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Demag Wald
Terms 82.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., March 27, 1891.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Epiror
Democratic County Committee, 1891,
Bellefonte, No. W. W. S. Galbraith
4 S.W . Joseph Wise
£6 w.W . John Dunlap
€entre Hall : orough.. .. John T. Lee
Howard Borough..... .. H. A. Moore
Milashasy Butnigh. . A. M. Butler
Milheim Borough.... A. C. Musser
Philipsburg, Ist W.. James A. Lukens
5 2d W.. we C. A. Faulkner
“ 3d W.. .. A J Gorton
Unionville Borough. ...........seeee E. M.Griest
Buarpside............. Eugene Meeker
Benner....... Harvey Benner
Boggs, N. P es Philp gonjer
AY WwW. P. . T.F. Adams
es EP. G. H Leyman
€Qollege, E. W. H. Mokle
4" Ww. James Foster
Curtin.....c... . J. McCloskey
“Daniel Dreibelbis
Geo. W. Keichline
.. Chas. W. Fisher
James P. Grove
.. Isaac M.Orndorf
. Geo. B. Shaffer
.... Eilis Lytle
.. J. W. Keller
. W.T. Leathers
.. Henry Hale
Haltmoon...
Harris.....
Howard
Huston....
Liberty... ... Alfred Bitner
Marioa.... . John J. Shaffer
Miles... James P. Frank
Patton.. .. P. A. Sellers
Penn....... ... J, C. Stover
Potter, N. P .. 8. W. Smith
“"
. John D. Brown
Sine. 8. P. Jerry Donovan
“ N:P James Carson
i Ww. Pp E E. Ardery
«+ W.T. Hoover
.. Chas. H. Rush
.. D. A. Dietrick
0. D. Eberts
L. A. SCHAEFFER, Chairman.
The Proposed New Road Law.
Elsewhere in the present issue of the
Warcaman we publish the full text of
the proposed new road law, as it was
amended and passed by the Senate. It
will be noticed that the one feature so
generally objected to by tax-payers—
the creation of a new county officer un-
der the name of “County Engineer’ —
has been strickea out and the entire
charge of the roads is left to the!
management of supervisors, just as the
present law provides. The only materi-
al ehanges that have been made are the
provision requiring road taxes to be!
paid-in money, and the one making it’
obligatory ‘on the township to expend
twenty-five per ceat.of the total amount
of road tax in the building of per-
manent roads each year. In case
this last provision is not complied with,
the township refusing to make the
permanent roads, .as required, will lose
its share of the State appropriation,
which it is estimated will amount to
one fourth of the total amount of road |
tax raised in each township. It will
be noticed that cities and boroughs re-
ceive no part of the State appropria-
tion, the entire amount going to the
country districts.
As the bill will not be takenupin the |
House for some days yet, there is time
for those opposed to the measure to!
send their remounstrances against its
passage,to the members. Inthe absence |
of remonstrances.against this bill they |
will ‘have reason to believe that the |
people of the State favor ite passage,
and will vote accordingly.
Good Appointments.
Governor ParrisoN
more good appointments which were
sent tothe Senate on Tuesday for con-
firmation. They were RoBerT S. Pan-
TERSON, of Philadelphia,for Harbor Mas-
ter at that city ; Dr. Henry LEFrMAN,
of Philadelphia, for Port Physician,
and Dr. Epwixn M, Hersst, of Berks
county, for Lazaretto Physician. The
appointees are thoroughly competent
and are prominent Democrats. Dr.
LerrMax, daring Gov. ParTison’s first
term, satisfactorily filled the office to
which he de again appointed. Dr.
Hzresr’s appointment is a merited tri-
bute to the sterling Democracy of Berks
county, Mr. PaTTERSON’Sappointment
is something of a surprise, as he was
one of the leading Wallace men in the
convention that nominated Parricon.
In selecting him for so important an
office the Governor shows a praise-
worthy dispcsition to harmouize the
party.
——The judges of the Northampton
county court showed good sense in the
.course they adopted in granting license
‘this year. They required the appli-
cants to appear before them, and pre-
vious to the granting of the licenses ex
plained what constitutes a violation of
of the license law, renders a license lia-
ble to be revoked and the party hold-
ing it, liable to punishment. Why
wouldn’t the adoption of this plan
throughout the State be well? In some
cases the law is unintentionally violat-
ed and this course would prevent such
unconscious violation.
