Demat
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—If you are honest, there is no need
in heralding it abroad. Such things
are always known by the world.
—ST1. PATRICK’S day will soon be
here and then the fellow whose liver
is out of order will be right in color.
—-Why are the men, who organize
for the management of a certain un-’
dertaking, collectively spoken of as a
Board? Is it because so many vf them
are wooden ?
—A little over a month and then the
trout fisherman will take his rod and
line and angle for fish, then, about eight
hours later, he will come home again
with a great long story all adorned with
angles.
--The manifest intention of many
rail-road companies to stop all traffic on
Sunday, except that of an absolute ne-
cessity, will doubtless start Lieutenant
ToTTEN ranting again about the prox-
imity of the end of the world.
—The Democrats in the Senate came
pretty near shooting the Republicans
with their own bullets on Wednesday»
when they accepted a Republican dodge
and came within an ace of passing the
BLAND seigniorage bill finally.
—We got itin New York on Tues-
day. There must be some trouble about
the Democrats getting together in the
Empire State. Certainly there were not
enough of them gotten together there on
election day to make a very creditable
showing.
—CorRBETT, MITCHELL and their
backers, referees, bottle holders and time
keepers, have all been released from the
clutches of the Jacksonville officers sim-
"ply because Florida justice can't dis-
criminate between a prize fight and a
glove contest.
—Republican and Dsmocratic cor
ruptionists in New York are getting it
alike. A model jury has been set to
work on the fellows who have been
conducting fraudulent elections over
there and every time a verdict 18 ren-
dered it is, ‘‘guilty.”
—It is now said that the ‘grand old
man,” Mr. GLADSTONE, had to retire
from the English premiership because
of failing eyesight. It was certainly
not on account of mental far sightedness
for he clearly forsees the inevitable
doom of the hereditary House of that
government. ‘
—The asserted fact that certain of the
members of our upper House of Con-
gress made thousands of dollars by the
rise in sugar, during the week, may start
an investigation which should end in
leaving sugar on the free list. There
seems to be evidence why certain Sen-
ators were opposed to taking the duty
off of sugar in this jumpin the market:
-- The BLAND seigniorage bill, which
passed the House last week, provides for
the coinage of the $55,000,000 seignior-
age which had accumulated in the Treas-
ury during the operation of the SHER-
MAN purchasing act. There is little
probability that we will see any of the
new dollars, but if the bill goes through
the Senate we can welcome it on the
ground of ‘‘the more, the merrier.”
—So a robber protective tariff has
something to do with finding steady em-
ployment for labor, has it? And the
‘WiLsox bill is scaring all manufac-
tories out of existence, is it? Well then,
my dear calamity howler, what do you
say when you are told that Vienna, the
capitol of Austria, has one hundred
thousand skilled laborers out of;work to-
day and the protection that country
groans under would dwarf into Jinsig-
nificance the exactions of the McKin-
LEY measure.
—If the Democrats in Pennsylvania,
who are clamoring for a reorganization
of the party in the State, would look
around them they would find that the
only disorganizing influence known to
the Keystone Democracy is that of the
sore-heads who produce it in their dis-
gruntled cries. Suppose we were to
have a reorganization the only leaders
who would be acceptable to such fellows
would be those who have been tried
years ago and found wanting.
— What if Mr. GLADSTONE’S last of-
ficial utterance should come true and
‘the House of Lords,” having lost “the
confidence of the common people,”
should be ‘voted out of existence.”
Goodness, would’nt there be a lot of
white elephant statesmen running loose
in England. Great Britian could easily
spare her Upper House and might do
well to accord VIicToRrIA the honor of
bestowing it on India as a token of her
undying affection.
—The Republican circus here on
Tuesday was well conducted, in fact far
better than has been the case with any
former appearance of this troupe of
mountebanks for some time. This con-
dition was perhaps caused by the fact that
the program made out previously was
strictly adhered to and the white hats
worn by most of the delegates were so
dilapidated that their wearers did not
have the heart to get rambunxious,
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Demacralic
VOL. 39.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 9, 1894.
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Libelous Tariff Supporters.
Falsehood is the tactor that has been
most efficient in maintaining the high
tariff policy. It has been the chief re-
liance of those who are interested, po-
litically and pecuniarily, in continuing
a system which benefits the smaller
number to the disadvantage of the
larger.
