Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 27, 1889.
P. GRAY MEER, 3, = ..- Pome
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR TREASURER,
EDMUND A. BIGLER,
{OF CLEARFIELD.
Demoeratic County Ticket.
For Associate Judge—THOS. F. RILEY.
For Prothonotary—L. A. SCHAEFFER.
For District Attorney=—J. C. MEYER.
For County Surveyoi—GEO. D. JOHNSON.
For Coronor—Dr. JAMES W. NEFF.
Delatory Management.
It is now nearly four months since
the great flood ravaged this region of
country and carried away many of the
county bridges needed for the accom-
modation of the traveling public. In
this civilized dre bridges are of the
first necessity to all classes of people
who use the roads. hey mark the
difference between this advanced stage
of civilization and those primitive times
when the traveler was forced to ford
the streams that interrupted his pro-
gress, or depended upon the tardy move.
ments of the ferryman. The necessity
for bridges being so evident, it is diffi.
cult for the citizens of our county to
understand why the Commissioners
have been so dilatory in reconstructing
those that were carried away by the
flood. Four months have afforded
ample time to replace them. Within
that period every one could have been
reconstructed and the people would not
still be laboring under the inconveni-
ence entailed by the absence of bridges
on some of the most important lines of
travel in the county.
It doesn’t require months to recon-
struct a county bridge. Energetic and
intelligent public officers, with a prop-
er understanding and appreciation of
the wants of the people, would have had
every bridge that was carried away by
the flood replaced with new ones with-
in two months, at the farthest, from the
time of their destruction. The Penn-
sylvania railroad company gave an ex-
ample of what prompt energy can do in
that line, and surely officers who have
the interests of a county in charge
should be as alert in the performance of
their duty as the officers of a corpora-
tion.
The bridge carried away at Howard,
on an important line of travel, is still
down, to the great inconvenience of
those who have a right to travel uniu-
terruptedly in that direction. The
Karthaus bridge, which by agreement
between the Commissioners of the two
counties was left to those of Centre for
reconstruction, as they are the nearest
toit, also remains unbuilt, while the
trade from Clearfield county which
heretofore has gone to Snow Shoe is
being diverted elsewhere and will be
entirely cut off when the cold weather
renders the stream unfordable. Other
county bridges are in the same back-
ward stage of reconstruction.
Had the County Commissioners the
money in hand for the immediate re-
construction of the bridges? They
should have had. The Democratic
board left sufficient surplus in the treas-
ury to have rebuilt every one of them
without borrowing a dollar, and it is
claimed by the Repablican organs that
the present board is efficiently manag-
ing the county finances. If this is the
case money should not he wanting, and
there should be no reason for any
stream in the county not being spanned
by restored bridges at this date. Bat
there is too much ground for the belief
that the Democratic surplus had been
fooled and frittered away by bad finan-
cering and that when the floods came
there wasn’t money on hand to promyt-
ly repair the damage.
The bridges will be eventually rebuilt
after a delay that might have been
avoided by better management, but
there is every reason to apprehend that
their reconstruction will involve an in-
crease tax levy, The next Auditors’
report is likely to exhibit a style of fi-
nanciering and county management
that will astonish the taxpayers.
The increase of taxation levied on
the farmers of Potter township by
the County Comraissioners the present
year, is not nearly so very much as
the tax-payers of the rest of the county |
think it should be under the circum-
stances. That township furnished one
i candidate.
|
|
| came evident to his superiors that his
of the present board, and if it and |
Huston were taxed in proportion to
the inefficiency of the officials they
have furnished, the rest of the county
would have but little to pay.
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Interfering With Gabriel,
Chicago Tribune.
The Angel Gabriel (impatiently)—
“Silence, now! I've been waiting more
than an hour for a chance to blow this
trumpet. ‘Who's doing all that ‘loud
talking 7’
Response from 1,399 ,999,999 voices—
“Private Dalzell 1”?
. H. Cray Harn, Esq., of Little Falls,
Farmers Taxes Increased.
