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ibe fort mnion, YOL.XYI. No. 92. EOSCOE COxNKMG DEAD. PORT JERVIS, ORANGE COUNTY, N. Y., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1888. THE END CAME ' EAUfEESSEX AND PEACEFDEEY AT 3.05 A. M. VnconBcious for Many H o u rs—H is Fam ily at the Bedside—Brief Story of H is Eife and Buhllc Services, Ex-Senator RoscoeConkling, the states man and jurist, died at his apartments in the Hoffman House at 3.05 o’clock this morning. At his bedside were Mrs. Conk ling, Mrs. Oakman. his daughter ; Col. F. A. Conkling, his brother ; Alderman Al fred B. Conkling, his nephew, and the physician who has attended him. For thirty-six hours the suffering patient had remained under the influence of opiates and failed to recognized the beloved faces of those who stood about him hoping for some change for the better. Mr. Conkling had been ill since March 20th. when he contracted a cold, but was not confined to his room until a few days later. Since Sunday, April 8 th, he was never conscious in a proper sense, the con sciousness which occurred for a few mo- mente being of a hazy character. BOSCOE CONKLING’S CABBEB. The Great Political Leader’s Private Life and Bnl>lic Services. Roscoe Conkling was bom at Albany, N. Y., October 30, 1839. His father was Alfred Conkling, a lawyer of eminence, and a follower of Henry Clay. After his appointment as a United States Circuit Judge he served in the Seventeenth Con gress from the Delaware and Otsego Dis trict with distinction. He was sent as Minister to Mexico by President Fillmore, and was the author of a valuable book of practice, called “ Conk- ling’s Treatise.” His son obtained his earlier education at home. He passed several terms m the Albany Academy. This was all the “ schooling” he ever received. At 15 he began to study law in the office of Joshua A. Spencer, at Utica. Scarcely had Mr. Conkling been called to the Bar when Governor Hamilton Fish appointed him, April 22, 1850, District Attorney of Oneida County, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Cal vert Comstock. In the fall he was nomi nated by the Whigs for the regular term, but he was defeated by the late Samuel B, Garvin. He gained reputation as a campmgn speaker in the fall of 1852, when he de livered several speeches for General Scott, the Whig candidate for the Presidency. He worked for Fremont in 1856, and his campaign speeches were extensively copied. In the meantime he had married Governor Horatio Seymour’s youngest rister,one of the most accomplished women in Central New York. In 1858 he was elected Mayor of Utica, and was next elected to the Congress of 1859-61. Mr. Conkling’s first important speech was made in the House on January 31, 1881. It was upon this occasion that he declared that the people of the North regarded slavery as “ an insatiable mon ster,” an “ iron heeled, marble hearted, oppressor, demanding three victims—^the slave, the master and the land.” 'Throughout the years of the war and those immediately following, Mr. Conk ling was prominent. He was for pressing for f. ard military operations with unceas ing vigor, for hard money, for emancipa tion, for freedom and equal rights, for im mediate and thorough reconstruction. Mr. Conkling was re-elected to Congress, and then became the leader of the N e w York delegation and established his repu tation as one of the readiest debaters, most courageous speakers and enlightened statesmen in Congress. Blaine, in his “ Twenty Years of Congress,” says he wap, at this time, “ the ablest and most brilliant man in the New York delegation. His command of language was remarkable. In exuberance of diction he has never been surpassed in either branch of Congress, except, perhaps, by Rufus Choate.” This was written by Mr. Blaine years after the two statesmen had ceased even to be on speaking terms. ® He was re-elected to Congress in 1866, but in January, 1867, before he took his seat, was chosen United States Senator to succeed Ira Harris. Mr. Conkling wm one of the first friends General Grant made in Congress. Grant’s methods confirmed exactly to Conkling’s idea ot fighting. He was the reputed power behind the throne. He was regarded as Grant’s most confidential adviser. Anything in the gift of the administration was looked upon as at his disposal It was during this period—the first years of Grant’s ad ministration—that there was formed the friendship, political and social, between Senator Conkling and General Arthur, Which was continued without interruption imtil the