BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—See to it that the full party vote is
polled next Tuesday.
—Vote for WETZEL, work for WETZEL,
roll up a big majority for WETZEL. Do
the same for Hoy.
—The outlook in New York is for the
election of judge VAN WyYCKE for mayor,
with GEORGE, Low and TrAcY following
in the order named.
—BRYAN has taken a hand in the Ohio
campaign and MARK HANNA has begun to
abuse everything and every person in
sight. ‘‘A dying mule kicks in all direc-
tions.
—With a new supply of whiskey, a shot
gun and three revolvers ToM COOPER has
been located flying for his farm in West
Virginia. This is not the “*hopeful’’ scion
of Delaware county, but the terror of south-
western Pennsylvania.
--These chainless bicycles are not such a
new wrinkle after all. DARWIN has had a
chainless theory of evolution for many
years and is likely to retain the patent,
without infringement, for some time to
"come unless he discovers the missing link.
—The Pawnee Indian squaw, ANNIE
WHITEWING, is suing for a divorce, the
cause not published. In thinking the
matter over it is quite probable that the
constant squalling of WHITEWINGS about
the tepee was too much of a chesthut even
for the poor Indian woman.
—Hon. M. E. BROWN, Democratic aspi-
rant for state treasurer, has just written to
Rev. Dr. SWALLOW assuring him that in
the event of his election Dr. SWALLOW, as
well as every other honest and reputable
citizen of the State, will have access to
every hook and paper in his department at
all times.
—In view of the fact that it will ulti-
mately cost as much as either one of them
why should Pennsylvania not adopt plans
for state buildings that would compare
with those at Albany and Denver. This
unfinished dome and opportunities for ‘‘ex-
tension’’ are to be the bung leaks while a
show of saving is being made at the spigot.
—Under the plan by which Spain hopes
to hold Cuba as a colony she now offers the
island a Legislature of her own and a vice-
roy as Governor. This is the form of
autonomy that minister WooDroORD has
cabled to the United States government
that Spain is ready to grant if it will bring
about the cessation of hostility on the
island.
—Tyrone’s new fire alarm, blowing its
loudest, most discordant blast, wont begin
to cause the consternation up there. that
the faintest little pipe from GABRIEL'S
trump would do. . The brimstony sound of
the latter is what would throw consterna-
tion among the fellows who will lie in bed
and let the new $125 whistle blow its
brasses out before they move.
—J. HENRY WETZEL, sturdy and re-
liable, is the Democratic nominee for county
surveyor. Don’t think that because the
office is a small one within your gift that
it doesn’t matter much who gets it. It
does matter ; not only to Mr. WETZEL, but
to the Democratic party as well. He ex-
pects your hearty support because you
nominated him. Don’t disappoint yourself
by not helping to give him a nice majority.
—J. J. Hoy, of Marion township, has
worked hard enough for other Democrats
in Centre county to inspire every one to go
to work for him. He is the nominee for
jury commissioner and will be elected
whether a full vote is out or not. But that
is not what he wants. He is a Democrat
and expects to do his duty, therefore he
‘expects every other Democrat in Centre
county to do his duty and work for the
polling of every vote on next Tuesday.
—The idea of terming JoHN BULL’S
decision against entering a monetary con-
ference looking to the establishment of
international bimetallism, ‘‘a black-eye for
silver’ is an insult to American inde-
* pendence. Never yet has England been
able to give the free-men of this country
a black-eye and it only remains for the
contest of 1900 to show how little she
figures when our masses decide that free
silver is what they want.
—Democrats have no reason to vote for
Dr. SwaLLow for state treasurer. He is a
good and fearless man, but he is not a can-
didate on personal principles. He is a
candidate because he wants to uproot the
rottenness that is known to exist in the
treasury department. That being the very
pledge of the Democratic platform every
Democrat should vote for Mr. BROWN.
He is just as good a man as DR. SWALLOW
and his election would prove far more
beneficial to the cause of good govern-
ment.
