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"Bellefonte, Pa., Angust 16, 1889.
EDITOR.
P. GRAY MEEK,
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Democratic County Ticket.
For Associate Judge—THOS. F. RILEY.
For Prothonotary—L. A. SCHAEFFER.
For District Attorney—J. C. MEYER.
For County Surveyor—GEO. D. JONSON.
For Coronor—Dr. JAMES Y. NEFF.
TIE,
Committee, 1889.
Democratic County
wissen ses C M Bower
..Patrick Garrety
Joseph W Gross
.J W McCormick
sents M I Gardner
J Willis Weaver
...C W Hartman
J D Ritter
..J H Riley
Jackson Gorton
..L J Bing
m Hepple
Bellefonte, N. We...
“ S. W.
“
Howard Borough.....
Milesburg Borough.
Millheim Boroughs
Philipsburg, 3 3 ty
3d W
Unionville Boroug
Burnside
i“
Benner..... John Mechtley
Boggs, N. P. Philip Confer
ee W.P. ....T F Adams
5 E. H L Barnhart
College .. Daniel Grove
QUItin ooo cei inden sini nanan T S Delong
John T McCormick
Samuel Harpster jr
.Geo. B Crawford
....J C Rossman
J A Bowersox
..C A Weaver
Wm Bailey
..C C Meyer
Ferguson. EP
<6 Ww. P
Gregg, % Bu .
Haines, E. P
« W. P
Halfmoon.
Harris...
d. nklin Dietz
Jove. John Q Miles
Liberty .D W Herring
rion . A. Henderson
Miles.. ..J J Gramley
Patton ..D L Meek
Hugh McCann
PoE R C Wileox
William Kerrin
R J Haynes jr
...J N Brooks
Wm T Hoover
Aaron Fahr
H McCauley
Levi Reese
WM. C. HEINLE, Chairmam.
Democratic State Convention.
The Democratic State Convention will as-
semble in the Opera House, in the city of Har-
risburg, on Wednesday, September 4, 1889, at
12 o'clock, M., for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for the office of State Treasurer and
transacting such other business as may prop-
erly come before it.
The rules of the Democratic party of Penn-
sylvania provide that “the representation in
the State Convention shall consist of represen-
tative delegates, one for each 1,000 Democratic
votes cast at the last gubernatorial election, or
for a fraction of 1,000 such votes amounting to
500 or more, in the respective representative
districts; provided that each representative
district shall have at least one delegate.”
ELLIOTT P. KISNER,
Chairman Democratic State Committee,
(Secretary.) BENJ. M. NEAD,
EL
Changing His Views.
What's the matter with Brair of New
Hampshire? At the last session. of the
Senate he voted like alittle man against
the free raw materials with which the
Democrats under CLEVELAND wanted
to infuse new life into the manufactur-
ing industries. In common with other
Republican leaders he held such a pro-
position to be rank free trade. But
from the tenor of an interview he had
the other day with a reporter of the
New York Herald it looks as
if he beginning to enter-
tain views that have a free trade
leaning. He said “I am’ earaestly in
favor of such changes in the present
law as will admit free of duty into this
section of the country iron ore and coal
from the provinces.”
But if Brair believes that iron ore
and coal from Canada should escape the
tariff for the benefit of the iron manu-
facturers of New England, what is to
prevent him from favoring the free ad"
mission of wool and other raw materi.
als for the benefit of manufacturers in
all parts of the country ? If he is ready
to yield one point in the question of
free raw materials,why can’t he consis-
tently abandon the entire position of
tariffing the commodities required by
our manufacturing industries? Is it
unreasonable to believe that Brair is
budding into a free trader?
is
Can a Sovereign State Collapse ?
The State of Nevada is in a bad way.
It never was much of a State, having
been smuggled into the Union to serve
a political purpose, coming in with
scarcely enough population to entitle it
to admission. Since joining the sister-
hood the number of its people has not
increased enough to raise it above its
original insignificance, and, being a
pocket-borough sort of affair, during its
entire statehood it has been put to use
by certain silver kings in furnishing
them with places in Congress.
