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GRAY ME
BY PB. EK,
Ink Slings.
—Bryan’s second tour East is exciting |
more enthusiasm than his first did. Think
of 50,000 people turning out to see him in
Philadelphia.
—*‘A fool and his money are soon part-
ed,” remarked one of the fellows who
bought a ticket for the excursion to Can-
ton to see MCKINLEY.
—WANAMAKER has captured Blair
county for the U. S. Senate. Thus the
seat takes another step away from Belle-
fonte’s ‘favorite son.’ :
—Since Judge Furst felt so gmall com-
ing home from the Granger’s picnic, last
Thursday night, he might have practiced a
little gold-bug economy and traveled on
half fare.
—1It is announced that LOUISE MICHEL,
the mother of Anarchy and French revolu-
tionary leader, is coming to this country.
She is going to chaperone HERR MosT to
the gold bug party, we suppose.
—The time has come when men must be
men. Don’t let people bamboozle you
into believing that your interests lie in any
other direction than that of silver. Your
own intelligence should be your guide this
fall.
—Bellefonte taxes are growing higher
every year, money is getting scarcer
every year, yet you don’t notice that any
of the banks need a new coat of paint or
show, in any way, that money is scarce
with them.
—CORBETT and SHARKEY are to fight in
San Francisco, on Thanksgiving day.
What a cause for general thanksgiving if
they would only use each other up so
badly that neither one of them would be
able to fight again.
—In the fall of 1894 the WATCHMAN
said : “A vote for HASTINGS for Governor
will be an individual's sanction of a pardon
for BARDSLEY, which will surely come if
HASTINGS is elected.” He was elected.
The pardon was signed on Monday.
—Deputy Secretary of Agriculture JOHN
HAMILTON spent a Sunday in Philipsburg,
recently, and it is said he tried to pull
little I'tLi-vr WoMELSDORF around but |
FiLr-vp knows that his friends will let
him slide just as soon as he shows a lean-
ing towards the Governor.
— When rock-ribbed Republican -Phila-
delphia will turn out the largest crowd in
its history to sce the young ‘‘repudiation-
ist,”” whom silver is going to make the next
President of the United States, it is little
wonder that the temperature should have
dropped 20° even 265 miles away from the
city.
—According to a report of the Secretary
of the Treasury there ought to be $8.41 in
gold in circulation for every man, woman
and child in the country. We venture the
assertion that there are not one hundred
people in Centre county who can lay their
hands one one-fourth their quota of the
gold, without begging it from a banker.
—Talk about flooding the country with
silver in the event of its free coinage. Why
if all the gold and silver produced in the
United States, except that proportion re-
served for use in the arts, between 1873
and the present time, had been coined into
money, we still would not have as large a
per capita circulating medium as France
has.
—Congressman GROSSVENOR has a won-
derful knack of claiming everything for his
man HANNA'S MCKINLEY. But then it
is just like the avaricious, grasping policy
of the goldites who want all and give noth-
ing, so no one would be alarmed if he
claimed every State for HANNA’S McKIN-
LEY, without conceding Mr. BRYAN even
the seven his estimate gives him.
—Of course it is not possible that such
adeal has been made, but when all these
excursions to Canton are counted up and
their net revenue to the rail-road compa-
nies are figured no shrewd business head can
overlook the mutual profit in McKINLEY’S
staying at home.
vote for MCKINLEY.
—'Tis a pity that bishop NEWMAN, of
the Methodist church, was not here, on
Sunday, to hear what one of the twelve
hundred ministers he boasted of controlling
had to say on man’s duty to the govern-
ment. If one of the highest authorities in
the Methodist church can over-step the
bounds of his christian ministry the humb-
ler ones donot forget that their mission is
for God and not for politics.
—It was rather impudent on the part of
JouN Boyp THATCHER to accept the Dem-
ocratic nomination for Governor of New
York without saying anything about the
intention he must have had then, to re-
The rail-roads get the
money and the employes are ordered to
“VOT, Al
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 25, 1
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Bryan’s Claim as a Candidate.
