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~The Republicans of the Housé are’
already preparing to dodge the return-
ing boomerang. ;
—1It is evidently the belief of the es-
teemed Philadelphia Record that the
only way to get a Belt Line is to hit the
machine politicians below the belt.
—After the contest. for, the Republi-
can nomination for Governor is over, it
may dawn upon HAsTINGs’ understand-
ing that a’ candidate can’t run himself
into the gubernatorial office by chasing
foxes. :
—A Philadelphia paper in whooping
up. the independent movement, says,
‘throw party to the dogs.” Although
the g. 0. p. deserves such canine eon-
signment, it would be rather rough on
the dogs.
—Severty years have impaired the
vigor that characterized General SHER-
MAN during the war.’ And what is
equally sad to think of, they have alsoim-
paired the vim with which he used to
kiss the pretty girls.
—The fact that he has given ntivushe
astic support’ to the despotism of the
Czar of the American House of Repre-
sentatives, may go a great way in re-
commending CHARLES EMORY Surra
to the Czsr of Russia.
—Home rule, which is the very? basis
of republican government,is the predom-
inant principle in our local elections:
Let every body turn out on Tuesday
and vote in & way ‘that will secure hon-
est and efficient home rule.
—Mount Etna, the great voleano of
Sicily, is reported to be preparing for
active business. If Mr. BLAINE is to
be believed,Speaker REED has stirred up
an American volcano that in its erup-
tive effect will surpass its Sicilian rival.
—TIsn’t there some significance in the
circumstance that since the Republicans
gained control of its covernment Centre
county has acquired a reputation as
bloody as that of Harlan epunty, the
gory Republican stronghold of Ken-
tucky ?
—The macaroni manufacturers, whose
number is very limited, are talking
about forming a trust. It would be dif-
ficult for even Mr. BLAINE to regard ‘as
a strictly private affair a combine that
would affect the noodle-soup of the.
entire country.
—Thesolicitude which the Republi-
can rounders’ and heelers of the 4th
Philadelphia Congress district will dis-
play in behalf of the wool interest next
Tuesday, will be enough to wreathe with
smiles the venerable countenance of the
. Darby ram.
—Thers is something suspicious in the
circumstance that both ForRAKER and
ex-Speaker KEIFER express themselves
in favor of Tom REED for President.
It may be that on the principle that
misery, loves company, they want to en-
courage him in the pursuit of a course
that is sure to wreck him as completely
as they have been wrecked.
—When General Hastings in his
speech to his Johnstown admirers,
speaking of Governor BeAVER,said that
he was the sort of ‘brave, generous
man’’ that would place “every dollar
he owned to relieve the suffering peo-
ple,” there can ba no doubt that the
General intended the statement to be
taken in a Pickwickian sense.
—Although New York would be
the proper place for «the. World's
Fair, yet since ' it is likely that it will
not be held there, Chicago should be
chosen for its location. What would
the great discovery have amounted to,
anyhow, if it were not for the great
‘West and the achievements of western
energy of which Chicago is so brilliant
an illustration ?
—In the misunderstanding that has
resulted from the ballot-box forgery,
‘Woop, the prospective smoke-inspec-
tor, calls Foraker “His Royal High-
ness.” There may be some question
as to the royalty of “Little Breeches,”
but who will presume to doubt the roy-
al character of the functionary who ex-
ercises a despotic sway over the lower
house of Congress ?
—An exchange, of the Republican
persuasion, sarcastically inquires why
the Democratic papers have dropped
Baby McKee? We haven't observed
that the “enfant terrible” of the ad-
ministration is being neglected by the
press, but if it is so, it is probably for the
reason that the entire administration has
become such a babyish concern that
Baby McKEE has lost his peculiarity as
a member of it.
— With a zealous intention of defend-
ing REED'S usurpation, the Philadel-
phia Press has obtained from different
Republican Governors letters approving
the Speaker's tyranical assumption.
But, implicated as they all are in the
general turpitude of Republican politics,
can they be considered competent wit-
nesses in this case? Could anything
else but approval be expected of a gang
of burglars if their opinion was asked
concerning a neat job of safe cracking ?
