Ink Slings. —The Grangers are preparing to run a pretty big farrow through the politi- cal field of the boundless West. —The dog-days are upon us, and the absolute rule of the Speaker, which was said to be intended to facilitate business, doesn’t seem to facilitate “worth a cent.” —The Senate hesitates about consum- mating the Force Bill iniquity. It would be well for the reputation of that body if its hesitation should end in re- jection, —If Mr. BLAINE should ever again have occasion to cable from Europe about the tariff, the tenor of his dispatch would most likely be different from what it was two years ago. —The Quay machine will be run to its full capacity in this campaign, but the farmers are coming to the conclusion that it is a kind of machinery that isn’t best adapted to agricultural interests. —Some Republican papers object to ParrisoN for the reason that he was born in Maryland. Probably these sec- tional journals think the less of Wasn- INGTON because he was a native of Vir- ginia. —Pennsylvania isn’t going to be fav- ored with a fruit crop this year, but there will be an unusually large crop of independent Republican voters, which will benefit the State more than a big yield of apples. —Governor CAMPBELL, of Ohio, looks for a Democratic majority of seventy- five in the next House. If the Force Bill should pass, the Governor would come nearer the correct figure by put- ting it at a hundred. —The Indians belonging to Buffalo Bill's show complain of bad treatment while illustrating aboriginal life before the crown-heads of Europe. The con- dition of poor Lo isn’t improved much by his joining a circus. — What a pity that Representative HarMER’s dislike for the Force Bill didn’t materialize in his voting. against it. It is an unfavorable commentary on his independence that the Speaker’s lash overcame his aversion to this iniqui- tous measure. —The alleged discovery of a tin mine in California is a public calamity, inas- much as it will furnish an excuse for clapping a heavier duty on tinplate and putting every kitchen in the country under tribute to the syndicate that will work that mine. —The Press has discovered that Gro- vER CLEVELAND is private counsel for the Louisiana Lottery Company. So rich a development as this has not been made by any Republican paper since the time of the alleged discovery that CLEVELAND beat his wife. — Although the McKinley bill kindly furnishes the farmer with protection to his beans and cabbages, it doesn’t con- tain “a line or a section that will open a market for another bushel of wheat or barrel of pork.” We have Mn. Braine’s word for this and he ought to know. —Considering the fact that the Uni- on Pacific Railroad company owes the United States government a large amount of money which it doesn’t in- tend to pay, the recent granting of gov- ernment land to that corporation by Secretary NoBLE looks very much like a case of surperfluous liberality. —Isn’t it about time for ANNIE RooNEY to take her summer vacation? Should she repair to some ocean retreat where the wild waves tell their melan- choly tale, and, In imitation of McGIN- TY, plunge to the bottom of the sea, there would be a general sigh of relief. In short, Miss RoONEY is getting to be a bore. —There couldn’t be better evidence that the surplus is pretty nearly used up than the fact that the River and Harbor bill, that time honored absorber of the public funds, will likely be dropped for this session. The financial condition is certainly at a low ebb when the River and Harbor patriots can’t have their an- nual whack at the treasury. —The Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain, together with the most prominent iron and steel manufacturers of England, France, Belgium and Ger- many, will visit this country in a few weeks. Are these fellows coming over to spirit away the McKinley bill? Speaker Regn should keep the precious -document under lock and key while they are in this country. —The Chinese authorities are mad about their countrymen being excluded from this country and threaten to retali- ate by keeping Americans out of the Flowery Kingdom. But the almond- eyed gentlemen ought to know that the situations are different. The Yankee doesn’t want to occupy China to the ex- tent that Ah Sin wants {o overflow the United States. emacralic VOL. 35. we © mang STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. © &° BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 25, 1890. Presidential Land Speculation. The Harrison appetite for real estate has been sharpened by the gift of the Cape May cottage, and visions of profit- able speculation in that line are ran- ning through the heads of the family. It is announced that the Presidential connection, including Mrs. HARRISON, father-in-law Scorr, Mrs. McKEg,moth- er of the celebrated Baby, Private Sec- tary Havrorp and Typewriter ALICE Sancur,all inmates of the White House, have lent their names to the booming of a speculation in real estate in the neighborhood of Washington in which they are represented to have purchased an interest, hut more likely have been taken into a syndicate, without price, for the sake of the prestige they would impart to the operation. The President, with an exalted regard for the dignity of his office, holds aloof from the deal, but, of course, couldn’t be expected to restrain his thrifty wife from making a little money in a speculation that will be boomed by its connection with the Presidential family. There is every appearance that the lady of the White House is ‘on the make.” It