—There is little use of making any hones
about it Bellefonte is ina bad way in-
dustrially and the sooner the bull is taken
square by the horns the sooner a beginning
will have been made looking to a revival
of some of the more important idle manu- |
This condition has heen kept |
‘ : : ., | weekly that has had a most phenomenal
hid away, like a skeleton in a closet, until | £
factories.
it is impossible to hide it any longer. The
dry bones of inertia are rattling on all
sides, tenantless houses are being left to
tumble down and all our people have been
80 boastful and full of vain-glory, in the
past, that they have been too proud to
recoguize or admit this condition. It con-
fronts us now. Is Bellefonte to drv up
and be wafted away on the trade winds of
of other centres or are her people going to
make her once more the flourishing busi-
ness place she once was ?
TA
GR
Democratic
ALC
VOL. 42
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 29,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
1897.
NO. 42.
Relief Through a Democratic Source.
The independent movement in the Re-
publican organization against boss rule and
machine corruption, a movement headed by
WiLLraM R. THOMPSON. as a candidate for
state treasurer against the spoilsmen’s nomi-
nee for that office, may be credited with
sincerity of purpose, but while it shows the
existence of a Republican element whose
conscience and patriotism have re-
volted against the abuses of the party ma-
chine, it does not furnish that creditable
element with the best means of overthrow-
ing the base combination of corruptionists
who rule their party and the State.
Such a movement among Republicans is
based upon reasons that appeal to all con-
scientious and decent citizens who have a
feeling for the honor as well as an interest
in the welfare of the State. It would be
unnataral if the Republican party of Penn-
sylvania did not contain its proportion of
such citizens, and therefore an honesty and
earnestness of purpose must be ascribed to
the 3,000 members of that party in Alle-
gheny county who signed the call upon
which was based the independent candi-
dacy of Mr. THoMPSON for state treasurer,
in opposition to the nominee of the party
machine.
That both this independent candidate
and his supporters are moved by a deep
sense of the corruption and degradation of
the party management cannot be doubted.
There is abundant cause for the movement,
and Mr. THOMPSON expressed the feeling of
every Republican whose senses are not
paralyzed by party prejudice when, in his
address accepting the leadership of this Re-
publican revolt against machine misrule, he
portrayed the debased character of the dom-
inant political power in State and nation
in these words, among others of equal force
and truth :
‘Politics, instead of being statesmanship
has become a matter of traffic, of buying and
selling. Does anyone doubt this? Look at
your last Legislature, openly charged with
being the most servile and incompetent that
ever sat in our legislative halls. Does any
one question the situation, when two of the
most prominent officials of the State have
been dismissed for signing a bond to indemni-
fy the state treasurer against loss by reason of
payments made by him, against law, to men
not on the authorized pay roll? Does any one
doubt that politics is a matter of dicker and
sale? Through a mistaken spirit of loyalty
to party, as though some mysterious virtue
attached to that, men have been led to sup-
port persons and measures, absolutely un-
worthy of confidence or respect, yea even to
withstand through this fetish of party the
things which make for the best interests of
the country. Men are selected for positions
in State, city and Legislature by a corrupt
process called an election,
their expenses |
paid by the boss, upon the express and im-
plied condition that they are to carry out in |
every particular his orders? Pray what is
meant by the phrase, ‘‘the old man has given
orders? Will any member of Legislature
please explain ? Will any one please enlight-
en us as to how it is that certain men only are
allowed to be nominated and selected as Sena-
tor, Governor, and so on down the list, and
that in a ‘free country’ and among ‘free
men ?’
This true picture, drawn by an indignant
Republican smarting under a sense of
wrong that has been done the State by
the corrupt machine politicians who have
usurped the control of the party, justifies
the opposition of which he has been made
the leader ; but as to the great body of
Pennsylvania citizens relief from the ruin-
ous misrule and debasing political oppres-
sion is more directly attainable, and has a
better chance to success, through a party
which can bring nearly half a million
votes against the dominant machine, and
needs but the assistance of the independent
vote to insure the overthrow of that cor-
rupt power.
