Gv
Ink Slings.
—The general disagreeableness of this
winter lacks a blizzard to make it
perfect.
—The good resolutions formed at
New Year seldom live long enough to
be cheered by the early song of the blue-
bird.
—TIt is to be hoped that McGiNTY
has adopted a series of reformatory re-
solutions with the beginning of the
year.
—Poor old Dom Pepro has lost not
only his Empire but his Empress also.
The Brazilian revolutionists deprived
him of the one and death took theother.
—The official ladies at Washington
are again squabbling over the question
of precedence, but they don’t raise half
the disturbance that the fellows do who
are after the offices. e
—The President may have had a!
Happy New Year. But whether
the balance of the year shall bring
him happiness greatly depends upon
the conduct of the office seekers.
—Mr. BLAINE is a big man among
the ordinary run of Republican states-
men, but he is at a disadvantage when |
attempting to size up with GLADSTONE
on a question of political economy.
— With corn at 18 cents a bushel and
onts at a still lower figure, the Western
farmers are using double-magnifying
glasses in a vain endeaver to see where
the benefits of a high tariff come in.
—A certain class of workers in cotton
mills are called mule-spinners and they
have formed a Union. Itwon’t do for
tyranical employers to fool much around
their heels. It would be safer to mon-
key witha buzz-saw.
—It was decided by a Philadelphia
court that a member of the Union
League could not be expelled from that
organization for calling another member
a blackguard. Maybe the learned
not a proper cause for expulsion.
—The Emperor of Russia is to be
crowned King of Poland. From the
way the Czar has all along been boss-
ine things in that downtrodden country
it would teem that crowning him King
will be a supeifluous performance.
—Execution by electricity may be
constitutional, as has at last been de-
cided by the New York Supreme Court,
but it will be found to be seriously de-
trimental to the constitutions of the
fellows who shall be subjected to it.
— Whatever of fruitfulness may at-
tend the course of 1890 it will have |
nothing to show that will equal the
growth of tariff reform, which grows
right along regardless of season, and its
harvest wiil come off in November.
—The recommendation of the Phila-
delphia Grand Jury that the whipping
post. should Le used in cases of wife
beating, may be considered a homaeo-
pathic decision, on the principle that
like will cure like. But the remedy
shouldn’t be applied in homeopathic
‘doses.
—This New Year should be to
Brother 'WANAMAKER an especially
happy one. His Philadelphia bargain
counters never did a bigger business,
and he enjoys the peculiar favor of Mr.
HARRISON, his official master. Surely
the Lord is making things pleasant for
holy Jonx.
—1t is reported that 7000 diamond
cutters are out of employment in Am-
sterdam, the principal market for that
variety of precious stone. This proba-
bly is because the past year has been
rather a dull one for country printers,
they consequently not being able to
purchase their favorite gem as largely as
usual.
—About the time we shall be looking |
er the first snow-drop to appear as the
arbinger of approaching spring, we |
shall likely have one that in size and
variety will be anything but vernal,
sucha one as made its appearance in
March, ‘88. It will be remembered
that as a harbinger the latter was an un-
mitigated imposition.
—The New York Sin, denying that '
corrupt influences were used to affect |
the last Presidential election, says that
was elected because
the people preferred him to Mr. CLEVE-
If that was the case, didn’t
“Mr. HARRISON
LAND.”
they rather singularly show their pre-
ference for HHarrigoN by giving CLEVE-
LAND a hundred thousand majority of |
the popular vote ?
— La Grippe, as applied to a prevail-
new term.
More than a generation ago a similar
The
people naturally didn’t like it and at the
same time a great majority of them
didn’t like the Tyler administration
which was then at the head of public |
Jonsequently they associated
ing influenza, is not a
epidemic afllicted this country.
affairs.
the two unpleasant things and called
\ A NA
STATE RI
GHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
__VOL. 85.
In Should Not Be Dropped.
Since we are getting a new navy that
will be somewhat in proportion to the
might and importance of our country,
those who have the management of it
are thinking about making changes in
the grades and titles of our naval offi-
cers. Thus we see there is to be some
change made in the class of officers
known as Admirals, and it is proposed
to abolish the title of Commodore.
