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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Thursday, the 8th, closes the Regis-
try for this year.
—The song that reached her heart—
‘Draw me nearer.”
-—The sea shore season is about over
and with it goes bare limbs.
—The muse of the sea is not the
voice of a catfish or a sea puss.
--The one character who never re-
ce'ves a timely funeral is the dead
beat.
—There is a rumor afloat that the su-
sugar Trust proposes raising cane—with
prices.
—J Ags always thinks itis not half
so dreadful to be full as it is for his wife
to be unmerei-ful.
—If you really want to know exactly
who you are, try to get money out of a
bank at five per cent.
--The man who voted for ‘protection
and prosperity’’ four years ago, is still
looking for the future to bring it forth.
—The pueumatic sulkey promises as
great a revolution in trotting circles as
the sulkey wife often causes in domestic
ones.
—After the election is over, and after
the inaugural ball; BENJAMIN can go
to Indianapolis and reorganize Iron
Hall.
~-If “silence is golden,” what a nice
income BLAINE, PLATT, and other Re-
publican leaders must be enjoying at
this time,
—Somehow or other there don’t seem
to beenough in the “American tin,”
question to give any rattle to the Re-
publican campaign.
—We might stand a little touch of
cholera and get over it, but Lord help
the country that is attacked by a Force
bill. There would be neither hope nor
salvation left.
—Don’t imagine because you are a
thoroughbred Democrat that you are
registered. Be positive of it by seeing,
in person, that your name appears on
the Registry list.
—-Has any one heerd from Lev P.
Morton lately ? Better send a district
messenger boy after him so as to have
him at Washington in time to attend the
inaugural ceremonies.
—Grand Master SWEENEY of the
united switchmen has a decided pain of
over the result of his Buffalo fiasco.
His organization hasbeen unable to see
through it thus far, however.
—The harvest moon is now sailing
through the heavens in effulgent splen-
dor and the summer girl is taking ad-
vantage of its sentiment producing
beams to garner a last sheaf.
—1It is time Mr. McKINLEY is doing
something to protect his infant indus-
tries from the ravages of that feel asiatic
scourge. With them it will be more
properly called cholera infantum.
—The story now comes out that CAR-
NEGIE does not own his Seotch castle at
all. Itis only rented. His Pittsburg
workn.en are more than likely in a pos-
ition to know. They pay the reut.
—The Emperor of Germany has pre-
sented a life size portrait of himself to
Lord SavisBury. If had sent hig
bust it would have been more in accord
with what will become of him if his
head keeps on swelling.
—Receiver YARDLEY auctioned off
the «ffice furniture of the Keystone bank |
the other day, and the Philadelphia
Press spoke of the articles sold as relics
of that great institution Just wait a
litcle while longer and BEN HARRISON
and his administration can be classed in
the same categorry.
-—Mr. MCALEER seems not to have
been the all powerful factor in the
Third Congressional district that he
supposed himself to be. When a man
is a Democrat and conducts himself as a
good Democrat should, he can expect the
support of all co-workers for the eom-
mon good, but when he tries to make a
party organization subservient to his
own selfish ambitions his professions
usually fall flat.
—Every one of our county candidates
are men of integrisy and abundantly
competent to fill the offices to which
they aspire. Be positive that you are
Registered so you can vote for such a
good ticket. Next tos man’s love for
God should come his love for his coun-
try. Don’t get the idea into your head
that county offices amount to naught,
or don’t forget that it is possible for
one vote to make a president of these
United States.
—The fate which labor bas met in
every one of its attempts to better itself,
during the past year, should open the
eyes of the masses to the thraldom it is
falling into at the hand of protected
monopolists, Organized labor seems to
have made no appreciable advance
either at Homestead or at Buffalo, and
the fact that it has been practically de.
feated at both places will tend to make
he wee small voice of labor pipe with
a less fearful portend in future wage
troubles.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 2, 1892.
NO. 34.
Squint-eyed Partisanship.
