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From: Joan Lyons <>
Subject: [Pafayett-L] Old Newspapers
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 12:53:28 -0500


Genius of Liberty, Uniontown Pa., Sept 4,1879

Local Miscellany
Mrs. AGNES R0BINSON moved to Morgantown last Saturday.

Dr. JAMES COPE, Dentist,will be in Uniontown, Sept. 8th to 20th.

The oldest veteran in the ranks on the 27th, was Mr. D.C. IVESON of
Connellsville, who is 84 years of age.

NATHANIEL G. HURST JR., of Dunbar, entered the West Virginia University
this weekend as a student, at Morgantown.

JOHN H.McCLELLAND , of Uniontown, was appointed Foreman of the Grand
Jury on Monday last, by the court,and after the charge by his Honor
Judge WILLSON,they repaired to the Grand Jury room and entered upon
their duties.

A Miss ARENSBERG died at the residence of her sister, Mr. HENSEL, east
of Dunlap's Camp,on last Saturday night, about 12 o'clock, and was
buried in Oak Grove Cemetery on Tuesday. The deceased was about 20
years old and died of consumption.

Dunbar
The good Templars enjoyed a gay and festive evening, at the residence
of C.T.SMITH WORTMAN on the 26th ult.

JAMES R. BEERS, is erecting a frame dwelling house in the village for
ROBERT LANG.

The track foreman of the furnace raolroads, JOHN DOHENY, is suffering
with quinsy.

Whooping cough is making its appearance. On the 18th, MATTHEW HIXEN lost
a child by this disease.

Scarlet Fever still claims its victims.WILLIAM McDOWELL lost a child by
this destroyer.

Mr. KIMBEL, a clerk of the Dunbar Furnace Co. has purchased the house
and lot of R.J. ALLEN, for the consideration of one thousand dollars.

Mrs. MAGGIE WIDUP, of Speers Hill, is lying very low with typhoid fever.
This is the only case in our midst.

WILLIE MARTIN, a boy of four years old, weighing fourty one pounds,
astonishes the natives by jumping ten feet at three standing jumps.

The fall of the years brings forth her supply of fruits for the
sustenance of man, but the fall of TERRENCE BIGLEY, through the
"Bertha" railroad trestle, brought forth two gashes upon his head.

THOMAS CAIN, a coke filler at the Dunbar Furnace, had the misfortune of
having one of his fingers caught between the handle of the coke barrow
and the hoisting cage. THOMAS has a pet now.

Little credit is generally given to snake stories, but we have one from
a gentleman whose veracity has never been impeached. The species,
crustalus surisses,commonly called rattlesnakes, were found coiled upon
a rock near Old Laurel Furnace. JOHN KLINK, with a daring spirit, aided
by a good long club, dispatched the mass of serpents, which numbered
thirty, one of them he avers measured eighteen inches in circumference.
JOHN WILL, near new LAUREL FURNACE, killed a white rattlesnake of
considerable size.
More later, Joan

J.M. Lancaster, an employee of the Dunbar Furnance company , recieved a
severe burn on the face ,while casting on the 24th ult.



Dawson
A boy by the name of WILLIAMS was killed in the Spring Grove Mine ,by a
fall, on Monday1st. Have not heard the particulars.

Mt. Braddock
Some of ELLIS HOLLAND'S children have had Scarlet Fever , but are well
again.

A.D. SICKELSMITH , a former store keeper here, is now in the Lemont
store.

B.W. WILLIAMS is preparing to build a dwelling house this fall

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