Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, September 18, 1891, Image 4
Terms 2.00 "+ Year,in Advance Bellefonte, Pa., Sep't. 18, 1891. EDITOR P. GRAY MEEK, Democratic County ‘Committee, W. S. Galbraith Joseph Wise John Dunlap John T. Lee .... H. A. Moore .. A. M. Butler eg A. C. Musser James A. Lukens C. A. Faulkner Frank Hess E. M.Griest Bellefonte, N. W.. A SY Centre Hall Borou Howard Borough..... Milesburg Borough. Pobre EW ipsburg, 1st W... 3 We ‘ 3d W... Unionville Borough Burnside “ gene Meeker ... Harvey Benner . Philip Confer .. T. F. Adams G, H.Leyman wives We H. Mokle J. N. Krumrine . J. McCloskey .. Daniel Dreibelbis Be bo "© Pius College, E. P “71 We lP Curtin.....o.ceeene Fern, wh Geo. W. Keichline Greggs, S. . Chas. W. Fisher 'N James P. Grove Tsaae M. Orndorf Haines Bt .. Geo. B. Shaffer ; wie. Bilis Lytle Eien +. J. W. Keller Howard.. W.T. Leathers Huston Henry Hale Liberty. lfred Bitner Marion .. John J. Shaffer Miles.. we Wo J. Carlin Patton......., .. P. A. Sellers uses J C. Stover veers 8. W. Smith Jas. B. Spangler .. Jas. Dumbleton . William Hutton Pennisi...» “ Potter, iy P... ht P Rush, N. P. “Bh Pub. Bnow Shoe, W. “ - 5. .. Jerry Donovan one Spe N. +. James Carson «Chas. H. Rush, D. A. Dietrick ... 0.D. Eberts R, Chairman. Democratic State Ticket. of dor SYDIIOR GENERAL, | ° ROBERT E. WRIGHT, of Lehigh county. FOR STATE TREASURER, A. L. TILDEN, of Erie county. DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Chas. R. Buckalew. : Chauncey F. Black. Geo. A, Jgnks. i Geo. M. Dallas. Sam’. &. hompson. David W. Sellers. Henry N. Scott. Robt. E. Monaghan. ‘Win. S. McLean. F. M. Vandling. Jno. Latta. ; i. Rodger Sherman. William Weihe. i" Thos. Lazare. Bamuel Griffith. i Grant Weidman. Geo. W. Zeigler. R. Morgan Root. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For DELEGATE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. (‘ELLIS L. ORVIS. Subject to action of district conference. Aury: Commissioner. —~GEORGE BOWER. Facts for Farmers and Stock Owners. Do the farmers and workingmen of this section of the State know and ap- ‘preciate the fact that they can have no redress for the grievous wrong per: petrated upon them two years ago,by a Republican legislature, in the repeal of the fence law, except through the ac- tion of a constitutional convention ? Whether they recognize or under- stand the situation or not, the plain, palpable truth is, that such legislation as they desire and need on the subject of fencing cannot be secured until the ‘present constitution is altered and amended. No such measure as a general fence law. could. be. passed in either branch of the legislature, for the rea- | son that the cities and thickly settled counties of the Commonwealth are op- posed ‘to such ‘a’ law. They have a majority of representatives in both “the Senate and the House; and’ any bill | looking to the re-enactment of the old law on this subject, or a new measure covering the same points, would be de- | feated just as surely as it was intro- | duced, "10 Hurl ,- Neither can our people find. relief through local legislation in this matter for the simple reason that the present Constitution prohibits the enactment of local laws on this as well as ‘many other questions, Persons, who, in the interest’ of corporations are opposed to | & constitutional convention, may tell you differently, butithe proof of what | we state is furnished in the Governor's veto of a bill passed by the last legisla- ture giving to Elk county such s fence law as her citizens desired. *' Do'you want a fence law? The only way you can secure one is to vote for a constitutional convention and trust to that body, so amending the Constitution as to allow local feg- dglation on subjects of general impor | tance to the citizens of the locality in- terested, © SHE TER HEART. if » == Millionaire | HoNTINGTON’S daughter gratified her ambition 'to be: long to the nobility ‘by marrying the German Count HarzreLor, who has a long live of noble ancestry but a short purse, Her father had the mon: ey to pay for the distinction, and she did what ether foolish American wom: en do. Batin her ease the honor has had its drawbacks, The old man. has been called upon to pay the’ liabilities of his moble son-in-law, which were heavy, and he has done it with a promptness that shows he appreciates the. glory of having a count fof & son-in-law. HuNriyemon «is a hard. headed 01d customer wha knew how to make money and it 18 surprising, that he he should be: willing to squander it in this way. AH LU Mo Chicago Wants Help. The request which Chicago will make of Congress to give $5,000,000 to help the Fair is not likely to be re- ceived with favor. She was very loud in announcing her ability to put the enterprise through with little, if any, outside help. New York, in pushing her claims for the Fair, showed, or at. least pretended to show, $15,000,000 cash. Chicago, through her spokes- men, went before Congress and repre- sented chat her businessmen