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Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., February I4, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, Whi - - EpiToR.
The Way They Reduced Things.
Three years ago, when the Republi-
can ring of this town began laying the
wires to get control of the commis-
sioner’s office, its first effort was to
make the people believe they were be-
ing robbed through the mismanage-
ment of the Democratic commissioners;
that they were being oppressed with a
higher tax levy than necessary; and
that if a change were made and the
financial management of the county
given to them, they would decrease the
tax rate, lessen the public expenditures
and lighten the burden of county
taxation,
How they have fulfilled this promise
their statement for the past year,
and the present financial condition of
the county, show.
When they took charge of the com-
missioners’ office there was a clean
cash balance in the Treasury of $8,-
986,77 and an additional $18,155,36
of money due the county from collec-
tors and others, making in all a bal-
ance of $27,142.13, Every bridge in
the county was in good order; the
public buildings and grounds were in
the best of repair ; every cent of out-
standing indebtedness was paid; worth-
less accounts had been stricken from
the statement, exonerations deducted,
and the balance as shown, $27,142.13,
represented just the amount the tax-
payers of the county had to their credit.
The statement for 1889,as given by
the commissioners, shows that wich
the same rate of taxation, without any
expenditures for public building or
grounds, without any out-lay for scalps,
(an item that ran into thousands of
dollars under the law in force, prior to
the time the present board took charge
of the commissioner's office) , with three
or four county bridges on hand and
only partly paid for, with worthless
duplicates and notes that will never be
paid, footed in as assetts, the bal
ance'in the treasury is but $3,167.11,
and the total balance in favor of the
county, including cash in the Treasury
and over $4,000 of worthless duplicates,
notes, accounts, &e., is but $23,100.47.
If from this amount the worthless
accounts which are counted as assets
the commissions for collecting and
the exonerations are deducted, the ac-
tual balance in favor of the county,
wil! be about $15,000. And by the
time the public buildings and grounds
and the county bridges are put in the
same good repair and condition, they
were in when the last Democratic
board retired, there will not be a pen-
ny of balance in favor of the tax-payers
of the county.
In place of reducing expenditures, in
place of reducing the tax-levy, in place
of reducing the burdens of taxation,
the only thing the present board of
commissioners have been able to re-
duce, is the Democratic surplus they
found in the treasury when they took
charge ot the office.
Fully Deserving of It.
On account of the physical pros-
tration of Mr. Raxparn, which leaves
but little prospect of his being able to
resume his official duties, involving a
cessation of the pay for his official servi-
ces which has constituted the chief sup-
port of himself and family, it has been
suggested by some of his personal
friends and political admirers to sup-
ply him with means that will relieve
him of theembarrassment of straiten-
ed circumstances and make his family
pecuniarily comfortable in case of his
death. This is proposed to be done in
consideration and recognition of ‘his
eminent: public: service, When some-
thing similar to this was proposed to
Mr. RANDALL some time ago, in view
of his failing health and limited resonr-
ces,a sensitiveness arising from a highly
honorable nature declined the well-in-
tended offer, but it is to be hoped
that he may be prevailed upon to aec-
cept what he so well deserves.
Amid the venality that exists among
too many of our public characters, to
whom their official positions have been
veritable hLonanzas, such as the
Braves, the Suermaxs and others
that might be mentioned, the meager
proportions of Mr. RaNpALL's fortune
notwithstanding opportunities which_ to
a less scrupulous man would have been
productive of large pecuniary accumu-
lation, furnishes a refreshing example
of honest and. disinterested public ser-
vice. Since failing health will interrupt
the limited income derived from his of-
ficial position, pecuniary assistance af-
forded him, or his family in case of his
death,would indicate a proper apprecia-
tion of his exceptional fidelity, honor
and disinterestedness as a publie officer.
¥
Where Part of the County Sprplug ent.