The Commissioner’s organstill insists
that farm valuations in the county
were not increased by the recent Com-
missioners’ triennial assessment. (We
call it Commissioners’ assessment, for
the simple reason that it was they and
not the assessors who fixed the valua-
tions.) If there are three exclusively
agricultural districts within the county,
they are Potter, Penn and Haines town:
ships. The total of valuations in these,
on other than farm property, is less
in proportion to the whole than in any
other districts in the county. In 1886
the total value of all property assessed
in these three farming districts amount-
ed to $1,703,216. This was when the
Democrats had charge of the county
finances, and atatime when farms were
selling at from ten to twenty dollars
per acre more than they are to-day. |
The assessed value of these same farms
and farm property, the present year, by |
a board of Republican Commissioners, |
is fixed at $1,719,729, OR $16,514
MORE THAN THREE YEARS AGO.
In the face of these figures, showing
that valuations ave been increased on
the farm property of the county, the
organ has the effrontery to deny the
fact, and attempts to deceive the farm-
er by assuring him that under this Re-
publican administration his taxes have |
not been increased. It does not under-
stand that it is talking to intelligent
men—men who, on the matter of tax-
es, are shrewd enough to see that the
increase of valuations is simply an un-
derhanded and cowardly way of in-
creasing taxation without raising the
millage. Theorgan will discover, how-
ever, the morning after the election, that
the farmers of the county understand
the situation exactly, and appreciate the
fact that to save themselves from a
load of county debt they must drive out
of power the ring that is so wastefully,
carelessly and ruinously running the
county affairs.
Not to be Wondered At.
During the many years that the writer
hereof has been connected with this
paper he has never before heard as
many complaints about the injustice
and unfairness of the triennial assess-
ment. And it is no wonder. The valu-
ations fixed are not the valuations of
the assessors, With very few excep-
tions these township officials allowed
the Commissioners to over-ride them,
and to force valuations up to figures
out of all proportion to the real value
of property assessed. Itis a Commis:
sioners’ not an assessors’ assessment,
We know of one township in which
the Commissioners had an assessor to
appoint and which place they refused
to fill until the person applying for the
position agreed that he would simply
make a return of the property of the
township, and allow the Commissioners
to fix the value to it. We know of an
cther case of an assessor being solicit-
ed to increase the valuations made,
and making objections to doing so,
because he had made them as high as
he could conscientiously under oath,
was told by Commissioner HENDERSON
to increase them anyway. When the
Commissioner was asked how he could
do this when the valuations were al-
ready as high as he believed his oath
of office would allow him to put them,
Hexpersoy answered, “TO HELL
WITH THE OATH, IT AMOUNTS
TO NOTHING ANY WAY.”
When we have a boss County Com-
missioner who looks upon a solemn offi-
cial oath in this manner, is it any
wonder that there are unfair valuations
for tax-payers to complain of, or crook-
ed and mixed accounts that arouse
suspicion of wrong doings in that office.
Unjust and Ungrateful Treatment.
The general impression prevails that
TaNNgr was unjustly and ungratefully
used by those who were over him in
the administration. Promises were
made to the soldiers dnring. the cam.
paign that in case of the election of
Harrison there would be an unrestrict-
ed granting of pensions, this being the
bribe by which thousands of soldier
votes were secured for the Republican
TANNER was selected to
carry out this promise, because his ex
travagant = disposition in regard to
pensions was well understood. He
commenced the administration of his
office with a clearly defined and ap
proved intention of carrying out this |
policy, and was halted only when it be-
course was exciting popular alarm and
indignation. That he believes that he
was sacrificed for his fidelity to the
party pledges is shown in his letter to
“I endeavor-
ed as Commissioner to religiously carry
N.Y, in which hesays:
‘out the promises made on the plat-
form.” Ife made the mistake, however,
of attracting attention by a too open dis- |
play of his “liberality” to the soldiers
and by blowing too much about it ;
otherwise it is likely that he would
| before reaching the dining-room.
still be engaged in scattering the “sur- |
plus” among all sorts and conditions of |
pension claimants.
Another Bold and Brutal Robbery at
Altoona.
The brutal robbery of a detenseless
woman at her home, which was record-
ed as baving been perpetrated in Al-
toona some months ago, has been repeat-
ed under similar circumstances.