It must be a desperate case of politic |
cal strabismus—squint-eyed partisan-
ship—that effects the vision of the Phil-
adelpbia Press. It can distinctly see
and understand the unfairness and
wrong, in every Democratic apportion-
ment from Florida to New York, and
from New York to Wisconsin, no mat-
ter in what direction it may be, or how
small and unimportant the wrong com-
plained of is; but such is the character
of its visual affliction that it has never
yet been able to discover that right at
its own home, in the State in which its
powers ought to be felt, and in which
its own party has had absolute and un-
disputed sway for thirty years, gerry-
manders exist, that are unequaled in in-
famy, unfairness and political distran-
chisement,by those it complains of and
denounces, in any Democratic State in
the Union.
There is not an apportionment meas.
ure in force to-day in Pennsylvania,
Legislative, Senatorial or Congression-
al, that is not ten times more disfran-
chising in its enforcement, uafair in its
divisions and partisan 1n its purposes,
than any the Press can see or point to
anywhere; and yet with allits preten-
tion to fairness, and all its prating
about political outrages and gerryman-
ders elsewhere, it has never had a word
to say about the outrages its party,and
its representatives, have inflicted upon
the people of its own state, nor has it
ever intimated that the courts of the
Commonwealth should interfere to se-
cure to the voters of Pennsylvania the
game fairness in representation it so ve-
hemently demands for those of other
states.
While the difference in the strength’
of the two parties in Pennsylvania,
is now less than a single Congression-
al ratio,—or 30,000—the State is so di-
vided that 470,000 Republicans, get
twenty three Congressmen, while
445,000 Detsiocrats are given but seven,
Or in other words every 20,000 Repub-
licans are given a representative in Con.
gress, while every 63,000,Democrats are
allowed but one.
ln the Senatorial apportionment the
same unequal, uujust and unfair divis-
ion is made; the Republicans taking
one Senator for every 12,000 votes they
poll, and the Democrats given one for
every 33,000 votes.
And it 1s the same in the Legislative
apportionment. Counties are deprived
of the representation the constitution
guarantees thew, and are cut up into
districts and combined with portions of
others in such a way, that the 445,000
Democratic voters have but 79 mem-
bersof the Legislature,while the 470,000
Republican voters have 125.
To accomplish this disfranchisement
of the Democratic people of the State,
counties are rent in twain ; communi-
ties are tied together that have no in-
terests in common or no acquaintance
with each other; population is left out
of the question ; business interests over
looked and every idea that a just ap-
portionment of representatives should
carry with it, is ignored, in order to se-
cure as great political advantage for
the Republican party as possible.
These wrongs are right here at home.
They begin at the very door of the Phil-
adelphia Press. They extend to and
are felt in every section of the State.
They rob citizens of rights that are
promised them by the constitution.
They grant power and privileges to
others not accorded them by any con-
stituticnal authority. They deny the
right of equal representation, and polit-
ically disfranchise one fourth of the
voters of the Commonwealth. :
These wrongs are right here in Penn-
sylvania. Our people have suffered:
from them for years. The party of
which the Press is a mouth-piece, has
control of the Legislative department of
the government, it dominates the Judi-
ciary and could cerrect these evils at
any time it desires.
Why does not the Press, in its preten-
ded efforts for fair apportionments, be-
gin at home?
ESATO
——The only road that promises
prosperity to the farmer is that which
leads to markets where the products of
his aeres are in demand. Thesz are in
other countries. Any tariff rest ictions
in trade are but barriers in the way of
his success.
—
——Fine job work of ever disoription
at the WarcaMaN Office.
False Teachers.
A few weeks ago some one kindly
forwarded to this office a newspaper
clipping, in which Mr.
WuitenEAD, lecturer for the National
Grange, attempted to give his own as
well as the position of the order he rep-
resents on the tariff. Weread it care-
fully at the time, but for the life of us
was uuakle to ascertain on which side
of the question Mr. WHITEHEAD desired
to be considered. He was neither for
nor agaiust, and the most that we could
make out of the two columns of space
occupied, was the fact that he was anx-
ious tobe on both sides,and that if there
were any profit to be derived from eith-
er position, all that the farmer asked
was to have his proportion of that pro-
fit. In fact he went so far as to inti-
mate that the organization he represen-
ted would be fully satisfied to see the
public robbed,in the interest of the pro-
tected few, provided its members were
made the recipients of a portion of the
‘results of that robbery.
In this position Mr. WHITEHEAD cer-
tainly does not represent the farmers
who are members of the Grange, or the
many who are not connected with it.
