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Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Ad va n ce.
Bellefonte, Pa., November 22, [889.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EpirTor.
Jobbery in Howard Township.
Howard township is blessed with a
board of Supervisors, who, for incom.
petency, unfairness and disregard of
the people's rights, will size up pretty
fairly with the Republican board of
County Commissioners of this county.
In June last one of tbe principal
bridges in that township was swept
away by the flood. The people have
forded the creek and waded through
the water as best they could ever since.
A few weeks ago the authorities wak-
ened up enough to go to work and re-
buiid the bridge. A contract for the
erection of abutments was entered into
with an old contractor and resident of
the township, Mr. Wm. Lvox, who in
accordance with his agreement began
work just as the specifications required.
After proceeding for a few days he was
notified that the agreement with him
was nullified, and that he should cease
work. A few days later Ep. T. GaL-
LAGHER, of Lock Haven, was given the
job to complete at an advance of $200
over and above what Mr. Lyox had
given bond to do the-work for.
GALLAGHER, it will be remembered,
was the chap who paraded himself
over this county two years ago boast-
ing of his influence with the Knights
of Labor, and doing political proselyt-
ing for Sheriff Cooks and the Repub-
lican ticket. Since then the Commis-
sioners have been giving him his own
price for such work as they have had
done, paying him in one instance, it is
reported, $3100 for work on the River
bridge at Karthaus, that Moran Lu-
cas, of Boggs township, offered to do
for $1600. This Howard job is an ad-
ditional steal from the tax-payers for
the benefit of this individual in pay-
ment of his supposed political services
two years ago. Possibly the time will
come when the republican tax-payers
will get tired of this kind of jobbery.
There is nothing that brings men to
their senses as quick as making them
pay for the folly of electing incompe-
tents or rascals to office.
As Little As It Was Silly.
A friend down at Blanchard writes
us as follows, under date of Nov. 106 :
Mr. Meek, Dear Sir :—The editor of the
Republican inthis week’s paper, has said that
he would give a hundred dollars reward for the
Democrat that had voted the Prohibition tick-
et. I have been a voter for twenty-four years. I
never voted any thing but the Democratic tick-
et, not even in the county until this fall I voted
the Prohibition ticket.
If our correspondent knew the edi-
tor of the News and Republican as well
le is known hereabouts, he would not
have paid the least attention to the
matter he writes about. The offer
made by the papers named was just
about as hollow and empty as is the
head of the individual claiming to edit
them. It was intended to be a “smart”
way of proving that no D-mocrat voted
the Prohibition
son who had formerly voted with the
Democracy, and who voted the Prohi-
bition ticket at the recent election,
would call to ask about it, they would
be told that any one who voted the Pro-
hibition ticket was a Prohilitionist and
not a Democrat, and consequently was
not entitled to the reward. The ofler
of the reward in the face of the fact
that more Democrats than Republicans
voted the Prohibition ticket in
county, and the silly, contemptible
excuse made for not paying it when
the proof asked was furnished, are
specimens of littleness and trickery
that has never before disgraced a news-
paper in Centre county.
ticket. When a per
this
Brazil's Sudden Revolution.
The revolution which 1s reported as
having just occurred in Brazil, by
which a well established and peaceful
Empire was suddenly changed to a Re-
public without any of the convulsions
that usually attend such movements, is
one of the most remarkable political |
events in history. There were no prem-
onitory indications to prepare the world |
for the announcement of such a change.
If there was dissatisfaction with the
government it was not manifested by
come. They are entirely unprepared
and unfitted for the kind of govern-
ment that has so suddenly been thrust
apon them hy a revolution in the pro-
motion of which they do not seem to
have taken much of a part. It is evi-
dently the work of politicians and mil-
itary men who have yet to adjust their
complicated interests and ambitions,
with all the civil disturbance which
such an adjustment implies in South
American politics.
The people of the United States nat-
urally sympathize with a move-
ment that substitutes a Republic for a
Monarchy. Although they have rea-
son to respect Dom Pepro as being bet-
‘ter than the average monarch, they
fully recognize the right of the Brazil-
ian people to discharge him from his
imperial office and take the reins in
their own hands. Yet 1tisimpossible to
avoid the apprehension that they are
going to have rough driving before
there shall be a permanent settlement
of the government.
