|
Ink Slings.
—As the Harrison family are dissatis- |
fied with their accommodations in the |
‘White House it is a pity that so much
money, was expended in putting them |
there.
—The Battenberg baby is old Eng- |
land’s Baby McKee. Itis pleasant to
see a friendly rivalry between the royal |
families of England and the United
States in the baby business.
—Mr. HARRISON has met with quite
a hearty reception in New England.
This goes to show that the American
people will honor the high office of
President however small may be the man
that occupies it.
—In all probability the great Jonw
L. will get a year in a Mississippi jail.
That period will be. profitably spent in
getting the whisky out of him. Jonn
will come out of durance vile a soberer
if not a better man.
— Lancaster county is being all torn
up on the question of the Internal Reve-
nue Collectorship. The old county is
not more noted for her abundant yield
of agricultural productions than for her
big crop of hungry office-seckers.
—The resolution of the Republican
State Convention complimenting MAT
Quay for the ‘honorable’ manner in
which he managed the last campaign is
a pretty good illustration of the average
Republican politician’s idea of honor.
—-The general uprising against the
Trusts would indicate that the popular
impression in regard to these thievish
combinations does not accord with Mr.
BLAINE’S opinion that they are “private
affairs” that should not be interfered
with.
—The theory that ‘Jack the Peeper’ is
a lunatic is the most plausible explana-
tion of his remarkable conduct. If he
wasn’t crazy he wouldn't have invaded
the dormitories of superannuated spins-
ters for the purpose of feasting his eyes
on sleeping beauty.
—MARTIN BURKE, the leading sus-
peet in the Cronin murder case, would
turn states evidence if he could make up
his mind that being killed by the Clan-
na-gael avengers would be preferable to
being hung. In this situation BURKE
is between the devil and the deep sea.
—The great interest that is being ex-
cited by the Brown-Sequard elixir of life
may be attributed to the general desire
that prevails among human beings to
remain in this wicked old world as long
as possible. It springs from the same
feeling that prompted PoNcE DE LEON’S
search for the fountain of perpetual
youth.
—The husband of Vice President
MorTON’s wife’s sister has been comfort-
ably provided for with a fat office. It
ought to forcibly strike the average citi-
zen that a man who could afford to con-
tribute as much campaign boodle as
Morton did last year, shouldn’t find it
necessary to have the government sup-
port his wife’s relatives.
—Ten thousand Germans of Pitts-
burg are said to have pledged themselves
to vote against QUAY’S man BoYER on
account of the disposition of QUAY’s con-
vention to continue meddling with the
liquor question. We hope it is true, but
it is singular that these Germans are just
beginning to understand Republican
jugglery on that subject.
—We can imagine the look of surprise
mingled with dismay that flitted across
the countenance of good JouN WANA-
MAKER when, upon sending a postmas-
ter’s commission to a colored Republican
of Reidsville, North Carolina, word
came back that the appointee, since mak-
ing his application, had changed his
residence to the State penitentiary.
—The announcement of Presidential
appointments from Bar Harbor has a
familiar old sound. It reminds the peo-
ple of the time when the summer capital
of the United States was located at
Long Branch. Star-route jobs, post-
tradership sales, land grabs, and other
imitations of the Grant method of run-
ning the government, may soon be ex-
pected.
—If this contention that has sprung
up between New York, Chicago, St.
Louis and Washington about the Co-
lumbus centennial exposition can’t te
satisfactorily settled, the difficulty might
be terminated by selecting Philadelphia
as the place for the demonstration. As
a location for such a thing as a world’s
fair Philadelphia has proved herself to
be a city on which there are no flies.
—Speaking of the possibility of Con-
gress not being as near a tie as is gener-
ally thought, the Philadelphia Inquirer
naively remarks that there being 17 con-
tested election cases it would be singu-
lar if the Republicans shouldn't get their
share of those that will be seated.
Wouldn't it be more singular if they
shouldn't get a good deal more than their
share, judging from the manner in
which they are in the habit of deciding
contested election cases when they are in
a situation to decide in favor of their
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own men?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 16, 1889.
NO. 89,
Negro Barbarism.