—It is ome relief to know that while
a Republican congress had the power to
authorize such a job as the Postal Sub-
sidy, it can’t be ‘carried out without an
appropriation from a Democratic con-
gress, and Democratic congresses, as a
rule, are opposed to jobbery. Besides, it
wouldn’t ‘be good politics to allow the
Republicans the advantage of so big a
boodle fund § ina Presidential campaign,
has made some
Congressional Apportionment.
mre |
In the Senate on Tuesday morning
Mr. Meek, of Centre, introduced a |
Congressional Apportionment Bill. It
provides for ten Democratic, sixteen
Republican and four doubtful districts.
Under this bill Philadelphia will be
given six districts and Allegheny three.
Chester and Delaware are the seventh
district ; Montgomery and Lehigh the
eighth ; Berks and Lebanon the ninth;
Lancaster the tenth; Northampton
and Bucks the eleventh ; Lackawanna,
the thirteenth; Schuylkill and Carbon |
the fourteenth ; Bradford, Susquehan-
na, Wyoming and Wayne the fifteenth;
Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan and Col-
umbia the sixteenth ; Northumberland
Montour, Snyder, Juniata and Mifflin
the seventeenth; Dauphin and York
the eighteenth; Perry, Cumberland,
Adams, Franklin and Falton the nine-
teenth ;2 Huntingdon, Blair, Bedford
and Somerset the twentieth; West.
moreland and Fayette the twenty-first ;
Cambria, Indians, Armstrong and
Clarion the twenty-second; Jefferson,
Clearfield, Centre and Eik the twenty-
sixth ; Tioga, Potter, McKean, Forest
and Cameron the twenty-seventh ; Erie
and Crawford the twenty-eighth; Mer-
cer, Venango, Lawrence and Butler the
twenth-ninty, and Beaver, Washington
and Greene the thirtieth.
It will be seen that in point of party
equilibrium, as demanded by the rela-
tive numerical strength of the two par-
ties, this bill is a decided improvement
on the present congressional gerry-
mander made by the Republicans. In
the vote of the State aggregating a mil-
lion there is, at most, a difference of but
about 30,000 in the votes of the two
parties, and yet the State has been so
disproportionately apportioned as to
allow but seven certain Democratic dis-
tricts out of twenty-eight. Ten, as pro-
vided by Senator Meex's'bill, is a very
{moderate claim for balf a million
| voters.
| Centre county, in which we are di-
| rectly interested, is changed somewhat
in its district relations by this bill, it be-
ing joinel with Jefferson, Clearfield
{and Elk. Its present district includes
Forest and Clarion, which are omitted
rand Jefferson substituted. The pro-
| posed one is certainly more contiguous
than the present district,and 2 good deal
| more compact,the tail composed of For:
| est and Clarion, which was attached by
| the Republican gerrymandering pro-
| cess, being omitted. It dis a fair and
nearly square district and should be
| included in’ ‘the apportionment.
——The Chicago Tribune, which
ho!ds one of the highest places in Re-
piblican journalism, resents the charge
that those who say that the McKinley
law has had the effect of raising prices
| are guilty of lying. It contends that
| the lying has been done by those who
promised lower prices and higher
I wages in the event of its passage. If
the ohject of the tariff law had been to
lower prices, those who profit by the
high price of their commodities would
not have favored it, nor would those
whose profits are increased by the
reduction of their employes’ wages have
given it their support if its tendency
was to increase wages. High prices
for their products and low wages for
their workmen are the very lifeblood
of protected monopolies,and the Chicago
Tribune, although a Republican news-
paper, is honest enough to admit this
fact.
The Chieago Fair Appropriation.
Our State lawmakers are determined
to have Pennsylvania cut a grand fig-
ure at the Chicago Fair if expensive
outlay will enable it to be done. The or-
iginal appropriation of $150,000 for that
purpose has been increased to $300,000
by the House Committee, and the com-
mission has been enlarged by the ad-
dition of one Senator and three mem-
bers of the House, aad the farther pro-
vision is made that the President pro.
tem of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House shall be on the commis-
sion. The bill as passed by the Senate
limited the expenses of the commission
to transportation and $6 a day for sub-
sistence for each day necessarily em:
ployed in the business of the hoard,
but a Ilouse amendment authorizes
Jthat the expenses incurred by the
members of the board shall be paid as
debts incurred by the board.
This last provision gives the individ:
ual commissioners great latitude of ex-
pense. It can’t be expected that they
will exercise any economy when the
expenses they may incur are to be!
paid “as debts incurred by the board.”
