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Ink Slings.
—-BLAINE'S health is a subject on
which the Bar Harbor liar is getting in
some big work.
—The Philadelphia Mint has been
put in active operation, but the big coin
factory will require an extra effort to
catch up with the vanishing surplus.
—A Harrisburg paper announces that
HeNrY LoUuDERMILCH has been releas-
ed on bail. But is it really safe for a
man with such a name to be at large?
—The President at Cape May Point
was for several days kept in the house
by rain. He may have still more urgent
occasion to get out of the wet furth-
er on.
—The Altoona Tribune says that the
Harrisburg Patriot is d yspeptic. But it
isn’t dyspepsia that is troubling that
paper; it is an enlargement of the
spleen.
—LiLy LAXNGTRY 18 going to get
$125,000 from one of her lovers for his
having hit her in the face. The LiLy
is a lady of versatile talents and makes
money out of all of them.
—The grasshoppers in Kansas appear
to have formed an Alliance and are
operating without regard to political
affiliations. They are of the kind that
have no wings, but they get there just
the same.
—Noonecould reasonably object to hav-
ing the revenue that is attached to the of-
fice of Emperor of Germany, but to most
people the duties which the ycung Em-
peror imposes upon himself would be a
decided bore.
—The government has given con-
tracts for building one hundred big guns
at the enormous cost of $4,225,000.
After these monsters are completed it
will require a proportional expense to
fire them off.
—Probably Mr. PowpERLY declined
to bea World’s Fair Commissioner be-
cause he didn’t think it becoming a
representative of labor to be loafing
around Chicago at the expense of the
commonwealth.
—FrED Doucrass, our Minister to
Haiti, apologizes for the bloodthirsty con-
duct of HyproLITE. It would seem that
the white bloodin FRED’S composition
can’t counteract the barbarism incident
to his African extraction.
—Possibly, if the Governor had filled
the offices of Secretary of the Common-
~ wealth and Attorney General with a dif-
ferent set of incumbents, the ‘errors’ of
the Pattison sdministration wouldn’t be
so obvious to the Harrisburg Patriot.
—Democratic factions in a State like
Ohio that is naturally Republican are
certainly very foolish ; and it is still
more foolish for certain Democrats to
nurture a factious spirit 1n Pennsylvania
where a Republican majority of 30,000
is to be tackled.
—Atlantic City is trying to woo
President HARRISON from the retirement
of his Cape May Point cottage, but his
excellency is not inclined to expose his
august figure to the gaze of the crowd
that makes the popular seaside resort a
little too common.
—YARD, who is charged with conspir-
ing with BARDSLEY in the misuse of
public funds, will have a hearing on
Saturday. Judging from the way
BARDSLEY has been treated, YARD may
expect that punishment will be liberally
measured in his case.
—The deposit of meerschaum report-
ed to have been discovered in New
Mexico is probably as mythical as the
Black Hill tin mines which have fur-
nished the excuse for the extortionate
duty on tin-plates, Maybe there is a
design to increase the tariff on meer-
schaum pipes.
—Some of the Republican leaders are
seriously talking of bringing out Gen.
GREGG, of Reading, an old soldier, for
Auditor General. They probably ex-
pect that by this movement the Bards-
ley and other rascalities will be effaced
from the public mind by arousing the
memories of the war period.
—The participants in the Hamlin-
Johnson controversy are enjoying a rare
opportunity of exploiting their alleged
intimacy with President LiNcoLN. As
the martyr President is dead they might
even go so far as to claim that they gave
him all his political pointers without
his being ableto deny the assumption.
—The uncertainty about the condi-
tion of Mr. BLAINE’S health leads some
people to suspect that the astute states-
man is at one of hisold tricks. HAR-
rIsoN may be fooled into believing that
his great antagonist is on his last legs !
only to find him restored to vigorous
health and ready to take the Republican
nomination.
—The Emperor of Germany in his re-
cent visit to England found his grand-
mother’s family able to converse with
him in the language of the Fatherland.
Victoria is as much of a German wom-
an as if she had passed her life as a bar-
maid in a Berlin beer saloon. There
hasn’t been a drop of English blood in
the royal family of England for the last
two hundred years, All Dutch.
