Terms 82.00 A| Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., June I3, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, Eprrcn
ES
——There is a rumor that M. S,
Quay will attend the Republican State
Convention as a delegate substituted
for Sau Mooby, one of the Beaver
county delegates. It may be that the
Boss sees in the situation an .emergen-
cy that will require his personal at-
tendance at the Convention.
——Governor TAYLOR, of Tennessee,
says that the entire. South wants Mr.
CLEVELAND to have another chance for
the Presidency, and that if it were left
to the Democrats of that section they
would renominate him. unanimously.
GROVER certainly has a great hold on
the confidence and favor of the people,
not only of the South but of ail parts of
the eountry.. It is the result of his be-
ing an honest Man.
——A meeting of 2000 farmers was
held at Tuscola, I1l., on the 4th inst,
for a free discussion of the tariff ques-
tion, which ‘ended in a denunciation of
the McKinley bill as a measure
rious to the welfare of the agrienltural
people. The sham of offering protec-
tion to productions of which the farm-
ers raise more than enough to sup-
ply the home market, is too transpa-
rent to humbug the Illinois grangers.
inju-
——Prince’ Bismarcr, who but a
short time ago was ia the lead of the
political swim in Germany, is now
the great German sorehead. He is
giving such free ventilation to his
grievances that notice has been served
on him by those who have put him out
of office that he is “talking too much
with his mouth.” To any one enjoying
the coufidence of the old Prince it
must be entertaining to liear him roll
out against ‘the administration” those
vigorous expletives which make Ger:
man swearing so forcible and expres-
sive.
Boss Quay's dictatorship was
strong enough in the wuorthwestern
part of the state to compel the throw-
ing overboard of congressman Cur-
BERTSON in the Crawford-Erie districts
and the nomination of Marranzw Gris-
wolLp, of Erie, in his place, and also the
renomination of chairman AXDrEWS
for the State Senate in Crawford coun -
ty; but when election day comes around
the farmers of the district are going to
try their strength against the dicta
torial power of the Boss. The sturdy
granger is humping his back in oppo-
sition to bess rule all over the State.
McKinley tariff bill would run against
a snag in the Senate are finding them.
selves mistaken. At first it looked as
if the members of that body would
hesitate about rushing it through with-
out giving such a measure the consider-
ation its importance demanded. But
the Finance Committee is progressing
with it as rapidly as the most anxious
tariff beneficiary could desire. It is
evident that the Senate is just as
ready as the House to pay the party
obligation to the fellows who furnish-
ed the fat which was of such great as-
sistance in the last Presidential cam-
paign, and more of which will be need
ed in the campaigns that are to come.
——Never was the smuggling busi-
ness in such a flourishing condition as
it is at the present time. At all the
Atlantic ports goods of great value are
being surreptitiously brought in trom
abroad in spite of the utmost vigilance
of the custom house officers, and all
along the borders illicit importation is
on the increase. The high duties make
it worth while to run the risk, and the
devices are so numerous and ingenious
that the efforts to detect them are inet-
fectual in preventing this method of
supplying the American market with
the products of “foreign pauper labor.”
As the tariff duties are increased the
smuggling business increases in pro-
portion.
~———1In less than two weeks the Re-
publican State Convention will meet
in Harrisburg, There is a good deal
of a jumble in the claims of the differ-
ent candidates as to the delegates they
shall have at their command. Yet at
present writing, with about a dozen
delegates yet to be chosen, Hastings
seems to have a slight majority of those
instructed, with Derayarter close be-
hind bim, and Mo~xToorH and StoNE
considerably ia the rear. Of the un-
pledged delegates, who will be the fac’
tors that will solve the problem, most
of them are unfaltering henchmen of
Boss Quay and will vote as he shall
dictate. Whatever the surface indica-
tions may be, the Boss holds the key
to the situation.
