Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, March 23, 1894, Image 1

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    8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Sunday the Easter glutton will
gorge himsel{ with eggs, then cackle
about it all week.
—TIt does not require the cry of the
umpire to start the «bats’’ flying.
They are at it already.
— PRENDERGAST, the murderer of
CARTER HARRISON, hangs in Chicago
to-day. Peace rest his soul.
_If the trans-atlantic telephone
proves a success American exchange
girls will have to get used tothe ‘ellos!
from London,
—The rod is no longer permitted in
New Jersey schools and the infants
down there are ruled by the suasion of
pure love.
——If Senator GORMAN keeps on fight-
ing the WiLsoN bill he will find out ere
long that he can’t sing Maryland, My
Maryland”, any more,
— What has become of the WiLsoN
bill and the income tax? We are
thinking of striking for a raise and must
gauge things accordingly.
—Texas is the ‘Lone Star State” of
the Union, but she is not alone in her
visitations of cyclones and other kinds
of blows. We have some of them right
here at home.
—And now to add to the * misery of
poor Governor WAITE, of Colorado, his
wife has called him a fool. If her state-
ment be true he must look on her as his
better-half indeed.
—Artists who are on the hanging
committee at any exhibition have an
excellent opportunity to avenge them-
selves on their rivals. They make it
very cool for those exhibitors whose
pictures are hung near the frieze.
— BRECKENRIDGE is in tha soup,
He is a hoary-headed old fellow ito be
caught in such nasty business, says the
Columbia Independent. We concur, em-
phatically, and would suggest that the
accent be placed on the ninth word.
—The National editorial association
is to meet at Asbury Park next June
and for the life of us we don’t see how
those editors and the Methodist ministers
at Ocean Grove are going to get along
with nothing but a miniature lake be
tween them.
_ Mr. CoxEY’s army promises to be
nothing more than a ‘motley horde of
tramps and vagabonds. Itisessy seen
why the tramps are sympathizers with
the great (?) CoxEx’s idea of procuring
the appropriation of $500,000,000 for im-
proving the roads of the country.
—The morality of every community
is at the mercy of the people who make
it up. If they are honest people, who
do not care for gossip, and prefer cov-
ering up rather than magnifying the
faulls of their neighbors, there will be
happiness and a reciprocity of good fel-
lowship.
—-The next session of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature should pass a little
Force bill just for operation in Monroe
county. Some such Republican meas-
ure is needed to protect the poor color-
ed man of Pennsylvania, even though
his brother in the South has no need for
such legislation.
— Mr. Coxgy and his band of Mas.
silon followers, who are supposed to
start their march on Washington, next
Sunday, will hardly get so far away
from home that they can’t hear thei,
own dinner bell. The common-weal is
what we are all striving for, but most of
us have sense enough to stay at home
and in that way serve the common-
weal. 2
— The out-come of the Central Penn-
sylvania Methodist Episcopal confer-
ence, which had its final sitting in Har-
risburg, last Tuesday morning, leaves
very great room for doubt, in the mind
of the conservative on-looker, as to
whether Methodist ministers are not just
as capable of doing just as unfair and
unprincipled things as those who don’t
pose as such great moralists.
—Fgrp WARD, the New York part-
ner of the late Gen. GRANT, who ser ved
a term in Sing Sing for embezzlement,
was married to a Staten Island girl, on
Tuesday. Thereis one thing quite cer-
tain, that is if there are any children to
bless their union we'll bet their father
will devote some of his time, at least,
to teaching them honesty. There is
nothing like a taste of the bitter fruits
of dishonesty to open one’s eyes.
— Where are the Republican harpies
who are always charging the mob laws
and lynchings of the South to the Dem-
ocratic party ? Where are they, we
say? They must surely be told ot that
Stroudsburg lynching last week. To
think that such an outrage should have
been perpetrated right here in Pennsyl-
vania scarcely before the echo of the
last exultant cheer of Republican vic
tory has died away. Pennsylvania con”
stituents can protect the poor negro
right at home hereafter and leave those
selves.
CO
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Temacralic
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
ant
_VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 28, 1894.
NO. 12.