A very soft snap is involved in that |
provision and there is in the whole ar-
arrangement great possibilities for a
large amount of private fun at the ex-
pense of the public. = The Harris
burg legislators evidently have tak-
en lessons from Ruep’s billion dollar
congress in the art of disposing of the
surplus,
Pike and Monroe the twelfth ; Luzerne |
Promises Not Yet Fulfilled,
The Republican State Convention
which nominated DELAMATER was so
greatly moved by a sense of justice to
| the farmers and by compassion for their
tax-ridden condition, that it resolved
that “the depression under which our
agricultural interests now suffer has
made the present system of taxation
bear too ‘heavily upon them, and we
therefore pledge ourselves to lighten
that burden, and, as far as possible, to
equalize taxation.”
This promise wouldn't have received
more attention than the Republican
promises to farmers have usually re-
ceived, if the election last fall hadn't
gone so unexpectedly against the
“promising” old party. The result in
November was a rough reminder to
the leaders that the people had become
tired of their deception ; consequently
the present Legislature is hustling the
tax bill that proposes to relieve the
farmers by equalizing taxation, having
passed it through the House on second
reading last week, and will probably
pass it finally in that branch of the
Legislature this week.
But those who favor equality of tax-
ation shouldn’t take too much encour-
agement from the prompt manner in
which the House has pushed the tax
bill along. The granger influence is
strong in that body. Itis in the Se-
nate that the money powerand the
corporations, which object to being
equally taxed, are strongly entrenched,
It should be remembered that in its
passage from the Senate to the execu-
cutive chamber a tax bill afew years
ago underwent a process of jugglery
that rendered it of me more account
than the paper upon which it was
written. It should also be remember-
ed that in the session previous to the
present one a grangers’ tax bill got
swimmingly through the House only to
be handed over by the Senate to a
cominision that was intended to con-
tinue the tax jugglery indefinitely. The
sharp call from the people last fall has
accelera‘ed the action of the Legisla-
ture in the tax question, and the work
of the House on the subject has been
reasonably prompt; but the upper
branch of the Legislature has in time
past been so surrounded by the shoals
and quicksands of corporate and money
influence that the grangers can’t be sure
of their bill going through that body
safely until they shall have seen it
safely through.
T he “Pluck-me’s.”
There is naturally an opposition to
the bill hefore the Legislature for the
suppression of the “pluck-me”
iniquity, but it comes from those who
are filching the earnings of honest
workmen by the extortion which is
practiced in such establishments. It
is the experience that men who are
compelled to take their wages, or any
part of them, in store goods are more
or less defrauded, in that they do not
get a full equivalent for their work,
and when it is considered that their
wages are usually low, the loss they are
compelled to sustain by such a method
of payment intensifies the wrong to
which they are subjected. The law
should sternly repress the iniquitous
system.
———['he poor old Legislative Record,
which has dragged its useless existence
through many successions of Legisla-
tures, has been called to account and
sharply asked what use there is in its
existing any longer? A resolution
passed through both Houses last Fri-
day declaring the Record, as now pub-
lished, a failure, and authorizing a
committee to consider whether it
wouldnt be well to abolish it, The
usefulness of this publication has often
been challenged by the Legislature,
accompanied with threats of itsabolish-
ment, and it has been subjected to con-
tinual ridicule on account of its dila-
toriness and inferior appearance; but
neither threats nor ridicule has had the
effect of improving it, and therefore it
the case is to wipe it out entirely.
cited over the lynching of the Italian |
assassins at New Orleans and threaten.
ingly reminding the Americans of the
power of the Italian nation and the ef- |
Instead of becoming unduly ex- |
store |
| or any other European nationality.
would seem that the only remedy in | ; z
A Nice Legislature.
The auction sale of the California
Senatorsbip to fill the vacancy occa.
sioned by the death of Senator H EARST
resulted in ex-Congressman FELTON ge-
curing the commodity. It was gener-
ally believed that Ester would be
elected, as he had a majority of the
Republican vates pledged to him, but
it is evident that Ferron outbid him,
The successful candidate declares
that be didn’t spend a dollar in getting
the prize, but the bare suggestion of a
California U. S. Senatorship being ob-
tained without purchase excites de-
risive Jaughter throughout the whole
Pacific slope where they know the
money value that millionaires place
upon that desirable . position. The
character of the California Legislature
precludes the belief that there was not
a bargain and sale. The San Francisco
Chronicle-Bulletin , an Estee organ,
calls it “the most infamous Legislature
that ever sat in the capitol,” while
even the Post, the organ of the success-
ful candidate, speaks of it as “the rot-
ten Legislature at Sacramento.”
