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Bellefonte, Pa., April Ii, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebiror.
Democratic Victories.
In the municipal elections in Ohio
on Monday the Democrats made great
gains, the returns in some sections
looking like a clean sweep. The result
in the northwestern part of the State
was particularly gratifying and signifi-
cant, where the Republicans were
signally defeated in their object
to gain a victory so that they might
claim it as a rebuke to the Democratic
redistricting of the State and the elec-
tion of Brice to the United States
Senate. These municipal victories
may be justly regarded as an endorse-
ment of Gov. Campbell's administra-
tion and a substantial triumph for the
Democracy.
Threatening Revolt.
There are manifestations of revolt in
the Republican ranks in this State
which call to mind the discontent with
the machine management that ended in
the rebellion of 1882 and the defeat of
BeavER. At a public meeting in Brad-
ford last Saturday, in which ex-Sena-
tors Lee and Emery participated,
warning was given of opposition to
DeraMarer if he were nominated.
Specific charges were made of the pub-
lic offenses he had committed, which
would absolve honest Republicans
from supporting him as a candidate for
Governor.
But the chief ground of objection to
him doubtless consists in his being the
choice of the party dictator whose un-
savory repulation is beginning to turn
the stomachs of the more squeamish
members of the party. The revolt of
1882 was directed against the arbitrary
character of the Cameron rule, but that
domination, objectionable as it was,
didn’t involve the degradation and dis-
grace that are inseparably associated
with the rule of Quay. -
ETE TR CRNA
Enormous Impudence.
Speaking of the job which the Re-
publican managers have undertaken to
increase their party strength by the
premature admission of Territories into
the Union as States, without the con-
stitutional qualifications for statehood,
the New York Sun condemns the‘“‘enor-
mous impudence ” of the scheme. It
certainly deserves condemnation, bath
for its impudence and its injurious ten-
dency, but when it 1s considered that
this outrageous business would not be
practicable without the assistance of
the Republican official who occupies
the Presidency, and that the Sun by its
treachery to the Democratic party and
its Presidential candidate did all it
could 'in helping to put that official into
the positionthat enables him to assist
this bad business, it is difficult to de-
termine whether the impudence of + the
Sun in condemning the scheme, or of
the Republican managers in working
it, is the more enormous. :
—c——
~——The revolt in the Republican
ranks against the absolute rule of Boss
Quay, is beginning to assume a definite
form. The recent speeches of Ex-Sen-
ators Lee and Ewery were the first
audible sounds’ of opposition. Since
then there are indications of this hos-
tility being crystalized under the
direction of MeGrr and Divzeii by
uniting on General OsporNE as the
anti-Quay candidate for Governor.
REA A AE RS A—
There are conflicting reports :n-
regard to the health of Hox. SAMUEL
J. RaNpary, some of them represent
ing him to be at the pointof death, and
others that he has railied enough to be
out of immediate danger of dying.
‘We hope that the latter is correct.
rr —
The Harmful Effects of Republican
Tariff Agitation.
Speaking of the charge made by the
Republican orators and organs, when the
Mills bill was under consideration, that
he agitation was wantonly and mischiev- |
ously disturbing the great manufactu-
ring industries of the country when quiet
was necessary for their prosperity, the
Philadelphia Record makes the follow-
forcible and pertinent remarks :
The reproach which was made then
against the Damocratic party,in all forms
of partisan exaggeration, may now be
brought against the Republicans in
Congress with the most complete justice.
For eighteen years the great tanning and |
leather manufacturing industries of the
country, employing many thousands of
men and many millions of capital, re-
psd in the confident belief that their |
usiness would be no further disturbed
by tariff legislation. In the enjoyment
td
So with the great carpet industries.
The carpet manufacturers have not ask-
ed for an increase of the present duties,
under which but a small quantity of
foreign carpets have been imported.
Although the duty to their raw material
is extremely burdensome, many of them
have been willing to bear it rather than
that the ordinary course of business
should become deranged. But tbe car-
pet manufacturers have been arous-
ed from their repose by a threatened in-
crease of forty per cent. in the duty on
their raw material. Upon the indus-
tries that have been created for canning
meats, fruits and vegetables is to be in-
flicted the penalty of a double duty on
tinplate for the purpose of calling into
being a manufacturing monopoly. In
order to silence clamor against oppres-
sion in one direction a bait is
offered to greed in another; and to this
end the silk schedule to be completely
deranged, although the great body of
silk manufacturers are content with the
existing rates. In addition to the in-
creased duties on wool, it is proposed
that the rates on chemicals and dyestuffs
shall be raised or changed, to the furth-
er embarrassment of textile industries.
