Terms 82.00 A Year, in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa. Janudry 30, 1891.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EbpiTor
semana
An Amendment That Wouldn’t Amend.
An attempt will be made to amend,
or at least to change, the license law
now in operation in Pennsylvania,
known as the Brooks law. A bill has
been offered in the Legislature propos-
iag to make considerable alteration in
its provisions, one of which is to take
the power of granting licenses from the
courts and place it in the hands of
three license commissioners in each
ward, borough and township, to be
elected by popular vote and to hold of-
fice for three years.
It is easy to see the objection that
can justly be brought against such a
measure, which would throw the ques-
tion of license into our elections and
make it, more or less, a political one.
The liquor men would havean interest-
ed motive for influencing these elections,
with an effect that would be far from
promoting their purity or advancing
the public welfare.
The bill farther provides that there
may be an appeal to the courts from
the decisions of these license commis-
sioners so that after all there would
be a fight before the judges over the
licensing of objectionable applicants,
as every one would be certain to be ap-
pealed, causing more trouble and ex-
pense than under the present system,
and no end of contention and confu-
sion,
There may be defects in the present
license law that need amendment, but
the remedy is not furnished by the pro-
vision authorizing the election of
ward, township and borough license
commissioners.
Protection of the State Treasury.
There is no duty more urgent upon
the present State Legislature than the
enactment of a law for the better pro-
tection of the State Treasury. A con-
current resolution has been adopted
for the appointment of a committee to
make a thorough investigation of the
present method of conducting the
treasury business, but unless this in-
vestigation be divested of partisanship,
and has for its sole object the protec-
tion of the State's interests and not the
advancement of private schemes in the
depositing of the State funds, an im-
provement cannot be expected.
Nothing but a complete divorce of
the treasury from the banks will bring
about the greatly needed reform. Treas-
urer BoyEr evidently is not alive to
the urgent necessities of the case, for
he makes no recommendation in his
annual report that meets the danger to
which the State funds are exposed by
being placed in unsafe hands. His
own case should have suggested to
him the remedy. He should have
been taught wisdom by the Delamater
and Jamison defaults.
It is true, he recommends that only
one fourth of the State tax be applied
to the sinking fund ; that one-half of
the personal tax collected by the State
be surrendered to the counties to furth-
er the scheme of tax equalization, and
that the revenue of the liquor licenses
be also given to the counties. These
are good suggestions so far as they go,
but what he should have emphasized
was the necessity ot the State money
being put in such a situation that the
people could be assured that it was
not being used by favored partisans
and bankers.
—— When Mr. Busn, of Lackawan-
na, the other day introduced in the
House a bill requiring railroad com-
panies throughout the State to fence in
their lands and tracks, there was a
visible excitement among the agents
and friends of those corporations in
and about the capitol, who hastened
to arrange an opposition to it. The
bill is intended to be a general one, and
in this connection we may allude to
the fact that in Centre county the rail-
road companies have for some years
been compelled by special act to fence
their roads or pay damages for killing
cattle or other stock, with the effect of
affording a much appreciated public
protection.
——
There is no reason for any one
to be surprised at the neat coat of white
wash which the investigating com.
mittee have applied in Pension. Com-
missioner Raum’s case. Although evi-
dence was not wanting ot Ravnm's offi
cial misbehavior, the investigation was
the facts of the case.
The American people would be
pleased to see an extensive American
merchant marine, but they prefer to
have it built up on correct commercial
principles, and not by the stimulation
of government bounties.
Counteraction to Republican Revolu-
tion.
The Philadelphia Record points out
the effect which the revolutionary pro-
ceeding of the Republicans with their
force bill may have in influencing the
Democrats to resort to counteracting
measures, irregular, if not as revolu-
tionary in their character. The force
bill has no other object than to perpet-
uate the political power of the Republi-
can party. To head of this scheme
the Democratic Legislatures in such
States as Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio
and Indiana could change the present
method of choosing Presidential electors
on a general ticket to election by dis-
tricts, as congressmen are chosen. The
effect of this would be that States
which usually give all their electors to
Republican Presidential candidates
would give as many Democratic elec-
tors as there are Democratic districts
in them, and this would make the
election of a Republican President im-
possible.