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VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE,
PA., JULY 17, 1891.
NO. 27.
The McClure-Nicolay Controversy
—Governor Curtin’s Testimony
in the Case.
A controversy has sprung up and
been in progress for some weeks be-
tween Col. McCLURE, of the Philadel:
phia Times, and Jon G. NicoLay, on
the question whether President Lin-
CoLN was in favor of the renomination
of HannNiBaL Hamu for Vice Presi.
dent in 1864. Upon the recent death
of Mr. Hamuin the editor of the
Times wrote an article in which he
said that Mr. LincoLN had preferred
Axprew JomxsoN to HanNiBar Hay-
LIN as his associate on the ticket in
1864. He wrote from his recollection
of events in which he was a prominent
participant. NicoLay contradicted
his statement, and hence the controver-
gy in which the latter has not been left
aleg to stand on. It may be well
enough to state that NicoLay was the
private secretary of President LINCOLN
and in collaboration with Jorn Hay
wrote the romance published in the
Century Magazine which purported to
be a life of ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Inasmuch as Colonel McCLURE was
on the most intimate terms with Mr.
LiNcoLN, and one of his confidants in
political matters, he was in a position
to know his wishes in the matier in
dispute. The evidence the Colonel
brings to his support, with the particu-
lars of detail in the relation of concur-
rent events touching the convention,
fully sustains his position and complet-
ly knocks the private secretary out.
One thing is quite certain—had Mr.
Lincory desired HaMriN on the ticket
! with him, in 1864, no one will doubt
that he could have brought it about.
As Nicoray, in his life of ABRAHAM
LincoLy, did not hesitate to distort the
truth to make falsehood appear reason-
able in dealing with military com-
manders he disliked, we are not sur-
prised that he jumped at conclusions
in the matter of the Lincoln-Hamlin
question. His want of truthfulness
will destroy his claim to historical ac-
curacy. Colonel McCLURE is sustain-
ed by Dana, of the Sun, who held |
equally intimate personal and political |
relations with Mr. LiNcoLN.
Very important and convincing testi-
mony in this controversy is that of Gov-
ernor CurTIN, who was in the midst of
the movements that brought about the
formation of the Republican Presiden-
tial ticket in 1864. He co-operated
with McCLURE in those stirring politi-
cal events and fully sustains the latter's
statement that JonNsoN was substitut-
ed for HaMLIN because Mr. LiNcoLN
desired it. To a Pittsburg interviewer
the Governor is represented as saying :
“I never heard of anything else but
McCrLure's idea. I always regarded it
as a settled matter that LiNcoLN want-
ed JounsoN as a matter of policy ; and
I never thought that prejudice, or any-
thing of that sort, inspired LiNcoLN in
the least in any of his actions, go far at
least as they relate to HamrLiN; and I
believe the policy he pursued in desir-
ing JOHNSON was a most commendable
oue.
“It was proper and advisable to re-
cognize a state of the union from the
southern section by selecting one of
her promineat, loyal and worthy sons,
as JOHNSON wag, and not keep every-
thing up North, and thereby show a
laudable disposition to settle the differ
ence existing between the two sections
of the country. I firmly believe that
LincoLN was considering only the in-
terest of the nation, and not Lis person-
al feeling at all, when he favored Jonx-
SON.
“As far as I know,all the other loyal
governors held the same attitude to-
wards LincoLN’'s policy as I did. It
was an order of LiNcoLN’s to make
the governors of loyal states ever pre-
ferred and always admissible into his
presence,no matter what he was doing,
because he always took it for granted
that they called to see him on some
vital and important matter; and so I
had freguent confidential interviews
with LixcoLN, and I must say I never
saw either NicoLay or Hay in the
room,
“The position NicorLay has taken in
the controversy I think is absurd, and
he will not be sustained in it by any
men that have any truly personal
knowledge of LiNcoLN’s policy and the
motives that inspired it. I know very
well that McCLURE went to Baltimore
to work for JounsoN and I approved
' the scheme most heartily.”
Hail to the Farmer!
