A ——
‘BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— Philadelphia finances are in a tan-
gle that will take a magician to unravel.
—Farming out the State’s money has
proved to be unprofitable agriculture for
the State.
—There is a disposition among reli-
gious denominations to smooth the jag-
ged edges of their theology.
—The “People’s Party’’ has made its
appearance without any urgent demand
for it on the part of the people.
—The prosecution of the Jews in Rus-
sia projects the shadow of the dark ages
into the light of the nineteenth century.
—It is a bright idea, but the glitter
of Republican tin helmets and breast-
plates will not be able to blind the vot-
ers in 1892,
— Cashiers may default and banks
may fail, but we are consoled by the
assurance that the peach crop is not go-
ing to be a failure.
—The “Third Party’ starts with the
watchword, “Weare the People,’’but fu-
ture elections will determine how many
people they are.
—The Republican Legislature has
consumed a five months session in try-
ing to dodge party pledges with the
least appearance of having violated
them.
—Bishop BowMmAN, of St, Louis, de-
nounces progressive euchre as ‘‘progres-
sive damnation.” No doubt the austere
Bishop regards poker as damnation con-
summated.
—Before appropriating $5,000,000 for
the public schools, it had better be as-
certained whether the treasury raiders
have left anything for the ordinary
State expenses.
— Recent experience proves that put-
ting State money out at interest by its
custodians isn’t conducive to the inter-
est of the State, whatever may be the
profit of the official speculators.
—The Third Party omitted Prohibi-
tion from its platform, probably because
the honest granger can’t be induced to
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MAY 29, 1891. NO. 21.
The Governor Takes a Hand.
In the terrible complication of bad
management and dishonesty, particu-
larly the latter, displayed 1n the affairs
of the Keystone Bank, the State’s in-
terest has become involved to a very
large extent. The Bardsley defalca-
tion includes money due the Common-
wealth, and Governor ParrisoN, with
his accustomed vigilance in looking
after the public interests, is taking
steps to recover what may be recover-
able, and to effect such disclosures ag
may bring the offenders to punish-
ment,
By virtue of article 14, section 10 of
the constitution, he has called upon
the Auditor General to furnish him
with a statement of the accounts of
Joux BarpsiLey, City Treasurer of
Philadelphia, with the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania. In response
to this demand a transcript of the ac-
counts has been furrcished the Gover-
nor, which shows that the city owes
the commonwealth a balance of $472,
013.11 due on State tax for 1890; a
balance of $86,030.30 due on loans for
1890, and a balance of $367,604.18 due
on licenses for 1890, making a grand
total of $925,648.09. This is the
amount which BarpsLeY placed in the
Keystone Bank and which has gone
with the wreck of that institution. At
thesame time the Governor called upon
the Auditor General for this statement,
he called the attention of the Attorney
General to the condifion of the ac-
counts of BARDSLEY, so that he might
take such steps as wouid be necessary
eliminate from his calculation the profit |
there is in rye, corn and barley in their |
liquid state.
-—Scientists declare that the earth is
growing larger from the fall of meteoric
matter, but if from such accretion it
should increase to twice its original size
the college graduate would want the
whole of it.
—1It was unfortunate for BARDSLEY
and his gang that DELAMATER was not
elected. Under a sympathetic Govern-
or there might have been three more
years of stealing without the risk of dis-
closure.
--Granger PEFFER, of Kansas, says
that the new party has not been formed
with a view to the offices, but still if
there are any offices lying around loose,
within reach, the grangers will not re-
frain from picking them up.
—-The French are going to reduce
their tariff on American wheet. This
is the liberal response they make to the
increase of the American tariff on
French goods. In this respect the
Gauls are wiser than the Yankees.
—Good JomN WANAMAKER avers
the belief that HARRISON will be re-
elected President, but he detracts from
this continued blessing by announcing
his determination to decline serving a
second term in the Post Office depart-
ment.
—All the towels, soap and mirrors in
the bathjroom of tie capitol at Harris-
burg were stolen one night last week.
