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"BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
The ranks of the Guard are happy again
For the Chilian apology’s here; |
And the whiskeyed up spirits of the brave sol- |
dier men
Will go back to their diet of beer.
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—A risin’ man—the baker.
—Chili will undoubtedly be a great |
drawing card 1fshe comes tothe World's |
Fair. |
~-CLEVELAND is getting redosed with !
JEFFERSONTAN simplicity, with the ven- |
eruble actor in Louisiana.
--A good motto for the Harrisburg
Patriot would be: ‘Damn the Democrat |
who is not “ferninst”’ the state adminis-
tration.”
—HiLL has named WASHINGTON'S
birthday as the one on which the New
York democracy must either wed him
or GROVER.
—1It takes more than a shamrock to
soothe the average Irish baby when the
Me's and the O’s are celebratin’ its
christenin’.
—Preparations for war is not exclu-
sively government work. Many indi-
viduals do this job in taking out a mar-
riage license.
—GROVER is not likely to retire as
long as Frankie and Ruta keep their
health. The trio will make a great
campaigning show.
—The Electrical transportation is be-
coming more popular every day. They
are using it now to send passengers from
this world into the next.
—Now that the Chilian war cloud has
been worn out with EGAN’s reign, DYR-
ENFORTH might use it to store up some
of the surplus of his machine in.
—GQGlass bottles for rolling pins are be-
ing boomed, by hen pecked husbands.
Their wives are not so free with them
as they are with the wooden ones.
—If the dogs of war, are the fellows
who have been barking so loud of late,
they are not of the breed that would be
relied upon when the fighting commen-
ced.
—It is a good thing for JoHNNY BULL
that the Chilian war failed to material.
ize tor,if it had, ho might have gotten
his nose punched for poking it into other
people’s business.
—The great Joan L. has broken his
pledge already. On Monday night he
got beastly drunk and had to be carried
¢> bed, but he “regretted it’’ ere the
morning dawned.
-—Chicago newspapers are pitching
into the news boys of that city for cry-
ing false news, They evidently imag-
ine that they should have a monopoly
of the lying business.
—-“Down on the lip is far better than
down on your back’ remarked the
youth, who was petting his mustache, to
his whiskered companion to who had slip-
ped on a bananna peel.
—The new ballot law promises to
prove an extremely expensive luxury
for Pennsylvania. But the glorious old
Keystone can afford to pay for a closet
in which her voters can pray for tariff
reform.
—If EpisoN could only turn his in-
ventive genius to the manufacture of a
machine which would electrify and over-
whelm the hosts of satan, what a lot of
friends he would have in the journalistic
fraternity.
—The tie up in the Chicago water
supply, last week, had very little effect
on the Democratic convention. Good
Democrats need never fear a drought so
long as Rochester and Milwaukee are
not swallowed up.
—The trouble with Chili in the late
difficulties was that it sized up our gov-
erament by the heft of the administra-
tion, and laboring under this halucina-
tion thought it had tackled something
about its own size and weight.
—Pittston High school scholars have
decided that ‘the power of the press is
greater than that of the steam engine.”
But in Pittsburg it isn’t. They are
still trying to suppress Sunday papers,
and their sale in the Smoky city.
—Scientists say that a well developed
man should weigh twenty-six pounds
for every foot in height. According to
such views we presume that the present
White House incubent imagines he
weighs several tons since the Chili fiasco.
—In Mexico they executed a most
valiant colonel simply because he failed
to catch GARzA. If such ideas had been
in vogue in Pennsylvania, last spring
crepe would be fluttering from many
doors to-day. Where is Livesy?
‘Where is MARsH ?
—Owing to the low price of cotton
many Georgia farmers are going into
the tobacco and eabbage raising busi-
ness. From the taste and smell of some
cigars, one is led to believe that many
have been raising the two together for
some time and forgetting to separate
them. Mr. HARRISON can now find
heads to fill auy more vacancies that
may occur, during the remainder of his
term.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 37,
Clouse Up the Ranks.