Hail to the farmer! The wheel of
fortune is fast turning and he is to be
king. Dame nature has at last turned
a smiling countenace toward the tiller
of the soil and will fill his lap with
treasure. So say the wise men—the
philosophers and thinkers of this era.
The farmer will be dictator.in thenear
future, Alliance monuments, high ‘axa-
tion, grasshoppers, etc., to the conrary
notwithstanding. One of the aforesaid
wise men has been delving into satis-
tics—making notes and comparisons.
Behind the clouds of adversity which
have darkened the farmer's home for
years he sees the sun still shining.
This wise man is Erastus Wivan and
in the July number of the North Ameri:
can Review, in an article entitled *The
Farmer on Top,” he sends greeting to
the farmer and predicts for him a glo-
rious era of prosperity and good for-
tune. Mr. WinmanN declares that in
spite of the apparent folly of meking
the assertion, there is nevertheless an
impending scarcity of food producs.
Notwithstanding widened agricultu-
ral areas and improved facilities for
gathering and shipping their products,
there is slowly creeping up a power to
consume more than can be produced.
This startling assertion is made after
careful and patient jnvestigation, and
the result shows 1n statistics, not to be
questioned, that “the power of absorp
tion or consumption of food products
has at length caught up to the power
of production; and that the possible
ratio of increase in consumption is
much greater than the immediate pos-
sible ratio of iacrease in the growth of
food.”
Mr. WimaN confesses that his re-
searches have been go startling in their
resuits us wo be hardly credited. He
mentions two important facts of sur-
prising character which point to better
times for the farmer. One is the ex:
tent of the exhaustion of arable soils,
"and another that no more new wheat
fields remain unoccupied in the United
States. In quoting Mr. WinmaN’s clos.
ing remarks the farmers of this country
can best gain an idea as to the opinion
he has formed through his observa-
tions. He says: ‘Sufficient has been
adduced to make it plain that the pos-
gibility of prices remaining at a low
ebb is past. It is clear, therefore, that
the farmer hereafter will realize a fair
profit upon his operations. An in-
crease equal to 40 per cent. in the pay-
ing power of the farmer of North
America will make at this time a great-
er economic revolution than has ever
yet been witnessed. The first thing
that will happen will be that the farm-
er will get out of debt. The weary
waiting for better times, the nights of
sleepless anxiety, and the days of un-
requited labor, the narrowness of re-
sources, and the eager desire of the
young people for better modes of living,
have all been borne in expectation of
the day that now dawns upon every
industrious farmer in the land. It
seems impossible to doubt from all that
has been adduced that such a change
is coming. This change will put the
American farmer on top, It will make
him, of all classes in the world, the
most prosperous.”
are rejoicing over the alleged fact that
the McKinley tariff is reducing Euro-
pean workmen to a condition of starva-
tion, the “Central Labor Federation”
of New York has sent delegates to the
International Labor Convention at
Brussels. It thus appears that laboring
men do not sympathize with the effort
of monopoly to antagonize the iabor in-
terests of the world.
CHC SBCA SIS
Splendid Prospccts.
We have the promise that this year’s
harvest will be the greatest on record,
and the bins will fairly burst with the
golden grain. There is a feeling of un-
certainty as to the ability of tue rail-
roads running from the great grain
centers to the sea board, to move the
crop, but some of them are waking
ready by largely increasing the number
of their cars. Short crops in Europe
will widen the market and increase the
demand. A good grain crop, with
even lower prices, makes prosperous
times, ard with an abundance of fruit,
ae is the case this season, the health
record is always higher. Altogether,
the condition of the country is far from
being as bad as it might be.
They Won't Investigate.
When the Bardsley defalcation was
announced the State Legislature was
in session and Representative WHER-
RY promptly proposed a legislative in-
vestigation, which was eminently prop-
er, as the State was reported to be a
loser to the amount of more than a
million dollars through the negligence
or incapacity of the Auditor General
and State Treasurer. It was the State's
business, and it was the Legislature's
duty to inquire into it.
