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Ink Slings.
—=So far under the HARRISON admin-
istration the politicians have got the ap-
pointments—the soldiers the dis-ap-
pointments.
—The man who kicks about hav-
ing a mother-in-law, should kick him-
self. Its a matter of his own choosing
that he has one.
—We have upon our table, a new
publication from Chicago, called the
Liar. An examination of its columns
shows it is properly named.
—1Tt is now said that Senator VEsT is
being urged to reply to INGALLS’ speech
on the race problem. Wouldn't that
be simply answering the wind ?
—The picture of our “own” Daniel
in his overalls and check shirt didn’t
seem to have the proper effect upon the
thankful(?) souls of Cambria county.
—The day for the exhihition of
American fine Arts is approaching.
We believe it comes about the 14th of
February and is commonly called St.
Valentines day.
—If there is anything at all in a name,
one at least of Mr. HARRISON'S ap-
pointees should be a “risin’ ”’ man. His
name is YrAsT and he has just been
“set” in a Kansas post office.
—Maryland proposes to build, a new
penitentiary. Itis time. Atleast the
increase of her republican vote for a
couple of years back would indicate that
something of the kind was a necessity.
—~Since his five hour speech claiming
the position of Governor of West Vir-
ginia,—a position which the people
voted to another man, NATHAN GOFF
has very appropriately been named
NATHAN GALL.
—There is nothing like sticking to an
idea. The Woman's Christain Temper-
ance Union, failing to make the public
take water, has divided into factions
which are now engaged in making each
other do this same thing.
'—Georgia has produced a thirteen
year old revivalist,—Jimmy Cook--and
the hope of many people down there
now is, that through the instrumental-
ity of this “jimmy’’ they will be able to
get through the Golden Gates,
— What is labeled and generally re-
cognized as ‘the Philadelphia democ-
racy,” is to its party in the State, what
a green apple is to a boys belly—a breed-
er only of trouble and busy always rais-
ing h—I1 internally.
-—One of our big daily exchanges sur-
prises us with thestatement that NELLY
Bry, on her recent trip, carried all the
clothing she had with her on her back.
Oh! naughty, naughty, NeLLy. What
a sight you must have been ! r
—The country can rest easy. BLAINE
will not leave. All the opportunities
Portugal offers to twisters of the Brit-
tish lion’s tail, do not equal as induce-
ments, the power, emoluments and salary,
of the HARRISON premiership.
—We areled to believe that proha-
bilities GREELY,” who now predicts
that the <back bone of winter is broken,
is adding another to his many untulfull-
ed prophesies, for the simple reason, that
winter, this season has had no back bone
to break: : : :
—The Lycoming judicial contest has
demonstrated one thing. That is, that
a Judge who is honest and believes he
is right, can put more law, s2nse and jus-
tice into a dozen lines of dissent, than
two Judges who have'an object to ac-
complish, ean put into three columns of
¢‘opinion.”’ :
—This is the time of year you hear
the most about Philadelphia Democrats.
Just before nominating time that city is
as full of them as a “Grippe” patient is
of bacilli. After the nominations are
made most of them vote the republican
ticket, and then put in. the rest of the
year swearing about political traitors
aud treason. 14
—A New York doctor is delivering
two hour lectures on “How to remove
surplus flesh.” This is a clean waste of
time to all who hear him. All one
need do to get as thin as a June shad, is
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 35.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, JANUARY 31, 1890.
NO. 5.
The Desperate Straits of a Republican
Congress.
It is wonderful what a change of
principle a small change in the situa-
tion will bring about. During the last
three or four Congresses, when the
Democrats had a majority of the mem-
bers of that vody, certain rules govern-
ing its proceedings were adopted, that
gave to the minority power at times to
stay vicious legislation and prevent
strictly partisan enactments, without
free debate and a full hearing. During
all the years of Democratic control in
the lower House of Congress, we donot
remember of ever reading a line in any
Republican paper denouncing the rules
that secured to the minority certain
rights, nor do we know of any Republi-
can congressman refusing to take ad-
vantage of all the rights and privileges
which they were entitled to, under those
rules.
It is all changed now however. The
principle that the mority had rights
that a majority should decasionally re-
spect, has been. discovered, since the
Republicans secured that majority, to
mean that any rules that would prevent
the majority, party from doing as it
pleased, whether its members were
present to vote or not, were vicious and
designed to delay business and defeat
the will of the people.