is said of her that she re- cently remarked that BexjamiN would save the larger part of his salary, and her frugal mind strongly inclines her to devote every hour of Presidential sun- shine to the making of hay that will be useful to the family after the head of it shall have become a private—a very private—gentleman. Speculating in real estate by a Presi- dential family isnot asbad as receiving it as a gift, and yet in a recent inter- view Mrs. HArrisoN condemned such a method of Presidential thrift, in the following language : There have been suggestions from various sources about the President's purchasing a summer home in the suburbs of Washington, which, at the end of his official term, might be sold at a considerable advance. We have had an example of this, but the President will not use his official rank as a means of making money, even to the'extent of purchasing a home for his summer use and selling it when he retires from office. The President has de- cided scruples about that. This was intended as a hit at Presi- dent CLEVELAND for buying Oak View and selling it for more than he paid for it, which she then assumed to re- gard as being a good deal more repre- hensible than the acceptance of a gift cottage ; but now the distinguished la- dy, as a partner in the Glen Echo Heights speculation, engages in the kind of real estate operation for which she infereniially condemned Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Harrison's delicate sense of what becomes his official position pre- cludes his name from being connected with the speculation that is to be boom- ed by its connection with the White House, but the profits accruing from it aud going into the family will nicely supplement the large saving of salary Ly which the circumstances of the Harrisons will be made comfor- table after they shall have gone back to Indianapolis. -—Judge, the pictorial organ of the President, is foolish in making fun of James G. BraiNe. To picture him as “Jealous Jim” may be considered smart by those who get up the pictures for that sheet, but there is nothing con- nected with Mr. Harrison or his po- litical fortunes that can make BLAINE jealous. Agricultural Politics. There are signs of unusual political activity among the farmers. The “Al- liance” threatens to shake the politics of some portions of the South as if by an earthquake. In Minnesota the people who till the soil have placed a State ticket in the field and their lead: ers declare * this means the beginning of anew political party.” Their platform is well intended, but it comprehends some things that are visionary and im- practical, as well as others that would serve a good purpose. It calls for governmental control of railroads, free and open markets for grain, proper fa- cilities of transportation, the deduction of mortgage indebtedness from the tax on realty, lower interest, an increase in the volume of money, free coinage of silver, and the election of United States Senators and railroad commissioners by the people. From this miscellaneous assortment of demands the Minnesota farmers ought to be able to get some- thing that will benefit them. Warning from a Laber Source. The Labor Union, of Pittsburg,which is entitled to the distinetion of being the ablest and most extensively circulated labor organ in the country, employs some plain and forcible language in speaking of the work of the present congress aad the control which the spoilsmen and the boodlers are allowed to exert over the Republican party. It attributes Republican degenera- cy to the fact of the party's being too long in power, which has had the ef fect of drawing to it the political vul- tures whose subsistence is derived from party spoils. Oue of its recent articles,from which the following is an extract, will no donbt make an impres- sion upon its numerous readers : The fact is the Republican party has been going the way of a party long in power forade- cade. Spoilsmen have been coming to the front until they are so numerous as to insist upon the arbitrary and hypocritical legislation proposed at the present session of congress under the impression that they can win under the party name and gather in the boodle without end, which latter is their object in life. In stating the matter this way we are not swayed by party politics. This congress has done much that is bad-the house particularly- with remarkably little that is good. At the rate Speaker Reed’s gang has been rushing, except there shall be a marked intervention of provi- dence or the defeat of the crowd by the people at the polls, this country may expect panic, politically and commercially, within a few years. Nothing could be truer than the as- sertion that the proceedings of the pres- ent congress have a tendency to politi- cal and commercial panic. There is a good account from Perry county. It is reported upon reli able authority that from ten to twenty Republicans in each of the thirty elec- tion districts have declared their inten- tion to not only vote for Roserr E. ParTison, but to labor for his success. Thus far the desertiovs from the Repub- lican camp are principally by far- mers and they belong to a class whose change indicates a political revolution. The movement for Parti sox is likely to carry along with it all the Prohibition voters in Perry county. Complaint from a High Quarter. Mr. BLAINE, in his letter to Senator Fry, makes the following doleful complaint : | Our foreign market for breadstuffs grows narrower. Great Britain is exerting every nerve to secure her bread supply