But the Republican members didn’t
want such investigation as Mr. WHER-
RY would have instituted, for it would
have been an investigation that would
have investigated. There had been a
roving investigating committee already
appointed, with George HANDY SMITH
as chairman, whose object was to look
into nothing in particular and close its
eyes to everything in general, and the
leaders thought it more prudent to
hand the Bardsley matter over to this
committee, and there itis slumbering
and will continue to slumber. The
committee is paying no attention what-
ever to the heavy loss of State money
in the Bardsley case, and Hanpy
Syith, the chairman, has slipped off to
Europe.
The people have a right to know the
facts in this matter. It was their mon-
ey that was stolen. A committee of
which WrEerry would have been chair-
man would have got to the bottom and
obtained the facts, but the Handy
Smith arrangement is intended to cov-
er up rather than to expose, in accord
ance with the treasury ring's way of
doing things.
———
——-The sugar bounties will make a’
big bole in the revenue of the govern-
ment. On cane sugar it is estimated
that $15.000,000 will be required to
pay the bounties this year, and for ma-
ple sugar $9,000,000 more will be
needed. Itis suspected that some queer
‘stuff has been worked up into maple
sugar in order to secure the govern-
ment bonus. Consumers who believe
that they have been benefited by the
removal of the tariff on sugar will have
to contribute to these bounties by pay-
ing increased duties on other necessa-
ries.” The money to pay them can
come from no other source than taxa-
tion.
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Mr. Blaine’s Condition.
Startling rumors were afloat this
week in regard to the condition of Mr.
Brain, there being one report that he
bad died. This fortuvately was not
thecase. The intelligence concerning
him is conflicting. From one source
it is reported that he is physically
prostrated, while from another it is an-
nounced that there is nothing very se-
riously the matter with him. Thereal
fact in the case probably is that he is
notin as bad nor in as good a condi-
tion as these conflicting reports make
him out to be.
A dispatch from Bar Harbor to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, on the authority
of Dr. TayLor, Mr. BrLaiNe’s physi-
cian, is to the effect that his trouble is
not kidney disease and that neither his
mind, his sight, nor his hearing is at-
fected, as has been reported. His ail-
ments are acute dyspepsia and gout;
he has been put on a diet of baked ap-
ples and cream, on which he is thriv-
ing. Dr. TavrLor promises that his
patient will be in his usual health in a
month—but he does not say that his
usual health is good health. The
President at Cape May on Saturday re-
fused to say anything of Mr. BrLaINEe's
health, and told his inquirer to go to
Bar Harbor for information. This
would indicate that the President is
not taking much interest in Mr.
BLAINE'S physical condition.
CTSA
Nine months have passed since
the McKinley tariff law went into op-
eration. In that time tin plate to the
{ amount of $24,208.927 has been im-
ported. There has been an increased
profit in this to those who have im.
ported this article, as most of it came
in under the old tariff rates and will
be sold under the new. NEIDRING-
his associates will make
more money on their imported tin-
plate than they expect to make on the
" domestic production,to ensure a greater
profit on which they are already clam-
"oring for an increase of duty that will
" amount to four cents a pound.
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Democrats Should Now Go to Work.
At the meeting of the Democratic
State Executive committee, ,in Phila-
delphia, on Thursday, the time for
holding the State convention was fixed
for the 3d of September, and Harris-
burg named as the place: The best of
feeling prevailed, and cheering intel-
ligence of the political outlook was re-
ceived from all parts of the State. The
fixing of the time for the State eonven-
tion is considered the opening of the
preliminaries of the fall campaign, and,
trom this time forward, the Democracy
will be supposed “to set their house in
order.” Work cannot be begun too
early, We do not mean the open, ac-
tive, noisy work of the battle, but the
quiet, and often the most effective work,
that precedes the contest. It isan im-
portant matter to “clear the deck for
action,” and frequently judicious preli-
minaries have a great deal to do with
success in the field. Much can be
done in this line, and we call upon
Democrats of the various townships
and boroughs to look about them with-
out delay. If the ranks are broken at
any point, repair them; if there be any
dissatisfaction, heal the wounds; any
lukewarm in the great cause, incite
them to action ; and use all fair means
to weld the great party of the people
into a solid, compact body: The No-
vember contest will be an important
one; as it were, a skirmish prelimin-
ary to. the great battle of '92. The
Democracy have great hope of carry-
ing the State; the current sets in our
favor, and, with the proper exertions,
success will perch on our banner at the
polls.