Worth Preserving.
As a specimen of official literature
and intelligence, we give the following
letter just as it was written by Mr.
Joux D. Dicker, one of the Republi-
can Commissioners for this county, to
Mr. Frep. Kurtz, of the Centre Hall
Reporter. Comment is unnecessary :
OFFICE OF COM. OF CENTRE CO.
BrLLEFONTE, Pa., Nov. 17th, 1889.
Mr. Kurtz
Dear sir
will Say in a few words what I think of you
Didend I pattronise you with your Dirty Black-
ard of a paper Ever sins you are in Centre
Hall and voted twisht for you and treated you
as a Gentleman and pattroniced your Mill and
in every respect now you have Slanderd me in
every paper and printed Lies on me you Dirty
Lowlived rotton Bich yonand have pay youall I
Owe youand IDont want you to sent me a nothe
paper to my house as I would not take it to
.. (we omit). So Dont Sent it anny longer I
Shall have Nothing to do with Such a Little
prinshled Man annymore 1Dont want you to
tall to me a tall So remember and Stop this
Sheet this Shall End Bussness Betwen Me
and you
Jonx D Decker.
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High Water.
rains
The heavy aud continuous
that prevailed during the early part of
the week brought about a condidion of
thingstzomething similar, but in a less
last
degree, to the high water of
June. Some of our local streams were
converted into raging torrents and
the river was greatly swollen, it being
reported that a number of bridges on
the West Branch have been again
swept away. Williamsport and other
river towns were inundated. Between
that place and Elmira many of the
railroad bridges were carried off, the
Lycoming creek being almost as hizh
as it was in June. Railroad traffic
was impeded on the Northern Central
and Philadelphia and Erie roads and
the delayed. Truly, Jupiter
Plavius has made this a remarkable
mails
year,
——Tke Williamsport Daily Gazette
and Bulletin has been changed from a
folio to a quarto form and considerably
enlarged. We can't say that it is im-
proved in appearance, for it was al-
ways a paper whose appearance scarce -
ly admitted of improvement. Itstill re-
tains its old time good looks. In its
new form it gives its readers an in" |
creased amount of reading matter, in-
cluding the latest news. In the latter
respect it equals the dailies of much
larger cities than Williamsport. - Its
editorials are bright—a brightness,how-
that is somewhat dimmed by
bad political doctrine. With this one
ever,
exception, it is a very creditable paper
—ecreditable alike to its editors and pub-
lishers and to the city which so liberal-
ly supports it because it is so deserv-
ing of support.
Mgrs. Par~ern, the mother of the
Irish leader Cartes Stawarr Pa r-
NELL, is said to be living in a state of
destitution at her home in Bordentown,
NI
her by her famous father, Commodore
Stewart, the “Old Ironsides” of our
naval history, but sadly lacks the
any public expression; the country
was in a comparatively
condition, and as a sovereign the Empe-
ror seemed to be popular with his snb-
prosperous
jects. Such a situation as this render-
ed more astonishing the intelligence
means of living. In a letter toa frignd
in Philadelphia she admits her extreme
This fady should not be in
What
poverty.
suen destitute elrcumstances.
her relations are with
son is noi known ‘othe public, but
they should not be such as to admit of
her being dependent upon the charity
‘of others. Besides, the generous
| American people should not be
so forgetful of the glorions service of
140d Ironsides” as to let his daughter
that aimost in a day the imperial head |
of the nation was deposed and banished
from the country and the government
changed to a Republican form with ap-
parently the almost unanimous consent
of the people and the army.
If this great political change can be
permanently effected without more dis-
turbance than this, it will be fortunate
for the Rrazilian people. Bat, in all
I'kelihood, their troubles are yet to
sufier from want iu her old age.
exseTmi—rveisam————"
——The Philadelpia Record, which
iz for CLEVELAND'S
1892, remarks: ‘Governor Hirnn can
renomination in
afford to wait until his spurs have
grown longer.” Whereupon the New
York Sun, which ecbamnions Hinn and
opposes CLEVELAND, says: “Govern-
or Hing, of conrse, can wait as well as
any one ; but how long is the Demo-
eratic party going to wait for victory ?”