Specific duties are to be changed to ad
valorem, and ad valorem to specific, and
in many instances it is proposed that
hoth shall be compounded; which would
cause inextricable confusion and innu-
merable lawsuits.
If all this be not wanton disturbance
of industry and trade, what else is it?
Tt is hardly possible that such a mon-
strosity should become a law. Should
it be passed, hdwever, in spite of the tre-
mendous opposition it has encountered
in New England and elsewhere, it
would give an impetus to such an ag-
itation tir Tariff Reform as the country
has never yet witnessed. And whether
passed or not, the Republican party
must be held responsible for the malic-
nant and wanton attack which is made
upon numerous and important Ameri-
can industries by the McKinley Tariff
bill.
The Growth of Millionaires.
New York Sun.
The fortune left by the late David
Dows is estimated at twenty millions,
and probably the guess is more nearly
correct than is usually the case with
such estimates. The amount is the
same as that leit by John Jacob Astor,
the founder of the great Astor estate,
who died in 1848.
Forty-two years azo an estate of twen-
ty millions attracted attention through-
out the world because of its magnitude
and Mr. Astor died by far the richest
man in Airerica. But the fortune of
Mr. Dows is now one among many of
equal size, and, instead of ranking
among the greatest, 1tdoes not hold even
asecondary place. Big as it is, it is not
big enough to give much of a stir to the
popular imagination in these days. A
fortune must be at least five times as
great to provoke surprise at a time when
estates known to the public are increas-
ing at the rate of ten millions annually.
Mr. Pierpont Morgan, associated with
Mr. Dows in the vestry of St. George's,
is reputed to be worth more than twenty
millions; and there are more than a
dozen, if not a score, of fortunes in New
York reasonably estimated to be of that
amount. Probably the Astor estate is
ten times as much. Then come the
Vanderbilt estate, Mr. Jay Gould’s and
Mr. John D. Rockefeller’s, each of one
hundred millions or more. In the third
rank are such fortunes as those of the
Moses Taylor family, Mr. Russell Sage,
the Goelets, Mr. H. M. Flagler, Mr. D.
0. Mills, Mr. C. P. Huntington, and
others, estimated at from thirty millions
to fifty millions. The twenty-millicn
fortunes drop into the fourth or fifth
place only ; and there are many more
of them than there were possessors of a
single million in the days when the
thought of the first Astor’s wealth took
men’s bresth away, or at any time be-
fore the civil war. The mere million-
aire, or the owner of a single million on-
ly, has become so esmnmon that the term
is now made to apply to none except a
ten millionaire.
Ten millions is the amount fixed by
the late William H. Vanderbilt as a
reasonable competence for any body.
Ten millions is all a man needs, he used
to say. ‘What goes beyond is mere sur-
plusage. Yet, as we have said, there
are single estates in New York which
are accumulating at the rate of ten mil-
lions a year, and their possessors do not
seem to be satisfied yet. The Astor es-
ate must be increasing at something like
that rate, and Mr. John D. Rockefeller
is reputed to be laying by as much an-
nually. The average expenses of all the
possessors of the great fortunes we have
named are a very small part of their in-
come, so that the accumulation gees on
little affected by them. Most of these
men, too, are comparatively young, and
if they live to the seventy-six years of
Mr. Dows, with the ratio of increase un-
diminished, the fortunes of the next een-
tury will make those of our day seem
as small as Mr. Astor’s twenty millions
in 1848 seems to us now. Meantime
the estates of five millions and ten mil-
lions are also increasing rapidly, very
few of their possessors expending more
‘| than a fifth or even a tenth part of their
incomes.
Killed by Tramps.
Lima, O., April 7.—Conduetor Tuck-
er had a desperate fight with trampsen |
his train yesterday and was fatally
shot by one of them. His freight on
the Fort Wayne road was moving upon
a side track, about half a mile from
the city, when six tramps climbed into a
box car. Conductor Tucker saw them
and ordered them to get out. They
refused and when he entered the car to
eject them they fired a pistol at him.
