Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 20, 1893.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EbpirTor
Democratic County Committee for
1893.
DISTRICTS. COMMITTEEMEN.
v Wirissersssson misese: In A. Shaeffor.
Belisle: 5 WW! Jacob L. Runkle.
“ WwW. Ww
Centre Hall Bor
Howard Boro
Milesburg
Millheim *“
Philipsburg Boro. 1st
" “ 2n
.R. D. Foreman.
...Abe Weber.
Wor Dr. F, K. White
Wo nL Daniel Paul.
ee “lordw.... Sa jidwe,
South Philipsburg......... ..John offman.
Unionville iH Tort E. M. Greist.
Benuoer Township... .Adam Y. Wagner.
Boggs " FP; Geo. W. Brown
3d 2 EP, G. H Leyman.
" “oo WP Geo. Noll.
scar Holt.
Burnside *
3 hy) iel A. Grove.
College o g A iam:
Curtin mie «A. J. McCloskey.
4 +H. M, Krebs.
Ferguson ho ..J. H. Miller.
.«.J. C. Rossman.
reves David Sower.
William Pealer.
.
Gregg
Haines 4 Poe John J. Orndorf.
8 ’", ..G+o. Bower.
Half Moon * J. P. Sebring.
Harris 41 H Meyer
Howard © orth Gardner.
Huston .0. H. Nason.
Liberty © Henry Weaver.
Marion. » ... ...James Martin.
Miles E Jeremiah Brumgart
¥ * a Austin Gramle
# sew, Jacob Dietrich.
Patton 2 Fhjrere D. L. Meek
Penn i heey ..J. C. Stover.
Potter “NP. ..Geo Emerick.
o¢ "28. P,.. ....W. W. Royer.
Rush Hai NPs Miles Seigf ied.
' ss SP Patrick Heffren.
Sncw Shee E. Jno. D. Brown.
“ow LW. rank Tubridy.
Spring “ NP hn Garbrick, Jr.
* i S. P John Mulfinger.
“ OY. D. A V. Hamilton
Taylor e gay Vinton Beckwith.
Union is tia ...P. J. Loughrey.
Walker +-a0ee. S01. Peck.
WOT tl i G. J. Woedring.
W. G. RUNKLE, J.C. MEYER,
Secretary. Chairman.
A Suggestion For Oar Councilmen.
Qa the first of April the borough
bonds amouating to $100,000, beariag
seven per cent. interest, will have ma-
tured and the duty of making some ar-
rangement for their renewal will fall
upoa the present members of council:
Since the borough debt has been in-
creasing each year for some time it ie
hardly probable that any of the prin-
cipal will he paid, therefore all that
can be done is to borrow $100,000 =t
the lowest possible rate of interest and
call in the old bonds with the new
loan.
Bellefonte ought to be able to get
all the money ehe wants at three or
three and one-half per cent. and eoun-
cil can get it if it tries. Taking it at
the latter rate it will readily be seen
that the borough expenses will be ma-
terially reduced. That is to theextent
of $3,500 per annum. From January
Ist, 1892 to January 1st, 1893 it re:
quired about $7,000 to meet the cur
rent expenses of the town. To this
amount was added $7,000 interest on
bonds, making in all an expense of
$14,000. The tax duplicates for the
last three years have averaged $21,000
for the borough alone, but the failure
of the collector to make his settlements
has made it mecessary to borrow mon-
ey to meet current expenses.
Let us start off 1893 with reform,
With $3,500 Jess interest to pay and
granting that expenses during the com-
ing year ill be no greater that they
were during the past one, one can see
that, .with & borough duplicate that
will amount to $20,000, at least, and
allowing $1,000 for exonerations and
errors, there should be a surplus of
$8,500 ia the treasury on Januray 1st,
1894.
It is the duty of the taxpayers to de-
mand reform and elect to councile and
the collectorship only such men as will
give the business their careful atten-
tion.
High taxes have been working the
«death of our town for years and high
taxes necessarily make high rents.
With an economic government this
year the interest tax .oughtto be re-
duced one-half aed a surplus laid against
the bonded debl. Not until Belletonte
reduces her taxes will she prosper as
sheshould. If it were not for the pres-
ent high rate there are hundreds of
retired farmers throughout the county
. who would make this their home.
