OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES XVIII THE FRED. KURTZ, - wr ————— Judge Simonton, he of Dauphin, has de- clared t oleomargarine law coustitu- 1 tional. -—— From the west, north-west, east, and in fact, all around, not New Jersey, come reports of Sunday night's cold blizzard. excepting “ -—- If Logan 8* ould be elected president of the senate to fi | Hendricks’ chair, he witl be the first accidental vice-president wiio uees bad grammar, Nobody is making an effort to pay the rebel debt as predicted, if we gut a Dem- ocratic admiuvistration. The only disappointed will be the duped Repub- licans, - a - Of every five men you ask the ques- tion, who was President before Garfield four will not remember it wa» Hayes. nn, The Frandulent is not worthy a place in the memory o the American citizen. > I, the is coming Bel savs the time Professor telephone man, people when will be able to see «8 well as hear one ther at another at long distances, If he charges as much then for seeing f as he now does for hearing it will be the in creation. --— The White Company, capital stock $2,000,000, was chartered in dearest sight Berwin Coal the Slate Depa tinent a few days ago. to Blair C.F. lelphia is president, he company proposes mine coal in Centre and Berwin, of ibria, Jefferson, connties, Haves, the individual who was fraund- : iaced in the Presidency, is con- y thrusting himself before the pub- * + had the cheek to send a letter of ¢ hu franded in | mdolence to Mrs. Hendricks, whose sand was one of those whom he de- 76. and he had probably f m tudence to put himself forward in a postion the funeral procession, -— little end so far, i An order the Servian Govern- H rvatovitch Servian at tha to WwW Servia got out I8 not guing give np. ; yas been issned mat app dinting Colonel ( pamander<in Chief of ti I it the resumption o e ar- " in ‘ fin Oli r relies is thought fi i mies ial t witlities is cer- 1 refa It is stated that fighting has alrealy been tain, owing to Prince Alexander's gal of the terms proposed by Servia. resumed. m—— ly —__—— There was an impo ing scene at the palace of the Escurial npon the arrival of Kin: Alfonso’s body When the pro- cession r ached the monastery the Duke chamberlain, knock- for Alfon- the Duke three Then, according “There is no re- ply. king is dead.” He then relo ked the coffin and broke his ¢ i de Rexto, the royal ed and requested admittance When unlocked the in 850 inside the gates, coffin and called in Alfons J's ear. times to th ne ritual, he said: t is true the wand of office. c———— A Columbia county school teacher de- serves the premium for a new way of punishing noisy pupils, A young school at gmal in Colnmbia county, charged with punishing talkative pupils by gagging them with corncobs and making them stand on the floor. It is said that when a child of farmer George Sny ‘er thus treated was released the cob was covere ! with blood and the lit- tle one was so exhausted as to require the way home. Snyder went in search of Traher with a gun, bnt the young man had disappeared. It is feared that the boy will not recover. rss es Mp si Pittsburg reports a boom in iron. The Dispatch, of 3, says the iron dealers re- por an advance of $1 on pig metal and 50 centa on ore within the past twenty- four hours This has been brought about by the steadily increasing demand for these commodities, especially here, and is the first sub-tantixl evidence of a revi- val of the iron trade. Business in this city is reported as good. The mills are booking plenty of orders at present and through the use and economy of natural gas have ¢£ decided advantage over te trade in general outside of the Western Pennsylvania field. The office of Vice President has be- come vacant ten times, Calhoun resign- ed, Clinton, Gerry, King snd Wilsun died io office, and Tyler, Fillmore, Juhn- son and Arthur became Presidents. In two of the (nses there was a complete parallel to the present situation in the phase it will assume upon the meeting of Congress; that is to say, the Presidest of the United States ani the President of t .