It is said that since the introduction
of Admirals into the naval roster Com-
modores don’t fit in very well between
them and the Captains, and for this
reason they are going to be dropped.
{ This ought to be avoided if possible.
i There isno title around which cluster
| so many of the glories of the American
navy as around that of Commolore.
The young officers connected with the
| navy at the beginning of the century
| were as gallant a set as ever tread the
| quarter deck, and they blossomed cut
into the Commodores who humbled
the most brilliant victories over the
frigates of Britain that proudly claimed
i the dominion of the sea. There was
: Preble, Bainbridge, Hull, Decatur,
| Lawrence, Stewart, Porter, Chauncey,
: MecDonongh, Perry and others of equal
! fame. What a brilliant galaxy they
were and all of them were Commodores.
There wasn’t an Admiral among them,
the piratical Tripolitans and Algerines’
| and subsequently won a succession of |
|
| they been victorious they would enter-
| tain & less tender recollection of
| represented the victorious side of the
| for that English title had not yet beén
of it did not prevent those gallant of:
tagonists on whatever sea or lake they
caught them. As the term
| should not be dropped from our naval
nomenclature.
mast pesto sama
An Unwelcome Russian Visitor.
i with the extraordinary character of
| this year it it had wound up without
' giving us something unusual in the
| way of an epidemic. It has furnished
i this in the shape of the Russian influ
“enza, which began in the dominions of
the despotic Czar of ali the Russias,
and after inflictingitself upon the effete
monarchies of Europe, will wind up in
Star Spangled Banner.
of a season that in some other respects
has been peculiar.
In its European course La Grippe,
ing phrases call it, has been no re
specter of persons, emperors and kings
common people. The accounts from
Lurope represent it to have made a
| pretty general sweep, it proving fatal in
many cases, but ordinarily it wasn’t
more severe than an aggravated form
of influenza usually is. Both the Em-
peror of Russia and the King of Por-
tugal were down with it. The other
Luropeans who suffered from it are
! too numerous to mention.
| It has now been on American soil
for about two weeks with both feet and
is getting in its work in great shape.
Every newspaper seems to be ambi-
tious of announcing that La Grippe has
has reached its town. But we are not
ambitious in that respect and hope we
may not be called upon to announce
that it has seriously struck Bellefonte.
In New York, Philadelphia and oth-
er eastern cities those who are suffering
| from it are numbered by the thousands,
some cases terminating fatally. It is
spreading through the country and
way be expected to cross the continent
with a continuous sneeze and sniffle.
i Let us be thankful that it is not as se-
| rious a matter as an epidemic of chole-
I ra or yellow fever would be. This re-
! flection should be something of a sol-
ace while La Grippe is subjecting us
| to its comparatively mild infliction.
|
|
i
——1In the proposed revision of the
tariff’ by this Republican Congress the
i various opposing interests will be
| heard, and already two parties have
appeared from Philadelphia asking
| that the tariff on quinine be restored.
| Infamous as this request is, we should
not be surprised if it'should receive re-
the obnoxious disease the Tyler grip. "epectful attention from the committee,
From a similar association the present which will incline to any demand that
affliction muy come to be know as the ' may be made in the interest of ““protec-
Harrison grip.
tion."
| as people who delight in high-sound- |
being among its victims as well as
It would not have been in keeping |
the land of Y®nkee Doodle and the |
Itis a sort of;
human epizooty, attributable no doubt |
to the peculiar atmospheric conditions | __ )
P pe ; New York, and we trust they are many
| in the Democratic party, would have
1 p, - 1 . rv kk {
court thought that telling the truth was fadused ilo gus nang, veh Hp ack
ficers from whaling their English an- |
Commo- |
dore is associated with the brightest
| names inthe history of our navy iti
! paralyzed the patriotic sentiment wk ich
BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 3, 1890.
The Pifference. Why They Are Changing Their Views.
