Dera Affat Hi Bellefonte, Pa., April 9, 1897. CORRESPONDENTS.—No communications pub- lished unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY ——Madisonburg public schools have closed. : ——Joshua Folk is now night watchman about the court house. ——It is a little early but there are children running bare footed on Bellefonte stre@ts already. : L. C. Bullock’s Milesburg carriage manufactury is said to be busier than it has been for years. Easter Sunday will be observed by some special service by nearly ggery church in Bellefonte. Prof D. M. Wolf will open his Spring Mills academy for teachers and others on the 12th inst. ——**A Breezy Time’’ to-morrow night. Fitz and Webster are both funny, so are other members of the company. -——To-night the Imperial mandolin and guitar club is scheduled for a concert in Kune’'s opera house, at Eagleville. The 24th annual conference of the Centre Baptist association has just closed successful sessions in Philipsburg. Penns valley farmers were busy plowing during most of the week. The wet weather did not seem to retard some of them at all. ——1It is reported that Barney Shipley will be an applicant for the post office at Fleming. He has stopp® farming and moved into town. —Dr. and Mrs. R. Gi. H. Hayes are being congratulated on the arrival of a new boy who put in his appearance at their home, last Friday evening. ——The rain that began falling, on Sygi- day afternoon, put out the forest fires that had been raging on Nittany and Brush mouatains prior to that time. ~——V. D. Culveyhouse has moved his general repair shop from the room on High strect to the basement of the Aiken block, corner of Allegheny and Bishop streets. —— The Bellefonte Central's Saturday shopper is growing in popularity and peo- ple all along that line are taking weekly advantage of the half rate fares to Belle- fonte. William Flack has moved his bar- ber shop from the Aiken's block, corner of Bishop and Allegheny streets, to the Ben- ner building on the south-west corner of the Diamond. rear ~The cutting off of the electric ser- vice does not cripple the opera house equip- ment in this place. The gas fittings are just as effective as the electric ones and have always been ready for use. ———Mr. and Murs. R. M. Lucas have given up the conduct of the hotel at Unionville and will move to Philipsburg, where Mr. Lucas has secured a position as engineer on the Beech Creek railroad. ——Col. W. C. Heinle is just home from attendance at court at Ridgway, where he succeeded in clearing a Howard man who was charged with a serious crime. William is reputed one of the best criminal lawyers in this part of the State. ——The county commissioners will proh- ably put a new roof on the court house during the summer. If this is done it will be raised and modernized to some extent. The present roof is full of holes and is real- | ly too flat to repair to any advantage. ——Owing to the fact that there will nos be any street lights on in Bellefonte for a few days. Irv. Taylor, John Dunlop, Col. Amos Mullen and Wm. Gares are all on duty as night officers. Burgess: Naginey is determined that the town shant be toted off in the dark if hig, brave men can pre- vent it. ——W. T. Meyer, director of the Pres- byterian church choir, is having special re- hearsals with his choir preparatory to a song service which is to be rendered in the - < church on the evening of Easter Sunday. The music is of a high order and will be a | treat to the music loving. people of Belle- fonte. ——Murs. Mary M. Reed, wife of John A $20,000 FIRE AT THE EpIsoN ELEc- TRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY'S PLANT. -—Nothing but the blackened brick wall and a portion of the boiler house remain on the site of the Bellefonte Edison electric illum- inating company’s plant which was one of the best equipped electric light stations in any of the small towns of the country before last Tuesday night. A few minutes after midnight engineer Thomas Faxon detected the smell of smoke back in the dynamo room and started at once to discover what caused it. He went out to the Lamb street {ront where he was unable to see anything out of order until the glare of flames on the windows of a building on the opposite side of the street arrested his attention, then looking down the street he discovered that the whole in- terior of the office in the old portion of the building was ablaze. He quickly ran to the alarm and started it sounding, then tried to get the fire emergency apparatus to work- ing but the fire and smoke were so great by this time that he had to leave that por- tion of the building. The department was late in getting to the scene because the lights had gone out on the streets and the alarm had been indefinite