¢ Senate were of different olives. In 1441, 8, L SBouthar . of New Jers y, win: hood been cuven President pro tem, be- es v Vie President when Tyler sue cede Harricon. Again, in 1850, when ¥..tmore succeeded Taylor, althoogh they were Vides, W. K King, of AlaUnina, a Powmocrel, was President pro tow. { i master named Traher, Numida, a village in assistance? on CENTRE pr———————— | THE PENSION LIST. The Sun says twenty years have passed , list of pensioners is not only greater than | ever before, but growing enormously. | Ten years after the close of the war it | had begun to dwindle, as it naturally { would on account of the deaths of veter- | ans, the marriages of soldiers widows, and the coming of age of their children. Then the legis ation of Congress mad- a | change. The arrears act alone added an | ultimate liability variously estimated in | official documents at between $251,000,- ' mined | As years roll on, the fruits of this leg | islation become apparent. Although the | number of names dropped off from the list since 1865, from death and other | thousands, the names ad ‘ed more than | counterbalance them. Last year, forex- | ample, as Gen. Black's report shows, | 15,253 names were dropped, but | instatements. Look ng through succes- | sive annual reports of the Pension Office, we find that, while the aggregate roli | numbered 268.880 pensioners in 188], | 285,605 pensioners in 1882, 303,658 pen- sioners in 1783, and 322,756 pensioners in 1884, it had reached 345,125 for the vear ending June 30, 1885. This is an addition of nearly thirty per cent. in four years. Again, we find the aggre- gate value of pensions, which was $28 - 769,967 four years ago, incresaed year by year until it is now $38,000 985. Even this great outlay does not represent ali tne country pays, since every year it wives many millions for arrears of pen- sions, and the total outlay last year was thus brought op to nearly sixty-five millions, For the past two years it has averaged over sixty millions, reached the mum of annual pension liability. Yet we have not maxi Ofh- cial calculations have shown that, even on the basis of present legisl tion, the roll of pensioners will be increased over natural diminutions to between 425,000 and 50000 and the annual costs of pen- ~ions, exclusive of ontright payments for arrears, to between $44,000,000 and 8500 ,- 000100. Before the vear 1800 the amount laid out on pensions since 1861 will be more than a billion dollars. Nevertheless schemes are rife for enor- 1usiy ne increasing the pension burdens of the Treasury. Some of them involve amounts so prodigions that their pro- jecrors hardly venture into accurate cal- culations of what they will cost. The Mexican War Pension bill, which itself would entail vast expenses, was sad iled with amendments when discussed in the last Congress, that would have swamped the Treasury. One of the proposals which will again be urged npon Congress is that of pensioning to an extent de- who fought in the Union armies. Sev. ral bill- aim ut this result, one of them giving 'o any surviving soldier or 8 .ilor, sick or well, rich or poor, $8 a month tor the rest of his life. Another bill gives, in a dition, 180 acres of land to each man. Still another bill gives grad- ed pensions to all who were captured and confined in Confederate prisons, even where no disability resulted. Oth- ers provided for very large increases of existing pensions, With the pension outlays now amount- ing annually to more than sixty millions, and certain to increase during many years, it is the part of prudence to reject 8 Liemes that propose to add enormous and indeed unknown liabilities to the burdens already resting on the Treasury It is is a good suggestion made by the Courier-Journal that the Constitution should be amended so that on the death of the Vice President the Secretary of] State or other member of the cabinet shall assume the duties of Acting Presi- dent until the Electoral Coliege can as- semble and designate a successor of the late President. For this purpose the Electoral College will continue in ex- istence until the next Presidential elec- tion following its er-ation, with the pow. er that it already has of filling vacancies, Assuredly no one would complain if it w ¢ law to-day that in the event of President Cleveland's death his successor should not be taken from a party in the Senate hostile to his adminis ration, but should be named by the same elector« who chose Mr. C eveland President, and who were authorized by the people ta represent them in that act, 8 would ~ecure the cont nuance in power for the ful term which it was el to serve, or at least until another election, of the political party instrocted by the people with the admin stration of the Govern. men , and thronghoot their own repre- sentatives, delegated for that purpose. Congress met on Tuesday, The Republican caucus nominated Logan for President of the Senate, which he