We trust it will not have to wait until
Dana ceases his malicious and treach-
erous opposition to Democratic presi:
dential candidates.
esr v—————
——1It is altogether probable that
we have heard the last about Dem-
ocratic illiteracy from the Republican
organs of this county, for years tocome.
Republican commissioner DECKER’
letter is a corker on tnis subject.
moo em E a —————
Using the Torch.
The Reading Getting Rid of Its Old-
Fashioned Coal Cars.
She occupies the property left |
her celebrated |
READING, Pa., November 19.—The
Philadelphia and Reading railroad
ed a novel but effective plan of getting
rid of their old-fashioned four-wheeled
coal cars, now regarded altogether out of
date for the requirement of modern
| rolling stock. The wheels are removed
| from the trucks, and then the cars are
piled ap in great heaps in the yard and
the torch applied. For a week twenty-
five cars a day have been destroyed, but
the work was found to be going on too
slowly at that rate, so on Saturday a
| heap of 200 was made at once and reduc
| ed to ashes. That rate will be continued.
At one period of the Reading’s history
8,000 of these four-wheeled cars were 1n
{use on the road from the coal mines to
| the seaboard, but at that time locomo-
1
1
tives were lighter and trains did not
usually comprise more than 125 cars.
| Now, however, the heavy engires em-
' poyed to transport coal trains haul from
| 150 to 170 cars. Recently the four-
! wheeled cars were condemned by the
| company as unsafe, because of the fre-
| quent wrecks occasioned by their giv-
| ing way to the pressure to which they
were subjected. Oaly eight-wheeled
"cars will be used hereafter on the road.
| The old iron and wheels collected from
the debris remaining is carefully classi- |
|
|
| fied, and will be used tor other purposes
lin the com pany’siron works.
The Kangeroo in Commerce.
This Country.
There are 6,000 kangaroo skins re-
ceived in Newark, N.J., every week.
| They are all tanned in one large estab-
i lishment on Sussex avenue, and are
then made into fine shoes.
and New Zealand furnish kangaroo hides
for the world. The kangaroos are kill-
| from the coast, and are shipped from
| Melbourne, Sidney aud New Castle. in |
| Australia, and from Masterton, in New
| Zealand.
Up to 1859 the kangaroos were killed
and eaten in Australia and their hides
cut intost oe strings. Rut an English-
man named Brown in that year discov-
ered the remarkable character ot the
leather, and brought several thousand
skins to this country. He tried to sell
of the novelty, and he had to sell them
at a sacrifice to a bookbinder. The
book binder made triangular corner
pieces in ledgers and commercial books
out of the skins, and so ascertained
the good qurlity of the leather. It was
in this way that the Jarge leather tac-
tories were first attracted to kangaroo.
The skin was found to be very tenacious
and the compactness of the grain pre-
vents its absorbing water, while the
acids in blacking meet with an almost
impervious substance. It was hard
work for y ars to get kangaroo skins.
It was not until the Newarker, who
now tans them, sent agents to Austra-
lia three years ago that the demand
could be supplied. The characteristic
climate of Australia and the pugnacity
of the kangaroo make hunting the
hides dangerous. Winter startsin May
and ends in December in that country.
The rest of the year the heat isintense
the thermometer frequently reaching
li40°. Eight men hunt torether for
kangaroos. They are called a “set”.
When brought to bay the kangaroo
jumps like a flash for the
chest, and tries to crush it in with its
fore feet. To prevent this each man
wears across his breast a two or three
inch matting. Armed with a spear,
with a club attachment on the other
end, they ride upon swift horses into a
herd. With the agility and equiyoise
of circus riders they stand erect upon
their horses and use their spears and
clubs. The kangaroo is able to jump
clear over a liorse. As the game is
bagged it is skinned, and the skin is
stretched on the ground and pegged
down 0 preventshrinkage. The flesh
furnishes meat for the camp. Esch
man places his private mark upon his
booty, and when they have 100 skins
apiece they return to civilization.
There are twenty varieties of kanga-
ros, among them the blue, red, Wal
| laby, black, gray and Forester, the lat-
| ter furnishes the best leather as it lives
| mainly in wooded sections. When
“shipping ports are reached the hunters
dispose of the goods by auction to the
highest bidder and receive about sev-
enty cents a pound. Kangaroo hunt-
ers make large profits. One man was
known to have cleared $3,500 free of
living expenses in a single year. The
| tanning of kangaroo skins is confined
to men employed by Americans, as
other dealers cannot afford to pay the
high prices for the raw material. The
result is that the Parisian and London
shoe manufacturers buy their stock of
kangaroo leather directly from New
ark, and;prominent dealers in Germany
Greece, Spain, and even Australia itseif
obtain their supplies from the same.
