juan.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The matter of the kind of a dollar
doesn’t worry the American workman one |
sixteenth as much as the matter of where
to earn it.
—The Chicago University club presented
McKINLEY with a life sized bust of him-
self, on Wednesday. The American peo-
ple will bust him right in November.
—Only two years ago the Republican
platform in Pennsylvania demanded a cur-
rency that would amount to $40 per capita.
To-day the same fellows are howling
against what they assert will be a danger-
ous inflation.
@ Think of it. The past year has been
the largest ever known in the history of
American exports. There was 25 per cent.
more exports made to foreign countries
during the year that closed, June 30th,
1896, than has ever been known hefore.
—The cry that the Democrats want dis-
honest money is all damphoolishness.
There are more Democrats in the United
States to-day and there always have been
more than there are of any other party, so
if they want a ‘‘dishonest’’ money wouldn’t
they be the sufferers.
—Why do we need a tariff? We are
losers every day by such a prohibitive
measure. Our export trade is growing so
rapidly that it is a great injustice to have
it hampered in any way. During the year
just closed we exported 45 per cent. more
products than we did in 1893, the best year
under the McKINLEY tariff.
—Mr. SINGERLY has decided, at last,
that should he be chosen a presidential
elector for Pennsylvania it would be his
duty to vote for BRFAN and SEWALL.
Strange state of affairs, isn’t it, that makes
a statement necessary from a Democratic
elector as to whether he will vote for the
Democratic nominees, if elected.
—DMr. THOMAS BRACKETT REED opened
his congressional campaign in Maine, on
Wednesday, by completely ignoring Mc-
KINLEY by talking as if there was never |
such a thing as a tariff heard of, so far as |
it will be connected with the Gn in |
the fall. You know MCKINLEY Says it is
his tariff and not the currency that is the |
issue. |
—Pittsburg’s embezzling city attorney,
Maj. War. C. MORELAND, and his assistant, |
W. H. Horusk, got salty sentences, on
Wednesday. The former was fined $26,-
652 and sent to the penitentiary for three
years. The latter was given two years and
four months. Such lessons are pretty
severe but they are needful in the cause of
honest government everywhere.
—Dr. Jim might well be called “Jim
the Penman’’ now. He was sentenced to
fifteen months imprisonment, in London,
on Tuesday. It will be remembered that
he was the individual who thought Presi-
dent KRUGER, of the Transvaal, didn’t
know enough to run that south. African
State himself and, with a lot of other Eng-
ligh adventurists, undertook to capture it
for themselves.
—What of Michigan ? Instead of there
having a great split between the Democrat- |
ic factions in that State every member of
the state central committee has declared
that he will work for the Chicago ticket
and the chairman, who led the gold faction
at Chicago, has recalled his resignation and
announces that he is for silver and wants
to start at once on a hammer and tongs,
campaign.
—We haven’t had an opportunity to find
out yet, but we imagine that Governor
HASTINGS is for free silver. In fact he
can’t very well help supporting BRYAN and
SEWALL, if he is as consistent as a Governor
ought to be. It was only two years ago
that he stumped Pennsylvania for-himself
"on a platform that demanded a currency of
$40 per capita. Think of it, the wildest
dreams of the Silverite do not crave such
an expansion of the currency as our Repub-
lican Governor declared for, only two years
ago.
—Prior to 1891, when calico CHARLEY
FOSTER began redeeming silver treasury
notes in gold, there had heen only $34,-
000,000 in gold withdrawn from the treas-
ury during thirteen years. During the
four years that followed there were $351,-
000,000 in gold drained out. Had he not
distorted the law for the benefit of the
banking syndicates the gold reserve would
never have needed to be replenished by
selling bonds that will cost the people
$§500,000,000 by the time they are re-
deemed.