The State Legislatures have a right
to make such a change, for the Feder-
al constitution provides that Presiden-
tial electors shail be appointed in such
manner as the State Legislatures may
direct. The revolutionary action of
the Republicans with their force bill
may be followed, for the purpose of
self-defense, by revolutionary counter-
action on the part ot the Democrats.
It would be entirely justifiable, and,
moreover, would be a step toward a
better method of choosing Presidential
electors.
No Cause for Glerification.
The glorification over the produe-
tion of American tin plate as the result
of the protection afforded by the Mec-
Kinley bill, is surely a waste of enthu-
siasm. Both at Chicago and at Pitts
burg where two tin-plants have sprung
into existence under the fostering in-
finence of a high tariff, nothing that is
of American production is employed in
the industry. The iron plates are im-
ported from Wales; the tin into
which they are dipped is also im-
ported, and the dipping is done by im-
ported Welsh workmen. There is no
tin ore in this country and no appear-
ance that any will ever be discovered.
So, for the profit which protected mon-
opolists may make out of the employ-
ment of Welsh workers in coating im-
ported iron plates with imported tin,
every housekeeper in the United States
finds the price of his tinware increased,
and the canning trade is made to bear
an unnecessary and unjust burden.
Such is the equity of protection.
Criticism Without Cause.
The Philadelphia Press indulges in
remarkable criticism of Governor Part-
T1soN last inaugural address, condemn-
ing it for containing a repetition of
what he had said in his first inaugural.
There was certainly no impropriety in
the Governor repeating the recommen-_
dations he made eight years ago,which
he found disregarded when he came in-
to office again. If he uses pretty near-
ly the same language it should be
shown that other language would have
been more expressive and would have
answered the purpose better. before he
is condemned for the repetition. The
fact that they are his own words repro-
duced to do the same duty they did
eight years ago, renders the charge of
plagiary absurb. When he gets back
to his old post of duty he finds the old
abuses still unremedied and in opera-
tion, and if in renewing their condem-
nation and recommending their correc-
tion he employs the old langurge, noth-
ing could be more suitable.
——The employes of the Cambria
iron works at Johnstown, which in
number run into the thousands, have
been notified that their wages will be
reduced 15 per cent. The friends of
the McKinley bill haveall along pro-
tested that it will be liked the better as
people become better acquainted with
it;buat if thisis the sort of acquaintance
with it that the workmen of the Cam-
bria works are going to have, it is not
likely that it will become the object of
their love and admiration.
Concerning the State's reimburs-
mg Wu. H. Keusre the amount he
advanced for the relief of the Johns:
town sufferers, a contemporary sug-
gests that while itis the duty ot the
State to refund the money furnished for
that emergency, there should be a care-
ful audit betore the Legislature shall
make an appropriation for this pur-
pose. It will certainly be pradent to
go a little slow in this matter.
: i |
intended more for the purpose of ignor-
ing the evidence than of bringing out |
——DBills have been introduced in
the State Legislature for the more ef.
fectual suppression of the use of cigar-
etts by boys; for fecompulsory attend
ance at school ; for the prevention of
treating to intoxicating liquors and
sparring in public halls and other
places for money. Such fancy legisla-
tion seldom materializes.
——The ballot reform bill is making
rapid progress through the State Legis-
lature, it having advanced to a third !
reading in the House, and thereis a
equal celerity in the Senate ; but it is
well enough for its friends to look out
for snakes which its enemies may have
concealed in the grass. So far it seems
to have fair sailing.
A Pregnant Truth.
New York World.
No more striking utterance has been
made 1n any State paper this year than
Governor Pattison’s epigrammatic say-
ing. “ When money shall be king at tha
American polls, money will be king at
American capitols.”