But when a million dollars of the State's
money is taken at a grab what is the
use of making a note of such small sun-
dries as soap and towels ?
—-The Kansas Alliance people are
down on Hon. JERRY SIMPSON- because
he opposed at Cincinnati the formation
of the ‘People’s Party,” and they look
upon him as a degenerated granger,
But the fact is that when JERRY came
east and put on socks he became demor-
alized. rr AT
to protect the interest of the State in
this matter,
All this trouble and scandal, with
probable heavy loss, comes from the
vicious system of depositing and keep-
ing the State money, which has sprung
up and been practiced through a long
succession of Republican custodians.
The use of the money has been given
to favored institutions and individuals,
and that there should be defalcations
is as natural as that temptation pro-
duces sin. This system has beea in
operation for years, it being beyond the
virtue of Republican legislatures and
officials to correct or resist it. No
doubt much has been lost that has been
ley default has happened under an
administration that will make every
effort to bring the facts to the surface
and place the responsibility upon those
who have offended.
The “American Protective Tar-
ift League’ are preparing for a cam-
paign of their peculiar kind of educa-
tion. They have justsent out a fat
frying circular calling for $50 and up-
ward for the current year from all
manufacturers and operators, the mon-
ey to be expended in making the cam-
paign of 1892 an easy one.
gruntled manufacturer sends a copy of
the circular to one of the New York
papers, which prints it. As this mon-
ey is wanted to preach against pauper
wages and the degradation of labor, the
locked-out miners should not grumble
that this extraordinary expenditure
may compel a scaling down of their
wages, The fat-fried should be allow-
ed to cover their investments with
Quay & Co.
Local Work in Making Roads.
An Ohio writer in the Country Gentle-
man indicates the way in which those
having road work in charge can effect
—It is a fact worthy of remark that
while the laity are generally satisfied
with the doctrines of their respective
churches it is the clergy that are raising
an uproar on questions of faith, and
a gradual but in the end marked im-
provement in the raral highways. He
thinks that “nothing will come of it
unless those who do the work take
hold with an honorable intention of
among those who are making the great-
est disturbance are some that are getting
the biggest salaries,
—1It is said that JoHN BARDSLEY, as |
a member of the city council of Phila- |
delphia, secured an appropriation of |
$1000 for the introduction of the Eng-
glish sparrow s into Philadelphia, some
twenty years ago. It is a long time
since that nefarious act, but his day of
punishment has come at last. |
—The Supreme Court having decided
that the Reading railroad company has
a right to occupy the ground on Market
street, Philadelphia, upon which it pur- |
poses to erect its depot, the Record says |
that ‘‘there only remains the physical !
difficulty involvea in the task of con-'
struction,” which, divested of its circum- |
location, means that the company can
now go ahead and put up the building.
making their work count in the diree-
tion of permanence. Ifa hill is lower-
ed, a hollow filled, culvert’ foundation
built for all time, or a swamp crossing
thoroughly drained, to that extent the
work is for yearsjand not for a summer,
"and will bear frnit in a lessening of
those taxes which every passer over a
bad road pays in wear and tear of team,
i vehicle and temper.” Such a course
as this writer points out requires no
additional legislation and no expensive
appropriations.
It is indisputable that if the present
road work were directed tothe objecto!
making permanent highways it would
in course of years eflect a permanent
reform, ' There are a few enterprising
localities in Pennsylvania where this
has been practically demonstrated with-
covered up, but this Keystope-Bards- |
A dis]
out State aid. But it is also true that
an intelligent policy on the part of the
State will offer a premium on such
work by granting aid to townships
where it is proved to be done by cer
tain prescribed standards and tests.
The State should know that its money
prodnces good roads; forthe sinking
of State money under the patchwork
system would only be making a bad
matter worse. The trouble with the
late road bill was that after starting
out on the proper basis of guarantee-
ing good roads where State aid was to
be given, it was pruned and clipped to
meet political exigencies until there
was scarcely a vestige of that essential
purpose.