—A lot of ignoramuses are cackling about,
saying that as soon as the SHERMAN act
began flooding the country with silver the
oppression became so great that the people
demanded an extra session of Congress to
repeal that act. It was’nt that there was
too much silver, oh no! The trouble lay
in the fact that the government was forced
to buy four and one-half million ounces
every month but did not have the money
to buy it with. Then after it had it bought
there was no way for the people to get it,
as is evidenced in the fact that millions of
silver dollars are still stored up in the pub- |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 31, 1896.
53 Cent Dollars.
What bosh it is for people to talk about
a ‘53 cent dollar!”
And this is the basis of all you hear from
those interested in the success of the
money-lenders. ‘‘Do you want to be paid
in a 53 cent dollar 2’ Do you want to buy
with a 53 cent dollar?’ “Do you favor a
dishonest currency,” etc. This is the bur-
den of their song.
Now the fact is there can be no sucha
thing as a 53 cent dollar. Speculators in
money may try to make it that by at-
tempts to discredit it but when the govern-
ment puts its stamp upon a piece of metal
—either silver or gold—and declares that it
shall be accepted as a dollar for the pay-
ment of debts, it is a dollar and just as
good a dollar as any honest man wants. ~
There is but 53 cents worth of silver,
measured by the value of coffee pots and
tea spoons, in the silver dollars that are in
circulation to-day.
But coffee-pots and teaspoons are not
money. Silver dollars are.
Why are the silver dollars, alleged to be
worth only 53 cents, accepted as a dollar
and worth, for the purposes for which they
were made, just as much as the 100 cents
worth of gold said to be in a gold dollar ?
They buy just as much of anything you
want as a gold dollar.
They pay just as much taxes or debts as
a gold dollar.
If worth but 53 cents why do, “thy do
this ?
Probably you will say that they are re-
deemable in gold. Thisis the impression
that all enemies of silver want to leave,
| BUT THEY ARE NOT.
They never were redeemable in gold.
| There never was such legislation, or such a
condition of affairs, that you could demand
gold for them and force its payment. They
never could be redeemed in gold. Thereis
| not one half enough of gold in the country
! to redeem the paper money thatis out, and
any talk of redeeming silver in gold in ad-
dition to our paper money is the most un-
adulterated nonsense.
When this financial question was brought
prominently to the front, a few years ago, |
those in charge of the treasury thought the
only way to maintain the parity of the
gold and silver dollar, was to be willing to
exchange the one for the other whenever
asked. This was done for a short time,
and was found to be impracticable. The
| exchange of gold for silver, at the sub-
treasuries was discontinued months ago,
and then it was discovered that the parity
or purchasing power was not affected.
The silver dollar standing on its own foot-
ing, dependent on nothing hehind it, was
just as valuable, for the purposes for which
| it was made, as is the gold dollar.
It is so to-day as any one knows who
| goes to make a purchase or to pay a debt.
And any silver dollar that goes over a
counter or into a till, every time it changes
hands, gives the lie to this ‘‘hosh’’ about 53
cent dollars.
A Consistent Combination.
That the Populists should be giving as-
sistance to the Democratic nominee in this
national contest is represented by the Re-
publican organs as a scandalous matter.
They speak of it as if it were a reproach
that should cover the Democracy with
shame. Butis it a greater discredit for
Democrats to co-operate with the Populists
than it was for the Republicans to fuse
with the Populistic vote in nearly all the
southern States whenever they had a
chance to make such an alliance ? A fu-
sion of that kind has been made in almost
every southern State, particularly in North
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama,
and Virginia, and was approved of as a
very proper combination by the Republi-
can lenders. The hypocritical old party,
which sees a great wrong in Democrats and
Populists acting together, would fuse with
anything that would promise a political ad-
vantage, without regard to the inconsisten-
cy i, 3 combination,
The Populists are a numerous class of
citizens who are moved by a conviction
that the policies that have long prevailed
in the government Yequire a change. They
belong largely to the agricultural popula-
tion who more than any other class have ex-
perienced the injury of Republican meth-
ods, and have suffered from the subser-
vience of the Republican party to favored
interests and the money power. Their ob-
ject is to bring about a change that will
relieve the country from the evils of bad
administration in financial, fiscal and mon-
etary matters. Though they may differ
| from the Democrats in the methods em-
ployed tc secure the object which they
believe will promote their own good and
the general welfare, they entertain, in com-
| mon with the Democrats, the conviction
lic vaults. But with free coinage the gov- | | that the highest interest of the country-the
ernment would not need to purchase any | | interest of the masses—requires the defeat
silver at all, thus there would be no drain | of Hd that serves ie rgd bower
on the treasury, as there was under the’ |and the trusts hy a constricted currency
|
SHERMAN act, and every dollar that would | jas hy tariff. ort aaa
a 'pon this common ground renera
be minted would go into immediate circu- | | public welfare the Democrats and Populists.