The excitement that has been creat-
ed among the negroes of Georgia by
an impostor calling himself the Mes
siah, indicates the small advancement
those people have made from their
original condition of barbarism. Tho’
they have had the example and in-
struction of their enlighteed white
neighbors for generations, they have
remained in a state of dense ignorance
and superstition that lays them open
to such deception as is being practiced
by this false leader, who is making
them believe that he is a second
Curist. This fellow is a negro justice
of the peace named Epbwarp Price.
He represented himself to have gone
into a trance, and upon waking up
proclaimed himself to be the Messiah.
He rapidly gained *a large following
from among his colored neighbors, and
it was not long before he had set the ne-
groes of the neighborhood crazy with
his new religion. The Atlanta Consti-
intion, speaking of this superstitious
movement, says :
No sooner had Price announced that he wis
Christ than he stripped off his clothes and
carried on his work unembarrassed by gar-
ments of any kind. To his principal disciples
he gave the right to set up harems, and he
himself has in his train a number of concu-
bines. Children have been sacrificed by his
orders, aud a number of negroes have been
beaten to death under the pretence that they
were possessed of devils, Where this out-
burst of fanaticism will end no one knows.
Other negroes, following the example
set by Price, have announced them-
selves as prophets, one representing
himself as King Soroyo~ and another
as NesucHaDNEZZAR, The latter eats
grasson all fours after the manner of the
ancient biblical chardcter whose name
he has assumed.
Such gross ignorance and degraded
superstition are hardly conceivable,
and yet there is no portion of the
South where the colored people could
not be affected by the same supersti-
tious craze. Ft is deplorable that peo-
ple no further advanced in enlight-
enment than they are, constitute the
strength of a political party in a large
section of our country, and that all the
machinery of that party is being exert-
ed to give these barbarians the politi-
cal control of that section.
Recognition of a Practical Joker.
The administration evidently appre-
ciates a joke and is disposed to en-
courage people of a jocular turn of
mind. Mr. SHERBURNE G. HeprxiNs,
a young man connected with the fra-
ternity of newspaper reporters at
Washington, a year ago last winter got
off a neat joke of the practical variety
on no less a personage than the Chief
Justice of the United States. From
the unlimited resources of his face
tious ingenuity he fixed up a bogus in-
fernal machine that was calculated to
raise the hair on the venerable head of
Chief Justice Ware. He got together
a combination of clock springs and a
quantity of suspicious looking shoe
blaeking and forwarded it to the resi-
dence of the chief of the national
judiciary in a way that could not help
but look like a design to blow up the
leading member of the Supreme Court.
It was a rare joke and was written up
in sensational style for the newspapers
by the young gentleman who had per-
petrated it. That a good thing like
this is appreciated by those who give
out the offices at Washington is eyi-
denced by the recent appointment of
SHERBURNE (r. Hopkins by President
Hagrrisoy as a Notary Public in the
District of Columbia. After such a
recognition of his ability as a practical
joker there is no telling what the
young man may try next.
Brother WaNaMaker should
take Mar Quay aside and have a sea-
son of prayer with him. The Boss is
greatly in need of something of that
kind. Last Sunday a week while the
Post Master General was engaged in
his pious duty at the Bethany Sunday
School in Philadelphia, Quay was
‘holding a caucus at the Continental
hotel with his understrappers, arrang-
ing the programme for the State Con-
vention. If the pious dry-goods nier-
chant had known how wickedly the
Boss was behaving on the Lord's day
it is altogether likely he would have
made him the subject of prayer. No-
body needs praying for more than the
Pennsylvania Boss, and nobody could
do it in better style than Holy Jon.
A Disgraceful Resolution.
Its abject submission to the will of
M. S. Quay was the chief characteris
tic of the Republican convention that
met in Harrisburg last week. It came
together for no other purpose than to | commander between Corporal TANNER.
do the wor which its boss had assign-
ed it to do. The candidate it nomina-
ted was the one he had selected. Its
performance in this matter was merely
of a routine and perfunctory character.
