NEWS: Items from the Morning Tribune, February 13, 1878, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Jessica Orr Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ Items from the Morning Tribune, Altoona, Wednesday, February 13, 1878 CITY AND COUNTRY. Blair County People Going to Kansas. Mr. W. J. Fleming, formerly of the Evening Mirror and now a resident of McVeytown, Mifflin county, brought to this place last evening another lot of people to the number of sixty who are on their way to southwestern Kansas to locate. They were sent west on the Fast Line last night in charge of Mr. P. Heffner, of Chambersburg. The emigrants are from York, Chambersburg, and Mifflin and Blair counties, and took first class passage. Mr. Fleming will have another party ready to start in two weeks. These latter people will be from Blair and Mifflin counties, and their destination is the same. Mr. Fleming will leave for his home at McVeytown this evening. Arrested for Creating a Disturbance. Four parties were arrested last evening by Officers Whittle and Coho, for creating a disturbance at the ball at the Empire Hall on the night before. One of the parties, a young man named Malone, was locked up, and the four of them will have a hearing before the Mayor at 8 o'clock this morning. CITY AND COUNTRY. Correction. In our report of post-mortem examination in the case of the late John Sagers of Logan town, February 5, our compositor changed the name of Dr. Rowe to Dr. Rose. It was Dr. Rowe who assisted Dr. Graham. We regret the error. COURT PROCEEDINGS. At Monday evening's session the case of Lewis S. Zimmerman's administratrix vs. D. and S. Zimmerman et al. was given to the jury. The facts in this case as we have been able to glean them are about as follows: The grandfather of the wife of one Peter Zimmerman left a will bequeathing to her a certain tract of land situate in Morrison's Cove during her life time, the said land to go to her heirs upon her death. The children, however, for and in consideration of the natural affection borne their father, and in further consideration that he would pay the grandfather's debts, amounting to $700, released the land, and conveyed it to Peter Zimmerman. Afterwards Peter Zimmerman sold the property to two of the children for $2,800. Only $1,400 were paid, and the father forgave the remainder of the debt. This suit was brought by the widow, who is also administratrix of Lewis Zimmerman, to recover one fourth of the value of the land, or $700 with interest. The jury returned yesterday morning with a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $822.40. McClain & Anderson vs. Mrs. Mary Weston, et al. was called yesterday morning, is in progress as we write, and will probably occupy the whole of to-day and possibly a portion of to-morrow. This in an action in assumpsit to recover a claim of $1,800 with interest. The following is an outline of the facts in the case as near as we could gather them. Somewhere about the year 1852 a man whose hindsight was better than his foresight, built what is now known as the Ward House, in Tyrone. It was sold by the Sheriff and purchased by Mrs. Ward. Some time after the house came into possession of J. J. Boyer & Co., Mr. B. being Mrs. Weston's brother. During a portion of the time the house was run by this firm it is alleged that Mrs. Weston was in apparent charge of the premises, doing business, paying bills, hiring and discharging help. From these facts it is inferred that she was a member of the firm, and as such suit has been brought to compel her to pay the above bill which is for meat used in the hotel during a period of several years. Mrs. Weston alleges by way of defense that she was not a member of the firm, that she was simply acting as an employe, and hence cannot be held liable for any of its debts. There are important principles involved in the determination of this cause, and the decision of the jury as well as the rulings of the court, will be awaited with no little degree of interest. TYRONE TRUMPETINGS. Notes Large and Small - Some Blown in Fancy, Others in Fact. At the depot this morning we saw Hon. R. M. Speer shaking hands with numerous friends. It is nor Captain Jones, Editor Jones or Pap Jones now, but Burgess Jones. Here's our say and vote. Every man who eat part of that beef, it is said, will have an opportunity of witnessing to that fact at court this week. John T. Fowler, Esq., was visible at the same time and place, on his way to the county capital as a witness in that beef case. The I.O. of O.F., we are informed, are about organizing a Rebekah degree lodge. The parent lodge here is in a very flourishing condition. In noticing Dr. Haberacker's candidacy for county superintendent, the types made the reporter say "party support" instead of "hearty, " etc. Charles Wooden, of Wooden Bros., proprietors of the City Hotel, is slowly recovering from his recent illness, sufficiently so to be down stairs on Sabbath last. The county capital is largely re-enforced by Tyrone-eans this week attending court as witnesses in the famous M'Clain and Andrews suit against J. J. Boyer and Mrs. Weston, for a beef bill. The new Building and Loan Association was christened as Tyrone No. 2, and at a meeting on Saturday night the constitution and by-laws were adopted, and Frank D. Beyer, Caleb Guyer and J. M. Calderwood were made trustees to receive the money to be paid in on the third Saturday in March, at which time a permanent organization