sY P. GRAY Ink Slings. Help to get out the vote, Democrats, This is an important election and you will be expected to lend a hand. —_After Nov. 5th the political ambitions of Mr. EDwARD C. McKINLEY, of Miles- burg, will be found on the counters at the great rummage sale in this place. The Turko-Bulgarian brigands still bave Miss STONE, the American mission- ary, and we have the $125,000 ransom they ask for. The question now is: Will we get Miss STONE, if they get the money ? __It is said that jndge LOVE announced that CoRAY would be knocked off the ticket several days before it actually oc- curred. How did he know ? Did he have his ear at a telephone, too, and was there some one leaking in Harrisburg? —(zoLGosz asked for a spiritual ad- viser on Tuesday, but he declined to re- nounce his anarchistic beliefs and says he will believe them rather than christianity. After the electric spark has done its work this miserable wretch will discover that an- archy will avail him not against the red fires ‘of hades. : - fhe Pan American is to close next week and it will go down in history as the most gorgeous. and wonderfal display in many respects ever seen. It will not need the sad thought that our lamented Presi- dent received his death wound there to give it a place in the world’s memory throughout time. gANTOS-DUMONT, the young Brazilian balloonist, has made his dirigible air ship sail over a prescribed course in Paris, . within a prescribed time, and now the French committee is withholding the Deutsch prize of 25.000 francs from him, on a mere matter of technicality. It is quite evident that they have been treating SAN- ToS. very shabbily, but he is not likely to 20 up in the air again for them. _The Republican Johnstown Tribune says : ‘Suppose the Bulgarians had kid- napped Mr. Governor STONE instead of Miss ‘Missionary STONE, would there be such an effort to raise ransom money?’ What a question! Why the very first time that old brigand chieftain would have poked his nose into civilization to fsuggest cuoh a thing as a ransom all of Pennsyl - vania would have yelled in. one voice : “Go way back and sit down,” and the inei- dent would have been regarded as closed. HARRIS, the one candidate for State Treasurer, voted for the unconstitutional Philadelphia *‘tax ripper’ bill when he was in the Legislature. CORAY, the other candidate for the same office, voted against the bill, because he knew it was uncon- stitutional. The Supreme court has just declared it unconstitutional and, ipsi facto, HARRIS is convicted of violating his oath of office. Here is a matter that you should not fail to remember when you walk into a booth to vote for a State Treasurer on the 5th of November. —_The Unionists are determined to make as great a showing. as possible in Centre county. They are going to speak by ballot to the QUAY machine and insist that their work on November 5th will be only a fore- runner of what is to come in the grand struggle next year to redeem Pennsylvan- jans from corruption. The result in Centre county will necessarily be looked for with interest by politicians in all parts of the State because of the fact that this is former Governor HASTINGS’ home and he being in the fore-front of the reform movement it will be expected of him to show consider- able strength, else the proposition will be regarded as hopeless. It doesn’t matter much whom’ Presi- dent ROOSEVELT entertains at dinner, whether he be white, black, brown or red man and we can’t see the reason of making go much fass because Hon. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON was recently asked to dine at the White Honse. One negro taking dinner with the President bas ‘nothing to do with the amalgamation of the races, but it ought to be an inspiring example to Mr. W ASHINGTON'S fellows, pointing to them, in unmistakable signs, that their place is exactly what they make'it. He has often said that the ‘‘negro of to-day has all he knows how to take careof’’ and if his race men would only profit: by the knowledge of this one of their number, who has at- tained great eminence, it would be for the better of all of them. —TIt mattered not how much Sir RED- vERS BULLER marched his soldiers up the hill and down again in South Africa, nor how badly he was defeated at Colenso he kept moving right up in promotions until he got to making speeches and then it was different. He has been deprived of his command and placed on half pay and the whole affair shows that there wasn’t much ¢ruth in the humorous outburst of a stutter- ing recruit one time. When told by the re- cruiting officer that he couldn’t enlist, be- cause of his stoppage of speech, he exclaim- ed : “Oh h—I, its orators you want, is it. I thought you were after soldiers.”” Poor BULLER has found out, like many another, that the less talking he does the happier he will be. The only soldier we know of who could talk with impunity was Col. TEDDY ROOSEVELT, of the Rough. Riders, and he could only do it because everybody kuew shat he didn’t care a bobee whethe. he got fired or not. SE emagralic ® ES CT 2 ol A il VY A) B STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. "L.LEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 25. 