Money was king atthe polls in the
general election of 1888, and money has
been king at the Capitol since that
time.
On the day that Harrison and Mor-
ton were inaugurated as the result of
Dudley's buying of votes in ‘‘blecks of
five” in Indiana, and Quay’s purchase
of the electoral vote of New York, with
money contributed for that purpose by
Wanamaker and other pharisees, the
World arrested the attention of the
country by its editorial on “Triumphant
Plutocracy,” declaring that ‘to-day, at
the capital of the Republic, Money seals
and celebrates its triumph in the elec-
tion.”
As a result of that triumph a monop-
oly Tarif law was enacted at the be-
hest and under the personal direction’
of the men who contributed the money
to buy the election. The surplus was
squandered in order to render more
difficult any reduction of bounty-creat-
ing taxation in the future. Money rul-
ed at the Capitol.
In further illustration of the sordid
nature of the plutocrat in politics, wit-
ness the spectacle of a Senator from that
seat of monopoly, Pennsylvania, voting
for the free coinage of silver as an aid to
his miserable speculations !
Witness a Vice President, nominated
and elected as a reward for and a stimu-
lant to enormous contributions to his
party’s campaign funds, ruling and giv-
ing casting votes in favor of gag rules
and force laws to perpetuate the reign of
the money power in the Government !
It is time for the American people to
consider more seriously than they have
ever done before whether men or money
shall rule in this Republic.
Bancroft’s Democratic Career.
George Bauncroft,the eminent historian
who died last week, was for many years
of hig life a prominent member of the
Democratic party. In 1835 he drafted
an address to the people of Massachu-
setts at the request of the Young Men’s
Democratic Convention, and in Janua-
ry, 1838, he was appointed Collector of
the Port of Boston by President Van
Buren. Six years later he was the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, but was defeated,
though receiving a larger vote than
any member ot his party before. Mr.
Bancroft became Secretary of the Navy
under President Polk and signalized
his administration by the establishment
of the Naval Academy at Aunapolis
and by other reforms and improve-
ments. During his term of office he
also acted as Secretary of War pro tem
for a month, during which he gave the
order for the first occupation ot Texas
by the United States. From 1846 to
1849 Mr. Bancroft was a Minister to
Great Britain. He embraced the op-
portunity thus afforded him to renew
his acquaintance with his old friends
in Germany and to become well ac-
quainted with the copious manuscript
materials in the public records ot Lon-
don for the history of the American
Revolution. In February, 1866, he de-
livered before Congress the official com-
memorative oration upon the lite and
career of President Lincoln, a produc:
tion warmly admired, but which did
not escape severe criticism. During
the great reconstruction agitation of
the following year Mr. Bancroft heart
ily supported the administration of
Paesident gohnson. He was appointed
in 1867 Minister Plenipotentiary to
Prussia, a title which was exchanged
for that of Minister to the North Ger-
man Confederation in 1868, and Envoy
to the new German Empire in 1871.
The most important act ofeMr. Ban-
croft’s diplomatic career in Germany
was the signature of the celebrated
treaties with the North German Con-
federation and various smaller States
upon the rights and privileges of natur-
alized German citizens of the United
states, measures which called forth
widely differing expressions of opinion.
Disappointed Workingmen.
Workingmen in search of employ-
ment should keep out of Chicago at this
time. That city is overrun with idle
workingmen who went there with their
families in the expectation that the
World’s Fair would give them abun-
dance of work at good wages. But up to
this time not a stroke of work has been
done on the Exposition grounds, and
more mechanics are in Chicago now than
will be likely to obtain employment
when the work shall have actually been
begun. At any rate, it will be prudent
for all concerned to await the demand
tor more labor in that city.
Five years ago the two Faulkner
brothers, of Dansville, N. Y., were
prosperous bankers and influential
citizens, But they fell victims to the
accursed thirst for gold ; and one died
in the shadow of a seven years sentence,
while last week the other was sent to
the Albany Penitentiary for five years.