The failure of road legislation should
not lessen the agitation in favor of im-
proving highways, The work of edu-
cating the people as to the economic
value of good roads should be kept up.
Farming districts should be brought
to see how they can benefit themselves
by such work. If this is done for a
couple of years, the next Legislature
may contain intelligence enough to
pass a Jaw that will hasten the work
of building first-class roads.
LE ————
Eight hundred ministers in
Philadelphia are reported to have vio-
lated the law to the extent of not fur-
nishing the report of about 2,000 wed-
dings, at which the said ministers tied
the nuptial knot. The law is very
mandatory in regard to making these
reports, which are absolutely necessa-
ry in the ccmpilation of important vi-
tal statistics. It is evidently high time
that the law in this respect should be
enforced, and those who will not com-
ply should be made to feel the legal
penalii
The Treasury in a Bad Shape.
Dispatches from Washington con-
cerning the condition of the Treasury
are calculated to excite alarm, and
the treasury officials are becoming un-
easy over the financial situation. The
pension office is making the most se-
rious inroad upon the government
funds and a halt will have to be called
to prevent bankruptcy. It is stated
that pension certificates are being issu-
ed at the rate of a thousand a day and
that 600,000 cases are pending. The
Bureau has notified the treasury de-
partment that the June quarterly pay-
ments will require something over $26,-
000,000, and there will not be money
enough to meet the demand unless the
national banks are drawn upon. To
show the tight place the Treasury is
in, it is stated that the warrant divi-
sion refused to pay Director of the
Mint Leecr the small sum of $1500
appropriated by the last congress, he
being told that the money could not
be spared for that purpose.
The Treasury is poor indeed when it
halts at such small transactions. At
the close of business last week the
available funds on hand had run down
to less than ten millions. While the
treasury officials may possibly tide ov-
er the present fiscal year ending on the
30th of June, they are greatly alarmed
upon looking the new year in the face
which begins on the Ist of July, when
the extraordinary appropriations made
by the last Congress will have to be
met, It is questionable whether it can
be done, as there will be little or no
money in the Treasury, upon which
contingency the Treasury can’t pay and
will have torefuse, and great embarrass-
ment to the public service is looked
for. It will be a difficult matter for
the administration to get along until
congress shall meet next December,
when it is probably that the taxes will
have to be increased to meet the de-
ficiency caused by the Billion Dollar
Congress.
——The Keystone Bank of Phila-
delphia is a thorough wreck, its man-
agement having been a complete swia-
dle, The confiding creditors of the
institution will be great losers, but
none will suffer more by the default of
the stitution than will the State of
Pennsylvania. Treasurer BarDSLEY,
of Philadelphia, deposited in the de-
fanct bank $930,000 license and other
money due to the State, every dollar
of which is likely to be lost. This is
not the first instance of loss to the
State through the incompetent or cor
rupt financial management of Repub.
lican officers.
The End of the World.
Lieutenant Torres, of Yale Uni-
versy, has employed part of his valu-
able time in making calculations by
which he has fixed the date when the
millennium will begin. According to
his figures this interesting period will
come on in 1899, he basing his calcu-
lation on a passage in one of the books
of Esdras, which says: “The world
hath lost its youth and the times begin
to wax old. For the world is divided
into twelve parts, and ten parts of it
are gone already, and a half of a tenth
part.”
If this can be taken as good authori-
ty on the subject only a small fraction
of theallotted time remained in the days
of Esdras, and according to the Lieu-
tenant's computation the year 1899
will bring that remainder toa conclu-
sion, In the same book there is a
statement that 5000 years, 3 months
and 12 days is the fifty-three-sixtieths
of the world’s life time, which would
make 5660 years the full extent of the
world’s duration. Inthe Jewish calen-
der the present year is the 5651st year,
and the year 1899, therefore, corres-
ponds with the Jewish year 5660,
when, according to the doctrine of Es-
dras, terrestrial existence is to be
wound up.