The Shadow of a Dark Cloud.
nn
The savagery of lynch law, which
is extending over the couatry, encour
aged by the impunity with which it is
allowed to practice its irregular vio-
lence, has taken hold of Pennsylvania,
and if not checked by legislative cor-
rection, backed by public sentiment,
may be expected to be of repeated oc-
currence and ultimately rob the courts
of their authority and power. The de-
moralization naturally resulting from
lawlessness always increases ag the
public mind becomes familiar with it.
The rapid growth of the disposition to
supersede the operation of the law by
the process of lynching is a proof of
this fact. :
The case of the negro murderer Pur-
YEAR, who was lynched in Monroe
county, last week, inaugurated this
lawless method of punishing offenders
in this State. That it set a precedent
that was sure to be followed, was
shown by an attempt to lynch a chick-
en thief near Hazelton some days after,
the original intention of the lynchers
to hang him having been changed to
the procedure of throwing him down a
mine hole, inflicting injuries from
which he cannot recover. When law-
less punishment once becomes a tolera-
ted practice it must be expected that it
will show but little discrimination eith-
er as to the grade of the offense it pun-
ishes, or the method of its procedure. .
Such a superseding of the orderly
process of law by mob force, like that
in Monroe county, is unjustifiable un-
der any circumstances. The fact that
the prisoner had attempted to evade
lawful punishment by escaping from
prison, furnished the lynchers no ex-
.cuse for their proceedings; nor was
that the incentive that impelled them
to the taking of the law in their own
hands, for at the time of the arrest of
the prisoner, on the charge of the mur.
der, it was with difficulty that he could
be kept from being lynched by a mob
howling for Bis summary punishmeat.
In the rapid increase of such violent
practices is seen a cloud that is throw-
ing an alarming shadow over the civili-
zation of our country. It is surprising
that the press is so indifferent to an
evil whose growth is evidenced by the
frequently repeated occasions it bas to
record the occurrence of this lawless
and barbarous administration of pun-
ishment, and it is not to its credit that
it does not unitedly urge legislative
and executive action for the punish-
ment and suppression of a practice
which by supplanting the orderly pro-
cesses of the law, is undermining all le-
gal authority and barbarizing public
sentiment.
Fresh Hope for Home Rule.
When Mr. GLADSTONE resigned the
Premiership it was natural that the
supporters of Irish Home Rule should
be uneasy about the fate of their cher
ished project. Even under the leader-
ship of the greatest living English
statesman, their cause has had uphill
work, and it isstill far from a success-
ful issue. Therefore there was much
to discourage the Home Rulers when
he retired from the long continued
struggle in their behalf.
It is true his successor, Lord RosE-
BERRY, had been one of his most ac’
tive lieutenants, and sufficiently earnest
in all liberal measures, among which
Home Rale could be numbered ; but
there was out little to encourage the
Irish leaders when the new Liberal
Premier publicly declared that it
would require & majority of English
votes to decide the success of the Irish
movement. Lf such a policy were lit-
erally carried out the hopes of Ireland
would have to be indefinitely post-
poned. ’
Bat Lord Roseserry has since
greatly modified the meaning of his ex-
pressions, and has given such assur
ance of his earnestness in the Irish
cause that none, but the most captious
friends of Ireland, can doubt that he
will faithfully adhere to the Home
Rule programe that had been adopted
by his former leader.
In the increasing Liberalism in Eng-
land there is every appearance of a
rapidly growing disposition among
Englishmen to accord to Ireland her
rights. The House of Lords has beea
the obstacle in the way, and when
there is a widespread determination to
wipe out that effete body if it persists
. in its obstruction of liberal measures,
in other parts to take care of them-
that fact in itself is very encouraging
to the Irish cause.
Prompt Action When Needed.
Some weeks ago the leading Repub-
on the demoralization and incomp
etency of the Democrats in Congress,
its remarks having been called forth
by what it considered their incapacity
to legislate, the prolonged hitch on the
Seigniorage question in the House be-
ing used as an illustration.
The strictures of that organ on
Democratic legislative incapacity some-
what amused us at the time, and we
ventured to remark in repy that when
the Democrats put themselves
earnestly down to congressional work,
there was no want of ability in their
efforts, and no lack of direct and effi-
cient action.
The resalt as regards the Seignior-
age bill substantiates our assertion.