- been learned on that question
that many Republicans of the District
ty prejudice that controls the action of
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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BELLEFONTE. PA., FEBRUARY 14,
1890. NO. 7.
Tari Reform in the Keily District. |
congressman in; the Fourth District
(Pliiladélphia) at the February election, |
18th inst., to fill. the vacancy caused
by the Drs of Hon. WILLIAM D. KEL |
LY. The District is strongly 'Republi- |
can, giving usually from 8000 to 10,000 |
majority for the Republican congres-
sional candidate, yet it' is proposed to |
fight the Republican nominee at the
special election on the issue of ‘tan,
iff reform. Senator ReveurN has
been nominated by’ the Republican
tariff supporters, and Mr. Wirrnram DM,
Avegs is put forward as the nomi-
nee of the Demoeratic tariff’ reformers.
Mr. Ayres was the candidate in 1888
against Judge KeLLy and was defeated
by a large majority, but in the excite-
ment and confusion of the Presidential
election the public mind was diverted
from. the truth rof the . tariff issne,
and disturbed in the dispassionate con-
sideration of its merits. But much has
since
then, nothing being more indica
tive of that fact than the circumstance
|
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who voted for Harrison, including a
number of manufacturers, signed the
paper soliciting Mr. Ayers to be the |
tariff reform ‘candidate against the Re-
publican nominee. The chief reason
assigned by them for their change of
view was the conviction that the. tariff
tax on raw materials is injuring’ their
business as well as impairing the gener-
al industrial prosperity of Philadelphia.
It can hardly be expected; however,
that in the” District that elected * Pig
Iron” Kelly by such large majorities,
an awakened sense of the injury a war
tariff is doing the industries of the city
will be sufficient to overcome the par-
a majority ofyit-gbters, But it’ would
indeed be a grand thing for Philadel-
phia if such a district should speak out
azainst a system that is so injuriously
affecting its industries. There is not a
branch of its textile manufacture that
is not languishing under the effect of
the tariff on raw materials, the woolen
men particularly recognizing the injury
they sustain from that cause, and the
frequent failures among them demon-
.strating it. But even in the face of
this, it is hard to believe that the be-
devilment of party prejudice and fa-
naticism which has taken possession
of a majority of Philadelphia voters
will admit of a tariff reform’ movement
making much of an impression in the
old Kelley district. Yet it is to be
hoped that the reformers may at least
succeed in reducing the majority it has
usually given for the tariff of the mo-
nopolists. 4
x EMMY
——The census enumerators will
be around during the coming summer
and will be likely to meet with indi-
viduals who will be averse to giving
the information required by the census
laws. It may be well for such obsti-
nate characters to know that they are
liable to a fine of $30 for refusing to
answer the questions which itis the du-
ty of the enumerators to put to them.
The head of the family isthe proper
person to give this information, but the
law provides thac in the absence of the
head of the family or any of "its adult
members, “any agent of the family
shall supply the required information.”
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The Explanation of a Disgraceful
Proposition.
The possibility of the Republican
Legislature of North Dakota allowing
the Louisiana L:ttery Company to set
up its business in that State makes a
bad showing for the reputation of the
party that claims to contain the larger
portion of the morality of the country.
Even should there be virtue enough in
the Legislature to reject the propo i-
tion, the serious entertainment of the
application of gamblers to have their
business legalized is disgraceful to the
State. In explanation of so extraordi-
nary and shameful a measure being en-
tertained by the Dokata Legislature, itis
said that should it be ‘allowed it would
only be carrying out a bargain with the
Louisiana Lottery Company that the
privilege of doing business in one of
the new States would be given to it in
consideration of a contribution of $40,-
000 it made to the Harrison campaign
fund. There was scarcely a form of
rascality that Quay didn’t resort to in
There will be a special ele:tion for |
his determination to elect the Repub
lican Presidential candidate.
An Impudent Charge.
Speaking of the redistricting of! Ohio
by the Democratic Legislature, the
> hiladelphia Inquirer imputes to it an
intention of ‘gerrymandering ‘with a
view to. affecting the congressional rep
resentation of the State, and ' considers
itself smart in saying: ‘““We are much
* marestedin the peculiar map. of the
“ State according to the programme
“laid down by the committee in charge
“of the measure. We never saw any-
‘* thing like it.”
You never saw anything like'ity eh!