would sub- scribe $25,000,000, if necessary, and she would not ask a cent from the gov- ernment. Upon these representations she got the Fair, but it is now being shown that she was playing a game of brag without the material to back it. It was with great difficulty that the comparatively small amount she has in-hand to put into the enterprise was raised by subscription among her busi- nessmen, and,although time is passing rapidly, very little preparatory work has been dome. Now $5,000,000 is asked of the government. The result will be that the government will have to help the windy city out of the scrape she is in, for the success of the Fair is something that involves the .national reputation and honor. The Chicago braggarts depended upon this senti- ment to help them out when they made promises which they knew they were unable’ to fulfill. ——There was'a neat bit of political claptrap worked by Major McKINLEY in Cincinnati the other day. Because a negro had been refused accommoda- tion in a hotel the candidate for Gov- ernor left that hotel and went to an- other where the color line was not drawn. This was intended to tickle the colored voters, but if the Major should be elected he would be careful not to continue the titilation by giving any of the offices ‘under his control to his colored supporters. Pennsylvania at the Chicago Fair. Last Friday the Pennsylvania World's Fair Commission met in Har- risburg and among other work 1t ‘did was the election of Mr. B. F. Wmir- MAN, of Erie, as Executive Commis- sioner to fill the place made vacant by the death of the lamented CHARLES S. Worre. Mr. WHITMAN is a gentle man of decided executive ability and has had much experience in practical affairs. He has already proposed a plan of operations which under his en ergetic direction will give Pennsylva- nia one of the most notable positions in the exhibition. The Commission accepted the site- of the State building at Chicago, the grounds set apart for Pennsylvania be- ing admirably located and beautifully surrounded. It comprises 250 feet in front and is 155 feet deep. ‘It was de- cided by the executive committee that the cost of Pennsyivania’s building should not exceed $75,000, and that it shall be two stories high, the first story to contain exhibits and the sec- ond offices. The little Central: American State of San Salvador has again been badly shaken up by an earthquake. That is a common occurrence down there, but not more common than the | political shaking up to which the gov- | ernments in that region are subjected | through the agency of revolutions. While the internal forces ‘agitate and upheave the subsoil, the revolutionists manage to make things lively ‘on the | surface. Such quakiness of both soil and society would not suit the taste of the people of the United States. It Should Not Fail for Want of Funds. The Harrison administration has discontinued the investigation of the Keystone Bank management because | the money appropriated for the purpose | has “been” exhausted. "What a pity | that a government that doesn’t hesitate | about spending a billion of dollars in éxpenditures of every conceivable va- riety, should find itself short of money just about the time when a little. more expense would be likely "to expose a uice set of raseally officials, 1 But we are glad to see that there are public spirited citizens of Philadelphia who are willing to come to the assis- taace of an impecunious government in this. dilemma. The Committee of Fifty offer $5,000 to continue the Key- stone Bank investigation. If it is really money that is wanting, this lib. eral offer should over¢ome ‘that diff- culty. iat Ariat re S—— i § ~=We may next expect to hear that ‘several steamers have been ‘char, tered to bring over the gold which’ the Cobden, Club. intends to. send from England to defeat Major McK'iNLEY in Ohio: According to the veracious tanff organs advance sums of this ns, ERNEST mod corrupting * Witke have already come across, but it will certainly take two or ‘three steamers, to bring the Bulky gf it over, of witaniin 1aliokTig Hh 1 { 109 (11Re} licans of New York nominated Fassert for Governor is explained. « He has a “barrel. it'is in the family. = His wife isa bo- ‘her barrel tapped. The Republicans ‘of New York are ready to accommo- “pressing circumstances the old party ‘never declines the advantage of a bar- | self, while Fasserr married hs, organizations in America would profit The Tin Campaign in Ohio. The fellows who are managing the McKinley campaign in Ohio intend to work the tin racket to the utmost, and for this purpose have emnloyed a number of fakirs and traveling sales: men to help along the cause. GEroree HovrtzMAN, a notorious operator in the fakir line, who is known all over Ohio, is in it, and inadvertently divulged the programme to a Republican who didn’t think it his duty to approve of the fakir method of campaigning. The fellows to whom this special business has been assigned are already on the