Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - April 27, 1875, Titusville, Pennsylvania and whom all business correspondence should be Editorial should be ad EL C BIAiS Editor Advertising ratee on application aiL or at tne room Printing executed with and by mail per year 00 Carrier per quarter 2 5 cents of Weekly OIL s VOL 264 PA TUESDAY APRIL 27 1875 WHOLE NO 3729 usually cultivated is a total blank wherein he and out to the suburbs where Dingle who has a collegiate edu sat down in tbe shade of a high board fence a Few of the cation and in lucid moments is a man oi such and drank their bottle dry being treated inci t i tViA RT A o compiled from on aide of the 4 to Celebrated American charming even a furious CONVERSATIONAL POWERS vw Kail way JBe or Peter Old Herald Office Place foe of the the Chicago 1 Thou that to passe the foure parts dost deeme No more than goe to bed or sleep or The queerest lot of men above ground are the tramp printers In the course of an expe rience in the trade and in journalism from New York to Omaha I have met them at all turns and come to look them with an eye of not only but kindness As I write fig ures of I have pass before me in mental review hulking shambling along the dusty summer roads up 7 at the crawled up one into the garret over the facetiously the boudoir because of its constant use by as of rest and went to sleep The others happened to stretch out upon solid places but St Charles succeeded in finding re pose upon one of tbe beams Between 10 and 11 oclock the next morning he awoke rubbed his eyes yawned rolled over and tell off bis through which dentally to Omaha by Way of jImd PIGS ion aat New in listening to him one forgets Ms squalid FIGHT TWO PIGS Who in Appearance and wretched life more in a pen near at hand described oven has tbe mind aud eye of a jaunt afterward as a pleasant excursion beau aud lias taken in the moral side of he has enlivened by the play of nature on every seen to such advantage tbat he discourses upon side social economy tougue of a master The in is or used to and the earnestness of a true philanthropist It be in an old theatre The is where has been his luck to iall from a more elevated the gallery formerly was located and the plas Dlane of life than most of the brethren of the tering overhead is extremely fraiL St Charles craft have ever moved upon and from high to had upon one occasion been flagging it dur low society he knows it Crow ley on the j lag a space of about six weeks when in coui other hand was bred in the gutters of New pany with several of the banner he York and never knew any thing better knows todav Perhaps there is no tramp of greater isse than PETER B LEE who is a man a witty fellow a me drunkard and a firstclass compositor Tbe last time I met Peter was shortly after s abovementioned exit from Omaha I the in the Herald one running down au out error in that mornings paper when DUST AND SPLINTERS here stalked in a very tall party withred hair alighting upon a two of the job one arm and a plug hat who halted in tne j hands below were taking from a stone to carry middle of the floor and announced i press They saved the riin said he m de Theodore Savage the his accident to a Iriend that afternoon printer Does any oue here know me J there wasnt two left together The An unanimous shout ot laughter and recog jobbers were of their wits for a answered him whereupon bis j but the dust out ot relaxed the stern gravity that had clouded j optics at unfortunate like d a very broad grin disclosed two cats upon a dog and drove him teeth that had of aml witb muu the street THE GRADE OF rather enjoy the respect of the trade tban otherwise They travel in Pullman cars put up at firstclass boarding houses dress in the latest style and altogether live by far better tban the average mechanic These are the comps such as and compositors in the country are sure of work and are favored with the oi tbe fraternity Once in a while they will de a trifling eccentricity such Co Successors to Gibbs Starrest Coo Established in fleeing the pecuniarily provoked ire ot a land lady or undergoing summary ejection at tbo hands and feet oi a disgusted foreman for putting in too much time about the stove while rendered incapable of coherent conversation by reason of intoxication Dingle Judevine Crowley Peter Bartlett Lee Theodore Savage Colonel Howard Pete Oberly William Sc Charles Davis a vagabonding army of lesser lights troop through memory in a procession in inter est in comic display in quality and oddity the shirtless company of old Sir John It would be impossible to