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YOL, { NEW SERIES. XVIIL
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'r.
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LEGISLATIVE.
The following bills were passed finally
in the legislature, on 24:
An act to distribute the publications
of the geological survey, and amend an
ect entitled an act to provide fora geolog-
ical survey.
An act to prevent the adulteration of
¢nd the traffic in impure and unwhole-
some milk in cities of the second and
third classes,
An act making an appropriation to
pay the salary of the secretary of the
committee on lunacy.
Doctors say they will give no more
bulletins on Grant's condition. All
right —we'll apply to the nurses, the'll
know about as much as the doctors did.
tli fe e——
If England and Russia have any no
tion of blacking each others eyes, then
let them begin, and not tire the audi-
ence by longer waiting. Let the circus
Verner} av hack the $ 3 mR . >. 23
begin or pay back the admission. An act making an appropriation to pay
the expenses of the committee to inves.
tigate the Standard Oil Company's tax
case appointed by concurrent resolution,
approved June 2, 1885.
Bills were favorably reported as fol-
lows;
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At Asbury Park the Board of Commis-
gioners have passed resolutions con-
demning as a nuisance the meetings of
the Salvation Army and instructing the
Chief of Police to prohibit the gathering
crowds at the doors of the barracks.
This is a sensible step. The Salvation | 5 : li-
Army has been no help to the cause of "ense of $1,000 on skating rinks and au-
taorizing the formation of cattle breed-
{ing companies,
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House bills imposing an annual
Christ.
trie —
Notwithstanding the depression in| Senate bill authorizing the Pennsylva
business the number of corporations in|uia canal company to abandon a portion
the State has largely increased the past|cf its canal between Huntingdon and
two years and about $203,000,000 have | Newton Hamilton.
been added to the eapital stock of com-| The following bills were favorably
panies incorporated by the State. There|] assed on second reading:
are in Pennsylvania about 5,700 corpora} Appropriating $450,000 for improve-
tigns, over six hundred of which have|raents to the Western penitentiary, sal-
been chartered the past two years. In
that time railroad companies have been
incorporated with a capital stock of $41,-
000.000
| aries of officers, etc., of the Eastern pen-
[tontiary; $88,104, of which $6,254 is to
cyver a deficiency and salaries of officers,
lete,, of the Western penitentiary, $71
— 1030.
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I'he state legislature has now sat be-|
The bill appropriating $500,000 for the
maintenance of indigent insane in t
sate hospitals for two
vond the 100 days and done hardly any- be
¥ an} v
Will the members sit over Ww
re]
vears, beginni
:
June 1, 1885, was amended at the request
nothing, or for
tha frat
wile Urs
time
| take pay for doing f
ight have been done in
r days?
iat m
of the state lunacy commission, increas
hg ing the amount to $650,000.
Let the members take warning from|
» fate of the members of the lastlegis-|
ture who were kept at home for stay-
ing at Harrisburg over time and doing
nothing and taking pay for vaca'ion, ad-
journments and all.
No work no pay, say we.
mitment e—
There is little doubt that the winter
wheat crop has been seriously injured
by the unfavorable weather of the spring.
The consideration of the bill appro-
payment of the
expenses incurred in caring for the in-
sane from June 13, '83 to June 1, '85, was
Lil
priating $400,000 for the
postponed because of the absence of ac-
{enrate accounts from counties showing
[their claims against the state.
Mr. Sponsler opposed the bill appro-
priating $25000 to the Pennsylvania
fishery commission on the ground that
it bad been hurtful instead of beneficial
to the state. He
charged that the commission had placed
in the Susquehanna worm-ridden fish
v hich devoured the native fish. He con-
ie
is estimated that the crop in Indiana
il be 15,000,000 bushels short of that
This reduced the yield to less |
n half a crop. Much of the
wn
pisciculture in the
acreage
was winter-killed and will be
or
s dered it a gigantic,
wh bag.
reports from many other districts in .
I erg Mr. Brown, of Erie, thought the com-
: western states as well as some parts ission had Saba
, . 2 inission had accomplished
of Pennsyslvania are no more satisfac- | at a
tory. i
. ‘ . . overtowering hum-
vaghed up and planted in oats or corn. Bn
: much good.
