Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advanée
Bellefonte, Pa., June I, 1894.
P. GRAY MEEK,
EpitTor
Improve The Organization.
If the Democratic party of Pennsyl-
vania will put itselfin a better condi-
tion of organization it will have quite
& surprise in store for its hilarious and
_over confident enemy. There was nev-
er a more cock-gure party than are the
Republicans of this State at this time,
They have a right to expect to carry
the State, but the unmeaning result of
last fall and spring elections, with ab-
normally big majorities, has so intox-
icated them that nothing short of a
majority running into the hundreds of
thousands next November is taken in-
to their most moderate calculations.
There is every probability that they
will find that they have fooled them.
selves. An improvement in business
about the close of the summer will
subtract considerably from the sum
total of their calculation. It is like-
ly to koock off a few thousands
from the anticipated majority. Fur-
thermore, many who last November
and February were fooled into voting
the Republican ticket by the calamity
howl will have time to see what a
consunmate fraud it was and how they
were deceived, a discovery which will
be far from putting them in good hu-
mor with the calamity howlers, and
will have the effect of making them
vote the other way. This will slice off
a few more thousands from the big
majority that is so hopefully looked
for. ;
Many who honestly believed that
the business revulsion was brought on
by the movement of the Democrats to
reduce the tariff will find themselves
undeceived when they see business re”
suming its accustomed vigor under a
reduced Democratic tariff, and there
will also be many who will have been
disgusted with the evident intention of
the Republican Senators to prolong
the tariff uncertainty, and the conse-
quent business depression, for the ef-
fect it would have on the voting pop-
ulation. A revulsion of feeling result-
ing from such convictions will knock
off some more thousands from the
mammoth majcrity expected by the
Republicans,
A law of nature as well as of poli-
tics always requires an ebb after a
flood tide. The Republicans had their
flood last fall and this spring, and
there are causes that will bring the
ebb in their tide next November. All
that is required of the Democrats to
make the reaction a big one is to im-
prove their organization and solidify
their force. With a united party, a
vigorous canvass, and a thorough en-
lightenment of the people as to what
caused the business slump—a cam-
paign of education, assisted by the ob-
ject lesson of prosperity reviving under
a Democratic tariff, and our word for
it, the Republican party of Pennsyl-
vania will come out of the fight
at least with ite comb cut, if nat with
the entire loss of its feathers. The
thorough stripping of its gay plumage
will be done later on.
A Small Statesman.
The public injury and disadvantage
of sending men of small calibre to the
United States Senate is exhibited in
the case of M. S. Quay. A mere ma-
. chine politician, with no ideas above
the interests of a combination of ring-
sters, he is incapable of comprehending
matters of great public interest and un-
able to act the part of broad and intel-
ligent statesmanship. His course in
the Senate in regard to the tariff is the
most narrow and contemptible parti.
san pettifogging. Of all the Republi-
can obstructionists who are endeavor-
ing to stop the course of legislation on
that subject his efforts show the small-
est capacity, and the expedients he re-
sorts to are evidence of his meagre re-
sources. His obstructive movements
have been really childish, inclading his
protracted speech, written by some one
for him in serial numbers, and deliver-
ered in inetallments for the purpose of
delaying action on the tariff bill while
the business of the country lies pros-
trate in consequence of the filibuatering
to which he is contributing his foolish
share. There was never such a dis-
play in Congress of how mischievous a |
little mind could make itself when it
was given the opportunity.
While this small character, whom a
boss-ridden and misguided majority of
a great State has put in a Senatorial
position, is doing his utmost to prolong
the uncertainty in regard to the pas-
sage of the tariff bill, he embarrasses
the business of the State he represents
and stands in the way of the resump-
tion of its industries. This is doue to
prevent a revival of business before the
next congressional election. Such
statesmanship befits a man of Qu ax’s
calibre, but eventually he will find that
it is even poor politics,
Teller Shames The Obstructionists,
While the majority of the Republi-
can Senatorsare digging the grave of
their party by factiously delaying the
passage of the tariff bill for a partisan
object, Senator TELLER, who has more
sense, honesty and patriotism than
most of his Republican colleagues,
takes a position which should shame
the obstructionists, as it exposes the
hypocrisy and dishonesty of the course
they are pursuing.