This second outrage occurred on Mon-
day in broad daylight, the victim being
Mis. Tracey,wife;of Mr. Michael Tracey,
foreman of the Pennsylvannia railroad
company’s oil house, residing at No. 955
Sixtenth street. It was about 3 o’clock
when Mrs. Tracey, the victim, was out
in the yard in the rear of the house and
heard some one knocking at the door of
the dining-room. She immediately left
her work and entered the kitchen
through which the stranger had passed
door facing the street was locked at the
time and the intruder had gained en-
trance to the house by going through the
vard at the side of the building, and
| thanee through the kitchen, from which
! a door opens into the room in which Mrs.
| Tracey met him when she came in t)
answer to the knocking. She inquired
of him what his business was. Her ques-
tion was answered by the interrogation,
“Is the man of the house in?”
“No,” said the lady, ‘he is at work.’
She had scarcely made the reply when
the scoundrel seized her by the throat,
exclaiming as he did so: “If you utter
a cry 1 will shout you dead.” The brute
then still holding her by the throat drag-
ged her up stairs and demanded her to
| give up the money she had about her.
She replied that she had none, but the
robber was equal to anything and he re-
peated the question and struck the wom-
an a blow over the face. Mrs. Tracey
not wishing to have the attack repeated
eave him all the money she had about
her person, which amounted to $6.75.
After securing this amount he, however,
was not satistied, and demanded of the
now terrified lady all the cash on the
premises. She told him that he had se-
cured all there was in the house. He
did not believe her statement and he
proceeded to go through the room to
which he had dragged the woman. Af-
ter he had finished the one room with-
out securing anything more, he dragged
Mrs. Tracey into the back room where
he tied her to a bed with a piece of rope.
in this room there was a trunk which
belonged to Edward, a son. The thief
demanded the key and being told the
son had it, he again gave her a hard
blow in the face which together with the
fright rendered her unconscious and she
remained in this condition until the thief
had finished his work and made his es-
cape.
It appears that the robber forced open
the trunk and took from it $25 in gold
and $15 in silver, making his pilferings
sum up $46.75. Shortly after the villain
lett the house Mrs. Tracey regaind con-
sciousness and began crying tor help.
Before taking Mrs. Tracey up stairs the
thief had taken the precaution to lock
the doors on the inside so that no one
could have come into the house. The
neighbors finally heard the cries and
when they entered the dining room, not
finding any one and hearing the cries
continued, they proceeded up stairs’
where they found Murs. Tracey still bound
to the bed. Her arms had been tied
very tightly at the wrists and above the
elbo vs, and from the elbows to the wrists
were black and blue marks. The cords
were quickly unbounded and she was
released.
Immediately after she was liberated
she was attacked by a violent hemorrh-
age, and for a time it was thought it
would result fatally, but it was finally
stopped. She was in a critical condition
and it was thought she would not recov-
er from the shock. She said that the man
was rather below the medium heighth,
was very slenderand had a dark mus-
tache. He wore a slouch hat and dark
clothes. Besides taking the money the
robber took a “British Bull Dog” revol-
ver and Mr. Tracey’s best hat. It is
possible that there were two parties con-
cerned in the robbery and assault. A
driver, whose name could not be learn-
ed, stated that shortly before the crime
was committed he saw two men, one
of whom answered to the description of
the one who entered the house, standing
on the sidewalk. He did not notice any-
thing suspicious in their action but it is
possible that they were accomplices and
weft planning the best way in which
the work to be done could be safely ac-
complished.
The Governor Erred.
Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin,
In refusing to give the West Branch
Valley a representative on th: State
Flood Commission, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the lamented
Judge Cummin, Governor Beaver says
that the work of the Commission is prac-
tically ended. As the Commission has
only distributed about seven hundred
thousand dollars since its appointment
early in June, and has just announced
that it is going to work to pay out one
million six hundred thousand dollars, it
is difficult to see how the work is “prac-
tically ended.” If it has taken over
three months to pay out seven hundred
thousand dollars, how long will it take
the Commission to distribute the bul-
ance ?
We think the Governor erred in not
giving the stricken people of this valley
a representative on. the Commission
which they respectfully asked fur, when
they suffered so terribly from the flood.