The statement of the county finances
for the past yearis out at ast, and
shows, as stated elsewhere in the
Warcnyax, that if the present board
of commissioners couldn’t do as they"
| promised when elected, reduce expendi-
tures, tax-rate and taxation, they
are at least capable of reducing the
surplus left in the treasury by their
Democratic predecessors. In addition
to this it shows that it costs consider-
ably more to run the commissioners’
office under a Republican board than
it did under a Democratic one.
In 1886, the last year that a Demo-
cratic board had the duties connected
with the tri-ennial assessments to per-
form, the members ot that board drew
as salaries and expenses all told, the
following sums :
we543.00
Henderson
Total $1731.00
Last year the present Republican
board had the same labor to perform.
There was no increase of work or ex-
penses for them, but they managed to
run up a bill against the county for what
they did, as follows :_
d1Onderson........ J... cil) 767.74
Decker... 838.81
Feidler ....600.65
Total $2,307.20
In addition to this increase of $576.
20 as commissioners pay and expenses, |
an additional increase of $120.75 is
shown in the amouats paid for clerical
services. In 1886, clerical hire, all
told, cost the conuty $1,034.40, while
in 1889 the same work cost the tax-
payers $1,173.15.
For legal counsel in 1886, the coun-
ty was charged $245, and in 1889 that
charge is increased to $442.79, making
another increase of $197.79. Showing
the total increase for running the com-
missioners’ office to be as follows :
Increased Salaries and Expenses
for Commissioners....................576.20
Increased am’nt paid for eclerks...129.75
Increased “ a) lawyers...197.79
Total increased expenses... $903.74
This is the way the republican ring
and its Commissioners have kept their
promise to the people, to attend to the
business of the commissioners’ office
more economically than it. was being
done by a Democratic board.
The tax-payers will have an oppor-
tunity of saying whether they are sat-
isfied with this way of decreasing the
surplus in the courty treasury, when
the same Bellefonte ring asks to have
its control of the commissioners’ office
continued next fall.
The New York paper which said
that Mr. CLEVELAND went to church on
Sanday and worshipped “unostenta-
tiously,” shouldn't indulge in such
stuff when speaking of the ex- President's
church going. Of course his demea-
nor at church was unostentatious. He
isn't a WanaAMARER and consequently,
whatever amount of religion he may
have, he doesn’t make a parade of it,
The people have every confidence in
his integrity. It is only the public
functionaries who claim to have “a text
at every breakfast” that need to be
watched.
Food For Thought.
The Grand Jury of Centre county, in
its report at the last term of Court, re-
ferring to the proposed enlargement of
the Court House, declined fo recom-
mend it for the reason of the “depress-
ed condition” ot the county treasury
and of the county tax-payers. This.
position of the Grand Jury presents two
points that furnish, food for thought.
The one is, thatscarcely three years ago
a Democratic board of Commissioners
left the county treasury with a balance
of $27,000 and the finances generally
in good shape, and yet in this brief
period of Republican rule,it is reported
by the Grand Inquest of the county
that the treasury is in such a “depress- |
ed condition’ that. there is ro money
for a much needed improvement of the
Court House. The other point is
that after years of high tariff protec-
tion and the boasted benefit of the
home market which is claimed to be a
result of the protective system, ‘the
farmers of the county are in a condi-
tion as depressed as that of the county
treasury. Is further comment ne-
cessary ?
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Is it Rascality or Is It Ignorant Book
Keeping ?
Last year we took oceasion to call
the attention of the tax-payers of the
county to a discrepancy in the com-
missioners’ statement,by which $2,707,
20 of money collected as State tax,
was unaccounted for. We asked of
the commissioners some explanation
of what had become of this money,
but was left without any information
whatever.
In thestatement of this year, as giv-
en in the commissioners’ organ, the
Gazette, a similar discrapaney, amount-
ing "to $1,566.60, is shown. ' The
amount of tax assessed for state’ pur-
poser for 1880 is given at $9,126.32:
The amount uncollected is stated to be
$3,387.89, showing that $5,738.43 of |
the whole was collected; of this amount | effort” to 'indnce commerce ‘to flow
but $4,171.83 were paid out, and no
where or in no way does the statement
account for the difference—$1,566.60,
. We don't want to say that there are
who have pocketed this difference, but
if there are not, what kind of beok
keeping is it that covers up this
amount of money and gives no idea of
in whose hands it may be found, or for
what purposes it is being used ?