TIGER KA PG.
Defects of Modern Buildieg.
The eollapse of the large paper ware-
house, at 515 commerce street, Phila-
delphia, in which three workmen were
killed is another evidence of the failure
of building inspectors to do their duty
and of the overloading of buildings be-
cause of shortage in ground room. It
will not be surprising to read accounts
of many similar horrors, in the near fu-
ture, unless some action is taken to pre-
vent the erection of the eky scraping
buildings that loom up everywhere in
our large cities. When it comes to
putting ten and twelve and even fifteen
stories on a building with a fifty foot
front and then loading every story be-
yond its capacity there can be but one
result—a collapse,
It seems to be the failing of later
day builders to get as much floor room
as possible for the money. Not pay-
ing any attention to the strain which
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will be put on the flimsy structure by
tenants who are just as anxious to
overload their quarters to save rent.
Toe towering structures which mark
the acme of architecture in Chicago,
Philadelphia, New York and oth-
er gro ving cities and the ambitious
rivalry of firms to get higher(?) in the
world than their competitors will have
their Larvest in the corpses dragged
from the wreckage of their fallen
hopes.
While modern building needs look-
ing after the remodelling of structures
almost a century old should claim the
attention of inspectors everywhere. It
is usually euch buildings as are mod-
ernized by a few gables aud of a neces-
sity weakened by putting in glass
fronts, which are made the homes of
factories and loaded with machinery
just as heavy asthe stronger buildings,
erected expressly for factory purposes,
are strained to carry.
Fatalities from falling buildings are
coming to be of such frequent occur-
rence as to demand stringent legisla.
tion on building rules and permits in
every city.
——- 1892 was a record breaking year
in a great many waye. There were
nearly one thousand more murders
committed in the United States than
during any previous year of our history.
This increase is not at all surprising
when we remember the rapid increase
in our population and the extent of la-
bor disaffection in our trade centers.
The in coming administration
will have 180,000 federal offices to dis-
pose of. One for every 333 persons in
the country. It is to be hoped that
CLEVELAND'S army of workers will be
made up of the same sterling quali
fications * that characterized his ap-
pointees during his last incumbency.
Gossip of the Cabinet.
Senator Carlisle Will Take the Treasury Port-
folio. : '
Wasuaixgron, D. C., Jan. 16.—Sen-
ator Carlisle was in great demand at
the Senate to-day.
York that he had told Mr. Cleveland
paper men, and did not talk about it
generally to Senators, but he did admit
to his more intimate friends that his
letter of resignation would go to Frank-
fort to-morrow, and that hisresignation
would take effect on the 4th ‘of Feb,
ruary.
It is undérstood that Mr. Carlisle de-
sires'to confine his personal attention,
when he comes to the Treasury, to
questions of policy, aod that Mr.
Cleveland proposes to arrange things
so that Mr. Carlisle shall not be both:
ered with matters of patronage.
Mr. Carlisle’s days, from the 4th of
March until the expired /meeeting of
Congress in September, will necessarily
be largely taken up with the labor of
preparing a new tariff bill to take the
place of the McKinley acts and at the
same time he will probably, be obliged
to do come ekilltul financiering in order
to tide the Treasury Department “over
journs without stopping the purchase
of silver bullion: !
Crushed Under Ruins.
A Warehouse Collapses, Killing Three ¥en.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17.—Without
any other warning than that ot a low
rumbling noise, resembling the sliding
of a large body of snow oft a roof, the
large four-story brick paper warehouse
ot Martin & W. H. Nixon, Nos. 515
and 517 Commerce street, collapsed at
25 minutes before 6 o'clock last even
ing, and seven men were caught in the
ruins, ihree of whom were killed and
one injured.
Samuel Bayles, treasurer of the firm,
said that their loss would aggregate
$40,000. He could not account for
the cause of the building’s collapsing,
as the stock at this time was not un-
usually heavy, and the buildiag bad
on many occasions been more heavily
weighted. The building belouged to
the estate of Bloomfield Moore and
last summer was strengthened by ad-
ditional girders and pillars. = The
building is a four-story brick with a
frontage on Commerce street of about
25 feet and a depth of 125 feet. There
were heating fires in three different
parts of the building when the crash
eame.