This is rather a pitiful situation for
a sovereign State to be in and there is
no indication that itis going to improve.
It there should be a failure to bear the
expense of a State government we shall
have the novel spectacle of a collapsed
sovereignty, and it really looks as if
from that cause Nevada may be over-
taken by such a collapse.
What could be done with it under
such circumstances? Is there any
authority vested in any branch of the
government to declare that a sovereign
State has been “busted” and should
therefore step down and out? Could it
be’relegated to a territorial condition?
Isn't the sovereignty of a State inde-
structible? The case of Nevada may
furnish the constitutional lawyers with
a very interesting and delicate ques-
tion,
‘this important office well filled, they
Jonxsox of Howard township is the
The County Ticket.
There is no reason under the sun
why the ticket nominated by the Dem-
ocratic convention on Tuesday last
should not be elected by a substantial
majority. The purpose of the Dem-
ocracy of the county, as we understand
it, is to secure competent me: to fill
the offices. No one who is acquainted
with the different gentlemen who have
been honored with the nominations, and
whose names appear at the head of
this paper, will doubt for a minute the
entire competency of any oue of them
to fill well and creditably the positions
for which they are named.
Mr. RiLEy, the nominee for Associ
ate Judge, is a native of Boalsburg, and
has spent his entire life—(he is now in
the fifties) within ‘the limits of the
county. He 1s a gentleman of unim-
peachable character, unquestioned in- |
tegrity, f2arless in the performance of
any duty, and of just such make up as
will insure a cool, calm, and impartial
Judge. There is no fanaticism about
him on any subject, nor is he afflict-
ed with that bull-head stubborness that
refuses to listen to reason or heed the
dictates of common sense. A maa of
high moral character, sound judgment,
and of wide intelligence, he will make
a Judge whose decisions will be re-
spected and whose acts on the bench
will reflect credit on the court as well
as upon the people who elected him.
Of Mr. SCHAEFFER, the nominee for
Prothonotary, it is almost useless for
us to say anything—he is so well and
so favorably known already all over the
county as the present gentlemanly and
efficient incumbent of that office. For
three years he has filled the duties of
the position for which he was renomi-
nated on Tuesday, and we mean no re
flection on any of his predecessors
when we sav that it is an admitted
fact, on the part of every body who
has had business in his office or in the
court of which he isthe clerk, that
he has proved himself to be one of the
best and most competent officials that
has ever filled the place. Republicans
and Democrats alike concede this, and
when this is done it covers the whole
argument. What is wanted is compe-
tent, upright and gentlemanly officials.
This Mr. ScuaerreEr has proved him-
self tolbe, and as he is a man against
whose official or private life nota
word can be said, we cannot see why
his election should not be made unani-
mous, Iftour republican friends want
will join hands with the rest of us in
re-electing"Mr. SCHAEFFER.
The District Attorney nomination
went by the unanimous vote of the peo-
ple of the county and of the convention,
to J. C.Meygg, who has filled the of:
fice solacceptably to the public and so
creditably to himself. As a public
prosecutor Mr. Meyer has been one of
the must careful, considerate, and con-
scientious officials that ever filled that
office. He has conducted the many
and important commonwealth cases
that came before the court himself, sel-
dom being required to ask for assistance,
and in this way has saved to the coun-
ty large amounts that have heretofore
been charged to the public as fees for
assistant counsel. Ie one of the
young attorneys who has already risen
to a prominent position at our bar,
and has proved himself entirely compe-
tent and worthy of the position to
which he has been renominated.
There is no one who questions his
ability nor is there any one who doubts
that the faithful and efficient manner
in which he{has performed the duties
of the office for the past three years
will meet with full and just recogni-
tion on the part of the people, and will
secure his election by a larger majori-
ty than he obtained in 1886.
For County Surveyor Mr. Gro. D,
is
nominee. Mr. Johnson is by educa-
tion and practice a surveyor, by occu-
pation a farmer and lumberman.