It is now a fyrther source of amuse
ment to us to see that the organ which
spoke so contem ptuously of Democratic
congressional inability, as shown by
their “incapable and incoherent” ac.
tion on that measure, is now hysteric-
ally denouncing the Democrats for hav-
ing passed the bill which it said they
were incapable of passing.
The fact is that when they were ready
tor final action, and saw the scheme
which the enemies ot tariff reform
had planned, they put the Seigniorage
bill through with a promptness and
decision that have dazed the Republi
cans, who intended to use it as a ques-
tion upon which a great deal of time
could be wasted acd action on the tariff
bill staved off.
It having passed both Houses, what
will the President now do with it?
By the time this article shall appear
in print he may have determined the
fate of the bill by attaching or with-
holding his ‘signature: but we would
greatly like to see him sign it.
His position in regard to the silver
purchasing act, whose repeal he urged,
covered quite a different aspect of the,
silver question. Tbe bill just passed
authorizes the monetary use of the met-
al whose purchase as useless pig silver
the President could very probably ob-
ject to. That objection cannot be re-
garded as necessarily applying to its
being converted into money. The
question is whether more silver mon-
ey will be detrimental to the business
of the country? We believe that it
will be just the opposite, or at all events,
will not be hurtful, and we trust thdt
the President will look at it in the
same light. ;
A very important question in “con.
nection with this silver bill, if it should
become a law, is, what would be its
political effect upon the Democratic
party? Ifit should help the Democra-
cy in the next congressional elections’
and strengthen the vote in the Senate
for the reform tariff bill, by enlisting
the aid of the Senators from the silver
States, then the bill, should be placed
as a perfected measure upon the stat-
ute books, Its most beneficent effect
would be in the service it might render
the Democratic cause. :
Beatenat Their Own Game,
When the opponents of Tariff Re-
form in the Senate helped the silverites
to bring the Seigniorage bill into that
body ahead of the tariff bill, they had in-
terposedan obstacle which would great
ly disconcert the movement of the tariff
reformers, and no doubt they chuckled
among themselves over what they con-
sidered a very smart game.
Their belief that they had indefinite
ly blocked the WiLson bill was not
unreasonable, for the silver question
was one on which the Senate had
stuck for monthe during the extra ses-
sion, and as all the conflicting ele-
ments involved in thie metallic issue
were likely to be aroused over the
Seigniorage, a protracted wrangle was
confidently looked for by these obstruc-
tionists, with the result of deferring
the tariff bill, and possibly defeating,
it.
That their obstruction would post-
pone the revival of business mattered
little to these tricksters. A prolonged
prostration ot the industries in conse-
quence of the unsettled condition of
the tariff question was of small ac-
count to them in comparison with the
political advantages they proposed to
gain by hanging up the Democratic
tariff bill.
Therefore it is easy to imagine how
they congratulated themselves on hav"
lican organ of Philadelphia expatiated |
headed off the tariff reformers by the |
interposition of the Seigniorage ques-
ton,
But a more dumbfounded and con-
fused set of political couspirators were
never seen thao they were when they
saw that the Democrats had “got onto
their game,” and were going to beat
them at it. There was something real-
ly amusing in JorN SHERMAN and oth-
ers of them protesting against the pae-
sage of the bill in whose introduction
they had assisted with obstructive in-
tent; but the Democrats speedily got
it out of the way by passing it, making
the McKINLEY obstructionists the
laughing stock of the country.
Treading on Dangerous Ground.
The singular attitude of Senator
Gorman, of Maryland, toward the
Democratic tariff bill, has for some
time attracted public attention, and
has at last aroused the indignation of
the Democrats of Maryland. There
can be no other than personal reasons
for the Senator’s disposition to obstruct
the progress of the Wirson bill, for
such obstruction is not in line with
either the wishes of the Democrats of
Maryland, the policy of the party to
which he owes allegiance, or the gen-
eral interests of the country.
When he declared from his seat in
the Senate that he was determined to
interpose objections to certain features
of the tariff bill, which, if persisted in,
would indefinitely prolong the contest
over that measure, he announced a
purpose that could not be approved by
his party, but was the source of much
eatisfaction to those who are interested
in the defeat of tariff reform.
What is the matter with Senator
GormAN anyhow ? Does his intention
to continue his obstructive objections
even “if it takes all summer” to effect
his purpose, represent the sentiments
of the Democrats of his ‘State? Does
it please any but the McKINLEYITES ?
