fin BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. — As yet none of the government experts have gone bunting she bacilli of rottenness in the Post Office Department. —That thirty-five foot channel that Philadelphia is after ought to be built down Market street, from Thirty-fourth. —A little of this weather would be deli- cious'in August. And there are lots of fel- lows who are trying to preserve some of it in alcohol. —MR. CARNEGIE’S gift of five thousand dollars to the relief fund of fever stricken Butler is one of his rare charities without a string to it. — The man who is not afraid to do any kind of work when he cannot find employ- ment at his particular trade or vocation is the one who succeeds where others fail. —The Democrats didn't do a thing to them in Boston on Tuesday. PATRICK CoLLINS, the party nominee, was elected by the largest plurality ever given a candi- date for mayor. —The Christmas tree crop shows no signs of failure, though with turkeys at twenty-two cents a pound there must have been a large falling off in the output of the latter during the season. —The fellows who are shouting so vooif- erously for the reorganization of the Demo- cratic party in Pennsylvania now will be in the front rank of the disorganizers when the next election comes around. Ib is safe ‘to bet on that. — WINSTON CHURCHILL, the brilliant young Englishman, is said to be in need of money and rumor has it that he is coming over here to marry some. Just what silly American girl he will take on thir side has not been announced. —If Great Britain and Holland insist on Panama's assuming fifteen million of Col- ombia’s debt the new Republic which President ROOSEVELT baited into blossom will hardly find the tempting ten million it is to get from us for canal privileges enough to square the account. —1If the youngsters of the country were readers of the daily papers and should hap- pen to stumble onto the story of the Pro- fessor who says that all the ailments to which flesh is heir are dune to too much bath- ing Santa Claus would be flooded with re- quests for papas like the Professor. —The Philadelphia Press on Wednesday said some things abons Governor PENNY. + PACKER that its distinguished editor prob- ably thought bu chair as. : “ZMark HANNA'S denial . ‘candidate for the presidential nomination doesn’t seem to carry much conviction of its truthfulness. “His denials are entirely too frequent and TEDDY is entirely too strenuous in his watchfulness of Uncle MARK. . —The Spauish General who died recent- ly and lefs $10,000 for the first officer of his ‘country “‘who will land on United States soil with an army sufficiently large to avenge Cuba and the Philippines’ must be given credit for having discovered the saf- est way to tie money up that has ever been heard of. —I¢ is truly wonderful how conditions change in a few years. Four years ago MARK HANNA was looked upon as merely a scheming political manager, with enough of the dollar mark on him to resort to any method of carrying an election. Now the Republican party regards him as its Soro- MON, its Grand Old Man, its general pana- cea for all ills. —The number of cases of shameful and heartless treatment of people who have, through no carelessnese of their own, be- conie infected with ‘small pox reminds us that, after all, we are a very selfish, incon- siderate people. Some provision should be made iv every community to decently and comfortably provide for persons who are thus detained so that a repetition of such al- fairs as that which occurred between Mil- ton, Sunbury and Danville, during the fore part of the week, may not he possible. —Commissioner WARE'S declaration that ‘“‘within a few years the pension list will cease to be a burden’’ puts a new light on the honor role of the government. Up to this time it has not heen regarded as a bur- den ; except that the public has always hoped thas it would bepurged of the grafters and coffee-coolers who have no right to the government's bounty. Give every honora- ble soldier a pension, if he wants it,is what most men say today. No one looks on the pension roll as a burden, if it pensions all ~ those who are entitled to. it. —The way many of the newspapers of Pennsylvania received PENNYPACKER’S an- nouncement that be is a candidate to snc- ceed: his own appointee, -SAMUEL GUSTINE THOMPSON, ou the Supreme bench, will strike very little terror to the heart of the sage of Wetzel’s swamp. These same pa- pers worked themselves into a very similar paroxysm of denunciation at the time the libel hill was passed and what they weren’t going to do withanyone who had anything b0:do. with its passage was good and plenty. What they did to ‘‘Muzzler’” SNYDER, when he ran for Auditor General in Novem. ber, was to support him with.all "their, energy, 8o it is altogether likely that PEN- NYPACKER smiles as he reads the threats of the miserable journals that need bus the crack of the organization whip to scare them into the support of anyone or any- thing. say when | eleoti election of | Still | e isa _VOL. 48 STATE RIGH TS AND FEDERAL UNION. NO. 50. Perry Heath’s Lack of Courtesy. When the Republican National commit- tee called on President ROOSEVELT lasi Friday afternoon, as Chairman