will be effected. HOLLIDAYSBURG DEPARTMENT. Little Facts and Fancies - Big Things Grave and Gay. Music hath charms for the average Hollidaysburger. The juveniles have inaugurated the old, old game of marbles. There is need for the aid of the charitable in several cases in this community. It was military tactics and relative rank in the navy that convulsed the club on Monday night. There was a load of youth and beauty on the Hollidaysburg train last evening. "You're mighty right there was!" The McClain-Weston case, now on trial promises to consume all of to day at court. It is said that not less than seventy witnesses have been subpoenaed. Our friends aren't "panning out" on the item business as well as might have been expected. Remember, friends, that Lingafelt's is headquarters, and send 'em along. They had an awful time down at Cole's jewelry establishment the other day, all about a tiny mouse that had taken up quarters there. The mouse did not survive. The stage plan at the post office up to five o'clock yesterday evening, showed that eighty-two Hollidaysburg people had made up their minds to hear the Swedish Quartette. Some of the young gentlemen from Hollidaysburg who attended the Swedish Quartette concert last night had their breaths elaborately perfumed. Rather too elaborately, in fact. W. Fisk Conrad and D. T. Caldwell were wandering around town yesterday. They are attending court in the capacity of witnesses in the case now on trial, and are particularly fortunate in having been subpoenaed by both sides. Isaac C. Houck says if he did, accidentally, on purpose, miss that train which contained the handcuffed parties, he doesn't mean to miss the connection on Tuesday next, if he can help it. Houck was the only constable that we know of who was hated and feared by the rough classes, and many think he ought to make it again. It will be a source of profound satisfaction to all who love a quiet night's rest and are not especially partial to the penetrating music evoked from the inner consciences of the Thomas-cat, to learn that an epidemic is prevailing among the juvenile cats which is carrying them to untimely graves in comparatively large numbers. Upon the authorship of F. D. Young, it is announced that R. A. Irvin, of this borough, will be a candidate for Sheriff when the next bout for that office comes off. Robert is a very nice young man and would make a good Sheriff, but nothing shall induce us to falter in our allegiance to the fortunes of our veteran friend of the Register. Upon that matter we are "sot." Hon. Seth R. McCune was among the visitors to the county capital yesterday. The Judge dropped in at the headquarters of the "Smokers' Club" and enjoyed one of Wighaman's best Havanas. What was Frankstown's loss was your gain in his removal to your city about a year ago. But it is not easy to sever the ties that bind him and his family to Hollidaysburg, and the day may not be far distant when they will be again among us. A dry attendant at court met one of our ministers on the Court House steps yesterday afternoon and asked if he could tell him where he could get some beer. "Probably at the stone building down the street," said the ministerial wag, "Vat! At de t'chail!" exclaimed the astonished Teuton, and from the expansion of his eye-balls it is evident that he supposed he had been interrogating a lunatic. A LIBERAL SOUL. Allegheny Furnace and the region thereabouts are somewhat out of our bailiwick, but an incident from that locality has been reached and which ought to be put on record. Then the citizens of that section can determine whether or not they have a man in their midst who would be quite capable of stealing the pennies off they eyes of his dead grandmother. Two or three days ago some dogs unearthed a fox and after worrying him for some time succeeded in pulling him in the public road near Allegheny Furnace. The animal came into possession of a boy who was probably the owner of one of the dogs. The boy was very young and entirely unacquainted with the worth of the animal. It thus happened that when the hero of this true tale came along and began to dicker with the lad, he had no difficulty in striking a bargain. He was liberal, very much so; he offered the boy five cents for the fox, and the offer was accepted. The liberal purchaser has not yet been to the Treasurer for his $1.50 premium on the scalp, and when he does come we shall take great pleasure in printing his name in capital letters. TALKING ABOUT SCALPS Reminds us that the tax-payers of the county have been scalped out of a large sum of money in payment of scalp orders during the year 1877. the sum of $1,569.50 is quite an item in these times, and the average citizen is of the opinion that the law which makes such heavy annual drafts on the treasury possible ought to be repealed forthwith. THREE NICE YOUNG MEN, Having interviewed one of the dens where liquid poison is liberally dispersed to all inquirers, regardless of age or sex, rendered Front street in the vicinity of Johnston's livery stable quite lively for a little while yesterday afternoon. It is not meant that they were drunk, not at all, but they certainly were very musical. The volumes of sound which rolled from between their lips would have put to blush the Swedish Nightingales who dispensed such sweet music in your city. An unwilling auditor professes to believe that they were practicing, preparatory to attending said concert, but that is hardly probable. Parties