As a class they are honest, not only in
their dealings but in their politics as
well. They may be blind to their own
interests, as many of them undoubted-
ly are, but they would never favor any
public measure that they believed
robbed the people of the country gener-
ally, for the special benefit of them-
selves or of any particular class of citi-
Zens.
The trouble with the farmer is that
he hastoo many teachers just like Mr.
WhITEEEAD—men who fail or fear to
tell him the truth.
It it were not so, they would have
had their eyes opened years ago to the
iniquity ot a tarift that fleeces them
from the soles of their feet to the crown
of their heads, on everything they eat
and wear, and on every implement
they need or use, for the benefit of a
few manufacturers. They would have
| been convinced of the fact that the pre-
| tense of protecting their wheat, pota-
toes, eggs, wool, eic.. is the veriest de-
ception, intended only to deceive them
with the belief that they were being
benefitted by it in order that they
| would not realize the robbery that this
\same protection was perpetrating upon
themselves.
| Mr. WairEHEAD, if he knows enough
| to enlighten the farmers of this coun-
i try, knows that no tariff that could be
conceived would protect any products
| grown on American soil, to the extent
of a single cent. He knows that no
| country on the face of ike globe can
compete with this in the production of
anything that is raised or grown on the
farm, and as a consequence no country
can impert and sell a single article here
in our home markets, in competition
with our own farmers.
He knows also, if he knows enough
to be public spokesman for the Gran-
gers of the coantry, that the only hope
of the American farmer 18 in extending
our markets; in securing the trade of
| countries that produce none of the ce-
reals we grow in such abundance, that
we may exchange our surplus wheat,
corn, potatoes etc., for such articles as
they have to sell and we may need;
facts, that no market can be had for
our surplus farm products, as long as
we surround our selves with a tariff
wall that excludes and refuses all trade
with countries needing the food-3upply
we have to sell.
Knowing these facts, why cannot
men like Mr. WHITEHEAD be fair with
those he represents, and tell them the
plain, honest truth? Why not show
the farmers the one straight road to
prosperity, and open their eyes to the
tolly of believing that a tariff on wheat
increases its value, or that the protec
tion of wool insures them a higher
price for the few pounds they may
have to dispose af.
It is the failures of such teachers as
he to properly instruct, as much as it
is the political bigotry of the farmers,
that is prolonging a system of taxation
"that robs agriculture of all its profits
and is lessening the value of farm lands
every day.
name will be Dennis if you are not re-
gistered. That day ends your opportu-
nity.
MORTIMER |
and he knows as well as he knows these |
— After next Thursday, the 8th, your
Facts and Figures for Farmers.
To keep the farmers up to the pro-
tection scratch and to secure their votes
for the system that is robbing them
every time they buy anything to eat,
wear or use, they are constantly
preached to about the benefit they re.
ceive from the duty on wool. It is in
| glittering generalities that these bene-
| fits are pointed out, and the farmer
and others are supposed to believe all
that is told them, withont any proof
whatever that such assertions are cor-
rect.
The facts are, that of all the tariff
taxes imposed that on wool is the
most oppressive upon the people, and
gives the least return to those whom it
is supposed to benefit. Everybody —
man, woman and child—in this ecli-
mate is compelled to have woolen
clothing, and in every family, blankets,
carpets, and other household goods are
found, in the manufactury of which
wool ig the principal ingredient. The
estimated cost of woolen goods in the
different uses to which they are put, for
each individual member of the house-
hold, is $15.00 per year.
From October 1890 to June 1892
there was imported into this country
$55,000,000 worth of woolen fabrics on
which the tariff tax was $47,000,000,
and 300,000,000 pounds of raw wool
upon which $15,000,000 more was paid
in duties; making in all $62,000,000
that the people of the country paid, in
addition to the original cost of manu-
facture and selling expense for the cloth-
ing, blankets, carpets &c. used by them.
‘To this amount every man, woman and
child in the country, was forced to con-
tribute in the iacreased price paid for
the articles used—the farmer and the
farmer's family among the rest.
"Now as to the benefits. Most of |
these, it was asgerted, would be derived
from the stimulus protection would
give to the raising of sheep, and the in
creased price the farmers’ wool would
command.