It is to be hoped, now thatthe empty
honor of whose name is t> be printed !
at the head of the official letter sheet |
of the Democratic state committee as
its chairman, has been determined, that
all parties to the contest will settle
down to the veiw, that fully as much
can be done for Democratic success by
fighting’ the common enemy ae by
quarreling among themselves. The
individual Democrat, be he layman or
leader, who cannot see or understand
this truch, is neither to be trusted nor
relied upon; and he who refuses to
recognize its force and seeks to con-
tinue the breils and divisions foolishly
developed at the recent meeting of the
state committee, acts only in the inter-
estot the Republican party, and for
the purpose of insuring Democratic de-
feat.
For years and years the Pennsylva-
nia Democracy has been rent by fac-
tional feuds that had no cause for a
beginning and could in no way benefit
those engaged in them, no matter how
they resulted; and the turmoil at Har-
risburg last week, was of this kind and
character, There was no excuse for it
in the first place; no sense in itin the
second ; and no benefit in the outcome
for any one in the third.
Whether or not those who mixed up
in it, imagined that the election of eith-
er of the gentlemen named, would de-
termine the character and control the
actions of the delegation that will rep-
resent the Democracy of the state at
Chicago in June, we do not know. If
they did, tney certainly discounted the
intelligence and independence of the
men, who, as delegates to the State
convention, will name those who are to
voice the sentiment of their respective
districts, in the selection of a candidate
for president. It is no leader, no fac-
tion,no officials whether they bein con-
gress, at Harrisburg or elsewhere, or
individual Democrats, who are out
of politics when work is to be done and
in iv again when divisions can be creat-
ed, that will, or should be represented
at Chicago. Itis for the Democracy
of the state, for whom representatives
are to be chosen ; and the man or’'men,
without courage to represent the wish
of the Democracy of the district that
sends them, or who are willing to be-
come the mouth-piece or tools of any
faction or clique, are fit only to be left
at home.
No matter whether the successful can-
didate for chairman was Wricnr, or no
matterhad he been M r. Kerr, the De-
mocrats of the state owe it to them-
selves to lay aside their bickerings, forget
their jealousies and remember that
there is upwards of 50,000 Republican
majority in the state to overcome, be-
fore either leadership or aspirations
will amount to enough to bother about.
As would have been expected by Mr.
Kerr and those supporting him,so has
Mr. Wright theright to look for and
receive the willing, earnest and united
support of every Democrat, in all the
efforts he may make for the success
and triumph of the party.
We know the newly elecied chair-
man well enough to assure our readers
that he is not there to represent indi-
viduals or factions; that he did not
seek the place to make delegates or
dictate candidates ; but that as chair-
man of the Democratic State Com-
mittee, he will earnestly and untir-
ingly devote his time and means to
the perfecting of the party organiza-
tion and for the success of those, who
in its wisdom, the party may chose as
its standard bearers. =
Chairman WrieHT will do his duty.
Let others do theirs, aud factions and
feuds will be unknown.
———
——The Democracy ot the entire
country will be gratified at the result
of the recent Senatorial election in
Maryland. They have not forgotten
the gallant!fight made by SENATOR GoRr-
MAN against the infamous election bill
which radical republicanism attempted
to pass through the 51st Congress, and
his re-election for a third term to the
Senate, will meet with the hearty en-
dorsement of every Democratic voter
in this broad land. Senator GormaN’s
views,on some particular subjects, may
not be the views of other Democrats,
but when it comes to standing up for
the rights of the people, for good sub-
stantial work for the success of the
party, and for earnest endeavors for
the intarests of the public, Senator
GorMaN has few if any equals on the
floor of the Senate.
No War —No Glory.
Thanks to little Chili, the effort of
Minister Ecax to create trouble with
that country, that his son might be en-
riched through government specula-
tions; the hopes of President HARRI-
SoN to precipitate war for the purpose
of making political capital ; the expec-
tations of coatractors and camp] follow.
ers that out ofthe bluster and biood-
shed of a confllict between the two
countries, they would make money,
have all been kuocked in the head.
The manly and unexpected offer of the
Chilian government to submit the
questions, these parties have been using
as an excuse for war, either to neutral
powers for arbitration, or if thatis not
satisfactory to our government, to our
own Supreme Court for determination,
puts the idea of any serious difficulty
with that country, so far out of the
people’s mind, that there is not a be-
ligerent left among us unless it is Jonx
SULLIVAN or some other equally idiot-
ic fool.