declined. There was no opposition to the re election of Carlisle as speaker of the Honse, Fixing the presidential succession is likely to be one of the principal meas. a sn CRO wer HALL. THE SUCCESSION, | Probably the first bill that wi'l be act- ed on by Congress after it meets, will be a law providing for the succession to the Presidency A bill by Senator Hoar on this subject was pa-sed by the Senate last session, and reported with amend- ments in the House, but not acted on. In case of the death, disability, removal or resignation of buth the President and the Vice President, it sion in the members the foilowing order: | Ne cretary of the Tre sury, Secretary of vests the of the cabinet in Secretary of State, succes War, Attorney General, Postmaster Gen- |eral, ~ecretary of the Navy, Secretary of ithe Interior. As passed by the Senate, the bill provided that the Secretary of | state or other minister succeeding to the {office should discharge the duties of {pired term. As amended in the House {it provides that such successor shall hold ithe office un il the end of the unexpired not exceed a | year. But if more than twelve months | lof the unex ired tern remains then pro- | vision is made for «olding a special elec- {tion for electors to choose a President | {and Vice President. The new President | {to be chosen, not for four years, but for | [the rest of the unexpired term, and until {he assumes the duties of the of cabinet m:nister who has saceeeded is to act as 'resident. With the snccession vested in the cab- 3 ¢ Te thi i EL inet there will always be a successor in line and he will be of the having possession of the administration There wil: be neither a failare of succes sion nor a transfer of political control. > -—— A number of journals are giving their opinions as to what Cleveland shoud i same party have done as regards Hendricks’ funeral, think Indianapolis r i not a tend. Some he to prove to kingdoms and empires o f : attend or 1 ty i ’ i s thie great should have gone old world that a President of the American republic trave! without {danger of harm, Other | {that he did right in not going so that the Can ournals contend | pation stood in no jeopardy of having {its chief magistrate assassinat-d en route Imwmediaiey after (he close of the war Sargeant Bates sought notoriety by car rying the American flag on foot through England, to show what protection oar banner was to one of its subjects even in a foreign land. If the Sar. eant had re. ceived ao application of sole leather at xr ¥ # § 1 $08 different stages of hus tramp oer £3 s th rian's suil by an enraged Brittisher, the world, including laughed at the Sargeant for his bragging foo.ishness. Now if Sargeant could d» that in England without caus- ing a ripple in a little or big son of John Bull, why could not President Cleveland travel from Wa -hington to Indianapoiis without receiving any thing but friend- ly greetings unless stayed by the solem- nity of the occasion 7 We venture to say that Mr. Cleveland, if he sought a fool 8 nutoriety, could start on foot frum the national capital tw In- dianapulis, all alune, and not be molest ed, even if be did not carry the stars and stripes, or use a 'kerchiefl with the red, white and blue on it America 13 not a nation of assassins, nor a country of fouls, exept when it takes an occasional fress to put the Ree publ cans in power. Stitt the Reporter fails to see why grave journals load down their columns with leaders on so uninte resting a topic, - o-oo. Dr. Worall, a prominent physician of Lewistown, died in 1877, leaving his on- ly son Clarence real estate in that town and in Philade phia worth $70,000, and to Miss Mamie A. Bailey, a domestic reared and educated in his family, $5, 000. Clarence disp'ayed & rik ing genius in painting, bat had ttle ambition and was in morbid fear of death. Ii 1879 he was stricken serious y ill, but eventually recovered. Being apprehensive of sud: den death, he provided for his nurse, Miss Bailey, by making over to her a tee] for his property, to ve recorded on- ly in ease of his death. During the um- mer Miss Leonora Montague, a yo ing cousin from Philadelphia, came to Lew i town. The cousins were constantly in each other's socrety. and young Womll fell in love with Miss Montane, He pursned his artistic studies on fig res, and she served as a model, He evento wlly married her and went to Philadlel- vhia. This event blighted the monetary prospects of Miss Bailey, so she had the deed in her possession secretly recorded. Clarence