Predictions that the world was com-
ing to an end, wiih dates specifically
assigned for the catastrophe, have been
made so frequently in past ages, with-
out the predictions being verified, that
itis wonderful that any one should con-
tinue to indulge in such prophecies.
The Millerites had the thing down
very fine, but the old world failed to
comply with the arrangements they
had made for bringing it to an end, It is
a cheap way of gaining notoriety, and
while the world continues to wag there
will continue to be prophets who will
periodically forecast the time of its ex-
tinction.
A ——————————————
——The colored people of Ohio who
cast 30,000 votes and give that State a
Republican majority, when it has one,
complain that “there is not to-day in
the entire state one colored man occu-
pying a commanding position, either in
state or federal employ.” The colored
men of Ohio ought to come to Pennsyl-
vania ‘and sce how the Republicans
treat their brethren here. They do not
give them offices, it is true, but they
let them carry torches and beat drums
and go to the poll, provided they vote
the ticket the paid bosses provide
them with. To an unprejudiced on-
looker it would appear that the color-
ed men of Pennsylvania ought to say
something to somebody.
—————
A Sick Statesman.
There can be no denbt that Mr.
Braing's health is iu a critical condi-
tion. It has not been vigorous for
some years past, and close application
to official duty has been attended with
occasional prostrations which have in-
dicated that his reserve physical ability
is quite limited. The illness by which
he was overtaken at New York is more
protracted than was at first expected
that it would be, showing that his re-
cuperative power has been impaired.
If he were to follow his own inclina-
tion he would probably leave the sick
room and resume his official duties at
Washington, but his family insist that
his health isof greater importance than
affairs of state. A Washington special
to the Baltimore Sun makes the an-
nouncement that Hon Joux W. Fos-
ER will act as the diplomatic adviser
of the President until Mr. BraiNe
shall be able Lo resume his place at the
cabinet conncil-board,
It is on account of this condition of
his health that full credit may be giv-
en to the report that BLAINE is averse
to being again a candidate for the Presi-
dency. He is evidently convinced that
his physical capacity, which breaks
down under the duties of the State De-
partment, would be unequal to the
more onerons service of the Presiden-
tial position. It is said that he be-
lieves that the Presidency would mean
death to him, and that his election
would only be the introduction of a
Vice President into the chief execu-
tive office.
——
—The cry of heresy that is now being
heard all along the line of the religion-
ists is not as burning a question as it
was some centuries ago when heretics
were treated to hot stakes,
i Sis i i oo 00 0 SEE csc
Still They Come.
The Straits of Gibralter is the gate-
way through which the obnoxious
Italian immigration is poured upon
this country. It is at that point that
this current may be seen to its full ex-
tent, and our consul at Gibralter re-
ports to the State department that no
less than thirty-one steamships have
touched at that port during the last
four months, carrying 20,065 Italian
immigrants to the United States, and
that a number of other steamers are ex-
pected to follow soon from the same
quarter, the movement constituting a
regular exodus from the Italian king-
dom. Our consul at Naples reports
that he is informed that certain dis-
tricts in Italy are nearly depopulated
of men, leaving the cultivation of the
ground to be done by women alto-
gether.
Very little effort seems to have been
made to enforce even such defective im-
migration laws as we have; but at last:
there is a movement to put in force the
enactment against the importation of
contract laborers. Eleven Austrians,
who have contessed that they came to
this country under a contract, have:
been detained, but they will not be-im-
mediately sent back, as the law pro-
vides, but will be held to give evidence
against those who imported them. In
the past when attempts were made to
prosecute importers of laborers the
cages fell through for lack of evidence,
but the confession of the Austrians
will in this case supply that deficiency,
and the prosecution should be pushed
to the full extent of the law,
Parallel Treatment.
The Pennsylvania Ballot Reform. As-
sociation was actuated by an honest
desire to secure honest elections, but it
found its purpose frastrated, and
was forced to issue another address
which defined the issue between the
friends of genuine ballot reform and
the supporters of the counterfeit article
adopted* by the Senate. There has
been some pretense of modifying the
distortion of the bill. made by the Sen-
ate Committee, but it has been a sham,
and if, as appears at present writing,
it should become a law, it would as-
sist rather than prevent the corrupting
and intimidating of voters.