All of the killed are married men.
Markes leaves a wife, one son and a
daughter. Wallace leaves a wife 2nd
four children, and McKenna a wife.
Election ot Senators by Popular Vote,
WasHINGTON, Jan. 16.—For almost
an hour this morning the time of the
house was consumed in the considera-
tion of a resolution to which there was
not the slightest opposition in any
quarter, and which was finally adopted
without objection. It was one calling
upon the executive department for in
formation as to the number and
amount of war claims allowed or dis-
allowed by such department. Then a
motion to suspend the rules and pass a
bill to settle the claims of Askansas
and other states under the swamp land
grants failed to secure the necessary
two thirds vote and was therefore de-
feated. For some time the Republi
cans filibustered against the motion to
suspend the rules and paes a joint reso
lution for a constitutional amendment
for the election of the United States
senators by popular vote, but in the
. end permitted to be carried without a
division.
His colleagues all’
understood after his return from New |
he would accept the Treasury portfolio,
He refused to be interviewed by news-
the shoals if the present Congress ad-.
Rutherford B. Hayes Dead.
His Illness Neuraiyin of the Heart Terminates
Fatally, Although His Son Early in the Day
Telegraphed to Gov. McKinley that His Fath-
er Was Better.
FreEeMmonNT, Ohio, Jan. 17.—Ruther-
ford B. Hayes died at 11 o'clock to-
night. Early in the day his son, R.
B. Hayes, Jr., telegraphed to Gov.
McKinley that his father was sowme-
what beteer, but giving no encourage
ment for the future.
In the atternoon Gen. Hayes began
to eink, and death came to-night.
Mr. Hayes left home on Monday of
last week and spent a few days with
his son, Webb S, Hayes, in Cleve
land.
Daring the past month Mr. Hayes
has complained of one or two slight
attacks of neuralgia of the heart. On
Saturday he experienced a severe re-
currence of the trouble, but went home,
accompanied by his son Webb. He
was met at the train by his son Ruth-
erford and Dr. Hilbish, :
They drove to the Hayes mansion in
Spiegel Grove, where every attention
has been given to Mr. Hayes up to the
present time. His family were at his
bedeide when death came,
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was
born in Delaware, O., on Oct. 4, 1822,
After being graduated as valedictorian
of his class from Kenyon College, O.,
in 1842, he completed a legal educa-
tion, begun in the office of Thomas
Sparrow of Columbus, at the Harvard
Law School; in January, 1845. He
was admitted to practice at the Ohio
bar in the following May. Beginning
his career asa lawyer in Lower San-
dusky, now Fremont, he finally opened
an office in Cincinnati, where he at-
tracted attention alter a while as attor-
ney in several celebrated cases of a
criminal character, After refusing the
office of Common Pleas Judge. he was
elected City Solicitor by the City Coun-
cil in 1858, and the next year he was
chosen his own successor at a popular
election. He was defeated for re-elec-
tion, however, in the spring of 1861.
Mr. Hayes was originally an anti-
slavery Whig, and on the formation of
the Republican party became an ac-
tive member. When the civil war
came he was appointed Major of the
Twenty-third Regiment of Ohio Vol
unteers by the Governor of Ohio, and
as its Lieutenant-Colonel, he distin-
guished himself on Sept. 14, 1862, in
the battle of South Mountain, receiv-
ing a severe wound. As Colonel he
did good service in the two battles of
Winchester, and for his conduct at
Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek he re.
ceived the rank of brevet Major Gener-
al on March 13, 1865.
After the civil war Gen. Hayes took
a seat in Congress, to which he had
been elected while in the field. When
re-elected in 1866 he supported the im-
peachment of Andrew Johnson.
In 1867 he was elected Governor of
Ohio against Allen G. Thurman on a
negro suffrage platform, He was re-
elected two years later against George
H. Pendleton, whose platiorm adyoca-
ted repudiation of the interest on Unit:
ed States bonds unless they were sub.
jected to taxation, and the payment of
the national debt in greenbacks. Mr.