brought suit before Judge Ba- cher in March last, and His Honor devid- ed in his favor, but the case was carried to the Supreme * art, where the raling of t 0 conrt below was reversed A modification of the decree of the Su- preme Court has just been made, how- ever, by which it is ordored that the time for the delivery of the deed be ex- tended until final decree upon the ac «ont, on the condition t!hnt Miss Bailey permit the plaintiff to e ollect ali rents unpaid by the tenants, SA MAI AT A T—— Jobin LL Mitchell, o! Toga conrty, is a United States Senator | pom Povosylves na. Jou H Michell, the new Bi nator America, woud have Hales ures that this congress will act upon. War clouds are again hovering over the Balkans. The Sul an has issued a man- ifesto to the inhabitants of Eastern Rou- melia stating that the Commissioners will rule there until a new Governor is appointed, but the authorities of Philip- popolis refuse to recognize them other than as private individuals. Troopsand mil tary storesare being hurried forward to the Roumelian frontier and it is an- nounced in Constantinople thatthe Porte to-day gave notice to the members of the Jalkan Conference of impending milita- ry action on the part of Turkey in East- ern Roumelia. Subsequently a council ol prominent Turkish generals was held and they advised a permanent occupa- tivn of the Balkans by Turkey, fearing that Rus-ia would absorb Bulgaria and that Austiia will do the same with Ser: via, Turkish troops are now reported to be entering Eastern Roumelia, the men wearing the Bulgarian head.gearinstead of the Turkish fez. It sg difficult to ac- count for this sudden change, if it has been made, in the uniform of the Tuork- ish soldiery, the fez having been a dis i of years. True, the fez makes a good seem sufficient for such a radical change . FROM WASHINGTON. Dec, 6 One hundred and seventy-eight out of the 184 Demo- cratic Representives met at the capitol ast night, and after choosing J. Randolph Tucker, of Virg nia, and Messrs, Breach and Bresenridge Becreta- Washington, Chairmen, ries, selected the officers of the House during the Forty-Ninth Congress as fol- lows Speaker, John G. Carlisle, Kentucky. Clerk, John B. Clark, Jr., Missouri, Rergeant-at-Arms. J. P. Leedom, Ohio. Phew Postmaster, Lycurgns Dali haplain, Wm, H. Milburn, Mr was Carlisle nominate! unani- mously snd by acc name Mr. al and and was being presented by nd h e floor he Randall. Messrs, Ka Hewitt were sent to notify him, th when he app ared on greeted with great applause, Heed, of Maine, is the Republican AR er, mines for spe ‘he Bepublican senate i Joh the senate Caucus nom- for president of ction followed when the senate met, in which body his Senator Harris, e Democratic candi- inated n Sherman $4 and hi ele “ party has four majority, th ta of Tennessee, « as date -—— A scatteration of Bellefonte journals might be a wholesome thing: for example, to philosophize over it: The Walchman might go to Pine Grove Mills to peter out. The Centre Democrat night make its last will and testament at Show Bhoe ; the Fountoin might gush ite last gush at Haag's, wi bh the Gagette to burst its biler at Horntown, and the Republican kicking the bucket at Oak Hall and the Daily News go under af Roopsburg. This would leave Belle. f nte without a paper, 'tis true, but the Rerorrer having a large circulation there would let that town prperly cared fur. 1 1 iittie - -_— - The Virginia Democrats have chosen John W, aniel as Mahone's successor in the U B, Senate. EL — DEATH OF VANDERBILT. William H. Vanderbilt, the great rail road king, died of heart disease on Toes. day. Hl Ss LM I ibis sins A TESTAMENT CHARACTERISTIC OF THE MAN, Indianapois, Deo. 3. Tue will of the tate Vice President Tuomas A. Hends ric ks was probated this afternoon It 18 tn Hendricks’ writing and the paper is ye low with age. It reads as foliows: I, Thomas A. Hewdrick«, of Marion eounsty, Indana, do make the last wii woud testamen , hereby revokiog any snd ff wilix by me wt any time heretofire made Ive, t " weath ard devige in my tw loved wife, Eliz C, Hovdrioes, all ny personal und ren property of ever. description Wha soever and woerevsr lo va ol. Also all my righ's, olans, choses mn action, mod in fee mmple 10 have snd to hold the same t+ her aud her heim, In witness whereo' I herennto set my hand, And if sureeab's wu her, I desire that she shinil be execuairx t ereof Tuomas A, Hexpricxe, Bigned and delivered in oor presence and a tested to by us io the presecos of the testa or and in the presence of each uttier at Lis request Wixsrow 8 Pierce, 8, 1886 J. H, McK grxax, Co Pi SEVEXTEEN PRISONERS ESCAPE Beaver, Pa, Deo. 4.