1901. NO. 42. Fusion Now Complete. The renomination of Hon. ELISHA A. CORAY as the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer by the state central com- mittee of the Democratic party is substan- tial evidence of the earnestness of that par- ty in the cause of political reform. Every possible obstruction has been put in the way of that result. On the 11th inst the committee met and with singular unanimi- ty nominated Mr. CORAY. So far as human understanding was able to penetrate the future, no blunder had been made. Every precaution to fulfill the Jaw had been tak- en. Buta partisan Republican court de- cided on a technicality that the nomination was invalid and there was nothing left for the Democracy except to try again. This was done on Tuesday at another session of the state central committee. Taking advantage of the points of objection raised to the first nomination the steps to the supplemental achion were made with great care. Every defect in the first action was avoided in thesecond. The Philadel phia members of the committee who by de- gign or otherwise were not invited to the first meeting were cordially urged to attend the second. No detail was neglected, how- ever unimportant it appeared, for the reason that the Democratic managers had made up their minds to make the second effort a auceess. That their expectation was ful- filled is shown in the fact that no attempt bas been made to overthrow the second nomination. Even the Democratic hirelings of the QUAY machine, with their intellects sharpened by the hope of plunder, have not attempted to overthrow the second nomination. For this reason the elements in the poli- tics of Pennsylvania which stand unmis: takably for decent politics and better gov- ernment are confident of the issue of the campaign. If the opposition had not been doubtful of the result the stultification in- volved in the effort to prevent the nomina- tion of COorRAY would not have been assum- ed. 'But'éhie danger of defeat and thie peril of the consequences certain fo follow made the ring managers desperate and they cou- cluded to take any chances, rather ‘than those of defeat. For that reason certain Democrats were employed to question the, validity of the nomination of the part of he ticket in court and the reformers only escaped the penalty of neglect or ignorance by rare good luck. But the result is satis- factory. The fusion of all the reform ele- ments in the politics of the State is now complete and the election of the ticket seems certain. e——————— —_— GARDNER is defaming or belittling no oue in his candidacy for prothonotary. He is a good, clean man and is making a good, clean canvass. He basa right to ex- pect your vote, because he has been a care- ful, efficient public servant and you should bear this in mind when you go to the polls on election day. A ————————— Schley Will be Vindicated. The testimony in the SCHLEY inquiry at Washington is drawing to a close and the indications point strongly to a result ad- verse to the expectations and hopes of the bureaucrats of the Navy Department. The testimony of those who were actually en- gaged in the battle which resulted in the destruction of the Spanish fleet on the fated or famous third of July, 1898, is practically a unit in favor of the capability and efficiency of the hero of that great event. That he will be fully vindicated by the judgment of the court can] hardly be doubted. It will be surprising to most of the Americans who have not been in the habit of inquiring closely into the events of their day and generation to learn that the same influences which led to the persecution of Captain DREYFUS in France have deter: mined the effort of the bureaucrats of the Navy Department to try to rob Admiral ScHLEY of the honors which he bad justly acquired by service in the United States pavy. But as a matter of fact that is the truth. Race prejudice led to a conspiracy to destroy an honorable officer in the French army and the same prejudices have been present and influential in the perse- cution of Admiral SCHLEY. : But as malice o’er lept itself in the case of DREYFUS, so prejudice has defeated its purpose in the case of Admiral SCHLEY. The fact that he was being attacked by the bureaucrats who during the period of dan- ger sought seclusion in places of safety on shore has finally aroused the spirit of jus- tice in the bosoms of those who shared the dangers and perils of the battle, and men have come forward and testified to the facts who otherwise might have remained silent. SCHLEY will be vindicated and he will owe the triumph to the innate justice of the men behind and before the guns, but alivays in danger. — A vote for GARDNER and a vote for SPANGLER will be the proper thing in Cen- tre county on election day. — Suberibe for the WATCHMAN. Make Gardner's Majority a Rousing One. The Republican pulled itself together yes- terday worning and tried to pay Mr. Ep- WARD C. McKINLEY, of Milesburg, a com- pliment of some sort or other and all ib could scrape up was that that gentleman is not the candidate of a party or faction. It was a left handed compliment at best and looked very much as if the candidate for pro- thonotary is being left to the tender mer- cies of some one else in this campaign. If no party nor faction is to own him the ques- tion naturally arises: What is he doing on the QUAY ticket. As a matter of fact