latter was elevated to the Presi dency and the former resigned from the Senate. It was through the magnificence^ of his political organization, then formed' that Governor Dix was elected Governor overwhelming defeat of Mr. Greeley in the same year and the humiliation of the thousands of Liberal Republicans who followed Greeley into the Democratic party should have developed a hostility to Mr. Conkling which four years later pre vented his nomination as President, and esght years later helped to drive him into General Grant wanted Mr. Conkling to succeed him as President. The information was sufficient to con solidate all his enemies against him. In the meantime, in 1873, he was re-elected to the Senate, begmning his second term. In 1876 Mr. Conkling was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President, but he was confronted with a formidable opposition, even in New York. But when the Republican State Convention was held at Syracuse, March 28,1876, out of the 419 delegates 351 voted for Conkling. When the test for strength came before the National Convention Mr. Conkling stood fourth in the list of candidates. Blaine led, Benjamin H. Bristow followed and Oliver P. Morton was third. The selection of Rutherford B. Hayes was the first serious break in the Republi can party. It was no secret that Mr. Conkling doubted if Lomsanna’e vote did not belong to Mr. Tilden, and that he was only prevented from making that declara tion on the floor of the Senate through the intercession of influential fellow Re publicans. This was the entering wedge of the trouble between the administration and Mr. Conkling, which culminated when John Sherman then Secretary of the Treasury, removed General Arthur from the Collector’s office and A. B. Cornell from the Naval office. Conkling during the four years of the Hayes administra tion, never crossed the threshold of the White House. Theu came the campaign of 1880. When General Grant returned from his tour around the world such Republicans as Conkling, Don Cameron and General Logan bent their energies to secure the renomination of the former. The Na tional Convention was held. Grant was defeated, but the 306 will go down in American histoi^ as one of the extraordi nary incidents in politics. When Garfield was nominated Mr. Conkling declared privately that it was “ a public calamity—a dire misfortune for the Republican party. I have been in Congress with him for seventeen years. No man knows him better than L He will put the party on the defensive. If we succeed this fall it will be a miracle.” But when the tide seemed to be setting against Garfield even Maine, imder Blaine, having gone Democratic, Conkling and Grant came to the rescue of the Repub lican party. This was brought about largely through the influence of General Arthur. Conkling and Grant stumped Ohio and New York, and Garfield was elected. A rupture was caused by Garfield’s ap pointments in violation, as the stalwarts alleged, of distinct pledges made to Mr. Conkling. The nomination of William H. Robertson to be Collector of the Port was a great blow to Mr. Conkling. Rob ertson had voted for Blaine in the conven tion of 1880, notwithstanding that the delegation had been pledged to Grant. Senator Conkling then said : “ If the President of the United States had crept up behind me in the dark and plunged |a dagger in my back he could not have com mitted a more brutal or cowardly act.” The resignation of Conkling and Platt from the Senate, and the unsuccessful canvass for a re-election are matters of familiar history. The assassination of Garfield again changed the current of events, and made Arthur, who had been Conkling’s long ally. President. General Arthur and Mr. Conkling were coming down from Albany on the Albany boat, which had been de tained by the fog. As it touched the pier a man jumped over the guard, made his way to the Senator, and told him of the shooting of Garfield. From that time to this Mr. Conkling’s lips were silenced for publication on the matter of Qarfield’a alleged ingratitude to him. “ I cannot go into a grave for vindication,” he would say to the friends who had his confidence. And he never did, even to them. The days that followed were trying ones to him. He received over 1,000 threaten ing letters from fanatics and cranks who had been driven into the belief that be was responsible for the assassination. Scarcely a day passed that he did not re ceive half a dozen letters or dispatches threatening his life. A coolness soon arose between Arthur and Conkling, but