How It Will Work. -
The total amount of taxes the Com-
missioners say they intend to collect off
the people of the county for the present
year, is less than $23,000. By con-
stant work, dunning, threatening and
pressing the tax-payers, the collectors
maybe able to collect one-half of this
amount during the first five months af”
ter the duplicates are placed in their
hands. One-half of the present year's
taxes,"added 10 the actual balance in
county Teeasury last January after the
last year's bills were all paid, would
give the Commissioners just $26,508, to
meet the county expenditures for the
present year, which they estimate wil]
amount to $36,500. For the past ten
years these expenditures have averaged
considerably over $40,000 a year, and
last year they were up to £48,000.
Taking the Commissioners’ estimate as
a basis,Jand it is $4,000 too low, the coun
ty would be in debt on the Ist of next
January just $10,500.
This money will have to be borrow-
ed out of bank and at bankers rates, the
interest amounting to about $808. So
that addition to paying the
county debt and the ordinary county
expenditures, the tax-pagers will be
fleeced for this $300, and all for the
simple and single purpose of making
political bunkum for a little ring of
in
Republican®politicians, and a couple of
Republican commissioners who have
shown by their management of affairs
that they could not rua the county cn
a two and a half mili tax levy, that
brought into the Treasury over $34,000
annually, without reducing the surplus
left by the Jast Democratic board.
Too Fastidious.
Some Republicans in
county are getting entirely too fastidi-
ous. When congressman Bayxs, last
week, for reasons satisfactory to him-
gelf, determined to retire from thescene
of his usefulness to the trusts and mo-
nopolists in the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, he declined the
renomination which the convention of
his district tendered him, and named
the candidate whom the convention
should nominate in his stead. Such a
proceeding was not in violation of Re
publican usage, for it is customary in
“the grand old party” to regard public
office as a proper subject of transfer or
gift. Such a view of official trusts has
long obtained in well regulated Repub
lican circles, and that there should
have been members of the party in
Bayne's district who kicked against
his transferring his seat in congress to
SrtoNE, as they did at an indignation
meeting in Pittsburg the other day,
was an indication that they have de-
generated from the good old customs
of the party and have become a ‘“leetle”
too particular for Republicans in good
standing,
Allegheny
——The Federal Election bill has
been reported in the House, providing
for supervisors and other machinery
necessary to secure g partisan advantage
at the polls. It should be entitled ‘a
bill to provide for the control of the
federal elections by the Republican
party.”
A Great State Convention.
The Democrats of Illinois held a
great State Convention last week. We
will remark by the way that all the
State Conventions of ‘the Democracy
this year are marked by unusual en-
thusiasm, harmony and determination
to secure the success of Democratic
principles. That of Illinois uttered the
sentiments of true Democracy in its
platform, declaring for those objects of
reform which it is the mission of the
party to bring about, including hostili-
ty to a system of economic partiality
which taxes the many for the benefit
of the few, and the reformation of bal-
lot laws which in their present condi-
tion have been instrumental in carry-
ing elections by bribery and intimida-
tion.
Another notable feature of the Illi
nois convention was the effort to bring
the election of United States Senators
more under the control of the peop.e.
It unanimously nominated ex-Govern-
or Paryer for United States Sera'or,
with a resolution instructing the Dem-
ocratic members of the next legislature
“to vote for and use all honorable
means to secure his election.” This is
a commendable movement, gs its pur-
pose is to bring about a departure from
the present method of electing United
States Senators which is filling that
branch of the national legislature with
plutocratic mediocrity. In response
to his nomination ex-Governor PALMER
said to the convention :
My mission is a peculiar one. The Democ-
racy of 1llinois have commissioned me in their
name to make an attempt to popularize the
genate of the United States, to bring it near the
people. The fact is there is a feeling through
out the country, not confined to Illinols, that
the national senate has become an element of
danger instead of good. It is the only body of
officials that is responsible to nobody: The
President, although nominated by a national
convention and taking but small part in the
canvass that precedes the election, is made the
sabjeet'of eriticism. His whole life isexamined,
his opinions are discussed and at last the peo-
ple pass upon the man whose name is present
ed for ‘he presidency. Not so with the sena-
tor. Itissaid upon evidence that satisfies a
great many good people that in some States
the request of the senatorial candidate for
votes is expressed in the form of a check. It’
will be the purpose of the Democratic party
that such gentlemen's checks shall not pass
current in senatorial elections hereafter, but
that the conduct of these officials shall be in-
vestigated. They shall, for the first time late-
ly in our history,.be made responsible for their
conduet.