Mr. Colborn said the commission bad |
been of some benefit—it has distributed
some $8$150,000 among the people,
did not keep the money itself
{agreed with Mr. Sponsler that the com-
pission was a magnificent humbug, The
{bass introduced in Pennsylvania waters
work of starting an administration that] i: y) Famous and watderods Sieh
; ¥ : ar which had swallowed better fish than
is to mark a departure in political histo-|,, ov are.
v they have not hee a ave rk! sy
ry they have not been able, even work-| yg hill passed second reading.
ing night and day, to keep up with the] mqpe bill appropriating $168,500 to the
A cab-|y ; ’ : :
vacancies which have occurred. Norristown state lunatic hospital having
inet officer states that there were not re-|y.. called up on second reading, Mr.
commendations or names on file in the yp vans moved that the amount (85.000)
departments for half of the offices now .n,05nded for the enlargement of the
vacant. Politicians talk about the necessi-|} oo be reduced to $4000 and called Sox
ty of party appointments and do not|, . =.00 and nays. ; ;
even have names offered when a newj,, _° :
. . ju
appointment is a nec essily.
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There are now three thousand Federa|
offices made vacant by death and resig-
nation, and the President and his cabi-
net have not time to fill them. They
have such arduous duties in the great
There being less
ian a quorum present the chair ordered
la call of the house. Only 93 members
: _ iresponded to their names, and the ser-
Huntingdon county has a strong anti- |. ¢ ot armas was directed to secure the
Vicence feeling. Court met last week |, ondance of a sufficient number of
with Judge Furst on the bench. The, ..;1er to make up a quorum, 101.
applications for liquor licence -were| In half an hour the sergeant-at-arms
heard by the court at a session held for 4 rmed and made a statement that he
that purpose, and excited greater public}. uid find none of the absent members,
interest than any other business trans-| 4 (he house adjourned until Monday
acted at the present term. The court|, . ino '
room was crowded. All of the applica-|
tions but one were strongly opposed
with remonstrances proving past dere-
lictions of the applicants, There were
also depositions on the part of the liq-
uor-sellers to disprove the allegations
against them and to show that the li-
cences are necessary for the entertain-
ment of strangers and travelers.
We did not learn the attitude of the
eonrt, but expect to hear that many ap-
plications went up the spout,
ni an
The statement is published that a
powerful syndicate of New York and
Chicago capitalistic speculators have
been “Bulling” and “bearing” English
consols through a large speculator in
london, and have been advised in ad-
vance of the probable course of the
market to enable successful speculation
in wheat. They move wheat up when
they go down, and move wheat down
when they go up. The most remarkable
feature about them is that they have
gone up and down with a sort of regular
irregularity. For a fortnight they have
opened very low down. Then they have
strengthened, and finally have closed
steady and composed. Perhaps more re-
markable than anything else, however,
has been this other factthat certain Chi-
cago and New York traders have known
in advance of everybody else just what
consols were doing, if they have not, as
is claimed in somo quarters, known what
CAN ORDER THE KILLING OF DIS-
EASED AND INFECTED CATTLE,
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has given an opinion to the Commission-
ers of Agriculture in regard to his “au-
thority under the appropriation for such
disinfection and quarantine measures as
may be necessary to prevent the spread
of the diseases from one state or territo-
ry to another,” under the bill for the es-
tablishment of a bureau of Animal Indus
tries, The First Comptroller holds that
the power of the Commissioner is broad
and unlimited as to the means to be
used by him to carry out the disinfection
and quarantine and that he can cause
such investigation as he deems proper
and use such means as ke may think
bast to carry out the purposes of the act,
He says the slaughter of the infected an-
iraals may be ordered and any other
i eans employed that do not exceed the
limits of the appropriation.
Commissioner Coleman has sent the
following dispatch to Gov, Marmaduke,
oi’ Missouri :
“It has been determined that I have
fell discretion in regard to the extirpa-
tion of pleuro-pneumonia, I am prepar-
ir g rules and regulations under an act of
Congress, May 29, 1884, to be submitted
te: the Governors of the respective Rtales
ir. order to wsocure their co-operation
ad they will be sent you as soon as
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WHAT IS THE COST OF THE NA-
TION'S FOOD ?
An interesting computation, says the
Sun, made by Mr. Edward Atkinson is
presented in summary by Bradstreet's
Mr. Atkinson has been endeavoring to
determine, not how much it actually
costs the people of the United States for
food, but what would be the aggregats
expenditure on the basis of a fair aver
age for individual nourishment, and how
the expenditure would be distributed
among the various items of subsistence.