Neither Lock Haven, Jersey Shore,
Williamsport or Muncy received as
| much as they were entitled to in propor-
tion to their losses. Barring the loss of
life at Johnstown, this valley suffered
more in the destructlon of property than
the Conemaugh; but it seems that the
Governor and his Commission have fuil- |
ed to comprehend the true situation, {
Then, again, the slowness with which
the fund is bang distributed among the
sufferers is remarkable. The donors
never contemplated uch a delay. Their
contributions were made tor innnediate
use by those who needed the money to
relieve their wants—not to be held for
months by parties to decide what they
should do with the vast sun contined to
their care. As the matter now stands,
this people cannot help believing that in
the refusal to give them a representative
The |
or the Commission, they have Leen vn.
fairly dealt with.
It Beats Johnstown.
An Overwhelming Flood in Japan
Sweeps Towns and Villages to De-
struction—15,000 People Perish.
SAN FrANcisco. Sept. 19.—The regu-
lar mail steamer Gaelic has just arrived
from Yokohama, bringing additional
details of the overwhelming disaster in
Japan. The province of Kii, in the
southwestern part of Japan, has been
visited by the greatest tragedy in the
history of the country. Probably more
than 15,000 people have been killed,
and several towns have beeu completely
whiped off the face of the earth. ?
The early part of August was remark-
able for its rains, and the rapid rise of
the rivers soon became alarming. The
banks of the Kinogawa river, a stream
over one hundred miles in length, broke
near the city of Wakayamo on August
19, and a mountain of water like that
which swept through the Conemaugh
valley when the dam above Johnstown
broke, rushed out upon the fields and
towns, wrecking houses, bridges, fences,
temples and all things in its path. In
this district 200 houses were carried
away and 5,000 were ruined by the wat-
er, leaving 30,000 people dependent up-
on the local officials for food.
An official of the Nishimura district
office, who arrived at Wakayamo on the
evening of August 22, reports that at
about 4 p.m. on August 19 an inroad
of water took place at Sanabemachi, and
in a few moments the floors of buildings
in the vicinity were covered. Many
houses in the district were carried away,
and about 300 persons are said to have
lost their lives. All villages within an
extent of ten miles are more or less sub-
merged. In Choraihomura severalhun-
dred houses were washed away, leaving
only eleven buildings standing.
The volume of the river Kinokuni, an
adjecent stream, swelled to an extraor-
dinary extent, the rise being in some
places as much as thirteen to eighteen
teet above the normal level. No bridge
over the stream could withstand the
force of the flood. Other villages suf-
fered much loss by the floods and the
number of dead cannot be accurately de-
termined, but for the province of Kii
it will not fall below 10,000. Bloated
bodies and wreckage of all description
covered fields for miles around, and it
will be months before the survivors can
proceed with work. The losses in lives
and money will never be known, as
whole towns have been wiped from on
earth, with no survivor to tell the story.
As an instance of the disaster it may
be mentioned that the Portuguese gun-
boat Rio Lima, on her voyage along the
coast, was greatly obstructed by the
wreckage of roofs, timbers of houses,
etc., so that on several occasions she
had to stop to prevent damage to her
crew. The debris extended at least
ninety miles along the coast. This is
the greatest disaster Japan has known
for centuries. and furtherdetails can only
bring stories of more desolation and more
suffering than have thus far been related.
The Japanese papers, after careful esti-
mate, think the loss of life does not fall
below 15,000.
Democratic Societies of Penna.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16, 1889.
By direction of the Executive Com-
mittee, the General Assembly of the
Democratic Societies of Pennsylvania is
hereby called to meet at Philadelphia,
October 15, 1889. Each primary society
or Democratic club will be entitled to
one deputy, and to oneadditional deputy
for every twenty-five members.
The functions of the General Assem-
bly are defined as follows:
There shall be a General Assembly; it
shall consist of deputies from the organi-
zations represented in this convention,
and from the Democratic societies which
shall hereafter affiliate with them, chos-
en under the rules of those societies.
The ratio of representation in the first
General Assembly shall be determined
by the Executive Committee, and here-
after the General Assembly shall be
the supreme legislative council of the
Society ; it shall elect all officers, and
the terms of all officers shall begin and
end on the first of its annual meeting.