In regard to Ballot Reform the ma-
jority of the Legislature has acted very
much as it did with respect to road im-
provement. The road bill was so
changed and diverted from its original
purpose that the friends of road reform
did not care whether it was enacted or
not. The ballot reform. bill has been so
distorted and falsified that it became
eventually a bill for the ecurruption
and control of the ballot. As to the
road bill it was spoiled chiefly through
legislative indifference or stupidity,
but in case of the ballot bill the reform
features were cut out by bosses who
elections.
——The composition of the repre-
sentation at the Cincinnati convention
which put the “People’s Party” on its
legs, last week, is something worthy
the attention of the political student.
There were about 1400 delegates, of
which number Kansas alone sent one
third, and that State, with Missouri,
Nebraska, Ohio and Indiana, turnish-
ed 1050, or more than two thirds of the
delegates. There were but 36,delegates
from the Southern States, while all the
Northern States east of Ohio. sent but
28. The movement is calculated to
make a great inroad on the Republi-
can vote in the West, while there is
every assurance that the Alliance men
in the South will support the Demos
tratic candidate for President next
year.
——It is not likely that President
Harrison will appoint ex-Goyernor
Beaver to succeed Raum in the pen-
sion ofice. The story about such an
appointment has been revived by the
latest Raum seandal. Mr. Harrison
is now giving appointments only to
such men as can control State delega.
tions and bring influence to bear upon
the Presidential nomination. The ex»
Governor is not one of that class, as he
has practically no political influence.
LEE TI
—— Kansas City’s Chief of Police is
looking for an embezzler who is only 15
years old, six feet, three inches tall, and
weighs 100 pounds, .
did not want to lose their hold on the |
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Pennsylvania has four castor=oil factories.
—A cooking school will be established at
Reading. '
—Scranton is considering the erection of a
crematory.
—Pittsburg will have a paper for its colored
residents.
—The county debts of Pennsylvania amount
to $7,841,484,
—An Erie man wants a divorce becausehis
wife smokes.
—The Erie Builders’ Exchange hasblack=
listed striking laborers.
—A 13-year-old child is an applicant for a
marriage license at Scranton.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad (Company
owes the State $416,500 taxes.
—The grave of a gir] at Titusville was robe
bed for the jewelery on the body.
—South Bethlehem has fifty saloons, while
Bethlehem proper has only eighteen..
—There are 4000 ministers at the General
Synod of the Luthern Church at Lebanon.
—A Saturday half-holiday just started in
Pittsburg is meeting with = much opposi-
tion.
—High winds played havoe with. Lehigh
county crops, fences and trees on Friday
night.
—Seventy-year-old David !Flory, of Lawn»
Lebanon county, has a 20-year-old cat as a com=
panion.
—Threeof T.J. Quinn's valuable trotting
horses have succumbed to a strange disease at
Minersville.
— Sharpsourg man, who objects to a place
on a physicians’ black-list, has sued nine doc~
tors of his town.
—The Board of Pardens has been petitioned
on bthalfof a Venango county boy convicted
of egvesdiopping.
—A seven-year-old son of Theodore Hagerty,
of New Haven, was dangerously poisoned by
eating decayed bananas.
—A Pittsburg girl has just sloped with her
first love, from whom she ran away ten years
ago after promising to marry him.
—The man who threw himself under the
train at Birdsboro was A. BE. Townsley, of
Reading, who had failed in. business.
—The body of Jonathan. Barrell, of Strouds-
burg has been found in a.swamp near Toly,
hand. He disappeared five months’ ago. >
—A reward of $1000 has been offered for the
burglar who shot Pestmaster Dengler, at
Churchville, Dauphin county, on Friday
night. '
—The Women’s Christian {Temperance Un-
ion of Lancaster has adopted a resolution. fav~
oring the closing of the World's Fair en the
Sabbath day.