Hayes, who had favored both plans,
during his second term as Governor
came out as champion of civil eervice
reform. He was defeated on that issue
when he ran tor Congress in Cincinna-
ti in 1872. In 1875 Le was a candi
date for Governor for the third time.
Gov. William Allen, who was a can-
didate for re-election on a greenback
platform, opposed him. Mr. Hayes
championed what was called honest
money, and was elected by a majority
of 5,500
This third election as Governor, be-
‘| cause of the issues involved, made him
a candidate for the Presidency when
the Republican Convention met in Cin-
cinnati in June, 1876. Among the op-
posing candidates were James G.
Blaine and Roscoe Conkling. Mr.
Hayes was nominated on the seventh
bailot, the opposition to Blaine coucen-
trating on him. In his letter of accep-
tance Mr. Hayes advocated civil service
reform, resumption of specie payments,
and good government in the South.
Every newspaper in the land except the
New York Times, and every Republican
except a few score conspirators, conced-
ed the election of Samuel J. Tilden on
the morning succeeding the vote.
Mr. Hayes had no doubt of his de-
feat, and said plaintively that he re-
greuted this result, not for himsell, but
on account of the poor negroes. One
of his first acts after he had been
Electoral Commission was to withdraw
the Federal troops from the South and
thus deliver up the poor negroes to the
wercies of the Ku-klux Klan and
White Leaguers, in whose existence he
doubtless implicity believed. While
the conspiracy to count him in was in
progress, Mr. Hayes wrote to John
Sherman, then a “visiting statesman”
at New Orleans, that “there must be
nothing crooked on our part. Let Mr.
Tilden have the place by violence, in-
timidation, and fraud rather than un-
dertake to prevent it by means that will
not bear the severest scrutiny.” Three
months later he became the receiver ot
the stolen Presidency knowing it to be
stolen.
Hayes’s administration as President
was colorless and commonplace. The
resumption of specie payments was al-
most its only important event. Mr.
| Hayes posed throughout as an advo-
cate of civil service relorm, but suc-
ceeded in having comparatively few of
his recommendations adopted.
Perhaps the most distinguishing
feature of his occupancy of the White
House was the banishment therefrom
of alcohol 10 every shape except in the
form of Roman punch, for Mr. Hayes
as well as his wife. Lucy Ware Webb,
the daughter of a Chillicothe physician
was a total abstainer.
Although his administration was
disgraced by no great scandal, the taint
of the theft of tbe Presidency clung to
it to the last, and Mr. Hayes went out
"of office carrying with him the con-
counted in as President by the packed |.
tempt of the Democrats and the indifi-
erence of the Republicans.
After bis retirement from the office to
which another had been elected, Mr.
Hayes returned to his home in Fre-
mont, where he continued until his
death in the peaceful pursuit of raising
chickens.
Senatorial Nominations.
George Gray Nominated by Acclamation in
Delaware.
Dover, Del., Jan. 16.—The Demo-
cratic members of the Legislature in
caucus to-night nominated George Gray
for United States Senator by acclama-
tion. W. H. Burnite was nominated
for State Treasurer, and John P.
Dulaney for Auditor.
JERRY SIMPSON STARTS BACK.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 16.—Jerry simp-
son has started back to Washington,
doubtful whether he will be a United
States Senator. In fact, he is blamed
by some of the Populists for the present
difficulties, which they ascribe to his un-
compromising attitude, 1n the hope of
forcing his own election as Senator.
CANDIDATES IN WYOMING.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 16.— With the
return of the Legislators from their
homes, the Senatorial fight has been re-
newed. New is still in the fight, though
he is said to have made too many pro-
mises for his own good. Baxter has
the support of Senator Brice, and his
friends assert that Mr, Cleveland fav-
ors his election.
THE SITUATION IN WISCONSIN,
Madison, Wis., Jan. 16.—Friends of
John H. Knight, of Ashland, claim
that the caucus of Democrats to nom-
inate a United States Senator will be
brief, and say the Ashland man will be
named, unless Bragg, of Fond Du Lac,
and Mitchell, of Milwaukee, succeed in
forming a coalition for some dark horse.
THE LAST VOTE IN MONTANA.
Helena; Mont., Jan. 16.-~The result
of the ballot in the joint Assembly for
United States Senator to-day was:
Saunders, 82; Clark, 24; Dixon, 8;
Collins, 2 ; Mullville, 2, No choice.