who are musically disposed at 3 o'clock in the afternoon under the effects of Juniata street beer are not often interested in concerts at 8 o'clock in the evening. DIED. LAUB - In West Side, Crawford county, Iowa, October 17, 1877, at the residence of his parents, Joel David, eldest son of William B. and Elizabeth Laub, aged 24 years, 1 month and 6 days. All night we watched his slumbers. And said with awe-struck breath, "If brother would but waken! This sleep is like to death." Morn touched the hills with crimson, And smiled upon the east, And we saw the night retreating In strange and sudden haste. He woke - "The morning dawneth!" He whispered while we wept; For a strange, unearthly beauty Had changed him while he slept. And looking on his features So fair and white, we knew That his soul had grown so pure, that The light of heaven shone through. Oh, yes! The morning dawneth, Of an unending day, And never cloud nor shadow Shall hide the light away. Was it the mist of morning, Or was it tears instead That veiled our eyes - I knew not - While our brother's spirit fled? Sisters. CITY AND COUNTRY. A Fine Lot of Ice. A wagon containing about five tons of fine ice taken from the dam at Allegheny Furnace was brought over to the ice house of D. & C. Moore, on Fifteenth street, above Eleventh avenue, yesterday. Good News for Shop Hands. The force known as the rod gang in the fitting-up shop of the company commenced working overtime last evening. The men will work for three hours each night for probably two months. They are much elated at this indication of a revival of good times at the shops. A Drunk from Blair Furnace. A man from Blair Furnace, who "never had been there before and wished that he had stayed away," like the codfish caught off Long Island's "sea-girt shore" that somebody sings about, was before the Mayor yesterday morning on a charge of drunkenness. He had no money to pay a fine and was told to take up his line of march for Blair Furnace. Much Ado About Nothing. The attention of a Tribune reporter was called yesterday to an insignificant looking little instrument lying in the yard at the depot. It was nothing but a hoisting jack of perhaps peculiar construction, the thing being worked with a sort of pump-handle arrangement. The reporter interviewed at least four railroad people, and they were a crowd of "dam finos." After having his fingers horribly pinched in one of the spring doors at the Superintendent's office the reportorial enthusiasm over the jack abated immensely. However, the jack is a patent of Joyce, of Dayton, Ohio. It is fair to presume that it will be used in the yard. The reporter was very courteously treated by all the officials with whom he came in contact in regard to the matter - one even suspecting him of a desire to buy the article - but he would recommend those who desire to know more about it to call on the jack personally at the yard. Reportorial Pick-ups by the Way Side. Monday being pay day, an unusual amount of hilarity was indulged in. Mishler's Swedish Lady Quartette stayed at the Logan House. Prospective Councilman Mateer keeps a handsome drug store. Mr. E. R. Cartis hurt his back severely by slipping on the sidewalk at the depot on Monday morning. Alderman Poffenberger heard a couple of civil cases yesterday. There was nothing done in a criminal way. The best thing Mr. McDermott, Republican candidate for Council in the Eighth ward, could do would be to resign. Pay day leaves the usual headaches, and the druggists are doing a good business in seidlitz powders and seltzer. Two mistaken men drove into town yesterday in sleds. The grating over the rough streets was anything but pleasant. The family of Mr. John Shock, on the East Side, had all their washing stolen from the rear of their residence on Saturday. Many people stopped and wonderingly looked through the windows of the shop in which the "rod gang" were at work last night. A special train from Hollidaysburg with a couple of carloads of people came to the city last evening to attend the concert of the Swedish quartet. Samuel Alloway, while employed in the erecting shop was accidentally struck over the hand with a hammer in the hands of an assistant and his fingers mashed. Early last evening the streets were quite lively. A number of balls and dances were held which, as the evening progressed, drew the major portion of the people off the avenues. Personal. Secretary Quay was on the Day Express yesterday bound for Harrisburg. Mr. David McCoy, Superintendent of Glen White Coal and Lumber Company at Kittanning Point was in the city last evening. Harrisburg's Mayor, Mr. Patterson, who has been visiting his old home at Williamsburg in this county for some time, left for Harrisburg yesterday morning. J. D. Hicks, Esq., of Tyrone, looked in upon us yesterday, to congratulate us with elegant phrases on the success of the M. T. in his balliwick. May Duane's shadow grow mightier physically and legally. Mr. D. F. Kramer, jeweler, of 1125 Eleventh avenue, is selling off his elegant stock of goods at auction, prior to departing for Carlisle. Those in need of anything in the line of jewelry, silverware, &c., will do well to call at the auction sale. Mr. Samuel A. Renner, formerly Chief Clerk of the Maintenance of Way Department, P.R.R., has accepted the position of Chief Clerk to the General Superintendent of the P.C. and St. Louis Railway, at Pittsburgh. Mr. R. is a gentleman well qualified for the position and we