—Abo ut o'clock hi« moruing seventeen of the prisoner in the Beaver county jail sawed ther po. into the jul yard, sealed the wall und escaped Tom Raukiu, one of the most notorivae erisinaie in the state, did the swing, assisted by Lest Halibaogh, R oki. i= wanted for nomeroas burgms rei this wae snd Obio aod has es sped frome veral of the strongest jdm To the gomniry, do Ew ne, a Unve Hoates prsover, stood by woehi g the Lhe ro estnpe bat wide no off rt 10 get awry This is the vec id de very fro chire Jol we bie w month, - oa ow August auiaet from Ore ov, was also a vadve of Tog, Col. Ingersoll visited Washi gton the oth.er week for the purpore of winding up his affairs there, He went tuere in 1878 und has always » pent Lis winters in Waustington siuce, sylvania avenue the other morving snd got him to talk polities for a few minutes He is out of politi 8 now and dors uot care 10 talk wen opon subject, What be did say, however, was interesting He sand that the ooly ad- lean party io the ‘late election in New York was tte fuct that the Mogwamps hud to stand ap ued be coun ed, When connted tre line was found to he very short at hth ends. The Co onel ssid thar the Repablicun party io treir past fear of the Magwaoips were like the er rified boy wh had lain awake al night shuddering with terror at the sight of a vhost standing over hi- bed, Bit when das] ght came the gost was his snirt, He believes that the Republican perty has g ‘ne ont of power for a long time, He say~ that the only thiog tust can belp thew is u new conscience, . downfall of the Repablican party, H- said it had gone 10 pieces on socount of its loss of honesty ard morally. He said the atbeaipt 0 make the Bouthern | i-sue prominent now since the party had gone out of power was 8 great Blander It | was too late for thut sort of thing The | Republican party had b's opportuni y for ‘ over twenty sears to setle what they question, they hat never The trouble was that negro ia the Bouth. Grant lengned when last rig of the clams of the Republican party in the Bouth to obtain nanonal power. The party had lost ix old strength, snd outil it regein-d someting of that srt it conld never hope to succeed The party, too, hed been erowsrdly on the Chinese ques ion, “Why” s4id the Col onel, “whea Hant was Minister to Ras- sia he sent a l-tter to Arthar telling of the prose ations of the Hebrews in Ras. sia. He urved upon him theimportance of hin veing his good officers with the Raossian Government to protect them from »uch revolting croelties ss were pra-ticed npon them, Arthur said that he sou'd ask them in an unofficial way to inter‘ere but he did not dare to ask them official y for fear they would torn ahout whi ask us why we did no protect the Chinese in this country before look ing sbroad for oppressions to correct” the Colonel then wound up mortem ex ming ion of the Repuniiosn ently by siving: “The Samson of the Bepubiican party has been in the toils of tue Delilah of policy, avd as a necessary consequence has been shorn of his sires git and has gone down tormn ™ 1 asked the (J:do: el if he thought Blaine would ever be a candidate agin, “Ch, gues not,” said he, “1 should not think be wonld went it, I could hardly im- sine hs wap ing 10 go turongh with an- other fizh: of the kind he hat last vear ™ Phe Colonel maid tia he took very little interes in this adwi istration, hut what he Kaew of it pleased hia He has a special sdmiration for Secretary Lemar, He thinks tha he has one of the greatest brains «f any mun in the Cabnet and une of the fairest and most liberal of] minds i his post - misc ls I Mts EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS TOWN, Algiers, Der, 4.—An earthquake has thrown doesn many hotses =t Mascara, Boldat and Medeuh, and destroyed three goartars of the town of Msia Thirty two perso s were killed and twelve othe ers were injured AN A - ——- SIXTEEN COWS BURNED Charleston, W Va, D-c. 5 ~Last night were destroyed by fire. There were 25 rows in the stable aud 18 were roasted alive, . a" The domestic felicity of Mr. and Mrs. Heudri ks was proverbial in Indisna At 8 wedding ceremony in Rhebyville three years ago the officiating clergy man, a ter shaking hands with the newly married couple, gave them his henedic- tion in these words: “May yon always te ux happy »8 Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks ule.” § — Sp ———— The Bret wie of Senator Hipple- Michell, who lives at Ou City, Pa, earns her bread and board by dmly 10:1 onthe washboard. Er FINGER RINGS, While there isa touch of barbarism in wearing rings on the flugers, yet the civilized hand has so long been adorned by them, that it would look plain and unfinished without its hoops of gold The ancient Romans wore the ring on the joint just nnder the nail The Hebrews wore it on the right hand alone, The Greeks wore their rings on the forth finger of the left hand, the Gauls and Britons on the third finger of the left hand. In Pliny's time the betrothal ring was an iron hoop, set with a lodestone instead of a gem. The Romans were oven greater slaves to fashion than we of the presont day. They bad winter and summer rings, the weight and color of the ring being adapted to the seas. The Greeks wore weekly rings, which were charms, dud were always cameos and intaglios, Tailsmanio rings were also in use among the Romans. Seal rings were heirlooms, and of great vaine in business transao- tions The wedding ring is of great antiquity. It is a common thing to find wives who bave been married & lifetime, yot never had allowed the wedding ving to slip over the fineer joint. It is considered unineky to take {of To low it indicntens mistortune NO. 48. : A — - Lad AN CORROBORRER. ‘he very roughest its purpose, stoners and BITTE BONE chorus, by beat. by drum- itd kane i , u! . jorhitly $ Clhed across : tion in it was { it i frm J reamed | tom a very v no 0 a wild, med wiflnies The ne 15 just as I soon but the hours uiness Both the he Nur- inte reg! and ery boost ge of it it, however GYer i OW 1 great that 1 pave a» ment NETVeIORS not to be nO6T Was with d enrved Mi, ms nl ie of his ribs hair was of tied up in « his he Ciro ing t feathers wore ie op stic held His black the night flickering death-like ie his i t the boomerang and null body hardly showed again round, but fir ight threw these into brilliant took b silently followed by. © } ie $ad dark backy lines This and was 3 wd relief first dancer is place, swiftly and ers, painted in exactly t wanner as himself, till irty Wen g part in the mystic position of the their armas, bent raised above weapons they held another head was sed to on ulder, and of their wild black eyes direction. Their : and bent at the i position they never changed, as they jumped from the feet and hips only. na 3 + 4 . anonl were akin The same | dance men at their heads till the med] was tue the ell ws were or one the lit sho the fierce gaze was firm! legs were ts Yur ” slightly inc @ one wide ¢1 bia apart knees, an is ——— a ll A A BS nt BREAKING OF A CONTRACT ye Ordinarily the damages which a buyer ean recover against the seller, when the Intter breaks Lis contract and fails to give a 1 be the {amount that the buyer has paid on account, the lawful interest, and prob- lably, I may say certainly, his fair ex- $ x deed as wil agreed, {penses that he has paid for examining ithe title ; this is where the seller has {been guilty of no fraud, but the con- {tract was made in good faith, and he has been unable to perform. If, how- |ever, the seller has been guilty of frand, lor absolutely refuses to give a deed {when he can, or has undertaken to sell ‘when he knew that he bad no authority ito make the contract, or if when he {might remedy a defect in his title he {refuses to do so, he can bs made to pay the buyer damages for the loss of the bargain, and the proper measure of such damages is the value of the pro perty at the time he broke the contract {If the seller, believing that he had the right to sell, shonld make the contract in good faith and then discover a fault in his title before he has received any of the purchase money, no damages could be recovered from him for refusing to give the deed If after yon take the contme! and before yon get the deed you employ and pay an architect to make plans for a building to be erected on the premises and the contract is broken and you do not get your deed, you cannot include in your damages the expense incurred for the architect's plan; the control does not contemplate that the purchaser should prepare to build aa if he were the owner before he becomes owner ; it Joaves him, until its promised perfor mance, without the title or power or interests of owner. The expense there fore is not within the contemplation of the parties, nor is it an ordinary or an ticipated consequence of the making of the contract.
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