They claim that this opposition is for
the purpose of maintaining adequate
protection to industry. Senator TEeL-
LER tells them that this is not their ob-
ject. In a speech he made in the Sen-
ate last week, he virtually reprcved
them for their obstruction when he
said :
“In my opinion the bill is ample for the
protection of American industries. I believe
that the demands of the Government for re-
venue are so great that a bill laid for revenue
only, if wisely laid, will, on four-fifths of all
the articles it touches, give to the American
people ample protection against foreign cheap
labor.”
This is exactly what the WiLsoN
bill will give the American people,
while 1t furnishes the needed revenue,
the duties it imposes are more than
enough for the protection of industry.
There is not a Republican Senator that
does not know this. Thereis not one
of them’ who opposes the bill for
any other than a political reason.
Senator Teller said farther: ‘‘Let us address
ourselves to the question like men charged
with a duty, on the result of which the ‘inter-
ests of seventy millions of people are depen,
dent. And if, when we get through, the bill
is not what we want, let us go to the peopl®
and submit the qustion in that great forum
where right will ultimately prevail.”
This is the expression of a patriot
and a man of sense. They are also
the words of a wise politician. Com-
pare them with the conduct of the
miserable partisan who misrepresents
Pennsylvania in the Senate, and who
goes to the utmost limit of his meager
ability in helping to delay a bill upon
passage of which thesuspended indus-
tries are waiting to resume operations.
Compare Senator TELLER's expression
with the wholly irrelevant and iacen-
diary deliverance of the Republican
State convention which urges senator-
ial opposition to be continued in order
that the restoration of business pros-
perity may be retarded, and votes may
be influenced by misrepresentation at
the coming election.
It Could Have Been Dispensed With.
The high water last week came near
preventing the delegates to the Repub:
lican State convention’ from getting to-
gether. But if the interposition of the
floods had entirely prevented the as-
semblage, what difference would it
have made so far as providing the party
with a State ticket was concerned ?
The candidates had already been se-
lected, and it hardly required a con-
vention to inform the Republicans
who the men were they would have to
support with their ballots.
It is a great convenience for a party
to bave a boss who saves it the trouble
of selecting its candidates. Quay had
the slate fixed, and if the flood had en-
tirely prevented the convention from
assembling, or if the raging waters had
drowned every delegate before he
reached Harrisburg, the party would
not have been deprived of the ticket
which the boss had determined it
should vote for. The convention was
a perfunctory piece of machinery that
could have been dispensed with.
A Specimen Character.
The recent death of Joax L. HiLL,
the leading character of the Philadel-
phia public buidling commission,
closed the career of an individual who
was a striking illustration of what ma-
chine municipal government, such ae
dominates most of the large cities, can
produce.
The deceased came from an humble
origin, but he had a natural talent for
machine politics and by industriously
and ekilfully manipulating the oppor-
tunities that present themselves to ac-
tive and enterprising ward politicians,
be attained a high position among the
managers of the municipal machinery.
Starting with an humble clerkship in
one of the departments of the city gov-
ernment, he eventually struck a rich
bonanza in the collectorship of Delin.
quent Taxes, the emoluments of which
in two years time are said to have
netted him $700,000.
He subsequently became a member
of the the public buildings commis:
sion which has inflicted the expendi-
ture of more than $17,000,000 on the
city in the construction of a public
hnilding which will require a number
of millions more to complete it.