Among the many truths which candidate
BRYAN is telling the people, there is noth-
ing more true than the assertion he made
in his address to them at Louisville, that
no national convention ever held in this
country more accurately and fully reflected
the sentiments of the party which selected
the delegates than did the convention that
placed him in nomination ; that never
within this generation did the voters them-
selves take so active a part and influential
a part in giving direction to the sentiment
and action of a convention, and that, there-
fore, hy every principle of fairness and re-
gard for the will of the majority, he had a
right to claim the support of the party as
its regular nominee.
And why should there be any question
as to his being entitled to the undivided
Democratic support ? There is none, what-
ever, except that which is raised by certain
interests which went to the convention
with the determination to support a par-
ticular monetary policy, and having found
themselves out voted, see fit to declare that
‘what the convention adopted was not Dem-
ocratic. -
It is unnecessary “to waste words in
maintaining that a majority of the party’s
representatives had a right to declare
what should be the policy of the party in
regard to the currency. There was no
fundamental party principle that obligated
that convention to support the gold stand-
ard. The question, as presented to the
party, was one of economic expediency.
The majority, being fully convinced that
the change which was made in monetary
conditions by the demonetization of silver,
in 1873, was seriously injuring the genuine
interests of the people, had a right to
take the action which was taken in the
convention on the money question, and
that action is as binding as the will of the
majority always is on a properly organized
party.
This is the actual situation in the Dem-
ocratic party to-day, and yet we see certain
parties actuated by plutocratic interests,
who pretend that there has been such a
terrible infraction of the principles of
JEFFERSON, JACKSON and TILDEN, as to
justify their drawing off and setting up an
opposition Democratic organization. Can
anybody seriously believe that those fathers
of the Democratic party were opposed to
the people remedying defects in their cur-
rency which were proving themselves to be
injurious? Or can it be shown that the
founders of the party, whose example we
respect, ever advised the inflexible main-
tenance of any particular standard of val-
ue? They intended that this should be a
government of the people, who should ex-
ercise their will according to their experi-
ence, and surely their experience has taught
them that the present system of currency,
with gold as the exclusive standard, has
greatly injured their general interests.
A Coal Trust Candidate.
Probably the worst of the trusts is the
combination that is compelling consumers
to pay an extortionate price for coal. That
article is of such general and indispensable
use that none can escape this robbery, and
the greatest sufferers are the poor to whom
fuel is a serious item of expense and upon
whom its high price inflicts the greatest
distress.
This heartless monopoly is practiced by
(a comparatively small number of extor-
tionists, there being but eleven corpora-
| tions that have secured control of the coal
product and manage to corner the trade,
conducting their rapacious business in defi-
ance of anti-trust laws which have been
made so weak as to be easily evaded. One
of the g¢hief parties to this criminal con-
spiracy against the rights and interests of
the people is the New York, Susquehanna
and Western. rai'road company, of which
the millionaire Republican candidate for
Vice President, GARRET A. HOBART, is a
director, and being also its general counsel
he was unquestionably a party in formu-
lating the agreement between these con-
spirators who are robbing both those
who consume anthracite coal and those who
mine it ?
Is it surprising that the Republican can-
didate for Vice President is found in this
capacity ? There is nothing strange in it,
nounce the Chicago platform and only sup-
‘port BrRvAN and SEWALL, TAMMANY
does right in demanding that he either sub-
no time for chicken hearts. We want men
who are courageous for the right.
—It will be in order for Dr. ILDER, of
Johnstown, to write another letter now ex-
plaining why the Cambria iron company
has resumed operations. When the plant
closed, several weeks ago, it took a column
in the Philadelphia Press for him to ex-
plain how the WiLsoN tariff law had
caused it. When the works resumed, last
scribe to the platform or get off. This is
week, the Press noted. it in a five line
squib. Why did it start Doctor? Get
yourself in print again. Your name looks
big in type.