The manufacturer here scouts the idea
that the original sevenleague boots were
made from the skin of the great Au-
stralian leaper.— Providence Journal,
nea cme re
»
How Ile Got Out.
Providence Journal.
Governor Foraker says he is “out of
polities.” “You git,” said the Califor-
nia householder to the surreptitious vis-
itor at a late hour in the night. “You
bet,’’ said the visitor, as he sized up his
revolver.
managers at the shops here have adopt- |
Evtensive Utilization of Their Hides in |
Australia |
ed in Australia, about 300 miles back |
the hides to tanners but they were shy!
huouter’s |
Catholies Favor High Licnse,
They Believe It the Only Hopefu
Means of Stenning the Dide
of Intemperance.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 18.—The Catholic
clergy and laity of the city ot Balumorve
in mass meeting yesterday, under the
Presidency of their diocesan head adopt
Led resolauons mm favor of high license as
“the only feasiole and the only hopeful
means of stemming the deluge of vices
and crimes of which drunkenness is the
frightful source.” "hey declare, how-
ever, “that to make the remedy really
euective the license shoud be put up so
high as to make 1 practically prohibit-
ory as regards the multitude ol saloons
which are demoralizing snd brutalizing
the poor,” and * that certain restrictions
should be enacted as to the time and
plice of sale aud the character ot those
who may be permitted wo carry ou the
tratfic. Thus the number of saloons in
any one radius should be limited by
statute, and they should not be suttered
too near to churches or schools.”
Archbishop Ireland addressed the
{ meeting, showing the postion of the
' Catholic Churcii on temperance, which
"church, he said, “as absolutely and irrevo-
cably opposed to drankenness and
drunkard making.” He aad d: “Your
moveent for bizh wxation of the traflic
with judicious supplementary clauses as
to the character of venders of liquor,and
forfeiture in case of violation of laws,
deserves the support af all. This will
not do awav with allevil ; burit wili re-
duce immenseiy the evil, and its best
(results will be where they are most
needed, among the poor and the labor-
ing classes.”
Cardinal Gibbons, who presided, also
addressed t e¢ meeting briefly, closing
with these remarks . “The blow that we
“trike to-nicht 1s a blow struck for the
cause of the laboring wan. It must
and shall be successful.” He then intro-
duced the Rev. James Nugent, the Kn-
glish temperance orator, who wade a
long address. Tae meeting, which was
held in Harris’ Academy of Music, was
the natural sequence of the position taken
by the Catholic Congress on the temper-
| ance question.
! Swope The Aggressor.
Responsibility for the Republican Butch-
ery Kentucky.
WASHINGTON, Nov. :7.—The usual
accounts of the murderous affray in
which Mr. Swope met his death and
General Goodloe was fatally wounded,
tare given a very different version by
| Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson
since his return from the funeral. It
| appears that Swope made himself notor-
| iously offensive by taking advantage of
the supposition that General Goodloe,
being a man with a large family de-
pendent upon him, would naturally be
averse to an encounter. Swope, a man
without a family, therefore took oc-
‘ casion to parade his own imagined cour-
age to the disparagement of his antago-
nist. Mrs. Goodloe, with a woman's
instinct, saw that this state of affairs
‘could not last lone without a collision
sooner or later. Not long ago she asked
her husband to make her but one
promise, that it be should become in-
volved in personal conflict with Swope
he would not be the aggressor.
When Swope, a man six feet four
inches, made his attack on Goodloe,
who v as but five feet eleven inches, the
| latter, after being wounded the first
time, closed with his assailant, and
while warding off the pistol which
Swope was trying to level at his head,
drew a small pruning knife which he
was always in the habit of carrying
and began using it in self-defense.
When the surgeons were still in
| doubt as to the extent of Goodloe’s in-
| juries and as to whether death would
| soon follow, the wounded man said:
“Doctor, if I should die before Mary
comes, tell her T was not the aggressor.”