Well, suppose you glance your eyes at
the map of Pennsylvania,as divided into.
congressional districts by a Republican
Legislatute,or take a look at Ohio as at
present gerrymandered by the Republi-
cans, and you will see something that
can’t be beaten in the way of unequal
and unfair apportionment.” The party
of boodle politics has never been so un-
true to its dishonest instincts as to over-
look an advantage to be gained by a
rascally arrangement of representative
districts.
Gerrymandering is a practice which.
no party should engage in. Tt inter
feres with fair and equal popular repre-
sentation and perverts the object for
which the districting of States is intend-
ed. Unfortunately both parties have
resorted to it, bat inasmuch as the Re-
publicans have done some of the" most
shameful work ot that kind, it 1s
blushless impudence for papers of that
party to charge the Democrats with be-
ing guilty of ‘the politiral obliquity
known as gerrymandering.
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—The shameless Republican press
is actually applauding REeep’s bru-
tal usurpation in overriding parli-
amentary precedent that was respected
and observed by the decency of the
House for the last century. But then
what else could’ be ‘expected of journals | ©
that couldn’t see anything wrong, but
actually ' rejoiced, in the shameful
huckstering of the Presidency ?
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Disagreeing Judges.
There doesn't seem to'be unanimity
among the State Judges in regard to
the tenure of office of the constables elec-
ted last year. They don’t agree as to
whether those that were elected in 1889
are affected by the law passed at the
last session fixing three years as the
term of service of constables. Judges
Maver, BucHer and ROCKEFELLER, of
the neighboring counties of Clinton,
Union and Northumberland, are said
to have decided that the election of
1889 produced a crop of three year
constables, Judge Furst of our coun-
ty has given it as his opinion that they
are only yearlings, and that the three
year terms provided by law will date
from the coming election. =~ Who
cau say what is the correct thing in
this matter when the legal doctors dif
fer so widely ? We suppose that each
county will act on the constable ques
tion according to the opinion of its
Judge, and that the Supreme Court
will correct the errors if any contested
points shall arise from these conflict
Ing opinions of the lower courts.
Editor Smith Will Go Go to Bassin
President HarrisoN has! appointed
Crarres EMORY SyrtH, editor of the
Philadelphia Press, Minister to Russia.
The newspaper fraternity unite in con-
gratulating Mr. Smita on the distinc-
tion that has been thus conferred upon
him, and have no doubt that’ he will
creditably perform the duties of the
high position he has been chosen to
fill. No more suitable persons than
editors could be selected to represent
the Republic at the courts of foreign
powers, and President HarrIsoN is to
be credited * with having gumption
enough to be aware of this fact. He has
sent REID of the New York Tribune to
France, would have sent Harsrteap of
the Cincinnati Commercial to Berlin if
the Senate hadn't interfered, and now
sends SyITH, of the Press, to Russia.
There may be people ill natured enough
to believe that the Russian mission is
about equivalent to being exiled to Si
beria; but CHarLEs Exory Smita is
not an exilable character. Even should
he be isolated in the midst of Sahara he
would manage to keep before the pub-
lic his stereotyped fiction that free
trade is the object of tariff reform.
Notwithstanding his inveterate attach-
ment to this musty political chestnut,
we are glad that he has been placed in
so distinguished an official position,
Editors deserve such honors.
Delegates Would Have Been of More
Practical Account.
A great compliment was paid Gener-
al Hasrines last. Saturday at Johns.
town where the people. turned out en
masse to give him an enthusiastic
welcome. The demonstration was in-
tended to be a recognition of his services
at the time when the Conemaugh valley
was overwhelmed by the calamity of
the June flood.” Thousands of citizens
eagerly sought the opportunity of shak-
ing his band, crowds marched to the
place of reception headed by brass
bands playing their liveliest tunes, and
in all its features the occasion was such
as was calculated to impress the Gener-
al with the conviction that there
couldn’t be any question about his be
ing the Hero of Johnstown. The ‘popu-
lation was demonstratively unanimous
on that point.
