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The Job department of the PRIM !a complete and affords facilities for dolntf the best class of fork PAHIIUULAII ATTENTION PAIDTO I,M POINTING. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. The normal human body has in it enough iron to make seven large nails Some people are so sharp that it is said the iron would make tacks instead of nails. Two grandsons of President Polk liave seats in the present congress. They are 11. K. Polk, of Danville. Ky., and his cousin, James K. Polk, of Ilidge "way, Pa. In one year the American copper Tuining shares have advanced in value from $100,000,000 to $205,000,000. The mineral wealth of the United Strtes loomed up remarkably in the year 1S• 8. The execution of Joseph Yaeher. the Trench "Jack the Kipper." by Mr. Deib- Jer. was the la»t act of that kind per formed by him. Dei bier has. held the. post of public executioner in F nance for US years, during which time he has>ex ecuted 53 people, and he now relin quishes the work to his son. A Siberian paper says that a syndi cate of French and Ilussian capitalists has been formed to start factories, open hotels and business houses, and build towns in Siberia along the route of the great trans-Siberian railroad. This rail road will be the longest and greatest in the world when fully completed. It was the late Senator Morrill who crew up the educational land grant bill passed in ISC>2 andisigned by President Lincoln. The total grant to all the states was 9.597.840 acres. New York's share was 1)89,920 acres, and it brought $001,473. Cornell university is. one of the numerous monuments of the law. The lack of timber supply for the •world is not likely to cause much un easiness for some years yet. It is stated that in the province of Archangle, lius uia, there are forests belonging to the government which cover 88.979.400 acres in which the ring cf the woods man's ax has as yet scarce ly been heard. The doorkeeper of a Boston theater, ■who died recently, held his place .!• vears. and in all that time 1 never wit nessed a play there or anywhere else. On only one occasion he asked for a holiday, and that was.to attend'a clam bake down the harbor, lie missed the boat, and was in his place at the theater door at the regular hour. An electrician in Lock port, X. who was shocked by a current of 900 volts says he felt no sensation whatever. He saw a blinding flash and was thrown vi olently to the floor. After staggering to his feet he fainted. lie says his brain seemed to be partially paralyzed, and everything around was dreamlike, but he felt no pain, though his hands and ankles were badly burned. Cordelia Yiau lias been sentenced at Montreal. Quebec, to be hanged on March 10 for the murder of her hus band. The defense was that hypnotism controlled the hand that committed the murder. The official hanging of a wom an on this side of the earth is very rare, though fjuitc a number are lynched. During the past year seven colored women have been lynched in the south. There were 00,073 deaths in Greater Xew York in 1898 —one death for every nine minutes in the year. So says a New York correspondent, and he added lhat 30.294 of the deaths were in ten ement houses, and that 25.325 of the whole number were of children under five years of age—more than half in ten ement houses and nearly half children tinder five years of age. The death rate was 19.21. on an estimated population of 2,948,830. ' The United States senate, which is sometimes called the millionaires' club, might with equal appropriateness be designated as an old gentleman's club, for there are a considerable number of members who are well on in years and there are no really young senators, with the exception of Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, who is but 38 years old. Most of the senators are on the shady side of 60 and a number of them are past 70 while the late Senator Morrill, of Vermont, was in his eighty-ninth year. Official figures by the director of the mint show that the gold product in the United States in 1898 amounted to $05,- 782.077. or more than $8,000,000 in ex cess of the total for 1897. Of this total Alaska furnished only a little over s2,'- OOfI.OOO, or less than the output in Col orado. California. South Dakota, Mon tana. Arizona. Nevada, Idaho or Utah. Further investigation may place Alaska high up in the list of gold-prod uci'*- .states and territories, but at preser t is of relatively small importance. .e Klondike region is on the Canadian,side «jf the border. NO CHANGE IN THE TARIFF. Aurrlran llimlnrna Men llave Aceept r>l us Final the Pro(rotlvf Principle. Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Dingier is reported as hav ing said that the war re-venue law would not be changed this winter, for the re-ason that the government needs the revenue that is produced by it. Congressman Dingley might have add ed another reason had he not thought that the necessity of the government was of itself sufficient. He must know that in this city, and probably in every manufacturing community in the L'nited States, a protest that would be impressive would be raised were it un derstood that it was the intention of the ways and means committee to change in any material way the ex isting law, or at least that part of it which applies to the customs tariff. In fact, this feeling is so strong that a reported interview with Senator Hanna has occasioned some anxiety here, and it is a common remark that it is to be hoped that Senator Hanna was inaccurately reported. The opinions which are quoted as coming from him have been carefully read and asa result it is the impression here that the sen utor does not mean that the war rev enue measure or the tariff law must be changed in any important respect, but simply