The Democratic party can be safely in-
trusted with this great service to the State.
Its record shows no instance in which this
Commonwealth suffered harm from Demo-
cratic administration. Neither in its exe-
cutive nor legislative action can it be
charged with ever having sacrificed the
public weal for the benefit of private or
class interests, or extended its favors to
capital in preference to the rightful claims
of labor. It was never guilty of abusing
executive or legislative power. It can just-
ly point to the relief it afforded the misgov-
erned State in giving it, on two occasions,
pure, honest and efficient executive ad-
ministrations when the elections of PAT-
TISON resulted from popular uprising
against machine misrule.
The independent candidacy of Mr.
THOMPSON is a natural manifestation of the
deep-seated discontent of Republicans with
the abuses committed by their party mana-
gers, but such a movement can be of no ef-
fectual account in ridding the State of that
infliction except in so far as it may assist
in electing the Democratic state candidates.
—— Pennsylvania Grif, the Williamsport
career, is still pushing onward. Since 1884
the paper has grown from a very unpre-
tentious little sheet with a nominal ciren-
lation to a sixteen page, well executed
newspaper, having a circulation of 80,000.
The latest improvement made by the Grit
has been the installing of a new How per-
fecting press at a cost of $30,000. Such
advances are the best evidence of the suc-
cess of a journal. Great expenditures can-
not be made without great incomes and
great incomes are only had by newspapers
that have become popular.
An Insult to the Veterans.
Parties connected with the Pennsylvania
associations of war veterans are giving the
old soldiers some very bad advice. With
a political intent, which in no way com-
ports with the public welfare, the veterans
are urged to support the Republican state
nominees, BEAcoM and McCAULEY. The
reason assigned for such support is that
the ‘‘best interests of our State and nation
are conserved by maintaining the suprema-
cy of the Republican party.”’
The falsity of this claim, particularly as
regards the interests of this State, is
shown by the deplorably corrupt condition
to which its public affairs have been
brought by the Republican machine politi-
cians who manage its government. When
it is becoming a matter of almost general
conviction that machine rule in this State
is thoroughly had, designed entirely for
purposes of political and personal plunder,
and that public interest as well as the rep-
utation of the State demands that it should
be stopped, it is an insult both to their in-
telligence and their patriotism to call on
the old soldiers to give their support to a
gang of party spoilsmen whose control of
the state government is as disgraceful as it
is injurious.
What is there in the disposition and
character of old soldiers that should en-
courage their party corruptionists to look
to them for support ? When the better sen-
timent of the Republican party is revolting
against the rule of the bosses who run the
party machine, and has become convinced
that their control is ruinous and disgrace-
ful vo the State, what reason is there that
men who have fought for their country
should rally to the support of political rep-
robates whose corrupt management of pub-.
lic affairs is harmful to the whole country,
as well as to the State ?
The veterans endured hardships amid
the scenes of warfare and risked their
lives on the field of battle that the life of
the nation might be saved and that the
government of the people by the people
should not perish from the earth. What
an insult to them that they should be call-
ed upon to devote the service of their de-
clining years to the service of a combina-
tion - of dissolute politicians that
brought State and nation under the rule of
party bosses and is converting the govern-
ment of the people into a government of
political machines.
The Taxpayers Interest in the State |
Capitol.
After a long and suspicious delay in get-
ting down to business the state capi-
tol commission has determined upon a plan
of construction and authorized its archi-
tect to go ahead with the work, but in the
activity it is now displaying there is an ev-
ident intention of laying out the building
on lines that will be far beyond the limit
of the appropriation.
The purpose seems to be to exhaust the
appropriation on an incomplete building.
With $550,000, the amount allowed so far, a
substructure may be built that may admit
of the expenditure of millions on the
superstructure. This plan can be adopted
with a dependence upon the liberality of
future Legislatures to furnish the money
required to build a capitol that will en-
rich everybody connected with its construc-
tion. The fact that the commission pro-
poses to expend the appropriation on an
incomplete building would indicate a
scheme of this kind.