That $5,738.43 was collected off the
people of the county during the year as
state tax, is shown by the commis-
sioners’ statement; that but $4,171.83
was paid out is also shown, and that no
reference at all is made to the difference
betwe:n these two amounts, can be
seen by examining that document.
What became of this money ?
Can the commissioners, their organ,
explain ?
Ineffectual Villainy.
With sach a record of political vil-
lainy as the one which the Republican
party has made, extending through a
series of years and including a theft
as well as a purchase of the Presiden-
cy, it is not strange that its cheek has
become sufficiently hard to assume
that a great wrong was done when it
was prevented from securing the State
government of West Virginia by its
customary rascality.
It was a matter of public notoriety
during the corrupt campaign of 1888,
when the intention of using a por-
tion of QuaY's corruption fund to break
the “Solid South’ was openly avowed,
that money was being as freely used by
the Republican management to over-
turn the legitimate Democratic ma-
jority in West Virginia as 1t was to
secure the hlocks-of-five that carried
Indiana for Harrison. The money
supplied by the Waxanmakgrs and that
class of plutocratic corruptionisis was
literally poured into West Virgmia.
It was a pet object of the Republican
committee #0 carry that state, and when
a character like Quay entertains a
special scheme of political crime, is
there any villainous method conceiva-
ble that he will not resort to for the
accomplishment of his purpose? The
character of the men who tried to carry
that State against the well established
Democratic majority renders ridiculous
the pretension that their methods were
not corrupt and dishonest.
The means used to «et political con-
trol of the State having failed at the
ballot box, bribery and fraud were re-
sorted to in an attempt to change the
result of the vote; but this having also
failed, the boundless resources of the
party’s gall is displayed in the claim
that they were cheated by the Demo-
crats. Coming from a source with
which Mar Quay is connected, and in
the wake of the Indiana blocks-gf-five
and the generally corrupt practices of
their campaign, what other feeling
can such a claim excite than the deris®
ive contempt of every honest citizen
who is not blinded by party prejudice?
~——An exchange,in speaking of the
term applied to the prevailing influen-
za, Says: “If you use the French
word ‘grippe,’ use the French article
‘la’ to qualify it.” This is correct and
good advice, but it would be better to
advise not to use the French term at
all. We have seen in some papers,
since the appearance of the grip, such
an absurdity as “the la grippe,”
which is equivalent to saying “the the
grip.” That stupid pictorial, Judge,
entitled one of ite cartoons “The Rus-
sian la Grippe;” certainly a ridiculons
employment of the article “the” in two
languages. : :
A Stimulus That Won't Stimulate.
There was a time when it wasn’t
considered necessary for, the govern-
ment to give subsidies to stimulate our
ocean commerce. Immediately betore
the war, when every form of industry
and every branch of trade were mak-
ing unprecedented strides under a
Democratic low tariff, the prows of
American trading vessels vexed the
water of every ocean, and American
ships carried American products to
every port of entry in the world. So
closely ‘did we press Great Britain in
the race for commercial supremacy; so
nearly did the number of our vessels
engaged in foreign commerce equal the
English, that the time when we should
overtake and pass the only rival we
had in foreign trade worth considering,
appeared to be a question of ‘but a few
years,
At that time it would have been su-
perfluous for a Fry to introduce in the
Senate a measure for the stimulation
of our foreign commerce by the use of
subsidies, It had the stimulus afford-
ed by a low tariff ‘and .'more liberal
trade regulations with other countries
than those that now exist, and needed
no government bounties to invigorate it:
thieves about the commissioners’ office
or the political ring that backs them,.
