Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 21, 189l.
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P. GRAY MEEK,
Democratic County Committee, 1891
N. W. . W. 8. Galbraith
Belietunts, SW. . Joseph Wise
. Ww. Ww .. John Dunlap
Centre Hall Borough. .. John T, Lee
Howard Borough....... .... H. A. Moore
Milesburg Borough... .. A. M. Butler
Milheim Borough.. wo... A. C. Musser
Philipsburg, 1st W. . James A. Lukens
{ue 2d W. ... C. A. Faulkner
* 3d W. .... Frank Hess
... E. M.Griest
Eugene Meeker
. Harvey Benner
... Philip Confer
.. T. F. Adams
G. H. Leyman
.. W. H. Mokle
. J. N. Krumrine
N. J. McCloskey
. Daniel Dreibelbis
Geo. W. Keichline
Chas. W. Fisher
. James P. Grove
Isaac M.Orndorf
.. Geo. B. Shaffer
«.« Eilis Lytle
J. W. Keller
.T. Leathers
.... Henry Hale
. Alfred Bitner
.. John J. Shaffer
... W. J. Carlin
... P. A. Sellers
.vee. J. C. Stover
«. 8. W. Smith
as. B. Spangler
.e Ja8. Dumbleton
William Hutton
Thomas Turbidy
John D. Brown
Jerry Donovan
. James Carson
E. E. Ardery
W. T. Hoover
Chas. H. Rush
«ee D: A. Dietrick
. O. D. Eberts
L. A. SCHAEFFER, Chairman.
Unionville Borough..
Burnside............
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For DELEGATE 10 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
ELLIS L. ORVIS.
Subject to action of district conference.
Jury Commissioner —~GEORGE BOWER.
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pe=The conclusion of the editor's
account of how the North-west looks,
and the latest facts relating to the great
Grange Picnic, along with much other
interesting matter, will be found on the
inside pages of this week's WATCHMAN.
Death of Hon. Charles S. Wolfe.
Hon. CuarLes S. Worrg, of Union
county, dropped dead on the street at
‘Harrisburg, Thursday of last week, of
heart failure. He was attending a
meeting of the Pennsylvania World's
Fair Commission, at which he was
elected executive commissioner. After
his election to this important position
be went to his hotel for dinner, after
which, while returning to the capitol,
he fell to the side-walk at the entrance
of the capitol grounds, and expired in-
stantly. The Commission assembled
after his death, when feeling tributes
were paid to the deceased by the mem-
bers, and the Secretary read a paper as
the tribute of the board.
The career of Mr. WoLFE was one of
usefulness, and he possessed, in a
much greater degree than is usually
found in public men, and which all
men delight to honor, courage equal to
his convictions. He was born at Lew-
isburg, in Union county, in 1845, and
was bred to the law. He was a Repub-
lican in politics, but his self-respect
was too great to allow him to bend the
knee to the machine “that thrift might
follow fawning.” The following from
Governor Parrison’s message of con-
dolence to his widow, speaks the esti-
mation in which the deceased was
held: “The Commonwealth will
mourn with you the loss of one of its
purest citizens, whose long-continued,
faithful and enthusiastic service has
left its impress. A good name, a jure
record in public life,is a grand legacy.”
A Begger on Horseback.
NErINGHAUS, who seems to be the
almost exclusive beneficiary of the tar-
iff enactment by which the American
people are taxed on the article of tin-
ware, is becoming saucy in consequence
of the special favor which has been
conferred upon him. When the tin
outrage was proposed to the committee
that had the tariff bill in charge, Mr.
NEeioriNeHAUS advocated the tax as a
measure that would promote American
industry. It was no sooner passed
than he forgqt all about American in-
dustry and arranged to bring into the
country Welsh workmen to make the
tin for which Americans will have to
pay double price; and when he is con-
fronted by the law against the impor-
tation of contract laborers, he snaps
his fingers at the enactment of congress
and tells the Commissioner of Immi-
gration that he is going to import the
Welshmen in defiance of the law.