There
more fraught with interest to the peo-
ple than one whose object 1s5to popular-
ize the election of United States Sena-
tors. Init is tbe only hope of rescu-
ing the higher branch of Congress from
conld not be a movement
the control of the money power and
dislodging the influence whieh is mak-
ing it the stronghold of monopoly.
nm ————
It Looks a Little Suspicious.
Pension Commissioner Ravy is enti-
tied to the credit of being an honest
man until the contrary is proved, but a
recent business transaction he has had,
in which pension agent Lemon also
figured, looks a little suspicious. Lem
oN is at the head of the heap in the
pension business at Washington. He
is emphatically the richest, the most
flourishing and the influen-
tial of all that class of operators who
most
are amassing large fortunes in the
pension business.
It isn’t unreasonable to suspect from
the circumstances thatsomething crook-
ed has been going on between LiyoN
and Raum. Sometime ago. the for-
mer asked the latter to make rulings
that would advance a large number of
his(LeMoN's) cases and be very profit-
able to bim. The Comm ssioner as-
sumed the appearance of official virtue
by declining to comply with Lewox's
request, as he couldn't see his right to
do it. The matter stood in this shape
for a time, giving the Commissioner
the appearance of an officer who conld
not be swerved from the line of duty.
Recently, however,
Rau bad notes for some $25,000 ne-
gotiated, which were indorsed by pen-
sion agent LeMoN, and about the same
time he made the rulings substantially
as the agert desired, which he had
previously declined to make. Ii may
be that the Commissioner discovered
that he had erred in his first decision,
hut it would have looked better if some
other person than Lexox had ind orsed
those notes for him.
Commissioner
Glass Reflection on Tin-Plate.
N. Y. Evening Telegram.
We are told that if Americans will
consent to be heavily taxed on their tin-
ware and tin-plates it will resnit in the
establishment of an industry which will
employ 50,000 men.
The seven Belgian glassworkers who
ar@ived here on the Umbria on Sunday,
June 1, under contract to work in a
factory at Glassboro, N. J., illustrate
this. An enormous increase in the pro-
tective duties on glassware is proposed
in the McKinley bill. Tt makes nodif-
ference whether these men were to work
on the glass or glassware to be most ful-
ly protected under that bill, or not. It
is a fact that while the Protectionists
were decl: i ning on the necessity of pro-
tecting the American glassworker the
American glass manufacturer was mak-
ing contracts abroad for cheap laborers
to compete with his American workmen.
Before the tin-plate industry is estab-
lished in this country let it be under-
stood how many workmen are to be im-
orted by the tin-plate makers. Let us
el aschedule of the wages to be paid
them.
A Belle’s Suicide.
Shot Herself Because. Prevented from
Going to a Picnic.
West CHESTER, June 9.—Because
her father would not permit her to at-
tend a strawberry festival, Frances Potter,
the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of
David Potts, of Warwick township, in
this county, placed the muzzle of a pis-
tol to her head and fired two balls entire-
ly through it.
The Potts family is one of the most | redemption of Treasury notes.
respectable in northern Chester county
and Frances is a belle in the neighbor- | ury
Cleveland’s Star.
Whether the student of - affairs is a
Cleveland or an anti-Cleveland Demo-
crat, an Administration or an anti-Ad-
ministration Republican, a Prohibition-
ist, a Mugwump ora Labor Reformer. he
will not misunderstand the truth when
it is set before him. The truth is that
the Cleveland policy holds the minds
and hearts of Democrats everywhere.
That Mr. Cleveland will be renominat-
ed does not necessari'y follow. That,
however, the indications favor his re-
newed candidacy for the Presidency can
no more be doubted than that he is
recognized by thoughtful Republicans
as their most formidable adversary. His
star, as matters stand, is clearly in the
ascendant. Time may bring a change.