that some minor changes are rdvisable, and perhaps some additions either to the internal revenue list or to the tariff list which will bring us a larger income. Nevertheless, the anxiety which the reported remarks of Senator llanna have occasioned of itself shows how in tense is the desire that, for a time at least, business and commerce be per mitted to continue undisturbed by any tariff legislation, upon the path which 'he amazing figures furnished by the bureau of statistics shows to be one of unprecendented prosperity. It was noticed in the campaign which has just been ended in this state that in none of the resolutions, either of the state or of local conventions of the democratic party, was there any ref erence to the issue which Cleveland made preeminent in both of his admin istrations. Not a word was said about the tariff in resolution nor upon the stump. The question was not ignored as a matter of policy, but it was treated ns an issue that had been determined and that belongs now to history rather than to the present administration of the government. The only democrat in the campaign who did speak of the tariff question was Abram S. Hewitt, and he stated two or three times that as a question of policy or of expediency the view which he for many years took, and which was preeminently the view of Cleveland in his first administration respecting the tariff had been, in the light of new con ditions and of trade expension, ren dered obsolete. Hewitt is understood to be of the opinion that the American people have accepted as final the principle em bodied in the Dingley law, and will con sent to no modification of it until pos sibly after experience in the adminis tration of colonial governments it may be found expedient to modify it in -ome respects. Roswell I\ Flower is confirmed by re cent experience in the view which he took a year ago. flow-ever much the Chicago platform of the democratic party may have displeased him. he dis covered in it. or rather out of it. some thing which gave him the greater, gratification, and that was that forth' first time in many years the party had subordinated the tariff question. Flower is now of the opinion that any man who is in business or who depends upon the income or labor of others for his support, who would ad vocate any change in the tariff laws, should have a conservator appointed ever him as a person of unsound mind. lie thinks that business has now thoroughly adjusted itself to the rev enue legislation and defies anyone suc cessfully to refute that statement in view of our trade experiences, and espe cially our foreign commerce of the past year. In that view other democrats who were once conspicuous as ardent fol lowers in the footsteps of Cleveland, now agree, and it is even observed that at the Iteform club, whence a few years ago went forth in the form of millions of pamphlets the gospel of practical fiee trade, there is no longer any vi vacity or especial interest in public qiiestions. and the club has lapsed into the luxurious lethargy of a purely so cial organization.—N. V. Letter in Phil adelphia Press. CURRENT COMMENT. FTThe admirers of Col. Bryan should lose no time in presenting him with a range finder.—Milwaukee Sentinel. silver and socialism weight down democracy. They assure McKin ley's reelection. —Chicago Chronicle (Dem ). Bryan must have realized by this time the helplessness of getting his party together on a free coinage, anti trust or anti-expansion pla-tform.—Chi cago Titnes-Herald. officials estimate that there ire $910,000,000 of gold in this country at the present time. If "gold is a cow ard," as the silver boomers assert, it cer tainly isn't afraid of America. —-V Y. Mail and Express. t7A brass band at Carson. Nev,has secured a judgment for S4O against Sen ntor Stewart for playing for him during the recent campaign. In future he will no doubt prefer to toot his own political horn.— Denver Post. volume of business for the year just ended has been the greatest ever handled in this country. And yet a few demagogues are going about telling the people that we ought to have a change of government. — CleveJacd Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1899. A YEAR OF PROGRESS. Contldrnee In the It •-pn 111 Iran Trade l'olloy Ilaa llrouiflil Urrnl I'ruapt-rlly. Part of the story of the wonderful commercial development of the United States during the past calendar year is told in the weekly trade review issued by Dun & Co. Most of the story is fa miliar to our readers. Not only have all previous records been eclipsed in the foreign trade of the country, but they have been broken by prodigious figures. During the past twelve months the value of the exports has exceded those of any previous 12 months by almost $300,000,000. a r _d the value of the exports and imports com bined is greater by about $100,000,000 than in the previous banner ytar of 1892. Furthermore, during the year just closed, the balance of trade in our favor reached the enormous total of $017,000,000, against $357,000,000 last year. In only two other years d:d the balance in our favor rise to $300,0* 0,000. Never before this year did the imports of gold exceed the exports by Srj.OOO,- 000. During the year just closed the ex cess of gold imports over the exports reached the enormous total of sl4."' 