The fact that Chili proposes that
Mr. Harrison's own Supreme Court
shall determine the right or wrong of
the questions at issue, shows how con-
fident the administration of that gov-
ernment is, that it is clearly in the
right, and that Mr- Eacax and those
of our people who have plotted and |
clamored for war, are surely ia the
wrong.
In the face of this offer Mr. HARRISON
should blush for the efforts he and the
man he has kept in place, have made
to precipitate a conflict with a country
having less than one twentieth the
population and wealth we boast. Un-
der any circumstances war with a sis-
ter Republic would be disgraceful, and
particularly disgraceful with one so
mach inferior in men and means, as is
this little, sun-bakel, greaser populated |
country. Bat to have gotten into
hostilities over questions that those
whom we are askel to fizht, are willing
judication, would have been a double
disgrace a3 lasting as the feathers in
our eagle's tail, or the stripes on the
flag we protess to worship.
That a causeless. onesidel war,
with a weak, struggling republic, that
should be oar warmest admirer and re: | the proper person to receive an ap-
ceive oar support and sympathy in its pointment, but in this case it can hear-
times of distress, has been averted, is
not to be credited to American states-
manship or American manhood. It is
due to the better judgement and more
christian-like spirit of those we were
asked to thrash because we were
strong enough to do it, and their more
than fair proposition to submit the
question ia dispute to our own Courts
for determination.
How does this course tally with the
blustering, bullying policy we adopted
in theItalian trouble at New Orleans,
less than one year ago-a case in which
we were more to blame than is Chili
in the present, and which we have not
yet either apologized for or honorably
adjusted.
As matters stand now, there will be
no war with Chili, and we have come
out of what there was without either
credit or glory.
Have Abolished the Conferee System,
Last fall the Republicans® of our
neighboring district, the Sixteenth Con-
gressional, came within 49 votes of
losing their member, and would have
been overwhelmingly defeated, but for
the treachery and bad faith of certain
Democrats in Ciinton county toward
their candidate. The narrow shave
they made, has wakened themjup, and
fearing that a repetition of the same
scenes that characterized the nomina-
tion of Mr. Hopkins would bring
about their future defeat and demorali-
zation, they have concluded to change
their plan of nominations, and on Tues-
day last, at Williamsport, decided to do
away with the conferee system and
adopted the following :
Resolved, That representation in future con-
Brescia) conferences or conventions in this
istrict shall be as follows: Each county to
have one vote and in addition thereto, one vote
for each 2,000 Republican votes or majority
fraction thereof cast at the last presidential
election,and also one vote for each 20,000 popu
lation or majority fraction thereof based upon
the last decennial census.
That this plan will prevent dead
locks, we have no doubt, but that it
will enaole them to elect who they
have a mind to, without relying oa
{ the Democratic contingent in little
| Clinton, there is some question.
_ BELLEFONTE, PA.
What a Lesson.
Of all public men who have gone
down into the valley and the shadow
of death, since the memorable cam-
paign of “76, there has been none whose
death caused so little feeling, or
whose loss weighed so lightly on the
public mind, as that of Judge Joseph
BrabLey. Itis not because he was
less prominent or more obscure than
many who have preceded him, but
for the simple reason, that while oc-
cupying a high and honorable posi-
tion, he allowed himself to be made
the tool of conspirators and became
the instrument by which the greatest
wrong ever perpetrated upon an intelli-
gent and free people, was consummated.
It was his counection with the eight
by seven Electoral Commission—his
villianous determination of a case that
robbed the people of the country of
their legally and honestly elected presi-
dent,—that clouded his after life and
left him without either the confidence
of those he had served, or the respect
of these whom he so fouly wronged.
It was a bitter lesson this weak old
man, influenced by partisan bias and
the stronger minds that conspired to
thwart the will of the people, learned,
and it was a biting and never to be
forgotten disgrace to our form of gov-
ernment, that such a wrong as that of
"76 could be made successful; but out
of it all, if it teaches those in power
and those placed in positions of trust,
that honor is to be found only in the
path of rectitude, and that he who suf-
fers the lax and the right to be out- |
raged for partisan benefits, will feel,
sooner or later, the just contempt of
the people, there will be some good |
spring from the foul transaction in |
which Judge Brabrey acted so promi-
, JANUARY 20, 1892,
nent a part.
rT TR URI
We're For Him.