Of that change there is now no visible
sign.—-Brooklyn Eagle.
er ————
‘hree Fine Old Democrats.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Almost as soon as Mr. Vaux got into
the House a sort of chummy attraction
seemed to draw him and Mr. Biggs of
California together. The old fashioned
Pennsylvanian had not beensworn in for
half an hour when he and Biggs were
seated side by side talking good Demo-
cratic doctrine to each other. Biggs is
an old “Forty-niner,” and is a Dewmo-
erat of the strict old school, a practical
apostie of “Jeffersonian simplicity,”
bold and outspoken. His language is
always vigorous, end he is not afraid to
use it in ost Democratic, if not always
parliamentary, style when occasion
arises. He is full of jokey banter, and
is a general favorite in the House. He
was seized with a pronounced admira-
tion for Mr. Vaux from what he read in
the papers about him, and when the
Pennsylvanian came to the Capitol the
two drifted together naturally and were
on semi-confidential terms in a moment.
Their mutual liking will probably ripen
into a devoted friendship before the ses-
sion is over. Holman is another who
Las taken a great fancy to Mr. Vaux,
and they will make a trio of old school
statesmen.
Road Commission of Pennsylvania.
The road coromission being anxious
to ascertain the views of the citizens of
the commonwealth upon subjects sug-
gested, the comission have distributed
throughout the State and respectfully
requests answers to the following inter-
rogatories: 1. Are you in favor of
abolishing the present system of work-
ing the road taxes and paying a cash
tax instead? 2. Do you favor State
aid to public roads ? If so, how shall it
be distributed, to the townships or coun-
ties? How shall the amount be ascer-
tained, by valuation of assessable pro-
perty, number of inbabitants, road
mileage, or otherwise ? 4. Are you in
favor of supervisors serving without
compensation, the same as school direc-
tor, whose duty shall be the assessment
of taxes nnd appointment of road over-
seers to have charge of the work ? 5.
How shall roads be superintended and
controlied—by State, county or town-
ship supervisors or engineers? And
shall the State aid, if any, be handled
the same as local taxes? 6, Isyour
manufacturing
county an agricultural,
or mining county ? 7. Is the stone in
your county suitable for road purposes ?
8. Are you in favor of authorizing
townships to borrow money for road
purposes? 9. Are you in favor of con-
viet labor on public roads? Give your
views upon any other points you desire
pertaining to road laws and road con-
struction and maintenance. Interroga-
tories when answered should be returned
to Charles F. Eitla, secretary, 1805 Lo-
cust street, Philadelphia, Pa.
——————————
The House Silver Bill.
Philadelphia Record.
Under the caucus, lash a Silver bill
has been agreed upon by the Republi-
can majority in the Bouse which will
be brought to a vote to-day, and doubt-
less passed. The bill provides for the
purchase of $3,500,000 worth of fine sil-
ver each month, for which the market
riceis to be paid in United States
reasury notes so long as the price shall
not exceed $1 for 371.25 grains. Such
notes are to be redeemable on demand
in coin at the Treasury of the United
States ; are to be a legal tender for pay-
ment of all debts, public or private, ex-
cept otherwisestipulated in the contract ;
are to be receivable for customs taxes
and public dues, and when so received
may be reissued ; may be counted as a
part of the lawful reserve of national
banks ; and are exchangeable at the dis-
cretion of the Secretary of the Treasury,
on demand of the holder, for silver bull-
ion at the market price on the day of ex-
change. : i
The bill repeals the provision of the
Bland act requiring the coinage of two
million short-weight dollars per month,
but provides that the Secretary of the
, Treasury may coin such portion of the
| bullion as he may find necessary for the
The bill
also provides for coverir.ginto the Treas-
the balances now held for the re-
hood. While at supper Saturday even- i demption of outstanding national bank
ing she said she was going to attend the
notes. They ave thereafter to be re-
festival ic. a neighboring grove that even- : deemed from the general fund in the
ing. Her father forbade her going, and |
nothing more was said about it. Fran-
Treasury and destroyed.
This bill isin substantial agreement
ces arose from the table with the rest of | with the ideas of the Secretary of the
the family and went up stairs. In a few
minutes the report of a pistol, fired three | approval of the President.
po > { measure ; and 1f it can be forced upon
times in rapid succession, was heard.