it was not until Arthur refused to remove Robeitson, and offered Conkling an Asso ciate Justiceship of the Supreme Court, whose Chief Justiceship he refused when General Grant tendered it to him eight years before, that the final break came be tween them. When Senator Conkling returned to the practice of the law in New York city after twenty-three years’ service in CongreBs, he in fact, that he was compelled to oorrow from his old friend, John Chamberlain, money to pay his fare to New York. Once back in the harness, however, with no political responsibility on his mind, clients overwhelmed him and poured money into his exhausted pockets. Within two years from the day he re signed from Congress he had paid off $80 000 which he had incurred from in dorsing the paper of his old friend, Arthur B, Johnson of Utica. During the past four years his annual practice has averaged 'over $100,000. His only child, a daugh ter, married some years ago Superintendeut Oakland of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. The split between Mr. Conkling and Mr. Blaine occurred in April, 1886. The House of Representatives had tmder con sideration the bill for the reorganization of the army. In moving to strike out section 20, which provided for the perma nent establishment of the Provost Marshal’s Bureau, which would have given General J. B. Fry the rank and pay of a brigadier general, Conkliug attacked and Blaine de fended Fry, and a heated debate followed. Blaine had read in the House a letter from General Fry. It was a violent at tack upon Mr. Conkling, and accused him of acts which, had they been true, would have disqualified him from ever sitting as a Representative and subjected him to criminal prosecution. Mr. Conkling promptly demanded an official investiga tion, which exonerated him and rebuked Mr. Blaine for reading a letter from a person not a member of the House as a part of a personal explanation. MONEY FOR THE YILLAOE FROM MOUNT SALEM, N. J. Several Item s on the M ilk and Creamery Business—^Kemovals, Etc. Mounr S alem , N. J., April 16.—Chris. Davenport bas started his grocery business at Unionville. L. V. Wickham is sending milk to 8. C. Hayne’s creamery in the Clove. G. H. Wyant began shipping milk to New York on April 4th. J. C. Cole has removed from his farm to the house of Ben j imin Nearpass. His son William will superintend the farm. B. S. Courtright has purchased a new team lately. J. T. Hoyt of Middletown is spending a few days at this place. We hear a faint call from our Roebport ftiends who are digging out from the banks of the bbzzard. M. S. Hayne has commenced work on the addition of 60 feet he intends putting to his barn on the farm near Union- ville. The Uni.jnville young men are endeav oring to raise money enough to erect a club house the coming season. Moses Cole bas started a milk route in Unionville, and is doing well. LAST NIGHT’S CONCERT. A Goodl-Sized Audience and a W ell-Ben- dered Frogrram a t the Opera H ouse. The concert given at the Opera House last night by the class which has been studying under Mr. Sweezy, the past win ter and spring, drew out a very good- sized audience. The choruses by the class were excellently well sung and displayed a very creditable amount of progress. “ Consider the Lilies,” sung by Miss Ella 01mstead,was very finely rendered as was the old and favorite duet from Norma by Misses Greenleaf and Olmstead. Miss Carrie Yan Wormer sang “ The Song that Reached my Heart ” with much taste and expression. Mr. F. Sceweiker sang a bal lad capitally and Miss Anna Bennet also gave a selection in good style. The class is to be congratulated on the progress it has made. TO THE PUBLIC. Having for nearly twenty-five years catered to the Port Jerv.s public, whose patronage I have so abundantly enjoyed, and who I trust appreciate the valuable services of my assistant, Mr. Fred N. Mason, I am pleased to announce that Mr. Mason is now associated as my part ner in the drug business under the firm name of Lea & Mason. N. B-—All persons indebted to said George Lea prior to April first are re quested! to liquidate the same as soon as possible. A receipt from either member of the firm will be suffleent. THE BOAKH OF TRUSTEES MAKE AP- PBOPKIATIONS FOB THE YEAR. The L ist to he Snhmittod to the Taxpay ers to he Votetl on at a Special E lec tion to be H eld Monday, May 14th, Salaries for the Year. A special meeting of the Board of Trus tees was held at the Corporation Rooms, Tuesday evening, April 17th. There were present President Shimer, Trustees