Terms 82.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., November 28, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, Epitor
Expressions of Hostility.
se
The Philadelphia Press allows con-
siderable latitude to dissatisfied Repub-
licans who want to “speak out in meet-
ing” against the re election of CAMERON
to the United States Senate. There
have been quite enough expressions
of dissent to show that the party is by
no means a unit in regarding the senior
Senator is indispensable to the State
and the country in a senatorial capaci-
ty. Enough is being said to indicate a
very extensive opinion that it is about
time for him to step down and out of a
position in which he has been neither
useful nor ornamental.
One of the Press's correspondents,
writing from the insurrectionary re-
gion of Bradford, where Senator Eu-
ERY has his dwelling place, doesn't
mince matters in expressing his oppo-
sition to Cameron's candidacy for a
re-election. The following is a sam-
ple of his dissent :
We want a man with some soul and earnest-
ness. Neither CameroN nor Quay, has repre-
sented this State, but unfortunately we can’t
reach the latter. A large majority of the Re-
publicans are opposed to CAMERON'S re-elec-
tion, and were it submitted to a popular vote
he would be almost lost sight of; as it is, no-
thing but money will do it. Every member
who votes for him should be spotted.
The party has already suffered severely
from the actions of “bosses,” and the sooner
it gets rid of Cameron and a few such the bet-
ter it will be for it.
There are some who believe that
there is a quiet but systematic work
going on to defeat CAMERON by induc-
ing a sufficient number of members to
refuse to participate in. the caucus
nomination, and, by their staying out
and defeating an election, compel the
abandonment of CAMERON, as OLIVER
was abandoned in 1881 and MiTcHELL
elected. But there is reason to regard
such an expectation as visionary.
CAMERON'S grip on the party, although
greatly relaxed, is in all probability
strong enough for another term in the
Senate.
——The Democrats of Maine are
encouraged by the hope that the next
Legislature of that State will pass an
Australian ballot law. The people are
calling ‘or it loudly and it is scarcely
possible that the Republicans will be
deaf to a demand that is being made
with such emphasis. With a reformed
ballot law the Kittery navy yard would
lose much of its political usefulness.
It Will Be an Interesting Fight.
There is going to be a big time and
a lively fight when the Republican
Legislature shall get together for
organization next January. The row
is going to be over the election of a
Speaker. Magee, flushed with the
defeat of Quay, wants to exert a pre-
dominant influence in organizing the
House. He will have his candidate
for Speaker who wiil not be the candi-
date of the Boss whom he helped to hum-
ble at the recent election. The antagon-
ism of that contest will be carried into
the fight for the speakership, making
it extremely interesting to those who
will not be in it and whose heads will
not be targets for the blows given and
taken.
MaceE has a right to claim preced-
ence over QUAY in the control of the
coming Legislature. He was the vie-
tor 1 the fight with che Boss, and the
victor should have the spoils. He may
justly regard Quay’s interference with
the speakership as a piece of pre-
sumption on the part of a politician
who was subjected to such complete
condemnation at the polls. He is de-
termined to thoroughly humiliate his
foe. Itis understood to be his purpose
to succeed Quay in the Senate, and
therefore it is his determination to
stop the Boss at once from exercising
any influence over the State Legisla-
ture.
This fight will put CaMeroN in a
dilemma. The conflict between Ma-
GEE and Quay is irreprescible, but his
ambition to succeed himself as Sena-
ator uveeds the support of both; he
cannot afford to offend either of them.
CAMERON'S sympathies are evidently
with Mager, and in the speakership
fight he may vet discover it to be his
advantage to allow his influence to g»
with his sympathies.
——And now it is reported through
the authority of the New York World
that Carrey Ross has tound.
He turns up, accor ling wo the World's
statement, in the person of a Bowery
boy who knows his parentage hut has
lost the natural feeling for his parents.
If it is really CHARLEY he is nov near-
ly 21 years of age, and a rougn ~peoi-
men of young manhood.
been
SASS ———
——=Send two dollars and get the
WarcnMaN.