The conclusions of this intelligent and
careful economist were reached by the
He took the actual
of feeding seventeen adult
most of were hard-working
8, and eight women, three being
servants,
following method:
cost men
whom me-
chani
for six months, in a Massa
He also took the
food eaten by seventy-two
adult female factory operatives and eight
servants in a Maryland town. He as
sumed that the average of these two
bles would be no more than a fair daily
for all adults throughout
Here are the individual aver
chusetts town. actual
‘ost of the
ta-
ration the
country.
ages and the totals, the latter being reck-
ned on the basis of a population of fii
te wmitlls ‘
LY INiOons
23.85
s it is easy to Bay
uld Lave more weight
wider
ge were based on a investi
£43 1 E vow
gation of the cost of living,
extensive collection of data. But
exceedingly diffi
X88
uit to get at the
figures in any case, or to fine
hen
iv large to destroy for
s the value of the facts. Mr
:
Maryland household
representative establishments to all oth-
chusetts and
within his knowledge, on acc
udence there displayed in buyin
my in the preparation
CRON
meat and fish were consuine
y to {aval on
sachusetts family, largely of men
f 1} ei lard s “3 .
of living in Marviand was less than
hree-for
19% cents a day in Maryland and 28 cia
in Massachusetts,
e given above is, first, the large rela
{ sugar and syrup as o
#t of su
of fl
wparoed
nr and meal; and, second-
the fact that so great a part of the to-
yditure is for dairy products and
ie milk, butter, cheese, and
and enffee together.
Roug
individual ought to live pretty fairly,
far as food is concerned, on 20 cents a
day, or $1.75 a week, or $90 a year. Mr.
) Ying
ly speaking,
chasing and economical! serving
thing could be done for twenty cents a
day in the East, and probablyfor less in
ESDAY,
Judge Furst held court on Monday
20, at Huntingdon for hearing of appli-
cations for license, and after argument
by counsel on both sides held the cases
over until Tuesday, when he decided to
grant nine of the applications and refuse
eleven. They called before the
court and required to give their personal
pledges that they wili not sell to persons
were
of intemperate habits nor to others to
whom the sale of liquor is prohibited by
law, and that they will close their bars
at ten o'clock at night, The other =uc-
ants were fre Warriors’
cessful appli
Mark,
the othe
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Mill Creek and Orbisonia. All
aunty will be
sr places in the
1i¢
without licensed houses
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NEWSPAPERS OF TO-DAY.
People generally, and even those who
nay be termed steady readers and close
heervers, have but a faint conception of
he magnitude and influence the press of
the country has attained. From a care-
tul examination of the advanced pages
of the 1885 edition of the “American
Newspaper Directory,” issned May lst,
FP. Rowell & Co., of New York,
it appears that there are 14,147 newspa-
pers and periodicals published in the
{Tauited States and Canada; of these the
United States have 12,973, an average of
ne paper for every 3,867 persons. In
1874 the total number of newspapers was
by 823 than at present, and while
| he gain this year is not so marked as in
| some previous years, it is still considera
| Kan hows th
i -
greatest gal:
increa ing 79, while Illinois
fol-
ows with a gain of 77, It is curious to
that New York, the scene of so
political activity during the last
ampaign, should have about one
} nany newspapers as the State of
+. Asan index to the com-
i prosperity of differ-
s country,
er of new papers
dy, and may well
he curious.
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THIRLWIN TEXAS,
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23. ~The Prai
eight miles
Galveston, Texas, April
rie Grove neighborhood,
ne yesterday at 2 o'clock, causing
vrions damage to life and property. The
wo story school house, in which were
children blown down
«od torn to pieces, killing one child snd
sounding several, The casualties were
follows: A 14 year old daoghter of
1]. P. Swaim, killed: Estelle Cook, leg
sroken: two children of E. Herring, leg
and arm broken; two children of Mr. O'-
| dara, les broken and injured internally.