The Republican majority is small in
the present Congress, and it is not al-
ways that ibey can ‘rely upon having
a majority of members, present; so that
in addition to depriving the minority of
any power whatever, they now propose
to empower the speaker to declare 100
members a quorum of a body consisting
of 325, elected and paid representatives,
and that this little ramp of a Congress,
when it is made up of Republican mem”
bers, shall have power to go on and
enact laws, just:as 1f the entire body
was present. It is a queer condition of
affairs, that requires rules to be annulil-
ed, rights to Le®¥gnored, majorities to
be dispensed with, and every rule and
tradition that has governed the popular
branch of Congress since the day that
body first organized, to be violated and
set aside, in order that the Republican
party may do as it pleases.
It is'an attempt to force a public
policy and attain partisan ends that
may prove a terrible boomerang some
day. And the wonder will be, if speal-
er Reep has the authority to declare
100 members a quorum of: 325, what
is to hinder him from fixing the num-
ber constituting that qnorum at any
less figure, his fancy or the needs of his.
party may necessitate ? wind?
No Moye Fooling in Delaware.
~The Philadelphia Republican papers
are just now in the slough of despond-
ency over the recent decision of the
Delaware court of Errors and. Appeals.
That tribunal has had the audacity to
decide that under the laws of" that
State a Republican voter must pay his
taxes, if he desired to cast his ballot.
This isa terrible blow to the rights and
privileges of Philadelphia repeaters,and .
thejgreat depths to which this decision
has weighted down the hopes of their
Republican hackers; in that city, is
shown by the 2mount of squealing the
organs of the bosses are doing, © For
years, after voting, counting or
whatever vou may call it, for this
State; Philadelphia has undertaken’ to
attend to the same duties for both New
Jersey and Delaware. In Jersey these
efforts have been futile, but in Dela-
ware on several occasions, they haye
proven conspicuously successful. . Re-
peaters ‘and darkeys by the score,
would be run over into’ every little
to join the great army of working-men
and live a few weeks on the wages se-
cured them by our glorious protective
system. « These is no reducer of surplus
flesh like a workingman’s high tariff |
diet. : i
—We symathize with our neighbor, i
the Democrat. Just as it gets itsflag
thrown to the breeze, and is enjoying
the belief that the “masses are for” its
candidate for governor—Gen HASTINGS, |
up rises Cambria county, the one parti-
cular spot in this broad Commonwealth
where his “services” should have been
appreciated and his “sacrifices” remem-
bercd, and instructs her delegates for
DELAMETER by a vote.of 99, to 4 for
Hastings. Surely some one has been
guying our contemporary, or is Cambrian
80 deat as not to hear the “popular sent-
iment that elamors’ for our DAN.
manufacturing town, and the boss fof
the manufactory, who was generally a
Philadelphia Republican doing business
over in a Democratic State, because the
| taxes were less there than at home,
would see that they got their votes in.
They didn’t pretend "to pay taxes: for
these people; they made no show of
proving them citizens ; they would sim-
ply put a lot of fictitious names upon
the registry list; and when voting time
came, if they couldn't forge or steal
tax receipts, they would claim tha it
was the duty of the Democratic tax
collector to collect the taxes in ‘time to
give the party named the right to vote,
and if he failed in that, it did not dis-
franchise him, So far did their faith
in their ability to. carry Delaware by
these methods go, that they carried a
case up to the highest tribunal of that
‘ Commonwealth and demanded a deci-
I sion, that would enable them to accom-
' plish under a ruling of the Court, what,
: for years, they had been trying to bring
i about by sharp practices and political
| trickery. Delaware Courts are neith-
| er to be humbugged nor bull-dozed,
and it very promptly and properly de-
cided, that to be entittled to vote in that
State, one must pay a tax, and that it
wasn’t necessary,either,for a tax colleec-
tor to run all over creation to hunt the
delinquent up or to stand on the street
corners day and night for the conveni-
ence of those wanting to pay.
. It is this decision that has blighted
the hopes that Philadelphia Republi:
cans had of controlling the little Com-
monwealth lying so closely to the lines
of their city, and it is this that there is
such a weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of Republican. teeth about. Time
may possibly assuage their grief, and
while it is doing this Delaware will
continue to be Democratic.