The resolutions it passed were such as
he thought would best suit his purpose
and express the sentiments of the par-
ty as subsidiary to his own palitical
designs. Nothing could have so
strongly indicated the thorough abase-
ment of the convention and the party
it represented, as the resolution which
designated Quay’s management of the
last campaign us “honorable.” The
history of ‘politics cannot show any--
thing to equal the corruption which
the Chairman of the Republican Na-
‘tional Committee brought to bear upon
that campaign. It was unique in its
rottenness. No attempt was made to
disguise the purpose for which the im-
mense amount of boodle contributed for
Harrison's election was intended to
be used, and Quay applied it with the
trained hand of one who had won the
distinction of being the most corrupt and
unscrupulous manager in his party.
He was selected for this special service
because he had that bad distinetion,and
yet in the face of all this—in defiance
of a public sentiment that was shocked
and outraged by the open manner in
which he had been instrumental in
carrying the election with money, this
wretched collection of abject hench-
men apply the word “honorable” to his
management of the campaign. Could
there be a more disgraceful exemplifi-
cation of the depth to which political
demoralization can descend ?
The Culpability of the Drunkard.
The Philadelphia Times takes a sen-
sible view of the responsible culpabili-
ty of the drunkard. It believes that
drunkenness should be included among
the criminal offenses and treated as
such offenses usually are. It has been
too much the custom to regard the per-
son who is addicted to the use of liquor
as a victim for whose bad habit some-
body else is more to blame than him-
self. The liquor seller is the one who
is made to shoulder most of the blame.
The drunkard is regarded with a false
sentimentality that almost entirely di-
vests him of blame or reponsibility.
This is the worse kind of nonsense. In
cases of inebriety the man whois drunk
is the chief actor and should be treated
as the principal offender. If instead of
beiag coddled and pitied as a poor un-
fortunate creature he were subjected to
punishment commensurate to his of:
fense he wouldn't be so likely tomakea
public display of his misfortune. An
exhibition of drunkenness in public
should be followed by sure and speedy
punishment. The penalty of offended
law should impress upon the man who
allows himself to be overcome by
liguor that brutalizing himself by in-
toxication is a crime for which he must
be held penally responsible. The pun-
ishment of the liquor seller for infring-
ment of the law that restrains his busi-
ness is entirely a different question.
Public sentiment is ready enough to
punish him. Bu$ it seems to be too
backward in treating the drunkard in
the way that would be fully justified by
his offense.
ey Sea
——The people of the State have
been pained to learn of the death of ex-
Judge Huan H. Cuanny, of Williams’
port, which occurred last Sunday mbdrn
ing at the Mountain House, at Cresson.
He had beea appointed by Govern-
or BEAVER one af the commissioners
to distribute the relief fund among those
who had suffered from the Conemaugh
flood, and was in the discharge
of the duties of that position
when death evertook him. He
is said to have succumbed to an attack
of Bright's disease af the kidneys which
no doubt was aggeavated by the oner-
ous character of the service he was
performing. The deceased was a per-
son of excellent reputation both as a man
and a jurist.
the Lycoming district he distin-
guished himself #y the impartiality
and correctness of his dicisions and the
dispatch with whieh he transacted the
business of the eemrt.
As President Judge of
An Interesting Contest.
|
| The next general meeting of the
I Grand Army of the Republic,” which
will shortly be held at Milwaukee,
will present’an interesting contest for
{and ALGER of Michigan. As the G. A.
! R. has degenerated into a political ma-
| chine, this contest will be entirely po-
litical in its object. TANNER wants the
! endorsement of the Grand Army to sus-
| tain him in his position as Commission-
ner of Pensions and to support his poli-
cy of an extravagant disbursement of
the public money to the pension claim-
ants. With such backing he could
safely count upon the administration
allowing him to do pretty much as he
pleased in managing the pensions, for
it would be a notification coming from
a source that contributed largely to
Harrison's election, that TANNER
should not be interfered with in shov-
eling out the money to all manner of
claimants for alleged military service.