How a protective tarifi stimulated the
sheep growing industry 1s shown by the
census. From i842 to 1867 there was
practically no tariff on wool. In 1868
there was 37,685,000 sheep in the states
east of the Mississippi. In 1867 a tar-
iff of 11 cents per pound was put on
wool. From that date up to the pres-
ent there has been more or less duty
enforced for the protection of the sheep
industry, and yet in 1891 there was but
18,476,000 sheep ia the same states
that at the beginning of this tariff pe-
riod, in 1867, had 37,685,000.
A decrease of over one half in the
number of sheep raised,during the years |
the tariff was highest, and the greatest
pretense at protecting thie industry was |
made.
And as sheep vanished under the
protecting hand of tariff taxes so did
the price of wool.
When the tariff of 1867 was passed,
wool sold at 51 cents per pound. In |
1870 it came down to 46 cents. In 1875 |
it brought but 43 cents, and to-day with
the exorbitant tariff that the McKin-
LEY bill imposes, the farmer is lucky if
he gets 32 cents per pound for the same
grade. ‘
These are the facts, undeniable
and possibly unpleasant for the tariff
shrieker, but they are nevertheless the
facts, and to them we invite the care
ful thought of every farmer and wool
grower who reads this paper.
Another Chance Gene.
The war we were going to cover our-
selves with glory, waging against the
cohorts of Mohamedanism in Turkey,
is off. This administration can neith-
er show its bristles nor its front teeth
in defense ofthe Christian religion, or of
‘our American missionaries at Constan-
tinople, An investigation shows that
the missionary house, burned down
there a few weeks ago, over which Sec-
retary Foster was liken to go into hys-
terics, and threatened all manner of pun-
ishment to the Turkish authorities,
caught fire from the carelessness of one
of his American servants, and that the
heathens of that country, as we are
taught to look upon them, knew noth-
ing of it, and were in no way respon.
sible for the disaster.
— Because you see a sprinkling of sin-
ners in a congregation is no sign that
"there is to be a baptismal shower in the
' chureh.
Opposed to Organized Labor.
From the Williamsport Sun.
How many of the Republican papers
of the country have said a good work for
the locked out workingmen at Home-
stead? It would take a careful search
to find half a doezn. The Republican
party does not believe in organized la-
bor, believing that only eapitalists shall
combine for their own benefit. The can-
didate for vice president on the Republi-
can ticket is a fair sample of this intol-
erance of organized labor. He fought
the printers’ union for fifteen years and
only tolerates it now because he is forced
to do so. Since the passage of the Me-
Kinley bill more than 200 trusts have
been organized, the object of each one of
which is to rob the people with the aid
of the McKinley tariff. Within the
same time there have been as many
hundreds of Tockouts and strikes caused
by the attempts of the workmen to se-
cure an honest day’s pay for an honest
day’s work. These are facts. There’s no
theorizing as to the folly of strikesatout
it. The workingmen who read the news
of the day know that these trusts have
been organized and that these strikes
and lockouts have occurred, and all
the sophistry and false reasoning of the
champions of monopolies cannot con-
vince the workmen that these trusts and
these strikes are not due to the efforts of
the rich to rob the poor of their rights.
i —
Down With the Force Bill
From the Delaware County Democrat.
The Democratic Committees can per-
form no better work than distributing
copies of the force bill throughout the
country. This pet measure of the Re-
publicans, which President Harrison
has enthusiastically approved, is the most
iniquitous piece of proposed legislation
ever sought to be placed on the statute
books. Tt places almost unlimited
powers in the hands of the presi-
dent, and could be used to crush
the rights of the individual and
of the States in the North as well
as in the South, in the East as well as
the West. Should it be enacted no com-
munity could ever be free from the fear
of seeing bayonets bristling at the polls
Republican success in November means
nothing more or less than the speedy
passage of the force bill. It is before
the country indorsed by the very first
resolution in the Republican platform.
It will not do, therefore, to pooh, pooh
ai the possibility of its passage.
A vountry of Free Trade In Labor,
From the Philadelphia Evening Teiegram.