A Revolationary Project.
It is to be hoped that the Republi-
cans of New Hampshire will not suc-
ceed in robhing the Democrats of a
Governor and United States Sena-
tor which the result of the recent
election has legitimately given them.
There was no election of Governor by
the people, and according to the pecu-
liar law of the State the Legislature
will have to elect that officer. This
duty is to be performed by the next
Legislature, the majority of which has
been elected by the Democrats.
It is the purpose of the Republicans
to overcome the Democratic majority
in the incoming Legislature by induc-
ing the Governor to call the old Legis-
lature together which would take upon
itself the power of determining the
membership of the new Legislature,
the object being to throw out enough
Democratic members to make it a Re-
publican body. It would then pro:
ceed to elect a Republican Governor
and United States Senator. This is
clearly a revolutionary project. It
proposes to trench upon the rights and
functions of the new Legislature in
controversion of the rule that every
legislative body is the proper judge of
the qualifications of its own members.
It should be, ard we trust will be, suc-
cessfully resisted.
Compulsory Voting.
Among the election reforms talked
of is one to be brought about by a
law compelling the citizen to exercise
his right of suffrage. If he fails to cast
his vote it is proposed to subject him
to a penalty. How it wonld work in
this free and independent country is
problematical. But in Canada they
are going to try compulsory voting, a
bill to that effect having been brought
before the legislative council. By the
terms of the proposed bill those who
are on the voting list wili be required
to vote. Their failure to do so will be
published. Ifwithin 60 days the de-
linquent shall not give satisfactory rea-
son for not doing his duty as a vater,
he shall be disfranchised by having
his name stricken from the voting list.
This is the penalty, but citizenship may
be restored on payment of $25, which
is practically a fine to that amount,
This measure is intended to provide
against a form of hribery in which a
voter may accept a bribe to stay away
from the polls. The Australian ballot
system provides for every other form
of election bribery, and it may take a
compulsory ballot law in addition to
wipe out that evil entirely.
Delayed Benefits.
There has been a perceptible increase
in the price of many different commo-
dities since the new tariff went into op-
eration. In the aggregate the increase
of cost to the consumers is material.
To compensate workingmen for this
addition to their expenses there is no
addition to their wages. This practi-
cally amounts to a redaction wages, a
result that is quite different from the
idea which has been inculcated that
the increase of the tariff was intended
for the benefit of the wage-earner.
Two dollars a day earned by labor
suffers a shrinkage in consequence of
the increased price of necessaries,which
virtually means just that much taken
off the compensation of the laborer.
If this increase of the tariff is really
intended to benefit the workingmen,
their wages should be advanced so as
to at least cover the increased cost of
living brought about by the McKinley
bill. The protected manufacturers
should not hesitate in giving such an
illustration of the beneficent eftects of
a bigh tariff upon the well being of
the working people.
EHO ete OEE
The Guardsmen Not Likely to Be
There.
It isn’t probable that the National
Gua:d of Pennsylvania will take part
in the inauguration of Governor Parri-
son. The attendance of the military
force of the State at the inaugural cere-
monies has been offered by Governor
B aver, but from the well known dis-
position ot his successor to avoid dis-
pay there is nothing to encourage the
expectation that there will be a milita-
ry pageant when Governor ParTisoN
shall be sworn into office. Besides, the
guardemen are not anxious to take
part in such a demonstration, which
will come off at a season that is often
severely cold. They have a bitter re-
collection of what they endured at the
inanguration of Governor BrAvVER four
years ago, when all of them really suf-
fered, and some cases of sickness were
contracted that terminated fatally.
There was an experience almost as
bad at the inauguration of President
HARRISON two years later.
On such an occasion, when ‘the
weather is severe civilians in attend-
ance can accommodate themselves to
the situation, but the militia have no
discipline requiring them to face and
endure the severity of the weather.