HANNA stated it, en masse, there were only two ‘members absent, Hon. PERRY S. HEATH, secretary of the committee, and the Hon. ‘‘GAS” ADDICKS, of Delaware. ADDICKS wasn’t in Washington at the time so that his absence from the ‘‘mutual admiration sosiety’’ is accounted for. But Mr. HEATH was conspicuously present in the city, con- spicnously active in the meeting and con. spicuously absent from the White ‘House event. Thus far no reason for the incident has been given by the President or Mr. HEATH. As a matter of fact so far as we know it hasn’t been explained at all. Yet there were many and important rea- sons why Mr. HEATH should have been among the President’s callers on that occa- sion and foremost in the bunch to express to him fond hopes of snccess. Gratitude among men of fine feeling is the strongest emotion and if PERRY HEATH has any gratitude at all it ought to surge out in strong currents toward the President. If he had been inclined Mr. HEATH would not now he at liberty to attend meetings of the Republican National committee or make courtesy calls on the President or any one else. He would either be in the peni- tentiary or so close to that institution of industrial instruction as to be under the surveilance of officers of the law. Is is possible that the President wasn’t influenced entirely by personal considera- tion for Mr. HEATH in protecting him from the penalty of his share in the postal frauds. The fact that Mr. HEATH is an intimate friend of Senator HANNA would, on the other hand, justify the impression that there is no real affection between him- self and the President. But ROOSEVELT has a wonderful consideration for party exigencies and when Senator HANNA point- ed out to him the fact that it would look bad to see the secretary of the Republican National committee lugged off to the peni- etibiary just on the eve ofa presidential Senator HANNA lias finally decided that he will not accept a re-elecsion to the chairmanship of the Republican National committee. There is nothing alluring in ‘the political outlook to the Senator and he doesn’t propose to sacrifice his reputa- tion as a successful political manager by taking charge of a contest which is inevita- bly and irretrievably lost. If he had any sympathy with the candidate it would he different, of course. If McKINLEY were still alive and the candidate of his party, HANNA would manage the battle, if it cost fortune and character. In that event his heart would be with the candidate and his time and money at the disposal of the party. But he has no reason to make sac- rifices for ROOSEVELT and he won’t. Almost from the day that the malice of an assassin sent McKINLEY to his death bed and put upon the country the calami- ty of a clown in the office of chief magis- trate, ROOSEVELT has been striving to minimize HANNA’S influence in public af- fairs. His intimate friends, appointed to important places hy McKINLEY,have been removed and men who have resented his sudden advance to the leadership of the party put in their places. Not only that but every party policy which HANNA has cherished and MeKINLEY promoted have either been antagonized by ROOSEVELT or treated with negative and half-hearted friendliness. Recently he has taken the other coarse hecanse now that the cam- paign is coming he needs HANNA. ‘But the old man has a good memory and can’t be eajoled. ROOSEVELT will ind a chairman for his National committee and he will pretend that he doesn’t miss HANNA but he won’t deceive the people by such subterfoges. He may get PAYNE, who is plastered all, over with the slime of the postal scandals to take the place and he is a shrewd and crafty politician. But, there is a vast difference between HANNA and he and the difference will be fatal to him. No man will contrib- ute a considerable sum of money to be at his disposal because his reputation as a pro- fessional lobbyist condemns bim. There is a possibility that Senator LODGE, of Massa- chasette, might undertake the work but he would bea laughing stock to the politi- cians. Altogether the refusal of HANNA to accept the office is a serious blow to ROOSEVELT. ——A recent-raling in the postoffice de- partment is that a person baviug mail de- livered by raraf carrier can get his mail at the office from which the mail is distribus- ed any time he wishes to call for it during office hours. Thus a man living on a raral route can get his Saturday’s mail in the af- ternoon when in town and will nos have to wait until Monday morning for is. ———fnbscribe for the WATCHMAN. immuoity was secured. | ought to have called on Pleasing But Improbable Rumor. There isa surprisingly pleasant report in circulation in the political centres to the effect that Senator Bois PENROSE is to be made chairman of the Republican National committee. We can hardly believe it. As the street gamins would say it is ‘‘too good to be true.’’ And still we are not without hopes. PENROSE has the ambition and ROOSEVELT the idiocy to bring about even so absurd a result and as the report comes from Washington it might be possible. As we have observed in another article, writ- ten before this ramor came, HANNA has re- fused and the party is bard up. But it will hardly take PENROSE. + Senator PENROSE was chairman of the Republican State committee during the re- cent campaign and he bad barrels of money. Every state, federal and municipal official in the Commonwealth was assessed from ten to fifteen per cent. of his salary and every man paid. Io fact every man knew that he had to pay or loose his job. Such an assessment and collection would easily produce a fund of a guarter of a million dollars and as PENROSE is rich be would probably use every dollar which came into his possession for the purpose for which it was contributed. Yet the party polled lit- tle more than hall its vote. At that rate Senator PENROSE wonld re quire a million dollars to get out the full Republican vote in Pennsylvania and not. less than $30,000,000 to get out the entire Republican vote of the country and with him as chairman and ROOSEVELT as the candidate one thirtieth of the amount counldn’t be raised in a thousand years. The result is that with PENROSE as the chairman of the National committee the Republican party is so certain of defeat thas it isn’t worth while to give the matter any further consideration. Unhappily, however, all the members of the committee are not imbeciles and therefore PENROSE won’t be chairman. ‘Most Interesting Evidence. The Dr, Wo0D orowd got a hard bump MORRISON was another purpose. Mr. interested in the Electrozone company of Havana, which had contracts for disinfeot- ing the city. For that service there 1s yet an unpaid bill of the sum stated, $8,000, which Cuban officials swear, not say, it will be observed, ‘‘was paid to General Woop to discharge the indebtedness.” Mr. MORRISON, who is a reputable lawyer with officss at No. 44 Broadway, added under oath, that ‘*he believes that General WooD received the money..”’ There was other interesting testimony touching the case on Monday, but that of Mr. MORRISON was sensational. © For example, Dr. C. E. FISHER, of Chicago, told of Dr. WooD’s intimacy with BEL- LAIRS, the ex-convict whom Woop bad in- duced the Associated Press management to appoint agent at Havana and who ured his position to fulsomely enlcgize Woop and malign everyhody else, especially General BROOKE, whose place WOOD was trying to get. Mr. J. C. LAFONTISSE, a Jacke<on- ville, Florida, journalist, corroborated Dr. FIsHER and both gentlemen said" that Dr. WooD knew all about BELLAIRS’ charac- ter and criminal record before he'got’ him appointed agens of the Associated Press. Bat neither of them accnsed the doctor of embezzlement or misappropriation of money. For that reason the testimony of Mr. MORRISON was the star performance. In view of these things it is small won- der that Secretary of War Root is greatly concerned about the evidence in ‘the Dr. ‘WooD case and has written to Senator HANNA practically begging that the news- papers be given no further information fo publication. RooT is one of the small coterie of civilians about. the War Depart- ment who have been making soldierly character a cause of quarrel and manliness an offense about the headquarters of the army. Heisone of the CORBIN crowd and always delighted in insulting General MILES or any other man with a fighting record and it is natural that he should be in sympathy with the ambitions of Dr. ‘Woop who won his military honors main- ly by making sugar-coated pills for Mrs. McKINLEY while she occupied the White House. ——8everal subscribers who have paid within the past six weeks have written to koow why the figures on their labels have not changed accordingly. The inquiry shows that these people are alert to their own interests, as they should be, but in this case there need be no worriment for owing to sickness and other disofganizing influences this office bas been working un- der great disadvantages’ for several weeks. In consequence of it the regular mailing list has been neglected. By the firat of the year, however, we expect to get in ship- shape again and then if any figures are not right call our attention to it. - ‘on Monday when L. H. MORRISON, a New | ‘York lawyer, accased the pet of the Presi-| 0 TFC one Colon BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 18, 1908, What is the Purpose. . The War Department at Washington is anxious to send an army down to the Isthmus of Panama in order to make short shrift of the bandfal of troops which Col- ombia is said to have dispatched to that point. There are several hundred United States marines there now which is ample force to annihilate the Colombians, but there isn’t enough picturesqueness in a con- flit on land in which no soldiers partici- pated. Why the administration is so anxious for bloodshed down there has not been revealed. What is to be gained by a sanguinary battle is left to conjecture. Bat there is no doubt that the anxiety exists. We hear it with every new supply of news- papers. | Probably the President imagines that in the gravity of the news of a slaughter the less startling incidents which have recently occurred on the Isthmus will be forgotten. Maybe he has deluded himself with the notion that if a battle was fought and a score or two of American soldiers killed nobody would pay further attention to the crime against international law which has already been perpetrated or the ontrage upon