ede YOL OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES. X1¥. THE FRED. KURTZ, EE Eptror and Proy’r The Bald Eagle Va'ley Railroad Com- pany has declared a five per cent. divi- dend. Would be glad to learn that T. can do the same thing. - LL. & the It is said that on the 20th inst, the cigarmakers of New York, to the number of 7,000, wiil go out on a strike. The pro- these men against their employers are reasonable and ought to be redressed. But this is an inauspici work. ns time to quit -—- According to a Times Harrisburg spec- ial. a strong movement is on foot in fa- vor of nominating Wm. A. Wallace as the Democratic candidate for Governor. Mr. Wallace wonld be astrong candidate, and we believe can carry the state over bl irst-class govern- any nominee the Rep ans might set up, and would make ¢ or. We would like to see Judge Orvis nominated for Governor, as our first ability s» him anm choice—his and clean record would mal as strong a candidate -—a— of the Huntingdon Car Works a few months ago to the Messrs, Roberts, of Philadelphia, raised san- guine expectations that they would soon be put nm a substantial and have since stood as silent and dead as before, pired by the change of There have been rumors that the machinery, which 1 aj + basis, but they into operation i permanent hopes ins I ownership have vanished. and tha is worth more than the price paid for the works, is to be taken away, dined to give mors credencé, because Henry & Co, a and many these ru Tu persons are in mercantile business, and who are supposed to know the intentions of the new proprietors of hy ¥ ba ¢ s mellin sl ‘ 4 «1s ¢ the works, are selling « their stock of goods and will close t th 1st of a tores on April. now passed the assed the Senate a will no doubt be The W awaits x i . x abou or It e, signed by the President. Presid n dent to become a law, is a measure Hoar, Massachusetts, and introduced by into the C 191 vised origi Senator nally by v3 § at tl i # & 3 SCDAale at he IAS Bess mgress, After some debate and a few unimportant verbal amendments it was there is chance fora better market. In addition, the recent unusually cols saap has done considerable damage to grain fields in many parts of the coun- try. This fact willalso have a tendency to help prices somewhat, perhaps quite materially, and it wlil do our farmers no wait and see whether there better markets toward It looks like it now. harm to won't be spring than now, on ol — The growth of the twin cities of St Paul and Minneapolis during the past year has been one of the most important incidents in our history, longer the wonder of the West, The Capital of the North West is now the synosure of the Mississippi Valley. In Chicago $19,000,000 was last year expend- ed in building. This is but $2,000,000 more than was spent in St. Paul and Minneapolis. In some departments of trade the latter cities are without a ri- val. Seventy per cent. more bushels of wheat were shipped to Minneapolis than to Chicago last year. The sales of real estate in the two cities during the same time amounted to over $120,000. This double city has some basis for ita proud prophecy that before the close of this exntury it will overtop every city of the continent except New York, & . Chicago is no sommes A I ssid THE RAILROAD SALE ENJOIRED, On Friday last Judges Simonton and McPherson, of the Harrisburg Court, de- livered practically concurrentopinions in the case raised by the Attorney General t enjoin the sale of the South Pennsyl- vania and Beech Creek Railroads to the Pennsylvania Railroad. They decide that the South Pennsylvania and the Beech Creek are two competing and par allel lines with the purchasing corpora. tion, and, therefore, their sale as recent. ly contracted for, is forbidden by the Constitution. The effect of the "decision of the Dauphin Court will be to either at once revoke the contract of sale between the Penngylvania , and Beech Creek and South Pennsylvania corporations, or to hold it in abeyagge until the qoestion shall be finally decided by the Supreme Court. it is possible that the case might be beard by the Supreme Court during its present session in Philadelphia, and thus reach a final decision by May or June; but it is more likely that it may be delayed longer if it shall be appealed to the Court of last resort, y “CEN | CURTIN DECLINES, ———— 1 He Refi { : > * ' $ | the Banking Commitice. Washington, Jan. 13.