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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