road, loaded with tinware of all descriptions, which they are. disposing of at lower prices than tinware was ever before sold for in Ohio. These low figures are represented to be theeffect of the McKinley bill, They are pointed to as directly result- | ing from the vast tin manufactories which are represented to have sprung An Economical Government. self unable to go on with the investiga- | tion of the Keystone National Bank | the investigators are beginning to the $5,000 appropriated to carry investigation is ‘exhausted. It took that amount of money to pay’ for the the guilt of three clerks, but most un- fortunately the cash ran short before the big rascals could be reached. What a pity the experts must be called off because there isn’t mouey enough to pay for their further service, when a little more unearthing would uncover culprits whom it would be really worth while to uncover, and whose ' ex- worth the money expended. up in different parts of the country in consequence of McKINLEY’s protection to American tin. This method of electioneering is con- fined to the country districts and to tarm houses. When the rural resi- dents are being supplied with tin goods at figures so astonishly low, the agents of this deception make it a point to en- large upen the benefits of protection, and particularly to impress the rural mind with the belief that the low prices at which they can afford to sell tinware are due to the tariff policy of the man who is the Republican candi- date for Governor. Hundreds of these fakirs are now rattling over the country roads of Ohio with their wagons loaded with pans, pails, buckets, preserving cans, and the endless variety of tin goods, and the country districts will be flooded with this stuff before the election. It will cost a great deal to do this thing, but the political rascals who are work- ing the scheme have an ample cam. paign fund and are assured that they can make a better impression by this style of tariff argument than by meet ingthe champions of tariff reform in open discussion before the people. The amount of money it will take to buy the quantity of tin required for this kind of campaigning will be necessari- ly large. The tin plate used for these utensils is, of course, imported, for there is none, of any account, made in this country, and when it is considered how the price of tin has been increased by tbe McKinley bill, some idea may be formed of the expense of this way of electioneering. But the tariff bene- ficiaries are contributing liberally. They know that their monopoly de- pends upon the maintenance of the high tariff, recognizing the fact that the defeat of the author of the McKin- ley tariff would be a death blow to that | extortionate measure. Therefore they are not stinting the means by which Ohio is being flooded with tinware at prices calculated to create the impres- sion that the McKinley ‘bill has made it cheap. The peddler wagons, as they bounce over the Buckeye roads with paos, kettles and pails, are certainly makingia rattling campaign, but it is not likely that the intelligent rural vote of Ohio will be rattled by such a deception. v1 A Barrel on Tap. The avidity with which the Repub- It isn’t exactly his own, but nanza heiress from (California and: is politically ambitious. She longs to be the wife of a Governor; subsequently the wife of a United States Senator, and finally the lady of the White House. The political history of the country has taught her that by such | gradations an ambitious woman may reach the exalted position: of first lady of the land.” That this bright vision may be realized she is willing vo: ‘have date her ambition. Money is badly needed for the compaign and under rel," Toh SE ——————————————— Mr. Frowgg, in all probability, will be nominated for Governor by the Democrats of New York. Heis a rich man; so is Fassorr, the nominee of the Republicans.: But the difference is that FLowER made his money him- Mrs, Fasserr is a million-heiress and “is willing to put considerable of her cash into the campaign. S——————— ——The English trade unions have determined not to organize themselves into a political party, but to “exercise their influerce upon parties ‘that al- ready exist. They hope to obtain bet. | ter results by this plan, and the labor There were government thieves as well as private rascals mixed up in the Keystone Bank villainy, but: the ap- propriation has been exhausted and motives of economy constrain the gov- ernment to discontinue the investiga- tion. What a great thing it is to have an economical government. ——JonN BarpsLeEY was brought from the penitentiary on Tuesday to testify in criminal proceedings ‘before the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia against Auditor General McCaManT, cashier of the Treasury Livsey, and others, for complicity -in the unlawful use of public money. BARDSLEY posi- tively refused to testify,declining to an- gwer any questions whatever,and on ac- count of his contumacy the proceedings