The Faulkners were prominent in New
York State politics, and the scandal of
their misdeeds is still a lively memory
in Western New York.
——The new Idaho Senator, Shoup,
is getting himself talked about because |
He |
Morton during the night |
last week in one of the cloak- !
of his wild and woolly expressions.
approached
session
rooms, and slapping the Vice President
on the back,zaid : “Mr. Vice President,
shake ; your ruling awhile ago was
dead game.”
FTE
A Forecast of the Weather in Febru-
ary.
Rev. Irl R. Hicks, the St. Louis
' weather prophet, has this to say for Feb-
! ’ ——
probability that it will progress with ho Swesthor 4
The general storm mevemeats organiz-
ing during the last two days of Jan-
| uary, will grow in violence as they
| sweep eastward, reaching their worst
between the 1st and 3d, inclusive. On
the last day of January, Mercury passes
its disturbing point, combining on the
same day with a regular Vulcan period,
and on February 1 with a disturbing
moon phase. A warm wave, developing
rainstorms and attended by electrical
phenomena is sure to result. On the
south side of storm areas, dangerous
storms need not surprise, while to
the northward destructive sleet and
snow blizzards are apt to result. Prepare
for the period to end in one of the most
general and bitter cold waves of the
Winter. The wires will sufter wofully
during the perturbations of this period,
Mark our warning for heavy sleet. The
cold will generally relax, and much
local storminess will follow on and next
to the reactionary 6th and 7th.
The 12th is the central day of the next
regular storm period. This peried will
begin to feel severely the disturbing
power of the growing Venus perturba-
tion. Very warm temperature—enor-
mous rainfalls with thunder and light-
ning in many places, turning to snow,
and followed at the close by extreme
cold, will be the natural order for this
period.” We name the 12th, 13th and
14th, as the days of greatest activity and
danger. The extreme East may not feel
the full force before the 15th. Phenomenal
fluctuations of temperature— warm here
and zero yonder—with astonising rapid
changes, will characterize all the dis-
turbances during the remainder of the
month. Low lands and narrow, gorged
water channels are apt to be suddenly
and dangerously flooded. Regions to the
northward will have heavy snows and
blizzards, with extreme and sudden
drops of the mercury that will call for
prudent vigilance. On and next to the
18th higher temperature and reaction-
ary storms will be due.
Venus is at the centor of her disturb-
ing period on the 25th ; about the same
day a Vulcan disturbance will reach the
central parts of this continent, with
moon at its full on the 23d, Vulecan’s
central day. At this time the earth’s
vernal equinox, also, will to send its
electric, equatorial currents north ward
to battle with Boreas. Therefore, the
period running from about the 23d to
the 25th, inclusive, is one that will
bear watching. All we have said of
characteristic storms and temperatures
for February will applyspecially tothis
period. Keep your eye on it.
It Would Cut Both Ways,
The London Times says that the ex-
portation of pocket cutlery to the United
States has been seriously interfered with
by the McKinley bill, which is, perhaps,
a good thing so far as the American
makers of cutlery are concerned, but
the Times also says that the English
manufacturers are proposing to cut
down wages. This will affect us two
ways. These English workmen are
large consumers of American produce,
and the reduction of their wages will be
the reverse of a benefit to the American
farmers: If a few of these Kaglish
workmen come to this country the
American cutlery manufacturers will
shave waves down, and the American
workman will get beautifully left.
A Washington Society Lady.
Among the recent acquisitions to so-
ciety at the National Capital is a lady of
great wealth, who less than a year since
experienced a stinging retribution in
the end of a cowhide. The story goes
that while a resident of the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco the fair dame made
som» remarks of a most uncompliment-
ary nature concerning another lady
guest At first the aspersion passed
unnoticed, Lut upor. a repetition of the
offense the injured woman armed her-
self with a cow hide and, without fur-
ther ceremony, repaired to the rooms ac-
cupied by her traducer, to whom in the
most approved fashion she then and
there proceeded to administer condign
punishmert.