Mr. McKINLEY is not the representative of the Republican party of Centre county. He is the cabdi- date whom the QUAY people nominated at the Republican county conven: tion and they lost no opportunity . to crow over the HASTINGS wing because they bad beaten PHIL FOSTER, of State College, for the place, therefor he is the candidate of that faction and there is no doubt about it. It is, however, altogether needless to try to locate Mr. MCKINLEY, for few peo- ple regard his candidacy as serious. He isa very nice man, but he is not the kind of a man, needed to fill the office of prothono- tary. He is not competent in any way to fill the office and for that reason it is well that the voters of Centre county should know the truth. ! In the prothonotary’s office it requires entirely different qualifications from those that are needed to be a good flour miller. It is entirely too important an office for the people to run any risk at all with. Mr. GARDNER has been tried for three years and his superior the couuty has never had as a public official. He has been courteous always, accurate with his records and prompt to attend to every duty of his office. These are the qualifications. that Mr. GARDNER presents to the public and he would be unable to show them were he not equipped from an intellectnal stand point to carry them into execution. In the prothonotary’s office it requires something more than a nice man. Of course that is a qualification that never comes amiss in selecting men for any office, hut it is only one of many and, unfortunately it seems to be about the only one that Mr. MoKINLEY possesses. Mr. GARDNER is a nice man too, in ‘addition to his intelec- tual attainments and his three years ex- perience in the office. Remember that there is not much of a campaign being made this fall, but every- one will be expected to do his duty and that will be to see that Mr. GARDNER gets every vote possible. — Don’t think that because Mr. SPANG- LER has no opposition for district attorney that there will be no need of voting for him. He needs your vote to complete the compliment bestowed by the opposition in naming no one against him. Make it as strong as possible. He deserves it. a ———————————— — All for Politics. It is not difficult to conjecture the reas- ons which influenced the Justices of the Supreme cours to decide the Philadelphia “ripper’’ ‘unconstitutional. Bat it will bother most lawvers to account for the fact that the same court some time ago de- cided the Pittsburg “‘ripper’’ valid. They declare that the Philadelphia case is ‘‘spec- ial legislation’” and that the Pittsburg case isn’t. As a matter of fact both laws are predicated on the same principles and are intended to subserve the same purpose. The only reason we can conceive that they should be decided differently is that in the Pittsburg case Judge POTTER ‘‘election- eered’’ the court and in the other case he didn’t. The Philadelphia “‘ripper’’ removed from office men appointed by the court as a board of revision of taxes, under an act of the Legislature. It was a special act, it is true, but it has been held that the legislation affecting the courts is not special. In fast when the point was raised ‘dunring the last session that a bill creating a new court in Philadelphia was special legislation the chair promptly decided the point not well t1ken and the House sustained him. But if the Philadelphia “‘ripper’’ is special leg- islation the Pittshurg ‘‘ripper’’ must be too, for it rips out of office the officials legally elected by the people in a particular eity. What else is that than special legislation. The truth is that both decisions may be interpreted as political and though the court has reversed itself in the present in- stance political exigencies required it and the stulti fication has no effect on the small minds of those on the bench of our highest gribunal. That the Philadeiphia decision is right we have no doubt, but the other decision is just as certainly wrong. Public sentiment has been respected in the present case, however, and that it is a matter of public congratulation. —The oldest bell in Clinton county, the one that called the Evangelicals to church in Mackeyville ever since 1844, was sold to Messrs. Fortney and Bechtol at sherifi’s sale last Friday morning. They paid $50 for it. Semator Martin’s Attitude, The speech delivered by DAVID MARTIN to the Nineteenth ward Republican com- mittee of Philadelphia,on Monday evening last, must have caused cousiderable suprise throughout the State. Of course Senator MARTIN will not be accepted by the thoughtful and observant citizens as a model of political virtue. Asa matter of fact it would be difficult to overstain his political crimes. As JOHN WANAMAKER, of Philadelphia, can justly be charged with having introduced the present system of political corruption in the State, so Senator MARTIN is properly chargeable with most of the evils of the machine political methods mn vogue in Philadelphia. But that is no reason why hig present professions of re- form should be discredited, or the results of his change of heart underestimated. : Senator MARTIN was for many years the head and front of the corrupt political ma- chine in Philadelphia. In fact it may be said that he practically built up the cor- rupt organization which