Father and mother rushed up to the |
daughter’s room and found Frances ly- |
ing on the floor, apparently dead and |
with several ugly wounds in the face.-
One bullet had entered one cheek and |
passed through the head and came out |
the other cheek. Another had entered !
the forehead, struck the skull and glanc- | of
The | proval at the hands of the Supreme
i Court,
| further questioned.
The af- |
ing had passed out near the ear.
third shot was buried in the ceiling.
Several physicians were summoned.
They sdy she cannot recover.
fair has created a great sensation in the
neighborhood, as Frances was known
and admired by every one for miles
around.
MoNkEY VERSUS MAN. —Son—Pa, a
monkey is five times as good as Deacon
Gool, ain’t he
Pa—Jimmy, I'm surprised.
Son—Why, you only gave him a cent
last Sunday when he came around with
the plate, and you gave the organ-grind-
er’s monkey five cents this morning.
Why do
‘you say so disrespectful a thing ?
| Treasury, and will doubtless meet the
It is a safe
the friends of free coinage in the Senate
| will be a lucky acquittance ofthe Re-
publican party and the country in a
{ financial movement of great delicay
"and importance.
The making of the
Treasury notes a legal tender is no doubt
an unwarranted stretch of the authority
Congress ; but it has the stamp of ap-
and would not probably be
Sons of America Celebration.
The Patriotic Order of Sons of America
will celebrate the 112th anniversary of
the evacuation of Valley Forge on
Thursday, June 19, with the largest de-
monstration in the history of the Order.
! Fully 20,000 people are expected to vis-
it the historic spot, and thirty bands of
music and several companies of Contin-
ental Guards will give the place a mili-
has
many points of interest and so many his-
torical associations as to render it al-
tary appearance. Valley Forge
most a sacred spot.
RTI REET ma ep pe
Dogs Caused the Shooting.
WASHINGTON, June 8.—Wiiliam
Powell, a colored man, lay dead this
morning near the wall of the lodge
house, opposite one of the entrances to
the Soldiers’ Home, this city. Curled
up in one arm was a small terrier.
Standing guard over the body of the
dead man was a large hound. His
faithful companions had been the un-
witting cause of his death. Tramp dogs
have infested the grounds of the Soldiers’
Home lately. Orders were issued to
shoot them. John Dolan, an old veter-
an, who acts as watchman at one of the
entrances, was awakened about 1 o'clock
this morning by the noise of dogs and
securing an old navy revolver fired it in
the direction of the noise, which imme-
diately ceased. Dolan went to bed again
and slept until awakened by a passer-
by who called his attention to the dead
body outside the window. The bullet
had entered the throat and death must
have been instantaneous. Powell's wife
was a domestic in the lodge where Dolan
slept and he had come there to see her,
when the noise of one of his dogs awak.
ened the old watehman. A coroner's
jury to-day acquitted Dolan,
TrexTON, N. J., June 7.—George
Whitlock, of this city, was probably
fatally shot near Pennington by Orvin
Wood, station agent at Moor’s, on the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad.
The circumstances attending the shoot-
ing are peculiar. Frank Johnson, a
friend of Wood’s at Belle Mead, further
up the road, wired him that a man, had
stolen his dog and was coming down
Wood’s way with the animal, and asked
him to stop the fellow.
‘Wood watched a short time and soon
saw Whitlock, the suspected man, and
the dog. He let them pass the station,and,
procuring his pistol, followed for half a
mile, calling upon Whitlock to give up
tle dog. Herefused, and, Wood says,
drew a pistol and walked threateningly
toward him. Wood became excited,
and aiming his pistol fired at the man
five times in succession, every bullet
taking effect. One passed entirely
through the man’s body just below the
left lung. Wood went buck to the
station, leaving the man lying on the
track.
Despite his terrible wounds Whitlock
managed to walk and crawl to Penn-
ington, where he got medical attendance;
but there is little chance of his recovery.
Agent Wood was arrested and is now
in the county jail. The dog proved to
be Whitlock’s own property.
Sam Jones and P. T. Barnum.
The Greatest Show on Earth Doesn't
Draw Any Business Away From
the Preacher's Performances.