The shot missed, however, and Tucker
of a large export trade, affording a sure |
i when another placed a revolver at the
market for their surplus products, they
sought no inerease of protectior. They
asked only to be let alone.
midst of their prosperity these industries
Bat in the!
have been startled by the proposition in |
the McKinley bill toimpose a duty on
their raw materials, thus threatening
their domestic and foreign trade with
confusion and disaster,
grappled with the gang, but was finally
himself thrown out ot the car,
The tramps then jumped out of the
door on
Tucker climbed over the train and as he
alighted on the opposite side one of the
gang produced a revolver which Tuck-
er wrenched out of his hand. Two
others then caught hold of his arms,
conductor’s left side and fired, fatally
wounding him.
were arrested.
———Teacher—“Now, my children, !
we will parse the sentence, John refused
the pie.”” Tommy Jones, what is
John?” Tommy~-“A darned fool.”
the north side of the car. | 7. ;
| tor Allen G. Thurman is quite seriously |
Four of the tramps |
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To Scalp Delamater.
Independents Are Ready to Go into the
Fight.
Philadelphia Record of Monday.
Should the Quay programme be car-
ried out and Senator Delamater be
nominated for Governor by the Republi-
can State Convention, there will cer-
tainly be an organized Independent Re-
publican revolt, and it 1s not unlikely
that the scenes of 1882 will be repeated.
The Independents have been watching
came apparent several months ago that
on the ticket by political tricRery, they
began preparations to meet the issue
and compass his defeat.
tained that vigorous support will be
given to an organization which will
seek to defeat the election of Mr. Dela-
mater if nominated.
with a record that is acceptable to the
Independents should be nominated the
the Democratic ticket.
probably be put in the field.
as Wharton Barker, in this city;
and ex-Senators Emery and Lee, in the
with the movement,
DELAMATER AND WALLACE
SAME BOAT.
Speaking of the situation yesterday,
Mr. Wharton Barker said:
Quay shall succeed in nominating Mr.
Delamater for Governor the Independ-
ents will support the Democratic can-
didate if he should be an acceptable
E. Pattison, ex-Congressman Morti-
mer J. Elliott, or Colonel Charles H.
Banes would be satisfactory to us. But
should ex-Senator Wallace or ex-Lieu-
tenant Governor Black be nominated
we would be obliged to let the campaign
go by default. Delamater would be as
acceptable to the Independents as Wal-
lace. It can hardly be supposed that
Mr. Wallace’s candidacy would do
anything more for the Democratic party
or the people of the Commonwealth
than to give Mr. Quay’s operations an
increased chance of escaping defeat.
He has neither record nor qualities
suited to the present situation.
BELIEVES QUAY WILL BE OVERTHROWN.
“I believe that the Independent Re-
publicans of Pennsylvania
ready for revolt than they were in 1882,
and that the overthrow of Quay and the
Quay machine is sure, should either
of the three Democrats I have ramed
as acceptable to us be nominated.”
Mr. Barker speaks for an influential
following ir this particular, as he will
be able to effect a well-equipped or-
ganization around which the anu-Quay
Republicans can rally with some hopes
of seeing their efforts being well direct-
ed.
THE ATTACK ON DELAMATER.
Ex-Senator Emery’s speech at Brad-
ford last week is considered as sounding
the warning note to Republicans, and
gives the reasons on which the fight
is to be made against Senator Delama-
ter. Briefly, they are that his nomina-
tion is being forced by the Quay
machine against the wish of the mass of
Republican voters, and that the senti-
ment for his rivals is being smothered,
In addition to this the Senator’s record
is attacked. ‘His votes against the
Billingsley bill ard Granger Tax bill
were against the wishes of independent oil
producers and he is accused of having
secured his election to the Senate in 1886
by bribery. These charges KEx-Sena-
tor Emery declares are made without
fear of contradiction.
QUAY IS FEELING THE PULSE.
Meantime Senator Quay is at his
home in Beaver, ani is conferring with
his lieutenants in Pittsburg and West-
ern Pennsylvania. He will return to
Philadelphia in a few days for a further
conference with Mayor Fitler on the
political situation. The Mayor is still
for General Hastings.
Where the Money Went.