: The whole Republican system is connected |
| with such practices, and whether its can-
didates are monopolists like HOBART, or
its campaign managers are oppressors
of labor like HANNA, there is a consistency
in its purpose to create enormous wealth
at the expense of the general public.
HOBART, the millionaire, the director of a
monopoly, and the counsel for a conspiracy
to rob the people, is a perfect representa-
tive of the spirit and object of McKIN-
LEYISM.
| tion has so absorbed this country that the
rerimes of the Spanish brutes pass unno-
ticed.
for the circumstance accords perfectly with |
the general character of MCKINLEYISM. |
—Spanish atrocities in Cuba are still be- |
| ing practiced, but the gold and silver agita- |
Bismarck on Free Silver.
The fact that the free coinage of silver
by this country, independent of European
co-operation, would have a most salutary
effect, scarcely required the endorsement of
Prince BISMARCK, but it is certainly a
great re-inforcement to the cause of silver
when a man of his unusual sagacity de-
clares, as he has done in a letter to Gov.
CULBERSON, of Texas, who solicited his
opinion on the subject, that the United
States could pursue an independent course
in the adoption of bimetallism not only
with perfect safety to her own interests,
but such a course would have the effect of
drawing European nations into an inter-
national bimetallic league.
To those who have given this matter in-
telligent consideration, with the object of
treating it honestly, the apprehension that
free silver would involve our country in
financial trouble and produce business
disaster, has always appeared to be the
idlest of fears. The clamor of the gold
interest about the depreciation of the cur-
rency as a result of the depreciated value
of silver, and the driving of gold out of
the country by a cheap currency, and the
clap-trap about 53-cent dollars, are the
merest inventions which would be dis-
pelled by the rapid rise in the price of sil-
ver in consequence of its remonetization,
and the approximation of the relative value
of the two metals by silver being sent up
and gold brought down through the res-
toration of the white metal to its former
monetary position and the resultant in-
creased demand for it.
Prince BISMARCK is entirely corveet in
his opinion that the United States ave able
to adopt the bimetallic policy by the free
coinage of silver, without European co-
operation, a fact of which the leaders of
the Democratic party were thoroughly as-
sured when they declared for it in their
party platform, and the practicability of
which will be proven after the election of
BRYAN.
Bardsley a Free Man.
JOHN BARDSLEY last Tuesday passed from
his prison cell a free man, having receited
from the Republican administration of the
State a full pardon for the commission of
the greatest embezzlement in the criminal
annals of the country. He has now been
purged of his offence by the clemency of
the board of pardons and Governor of Penn-
sylvania, and will soon resume his old
place among the working Republican poli-
ticians of Philadelphia. The small matter
of his having been in the penitentiary will
not lower his standing among them, as the
majority of them ought to be in prison, but
in escaping punishment have heen more
fortunate than BARDSLEY.
No observer of Republican practices and
methods entertained the least doubt but
that this Republican state administration
would pardon ‘him. It was confidently
predicted that he would be liberated be-
fore half of HASTINGS’ term would expire,
and the truth of the prediction has been
verified. He was too dangerous a man to
be kept incarcerated when his liberation
was necessary to keep him from peaching
on bigger men in the party than himself,
who were the sharers of his swag.
delay in opening his prison door was neces-
the assurance that it would come in time
he could afford to wait and keep his mouth
shut. There was great parade of the par-
lof medical examination of his physical
condition, and reluctance on the part of
the Governor, but when BARDSLEY got his
pardon, last Monday, it was no more than
what was intended he should have when
HASTINGS went into the Governor’s office.
It may now be expected that his health
willimprove with such rapidity that he
will be able to be at the polls in November
and vote for ‘honest money’’ and protec-
tion to American industries.