are pleased with this recognition of his ability and work. Rev. J. Walker, late Presiding Elder of this district (U. B.), yesterday removed with his family to Conemaugh, where he has been stationed by his conference for the ensuing year. Mr. Walker is among the ablest ministers in that denomination, and we cordially commend him to the people in his new field of labor. Mr. J. H. Gilson, a frosty son of that thriving town on the mountain top, Gallitzin, was in the city yesterday. He is a gentleman and a scholar, or he wouldn't take the stock in the M. T. that he does. Though the good people up there are doing well by us now, he promises better things by-and-by. A BLOODY FRACAS. An East Side Candidate for Council Cut and Slashed During a Row in the Eight Ward. Some time since Michael Brannan, a middle aged man residing in the Eighth ward, made information against Charles B. McDermott, who lives in the Eight ward also, charging his with an assault. McDermott, who is a politician and the Republican candidate for Councilman in his ward, took umbrage at this, and it has been rankling in his memory ever since. On Monday McDermott got drunk, and while under the influence of the poison he had imbibed conceived the idea that that was the time to be revenged. THE ATTEMPT AT REVENGE He accordingly proceeded to the residence of Brannan and commenced operations by pulling a paling from the fence about the house, at the same time trying to kick open a door. Brannan was within at the time, and becoming enraged seized a poker and rushed out at McDermott, striking him on the head and blacking both his eyes. McDermott had enough for that time and left the place. He wandered around town for awhile and finally went home. On arriving yesterday morning he went to the lower blacksmith shop, where he had been employed, and drew his "time." He kept up the spree during yesterday, and concluded in the evening that he would finish the emeute which had terminated so disastrously to him the day before. A SECOND TRIAL RESULTS NO BETTER. At Seventh avenue and Seventh street he met Brannan, who is also employed at the blacksmith shop, and attacked him, when Brannan, drawing a knife or some sharp instrument, in self-defense did some lively cutting and slashing. When McDermott was taken to the office of the company's physicians he presented a gory appearance. He was covered with blood, and an examination showed that he had received cuts in the back of the neck close to an artery, between the eyes, and in the side. He was stretched on a lounge, and Doctor Ross proceeded to wash and dress the wounds. While the physician was sewing up the cut in his neck McDermott fainted. When he came to again he indulged in some bad language, directed toward his late opponent, and seemed to be more troubled as to who was the best man than he was about his hurts. THE WOUNDED MAN'S CONDITION. The affair created some excitement on the streets, and quite a crowd of curious people surrounded the medical office and passed in and out during the dressing of the wounds. The physicians say that the cuts are not at all dangerous or serious. McDermott was taken home after attention had been given him. SMOKE HOUSE ROBBED. On Monday night the smoke house of Mr. W. D. McDowell, of Logan township, was robbed of five hams and one shoulder of meat. Mr. McDowell is of the opinion that the party who did the stealing had not very good eyes, as they left three sides and all the shoulders except one, and were also kind enough to leave him a ham. If they carried away the lock with the purpose of coming back after the balance of the meat, all right, but if not, then Mr. McDowell will be obliged to them if they will return the lock or place it where he can get it. LOGAN TOWNSHIP DEMOCRATIC TICKET. The Democrats of Logan township have selected the following tickets to be voted for next Tuesday: Judge of Election - Oliver Haggerty. Inspector of Election - W. D. McDowell. Assessor - W. C. Reem. School Directors - William McGarvey, Trevan Buck, Elisha Crawford. Supervisors - Peter Fogle, William Haggerty. Justices of the Peace - Wm. Harpster, J. C. Minehart. Constable - William Winecoop. Auditor - James Hileman. Township Clerk - G. T. Bell. TYRONE TOWNSHIP LOCAL TICKET. The following persons have been nominated and will be voted for by the citizens of Tyrone township on the 19th instant: Justice of the Peace - Joseph Crawford, E. S. Beck. Constable - Samuel McMillen. Supervisors - Samuel Kulp, L. E. Stewart, James McQuade. School Directors - W. H. Calvert, John A, Crawford. Assessor - Colonel E. Burket. Judge of Election - Smith Wilson. Inspector - A. L. Fleck. Auditor - John Wallace. Township Clerk - Samuel Morrow. GARNIER'S NEW BUILDING. In a notice yesterday of the new building soon to be erected by Mr. A. B. Garnier on Eleventh avenue, below Twelfth street, we spoke of Mr. Garnier being a tobacconist. This was a mistake. Mr. J. S. Stier is the tobacconist who occupies the present premises and will occupy a room in the new building. Wherever we spoke of Garnier's store it should have read "Steir's store." TO BE ARRESTED FOR A BREACH OF THE PEACE. Against Charles B. McDermott and John Courtney by Martin Black was information lodged before the Mayor last evening. The charge was that McDermott and Courtney entered his premises without leave and kicked up a hullabaloo generally, being drunk. For this scandalous proceeding a warrant was issued last evening for the arrest of the two men.