Is it possible that Senator TnaarLs,
of Kansas, in an interview in the
Washington Post the other day, said :
“I want to see the tariff reduced to a
“degree that the revenues of the coun-
“try will only meet the expenses. I
“wish to see the tax on whisky and
“ tobacco continued, because they are
“unnecessary luxuries, and because
“every dollar raised upon them relieves
“the tax on necessaries of life to that
“extent.”
This comes so near to what the
Democrats want with respect to the
tariff, and is so close an approach to
GrOVER CLEVELAND'S position on that
subject, that it well may be asked
whether it possibly is an expression of
Senator INcaLLs tariff convictions ?
But when we come to consider the fact
that the farmers of Kansas are chang-
ing their tariff views, and that upon
their favor through their representa
tives in the State legislature Mr. Ix-
GALL’ continuance in the Senate alto-
gether depends, it is more than possible,
it is entirely probable, that his views on
It is by some considered sirange thas
J BFF Davis, the chief representative of
the “lost cause” of the rebellion, and
General Ler, the principal leader of the
defeated rebel armies, will have monu-
ments erected to their memories long
before such a tribute is paid two the
memory of General Grant, the great
commander of the victorious armies of
the Union. The people of the South
are going earnestly about giving the
deceased ex-President of the Confedera-
cy such a memorial, and Ler already
has one of the finest monuments in the
country, while Giraxt’s lone grave in
River Side Park devoid of
monumental honors.
There are several reasons for this.
Lt reflects no discredit upon the South-
remains
ern people that they entertain peculiar-
ly tender feelings for those who were
their leaders in a struggle in which
they engaged with such earnestness and
valor, and which was attended with
such coniplete disaster. That their
cause was lost only makes the more
pathetic the memory of those into
whose hands they with so much enthusi- | the tariff question are also undergoing
a change.
The elections of last fall developed
such an expresssion of public opinion
with respect to taxing the necessaries of
life and keeping the public revenues
within the limit of public expenses,
that other Republican statesmen, par-
ticularly in the West, may be expected
to express sentiments on this subject
similar to those that are said to have
been expressed by the Kansas Senator.
asm and confidence committed it, and
who were its chief representatives. Had
their
departed chiefs.
On the other hand General Graxt
controversy. In his case the seme
pathetic elements do notexist to prompt
a memorial expression. The victory
was followed by a great deal of venali-
ty which immediately after the war Tr
was so fully employed in disposing of Aust Class Newspaper.
the spoils, and since then in devising
ways of making the public revenue a
vast pension fund, that it completely
The New Year of 1890 finds the
Pittsburg Dispatch marataining all the
excellent qualities which have made it
eminent among the leading newspapers
of the day. Its daily edition furnishes
the general reader with everything that
is freshest and most interesting in the
ed his country. The erection of moanu-sine of news; and 1 addition it gives
ments to JurrrrsoN Davisand Ropert | the latest current ideas through the
E. Lee may justly be considered a sa- | medium of able correspondents. Its
cred duty by the people of the South. | general miscellany of the day’s doings
But should not this be a reminder is bright and lively, there not being a
that the whole country owes General | dull line in it. Its market reports are
GRANT 2 monument which the sham comprehensive and reliable. Although
patriotism and venality of those who | Republican in politics its editorials are
claim to be his especial admirers have | marked by an independence and liber-
so long neglected ? ality that lift it high above the level of
> the organ.
The Sunday edition of the Dispatch
has attained a popularity that has se-
cured for it a circulation considerably
over 50,000. It is a mammoth twen-
ty-page issue, containiag a mostgvaried
collection of reading matter suitable to
the tast-s of intelligent readers. The
current news is supplied in addition to
a great amount of interesting and in-
structive literature. Those who have
had the pleasure and advantage of
reading the Dispatch would think that
it could not well be improved, but its
proprietors promise even greater excel-
lence during the coming year, and there
is no doubt that the fullest performance
will follow their promise.
Not Likely to Be Successful.
long ere this should have furnished to
the memory of General GraNT a monu-
ment suitable to the service he render-
A Reported Change of View.