The lying that is resorted to for this
purpose is of various forms and shades,
No phase of this mendacity is more
familiar, or has been more frequently
employed, than the old stock lie about
British gold used in our elections in
the interest of ‘free trade,” and the al
leged efforts of the CoBpEN club to
break down ‘protection’ to American
industry.
. The usual sereeds in Republican
newspapers concerning Democratic
intentions in regard to the tarift are
calculated to mislead none but the
most gullible understandings, of which
unfortunately there is too large a per-
centage in every community. A ca-
Jamity howl is falsehood expressing it-
self through public clamor to which
ignorance has been incited by interest’
ed misrepresentation.
At this time when the false and in-
jurious economic system which has so
long encumbered the industries and
robbed the people is in its death throes,
the mendacity of those interested in its
maintenance is desperately active,
There could not be a more striking il
lustration of this than the report set
afloat by the McKiNLEYITES that Pres-
ident CLEVELAND and ex-Secretary
. WHITNEY are parties to a syndicate
that has bought Nova Scotia coal
lands and hence are interested in the
removal of the duty on imporwed
coal,’ : :
Of course this is a lie deliberately cut
out of the whole cloth, But it is no
more brazenly false ‘than the report
that ANDRew CARNEGIE had been de
‘tected is. frasds practiced upon the
government in the delivery of armor
plate, but was permitted to escape ex:
posure and punishment in considera
tion of his. writing the celebrated letter
in which he declared that the Rzpubli-
can tariff is not pecessary for the in-
dustries of the country.
This desperate ierepresentation,
which imputes an infamy to both Mr.
CARNEGIE and the governme.t, charg:
ing one with business dishonesty and
the other with a political fraud, has
wade its appearance in a paper of no
less prominence among tariff support-
ers than the New York Tribune.
These are libels which considering
the public injury they are calculated to
do in bolstering a system of extortion
and pillage, should be treated as public
offenses amenable to the punishment
of the law. Their authors should be
prosecuted and their falsehood exposed,
in its repulsive nakedaess, in a court of
justice. Public interests would justify
such procedure.
In the treatment of such dastardly
lying there should be more of the ac
tion which has been adopted by a
prominent New York importer who
has brought a suit for libel against a
tariff organ of that city for having
charged him with having raised a
large sum of money in England to pro-
mote the election of CLEVELAND. The
suit is now in progress, and the libel
ous sheet is unable to come forward
with proof of its assertion, which was
never intended to be more than a po-
litical lie, the proprietors taking refuge
in the plea that the importer’s name
was not mentioned although the lan-
guage employed left no question as to
who was meant.
It is about time that these tariff liars
were treated as their offense deserves.
They indulge not only in personal de-
famation, but their libels are also in.
jurious to public interests and public
morals. They should not be allowed
to offend with impunity.
— Blair county Democrats have
made a good beginning for the coming
campaign in selecting THos. J. Burke
Esq. as chairman of their Democratic
county committee. Mr. BURKE is one
of the kind of Democrats who is wil-
ling to take his'coat off and work for
bis party under any and all circum-
stances, and if properly aided by the
Democracy of that county, there will
be no 2,000 Republican majority for the
mon poly interest to crow over.
iron product of the State.
What Representative Grow Should Do.
There is one thing that should im-
press Hon, GaLusaa A. Grow, the re-
cently elected Congressman-at-large
from Pennsylvania, and have its io-
fluence upon his action on the pending
tariff bill,
He has been returned to Congress
after many years absence from that
body, having been elected by a vote
that was intended to be an expression
in favor of a continuance of the Repub-
lican high tariff policy. But by com-
paring that vote, which was expressly
designed to bolster the monopoly tariff,
with the vote cast for the same pur-
pose in the Presidential and Congres-
sional election in 1892, he will find
that it is not as large as was the latter.
Although every effort was made to
give force and volume to itas a tariff
expression, aided by the business de-
pression and industrial distress that
were utilized as arguments for ‘pro-
tection,” the tariff vote by which he
was elected was 28,340 less than was
castin this State in 1892 for HarRIsOR
and the Republican tanff.