NEmriNGuaus, in being putted up by
“protection,” is another illustration
of the effect of putting a begger on
horseback.
Chairman Kgrrr has issued a
call for the Democratic State Conven-
tion to meet at Harrisburg on Thurs
day, the 3rd of September next, to
nominate candidates for Auditor Gen-
eral, State Treasurer and Delegates-at-
large to the proposed Constitutional
Convention, The conditions are such
that the ticket that shall be nominated
by that convention should be elected.
Death of a Honored Lady.
Mrs. Pork, widow of the eleventh
President of the United States, died at
her Lome at Nashville, Tennessee,
last Friday, in the 88th year of her age.
It is about forty-two years since this
lady was mistress of the White House,
and it is still remembered with what
grace she presided over the executive
mansion. Her husbaud died shortly
after the expiration of his presidential
term, and during all these years of
honored widowhood she occupied the
fine oid homestead from which she
went to occupy the exalted position of
first lady of theland. When her hus-
band died he left a large estate, but it
was greatly reduced during the war,
leaving her but little more than the
Polk mansion at Nashville, which
brought in no revenue and required |
money to maintain it. When, ander |
these circumstances, Mrs. Pork was
reduced to very straightened circum-
stances, a bill was introduced in con-
gress to grant the widow of President
LiNcoLN a pension of $5,000 a year. It
lacked one vote in the Senate to secure
its passage. That was the vote of
Senator HoweLL E. Jackson, of Ten-
nessee. He offered to vote for the bill
provided it was so amended as to give
annual pensions of $5,000 to Mrs.
Pork and to the widow of President
TYLER, as well as Mrs, LincoLy, and
after a good deal of oratory the bill be-
came a law. Since that time Mrs.
Pork had lived comfortably on this
pension.
It would be a wonderful exten-
sion of the natural resources of this
continent if the repor‘s of the discovery
of extensive deposits of anthracite coal
in Sonora should be verified. Hither-
to it was supposed that Pennsylvania
had the only hard coal on the conti-
nent, and this supposed fact gave in-
creased value to her mineral product
of that description, but the find of coal
in Senora, equal in quality to that of
the Lehigh Valley, presents a rival in
the coal business which ever Pennsyl-
vania can not despise.
——The death of James RusseLL
LoweLL has naturally brought up a
large number of reminiscences in con-
nection with the career of a remark-
able man. It will be remembered that
at the time that Mr. LoweLL was Min-
ister to England, he was accused of
failing to do his duty by the Irish-
American suspects confined in British
prisons. Much adverse comment was
made upon the actions of the Minister
at that time. Now, we see it stated,
that Mr. LowELL, by his clear and un-
answerable logic, converted Mr. GrLaD-
STONE to a belief in the principle of
home rule for Ireland. Oae or the
other of these stories is probably in-
correct and it is likely to be che first
one, for Mr. LowELL was at all times
a friend of the oppressed. He hated
wrong in whatever shape 1t appeared,
and he was not the man who wasin-
clined to enter into a compromise with
evil. There is no proof that he ever
manifested any antipathy to Ireland.
Berks Speaks Out.
The Democracy of Old Berks are
never mealy-mouthed in the expres:
sion of their sentiments. Whenever
occasion demands it, they talk “right
out from the shoulder.” Thus at their
convention last week, after denouncing
official corruption and bribery, and the
embezzlement of public money by
trusted Republican officers of the city
of Philadelphia and the State of Penn-
sylvania, they declared as follows :
We charge the responsibility of these crimes
upon the dishonest and selfish bosses, into
whose hands the Republican party of Penn-
sylvania has fallen, and we warn all who be-
lieve in public honesty and public purity not
to allow their attention to be diverted from
the important State issues of ’91 to a discus-
gion of national candidates of '93, We charge
the State treasurer and anditor general with
willfully disobeying the plain law of this State.