Yet in the midst of the prevailing
enthusiasm it must have appeared
singular to any one present who may.
have thought of it, that it was only a few
days previous that a ring of managing
machine men and government officials,
pulling the wires at the’ behest of the
controlling State Boss, so arranged mat-
ters that this popular idol, who was
known to be a candidate for Governor,
didn't get a delegate to the county
convention from the town and neigh-
borhood whose population was giving
him such a rousing ovation. To the
General himself it must have occurred,
when all this enthusiasm was in pro-
gress, that although this thing of being
a popuiar hero is very gratifying, and
the applause of the crowd, and the
shaking of friendly hands, and the mu-
sic of resounding horns,are well enough
ag matters of compliment, yet the dele-
gates from Cambria county instructed
him for Governor would have been
jy substantial account about this
time. The fact that, notwithstanding
the popularity of Hastixes in: the
Johnston region as shown by this
demonstration, DELaMATER had no dif-
ficulty in getting the Cambria delegates,
shows what popular preference amounts
to in the Republican party whenit con-
flicts with the arrangements of the
Boss.
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Republican newspapers are
naturally disturbed when Grover
CLEVELAND makes an expression, for
he never expresses himself without say-
ing a great deal that is important and
instructive to the people. Upon every
~one of his deliverances there is a howl
of affected derision in which the New
York Sun leads off and the other news-
paper enemies of the Democratic party
follow. But the pretended contempt
of these fellows for the honest ex-presi-
dent does not equal their real fear of
‘him:
Incorrect Yost History.
! The Philadelphia P Press, in publish-
ing a notice of the death of a lady of
distinguished naval descent, which oc-
curred in that city some days ago, made
a blunder on a point of history which ill
became a metropolitan journal and
which in behalf of the truth of history
should be corrected. It said that the
deceased lady was the grand-daughter
of Commodore Barxsrinee, “who com-
manded the frigate Constitution in the
famous battle with the Guierre (sic) i in
the war of 1812."
Commodore Baixsringe didn’t com-
mand the glorious old American frig-
ate in that famous fight. The honor
of gaining the first naval victory over
the English in the war of 1812, which
was achieved in the encounter between
the Constitution and the Guerriere, be
longs to Commodore Isaac HuLL. As
it was the first and most signal of a
series of splendid triumps over the ships
of the vaunted “mistress of . the seas,”
the fact as to who was the commander
of the victorious frigate on that mem-
orable occasion is too important a mat-
ter to be made the subject of a misstate-
ment.
The Constitution was afterwards in
the same war commanded by Commo-
dor WirLLiam BaiNeringe, and under
that officer gained a brilliant victory
over the British frigate Java.
That was glory enough for the gallant
Bainsriper without crediting him with
HuLL’s capture of the Guerriere, an
achievement which first gave our fath-
ers assurance that the American navy
could more than hold its own against
the arrogant pretension of English na-
val supremacy. The Press should be
more careful with its history.
"THF F. ARMERS AND THE TWINE.
TRUST.
The honest farmers of the West may all unite
this spring
To show the cordage trust they hold the long
énd of the string.
They’ll boycott binding twire combines with
with all their might and main ;
The prices they've been paying sadly - £0
against their grain.
They’ye made an oath that profits on the crops
‘raised heretofore
Have barely paid for twine; they won't be roped
in any more.
No wonder they are shocked to learn that,
though they firmly try,
The ‘money they "have left could all be put
within their eye.
How long, oh Lord, how long will they in
blindness cast their votes
To aid the robber tariff that is clutching at
their throats ?
Until hey’ve almost’ ceaggd to draw a free,
unfettered breath,
While g. o. p. prodebtion’ s still protecting
them to deat
Instead of always fighting trusts they should
attack the foe—
The party and the policy—that let these evils
grow.
Their aim is landable, but to a thinker it
would seems]
They're trying to turn the current at the
wrong end of the stream.— Chicago Herald
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Impelled by a Despicable Motive.
That the holding of the World's
Fair at New York, which is. generally
conceded to be the most eligible and
appropriate place for it, should be pre-
vented by political influence for a par-
tisan reason, is a circumstance much
to be deplored. tis Seply a disgrace
to the country.
Tom Pratt, the Repabliosn boss of
New York, by the power he wields
over his party in that State secured the
defeat of the bill in the New York
State Legislature that was intended to
supply the money needed to make the
Fair a success. He did this for the al-
leged reason that Governor His
purpose in urging the appropriation
was to make the Exposition serve a
‘personal and political end. There was
no evidence whatever that the Gover-
nor, in advising legislative assistance
inthis matter, had any other design
than the promotion of an enterprise
that would redound greatly to the bene-
fit of New York city and to the credit
of the country.