Cver 8,000 more immigrants in July
than in July of last year. In the seven
months of 1892, 81,746 more of such ar-
rivals than in the corresponding period
of 1891 I Thus the disconcerting figures
grow from month to month. The pau-
pers, the criminals, the Anarchists, the
pest-stricken, are not at all sensitive ov-
er our repeated declarations that they
are not wanted; indeed they know
nothing whatever about the state of feel-
ing bere, being as ignorant and as indif-
ferent about America as though it was
the moon ; they simply pour in a steady
flood into a land where the greenest la-
bor is sure of a dollar a day, while at
home 1t could hardly secure that much
a week.
But how much longer can it
20 on without definitely wrecking free
institutions, —corrupting the ballot-box
and demoralizing the labor field beyond
recovery ? Homestead, Buffalo, and
Coal Creek tell the story.
————
Republican Prosperity.
From the Greensburg Democrat.
Just what Republican rule and the
high tariff have done fur “bleeding Kan-
sas’ 18 pointed out by W. F. Rightmire
the People’s party candidate for chief
justice, 1n a public address recently issu-
ed. Rightmire shows by the official re-
cords that the assessed valuation of all
the property of the state 18 $348,459,
948,69. The total indebtedness, on the
other hand of the entire state. is $706,-
181.627,33. In other words, Kansas
owes over $2 for every $1 she owns.
Distinctive Tendencies.
Chicago New Record.
Secretary Ehjuh Halford has been lec-
turing at Asbury Park on “Distinctive
Tendencies in Our Modern Life.” One
of the distincive tendencies of our mod-
ern life 1s to jump onthe McKinley
law. This however, was not dwelt on
to any great extent by the erudite secre-
tary.
—————R
A Strange Companionshp.
From the Altoona Times.
Ninety per cent. of the Demoeratic
voters are workingmen, and yet we are
told that the Demoracy is the enemy cf
the laboring man, and that the party of
the Whitelaw Reids, Carnegies, Jay
Goulds and Fricks is their friend.
: Impressive Stillness.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The Republican candidate for vice-
President had quite a welcome in Ilh-
noig, and although every native tin facto-
ry blew its steam whistles, it was go
quiet wages could be heard dropping all
over the country.
© A Hard Case to Cure.
From the Manchester Union.
The latest story about Mr. Blaine is
that he is guing abroad te take message
treatment. The hard rubbing he has
got from his party hasn’t dune him any
good. :
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A new Presbyterian church, to cost $10,000
will be erected at Port Carbon. : n
—The survivors of Durell’s battery will hold
a reunion at Reading October 15. f
—After quarreling with her lover Martha
Allen, of Pittsburg, ate poison and died.
—There are 35 cases of typhoid fever at the
village of Five Points, Luzerne County.
—Lackawanna County farmers complain
that grasshoppers are eating up their corn.
— A fall of coal in the Sweet mine, near
Huntingdon, killed Job Rankin on Saturday,
—Cold weather has driven worshippers from
the Evangelical camp meeting at Fleetwood,
—B. F. Meyers, of Harrisburg, has declined
to be a candidate for Congress in that district,
—Davis E. Hough, a farmer at Oakville, Pa.,
was killed by a train; at that place on Tues-
day.
—One of the notorious Cooley gang of out.
laws—Sam Yeager has been captured at Un.
iontown.
—The brigade and regimental matches of
the National guard began at Mt. Gretna on
Monday.
—The semi-centennial of St. Peter's Church
at Rittersville, Lehigh County, was celebrated
on Sunday.
—The explosion of a soda water machine at
Bethlehem caused a $2500 fire in Walter
Langen’s store.
—Wearied with her heavy domestic burden
Mrs. Howell Richards, who lived near Miners.
ville, ate poison and died.
—The Williamsport Wire Rope Com pany
has just made for an Omaha street railway a
wire rope 35,00 feet long.
—Thomas Black, of Shamokin, slashed his
father, J. M. Snyder and Rebert Harper with a
knife and the latter will die.
—Lewis Ringheiser was crushed to death by
a piece of coalin the Kelley Run Colliery
near Shenandoah yesterday.
—About 500 employes found work at the
Silverbrook Colliery, at Hazleton, on Monday
after three month's idleness.
—Samuel Werner, a famer who lived near
Pine Grove, walked on the railroad track and
was run over by a locomotive.
A Harrisburg sage says that the noises of
railroads are driving pats away from civiliza«
tion and they are becoming extinct.
