RAIN is much needed. Vegetation is very backward. GARDEN-MAKING has begun at last. THE Court is likely to continue all week, as usual. THE frogs have at length begun their Spring concerts. NEW subscribers nearly every day. Our list is steadily going up. SUNDAY, Monday, and Tuesday of this week were genuine Spring days. The Removal Bill has not yet been passed by the House of Representatives. In the midst of the marble campaign the boys have been seized with the stilt mania. GEORGE ARNOLD, son of the late George B. Arnold, of Centre townshsip, died on Monday night. The public schools of this borough closed on Tuesday of last week, and the "small boy" is now happy. JOHN RICE'S party of railroad tie-makers on last Saturday made a pile of ties and will meet again on next Saturday. THE tax collectors of Spring township, and Duncannon and Blain boroughs, settled their duplicates for 1886 on Monday. SEE call of County Supt. Aumiller for a convention of Directors to elect a county Superintendent of Common Schools. GOVERNOR Beaver has named the 22d of April as Arbor day or the annual day for planting trees, and is anxious that a general regard for its observance be had. THERE is not a large attendance at court this week. Farmers are too busy just now to come to the county seat unless business or the mandate of the court compels them to come. THE engineers of the P.C.R.R. will have the profile of the road, the plans, specifications and estimates completed by the 20th inst., and contractors are invited to come and examine them. A LITTLE daughter of Samuel Fleisher, of Saville township, was recently kicked in the face by a colt which was running around in the barn yard. Her jaw was broken and several teeth knocked out. MR. ABRAHAM BOWER, an enterprising citizen of Spring township, has declared his intention to donate $100 to the construction of the P.C.R.R. whenever it is needed to complete the road. Many more will follow his example. THE Inter-State Commerce Law is creating considerable confusion in the management of trunk lines of railroads, especially in the rates of fares and transportation. The ticked office in this place has been discontinued for the present. OUR readers will regret to learn that our correspondent "Scientist" has concluded his letters in regard to the adventures of one of Perry county's most celebrated hunters. They were read with much interest and attracted attention in other portions of the State. THE Bohemian Oats swindlers got in some of this work in this county last week. Two victims gave their notes for a certain quantity of wheat at $10 or $12 per bushel. Notwithstanding the warnings of the press, some people will put their trust in travelling frauds. TWO little children of C.J. Johnson, of Miller township, were playing at the woodpile on last Wednesday. The four year old boy took the axe. His three year old sister had her hand on the chopping block. Accidentally the axe came down on an index finger of the little girl, severing it at the first joint and wounding the finger next to it. They are grandchildren of Mr. Andrew J. Clouser, of this borough. TWO funerals passed through this borough on last Sunday. William F. Meck's remains were interred in the old burying ground and those of the little daughter of Henry Fritz in the Bloomfield Cemetery. The latter died in Newport. Mr. Meck died at the residence of his father, George W. Meck, in Centre township. He was a much esteemed citizen. For some time his throat was paralyzed and he literally starved to death. His funeral was largely attended. THE court granted tavern license to all the applicants except to James F. McNeal, Blain, and to A. T. Boger, Landisburg. Restaurant license was refused Samuel Bair and Wilson Shrawder, Buffalo township; H. H. Richards, Marysville, and Calvin Hench, Saville township. License was granted to J. L. Michener, Duncannon, A. J. Ellenberger, Marysville, and G. J. Kauffman, Newport, the other applicants for restaurant license. ===== Judy Warner Bookwalter (Conner Crull Garland Garlin George Harglerode Kough/Koch Leighty Morrison Riggleman Smith Warner Zimmerman) http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=51270668103&n=423147537 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com