—There was but a single thing to relieve the monotony {in the house to-day and that was the long anticipated declination of Gdvernor Cartin of the chairmanship of the com {mittee on banking and currency. When ithe old War Governor reared his tall i . ¥ ® {form in the center aisle he was the focal [point of all eyes. Members who bad {been loafing in the cloak rooms and back |of the screens hastily resumed their {seats or crowded in the immediate rear {and to the right aud left of the Pennsyl- i * » {vanian, Ie stood erect and bis voice {was deep, firm aod sonorous as he ads : . {dressed the Speaker. He said: | “It was your pleasure, sir, to do me ithe honor to place me first on the list of ithe committee on banking and currency. {I did intend to state to this House my {reasons for declining that honor, but on ithe advice of my friends and of the sen- {timent of the public journals of the coun- {try I bave concluded fo offer no reasons {of my own. As to decline the position it lis you pleasure to give me, Idid not heed ithe advice of any man, for my disposition {in this respect was made up in the begin- (ning. For reasons of my own, which {seem to be understood by my friendsand {colleagues on this floor, I now ask this { House to excuse me from the important {daty a8 chairman of the committee to {which yon have assigned me.” | Tnere was a buzz of dissappointment japon the Governor's closing remark, as it was expected that he would make a {sensational statement of the reasons for his act. This, however, was not to be. {He bad waited for several days and he {bad actually written out his statement, {but 1t was so bitter that on the advice of {his friends he concluded not to deliver it {in the House, This speech was an at {tack upon Secretary Bayard, There was nothing else to do but accept Mr, Cur- tin's declination and he was formally ex- cused, {i Gov. Cartin, allading to his resigna- ion, said to-night that it wasinspired by ino want of appreciation of the honor conferred upon him by the Speaker, but that he couid not escape the conviction $ ie i publie life were not such as fitted him to {serve in that position with eatisfaction {to himself or usefuilness to the House. He made this statement with no spirit of isell-depreciation, as he bad been Jong enough in the public service to learn the {measure of his aptitades and they were not in this direction. He added farther {that it was the pleasure of the Speaker bead of the committee on foreigh rela. approval of the last Congress, He, there fore, claimed that the usoal custom has invaricbly been to continue the same chairman when the same political organ- ization controlled the Howse and re- elected the same Speaker, . The Department of Agriculture has gent out its crop report for the year just closed and the figures are worth study- ing. The cotton crop, it is claimed, will aggregate six and one-half million bales, worth in the hands of the planters about three hundred millions of dollars. The wheat crop for the year reaches 357,112,- 000 bushels, worth at the farmers’ gran- aries $275320390. The crop of oats reached 629,400 000 bushels, worth $179.- 631,860. The great American crop, how- ever, is corn, the production of which for 1885 reached the enormous total of 1,956,176,000 bushels, worth $635,674,630, or a round fifty millions more than the combined cotton and wheat crops. The cpmbined value of the four crops above mentioned aggregates about fourteen hundred millions of dollars, Of the States that grow the big crops of cen Illinois stands first, with a crop of 208 998 000 bushels; Iowa stands see- 6nd on the list, with 242496,005 bushels: Missouri third, with 196,861 000; Kansas fourth, with 158300000; Indiana fifth, 131,994,000; Nebraska (sixth, with 129. 126,000, and Ohio seventh, with 111,865. 000, The big wheat States are Minneso- ta, with 34,285000 bushels; Michigan, with 3131,261,000, and Iowa, with 30,332, 000. Dakota, which is not a State but would like to be two States, comes fourth in the list of wheat growing districts, with 27,013,000 bushels; Indiana fifth, with 26,650,000; California sixth, with 27,586,000, and Ohio seventh, with 20. 505,000 bushels. The above order in produetion is based upon the crops of 1885 and cannot be relied upon es the produstion for a term of years. These fignres show that in general 1885 was an exceedingly good crop year cermin erase" A Washington special says it is under- stood that A. 8, Hewitt has offered to surrender his place on the committes on naval affairs to Gov. Curtin and that the latter will be assigned to that committee, Mr. Hewitt has his hands full on the ways and means committee, If Govern- or Curtin goes on naval affairs it will give two Pennsylvanians on that coms mittee, Mr. Harmer being the other, M'he membership of naval affairs is more important than the chairmanship of the banking and carrency cxmmittee and a deal more important to Pennsylvania interests, re —————————————— SUDDEN DEATH OF BECRETARY BAYARD'S DAUGHTER, Dying Alone in Her Chamber After a So- cial Entertainment, Washington, Jan. 16 —A great gensa- tion was caused in Washing!n this after- noon by the announcement of the sud- den death of Miss Katharine Bayard, the eldest daughter of the Secretary of Slate, When the news was first heard upon the streets it came in very sensational shape. It was said that she had fallen dead at the White House daring the afternoon reception, An evening paper, which was on the street at 4 o'clock, said that she had fallen dead while receiving guests at her father's house, The true story of her death is much less sensational, She was found dead in her bed this afternoon soon