No doubt there will be more of a de-
monstration at Governor PATTISON'S
second inauguration than there was at
his first, but it is not probable that the
military will take part in it, and the
reason for their absence will be a very
good one.
I (A
A Race for Riches.
It is nip and tuck between Jay
Gourp and JouN ROCKEFELLER in the
race for the distinction of being the
richest man in the world. ROCKEFEL-
LER, through the absorbing power of
the Standard octopus, has sucked in a
hundred and fifty millions, ana this
suction is said to be going on at the
rate of ten millions a year.
The natural resources of the oil re-
gion furnish the petroleum devil-fish
with its prey, but it is from the rail-
roads that the great vampire of the
New York stock market draws the
blood that is swelling ic to colossal
proportions. GouLp, it is believed,
made many millions in the recent
stock panic when the best securities
ran down to panic prices and his ready
money enabled him ‘o scoop in the
bonanzas with which Wall street was
literaily strewd. It is estimated that
his recent exploit increased his
ownership of stock to 1,000,000 shares
and gave him control of the leading
railroad systems of the West. With
such neans of plunder GouLp is in a
situation to make his accumulations
surpass the spoil which ROCKEFELLER
secures from a monopoly of the coal
oil trade.
Oar learned contemporary, the
Philadelphia Record, errs somewhat
10 saying that “a girl of 13 succeeds to
the throne of WiLLiaym the Silent.”
The great founder of the Dateh com-
moawezalth never had a throne, nor
did any of his successors to the title
and dignity of the House of Orange
possess such a monarchical piece of
furniture until the Netherlands
converied into a kingdom after the fall
of NaproLeoN. A Datch Stadtholder or
Grand Pensionary had as little use for
a throne as has a President of the
United States.
was
The police force has carefully
counted the inhabitants of Brooklyn,
New York, and finds them to be 853,-
943. PorTER'S census returned them
as being slightly in excess of 808,000.
A discrepancy of 45,000 shows that
somebody made a mistake, and Por-
TER refuses to go over the count again
lest 1t might be shown that the mis-
take was his.
Surprise in a Rum Barrel.
European Edition of the N. Y. Herald.
M. Lebon,a wine merchant of Nancy,
sent a barrel of rum to a friend at Marsal
on Saturday last. His friend was
pleased. He licked his lips, rolled his
eyes and patted the dower front portion
of his anatomy softly and with an air
of exceeding comfort. He lost no time
in trying a sample of the new arrival,
but there was a flavor about it which
puzzled hir: greatly. He tasted it
again and it seemed queerer than ever.
Determined to solve the mystery he
took out the head of the cask, and his
horror may be conceived when he found
the cask contained all that was mortal
of Mme, Lebon, who had disappeared
mysteriously three weeks before. To
set the police after M. Lebon was the
work of a moment, but when they ar-
rived they found he had already done
justice on himself. Four workmen and
two relatives have been arrested on sus-
picion of being concerned in the crime.
A Remarkable Canal.
The most remarkable canal in the
world is the one between Worsley and
St. Helens, in north England. It is six-
teen miles long and underground from
end to end. a Lancashire the coal
mines are very extensive, balf the coun-
try being undermined. Many years
ago the managers of the Duke of Bridge
water’s estates thought they could save
money by transporting the coal under-
ground insiead of on the surfice ; there-
fore the canal was constructed, and the
mines connected and drained at the
same time. Ordinary canalboats are
used, the power being furnished by men.
The tunnel arch over the canal is pro-
vided with cross pieces, and the men who
do the work of propulsion lie on their
backs on the loads of coal, and push
with their feet against the cross bars of
the roof.—St Louis Republic.
The Preacher Got the Worst of It.
LoxpoN, November 23.—1In the Ita-
lian Catholic church, at Hatter Garden
to-day, the rector, Rev. Mr. Bauning,
took occasion to denounce Parnell,
whereupon several members of the con-
gregation left the church. A scene of
great disorder ensiied, the people shou t-
ing, ‘Mind: yours! own: bosiness,”’
“Leave politics alone,” etc. On leaving |
the church Father Banning was attack- |
ed by a crowd and was struck several: |
times. He was escorted home by the
police, who had great difficulty in pro-
tecting him.