Moore & Sinnott, distillers and whole-
sale liquor dealers of Philadelphia, have
brouglt suit against the Brewers’ Asso-
ciation for $22,800 which they advanced
in the fight against Prohibition in the
amendment election, which the Brew-
ers were to make good, but which they
failed to do. =
There is an interesting story back of
the suit, which may all come out on the
witness stand if the case shall come to
trial. It has been partly told by a per-
son who was associated with the brewers
during the campaign: -
“Back in the Presidential campaign of
1888,” said he, “the brewers’ pool was on
a sound basis, They had organized for
the purpose of fighting the Prohibition
amendment, and they had $50,000 in
their treasury. The submission amend-
ment had passed the session of the Legis-
lature in 1887, and as the Republican
party wascommitted to it they knew it
wonld also pass the sessicn of 1889. Quay
was in charge of the National Repub-
lican Committee, and it occurred to
: some of the leading men in the brewers’
pool that if they made a contribution to
the Harrison campaign fund they would
would go a long way toward defeating
mitted to the people.
gave Quay $45,000 to be expended for
Harrison, but they subsequentiy learned
to their sorrow that, so far as they were
concerned, it was money thrown away.
The brewers wanted the liquor dealers to
ed to do so.
Allen G. Thurman 111.
CorLuMrus, O., April 7.—Ex-Scna-
{ill at his home here.
The unusally
| damp winter has
greatly ageravated
| his rheumatic troubles, and he is in a!
He has been!
| very feeble condition.
confined to his bed for several days, and
| because of his age his family are some-
! what anxious as to the outcome.
—— Parish is very much in love
with that girl”? “Why doesn’t he
marry her?” “He has his misgivings
as to whether she is able to support
him.”
the course of events, and when it be-
Senator Delamater was to be forced up-
Independents all over the State have
been sounded, and it has heen ascer- |
If a Democrat
latter will hew to the line and support |
But if the latter |
is acceptable an Independent ticket will |
Such man !
Thomas W. Phillips, of New Castle, !
interior of the State, will be identified |
IN THE:
“IC Mr
man. Such aman as ex-Governor Robert |
are more |
secure the friendship of Quay, and that !
the amendment when it should be sub- |
They accordingly |
make a contribution but the latter refus- |
He Shocked Harrison.
Secretary Noble Gives an Easter Sun-
day Breakfast.
Washington, D. C., April 6.—Secre-
tary Noble astonished Washington to-
day by giving a formal breakfast to a
number of guests, chiefly Senators and
their wives, Senator Sherman being the
. most prominent. General Schofield was
the second guest in point of distinction.
Neither the President nor any member
of the Cabinet responded to {he invita-
tion, and the President and Postmas-
ter General Wanamaker are said to have
been shocked by it.
Lt is unprecedented in official circles,
although in the faster society set Sun-
day entertainments have of late years
become common. As it is calculated
to shocked the sensibilities of religous
people throughout the country, it may
havesome political significance ultimate-
ly. While his Secretary of the In-
terior was breaksfasting his guests, the
| President was attending service at the
! Church of the Covenant. He contribu-
ted all the flowers which were used to
decorate that church to-day.
Scarcity of Lumber,
It is predicted that there will be a
great scarcity of pine and hemlock lum-
ber and timber from northwestern
Pennsylvania counties the coming sum-
{ mer. Mr. Keppler, a prominent For-
est county lumberman, declares that the
quantity shipped from the Forest and
Clarion regions will not be more than
one-quarter as large as last vear. He
gave the following explanation of the
shortage :
“During the past winter there has
| been no snow to speak of. If we ware
working in the forests of the south this
| would make little difference, as, never
| expecting it, tramways would be built
i into the hearts of the camps. As it is,
| the only preparation we make in the
| forests to get the timber to market, is to
| clear out our road sand wait for the snow,
we have been very much handicapped.
Most of the timber shipped was cut near
{ the banks of the creeks.
“Another fact of interest is that sawed
| lumber from mills on the creeks of the
| pine and hemlock counties will be even
| scarcer next year than this. As we
could not get logs to the creek beds be-
cause of lack of snow, the spring floods
will come and pass without bringing
logs to the saw mills. We very rarely
have any floods after the first of May,
and of course it is highly improbable
that there will be any snow betwean
now and then to assist in transporting
timber to the mills.”