At the recent meeting of the Democra-
tic State Convention, the following was
unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That the Democracy of
Pennsylvania hail with delight the rapid
organization of Democratic societies
throughout the Union; that we recom-
mend their institution in every neigh-
borhood in this Commonwealth as the
nurseries of “sbund republican princi-
ples,” and we look with special interest
to the perfection and extension of the or-
ganization at the first General Assembly
of the societies at Philadelphia, on Tues-
day, October 15, 1889, where we cordi-
ally invite the presence and friendly
counsels of the Democracy of neighbor-
ing States. :
A full representation of all primary
societies at this, the first General Assein-
bly, is respectfully urged.
Secretaries will please forward lists of
deputies as soon as chosen to John D.
‘Worman, Sectary Democratic Society of
Pennsylvania, 109 South Broad street,
Philadelphia.
CHauNcey TF.
John D. Worman,
Secretary.
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A Poor Reason.
Brack,
President,
Gov. Beaver’s reason for not appoint-
ing a successor on the State Flood Com-
mission to the late Judge Cammin was
set forth to be that the work of the com-
mission has been practically ended. In-
deed !
this remarkable commission has accom-
plished. — Record.
ferns ———————
UN rorTuNATE CONTRACTORS.—The
firma ot Booth & Flinn, who had the
contract for the preliminary cleaning up |
of the debris at Johnstown, have been
singularly unfortunate.
having several suits against them, a de-
ployes has been discovered. In
cent work the firm employed a number
of paymasters to pay off’ the several
thousand men employed by them.
Some suspicion was aroused while the |
work was in progress, and an invesdgi-
tion within the past week elicited the
| fact that one of the employes had rob-
bed the firm ofa considerable amount.
Ended, with over $1,600,000 of |
undistributed money in its hands! Well, |
then, let us have a report sh wing what |
In addition to |
State Cutting of Wages.
St. Louis Republic.
Th e Republican managers in 1llinois
are very angry because the suffering
miners of Braidwood anq Streator refus-
ed to consent to the reduction of seven
and one-half cents a ton proposed by
Governor Fifer’s administration. The
Chicago “Inter-Ocean’’ even proposes
that the miners should be starved into
submission. It iscautiousinits language,
as a matter of course, but does it think
the workmen of Illinois are too ignorant
to understand what it means when it
says of a meeting in aid of the miners
that “it must be admitted that appeals
for help in the present emergency will be
less persuasive in tone, mingled as they
will be with the blatantharangues of the
demagogues. It will be difficult to keep
the two voices distinct.”
Again, it charges that “Democratic
demagogues’ prevent the miners from ac-
cepting what it calls “the compromise,”
meaning a very heavy cut in wages;
and that they thus demonstrate a hard-
hearted “indifference to the blood that
might be shed.”
As a threat this is intelligible. It may
be answered with a threat in plain lan-
guage—if the Republicans shoot any of
these poor men they have deluded dur-
ing campaign times with profuse pro-
mises of high wages, the Republiean par-
ty will be driven out of power in fllinois.
Let us be perfeltly plain and candid
in this matter. After every Republican
in politics, from the lowest ‘stump’ to
the present occupant of the White House
has told these ignorant men these hypo-
critical lies—has victimized them by
these false promises—intelligent and be-
nevolent Democrats do not propose to
consent to anv reduction of wages fore-
ed by the bullet or the bayonet of the
State. Our Republican and plutocratic
friends might as well digest this state-
ment now. After the infamies of their
last cambaign it is no longer possible for
them to whip the Democrats into their
schemes of robbery by raising the ery
that the government is in danger ; that
social order is attacked ; that it is neces-
sary in crder to preventanarchy that the
men who claim the fulfilment of cam-
paign promises of high wages should be
starved, or shot, or bayrneted into sub-
mission.
Democrats are done with that sort of
business. If itis right for one party to
promise high wages for votes, it is right
for the other to interpose between the
State bayonet and the igorant laborers
who think these promises, made by the
men they have elected tocontrol the gov-
ernment, will be or can be carried out
through government policy.
No plutocratic protectionist shall cut
down wages with the consent of the
Democratic party. Nor will the Defflo-
cratic party consent to the use of starva-
tion or bullets as arguments in favor of
“compromise” involving the breaking of
all Republican pledges and a forcing
down of wages, already too low, to ena-
ble the laborer to pay the price of the
necessaries and comforts of life, while
on price is kept high by Republican
aws.