‘I open to the charge of being back-pay salary-
The opponents of | Tariff Reform ac-
knowledge that free raw materials wonld
benefit our manufacturers, but claim
that we cannot have free wool without
a demand on the. part of the. farmers for
free woclens: . The weakness of this
position is shown whea we consider that
raw cotton, silk and hidesare an the
free list; also, that the entire produc-
tion of wool in the United States as
compared with the value of other
farming products’ is only 2 per cent :
also, that the prices on three fourths
of all agricultural products have always
been regulated by the European mar-
kets.“ : Po
If our manufacturers were able to
obtain their raw materials free, goods
which are now being daily imperted
would be made here, thereby giving
more work to our workingmen, more
business to our factories and cheaper
goods to everybody.
This question should be considered by
every citizen independent of party poli-
tics, as it directly interests all; but it has
been so misrepresented in the past for
party purposes that many of those who
would be most benefited have been in-
fluenced by the false cry of “Free Trade!’
to oppose it. Yours, very respectfully,
WiLLiam M. AYERS.
rem e—
Christian Endeavor.
Until we return to the more. rational
commercial policy of that period, the
through ‘tarifftclogged channels by
means of subsidies, will about equal in
result the attempt to foree a circula-
tion of the blood by means of a force
pump through veins and arteries con-
stricted by ligatares,
Congressman Kerr and Wife,
The Waye Earner's Journal,whose ed
itor recently spent a week in Washing:
ton, and knows whereof he speaks, has
the following high complement to pay
to Hon. Jas. Kerr, oar member of
Congress, and his esteemed lady :—
“Congressman Kerr has already won a name
at Washington, is bound to become a valuable
and estimable member of Congress, and a
credit and honor to his constituents. Resolu-
tions without number had been introduced
with a view of securing the money lost to hun.
dreds of members hy the absconding of Silcott,
but it was left for Mr. Kerr to prepare and in-
troduce a bill which is likely to reach the end
desired without making the new members
grabbers. In other matters, our Con-
gressman has shown an aptitude for business
hardly to be expected from a new member
We lock for Mr. Kerr to make a good record
Mrs. Kerr is very rapidly accommodatin
herself to the ways of society in Washington
and in doing so she proves herself of no little
aid to her husband. She is in the right diree-
tion, ambitious, given to hospitality, a fair con
versationalist, and a most charming hostess
Their house is in the fashionable part of the
city—223 East Capitol street—one of a row of a
dozen of most palatial brick buildings, the ma-
jority of which are occupied by members of
Congress of. more or less prominence. Mrs
Kerr’s receiving day is Monday, and her list
now numbers almost two hundred, and em-
braces many of the most desirable acquaint-
ances to be found in Washington. At her resi-
dence we had the pleasure of meeting Mrs
Kenna, said to be one of the handsomest ladies
in Washington, wife of the distinguished sena,
tor from West Virginia. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kerr
feel honored to have their friends in’ Pennsyl-
vania call to see them, especially Clearfield
and Philipsburg friends, and we certainly feel
like thanking them for the courtesy and con-
sideration shown us.”
When the great Christian Endeavor
Convention was held in Philadelphia
it was pessible that co great a body of
young people could be brought together;
6,500 of them out of all denominations
and from all the states,
‘Public interest in this matter was
again awakened by the large State Con-
vention held in Harrisburg last October,
where 500 delegates assembled, repre-
senting all the counties of this State.
Attention is again called to this move-
ment by the announcement that the
Philadelphia, Lehigh Valley, ‘Washing-
ton County and other Local Unions are
holding their January meetings. The
Christian Endeavor movement is an or-
ganized effort to enable the young peo-
ple in the churches to work in a system-
atic way. TItis assumed that all the
churches want their young people to
work, and that by united effort it is pos-
sible to adopt methods of work which
can be used in any young people's so-
ciety.