Protectionist Aphorisms.
“A cheap coat argues a cheap man in-
side the coat.”’— William McKinley.
“Cheap necessaries of living make
‘cheap men.” —=Henry Cabot Hodge.
“When a man cannot own two coats
under this tariff, let ‘him content: him-
self with one coat.” —Jay Gould.
“A tariffis not a tax,”’—The Tarif
liberty of action, their regulations and
Majority in Congress.
i inch longer than the other.
The Veteran Legion.
The following, extracted: from the
Grand Army Gazette and Nationa
Gardsman, has been handed us for
publication by a Bellefonte veteran who
was not a coffee-cooler. We can readily
endorse the sentient it expresses :
The “Union Veteran Legion” is an
organization of comparctively recent or-
igin. But its growth has been steady and
rapid, and its prosperity is continually
increasing. From its membership all
are debarred who carnot show at least
two years honorable service, and men-
tioned prior to July, 1863, or a discharge
for wounds received in the pursuance
of duty. Coftee-coolers, 30-day drafted
men, or substitutes, and those who never
smelled gunpowder, can find no en-
trance into this honorable order com-
pused solely of veterans who went to
the front without the promise of a boun-
ty or any hope of pecuniary reward.
Nor can any wan whose military or
civil record is stained hope to gain ad-
mission into the ranks of the Union
Veteran Legion. It seeks to fill its
ranks from the young enthusiastic, coun-
try-loving patriots of twenty-eight years
ago, and who rushed to the front to save
the life of the nation. They are the he-
roes who did not go to Canada, or look
for substitutes, or wait until the offer of
a big bounty allured them from thier
homes. In short they are the lower of
the Union Army of long ago.
There are many other banded organi-
zations of alleged soldiers, but none can
compare with the Veteran Legion. In
the Grand Army, for instance, any man
who was mustered into the service of
the United States for one day only, and
was honorably discharged, stands on a
par with the vetetan of three or four
years service and the hero of a hundred
battiefields. Other organizations dare
not discriminate by grading comrades
of whom they are composed, nor can
they afford to permit the wearing of a
service badge. ~ Ifthey allowed this, dis-
cord and dissension wonld be the im-
mediate result between the long and
short term men. The Union Veteran
Legion alone offers a place in its ranks
for every genuine veteran, and every
old soldier or sailor with a record of
which he is proud should promptly seek
admission. Comrades desiring to organ-
izea Union Vetearn Legion Encamp-
ment can communicate with Dr. G. J.
R. Miller, National Commander, 1769
Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Union Veteran Legion is not
made up of men who fought for money
rather than the country, nor does it take
into its membership men of this charac-
ter. It is not true that the Legion an-
tagonizes the G. A R.—it simply distin-
guishes between those who can truly be
classed as veterans and those who are
not. Nor will it do for the G. A. R, to
oppose the U. V. L., for if there should
be an exodus of genuine veterans from
the former to the latter, the remaining
members of the Grand Army would not
feel very proud of the attitude in which
they were placed. In such an event the
wearers of the round lapel button of the
G. A. R. would cut a sorry figure in
comparison with the veterans who sport-
ed the chield of the U. V. L., denot-
ing at least two years of service unless
sooner discharged for honorable wounds
received in the discharge of duty.
That there were thousands of patriotic
boys who could not, on account of there
age, gain admission in the army in ’61
and 62, and who did succeed in enlist-
ing '63 and ’64, is a well known fact.
It is unfortunate that this class of
worthy men are debarred from admis-
sion to the ranks of the Veteran Legion.
However, such is the fact. It is an
iron clad organization as regards its
laws, and it is impossible to become a
member except the applicant can fur-
nish positive official proof of his having
enlisted before the days of drafts and
bounties,and served continuously for two
years at the front,
Eligible veretans in this county will
be furnished with applications for mem-
bership by writing to Encampment No.