AreeR wants to be commander to
boost him in his candidacy for the
Presidency. His ambition is heading
toward that high office. The power
whch boodle exerted in the last cam-
paign encourages him to believe that
his millions will go a great way in
making him Président, and if he could
be placed at the head of the G. A. R.
it would be such a supplement to the
influence of his wealth as would put
him ahead of any competitor for the
Republican nomination. In the candi-
dacy of both TANNER and Awrcer for
the leadership of the Grand Army of
the Republic there is a predominance
of those mercenary motives that have a
powerful effect in Republican move-
ments. y
Lying About*the Sugar Trust.
The Republican Convention of Hunt-
ington county last week appeared to
haye heen badly rattled on the Trust
question. It had gumption enough to
know that the Sugar Trust is behaving
very badly, but it was wofully mixed in
its idea as to who is responsible for the
extortion whieh that Trust has been al-
lowed to practice. See what a funny
mess it made of its resolution about the
Sugar Trust :
We condemn and denounce the sectional
policy af the Democratic majority in the last
congress, which maintained a high duty on
southern products, such as rice and sugar, and
which sought to reduce that on the productions
of other parts of the country; that this policy
has fostered that great and oppressive monop-
oly, the sugar trust, which has increased the
price of one of the prime necessaries of life
more than fifty per cent.”
This is an average specimen of the
treatment which Republican politicians
accord to the tariff question. It direct-
ly charges the Democrats in the last
Congress with maintaining the duty on
sugar, when the fact is that the Mills
bill proposed a heavier reduction on
sugar than on almost any other com-
modity. The average reduction it
made was 5 per cent., while it offered
to reduce tha duty on sugar 16 per cent.
The leaders of “the grand old party” did
so much lying on the tariff question last
year that one should think that in this
off year they would take a rest.
Punishing Wife Beaters.
Somebody has sent us a copy of the
Hagerstown (Md.,) Globe that contained
a marked article giving an account of
the punishment that was administered
at the whipping post to DaN1ELC. HER-
BERT, a resident of that neighborhood,
for beating his wife. This isthe new
method of punishment for wife beating
prescribed by a law recently enacted in
Maryland. Hersert had came home
intoxicated, and after abusing his wife
with curses and blows he proceeded to
choke her until she became insensible.
He was sentenced to receive fifteen
lashes on the bare back, which the
Sheriff laid on with® his full strength.
From the tone of the paper in which
the account of the whipping is given
there does not appear to be any mawk-
ish sentiment entertained in Hagers-
town against this way of punishing
men who beat their wives. . There can
be no question that “the punishment fits
the crime,” and it is to be regretted that
| other States do not follow the example
| of Maryland in giving similar treatment
i to this kind of human brute. The only
fault to be found with the proceedings
i in the case published by the Hagers-
town paper is that the lashes were
limited to fifteen. They should not
have been one less than fifty.
Getting Their Reward.
In rewarding the fellows who helped
to work the “blocks-of-five” system by
which Harrisox was enabled to, carry
Indiana, the President is forced to re-
cognize some very scaly characters. The
necessities of the situation compel him
to put on the list of government. office-
holders a class of hard cases such as
never before disgraced the civil service
ot the country. For example, Eni F.
Hoxapay has just been appointed to a
timber agency on the government lands.
This fellow,in partnership with his mis-
tress, kept a bawdy house in Indianap-
olis, notoriously known as ‘the Long
Branch.” IIe was useful in the last
election, his service being of the char-
acter that was necessary to fraudulent-
ly givethe electoral vote of Indiana to
Harrison. It must have been a des-
perate case that compelled the admin:
istration to face the disgrace of making
such an appointment. But this is not
the only dishonorable incident of this
kind in connection with carrying In-
diana for Harrison. The foreman-
ship of the Government printing office
has been given to one HeNry McFAR-
LAND, husband of a bawdy house keep-
er of the same city, who kept a grog-
gery on the first floor of her ranch.
These cases give an insight into the
influences that were brought to bear to
assist the boodlers in securing for Mr.
HarrisoN the electoral vote of his State.
How beautifully the blocks-of-five
worker was supplemented by the baw-
dy house and grog-shop keeper in the
glorious achievement of electing a high
tariff President.
A Delusive Hope.
There may be people foolish enough
to believe that the Republican party
will provide some relief from the extor-
tions which the combinations known as
trusts are practicing upof® the public.