There is no question that both of these
organs thoroughly understand the char-
acter of that legislative body.
Messrs. Bares, Woops and
Meek have been appointed a commit-
tee on the part of the Senate to investi-
gate the Legislative Record. From the
style in which that document has been
always printed it was never ornament-
al, and now it is being questioned
whether it is useful.
rm ———————
Defective Reform.
The Press,with its accustomed incor-
rectness, says that the Democratic press |
of the State generally urged the passage
of a ballot reform law “until it was dis-
covered that it was the intention of the
Republicans to pass it and then they |
bezan to clamor for something else.”
If there has been any clamor on the
part of the Democratic papers on this |
subject it is because the ballot bill |
which the Republicans 1ntend to pass |
will but imperfectly effect the object ,
of reform. It will not ensure the com-
tect the voter. It does not provide for |
an honest registration without which
an Australian ballot law will be inef-
fective as against fraudulent voting.
A party that takes up a reform meas- |
ure, not from inherent honesty of pur-
pose, but because it was forced to it by |
ty sure to do the work in as lame and
defective a manner as possible, and 1t
is because the Repubiican Legislature
is managing the ballot reform bill in
such a spirit as this that the true
friends of houest elections are protest-
ing.
leaders of the Southern Confederacy
was removed to another world by the
death of General Joseru E. JonxsroN,
who died at Washingtoa last Saturday,
where he had been a resident for some
years. He was a great soldier and
played a great part in the drama of the
tactical ability that so long baffled the
ablest Union generals. With all his
capacity as a soldier he was mod-
est and amiable, and both Grant and
SHERMAN were his warm personal
friends after the great struggle was
over. The illness that caused his death
was brought on by exposure while at-
tending the funeral of General SHER
MAN.
——If it be true as reports from New
Orleans represent, that every one of the
Mafia gang killed at New Orleans was
“aq citizen of the United States” by
naturalization, the names of all oft
them being on the voting list of that
city, it can not be seen how interfer-
ence on the part of the Italian govern-
ment would apply to the case. Their
naturalization made them American
citizens, and the authorities of Italy
can have no more interest in
than could the government of France
It
is, however, a nice commentary on our
i
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naturalization laws that such cut-
| throats can become American citizens.
In the Senate on Tuesday the
| bid graduating licenses on the basis of
| population, introduced by Senator
| Meek, excited a long discussion, and
ficiency of its navy, with dark hints of | when it came up on final passage Sena-
the revengeful disposition of the Italian | tor Grigx, of Berks, moved that it be
character which will require retalia- | | postponed indefinitely.
tion, the sous of Italy resident in the feated by a vote af 25 to 12,
This was de-
when the
United States ought to take the lead bill was postponed Tl.
in condemning and suppressing the |
Mafia in this country. They know
the infamous character of this organiza-
tion from its'crimes committed in their | YOU l¢
own country, and should be the last to |
detend it when its offenses here have
been pnnished even by so rough a pro-
|
cess as lynch law which, under the cir- |
cumstances’ existing at New Orleans,
was the only means of punishing the
murderous offenders.
ArrER MARRIAGE. re Fe—tMy dear,
I am a little short of money. Could
t me have twenty thousand dol-
i lars of your million for a few days.” ”
She—“I have no million dollars
He—-‘‘Before we were married
! said you were worth a million.
She—“Why, you often told me I
was worth my weight in gold, and I
thought one hundred and forty-two
pounds of gold was worth about a mil-
hon ; that's all.”—Judge.
y ou
A Great Spring Tour to Florida via
Pennsylvania Railroad.
By reason of the enormous popular-
ity accorded the Pennsylvia Railroad’s
personally-conducted tours to Florida
during the winter and spring of 1891
the company has decided the =ixth and |
last on March 31st. It will differ in
many pomts from the others, Going
south the tourist will travel in a spe-
cial train of Pullman Sleeping and
Dining Cars similar in every respect
to the trains used on previous excur-
sions. The excursion tickets, which
will be sold at a rate of $50 from New
York and $48 from Philadeldia, will
include Pullman accommodations and
meals en route on the south-bhound trip,
and railroad transportation only on the
north-bound trip. They will be valid
for return trip on regular trains up to
May 30th, 1891. Fifteen days from
the date they leave Jacksonville will be
allowed tourists to reach Philadelphia
or New York, and during those fifteen
days they can stop off at points desig-
nated on the tickets.
A Tourist agent and Chaperon will
accompany the party south.