as to the location of the fire, but as soon as the lights went out it was known where the trouble was. Unfortunately the plug at Lamb and Water streets could not be gotten open for some time and the Undine engine was dis- abled in getting to the scene so that this combination of unlooked for circumstances resulted in the fire getting beyond .control before water was gotten on it in effective streams. Notwithstanding all these diffi- culties the firemen worked desperately and succeeded in saving adjoining property even though they had ono of the gerous looking fires that has ever occurred in the town and @ windy night to contend with. From the office the flames ran rapidly over the oily floors and combustible rubbish in the ware rooms and ate their way into the new portion of the plant where the four incandescent. and one are dynamos were planted and the two high speed engines located. There the oil and other inflamma- | ble material made a frightful fire, the mas- sive timbers that supported the slate roof fed the flames for hours and sent great showers of sparks to ride the gale to all por- tions of town. It was a remarkable fire in that it seemed | impossible that a brick building, with brick partition walls, and slate roof should make it so Lot and lasting. The entire plant is battery of boilers which are only slightly damaged. As they were charged high with steam at the time the fire broke out and some of the connections were broken off people were a-little bit timid about ap- proaching the place for fear of an ex- plosion. . President James Harris, of the Edison company, estimates the loss at $20,000, on which there is an insurance of $10,000. None ot the dynamos or engines will he worth fixing up so that they are total losses. Workmen were put to cleaning away the debris early Wednesday morning and the plant will be rebuilt at once. The street lights are expected to bein use by the latter part of next week and ten days later the patrons of the company will be given light again as usual. The fire will leave Bellefonte as dark as a country village for some time. | All kinds of lamps, tallow dips and gas fixtures were hunted up, on Wednesday, for use in pri- vate houses and business places, but the streets will be Stygian in their blackness, as the old time gas lamps have all been. taken down or dismantled. Engineer Faxon is of the opinion that the place was set on fire Ie says it could not have happened from the wires hecause the indicators under which he was working were as steady as usual even after he had discovered the flames. stances, when carefully considered, dispel the idea of incendiaryism. ad o & wreck, except the mo HiLn.—Early last Friday morning two small frame dwelling houses owned by Charles Dan, an Italian, and located just outside the horough line, on Half-moon hill, were totally destroyed by five. The fire broke out in a house occupied by John Shawiey, Dan’s father-in-law, and the place burned so rapidly that he had scarcely lime to fly from his burn- Reed, died at her home, in Coleville, at an | early hour, last Friday morning, leaving a family of six children. Deceased was 45 years old and had been ill but three days | with pneumonia. Burial was made in the cemetery at the Valentine iron works, on Sunday afternoon. —A delegation of young men from the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A., went to Lemont, last Sunday evening, and conducted relig- ious services in the Preshyterian church at that place. Secretary F. H. Cota, Roger Bay- ard, Frank Taylor, Emanuel Markle, Wal- ter Bush and James R. Hughes were in the party. The meeting was largely at\ended, notwithstanding the disagreeable evening. While there the young men were nicely entertained by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bath- ! gate. Hugh McAllister Beaver, of this place, who has so ably filled the position of secretary of College Young Men’s Chris- tian Associations for Pennsylvania, for the past several years, has just accepted a call to the general secretaryship of the inter- collegiate Y. M. C. A., of New York city. Hugh has been remarkably successful in his work among young men and thé cause of it is readily seen when an acquaintance is made with his manly, straightfor- ward, christian character. He is the second son of tien'l. James A. Beaver. | insurance. ing house. It is the third time the family has been burned out in ten years and the misfortune is exceptionally deplora- ble coming just at the time when they had accumulated a little furniture and were living comfortably. Mr. Shawley had no His wife was sleeping at her daughter's house that night. The house occupied by Dan took fire from the other and was reduced to ashes in most