The death of Judge Bradley makes |
a vacancy on the Supreme Bench of
| the United States, which it is hoped
to submit to our own tribunals for ad- | , p
by many will be filled by the appoint
ment of some prominent citizen of
Pennsylyania. Among the names
menticned is that of Judge Paxson, of
the Supreme bench of this State. It
is not often that the WarcHMaN feels
like commending any Republican as
tily join in the suggestion that Judge
Paxson’s selection is one eminently
proper to make. It would not only
give to the Supreme Court of the United
States a fairly good member of the
bench, but it would create an other va-
caacy on the bench in our own State,
which would be filled by election this
fall, and would enable the Democrats
to regain the representation they lost
when Judge Crark died. We hope
Judge Paxson’s friends may be suc-
cessful.
Re —————————
Give Him the Nomination,
Ex-representative TaceARrT, of Mont-
gomery county, is out as a full fiedged
Republican candidate for congressman-
at-large. This will possibly be news
to some of the grangers of the State
who imagiued that Mr. TacGarT was
more a granger than a Republican,
For years he has paraded himself as
the particular, if not the only, friend
of the farmers in this Commonwealth ;
he has run oc that issue and promised
and talked of what he would do for
the agriculturist, until he had num-
bers of the farmers of the country, act-
ually believe that he was as earnest as
he was voluable in their interest. This
deception lasted until after the adjourn-
ment of the last Legislature, of which
lie was a member, when the tarmers of
the State on taking an inventory of
their legislative assetts, discovered that
in place of Mr. TaceART proving an
earnest, reliable advocate of their inter-
est,he turned out to be a stool-pigeon for
Republican ringsters about Harrisburg.
In the last campaign, in place of sup-
porting a brother granger for State
Treasurer, he used every etfort possible
for his opponent who had been a crea-
ture of corporations ever since he was
old enough to be in politics, and crow-
ed as lustily over the success of the Ra-
publican ring, asa healthy rooster does
over an unebscured sun rice. Mr.
TacearT, we hope will be gratified by
receiving the nomination he seeks; it
will furnish the Democratic farmers of
the stale an opportunity to gratify a
desire they have to vote against him.
| self, and is now a leader of the Jingoes.
lines of the average Jingo editorial, and
_NO. 4.
Why Not Change the Date.
From the New York Advertiser.
If Chicago coud hold the World’s
Fair in 1892 what a splendid side show
it would make for the Democratic Na-
tional convention.
How Outsiders View Us.
Frcm the Stenbenville, Ohio, Gazette.
Pennsylvania has reached the lowest
depth of political degradation when a
Jury all of one political party can be set
up to rob an honest newspaper because
of just criticism of the political crimes
of the leader of that party. But what
else could be expected from a State
with a political record such as Pennayl-
vania has made under the Quay regime?
——
Rather Too Open.
From the N. Y. World.
The Administration organ attempts
to ridicule Mr. Springer's statement
that the time honored American prin-
ciple of free debate will prevail in the
present House. [tsays that the Con-
gress presided over by Reed “did some-
thing—openly, publicly and above
board, and went to the people on it.”
And what was the result of force bills
and billion dollar appropriations rush-
ed through under gag rule ? The Reed
Congress “went to the people,” and the
people sat dcwn upon it with the
weight of 1,332. 202 majority. Why
do the organs continually forget this?
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Afraid of the Workingman.
From the Philadelphia Herald.
The Republicans, who under the old
aristocratic regime always carried Rhode
Island, are apprehensive of the effect of
the the extension of the right of suffrage
to workingmen in the state. Their fear
is indicated by a proposition to close the
polls at 5 o'clock.
As closing at that premature hour
would seal the ballot boxes before the
bucket brigade would be ready to go to
the polls, it would be a grand coup in
maintaining the supremacy which the
party of millionaires and “protected”
capitalists have so long enjoyed in Rhode
Island.
The Democratic sentiments of jher
working people have been asserted at
several recent elections 1n that state,
showing that with the right to vote ac-
corded to the toilers Rhode Island is
Democratic. This may be prevented by
having the polls closed before the houn
that is most convenient for the working
people to leave their places of labor for
the purpose of voting. Nothing could
be plainer for such an indication as this
that the Republican party is afraid of
the workingman.