lation, which was not the case under the | can consistently act together in a national
SHERMAN act. contest.
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The General Effect of Prosperous Farme-
ing.
The New York World, a leader among
the Democratic journals that support the
gold standard, says that the free coinage of
silver would ‘‘help the farmer by raising
the price of wheat, corn, hay, pork, beef,
chickens, eggs, potatoes, butter etc.,
but how would it help the laborer,
artisan or mechanic ?”’
Admitting that it would help the farm-
ers iS a great admission in behalf of the sil-
ver policy. They constitwte the larger
portion of the population of this country ;
the interest involved in their business is
much larger than any other. But itis a
fact that this large population and this vast
interest have not been prosperous for some
years past. The chief cause of this lack of
prosperity is to be found in the circum-
stances that the farmers have been getting
prices for their products that have scarcely
more than paid expenses. If, as the New
York World admits, the restoration of sil-
ver to its old place in the currency will in-
sure better prices for farm products, there
could not be a more satisfactory solution of
‘the question as to the manner in which free
silver would generally benefit the country.
It would not be possible for so large a
population to be prosperous without other
classes sharing its prosperity. Much of the
present depression in all departments of
business comes from the depressed condi-
tion of agriculture, and therefore it may be
logically assumed that anything that will
put the farmers in better condition by giv-
ing them better prices for their products
will tend to remove the depression that is
largely due to poorly paid farming. The
World admits that the free coinage of sil-
ver would have this enhancing effect on
agricultural prices.
But that paper asks how this would help
the laborer, artisan or mechanic? This
question can be best answered by calling
attention to the fact that the condition of
laboring men and mechanics has always
been better when the farmers were getting
high prices for their products. Monetary
experts may indulge in fine spun theories
about standards of value, yet past experi-
ence has shown that wheat was never over
a dollar a bushel, with the price of other
farm products in proportion, without hav-
ing a corresponding effect in benefiting
other departments of business and other
branches of labor.
Improve the financial condition of the
farmers by ‘‘raising the price of wheat,
corn, hay, pork, beef, chickens, eggs, pota-
toes, butter, etc.,’”” which the New York
World admits would be done by the free
coinage of silver, and the laborers, artisans
and mechanics can confidently trust that
they will receive a corresponding benefit.
Arrogant and Abusive.
The arrogance of those who support the
McKINLEY abominations is trying to the
patience of fair and sensible people. Noth-
ing could exceed the presumption with
which they claim the highest motives and
morals for the party that is devoted to the
interest of the money changers and tariff
spoliators, while they denounce those who
speak and act. for the common interests. of
the masses as dangerous characters whose
designs are no better than those of commun-
ists and anarchists.
This arrogant assumption is manifested
in the general allusions of the MCKINLEY-
ites to the popular leaders, whose purpose
is to remove the unfair and oppressive
features from our system of currency that
expose the general mass of the people to
the extortions of Wall street bank syndi-
cates and gold speculators. Every vil-
lainous term that can be invented is ap-
plied to those who demand a fair and im-
partial currency, and in addition to this
general abuse the candidate whom the
Democracy have placed on ‘a free silver
platform is made the object of personal vi-
tuperation. A prominent New York Mc-
KINLEY paper even berates his pastor, the
Rev. W. K. WILLIAMS, of the first Presby-
terian church of Lincoln, for having spok-
en from his pulpit in praise of Mr. BRYAN
as a citizen and a Christian. This sniffling
organ says that reverend WILLIAMS ‘‘has
a perfect right to talk for BRYAN on week-
days, but the house of God and the day de-
voted to worship should be sacri
This is unparalleled impudence as com-
‘ing from a party which has never consid-
ered the Sabbath or the house of God dese-
crated by sermons preached in the interest
of Republicanism, and which has encour-
aged politics in the pulpit to a scandalous
extent.