To the small comprehension of a fel-
low like Tom Prarr it appeared better
that all the benefits and glory that
would result from such an enterprise
should be sacrificed than that there
should be a chance of political oppo-
nents deriving an advantage from it.
The motives of these Republican 'boss-
es are utterly devoid of public spirit,
patriotic sentiment, and even common
sense.
What a Reduced Majority Will Show.
The contest that has sprung up in
the 4th congressional district in Phila-
delphia,involving the question of tariff
reform;,to be determined in a special elec-
tion for congressman to fill the place of
the late WirLLiam D. KeLLy, naturally
excites much attention throughout the
country. What adds to its interest is
the circumstance that many Republi-
can of the District, hitherto friendly to
the high tariff principle,and supporters
of Harrison in 1888, have expressed a
change of view on the tariff question
and announced their determination to
support Mr. Ayres, the Democratic
tariff reform candidate. These con-
verts to the policy of more liberal tariff
laws and free raw materials include
not only laboring men, but manufac-
turers who by observation and recent
experience have been educated up to
the conviction that a tariff tax on the
materials used in their business is
injurious to their interest.
The most gratifying and hopeful fea-
ture of this movement is the interest
which workingmen are taking in it.
“The Reform Club,”, formerly “The
Workingmen’s Tariff Reform Associa-
tion,” including men’ of both parties,
on[Saturday unanimously adopted the
following resolutions:
Whereas the workingmen of the Fourth
Congress district are now offered the opportu-
nity of doing themselves a service by casting
their votes for a true Tariff Reformer, Wil-
liam M. Ayres, for Congress; and, whereas re-
cent experiences ought to have convinced the
workingmen that the tariff, instead of a bene
fit, is really acurse to them; therefore,
“Resolved, That we, the Reform Club, call
upon our fellow-workingmen of the Fourth
Congress district to cast aside their party pre-
judices and to vote in their own interest by
supporting so true a Tariff Reformer in the
interest of labor as William M. Ayres.
It is too much to hope that the tariff
reformers will carry a district that so
long sent the chief champion of tariff
taxation to Congress by immense ma-
jorities, but if there should be a reduc
tion of the usual Republican majority it '
would that. the educational move: |
ment in respect to the tariff is making
appreciable progress.
Spawls from the, Keystone.
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| —There isa girl mwaciist at Mount Carme
—Sparrows dre 1 fattening on ‘Chester at
peach blossofns.:
.;—A horse 34 years old still works on ithe farm
of Jacob Hartzell ‘of Nazareth: hed
—Pottetown sportsmen are using crows-im
lieu of pigeons for trap-shooting,
—Murderer James H. Jacobs, at Lancaster
has been respited seven times.
—At South Bethlehem there is a man who
eats no other meat but dog flesh.
—The colored quarter of Pittsburg is excited
over a lawsuit involving two 'possums.
—The Bryden Horseshoe Company, of Cata
saqua, is making shoes to be shipped to Ger.
many,
—Miss Sarah Vincent, for twenty-five years
ithe head of the Erie post office, has been de.
posed.
—While carrying a baby a child at Allentown
slipped and fell on the infant, breaking its leg
in two places.
—Wallace, a.5-year-old son of Thomas Watt,
of Reading, has become deaf through an attack
of la grippe.
—The North Wales Record refuses tb sup-
port Delamater on the ground that he is a
ring candidate.
—The Court House bell at Greensburg rings
every night at 8o’clock, and every store in
town then closes.
—The County Commissioners of } Montgomery
have reduced the tax rate to 2mills, a redue-
tion of 33 per cent.
—Luther H. Deber, of York, photographed
the bottom of an oil well, 1700 feet below the
surface, at Warren,
—Ashland people are contributing liberally
‘| toward a purse to be presented to the parents
of the Fineral triplets.
—Lackawanna has two candidates for Lieu-
tenant Governor—J. A. M. Passmore and Colo-
nel Louis Watres.