Here is the platform for this year’s
campaign in a nutshell. That million
of dollars looted from the State treas-
ury by the connivance or imbecility of
Republican State officers is the one di-
rect, veal issue of this campaign; not
gpecrlative palitics of sekt year.
Cuauncey F. Brack, President
of the Democrati» Society of Pennsyl-
vania, states that a bureau of informa-
tion will oe opened in Harrisburg un-
der the management of the executive
committee of the Society and State
committee, which will be ready and
willing at all times to furnish. political
information to Democratic organiza-
tions, This bureau will be opened
just after the meeting of the State con-
vention. Major JouN ,D. Worman,
the efficient secretary, will take pleas-
ure in answering any inquiries that
may be addressed to him in that city,
——1If you hear a prominent man |
cry out against a constitutional con-
vention, make inquiry and you will as-
certain that he is either a stock holder
or an attorney for'some corporation or
other.
The Republican State Convention.
Mr. Quay got his State convention
together at Harrisburg on Wednesday
and it got through its work without
any material hitch in the proceedings.
The programme, as originaily laid
down, was to make the ticket consist of
General Gree for Auditor General,
and Farmer Price for State Treasurer,
the object being to cater to the soldier
and the granger elements. But when
Price got to Harrisburg he showed
dissatisfaction with the arrangement
that didn’t put him at the head of the
ticket. His objections were so per-
sistently made, that, although at the
very last moment he concluded that he
had better take second place than no
place at all on the ticket, his previous
kicking had the effect of causing him
to be dropped entirely.
General D. M. GREGG was nominat-
ed for Auditor General on the first bal-
lot by a vote of 106, to 60 for MyLi~
and 37 for Prick.
JouNn W. Morrison, of Allegheny,
was nominated for State Treasurer on
the first ballot by a vote of 167, to 34
for THoMP:oN and 2 for Prick.
The platform endorses the Harrison
administration, compliments BLAINE,
tickles WANAMAKER, extolls McKin-
LEY'S monopoly tariff, squints strongly
in the direction of free silver without
positively endorsing that policy, and
winds up with the usual platitudes
about the soldiers, and falsehood about
the party being in favor of reform.
There is no platform endorsement of
Quay this year, and nothing is said
about BARDSLEY.
An attempt was made to endorse
Brain for the next nomination for
President, but there was evidently too
many of Harrison's office-holders in
the convention, and the Blaine resolu-
tion was voted down.
——The venerable Joux G. Wair-
TIER is reported as quite ill and it may
be that his present sickness will ter-
minate in his death. The old Qaaker
poet has been in poor health for some
time and the news of James RusseLL
LowEeLL’s death has affected him very
seriously. Many will hope that his
life may be spared some time longer,but
his advanced age, 83 years, should not
inspire much confidence. When he
is called to his reward there will pass
away a man who some people thin k
is the greatest poet that America has
produced. Certain it is that bis verse
has that principle of pure, unaftected
feeling in it that needs not the aid of
verbose adornment and that will awak-
ena responsiye chord in the hearts of
all good people.
——A dispatch from Alliance head-
quarters at Washington announces
that Serrz, the third party candidate
for Governor in Ohio, who opened his
campaign last week, will speak con-
stantly until the election. It is said
he and his stumpers will make an
economical camp meeting campaign,
going from place to place in haywagons;
epeaking from them when necessary,
and living with farmers as they go
through the country. This will give
some popularity to the campaign, but
to give it a real rattling character a
brass band or a drum corps will be re-
quired.
-—What did Ex-Speaker Rep
mean when in a recent conversation he
said that the Billion Dollar Congress,
of which he had the manageme nt,
“took all the tricks” from its oppon-
ents? It was certainly a very tricky
Congress, but when the people came to
deal with it on account of its tricks,
they condemned it by an overwhelm-
ingly adverse majority. It may tickle
the ex Speaker to think how the Bil-
lion Dollar Congress tricked its oppon-
ent, but where is that Congress now|?