000,- 000. Not only have we paid big debts we owed abroad, but we are now lend ing so much money in Europe that the foreign bankers are looking to New York to fix the rate of exchange. Thus have we been released from the "domi nation of the European money kings," which has been the burden of populis tic comp'aint, and the United States can to-day be counted as an independ ent nation in a financial, as well as many other senses. The triumph in financial affairs, says the trade review, is largely due to in dustrial progress. For the first time in the history of the country, the ex ports of manufactured products have exceeded the imports of manufactures, that excess in iron and steel products alone amounting to about $74,0'0,000, and industrial activity is noticeable everywhere, mills and factories run ning now as they have.s-eldom been op erated before. When it is remembered that all this industrial and commercial progress has come during the year in which the United States has fought and won a foreign war, and on the heels of a long and disastrous panic, the people ought to be convinced that the result due in a great measure to the policies that have been inaugurated and maintained by the party that was entrusted with the control of the government by the voters at the election of 1890, and which will assume complete control cf all branches of the government when the next congress- begins business, one year hence. When the merchants and manu facturers of a country have confidence in the financial and industrial policy that is in force, and the farmers are getting a fair return for their toil, there is bound to be prosperity, and such prosperity should continue as long as the conditions remain favorable. — Cleveland Leader. RESUMPTION OF GOLD. I ttlinate Hmult* of the Bound Money Aet of the Ke|r Two \l'erk« lie Hovered Hetweeil L.lle ami llratii ~lCepre*rntcd the Second Maine Hlfttrlet 111 < oiigrckk lor 17 Iran. Washington. Jan. 14. —Hon. Nelson Dingley, of Maine, leader of the re publican side on the floor of the house of representatives, died here last night at 10:30 o'clock of heart failure result ing from extreme weakness due to pneumonia. He was unconscious dur ing most of the day, and death came quietly without consciousness being regained. There were present at the time Mrs. Dingley, Miss Kdith Ding ley, Messrs. K. N. and A. H. Dingley, Rons of the deceased; James C. Hooe, an intimate friend of the family; Dr. Dcale, one of the physicians who has been attending him throughout his illness, and the two nurses. To within a few hours before his death the fam ily firmly believed, as it has through out his illness, that Mr. Dingley would recover. Mr. Dingley's illness dated back to December ~".i. when he complained that he was not well. The physician diag nosed his case as one of grip, and cau tioned the patient to keep to his room. The following Saturday pneumonia developed in the left 1 uncompli cated with great irregularity of the heart. The funeral will be conducted in the house of representatives on Monday next. At 4:20 in the afternoon the funeral part\ will leave for Lewiston, Me., arriving there Tuesday. Further services will beheld at the family res idence in Lewiston on Wednesday. The interment will be in that city. Nelson Dingley, jr., governor of Maine in 1574-7.">, and member of con gress from the Second congressional district of Maine since in Durham. Me., February 15, IS3?. the son of Nelson and Jane Lambert Ding ley. In 1554 his parents moved to Au burn. At 17 he taught a winter school in the town of <'hinn, 14 miles from home, and he continued to teach win ders while fitting for college. Kntering Waterville college (now Colby university) in ISSI, he remained there a year and a half and then he came a student at Dartmouth college, from which institution he was gradu ated in isr.s with high rank. After leaving college Mr. Dingley studied law in Auburn, and was admitted to the bar. Instead of entering upon the practice of law. h<- decided to become a journalist, and in 1556 he purchased the Lewiston Journal. In ISGI In- was elected representa tive from Auburn to the state legisla ture, in which body he at once took high rank, was re-eleeteil several times and was speaker of the house in In 1 sTr? Mr. Dingley was nominated as the republican candidate for gov ernor of Maine and was elected by about majority. In 1574 he was re-elected. He actively participated in the presi dential campaign of 1876 and in was nominated by the republicans of the Second congressional district to till the vacancy in congress caused bv the resignation of Hon. William I'. Frye. lie was elected 'by a majority of over 5.000. When he entered congress he was made a member of the committee on banking and currency, serving there eight years. At the beginning l of his congressional career the country was disturbed on the question of the ex tension of national bank charters. He immediately identified himself with a bill for the extension of the charters of the banks and in the face of much opposition helped fight the bill through. Hut it is difficult to name any im portant legislation in congress of the last 1.1 years with which he was not identified. Ilis first speech in congress was made April ISS2. on "protec tion to American shipping." While lit had been active in financial matters be was thoroughly informed on ship ping. having come from a state with large shipping interests. iMr. Dingley was not an orator. He lacked the physical presence, the de velopment of throat and chest and quality of voice which make, men ora tors. None the less all the members listened when he arose to speak. He had ft wonderfully lucid way of as serting facts, going at once to the heart of every contested point, lie also had a remarkable faculty of pre senting an argument. His mind was logical to the highest degree. Iti£ Cupper Combine Formed. Chicago. .Tan, 14. —The Keeord says: A gigantic combination in copper wa recently effected in New York am with the reputed hacking of the Stand ard Oil Co.. the American Copper ('< in its combination of six great plant expects to revolutionize the coppe mining industry of the world. 'I" Uoston &■ Montana and Unite A Natural Black is Produced by Buckingham's Dyevir.. ftO ct«. of druggist* or R.P.Htll It