—Louis Ringheiser, but recently married,
was instantly killed by a fall of coal at Kehley
Run colliery, Shenandoah on Saturday.
—Burglars sneaked off with $200 belonging
to John J. Jamison, of Hazleton, while the
family sweetly slept on Saturday night.
—Mike Kodak, a young Hungarian of Haz
leton, died in a wagon while being taken to
the workhouse at Lourytown, Tuesday.
—Frank Schnoor is in the Easton Hospital
minus both legs, which he lost in trying to
jump on a freight train in Philipsburg.
—Murderer William Keck is pouting be,
cavse he will be hanged on one of Carbon
County’s old Mollie Maguire scaffolds.
—A teachers’ picnicat Lancaster on Sature
day, was attended by 8000 people, was address.
ed by Attorney General Hensel and others.
—Protessor Baker, who recently resigned
from the Dickinson College faculty, has taken
a chair in tue faculty of Columbia College.
—The Democrats of the Second Legislative
District of Luzerne county had nominated Js
8. Koons, of Huntingdon, for the Legislature,
—Being unable to #arn enough money to
bring his family from Europe, John Kassock,
of Sugar Notch, Luzerne County, hanged him«
self.
—For no apparent reason, unknown men
pounded Henry P. Schwab senseless in ced, at
Lancaster, and then threw him out a second.
story window.
—The Coroner's jury in the case of John T.
Kennedy, who died at Steelton from a stab’
hds exonerated James Madden, who was res
leased last night.
—It has cost Wyoming County $583 to appre]
hend Rosenwig and Blank, who were caught
in Canada, for the murder ot Peddler Marks on
Dutch Mountain. | °
—Johnu Spitler, of Lebanon County, blew out
the light before he retired at the Merchants’
Hotel, in Reading, and he and his son were
nearly suffocated.
—While trying to stop a runaway team
Anthony Beaver, aged 70 years, a Justice of
the Peace,of Markleysburg,was knocked down
and fatally injured.
—Schuykill County auditors claim that by
having the kind of stone to be used in the
Court House changed Contractor Taylor clear,
ed a snug profit of $13,000.
— I'he Wilkesbarre Conrt on Saturday was
treated to a bit of slugging. District Attorney
Gorman was called a liar by H. Philips and the
latter was promptly floored.
—As compensation for theloss of his son
who was killed on the Philadelphia and Read«
ing, July 28, H. C. Metzla, of Manheim, has
sued the company for $20,000.
—The Citizens’ Trolley Railway of Harris:
burg, was prevented from tearing up the street
by the Highway Department, and the railway
company will be forced to finish its line.
—James A. Mallon, on the Pennsylvania
Democratic electoral ticket for the Twenty-
fifth district, has moved to West Virginia, and
the State Committee will fill the vacancy.
—Ex-State Senator Coxe and Ex-Chairman
of the Democra ic State Committee E. P. Kis-
ner have purchased a controlling interest in
the Hazleton Standard. Mr. Kisner will be the
editor.
—The fall fair of the Montgomery, Berks
and Chester Agricultural and Horticultural
Society will be held at Pottstown cn Tuesday
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September
13, 14, 15and 16. Premiums, amounting to
$5,006, will be given for the best exhibits.
—The outside employes of Tunnel Ridge
Colliery, near Mahanoy City, by voluntary
subscription purchased a splendid bunting
flag, 7x14 feet, which they raised Saturday on
a thirty foot pole, ereeted on the top of the
dirt plane, to remain until after Labor
Day. {
—The tabulated statement forwarded to Har-
risburg from the Berks county Commis.
aioners’ office shows that the aggregate value
of all the property for county purposes as as
sessed this year is $72,882,001, b.ing $32,233,856
in the city and $40,658,205 in the county.
The assessment is $2,684,607 higher than last
year, when the total assessment was $67,497,
453, that in the city being $27,467,884, and in
the county $39,728,569. The difference in the
city is $4,755, 071,and in the county $928,636.
Last year all in the real estate was valued at
$65,244,220. that in the city at $27,783.356 ;
county. $37,460,864. This year all the real es.
tate is valued at $71,015,279. that in the city at
$32,728,240 ; county $28,297,086. Last year $16,-
023,400 was reported at interest by citizens and
this year $15,815,976.