crowd more eccentricity into an equal number of other in the world IS Dingle is an Israelite short and dismally unclean It was my luck to en counter him first in the Herald ia Omaha one sunny morning in June some years since when he lounged into the news room and took his stand with his behind him and his chin his breast beside the great stove shivering as though his very bones were impregnated with an anguish frost red faced and completely miser able Captain Jinks said one of the men and a chorus of laughing observations was launched at him the walking n do you show upT old man much steam you sick to ride up from St Jo When you fellows get through perhaps some of youll lend me all the answer he made with never a twinkle of PA F H P W President W B T Jr STEPHEN P MORRIS TASKER CO Pascal Iron Works Tasker Iron Works NEW B F Edwards DEALER IN DIRECTORS F H Gibbs li H Sterrett F Andrews John L McKinney W B J W A A J W Humphrey Manufacturers of c rows ot teeth that had every appearance of having been carved out of yellow soap Vou fellows neednt I want to raise a he went on to say Ive and Engines TOOLS ot v I dont give a dash for any one Im fixed I dont want any work either Im and he illustrated the elevation of his tone by immediately losing his balance and falling with a great clatter against the stone CP MAN in a clear loud voice followed came from the door where head and shoulders were seen to appear and in stantly disappear like ThereVas a noise immediately th no feet a little mistakably caused by a man falling down must stairs The entire force swarmed out TO assist occasionally shifts bis talents info the the unfortunate whoever he might be leaving reportorial Hne He served lhe j the celebrated man in a daze on the cu floor Directly they returned bringing in a lellow whose tight black coat was completely covered with dust whose face was bleeding and whose whole appearance betokened in tense demoralization Its Pete Lee exclaimed the first man caught sight of his face in the light the a u i T a trifling such as a flash of lightning board or bills behind them but they are tact a little a man filing down must traveling 3 OI a vri uu smile I stair were I permitted him to negotiate a loan of the j asserted the bruised but self amount specified with me and he out possessed Peter 4tl just thought Id drop down Peter and Savage had walked into town to gether from where they had finished months job and both ot them had a little that is say enough to render possi ble a grand of three days duration They appeared and reappeared drunk drunk er or drunk during that length of time It became necessary three or four to return in half an hour full of bad i liquor Tip TO the as the saying is but perfectly steady in nerve and not trace of i his late chili visible j just walked up from Mobile he and I ain t bad a drink in a which was manifestly untrue He secured work lor that night and sur prised me by getting ap yard more type than any other man on the as the fore man remarked and setting a cleaner proof tban any one else on the Dingle on that occasion had actually FROM 1TOBIIJB TO OMAHA with only three days work in St Louis by the the Times of that city He was full of complain teas to the manner in which the men on the paper hogged type m distribu tion there being barely the office to set the paper up The first impression I gathered upon meeting Dingle was that he had been ot too sott material and too hastily dried His head looked as though before hardening it had bag ged down from the crown into the chin the corner of his structure being miser ably low and small and covered with short line of the fall with credit and the Louisville and Cincinnati papers have been favored by his labors quite frequently I not Jike to have it understood that the men I have tried to describe are tair sam ples of those who follow the printing trade they are merely samples of a class of printers The steady compositor a man of and responsibilities is a fellow of infinite merit compared with workmen at most other trades the staid job printer is a member of community tban whom none are more worthy These waits are the of the outskirts of tbe trade always ornamental fringes ceri not very useful But they till a fill a gap It takes all sorts of people to make a you know And must needs go whom the devil drives D JB iS AND Sole of the new Balance Valve PATENT Temper Screw and Rope Clamps GIBBS PATENT ADJUSTER OFFICE OFFICE AND Oliver Boston MANUFACTURERS OF OIL WELL TUBE AH CAMS Wrought Iron Welded Tubes PLAIN GALVANIZED AND AND BEST CHARCOAL IRON BOILER TUBES Oas and Steam