Small-Pox Near Reading.
Reaping, Pa., January 15.—The
small-pox excitement in this section
has reached such a stage that it is like-
ly the attention of the state board of
health will be called to the matter, A
case was reported at Hamburg last
night, near which place a patient is just
recovering from the disease. A death
has taken place at Gouglersville and
more than a half dozen people are ill
with the disease in that vicinity:
A Terrible Tragedy.
CLESTER, Pa., January 14.—A trag-
edy was enacted here this afternoon
which will result in the loss of two
lives and the conviction of Thomas
Rodgers az the murderer of his father
and mother, Rodgers is a man 24 years
old, and the victims are his father,
Thomas Rodgers, 60 years old, and his
mother, Martha Ann Rodgers, of about
‘the same age. His married sister, Mrs.
William Kildey, was also badly wound-
ed. i
Suffering of Homestead.
Pirrepurg, Pa., January 15.—The
continued cold wave increased the suf-
fering at Homestead and it is said that
nearly three hundred people are on the
way of starvation. Contributions are
still coming in but the aggregate
amount is so small that it will not] pro
cure the bare necessities. In the mill
there is a great deal of dissatisfaction
over the wages.
It Stopped the Signals.
A young woman has been taught a
lesson against all communications by
signs. There ‘were unexpected visitors
at dinner the other night, and her
younger sister sat onone side of the
table beside one ofthem. The sister
was extremely communicative, and the
older one became very nervous as reve-
lation after revelation concerning fam-
ily affairs was made, She finally took
to nudging the offender beneath the
table, but. foot pressures, . however
forcible and trequent, failed to stop
the chatter. After dinner the much
annoyed young woman demanded
fiercely : o
“What did you mean by not paying
any aitention to my signals? How
dared you to go on when I kept kicking
you to make you stop ?’
‘Whereupon the younger sister looked
mystified. :
“Signals ? Kicks ?” said she.
my dear, you didn’t kick me.”
And the family disciplinarian sank
back limply as she gasped. “Oh,
Sarah, don’t——don’t tell me I was kick-
ing that man.”
“But,
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—— Dr. Buckingham, of Philipsburg,
arrived in town Wednesday night to at-
tend to some business here.
——B. ©. Achenbach, the Bishop
street baker, caterer and confectioner,
has again taken charge of the bakery at
State College.
CounciL’s Doings.—-The regular semi-
monthly meeting of council was held on
Monday evening and as usual very lit-
tle business, outside the regular routine,
was transacted. Collector Ray present-
ed his exonerations for 1890 through
Chairman Potter, of the Finance com-
mittee. They amounted to $828.05,
divided as follows $288,71 errors $264,
78 poor and $276,61 tax assessed on peo-
ple who bad moved away before the
duplicate was placed.
All the committees reported their
work well in hand, but the Water com-
mittee. The unprecedented cold weath-
er having made the expenses in the
water department very high.
——For a pericd of thirty days from
January 30th all the mails will be
weighed by order of the post office de-
partment.
Tae Coroner's HEearT.—Colonel
James Milliken, a man whose citizen-
chip Bellefonte was want to boast of a
few months ago, is now making his res-
idence in New York city and has
changed his voting place to Milroy. His
heart is still with Bellefonte for on Mon-
day he telegraphed J. Kyle McFarlane
fifty dollars to be expended in fuel for
the deserving poor of the town. Tt
would have done his generous heart
good if he had seen the” joy his gift
brought to more than one home on
Tuesday morning. With the thermome-
ter sticking 10 degrees below zero such
kindness counts for something.
Tue LAW CONCERNING STRAYS.
The law concerning stray animals is not
understood by the people generally as it
should be. If you take up astray animal
you must, within ten days, give notice
to your township, clerk who must make
an entry of the same; then you adver-
tise the animal in your local paper, and
sixty days after such animal has ap-
peared, you apply to the Justice of the
Peace to sell the animal. He issues a
warrant to the constable, gives ten days
notice by posters, and then he sells it and
you get your pay for expenses. The
penalty for taking a stray animal and
not giving notice is $5, and besides this
the owner can come upon your place
and take it away without paying you
anything.