With this object in view, the first so-
The Recent Terrific Storm in Western cing was organized by Hev. 7. E,
Pennsylvania Clark, February 2, 1881, at Portland,
gay Maine. There are now more than 8,000
Wind, Snow, Hail and Ruin societies. The national organization is
Wreck
i the United Society. Of this any societ
Buildings and Cause Deaths. becomes a member by simply ay
: its organization to its State officers, who
report it to the Boston office. The of-
ficer, president, vice presidentand treas-
urer are elected at the annual conven-
PrrrsBurg, Feb. 7.—The worst storm
in years has been raging throughout
Western Pennsylvania since noon to-
day. Snow, hail, rain and wind have tion, which will be held this year in St.
been playing havoc. In this’ eity | Louis. The United Society sends out
snow has blockaded many of the streets | monthly quantities of literature which
and stopped traffic, while telegraph and | treats of “methods of work” and in-
telephone lines are breaking down un- | cludes the pledge and constitution. The
der the heavy weight of the ice with pledge is adopted by nearly all the so-
which they are coated. cieties in the same form, and the con-
In the mountains the storm is raging | stitution is altered to suit the circum-
with terrific fary, and reports are com- | stances of each society. i
ing in of serious damage to property. The Pennsylvania State Union has a
At Blairsville the large glass factory membership of 600 societies. Its officers
was demolished by the wind. The roof! are : President, Rev. J. T. Beckle,
was blown off and two side walls facing | D, D.; Secretary, J. Howard! Breed, of
east fell in. Charles KE. Barr, general Philadeiphia ; treasurer, John H. Small,
manager, and Mr. Burney, one of the Jr., of York, Pa. The State is divided
firm, were instantly killed,a and work- into sixty-seven districts . which have
man, whose name cannot | nearly the same!bounderies as the coun-
be learned, injured. Mr. Burney’s| ties, = All but four of these are under
body was immediately taken from the | the care of District Secretaries. All of
wreck. Mr. Barr's remains were re- | the Societies may send delegates to the
covered two hours later. National and State Conventions. |
At Uniontown, Fayette county, the| The District Secretary who visits or
roof was blown off the Methodist corresponds with the Societies in this
Episcopal Charch, a part of it lighting | County is Mr. Geo. C. Butz, M. S., of
on the house of John Brown, just north State College. He is prepared to cor-
of the church, crashing it to pieces. respond with any who wish to organize
Tiie roof of the large new building late- | a Christian Endeavor Society, and give
ly erected by the Pennsylvania Con- any information about the work to all
struction Company, below town, was | who ask for it. \ :
also ‘blown off. A horse and wagon,
driven by James Rush, was blown over
Gray’s Hill. The wagon is lying on
its back, with the wheels whirling in
the air. No one was seriously hurt.
Postmaster Baker's new house was
nearly dewolished, also James Frank- |
enberry’s house, and John N. Ringer's
house was leveled. The telephone and
electric light wires are all ‘down. None
of the coke works are running south of
Uniontown. The Red Coke Company’s
offices, at Brownfield, was blown down
and entirely demolished. The end was
blown out of the engine house at Leith
and the Warren Glass Works wrecked.
The roof of the Lutheran Church was
SINS ————)
Republicans Growing Uneasy.
Fears that Their New Code. of Rules
: May Prove a Boomerang.
WasHiNaToN, Feb. 7.—The republi-
cans in the House having caucused on
their rules and adopted them under the
lash of the party whip, are not altogether
easy in mind. They are not entirely
confident of being able to withstand the
assaults of the treasury raiders with all
the safeguards removed. One of the
republican members of the committee
on rules went to Mr. Carlisle yesterday
: and told him that if the Democrats
also blown off. ._'| wanted to strike from tt e new code the
At Connellsville the storm began In} rule giving the invalid pensions com-
the morning and did not subside until, mittee privilege to report or call up
late this evening. J. M. Herpeck’s | measures from their committee at any
store and house, in that place, was com- time, it could be easily done: If they
pletely wrecked, the inmates having a | would make the motion, enough repub-'
narrow escape from death. The Catholic
Church is'in a dangerous condition, and
a number of other houses in the town
are wrecked. i a jority more than it did the minority.
