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