What distinguished the connection of
the deceased with the commission was
the dominating power he exercised
over it, and his success in continuing
the abuses connected with its admia-
stration. When the people of Phila-
delphia, almost to a man, rose up
against the commission and demand-
ed its abolishment by the Legislature,
HiLv's supreme gall sustained him in
fighting the popular will at Harrisburg,
and although eventually defeated ia
that quarter he succeeded in getting a
questionable decision from the Su- |
preme Court which has indefinitely im-
posed the public building incubus up-
on the long suffering people of Phila
delphia.
Jorn L. HiLL, recently deceased,
was truly a rare specimen ‘of what the
modern system of municipal govern:
ment can produce in the way of official
character,
The Sugar Schedule.
The Sugar Schedule inserted in the
WiLson tariff bill by the action of the
Senate, has given occasion for the
scandal mongers to get in their work,
and has surrounded the proceedings in
that body with an appearance of cor-
ruption. The bill originally proposed
to put sugar on the free list, where it
should be, it the principles of tariff re
form are to be duly considered ; but
the sugar duty insisted upon by the
Senate gives the appearance of undue
interest in the sugar trust on
the part of certain Democratic
Senators. It is not only reported that
some of these Senators have speculated
in the shares of the trust, utilizing
their knowledge of the intended in-
crease of duty, but it is also asserted
that corrupt means have been directly
used by the trust managers to secure
this obnoxious Sugar Schedule.
It is indeed most unfortunate for the
cause of tariff reform that the inten,
tion to put sugar on the free list, as at
first proposed by those who formulated
the tariff bill, has been departed from
by the action of the Senate. Wheth-
er corrupt means have been used or
not, ground is given for such assertion
and there is an appearance of catering
td the interests of the trust. Another
illustration is furnished of the fact that
the tariff cannot be handled without
opening the door to political demoral-
ization and corruption. What is most
to be regretted in connection with the
sugar duty is the abandonment of the
principle that things which are among
the everyday necessiies of the people
should not be subjected to taxation,
The Republicans have taken advan-
tage of this appearance of partiality
for the sugar trust in the Senatorial
amendments to the WiLson bill by
asserting that they have been made in
comformity with a bargain with the
trust in the last Presidential cam-
paign. A lie, cut out of the wholg
cloth, has been put in circulation to
the effect that the sugar interests con-
tributed to the Democratic campaign
fund upon the understanding that
there would be Democratic tariff legis-
lation in its favor. Nothiog could be
more idiotic than such an assertion®
McKiNLey had done more for the
trust than it could expect from the
Democrats. His tarift gave it the ad-
vantage of its raw material absolutely
free, while imposing a duty, where a
duty would do it the most good, on
manufactured sugar. This arrange-
ment was so manifestly advantageous
to the trust that none but an idiot
would believe that it was so anxious to
have it changed as to contribute money
tothe campaign of the Democratic party
that was insisting upon radical tariff
changes. The Senate Schedule, as
now proposed, puts but half the duty
on manufactured sugar that is provided
by the MoKiNLeY tariff, and conse
quently diminishes the trust's advan-
tage to that extent. It also imposes
for the purpose of revenue, a duty on
raw sugar, which material the trusg
has the advantage of. free of duty, un-
der the McKINLEY arrangement. And
yet there are Republican newspapers
fat-witted enough to represent that the
sugar trust contributed mouey to the
Democratic campaign fund, to bring
about such a diminution of its tariff
benefit.
EE
Krauskopf Can’t Eater Russia,
‘WasHaINgTON, D. C.,, May 28.—Re-
solutions to be submitted by Represen-
tative Raynor to the house to-morrow
will recite that the Russian government
has denied admission to that country of
Rabbi Krauskopf, an eminent Hebrew
ecclesiactic of Philadelphia, and that
this action by Russia is a breach of the
treaty which gives American citizens
right to enter, sojourn and travel in
Russia the same as Russian citizens ‘are
admitted to this country. The resclu-
tion will direct ihe state department to
make a demand on Russia for the full
observance of the treaty and in case of a
refusal will direct the severance of all
treaty relations with Russia.