Colgan, Munnich, Boyd, Corwin and Lyons. The meeting was called for the purpose Of making out the appropriation list to be voted for expense of the village for the ensuing year, and to also transact other important business. A petition signed by a number of citizens was read, asking that a flood gate be erected at the mouth of the Spring Brook so as to prevent an overflow from the Delaware river during high water. On motion of Trustee Boyd the petition was received and filed. The Finance Committee to whom was referred the request of Mr. Lea for a yearly license for the Opera House recommended that Mr. Lea be granted a license for theatrical performance, etc., for the Opera House from April 1st, 1888, to April 1st, 1889, at $100, payable quarterly in ad vance. On motion of Trustee Boyd the report of the coramitte was received and the recommendation adopted. The Fire Committee, through its Chair man, Trustee Boyd, recommended that $400 be raised for repairs to hose house, $200 of which to be expended cn hose house No. 5, and the balance on other houses. On motion of Trustee Lyons the report was received and the recommenda tion adopted. Police Justice Cox’s bond in the sum of $500 was received and accepted. Trustee Munnich, Chairman of the Treasurer’s Account Committee, reported that he had investigated the accounts of late Treasurer Van Inwegen and found them correct and that the village funds bad been ordered transferred into the hands of Treasurer Goldsmith. On motion of Trustee Colgan the report was received and Mr. Van Inwegen released from his bonds. Cn motion, each proposition oelng put leparately, the following amounts were ordered inserted in the appropriation list to be submitted to a vote of the tax payers; Printing $400, rent and insurance $300, fire department $1,000, hydrants $150, legal expenses 400, crosswalks $300, surveying $150, winding town clock $50 fuel $150, Board of Health $100, cleaning out Spring Brook $100, telephones $20, contingent expenses $500, completing west side Sussex street hill $1,000, sewer Crehard street $450, water $2,000. The appropriation election was ap pointed to be held at the Corporation Booms, Monday, May 14'.h, and a notice of said election was ordered published as required by law. Trustee Colgan moved that a committee be appointed to eonfer with the Water Works Company in regard to the price of water for the ensuing year, and that said committee consist of the President and two members of the Board to be appointed by the President. Carried. President Shimer appointed Trustees Colgan and Boyd as such other members of the committee. Trustee Boyd moved that a committee of three be appointed by the President to confer with the Electric Light Company in regard to the price of light for the ensuing year. Trustees Lyons, Munnich and Corwin were appointed such com mittee. Street Commissioner Burns reported that the drinking fountain en Main street at the head of Pike street was out of repairs, that a leak existed in the waste pipe that was causing some trouble. On npe motion the matter was referred to the Street Committee to report at the next meeting. Trustee Boyd moved that an appropria tion of $300 be inserted in the tax list for a foot bridge across the canal at the foot of Washington avenue. Carried. Trustee Boyd moved that the salaries of the Street Commissioner and police constables be the same as last year. Car- ried. Trustee Colgan moved that the salary of the President, Clerk, Police Justice, Cor poration Attorney, Chief Engineer, Treasurer, members of the Board ot Health and Health Physician be the same as last year. Carried. Trustee Colgan then moved that the matter of fixing the salary of the Assessors be laid over. Carried. Trustee Corwin moved and it was car ried that the wages for highway labor for the ensuing year be as follows: for ten hours labor $1.25, single horse $2.50, team $3 60. It was reported that John Bippus had failed to qualify as a member of the Board Of Health. Trustee Lyons moved that A M INISTER EXPELLED. The Rev. Robert J. Johnson of Essex, N. Y\. who has been on trial before the Troy M. E. Conference, has been found guilty of falsehood and expelled from the ministry and membership of the Metho dist Episcopal church. Mr. Johnson came to the Troy Conference from Ire- —Huinaors run riot in the blood at this eason. Hood’s Sarsaparilla expels every smpurity and vitalizes and enriches the blood. Jn 1876, and It was not surprising that the was a poor man, heavily In debt—so poor, —Our muslin underwear is the