during recent years has been controlling not only the politics but the government of the city by fraud. But that fact only makes him the more val- uable ally of the reform forces now that he has determined to antagonize the plans of the machine. A man who was less familiar with the methods of the machine would be less efficient in the fight against it, and for that reason there is the basis of hope in his declaration that he will fight the machine to the death. ‘‘When rogues fall out hon- est men come by their own’’ is idiomatic. The surest way to fight an enemy is with his own weapons. i We would not have it understood tha the reform party intends to resort to ballot frands and other expedients common to the machine in order to compass the defeat of that organization. . On the contrary we pre- fer to believe that in hig new relations Senator MARTIN will refrain from all il- legal and improper methods. Bat his ac- quaintance with the plans and systems of tlie crooks will make him the more formid- able antago ist and it is safe to predict that be will avail himself of every available means of attacking their citadel of fraud and defending against their assaults. Tt'is a war to the knife hetye n these singularly ‘constituted forces and the friends of good: government will hope that that which makes for better government will triumph in the test of strength between them. ——Do you know Mr. McKINLEY one of the nominees for prothonotary. If you do you will agree with us that he isa very | nice man, bat it takes more than a nice man to be prothonotary of Centre county. It takes qualifications of another sort and you know that Mr. McKINLEY does not possess them. He is not competent to fill the office. : Folly of the Proluibitionists. ne The most unaccountable incident of the pending campaign is the fact that the Pro- hibition party maintains a ticket in the field and urges voters to support it. Ex- cept for that it might justly be said that all the moral elements in the politics of the State are arrayed in a common cause | against the QUAY machine. The Demo- crats, the Independent Republicans and whatever portion of the People’s party which stands for principles have joined to- gether for improvement in the administra- tion of the State but the Prohibitionists re- main away from the union and insist ona separate ticket. The plain result of such action is giving assistance to the machine. Sappose the Prohibition ' party polls 20,000 votes for it candidates for J ustice of the Supreme court and State Treasurer and’ the QUAY machine ticket is elected by oue- third, one-half or even two-thirds that much plurality. The election of the QUAY machine ticket practically guarantees the same result next year and perpetuates the power of that party or at least extends its tenure for a period of two years. Who can measure the calamitous effect of that result on the affairs of Pennsylvania? During the last two years corraption in office has become more common than ever before. The immunity which the gang enjoys makes them bold, and a victory this fall will encourage them to strip off all masks and go into robbing in the open. What Prohibitionist in Centre county is willing to take upon himself responsibility for such a condition of affairs? Yet that is what he does when he votes the ticket of his party. There are no party polities in the contest this year. The election of YERKES and CORAY will not be construed as a partisan victory. In fact Mr. CORAY bas never heen a Democrat and his only claim for support by the voters of that party lies in the fact that he stands for good government in the future and in the past, as a member of the Legislature, he proved his faith by works well performed. In character and habits he is worthy the vote of any man and the reformer who fails to support the Union ticket is a derelict or, at least, inconsistent. ————————————— —QnpYeeribe for the WATCHMAN, EE I = Mr. Coray Has Been Nominated. HARRISBURG, Oct. 22.—The Democratic state committee held a special meeting in this city to-day to fill the vacancy on the ticket created by the decision of the Dauphin county court declaring invalid the nomination of Representative E. A. Coray Jr., of Pittston, for State Treasurer. Mr. Coray is the nominee of thie Union and Municipal League parties and was ‘momi- nated by the Demooratsat a recent meeting of the state committee to’ fill ‘the vacancy created by the withdrawal of Representa- tive. Andrew J. Palm, of Meadville. At the same meeting the six Philadelphia members of the committee were expelled for party disloyalty on recommendation of the Hasson committee appointed by the re- cent state convention to inquire into party | affairs in that city and their places filled by others. : i £4 Former state chairman Garman and Patrick Donahue, one of the deposed mem- bers; brought suit inthe Dauphin county court to test the legality of Mr. Coray’s nomination. They contended that his nom- ination was illegal, becnuse the meeting at which he was nominated was illegally con- stituted and that the Philadelphians had been regularly ‘deposed. Their contention was sustained by the court and to avoid further trouble the deposed members were given notice of to-day’s meeting. A, con- ference of party leaders was held last night, at which it was