With the wild lands of the county, a
matter that comes in connection with
this office, he has probably a wid-
er and more thorough knowledge than
any surveyor now living within the
county. Helis a gentleman of about
fifty years of age, has been a resident
of the county since boyhood, and will
show the esteem he is held in by those
who know him best by the very large
vote that will be polled for him in that
section of the county in which he re-
sides.
Dr. Jas. W. NEFF, the nominee for
Coroner, is the same gentleman who
wag elected to that position last fall,
but who, throngh an unfortunate mis-
take in printing the ticket, was prevent-
ed from lifting his commission. He is
arising young physician in Snow Shoe,
where he stands high not only as a
practitioner but as a citizen and a
Democrat, and by his own personal
worth and efforts will add scores of
votes to the ticket which his
graces,
This, Democrats of the county,
name
is
your ticket, There is not a man up-
on it that you can not conscientiously
and heartly support. It is a ticket you
can elect easily because of its admitted
worth and fitness and it 1s a ticket you
should elect by the same old-time ma-
jorities that used to cheer the hearts of
the Democrats everywhere. |
I TEE 1 FRET A
v
A Contrast.
The working people of England are:
in a contented frame of mind in regard
to wages. There is no misunderstand-
ing existing between them and their
employers concerning the compensa-
tion they receive for their labor. There !
| Democracy, was a most harmonious
has been a gradual improvement in
this respect for a number of years, with
a prospect that English labor will
reach a solution of the wage problem in
advance of any other laboring popula-
tion. Since the economic doctrines of
CospeN were accepted the condition
of the English working people has im-
proved more than a hundred per cent.
and at the same time the general in-
dustrial and commercial prosperity of
Great Britain has made a most won-
derful advancement.
Speaking of the condition of the
English iron and steel industries, the
Engineer, a leading trade journal -of
London, of the date of July 12, says:
The wages of the Northern steclworkers
have been advaneed another 234 per cent. in
accordance with the report of the accountants
for the past three months. This will make 714
per cent.above what is called the standard rate
and will remain in force, as the price to be
paid, during July, August and September. In
the Midlands the price of iron has still an up-
ward tendency. The prices have been ad-
vanced 10s. per ton during the past week.
This advance in price will affect the wazes of
the work-people, who, like the steelworkers
reap some advantage from the rise in the
market price of iron.
This presents quitea different picture
from that which is presented in the
condition of the workmen employed by
CarNecie and other American steel
and iron barons, who are in a contin-
ual strugele with their employers on
After all that
has been said about the great good that
protection does the workingman, isn’t
it singular that the American high tar-
iff is attended with declining wages,
while the compensation of labor is go-
ing up under English free trade and
labor disturbances have entirely ceased?
But then it isn’t so singular when the
cause and the effect are examined.
With the whole world for a market
English industry is kept constantly
and profitably employed without such
fluctuations in the demand for its out-
put as attend American produc-
tion that is limited to an oversupplied
home market. A war tanff cramps
the area of demand and the Anierican
laborer suffers in consequence.
the question of wages.
How They Could Have Been Utilized.
Farmers from different parts of the
county are complaining that their
turkey hens refused to hatch the pres-
ent season, and as a consequence the
turkey-crop in the county will be a
small one. If they had only thought
of it in time, this failure could have
sasily been avoided by bringing their
egos to the Commissioners’ office and
giving HexprrsoNn and Docker a
chance. They are a pair of the best
and most persistent setters we have
ever known, and as they are utterly
worthless for the purpose for which
they were elected, their continuous set-
tings might have been utilized in this
way aud the tax-payers have gotten
something for the money they have
paid them. Some people might have
objected on account of the character
of the broods they would have brought
out, and others because of the “mixed”
condition their young turkeys would
likely have been in, but they would have
had their hatching done all the same,
if constant setting would have done it.
We suggest that this matter be kept in
memory until next season. The same
two will occupy the same nests for a
vear yet.
How They Have lmproved the Mail
Service.