The friends of Governor Hrinn of
been better pleased if he could have
seen his way more clearly on the ques-
tion of ballot reform when it was
brought under his official action. The
ballot system which, as now generally
practiced, in a great measure perverts
the public will as expressed at our elec-
tions, has become a leading object of
Democratic contention. There is a
general expression of the party for
sich a reform. It may bethisconsidera-
tion that has given occasion for the re-
port that the Governor is going to re-
vise his views on the ballot question
and fall in with the movement which
he seemed to oppose, but which by this
time he must be convinced is sweeping
the party right along with it. He can-
not fail to see that the mass of the
Democratic party of his State want
electoral reform and will insist upon
having it this winter. :
Preparatory to this accomplishment,
Senator SaxrTow is preparing a bill
which will be so framed as to meet all
of Governor HiLL's former objections
except one, and it 1s not likely in the
present state of the party feeling that
the one obstacle will prove a barrier to
his favorable action.
It is of especial importance that in
New York, the great pivotal State, there
should be honest elections. It is abso-
lutely necessary as a defense against
the corrupting influences of the party
that has the backing of the money
power. Governor Hin. may be the
Democratic candidate for President.
But whether he or somebody else is,
he should know that if bribery and in-
timidation are eliminated from the elec-
tions of his State it is sure to give an
unquestionable Democratic majority.
The proposed ballot reform is reason-
"We observe that an effort is going to
be made in the Connellsville coal re-
gion to drive out the Hungarian and
otber ‘‘foreign pauper” laborers who
throng that section and do much of the
work connected with the coal and coke
industries. Those who propose to di-
rect this movement declare these peo-
ple to be ‘useless as residents” who
could do the country no greater good
than by leaving it. There can be no
question that in many respects they are
nuisances, particularly in their turbu-
lent and unruly dispositions. They are
also objectionable in the fact that they
enable the tariff beneficiaries to derive
a double advantage from the so-called
protective system. These people are
brought over to furnish the cheapest
kind of labor to those who require a
tariff to secure for them the highest
prices for their productions. This cir-
cumstance will exert'a powerful influ-
ence in keeping the Slavs and Huns
among us and will tend every year to
increase their number. The Order of
United American Mechanics are said
to intend to head a movement to drive
these undesirable people from the coun-
ably certain of effecting such an | try, but we are afraid that their efforts
elimination, will be futile as against the interest of
I —— the favored class who find their profit
——DgLaMATER and = Hastings
in cheap labor.
——The New Year will furnish new
duties.
played the turtle dove act ata Repub- |
lican club dinner at West Chester last |
Tuesday evening. i
NO. 1.
Written for the Warcmas.
CHRISTMAS EVE—-A NARRATIVE OF
NITTANY.
BY MRS. T. P. RYNDER.
‘Twas Christmas eve all the wortd over,
For the promise of good will to men,
Eneireling the earth with its chorus,
Re-echoed again and again,
Till the islands repeated the story,
And they that were dwellers afar,
Joined in swelling the anthem angelic,
"And followed the light of the star.
Over hills that were bared by the north-
blast,
And valleys divested of green,
Nuture’s cloud-wrought wonder of ermine
Was spreading its feathery screen,
That the sunof the coming morning
Might greet with his early light,
His earth-bride arrayed for his coming
In her mantle of glittering white.
Where the patriarch pines of Old Muncy
Keep watch over nestling homes,
To those who have toiled during summer
Christmas cheer doubly welcome comes:
But the wing of an angel of anger
Had gathered in fury of flood
Nittany’s harvest ere sickle could enter—
Had marked even, the lintels with blood.
The silence that comes with the snow fall
Had settled ‘round many a hearth;
But where once sat the angel of plenty
Now brooded the demon of dearth.
A traveler lone in the twilight
Sought vainly the land-marks of old,
Where fields that were fencless and barren
Their terrible flood-tale told;
Till out through the gathering darkness
With a welcome in every ray,
A light from the loved home window
Illumined his desolate way.
Long years since his footsteps had trodden
The path they were seeking this night;
Like a dream of his hoyhood’s elysium
Seemed those beckoning fingers of light.