France and Russia United.
Parts, Jan. 23.- -General Lansdorf,
the Czar’s confidential Court Chamber-
lain, 1s to day quoted in this city as say-
ing that Russians and Frenchmen have
so many affinities of character that the
former sympathize with France and
have a profound antipathy for the peo-
ple of England and Germany, whose
characters are different. Every year,
he added, sees the financial success of
Russia and France assured, and their
union renders war impossible and re-
strain: Europe, though a feeling of
great tension recently existed between
Germany and Russia.
Eight-Hour Conflict for 150,000 Miners.
PrrrsBURG, Pa., Jan. 23.--A conflict
between the 150,000 miners of the Feder-
ation of Labor and the mine-owners for
eight hours as a day’s work, will, accord-
ing to General Organizer W. J. Dillon,
of the Federation, take place on May 1.
{ Mr. Dillon divides a portion of these
| prospective strikers thus: In the Penn-
| sylvania anthracite region, 25,000 ; 12,-
{ 000 in the Pittsburg district ; 10,000 in
| the Clearfield region, and 75,000 in the
West and South.
——A wag at Wilkesbarre wrote to a
traveling passenger agent at Tyrone to
come to that town, giving the street and
numberstating that fifty persons “would
i like to go west.” The agent hurried to
| the town,bunted up the place and found
{it to be the jail—fifty prisoners inside.
The agent saw he was fooled, and then
| sent other agents there for the party to
[ sell them tickets. The fifty will not go
west this winter, and for the past two
weeks the hotel men were wondering
what was bringing so many passenger
"agents to Wilkesbarre.
|
|
|
{
Lymph Enough for 7000 Doses.
A vial containing enough of Dr.
Koch’s lymph to inoculate 7000 patients
| was received last week by Mayor Fitler
"through the State Department, and will
be used at the Philadelphia Hospital.
Recent Changes at Niagara.
Formerly the Canadian side of the
Niagara falls was U-shaped, which caus-
ed the name of Horseshoe falls to be
given. But for the last ten ora dozen
years the fall has been V-shaped instead
of U-shaped, the change being caused
by a wearing away of the ledge over
which the waters pour. On Jan. 4. 1889,
a further displacement of rocks occurred,
and the great Canadian cataract is again
a “Horseshoe fall.” It is, of coursa,
known that the falls of Niagara are
gradually moving to the south. The
deep cut through the solid rock marks
the course they have taken im their
backward movement. It isa wonderful
excavation, a cavity dug out by the
sheer force of water. Not less astonish-
ing has been the removal of the
debris.
The rocks have been thoroughly
pulverized and swept out into Lake
Ontario. Once it was thought that the
talls would ultimately wear back to
Lake Erie and degenerate into a second-
class rapids. The latest idea is that the
fall will recede two miles farther and
then stop still, as far as the farther
backward tendency is concerned. The
cause of the stoppage will be a more
solid foundation for the limestone ledge
over which the waters pour, the present
foundation being very shaly. Two miles
of a wearing back will make the falls
but eighty feet in height instead of 160,
as at present.—S%. Louis Republic.
Fierce Flight to the Death.
LexiNetoN, Ky., Jan, 27.—A battle
to the death took place in Mercer
county between a valuable saddle stal-
lion and a jackass belonging to Will-
iam Thomas, a stock raiser. A few
days ago a mad dog bit Thomas’ little
boy and the horse. The horse went
mad, kicked down the door of the jack-
ass’ stable and began biting him.
The jackass retaliated, and for fifteen
minutes they fought, using their teeth,
heels, and forefeet. Finally the jackass
tore loose the stallion’s ear with his
teeth, and the horse then bit a piece
from the jackass’ neck. This seemed
to make the jackass more furious than
ever, and, grabbing the lower part of
the horse’s neck in his teeth, he tore
out his windpipe; but the high met-
tled stallion did not give up, and be-
fore falling he kicked the jackass’ hind
leg breaking it just below the hook.