—— A ‘‘Scotia Miner’’ boasts, in Wed-
nesday’s Daily News, that the men at those
works have ‘‘the only place in this county,
or any other, where there are carriages and
spring wagons te haul the voters to and
from the election,” * * * ‘where they go
and vote as. free, good American and pa-
triotic people ought to do.”” We wonder
[if the ‘‘Scotia Miner” is as free as he
| up in the company wagon and hauled off
to the polls. Some one has to pay for
those teams he brags of. He admits that
he doesn’t have to do it, so there is but one
conclusion and that is that ‘‘Scotia Miner”’
sells his vote for a ride in a carriage.
——Republican county chairman GRAY
ran so short of argument, at Philipsburg
recently, that he had to stoop to calling Mr.
BryaN a “blatherskite.” Such expres-
sions very -ill become a gentleman in Mr.
GRAY’s position and if his vocabulary is as
short as this would indicate there is more
in one short sentence uttered hy Mr.
BRYAN than chairman Gray will
{ through him in a life time.—“1 am too
dignified to profess one thing and do anoth-
Some
don board deliberating over his case, and |
imagines himself to be, when he is perched |
get |
The Masses Against the Classes.
The supporters of the plutocratic interest
greatly deprecate the arraying of the masses
against the classes, as they term it, and
charge candidate BRYAN with attempting
to create an antagonistic division between
the rich and the poor. By this assumption
they evade their responsibility for bringing
about conditions by which action has been
rendered necessary for the protection of the
people against the encroachments'of wealth.
The position taken by the Democratic
party, and represented by the candidacy of
grasping attitude of plutocracy. It is not
aggressive, but defensive. It does not
design to deprive any class of its rights, but
it proposes to prevent the mass from falling
a victim to the greed of a class.
Consider the situation that has forced the
Democratic party to its present attitude,
falsely represented as arraying the masses
against the classes. By a long continued
series of acts on the part of Legislatures and
courts under Republican influence, wealth
has been favored at the expense of the gen-
eral mass of our population. Dy the aid of
discriminating fiscal laws, and other meth-
ods of favoritism, the few have been enabled
to accumulate vast fortunes while the many
have suffered from the monopolies which
have heen the means of those” colossal ac-
cumulations. The growing plutocracy of
the country is the off-spring of the trusts
and other monopolistic combinations called
into existence and maintained by policies
deliberately intended to produce such a
result.
Who can deny that this is the fact ? For
the proof of it. look around and see every
branch of production heing brought under
the control of a monopoly ; observe how
the necessaries of life are cornered by com-
binations whose members increase their
wealth by making it more expensive and
difficult for the general mass to subsist.
The situation has been steadily progress-
ing to this condition for the past twenty
years. It has been accelerated by legisla-
tion and court decisions which have been
habitually in the interest of a class and
against the mass of our population. It has
been helped along by processes which have
gradually removed the burden of taxation
from wealth and imposed it upon the com-
mon people. All the taxes required by the
expenses of the war that affected the rich
were dropped as speedily as possible, in-
cluding the tax upon their incomes, and
the hard task of maintaining the expenses
of government was required of the masses
through the agency of tariffs upon the
necessaries of life. In addition to these
unequal and unfair exactions by which
wealth profited and the common class were
oppressed, the currency was so tampered
with as to put it in shape to be more easily
and profitably controlled in the interest of
the monied class.
This is not an overdrawn picture. The
truth of it is attested by the steady decline
in the pecuniary condition of the general
population, in the increasing difficulty of
the working people to make a living ; in
the gradual impoverishment of a middle
class that were once able to do a profitable
business in small operations ; in theindebt-
edness and embarrassment of the great agri-
.,. cultural population ; but most eonspicuous-
sary for the sake of appearance, but with |
ly in the growth of those immense fortunes,
Who can deny that this is the situation,
and, it being so. who is responsible for con-
ditions that have arrayed the mass against | Sl Ft 1
. money man who has come to e° conclu-
the class for the recovery of their share of | it ;
advantages, and for the protection of rights
that have been encroached upon ?
WILLIAM J. BRYAN is the leader in
this movement of the masses for the
vindication of their rights, as against
a dangerously increasing plutocracy,
and it is better that it should be
successful at this time than that delay
should require a remedy of a less peaceful
character in the future.