Fitters Tools and Fittings BRASS IRON BODY IRON VALVES ANT COCKS Cast Gas and Water Pipe STREET LAMPPOSTS ANX LANTERNS Improved Apparatus etc AB ETC Also the celebrated COAL LIME CEMENT PA CAPITAL in Deposited with the United States to Secure Holders and Depositors and Bituminous Coal of ail kinds FIRE BRICK FIRE CLAY Calcined Plaster HYDE G C C i C BEEBE P T J D VT H B Mower and Reaper and Sola Ascents celebrated Blake Steam Pump Dealers m Fittings for Gas Steam etc Build Iron Tanks Stills to of all kinds done on short notice Onr Oil Well Tubes are tested before leaving our works with a of 1200 pounds to the square inch SHAWS Patent Gleet Dealers and others when in want of any of the abovementioned will apply at oar Philadelphia office NATIONAL LAND PLASTER ON HAND Office aud Yard Corner Ferry and Mechanic streets ORDERS left at CA STo 6 Spring street Chase fc Stewart Block will receive prompt attention B F ED WARDS EXCHANGE BANK Corner Franklin and Spring sts PA CAPITAL times in the interval to THEM STAIES but BO such trifling circumstance as that dis turbed the profound debt a of their careless ness sufficiently to keep them out the next time they felt prompted to corne in When the supply money was finally exhausted Peter so far forgot himself as to bruise bis crippled companion with a chair and forswear his com pany Subsequent to which performance he appeared and gave it out that he was TO WALK TO and desired to raise funds to sustain him by the way Thereupon he drew from his pocket a paper which he passed to the man nearest him with an injunction to sign it for as large an amount as possible and band over tbe and corley hair while the latter The document read somewhat thus was large and graced with a I Mr Peter B Lee fuzz that gave it every of being j We the undersigned having TREFTS TUBE WORKS CO mouldy Bis mouth was so full of bad teeth tbat a few of them hung outside bis broad lips His were encased in pantaloons that atoned for being a to wide by coining only half way down from his knees to his ankles coarse woolen socks that had once been blue left a section ot underpinning visi ble m all its native and acquired primness at the top and were swallowed up in coarse and raping urmy shoes at the A coat was buttoned close to his throat to con ceal the ntter lack of any other garment and such a little dilapidated sott hat as you some at a show was perched upon v known you during a long course of years admiring your character and your devotion to tbe craft and pedestrian exercise do hereby contribute for your benefit the sums severally set opposite our names as a reward ot merit and token of esteem upon condition that you will immediately leave town and agree not to return to Omaha until you come back Re yours Each of the men some for a quarter Florida Excursion Routes OF Tickets 1la and Ketura for sale December 1st to April 1st to until 31st and have tll the privileges of Class Tickets Route o Washington Richmond Wil Charleston and JNo Caar and Koute No 312 Richmond Wil and Savannah Route 3To Char lotte Macon and Jesup Roure Char lotte Augusta and Savannah Route Bris tol Atlanta Hacon and Rente No Richmond An and Savannah Route To Washington Richmond Wil mington Augusta and Savannah Roate 546 Baltimore Wilming ton Augusta and Savannah Routes Baltimore Norfolk Wilming ton Charleston and Savannah All of the tickets return by same route and are so d it following Through Rates 00 75 BOILER WORKS Buffalo T SOLE Farrar Patent AS GOOD AS Collections made on aH points ia the States and Bny and sell and Govern Securities Specie and and Foreign Interest allowed oa OF THE Coal u UL tv upon him tient not less upon an average than once a day aud invariably came up aguin I perfectly to oaths and threats to j if be could or to sleep if he could not j work Finally be appeared one morning pre drunk ana abnormally bright to demand his traveling card from the financial secretary of the union and announced his in tention ol going to Sioux City I did not meet Dingle again until two years after when he turned up in the office gone in liquor and other wise unchanged There goes a of heard him remark to a brother tramp as t passed up tbe stairs GOING TO FOR A which he forthwith did During the conversation by which he gently led up to bis financial proposal he informed me that be had upon tbe occasion ot his de parture from Omaha walked to Sioux City thence to St Paul and on through Chicago and Detroit to Canada down to New York and along the Atlantic coast and the Gulf to Xew Orleans up tbe Mississippi to St aud the Missouri to Omaha again then