This is a plain statement of the facts
in the case. The fighting ground is
Democratic ground, and the Democratic
party will not shirk the issue on it.
A Very Bogus Archbishop.
Philadelphia Record.
There was a good story told at the Un-
ion Republican Club on Tuesday night,
after the friends of William R. Leeds
had gathered there to celebrate his vie-
tory over Magistrate John ¥. Pole. In
the palmy days when the Tenth ward
used to roll up some of the biggest Re-
publican majorities in thecity the boys
were not so particular where or how of-
ten they voted. A repeater one day ap-
proached the polling place in the divi-
sion which embraces the Cathedral and
the Archiepiscopal residence. Walking
boldly to the window he thrust his bal-
lot through the panel and called out his
name and residence.
“James F. Wood, Eighteenth and
Summer street.”
The name and address was that of
Archbishop Wood. The Demceratic
window-book man, who happened to be
a Catholic and, of course, a member of
the Cathedral parish, said to the repeat-
er: s
“Look here, I wont stand this. You
ain’t, Archbishop Wood.”
The repeater flashed a look of scorn at
his challenger, and in a pretended injur-
e@air exclaimed:
“The hell I ain’t.
there, judge.”
But the judge was so rydely shocked
by the profanity of the bogus Archbishop
that he rejected the vote.
Take that vote
Government by the Grand Army.
The disappearance of “government by
the people, for the people,” and the sub-
stitution of government by the Grand
Army of the Republie, for the Grand
Army of the Republic proceeds apace.
The New York «Press, edited by the
commissioner of the census, publishes
this morning a dispatch from its Wash-
ington correspondent which says: “It
is understood that one reason why the
president has hesitated to appoint Gener-
al Merrill is that he has as vet failed to
procure the indorsement of General R.
A. Alger, the commander-in-cheif of the
G. A. R, and other big veterans.” How
do the American people enjoy this spec-
tacle of a power within the State which
| is greater than the State, of an organiza-
tion before whose head the president of
| the United States humbly bows?
Had a Hard Time Of Xt.
{Miss Laura Williams, of Jersey Shere,
| will take charge of the school ut Water-
| ville this winter. She was teaching in
| the Rogers school, Pine township, when
' the flood came; the house where she
|
|
October Weather.
What the Prophet Has in Store for Us
During That Month.
Rev. Ira Hicks, in Word and Works,
says: The secondary storm mov:ments
mentioned at the close of our September
forecasts will run their course by the lst
or 2d of October—will be attended by
rain in southern regions, turning most
likely to sleet and snow in the north,
followed by cold.
The first storm period proper for
October is central on the 5th, with the
planet Mercury central at a disturbing
point on the 4th. This combination,
especially during this Jovian time of
general meteorolzgical violence, will in
every probability produce storms which
will call for watchfulness and care.
Northwesterly storms are apt to be sev-
ere, covering the lake regions and endan-
gering navigation from about the 3d to
the 8th. Many parts of the country
will most likely be visited by heavy sleet
during the storms of this period. About
the first genuine polar wave is likely to
appear at or about this time, and to en-
counter retiring equatorial storms toward
the Atlantic coasts. Sore cold days
will follow, until the temperature reacts
for minor storms about the 11th or 12th.
The appalling fulfillment of our cal-
culation for the period in which we
write this forecast, September 10 to 15,
together with the record going before,
confirms us in the belief that to a great-
er or less extent October disturbance wil
partake of the character of those of pre-
ceding months, calling for promptness
and care in gathering and storing the pro-
duets of the season, and causing inland
navigation to be prematurely precarious.
‘We deprecate any radical departure
from usual methods, but insist upon
vigilance and a ready common-séfse
holding of the reins. We calculate that
the period running from about the 16th
to the 20th is one in which such care
should be exercised. The 16th, 17th,
18th and 19th are days in which general
autumnal disturbances ought to pass
eastward across the continent. The
high barometer following these distur-
bances will give place to reactionary
storms of energy about the 23d and 24th.