best in town. G.Ury. the Board proceed to an informal ballot for health commissioner to fill the vacancy. Carried. President Shimer appointed Trustees Corwin and Munmeh tellers. Result of informal ballot: 6 votes cast; John Stoll received 1, A. Koons 2, B. Fuerth 2 and Phillip Qorr 1. Pour for mal hallo’s were taken when A. Koons received 4 votes and John Stoll 2. Presi dent then declared A. Koons appointed health commissioner. The Board of Health was given the privilege of holding meetings at the Cor poration Rooms. Trustee Munnich made complaint of the low condition of the gutter in front of bis building on Front street On motion of Trustee Colgan the matter was referred to the Street Committee wi’h power to Trustee Boyd moved that the chairman be authorized to V Carried. Trustee Corwin reported that the gut ters on Mountain Avenue, Brooklyn, are in bad condition and suggeste ' be paved the full lenzth. On Trustee Bovd the matter was referred to the Street Committee with On motion B lard ad j mri WITH PEN AND SCISSORS. [tema Qt a M ore or Leaa Local Nature Cou- denaed for t h is Column. —A Steamboat passed up the canal to day noon. —L'nn Edsall yesterday caught a trou- weighing 1 pound and 14 ounces, in the Bashas Kill —Wan ed immediately a girl to take care of child, and do chores at 147 Main street.—8td. —Threatening and rainy weather pre vailed to-day. Colder weather is prom iaed for to-morrow. —The New York Assembly passed,by a vote of 86 to 8, the bill which substitutes electricity for hanging. —The wedding spoken of in T hb U kios yesterday took place at the American House, not Exchange Hotel. -C a r load potatoes for sale. Early R9se, Burbanks and Chilleys. Enquire at Alex. Gordon’s, Port Jervis.—2 id; —A big, strapping colored man from abroad got into several fights up town, yesterday afternoon. One man threatened to cut him in two with an ax, aud he lefi. —All members of the Deerpark Athletic club,are requested to meet at Cohen Bros.’ store, (to-morrow) Thureday evening at 8.30 prompt. By order of President— ltd. —Street Commissioner Bams is notify ing those who obstruct the sidewalks with boxes, barrels, signs, etc., that they must be removed. That is right; some busi ness people would drive every pedestrian into the middle of the streets. —Dr. Hamilton’s residence in Way- mart, Pa., had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Thursday night last, flis office was destroyed, with a portion of its contents, but prompt action on the neighbor’s part prevented further damage. —^Mrs. G. O. Teasdale of New York will open classes in dancing and deport ment at Farnum’s Hall, this village, on Thursday, April 19th. A speciality is made of the waltz and instructions in It are given at the first lesson. A children’s class will be held at 4 p. m., and an adult class at 7.30 p. m.—8t. —Each town in Orange, Sullivan an d Rockland counties is requested to send three delegates to a Prohibition Congres sional Convention, to be held at Middle town, Friday, April 27th, at 2 p. m., to elect three delegates to the National Pro hibition Convention to be held May 80th, and transact such other business as may come before the convention. There will be a mass meeting in tbe evening ad dressed by distinguished speakers. Dated April 11, 1883. gra-^e and reverend United States Senator tells a story about his little girl He says that when his family had gath ered for dinner little Elsie was too busy with her playthings to suspend and her mother called her to come. “ Yes, in a minute,” was the response. “ Bat we are all waiting,” said her mother, “ and your papa is waiting to ask the blessing.” She came in, climbed into her chair, folded her little hands demurely, bowed her head and said in a low voice: “ Let her go, Gallagher!” “ lam afraid,” said tbe senator, laughing, “ that the blessing I invoked at my table that day was slightly iacoherent.” —Throughout New York and Pennsyl vania, there is more Tulip soap sold than all the other soaps combined. -Mme. Warren’s dress form corsets, as well as other good corsets, on sale at G. TOM QUICK IN MIDDLETOW N. W h a t the Newspapers of that Place think of Mr. Allerton’s Dramatization. From the Press. To begin with, the company had alto gether the finest orchestra that has fur nished music at any performance in the Casino in a long while. It consisted of five pieces, all from Port Jervis. Miss Marsh presided at the piano. Mr. AUerton’s drama is really a clever production, although perhaps it needs a little judicious prauing here and there. While