I'The house of 8, McKinnon was blown
down, seriously injuring the owner. The
store house and post office own by 5. D
| Hughes, were demolished and the goods
| promiscuously scattered. The residences
lof M. B. Cox, H. Thompson and T. J
| Williams were demolished. L. Gentry’s
| house, some distance from the village, is
| also reported as demolished and himself,
Other serious re-
sults are probable, as the country is
thickly seftled in the direction of the cy-
i clone,
A dispatch from Denison says: In con-
sequence of the heavy rain and wind
storins endangering the bridge, railroad
| traffic on the Missoori Pacific, north and
| east of Denison, is impeded. A south
bound passenger train was derailed at
the city limits. The Hed river is rising
{at the rate of four feet per hour. Fears
| are entertained for the safety of the Mis
yi
Was
| as
the West. As for the beer and whiskey |souri Pacific railway bridge. A freight
bill. Mr. David A. Wells recently com-|irain of eighteen cars is reported wreck
puted thatthe nation spends $474 823,000 ed near Cary Station, Indian Territory,
rules
$e
consols were going to do. will be full and effectual.”
a year for drink; and likes it too.
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NORMAL SCHOOLS
NOUNCED.
The State Normal Schools received a
round of abuse in the House, on 17. In
the opinion of the Rerorter these insti-
tutions are a fraud.
them in Pennsylvamia, and when the
bill appropriating $100,000 to them came
up on second reading it encountered se-
rious opposition. Mr. Evans, of North.
ampton, said that when the last appro
priation was given to these institutions
two years ago it was the express under
standing that they should receive no
more State aid.
Mr. Stubbs, of Chester, said the main
purpose of the appropriation this time is
to pay indebtedness on the schools hang-
ing over from former years, and to pay
for additions now being built to some of
the buildings,
The normalschool system was then
bitterly denounced by Mr, Evans and
Mr. Neely, of Clarion, both of whom, by
the way, were educated in those same
schools, They charged that the normal
schools are self-sustaining and bave no
further claim upon the State for assist
ance. They also declared that it costs a
student as much for an education in
them as it does at other schools, acade-
mies and colleges which do not have
State assistance, and that their instruc
tion is inferior at that.
Mr. Elkin, of Indiana, made an able
defense of the normal schools against
each of these cha and made astrong
int on the inde ness feature, eapec:
ally with reference to the school at In-
diana, His colleague, Mr, Lowry, differed
® ightly with him, aithough he, too, de-
sires (this bill passed to facilitats the
way ment of indebtedness which the State
ar
. After these debts are
rs they should
STATE DE-
Lon Holland, who was injured by a fall
ing building during the cyclone, died
yesterday. A family of emigrants en-
camped on the river boltom were sud
denly surrounded by water on Tuesday
night and sought safety in the trees.
They were rescued yesterday.
Despatches from southeastern Kansas
report the heaviest rainfall that has ever
been known. Twelve inches of waterare
said to have fallen, Marmaton river has
overflowed its banks and inundated a
settlement of from 600 to 800 inhabitants
and known as North Fort Secowt. The
water in the houses is from three to five
feet deep. All the people were rescued.
I'he Missouri Pacific railroad track is
badly washed out both ways from Fort
Scott, and no trains have moved since
Tuesday. A freight train on this road
went through a bridge at Clearwater and
the engineer was drowned, Ten lives are
reported to have been lost at Kingman.
Traffic on the Wichita and Westero rail
road between Wichita and Kin Dn 8
suspended, and the bridges on this road
and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Road at Cheney, Belle Plain and
Clearwater have been washed away.
Other dispatches state that the storm
extended into Western Missouri and that
many streams have overflowed their
banks, that moch property has been de-
stroyed snd tbat railroads traversing
that section have been washed away in
places and traffic greatly interrapted.
Advices also come from Northern Tex-
#8 noting a very heavy rainfall, extend.
ing over a large portion of country, em .
bracing Denison, Gainesville, Abeline,
Fort Worth, Dallas and other places. At
Gainesville the Pecan and Elm creeks
overflowed their banks, aod besides
washing away much property several
lives are reported lost. Women and
children clung to branches of trees for
hours before they were rescued, and in
some instances whole families were
swept away in their houses, but in most
jsstances they were rescued. Several
streets in Dallas were deluged with water
and a high wind damaged a number of
houses, The Red river is rising rapidly.
fond us three cash names for cue year
and we will send you the Reporser one
year free for your trouble. :
APRIL 29, 1885.
CAPTURED BY
RIEL'S MEN,
FORT PITT ABANDONED AFTER A BATTLE
WITH THE INDIANS,
The Garrjson Retreats in Boats— Fears that
They have been Massacred— Middle.
ton's Troops Advancing to Al-
tack
Battleford, April 20.—S8couts from Ft.