from India, and the rapid expansion of the wheat area in Russis gives usa powerful competitor in the markets of Europe. This state of affairs in a great meas- ure has been brought about by our war tariff, and it will be made worse by the passage of the McKinley bill of which Mr. BraiNg, in the same letter, says “ there is not a section or a line in the “ entire bill that will open a market for “ another bushel of wheat or another “ barrel of pork.” But it does not look consistent for him to indulge in complaint about this situation. Two years ago, when Grov- ER CLEVELAND told the people that a war tariff was baving this very effect, the message which the Maine states. man cabled across from Europe was: “Don’t touch that tariff; keep your hands off that sacred instrument of protection.” ; It is encouraging to see that Mr. Braing is changing his views on this subject, at the time,too, when the leath- er-headed advocates of a high tariff think they see a great triumph of American policy in the circumstance of foreign nations protesting against the McKinley bill, which they are moved to do because they want to buy our agricultural productions but will be absolutely prevented from doing so by the increased illiberality of our tariff regulations. ——The club composed of Pennsyl- nia Republican office-holders at Washington, of which Joan I. Rank. iN, of Bellefonte, a brother-in-law of General Hastings, is President, held an ‘‘enthusiastic” meeting the other night in ratification of Quay’s State ticket. Concerning these Republican officials at the seat of government it may be pertinently asked, what are they there for if not to ratify the Boss's nominations ? ——Speaker Rego has failed to bull- doze the Senate, which displays a pre- ference for a Force Bill of its own. It may be less tyranical and brutal than the measure which the ITouse has been forced to pass, and it may not materi- alize at all. { | | | | i The National Guard Encampment. The State militia of Pennsylvania, known as the National Guard, during the past week have had a pleasant, and no doubt, in a military sense, a profitable time in camp at Mt. Gretna. Unusual preparations and arrange ments were made to insure the success of this gathering of citizen soldiers. The ranks of the various companies were well filled: with the best speci- mens of the young manhood of the State. The soldierly spirit pervading them was at its highest pitch. The officers, from the commander-in-chief down to the corporals, were animated by thre sentiment which among military people is called esprit de corps. A de- tachment of the regular army, with regular army officers in command, ad- ded to the soldierly character of the en- campment and imparted instruction to the less experienced guardsmen by their superior drill and tactics: In all its arrangements and appeintments, and in its general purpose, ‘it appears to have surpassed any previous encamp- ment of the State militia. The State has reason to bet proud of its citizen soldiers. They are*a fine body of young men who will be of" ger- vice to their country in the hour of danger, and they are of a character that will cause no danger to their coun- try. A large standing army, hired to do military duty, is a manace to the liberty of a people. But where the military force is composed of citizens, voluntarily doing service and at the same time continuing their personal as- sociation and civil relations with the general mass of the people,.such a sol- diery strengthens rather than menaces the liberties of a repablie. mma Gos TSEC aa. ——There is something so evidently crooked in the pension bureau that the resolution to investigate certain charges against Commissioner Raum should not bave been dropped. The reason given for dropping it was that an investigation would be too expensive. This is a poor excuse and should not be advanced under any circumstan- ces where wrong is to be unearthed. If an investigation would stop an improper use of the public money in the pension department it would be good economy to institute it. ———— A Curious Statement. The following curioas bit of political information appeared in a recent num- ber of the New York Sun : One of the singular features of the ‘recent campaign for delegates to the Republican Con- vention fo nominate a candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania was that the city of Johnstown, to whos¢ assistance Gen. D. H. Hastings rode sixty es over the mountains "as soon as he heard ofthe great flood, and where he remain- ed in charge of the relief work for six weeks until the State work was finished, elected dele- gates fof the other fellow. The explanation is said to lejthat Johnstown people have the frail- ties of a'dinary humanity, and every one of them wlo got a smaller slice off the relief fund thi some neighbor, blamed §Gen. Hast- ings forthe difference. Thek has been a good deal of non- sense yritten in relation to General Hastings’ connection with the John- stown food, but the above ‘takes the cake.”