——The “Holy Coat,” said to be
the garment worn by CHRIst at the
time of his crucifixion, is to be put on
exhibition in Treves, a city of Ger-
many, and it will be an attraction that
will draw thousands of credulous but
sfucere visitors. This old garment,
which in all probability was not worn
by Curis, will, in exciting the rever-
ence of thousands of devotees, serve a
purpose in showing the extent of hu-
maa galiibility,
——TIt will be well for every reader
of the 'WaTcHMAN to remember that,
under the new registry law, every man
who wants to vote must call personally
on the register, and see that his name
is placed upon the list. Committee-
men or others cannot have you register-
ed. You can only attend to this your-
self.
—— Although $7,487,500 was ap-
propriated to pay the expenses of the
census, PoRrRTER reports that of this
large amount only £12,500 is left.
This is an enormous expenditure for a
job which, so far as accuracy is con-
cerned, is almost worthless.
They Enthused on Cleveland.
At the convention of the Delaware
county Democrats last week, after the
platform had been read to the meeting
without creating any enthusiasm, Mr.
FrysiNGER, the proprietor of the only
Democratic newspaper in the county,
arose and read a single resolution,
lauding the administration of Grover
CrLeveELAND, and naming him as the
first choice of the Democracy of Dela-
ware county for the Presidential nom-
ination of 1892. A dispatch from Me-
dia, says: “Words cannot express the
scene that followed. There were cheers
and yells, chairs and benches were
battered against the floor and against
each other. Men stood upon every-
thing and whooped again and again,
and then all the resolutions went
through unanimously and the meeting
adjourned.” Men may differ as to the
renomination of Mr. CLEVELAND in
'92, but they cannot have two opinions
about the fact that the mention of his
name evokes more enthusiam than that
of any other publicman in the country.
——Hon. C. A. MAYER has declar-
ed against a Constitutional Convention.
The last Legislature proposed under the
present constitution to give the Judge
a judicial district that, with hard
straining, might scrape up business for
eight weeks of court in a year. A new
constitution might prevent districts of
this kind being made in the future. We
don’t wonder that the Judges in small
districts, and the hundreds of lawyers
who want the soft snaps of being
judges in small district, are all oppos-
ed to any change inthe present con-
stitution.
——The Democrats of Columbia
county at their county convention last
week, adopted resolutions favoring a
constitutional convention, and urging
the nomination of Hon. Caas. R. Buck-
ALEw as one of the delegates at large
to that body.
The German Emperor in a Fight.
In the Brawl He Had His Knee Broken.
Paris, August 16.—The Paris Eclar
which is not given to sensationalism,
prints the following story as confirmed
by unquestioned authority: On the
night following the departure of the Im-
perial yacht, the Hohenzollern, from
England, the crew was beaten to quart-
ers, and was surprised to find the quart-
er-deck brilliantly illuminated.
An altar had been erected on the
deck bearing the Old and New Testa-
ments, and the Kaiser stood by wearing
a white chasuble, with a crosier in his
hand and a black and white mitre on
his head. He read the most warlike
passages from the Testaments and in-
vited the crew to respond. He then
preached a lengthy sermon on the duty
of sovereigns to their people.
At5 A. M. the Kaiser appeared on
the bridge in the uniform of a High Ad-
miral, looking extremely haggard, and
addressing the Commander said: “Sir,
retire to your cabin; I shall take
charge.” The Commander replied:
“Sir, permit me to observe that we are
in a dangerous passage and that it is ad-
visable for your Majesty’s safety as well
as for that of the crew, that a sailor re-
main in command.” The Emperor re-
sponded: “Never mind, God will in-
spire me,”
The Commander bowed and retired.
The second officer remaining, the Em-
peror angrily bade him retire, the officer
respectfully protesting. The Emperor
then said: ‘You resist, wretched crea-
ture. You trouble the spirit of God
which is in me. This is the vengence
of God upon you,” dealing the officer a
heavy blow on. the cheek.