I ——
Up Goes our Hat.
“NELLY Bry,” the indefatigable and
spirited representative of the New York
World, who has been making a circuit
in a specified time, reached New ¥ork
on Saturday last having made the trip
in 72 days 6 hours and 11 minutes.
This is eight days less time thau Jurzs
VERNE'S hero got’ round in his imagi-
nary trip, that theater ‘goers, a few
years ao, were =o familiar with. Its
a big thing of course, for Miss Bry,
and with the rest of American humani-
ty,we take off our hat and hurrah! until
we are hoarse. :
Just why, we don’t know.
, Miss Bry neither swam the sea in
front ot the steamer, nor trotted the tracks
ahead of ‘the engines, that make their
daily trips along the routes over which
she passed, to accom plish the feat ; she
did in fact what a million, or ten mil-
do, if the funds. ‘were furnished —take
the ordinary route. of travel and go
‘ahead.
NecLy Bry. To be sure, the papers
say, she traveled with her ward-robe
on her back, whether they expected
her to go it naked we are not informed ;
she didn’t take a poodle or’ a mastiff as
an escort, and proves by returning un-
harmed, that dogs are not a necessary
accompaniment to ladies when traveling
alone. These two things she demon-
strated ; that a lady with her clothes on
gets along fully as fast as one who car-
ries the most of them in a trunk, and
that it is not necessary for a sprightly
girl to go lugging a blear-eyed dog
along to protect her from the attentions
of the naughty, naughty men.
If there is anything else of practical
value that has been demonstrated by
this trip, we fail to catch on to it. We
hurtah'! however, all the same and
{join our modest voice in with the tu-
multuous crowd, who are shouting for
| NeLLy Bry without knowing the rea-
son thereof or stopping to ask if there
is any.
A Farmer That Seems Satisfied.
We have a two page letter from a
former Snyder county citizen,now a resi-
dent of Hoover Nebraska, in which he
criticizes as sharply as possible, the
item published in this paper some weeks
ago, giving the price of farm products
at Nantasket, that State, as furnished
by a farmer residing at that place.
The gentleman, writing, to find fault
with the prices as given, makes no cor-
rection, except to quote corn at 15 cents
per bushel, instead of 12, and beef at
$3.50 to $4.00 per 100, in place of being
a drug on the market. We can fully
understand why an individual who had
been raised, and schooled, and “brought
up’ among the Republicans of Snyder
county, this State, would be satisfied
with most any condition of affairs he
would find any place, he might move
too; but for the life of us we can’t con-
ceive how a man intelligent enough to
bea successful farmer,could imagine that
his business was prosperous, under a
| system of tariff that taxed him unwmer-
!cifuily for everything he bought, and
‘secured him but 15 cents a bushel for
"bik corn, 40 cents for his wheat, 13 cents
for his oats, and proportionately low
prices for everything else his farm pro-
There is but one reason for a
man under such circumstances being
satisfied, and that must be that he is
too narrow minded, either from politi:
duced.
of the globe to see if it conld be done’
Tons of ‘people for that matter could
But still we!whoop 'er up for
cal prejudices,schooling or surroundings
to appreciate how greatly he is being
imposed upon, or to recognize the fact
that one great cause of such low prices
for farm products is our tariff system,
that builds a wall about us, and pre-
vents us securing any market for the
surplus products of our farms,
So long as the farmer is satisfied
with the prices he is getting, just so
long ought he to vote for, and support a
system of government that secures this
for him. When he widens out enough
to kilow, that we can’t eat up all our
agricpltural; lands produce, and that
other countries won't take of our sur-
plus grain; until the entire grain crop
of every other agricultural district in
the world is exhausted, for the reason
that we refuse to trade with them until
after we have imposed an enormous
tariff upon everything they would
bring to us, he will possibly changed
his mind and‘allow the protected few
to take care of themselves, while he
takes care of his own interosts by vot.
ing for a change that will secure him
better prices for his wheat, corn and
oats.
PRIA TE
. The Republican Disgrace.