| The General did not lose the Cambrh county delegates because the party wters in Johnstown ungratefully preferrid “the other fellow,” but be. cause tie county convention was jug gled inp way that gave the delegates to DejAMATER against the decided prefereice of a great majority of the peoplebf Johnstown and, in fact, of Cambra county, for Hasrinas. The result ¢ the general election in that countys likely to show how the peo- ple of he Conemaugh valley regard the tric by which the General was de- prived ff the county delegates. In all probablity “the other fellow” will be badly at in that region at the Novem- ber elecion. —loor old Philadelphia is numer-, ously Pn by Republican mem- hers inhe House, but fails to get any of the teasury plunder which congress is so lvishly distributing. Millions are beig' squandered, but the four Philad(phiajg. o. p. congressmen, who have lat such ready assistance to the many themes for the depletion of the treasur, have been unable to secure an appbpriation for the League Island navy yrd. Philadelphia isn’t suffi- cientlylewarded for her unwavering NO. 29. Not the Best Reason, But It Will Do. One Republican Senator at least, Pabpock, of Nebraska, has independ. ence and courage enough to announce his. opposition to the outrageous Force Bill. His reason for opposing it is not of the highest kind, but still it will answer its purpose. The iniqui- tous measure should be opposed be: cause it is wrong—politically and mor- ally wrong. Pappock says he will not support it for the reason that the outrage upon the southern people, of which it will be the medium, will so exasperate them that they will cease to be custo- mers of northern manufacturers and producers by boycotting their goods. This stand is not taken on very high ground, it being prompted by motives of self-interest, but in effect 1t will do as well as if the Nebraska Senator ob- jected to the Force Bill because it would conflict with the principle of free elections and thereby impair the basis of republican government. ——JouN D., ROCKEFELLER, the principal of the Standard Oil monopo- lists, has contributed $6,500 to assist in defraying the current expenses of a western Baptist Theological Seminary, and $50,000 to its endowment fund. This-1s paraded in a telegraphic head- line as “Jory D. RocKEFELLER's Gen- erosity,”” The wealth of this petro- leum vampire is estimated at one hun- dred and fifty millions of dollars, all of which Kags been accumulated in the comparatively, short period that has elapsed since the war, by methods that have secured an vnequal and unjust share of one of nasurds great produc- tions. A little of this 1] gotten wealth given in an elemosynary vay can hard- ly be classed under the head of gener- osity.. It is a perversion of the term. This: Reckless Congress. A more appropriate term could aot have been applied to the present con- gress than that used bg. the cons fwa- tive and respectable Philadelphia Ledger,which,. in speaking of the course it is pursuing, calls it “This Reckless Congress.” In consequence of its ae- tion “the federal treasury,” says the Ledger, “has been drifting from af- fluence to bankruptcy.” It asks Could this have happened if the appropria- tion bills at this session had all been obliged to pass the ordeal of one committee charged with the entire jurisdiction of that subject, as was the practice when Samuel J. Randall was a power in the house—when he was at the head of the appropriation committee—or when he was in the speaker’s chair and made up the membership of that committee ? It would have been impossible. Nothing could have brought out in bolder relief the recklessness of which the Ledger speaks than the fact that the treasury which was overflowing with a surplus when: this congress convened, will show a deficit by the time its measures of expenditure are in full operation, notwithstanding there is be- ing poured into it from every hand the proceeds of unnecessary and oppres- sive taxation. The conservative Philadelphta jour- nal indulges in further reprobation of “this reckless congress,” as follows : And now in this republican congress we are having the exigencies of party politics—plus Mr. Speaker Reed’s personal ambition and spirit of individual domination-leading to their logical results. The speaker's rules were adopted upon the plea that they facilitate business. How have they facilitated business in any other sense than in facilitating bad busi- ness? They were adopted in order to place the business of the house under control of the majority of the house—that is,'the majority as counted by the Speaker, Well, now that that consummation has been brought about, and the business is under that control, has the house achieved anything to which the republi- can party will point with pride in 1892, or even in the year "91 ? The tyranical measures of the Speak- er, which have subverted the long es- tablished customs of the House, were adopted for the alleged reason that they were needed to facilitate business but, as the Ledger remarks, the busi- ness that has been facilitated is bad business which has depleted the treas- ury, while congress is stuck, in the midst of the dog-days, on the measures in which the business of the country and the interest of the people are most involved. Truly it is a “Reckless Congress.” —Chairman KERR, who, as a Repre- sentative in congress, is after the viola- tors of the contract labor law with a very sharp stick, is well calculated to lead in a campaign in which labor is going to assert itself against the kind of government which too long in this State has favored the employing interest at the expense of the working people, loyaltylo the blessed tariff, -— dd Spawls from the Keystone. epee re per month. —Johnstown’s population is greater than be fore the flood. —A pair of white robins with pink eyes were | caught at West Goshen last week. —The hail-storm near Norristown a few days ago killed sparrows by the hundreds. —A poll of Pottsville’s newspaper men would give Pattison an overwhelming majority. —Some Schuylkill county census