Pitt report finding it abandoned and bad-
ly wrecked. An Indian told them there
had been a fight, and two of the police
were killed, and that the police and oth-
ers in the fort had taken to boats in the
ope of reaching Batileford, They have
been out five days and should have been
here long ago. It looks as though the
whole party had been captured or killed
from the river banks,
The fort contained, besides the police
under Inspector Dickens, who is the
third son of Charles Dickens, Factor M’-
Lean, of the Hudson Bay Company, and
1ig family of eight persons, and James
Simpson, Stanley Simpson, W, B. Camer-
on, and Dufresne, employees, the Rev.
C. Quinn and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Mann
and three children, Alfred Quinn, and
thers. The story of the escape is ex-
tremely improbable, as it is not likely
that such a large party would be driven
out of the fort and allowed to escape
The Indians said that Riel threatened to
take Battleford soon
Troops were promised for our relief
three weeks ago but none have turned
up. The river is low, and no troope
seem likely to arrive. Col. Morris is put-
ting a trench around the barracks for
greater protection, The Indians threat-
en an attack.
Winnipeg, April "he latest ad-
vices from Clarke's are that
Middleton has been ferrying troops. For-
ty scouts under Capt. French, the Ninth
Field Battery, and the Tenth Royals,
having crossed the river yesterday and
to-day, will march down the west side.
At the same time t balance of the
force, A Battery, C Company, and Boul-
ton’s troops, under Gen. Middleton, will
narch down the river on the east side.
Communication will be kept up between
the d The advance will be made
to-day and an attack on Batouche will
probably take place to-morrow or early
on Thursday,
A Swift Current dispatch says: Col
Otter's command has crossed the river
and has left on its march for Battleford.
There are 190 teams, rations for 26 days
and forage for 20 days. The steamer
Northoote left for Clarke's Crossing yes-
terday, taking supplies for Midaleton
nd a portion of the Midland battalion.
A Calgarry dispatch says: Saturday,
April 11, about forty young Crees raided
the Hudson Bay Company's store at Bat-
tle River, and plundered it of stores and
provisions. Taylor, who was in charge
of the post, managed to secure all the
furs and esciipe with them ted Deer.
A messenger overtook him en route and
told him that the Indians had repented
their action and wished him to return.
They returned all the goods that had not
been consumed, 1. G. Baker's store at
the same place was gutted, and Col-
quhoun, the manager, made prisoner. A
rard was also made on Geo. Gatz's store
at Red Deer. Smith's battalion is in
camp here. Calgarry has been in a state
of great activity all day, owing to the
preparations by Manning, Steele andthe
scouts to march north to-morrow. Maj.
Steele will take seventy mounted men
with him,
Quebec, April 21.—The debate in the
local Legisiature on Mr. Turcotie’s reso-
jutions censuring the Federal Govern-
ment for its action in connection with
the Northwest troubles was concluded
this morning, with the result of forty-
one against the resolution and 15 for it.
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BUSINESS TACT AND OPPORTU.
NITY.
Ratouche,
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Crossing
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A streak of pure gorxd luck in business
or the sudden achievinent of success and
wealth by a happy bit is rare, but there
are many lucky and prosperous folks
who are so because th ey watch their op~
portunities and make the best of them.
Mr. Koehler, of Rochester, N, Y, tried
his hand at canvassing for “Plain Home
Talk” and made four dollars in the first
two hours. Mr. Sandford, of Maine, took
43 orders from 47 prrsons to whom he
showed the book. Mr. Taylor, in Cieve-
land, took 19 orders in one day. Why do
smart, capable men complain of bard
times and nothing to do when equal op-
portunities are open to them? They
bave only to call for citenlam prospectus
and terms of the Murray Hill Publish
ing Co, 120 East 28th Street, New York
city.
TEN YEARS IN A GARRET.
_ Philadelphia, April 22.—Upon the pe-
tition of Dr. Thomas Morton, of the com-
mittee of lunacy of the state board of
publie charities, and Dr. A, J.
secretary of the committee, J
her, of Monroe county, lias made
order for the commitment to the
al for the insane, at Danville, of a luna
tie who has been looked up in the garret
of a Monroe county farm house for the
past ten years,
Lm —— A MIA
100 KILLED BY A VOLCANIC ERUP-
TION.