had to be discontinued. It Very Much Depen ds. It depends on whose ox is gored in advancing civil service reform by the removal of officials who disregard the law. The Washington Post summa- rizes two recent cases as follows : Mr. Pavr was a Democratic post- master at Milwaukee. Commissioner ROOSEVELT report to the President that Postmaster PauL had violated the civil service law. The President removed Mr. PauL and appointed a Republican postmas- ter in his place. Mr. Jouxnsox is the Republican post master at Baltimore. Commissioner RooseveLT has re- ported to the President that Postmas- ter JornsoN has violated the civil ser- ‘vice law. Will the President remove Mr. JoHNsON ? " There is no probability that Jomn- sox will be removed, but there is a rumor that Mr. RooseveLr will retire from the civil seryice commission in disgust. A Woman's Revenge. “Mixed Arsenic With Every Article of : Food. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 13.—An- other chapter in the Juvenal case was written yesterday, when Dr. Boyle re- corded at the Health Office the death of Mrs. J. M. Juvenal from arsenical poi- soning. The married life of J. M. Juvenal has been a tragic and stormy one, He first married Miss Margaret Fouree, of Rus- sell, Kan. After eight years he got a divorce. Then Juvenal became engag- .ed. to be married to Miss Millie Pfiffman of this place. Hejilted her and mar- ried Mrs. Anna Baker, a divorced wom- an. Soon after Juvenal’s house was blown up with dynamite, and he and his wife barely escaped death. Miss Pfiffman was arrested for the crime and the case against her is still pending. Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Juvenal spent the day away from home, return- ing ‘Monday. They drank water from the ice-cooler and were both immedi- ately taken violently ill. They did. not suspect ‘poisoning, however, and medical assistance relieved ‘them. ‘On Tuesday they ate some cakes made from mixed meal, and again both were taken violently ill. 2 wil fo b an Investigation ' showed = that nearly everything edible in the house had been’ mixed with arsenic. From the effects of her illness Mrs. Juvenal never recov- ered, dying . this morning at 2 o'clock. Mr. Juvenal, however, has recovered. , Much mystery surrounds the case. Juvenal says he knows who the guilty persons are, but decliness to give their names. Juvenal is resident manager of the Consolidated Tank Line Company, and is in ‘comfortable circumstances Boodle for McKinley. sow oPittsburg Post. 0. Last fall thore was collected in Alle: gheny county’ from ‘the better class Republicans!’—that- is;-the men with money and prayers—upwards of $80,000, which was used in McKinley's district in the most systematicand stupendous schemes of bribery and corruption to elect McKinley to Congress. ‘We be, lieve it was a great misfortune that the Republicans were unable to purchase 8 small majority for McKinley, as in that case there would have heen a. contest and an exposure of the most corrupt congressional : election: : probably ever held in the United States. McKinley did not dare challenge an investigation by contesting Governor Warwick’s election. The fat’ friers'in’ Pennsylvania’ are'to be called on this year for another corrup- tion fund to help pull McKinley through. Any one with, an. ounce of | brains knows that these immense money contributions, are not needed, for any legitimate campaign purpose, but are to by following their example, be devoted to corrupting the election. 1 NHR AE, Wright and Tilden. The government manages to find it- Brief Sketches of the Lives of the Two Candates. Robert E. Wright, the nomince for rottenness by reason of the want of | ‘Auditor General, was born in Allen- fands. Just at the time when the |townin 1847 and as a young man enter- thing is getting really interesting and | ed the office of a civil engineer, receiv- ing a thorough training in that profes- sion. He then went to Schuykill county, scent big game, it is discovered that where he held for some time a responsi- on the | ble position in the service of the Phila- delphia and Reading Railroad Company ‘under Chief Engineer Charles E. Byers. { Eventually, however, he entered upon 1 i | { i | 1 work that has resulted ia discovering : the study of the law, and was admitted to the Barin 1869. He was associated i with his father in practice until the death of the latter, and soon became one of the leading lawyers in Eastern Penn- sylvania. In 1886 he succeeded to the residency of the Allentown National ank, of which he had previously been | the attorney. Gisy Mr. Wright has taken a prominent land active part in political affairs for } 1 } | more than a decade past. Frequently | urged to become a candidate for logal posure would afford a spectacle fully | offices, he always declined, notably in | 1890, when he was nominated for the {State Senate by an almost unanimous vote, but he has served as Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and ' a3 a delegate to