The remarks of Rev. WILLIAMS, which
this hypocritical organ objects to, were a
tribute from the pulpit to the high per-
sonal character of one of the church members
upon whom a great public honor had been
conferred. The occasion and the circum-
stances justified the encomium ; but we
suppose that if it had been a pulpit ha-
rangue in support of the Republican party,
of which there have been so many in-
stances, the iWJew York organ would have
considered it a highly proper Sabbath pro-
ceeding and entirely appropriate to the
house of God.
Democratic Diviseets in the State.
There was reason to expect that the
Democratic societies of Pennsylvania would
give a right expression in regard to the
duty of Democrats in this presidential cam-
paign, and the tone of the executive com-
mittee of that association of societies, at its
meeting in Harrisburg, last Saturday, did
not disappoint that expectation.
The meeting was unusually full, there
being 20 of the 21 members in attendance,
and coming as they did, from all parts of
the State, their unanimity in support of
BRYAN and SEWALL may be taken as a
representative indication that the rank and
file of the party will be loyal to the Chica-
go ticket.
The members of the committee reported
something more than the fidelity of the
great mass of Pennsylvania Democrats to
the candidates on the national ticket. They
were able to give the gratifying intelligence
that in every district Republicans were en-
rolling themselves in support of the Chi-
cago candidates. There is a natural reason
why they should do so, for the monetary
evils from which Democrats suffer, also
afflict Republicans, - who have abandoned
the hope of relief from their own party,
which has surrendered absolutely to the
money power. :
It is on this account that there is a
strongly marked disposition on the part of
Republicans in this State to repudiate Mc-
KINLEY and the policy he represents. This
is one of the striking features of the begin-
ning of the canvas, and warrants the ex-
pectation of an unusually large vote for
BRYAN #nd SEWALL in Pennsylvania.
Transparently False.
There couldn’t he a grosser attempt at
fraudulent misrepresentation than the
claim made on a transparency in a proces-
sion that recently visited MCKINLEY,
which was expressed by the following in-
scription, ‘‘66 tin plants—capacity 6,000,-
000 boxes a year—who did it?”
The intention of this is to create the he-
lief that the tin industry owes its devel-
opment to the MCKINLEY tariff, the
claim being made with utter disregard to
the facts.
Less thd a dozen tin mills were built
under the MCKINLEY act, and the industry
was rather hampered than stimulated by
the heavy duties, in the imposition of
which was made the mistake of tariffing
the raw material that is required to tin the
iron plates.
The WiLsoxN hill found tin manufacture
in a feeble condition of development, but
it removed half the duty on tin plates,
which the industry could easily stand
when it was given the advantage of raw
tin free of duty, the result being that in
the two years during which the Democrat-
ic tariff has been in operation not only
has the number of mills been quadrupled,
but there has been a corresponding in-
crease in their capacity, in the number of
hands employed, in the amount of wages
paid, and in the value of the product.
These are the facts concerning the tin
industry, and yet the Republican cam-
paigners will go right on claiming that this
great development has heen in consequence
of MCKINLEY’S protection.
He Should Apologize to the Farmers.
WiLLriax M. SINGERLY, the rattled and
misguided editor of the Philadelphia Rec-
ord, certainly owes an apology to the farm-
ers of this country. He has offered an af-
front to them by implying in his abuse of
the Democratic national ticket that they
are repudiationists and anarchists.