Lon 1 22. —T h
Rr a tarts
feared that ah
feared 4} fully unired persons bave
FANCY PRIUES FOR FANCY CAT
New York 22.~-Some
prices were Api 2 ae er ih
cattle Joday, them were the
year old v
NO. 17
FIFTY-FIVE MILLIONS ABKED,
With Which to Carry Forward England's
Preparations for War.
London, April 21.—~Mr, Gladstone, in
the House of Commons this afternoon,
announced that the Government had re-
ceived Bir Peter Lumsden’s answer to
the Government's inquiries of the 10th
instant. “The message arrived to-day,”
said Mr. Gladstone, “and it shows how
seriously Bir Peter Lumsden is at issue
with General Komaroff, We cannot
enter into details or state the effect of
this differsnce in a few words. The
whole matter will be laid on the table
here early to morrow.”
He then asked a credit of $55,000 (4
22 000.000 for war purposes. in the Sou-
dan and $32,500 000 for other naval and
military preparations. Mr. Gladsis
in presenting the Government's request
for the vote of credit, said: “The Gov.
ernment feels that it is necessary to hold
all resources of the Empire, incinding
the forces in the Boudan, available for
jnstant use wherever required. The cred-
it does not include any provisions {
further offensive operations or military
preparations for an early march on
Khartoum.”
The Premier requested that debate] be
had on the credit on Monday next, and
that the consideration of the Budget be
postponed until the 30th inst, He con-
cluded as follows: “The Government
rely upon the patriotism of the House
but our intentions bave been and are
now based upon a strong desire that eve
ery specific means should be used to ob=
tsin a just and honorable settlement of
whatever controversies England might
be involved in.”
Gladstone stated that the Government
had received no communication from
vither Turkey, Austria, France or Ger-
many concerning the closing of the Dar-
denellles,
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CURED BY PRAYER,
Pittsburg, April 20 —Miss Mary Moor
head, daughter of the late Hon. J
Moorhead of this city, who was one
the most prominent and wealthy citizens,
claims to have been cured by fait
painfol disease of thirty years’ stand
Miss Moorhead says her ailment w
pronounced incurable by some of ti
best physicians in the country.
summer, while at a mountain resort she
met 8 lady who advised ber to try
faith cure. She became strongly imbue
with the idea, and, refusing all stimulants
prescribed by her doctors, prayed almos
incessantly. In a few days she was en
tirely free from pain, and her health i
better to-day than ever before.
At Midway, near this city, there an
nine persons who have been cured of se-
sious illness through faith, under the in-
strumentalities of the Rev. J. 8. Willets,
pastor of the Methodist church at that
place, Among the number is the pastor,
who bas published an sccount of
own case: Wm. Hrmilton, aged 72 years;
Mr. Faust, bow has been ill for 14 years;
Mrs. Easthon, cured of spinal trouble; J.
Paige, aged 69, cured of rheumatism, and
others.
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THE WHITE HOUSE DINING BOO
The Presidfntial stale
served in the White House dinis
room, writes a correspondent. Hs
oceans of champagne, herds of fin
beeves, thousands of turkeys, boat-Joads
of terrapin and great lakes of :
have been swallowed year after year for
the past hall century or more. Jeffer-
son was almost a bankrupt from
White House dinners. Jackson spent
more than his salary, and nota Pr
dent save, perhaps, Andrew Johnson,
oame out of the White House with any-
thing more than he went in. Arths
dinners have cost him a fortune and
esch state dinner cost him from $10 =
plate upward. When it is remembered
that each of these dinners have about
forty guests st the table you will s
that a state dinner costs at least $500
and I am told that Mr Arthur's ordinary
meals, to which be always had several
strangers, cost about $35 a plate. Thera
is always wine on the table, and this of
# quality which adds materially to the
table exponses. Last winter there
wers nine state dinners during the Con-
session, and every person of
oe in Washington sat down at
the President's table. The usual dining
bouris 8 P. M, and the guesissit as
late as 11 or later, While the dinner
goes on the Marine band plays charm-
ing music in the vestibule, and the
strains float in, not so loud as to inter
rapt conversation, but gently and
pleasantly. Mr. Arthur's state dinners
nsually consisted of fourteen courses.
one of the best cooks in the
it is ssid, he hadas fine
the White Houso had ewr
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