agreed to renomivate Mr. Coray and to take no further action for the present in the Philadelphia matter. * The meeting was held in the board of trade rooms and was attended by seventy- five of the eighty-one members, including the deposed members from Philadelphia. The meeting was called to orderat 2 o'clock by state chairman Creasy. After the meeting was organized, Mr. Creasy ex- plained that the purpose was to fill the va- cancy created by the withdrawal of Mr. Palm, no mention being made of Mr. Co- ray’s candidacy or the rejection of his cer- tificate by the court. John B. Head, of Greensburg, moved that the withdrawal of Mr. Palm be azcepted. The motion was unanimously adopted. Cbarles Donnelly, of Philadelphia, inquired of the ehair if there was not a meeting of the committee held in this city on October 11th. The chairman stated that the court has ruled that that meeting was illegal and no notice could be taken of it. Colonel Frank J. Fitzsimmons, of Scran- ton, was then recognized to present the name of Mr. Coray. i Mr. Fitzsimmons made a brief speech, after whieh Mr. Coray was nominated by a vote of 73 to 0.: His nomination was promptly certified to the State Department and. was certified ‘to-night to the county commissioners throughout the State for man was directed to appoint a committee of five to notify Mr. Coray of his nomina- tion, after the meeting adjourned. Mr. Garman was here to-day, buthe did not attend the meeting. of the state com- mittee. He made an examination of Mr. Coray’s certificate after it was filed and stated that it was in proper form. “I have no further objections to Mr. Corav’s nomination,’”’ said Mr. Garman, “except the objections that all good Dem- ocrats have ‘to being forced to vote the Republican ticket.” Chairman Creasy has appointed. the following committee to notify Mr. Coray of his nomination: A. J. Palm, of Craw- ford county; George R. Dixon, of Elk coun- ty; Colonel Frank Fitsimmons, of Lackawanna county; John T. Fischer, of Northumberland’ county, and Charles E. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia. A Whipping Post Would be n Good Thing Right Here in B:llofonte. From the Philadelphia Times. In Delaware the new law providing that wife beaters duly convicted sball be whip- ped has been put in operation in the case of a brute who had maltreated his wife. Throughout Chistendom the tendency has been steadily away from corporal punish-- ment, but in the minds of all good people, even those of the most humane inclinations, the idea has remained that simple impris- onment or a fine is poor justice to a man who strikes a woman, and especially toone who beats her brutally. ; A decade ago a law for the punishment of, wife beaters was: passed after long dis- cussion in Maryland.. It provided for whipping or imprisonment, or both, and the effect of its enforcement was to decrease largely the number. of cases in the police courts. The first man whipped was so overcome with shame that he left the State never to return, but the State @id not mourn his loss. In recent years the mag- istrates have practically ignored the whip. ping part of the law, but the fact. that it remains on the statute books has its effect. All efforts to repeal the whipping provision have failed. “2 In this State and in others bills of simi- lar import have been introduced in the Legislatures, but they have not succeeded. Tt is not that there is greater consideration for brutes who whip their wives, but that the sentiment against bodily castigation has become firmly fixed in modern life. At the same time there isa general wish that something more severe than ordinary wrath might be visited upon the wretches convicted of such a crime. ———————— Attracting Little Attention, : From the Easton Argus. Very little is being heard these days of the assassin of President McKinley and it begins to look as if the American people were pereisting in an expressed in- tention of forgetting him until the day of his execution and forever after that. There is nothing that pleases such men and those who rejoice in his act more than notoriety. The custodians of the assassin in the Au- burn penitentiary are doing their share to- wards keeping him from communication with the world and the American people, expressing no desire to know how he is getting along while waiting for death, are doing the rest. ——— —_There is no politics in the campaign this fall. Everyone is going to vote for the | best man and that man is GARDNER. printing on the official ballot, #8 thair- | sSpawls from the Keystone. Miss Jennie Rheem, of Clearfield, died in a hospital at Buffalo Friday, where she had been taken for an operation. —Miss Effie J. Kepner, aged about 33 years, residing with her sister, Mis. Neufer, at Fribley, Lycoming county, fell dead at a table, where she was kneading bread, Friday afternoon. —Clearfield is about to celebrate the first anniversary of the purchase of its steam fire engine and rejoices over the fact that the machine has mever once been called into service. —Burglars entered I. B. Smith's store at Mount Pleasant early Saturday morning, but were detected and driven away by Dr. Duncan, who opened fire on them and wounded one. — Word was received at Clearfield on Sat- urday that another negro had been shot by a comradé—who managed to