When he stigmatizes the presidential
candidate of the Democratic party as ‘‘the
candidate of repudiation and anarchy,’’ he
implicates the agricultural population in
that sweeping charge, for it was that class
of citizens that furnished the controlling
element in the convention that nominated
the Democratic presidential candidate.
The Chicago convention contained a larger.
percentage of farmers than any other
convention that was ever held in this
country. If it be true, as the editor of the
Record says, that BRYAN is ‘‘the candidate
of repudiation and anarchy,”’ then must
those farmers have been repudiationists
and anarchists, for they were chiefly re-
sponsible for that nomination. This is cer-
tainly the logic of his charge.
We think, however, that after editor
SINGERLY collects his scattered senses he
will see that he has slandered the farmers,
and being naturally a fair man, when he is
not rattled, he will ask their pardon.
——The Patron, the organ .of Centre
County Pomona grange, is out for Bryan
and Sewall. While it pretends to be non-
partisan it says ‘‘the patrons of husbandry
have, year after year, declared against the
single gold standard and demanded the re-
storation of silver to its former status as
money.’’ In the face of such a statement
the readers of the Patron can come to but
one conclusion and that, to vote for the
Democratic nominees.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
or
Banner Year for Exports.
An Increase of One-Fourth Quer All Previous Records
—Reports of the Statistical Bureau.
WASHINGTON, July 27.—The fiseal 3 year
which closed on June 30, 1896, is the ban-
ner year in the history of American manu-
facturing exports. The totals have been
compiled hy the bureau of statistics of the
treasury department, and they show an in-
crease of nearly 25 per cent over the highest
previous record.
The exports for June attained $21,898’-
972 or 33 73 per cent of the total exports’
and the exports of manufactures for the
year reached a total of $228,489,893. The
exports of manufactures for the fisoal year
constitute 26 47 per cent. of the total ex-
ports, which is larger by more than 3 per
cent. than the proportion attained in 1895.
The percentage of manufacturing exports; as
compared with other exports, varies with the
volume of aggregate exports, but the fact
that this volume was $882,419,229 in 1896,
against $307,548,165 in 1895, indicates the
large increase in manufacturing exports
which was necessary to raise their percen-
tage to the whole.
The highest record prior to 1896 was in
1894, when the exports of manufactures
were $173.728,808 and constituted 21 14
per cent. of the total exports. The figures
were substantially the same for 1895, when
manufacturing exports were $183,493,743,
and constituted 23 14 per cent of the whole,
The present volume of manufacturing ex-
ports is more than 50 per cent. larger than
in 1890, and nearly 45 per cent larger than
in 1893, the last year of the undisturbed
operation of the McKinley tariff.
The figures for 1890 were $151,102,376,
They increased in 1891 to $168, 927, 315,
but fell in 1890 to $158,510,937, and about
half a million more for 1893.
The details of the exports for the fiscal
year have not yet been fully compiled by
the bureau of statistics, but, judging from |
the returns for the eleven months ending
with May, large increases will appear in
agricultue implements, carriages, rail way
cars, pre, os of copper, cotton cloths,
glassware, cartridges, manufactures of rub-
ber electrical and scientific apparatus, build-
ers’ hard ware, sewing machines, machinery,
locomotives, boots and shoes, paperand i
products, soap and manufactures of tobaco.
Mineral oil constitutes about $15,000,000
of the increase, and the effort has been
made to make it appear that this was
chief cause for the increased volume
manufacturing exports. The figures for
1896, however show an increase so large
that not much more than one-third of it
can be ascribed to mineral oil, and most of
the remainder is due to the increased ex-
ports of the highly finished products of
American mills and looms.
Figures on Production.
C. L. Enton, in the Pittsburg Post.
For the benefit of the numerous readers
of The Post I append a table showing the
world’s production of gold and silver from
1492 to 1895.
UNITED STATES MINT REPORT.
Gold. Silver.
..53,161,433,000 86,216,198,000
1492 to 1850.