No kind of work furnishes such a chance
for plunder as the construction of public
buildings. The invariable design is to
prolong their construction, to enlarge
upon the original plan, and to make the
expense as great as possible for the advan-
tage of those conducting the job. In this
way the city hall, in Philadelphia, has been
made a Klondyke from which a ring of pol-
iticians and contractors have extracted
about eighteen millions of dollars and the
building is not yet finished. The New
York state capitol has cost over twenty
millions and as it is a very profitable job
nobody ever expects to see the work on is
brought to completion.
While the people of Pennsylvania de-
sire that their State should have a re-
spectable capitol they don’t want to be
robbed in its construction. There is an
appearance of an intention to spend too
much money on it. Prudence requires
that this work should not be left entirely
in the hands of the ring that now has it in
control. By the election of the Democrat-
ic candidates for auditor general and state
treasurer they would become members of
the capitol building commission, ex-officio, |
and the introduction of such an element in- |
to that body would be a protection to the !
interest of the tax-payers.
|
A ———————————— |
Importance of Reform This Year. |
present incumbents of those departments
of the state service who have so unfaith-
fully performed their trust. There will
then be a larger scope for the action of
those citizens who feel it their duty to
break up the wretchedly rotten ring of ma-
chine politicians who are misruling the
State, but that work which is to be done |
next year on a larger scale will he render-
ed the easier by preparing the way for it by
defeating the state ticket which the ma- |
chine has now in the field.
One thing should be horne well in mind
by the people, particularly by those, if there
are any, who may believe that next year
is the proper time for the reform so greatly
needed in our state government, and this
one thing is the fact that if a year hence
both the legislative and executive power
should be taken from the hands of the prof-
ligate politicians who now control them,
but the state treasury and auditor general
offices should continue to be in their charge,
in consequence of the election of their state
ticket this year, the reform that can be ef-
fected only by overhauling the accounts
in the auditor general’s office and uncov-
ering the crooked business management in
the treasury would remain unaccomplish-
ed. A machine auditor general and state
treasury could stand in the way of that
thorough exposure of machine misrule and
corruption that is necessary for the restora-
tion of honest state government.
In fact the most important step as a pre-
liminary measure of reform is the cleaning
out of the auditor general and state treas-
ury departments.
A Chance for Better State Govermment.
Evidence in every quarter of the State
shows that the Repulican party in Pennsyl-
vania is divided by factional quarrels and
distracted by personal feuds unprecedented
in its history.
ing knives which they are more disposed
to use against each other than against their
Democratic enemies. The bosses who were
united in running the party machinery are
now operating opposition machines, and
the allegiance of the henchmen is divided
between the conflicting bosses.
Their leaders are flourish-
This situation is the natural result of
has | political conditions in which obedience to
the party boss was made of more account
than fidelity to the people’s interst, and
private gain was the chief object of public
service.
conflicting standards, and a collision be-
tween them was as unavoidable as the fall-
Rival bosses were sure to set up
ing out of thieves over their plunder.
Such a disturbance among the leaders
and consequent division of the henchmen
never occurred before in the Republican
organization in Pennsylvania, and it should
help the Democrats to carry the State
election in the interest of better govern-
ment. They should not be deterred from
taking advantage of this opportunity by
the idea that it is an off year in which the
election is of but little importance, and
consequently neglect to vote. An election
of officers such as auditor general and
state treasurer, who will assist in un-
covering the crooked management of the
treasury, is of very great importance.
Even if the corrupt machine should be de-
feated next year in the election of Gover-
nor and Legislature the retention of its
tools in the auditor general’s and state
treasurer’s offices would interfere with
those disclosures 1n the treasury accounts
which are necessary for the complete cor-
rection of machine misrule in the State.
Therefore no Democrat or Republican who
desires better state government should neg-
lect to vote next Tuesday.
What Is ‘Needed.’