Isiit calculated to assist the Democrats
in fulfilling their pledge of tariff re-
form? Has it not rather a tendency
to disgust the people with the dilatory
action upon the tariff bill, and to bring
hamiliation |. and defeat ' upon the
Democratic parly in the next congres-
sional elections ? : San
The Maryland Senator must be in-
fluenced in this matter by ambition or
pique. His conduct certainly does not
comport either’ with the sentiment or
the interests of his party. He is tread-
ing upon dangerous ground, there be-
ing no better evidence ofthe peril of
his adventure than the rising indigna-
tion of the Democrats of Maryland, to
which has been added the denunucia-
tory tones of the Baltimore Sun, a
journal which heretofore has been his
staunchest and ablest supporter.
Senator GorMAN should change his
attitude in this matter. By persisting
in it he is not only censurable for un-
gracious and ungrateful treatment of
his party, but he is getting himself in-
to a difficulty that will be disastrous to
his political career. i
3
A Burlesque Rebellion.
The sudden collapse of the Brazilian
rebellion shows up in a stronger light
the burlesque character of the whole
aftair. History cannot show a more
ludicrous case of belligereney. For
more than six mouths the rebels were
blazing away in the harbor of Rio,
bombarding the city at their leisure;
overhauling the merchantmen of other
nations, and enforcing a blockade that
paralyzed the commerce of the port.
The funny part of the business was
that the nations whose commercial in-
terests suffered from this burlesque
warfare so long submitted to it. Now
means, have scattered in different di-
rections to escape punishment, the in
significance of their revolutionary pre-
{ensions becomes apparent, and the
world laughs to think that such shab-
by belligerents managed to secure the
recognition that is accorded to legiti-
mate and regular belligerency.
Since the rebellion has gone to
pieces it is discovered that the rebels,
whose operations were chiefly confined
to the water, were most ot the time in
a half starved condition, and were as-
sisted in their straitened circumstances
by supplies of English provisions.
England had a sinister motive in back-
ing the rebellion, but it failed, and no
one contributed more to its failure
| American navy.
that the rebels, exhausted for want of
Why Move, So much?
From the Pittsburg Times.
The first of April is close at hand and
the annual flitting has begun. Wagons
loaded with furniture may be seen on
every hand. This spring the flitting 1s
necessary in most eases, something
which cannot ordinarily be said of it.
One may affirm that many a family has
been kept poor by useless moving. The
idea of it is usually thatsomething bet-
ter can be had in some other place for
the same money, and a falser idea peo-
ple seldom take up. They are no better
satisfied with the new place at the end
of the year than they were with the old,
and so it is move again, which means
loss of time, of patience and often of re-
ligion, to say nothing of the outlay for
new carpets and for furniture smashed
in the moving. A score of things are
pointed to as indicating the restlessness
of the American, but none indicates it
better than this flight to new homes
which have no advantage over the old.
There are meu in this city who have
spent enough in this way since they be-
gan their married life to buy them
homes of their own. In view of this
fact there seems to have been & sort of
grim humor in making All Fools Day
the day for moving. Almost every
time one of these men declares
and some of them swear as they wrestle
with the stove pipe, or bruise their fin-
gers with the tack hammer, or wrench
their backs putting up the bedstead, that
they will not move again until they
have to, but as certainly as All Fools
Day comes around the fate of flitting
befalls them. It would seem that only
fate could compel them to go contrary
to their sore experience. Nobody more
willingly than they admits that moving
day is appropriately All Fools Day.
Is There No Move Honor Among Us?
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
The insincerity of the Republicans in
both houses of Congress is seen in the
filibustering they are doing every day
for the sole purpose as they say of ‘‘put-
ting the Democrats in a hole.” Outside
of Congress the same kind of patriotism
characterizes the conduct of the Repub-
lican politicians. The press of the party
keep on howling calamity and studious-
ly avoiding mention of the thousands of
men who have been put to work in the
various manufacturing industries since
the November and February elections
and with secret glee give only the dark
side of the situation. They, resent as an
insult every evidence of returning pros-
perity when shown to them and mis-
represent and torture the facts to keep
the public from catching onto the lively
spirit of improvement in the times. All
the filibustering and all the howling is
done only for the purpose of tiding the
panic past the coming November elec-
tion after ‘which the old Republican
songs will be.sung by Vanderbilt and
other monopolists “The people be
damned.” : 4
Mr. Singerly Should be the Candidate.