The West Virginia contestifor Gov-
ernor will in all probability be brought
to a close on Saturday. At that time
it is expected the legislature will act
finally upon the report of the commit-
tee appointed to investigate the charges
of fraud. That report has been made
public and leaves no doubt of the elec-
von of Judge Freying, the Democrat-
ic nominee. It shows the boldest and
most open frauds on the part of the re:
publican managers and exposes one of
the most villianous conspiracies to de-
feat the will of thé people, that has
been brought to public view. In the
purchase of voces, the ‘importation of
not-resident darkeys from old Virginia
and the open attempt to carry a State
by fraud, the election in that State last
fall has no parallell in the history ‘of
the country, Low estimates fix the
number of fraudulent votes, (imported
darkeys) cast in the State at fully 3,000.
Of these the committee was able to un-
cover and expose 800. Throwing these
out, gives Judge FLEMING a majority
of 700. These frauds were confined
mostly to the six counties in which
Gorr, BLaive, ELkins & Co., have their
mining ‘and railroad interests. Into
these counties, negroes who were not
voters or residents of the state were
brought by train loads and voted. At
two precincts upwards of one thousand
of these imported blacks were marshall-
ed, the election officers intimidated and
their votes taken and counted. The
boldness and defiant manner in which
these frauds were perpetrated 1s with-
out parallell. Scores of witnesses testi-
fied to the following facts, which is but
one ‘instance, of the many that are
given in the report. '“Seventy-six of
“the imported negroes were voted at
“ Bluefield, Mercer county, where they
“were then put on a train and carried
“across the line in Virginia, where
“ they were bona fide residents, and cast
“their votes without protest. Another
“ train then carried the gang back to
“ Eik Horn, W. Va., where they were
“marched to the polls, crazy with
“drink, and were voted again.”
‘ Allover and all round is the same
evidence of unadulterated rascality and
unbiushing fraud, as thick = as claw
marks on a lousy dog."
And yet the candidate who was to be
benefitted hy these frauds ; who was to
be made Governor by these rascalities;
who knew of them and assisted in their
perpetration, had the unlimited gall to
get up and plead his own case, for five
long hours, and demand of" the legis-
lature that it cast aside the report of
its committee and declare him entitled
to the seat. i
Could effrontery ge farther? All-wise
and all-knowing newspapers that know
more than the racords show or more
than sworn committees can find out,
and which -have been insisting that
Gorr was being cheated out of the gov-
ernorship, have now an opportunity
to revise their opinions and ad-
mit that in this matter, they have
been mistaken.
The republican party we presume
will stand up under the disgrace of
this exposure as brassily as ever, and
in spite of the trath, will contiue
to ery about Democratic frauds in
West Virginia and the outrage that
has been perpetrated, when Judge
FreMinG is given his seat.
It Will be Forgiven and Forgotten.
It may be and possibly is quite true,
as charged by the friends of Gen.
Hastings, that a sharp but very dirty
trick was played upon him in Cam-
bria county, that secured to his com-
petitor DELAMETER, its delegates for
Governor. It is asserted that the con-
vention selecting the delegates, was
called without sufficient public notice;
that in many districts no election was
held, although self appointed delegates
presented themselves and were admit-
ted ; that for other districts that neith
erelccted ro: eect delegates, persons
were substituted who were known {o
be with the ring, and that the entire
proceedings were illegal, contrary to
party usages and a factional set up
from beginning to end.
We shouldn't wonder of these
charges are true. It is a way republi-
cans’ have of doing business.
A party that depends for its success
upon boodle, bribery,bossism and fraud,
would not scruple to cheat a member
of its own, political faith,when it didn’t
want him to the front and had no oth-
er way of preventing his getting there.
Republican bossism requires this kind
of work, and the cowardly creatures of
that boss are used to obeying orders.
In this case the boss is for the other
fellow, and the other fellow must win,
no matter how its done. The republi-
can masses may be for Gen Hasr-
INGS; we believe they are; but what
do the wishes of the republican masses
amount to as against the will of the
boss ?
No, we have no doabt whatever, but
they did in Cambria county, just
what the Hastings people charge,
But what are they going to do about
it ? :
Simply go on wearing the collar of'a
boss as they always have done; sub-
mitting to any humliation that boss
rule may subject them too, and 'bur-
rahing for any fraud or outrage iit may
perpetrate against the Democracy.
They will whine like jchamed curs for
awhile and thén when wanted, will
wag their political tails and trot off
again to do the will of their master.
This is all there will be about it.
Another, to Their List of Steals.
