Scranton Republican, Thursday, July 11, 1889 Neighboring counties - Susquehanna- Mrs. Eliza Ann CASE, widow of the late Orson Case, of Hop Bottom, died, June 23, 1889, aged eighty-three years and eight moths. She and her husband were the first settlers in Hop Bottom, and from the time of settlement till death, lived in the same place. Mrs. Case leaves nine children (one died two years ago), 33 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. She was a kind, true-hearted woman, and a member of the M. E. church for over forty years. As her life passed away she found great comfort in the gospel as it shed its light brighter and brighter. It seems sad to bid goodbye to those who walk with us ..from or childhood, yet, when one like this sister departs, it is sweet for those left behind to remember the many acts of kindness, the words of sympathy and the rejoicing when we rejoiced, and it takes away the sting of death when we come to die, if our lives are made better by the influences left behind by those who live in our memories by the deeds they have done. Services were conducted by Rev. O. R. Beardsley, of the Universalist church. City and county - Joseph BUTLER, of Olyphant, a laborer employed at Jermyn's breaker, Priceburg, was killed Tuesday by being run over by a trip of loaded coal cars. Mr. Richard PEARCE and family, of Easton, are visiting at Mr. J. K. SMITH's, on Church avenue. Mrs. A. NEHLER has returned to Carlsbadt, NJ, after a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. SCHELLHASE, Green Ridge. Mrs. J. SHIER, of Fifth avenue, accompanied by her brother, Mr. Edward L. WILLIAMS, left yesterday morning for Ocean Grove. A. Hampton COURSEN and his brother-in-law, John W. WHEATLEY, of Americus, GA, will sail in the SIERRA Saturday morning for Europe. Rev. Alexander D. DECKER and wife, of Tioga, NY, and Miss Helen YOUNG, of Round Grove, IL, are the guests of Mrs. W. A. PEARSON, on Quincy avenue. At Register Hopkins's office yesterday, the following letters of administration were granted: The estate of William H. REES, of Dickson City, to Mary Rees, widow. The estate of Fred BIERI, of Ransom township, to Marianna Bieri, widow. The estate of John Henry JACOBS, late of the city of Scranton, to Mrs. Elizabeth JACOBS. The Phil Sheridan Rifle Corps is now fully organized, and within a month will be equipped with a handsome uniform and breech-loading Springfield rifles. On August 17 they will give a picnic at Central Park Garden. W. H. BURKE is Captain; James O'HARA, First Lieutenant, and E. J. QUINNAN, Second Lieutenant. There are forty-five members besides the officers. The corps drills every Friday night. Grand Ball at Winola House, Lake Winola, on Saturday evening, July 13, which will be the first of a series to be given every Saturday evening during the season. Music by Leonard's Orchestra. Parties leaving Scranton on 4:28 p.m. train, DL&W, make close connection on Lehigh Valley and arrive at Lake at 6:20 p.m., via Falls. A gang of carpenters will leave for Lake Ariel this morning for the purpose of erecting the cooking departments of the companies and making tables for the dining rooms. The tents arrived at the lake from Harrisburg yesterday, and will be erected immediately upon arrival of the Thirteenth to-morrow morning. All the staff officers will ride over to camp Col. H. M. BOLES on horseback, leaving this city to-morrow morning at 5 o'clock. The remains of the late Rev. P. T. ROCHE arrived at Archbald from Boston yesterday, and were accompanied by his sister and brother, [and] Mr. CUMMINGS, a relative who lives in Boston. Rev. Fathers Moylan and McAndrews, of Scranton; Lally, of Olyphant; Shanley, of Archbald; Fathers Millane and McHugh, of Scranton; Whealen and Nealon, of Hyde Park; Ruddy, of Erie; Noon, of Philadelphia; Brehoney, of Manayunk; Crane, of Pleasant Valley; Hoban, of Ashley; Kernan, of Parsons; Green, of Minooka; Coffey, of Carbondale and Walsh, of Olyphant. The funeral will take place in Archbald this morning at 9 o'clock, when a solemn high mass of requiem will be sung in St. Thomas's church. The first and cheapest excursion to Lake Ariel while the regiment is in camp, will be run by the Penn Avenue Baptist Sunday school. Adults' tickets 75 cents; children 35 cents. There will be no excursion this summer that will afford a better opportunity for the select and fastidious people of Scranton than the one starting from the Bridge street depot at 8:15 next Saturday morning, going via Carbondale over the mountains by the famous Gravity road to Fairview. The excursion is under the management of Camp 175, P.O.S. of A. [Patriotic Order of Sons of America -ed.] which will make it as pleasant for the excursionists as possible, and will allow no gambling, target shooting, ball-throwing or the like on the grounds, which have been fitted up in excellent condition. No beer or other intoxicants will be sold on the ground, ad as far as lies in the power of P.O.S. of A., and the railroad officials, nothing whatever will be permitted to detract from the day's enjoyment. The Botany Class in Society Having lunched on Lehigh Pond the botany class acquired a taste for fresh water bodies and yesterday decided to make a square meal of them. Take Lake Henry as an entree and digest