dan- | But the circam- wo Houses BURNED oN HALF Moox- | ——ZEggs are selling at eight cents the dozen out on Wallace Run. ———.e The foundation for a new United Evangelical church at Wolf’s Store is being laid. ae ——The Good Templar and Military bands of Lock Haven have consolidated and will hereafter be known as the Lock Haven band. — Pe ——Daniel Emlick, an old soldier who lived near Loganton, in Sugar valley, died last Saturday afternoon after a long illness. He was 55 years old and is sur- vived by a widow. > ——County commissioner J. L. O’Don- nel, of Clinton county, has purchased the Bixel Bros. saw mill, at Green Burr, and will remove it to Snow Shoe, where he will have it in operation all summer. — Os ——W. T Achenbach, who left this place to locate at Glen’s Falls, N. Y., is reported to haye made a good change. His jewelry store is the finest in that city and trade has started off unusually good for him. ——Dr. M. Salm, the noted and success- ful specialist, has arranged to spend one day each month at Howard. Those in need of his services will find the date in his regular advertisement in this issue of the WATCHMAN. —— Pe At a meeting of the stock-holders of the Clinton county oil and gas company, held in Lock Haven, on Tuesday after- noon, it was decided to go deeper ®ith their test wells providing raised for the purpose. spring wagon in which he was riding. Mr. ful injury to his hands and shoulders. rr QP eeee— ——Burglars blew the door off the safe in C. F. York’s Malena home office, at | Warriorsmark, last Iriday night, but did not secure a cent. The firm’s business is carried on almost exclusively hy checks and drafts, hence cash is rarely ever kept in the safe. As it happened there was nothing of value in it when it was blown. ——— mr During the few days that the B. E. V. express messenger, Frank Hayne, has heen acting agent at Tyrone Harry Taylor, the been making the train runs between Lock Haven and Tyrone. John Dubbs is doing Harry’s work here. While the change is not permanent it shows, nevertheless, that the Adams company recognizes the making of a good man in Harry Taylor and purposes schooling him accordingly. rr QA eee —A few day’s illness with apoplexy cul- minated in the death of Michael Carstet- ter, aged 72 years, at Mill Hall, on Tuesday. Interment was made in the Cedar hill ceme- tery, on Wednesday afternoon. Deceased was a highly respected old gentleman and leaves the following children : Mrs. Mary Houseworth, Mill Hall; Mrs. Julia Stewart, Westport ; Mrs. Mabel Berry, Rote ; Mrs, Rebecca Bittner, Lock Haven ; Mrs. Mary Stryke and Miss Amanda, Olean. Mr. Carstetter was the oldest axemaker in Mill Hall, having been engaged at axe making in the factories at that place since 1849. rere Ql) —eamee— Nearly everybody in Bellefonte knows or knows of “Uncle” Jimmy Wad- dle, who has been conducting a freight train on the B. E. V. almost since the first day cars ran over it along in the sixties. While no one questions his ability as a railroad man, though nearly seventy years old, in fact the Pennsylvania company con- siders him one of the very best in the ser- vice, there are those who will wink the other eye when we announce that he has developed into quite a pedestrian. He re- cently entered a contest in Tyrone and walked a mile on a wager so fast that the other fellow had to lay down a twenty dol- lar note to fix up his account with the stake holder. “‘Uncle” Jimmy is not slow, by any means, he gets on and off his train with as much alaerity as his most agile the old rail-roader cavorting, along the tracks as often as we ‘have he would never have wagered $20 that he couldn’t walk a | . . . . { mile in fifteen minutes. | | THE WELDLESS STEEL RAKE IS | PROVING A Success.—The Jenkins iron | and tool company, manufacturers: of heavy | hardware, have evidently, made a “find” in putting W. R. Jenkin’s patent weldless steel garden rake on the market. The firm ; of Jenkins and Lingle, founders and ma- {hint have been at work on a machine a short time, though all of his furniture | to press these rakes out of solid steel sheets was gotten out. The fire is supposed to have originated from a burning, defective flue. $550 insurance on the one building and $350 on the other, which amounts will fully cover his loss. *oo early last Monday morning. It was occu- pied by A. Kessler who saved a large por- tion of his effects. sured for $600. Mrs. Kessler had made a large wood fire in the cook stove before re- tiring and it is supposed to have heated the'tlue in the garret so as to set fire to the roof. —— eee ———Chicken thieves have caused the fire that burned Thomas | Adams’ stable, in Milesburg, last Saturday | morning. The building was discovered to be on fire about 