The unusual limit of the tickets and
privileges accorded will afford an ex-
celleat opportunity of a lengthy visit
in the South.
Jeff Davis Was “Wiltlin.”
The following extract is from Jeff
Davis’s memoirs: One girl, whose
sweetheart was a gallant soldier in the
Fifth South Carolina Regiment, and
who had fought bravely all through
the Seven Days battles, made the fol-
lowing earnest appeal :
“Dear MR. Presipent. I want
you to let Jeems C., of company oneth,
5th South Carolina Regiment, come
home and get married. Jeems is willin’
Iis willin’, his mammy says she is
willin’, but Jeems’ captain he ain't
willin’. Now when we are all willin’,
piete secrecy which is required to pro- |
the pressureof public senti ment,is pret- |
—— The last of the great military |
civil war, standing next to LEE in the
them |
ceptin’ Jeems’ captain I think you
{ ought to let up andlet Jeems come.
! I'll make him go straight back when
| he’s done got married “and fight just as
hard as ever.”
Mr Davis wrote on the letter: ‘Let
Jeems go.” Jeems went home, mar-
‘ried the affectionate correspondent of
| Mr. Davis, returned to his regiment,
| and did fight as well as ever.
——The ravages of the grippe in
, widely separated parts of the country
| seem to be quite as serious a menace to
health and life as its original incursion.
| It seems to have settled in the country
tostay. The tendency of the disease to
bring on serious throat and lung troubles
| should operate as a cautionary warning
against undue exposure in the blus-
tery and inclement weather usual in
| March.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Founp DEAD IN BED.—On Sunday
morning, March 22, Miss Jennie Solt
was found dead in her bed. She had
| been keeping house for her uncle, who
| lived about midway between Snow Shoe
and Moshannon town. The sad occur-
rence was caused by the rupture of a
' blood vessel leading from the heart to
the stomach. The funeral took place
at 2:30 o’clock on Tuesday, March 24th,
i Rev.Cadle officiating. The Star school,
| of which Jennie was a student, went in
| a body to the funeral and marched, two
| a breast, from the house to the place of
|
' burial.
The following resolutions were adoy t-
ed by the school :
‘Whereas it has pleased the wise cre-
ator to call from our midst one who was
much loved by thisschool and surround-
ing community, be it resolved that we
| be reconciled to our loss,as it is her gain,
and that we, as a school, wear a badge
in token of the deceased until this term
of school is ended. J. TF. Leathers,
Minnie Quick, Lillie Adams, commit-
tee.
Renovo’s Post OFFICE JOKE, -—
“Who's post master here ?’” asked a ner-
vous little man as he stuck his face up
to the delivery window at the Renovo
postofticer one day last week. “What's
the postwaster’s name?’ he inquired
before there was any time to answer the
first question.
“Chestnut,” answered the young lady
in charge of the delivery window.
The man grew red in the face and al-
most fell on the floor, but managed to
say : “Excuse me, madam, but I want
to know the postmaster’s name.”
“Chestnut,” replied the lady.
«All right,” said the little man as he
made a break for the door, “all right,
but if you were a man I'd dare you out
| inte the street. As it is I will make it
my business to report to Washington
the kind of people the postmaster of this
town keeps to answer questions. I'll
take none of your slang euts without
some kind of notice, and even if you are
a woman it will not be my fault if you
are not bounced.”
The Renovo postmaster’s name is
W. K. Chestnut.— Williamsport Re—
publican,
/
MARRIAGE LIcENsEs.—Andrew Bi-
rosb and Miss Agnes Hollas, both of
Enterprise.
N. H. Zeigler and Miss Maggie Car-
per, both of Linden Hall.
F. Delosier and Miss Jennie
both of Holidaysburg.
Charles S. Hilton, Snow Shoe and
Miss Sona Lucas, Union twp.
W. H. Snavely, Penn twp., and Miss
Nora Mowery, of Aaronsburg,
David Gingery, Martha Furnace, and
Miss Cecilla Bullock, of Julian.
Samuel Segal and Miss Sarah Abram-
son, both of Philipsburg.
George W. Ronian, of Lock
Sraub,
Haven, has purchased from Mrs. Agnes
| Plummer the St. Cloud Hotel,at Houtz-
dale, and is now in control of the same .