1851 to 1860. 1,333,081,000 372,216,000
1861 to 1870. 1,203,015,000 507,174,000
187) to 1875. a, 883,000 409,322,000
1876 to 1880. 31 509,256,000
1881 to 1885. 2, 0) 544.773,000
1886 to 1890. 564,510,000 To4,047,000
1890 to 1893. 443175,000 584,258,000
1894. 170,905,000 215,404,000
TOtalSu.erverrrerersenne nn 88,391,618,000 R10,062,888,000
Upon examination we find that up to
1850 for each $1 in gold produced the pro-
duction of silver was $2. When silver was
demonetized in 1873, for each $1 gold pro-
duced $1 18 represented silver production,
and taking the entire world’s production
from 1492 to 1895, for each $1 in gold sil-
ver production is $1 19, or for every ounce
of gold there has been 19 ounces of silver
produced. This is all this talk of the gold
standard advocates of the immense overpro-
duction of silver amounts to, and, but for
the sole reason that the money power of the
world is trying to prohibit it from being re-
cognized as money, its value at the mints
of the world would be ‘16to 1.”” In 1873,
when gold and silver together measured
the world’s wealth, we had $10 52 per
capita, but in 1896, with gold as the sole
standard of value, the world’s per capita g of
gold is $5 68.
The Real Identity of these Anarchists
and Repudiationists.
From the Doylestowm Democrat.
It has been charged by those ignorant of
the objects of the Silver party that the re-
cent convention held in St. Louis was com-
posed of repudiators, revolutionists and
anarchists. In view of this false notion
the party has issued a statement in which
it says : “In our delegations are four vet-
erans of our Mexican war, forty-nine ex-’
Confederates and one hundred and ninety-
six Union army veterans of the late war.
Of the 731 delegates attending 9 are Pro-
hibitionists, 49 Populists, 146 are Demo-
crats and 526 are Republicans.
‘Under this composition of the conven-
tion we appeal to all true patriots, without
regard to previous party affiliation, to vote
for William J. Bryan, for President, and
Arthur Sewall, for Vice President, of the
United States. A result of their election
will be the restoration of free coinage of
silver on equal terms with gold, providing
thereby a growing volume of money, which
will tend to disseminate rather than to ag-
gregate wealth, which willjrelieve the pres-
ent profound depression and replace it
with a wide prosperity.
‘“We urge you to unite upon this ticket
as your sole hope of escape from the rigors
of a grinding monopoly.
And the Woods are Full of Such Fel-
lows
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
Three Democrats and a Republican, who
started for Logantown, yesterday afternoon,
broke down on Bellefonte avenue by the
wheel of the carriage being twisted off in
the railway track. The eagerness of the
Republican to hear the free silver speech
would not permit him to be dismayed hy
such a mishap, so he procured another ve-
hicle and the four: gentlemen arrived in
time to hear the address.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Mrs. J. K. P. Hall, of Ridgway, has put
out a cook hook, containing 300 pages.
—At Shenandoah, Edward Martin prob-
ably fatally wounded Edward Suyder and
his wife.
—Shenango Valley furnace owners’ have
been notified of a reduction in wages of 20
per cent.
—William Walton, one of the oldest citizens
of Forest county, died near Marienville aged
nearly 88 years.
—A 3-year-old child was found on the road
six miles from New Brighton, and its parents
cannot be found.
—DMiss Ella Simpson, of Beaver Falls, was
thrown from her bicycle Saturday and run
over by a dog cart.
—The corner stone of a new M. E. church
was laid at St. Marys, Elk county, last Sun-
day, the 19th instant.
—John Hough and his son Bert, of Smith-
ton, were badly scalded by steam while re-
pairing a boiler Saturday.
—George Stewart, of Niles, O., was held for
court at Warren, Saturday, on a charge of
passing counterfeit money.
—The Cherry Run campmeeting, near
Rimersbhurg, Clarion county, will begin on
August 13th, to continue one week.
—Dorothy, aged 4, daughter of J. G. Head,
of Latrobe fell from the third story window
at her home and was instantly killed.