after 2 o'clock by her sister, Miss Louise Bayard. Daring the season Miss Katharine Bayard has made it a habit to remain in bed until 2 f ai- ternoon. Ordinarily she has not been able to retire before 2 o'clock in the morning. She was invited to assist Mies Cleveland at her reception at the White House this afternoon. She was kept up to an nnusoally late hour this moreing, following the regular Friday evening reception at her father's house. She had left word to be called at 2 o'clock, so as to have time to dress and go to the White House reception, the hour for which was fixed at 3 o'clock. When Miss Louise Bayard entered the bedroom she found her sister, as she supposed, still pleeping. When she attempted to awaken her, she found that she was senseless. She en- deavored to rouse her, but instantly per- ceived by the drawn look of her face and its waxen color that something terrible bad happened. She rushed out of the room and hurriedly sent a colored mes- senger for the family doctor. Dr. Gard- iner came at once, He entered the bed. room where Miss Bayard waslying, made a brief examination and shook his head, He said he could do ng: she was dead and had been dead for ome time, al- though the body was then warm. His burried opinion was that her death was caased by some heart trouble A GREAT AT 1 Miss Cleveland's reception was to have begun at 3 p. m., and was (0 have ended at § o'clock. Preparations were under way at the White House for the recep- tion as early as 1 p. m. The doors at that hour had been closed to casual visitors. At 2:30 carriages began to arrive at the front entrance, bringing the wives of the members of the Cabinet, They were all ushered upstairs to Miss Cleveland's boudoir, and at 2:45 o'clock there present besides Miss Cleveland, Mrs Utely and Miss Love, of Buffalo; her guests, Mrs, Manning, Mrs. Whitney, Mre. Endicott, Mrs. Vilas, Mrs. Lamont arid Miss Rathborn. The only missing one of the reception party waz Miss Bay- ard. She was expected every moment The ladies, as they awaited her arrival chatted pleasantiy among themselves as they arranged their toilets, A few min- utes before 3 o'clock Miss Cleveland ex. cused herself to her lady guests, saying that the President desires to see her. It was the saddest mission the President had to perform since his inaugura- tion. He informed her in as composed a manner as possible that Mr. Bayard bad jost sent him word that Miss Kate Bayard had died saddenly. Miss Cleve. land was 80 overcome by the tidings that she could not ask for the particulars, Mrs. Lamont, who had been informed by her husband, of the death of Miss Bayard, could scarcely realize what had happened. The guests who were still in Miss Cleveland's room waiting to go down #tairs to the reception parlor, were informed of the terrible and to them unexpected event, A happy group of elegantly dressed la- dies was now turned into a gathering of sorrow. They could scarcely speak to each other, so moved were they at the news. They exchanged a few words with Miss Cleveland, who was complete- ly unnerved. Mrs. Maaoning, Mm Whitney, Mrs, Endicott and Mrs, Vilas goon afterwards lett the White House, the doors having already been closed to a Jarge crowd of men and women who bad assembled to attend the reception, s— AI Mis - THE COFFIN NOT TO BE OPENED. Wilmington, Del, Jan. 19—~The buri- al of the regnains of Miss Katharine Bay- ard here to-day was severely simple. The coffin was not opened, and the cere- mony was entirely private, only a few gentlemen being present. The Bayards believe that funerals should be strictly private in all things and that no one but the family should attend, At Washing- ton no one outside the family were ad- mitted and no one but thephysician and undertaker saw the remains, Miss Cleveland, the President's sister, desired to attend, but Mr. Bayard replied that the ladies of his family were not going, and begired Miss Cleveland not to think of undertaking such a journey. Their solicitude now was for the lying, and as Mrs, Bayard was unable to go or to bear any excitement it was decided that their Rsaghisets should remain with her. He added that according to an old cus- tom in his family the ladiesof the family did not attend the funerals of relatives, essere domains John Neitz, a farmer of Lycoming Co., aged 70, attributes his long life to the use of garlic. He looks to be a man of 40, 80 firmly does he believe in the virtues of the vegetable that he says he will live to seo the next centennial, Garlic producing a very “long” smell we don't see why it should not produce long life as well. No doubt farmer Neitz Wat So fragrant that ho needed mo cos metics, o'clock in the nothi SHOCK HE WHITE HOUSE) were 80 SOLDIERS KILLED, voying a military company was complete. ly wrecked last night n Valdivia, Thir- ty soldiers, including cleven olfizers, were kill The wheat crop of Minnesota and Da- kota for 1885 is set down at 55,000,000 bushels. Northwest until the wheat crop of 188 is harvested. Singular conditions, Minneapolis mills