Dr. Krauskopf’s intended voyage was
for the purpose of visiting the nine pro-
vinces within which Russia restricts the
Jews and to ameliorate their condition.
He bas visited President Cleveland, Sec-
retary Gresham and other officials re-
cently and it was arranged that Sacre-
tary Gresham should notify the Russian
government of Dr. Krauskopf’s proposed |
visit and ascertain if there was any ob-
jection. The response came quickly that
the czar’s officials could not permit the
visit. Mr. Raynor now presents the
question of the treaty right of an Amen-
‘the strikes.
Operators and Miners.
There Must be a Settlement Among Them Before
Long.— Will Not Wait Much Longer—The
. Operators Are Determined That if the Old
Men Do Not Go to Work Before the End of
the Week New Men Will Be Employed.—The
News From Cripple Creek.
PirrsBurGH, May 20.—The coal op-
erators of the Pittsburgh district will
not wait longer than the end of the
week for a settlement of some kind
with the mivers. If there is no agree-
ment by that time a start to work will
be made at some of the mines, proba-
bly in the Pan Handle district.
The first decisive action was taken
to-day at a general meeting of the
operators. The action of the meeting
on May 21 was rescinded, and a com-
mittee of ten was appointed to act for
the entire district. There was a with-
drawal of the agreement to pay more
than sixty five cents per ton in order
to allow the new committee the fullest
liberty. The majority and minority
reports of the meeeting of the ways
and means committee of fifteen was
presented and the . committee dis
charged.
The operators are auxious to resume
work at an early day. The authority
of the old committee was limited to
suggesting some plan of operation. In
giving every power to the new commit-
tee there goes the suggestion that it be-
gin active work at once. There will
be no meeting until the result of the
conference in Illinois is known. If
that is satisfactory to the miners’ offi-
cials or to another national conven-
tion the settlement will be simply a
matter of form.
If there is no settlement in Illinois
the local committee will attempt to
make terms with the miners of this
district. If no agreement is reached
the committee will begin the opera-
tion of the mines with new men.
Members of the committee said yester-
day that there is no doubt that coal
will be mined in the Pittsburgh district
next week if there is no settlement in
the Illinois fields.
Private information received from
Illinois by the Pittsburgh operators in-
dicates that the conference there to-
morrow will reach a settlement. The
miners’ officials are ot the same opin-
ion from intelligence from President
John McBride.
THEY FEAR BLOODSHED.
PriLapeLrHIA, May 29.—A majori-
ty of the soft coal operators of Central
Penusylvania seem to be congregated
in this city at present. Most of them
to-day spent the time in visiting the of-
fices of the different bituminous mines
and exchanging views upon the strike
situation and the result of yesterday's
conference. With many ofthem there
is a hope that the visit of Mr. Berwind
and Mr. Scott to Harrisburg to confer
with Governor Pattison upon the sit-
uation may result in some measures of
mediation or arbitration. Others
again take a gloomy view of the situa-
tion and reluctantly admit that they
fear blood will be shed before the strike
will be settled. If the committee of
three authorized by the conference yes-
terday to devise a plan of action for
the resumption of work has been ap-
pointed, their names were not made
public to-day. Itis probable, however
that Mr. Berwind, the chairman of the
meeting, did not appoint the commit-
tee, but is awaiting the result of his
meeting with the governor before he
does go. \
President McBride's plan of cam-
paign in not allowing the miners ot
any one section to return to work
where an advance had been offered, is
considered by the operators to be the
weak spot in the mine union leaders’
otherwise admirably conducted strug-
gle. The operators contend that this
action ot McBride's will inevitably
cause the collapse of the strike. They
argue that the conditions are entirely
different in the various states where
bituminus coal is mined, and that a
resumption of work in Ohio, for in-
stance, would not effect the Pennsyl-
vania market,
ANTHRACITE COAL IN ADVANCES IN
PRICE.