The officer turned crimson, but re-
mained until the Emperor seized him by
the throat and tried to throw him over-
board. In the struggle that followed
the Emperor tell and broke his knee-
cap. The sailors watched the scene,
paralyzed with fear.
A Judge’s Bold Talk.
LANCASTER, Pa., August 15.—Judge
Patterson in court to-day announced
that he would have a consultation with
Judge Livington in reference to the
new election law, so that arrangements
would be made to carry its provisions
into effect Incidentally he said that
before the Legislature was in session a
week he came to the conclusion that
the members were a pack of fools, and
by the time of adjournment he saw no
reason to change his mind. Governor
Pattison very wisely vetoed several of
these bills, and he would have done
much better had he vetoed every one
they passed.
The court-room was well filled with
lawyers at the time, being opinion day,
and the Judge’s remarks caused quite a
sensation.
The Kentucky Election,
LovisviLLe, Aug. 5.—Returns of he
election on Monday frum 95 out of 119
counties, show no considerable change
from the estimates sent in these dispat-
ches. The new constitution was carried
by 75,000 to 100,000. The Democratic
majority is 25,000, the Peoples’ vote
10,000 or less, The senate will stand :
Democrats, 27; Republicans, 10; Peo-
pies, 1; the house-—Democrats, 69;
Republicans, 17 ; Peoples, 12’; Tndepen-
dent Democrat, 1. Many Democrats
are farmers in sympathy with the Al-
liance.
—~—The fine point of Governor Pat.
tison’s testimony was that the instant
he knew anything about the payment
of interest upon Bardsley’s: certificates
by the Chestnut Street National Bank,
of which he was President, he told the
Cashier that the payment must stop.— i
New York Herald.
Curious Rivalry.
France Also Claims the Coat Worn by
the Saviour.
LoxpoN, Aug. 18.--The rivalry be-
‘tween France and Germany is reaching
curious lengths. This was illustrated in
the exhibition of the Holy Coat of Ar-
genteuil. No sooner did it become
known, a few weeks ago, that the ec-
clesiastical authorities of Treves, in
Rhenish Prussia, were about to exhibit
a garment claimed to have been worn by
the Saviour than the French were alive
to deprive the Germans, as far as possi-
ble, of the honor and profit. It appears
that Argenteuil, within easy access by
rail from Paris, also possesses a coat
claimed to have belonged to Christ.
Arrangements were promptly made
for the exhibition of the relic. Sunday
was chosen as the opening day, several
days ahead of the first public view at
Treves. Great throngs of people went
from Paris and other localities to see the
holy vestment. The exhibition was in
every way successful, and is said to have
caused proportionate chagrin at Treves,
which will lose a multitude of French
Catholic visitors, The preparations for
the public exhibitions at Treves are go-
ing on hurriedly, and will be completed
within the appointed time.
A Baby Like a Colt.
SPRINGFIELD, O., August 17.—Green-
ville, west of here, is just now the Mecca
of curiosity hunters. They want to see
a male child recently born to Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Whitehead. It is parthuman
and part animal. The child was born
alive, and is doing well. Mrs. White-
head, prior to the advent of the mon-
strosity, gave birth to six healthy, per-
fect and well-developed children.
This infant is fully developed, and
weighs about eight pounds. After birth
it seemed dead, but by careful manage-
ment it came to. It is abnormal from
the head down. The legsresemble those
of a colt, even to the feet, which, while
not exactly hoofs, are on club-foot order.
The child,if it lives, will be cbliged from
its peculiar formation to travel on all
fours.
A Baby Pipe Smoker.
At Two Years of Age it Cries for the
Tobacco.
Cuicaco, Aug. 17.—The Illinois Hu-
mane Society has decided to prosecute
the parents of two-year-old Leonard
Tucker, the tobacco smoking baby.
Ever since the baby was two months old
his father has been teaching him to
smoke. The child has now become sv
accustomed to the weed that he cries for
his pipe and t bacco.