The Coming Census.
The count of people in the United
States will be wade on a certain day in
midsummer, probably late in June, and
experts are already giving some ingeni-
ous estimates of the result. They vary
from 64,000,000 to 68.000,000. One part
of the latter estimate is of great interest.
It is as follows: Since 1880 the number
| of immigrants in any one year: has only
twice fallen below 400,000, and that but
a trifle, while it has risen as hich as
788,992 in 1882. The registered immi-
gration for the ten years is certainly
above 5,000,000. Add the unregistered
from Canada and elsewhere, and the
total cannot fall below 5,500,000, of
whom at least 3,000,000 were between
the ages of 10 and 49.
Of so many at the marrying ages (for
a child of 10in 1881 is now aged 19)
theregmust have been at least, 1,000°000
marriages, averaging five years duration
each ; and previous censuses show that
of such newly formed families of for-
eigners the average is two children each
livingat the end of five years. Add,
therefore, 2,000,000 for the native child-
ren of newly arrived foreigners. Total
7,500.000 addd by foreigners alone.
Deducting their deaths—and the great
mass of them come in the prime of life
and health—the total wuld still remain
above 6,000,000. It is assumed that the
increase of the 50,000.000 and odd of
1880 has been at least 22 per cent.,
while some put it as high as 25 per cent.
Thus they make the total 67,000,000 or
63,000,000. It will be interesting to see
how the facts decide.
The Reconstructed South.
Eminent Southern Statesmen. to Pub-
lish Important Historical Data.
‘WasuINGgroN, D. C.,, April 6.—Re-
presentatives Herbert, of Alabama;
Hemphill, of South Carolina; Turner,
of Georgia ; Stewart, of Texas ; Wilson,
of West Virginia; ex-Representative
Barksdale, of Mississippi; Senators
Vance, of North Carolina; Pascoe, of
Florida ; Vest, of Missouri, and Messrs.
W. M. Fishback, of Arkansas; Ira P.
Jones, of Tennessee ; O. 8. Long, of
West Virginia, and B. J. Sage, of Louis-
iana, bave collectively written, and will
soon publish, a book entitled “Why the
Solid South ; or, Reconstruction and its
Results.” It undertakes to narrate,
fairly and dispassionately, in concise and
popular form, the history of the recon-
structed governments in each State,
showing how the Republicans obtained
control and how they lost it; the figures
{and facts as to the shrinkage of values
and increase of debt and taxation under
the Southern State Governments, and
the prosperity of the South under present
auspices.
The book speaks of Abraham Lin-
! coln’s death as an appalling calamity to
the South ; argues that Andrew John-
"son followed strictly Lincoln’s plan of
restoration,and contends that if Lincoln
had lived he would have been able to
defend that plan against the assaults of
Congress. Each chapter is signed by
| its author, who thus becomes directly
responsible forthe truth of his statements,
‘and the claim of the book in 1ts preface
| (written by General Herbert, its editor)
!is that in all the chapters the facts are
understated rather than overstated.
The race question and race troubles
| are extensively discussed ; the statement
made that there is no intention to agi-
tate for the repeal of the Fifteenth
amendment or the deportation of the
negro ; educational and material facts of
many kinds are given in support of the
contention that the negro is prospering,
and that the South is solving for itself
the negro question.
The book is dedicated to the business
men of the North, with a statement that
they are interested in continuing the
paosperity of the South. :
3m
The Gloomy Condition of Russia.
The news from Russia by way of
London is of a peculiarly gloomy charac-
ter. Harold Krederic cables the New
York Times that “an indescribable reign
of terror is spreading itself like a black
fog over St. Petersburg. All the local
prisons are so crowded with the arrested
students that in promptu places of de-
tention are being provided, and half the
people one meets on the street are oug
striving to seeure influence to aid the
release of some son or brother who is
imprisoned. Many ot these are young
men who belong to prominent families ;
some are nobles, and the most cruel
forebodings are caused by an under-
standing that some kind of nihilist
plot has been discovered which the
authorities mix up in their minds with
the students’ demonstration. Az for
the emperor, it is said that he “is
nearly fit to die, what with bis state
of rage, terror and genwine dismay
at the titanic muddle he has got things
into.” His illness is ascribed publicly to
a recurrence of la grippe, from which he
suffered a good deal during the winter,
but there is a great number of reports
furtively spread about his having been
poisoned and others profess to know that
his nerves and mental balance have
completely collapsed under the strain.