From the Philadelphia Record. 1 .
Some political ignoramus who writes
to the New York Sun from this city de-
clares that there will be no Democratic
candidate for Governorin Pennsylvania
this year. There are not three States in
Democrats than in. Pennsylvania.
When they shall fail to.run a candidate
for Governor the moon will have four
horns. That a Demoeratic candidate
‘will bein the field is sure. He will not
be certain of his election ; but until the
vote shall have been counted no one can.
tell what may happen.
And in Illustrating: the Breckenridge
Pollard Divorce Telegraphic News.
From the Hollidaysburg Standard.
Wizard Edison has perfected an in-
strument that he calls a kinetescope,. by
- which he is enabled to take what may
be called a continuous photograph. ' A.
hundred successive impressions are
taken with such rapidity as to give the
resulting portrait & mobility of expres-
sion exceedingly life-like. The Kkinete-
scope might. be utilized in catching the
lightning changes effected by the gentle~
men in the Senate who are manipu~
lating the Wilson Tariff bill.
Sweet News for Red-Headeds Soldiers.
From the Wayne County Herald.
‘White horses are to be barred from
military service in Germany. The Em-
ror has ordered that no more be pur-
chased for the army, and those now in
use are to be sold. He thinks that in
war white horses would be especially
conspicuous because of the useof smoke-
less powder, and would afford an easy
mark for the enemy. This decision as
to white horses was made also by the
French immediately sfter the Franco
Prussian war, as 2 result of their exper-
ience therein.
The Beginning of a Great Revolution.
From the New York Evening Post.
The Wilson bill is the beginning of a
fiscal revolution which Republicans
themselves will soon recognize as
inevitable at this stage of our nation’s
development and which they will event.
ually help to complete.
Include Governor Penoyer in the Con-
signment.
From the Montesano, Wash. Economist,
‘Woe propose to send the republican
party to the reform school—some of our
friends say the insane asylum would be
than gallant Admiral Bunuay of the | better bui we hope it is not 80 far gone
' as all that,
ADs of ; has no ground: for his suit for $650.
the Union in which. there are more | ; hn ;
i —Alandslide-at Sample Station. overturned
‘Pittsburg and Western Railroad: locomotives
Spawls from the Keystore,
—Nine strikers of Apollo were on Saturday
convicted of rioting.
—The Rainbow Fire Company, of Reading
was 121 years old Friday.
—Five tons of turkeys were sold at Reading
Friday at five cents a pound:
—Vandals broke into several Erie churches
and wrecked the pews and furniture.
—The first timoer raft of the season passed
down the Susquehanna River at Fort Hunter
Friday.
—An investigation of the accounts of the
Williamsport Poor Board has been ordered by
Couneils.
—The Democratic Central Association, of
Reading, reorganized by electing Alfred Kun
kle president.
—It required 300 cars to haul away one order
of steel rails from the Pennsylvania Works, at
Steelton.
—Smallpox has appeared at Pottsville and
everybody must be vaccinated, the Board of
Health declares.
--As yet there is no trace of Henry Harding”
the Tunkhannock lawyer who disappeared
three weeks ago.
—Lawyer Paul R. Weitzel Monday had a
hearing, at Scranton, on ajcharge of fraud and
embezzlement.
—Puddlers in the Lebanon iron mills, who
are idle, say they will not return to work for
less than §3 a ton.
—A threatening tax on electric poles in
Scranton has brought down the poles in
large numbars. |
—A strike of the boy slate pickers, who
want shorter days, closed the Parker Colliery,
at Pottsville, Friday.
—A charter has been granted] to the Hall-
stead Textile Company, of Susquehanna
County ; capitol, $25,000.
—Afflicted with catalepsy, Jesse Eichel-
berger, of near Bedford, has for two months
been practically unconscious.
—The man cut to pieces by a train in Car
lisle Saturday night was Daniel Hornbraker
an undertaker, of Plainfield.
—Suit was Friday begun in Wilkesbarre by
that city to recover $51,000 from the bondsmen
of ex-Banker F. V Rockafellow.
—J. W. Maits, superintendent of a life im=
surance company, in Alegheny City, was
found dead in a Columbus (0.) hotel.