He then fell dead. The jackass utter-
ed a long, loud bray and went to his
stable. He was covered with blood
and so fearfully wounded that his
master killed him to put him out of
his misery.
She Surprised the Englishman.
A young Englishman the other day
was relating his first experience at an
ice cream table with a Philadelphia girl.
He said: “I was utterly broken up
and astounded, don’t you know, when,
finding a strawberry in her half-finished
plate of ice eream, she fished it out on
her spoon and offered it to me.
“Won't you have it?’ she asked.
“No, indeed,” I replied, no doubt
looking the horror I felt in my soul.
“Why not ?’ she demanded, seeming
to be hurt by my refusal.
“¢«Why,my dear girl,don’t you know,’
I explained, ‘you have had the spoon in
your mouth.’
“tWell, what of that?’ she pouted
prettily, as she made her perfectly para-
lyzing reply. “You’d kiss that mouth
if 1'd let you, wouldn't you ?’
I confessed that I would be only too
glad to do so, and since then I have
made it my business to get better ac-
customed to the ways of the place.—
Philadelphia Press.
New Jersey and Illinols Against the
Election Bill,
TrENTON, Jan. 27.—Both branches
of the Legislature met last might. A
resolution was introduced into the As-
sembly and made the special order for
Tuesday next, denouncing the KElec-
tions bill and declaring that the State
withhold its appropriation for the
World’s Fair if the bill becomes a law.
SPRINGFIELD, January 27.—In the
House to-day the resolution instructing
the Senators from Illinois to vote
against the Federal Elections bill was
passed by a strict party vote—77 to 73
—the F. M. B. A. men not voting.
Representative Springer, on behalf of
the Democrats, gave notice that if the
Senators from Illinois should vote for
the Federal Elections bill the Demo-
crats in the State Legislature would
not vote a dollar in aid of the World's
Fair:
Stabbed in the Huntingdon Reforma-
tory.
Hu~NTINGDON, Pa., Jan. 23.—Paul
Mitchell, of Butler county, a monitor in
the Huntingdon Reformatory, to-day
directed Henry Larkin, a fellow prison-
er from Philadelphia, to attend to cer-
tain work, when the latter furiously at-
tacked Mitckell with a shoemaker's
knife, stabbing him in the neck and
severing the main artery. It is not
thought that the injured lad can re-
cover.
Returning from the Indian War.
Oyama. Jan. 21.—Four companies
left the Indian reservation to-day to
return to Fort Douglass, and the Sev-
enth Infantry starts from Pine Ridge
to-morrow for its old station at Fort
Russel, Wyoming. The order for
twenty days additional supplies at
Pine Ridge has been cut to ten days
supplies.
——An extraordinary incident oc-
curred in the court of the deputy com-
missioner of Hoshangabad, Japan, re-
cently. A man walked up to the dais
where the magistrate was sitting hear-
ing a case and handed him something
wrapped up in a pipal leaf, which when
opened, was found to contain his wife's
nose, the: husband having come in to
take the consequences of his act.
—The Press regards CAMERON'S vote
against cloture with unalloyed delight,
although it assumes to be very mad
about it.
oo
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Last Sunday fiftr-one new mem-
bers were admitted into the Bellefonte
Methodist church as the result of Rev-
Mr. Houck recent spiritual efforts,
——The Centre Iron Company’s
property at this place was put up at
Sherift’s sale on Saturday. The highest
bid was $21,000 and the sale was post-
poned until Monday, when taere was a
further postponement.
——On Wednesday a man giving his
name as J. B. Saunders, was arrested at.
Williamsport on suspicion of being
John Wilson, who escaped from the
Bellefonte jail, but he didn’t prove to be
the man wanted.