This fact should have its effect upon
Representative Grow. Heshould see
that the sentiment in favor of the Mo-
KivLeY tariff policy is not as strong
as it was two years ago; thatit is on
the decline, and that he should modi-
fy his action accordingly.
It is said that he favors free coal,
but he might go tarther in that direc-
tion and be of service to the interests of
his State, by helping to remove other
tarift obstructions. Its iron and steel
industries are suffering a great disad-
vantage in being compelled to pay a
duty oun iron ore which is necessary for
their operation and is not produced by
Penasylvania ore beds. Upon this in-
dispensable materizl a Republican tarift
has imposed a tax that does not pro-
tect 80 much as a pound ot Peunsylva-
nia ore but 18 a great detriment to the
Mr. Grow
could aid this Penusylvania interest by
voting for tree iron ore.
He could also show a disposition to
assist the depressed woolen manutac-
ture of Pailadelphia by belping to give
it the beneit of untariffed wool. Noth+
ing would do more to put that languish-
ing industry on its feet again, or be
more helpful to the thousands of tex-
tile workers of that city whom the et-
tects of the MoKiINLEY tariff have
driven to the soup houses.
Io view of the decline of the high
tariff sentiment in this State, as shown
by the vole that elected him, compared
with what the tariff vote was two years
ago, Representative Grow should be
induced to do something for the benefit
of the State he represents by voting for
the WiLsox tariff bill.
The First Year.
Last Sunday saw the conclusion of
the first year of President CLEVELAND ’S
second term. As regards weather it
was quite a different day from the one
on which he was inaugurated the year
before. It was as mild and gentle as
the other was cold and stormy.
The first year of his term has in
some respects been like its first day.
The difficulties imposed upon President
CLEVELAND by the derelictions of his
predecessor's administration has ecom-
pelled him to encounter rough exper-
iences. He found the governme nt re-
sources exhausted ; the public revenues
squandered by practices especially in
tended to necessitate the continua nce of
tariff taxation; the finances deranged by
fiscal meaures that impaired the credit
of the government; the national repu-
tation tarnished by unwarranted and
meddlesome interference with the in-
ternal affairs of another country, by a
diplomatic event of the outgoing ad-
ministration, and wide-spread business
ruin and prostrated industries as the
result of the tariff legislation of the
party that had left this wreck behind
it.
It could not be otherwise than that
Mr. Cuevenaxp should have up-hill
work in the midst of the difficulties
which were thrust upon him by reck-
less predecessors who ruined when
they could not squander. But in the
midst of obstacles and perplexities en-
couraging progress has been made to-
ward restoring the governmental con-
dition that has been so seriously damag-
ed, with a fair prospect that by the
end of his term the debris of the Re-
publican wreckage will have entirely
digappeared.
Restoration of American Shipping.
Among the cther duties which have
and urgently calls for its action while
in-power, is to restore the American
merchant marine to that high con-
dition from which it has dwindled
eince the Republicans have had con-
trol of the policies of the government-
Thirty-five years ago the carrying |
trade on the ocean in American ships.
was nearly equal to that of the English.
It was during the operation of Demo"
cratic tariffs, and the increase of that
vast commerce was a question ot but a
few years.
In the midst of this vast develop-
ment American shipping was swept off
the ocean by the rebel cruisers and
their English sympathizers and assis.
tants, and it has since been kept off by
Republican navigation and tariff laws.
With the object of restoring this lost
trade there has long been a demand for
free ships, as there is now a. demand
for free raw materials. The Republi
cans, however, have insisted upon
protecting the business of ship build.
ing with such effect that American
shipping is no vearer restoration than
!t was at the close of the rebellion. In
1860 it was 67 per cent. as large as that
of England, and in this year, 1894, it is
bat 13 per cent. as large.
Re publican protection of ship. build-
ing bas made the construction ot ships
in this country so expensive that the
ownership of American vessels has |
either ceased, or such American firms
as still remain in the shipping business
are supplied by English ship builders;
and as our absurd navigation laws ex-
clude from American registry ships
that are not built in this country, the
result is that most of the vessels: owned
by Americans, few in number as they
are, have English register and are
sailed under the English flag..
To remedy this disadvantageous and
disgraceful condition of things Repre:
‘sentative FitaiaN has introduced a
bill to repeal the navigation laws
which forbid Americans to sail foreign
built vessels under their own flag.