Letter to the Chattanooga Times.
It is a neck-and-neck race between
Sam Jones and Barnum in Nashville just
now. Itis hard to tell whichis the
“greatest show on earth,” but 1 rather
prefer betting my money on Sam. True,
Barnum has the beasts of the field, the
fowls of the air and the fish ‘that swim
in the sea, while fam has nothing but
his mouth ; and yet, for the amusement
of a crowd as well as for a money-mak-
ing scheme for ite proprietor, the hash-
chopper of the Georgia Cracker can lay
out Phineas’s menagerie any time. If
I had to take my choice between the
clear profits of the two shows while in
Nashville, I would not hesitate long
about it, and IT would have enough cold
cash over and above Barnum’s pile to
endow an orphan asylum. Sam says he
always trusts in the Lord for everything
and in the matter of his bank account
he believes in co-operating with the
Lord, and he does co-operate powerful-
ly. I don’t blame Sam at all, of course
not. - I expect, as pious and consecrat-
ed as [ am, I would ¢co-operate,” too,
if I knew how. But I don’t think it
looks nice for Sam to be always cussin’
everybody for being so infernally stin-
¢y, When as a result of the people’s lib-
erality he has developed into one of the
richest men in Georgia.
Refused to Take Them Back.
Philadelphia Record.
The Cunard Steamship Company ap-
pears disposed to treat with contempt
the Contract Labor laws of this country.
On pretense of want of room the Cap-
tain of the Umbria refused to carry back
the seven Belgian glass-blowers who
‘were imported in that vessel a few days
ago. The men will be kept at the Cun-
ard Company’s expense until it shall
rovide for their return. So long as the
aws against imported labor exist the
steamship companies should be compel-
led to obey them. But the worst
offenders are the protected manufactur-
ers, who loudly profess their love for
American workingmen while lawlessly
and covertly seeking to lessen their op-
portunities for employment by import-
ing cheap labor from Europe.
The Silver Bill Passes.
‘WASHINGTON, June 7.—The silver
‘question was virtually settled by the
passage in the house to-day, with slight
amendments, of the caucus bill which
the republicans adopted on Wednesday
night. The vote on the bill was ayes 135,
‘nays 119, but if necessary the majority
of sixteen could have been increased.
The real test came on the motion of Mr.
Bland, of Missouri, to recommit the bill
with instructions to provide for free
coinage.
This was a straightout test of the
strength of the free coinage men in the
house, and on that the vote was yeas 116,
nays 140, a majority of twenty-four
against free coinage. There were a good
many members absent, but they were
nearly all paired, so the test was a fair
one and the free coinage men were very
much disappointed.
Dragged to Death by His Dog,
Passaic. N. Y., June 7.—Garrett
Fleming, a resident of this city, last
night started with his large dog to go to
Dundee canal to give the animal a bath.
As he was crossing over the railroad
{ bridge the dog gave a sudden bound and
jumped into the river. Fleming had
hold of the animal by a long chain. He
held on to the chain and was dragged
into the water. Being unable toswim
he was drowned. The dog swam ashore
and made his way home. It was some
time before young Fleming’s family dis-
covered that he had been drowned.
x”
TEETER {TENITIRNLEIT
A Fight to the Death.
A Fierce and Bloody Battle
Two Blooded Stallions.
Peter
CINCINNATI, June 10.—A fight to the
death between two blooded stallions was
the thrilling spectacle witnessed on Capt.
B. F. Trester’s farm at Aurora, Ind],
near here. Two 3 year old stailiens,
spirited and valuable thoroughbreds,
were turned into adjoining pastures to
feed. A wooden fence divided the
fields, and althcugh as colts the pair play-
fully bit and kicked at each other across
it, the fence was supposed to be ‘strong
enough to keep them separate and pre-
vent trouble.
The colts began their fight over the
fence and pawed at each other until
the fence was demolished. Then they
came together in a struggle which for
fierceness and length excceded anything
which the spectators ever witnessed.
They stood on their hind legs, fierce-
ly pawing and striking at oné another
with their iron shod fore feet and tear-
ing each other's neck and shoulders
with’ their teeth. Their neighing and
screams of rage and the sound of their
kicks and snorts were heard fully half a
mile away.