The mother has had to work, and has
been leaving the boy ata nursery. The
matron of the nursery refused to allow
the use®of tobacco, Two physicians ex-
amined the child. He was found to be
in a very feeble condition, already suf-
fering from acute nicotine poisoning and
having what is knownto physicians as
the “tobacco heart.”
——The value of the beef and hog
products exported from these United
States in the month of July is given at
a little less than eight and a half mil-
lions. This is a million and half below
the figure for July of last year, but we
made a slight gain in butter and cheese,
of which we sent more than two mil-
lion dollars’ worth abroad in July, and
in live cattle we did very well for the
month, the total value being $3,306,706.
The poor American pig hardly saved
his bacon, as the quantity exported was
valued at almost three millions, a mil-
lion in hams and two millions of lard,
while only four hundred live hogs sailed
over tha briny deep. In July of 1890
there were 2,800 emigrant pigs. The
total value of the beef, hog and dairy
exports this July was more than ten and
a half millions.
Jerry Stimpson on Webster.
The man who attempts to floor Jerry
Simpson when he is “doing the oratori-
cal” attempts the impossible. For in-
stance, the other day Simpson, in one
of his speeches, while eulogizing Dan-
iel Webster, referred, in complimen-
tary terms, to his dictionary. A friend
on the stage pulled Simpson's coat-tail
and whispered “Noah was the man
who made the dictionary.” Simpson
gave his friend a scornful look and
whipered back : “Noah built the
ark,’ and went on with his oration.
——In a lecture Professor Fiske
says : Columbus estimated the earth
to be one-seventh smaller that it really
is. He exaggerated the length of Asia
and supposed it to extend so far east
that its eastern coast would come to
where Mexico is. Then he supposed
the island of Japan would extend to
where Cuba is, and he argued from a
verse in the Apocrypha that one-sev-
enth of the temperate zone was water,
and that would be what he would have
to cross, which distance he figured at
2500 miles.
-A young banker, well known in
Berlin, recently attempted to take ad-
vantage of a young woman on Haltern
Common at Ofen. The woman proved
to be the stronger and braver of the two.
Alter a brief struggle she mastered the
would-be ratfian, tied his bands behind
his back, and fastening a rope around
his neck fed him to the police station of
Ofen, where she charged him with at-
tempted assault. Women who go out
alone should always take a rope along
with them,
Since the Polk Administration
the steam engine and the telegraph have
changed not merely the business of the
world but even the very face of the
earth itself. Oregon is now nearer to
London than New Orleans was to Wash-
ington when London discussed with
Washington the precise location of the
unsettled and indeed unknown boundary
of Oregon. Thought now encircles the
globe in the time then demanded for
conveying a message the length of
Pennsylvania avenue.
——Gladstone averages about $1000
i for every newspaper or magazine arti-
cle.
Danced on the Scaffold.
St. Louis, Mo., August 13,—Henry
Hewson, the wife murderer, paid the
penalty for his cowardly crime this morn-
ing. Fe was a most blasphemous pris-
oner, and danced a jig on the gallows.
No religious service would be tolerated
by him, and he absolutely refused to sce
any one but the prison officials. When
going to the scaffold he laughed and
joked with his executioners. He had
smoked and joked all the night before,
A big glass of whisky was his only
break fast. ;
Hewson weighed over 300 pounds, had
a very large neck and small head. He
was pronounced dead in four minutes
after the fall. ‘When the body was cut
down it was found that his neck had
stretched a foot. This horrible occur-
rence had been feared by the officials.
The Governor's Testimony.
The appearance of Governor Pattison
before Council's Investigating Commit-
tee yesterday and his demand to be heard
in relation to the dealings of the Chestnut
Street National Bank with John Bards-
ley, will effectually silence the few
slanderers who have been trying to make
use of the Bardsley business to casi re-
proach upon the Governor. = Mr. Patii-
son’s testimony was direct and explicit.