59, Bellefonte, Pa.—[Cor. WATCHMAN.
Art of the Tailor.
“No two men, even of exact height
and weight,” said a prominent New
York tailor the other day, ‘‘can wear
the same clothes and be fit. If the
measurement were exactly the same,
which it never is, they couldn’t do it.
Why? Now, I don’t know. ButlI
have found it to be a fact. The meas-
urement for a pair of trousers, for in-
stance, might be exactly the same, yet
one man will have to be allowed from
one to three inches more length in the
leg than the other. The man who is
naturally stout or fat, and the man who
has grown fat late in life, may look and
even measure actually alike, but the
same cut of cloth will never fit both.
Herein lies the great art of tailoring.
The variations in the construction of
the human body are marvellous. Now,
the man who just left—he is a minister
of the Gospel, He must have clothes to
fit him and fic his business. His arm
pit, shoulder blades and arms do not cor-
respond with those of any other man ;
nor does the right side correspond with |
the left. He probably gestures a good |
deal more with his right hand. He
doesn’t know that that arm is fully an |
This strue-
tural difference in men is more general
than you would imagine.” — Pittsburg
Dispatch. |
Sullivan as a Bruiser.
TauxNtToN, Mass. November 22.—
John L. Sullivan and Duncan B. Har-
rison, with other members of their com-
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‘pany, came to this city yesterday. Sul-
livan celebrated in his usual manner, |
"after having been treated like a nabob
by the sports of the city, and nearly |
broke his neck by falling through a win-
dow of the City Hotel: During the af-
ternoon he varied the monotony by
kicking Harrison in the back, injuring
him so that he could. not appear at the |
evening performance, while the latter |
was attended by three doctors Harri- |
son went to, Boston to-day, and it is fear | but the chances ave it will. — Washing - | men W
ed that his spine is injured.
leveland’s Tariff Reform Anticipated.
b2en called to a ;
the
Our attention has
published
communication in
reform very much as it was afterward s
expressed in Cleveland's celebrated
Message. Since Cleveland's position on
thatsabject has been so emphatically
sustained by the people, the communi-
cation anticipating his doctrine and pol-
icy bacrmes an article of much interest,
and therefore we give it as follows :
“FOR REVENUE ONLY.”
Eprror REpuBLIcan : The elections
are now overaud each party, Democrats,
Republicans, Prohibition znd Green-
back, may be said to have held their
ground. But as long as New York
ans can never elect another President.
The President should now enforce the
Civil Service Reform so far as to see
that competent and honest men are put
in public position ; but they stiould 1n-
variably be Democrats. It is to be
hoped that he will, in his forthcoming
message, open up the Tariff question,
for there is no subject that the Amer-
ican people are so much in need of edu-
cation as on that question ; and it is to
be hoped that the incoming Congress
will agitate and debate the issue so as to
enlighten the people, because it is their
true interest. The first question in my
opinion, to be done, is for Congross to
revise, adjust and equalize the tariff law
and then commence with a horizontal
reduction of from flve to ten per cent.
annually until we get down to a strictly
revenue basis.
ness interests of the country would pec:
haps be too great to reduce the tariff’ to
a revenue husis at once,but we have the
example of England before us, in repeal-
ing their Corn Laws by an annual 7e-
duction, as well as the act of our own
country when there was a horizontal
reduction of five, or ten per cent. of the
tariff of 1882. This plan gives the busi-
ness of the country time to assimilate and
adapt itseif to the change. I am like
you, Mr. Editor ; I think the Internal
tax on whisky should be allowed to re-
main, as this tax can be avoided by any
one without any detriment to themsel-
ves or violatingany laws, and the neces-
saries of life should be left free, or as
nearas may be. After securing what
revenue we can from this source, then
the balunce of the wants of the Govern-
ment should be raised from the imports
into the country, and as soon as a reve-
nue basis is reached, thea the reduction
indicated should cease. The Secretary
of the Treasury should be given discre-
tionary power in the matter,and when t! e
wants of the Government can afford it,
he to have the power to add or reduce
five, or ten per cent, as the case may be.
sure source of ra'sing revenue, and at
the same tine be a check upon anv sur-
plus revenue piled up in the Treasury.