General Clarkson has explained the
circumstances to the President and
Secretary Windom, which has convin-
ced them that Swope was the aggressor
and that General Goodloe was not only
acting in self-defense but had been
taunted by his antagonist as afraid to
fight.
at Lexington,
More Fighting in Kentucky.
French-Eversole Faction
tne War of Extermination.
The Renew
MouNT SrErLING, Ky., November
16.—There has been conflicting reports
of the Perry county war last week and
nothing definite has been ascertained
until now. Judge W. L. Hurst, who has
been trying some of the members of the
opposing factions on an indictment for
murder, was shot, but luckily the ball
had spent its force. No other demon-
strations were made until Wednesday
night, when a dynamite bomb was
thrown at the house in which Judge
Hurst was stopping. It struck an in-
tervening limb, falling to the ground
and making a harmless explosion.
This, with threatenings, caused the
entire town,including visiting attorneys,
{ to apply the war paint, and they, with
the French and Eversole factions,await-
ed the begiuning of the pending fray.
However, the factions alone made fight,
which continued during all of Thurs-
day, and after the smoke had cleared
away it was discovered that only one
man, Ed Campbell, had been killed.
The fight was resumed at intervals dur-
ing the night, but without loss of life.
On Friday the French party had
been reinforced and from the hilltops
They torced the Eversoles from their
fortifications and retreated down the
river, pursued by their enemies. Jesse
Field, of the French party,/ was wound-
ed and the rest retreated. These parties
minated before the war will cease.
The Great Boodler Swindled,
i ¥
Boston Republic.
Quay ought to indict Mahone for get-
ting money from him under false pre-
tences. The pesky repudiator knew all
along that he stood no show of carrying
Virginia, and yet he kept on demanding
and getting more and more boodle from
the Pennsylvanian.
bombarded a house in which were quar- |
tered the Eversoles, killing John Me-
Night, another one of that part)
are determined and brave men and it!
seems that one faction must be exter-!
| now that the
Racing Round the Globe.
Women
fwo Young and a Man
Trying to Beat Fach Other
and Phineas Fogg.
At least one, and, according to re-
port, two representatives of New York
newspapers and one writer for a maga-
zine, started yesterday on a trip around
the world, determined to beat the cighty-
day record of Phineas Fogg. The first
to start was Nellie Bly, of the New York
World, who left on the Hamburg steam-
er Augusta Victoria at 9.40 o'clock a. m.
She expects to go around the globe in
seventy-five days, being due at the
World office, according to arrangements,
on January 27. Her baggage consisted
of a change of clothing done up ina
shoulder satchel and a small valise.
At 6 o'clock p. m. Miss Elizabeth
Bisland was sent on a similar journey
hy the Cosmopolitan magazine at fifteen
minutes’ notice. She took the 6 o'clock
train trom the Grand Central Depot and
will arrive in San Francisco next Thurs-
day, when she will take the Oceanic on
her trip around the earth from west to
east. The two girls are going in differ-
ent directions and there is considerable
discussion as to, which took the better
route. Miss Bisland has done work for
several New York newspapers and she
is a strong and intrepid young woman.
She expects to reach Yokohama on De-
cember 11th and Heng Kong six days
later. From China she will go to Lon-
don and thence to New York, where
she hopes to arrive on January 25th—
two days earlier than Miss Bly, al-
though she started out more than eight
hours later.
The third globe-trotter is said to be a
New York Herald man. 1t is report-
ed that he started on his journey on the
Augusta Victoria and will take the
same route as Miss Bly. All the trav-
elers calculate on beating Phineas Fogg’s
record by several days. It is not un-
likeiy that the east-bound and west-
bound racers will meet somewhere in
Asia.—New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. i
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Senator Ingalls in Danger.
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 17.—Senator
Ingalls will not succeed himself in the
United States Senate without a hard
ficht. The Legislature which will
choose his successor will be elected a
year from now, and the Republican
majority will be by no means so over-
whelming as it has been heretofore.
The thing that complicated the situa-
tion, so far as Ingalls is concerned, is
the growing sentiment in favor of re-
submitting the Prohibition question.
On this question the battle will be
fought next year. Senator Ingalls has
said: “Resubmission is all nonsense.
The people don’t want 1t. They've got
what they want—prohibition. If the
question were submitted to a vote it
would cairy by more than the famous
82,000 majority.