Having received interest on State and
city deposits from other banks Bardsley
made the same demand upon the bank
of which Mr. Pattison was President.
This was refused, and then Bardsley had
no further use for the bank—rhiladel-
phia Herald.
——Two French balloonists, MM.
Gower and Tissandier, have added new
terrors to existence by discovering that
there are holes in the air—places where
the atmosphere is for some cause so rare-
fied that it will not support a balloon.
They encountered one of these vacuum
pits when they were a mile above the
earth during a recent voyage from Paris
to Fontenay. Suddenly, without any
known cause, their airship began to fall
with frightful velocity. They threw out
ballast desperately, but so furious was
their descent that they went down faster
than the sandbags, At length, when
only fifty feet above the ground, they
were able to check the fall and save
themselves from being dashed to pieces,
Sv they say.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——MEETING OF COUNTY GRANGE.
—The county grange met in annual ses-
sion in grange hall at Milesburg on
Tuesday, August 18th. The first ses.
sion began at 10.30 a, m., and the
grange was called to order by County
Member, Mr. I. S. Frain, Mr. L. Har-
vey, of Boggs township, delivered the
address of welcome, which was re-
sponded to by Hon, Leonard Rhone, of
Centre Hall. Mrs. Mary A. Miller, of
Ferguson township, read an essay on
“Woman's Rights and Privileges,” and
Miss Alice Rhone gave a recitation the
subject of which was “Pyramus and
Thisby.” Arrangements were perfected
for the holding of the picnic at Centre
Hall. and_ other miscellaneous business
transacted. Two sessions were held, one
in the morning and another in the after-
noon. Altogether about sixty persons
were present.
ARREMARKABLE SPIDER WiB.—At
her home on Jay street Mrs. Jacob
Newman exhibits a curiosity in the
shape of an immense cobweb, just in the
centre of which sits the boss of the pre-
mises in the shape of an immense spider
of a black {and yellow color, monarch
apparently of Jall he surveys. On each
side of the centre piece the web stretches
out in a windlike manner very fine, and
closely resembles the best and most ele-
gant handwriting. Go and see it. The
strangest part of the spider's work is
theifact that the word “Newman,” the
name of the family residing there, was
as plainly woven across the web in
regular uniformly constructed letters, in
much bolder web, so to speak, asit
could have been written by agood pen-
man.—Lock Haven Democrat,
CoMMONWEALTH CASES For NEXT
WeEK.—The following criminal cases
are down for trial before the Court of
Quarter sessions next week :
Com. vs. Michael Gibbons—violation
of liquor law. Prosecutor, J. B. Resides
constable. .
Com. vs. George TFye—larceny.
Prosecutor, J. H. Holt.
Com. vs. John H. Messmer—assault
and battery. Prosecutor J. W. Gobble.
Com. vs. Wm. H. Lucas—f. and b:
Prosecutor, Clara Witherite.
Com, vs. Charles Miller—assault and
battery. Prosecutor, Joseph H. Hall,
Com. vs. Gerty Lauver—larceny
Prosecutor, Hayes Shenck.
Com. vs. James Karsher—violation of
liquor law. Prosecutor, John B. Re-
sides, constable.
Com. vs. Wm. Richaer--f. and b.
Prosecutor, Ellie M.. Seigiried.
Com. vs. W. J. Wirth —embezzle-
m:nt Prosecutor, Samuel H. Rother-
mel.
Com. vs, W. J. Wirth—larceny.
Prosecutor, Samuel H. Rothermel.
Com. vs. Charles Mille r—assault and
battery. Prosecutor, Joseph H. Hall.
Com. vs. Harry Williams—assault
and battery. Prosecutor, David Kunepp.
Com. vs. Arthur Rothroc—f. and b.
Prosecutor, Mattie Miller.
Com. vs. Daniel Brent--carrying con-
cealed weapons. Prosecutor, Wm. Garis,
constable.
Com. vs. Powel Garick—larceny.
Pros, Abe. Robis on.