This ill advised regulation, together
with the restrictions of a Republican
tariff, has destroyed American ocean
shipping, and with a view to the res-
toration of that prostrated interest the
one as well as the other of these blight-
ing agencies must be wiped out by this
Democratic Congress.
A Man Who Could Not he Spared.
The public has had great reason for
solicitude concerning the health of
Chairman WiLsoN, who since his ard-
uous labors in the formulation and pas-
sage of the reform tari bill in the
House was overtaken by an attack of ill-
ness which has caused much uneasiness
as to its ultimate resalt.. His condition,
however, has so much improved that
there is good reason to expect his entire:
recovery.
The country could il afford to lose
such a man. Not only did be display:
great ability in the assistance he gave.
in framing the tariff: bill and directing.
it through the House, but also a high
order of statesmenshipand patriotism
in devising the measure necessary to
relieve the country of the blundering
and destructive economic policy of the
Republican party.
Hie name will be enrolled among
the benefactors of the nation when the
devisers and managers of MeKinLex
tariffs will either have sunk into merit~
ed oblivion or will be numbered with
who resisted the abolishment of the
English cora-laws and opposed those
improvements in England’s fiscal sys-
tem that have produced her present in-
dustrial and commercial prosperity.
—1If Gen. Hasrwngs will only
make a few more speeches in the
county, like the one he made up at the
Court House, on Tuesday last, there
will be no more fear of his running
ahead of his ticket here at home next
Fall. Talking as if Democrats were all
traitors during the war, and that it was
only through the patriotism of the Re-
publican party that the “old flag was
protected,” may cause soft-headed Re-
publican voters to cheer and hurrah,
but it won't command Democratic re-
spect. We know of no Democrat any-
where who did lessto ‘protect the
flag” than Gen. Hastings.
devolved upon the Democratic party
such economie puddingheads. as these |
A Democrat Got the Largest Majority
in Pennsylvania.
From the Connellsville Courier. :
The Pittsburg Post deniesthat Grow’s
plurality was the greatest ever given a
State officer in Pennsylvavia. Io 1854
Valentine Mott was elected Canal
Commissioner by a majority of 192-
000. - The bistory of that campaign is
interesting. It was the first year of
Know Nothingism, with the Whig
i party & rapidly decaying force, and the
t Democratic party exultant asd over-
‘confident atthe way they swept the
eountry two years before in the Pierce
and Scott campaign. Governor, Su-
preme Judge and Canal Commissioner
were to be elected. There were three
tickets in the field, Democratic, Whig
and Know Nothing. As election ap-
proached the midnight lodges of the
Know Nothings, with their wonderful
effective and secret organization, re-
solved to vote for the Whig candidate
for Governor, James Pollock, who was
elected by 37,000: majority ; they sup
ported:their own candidate for Supreme
Judge,. Judge Baird, of Washington
county,. with the result that Judge
Black, the Democratic candidate, was
elected by 25,000 plurality ; and finally
they resolved to support the Democra-
tic candidate for Canal: Commissioner,
Colonel Mott, accused. of being: in se~
cret affiliation with the Know Noth-
ings. Thisthrew the secret vote on
the Democratic eide, with the result
that Mott was elected by: 192,000: ma-
jority over George Darsie; of Pittsburg,
probably the best man for the office in
the State.
This-Savors of the Truth.
From the Williamsport Republican.
Mr. Walter Beeant, during his stay
in America, learned as all “foreigners
do, some remarkable things about
Americans.. One of these is that many
people,’ particularly in literary and
academic oircles, are not “at home,”
even to their intimate. friends on Snu-
day, and spend the day alone at home
in the consumption of onions, Ii is
our experience thai these onion eating
people do not stay at home on Sun-
days. They come to church and sit
next to people who have never done
them any harm and want to sing with
all their might ous of a book that, they
are sharing with the: unoffending pes-
son. Mir. Besant, is ones, his
American friends are those who. stay
fume wuen they have indulged: in
leak.
Signs-of Good Democratic Thues.
From the Columbia Herald.