The War Party's Leader.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
1t is pleasant to know that the new
political forecs which have been howl-
ing for war, have got a leader. Mr. |
John L. Sullivan has declared him-
Mr. Sullivan’s platform is built on the
and asserts that “them Chilians have
done us enough dirt, and ought to be
whipped off the face of the earth, see!"
This reinforcement to the ranks of the
war party will be a powerful factor, not
only because of the large intelligent
constituency, which Sullivan represents
but because it is a distinct accession to
the fighting power ot the party. Out-
side of the naval contingent which hun-,|
gers for promotion and the prize money
there has been a dreadful suspicion that
the most blood-thirsty members of the
war party were those who expect other
men to do the fighting. Mr. Sullivan’s
character as a warrior will lend dignity
to the belligerent cause and protect it
from the above accasation—at. least
within Sullivan’s hearing.
There has been intimations that the
distinguished slugger was going into
politics and intended to run for congress.
But with this exhibition of his ability to
grasp the salient points of an interna-
tional issue, the least that the war. party
can do is to nominate him for president.
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Don’t Sneer at Chili.
From the Columbia Independent.
Chili could not be whipped in a day
even by so big a country as the United
States. Indeed, it would require a se-
vere and perhaps, a prolonged struggle
to vanquish the 3,000,000 inhabitants
of the valiant Republic of South Ameri-
ca. No country can turn up its nose.
Spawls from the Keystone,
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—The Archdeaconry of Williamsport is in
session.
Harrisburg.
—The West Lehigh Mine ire, near Tama-
qua, has been extinguished.
—The Irish National Military Union will
meet at Scranton in August next.
—Ten miners at Otto Colliery, near Branch
dale, were hurt in lowering a cage. :
Charles Farrell killed himself with poison,at
Altoona, becanse he could not sleep.
—Some indiseriminating thief stole Dr. T.
L. Butz’s 21 year old nag, at Hellerstown.
—Little Freemansburg’s six benevolent r-
ders have amassed and invested $13,385.45.
—Berks county farmers are slipping all their
spare grain to the Reading market on sleds.
—Reading used $10,305 worth of “spalls” for
paving last year, and made a bad, investment,
—Chief Burgess J. L. Heacock, of -Quaker-
town, Pa., has the grip in an aggravated form.
—Two hundred men at the Centra} Iron
Works, Harrisburg, suffer a 10 per cent cut in
wages.
—The Reading, Laneaster and Baltimore
Railroad is figuring upon a good terminal at
Reading.
—Secranton’s business men are angry be-
cause ofalleged discrimination in the tax as-
sessments.
—A charter was granted to the Valley Coa
and Mining Company, of Kittanning ; capital
$15,000. :
—Lehigh county Democrats favor a ticket
with Pattison for President and Boies for Vice
President.
—John Devinney, a novice, ran five hundred
and five points at billiards in McKeesport the
other night.
—Eleven-year-old Morris T. Horn, of Ritters -
ville, was killed by an Allentown-Bethlehem
electric car.
—A charter was granted to the West Lees-
port Knitting Company, of Berks county; cap-
ital, $10,000.
—A trio of girl babies have just started the
music in Special Policeman P. J. Shay’s home
at Lebanon.
—Mre. Harriet’: Edgeby’s baby boy was
scalded by failing backward into a bucket of
suds at Lancaster.
—Ex Sheriff Robinson, of Scrantor, has
bought a tenth interest in the Daily Times of
that city for $3000.
—A vicicus horse kicked to death George
Leinbach, of Leesport, one of the richest men
in Berks county.
—The calf with two heads and eight legs
died on the Hadesty farm near Ashland, when
just a week old.
—The Carpentier Steel Company, at Read-
ing,has increased its capital stock from $1,000
000 to $1,500,000.
—Senator Hawley, of the Senate Military
Committee, was in Bethlehem dickering for
guns in case of war.
—Fifty feet of Lehigh Valley track, near
Silver Brook, below Hazleton, caved in, delay-
ing trains an hour.
—1It is said that the new Altoona Short Line
Railroad will make Huntingdon more of a way
station than ever.