The Republican Philadelphia Bulletin
makes a damaging comparison which,
coming from that source, reflects but little
credit upon the Republican capitol build-
ing commission. The Bulletin says that
on the 26th of last January a fire broke
out at Thirteenth and Market streets,
hiladelphia, and destroyed nearly a block
of stores and dwelling houses. Only a
week later, or on the 2nd of February, the
state capitol was destroyed by fire. Com-
menting upon these contemporaneous oc-
currences. the Bulletin says :
‘Eight months have passed, and the
burned block at Thirteenth and Market
streets has been replaced with a dozen va-
rious structures. At Harrisburg not a
thing has yet been done toward replacing
the capitol, not even a plan has been ac-
cepted, and yet all that is needed is a
$550,000 building !”’
The Bulletin may not be correct as to
what is ‘needed’ in this case. It is pos-
sible that what is needed by those who
would like to make a bigger job of it is a
building that would cost a good deal more
than $550,000, and it is possible that this
need is what is delaying the commence-
ment of the construction.
The people are not in favor of a capitol
Those who believe that the public af- |
fairs of Pennsylvania need reforming make |
a mistake if they think that next year will |
be the proper time for it and that so im-
portant a matter can be put off until that |
time.
It is true that next year a Governor and
Legislature are to be elected in place of the
| structure that will cost millions and fur-
nish an opportunity for contractors and
commissioners to become rich at the ex-
pense of the State. They can most ef-
fectually prevent this by placing a Demo-
cratic auditor general and state treasurer in
| the capitol building commission, as ex-
officio members, who would curb the Re-
publican inclination to squander the pub-
lic money.
Signs of Public Wrath.
The prospect of electing the Democratic
state ticket is very encouraging. Of course
in a State which has habitually given such
large Republican majorities there can be
no certainty in anticipating the defeat of
that party, but it is certain that it never
before so thoroughly deserved defeat. There
was never before such good reason why the
Democrats should he successful.
The people have abundant cause for
overthrowing a political supremacy in the
State which has misused every function
of government and abused every trust com-
mitted to it. In the Legislature, in the
executive department and in the manage-
ment of the treasury it has been faithless
to the public interests. Extravagance and
corruption have characterized its policy and
directed its action, and where it has not
plundered for the benefit of its bosses and
party workers it has assisted the corpora-
tions in despoiling the people.
This has become so plainly evident to
all classes of citizens that even Repub-
licans can no longer allow party preju-
dice to blind them to the shameful fact.
The records made by recent Legislatures
of their party, and the misrule in every
department in the state government,
have created dissatisfaction and disgust in
the ranks of the Pennsylvania Republicans
to an unprecedented degree. This feeling
manifests itself in the large Republican
support that is Leing given to the inde-
pendent candidacy of Mr. THOMPSON and
to Dr. SWALLOW, the Prohibition candi-
date for state treasurer. These are indi-
cations that a large percentage of the Re-
publican voters will not stop at half way
measures in reproving their corrupt ma-
chine leaders, but will cast their ballots
directly for both of the Democratic state
candidates.
These are the political conditions that
foreshadow Republican defeat in this State.
They are plainly evident and it is entirely
natural that they should exist. It would
be a miracle if all this political prostitu-
tion, dissolute administration and general
misrule should. have gone on without ex-
citing an outburst of public wrath.
~——The - Clearfield Daily . 288tivr has
suspended publication. Editor WATTS has
decided to have a live weekly rather than
a half-way daily and has shown good
sense in his determination.
Is This a Government for Monopoly Only ?
The commissioners of Luzerne county,
under advice of counsel, have decided not
to pay the deputy sheriffs who did the re-
cent shooting of the miners at Lattimer.
Doubtless they felt that it was bad enough
to have the citizens of the county thus
mercilessly shot down, without being
called upon to deplete the county treasury.
for the payment of rewards to the perpe-
trators of the cruel deed. But the deputies
are not to go without their blood money.
The coal operators have come promptly to
the rescue. They have agreed that the
deputies’ fees shall be paid out of their
own pockets.