across Iowa and back to Chicago working a few more or less wherever he conld find work and preceding on his way whenever it seemed to it was time to be There was a walk And yet snch walks are not at all infrequent Tramps of Dingles cast never ride m a railway car Tom Crowley for instance has worked ia every city in the United States and E RODE CT A CAR the Original Tn many cases the Engines and we offer are not at all the worse for wear Fully pe cent can be saved bv buying of us rebuild every engine renewing all parts that are in the least defective All of onr work are prepared to do all kinds of Engine and Boiler Onr but once in his life which happened thus One of a hot day Tom was through Wheaton a town near this tired out hungry and withal superlatively sleepy whea in crossing a railway track his eyes lighted upon a gram train with a fuming en was repeated in alt with equal success Did Peter leave Not he Instead he at once proceeded to guzzle all the liquor his money would buv and in two days thereafter the same document freshly written was circu lated without eliciting a response indeed he did set bis face toward the place where the sun goes down Three months after ward an printer reported his safe arrival at Denver very much reduced and lamentably sober It was amusing to see Savage work his solitary arm Placing the stick on the ledge of the case before him he would deposit tbe type therein at an astonishingly rapid rate when the stick became full with a dexterity that was simply marvelous These men are representatives ol part of the trade m its lowest branch THET ALWAYS WALK The next grade above them consists of men who walk when they must but ride wben they can A cood story is told of one of the riding class who desired not Jong since to go from this city expenditure of wealth He boarded a train at street and rode some little distance before tbe con ductor him I want you to get off it tbe next was the way bis w Ith that functionary closed tbe functionary being tbe speaker He got off at tbe next sta tion went around to tbe rear end of the idled away a few minutes until ail was beard and then got on again I cant stop this train TOT said the man of ticket on his next round buc tf T find yoTi here after we pass the next station m kick you through the The persistent traveler left tbe car at the next station only to reenter as soon as it started on Wben tbe next station was reach ed the conductor proved quite as Jersey Ciry 30 CO I 50 I 00 50 1 751 75 Sbop at the Foot of Monroe street 49 50 75 is fitted up with all necessary machinery for Re pairing Engines and Boilet a New 49 00 Except Koutes Xo 546 and Xo 547T which are not sold at and LUMBER AND WOOD YARD JA E C OF PA Stockholders Individually Buy and seH States GoM Coopons Collect do Collections made on an points in the ghie at its bead standing beside a hi word fie kicked him through The bad wherewith Tom had bej and off tbe Imagine is when fore sought to freshen his parched and on hi next trip be the roosted brace bis limbs had confused his On the wood box carefully over the edge of the points of the compass i and he fell j ranch as that part of him into the error ot this train was bound j which had been kicked his face a for Wherefore be secreted t of resigned by soroe in one of tbe cars and went to j here my the conduct sleep When broke he crept or desperation place and looked abroad upon a j AKF TOIr stretch of prairie interrupted tn tbe cear fore ground by a few frame bourses flash boards on tbe fronts of as he pst a small and a couple of slanted trees a through a drizzling cool rain He inquiries and discovered tbat be was 100 miles farther from Chicago tban he bad been tbe previous day Witn a a Variable Route Tickets are sold at INew York City Williamsport Altoona and as follows Excursion by Koute 510 by Eoute 510 Xo bv Koute 512 by Koute 510 SlO Excursion NO by 510 returning by SiO Excursion by 511T returning by Kou e 510 510 additional No by Koute 510T by Koute 514 810 additional Excursion No by Koute returning bv Koute 310 additional Excursion No ing by Koute 511 by Koute 512 additional Excursion Xo by Koute 512 returning by Koute 511 r additional Excursion No bv Koute 5llt returning by Route 10 additional Excursion Xo by Eoute 514T by Koute 5ll 510 additional Excursion Xo bv Koute 512 bv 5t4T Excursion No by Koute 514 returning by 512 SLO No bv Koute 513 return mil by 515 Si 0 oddi Excursion No 54 by Konte 515 by Koute 513 additional Tickets and information of Routes can be obtained at the folio win si Ticket Offices Nrw 1 Astor House No 526 44 and at Depots