The farmers of the country received
$382,303,358 less for their wheat, corn,
potatoes, rye, barley and buckwheat in
1895 than they did for the same products
in 1880. In other words, they had nearly
$100,000,000 fess to spend or use to pay
off thelr mortgages last year than they |
had 15 years ago from the shrinkage in
these crops alone. Can any one wonder
that times are hard except to the money
dealers? If there be such a gigantic loss
in the case of these products, the loss to
the farmer from his entire products will
amount to more than $800,000,000,
which would otherwise be circulating
among the retail merchants of the coun-
try and in every other avenue of trade.
Compare Hon. JAMES; SCHOFIELD’S
record as a Legislator with that of either
CURTIN or WONELSDORE and see if you
can conscientiously overlook the fact that
er’’—From BryAN’s Philadelphia speech. | he is a man to vote for.
896.
an apology.
“arguments
NO. 38.
Ohio Is Sure of Silver.
Henry George in the Pittsburg Post.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 22nd.—With such
diligent inquiries as I could make I have
not yet been able tofind any evidence of
the movement away: frqm Bryan of which
the high appointee of ident Cleveland
whom I met on my arrival "hége told me he
had observed in journeying through the
state. It is certainly not among the work-
ingmen of Cleveland, organized or unorgan-
ized. According to the best information I
can get the proportion of workingmen who
propose to vote for Bryan is even greater
than in Chicago, and is generally expressed
| by such phrases as ‘McKinley is notin it,”
Mr. BRYAN, has been necessitated hy the |
while polls privately taken by delegates
among their fellows in the plasterers’
national convention, that met last week,
and in that of the carpenters, now in ses-
sion, show that nine-tenths of the represen-
tatives from all parts of the Union are for
Bryan.
That the Palmer Democrats of Ohio have
not yet become a very mighty folk, in
numbers at least, is shown by the fact that
in order to get the 6,000 signatures required
to put their electors on the official ticket
they are obtaining the aid of Republicans,
and that the Republicans themselves,
though they now, talk very confidently of
the campaign in Ohio, have not yet dis-
covered growing repugnance to silver is
best evidenced by such speeches as that of
Cliff Beach, the Republican nominee for
congress in the Twentieth district, who
devoted himself almost entirely to the out-
right advocacy of free silver.
WHY BLANDIN WITHDREW.
Ex-Judge E. J. Blandin, of Cleveland, a
lawyer of high standing and large practice,
was nominated by the Democrats for judge
of the supreme court. The office he did
not want, as to take it would much reduce
his income, yet as a staunch Democrat and
an earnest free silver man he was willing
to accept the nomination, if as he first
thought might be the case, it would in|
volve no danger of election, but becoming
convinced that if he remained on the ticket
he would be elected, he last month declined
and another nomination has been made in
his place.
I asked Judge Blandin, whoin I have
known for years to have the character and
reputation of an extremely careful and con-
servative man whether he was still of
opinion that it was necessary for him to
decline the nomination in order to avoid |
the office, or whether there was in any part
of the state a counter movement beginning.
His reply was that he could see the matter
in no other light than that which induced
him to decline, that there might have been
some little sagging when the news of the
Maine election was received, but that if it
had been the case, it had been only tem-
porary, and that throughout northern Ohio,
especially, the movement of the farmers to
free silver was now going on faster’ than
ever, while the defections from the Demo-
cratic vote were so small as hardly fo be
worth taking into account. ‘‘Ohio,”’ said
the judge, ‘‘is a close state normally ; at
the last election the Republicans carried it
by 35,000. State pride will, I think, do
something to strengthen McKinley, and,
allowing 15,000 votes for that, the Republi-
cans would have on the normal basis 50,000
this year.
ESTIMATES OF BRYAN’S MAJORITY.
‘‘But at the last -election the Populists
polled in around numbers 60,000 votes.