I'he newspapers of the party in_an in-
definite sort of way are beginning to ex-
press their dtsapprobation ofthis meth-
od of robbing consumers, and there are
vague intimations that something will
be done by those who have control of
the government to correct this evil,
Nothing could be more delusive than
the idea that relief will come from that
quarter. No assurance of this kind
can be gathered from the acts or ex-
pressions of those who are in posi-
tion to speak for the party. Take, for
example, the recent Republican State
Convention of Pennsylvania. Not one
word did it express in condemnation of
the Trusts that are preying upon con-
sumers in almost every department of
production. Not the shadow of a
pledge was made that the people should
be relieved from this system of spolia-
tion by anything that the Republican
party might do. But, on the contrary,
the war tariff, by which these monop-
olies are encouraged and sustained, had
the heartiest endorsement of the con-
vention, It is idle to expect that antag-
onism to the taritl-fed monopolies
can be developed from a political situa-
tion dominated by the Republicans.
The money that put them in power
came from the class that runs the trusts
and other monopolistic combinations
whose influence will be all powerful in
controlling the policy of the party.
-The administration was quite
unfortunate in its appointment of a
postmaster at Reidsville, North Caro-
lina. As a compliment to the race
which composes the bulk ofthe Repub-
lican party in the South and furnishes
the party with its general majority, the
Reidsville post office was awarded 0 a
colored brother. The commission was
forwarded, duly signed and sealed by
the saintly Post Master General, but
upon looking up the address of the new
appointee it was found that it had been
changed to the State penitentiary, he
having since his application committed
burglary and been sent up for three
years. Thus the boast of the Philadel-
phia Press that no bad characters are
being appointed to office by thisadmin-
istration is being wonderfully verified.
—Since Prince Russ passed a night in
Windsor Castle the Harrison family
have become ambitious of having more
palatial quarters than are afforded by
the old White House. It wouldn’t be
surprising if Congress should make an
appropriation for the construction of a
residences of Europe. That is likely to
be the result of sending Russ on a visit
to the kings and queens of the old ceun-
try.
building patterned after the monarchical &
GROVER CLEVELAND.
A man in whose tried life we trace .
That worth where duty and courage meet ;
He spurned the lures of Power and Place
To choose the victory of defeat.
From him, when sly Discretion sought
His fearless candor to repress, +77:
An emperor's purple had not bought
The silence that might mean success.
i HT
In rightful scorn he flung aside
All disingenuous garb of sham ;
To laboring thousands, far and wide,
He said: “Behold me as I am j”
Against Plutocraey’s cold thrall
He urged his protest, high and pure,
With justice for his pedestal,
He rose the Patriot of the Poor!
But when our tax-wrung lands were shook
With Freedom’s large electoral throes,
They that should serve him best forsook,
And left him with his legioned foes.
Ah, well could wise old History say
How oft, through 'lime’s mysterious trend,
The people, in just this willful way,
Have turned them from their truest friend!
— Edward Fawcett in Belford's Magazine,
a ——————
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A conference assembly of Reformed Min
isters of the United States is in session at Lan.
caster.
—A meeting of the State Association of Fire.
men will be held at Cariisle on September 17,
18, 19, and 20.
—Mors. Sophie Bart, while dancing in Pitts+
burg a couple of nights since, knocked one of
her kpee caps off.
—Henry Doyle stabbed Henry Kline during
a picnic near Pottsville on Sunday and was ar-
rested, Kline will recover.
—A Lebanon photographer arranged a cam.
era in the gallery and. had his picture taken
during his wedding ceremony.
—A Chester Miss found a pocketbook con-
taining $400 in cash and returned it to the
owner, He gave her 25 cents.
—The flour-mills. in Erie are working day
and night. The shipment of flour from Erie
is now an important item to the railroads.
— Elijah Bull, of West Nantmeal township
has held a commission as Justice of the Peace
for forty-two years, and this week. took out his
commission for five years more.
—A Chester horse drinking at the edge of a
creek became scared at a wriggling eel, caught
by a fisherman, and ran away dragging the
wagon after him into mid-stream.