many State conventions, being the presiding officer of that of 1883. In the State Convention of 1886 ' his name, was presented for the Guber- natorial nomination, and he received seventeen votes on the first ballot, the ; nomination ultimately going to Lieu- !ténant Governor Chauncey F. Black, His name was again presented for the first place on the ticket at the State Con- vention™ last year, but he received only eleven votes, Pattison being nominated on the first ballot by an overwhelming majority. He was then urged for the second place on the ticket, and, received 158 votes for Lieutenant Governor, to 191 for Chauncey F. Black and three for H. K. Sloan. : THE CANDIDATE FOR STATE TREASURER <A. L. Tilden,nominee for State Treas- urer, was born in Garretsville, Portage county, O., on August 21, 1834. He at- tended the public schools of his native town and Nelson Academy. He started in business for himself at the early age of 18 as a lumberman in the pine regions of Michigan. In 1853 Mr. ‘Tilden re- moved to Erie county, Pa., and engag- ed in the lumber business until 1857, when he lost all be had accumulated by ‘the panic of that year. He then went into the the employ of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad as General Agent, in which position he continued until 1866, when he purchased a farm on the flats of French Creek, in Le Beouff township, Erie county, where he has made his home ever since. Since living in Erie county - Mr. Til- den has taken a prominent part in poli- ties, being a freqent delegate to Demo- cratic county and State conventions. He was elected County Commissioner in 1878 and re elected in 1881. He 1s one of the leaders in the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliance. Last year the latter organization selected him as their choice among the Democrets for Congress, and he was unanimously indorsed by the Democratic conference of the Twenty- sixth district, embracing Erie and Craw- ford counties, but he was defeated by Mathew Griswold, the ‘Republican can- didate, by 888 plurality. Two years before the district had been carried by the Republican candidate by over 3,000 plurality. In January last, on the inauguration of Governor Pattison, Mr, Tilden was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, a position for which he was urged by leading Demn- crats throughout the State. The Real Issue in Pennsylvania. Public Ledger Sept. 4. . The idea has come to prevail that the service and ‘advantage of the Common- wealth is .a secondary matter.. This is seen in the theory and practices con- nected with the administration of the Auditor General's and Treasury offices —and in the Mercantile Appraisers’ offices. Itisseén! in the miscellaneous jumble of resolutions adopted by ' the Republican State Convention, in which our vitally important State affairs are subordinated to puffy personal resolu- tions and far off matters that areialto- gether irrelevant to State exigencies, as revealed by the Bardsley and Mercan- tile Tax Appraiser exposures. = It is seen in the cold and formal letter of Auditor General McCamant concerning tile License Appraiser appointees. And it is visible in: all the half-hearted and halting expressions touching these Rev- enue and Treasusy exposures—and in the absence of such clear, strong, direct and energetic denunciations ofthe in- dividual offenders as would give ‘some sort of earnest promise that the “spoils” system of Revenue and Treasury gov- ernment is to be put to death in Penn- sylvania. © Joa : a It is indispensably necessary that the ‘spoils’’ ‘system shall be struck by a ‘crushing defeat in Pennsylvania. It is for the voters of the State now to judge —now that the issues joined as to the de- liverances in the resolution of both Con- ventions—which party “and - which nominees ‘are ‘most likely to ‘strike the blow that will défeat ' and stacdip out (he system 1346 (lie ore ganization ‘that shows a disposition to confuse and belittle’ the vital issues in | the State canvass—or is it that opposing party which goes at the important work in the clearest, most direct, earnest and energetic way ? ! : Presidential Possibilties in 1892, New Haven (Con.) Register. In Ohio, should Governor Campbell again carry his State over Republican opposition, -his-friends would in all prob- ability present his name to the National onvention for thesecond if not the first osition, So .in Pennsylvania, should Sodas again succeed in, eaptur, ing that stronghold of Republicanism, We friondeor Governor Pattison. would urge consideration, in his, behalf in the I an Should | both Campbéll and Pattison triumph in their respective States it would not be surpris- ing to see their names linked together for Presidential, aed. Vice Presidential honors, Interest is attached to this pos- sibility because of the increasing’ hostil- ity in New York’ between the Cleveland and Hill forces. " "’ : ISR -tion. the serious charges against his 'Mercan- |. a Tar Ready for War. Significant Feature of the Russian Army Manowvres. LoxDoxN, September 11.