At Dunbar the Knights of Labor [Tg was, he said, a question of party
Hall was entirely blown away. : A] policy, approved in the republicau cau-
weport from Leisenring says all the jicus, and he thought that if they wanted
large shafts of the H. C. Frick Coke | the’ rule stricken out the motion should
Company are down. The snowfall is | come from the republican side. i
from six to ten inches in depth. A leading republican in the house,
who has been regarded as one of their
watch dogs, said to-day that he felt very
anxious on account of the prospects of a.
large footing up of appropriation
bills at the end of the session. “The
aggregate of * the reguiar approprations,
not to mention the many miscellaneous
items that will be put in.by the action
of the house during the session, will
be not léss than $500,000,000. What
| the miscellaneous items will amount to
no man knows.
EE I LAL TAS
What Republican Rule Means.
the rule out. Mr. Carlisle replied that
it was a rule which interested the ma-
——“Johnny, do you know what you
will eateh if you run away: from Sund ay
school and go fishing?” Johnny:
“Yes, sir, bullheads.”
——The theory that decay causes mi-
crobes makes it all the more urgent to
look after New York's rotten banks.
oe rere ———
A Sound Tariff Reform Platform.
Mr. Wm. M. Ayres, who kas con-
sented to be the nominee of the tariff |
reformers for Congress in the 4th Dis-
trict, Philadelphia, at a special election
on the 18th inst., has published the
following letter of'acceptance: = -
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10. 1890.—M.:
F. Wilhere, Chairman, aud others—
Gentlemen : Yours tendering me the
Congressional nomination for the Fourth
Congress district is received.
If I allow my private interests to in-
fluence me 1 would be tempted to de-
cline, but T feel it to be the duty of
every citizen. at -this.time to work for
the benefit of all by using his best efforts:
to bring about a reformation of the
tariff’ which will give us free raw mater-
ials, and I therefore accept the honor
of your nomination, and thank the
Albany Argus.
Republican rule in the nation or in
the State means intolerance and despot-
ism, in the light of the events now
occurring in ‘Washington and Albany.
It means that the Speaker of the House
of Representatives does not consider
himself bound by the traditions and
usages of that body, but constitutes him-
self an autocrat. It means that Demo-
crats who have been legally elected to
Congress can be unseated by the brute
force of an unconscionable majority
without due and impartial investigation
of their cases. It means that a Demo-
crat has no rights that a Republican
Speaker or a Republican majority should
respect ; that might is right, and fair
Convention for the confidence placed
in me. "| weakness...
play and Justice to an opponent mere
(+ i :
last July many persons wondered how-
licans would vote with them to strike |’
Death of the Man Who Ran the Firey
Locomotive in america.
1 Dee een bo
: Horatio Allen, who died ab. his home
in South Orange, New Jersey, recently,
was the first man who eyer ran a_lggo-
‘motive on!this continen*. Tr the vear
1827 Allen was appointed as-an assistant
to John B. Jervis, Chief Engineer of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal, and show-
ed such'a tuct for railroad and eéniineer-
ing enterprise that he was, during the
latter part of 1827, commissioned ‘ by
Chief: Engineer Jervis to go to England
for the purpose ; of purchasing the ne-
cessary iron and chains or the construc-
tion of a railroad between Honesdale
and Carbondale, Pa., a distance of some
fifteen or twenty miles. He was also
instructed to arrange for three locomo-
tives.
On his arrival in England he’ sought
out Stephenson, before whom he laid
his plans for the construction of the
three locemotives, but as Stephenson
| was very busy at the time he refused the
| order. Allen, not discouraged at this
refusal, next called on Foster, Roswick
& Co., of Stourbridge, England, who
"finally agreed to construct the locomo-
tives. Allen remained with this firm,
studying the construction and workings
of the different parts of the engines, un-
| til the fall 1828, when he returned to
| America. The first of the three loco-
motives was shipped from England in
April, 1829, and arrived in New York
the following May. It was one of what
was called the “Grasshopper” make,
and was christened the “Stourbridge
Lion,” from the fact of its having had
painted in red on the front of its
boiler a fierce lion’s head.
Soon after its arrival it was set up at
the West Point Foundry, at the foot of
| Beech street, New York, its body resting
on blocks, so as to enable the directors
of the company to witness its workings.
| The locomotive and tender were both
four-wheeled, with ‘spokes: and felloes
of wood and iron tires and wheel centres.