“It is added that there io very little
personal sympathy with him; he has
been given a dozen years of trial
during which he has ignominiously
failed to accomplish anything for the
welfare of his country. His policy of
repression has failed and nothing re-
mains for him but to fly or meet his
fate at the hands of the nihiiists.
Whether anything better will follow
the downfall of the one man power is
doubtful. If what has recently been
written about the deep seated and ap-
parently incurable moral depravity of
the Russian people, high and low, be
half true, Russia does not seem to
have any future before her. Tt would
appear impossible to make a strong,
united, happy and free people out of
a mass of human rottenness such as con
stitutes the Russian nation. And yet
she has sons and daughters who possess
the martyr spirit and this may be the
leaven that will save her.
a a
Wallace Will Accept.
Desiring to ascertain the exact posi-
tion of ex-Senator Wallace, in relation
to the Governorship, Edward Harvey,
of Allentown, wrote him a letter in
which, for the benefit and information
of the party, he asked for an explicit
declaration of Mr. Wallace’s intentions
and desires. To which the latter made
answer as follows:
© CLeArrIELD, March 81, 1890.
Edward Harvey, Allentown, Pa.,
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your
letterof the 29th instant and I thank you
forits kind terms and its frankness. 1 re-
cognize your right as a personal and po-
litical friend to a direct answer to the
question you propound.
I am not a noisy or aggressive candi-
date for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Pennsylvania, for I appreci-’
ate the dignity of the place and the
labors and the risks that a nomination
involves. Still, I would be proud to
lead a united and harmonious party
in a struggle for good government,
for progressive reform and for politi-
cal supremacy in our good old State.
If therefore the Democratic State Con-
vention shall, with any reasonable de-
gree of unanimity, nominate me as its
candidate for Governor upon such a
platform of principles, I will accept the
nomination and try to be elected. Very
truly yours,
WiLniaym A. WALL ACE.
Important to Farm Tax Payers.
The Commissioners of Erie county
have decided to test the constitutionality
of the new law regulating the election
of tax collectors and their duties. The
case in point is the refusal to issue a
duplicate to the tax collector of Girard
township. Tt is alleged that the law
discriminates against the farmers who
do not realize the profits on their crops
until late in the year, as by payirg at
an early day there is a rebate of five per
cent; those whozettlelater have to pay the
full amount, and those unable to pay
before the eleventh hour have a penalty
imposed upon them. This, it 1s repre-
sented, unnecessarily increases clerical
work in the commissioners’office, besides
operating to the disadvantage of the
men who do not always have cash
availiable. The Erie Dispatch, in its
statement as given above, adds that the
proceedings begun in court by the
ignored collector will determine the
legality of the law authorizing the
alleged unfairness complained of by the
country people. The outcome will be
watched with interest, as every county
in thestete is in the same situation as
Erie.
ie ———
The Strength of the Republican Can-
didates.
The full Republican State Convention
will consist of 204 delegates, of which
over sixty hava already been elected.
Hastings has Clearfield and Centre
counties, with two delegates in each in-
structed for him, while the delegates
from Juniata, Carbon, Mifflin and
Snyder are known to be for him, mak-
ing eight altogether. Delamater has
mstrueted for him the two delegates in
Cambria, the three in Crawford and the
fourin Lackawanna, to which may be
added those elected by County Commit-
tees in Fulton and Elk contrary to the
party rules, making eleven altogether.
Stone has the two from Northumber-
land and the delegate from Montour,
making a total of three, while Lieuten-
ant Governor Davis has the three from
Bradford county instructed for him.
The remainder of the delegates, a large
portion of whom where elected nearly a
vear ago, are absolutely without instruc-
tions or pledges. It is among these
that Quay will exert his influence and
nominate the candidate of his choice.
——“Woman, we are taught,’ said
the preacher, ‘“was, in the beginning,
formed from a rib of man.” “Yes,”
masingly assented Hisnobbs, who sat
in one of rear pews, “and, metaphorical-
ly speaking, she has been more or less a
bone of contention among men ever
since.”’—Detroit Free Press.
CY IA TTS
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——This is Arbor Day. Don't forget
to plant a tree.