The strongest opponents of Incalls
will be Judge C. Foster, Judge of the
United States Circuit Court at this
place.
nounces that he has sent in his re-
signation to join the resubmission eru-
sade, and contest Mr. Ingalls’ saat. He
is very popularin Kansas. Senator In-
gallsis here conferring with his politi- |
He is a Republican, and he an- |
al friends and mapping out bis cam-
paign.
He Has Got to Dance.
The correspondent of the New York
Star writes: A well-known character in
Washington, “Doctor” Watt Drew, a
prominent druggist, is a friend of Mrs.
Cambpell, wite of the Ohio Governor-
elect. Early last spring he said to her ;
“Your husband is going to be nomina-
ted for Governor of Ohio and will be
elected.” “Nonsense, replied Mrs. Cam-
pell. “Will you promise me one thing
if he is?’ Drew continued; “may I
dance with you at the inaugural ball?”
“You shall,” Mrs. Cambpell promised.
Dr. Dréw has just received a telegram
from the wife of the Governor-elect,say-
ing : “The second dance is reserved for
you,” and now he wishes he had not ex- |
acted the promise. Dr. Drew is about
as far around the belly a: any two of |
the Fat Men’s Club,and it is many years
since a dress coat and he were on close
terms of acquaintance. Two tailors are
said to beat work on his suit, and a
proposition is agitated among his friends
to accompany him in a body to Colum-
busand see him safely through the or-
deal
The Johnstown Orphans.
The Wise Provisions Made for Them by
the State Cominission.
Within the next ten days it is expect-
ed that the 300 disputed Johnstown
claims will be adjusted, and then the
work of the commission will end.
Francis B. Reeves has just returned to
Philadelphia from the Conemaugh val-
ley, where he met the Pittsburg mem-
bers of the commission. When its
work is completed, Mr. Reeves says the
commissioh will have disbursed $1,500,-
000 in an cffort to resuscitate the people
of the stricken valley, and will still have
$20,000 on hand. This money is to be
{ deposited with some Philadelphia trust
company yet to be selected as an annu-
ity fund. Tt will enable every child
who was made an orphan by the flood
to receive an annuity of $50 a year until
it reaches the age of sixteen years, and
this will probably be the most tar-reach-
| ing in its results of any of the work of
the commission.
TTC
A Voice from the Soup.
Philadelphia Record.
Before the election Governor Foraker
insisted that the election of Campbell
would be a triumph of free wool. But
returns ave in he lifts his
head above the edge of the tureen to say
that the liquor-sellers beat him.
doesn’t like the taste of his medicine;
' but there is no use in calling it by a new
name.
——Mrs. Kraemer, sister of General
Grant, at a Sunday evening service in a
hl a
Great Times at the Bargain Counter.
New York Sun.
The value of a panel in the Cabinet
for advertising a thrifty business in dry
goods and notions has been illustrated
this week in Philadelphia. The unfort-
unate Pan-Americans were, of course,
towed down to Wanamaker's retsil es-
tablishment and marched through every
department from top to bottom, from
millinery to hosiery. The Adminis-
tration was represented on this joyous
occasion by the Rev. Dr. Scott, Presi-
dent Harrison's father-in-law, who act-
ed as a sort of honorary floor walker.
The diplomats who are here as the
nation’s guests were conducted in a
procession through Wanamaker’s shop,
the venerable father-in-law of the
President of the United States leading
the way. They saw the plain and
striped Surahs at 50c. a yard. They in-
spected the marvels of the Thirteenth
and Market streets corner, where wom-
en’s colored French felt hats that
ought to sell at $1.25 to $1.95 are going
at 75c., and fresh, handsome goods at
that. They tested the firm, springy
texture of Wanamaker's nobby frieze
overcoats, English box cut. They were
shown the latest designs in Hamburg
edgings, from ten cents up. They were
called upon to admire the real 40-inch
French Sebastopol, in all the prevailing
plain shades, offered at figures that have
thrown rival establishments into a state
of coma. They viewed all that 1s new-
est and tastiest in gent’s silk neckties.