An Opinion as to Pennsylvania’s Choice.
Ex-Congressman Maisn, of this
State, was recently interviewed by a
Philadelphia Times reporter on some
of the prominent topics of the day, and
among other things the ex-Congress-
man stated his belief that Mr. CLEVE-
LAND was the most popular Democrat
with the Pennsylvania voters and their
choice for the Presidency.
As Mr. MaisH says, if Mr. ParTisoN
should desire the Presidential nomina-
tion he would get the support of the
Pennsylvania delegation in the nation-
al convention, but notwithstanding this
Mr. CLEVELAND would still remain the
¢hidicé of the Peansylvania Democracy.
The ex-President possesses elements of
strength that no other man in the na-
tion can wield. The contest next year
will be a tremendous struggle to inau-
gurate an era of reform, and, realizing
the fact that their monopolistic privil-
eges will be vitally endangered, the
beneficiaries of high protection will
utilize every method to win, and strain
all their resources.
To meet and overcome the influences
that will be exerted to maintain mon-
opoly interests, it is believed that Mn.
CLEVELAND would be the most power:
ful champion of reform in that direc-
tion.
— The Emperor of Germany has
made a great success of his visit to
England and will leave behind him an
excellent impression on English opin-
jon. The speech he made at the his-
toric Guildhall, as the guest ot the
Mayor and Council of Londen, was
really an admirable production, grace-
ful in language, and breathing what
seemed to be a sincere desire for uni-
versal and continued peace, that the
nations may apply themselves to the
development of science, art and trade.
ne —
Ce Significant Action.
The session of the State Teachers’
Association recently held at Bedford
was the most successful in the history
of the association, both financially and
in attendance. The interest of the oc-
casion was heightened by the addresses
of Governor Pattison and ex-Governor
Beaver, which were especially able
and timely efforts. The drift of pro-
fessional opinion was indicated by the
tact that none but approving words are
reported of the Governor's veto of the
Compulsory Education bill. The ef-
forte of certain outside persons to have
resolutions adopted condemning the
Governor's action were rebuked by ex-
Governor BravER, who remarked,
among other things, that teachers
should interfere as little as possible with
school legislation. The veto message
has evidently shaped public opinion on
this important question.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—An apple-jack boom is promised {o Berks
county distilleries.
—Mrs. Mahony, of Bellevue, was found
asleep on her husband's coffin.
~The wheat yield in Berks is forty bushels
to the acre in many places.
—Twenty-seven Italians joined the Presbys
terian Church in Scranton on Sunday.
—Norway rats attacked and badly bit three
children of John Rubright, of Temple.
—A pile-driver fell upon Frank Hartranft, of
Williamsport and he will probably die.
—The State branch of the American Federa«
tion of Labor will meetin Lancaster on Auguag
17.
—Dr. Thomns Hazzard, of Allegheny, is ors
ganizing a Sparrow League to kill the English
pest.
—The Catasaqua Iron Mills will start up on
Monday without agreeing to the amalgamated
scale.
—A fall of 600 feet down a coal mine instants
ly killed Isaac Paul, of Shamokin, Friday
night.
—A dozen pariridges have been hatched in
an incubator by Dr. Hammond Mish, of Lee
banon.
—Williamsport ministers earnestly protested
against the Grand Army parade there on
Sunday.
—The Green Ridge Iron Works, Scranton,
have resumed with non-union men in place of
strikers.
—Wibur F. Latrop, a well-known lawyer of’
Carbondale, was taken tothe Danville Insane
Asylum.
—The District Assembly of Knights of Lae
bor at Reading are booming the Constitutions
al Convention.
—Over $12,000 was raised on Sunday at the
corner-stone laying of St. Matthew's Lutheran
Church, Reading.
— Adam Minninger, of Butler, shot and fatals
ly wounded his brother John: They had
been on bad terms for years.
—Nazereth’s new lace-mill, with a capacity
of 84,000 yards daily, was started Monday by
S. Freidberger, of Philadelphia. *
—The body of Hugh Sharp, thal has lain in
the colliery at Summit Hill, Hazleton, since
May 8, was recovered on Sunday.