——Mr. and Mrs. James McGilles , of
Snow Shoe, were visiting friends in
Bellefonte on Wednesday.
—J. B. G. Kinsloe, editor of the
Lock Haven Republican, celebrated the
70th anniversary of his birth last Sat-
urday.
The graduating class of the Belle-
fonte high school intend to have Belva
Lockwood lecture in this place on the
29th of April.
Mr. Walter Graham, formerly
chemist at the Collins furnace, and liv-
ing in the South, is to be married this
week to Miss Baker, of Philadelphia, a
lady whom he first met in Bellefonte.
——There appeared to be a larger at-
tendance of people in Bellefonte on
Wednesday than gathered hereon the
occasion of Hopkin’s execution. Among
them was a good many newspaper men
from a distance.
——Ex-Recorder Tobias, who since
his retirement from office has been tak-
ing things easy down at Millheim, has
been in town a few days shaking hands
with old friends. He reports the Dem-
ocracy of the lower end to be in good
spirits and determined to poll a straight
and full vote at the next election.
——The W. C. T. U. of Bellefonte
acknowledge the generous donation of a
complete set of Dickens’ Works from
Mr. J. Wesley Gephart, and a hand -
some case of George Elliotts’ Works—,
with a yearly subscription of the Ladies’
Home Journal, from Mr. Edward
Rhoads, Their kindness is fully appreci-
ated.
——On Friday evening, the 18th inst.,
Prof. I. Thornton Osmond, of State
College, will deliver in the Presbyterian
church at Buffalo Run a lecture the sub-
ject of which will be “From Rome to
Paris.” Ifa company of from 75 to a
100 can be raised in Belletonte to attend
the lecture a special train will be run on
1 the Buffalo Run railroad at an excursion
price of 20 cents,
The Lock Haven Democrat,
speaking of a recent appearance of Re- .
publican county committee chairman,
L. I. Brown, of this place, in that place,
remarked : “Mr. Brown has but recent-
ly recovered from a severe case of the
mumps and the disease thinned him
down a little. Nevertheless he looks
very well indeed, and as though he
would be able to survive another Re-
publicau defeat in thai county.”
—— While Frank Flanagan, a former
resident of Philipsburg, with three oth-
er young men, were crossing Belsena
dam, on Clearfield creek, Wednesday
evening of last week, the boat became
unmanageable and was upset. Mr.
Flanagan was thrown under the boat,
and in that manner dragged over the
breast of the dam. The others escaped.
‘The body of the victim was found at 6
o'clock a half mile down the creek, a
deep cut on his head showing that he
had received a wound nearly sufficient to
have caused death without the aid of
the water.
Bellefonte is one of the twenty-
five Pennsylvania towns that get the
free delivery postal system, the qualifi-
cations being a population of 5000 and
a gross postal revenue of $7000 or more
per annum. The other towns are Bris-
tol, Butler, Carbondale, Columbia,
Franklin, Greensburg, Mahanoy City,
Oil City, Pheenixville,Plymouth, Potts-
town, Shamokin, Sharon, South Bethle-
hem, Sunbury, Towanda, Tyrone, Un-
iontown, West Grove, Dunmore, Ash-
land and Tamaqua. Others may be add-
ed by the increase of revenue shown at
the end of the fiscal year.
——A very quiet and unostentatious but.
pretty and sensible wedding was cele-
brated in this place on Tuesday morning
last. The groom was A. G. Paine, Jr.,
of New York, son of Mr. A. G. Paine,
known as one of the largest pa per pulp
manufacturers in the country, and a
very wealthy and prominent business
man of that city. The bride was Miss
Maud Eustice Potts, eldest daughter
of our esteemed townsman, Mr. Geo C..
Potts, at whose residence the ceremony.
was performed. There was neither fuss,
frippery nor attempt at display about
the matter. Early in the morning, in
the presence of members only of the
immediate families of the bride and
groom, the Rev. Davis, rector of St.
John’s Episcopal church, read the mar-
riage service, uniting the two, and af-
ter congratulations and a pleasant
breakfast, the young couple started on a
bridal tour which will take in Montreal
the Thousand Islandsand other points of
interest along the St Lawrence. They
have the earnest wishes of the Warcnh-
MAN that their future may be bright
and happy.
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