From present appearances it looks
very much as if the republicans; have
been able to add to their long list of
villianous frauds, another that is
scarcely eclipsed by the stealing of the
Presidency in ’76: Dispatches state,
that Mr. Harrison's packed Supreme
Court of Colorado, has decided that
the republican rump legislature there,
is the properly qualified body 'of law-
‘ma ers ‘for the new Commonwealth,
and that notwithstanding the fact that
the peopleelected a majority ' of Demo-
‘crats, as representatives, that the will
of a republican’ board of canyassers
and not the ballets, should determine
the result. This the republican papers
claim asa “big vietory.! So it is.
cracksman crows over, when he gets
safely out of the clutches: of the law,
with the contents of the sate he has
robbed secure in his pockets.
EERE ARR
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The Coroner's Jury'in the KNrr-
FEN murder case has found out ' after
weeks of“ investigation, ' that the lady
was chloroformed: The public knew
that the morning of the tragedy. What
was ‘wanted to be made clear was who
committed the murder. This fact the
Jury seems to have forgotten entirely
to the Custom Cutters.
Cruicaco, Jan. 24,—A letter from
Ex-President Cleveland was read to-day
at the concluding session of the Custom
Cutters’ National Convention. The
full text was as follows ;
E. G. H. Hunton, Esq.. President.
Dear Sir ; I thank yon for sending: me your
address made at the convention of the Custom
Foremen Tailors’ Association, and I have read
the same with interest. 'The question of tariff
. reform directly effects all the people of the
| land in a substantial way, and they ought to
| be interested in its discussion. I am afraid
that a great many of our fellow eitizens are too
apt to regard this as & Dotson question, in-
tricate and complex, affecting them in a re-
mote way and one which may well enongh be
left for politicians to wrangle over. This in-
duces a a of the saubjeet on the part of a
reat number of our people, a willingness to
Sindy follow the party to which they happen
to belong in their action upon it.
It is a good sign to see practical men, such
as belong to your association, discussing the
uestion for themselves. Ifthis is done intel
ligently, and with sincere intent to secure the
truth, tariff reformers, I think, have no need
to fear the result of such a discassion.
Very truly yours,
GROVER CLEVELAND,
This letter was written in reply to
one hy Horton,the president of the Cnt-
ters’ Association, asking for spme state.
ed the tailors.
ier was sent to President Harrison,
hut as yet no reply has been received.
After the letter had been read the con.
land,
But its of the some ‘character that a |
Ex-Presidend Cleveland Writes a Letter |’
ment on the tariff question. as it aflect- |
An exactly similar lets;
vention extended its thanks to Cleve:
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The First Colored Church at N orristown
is in the hands of the sheriff.
—Of the 400 inmates of the Erie Soldier's
Home 150 are on the sick list.
—Rival doctors at Manor Station engaged in
a fist fight over a professional dispute.
—An epidemic of influenza prevails among
the cattle of the eastern portion of Berks.
—A Pittsburg sportsman owns an 8-months-
old dog that hunts perfectly and was never
trained,
—The irrepressible Join Cessna has announ-
ced himself as a candidate for congress for the
Blair distriet,
—Because of a coal famine at Uniontown the
black diamonds are sold by the bushell at a
fabulous rate.
—A bottle of whisky carelessly dropped in a
Scranton sehool-yard gave the scholars their
first “booze.”
—It will cost $100,000 to put the famous stone
bridge at Johnstown in the condition it was
before the flood.
—Rev.M. J. Eckels, pastor of the Presbyte-
rian Church at Salisbury, Md., has accepted a
call to Bedford, Pa.
—Rev. William B. Sando,a minister of the Re-
formed Church, died on Sunday night of: influ-
enza, aged 75 years.
—As a cow at Bartonsville was jumping” over
a little gulley her horns caught in a tree limb,
and she was hanged.
—Black children, white children and: red
children sat down to & dinner at ‘the Indian
school at Carlisle recently.
—A. 8, Updegraft, of Williansport: has a hen
that is parading at the head of a brood of chicks
three months aheaa of time.
—The last brick on the new Normal school
at Lock Haven hasbeen. laid and. the structure
is gradually nearing completion.
—Senator Martz, of Williamsport : has almost
recovered from his recent illness and will go
to Ashville, North Carolina, to spend the wintere
—Lea P. Brown, a prominent farmer: and
Republican of Drumore township, Lancaster
county, is dead from an attack of. ‘the grippe.