Foot of Desbros sea and Foot of streets Market street and at Depot HA R t JIAM STO W COmeT Market Square and at Depot Fifth Avenue and at Derot Tickets may also be on applica tion to K H at at a rate of added to the THOMSON T 1C BOYD Genl Passenger Acent and Casing and Sold fc 3ETFANG Tubing and Casing would call the particular attention of dealers and producers to make of Tubing and Casing One of the important features in the manufac ture of our Tubing is that the Lap and the are made perfectly straight smooth and uniform thereby giving equal and strength to the Each joint carefully inspected reamed at end and proved tbe on a hydraulic pressure of 1200 pounds to the square inch before shipment Each length stamped with our trade mark DIA Brick Plaster Marble Oust Fire Brick and Fire Glay All Coal BILLS in the Oil for SPRING STREET OPPOSITE THS Pa Stockholders Bav and Sen and aad Make oa all points in the Oil and the United States and do a General at sir per cent allowed on B Cashier I will remove and prevent Scale in any Boiler and mate no coarse 1 tne work satisfactory D1 OEO A GEO W SONS CO Have teen removed from Block to NO 17 SPRING STREET Over Olmsted next door to spIT Cos jewelry tf ja and Dealer in all kinds of Lumber Lath Sash Doora Mouldings Dreraed etc orders left at Second National Bank will be promptly filled oct tf Davis Tank Shop Gas and Steam Fittings The largest stock of Gas Fitting ssd in tor the of GAS and WATER into sad Private ALiO a large of Gas Fixtures la new designs PLANING MILL D1 JHC Successor to Ir A iT tf BLOCK of the Baltimore College of Dental Sorcery At branches of service will prompt every operation warranted boars s oclock a m to 5 p m tf FOR FIVE TEARS or lt malediction all railway hi hands down hi packets tamed tace once more toward Lake aad from tbat dav to Tom has Thomas Crowley thats to tbe officer of tbe Union his card tn St Joe bis irt ad there several yearst ago Tbe tion was tbe tbe traveler is to write in tbe left of tbe certificate of Unionism which all carry was in case a most i wa tbe with the ut most to my pants hoM ont He to ride Ibey tell tbat on another out West bnt i tbe tme Pa is or uscn to be a ral place for timers there are inore there than ary employed that ts to say on tbe sidewalks in dry boxes or anv Jeep ctn le had i tbe of life transients Keepers o ap boarding have so averse to Them that TK can be bad deposit of collateral security awl this s seldom possible frona 13 the way they describe condi tion Men who are to style o nerites inake their privations an I stay as much as they can It an od If look a though nastily made of j too oft material Crowley appears to have made tbe last one of a lot of what left He is undersized His ifp gtw anri bis is so very tbat fn expanding at tbe t to tbe proper size of a mans nose tbe and upper portion of rt bave been eu tirely absorbed so tbat from cheekbone to 15 an expanse of and highly freckled skin As for his 5 never bad any except enca as j nis vray and bis mind i general bnt fellows who wear I w paper 190 Fourth street Cra To tract for ad Estimates free FOR LOTTERY ry A ff a ets for Door and West WILLIAM Gas and Steam NO 15 EAST MAIN of Prize of 1 Cash of I Cash Prize of 51025 Cash in every 9 50000 TVS PATTEE B ihr all winter and all who are ever never clean and means to liquor and keep fail dity in the week I once knew Fete Oberly vore a shirt belaid it and Old to A PICNIC to of Kansas wben neither had done a of work m a The and as Hib bard called forth t into tbe Seids By sowe devce as are procured a large bottle of whisky American Carrying the American BOUGHTON CHANDLER Jeneral Agents to SB 9 Base Stewart PA Window Frames SUINO Mouldings and Brackets of Every Style WOOD Black Walnut lumber on Hand Particular attention paid to PA for all kinds of appertain STEAM OK HOT WATER CRYSTAL SPECTACLES Improve tbe i Wooden Oil Tanks H Box rn for c of they bare i We warrant every to Ias ter saoy m GoSd Stiver and Sted sate by our aad are frr Pa Koae tiw on bv Look for TradeMark 5AHICT 1 l at the SAGE OF BOOTS and SHOES and 53 55 57 and R H K CH AND At tbe old of COL Corner Monroe sod streets I Dealer la Steam Boilers OS Wett OWL Hope etc SAILING EVERY From for Queens town and Liverpool Cahin and as as bv anv other PETE K W RIG HT Asents Philadelphia F K HICKOX aod 4OHX L CO Ifi and 17 PA SMITH Civil Engineers and Surveyors over PA survey aad tiw hi tbe city o iho City ore locate and d fine the of any lots therein rVl tf B D 59 rail street ROCHESTER If PROF Teacher frod ou ra rick 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