Moosic Lake for dessert. Mr. George B. SMITH generously placed the accommodations of the road at the disposal of the class, and conductors had orders to stop the train anywhere the Professor saw a rare plant. Such devotion to science is rare of itself and deserves a stop to record it. Mr. WIlliam CONNELL met the party at Maplewood depot. It was a pretty sight to see the little flotilla of gaily painted boats with bright crews making its way over the bosom of the lake, which trilled at pleasure at the spectacle. Arrived at Lawrence cottage, the summer house of Mr. Connell, the party met the genial owner of these broad acres, Mr. H. O. SILKMAN, Messrs. William T. SMITH, Henry BELIN, Jr., Charles WELLS, esq., James CONNELL, James McANULTY, E. J. DIMMICK, and Miss Grace SPRAGUE. An hour or two was spent on the lake and then the Congo Prince, who does honors of the kitchen, blew a blast on the horn that brought all to the shore. Lunch was served on the broad piazza overlooking the lake, and was disposed of with a vigor that showed the strength of appetites born in the clear mountain air. After dinner Col. J. A. PRICE was elected toastmaster, but he was obliged to shorten his remarks in order that all present have the pleasure of listening to Mrs. Dr. FREY's talk on the development of the back bone of a bait fish. Mr. WIlliam Connell welcomed his guests in a few hearty emphatic words. Messrs. Smith, Belin, Green, Wells and others spoke briefly. Prof. Dudley explained some of the finds of the morning. Miss Lizzie HARRIS in a most innocent and artless manner pronounced a few simple Welsh words for the amusement of Prof. DUDLEY. One of the names reached from here to San Francisco and Miss Harris is not through pronouncing it yet, indeed she was obliged to come back to Scranton on an early train to find the other end of it. The floating islands at Maplewood are on a strike, one of them has been chained fast in the middle of the lake, the others follow the wind when it bloweth where it listeth. Nobody wants an island up there. They won't take them as gifts and they say that when the alarm is sounded in the night "The islands are coming" the cottagers stop not for pants and stay not for shoes but hasten to the shore armed with pike poles and boat hooks to shove the unwelcome guests away. Among the plants found were the water shield, a few white pond lilies, a myrtle-leaved willow, not known before in this part of the State, the larger blue skull cap, also new, three species of bladderwort, the two species of cranberry, found at Lehigh pond in great abundance, the leather leaf, the pale laurel, only found heretofore at Lehigh pond, three orchids, the coral root grass pink, pogonia, marsh cingue foil, two sedges and a pond weed new to the list. The wild swamp roses were very abundant and handsome. The guests unanimously passed a vote of thanks to Mr. William Connell for the very handsome and courteous manner in which they had been treated. The noon train stopped at a country cross-road a mile east of Wimmer's Summit, where carriages were waiting to take the ladies to Moosic Lake. The gentlemen walked. It was said to be "Oh, only two miles." Afterwards the distance was lengthened to three, then three and a half, four, four and a half, five. Then they stopped asking, they were in the woods and there was no one to ask but Mr. GREEN was ahead with a pedometer in one pocket, a compass in the other, and a barometer in his hand. He knew, so it was all right. At Moosic Lake the party was hospitably entertained by Mrs. GRIER, of Danville. Among the flowers found were a St. Johnswort and a ledge, new to the list. The golden club, the only station known in the list. The fly poison, cranberries, moss, pink and pogonia again abundant. The rare lesser club moss found near Lehigh Pond was also found here. A green fringed orchid was found by the road side by Mr. E. T. REAVES. The descent from the lake was made in three wagons, three on a seat. Mr. Green's pedometer made the distance four miles, Barometer elevation, 1,950 feet. The party spent the time waiting for the train at the cross-roads in settling with one of the members for the wagons. Binomial theorems and quadratic equations were employed, and the amount each was to pay was finally figured out on the back on an excursion ticket by the member in question behind a house. It was a remarkably jolly trip, but the class have ow had enough of a water diet, and Friday will get down to business with a "conglomerate" on Bald Mount at noon Friday. Today the class meet at the school of the Lackawanna at 9 o'clock. Friday night Prof. Dudley lectures on insectiverous plants at the Board of Trade rooms.

> > A gang of carpenters will leave for Lake Ariel this morning > for the purpose of erecting the cooking departments of the companies > and making tables for the dining rooms. The tents arrived at the > lake from Harrisburg yesterday, and will be erected immediately upon > arrival of the Thirteenth to-morrow morning. All the staff officers > will ride over to camp Col. H. M. BOLES on horseback, leaving this > city to-morrow morning at 5 o'clock. > Anyone have any ideas on how I may go about finding out more deatils about this trip that mentions "a gang of carpenters"??? Garthe Benjamin