civilization which is still in process of execution. But in this he is mistaken. Additional crimes will simply add to the volume of public indignation and make more speedy and certain the inevitable ret. ribution. There can be no evasion of the peualty. An American army hag no more right on the Isthmus of Panama than it has on the docks at Liverpool or in the market place in St. Petersburg. In either of those piaces it wonld be driven into the sea. But be- cause the Republic of Colombia is a weak- ling the war lord in the white house is treating it as a buccaneer would treat a helpless merchant ship the cargo of which he coveted. This enormity is the blackest stain which has ever heen put upon the character of the American government and every decent citizen of the Republic ought to join a protest against the iniquity. It can’t be obliterated fiom the mind or con- doned. It is a crimeand must be punished. Sfeviniug_ Palliat Crime. | mei ot did “the vest on the Supreme court bench made vacant by the death of Chief Justice McCULLOM, came as a shock to the conscience of the Common- wealth. If the vacancy had occurred about the close of his gubernatorial term, or if he bad appointed an eminent and capable Republican for the temporary service who would have become a strong competitor with him for the nomination, it wounldn’s bave heen so bad. Bat to announce his candidacy and acknowledge in the same breath a ‘‘Foul Conspiracy,” as the Puila- delphia Record designated it, to trade two years of the term of Governor for twenty- one years on the Supreme bench is the most atrocious political crime of recent years. - : : When PENNYPACKER was a candidate for Governor with **Oleo’’ BILL BROWN on the tickets as the nominee for Lieurenans ‘Governor a suspicion gained currency and took the form of report that the bosses didn’t really want PENNYPACKER for Governor and that he had been nominated and was running only as a mask for BROWN. The report caused such a revulsion of pub lic sentiment that PENNYPACKER himself ‘was obliged to declare fiom every platform from which he spoke thereafter that there was no truth in the rumor, that he wanted to be Governor and that if elected he ‘would serve the full term. To this state- ment he pledged his reputation for in- tegrity acquired by a dozen years service on the common pleas bench and the people took him at his word. In view of these facts his resignation at the expiration of ball his term would nos only be a base and perfidions betrayal of faith to the people, bus it would be an in- |. excusable and atrocious sacrifice of the State to the political pirates who planned the nefations scheme. To pat ‘‘Oleo”’ ‘BROWN in the office of Governor of Penn- sylvania would ‘be an insult to the in- telligence and an outrage on the integrity of every decent citizen of the Common- wealth. In orderto nnderstand the char- acter of man he is it is only necessary to say that at the time he was making his canvass for Lieutenant Governor there were those who believed they had reason for suspecting him of having procured the murder of a citizen of New Castle and we are told that a considerable proportion of hig neighbors hold to their belief yet. el ) ——The Young American Republican club had a smoker in their rooms on Race street Monday evening. Judge Love was to have been the guest of honor but he had to leave to hold court in Huntingdon that day. arine Haupt’s home on Thomas stieet was broken open last Friday night and a good t wo-hotse Conklin wagon, nearly new, hauled off. Did you ever bear of such nervy stealing before or STOR RRN ‘the power of the 'Gevernof, . diggot “keep the’placeon the bench open-fory didacy. "Penny packer! ~——The stable at the rear of Mis. Cath- The Governor's Condemnation: From the Philadelphia Press. r The condemnation of Governor Penny- packer’s action in using the Supreme conrt vacancy for his own personal use has been universal and overwhelming. If there has been a single expression of approval or justification it has escaped our observation. Politicians have said they would sustain his candidacy. But no man and no jour- nal bas ventured to sanction the conditions by which this candidacy has been aecom- panied. On the contrary, every respon- sible utterance on the moral quality or the personal propriety of the Governor’s proceeding has been oue of emphatic repro- hation. But, it may be asked, has not the Gov- ernor a right to be a candidate for the Su- preme court? Does a man. in taking one office bind himself not to leave it foranoth- er? - Did not Mr. Pennypacker relingnish a jndgeship to accept the Governorship and may he not relinquish the Gov- ernorship to resume a judgeship? These questions do not touch the heart of the present issue. In order to measure the obligations we must take ourselves back into the campaign of 1902. Mr. Pennypacker had been accepted by a large “element as a candidate for Governor in the hope that his character would give assur-| ance against misrnle. There was a sus. picion even than of a clandestine scheme to transfer him from the Governor’s chair to Supreme Bench, and thus both se ambition and secure the executive This fear found wide expression, important was its influence that Mr packer pledged himself, if elected, to serve through the full term. q That pledge binds him. It limits his freedom of action. It was a compact with the people. He may repudiate it but he cannot absolve himself from it. Seill more decisive against his proceeding is the moral wrong of abusing his trust ‘as Governor to |. serve his own personal end.’ That misuse of power makes his course utterly indefen- sible. The question is not simply whether he has a right to be a candidate for Su- preme Judge but whether he has the right to nse his anthority in order to pave the way for his own ambition. Here is the real gravamen of the offense, and there is no escape from it. dim consciousness of the point when in his letter he says: “I may be wrong, bus it seems to me there is no principle of ethics which would prevent me from going hefore the next Republican State Convention as a candidate for the Suprenie court’ or from | asking the support of Mr. Quay or any one else who may have influence, provided I do not use the power of the Governor for that purpose.’ : Aye, there's the rub! But you and indirectly to bring assent to yosr can- Do not deceive yourself, Governor The appointment of Judge Thompson is now thoroughly understood. In itself it was non-partisan and excellent. Bnt is there an intelligent man in the State who does not. now know that the real inspiration of the selection was not these reasons. but the fact that it would leave the way clear for the ‘Governor in the Republican Convention? = ‘‘In appoint- ing Mr. Thompson,’” says the Governor, “I have indicated so plainly that even the blind may see my opinion as to the kind of man who ought to be placed in that po- sition.”” What mockery! If the ‘kind of man’’ for appoinment why not for election, and with what decency can the Governor in the same breath announce himself as a candidate against him? : To these considerations which enforce themselves on all other minds the Governor heems entirely insensible. That is the strange parts of the matter.. He has no just sense of what he owes to the people, no sense of what he owes to his own honor and honesty, no sense of what he owes to the principles of conduct he himself lays down. He wonld not willfully do a dis- honorable act, but with his mental infir- mities he may do the most dangerous thing in the full faith of innocence. In prosti- tuting the power of Governor to serve his own jndicial aspirations, with singularly ohtnse want of appreciation of the impro- priety, he is doing himself a wrong from which 5 stein public judgment onght to rescue him. Small-Pox Troupe in Terrible Plight. Women aud Children Among Actors Imprisoned in Car—No Funds, Danville Turns Them Bach, MILTON, Pa., Dec. 15.—Misfortune con- tinues to pursue the Bennett and Moulton repertoire company, and the twenty-four members who compose it. After being driven out of Milton on Sanday night by armed guards, famigated and vaccinated and compelled to spend the night in a dilapidated passenger coach, hecanse one member of the company had been taken ill with small.pox, they thought their cap was full. But last night they retnrned to Milton, not havinggbeen allowed to get ont of the | car at Danville, where they were to begin a week’s engagement, and failing to find the manager of the troupe, they are almost without funds and stranded. When the company arrived at Danville vesterday, officers sprang ahoard each plat- form of their car and commanded them to keep their seats. The car was then placed on a siding, and the next train bore it back to Milton. The engagement was can- celed and the manager, who was to meet them at Danville, did not appear. There was not money enough in the party to sup- port them, and since their return to Milton they have been wiring far aud near for help from their friends. Meanwhile meals are heing sent in to them, but they continue to live in the car. In the party are a number of women and several children, who are suffering severely from their misfortunes. To-day the car with the sick man, Her- bert Lindholm, is alongside that which bears the other members of the company. What will hecome of the party ie a matter of much speculation. ———8ukacrite for the WATCHMAN. Episcopal hospital ‘Chestnut Hill, ‘Herman L. Duhring, D. D., superintendent, ‘has closed its doors against visitors. Other The Governor shows a |. Spawlis from the Keystone. -—Williaméport will be one hundred years old on March 1st, 1906, and t. .e is already talk of properly celebrating the anniversary. .