A NATURAL CuRrIosiTY.— Yesterday
morning Mr. P. N. Barnhart, who lives
out on Howard street, brought a large
block of white oak wood into this office.
It did not look unusual in any way ex-
cept that it seemed very heavy and
hard. But when Mr. Barnhart called
our attention to a little acorn imbedded
right in the centre of the block our in-
terest was straightway excited.
The block was taken from the heart
of large white oak, which had been cat
on the lot of Esq. John B. Linn,on
east Howard street, some weeks ago and
when the tree fell it did not fall clear og
the stump. Mr. Barnhart took his cant
hook and tried to roll it off; but finding
that impossible he started to cut it loose,
‘While chopping through tke very heart
of the tree he discovered the acorn and
cut its bed out. The thing is really a
curiosity and can be seen at this office.
The acorn has undoubtedly been in the
tree for scores of years and ‘motwith-
standing its age looks just as’ if it had
grown last fall.
Wort GOING To HEAR.—Professor
Louis E. Reber, of the Pennsylvania
State College, has about completed ar-
rangements for a series of free lectures
which will be delivered in the College
chapel this winter and during the Spring,
The speakers will all be men of national
repute, thus guaranteeing the excellence
of the series. While the subjects for dis-
course will be scientific and pertain to
the Engineering Department more es-
pecially, they will nevertheless be hand-
led in that popular way that invariably
enlists the attention.
The first lecture will be delivered this,
Friday, evening in the chapel, by Hon,
Eckly B. Cox, President of the Ameri-
can Association of Mechanical Engi-
neers. In our minds the simple an-
nouncement of the talker will be a suffi-
cient guarantee to insure a crowded house
this time. Remember the lectures are
free and all are cordially invited.
APPLICABLE EVERYWHERE.—In a
recent issue of the Osceola Leader we
noticed the following questions which it
fired at the people of that community
and as they seem to be applicable in
this section as well we respectfully ded-
icate them to a few people in Bellefonte,
whom they seem to hit with surprising
appropriateness:
When you want newspaper favors
you strike your “home paper,” don’t
you?
If you want your town boomed, and
your property increased in value you ex-
pect your home paper to do it for noth-
ing, don’t you?
Yet you kick because your home pa-
per hasn’t as much reading matter as a
city paper, don’t you? ;
And you preclude the home paper
from thinking the town is a good place
for it, by not giving it sufficient patron-
age, don't you? ;
You often sneak off tosome cther
town to get job work done to save a few
cents, don’t you?
You are mighty good about telling
what a good thing fora town a home
paper is, but backward when it comes to
helping that paper with the cash, ain’t
you?
The home paper don’t charge you in-
terest on back subscription but you wait
until the last thing before paying it,
don’t you? :
Do you think a publisher can live on
promises and pay his bills with the same
material?
Do you think he can forever digest
the fact that his paper is a ‘‘good thing
for the country,” and not receive any-
thing in return? He can’t do it can he?
= AiR er
THE DutY oF THE HoUR.—Ii is the
duty of every teacher 10 support his
home paper, whatever publications
from a distance - ie takes. We do not
meun by this that you should subscribe
for the National Educator, though we
conceive this also to be a duty. But we
mean your local paper. No teacher can
afford to be without the paper of his own
town, or immediate neighborhood.
Your local paper is expected to stand by
you, and itis your duty to support it.—
National Educator.
TrY THE Fizk Prues.— We notice
that many towns bave suffered greatly
from fire on account of the fire plugs
having been frozen up and of course not
in a condition to be used. The question
that invariably comes into our mind
while reading such notices is this: Are
the plugs in Bellefonte ready for use
should occasion demand ? This is a mat
ter that should be carefully looked after,
For in case fire should break out in any
part of town, and the plugs are not in
working order, who can tell the damage
that would be done ere a stream could
be gotten on. The plugs should be"
tried every day.