: —While Dauphin county is almost free from.
tramps, Cumberland county, just across the
river, is overrun with them.
—The oldest Odd Fellow in the State, Dr.
Hugh Arters, of Meadville, is ill. He was
made a member sixty years ago.
—A paper at Wilkasbarre printed the an-
nouncement of a Salvation Army meeting un-
der the head of coming amusements.
—A nest of sixty-eightleeches were unearth-
ed at Oakland, Chester county, a few days ago-
Years ago it would have been worth 868.
—The “Devil Driver,” a York Salvation
Army character, assaulted a small boy with a
hand-saw, and then sung “Saved Am I.”
—Philip Wilson, colored, the oldest man in
Lancaster county, who was born a slave in Vir-
ginia, died on Saturday, aged 99 years.
—Having been mentally unbalanced by her
husband's death, Mary Ossman, of Pittsburg,
keeps crape on the door-bell all the time.
—February 4 is a fatal day for the Trout
family of Pottstown, three members of it
having died on that day of different years.
—W. H. Nagle, of Pottstown, tuilt a pond:
to secure a crop of ice, but as the ice did not
materialize he has stocked his pond with fish.
—The passage of a flock of black-birds over
West Chester is considered a vindication of
the ground hog’s prediction of an early spring
—An old colored man walking the tracks at
Allentown was struck by a train, and two chick-
ens flew out of the carpet-bag he was carrying,
—Charles Spercher, of Scranton, has asked
the Court to decide his residence. He sleeps
in one ward, eats in another, and works in a
third.
—Nearly 200 cars loaded with corn for Euro-
pean markets are standing on a siding of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Ring=
gold.
—L. B. Clark, of Lancaster, became: hilari~
ously intoxicated from money he had collects
ed to defray the funeral expenses of a poor
neighbor.
—Rev. Father’ Murphy, of Olyphant, near
Scranton, has threatenedto employ a detec-
tive in order to suppress Sendey liguor selling
at that place,
—There isa great deal of dissatisfaction in
Shenandoah over the liquor license decisions,
and arrangements are being made to hang the
judges in effigy.
—Mrs. Ruth Woods, colored, died at Lancas-
ter on friday night, aged 107 years. Her fath«
er was Samuel Johnson, a house servant of
General Washington. ;
—Attracted by idle curiosity #8 man named
Ridings went to look at the body of a youth
killed on the Tailroad at Pencoyd and found
it to be that of his son.
—Single-handed and alone Florence Jones,
of Philadelphia, conducted her law suit on
trial at West Chester a few days ago, and then
hurried home to get married.
—At Greensburg J. E. Ryan, who recently
eloped from Jannette with his 14-year-old step-
daughter, was sentenced to the Penitentiary
for three years and three months,
—A Lebanon Miss visiting Lancaster, de-~
ceived by the French-plate glass in a store wine
dow, tried to put her head out of the window
and breaking the glass, she was badly cut.
—After having been separated for some time
by mutual agreement an Allentown couple re~
united, and the neighbors turned out in a
body to welecowne them back to their old home.
—Constable Fisher attempted to serve a
landlord's warrant on Mrs. Zeigler, at Reading,
when she snatched the paper from him and
slapped him in the face, sending him reeling
from the doorstep. :
—Fully 500 Indian children participated in
the “Indian Land and Severalty bill” celebra-
tion held at the Government Training School at
Carlisle on Saturday. Speeches were made by
prominent Indians.
—Mrs. Mary Gilroy, of New Castle, Mont~
gomery county, who evaded arrest for defacing
a public school-house by barricading her house
and defied the officers of the law, has at last
been captured. Friends entered bail for her.
—In order to be at a wedding a Harrisburg
minister expended $5, including the price of
the license, and the groom only gave him a §3
fee. The minister says some other fellow will
officiate at the christening.
—Near Lebanon there is a school-teacher
who has an inordinate desire for sleep aud
frequently slumbers during school hours.
The scholars being unable to wake him, a few
days ago gathered up their books and started
home,
—Joseph Handbusch, a delirious patient in
the Lackawanna Hospital at Scranton, eluded
the nurse on Friday night, and, half-clad, dash-
ed out into the snow covered streets. When
‘ overtaken by officers he was greatly exhaust~
ed, and may die as a result of his exposure
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