1 o’clock, but it: was im- possible to save it from destruction. A number of farming implements and chick- ens were burned. at about $300. Dan carried | John Breon’s house, on North street, | Millheim, was totally destroyed by fire | ment The building was in- | are supposed to | | for several years, but did not succeed in getting it perfected until last season, too late for the trade. Many hundreds of the [ialses were made and stored up for this | season, however, and they are now on the ! market all over the country. In conversation with a Bellefonte imple- man, the other day, he re- I marked that the new ‘‘rake is the finest garden tool of its sort I ever saw.” The man has had more experience with such implements than any other dealer in town | and when he could make an assertion, back- ling it up by a comparison with a dozen | other makes that were standing about his | store, there can be little doubt of the value | of the new invention. : These rakes are being made at the How- ard iron works and can be turned out at the 1ate of two thousand per day, as that is the i capacity of the machine. They are lighter, | stronger and cheaper than auy others, be- The loss is estimated | Sides having the advantage of being made | all in one piece. assistant Adams agent in Belletonte, has | brakeman and if Harry Cutler had seén | money can be | | | | | | | | | | | tend to beautify our streets and give them BIDDING FOR BELLEFONTE'S NEW PUB- LIC BUILDING.—Af$ the regular meeting of council, on Monday night, the bids were opened for the, new public building that will probably soon ornament the borough property on east Howard street. Benjamin Bradley was the lowest bidder and his proposition will be accepted, providing the Finance commmittee of council can raise the necessary money to go ahead with the work. The various bids were as follows : Joseph Fox bid, for Mill Hall brick, $4,184.00 ; for common brick, $3,881.00. D. Bartley, according to specifications, $4,636.65. : Ed. J. Garret, according to specifications, 54.327,51. : W. L. Steele, Mill Hall brick, $4,182.00; home brick, $4,113.00 Benjamin Bradley would take the old building off their hands and build accord- ing to specification for $3,945.00 Samuel Gault, $4,299.00 ; if allowed to use common plaster may take off $100.00 from bid. John Wagner requested that a board walk be laid from the corner of Spring and Curtin streets, along Spring to Beaver street. As there is no pavement along there council should take favorable action on this request. There should be sidewalks on all streets in a well regulated town, or people should not be asked to pay taxes. Sam’l Gault represented some east Beaver street people who want a walk laid on Ridge street, from Beaver to Curtin. There is a portion of town that so far as having a way to get into the business portion, with- out getting i mud shoe-mouth deep, is entirely -neglected. Quite a number of nice little homes line east Beaver street and there is no reason why council should While Israel Freeze, of Wallace Run, | not enforce the law for providing pavements was driving to Dix-run, last Thursday, his | for them just the same as is done in the horse shied at a train of cars and upset the | more thickly populated parts of the hor- ough. Both requests were referred to the Freeze was thrown out and suffered a pain- | Street committee. The Street committee reported cleaning of the streets in progress, repairs to bridges, a line given to William Walker on whieh he can build a retaining wall in front of his mother’s South Potter street property, and the necessity of fixing up Cherry alley. The Water committee reported the lay- ing of service pipe from Armstrong’s to Clark’s, on Howard street, the cleaning of the spring, but that no definite plan could be reported for rewalling it. ’ | Under the head of Fire and Police it was recommended that the committee confer with the fire marshall and report at the next council meeting on the amount of hose actually needed by the department. A New York salesman of fabric hose was pres- ent and exhibited his variety to council, but no action was taken on it. From what we have been able to learn both companies {are badly in need of hose and if fires were to break out in different portions of the town at the same time the department would be placed in a great dilemma. Another matter that this committee should look into at once is the condition of the fire plugs. Several times during the fall and winter the WATCHMAN urged council to arrange to have the street commissioner or water-works superintendent make a week- ly test of all fire plugs in town to $#& that they are in readiness for use at any mo- ment. The result of neglect in this line was keenly