enumera- tors have refused to finish their work, —Samuel Gardon, a Welsh Mountain farmer, killed a 13-foot black snake a few days ago. —Matthias Berger, the murdered hermit of the Blue Mountains, was buried at Reading. | —Abonquet of flowers frozen in the centro of a cake of ice is on exhibition at Lancaster, —As he slept on the grass a snake crawled into the pocket of Charles Bearton, of Ames’ Corner. TA German negro who cannot speak Eng- lish was nearly killed by being run over at Lancaster. —Lancaster’s independent military company has made application to be mustered into the National Guard. —A4 big dog dancing in front of a reaper near Norristown came in contact with the knives, and had its four legs cut off. = A sparr ow at Colestown built a nest in the running-gear of a farmer's wagon, and makes a'trip to market every week. —Bristol police are kept busy in preventing small boys from bathingin the canal opposite the mills. —Andrew J. Kirschner, a leading lawyer of Allegheny, - committed suicide by shooting hi mself through the heart. —Hettie Byers, of Grapeville, was attacked by a huge rat while engaged in feeding ehick- ens and was terribly bitten. —Reuben Hunter, of Spring City, had part of his tongue torn away by a dentist who was en« deavoring to extract a tooth. —Copper pennies and lath nails are the diet of a dog at Norristown, and, strange enough, he belongs to a hardware man. —At the Reading Iron Company’s tube works on Monday 100 tons of six-inch oil-ling pipe was made in twenty hours. —Mrs. Adam ‘Wuchter,. of White Hall, has passed the 112th day without food and her con dition is no more critical than a week ago. —During a gust of wind a horse blanket was lifted from the animal’s back at Plymouth and, carried to the top ofa neighboring tree, —Tbomas: Evans,. of Lancaster, drove through a toll-gate without paying toll, was ar- rested and his effort to save 3 cents toll cost him £8.50. —A Doylestown: miss visiting Norristown got up to look out’of the window a few nights ago and poked her head through a pane of plate- glass. —Chief of Police Charles Dimmick, of Tos Wanda, while pursuing tramps across a bridge at Wilkesbarre, fell through the structure and was killed. —The parts ofa harvesting machine on the farm of Samuel Geil, at New Brittain, became heated and burst out into flames, destroying the machine, —Willie Brewster, son ‘of - John . Brewster, a Chester labever, slipped off a. rock intq Chester Creek while fishing on Monday, and was drowned. “Peter Egolf,Sr., aged 93 years, who hag been an active farmer, for eighty-three years, is probly the senior agriculturist of the Schuylky) valley. —Duringq heated spell a few days aga workmen retgyed a street rail at Reading, and it expandetyo much that it could not be put back in its phae, —For several Wwnings daring the past week the temperature wound Norristown has ranged at 53 degress. SNe frost was notices able at several piaces. —A baby near Doylestown. wag found ta have lost a finger in a very my®erious way a few days ago. The member was Cu, completes ly off, but no ene knows how. : —A bunch of human hair oa the cow-sgtcher of an engine at Lancaster led.to an invesjga- tion which revealed the mangled body of ga man on the track a few miles back. — Pittsburg brewers, who pay .a Government license, a State license and acity business tax» will resist the collection of the mercantile tax which they are now called on to pay. —The Board of Health at Lancaster closed the umbrella factory of Rose Bros. & Hartman, forty of whese employes are down with tys phoid fever; the result of bad drainage. —Pittsburg police officials have made an on, slaught on the eanine population, but made no provisions for the removal of their carcasses, and the streets are reeking with stench. A mysterious prisonerat Lancaster desper- ately resisted when an attempt was made to photograph him, and finally gained his point temporarily by demolishing the eamera. —Reports from the storm-swept district of the State, show that the crops were badly ine jured. The property. loss at Allentown is: placed at $15,000 and at:Hellertown at $25,000. —Michael Gibbons, a. National Guardsman, 26 years old, was mangled to death under & train near Wilkesbarre on Thursday night, He had just attended drill, and met death in uniform. —A Citizen’s Committeehas been formed in Chester to secure the arrest and conviction of all persons attempting to bribe voters or other« wise nse money illegally at the coming elec tion. —A pair of runaway horses at Poecopson township became entangled ina barbed wire fence, and during their struggles they disturbs ed a wasps’ nest, and both were covered with WASPS. gomery county, has five men in his employ, tour of whom are named George. He also hag a girl named Georgiana and two horses called Gecrge. —Elias Harlocher, of Friedensville, was bits ten by a copperhead snake and counteracted whiskey. He then went back to the spot and killed the snake. | —Miss Jennie McDonald, of Pitts burg, who was to have been married on August 8, coms mitted suicide by jumping into the Monongas hela River. She had been told by a fortunes teller that her bridal dress would be her shroud. i —Charles Chambers and Millard = Bentley fought over a game of cards on Thursday night at Altoona, and when they met again Bentley fired three bullets into Chambers body, and then surrendered himself to await the result of Chambers’ injuries. —Joshua W. Paxson, of Upper Dublin, Mont. the poison by drinking a quart and a pint of —The Cornwall ore hills yields 70,600 tons.