With a hand on the latch uplifted
He paused, as a voice in prayer,
By feeling and age made feeble,
Was borne on the evening air.
O Lord, for the loss of all earth-wealth
We care not—we count not the cost,
If only Thy mercy might bring us
In safety our boy who is lost.
“Thou knowest, O Lord, where his foot-
steps
Are wandering this hallowed night,
O turn them from all that is sinful
By Thine arm of omnipotent might.”
Then a voice joined the father's petition,
In a thankful and earnest amen,
And the son who had long béen asanderer
Had returned to the house-fold again.
RE I STL Casts.
Badly Situated.
There should not be a strike of work-
ingmen in the Punxsutawny region or
anywhere else in this country which is
supposed to be in the enjoyment of a
protective system especially designed
to make that ciass of citizens prosper-
ous and contented. But, nevertheless,
there is such a strike; 1600 men and
boys have stopped work because they
were not satisfied with their wages;
| larger proportions and to grow into a
protracted struggle which in all proba-
bility will end in the poorly provided
workmen being starved into accepting
the terms of their rich employers. The
latter are preparing to master the situa-
tion. They have already secured the
service of 106 of Pinkerton’s force who
are on the ground ostensibly to keep
the idle men from disturbing the peace,
but their real duty will be to assist in
evicting the families of the strikers
from the houses of the operating com-
panies and to protect the 600 Hungari-
ansand Italians who have been brought
on to take their places at the works.
There is but little prospect of this
strike of the Puuxsutawny miners
amounting to anything that will be of
benefit to them. The advantages are |
every year increasing on theside ofthe
employers. If physical force is re-
quired they can draw on Pinkerton’s
standing army for it, and the Hungari-
an and Italian contingents have grown
to such dimensions that they can readi-
ly furnish the workmen necessary to
supply the places of those who stop
work on account of dissatisfaction with
their wages. The situation of Ameri-
can workingmen of this class, despite
the great American protective system,
is far from being an enviable one.
———The West has recently been
experiencing severer weather than has
prevailed on thisside of the Alleghanies.
Since Christmas there have been heavy
falls of snow in the Mississippi valley
and blizzards have coursed down the
vast plains extending southward from
more northern regions. The compara:
tively high temperature that has so far
this season prevailed in the eastern
states cannot be expected to continue
all winter. We are pretty sure of hay-
ing further on about as much ice and
snow as we shall care to have. Tt not,
it will indeed ‘be a most remarkable
the disturbance threatens to attain still |
Spawls from the Keystone,
_ =There is ‘a - “Prisoner's ‘Choir?’ inn ‘the
Doylestown jail. : Ji
—The work of the Johnstown flood Com-
mission is ended, sic
—Honey bees were at work on Chitistmas
near West Chester, , » ' .
—The paw of a bear was found in a steel
trap near Holidaysburg.
—Williamsport’s “South Side” is troubled
with bold highwaymen.
—The State Home for Disab led Veterans at
Brookville will be opened January 17,
—The School Savings Bank system will £0
into operation at Norristown on January 2.
—Thieves stole a carload of hay from the
Fort Wayne fi reight-yard at Alleghany.
—A particularly choize pair of chickens
raised at Colmar, Berks county, sold for 5,
Simon Spohn, killed at Reading while
picking coal, owned Property worth 40.000,
—A dozen cases of influenza’ini horses a de-
veloped at Pottstown in twenty-four hours,
—Pittsburg’s business men object to having
! moving day changed from April 1 to May 1
—York county tramps emptied a water
tank and turned it into a sleeping apartment,
—Five red-haired girls gave a white-horse
bazaar at Williamsport in the cause of charity.
—The editors, reporters, and compositors of
the Altoona Zimes went on a strike on Christ-
mas eve, >
—The Harrisburg Telegraph
the holiday drunkenness
the boys.
complains of
in that city among
Tour generations sat down at the table on
Christmas day at the house of C J. Cooper
Allentown. ’
—A big bird’s nest caught fire in the chim-
ney of a Pitts{on house and nearly caused a
conflagration,
—To Save paying an extra fare of 5 cents,
William Long jumped off a train moving at
full speed. at Allentown,
; —A deaf mute at Reading became involved
ina fight and withdrew with “rainbow-tinted
eyes,” a local paper says.