—About 200 tons of Harveyized steel armor
plate for the monitor Puritan was shipped Fri-
day from the Bethlehem Iron Works.
—The Berks County Court settled a suit be-
tween Charles Shoaber and his wife by award-
ing each the custody of two children.
—The Current Publishing Company, of Cam-
den, N. J., hag received the State’s permission
| to open a branch office in Philadelphia.
—The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
will remove the headquarters of the Sunbury
division from Williamsport to Shamokin.
—Lebanon claims to lead the cities of the
girls who are employed in manual labor.
—Robert Nelson Clark, an iron manufacturer
at Pittsburg, was overcome on Saturday by
coal gas while reading and was found dead: ;
—The young Shamokin lovers, William
Walker and Lillian Hornberger, were captured
in Williamsport: betore they had been. mar-
ried.
for the relief of the wives of miners who re-
cently were imprisoned for rioting at Mans-
field. :
—Augnst Kauffman, for 25 years an inmate
of the poorhouse, was Friday arrested inJRead-
pocket. :
—In a collision.of a passenger and a freigh
train on the Fall Brook Railroad, near Jersey
Bhore, the locomotives were smashed, but pas<
sengers eseaped injury. . oi
—Oharles Carter: has notified his- father, in
Johnstewn, that he was thrown into a:Mexican
dungeon andsis-now seeking redress. through
the United States Consul. . y
—Ex-Executive Commissioner: Farquhar
says Florist Robert Craig, of Philadelphia, re-
ceived full pay for his World's Fair work, and
slightly. injured Engineers Ross. and Deylin,
and blocked th road for 12 hours. ]
—At the hearing of J. W. Beamesderfer in
Lebanon Friday, Miss Cora Fisher said they
had been very good on thei: trip, to Altoona,
and eceupied separate rooms. This reduced.
the lover's. bail.
—The editor of the Bradford Em came near
being arrested for an Anarchist in Washing»
ton. He attempted to earry. his lunch boxs:
into the gallery of the Senate amd was called’
dewan by the door-keepen:.
—A local preacher out in.Armastrong cou niy
whose congregation was very reluctant aben
puiting anything into.the cellection basket
had am unusually good: collection the other"
night. He had grown tired: pleading with his
audience to open their hearts, explaining. to
thems the blessedness. of giving. Some one:
had stolen a hog from, ome of his members,
and before passing the: basket the preacher
said: “Now, I want. everybody in this com.
gregation to-night to, eontribute something
excepting the man, who stole Deacon. Jones’
hog.” The baskel:them went around, and: no
ene failed to giwe..
—The counties. in. Pennsylvania, with no
debt are Bradford, Butler, Cenf¢re, Clarion
Erie, Franklin, Greene, Lawrence; Lehigh
Luzerne, Northumberland, Pike, Sullivan,
Susquehanna, Vemango, Washington and
Wyoming: The tetal of all county debts in”
creased last year from $63,602,502 to. §63,892,537"
an increase of $380,034. In 1892 there wasa
decrease ofiover $21,000,000 in the total county
indebtedness. Twelve counties have increas.
ed their debs, the largest increases being
Philadelphia, $455426; Schuylkill, $194,100:
Juniata, $38,132; Perry, $19,879; Huntingdon,
$11,320, Allegheny’s indebtedness was de-
creased $26,556 and Lackawanna’s $20,000.
—The entire number of taxables in the
State inereased from 1576,149 in 1892 to, %1,662,~
o56.in 1893, an increase of 6,447. Blair county
made an increase of about 50 per cent., or
from 19,910 to 49,527 or 9,587, which is the
largest percentage of increase in the State and
shows clearly that the number of taxables
was not correctly veported in former years,
particularly in 1892. Dauphin county in.
creased from 28623 to 34,5673 or 5,950. Alle-
gheny, Berks aud Lackawanna also show
large increases, Allegheny increasing from
153,136 to, 107,255. Showing the greatest de-
creases are Butler, Clinton, Fowest, Fulton,
Huntingdon, Lycoming, McKean, Northamp-
ton, Philadelphia, Venango and Warren, the
doerease in Philadelphia holag 22,160,
State in the ratio of the number of women and
—A meeting was-held Sunday to raise fonds
ing, and had $330-cash aud a $600 note: in his '-
EE —