the incidents, traditions and leg ends he has interwoven in it are of a local character, there is no reason why it should not take well beyond this immediate lo cality. Mr. Allerton has certainly shown considerable skill and ingenuity in con structing this drama, and we trust may in the end reap both fame aud fortune from it. He deseives well for his efforts to collect information concerning the early settlement and the history of the Delaware and Neversink regions. Among the accessories of the play was the identical gun used by Tom Quick in his hunting expeditions and his fights with the Indians. The old spinning wheel is another relic of ye olden times, and was In use in the Neversink valley over one hun dred and forty years ago. The title role was taken by H. B. Ful lerton, E:q., a bright young lawyer of Port Jervis. Mr. Fullerton filled the character —«ii xr.— Walsh, who well. Miss Kate inn Middlddletown Walsh, who has appeared i Mi before taking a part in musical enrertain- ments, and has mau friends and admirers here, took the chan’acter Quick” after she had of Quick” after she had grown to a young Udy, and acted it with eaie and grace. “ Maggie Quick,” as a little girl, was taken by Ella fcicone, a granddaughter of Mr. Allerton, and did it so well that she woulo nave passed for a professional actress. “ Betsy Quick,” the grandmother, by Gertrude A. Scone, was likewise weij rendered. Mr. Allerton hii {era—“ Musk wink. Deacon Simeon Cuddehaca,' diffljult to say which he filled the better ■‘Pomp,” the negro slave of the Quiet family, who was personated by Mr. vVi Lly, who was personated by Mr. W m Taft, afforded unbounded merriment. W should like to speak ot i-the Indian forbids. The iment several othe idian braves and alJ- apple cut brought vividly back the scenes of by gone dayt to many in the audience. well as 0 Ury’s. —Bluestone walks, curbs, sills or steps on sale by G. W. Hoagland, contractor. Fiom ihe Argus. It is due to Mr. Allerton to say that he has mide t te most of the mateiials athis com mand, and has put them ttgether in a mao aerthat would do credit to an experienced playwright, thoroughly familiar with stage Dusiness. The interest is never al lowed to flag. Many plays that have been acted in this village, which were the work of professional playwrights, have been far inferior in dramatic merit and interest to Mr. Allerton’s lorn Quick. The company which acted the play was, taken all in all, an excellent one, and they threw themselves into their parts with a zeal and earnestness and an absence of timiditiy and self-consciousness that is rarely seen in amateurs, H. B. Fullerton, a rising young lawyer of Port Jervis, who acted the part of Tom Quick, showed that he possessed dramatic talent of the highest order. He threw himself heart aud soul into his part and acquitted himself most creditably. Wilton Bennett, in the character of Tom Quick’s father, went through the trying death scene in the first act most creditably, and later made all that was possible cut of the unattractive part of Piper, the Tory. William A. Taft, as Pomp, the s'ave, made a capital African, and won the favor o f the gallery from tbe first moment that he appeared upon the stage. His drollenes and bits of by play ere excellent. Mr. Allerton made an excellent Musk- wink, the Indian chief, and as Simeon Cuddeback tae deacon, in tbe apple cut scene, he made a most decided hit, his transition, under the combined influence of pretty girls and lively music, from the staid deacon 1 1 tae old man “ as young as he used to he,” by j fining in the dance and the other merrymakings, being very nat ural and lifelike. Miss Kate J. Walsh, as Maggie Quick, Tom’s niece, made one of the hits ot tae evening. She had a good conception of Che character she assumed, wasthorougnly at home upon the stage, and acted her part naturally and therefore well. Sne nas a fine stage presence and her beauty of face and form won for her at once the favor of the audieoce. Her song in the apple cut scene was so well rendered that the audience gave her a hearty encore. Ella Stone, as Magg e Quick, the young girl d.d very nicely, and Mits Gertrude A. Scone, as Betsey Quick, made a capital old considei brought from Port ______ were all good and historically correct. Tht Indians, of whom their were a very large number on the stage, were attired and ac coutred after the fashion of Indians of a century ago, and were so vi'lianous look ing in their war paint that they must have frightened tbe children in tbe audience out of at least a week’s growth. The music, furnished by an orenestra of five pieces, silent that it should not be left was so excel to pass unnotii ■We claim Tulip soap to be a strictly —We have received a splendid line of pure soap, and is elegantly perfumed. 