—Pittsburg corke-workers “are
striking because they do not get
their Saturday half-holiday.
talking of
paid for
=J. L. Detrick, a Pittsburg oil dealer, lives at
East Liverpool, 88 miles away, and goes to
and from his home each day.
—After many unsuccesses a pane of glass,
twelve by tourteen feet, has been turned out
at the Standard Works at Butler.
—Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming
extent at Hartfield, Soudertown and vicinity
along the North Penn Railroad.
—John Eberhard, who'is bondsman for a de-
faulting Lehigh county Justice of the Peace,
has lost his reason from brooding over the
matter.
~The funeral of Engineer Music, who was
killed in the wreck at Laury’s Station, was at-
tended by 3000 persons at Easton on Christ-
mas.
—An Alleghany girl had her pocket picked
on a crowded street car, but she pointed out
the thief and made him return her pocket
book.
—The chickens on a farm near Altoona
whichis lighted up by a nataral gas flame
have lost trace of the day and have no regular
roosting time.
—Bristol peopla have been imposed on by
tramps, who burned their legs with mustard
plasters and said they had been scalded in a
railroad accident.
—Having gone to sleep on a cinder dump at
Johnstown, a man was covered with hot cin-
ders bafore his presence was detected, and he
was nearly cremated alive.
—John Jackson, a colored resident of Wil-
liamspert, who was separated from his mother
during the slavery days, has gone to Canada to
find her and bring her home.
—Married a week ago, a Pittsburg girl has
brought suit for desertion against her husband.
The action was brought before the same Al-
derman that married the couple. .
—Mayor Pearson, of Allegeany city, is the
father of a scheme to have work on roads done
by prison gangs, and he will bring the matter
before the Ceunty Prison Board.
—It is thought that the indiscriminate sale
of intoxicants on Christmas at West Chester
will result next year in a decrease .of the
the number of licenses issued,
—The Pottstown Miner's Journal names
Professor E. O. Lyte, Superintendent of the
Millersville Normal School, as a suitable suec«
cessor to the late Dr. Higbee. :
—Simon Spohn, who was once wealthy, and
still owns several houses, was run over by a
shifting engine of the Reading Railroad at
Reading ana had both legs cut off.
—William Boileau, living near Ambler,
Montgomery county, was killed on Thursday
by a tree falling upon him from the base of
which he had been prying stones.
—Maggie Mashe, of Pittsburg, has been
arrested at her sister's instance charged with
having attempted suicide. The attempt, she
says, is the outcome of one of Maggie's mash-
es.
—A tree partially blown down by the winds
of Friday at Williamsport is said to be one of
the only pair in this country. They are Eng-
lish black alders, and were imported fifty
years ago.
—While descending a stairs at the residence
of her son in Penn township, Chester county,
on Thursdaylevening Mrs. Sarah Ann Good-
win, aged 63 years, slipped and fell to the bot-
tom, breaking her neck, 3
—Mrs. Weiss,of Yorkville, Schuylkill connty,
received a letter from her son Conard, in Cin-
cinnatt, on Christmas day telling her that he
was about to take his life, and that he had
forwarded all his effects to her.
—Robert Cornell, the proprietor of the Erie
Sunday Globe, has been given the alternative
of ceasing the putlication or having his name
stricken from the rolls of the Presbyterian
Church, of which he is a member. He refuses
te do either. ;
—At Pittston there isa man who says he
was never ill a minute. He explains his good
health by the fact that his mother sewed a
rabit’s paw in his clothing when he was a baby
and he has never been without it. on his per-
son since.
—Although Huntingdon county has been
three years without a liquor license, there has
been such an increase of drunkenness that it
is believed a number of licenses will be grant-
ed to reputable places. at the next term of
Court, and all the Huntingdon hotels will ap-
winter.
ply.