—When Mrs. Rorer, at New Galena, Bucks
county awoke on Saturday morning she found
her little daughter lying dead by her side from
suffocation.
—At Mount Washington , Pittsburg, there is
a man who thinks his mission on earth is to
kill stray dogs, and in six months he has ‘slain
100 animals. h :
—Rats were found =o plentiful’'in a barn near
Williamsport that the men who had been en-
gaged to dosome thrashing were driven from
their work. i :
—Wounded by a bullet a dog at’ Pittsburg
fell into a pool of water, and lay there helpless
till ice formed around the animal making him
a prisoner: i
—Mrs. Jackson Malin, of Kennett Square,
died yeserday from the" effects of ‘a surgical
operation performed on Friday to relieve in-
testinal obstruction, 3
—The Detridge Flint Glass. Company will
moveé its factory from New.Brighton because a
bonus of $6000 promised it by the Board of
Trade has not been paid. ©" ’
—Two little sons of Patrick Oolan, aged re-
spectively 5 and 8 years, .were drowned by
breaking through the ice on a pond at Yardley,
Pa., on Saturday afternoon. al :
—While Abraham Keller was engaged in
loading legs in the woods near Bedminsteryille
Bucks county, he suddenly fell back and ex-
pired. Hewas70 yearsold. Pe
—Sentences of twenty-one and seventeen
years respectively, for the two Wilkinsburg
burglars, is calculated to; be a decided draw-
back to the house breaking profession. ;
—Two hundred Polanders and Hungarians.
were talzen by a labor contractor on monday
from Piymouth to Punxsutawney. to take the
places of the striking miners af that place. .
—Pennsylvanians in Washington are putting:
forward Judge Harry White, of Indiana county
for the vacancy in the office of solieitor-gener-
al, caused by the death of Judge Chapman. :
—While getting. the safe: out: of the Gorry
post office, some time ago; John Armstrong
had his leg crushed and now he wants Congress
to pay him $2500 on acéonnt of the accident.
—A suburban jeweler fell over a step at Pitts-
burg, spilled’ part of his ‘purchases on thie
ground and a detective who was at band ‘arrest
ed him on suspicion of having stolen the stuff’
—The Queens Run Fire Brick Company
have erected eleven new houses at Queens
Run for accomodation of the miners. . They
are substantial and comfortable frame struct-
ures.
—The prospect ofpreaching his firstsermon
so excited a:Diekson Seminary student that
he got into the wrong chureh and had taken
his place in the pulpit before he- discovered
his error. i 4
Fach of the aspirants for the: Repuiiican
gubernatorial nomination has warm fiiemds in
Bldir county.’ Hastings and” Délamater seem
to lead in: this section, though’ Montooih ‘has.
‘many enthusiastic followers. |
Sticking his foot into the leg: of ‘an old
pair of pants that had hung inthe garret clos.
et a long while, a Parlertown youth disturbed
a wasp’s nest, and his action Brought the in-
sects out and around his ears:
i is
~The dead body of Edward: Andrews was
found in the cabin ofia boat near Chester. It
is probable that he died of starvation: as When
ast seen alive he was ill and it is believed
he became unable to care for himself er
__\Whiie John Best, of Derry; was engaged"
3 at that place Thursday after.
and was caught between the
badly crushed that ampita-
He is unmarried. |
in coupling car:
noon, his right ht
bumpers and s0
tion was necessary.
—As he was returning home from his honey-
moon Peter Tighe of Jochranton jumped off the
train to get some cigars, and remaining
long the train with his bride pulled ; ott:
overtook her on & freight train and was happy,
Fredrick Strong;who died recently in Mont.
gomery township, had a great propensity, for-
bringing petty lawsuits against his neighbors,
and once, it is said, he was told by Jadge Chap.
man that if he ever showed his red head in
Court againhe wonld be sent to jail. ..It was
not long before Strong brought another suit,
and when he came in Court his hair had been
dyed black. k
—At Dehaven Station, Pa, ow the Pittsburg
and Western Railroad, a natural gas well with
| a pressure of 500 pounds, ignited on: Saturday,
| while four drillers were. plugging it. The
| four men were terribly burned, but all but one
George Moore, will recover. The well is still
; burning, and it; is probable that it will, be
necessary to smother the fire. It is by a great
smokestack, as was successfully done at the
great Murraysville gss well fire some years
! ago. :