During the administration of Presi-
dent CLEVELAND one never got done
hearing Republican complaints of in-
efficient service in the postal depart-
ment. At that time a package of
Warenyans, addressed to its subscrib-
ers at Three Runs, Clearfield county,
mailed on Friday morning would reach
its destination promptly on Saturday.
Under the improved (?) service of the
Republican party, it now takes from
Friday morning until Wednesday of
the next week to get there. A man
could walk out and carry the mail on
his back and beat this Republican mail
service between Bellefonte and Three
Runs, just three days.
——A Republican exchange thinks
that the biggest and most iniquitous
trust—‘‘the Bourbon Trust of the solid
South” —uwill be broken on the 5th of
November. Does it expect that it will
be done by Mahone's piratical crew of
ex-rebels and played out carpet-baggers?
| body, its action giving promise that
Democrats Must Rescue the County
from Bad Management
The nomination of the Democratic
ticket, which occurred on Tuesday,
opens the campaign for the election of
county officers aid summons the Dem-
ocrats of the county to a performance
of their duty which we trust will be
performed with the earnestness, vigor
and determination that marked their
movements when they used to roll up
the old fashioned Democratic majori-
ties. '
The convention, composed of some
of the best material of this county's
the same harmony wiil prevail in the
party's support of the candidates nomi-
nated. There was no jar in the pro-
ceedings, a circumstance that auspi-
ciously indicates that there will be no
dissatisfaction and factional clashing
in the movements ot the campaign.
The Democrats of the county have
become convinced of the necessity of
unanimous sentiment and united ac-
tion. * It has been through Democratic
bickering and disaffection that some of
the most important of the county offi-
ces have fallen into the hands of in-
competent Republicans, to the injury
of the public interests and the detri-
ment of the tax-payers. Democrats
who failed to give the party nomina-
tions their faithful and united support
have themselves to blame for the coun-
ty finances getting into the bad condi-
tion which characterizes the manage-
ment of the present Republican board
of commissioners. Because some
of them did not do their duty we now
find the county saddled with the incom-
petency in the Commissioners’ office
that is increasing the county liabilities,
preparing a future burden of increased !
taxation, and involving the county fi- |
nances in a state of disorder that will |
take years to correct and bring back to
the satisfactory condition that had been
established by Democratic manage-
ment.
That we find taxes increased by a
raised valuation of farms and other
real estate is largely the fault of Demo-
crats who failed to give that loyal sup-
port to the ticket of their own party
that was due from them, and thereby
aided in the election of inefficient
Republicans who, having promised to
run the county on a two mill tax, now
find it necessary to raise the taxable
value of property in order to make an
How They Seek to Use the Negro Rather
Than to Help Him,
Philadelphia Record.
In discussing what they choose to call
the “Negro Problem,” Senator Morrill,
of Vermont, and other Republican writ-
ers deliberately avert their gaze from the
most essential feature of this question.
These politicians betray that their chief
concern is to so manipulate the colored
vote as to hurl it in solid force upon the
ballot-box. To this-end they are busily
devising such legislation by Congress as
would put the elections in the Southern
States completely under the control of
the General Government. The General
Government, it is anticipated, would
then have no difficulty in selecting its
agents among the ignorant and unscru-
pulous to sway the solid Scuthern ne-
gro vote in behalf of the party in power.
But in their intentness upon the means
of manipulating the solid negro vote in
the interest of party Senator Morrill and
other republican statesmen have contract-
ed a partisan strabismus that causes
them to overlook those aspects of the
question wlich most deeply concern the
whole country. In the election of 1888
the plurality for Cleveland in the total
returns ofthe United States for President
was 100,476 votes, but thissignificant ex-
pression of the popular will was defeated
by an eccentric and partial operation. of
the electoral system. In the eleven States
of Alabama, Arkansas, rlorida, Geor-
gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Caro-
lina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
and Virginia the total vote for Harrison
was 769,040. It may be safely estimated
that at least 80 per cent, of this vote was
cast by negroes. If tothis vote be added
the negroes of Kentucky, Missouri,
‘West Virginia, Maryland and other
States who voted for Harrison, itis en-
tirely within bounds to estimate that
Cleveland had upward of a million ma-
jority of the white voters of the country
in the election of 1888. :
This factis not adduced in the least
spirit of race prejudice, nor for the pur-
pose of enforcing the proposition that to
the whites belongs the credit for all the
olitical freedom and progress that man-
¢ind has achieved through the ages.