They were shown the little loves of lay-
ettes, at prices within the means of the
most economical. Shelves were ran-
sacked and boxes were opened to spread
before their delighted eyes the rich and
elegant moire-antiques at 85c., theele-
gant and rare almas in fast colors at
49c., the stylish and rich worsteds
marked down to sensational figures, the
children’s and misses’ wool hats—just
the thing for school—at from 50c. to
$1.38, the pressed glass finger bowls in
chaste patterns, the silk warp Henriettas
at $1 08 that must be seen to be appre-
ciated. And we believe that there was
a pardonable tremor in the Rev. Dr.
Scott’s aged voice as he al nost rever-
ently called attention to the crowning
triumph of the establishment, the
grandest achievement of Wanamaker’s
genius, the 40-inch silk and wool basket-
weave plaids, royally rich in colorings,
some with ombre effects, at Tbc., sold
elsewhere at $1.55.
In fine, the Spanish American diplo-
mate, statemen and scholars saw every-
thing that Wanamaker himself could
have shown them, but they did not
see him. He was away from his bar-
gain counter, “compelled to be absent in
Washington on official business connec-
ted with his position as Postmaster-Gen-
eral.”
It is a pity he was not there to show
his stock of goods in person. How :unc-
tuously his persuasive voice would
have dwelt upon the wearing qualities of
the striped Surahs at half a dollar!
With what consummate dexterity
would his own deft hands have flung
the forty-inch silk and wool basket-
weave plaid across the counter, and
gathered it into fan-shaped folds to ex-
hibit the royal richness of its colorings
and to bring out the full beauty of its
ombre effects. 3
A Hungarian Jollification,
The Bloody Manner in which the Huns
Amuse Themselves.
HazreroN, Nov. 15 —Wednesday
sight the Hangarians of Milnesville
held a jollification which wound up in a
riot among themselves. Knives, clubs
and stones were used. One of the houses
was badly wrecked. After the fight
was over one of their number, Mike
Jogon, was found dead, with a terrible
gash four inches long in the back of
his head evidently inflicted with a sharp
hatchet. John Tosca was badly beaten,
Mike Jimeco lost an eye and part of his
right ear is missing, Stephen Boskes is
minus part of his nose and injured in-
| ternally.
He '
i er free
Methodist church in Brooklyn, told the
| bor and your home.”
congregation that for twenty-five years
|
she hadprayed for the General’s conver- |
sion, and that shortly before his death
the spiritual change took place, as she
learned from her daughter and Dr.
Newman.
The fight lasted for over an hour, and
was so fierce that the townspeople were
compelled to flee to their cellars for
safety. Happily,no revolvers were used;
had there been, there is no doubt but
that more than one would have been
killed. There 1s no direct evidence as to
who murdered the man, as none of the
townspeople saw him struck. The coun-
try is being scoured for the assailants,
and if caught they will be summanly
dealt with, as crimes of this sort are
gelting to be too frequent among this
class of people.
A Year of Great Crops.
Dun & Co’s review of trade, of the
16th inst., say:
Business continues healthy, confident
and unprecedented in volume. Long
ago it was held that thy year's results
would turn upon the crops, and it is
now certain that the yield has been on
the whole about the biggest ever known.
The question whether the whole yield
is 20,000,000 or 30,000,000 bushels be-
low the maximum is not important.
The cotton crop will much exceed any
previous one, if the latest of fiscal fig-
ures are correct. The corn crop will
exceed any preceding one by 100,000,000
to 200.000,000 bushels ; the oat crop is
also the largest ever known, and the
shortage in potatoes and fruit is 1mmense-
ly overshadowed by the gain in meats.
The exports of provisions and cattle in
Octo! er $12,704,857 in value,
against $7,585,277 last vear, a gain of
(8) per cent., and while the breadstuffs
movement was $145,000 short of last
year, the increase in cotton has been
enormous.
Brler Clarkson's newspaper in
Jowa on the morning of the clection
said :
“Protection to American labor has been
one of the main issues of the campaign.
Republicanism has been aligned on the
side of Arerican labor. Democracy
has battled for Free Trade and the con-
sequent reduction of American wages fo
the Jaw prices paid in Kngland and oth-
trade countries. Workingmen,
think betore you vote, and then vote for
the party which will protect your la-
Clarkson knew what he was
talking about. The workingmen knew
the import of the votes they cast.
And when the vote was counted Tariff
Reform was on top.—Record.
Brier
mamma