While I would start down Ail in the
way of a reduction of the tariff, I would
also start up hill in the way of progress,
and in the course of four or five years
the country would be down to a strict-
ly revenue basis, and the change would
be so gradual that business would not
feel it. When we are once rightly start-
ed on this basis or business highway, all
the industries of the country would be-
come active and our goods and wares
would find a market in all parts of the
world. Then labor would be in demand,
particularly expert labor, and wages
would advance. This would be the re-
verse of the present infamous system of
taxing everything. Our imported raw
material being loaded down with a duty,
when the articles are ready for market
they are driven out ot the markets of
the world by England,France, Belgium,
Germany, etc., by reason of their low-
er prices for the sane articles. Here is
where the over production comes in.
This leaves us no markets but our own
people. And with all the new im-
provements in machinery our manufac-
turers can produce in siz months all the
market will take up in twelve months.
This forces us to shut down for six
months of the year. and consequently
the laborer is thrown out of employment
and the faults and crimes of idleness are
entailed, while with the other, or Dem-
ocratic common sense system, we have
the World for a market. And being
able to compete With any nation on
earth, our industries would ve employ-
ed all the year. This system wo uld
bring us back to 1850—1860, when you
could count the millionaires on the ends
of your fingers, while in twenty years’
rule of the Republicans we count them
by hundreds. It took centuries to build
up the millionaires of Europe, with the
aid of entailment laws to keep the land
in the hands of the few. But in the
United States in twenty years they grow
up like mushrooms. This all same
about by false legislation in favor of the
rich, or in other words; a Protective
tariff which its advocates glgim
protects the laboring man. It does pro-
‘tect him in one thing. He will pot be
bothered with ‘much of this world’s
‘goods to look after should the Demo-
crats pursue the Republican policy of
governing the country ? We all boast
of our free country, that we have person-
al liberty and all are on an equality be
fore the law. Thatis all right, and is all
any man should ask Labor should be
free and withopt restrictions, each man
ought to be allowed to buy where he
can’buy the cheapest and sell where he
can get the best price for his wares. A
tariff might be all right in this country,
were it not that the other countries
strike back. You restrict them and
they will restrict you. Tax them and
they will tax yon. I am one of those
that believe that the best way is to allow
freedom in all things designed to do
right ; restrict only when necessary to
resirain the evil doer. I must close as
I am now too lengthy. My object is to
caliattenti on to the important subject
so that people will begin to think.
Thought brings action and action brings
results. Mr. Editor, where I am wrong
correct me and wiere I am right make it
more plain.
Yours truly,
J. W. POTTER,
November 13th. 1885
SE
—— All is not Gould's that glitters,
ton Star.
Clearfield Republican of November 13,
1885, which expressed the idea of tariff
The shock to the busi- |
This would insure to the Government a |
A Bigger Boodle Fund.
Republicans Will Pass the Shipping
Subsidy Bill, Then the Hat.
WasHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 23.—The
motive which induced the President to
send out the “whip” from the White
House to Republican Members of Con
gress, urging them to be 1n their seats at
the opening day of the season and to be
| prepared to maintain a quorum during
| the remainder of the session, is pow
| known. It comes from a source, the re-
; liability of which is not to be questioned,
' that it is the intention of the President,
| and Spraker Reed is understood to have
given his hearty acquiesence to the plan,
to pass the Shipping Subsidy bis wiih
the least possible delay. These biils
are to be used as the collateral on which
the Republicans intend to raise their
| Presidential campaign fund. The Re-
| . : .
| publican Congressional Campaign Coui-
stands by the Democrats tbe Beopiintie | mittee complained during the recent
! campaign that they were not able to
| raise money, as the manufacturers had
| contributed largely to the campaign
fund in the last Presidential election,
| and the passage of the Tauff hill was
only in payment for services rendered.