are now turning on about 80.000 barrels two-thirds their capacity. £ t a week, or abont There is a grain of encouragement in loosing from the low prices of wheat making wheat raising the last two years so unprofitable. Prices will advance with a shortage in the west, and by April we hope our farmer will see wheat quoted at $1.00, at least, for an ad- vance and if any farmer reader of the Rerporrer is not obliged to sell his grain, we woul little- There certainly is prospect advise holding on a then passed by that body, but failed action in the House, The death of Vice- Hendricks Nress to guard against the President the in during terim left Ci in a frame of mix 1 accidents of sudden fate in the manner of Presidential sue cession, and Mr, Hoar was early field with his old gress assembled short del pro d amendments thi i ded to the House, ler careful eo pose senate 3 ISIC rati { iia ue diciary Committee of that budy reported Gavorably to the House ir cisely the same shape :t had As in the Senate, all def Senate. at amendment House, a « : $ ws has been overwbelmingls were and after a two troduced 1 Rey the y = receiving voles can members of t be called a partisan measure act is to provide gaps or lapse in against the Presidential until such time as COngres ct to the ( ti J onstitutio fhe bill provides that WILK Re oo f retary o War, Alorney-Gienes eral, Secretary of § Interior 4} 't tine as Prest: LUS acting as 'res thi ry of Vice-Pres lent new Preside nt is ¢ i at the end of the tern ft r he su The bill also authorizes the acting Presi. i or Vice-President whe ik dent to call an extra session of Congress within twenty days from the assumes the duties of the regular n i118 office s Pagel 3 v - i MD of ¢ { mgress not ox cur within ths tin ey — The papers all over the country are the Bol Leman In many localities the frand 3 itl, crying oul against oats swindlers, has had its three years to ripen, and the result isa large crop of farmers swindled out of thousands of dollars. In some of the swindlers have been arrest ed, tried and sent to the penitentiary, A prominent Bellefonte banker recently informed the editor of the Ohio Reroxren that in two or three years the swindle will be fully developed in Centre county, and that already unsuspecting farmers have been led into it, and that there is prospect of our farmers being swindled out of thousands of dollars, The first and second year of the swindle is tempt- ing to the unsuspecting. Thereafter fol- lows the terrible facts of thonsands of dollars swindled out of our honestand unsuspecting farmers. There are stool pigeons in the first stage of this damn- able business who bait the hook that catches farmers to their sorrow ina year or two thereafier. The Rerorrer has frequently cantion- ed farmersagainst this swindle, yet there are some who do not seem to heed the warning. We again repeal (he caution, keep your hands off and have nothing to do with the Bohemian oats swindle. The oats itself is condemned by one of the largest manufacturers of oat meal in the country as inferior to aay other, c— : : Opposition to Gen. Beavers nomina- tion for Governor is cropping out, and there is a great deal of quiet work going on in the same direction. Among the anxious ones, who will not be publicly announced unless there is a reasonable progpect of success, is ex-Con ressman ohn B. Packer, of the Cameron family. we Pittsburg Post, All we have to say is if Gen. Deaver is not nominated, the fellow that will be is not going to be elected. Beaver is tho strongest man the Republicans have, but we are not sare that he is strong enough to pull through, particularly if Wallace or Judge Orvis gets the Democratic notos ination, i A AP MPA Morning Patriot: Bohemian oats is a kind of grain in which there appears to be a great amountof cheat. The Lyon. ing county farmers have discovored this » NUARY CURTIN A INCIDENT. IN aw 5 1 CW GOVERNOR ' 1 y L OTK Sun. of i . . I'he retirement rover from a place whic at the head « fn | U1 Aepresenia out a word from those | that i i i 11 valn { full valoe ciate his ex Twenty-thre of the | country, and it is | was one 3 | that the war o cuted n i 2 than it « out him, of al use a right t tinetion to explain the tion. iti Ts E HAD FOIS London, Oni, heen received the recent death wi the charge of poison Drop Ian, Londo: glances of the ca poison being found stomach, bot Lh He had previous the charge of mt Iogersol, Ont, and it otlier women in fallen victinus t gtated that alter went 10 Dakota an morning his wile d = some Cabe, who Se 3 { ¥ P y & » if 1 ¢ Vy OH } " ¥ » iE r of pe Md aly ira fore Watching | ed C tended for hi sub », weather has how normal all parts of the st that the cold wavy the extreme southie ia, and there is stantially the entire maining on the trees ed. The precise efle« trees cannot be determined warm weather seta Prol tree in the state wiil lose 11 the belief of the best obser most of the young trees are estimated that 500,000 3 worth $1.000 000 were dest freeze. temporal fro % : upon it, Kate Bayard's sud us that in the midst death. Kate was happy, an of Washington society, and the yer distinguished father. She msehoid, Lik A00re are six gan weing an invalid. ters, and Kate was the oldest it was fore any one knew it. ———— THE FIRST STATE DINNER. Washington, Jan. 14.