Literary AT UNronviLLE, —The
Uauionville Literary Society still con-
tinues to flourish. On Friday evening
last the house was filled long before the
exercises began, notwithstanding the
i stormy evening and muddy roads. In-
stead of the regular debate, a mock trial
was conducted by the leading members
of the Society. Subject for trial was a
man indicted for the killing of Cyrus
Calhoun’s valuable dog, which was kill-
ed on the 13th of January last. The
prisoner pleaded “not guilty” and the
Court proceeded to convict him on cir-
cumstantial evidence. His Hon. P. J.
McDonald presided, with Associates
John Rich and George Sensor. Attor-
neys for the plaintiff, Thomas McCoy
and G. H. Hubbard. Attorneys for
the defendant, Charles Potter and O. J.
Spotts, A jury was then drawn and
sworn to give their verdict according to
the evidence, and after the careful
| examination of seven or eight witnesses
the attorneys proceeded,in regular order,
to argue the case before the jury. It
made a very animated and interesting
discussion, the attorneys dealing large-
ly with real facts in the case—the pri-
soner representing the man who actually
did kill Mr. Calhoun's valuable dog.
Mr. McCoy, prosecuting attorney, made
an earnest appeal for the conviction of
the prisoner. He was followed by At-
torney Potter and Spotts who spoke in
behalf of the defendant, manifesting
much interest for their client. Mr.
Hubbard then addressed the jury and
in making the closing speech he pleaded
earnestly for the prisoner’s conviction.
His Hon. P. J. McDonald then gave his
charge and the jury retired, returning
in a short time with a verdict of guilty
as indicted. The Judge then sente nced
the prisoner to six years confine ment
and labor in the Western Penitentiary
and to pay a fine of one hundred dollars.
John Rumberger acted as court cryer
for the occasion, and provoked much
laughter in calling out parties who
were wanted before the Grand Jury.
Unionville Literary society has been
one of the attractive features of the town
this winter, being both edifying and
instructive, and the people of Union-
ville know how to appreciate a good
thing when they have it.
AFLOAT ON A SAW Loc.—Eddie Mc-
Clain, a Renovo boy, aged twelve years,
had a thrilling experience Wednesday
afternoon riding a distance of two and a
half miles down the river on two saw
logs. The News says the lad was playing
at the river shore and conceived the
idea of forming a raft of two logs and
taking a ride. He laid a small piece of
wood upon the logs and pushed from
shore. A companion of McClain’s nam-
ed Michael Sullivan, saw the lad’s
peril and started after him with a flat
boat. The little fellow bravely clung to
the logs and was swept through the ed-
dies at a rapid rate, on more than one
occasion being entirely submerged in
the water. When the stone wall at
Paddy's Run was reached Sullivan
made another attempt to rescue his com-
panion but was again unsuccessful. He
kept the boat as close as possible to Mc-
Clain and thus they floated until a more
favorable current was reached about
two miles below Renovo, when McClain
found an opportunity to get upon the
raft. He was much fatigued. The boys
drifted down the river until they reached
Hammersley’s Island, half a mile above
North Bend, where they rested awhile
and then started for the shore, which
they reached without much trouble. As
they were stepping ashore the flat got
away from them and was carried down
the stream. The boys walked home,
arriving about 6.30 o’clock in the even-
ing. It will be some days before Mec-
Clain tries such a rafting scheme again.
A MusicaL Trear.—The song ser-
vice held in the Reformed church on
Sunday night last was entirely worthy
of the many complimentary expressions
we have heard of it. The choir, under
the leadership of Mr. W. T. Meyer,ren-
dered the anthems in a way that showed
the perfect harmony and expression of
well trained voices. The quartette——
Murs. J. C. Meyer, soprano, Miss Jennie
Lukenbach alto, Mr. A. Lukenbach
baritone and tenor and J. C. Meyer bass
—sang a selection which for beauty we
have seldom heard an equal. The solo
by Mrs. Meyer, with violin accompani-
ment by Miss Bernice Moore, was ex-
cellent,and when she finished we actual-
ly heard subdued applause. One fea-
ture which does much to make the Re-
formed choir what it is the church
orchestra which accompanies all the
pieces. It is composed of excellent
musicians and nothing could more for-
cibly impress one with this fact than the
way in which they played ‘Nazareth’
is
is,
for an overture on Sunday. Mr, Mey-
er is certainly to be congratulated on his
success at training & choir, and the Re-
| formed church on their good fortune in
possessing so many musicians.
ADJOURNED UNTIL SATURDAY. —
The sale of the real estate Samuel
Walker, dec’d, late of Worth township,
has been postponed until Saturday,
March 28th. 1t will therefore take
place to-morrow, at one o’clock, at the
Court house in this place.
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