It was said during the campaign that
| if the Republican managers could have
guaranteed the passage of the Shipping
bills, a large campaign fund could have
been raised, but they were notin a po-
gition to make any such guarantees, and
the contributions which they expected
were not made. If the:e bills are pass-
| ed at this session the vessel owners who
i will profit by them are expected to make
very substantial acknowledgement. t
the money thus raised will be used in
the fall of 92. Tt is for that Harrison
is working. When the bills were first
{introduced Representative Cannon was
opposed to them, and it was owing to
{ his opposition that they were not con-
sidered in the House, as no report could
be made from the Committee on Rules
assigning a day for their consideration.
Itis understood that since the recent
cyclone in the Fitteenth Illinois district.
the scales have fallen from Hon. G.’s
eves, and he has been converted by the
President, and now sees the necessity of
plundering the Treasury for the sake of
raising a campaign fund. That the bills
will pass it Speaker Reed is able to hold
bis forces together is a foregone conclu~
sion,
Insists That He is Dead.
WILKE BARRE, Pa., Nov. 55. —Wilkes-
barre physicians are puzzled over one
of the most singular cases that ever has
come under their notice. John C. Far-
| rell, ex-Superintendent of the Wilkes-
{ barre Water Company, a wealthy eciti-
zen of this place, has not eaten a morsel
of food for two weeks. He persistently
refuses to eat, insisting that he is dead.
| His physicians say a mania such as his
i is almost unheard of. His friends have
| concluded to have him ‘transferred to
the Lusane Hospital at Danville.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Hog cholera has broken out in
parts of the county. It with the scar-
city of corn,is causing earlier butchering
and less fut pork than usual.
-—Work on the old Academy
building is progressing rapidly and it
will not be long now until Bellefonte
will have a neat attractive building in
which students can follow all the ad-
vanced lines of academic work.
——Mr. Wm, B. Maitland, proprietor
of the Bellefonte Boiler Works, on Tues-
day presented to each one of his em-
ployes a fine turkey for Thanksgiving.
This is a yearly custom of Mr. Maitland,
showing that he is a gentleman of
liberal spirit.
——Seventeen persons have filed their
applications for the comnussioners clerk-
ship. The sixteen who wont get it will
each have plenty of company in his de-
feat and won’t need be lonesome when
reflecting over the uncertainties of
doubtful things.
——On Tuesday and Wednesday Mr
Robert A. Jackson and family, of Osce-
ola, meved into thelate residence of
John Ardell, Jr., on East Linn street.
Mr. Jackson comes to Bellefonte to ac-
cept the management of the Universal
Manufacturing Company.
Miss Belle Shortlidge, of Media, .
Pa., stopped off here op her way home
from Pittsburg, where she has been as a
delegate to the non-partisan Temper-
ance convention. Miss Shortlidge is a
cousin of our townsman, Mr. William
Shortlidge, at whose home she is visiting.
—— Willliam, son «f James and
Margaret Bradley, died atthe home of
his parents in Milesburg on Wednesday,
November 18th, 1390, aged 21 years, 8
months and 18 days. For over fifteen
vears he bad been a cripple--the result of
an i njury received in early childhood.
The Lock Haven Democrat was
was very much worried during the ear-
ly part of the week lest some of Belle-
fonte’s best dancers would go down to that -
little city and carry off the silver cups
offered by the Knights of Labor to the
best lady and gentleman ghde waltzer-
at their dance, which was held in the -
armory at that placce on Thanksgiving -
Eve.
A GREAT DIscovERY.—James Do-
lan, of Bellefonte, an experienced miner,
| has leased the Wm. McGowen property
near Roopsburg and has found iat a
depth of 65 feet the largest deposit of
pipe iron ore that has yet been op-
ened in Centre county. The ore as tak.
en from the mines is marketable. Iron
ho are interested should call and
see it.