—A young couple who were lately married
and left Manheim in splendor were compelled
to return in the “caboose of the Night Buck,”
having missed the regular train.
—The wages of the hands employed in Will-
iam Jacobs’ cigar manufactory at Eest Green-
ville, Montgomery county, were reduced last
week, and ten of them have quit work.
—Larry Blair of Uniontown had to take a
fishing party across into Greene county, and
the ferryman being tardy he swam four horses
and the omnibus across the Monongahela.
—A mare at Compassville beeame angered a
few days ago at some boys who were teasing
her colt, and attacked one of them. She was
about to trample him when the owner arrived.
—At Carlisle on Saturday a locomotive whiz-
zed into a flock of turkeys and slightly hurt
one, which fell upon the pilot, whence it was
grabbed by an alert youth as the train pulled
up.
—The funeral ot Miss Emma Kephard took
place from her home, in New Britain, Bucks
county, at 6 o'clock in the evening a day or
two ago, It was her last wish that she should
be buried at sunset. '
. —Nathan Shitoshi, a Polander, reading a
letter the other day as he walked on the Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at
Plymonth, did not hear an approaching train
and was run over and killed.
—The Fire Brigade from the Indian Train”
ing School, with their Brittan hand-engine,
will take part in the firemen’s parade in Carg
lisle next month. They are the only fire com-
pany of Indians in the country.
—William C. Root, of Catosauqua, this week
brought suit for $1,000 damages against Rob.
ert Gibson and Robert Fulton for defaming
the character of his daughter Jennie through
letters written to Lizzie Gillespie.
—Marshal Ingram, formerly United States
census taker of Newlin, Chester county, is
said to be experimenting with a view to the pro-
duction of a new vegetable, or rather a combi-
nation of the radish and the turnip.
—Thaddeus Henry, the tonserial artist who
shaved President Buchanan and Thaddeus
Stevens for many years, and who has been
shaving people for sixty-one years, has opened
a hair-dressing saloon in Laneaster.
—The Uniontown Genius of last Saturday ac-
knowledges the receipt of a tortoise inscribed
“H. C., 1831,” the initials being those of
H enry Cook, father of the editer. The animal
ie still chipper and catches flies with dexterity.
—A young thief who stole a pair of panta-
loons from an Easton barber shop on Saturday
was found enrobed in them an hour later,
The owner took him to the river bank, com-
pel led him to disrobe, and left him to linger
in the bushes.
— Thomas Turner, who keeps a cigar store
in Chester, a few days since placed in his
window a plaster-of-paris duck which proved
to be so life-like that two dogs belonging to
Messrs. Crumbie and Moyer crashed through
the plate glass to get atit.
—Stephen Snowden, a colord man of Norris
town, did a job of painting a few days since
with a composition containing benzine. When
he tried to walk home he found him-
self intoxicated from inhalations of its fumes,
A doctor gave him antidotes. :
—While attempting to head offa thief by
running through some yards a few nights ago,
Special Officer Shabrooks, of Lancaster, ran
afoul of a bulldog and was held prisoner until
the owner was wakened. The thief went the
long way, round and escaped.
—D. A. Chandler, Chatham, Pa., has in his
possession a solid walnut desk of antique style
It has inscribed on one of the bottom drawers
the name “Job Baily,” and the date “1747.”
Though in use for three or four generations, it
is still in a good state of preservation.
—One of the daughters of Mr. Michael
O'Neill, of Williamsport, is quite an artist, and
a day or two since she left ina closet some
painting materials, which took fire spontans
eously and consumed the entire wardrobe of
the family saved what they had on.
—Doec Haggerty, who was blown to atoms by
nitro-glycerine near Titusville last December,
had $3000 insurance on his life, but the insure
ance company is not entirely satisfied that he
is dead, their chief argument being that “no
dead Haggerty can be found.”
—A 1000-barrel water-tank on Miller & Sib-
ley’s stock fa~m, near Franklin, burst with a
loud report a few days since, scattering the
staves fora distance of 20) fuet, The material
the tank was built of was very dry, and when
filled with water expanded % such an extent
as to break the hoops.