But the earnest consideration of the facts
is essential to a satisfactory solution of
the negro problem. The attempt of a
party to hold the negro vote solid,”
and to hurl it as a mass upon the ballot-
| box without regard to current political
issues or opinions, is the most serious
danger that menaces the country’s po-
litical development.
In the conflicts of parties nobody
thinks it worth while to discuss current
questions of tariff and revenue before
audiences of Southern negroes. These
questions are regarded as beyond their
political range. Even Fred Douglass and
other orators of their race studiousiy
evade current 1ssues and appeal to their
gratitude to party (one of the worst of
political sentiments) or to the prejudices
and fears growing out of a former condi-
tion. The new Protectionist party in the
South is composed extensively of white
men who treat the negroes as an inferior
race, having nothing to do with politics
but to vote solidly as their superiors may
dictate. As in their former condition
of slavery, the children of Ham in their
appearance of fulfilling their promise.
As the deficiency of revenue and the
increase of expenses are augmented
by bad management this expedient of
increasing valuations must go on until
the Republican commissioners have
subjected the farms of the county to
valuations for tax purposes greatly in
excess of ;what they would bring at
private sale.
This bad state of affairs is the result
of Democrats not standing up for their
nominations as they should have done.
But 1t has taught them a lesson which
we trust will keep them united hereaf-
ter and fixed in their determination to
restore che county to hon :st and etfi-
cient Democratic rule.
CCS Sn SEER
Either Ignorant of the Facts or a Will-
fal Liar.
The Republican of this week squirts
its little pop-gun at the Democratic
nominee for Associate Judge, charged :
with the untruth that Mr. RILEY is the
“whisky candidate” and “will favor
the indiscriminate granting of licenses.” |
Evidently this sleepy old organ of a |
dirty clique is utterly ignorant of the |
character, judgment and standing of
the gentleman it refers to, or else wil-
fully lies, in the hope of fooling voters
who are Democrats and temperance
men.
If the Republican will look at the
vote which placed Mr. RiLey upon the !
Democratic ticket, it will find that he
was chosen for the place by the votes
of instructed delegates from districts in
the county which gave the largest ma-
jorities for prokibition at the recent
election. These districts knew Mr.
Ricey; they knew him to be a man of
sound judgment, of unimpeachable
character and of the strictest integrity,
and were willing to trast him on this
as on all other quéstions coming be-
fore the court, knowing that he would
do his duty fearlessly, faithfully and to
the best interests of the entire people.
Is it atall probable that it Mr. RiLey
was the kind of candidate the Re
publican charges, he would have
had the support of all the strong pro-
hibition districts in the county, and par-
ticularly when he was well known in
thase districts ?
Mr. RirLey is not a fool that would
favor the establishment of whisky
shops at every cross-road, nor is Lea
fanatic who would set his own judg-
ment up as higher than the law.
—The Colutiibus centennial should be
{ made so big an affair that the great
This kind of talk about the solid | Genoese in looking down from his snug
South will not d vert the attention of; quarters aloft would be tickled all over
the people from the robber trusts which with having discovered a continent ca-
they are going to smash,
pable of making such a demonstration.
| enfranchisement are still hewers of wood
i and drawers of water.
| In this lies the real menace of the ne-
gro problem to the political development
of the coun ry. While the masses of the
people in other sections of the United
| States are becoming emancipated frow
| the political errors and superstitions that
! have so long enthralled them, the negro
| vote of the South is depended upon as
| the last refuge of government abuses.
The greed of Tarift Monopoly finds its
last ally in the ignorance of the poor
negroes whom it systematically despoils.