This whole business has been, in fact,
an abdication of the powers, duties and
other functions of government hy the peo-
ple and their regularly constituted authori-
ties, and an assumption thereof by the coal
magnates. When it was deemed necessary
that a force of deputies should be enlisted,
these magnates furnished the men, enlist,
ing their clerks, superintendents, power
agents, etc., for the service. When it was
determined that they should be armed
there was no wasting of time waiting on
slow moving state officials. The magnates
provided the Winchesters. When the
deputies were arrested and held for trial on
the charge of murder the magnates fur-
nished the bail, arranging with one big
Philadelphia fiscal institution to go on the
bonds. When the strike continued in
spite of the Lattimer butcheries, they came
forward with the reasons which the Gover-
nor deemed sufficient excuse for calling in-
to the field a whole brigade of the National
Guard, at a cost of about a quarter of a
million of dollars to the State (unless the
coal barons should volunteer to pay this
bill also) and of whose achievements at
Hazelton the ‘‘poet’’ might have written—
And there was General Gobin,
Who had three thousand men
And marched them up the hill
And marched them down again ;
And when they were up the hill they were ap,
And when they were down they were down,
But when they were in the middle, they were
neither up nor down.
Government by injunction having heen |
tolerated and even applauded, itis not |
surprising that government by the coal |
magnates should follow. Indeed there is |
reason for believing that these magnates |
regard themselves as being the government, |
or at least the backbone of the government,
or the coterie for whose exclusive henefit |
the government exists. Nothing less |
would sufficiently account for the readiness
with which they dictate its policies and |
moves, arrogate to themselves its functions |
and stand ready, as in the matter of the
provision of the Winchesters and payment
of the deputies, to make good its delin- |
quencies. It is a singular situation that is |
thus presented, but one that grows natur- |
ally out of the fact that Hanna, with the |
millions contributed by the banks and
monopolies, can make a President, and that |
Spawls from the Keystone.
|
| —Howard Wizner was probably fatally
| shot by Frank Byers while hunting near
Sharon,
—DMargaret Davis, a child, fell into a tub
of hot water in Scranton and was scalded to
| death.
—Safe-crackers got several hundred dollars
| from the Lancaster store of Watt & Shand on
Sunday night.
—DMiss Jeanette Deavors accidentally rode
her bicycle into a canal at Milton, but was
resened by Winfield Wilson.
—William Johnson, charged with trying to
murder Ernest Reynolds, returned to Oliver
to see his sweetheart and was locked up.
—Scranton’s city solicitor has rendered an
opinion that the city’s and assembly's
transient dealers’ laws are unconstitutional.
—The store of Clay W. Evans, at St. Clair,
was entered at night and silk goods and
other valuable merchandise stolen.
—Three farmers near Minersville have
each sued the Lytle coal company for $5000
damages; for culm deposits on their lands.
—The Allegheny Valley railroad company
objects to running as slow as six miles an
hour through Verona, and wants the limit
changed.
—DBy a fall of coal at Packer colliery No.
5, at Mahanoy City, Anthony Mattches was
instantly killed and Frank Rolesky badly
injured.
—John Taylor, chief of police of the town
of Parsons and employed as a mine contractor
in the Algonquin mines, was instantly killed
by a premature explosion.
—The Tamaqua & Lansford electric street
railway, connecting Tamaqua and Summit
Hill with all towns in the Panther Creek
valley, has begun operations.
—Dr. S, H. Willard, of Allegheny. has
been appointed a member of the state board
of Homeopathic medical examiners, vice Dr.
Hugh Pitcairn, resigned.
—Beginning Monday the employes in the
Philadelphia & Reading car shops, Reading,
worked nine hours a day instead of ten, be-
cause of the shortening days.
—Following conviction at York of un at-
tempt to kill William H. Miller, his son-in-
law, Adam Patterson, shot himself in the
head, at Winterstown, but will recover.
—Christ Lutheran congregation. of Eas-
ton, Monday night elected Rev. Douglass
Spaeth, of Philadelphia, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Rev. J. W.