—Davy Williams, the: Butler} county boy,
who swallowed a piece of a clay ;pipe;, which .
lodged in the left bronchus, died after the
fourth operation.
—The body of William Einstein, of Wrights
ville, was found in the Susquehanna River at
Columbia, on Saturday. Einstein disappeared
from home a week ago.
—Riding on a runaway lumber truck on a
high trestle in Williamsport a hoy: leaped for
his life, but lost it.. The car fell on:himp, broke
his neck and killed him instantly.
—A man stopping at Geigertown, was caught
ransacking the burean drawers up,stairs at the
White Bear hotel. Whenjdetected] he| ran to .
the woods and has not been seensinge.
—A few white chickens adorned. with! black
crape and turped loose on ithe. streets at .
Lebanon elicited a hearty laugh. fiom several
members of the: Luztheran General Synod.
—J. H. Byer, of [Pow Pow; Migh., jwho has .
suffered from: rheumatism since jhe wag 14 |
years of age, is in!Pittsburg to consult Father
Mallinger, who has made mapy miraculous
cures by prayer.
—Arrested and under $1800. bail at, Shepan
doah for embezzling and losing at poker $800
belonging to the Grand Union. Tea Company of
Hazelton, William Hughes: feels sureghe did
not know.the game,
—Eugene Jackson, colored, is in jailjat Bel
videre for placing ties on: the jPennsylvania _
Railroaditracik at Roxburg and causing a train
to run. into the obstractiwn, through fortua
nately without a wreck.
—Detectives found $1308 worth of stolen
jewelry and other goods concealed in the
home of Easton's young burglar, Isaac Lee,
who claimed he had:beew forced taosteal a few
cheap. goods to suppert kis family...
—The safe in the office of the Mt, Pleas-.
ant Valley creamary, located at Milton, was
robbed the other right. = The thimes, it is said,
‘secured the combination and opened the safe,
securing a little over fifteen dollars.
{ —Tie miners. employed of the Whitsett,
‘Banning, Jacobs Creek and, Eureka) mines,
| in Westmoreland county, who.have] been.on a
strike for the past month, resumed work
3 Monday morning at last year’s price-msixty
| cents a ton.
—A smooth-tongued stranger swindled Col
umbia county farmers out of $500] by. repre-
senting himself as an agent’ for a lottery coms
that were sure to win a watch or anjorgan. It
is said these farmers never read a paper.
—Weaying a false mustache and a wig,
young Isaac Lee was caught and arrested on,
Monday morning ashe approacned a pile of
plunder hidden in the brush. He is alleged
to have stolen the goods trom John Gomring-.
er’s store, in South, Easton, on Thursaay:
night.
.
—-David Edelman, of Palmer township, aged:
seventy-two years, was seriously injured om.
Thursday afternoon while agtending a bara
raising frolic onthe farm of Enos Walter, by
| a distance of twenty-five feet. His head struck,
a beam and a good part of his scalp was torn,
off.
—Mrs. Emily Hough, of Jacob's, Creek,
South Huatingdon township, while rescue
ing her three-year-old, child from in {front
of a train, fell and broke her arm. She just
got the child off tha track in timp to. save its
life, and will probably lose herlownjiife by the
shock and injuries sustained.
—Sunday night a vanable horse belonging
to Liverman Zimmerman, of Johnslown,
threw himself in such a manner as to dis
locate his neck. A veterinary surgeon was
called and suzceeded in putting the animal’s
neck in proper position. This is said to be
| only the second cas? where an accident of that
| kind has been successfully treated.
| —President Harrison will be in Philadelphia
and participate with the Grand Army of the
Republic comrades in their memorial ceres
monies on Decoration day. He will be a spee-
ial guest of the George G. Meade PostgNo. bs
and, with Mayor Stuart and Department Come
mander Boyer, will be taken to jLaurel Hill in
Ian open caviage in the column of the
parade,
pany who was empowered to sell for §t tickets.
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