felt, on Tuesday night, when it | required fully ten minutes to open the plug | at Lamb and Water streets and in the meantime the (ire in the electric light sta- tion had gained such headway that it was past saving. The election of police officers resulted in I during the the selection of H. H. Montgomery for chief and Col. Amos Mullen to take officer | Gares’ place, dropped from the force. Thos. Shaughenesy was re-elected street commis- sioner, over Joel Johnston, by a vote of 6 to 2. Under this head burgess Naginey ap- peared and recommended the establishment of police headquarters and the adoption of suitable uniforms. The burgess will have done Bellefonte a lasting service if he ob- tains such an end. According to the new and more effective ideas of street making that are being intro- i duced ito council it is probable that the | old ordinance requiring the building of a gutter along all streets will soon be repeal- ed. If streets ale properly constructed there will be no need for gutters, but in the event of their being done away with |! councils should not fail to enact an ordi- nance requiring the laying of a 6 or 8 inch curb on a regular line on all streets. Such a requirement, more than any other! would a neat appearance. ~The plans for the new public building, published in the WATCHMAN, two weeks ago, were adopted and council adjourned after ordering the payment of bills to the amount of $646.13. ———— RN BURGLARS AT MILL HALL.—Early last Friday morning William McCloskey was driving past S. A. Wilt’s grocery store, in Mill Hall, and noticing two men in front of the building his attention was aroussd to know what they were doing there and thinking something was wrong went to Mr. Wilt’s house and woke him up. Both then went to the store and found the men busy helping themselves to whatever they could get hold of. Mr. Wilt opened the door hefore the men saw them. They blew out the light and started for the rear door. Mr. Wilt fired five shots at them, but they escaped. It was found that entrance had been made through the front door, through which a hole had been bored so that the lock could be removed. They carried away a revolver and eighty-three cents in money. re — —Fitz and Webster’s ‘‘Breezy Time’ comes to Garman’s to-morroyg night. ——The Journal, Philipsburg’s live lit- tle daily paper, was ten years old on Fri- day. We hope that the future years may bring prosperity to such a clean and credit- able enterprise as Mr. Bair is directing. - eee EASTER OPENING—On Wednesday and Thursday, April 14th and 15th, Miss Maize Graham will have her opening of spring and summer millinery. She will show the latest effects in hats and bonnets and invites everyone to see them. Store on the corner of Allegheny and Bishop streets. — ee fp ® mmr! —New spring clothing just opened at Faubles’. Prices much lower than ever. It will pay you to investigate. a MILLINERY OPENING.—Mrs. Robert Gilmour will have her opening of spring and summer millinery next Wednesday and Thursday, April 14th and 15th. Everyone is invited to visit her store in the Brockerhoff house block and examine“the display. News Purely Personal. ——, —Mus, I. C. Rutter, of Benore, spent Wednes- day shopping in Bellefonte. —Mrs. H. C. Valentine, of Curtin street, went down to Atlantic City, on Tuesday, and will spend two weeks at the shore. —XNoah Cronemiller, groceryman Jared Harper's right hand man, spent a few days last week with relatives in and about Aaronsburg. —Prothonotary W. F. Smith is in Philadelphia for a few days, and dnring his absence Mr. L. A. Schaefer is running that department of the court house. —John H. Yocum has gone to California for a month's visit. His mother, Mrs. S. H. Yocum, will return East with him to spend the summer at her old home in Middletown, N. Y. —Sup’'t. F. H. Clemson, of the Carnegic ore operations at Scotia, and Mrs. Clemson were ar- rigals in town yesterday afternoon. They spent several hours in Bellefonte shops. —He comes to town quite often but it is only occasionally that our old friend W. B. Grassmire, of Milesburg, finds time to “fool away” in a print shop. He was here, last Friday, and paid his re- sSpects, —Clem Deninger, president of Centre Hall coun- cil, and thoroughly pleased with the endorsement the people of that town gave his new water scheme at the local election, on Tuesday, spent Wednesday night in Bellefonte, —Edgar Green, superintendent of one of Al- toona’s largest electrical plants, is in town trying to dispose of a dynamo to the Bellefonte company. He isa son of F. Peeples Green, of this place, and atone time was superintendent of the Edison station here. —Arthur E. Kerlin, eldest son of Mr, A. S. Ker- lin, of Centre Hall, was in Bellefonte yesterday