—Rev. E.' B. Walts, a Baptist clergyman of ‘Williamsport, on returning home from a business trip downtown ‘Saturday night found his wife lying on the floor dead, she having died of heart failure a few moments before, as the body was still warm. —July 1st William Weeks, of Jersey Shore, had his right foot nearly severed, causing lockjaw ard eventually death. Five weeks later the 'wife died of blood poisoning and last week. their infant child died from the effects of an operation for spinal trouble. —The announcement is made that Bishop C. C. McCabe, who is to preside at the ap- proaching session of the Central Pennsyl- vania conference of the Methodist church, which meets in Harrisburg next year, has changed the date of meeting from March 16th to March 23rd. : —The Clearfield Bituminous eoal company, has discovered and are developing a 3} foot coal vein on the right bank of Little Clear- field creek, opposite Goon’s : hotel, at. Kerr- moor. This operation will rejuvenate Kerr- moor and bring back the good times that vil- lage used to have. ‘—J. L. Boone, an ex-county commissioner of Clinton county, and a prominent member of the Lutheran church at Loganton in that county, of which Rev. Dr. Dunlap was pastor until recently, died at his home in that place at moon Saturday. He was a prominent citizen of his community. —TFire originated in the basement of the new High school building at Clearfield at noon Monday and practically ruined the interior of the structure. Many children were in the. building at the time, but all escaped without injury. The loss will ‘amount to several thousand dollars. —Anthony Schuerer, 77 years old, of Williamsport, early Wednesday; evening fell down stairs at his home. His son George, who was asleep, did not awaken until late and then found the old gentleman groaning at the foot- of the stairs. Mr. Schuerer's spine is'inj ured and he may not survive. —For the protection of the inmates of the for consumptives, : at against small-pox, Rev. institutions are contemplating like action. _ —Frank Reeder, a brakeman employed on ‘the New York Central railroad, was struck by: Central passenger train No. 30, at ‘Mitchels, a station some miles west of Clear- field, Monday morning, and was injured se ‘badly that he died shortly before noon. The young man was married only a month ago. —In the hope of lessening the increase in small-pox cases in Johnstown, Mayor Pendry has issued’ an order forbidding all public dancing, The board of managers of the Cambria Free Library association held a meeting Wednesday and decided to close all departments of the building until the present danger of an epidemic of small-pox and diphtheria is past. i “he humane society, of Pittsburg; have ‘to | notified teamsters and other horse ‘owners ou, that they will be arrested for cruelty to animals if they leave their horses standing on the streets unblanketed during the cold weather. Pittsburg horses have no more right or need for comfort than horses else- where, go such a rule rigidly enforced would be good everywhere. —Lloyd Campbell was knocked from the street railway company’s bridge, which is being built across Pine creek, near Oak Grove, Saturday, by being struck by a beam. He fell 25 feet on the ice of the creek below, and was bruised so badly and injured in- ternally that he was unconscious for a time. He was removed to the Oak Grove house, where a physician attended to bis injuries. —Death claimed both parents from a home in Patton on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Isaac Laney bad been a sufferer from asthma for years, and some mouths ago ‘fell and broke both hips, the injury com- fining him to his bed ever since. His death occurred on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Laney was very ill of pneumonia at the time of her husband’s death, and early Sunday morning she also passed away. —The town of Spangler, Cambria county,is much alarmed over small-pox, there being 13 cases there at present. Many of the resi- dents of the town are opposed to vaccination. The schools of the town have not been closed. It is said that a large number of pupils have never been vaccinated. It is reported that Tuesday, when the vaccinating physicians called at the school houses to subject the scholars to the process, the teachers locked the doors and refused to allow them to enter. —Martin Herzog, a member of the Nep- tune fire company of Tyrone, during the fire at the City hotel at that place Monday was completely soaked with water from the hose and concluded he would go to his home for » change of clothing. In descending the stair- way at the factory his shoes being coated with ice he slipped and in the fall was seri- ously injured about the head and face, his nose broken and five teeth knocked out and bad cuts on cheek and lips and for a time rendered unconscious. —In the resurvey which has just been completed of the celebrated Mason and Dixon’s line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, some of the original boundary stones were found in place. Others were doing duty in the neighborhood as door- steps or ovens; one served as a curbstone, and two had been used in building a church near the National Pike. The arbitrary line which they marked has played a more im- portant part in the history of this continent than many a natural boundary of far more imposing appearance, —The Altoona Tribune says half a million dollars and more was paid over to the Penn- sylvania railroad shopmen in Altoona during the past few days. It was their November pay and the amount was $514,000. It was thought that the recent retrenchment in- augurated by the company would consider- ably lessen the sum. It didn’t as the amount is $18,000 more than was paid out in Dec- einber, 1302. The itemized sums paid out to the different shops are as follows : Altoona machine shops, $260,000; ear shops. $150,000, and Juniata shops, $95,000.
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