—Near Dunbar a large section of ground
has caved in, carrying much of the roads
with it. An abandoned coal mine caused the
trouble.
—The overseers of the poor of Ridgway
have purchased a lot and will erect a home
for the accommodation of the poor of the
borough.
—Johnnie, a baby, son of William Cornth-
waite, of Sugar Hollow, near{Apollo, got hold
of a bottle of laudanum and drank part of it
with fatal result. :
—Clarion county is erecting a soldiers’
monument, in Clarion borough, and the
county commissioners are advertising for
plans, specifications and bids.
—There are said to be several United States
detectives in Lawrence and Beaver counties,
engaged in working up the recent numerous
post office robberies that have taken place in
that section.
—The committee appointed by the mem-
bers of the old one hundred and eleventh
Pennsylvania regiment, set September 10th
as the time for holding their annual reunion
at Greensburg.
—Septgmber 7th, the annual labor day
the Red Men of Central Pennsylvania will
observe their hey day in Williamsport. Theré
will be thirteen lodges there from variotis
sections of the state, each averaging about
300 membership.
—Fred Rouguex, one of the well-known
lumbermen at Frenchville, severely injured
himself Thursday. While at work in the
woods near that place he made a misstep
which caused him to fall on his double bitted
axe. His throat was badly gashed, the wind-
pipe being nearly severed. His recovery is
doubtful.
—Benjamin C. Bowman, the well-known
lumberman, banker and manufacturer ot
Williamsport, died in that city Tuesday,
after a lingering illness with an affection of
the kidneys. He was 78 years old and is
survived by his wife and two children. The
funeral will take place to-morrow morning.
—The official data for the state encamp-
ment of last week as filed in the adjutant
general’s office show that on the 18th inst.,
8,606 men were present at Camp Gibbon.
During camp three officers and seventy-two
privates were ill. None of the sickness, how-
ever was serious. The encampment was re-
garded as a very satisfactory and successful
one.
—During 1895 the fatalities in the bitu-
minous and anthracite mines of Pennsyl-
vania aggregated 575, and during 1894 the
number of deaths reached 562. Here then,
are five hundred and more lives blotted out
annually in underground accidents of which
the people hear little and think less. It is
the way of the miner's life and attracts no
attention.
—At Williamsport on Monday, Ernest Bubb
while asleep, was bitten on the wrist by a
tarantula, which it is supposed came from a
fruit store next door. The arm began to
swell rapidly and Tuesday was swollen to
nearly twice its usual size. A physician in-
jected the necessary antidotes and itis be-
lieved that the young man will get well.
—The board of managers of the interna-
“¥ tiowal horticultural exposition, to be held at
Hamburg, Germany, next year, are issuing
circular letters inviting Pennsylvania farm-
ers, fruit growers and manufactures to make _
exhibits. The letter states that the export
trade of green and dried fruits, which is
much superior to any grown in Germany, is
increasing from year to year and by ex-
hibiting Pennsylvania farmers and fruit
packers will be enabled to enter in direct and
thus more profitable export port trade than
by selling in our own marksts. f
—There is a township in Dauphin county
in which there are 254 inhabitants, according
to the past census, and 50 voters. In that
township there is no minister, no church, no
Sunday school, no lawyer, no justice of the
peace, no industrial work of any kind, and
no place where liquor is sold. There are
three grocery stores and one school house.
When the people want to attend church they
have to cross the river into Perry county and
walk to Duncannon. The township is Reed.
There has been but one case in the criminal
court from that township in the past twenty-
five years. There is not another township
like it in the whole United States.
—With the exception of the great Krupp
gun works in Germany, the shops of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Altoona are said to
be the largest industrial establishment in the
world. Before three years more shall have
passed away the Altoona shops will be the
largest on earth and no other industrial es-
tablishment will begin to equal them in their
dimensions and in number of men employed.
Recently the company prepared plans for
large additions and the new buildings will
be erected at once. Hereafter all locomo-
tives for the Pennsylvania railroad and the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg will be
built at Altoona and only repair work will
be done at the other shops.