3 W ribbons, which are displayed cm our fry a quarter’s worth and you -will use no iunters. G. Ury, II9 Pik* street other. Save the wrappers. PBIOB THEKE CENTS THE AIOSA PG^STABILIS. AN INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE NOW VERT PALATABLE SHAD. Its Migration Along the Atlantic Coast. The F ish now at Its Best—An old Dealer Znterviewetl—W h a t H e Says of the Story That Shad Live to he Only One Year Old. A veteran shad dealer was in town, yesterday, and in Carpenter «& Corwin’s market gave an interesting sketch of the fish in its migrations along the Atlantic coast. The first shad on the coast are caught in the S’. John’s river, Florida, in Decem ber, and the first shipments are made from New Berlin. Next they are found at the mouths of streams at Savannah, Charleston, Georgetown, Wilmington, N. C., Newbem, and the Pamlico river, in the Chesapeake, Potomac, Delaware and Hudson, The shad now in the market came from the Chesapeake and North Carolina fish eries. The dealer says theyare|the best of the whole season, the fish now being at its perfection, and, in addition, it being put upon ice tbe moment it is caught and thus marketed in its best state. The first catch has been made in the Delaware bay, and a few fish have been seen at the mouth of tbe Hudson. Booh we will get them from both of those In May they will be caught in the upper Delaware in thia vicinity. Up to this lime they are in good, though not the best condition. Later in May and in June they are found off tbe New England coast, and in July aud August reacn the New foundland region. They are very poor, at this time, the spawn having been de posited long betore reachieg that neigh- lorhood; a trace, however, of the spawn for the following year is noticed in Aug ust. But the fish, though often larger are lot half so palatable as when caught two or three months previous. What about tbe statement that shad live only one year ?” asked I hb U nion reporter. That is all nonsense,” replied the dealer. “ Why, some fish weigh six and eight pound, and others less than one pound. When caught. Do you mean to say that the small fish are as old as the oig ones? On, no I I have often heard that year-old story, and it seems to be be lieved by fishermen along the Delaware, Out I tell you that I know better. They live to be several years old.’’ BEGINS TO-MORROW MORNING. Our readers will bear in mind that the sale of seats for the two performances of the “ Chimes of Normandy ” to he given oy the Port Jervis Amateur Opera Co., will begin to-morrow morning at Lea’s, at nine o’clock. No reservations will be made—the first at the chart will be the first to choose. Seats may be then se cured for either or both nights of the per formance. Bear it m mmd if you desire the best seat& OPEN ON SATURDAY, A P RIL »1»T. The Erie Band will give their next so ciable at tbe Assembly Rooms on Satur day, April Sftst. Music, skating and danc ing will constitute the evening’s enter tainment. No charge is made for tbe use of skates or for dancing, and ladies are admitted free. Everybody is invited, and the best of order is maintained, no dis orderly or disreputable characters being acmitted.—adv. HAS A FEU A L E PASTOR. The Liberty Falls Free Methodist church in Sullivan county, is to have u s spiiitual interest looked alter this year by a female pastor, named Mrs. flaverlin, wbo is said to be a preacher of much elo quence and ability. The Libtrsy Falls church enjoys the distinctioa of being the only church in this saciiou of the slate Which has a lady to look after its spiritual interests. THE BODY OF ENGINEER BROSS The bodyol engineer Edward Bross, who was killed on a Florida railroad, will arrive m this place on the milk tram, this afternoon. The funeral announcement cannot be made until to-morrow. -Young men, it will not retard the growth of your whisker buds if you wash your face with Tu.ip soap. —Our hosiery is well selected and as low as the lowest. G Ury’s. LADIES’ MADE W RAPPERS. Just received another case ot heavy century and other calico wrappers, in aavy blue, brown, eenru, Indigo blue, silver gray, eio., in all sizes Irom 32 to44. If one doesnot suit we will change to one Waist lined, button holes done —Attention is called to tne card of JUdel the shoe dealer es ir e another page.