Beginning ai Pitsburg, a wave of
industrial revival is overspreading the
entire country. The Pittsburg resump-
tion may be easily explained by Grow’s
election to Congress.. But Grow »asa’t
elected in Mr. Barrison’s State od In-
diana, where tinplate and canning ac-
tories are starting up on an extended
scale ;: nor in MeKinley’s State, where
“all the foundries in Cieaveland but
two have withdrawn the order tora 10
per cent. reduction of woulders, and
the big strike is off.” This-is. truly an
inexplicable and exasperating eondi-
tion of affairs: for McKinleyism ; and
it once more betrays the dastasdly in-
terference of the Cobden Club 1m the in-
ternal affairs-of this country I!
Why Is It?
From the Clearfield Public Spirit..
It the Wilson bill has redaced the
wages of alli the people employed-in the
industries. now running. why 18 it that
the prices.of the product of the labor of
these men. have not been reduced? The-
claim thas the Wilson bill has reduced:
wages is-only a bluff and the manufae-
turer makes the redugtion, pockets the
amount thus gained and goes on charg-
ing former prices for his goods.
Se the Philipsburgers Say.
From, the Philadelphia Press.
Joba G. Love, one of the most. sue-
cessful men at the Centre county bar,
is announced as a candidate for the
Republican jodicial nomination. in the
Centre--Huntingdon district. He is
just the kind of man to give Judge
Furst a lively tussle, and it is. within
the possibilities that he may be the
| nominee.
A Growing Industry in the South.
From the Sumpter, 8, C. Watchman &Southern,
The cotton seed oil mills in South
Carolina have been uniformly prosper-
ous during the past two years. Some
of them have paid dividends to the
amount of fifty per cent to stockholders.
There are few investments that pay
such dividends,
A Lesson For Philadelphia Republi.
eans. -
From the Altoona Times.
John Y. McKane in prison is an ob-
ject lesson that disproves the assertion
that offenses against the election laws
in New York state can be committed
with impunity. It talks louder than
words.
‘Where They Are From.
From the Patton Courier.
America’s proud “four hundred’ are
the descendents of Tavern Keepers,
Skin trader's Money lenders, Slave
traders and Wall atreet gamblers,
liam H. Shick,
: Spawls from the Keystone,
—Ina fight at Reading, James Horn was
seriously stabbed. L
day with 250 cases on the calendar.
—Some Tioga county tobacco growers will
discard that crop and raise cabbage.
—Allentown wants a bridge over the Lehigh
River to e"nmeet South Allentown.
—A fall of coal in a Wilkesbarre eolliery
Monday erushed to death Edward Wilkins.
—A “Pennsy” engine killed John Swanyan,
who walked the the track near Hazelton.
—Diphtheria and scarlet fever are alarm-
ingly prevalent in the vicinity of Pine Grove.
—'1 hieves despoiled a slot machine in Mich.
ael's restaurent, Pottsville, and got $60 in nick.
els.
—The construction of the ten-mile trolley
between Harleigh and Freeland begins Mon.
day.
—Ex-Governor Hoyts library was sold at
auction last Saturday, in Wilkesbarre. He
died a door man. ;
—The Meyersdale Cormimercial says that the
outlook for new buildings at that place next
season is gloomy.
—The economites at Beaver Falls have
bought for $50,000 a large manufacturing
plant at that place.
—Two children who were run down by an
electric car in Pittsburg were saved by the
excellent guards on the car.
—Citizens of Wilkesbarre are greatly dis-
turbed by the threatened cave-in of an old
mine that underlies Madison street.
—Over 14,000,000 feet of logs will bs floated
spring to the Williamsport saw mills.
~The anti-Bowman conference of Central
Pennsylvania Evangelicals, in session in York
county, report 246 churches under his jurisdic
tion
—About 300 coke men, employed by W. J.
Rainey, in the Connellsville region, refuse to
work unless the semi-monthly pay system be:
adopted.
row $15,000 to establish an electric light plant
for borough and: eommerecial purposes was de-
feated by nine votes.
~The wages of the puddlers in the various
iron mills at Lebanon have been reduced from
$3 tc $2.60a ton. The average puddler will
now earn about $2 a day.
—The executors of Congressman William
Lilly's estate, at Mauch Chunk, have paid
$50,000 collateral inheritance tax to the
State, having had no direct heirs.
~The system of pumps at the famous- Ber.
wind-White shaft. at DuBois, became disabled
and the great hole is full of water. Two of the
largest pipes buwst, and the water came in. so
fast that the men were driven from their wonk
and the entire shaft filled.