looking up a little business in his line produce trader. He and his father do a very large business in this line in Penns valley and their shipments form Centre Hall form no small por tion of the traffic from that point, : das a —Edward P. Butts returned to his. hu siness in Holyoke, Mass, on Monday evening. His brother Fred will make his home with him in the future and the home of their lamented father, on Linn street] this place, is being remodeled and will be rented. Mr, Butts’ death and the departs ure of the boys removes one of Bellefonte's oldest families. —William P. Brew, a brother of Mr. Harry Brew, of Spring street, arrived in town yesterday afternoon, and is visiting his old home and friends herc. He is located at Pittsburg where he has Leatlquarters as the representative of the Ridg- way engine and dynamo company. He has what eminent scientists have proclaimed very good machine and is here showing it to the directors of the Edison company. —Mr. G. W. Ward, a brother of Dr. J. E. Ward, of this place, was here on a visit to his brothe - latter part of last week. He located in Pittsburg, where he has been finding the work of carpentering very protitable. He brought a gramophone along with him and found considerable amusement in entertaining his brothers and friends here and his relatives at his old Pine Grove home. is —'Squire W. J. Carlin, four times elected justice ofhis precinct in Miles township and the John Wanamaker of Rebersburg, was in this place, on Wednesday, giving his attention to some egal business. Next week he will spend in Philadel- phia laying in a stock of fine goods suitable for the spring and summer trade. The ‘Squire has been in the mercantile business down there for four years and likes it, only together with his du- ties as justice it gives him alittle more work that | | he relishes. —One of the oldest builders, and we might just as truthfully say one of the most thoroughly re- spected men in Bellefonte, is Mr. William B. Straub, of Reynolds avenue. He has been a resi- dent of the town for years and is one of those men who prefers the quiet sanctity of home life to the everlasting struggle for prominence that seems to keep some men tearing at their. surroundings most of the time. Mr. Straub has been in the em- ploy of Jenkins and Lingle, machinists, for at | least twenty years, and is reputed one of the best | pattern makers atthe husiness, —He doesn’t impress you asx being an old man, ret you will think that such is the case, when we tell you that Henry Walkey, of Logan street has béen reading the Warcionax for just forty-two years and thirteen weeks. Well, he isn’t an old man at all. He just began reading this paper when he was young and that explains it all. When Mr. Walkey lived on his father's little farm, down in Nittany valley, they took the Watch (Ax and the fondness he acquired for it in his youth- ful days has grown with every visit this paper has made him since. Mr. Walkey's first trip to Belle- fonte as a tradesman was in 1865, when he came up to work on the home of the late D. M. Wagner, now owned by Daniel Garman, corner of High and Spring streets. Two years later he married and the following year he moved to Bellefonte and has lived here ever since, though for a number of years employed as a pattern maker at Jenkins and Lingle’s machine shops, he has pounded so many nails in Bellefonte buildings that if they were dollars in his possession the wealth of old Crarzus would ba no pat -hin’ to his. —Mr. H. E. Homan, one of the representative young husbandmen of the vicinity of Oak Hall, spent part of Wednesday, in Bellefonte, on busi- ness. He was one of the many farmers who were caught “long” on potatoes last season and is just now in a great quandary as to whether to plant strong or light this year. Mr. Homan makes things go for a profit on the farm and is not in busi- ness for his health alone. Just to show what ean be done under good mangement he recited a little experience he had, a few years ago, with sheep ; You know small stock is about the only profitable outcomg of the farm nowadays: He purchased eleven ewes ata sale and paid the good round price of $ each for them, but laid down the cash and got the usual 6 per cent. discount, making his outlay $11.36. The first season he took 100 Ihs. of wool from them and sold fifteen of their lambs at §3 enchi. Wool was then selling at 16 cts. the pound, so you see he realized $61 off the fleck, paying for themselves and making nearly §20 over for their keeping. Though wool and lambs have both gone down some in price he still finds the business profitable. Co. B’s FIRST ANNUAL BANQUET.