The means of averting this danger is
largely in the bands of the Southern
| people. It consists not only in treating
| the negroes with the utmost kindness
| but in educating them in regard to their
{ political rights and duties.
| Cleveland said in his Inaugural Address:
| “There should be no pretext for anxiety
! touching the freemen in the enjoyment
of their rights.” Their education is to
be best accomplished by discussing
among them these questions which affect
their interests as members of the social
and political organization.
Under such a liberal and considerate
policy the solid negro vote would melt
"away, and there would be no decent
! pretext for Federal election laws to dra-
go on the Southern people.
Taxing Raw Materials Is Not FProtec-
tion.
Wade's Fibre and Fabrie.
As a rule Fibre and Fabric has little
- to complain of from its contemporaries,
but oncein a while some one, as for in-
"stance the Jersey City Argus of August
2, will state that Fibre and Fabric ‘has
| taken the back track in regard to the
wool tariff.” Such statements are due
either to distortion of the real facts or
to the circumstance that such papers as
the Argus have but recently discoverad
Fibre aad Fabric. Some of the ablest
articles calling the attention of our man-
ufacturers to the advantage of free wool
appeared during the last Presidential
campaign. These articles contained
facts that the most ardent high protec-
tionist could not controvert, but they
were overlooked at the time during the
heat and excitement of the campaign.
Wade's Fibre and Fabric is run on
principle and does not require ‘back
track.” While it believes in protection
sufficient to protect, it knows that taxed
raw materials are not protection.
There are none so blind as those who
will not see. There is a large iron plant
almost within sight of us that by taxed
raw materials has been driven out of ex-
istence. Such a state of affairs could
not pass unnoticed if partisanship had
not blinded the majority.
sree
Bodies Still Being Found at Johnstown.
JouNsTowN, Aug. 13—On an aver-
age there have been tw bodies found
every day during the past week. There
undoubtedly area great many more in the
cellars all over town, und at the present
rate of cleaning up they will not all be
exhumed this year. Two’ bodies that
were recovered to-day have been identi
fied as Mr. Evan Hughes and Miss Ber-
tha Stryar. The trunk of Florence
Massey, of Sun Francisco, was taken
charge of to-day by the Pennsylvania
railroad authorities. They also fo-
warded a valise belonging to Miss Bryan
to Philadelphia.
As Grover |
Sullivan and Lowry.
The Champion Assures the Governor of
His Warm and Personal Friendship
VICKSBURG, Miss., August 8.—The
first meeting between Governor Lowry
and John L. Sullivan is described as a
highly interesting episode of the cham-
pion’s journey. The Governor happen-
ed to board the train bearing the Sulli-
van party at Jackson, bound for ‘Meri-
dian.
The car of Colonel J. C. Clarke, Sup-
erintendentof the Mobile and Ohio Road,
was attached to the train. The Colonel
learning that the Governor was aboard,
invited him to ride with Lim in his pri-
vate car, which invitation was accepted.
‘When the train was nearing Meridian,
just after dark, the Governor, hearing
Sheriff Chiles’ voice, looked up and be-
held John L. Sullivan standing in front
of him. Sheriff Chiles said:
“@Governor, at Mr. Sullivan’s request,
I have brought him back to see you.”
John L. with hat in hand, said in sub-
stance . ‘Yes, your Excellency, I want-
ed to pay my respects to you. I have
no idea that you have any ill feeling to-
ward me personally, and I want to say
to your Excellency that I have no hard
feelings toward you and do not blame
you for performing your duty as
the Governor of your State. But,
Governor, if you knew me well ycu
would know that I am not a bad-heart-
ed man. Ido not want to break your
laws. I did not know that the fight was
to come off in Mississippi until the last
minute, when it was too late for me to
remedy it; it was then fight or be
called a coward. You would be like
I was. You wouldn't allow them to call
you a coward without fighting. I wish
you well, and hope that you may have
success in life and in all your efforts to
enforce laws which I had ro intention of
breaking; and I am your warm and per-
sonal friend, John L. Sullivan.”