A half dozen or more persons were at-
tracted to the scene of the conflict, bit
so vieious were the enraged animals that
for nearly an hour no one dared to go near
them. Covered with blood and foam,
with flaming eyes and opened mouth,
they seemed the very incarnation of fury
as they bit and savagely tore each other.
While the lookers on were devising some
means to separate them the furious an-
imals grew more frantic and repeatedly
rolled over esch other on the ground,
biting and kicking desperately. At
length the smaller of the two, a bright
bay, caught his antagonist by the throat
with his teeth and dragged him to the
ground. The larger horse kicked and
rolled in an effort to avoid choking to
death, but the smaller animal clung to
its hold.
The battle lately so noisy, went on
fiercely in silence, except for the thud of
the feet of the two equine gladiators.
The larger horse became more and more
feeble, until finally it {ceased to move.
Still, with bulldog tenacity, the victor
held his grasp upon his opponent's
throat, pulling and shaking savagely,
although his own strength was fast de-
clining. He was at last beaten away
by the more courageous spectators. He
ran for a few yards and dropped from
sheer exhaustion. Ee sdversary was
dead.
Although badly cut and bruised from
the teeth and hoofs of his foe the living
animal may survive the terrible conflict.
Presbyterian Censure.
Wine on the President's and Vice Presi-
dent’s Tables—a Contrast.
NEw York, June 9.-—The members
of the Synod of the Reformed Presby-
terian Church of America administered
a sharp rebuke to President Harrison and
vice President Morton to-day for allow-
ing wine to be served at their dinners.
By the same vote the Synod commend-
ed Mr. and Mrs. John Wanamaker for
their firm stand on the Prohibition ques-
tion. One hundred and ninety delegates
were present at to-day’s meeting in the
Thirty-ninth Street Church. The dele-
gates represent 124 ‘churches, 10,827
communicants, and about twice as many
more regular attendants at the churches.
One of the first pieces of business to-
day was the presentation of the report
and resolution drawn up by the Commit-
tee on Temperance : “We note with
special satisfaction the example set by
Mr. and Mrs, Wanamaker in giving
their splendid entertainments without
wine. This is a noble example. If is
worth much to the cause of temper-
ance,”
“What does Matthew Arnold mean by
‘sweetness and light’?
He (abruptly)— “How much do you
weigh 7”
She (surprised)—¢‘Just 102 pounds,
but what in the world has that got to
do with it ?”
He—Why, that’s it.”
IMPORTANT TO POTATO RAISERS.—
‘We published some weeks ago an article
from the Scientific American concerning
the use of the Bordeaux Mixture as a
preventive of the potato rot or blight.
The Bordeux mixture is made as
follows:
Sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) 6 lbs,
Quick lime........cccmisiiinnnnnns basaasonns 4.5
WALET...../ crt icsrssrssrst spose sssos sian 22 gals.
‘When a thorough mixture shall have
been made in wooden vessels (it corrodes
iron) it should be run through a strainer
made of fine brass or copper wire. Ex-
periments have indicated that the pota
to disease may be prevented by the use
of the Bordeaux mixture. The applica.
tion should be made in June. Care
should be taken that the spraying
should be thoroughly done so that both
surfaces of the leaves be coated as
much as possible. Londen purple or
Paris green may be added to distroy
the potato bugs.
——A very happy and auspicious
wedding came off on Tuesday evening
at the residence of Mr. Rush Larimer,
on East High street, in the marriage of
Mr. Charles Wilson Tripple, of the
Adams Express office, and Miss Lida
L. Furey, recently of the telephone ex-
change of this place. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Dr. Laurie, in
the presence of some eighty guests, who
were afterwards entertained with asump-
tuous supper. Mr. Edward Rankin
was the groomsman and Miss Bertha
Haupt the bridesmaid. The presents
were numerous and valuable, among
them being a handsome sohd silver
water pitcher sent to the groom by the
Adams Express employes at Philadel-
phia. The wedding trip of the happy
couple will include Philadelphia and
Atlantic Oity and will be prolonged
some eight or ten days.