—(Co. B. 5th Reg., N. G. P., stationed at this . place, were banqueted in their armory, last Friday night, and a right royal time they had. No outsiders except representa- tives of the press had been invited and it was strictly a military affair. The banquet was tendered by Capt. Hugh S. Taylor and was a mark of his ap- preciation of the earnestness with which the men have been working to regain their old standing as first in the regiment. For the last year the proficiency of B company bas been increasing by great strides and the progress has been due more to the good feeling, that exists between officers and men, than to any other cause. The early part of the evening was spent in drilling and with that done the men as- sembled in the large drill room where caterer Achenbach had laid covers for all on a daintily decorated table. After the various courses had been served Lieut. Geo. L. Jackson, as master of ceremonies, called for responses to the various teasts he proposed. The boys all enjoyed the even- ing andAvhen they had’ eaten all they could and had talked all they could they gave three cheers and a tiger for their bril- liant young Captain hind adjourned. It was such a delightful occasion that it will probably be the beginning of an an- nual company banquet. . *be - , —— Ebensburg, Erie and Conneaut Lake would all like to furnish sites for the next annual encampment of the second brigade N. G. P. All three places are beginning to hold out inducements and pull wires to entertain the soldiers when they go into their regular summer encampment. There had heen a prospect of the Guard’s going to New York to take part in the Grant monument dedication, on the 27th inst, but since the New York papers have been talk- ing so unkindly about our citizen soldiery it is quite likely that the trip will not be taken except by a provisional brigade com- posed of five orsix regiments made up from the three brigades of the State, hut on May 15th, they will all go to the unveiling ceremonies of the Washington and Penn monuments in Philadelphia. The Second brigade encampment has been fixed for 7 to 21. July oo ——Col. Theodore Burchfield, command- ing the 5th Reg., N. (i. P., has announced the following appointments of Bellefonte men to various regimental positions i Dr. Robert G. H. Hayes, to be assistant sur- geon, and corporal Boyd A. Musser, of B company, to be one of the battalion ser- geant majors. Serg. Jas. B. Strohm, of B company, has been honorably discharged, as commissary sergeant of the regiment. ode —All kinds of bicycle sundries, re- pairing and enameling in the finest style at Sheffer’s ware rooms in the Exchange. ode ——New spring clothing just opened at Faubles’. Prices much lower than ever. It wil! pay you to investigate. ass Ed Bower, the new proprietor of the Aaronsburg hotel,* has had charge of that hostlery since the 1st inst. odo New spring clothing just opened at Faubles’. Prices much lower than ever. It will pay you to investigate. x tt — Bicycles enameled any color. Tires vulcanized good as new. Columbia Agency, Bellefonte, Pa. se ——1It is said that the Keating wheel Co., Middletown Conn., desire a good agent in Bellefonte. As the Keating is known the world over as one of the finest and easiest running wheels made, it would seem as though some of our business men might open correspondence with the Keating peo- ple to good advantage - The wheel is a ready seller. 42-10-5¢ Sale Register. Arm 10mi.—At the Beezer slaughter house, near the Spring creek distillery, butcher's tools, wagons, horses, ete. Sale at 1 o'clock p. m. Arran 17th.—At the old Snow Shoe coal yard in Bellefonte, horses, farnt machinery, wagons, harness, implements, carts, Ete. All in good order, the property of F. P. Blair. Sale at 1 o'clock p. i. Jos. L. Neff, Aue. Bellefonte Grain Market. Corrected weekly by Gro. W. Jackson & Co. The following are the quotations up to six o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes Tess : Red wheat............. 80 Rye, per bushel... 30 Corn, shelled, per bus 30 Corn, ears, per bushel. 12; Oats, per bushel, old.. 15 Oats, per bushel, new 18 Barley, per bushel..... 30 Ground Plaster, per ton.. Buckwheat, per bushel. Cloverseed, per bushel Bellefonte Produce Markets. * Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co. | Potatoes per bushel.. 15 hia 0 Eggs, per doz S Lo: per pound.. 6 Country Shoulder 6 Sides. 6 Hams 10 Tallow, per pound.. 3 Butter, per pound. 20 The Democratic Watchman. Published every Friday morning, in Béllefonte, Pa., at $2 per annum (if paid strietly in advance); $2.50, when not paid in advance, and £3.00 if not paid before the expiration of the year; and no paper will be discontinued until all arrearage is paid, except at the option of the publisher. 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