The locomotive was without a cab,
cylinders upright, and a walking-beam
on each side applied the motive power
to the wheels. It was not until the
following summer that the ‘‘Stour-
bridge Lion” was removed from New
York. The delay in forwarding it to
Honesdale,. Pa., where it was destined,
was occasioned by the canal not being
opened. On its arrival at Honesdale
it was placed on the newly constructed
tracks, alongside the canal, and pre-
parations for its initial trip were made
under the direction of Mr. Allen.
On the 8th day of August, 1829,
at Honesdale, the trial trip was made,
commanded by Horatio Allen himself.
The event very naturally caused the
assemblage of a large and curious
crowd which came from within a ra-
dius ot forty or fifty miles to witness
the interesting spectacle. It is said
that an old Queen Anne cannon was
brought all the way from New York
to Honesdale to boom forth its ap-
plause in honor of the greatoccurrence.
The people predicted that Allen’s effort
‘to successfully operate this engine would
prove futile, most likely by the break-
ing down of the track, therail of which
was laid on a continuous {restle of
bemlock timber. In fact, few of those
present had an inclination to trust
their lives on the Lion. :
Mr. Allen, non-apprehensive of dan-
ger, jumped and took his position on the
locomotive, at the same time declaring
that if there was any danger he was
ready to meet it. Pulling the throttle-
valve open and running a few times
slowly backward and forward, and
sending a cheering = good-by to the
crowd, he dashed swiftly away over
the swaying trestle and around the
dangerous curve, thus setting in motion
the first locomotive engine that ever turn-
ed a wheel in the Western Hemisphere.
The track over which the engine
ran was of scrap iron, spiked next the
inner edge to large hemlock sleepers.
At the time of the trial trip of the
locomotive the timbers and the ties, al-
though having been securely connected,
had become warped, and it was mar-
vellous that the engine remained on the
track. The railroad crossed the Lacka-
wanna river over a trestle. As the loco-
motive passed over the road its weight
firmly pressed everything ‘underneath
down to its place on the roadbed. Mr.
Allen, after ' running the “Lion” a
sufficient distance to enable him to re-
cognize its merits, reversed the engine
and returned to its starting-place at
Honesdale, amid the applause of hun-
dreds of sightseers, withoutencountering
an accident of any kind. Allen was
engineer, fireman, conductor, baggage-
master,brakeman and passenger. Allen
was at one time President of the Novel-
ty Works, of New York, and at the
time of his death was in his ninetieth
year.
An Unreasonable Expectation.
Tue Rev. Dr. J. Henry Smyth, the
editor of the Sunshine for Little Folks,
a Philadelphia publication, is now
traveling in the South and a few days
‘ago at Atlanta, speaking of race co-
education, he expressed himself in this
way: “I am satisfied that this co-
education of races in the South is a
humbug. There is no need for it, and
it is impracticable. We can’t expect
white people South to do what we
won’t do up North. Negroes are not
allowed in Norther. hotels nor in
Northern houses. I agree with Mr.
Grady and that class of Southrons who
commend intellectual and financial im-
provement for the negro, and are will-
ing to help inthat improvement, but
who resent this political hypocrisy about
social equality and amalgamation, I
am Southern on that question.” Mr.
Smyth's views will not, of course, meet
with the approval of the bloody shirt
organs ; nevertheless he speaks the
truth when he says “we can’t reason-
ably expect white pecple South to do
what we won’t do up North.”
A Burglar's Heavy Sentence.
SuNBURY, Feb. 7.—Eli Bowser, of
Milton, charged with robbing the home
of Charles Dickerman, chairman of
the Northumberland County Democratic
Committee, on last "Christmas, was
yesterday sentenced by Judge Rocke-
feller to undergo a sentence of ten
years in the Hastern penitentiary, to pay
a fine, of $10, the cost of prosecution,
‘and return all available gaods stolen.
This is the heaviest sentence ever given
[ by Judge Rockefeller for this kind of
crime.
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