get away—dur- ing a quarrel which ensued after several kegs of beer had been consumed. —A brood mare, valued at $1,000, belong- ing to Albert Lockhart, living near Black Lick, Indiana county, was shot and killed in a field. It is supposed the bullet was fired by a hunter. —A dispatch from Ebensburg says that not for years has there been such a lot of fine game bagged in that vicinity as this year. Especially is this the case with turkeys and pheasants. All game except squirrels is plentiful, : —One day last week while Michael and Joseph Riffle were taking out stone for the oil tank at New Florence, they unearthed 2 den of twenty snakes, every one of which they killed. The largest one measured three and one-half feet. _ —At a wedding at the home of Miss Mag- gie Craig, at Newton Hamilton, all of the ‘guests, sixty in number, were poisoned by eating ice cream that had been packed in a galvanized can. Some of the party are not yet over the effects of the poison. —John Wertz, a Newport merchant, lost his pocketbook, containing $100. Mr. Wertz laid his purse on the rear step ofa wagon from which he had purchased some apples and forgot all about it. Some. other fellow did not forget to pick it up however. —Wallace A. Morris, of Curwensville, was killed in the Harbison-Walker clay mines on Wednesday by a blast. He was 27 years of age. The day before he was killed he acted as casket bearer for his cousin, Henry Moz- ris, who met death at La Jose ‘a few days be- fore. — Scott W. Hemphill, Johnstown, dropped dead between 12 and 1 o'clock Saturday af- ternoon as he was about to receive the check for his pay at the time office of the Cambria Steel company’s plant in Franklin borough. He was about 55 years of age and died from apoplexy. —A counterfeit half-dollar,freshly minted, bearing the date of 1814, was vassed in Lock Haven Tuesday morning. Some of the mer- chants fear that a fresh lot of counterfeit pieces may have been shelled outin this community and urge people to be on their guard. ~—Robbers entered the homes of more than a dozen residents of College hill, the fashion® able residence part of Du Bois, Wednesday night. At several places they succeeded in making away with money and articles of jewelry, which in some cases amounted to considerable loss. —Henry Miller, a resident of Williamsport, was stricken with paralysis last Taesday ‘morning and the next day undertook to com- mit suicide by swallowinga lot of tablets containing strychnine. It is now believed that he will recover from both the strych- nine and the paralysis. — Another fire brick plant is to be erected at Clearfield. The company is capitalized at $150,000. Those interested in the project have 236 acres of fine hard clay and 200 acres of soft clay and -coal in the _vicinity of Cur- wensville, besides 300 acres of land in anoth- er part of Clearfield county. The Rev. John A. DéMoyer, formerly pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hollidayshurg, was the preacher on Sunday last in the Market street Methodist Episco- pal.chureh, Williamsport, the occasion being old Folks Day. Mr. DeMoyer has been a Methodist preacher for 55 years. ' — The drill on the Gummo farm in Clin- ton county struck a strong flow of salt water Tuesday night.and shortly thereafter pierced the second sand at a depth of 720 feet. These indications are as favorable as can be un- earthed for oil. As the pressure has become too strong, the 515 feet of casing will be with- drawn so as to permit putting a wider casing in below that depth to the point now reach: ed by the drill. Drilling will be suspended until the additional casing arrives. “"__A'sad accident befell J. G. Schnapp, of West Jeanette, Sunday morning. He has been suffering with an attack of malarial fever and at 5 o'clock he arose from his bed and wandered outside of the house. Half an hour later he was missed by his (parents, with whom he made his home, and search was instituted. He was found, hanging with his head in a rainwater barrel, dead, having drowned. The dead man was about 41 years old and is survived by three small children. —A well know sporty Hollidaysburg young man is being guyed by his companions at present for being duped in a ‘diamond trans: action at the Hagerstown fair by a sharper who purported to be a pickpocket. The dia“ mond was adroitly exhibited to the young man, so that the bystanders could not see it and a hurried offer made to accept $25 for the gen. I'll give you a sawbuck for it said the young man. Give it to me quick, re- plied the sharper, so that I can get away. The young man parted with his $10 note and received a diamond worth just 10 cents. —A trip over the main line of the Penn- sylvania at the present time shows that the 450 odd miles of track are in as nearly bper- fect condition as the science of railroad engi- neering can make them. The new ballast which was strewn along the entire line for last week’s inspection is becoming settled, but has not yet lost its beautiful blue tint, and the passenger coaches ride so smoothly that they hardly seem to be moving. During these perfect autumn days passengers show a remarkable inclination to travel on the rear platform, and the observation car attached ho the Pennsylvania limited is always crowd- ed.
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