New York, May 29.—The anthra-
cite coal agents at their meeting to-day
advanced prices 15 cents per ton to
$3.65 for broken and egg, and 25 cents
per ton to $4 for stove and chestnut,
These prices are 35 cents per ton lower
than last year on broken and egg, and
-25 cents per ton on stove and chestnut.
The next meeting will be held June
15. The output for June was fixed at
60 per cent. ot the capacity of 2,700,
000 tone. In June, 1893, the produc-
tion was 4,115,632 tons, and 1892,
3,821,807 tons. Western prices were
advanced 25 cents per ton for broken,
egg, stove and chestnut. - :
Summer School.
For these wishing employment, the
months of June and July sare the most
desirable of the whole year to enter
Palm's business College, 1708-10 Chest-
nut St., Philadelphia, as they will
graduate in the Fall when business is
at its best and situations the most plenti-
ful. Palm’s College gives a complete
business education at the minimum of
cost and time, and assists its gradu-
ates in securing situations. Handsome
circulars can be had for the asking.
Coal from Canada.
St. Jon, N. B.,, May 29.—After
considerable talk the experiment bas at
last been inaugurated of shipping coal
to the United States. While for a year
or two the Spring Hill mines have been
considering the matter, nothing definite
was decided on until reports reached
here of a coal famine in consequence of
Yesterday the ocean tug
Spring Hill sterted from Parrsboro with
barges Nos. 1and 5 loaded with coal
for Boston.
Nominated tor Congress.
ArLaNTIC, Ia, May 29.—General
Weaver was nominated for congress
can to go to Russia without reference to
his religion or former nationality.
this afternoon.
Republican Favoritism Has Caused
it All.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The interesting, graphic and, we be-
lieve, altogether reliable account given
in “the Post” of Sunday from a corres- |
pondent on the spot who has made care-
ful investigation of the condition of the
coal miners in the Connellsville region
should be studied by sll who desire to
reach correct conclusions and believe
there 1s a possibility of two sides of the
question. The condition of the miners
under the system of extortion, intimida-
tion and oppression that prevails io some
of the mining districts is simply awful,
and the people should take 1t into ac-
count in forming their judgment. There
is no attempt made by the correspon-
dent to excuse or justify violence or in-
timidation by the miners. Denunciation
of that is in everybody’s mouth. It is
very cheap for the most part. But it is
right the miners’ side should be under-
stood. To be sure they are largely igno-
rant foreigners, without knowledge of
the language or of American laws or
customs. But who introduced this class
into the Connellsville region to throw
oul a better class of workmen, more in-
telligent and with some knowledge of
their responsibility to the law ? Who |
but the operators, mainly corporations ?
The worst conditions atiributed to the
laborers of the “black country” in Eng-
land do not compare with the facts set
forth by our correspondent as to the
condition of the foreign miners in the
coke region. It makes the system of
Africanslavery, as it once existed in this
country, appear mild and lenient in com-
parison. The store-order system, as it
is practiced in the coke regions, for the
spoliation of the miners and the enrich-
ment of the operators, is either in direct
violation of law or carried on by coward-
ly subterfuges. Think of men working
two or three weeks and receiving a tew
cents or at most a dollar in cash, and
the balance of their wages in truck they
are forced to purchase from the pluck-
me store at the price of their employ-
ment. It is infamous. It is a disgrace to
the State and a dishonor to humanity
and christianity.
We hope Governor Pattison will go
to the coke region as he did to the Clear-
field region. There is work for him to do
there on behalf of the down trodden and
oppressed, who are the more objects of
pity because of their ignorance. A thor-
ough investigation should be instituted,
and the basis, laid for future legislation
that will end the extortions and oppres-
sions of the soulless corporations, par-
ticularly as to these swindling trade
stores. While the lawless among the
migers must be punished, let the lights
be turned on as to the rapacity and eva-
sion of law by the operators.