John L. then bowed himself out. The
Governor, in his courteous way, simply
acknowledged the greeting. Colonel
Clarke turned to him, as the big fellow
went cut the door, and said:
“Governor, he said that pretty well,
didn’t he? He isa man of more intelli-
gence than IT had expected.”
The Governor has not given his im-
pressions of Sullivan yet; but those who
were near say that it was plain that the
big fellow’s gentlemanly demeanor
touched the Governor in a soft spot.
A Pennsylvania Boa Constrictor.
The Punxutawny Spirit comes to the
front with the fcllowing snake story
which gives Jefferson counly an undis-
puted title to the cake.
Thecdore Pantall, proprietor of the
Hotel Pantall, and one of the principal
stockholders in the Mahoning Bank,
lives on a farm about a mile east of
town. His farmer is Peter W. Diltz, a
sober, industrious, and thoroughly re-
liable man so that what we are about to
relate, though perhaps the biggest snake
story of the season, is the plain unvar-
nished truth. On last Thursday Mr.
Diltz was raking hay in a field adjoining
the woods with a hay rake. As the
horses approached a large brush pile in
the fence corner they began to snuff the
air and act very strangely. As they
drew near they reared up and snorted
and became frantic with terror. Mr.
Diltz suspected that there was some-
thing wrong about the brush pile, and,
turning the horses around and driving
them some distance away, went back to
investigate. He struck the brush pile
with a stick. In an instant there was a
terrible commotion within. The brush
was heaved about as though a cyclone
had struck it, and then Mr. Diltz wit-
nessed a sight that transfixed him to the
spot and froze the blood in his veins.
A huge yellow snake, not less than six-
teen feet long, and as thick around the
middle as a large log, rushed out and
down over the hill. Ithad a full grown
rabbit about half way in its mouth, and
after running two or three times the
length of itself it threw the rabbit out.
It ran with its head elevated about two
feet from the ground. Just below the
northwest corner of the field is a ravine
filled with logs, brush and stone. Into
this the serpent made its way and dis-
appeared. After recovering sufficiently
from his fright, Mr. Diltz went and look-
ed atthe rabbit. It resembled a drown-
ed rat. It was coated with a slimysub-
stance, and appeared very limp, but its
heart still fluttered and its limbs moved
convulsively, But Mr. Diltz did not
remain long in that locality for fear the
serpent. would take a notion to return
for the rabbit. Nor did he rake any
more hay in that field. Money could
not induce him to enter itagain. There
is no doubt whatever of the truth of this
story, as Mr. Pantall afterward saw the
rabbit, and also the place where the
snake had lain, and Mr. Diltz is will-
ing to testify to its correctness under
oath. The probability is that this ser-
pent has escaped from some traveling
menagerie, as itis not of a species in-
digenous to North America, and from
its enormous size, must belong to the
constrictor family.
Huns on the Rampage.
A dispatch from Scottdale, Westmore-
land Co., on Saturday said : The Hun-
garians at Norwood refused to go to
work this morning because they did not
understand that the strike was settled.
Seeing that the Alico and Bessemer
works were running they formed a howl-
ing mob of about 500, and started for
those plants. The men at the Alico
mines were warned in time and fled.
They then went towards the office and
started coal wagon’s down the slope to
wreck and block the entrance so that no
coal could de hoisted. :
They then went to the Bessemer, and
on the way met John M. Dayton, who
was riding in a buggy. He tried to per-
suade them to return to work, but the in-
furiated mob overturned his buggy, beat
und cut him so that his life is despaired
of. The Huns reached Bessemer and
went to the house of an old man named
Gilhooly, to look for the mine boss. Fail-
ing to find him, they then beat in the
windows of his house. A man named
Love was also caught at the pit mouth
and treated in the same manner.
They next made a descentupon a store
and after breaking the windows and
doors in carried off all the bread and bo-
logna they could find on the premises.
They then met John Keagan and a num-
ber of leading strikers who explained to
them the situation.