—Four hundred men are thrown idle by
partial suspension, due to a lack of orders, at
the Pottstown Iron Mills.
—An unknown Italian, arrested for drunk-
edness, was burned up in the little lockup at
Charlevoi, near Pittsburg.
—Bethlehem’s High school debaters have
settled it —“The power of the press surpasses
that of the steam engine”
—Southern Pennsylvania and Maryland
Mennonites have elected William Zimmerman
of Shiresnontown, a bishop.
—John A. Wiley, of Venango county, has.
| been reappointed Brigadier General of the Sec:
oud Brigade, National Guard.
—Judge Simonton, of Dauphin county, re-
fused to dissolve the Dauntless Fire Insurance
Company of Philadelphia.
—Shoemaker Jonas Heater ruptured a
blood vessel in his lungs and and was found
dead in his shop at Molltown.
—Rev. Enoch Smith, of the Salemn Luther-
an Church, Bethlehem, has accepted the
$1500 call to a church in Butler.
—A sharp fight for Burgess of Pottstown is
in progress, Councilman J.W. Evans being the
tavorite Democratic candidate.
—George Lentz, wife and three children
Were asphyxiated and almost killed by coal
gas near Ewingsville, York county. -
—~Court will to-day be asked in Ruzerne
county to affirm the boundaries of Hazletcn’s
eight wards under the new city charter.
—One stolen keg of beer at Columbia: sent
Harry Eaton and Grant Boyd, for three years
and eight months, each to the penitentiary.
—Robbing his landlord of $100 and hasten—
ing to New York, Louis Pallas, a young Hazle~
ton bootblack, was caught at Mauch Chunk.
—Twenty one flint glass factories in the
Pittsburg district are ready for the annual
shut down, giving a long holiday to 2500 hands.
daily to Philadelphia, has sold 55 tons of but.
ter for $30,581.30, to the same market in two
years.
—An unappreciated trotter is Willoughby
Axeureiter’s horse, which was sold for 25 cents
at Sheriff’s sale in Jefferson township, Berks
county.
—Two children of John Getz, liotel keeper
and sneer at Chili as being too little a
foe to fight with honor. ;
A careful study of that country,
which is now the object upon which
the eyes of all nations rest, reveals
startling facts as to Chili's strength
and resources. How big is it, how
strong, how located, how wealthy, how ,
much food does it produce, who are its
people, and what kind of a fight could
the long, slim country make ?
Suppose the United States sent a
fleet of twenty-five war vessels and 100, |
000 soldiers there, what could they
do? Valparaiso could be stormed and
captured, but then what? The Chile.
ans’ would retreat back through the
mountain passes. A handful of them
could easily combat a whole regiment
of advancing troops.
In the meantime the ways to interior
Chili would be so well fortified that it
would require hard pounding to dis-
lodge the valiant foe.
At least it would take an enormous
army a long time to make much ofan
impression on Chili. Of course Uncle
Sam could down her in the end, but
he cannot down her without a stiff
tussle. Chileans have good wind.
: at Landis Valley, Lancaster county, died with
: in half an hour from diphtheria. Two others
are dangerously ill.
—While warming herself ab the schoolroom
..stove, the clothes of little Lillie Kurtz, of
Kurtztown, Berks county, eaught fire and she
was fatally burned.
—Findinga bear in her kitchen, Mrs. Ora J.
Sharp, a young woman living near Scranton,
dispatched bruin with a shot gun and a ket-
tleful of boiling water. :
—Attacked with grip while attending eourt
asa juror at Williamsport, 72-year-old Charles
Breon, of Washington township, died before
he could be taken home.
—Lehigh Valley Railroad officials are ar-
ranging for a fine new station on the West
Side at Scranton. This, of course, implies an
extension of the line to that city.
—A niece of President Buchanan, Mrs. Har
riet L. Johnson, of Lancaster, has given $10,
000 to purchase “Wheatland,” Buchanan's
home, for a public park for Lancaster.
—Of the 268 students at Lafayetie College,
Easton, forty-eight will become ministers,
forty-eight civil engineers, twenty-eight law.
yers, twenty-five teachers and only ene an
editor.
—Xire insurance rates will not be raisedat.
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