——Our local scribe last week, under
the impression that the township and
borough elections came oft on the sec-
ond, instead of the third Tuesday of
February, erroneously said that they
would take place on the 10th of
that month. The 17th is the day.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.— Mr. Leander
Green hereby announces himself a candi-
date for thé high and exalted office
“Lord High Constable of the Borough,”
subject to the decision of the voters of
the town—not having decided on which
ticket he will run. He assures us of his
undoubted selection to the mighty office
—provided no other candidate appears
to dispute his claim, but he warns all
aspirants to stay off the ticket lest they
suffer an overwhelming defeat. Leand-
er would make a careful and conscien-
tious official if elected.
AxoraErR FIRE.—On Thursday ev-
ening last, the cry of “Fire” again
aroused Bellefonte from the lethargy
she has been in for some time, and as
the alarm was sounded for the north
ward a WATCHMAN reporter hastened
thither and found that a party of boys
and men had just succeeded in drowning
out a slight blaze in the corner of the
stable attached to Mr. Daniel Garman’s
residence on High and Spring streets.
Had it not been for the exceeding rap-
idity with which the Logans got a
stream on the place, a disastrous con-
flagration might have ensued, as it was
in a bad locality. It was of incendiary
origin.
Tae Nain Works ResuMmINg.--The
Bellefonte Nail Works are now in the
first stages of a general resumption of
work, that is, the rollers and heating
furnace men are busy getting a stock of
nail plate ahead for the consumption of
the machines. It is hoped by the time
enough stock is gotten, the mill men
will have accepted the reduction of 25
per cent, which effects every department
of the works. The nailers had a meet-
ing yesterday, Thursday, morning and
decided to accept the cut, so the factory
will go into full running on Monday
morning next. They have been running
very irregularly of late but it is thought
that their record for ’91 will far exceed
that of "90 for steadiness.
CHurcHE DEepIcATION.—The new
United Brethren church, corner of
High and Thomas streets, this place,
will be dedicated to the worship of God,
Sunday, February 1st, at 10.30 o’clock,
a. m., by Rev. J. Weaver, D. D., of
Dayton, Ohio, senior Bishop of the
church, who 1s considered one of the
finest pulpit orators of the day. A. cor-
dial invitation is extended to all to be
present and parucipate in the exercises.
A special meeting for the children will
beheld at 8 p. m. The Bishop willde-
liver a lecture in the church on Mon-
day evening, the 2rd., subject, ‘Life a
Contest.” Tickets 50 cents, for the
benefit of the church. 2i,
Scaoor ReporT.—The following is
the report of the grammar grade of
Snow Shoe school for the month ending
Jan. 23rd: Number enrolled, boys 18,
girls 28, total 46. Average boys 16,
girls 25, total 41. Percent of attend-
ance boys 94, girls 94, total 94. Pupils
who did not miss a day were Blair Yar-
nell, Herbert Walker, Samuel Budding-
er, Frank Haynes, Boyde Shank, Annie
Calhoun, Celia Hays, Grace Cheeseman,
Bella Graham, Lida Hill and Sallie
Laurie. Guy Lucas received the hon-
orary mark of honor in History this
month. In Geography Samuel Bud-
dinger, George Marks, Guy Lucas, Paul
Irvin, Robert Kech, Harry Gates,
Frank Bing, Edward Hays, Charles
Reeser, and Boyde Shank received the
honorary marks. M. PILE, teacher.
Tur CoLLIN’S FURNACE TO BE BANK-
ED To-Morrcw.—To-morrow, Satur-
day, the last run forsome time will be
made from the plant of the Bellefonte
Furnace Co., in this place. Tha Fur-
nace is to be banked indefinitely, owing
to the increased freight rates over the
Pennsy’s lines, and nothing more can
be done until some concessions are made
by the Railroad Company. This in
crease in the freight tariffs has been the
cause of the shutting down ot a large
number of furnaces in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, which can not continue under
the advanced and exorbitant rates.
Bellefonte will feel keenly the loss oe-
casio _ed by the shutting down of this
large concern and it is really deplorable
that the P. R. R. Co. should add to the
present depressed condition of trade,
another burden which its industries can-
not support and will not tolerate.