—~The President] gave his first State dinner of the season this evening in honor of Liz cabinet, The White House was tastefully arrayed for the occasion and presents a brilliant appearance, -—— ul hae! aly nd 1 came, aitho hal : gently off, be FEE FRE I LS bed $455 i THE LONGRST £LXISTING WORD, Far behind inost forelyn languages, | ancient and madern, comes the English | language as regards length of words, | Except in the word ** Honorifieabilitn- | dinity "which, it existe in| literature, is, of conrse, a mere manu- | factured piece of absurdity-~we have 1; believe, no word exlending bevond | seven gyllabica To some European nations this may appear ocntemptible | enough. In this jespect, beweven, thie old world can teach a lesson to the new. | In a work to whiok I hope some time to make a more direct reference 1 have mot with an Aztoe word of thirty-two letters, “ Amatlacuilolitqniteatlaxishnilin” It is satisfactory to learn that the signi.| fication of the word is worthy olits pro. portions. It means ** payment received for having been bearer of a paper with writing on it” So far ss regards the number of letters employed accordingly we are far more extravagant than the Aztecs, Oallatin, in the * Transactions of the Amoriean Ethnolomieal Society,” supplios from the Cherokee language a word oven mops posentous. This is * Winitawigoginaliskawlnngianawnos Ntisosti,” which wwnns “They will by that time Lave nearly done granting (favors) from un distauoe to them and to we.” With a vocabnlary of thix kind a thongh must bo a matter of some dillioulty, N AMERICAN BTUDENTS IN GERMANY, Perils of Taking Free language Lessons in thie Professor's Family. I can remember who the family of or of introduc oe happened to be tev. His experi T_T its comic had three daughters, t, ax ks often the case not essinent for personal y were extremely cordial ir their riend sus. as delighted » made in German ¢ three maidens, Know le y one America invitation AF WHO BIS det wed. And | well connie row i sia eo of profess Ar nt irks AN, a8 Was My guilelos nn, ut wi fg £5 lk GOCREYOTUALY Y! tentative re complimentary under the im- in German ike “the red roen garden bx uttered CIN sve surprised bit have & per- bt lead to compli + his eves ith great & daughters & i Es be amily; and jad m= naked OOUrss, upon be bad fixed ness had the impar- i felt for tumbled cullscting wifidenoe, The ng that to all have the kind edi ation, at 1 end make i profes- wntniral i ai » all » Jerma charn attracted in ry no he Progress he wan air damsel, and t of the difficulty his past American and Rimul (Unee BOWEYer nel atl the wants of { a beautiful framed handsomely ver his an enor 4 look advertised his se y the { all charms of Let- and H fovesen's A Gotham Girl's Trick Chalrs. girl in this base is innocent in exterior, nis stuffed full of & chair wm her parior va somt in it. The piece but in no way he settled into an wth sk Wide, its upholstered with the one ut a foot nearer to love] difference as don’t mind these my CHI work them he use for whieh I s visitor to the one take f mysell the one are bassd on the principle person always has over a flostrated, if the former be a woman and the iatter a man. Now, please stand up a minute. Now let us change seats Down you drop ten twelve inches below the point that you would expect to if you had not already observed the deep mashiness ot the upholstery “Were you an impressionable, bashful, rather sentimental visitor, surprised and startled by the impression that threatened to bump you on the carpet itself, you would be utterly deprived of equanimity, dont you sort At the same time, 1 would be posed calmly and demurely on this more solid chair, clear above your insignificant par, with ny supremacy fully established, for the one interview anyhow, ©, 1 have found the invention exceadingly effective and valu- able. "New York Cor, Chicago Herald, 1 call 1 and They dl, composed a tremendous advantage awkward one of especially or The Analysis of an Artesian Well, An artesian well was recently bored at Columbus, Miss | and the water therefrom is very oold and possosses rare chemical proper. a A town darkey, with cup in hand, was standing at the well, a day or two #20, when a country darkey jumped off his cotton wagon and asked him to allow hin to use his cup to get a drink of the water When the country darkey had sonliowad the water be smacked his lips and said: “1 goliy, that water's good, show's you bon” Mr. Town Darker, with an air of great importance, replied “Inocourse hits good; hits boun' ter be good, for hit come 4.000 feet from der intrils of der yearth, amd hit's been scandal. ized by dor bow’ gymmas from der State Unerversary, and wat yor think be say hits ¥
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