This, counting nothing, for changes from
our party to the other, would give Bryan
Ohio by 10,000 majority. But while I am
confident that the Ohio Democrats who
will vote for McKinley are very, very few,
I hear everywhere through the country of
the staunchest kind of Republicans who
are working and will vote for Bryan, and
while I know that no effort will be spared
to give Governor McKinley the vote of his
own state, I cannot
be accomplished.
This is the general impression that I get
from careful and well-informed Democrats :
, that the Populists, though to many of them
| Sewall is a hitter pill, will this year vote
limited to a small class, that have been
i the natural fruit of these conditions.
for Bryan to a man there is no doubt, while
1 am told that the Prohibitionists through-
out the State are very largely for him, and
of the turning of old Republicans to free
silver I hear specifically on every hand.
So far as T can see, the sanguine sound
sion that the free silver craze had culmina-
ted in Ohio and that Bryan was now losing
strength must have derived his impressions
‘from the great excursions that are throng-
ing to Canton.
CANTON EXCURSIONS OF NO USE.
But of how little these excursions mean
I had an example from a gentleman who
had been asked to make a free silver speech
to the club of Hungarians a little distance
from this city. They were really anxious
to hear him,.and they had specially invited
him. But when he reached the place one
of their head men met him at the car with
‘‘There are more people at
the hall than can get in,’’ he said, “‘but 150
of our club has gone off to Canton on a
McKinley excursion. They do not often
get a chance to have such a free ride with
everything furnished, and they thought
you would not mind it if they had a good
time and gave others room to hear you.
They will vote all the same for Bryan.”
“Mind it? Ne,” replied the speaker, “I
am glad they are going to have a free ride
and a good vime at the expense
Hanna's fund. I would have told them
by all means to go.”’
‘‘That’s what they thought,” said the
spokesman, and the orator found at the
hall a crowded audience.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Pittsburg
crusade.
—Wilson female college, at Chambersburg,
re-opened Tuesday.
—The Central hotel, of Spangler, has heen
purchased by A. I. Hopple, for $6,500.
—Lizzie Myers, aged six years, of Lancas-
ter, was seriously trampled on by an enraged
bull. -
—Wednesday was a red letter day at Col-
umbia, when the fire department celebrated
its centennial.
is having a liquor saloon
—A car of iron broke down and wrecked
five others near Geigertown, on the Wilming-
ton & Northern railroad, Monday.
—Mrs. Lucy Stockey, widow, died near
Hollidaysburg, on Thursday evening, of
dropsy. She was 96 years old on Wednesday.
—Joseph Dooley, aged three years, of Ash-
land, has a shoe button up his nostril which
the physicians have not been able to remove.
—Seventeen-year-old Thomas McHugh
dived 97 feet from the Point bridge, Pitts-
burg, to the Monongahela river, and swam
out unhurt.
—After having a suicide’s body identified
as his own. John Schaffer has returned
from the Allegheny mountains to his home
in Easton.
—While riding on a locomotive which col-
lided with another at Meadville, Milton E:
Garland and Edward Harris, of Englewood,
Ill., were killed.
—TFour hundred out of the 1800 breweries
in the United States are represented at the
brew mastels’ convention, which opened in
Pittsburg Monday.
—At Hill; Mercer county, Martin Jacobs
set a gun in his barn, pulled a string tied to
the trigger and frightfully wounded himself,
but failed to effect his suicide as planned.
—A young man and young woman of
Coudersport, are reported to have made a
desperate wager. If Bryan is elected she will
marry him, and if McKinley is elected he
will marry her.
—Mrs. John Hope's horse crawled under
the railroad safety gate on the Wilmington
& Northern tracks, near Coatesville, and four
occupants of the carriage narrowly escaped
death by the timely stoppage of a train.
—The Beech Creek railroad company have
leased their extension in Cambria county to
Geo. S. Good & Co., of Lock Haven who will
commence work at once. The extension is
| Shout nine miles long and extends from Pat-
n to Spangler.