—Jesse Crum. has been sappointed- postmaa-
ter at Crumb: post office, and the Somerset
Democrat says:. This is the first instance in
this county where the Republican incumbent
was not permitted to serve out his term, of
four years, Postmaster Laytqn having served
only about twe years.
—The trustees have been appointed forthe
Wernersvillo- State Asylum for the.Chronic:In-
sape: Thomas P. Merriit, George ¥% Baer, Wile
ing; Henry M. Dechert,
Savery Bradley, Arnold Kohn, Philadelphia;
Horace Bruel, Jesephr Li. Lamberger; Lisban-
oa ; Susan Ji Taber, M. D., Norristown.
—Of course you comprehend ;this observa.
tion of the - Punxsutawney Sprit; ‘While the
principal object of life should:be to. observa
the laws of nature, so as to preserve our health
and to cultivate our minds so asto enjoy the
beautiful in nature and moralisy, we should
not negleat to scquire that which, induces the
female equine to proceed on. her joumey.
—George Athens, a real estate dealerof Los
Angeles, Cal, is in Harrisburg, and says “that
realty values in T.os Angeles have depres
ciated at a very rapid rate for. several years
past. Values were inflatechim Los. Angeles to
boom about three years ago,” said: he. “The
present stagnation is the reaction, ans is hav.
ing a disastrous effect on. the business of tha.
place.”
—At the exposition of the Republiean Invin-
c.bles at West Chester;, Ex:-Coagressman
Smedley Darlington won.a game rooster on
the-wheel of fortune. He returned the bird to.
the operators of the wheel and: took another-
chance, and again he won.the =ooster. The.
second time he handed. the bird back and;
strange to say, again. he won it. Then he
turned and walked away.
—The congregation of the-second Presbyten-
ian church, of Altoona, elscted Rev. H. Hi.
iStiles, of Pittsburg, to. the pastorate of the:
ichurch. The meeting: was. the largest ewer
. held by the congregation for this purpose aad
‘the vote was unanimously im favor of the gen-
tleman named. He is. now the pastor ofithe
Forty-third Sireet:.Chureh, of Pittsburg, bus if
is believed he will accept the call so earnestly
extended to him.
he don't wear flies he decided to beaf the
sharpers at their own game. He aould not
communicate by mail, but a telegram would
be received. He blew in 25 cents for a mes-
sage and a sample, and next mail brought
him a goed, new, erisp $1 bill. A bank accep-
ted the money, and Joseph is 75 gents in pock-
et. He is looking around for other suckers,
—Advice from the Cherry Trea Record: If a
fellow comes around and wants. te bet you $5
that if he can tell him the last four figures of
the number of a bank note he will tell you the.
letter of the note, don’t you take him up. You
offer to bet him the same way and if you sue-
ceed in getting him to bet divide the figures
of the note by four. If they don’t divide even
sud one remains the letter is A ; if two remain
the letter is C, and if they divide even the let-
ter is D. If you know how to divide you will
win his money.
—Two weeks ago the Allentown Democrat
made a note of the faet that young Thomas
McFadden, through only a little over 16
years of age, had attained to the remarkable
height ot five feet ten and a half inches—a
phenomenal stature, indeed, the age con-
sidered. But he is no longer “goed for high.”
George Deibert, of Schnecksville, a boy who
has just turned his sixteenth birthday, beats
him clean out of his boots, he standing six
feet and a half inches in his stocking feet.
He :s strong and robust, finely formed, active
and energetic and still growing, with no tell
ing when he will stop in his upward tendenoy.
It is quite likely that by the time he will be
ripe for going out to court the girls he will be
a figure of giant form, adds the Demecrat. It
already takes a whole piece of cassimere to
make a suit tor him. He is a son of Soicman
Deibert, teacher at Deibertsville, Heidelberg
township, Lehigh county.
=Roller skating is again a craze in Reading, !
—In Ambler Borough the proposition to bor-
a high. degree, and the town enjpyed a big
—Criminal Court opened at Pottsville Mon-
down Kettle Creek from Potter county this
—Joseph Grimes. eperates a shoe shop ab.
Shamokin. He has.beem in receipt of divers .
and numerous greewm goods circulars, sud 4s