Democratic State Convention.
Headquarters Democratic State Central Commit-
tee, 16 South Market Square, Harrisburg, May
21, 1894.—To the Democratic Electors of Penn-
sylvania.
In accordance with the resolution
passed at a meeting of the Democratic
State executive committee at its confer-
ence on April 16, 1894, I hereby give
notice that the Democrats, by their ST
chosen representatives, will meet in sfate
convention, in Harrisburg, on ednes-
day, June 27, 1894, at 10 o’clock a. m.,
for the purpose of placing in nomination
candidates for the offices of Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Representatives-
at-Large in Congress, (two to be nomi-
nated,) Auditor General and Secretary
of Internal Affairs, and for the trans-
action of such other business as may be
presented.
In accordance with rule 6, section 1,
unanimously approved by the state con-
vention, September 19, 1893, the repre-
sentation shall consist of representative
delegates, one for each one thousand
votes cast at the last preceding Presi-
dential election, or for a fraction of such
vote amounting to five hundred or more,
in the respective representative districts,
provided that each representative dis-
trict shall have at least one delegate,
The representation cf Centre county
will be by five delegates in the coming
state convention, based on the Presi-
dential vote of 1892. :
Special notice is directed to rule 6,
section 5, concerning contests : ‘Every
person desiring to contest the seat of a
Delegate shall be required to give notice,
in writing, of such intention, together
with the grounds of contest,to the Chair
man of the Democratic State Central
Committee and to the person whose sat
he desires to contest, within ten days of
the date upon which the election was
held,” &e.
JAMES A. STRANAHAN,
Chairman Democratic State Central
Committe.
OrLiver R. SNYDER,
Secretary Democratic State Central
Committee.
Strikers Sentenced.
Kittanning, Pa., May 29.—The
Apollo strikers, convicted last March of
unlawful assembly and assault and bat-
tery, were sentenced to-day by Judge
Savidge. Ben Fiscus, Samuel Wilson,
Addison Wienel and David Kelly re-
ceived $30 fine, costs of prosecution and
thirty days in jail ; Charles Kirkwood,
$20 fine, costs and fifteen days; Earl
Remaley, John Wilson, William Burns
and Jesse Walter escaped with $30 and
costs. All are members of the Amal-
gamated association.
——Read the WATCHMAN.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS. |
Norice.— On account of the scarcity
of coal the Bellefonte Central R. R. Co.
will temporarily withdraw, from June
1st to June 9th inclusive, train No. 1,
leaving Bellefonte at 6:30 A. M. and
train No. 2, leaving State College at
8:10 A. M. From June 1st to June 9th
train No. 8, will leave State College 1:15
P. M. instead of 2:50 P. M. Waddles
1:48 P. M. ; Hunters Park 1:58 P. M. ;
Morris 2:06 P. M. arriving Bellefonte
2:15. During ‘‘commencement,’’ as per
special schedule. F. H, THoMAS,
May 30th, 1894 Superintendent.
from the ninth district by the populist
e=Do you read the WATCHMAN,
Tue MoxTH oF Ross, cr JUNE
| WEATHER BY MR. FostEr.— Weath-
er Prognosicator Foster has this to
say of the weather for the latter part of
| this month and for June :
My last builelin gave forecasts of the
storm wave to cross the continent from
the 27th to 31st, and the next will reach
| the Pacific cost about the 81st, cross the
western mountains by the close of June
i 1, the great central valleys from June
2 to 4, and the eastern states about the
5th. :
Very warm weather will precede this
disturbance and the storm center will ia-
crease in force in and east of the great
central valleys from June 2 to 5.
The second disturbance of June will
reach the Pacific cost about the 6th,
cross the western mountains by the close
‘of Tth,the great central valleys from 8th
to 10th, and the eastern states about the
11th. It will attain its greatest force east
of the Mississippi about the 10th.