—Philip Bevan, a Welsh miner, dropped
dead in the street at Pottsville on Sunday
night, on his way home from church.
—Friends paid the $6000 which David Styer,
of Lancaster, secured upon alleged forgeries,
and-the prosecution was withdrawn.
—A freight car thrown into a switch by an
express train killed Mrs. Jennie Sherman, of
Scranton, while walking on the siding:
—Tallie Morgan, the Prohibition leader,
says the coming Prohibition State Convention
will protest against the Baker ballot bill
—The Jermyn Post Office, in Lackawanna
county, has been boycotted because of the aps
pointment of Mrs, Walkey as Postmaster.
—A ten year old daughter of Frank Boggs,
of Norristown, has been speechless for’ some
days from the effect of an attack of malaria.
—Theloss of a leg each was the penalty
paid by Harry James and a man named Woods
of Lansford, for attempting to board'a freight
train.
—A Pittsburg doctor paid the fees to secure
a divorce for a woman whom he intended mar-
rying, but when she was free she fled with ans
other.
—Detective John Shab, while taking a pris.
oner to Lancaster, was knocked down by ans
other man and fearfully beaten by the rogues,
who escaped.
—After once trying to commit suicide
Charles Orlando, in the Ridgeway jail, cut a
gash in his neck with a razor and now his
arms are pinioned.,
—Detective Jacob Shaub, while taking a
prisoner to Lancaster, was knocked down by
another man and fearfully beaten by the
rogues, who escaped.
—Ellen Penn, of Lebanon, slashed her huss
band in the head and side with a butcher.
knife and then frightened away the officer
who came to arrest her.
—Elmer Shultz, of Springfleld township,
Bucks county, feil off aload of hay upon a
fork, the prong of which ran through his bo.
dy, and he will probably die.
—While shifting cars Mond ay in Himmel
rich’s boat yard, at Lewisburg, Silas Cornelius
was run over by a loaded lumber car, and hig
“body was cut in two. :
_A band of White Caps near Lititzsenta
threatening letter to Kissel Hill, a wellknown
farmer, te!ling him: to remain quiet or elsa
they would burn his house.
—Liverymau Snyder, of Allentown hag
just discovered that a horse he hassoldto a
Newark, N.J., man was stolen ,from there be.
fore he purchased it.
—Ella Stoley, of Allegheny, drank carbolia
acid with suicide in view. She may recovery
but the poison: has destroyed her vocal cords,
and she will never speak again. a
_An unknown man, who had evidently:
committed suicide by cutting his throat and:
the arteries of his hand, was found under a.
tree near Sohnville, Bucks county.
—August Achtenberg was buried by a fall
of earth while digging a sewer in Hazleton,
The earth was removed in time to save his life
and he escaped with only a few bruises.
_ Aw Broadax Smith’s colored camp-meeting
in Butcher's Grove, near Pittsburg, on. Suns
day there were, besides the regulation sevvices
such little interludes as a fight, a speak -easy
and a poker game.
—Mr. W. H. Rogers, of Canada, is putting in
a new fish way at the Columbia dam. The
new way is of an improved style and. will ale
Yow the fish io come above the dem mara
readily than the old one.
—Tillie Good, of Morrellville, bacame ill &
week ago and was allowed to die from neglect
of friends and neighbors. Physicians refused
to attend her and neighbors refused to lend
any assis tance whatever.
—While a small boy named Horace Huns
sicker, of Lebanon, with several companion s,
was playing in the Quittapahilla creek, he
knelt down and a piece of glass in the bed
of the stream cut his knee to the bone, severe
ing a tendon.
—Charles Rolander, a Swede, employed at
Grant's tannery in Ridgway, made a desperate
attempt at suicide Sunday evening by cutting
his throat with a razor. He had been drinking
very heavily since the Fourth and was evis
dently suffering with delirium tremens.
— Mrs. Abram Skillman, of Hampton June.
tion was accidentally shot by Dr. George Fen.
wick, and is ina precarious condition. She
was pickling cherries in her garden, when the
doctor, who lives next door, came out to shoot
some troublesome Sparrows. He did not see
the woman and aimed in her direction. The
shot tack effect in her head and neck,
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