for selling liquors to minors. - Mr. G. W. Ryan was unanimously re-elected Superintendent of Schools in Bradford county. - Lycoming county paid $170.50 during the month of April on account of the sheep killing dogs. - Mr. H. L. Pearsall was unanimously elected Superintendent of the Cameron county schools. - Messrs. J. M. & M. Wolfe had three thousand logs destroyed by the recent forest fires on Cedar run. - A Coudersport man claims the belt after catching a trout which dressed two pounds and two ounces. - The Lehigh Valley Railway is about to purchase 6,500 acres of bituminous coal lands in the Snow Shoe region. - County Superintendent Riddell was re-elected in Lycoming county last Tuesday by a majority of 120 out of 208 votes. - Samuel C. Smith of Pennsburg, Chester county, has a dairy of thirty cows from which he realized last year $3,500. - Blaine's new book 'Twenty Years in Congress' is being delivered to the subscribers about Troy, Bradford county. - A saw mill and some other buildings at Minnequa belonging to Judge Maynard were destroyed by fire a few days ago. - A remonstrance containing 2,000 signatures has been presented to the county in Luzerne county against the granting of licenses. - John Cannon, the English wrestler, has started for home after borrowing a large amount of money from friends and admirers at Scranton. - The forest fires destroyed twelve saw mills in Elk county besides many dwelling houses and a large amount of lumber. The loss will probably exceed $100,000. - The four year old daughter of E. Sutton Hammond of Earl township, Lancaster county, fell in a tub of hot soap recently but was rescued in time to prevent fatal injuries. - Mr. Fred Card of Sylvania, Bradford county, has set out over three thousand black raspberry plants and he intends to go into the culture of small fruits quite extensively. - Put a man in my place tomorrow, am suffering from an adulterated tooth was the excuse sent to headquarters by a conductor on one of the Fall Brook roads the other day. - Mr. M. O. Campbell was re-elected Superintendent of Schools in McKean county. There were two other candidates namely Elias Horton formerly of this county and L. M. Fleming. - The first consignment of coal from the Clearfield region passed over the Fall Brook roads one day last week to New York. The traffic of the roads will be greatly increased by the development of this new territory. - The Court at Scranton, Pa., has instructed the District Attorney to prepare indictments against all persons known to have witnessed the prize fight between Hogan and Johnson. There were 1,500 persons present many of them prominent citizens. - The licensed liquor dealers of Dubois, Clearfield county, have inaugurated a war against the illicit dealers. There are twenty-two licensed houses in the place, and it is estimated that there are more than that number selling liquor in direct violation of the law. - Mr. Alvin D. Ayers, of Canton, attempted suicide last Thursday morning by cutting his throat with a razor. His many misfortunes and particularly the loss of his home by fire has caused melancholy and unsound state of mind. At last accounts it was thought that he could not recover. - Not for years have forest fires been so numerous, and rarely have they been so destructive of property. From all parts of the country the dismal tidings come of families without homes and of large amounts of valuable property destroyed. It is one of the evils from which there seems to be no escape. - the extensive lumber mills owned by local capitalists located near Tyler Station, Elk county, have been destroyed. Over 2,000,000 feet of boards and 1,200 logs with a lot of bill stuff, were among the property destroyed and the loss is put at over $50,000. The fire originated from the burning underbrush. - At the convention of School Directors in Potter county 117 were present two of them being women. Miss Anna Buckbee was re-elected Superintendent without opposition. She is the only woman now occupying that position in the State. The salary of the Superintendent in that county is $1,000. - To day the citizens of Canton, Bradford county, will vote on the question of levying a water tax in that borough. The water company proposes to furnish all the water needed for fire purposes in that village without limiting the number of plugs, at $200 per year. In case the proposition is adopted the rate of taxation will be increased about two mills. - Charles Frank, a brakeman on the Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Railroad, was missed from the train as it was rearing Geneva on the first instant. The train was stopped and search was made, and his inanimate body was found only a short distance back, near the head of Glass factory bay. He had a partly disabled arm from a former accident, and it is supposed that he lost his hold on the brake and fell from the train, sustaining a dislocation of his neck. - Last week Monday morning when Sheriff Horton went into the cell of Northrup, the man who recently attempted to murder E. N. Decker, in Bradford county, he discovered Northrup hanging by the neck to the water pipe. The body was not entirely cold, but life was extinct. A Coroner's jury was summoned, and a verdict was rendered in accordance with the above facts. The prisoner's suicide is thought to have been caused by the remorse which he felt for his crime. - Rev. P. J. Bull, of the East Troy M. E. Church, and his wife parted some months ago for the best of reasons, and since that time his son a lad of eleven years, has boarded with his father at Troy and attended school. A few days ago two women and a man came to Troy, one of the party being the boy's mother. The next morning the party drove to the school house, called the boy out and drove off with him. The boy's father was out of town for the day and when he returned the abductors were beyond reach. Mr. Bull is still ignorant of his son's whereabouts. - The Towanda Journal says that a number of the tax payers in Bradford county have filed exceptions to the last financial report of the county, and that an investigation is to be held. It is claimed that some of the charges brought against the county by the Commissioners were illegal and should not have been paid. The Journal says that it is not expected that any large errors or discrepancies will be discovered during the reign of the present officials, but it is intimated that from 1876 to 1881 there was some crookedness and that from eight to ten thousand dollars disappeared annually and no satisfactory explanation has ever been made. - On the 25th ultimo, the surface of Seneca Lake was covered with a thin film of ice. this is a most unusual phenomenon as the lake is open in the coldest weather in the winter. The Watkins Express explains it in this way. When the cold of winter comes on, the water at the surface cools and sinks and the warmer and consequently lighter water rises in its place giving off its extra heat with the vapor which on cold days is seen rising from the lake. This process if repeated, the coldest water going to the bottom until the entire lake is cooled down to 40 or 39 Fahrenheit, which is hardly ever accomplished until towards spring. When once it is attained, however, all that is required to coat the lake with ice is still water and the temperature of the atmosphere at the freezing point. The great depth of Seneca Lake requiring so much longer time for a change in its entire temperature accounts for the fact of its seldom freezing in midwinter when other lakes are frozen as well as ! for its freezing late in the spring after others have been warmed. - Joseph Libby, a farmer residing about three miles southwest of Hannibal, Oswego county, N. Y., after retiring a few nights ago with his eyesight in good order, awoke in the morning and said to his wife, 'I cannot open my eyes'. She looked at them and saw the eyelids open and replied to him, 'Your eyes are open.' 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