-~The num- ber of troops engaged in the Russian army manecuvres in the governments of Kioff, Pocolia and Volhynia is about 100,000. They are all drawn from the interior, and there is no diminution of the great frontier garrisons scattered along the Austro-Russian boundary, The manwuvres are attended by the leading military commanders in Europ- ean Russia, and press representatives, both foreign and native, are excluded. The St. Petersburg and Moscow news- papers will be supplied by the govern- ment with euch information asisthought proper to give. Tt is known that the manceuvres include the features of edu- cating the troops to familiarity to smoke- less powder, and that special attention is given to the efficiency of the new rifle recently adopted by the czar. A correspondent who has been visit- ‘ing the Russian southwestern frontier, in Bessarabia, as far as the Danube,says that troops are rapidly arriving in large numbers. This would be the base of de- parture for a Russian army advancing toward the Balkans and Constantinople. At Tutschkoff four regiments were quartered where last year there were only two. At Vulcovo and Kilia five regiments had recently arrived, in addi- tion to the men already there. At 'Kagui three regiments arrived’ about a month ago, and at 'Jalpuch reinforce- ment 61 7,000 men have recently taken up their quarters. Troops ‘are pouring at the same rate into: other villages. These places are of little consequence, apart | from - their situation, ‘where an army of invasion would naturally con- .centrate.: In view of these facts the cor- respondentconcludes that Russia intends at no distant date, to. make across the Danube for Constantinople, and that her preparations’ show that this’ time she means to have a force sufficient to over- come all obstacles, Hea bis Potter—Yes, sir; that man is a hypocrite, if there ever. was one.. While professing the warmest friendship for me he was for a whole year stabbing me in the back, and I never knew it. Irwin—Goodness! What kind of a back have you got? TT ————— ADDITIONAL LOCALS. ® ——Patton is the name of a new town on the line of the Beech Creek extension R. R., in the northern part of Cambria Co. It was named after Hon, John Patton, of Curwensville, who donated to the place $500 for the erection of a church building. 11150] ——The Mountain House at Eagle- ville will be opened for the accommoda- tion of the public on Thursday, October 1st, under the management of Mr, Jno. W.0’Conner. Good board by the day or week will be furnished and very moderate rates charged. ——Prof. D. M. Lieb, principal of the public schools of this place, has been given a leave of absence for two months by the Board of School Directors. His health has been considerably impaired for some time past in consequence of close application to his duties,and a rest is needed for the purpose of recupera- He has gone to visit his brother, Dr. Andrew Lieb, a prominent physi- cian in Bethlehem,and he may also spend some time at the sea shore. : ARRESTED FoR EMBEZZLEMENT.—F. E. Caldwell, who was financial secre- tary of the Cigarmakers Union, No. 103, and who lastspring left here after having, as alleged by the Union, stolen between $300 and $400, was captured last.evening by Chief of Police. West- brook, of this city, about'two miles on this side of Salladasburg, where he was living with a’ farmer by the name of ‘Baker, and was brought here and jailed to await a hearing.--Lock Haven Demo- crat of Saturday. ——Hon, Robt. E. Monaghan; West Chester's’ most prominent citizen and Democrat, and who, by the way, is one of the nineteen excellent nominees of the Democratic party for delegate-at- large to the Constitutional Gonvention, with Mrs,®Monaghan, were. the guests of Dr.§Geo. F. Harris on. Monday and Tuesday last. It was Mr. Monaghan’s first visit to Bellefonte, and he left with the same impression ‘that every visitor goes away with, that it is one of the prettiest and solidest inland towns’ there is in the United;States, Mr. Monaghan. like every other honest, reflecting citi- zen, fully believes that the the people of Peansylvania lave growa ¢iréd of Re. publican Zrottenness, and that this fall will witness the complete triumph of Democracy and honesty in Pennsylva- nia. ; DesTRUCTIVE FIRE. --Sunbury had a destructive fire last Sunday evening in the burning of Ira T. Clement's planing mill on the corner of Third and Race streets. Smoke was discovered issulog from thejbuilding about 8.80 p. m. The flames spread so rapidly that it was im- poseible to save the mill, and the five men applied themselves to, protecting the. neighboring property which they succédeded in doing. The loss was about $25,000. It is not known how ‘the fire originated, but u belief prevails that dyring a. thunder storm which passed over the town in the afternoon lightning struck: the wires’ attached to the mill and’ was conveyed to the interior of the building. j hie bi