A PRroSPECTIVE CHANGE IN THE
Game Laws.—In consequences of the
dissatisfaction existing in every section
of thestate 1n regard to the present game
laws, a vigorous and systematic effort
will be made in the present session of
the lezislature, t> make some changes
which sportsmen declare are badly need-
ed, says the Harrisburg Patriot. Sena
tors Baker, ot Delaware ; Neeb, of Alle-
gheny ; Green, ot Berks; Hackenberg,
of Northumberland ; Brown, of York,
and Snyder, of Chester, will advocate
the proper amendments in the senate,
and in the house of Representatives Ly-
tle, cf Huntingdon; Tocle, of Snyder ;
Focht, of Union ; Cristie, of Northum-
berland; Seely, of Lycoming, and sev-
eral others will work earnestly to secure
the changes. At the last session of the
legislature, Jesse M. Baker, of Media,
then a member of the house, by persis-
tent labor, succeeded, through the assis-
tance of several of his colleagues, in se-
curing the passage in that body of a bill
for the protection of, and regulating the
time of taking all kinds of game, but
this measure was not passed in the sen-
ate. Itis now proposed to abolish the’
shooting of Woodcock in July and to
have the time for taking all game—
both birds and mammals, other than
rail and reed birds—begin on the same
date. October 1 or 15 will most likely
be the time selected. Sportsmen claim
that if these changes are made it will
prevent the wasteful slaughter of many
kinds of game. Pot hunters who go in
quest of woodeock, which are scarcely
larger than chippies, and which are of-
ten at this time of the year still in their
downy dress, but they shoot young ruf-
fled grouse, which are termed in pot
hunters’ parlance shortbilled woodcocks.:
In this way hundreds of pheasants: are
annually slain, when they are unfit for
table or other use. Squirrel hunters in
some parts of the state go out in Septem-,
ber and kill grouse as well as quail at
least a month or six weeks before law re-!
specting sportsmen even think of seek-
ing these birds in their favorite coverts.’
— Ez.
ee —
Pine Grove Mentions.
Miss Marion Bnyder is in attendance at the
Stubenville, Ohio, seminary, where she will
graduate we hope at the head of her class.
That jolly good fellow J. D. Hess, of the
Lumber eity, took in last week’s convention:
greeting his old time associates hereabouts.
' The musical convention, conducted by Prof.
Meyers, last week in the M. E. Church was to
say the least a grand success socially and fi-
nancially—$120 was realized .
. Oscar Goodlander is staying in doors during
the cold snap looking crosseyed at Grover’
and Benjamin, twin boys in their swaddling
clothes. Both mother and boys are doing
nicely. ’
Rev. Ermintrout, is conducting a series of
revival meetings which have continued over
four weeks. Much interest is being manifest-'
ed and fifty seekers have presented {them-
selves at the altar. £3 ; :
On the 6th of Feb.a musical convention is,
billed for Rock Springs under the auspices of
our Granger neighbors. The committee is.
leaving nothing undone to make this conven-
a grand success. Prof. Philip and Lowell
Myers will be the instructors. Everybody is
invited to enjoy a budget of fun which will
last through out the week.
Our fellow townsman Martin Luther Smith,
who married Miss Alice Betts one of Clinton
county's most excellen{ and amiable young
ladies, came home and was cordially rec eiv-
ed by ’Squire Smith’s family on the 12th inst.,
when he introduced with a broad smile on his
face mine frau. Here is our hand and we hope
they may be able to steer clear of the sorrows
and vexations of this mundane sphere.
Last Saturday evening the 14th inst, was
the Eighteenth annual banquet of I. 0. 0. F.
No. 894, when Odd Fellows were trump. The
‘banquet was given by brother John H. Weive-
ly who seated about fifty guests—0dd Fellows
and their friends, about his hospitable board.
After the divine blessing had been asked by
Post D. D. G. M.,Geo. W. Williams, full justice
was done to the sumptuous feast prepared by!
Mr. and Mrs. Weively, assisted by J. Hale and
wife, 8.F. Ishler was toast master, and the
afterdinner speeches and remarks were the
cause of many a hearty laugh. Dan Meyers
won the barlow as the champion eater, for he
had to be lifted away from the table with.
block and tackle. The occasion was most
thoroughly enjoyed by all present and will be
a green leaf in their history. A vote of thanks
was tendered to brother Weively and wife for
the hospitable entertainment, and the meet-
ing was adjourned to meet next year on the
same date at S. F. Ishlers.