Warm waves will cross the western
mountains about May 31 ard June 6,
the great central valleys about June 2
and 9, and the eastern states about 4th
and 10th. Cocl waves will cross the west-
ern mountains about June 3 and 9, the
great central valleys about 5th and 11th,
and eastern states about 7th and 13th.
The temperature of June will be near
the general average, the first half of the
month warmest. Rainfall will be above
the average, except immediately east of
the Rocky mountains. ;
About the 31 or 4th is the danger
period. Earthquakes are caused by the
same forces that cause tornadoes. These
pent-up forces sometimes find vent
through an earthquake, and sometimes
throngh the tornado. Tornadoes and
earthquakes usually occur at the same
time, but when the earthquake is great
the tornado is small and weak,and when
the latter is great the force of the earth-
quake is lessened. Electricity is the
force; the earth becomes overcharged,
or positively charged, and the only relief
is by electricity passing off into space.
This must occur through low barome-
ters, which are of all grades, from a
gentle disturbance to the terrible tor-
nado.
This means of escape from the earth
is called convection, because the electri-
cal forces are conveyed away onthe par-
ticles of matter, not continuous, that
compose the storm centre. Where elec-
tricity is conducted through continuous
matter, as & copper wire, it is called con-
duction.
Relief by earthquake is neither con-
vection nor conduction, but is similar
to lightning between clouds, where the
electricity tears its way through mat-
ter, destroying the medium rather. than
being conveyed on or conducted by it.
The disturbance of June 8 or 4 is ex-
pected to find relief through a great
earthquake in some earthquake country
rather than by tornado in some tornado
country.
Pine Grove Mentions.
The wet weather still continues. The
recent heavy rains have caused so much
damage that much corn has had to be re-
planted and the low lands are yet nearly
all under water. 3
The venerable J. J. Goheen who several
his collar bone broken is getting along as
years.
complication of diseases, mostly contract-
ed during his military service in the re-
bellion and duringold Tecumpseh’s march
to the sea.
Mrs. Wm. Garner, who we announced
last week as being eritically ill, is, we are
glad to say, much better. We hope a
collapse will not soon follow and that
her life will be spared to her family yet
many years,
Ticket agent Dreese of Lemont accom-
pained by ‘his family Sundayed with J. B.
Ard, and as a matter of conrse there was
no railroad extension issue advocated,
but the road will be completed just the
same by the first of 1876.
Our old veteran friend, E T. Livingston
is much elated over his increased pension
voucher beside a snug sum of back pen-
sion, which should have been forth com
ing under the Harrison administration.
Ed is almost persuaded to be a Democrat
hereafter. :
The entertainment held in the lecture
room of the Lutheran church at Pine Hall
was quite well attended and their treas”
ury was handsomely replenished and
everybody got the worth of their money.
The supper ice cream and strawberries
were delicious to say the least.
Mrs. Alex. Shanon who for the'last two
months has been visiting Centre county
friends and relatives generally and her
aged and invalid father, Amos Royer,
particularly, started for her home in the
Sunflower State last week, she is still the
same jovial pleasant woman as of yore»
and looks as though that climate agreed
with her. .
On the 29th inst., a large delegation from
this section attended the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the marriage of G. Y. Meek
and wife which was celebrated at their
home in Tyrone. The old neighbors and
friends had a goodly mind to go on horse
back, in memory of the wedding trip that
was taken in that manner a quarter of
a century ago; but as the weather did
not smile its approval on anything so dar-
ing and o'd fashioned, they went in the
regulation manner i.e. by way of steam
cars.
MEMORIAL DAY. — As previously an.
| nounced the union services were held
in the Lutlieran church which was filled
to overflowing Sunday morning with a
good number of Campbell Post 272 G. A-
R.and a large congregation of the public
weeks ago was throw from the wagon and’
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well as could be expected for one of his
Ex-merchant D. L. Erb is laid up with a