—Ora J. Klingensmith, who is serving a
ten-days’ sentence in the Allegheny county
jail as a suspicious character, is suspected of
being one of the murderers of George Kause.
Kause was killed on October 31st, 1894, near
Callery Junction, by masked burglars.
—Alfred McPherran, of Alexandria, who
last week pleaded guilty to violation of the
Brook’s law, with reference to the sale of
liquor without a license, etc., was yesterday
sentenced to pay a fine of 3750 and to under-
go imprisonment in the county jail for a term
of six months.
—John P. Swoope, the trapper, of Alexan-
dria, has killed a thousand snakes of all
kinds since the first of May. On Thursday
of last week he encountered a blacksnake on
the road to Rockview, near Alexandria, and
killed it witha pole. It measured eleven
and a half feet long.
—Fred C. Gates received fatal injuries
while working on a log drive on Pine creek
Saturday and died several hours later, while
being conveyed to the Williamsport hospital.
Gates was caught in a moving log jam. His
head was badly crushed, one leg was man-
gled and several ribs and his shoulder were
broken.
—B. F. Chase, an attorney of Clearfield,
accidently shot himself last Thursday after
returning from a hunting expedition. In at-
tempting to remove his gun from the wagon,
its contents were discharged, the shot grazing
his side and inflicting a painful flesh wound,
but no shot lodged in his chest.
—On Friday evening, John Weaver at his
farm at Bald Eagle noticed a fierce fight be-
tween two gray eagles high in the air. Fi-
nally the larger one struck the other on the
back with his sharp bill and the wounded
bird fell to the ground. The victor came to
earth and finished its prey by choking it to
death. Mr. Weaver picked up the young ca-
gle which measures 5 feet 22 inches from tip
to tip.
—Ed. Page, of Page Brothers, undertakers
of Lock Haven, is suffering from blood poi-
son, the result of handling a corpse recently.
While embalming the body he must have
touched: a diseased portion with his right
hand where there was a scratch, and the
hand in a short time began to swell and pain
terribly. The swelling is now going farther
up the arm, and although he is suffering
great pain, it 1s thought that the danger can
be averted.
—~eorge F. Ronian, of Lock Haven, Satur-
day received a cane from his brother-in-law,
Jacob Cooke, proprietor of the Hotel Albe-
marle, Charlottsville, Va. The cane was cut
from a tree that stands near Thomas Jeffer-
son’s tomb. The stick is a novel and unique
‘cane. It has carved on it a representation of
the University of Virginia, and gives the
date of the burning of that institution, ‘‘Oc-
tober 27, 1895.” There is also a representa-
tion of the tomb of Jefferson, with a tree on
each side of it. There are also fishes and
rabbits carved on the stick. It contains sev-
eral inscriptions with reference to the author
of the Declaration of Independence. The
cane is a valuable memento and is highly
prized by Mr. Ronian.
of Mr. |
|
—The constables of Clearfield county were
the maddest set of men in the country last
week when Judge Gordon decided that they
| were entitled to but 50 cents for serving a
warrant, regardless of the number of names
thereon, and instead of: getting mileage at
- | the rate of 10 cents a mile circular they are
—N. E. EDWARDS Esq., of Williams-
port, spoke to the Bellefonte Bry ax and
SEWALL free silver elub, in the court house,
on Wednesday evening.
to get 10 cents a mile direct. He also decid-
od they were not entitled to any pay for mak-
"ing their quarterly return to court, for which
Quite a crowd | services they heretofore received $1.50. The
turned out to greet the young barrister | decision was made under a law passed by the
from Lycoming and he more than pleased last legislature, and has caused a great deal
it.
point. He presented a number of new
that have started more tal
on the subject and it was the general
ing talkers who have heen here.
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His talk was clean cut and to the | Kicking. Now the constables are obliged
: to make their returns to court and pay their
K | own expenses. As the law is a general one,
and applies to every county in the State. Ii
| will also apply to Centre, and may make u
opinion that he ix one of the most convine- | 1ot of officers here just as mad as those Clear-
| field fellows.