A prompt and sharp reaction into frosty,
cold days will follow.
From about the 27th to 30th of Novem-
ber is a regularand marked storm périod.
Be ready for such vicissitudes as follow
such storms at such a season, and for the
cold following the storms in November.
Have a care for your fuel and for your
helpless, dependent stock.
Juniata Peach Growers Successful,
MirrLINTOWN, Pa., Sep.6—An article
in the Record headed “Peach Collapse”
has attracted attenion in this county.
About seven years ago Smith Brothers,
John E. Jamison, and a few others were
pioneers in the peach business in this
section, and were thoughtto be ‘‘cranks’
on thissubject. To-day as the Delaware
region is being denuded of its orchards
by disease, ours are flourishing—neither
fruits nor trees affected—they are looked
upon as benefactors. Within a radius
here there are not fewer than 200,000
trees, many of them bearing, and the
fruit is being shipped by the carload to
all points of the compass. Such fruit,
too,it is doubtful if Delaware ever raised
in its palmiest days. 1Itis large, nicely
shaped, finely flavored, firm and fleshy
and handsomely blushed, all of which
makes a fruit every way attractive and
valuable. A dealer said to-day, ‘“Junia-
ta peaches now stand at the head of the
market.” Large orchards are being plant-
ed every fall and spring, and soon our
farmers will abandon the culture of ce-
reals altogether, except along the river
and streams.
The singular thing about the business
is that the land best adapted for the
growing of peaches has hitherto been con-
sidered of least value, in fact much of it
was left in common until its adaptability
was discovered. Hundreds of acres of it,
two or three years ago, could have been
bought for a trifle. It has advanced in
price, of course, but can still be bought
for from $10 to $70 an acre, owing to the
location and nearness to shipping point.
Many parties are here now buying the
fruit as well as looking for lands to pur-
chase.
The article showing the decline in
Delaware peaches has raised the hopes of
land owners and dealers here correspond-
ingly, and this fall thousands of trees
will be planted. Last fall one man
bought 100 bushels of peach seeds in
North Carolina, and another 60 bushels
from which to raise young trees.
The future seems bright,’ and our
farmers who have been depressed at the
low prices of grain are exulting in the
hope of better things, and will leave the
old way of farming.
cme ee—
A Green Traveler.
The Montgomery (Lycoming coun-
ty) Mirror says: “It seems incredible
in this age of railroads that a citizen of
this county would live a score of years
within twelve miles of two or three lines
of railway and never have bezn on a
car. Such is the fact, however, as re-
ported to us by Parker Houston, of this
place. While on his way to Williams-
port the other day, a young man board-
ed the train at Muncy and took a seat.
Noticing that the man was extremely
nervous when the train started, Mr.
Houston spoke to him and soon learned
that this was the first time he had ever
been on the cars, although he was twenty
years old and lived within twelve miles
of Muncy. He had never been to
Williamsport, and Mr. H. and the other
passengers were no little amused at the
movements and remarks of the young
{ man during his initiations in the mys-
| teries of railroad traveling.”
|
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{ boarded was swept away, taking with it |
all her clothing, and money amounting
| to $40. She left the school house on
Friday evening, but as it
ing house, but st pped at the home of
John Callahan. During the nicht she |
wus compelied to leave the Callahan |
i house and wade through the water up to |
her waist to get to the bridge across the |
run; she had barely crossed the bridee
when it was carried away. The des.
| traction of the Benjamin Carson house,
where she had been boarding, lett her
with nothing, except what she had on.
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[ very hard she did not go to her hoard- |
faleution on the part of one of their ew- |
the re- |
shamed atime Coase ;
It is droll enough indeed to ob-
serve that the Republican party in
Berks connty has ripped its self up the
back. It is commonly supposed that
there are hardly enough Republicans
in that Democratic Gibralter to make
a party big enough to have a factional
fight, hut there seems to be an interne-
| eine contliet raging tha: bids tair to at-
tract the attention of the whole State,
end possibly to involve the rival leaders
in unpleasant fashion. This kind of
strife over the spoils may not make any
material difference in this State this
vear, but the party may find itself in
need of the utmost harmony before it
gets safely out of the Gubernatorial
woods next year.— Evening Telegraph,