Mayne.
—Directors of Independent school district,
Lebanon county, have decided to prosecute
John Pitty unless he sends to school again
his son Oscar, who was suspended as a punish-
ment.
—As Northampton county has more than
its proportion of inmates in lunatic asylums,
Judge Scott will require more rigid examina-
tions hereafter before declaring persons
insane.
—A plea of voluntary manslaughter was
accepted at Lancaster in the case of Armstead
Sanders, charged with the murder of Rev.
William Wyatt, colored, of Charlestown,
W. Va.
—Taking the ground that defendants had
properly withdrawn from a voluntary arbi-
tration of the matter, court at Pottsville
struck from the legal records the arbitrators’
{ judgment for $18,000 in David Zehner's long-
litigated case against the Lehigh coal and
navigation company for its culm deposits.
—While examining his shotgun at his
home, near Coalmont, Huntingdon county,
Tuesday evening, Edmund Brewer accident-
ally shot his 2-year-old daughter the entire
charge passing through her body and killing
her instantly. Some mischievous boys are
said to have placed a load of shot in the gun
unknown to Mr. Brewer.
—Patent number 642, 462 has just been
granted to F. A. Harris, A. M. Cupples and
M. McCann, of Tyrone, for their new Patent
Drop Car Fender for trolley cars. The
patentees have offered the right to use this
fender to the Altoona traction company free
of charge forever. It is hoped that the fender
may receive its initial demonstration of prac-
ticability in Blair county. All who - have
seen the device pronounce it an excellent
safeguard for street railway cars.
—The identity of the dead boy who was
found in the box car at Williamsport last
week still remains a mystery. Several
parents from other towns have come to Wil-
liamsport, only to leave with the conviction
that the deceased was not their son. The
body was exhumed last Friday to permit a
Mrs. Holmes, of Baltimore, to view it to see
if it was her runaway son. She left relieved
to know that he bore no resemblance to her
lost boy.
—Thursday, at Jersey Shore, George
Thomas, a colored lad, was assisting in shing-
ling the roof of Mrs. Harriet Gamble’s resi-
dence. The rain had made“the roof slippery,
and Thomas had great difficulty in walking
over the roof, as it is very steep. Suddenly
he began sliding, but as he was going over
the edge he grasped the eavestrough, where
| he hung by his hands and called for help.
| W. A. Wilt, hearing his cries, rushed up
| stairs, and opening the window, caught hold
| of Thomas by the ankles and assisted in hold-
ling him up until the men on the street pro-
cured a ladder and placed it on the side of
i the building. Thomas then descended, but
his nerves were so badly shattered that he
was unable to do anything the remainder of
the day. Thomas hung fully five minutes
from his perilous position, a distance of at
least thirty feet from the ground.
—Cassidy Brothers, who have been engaged
in lumbering on Nelson Run Potter county,
during the peeling season, finished their jobs
a few days ago, and proceeded to Austin,
where they received their pay in full. In-
stead of returning to the woods and paying
their men as they promised, they attempted
to get away with their illgotten gains. They
were overtaken at Bradford, arrested and
returned to Austin, where they were placed
in the lockup to await a hearing, which was
to have been held yesterday, but the rascals
Quay, fortified with means from the same | had outside friends, who built a fire in a pile
sources or with moneys pilfered from the
public coffers, can run a great State accord-
ing to his own sweet and unfettered will.
Happily the working-men are at last begin-
ning to take cognizance of the somewhat
remarkable situation and are very general-
ly preparing to render a foretaste of their
opinion thereupon by votes for the Demo-
cratic platform and candidates next month.
| of slabs, and started a cry of fire. Whistles
| and fire bells took up the alarm and people
rushed from their homes, supposing that
| their old enemy—the fire fiend—had return-
ed to complete the work of devastation.
During the excitement attendant upon the
| location of the blaze, the friends of the
i Cessidy’s beat down the door of the lockup,
and the entire party made their escape and
are still at large.