‘OLD SERIES, XL.
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THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED KURTZ, ..
Editor.
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DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS,
The following are all evening meet
ings. Good speakers will be present:
Farmer's Mills, Gregg, Thursday, ** 21
Scotia, Patton, - “ a
Rock Forge School House, Benner, Friday,
Zion, Walker, “ “ 22
Hublersburg, Walker, Saturday, “ =
Wallace Run School House, Boggs, 28
Hoy's School House, Benner, Monday, * 25
Pleasant Gap, Spring, (Tuesday, “ 206
Jacksonville, Marion, " “ 2%
Rebersburg, Miles, Wednesday,| * 7
Boalsburg, Harris Thursday, | “
Powelton, Rush, - “
Walnut Grove School House, Harris, Friday *
Pine Hall, Ferguson, lu 0
Holt's Hollow School House, Bogs, Saturday * 50
Port Matilda, Worth, Monday, Nov. 1
Centre Hall, " “1
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STORE ORDER COMPLICATIONS,
The Patriot says General Beavers firm
is having no end of trouble over the
store order business. When the allega-
tion was published some weeks ago
that the firm was employing store .or-
ders, the answer was made that the
Trade Coupons were not store orders
bata cash circulating medium adopted
at the request of the employes and for
their convenience. This statement was
not sworn to by General Beaver and his
business associates but it was certified in
the most solemn way by the signatures
of all of them and corroborated by a
written statement signed by a number of
the employes.
Under the act of Congress passed
early in the war period an internal rev-
enue tax of ten per cent, was levied on
all circulating mediums issued by cor
porations doing business under State au-
thority or by individuals or copartner
ship. When, therefore, General Baaver
made it so eleag that the Trade Coupons
were not store Orders but circulating me-
diums, the Internal Revenue Collector
of the District in which Beavers firm
does business made an official visit to
«he establishment, and proceeded to as-
sess and made preparations to collect the
tax under the act of Congress. This pro-
ceeding caused the greatest consterna-
tion among General Beaver's business
ghartoers, and they proceeded forthwith
to prove that the Trade Coupons were
not circulating mediums, but store or-
ders plain and simple.
The controversy is now pending before
the Commissioner of Interoal Revenue.
That gentleman declines to express an
opinion on the issue of the affair in ad-
vance of the official deliverance, which
will be made in due coarse of business,
But the matter is interesting in view of
the fact that it caused such a sudden re-
versal of opinion in the minds of Gener-
al Beaver's partners. If Commissioner
Miller should decide that the trade cou-
pons are store orders it would save the
company considerable money, but atthe
expense of a large slice of reputation for
veracity, snd if he should decide other-
wise, it would vindicate their characters
UP, DEMOCRATS,
All the Republican slanders against
3lack and some of the candidates on our
county ticket having been totally refut-
ed, it is the duty of Democrats to be all
the more determined to give their nom-
inees a rousing majority in this count y
as an endorsement of their worth,
The slander against Black, that he is
an intemperate man, has been set at rest
by the noble Black himself.
The vilest slanders have been circala-
{ted against L, W. Schaeffer, by his ene-
mies, and yet he is one of the noblest
and purest citizens of our county. These
slanders, one and all, have received
{their quietns, and Mr, Schaeffer defies
ithe traducers of his character to prove
as much as the dot of an ‘i’ against him.
It can’t be done, Democrats, We
know Lew Schaefler, and every one else
who knows him, Democrat or Republi-
can, will join in giving him a certificate
of umimpeachable character. A nobler,
better, truer man, never had a nomina-
tion.
The slander against representative
Woodward, that he favored a law to pre-
vent a man's cow from running at large,
is utterly refuted in another column.
Neither he nor Rhone favored such a
measure,
Democrats, these base slanders are an
insult to you. Now make up your minds
to resent them at the polls, by
ing the entire ticket your support.
out the vote,
give
Get
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So high does J. K. P, Hall stand with
all classes in Elk county that he will get
an almost unanimous vote there for con-
gress,
epi —
W. W. Betts, the Democratic nomi-
nee for Senator, is one of the good stock
of honest men, whose word is as good as
his bond. He will make an excellent
Senator for this district with its great
and important interests, Weare proud
of such a man as Betis.
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Every Democrat who has any snap,
or respect for his time-honored party,
will feel indignant and insulted over the
low and vile abuse that has been heaped
upon some of the honored names upon
our county ticket. Now that the villain-
ous lies have been fully exploded, every
Democrat possessed of self-respect will
roll up his sleetes and work to, give
the ticket such a big majority as to
be a lasting rebuke to the cowards who
attempted to blacken the characters of
some of the purest men ever born in this
county.
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Now that Lew Schaeffer's vindication
against the lies put out, is full and com-
plete, let every Democrat, who has been
deceived by the slanders of a few kick-
ers, make up his mind to come to his
support with a will. He is beyond ques-
tion one of the purest gnd most noble
men in our county.
We have it from a responsible source
that parties in a certain interest made
for truthfulness, but at a cost of a 10 per
cent. tax on $60,000 with a fair chance
for suits on issues of past periods. On|
the whole it is an amasing tarn that has
been given to a serious question,
The rads are running Patton for con-
gress but the Democrats intend to Haul
bim ia.
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Democrats, you never had a better
ticket in the field, state or county, than
at present. All the men on the ticket
bear the purest characters. By no one
can it be said with truth, that Mr,
Schaeffer was not nominated with the
utmost fairness, The enemy is making
every exertion to defeat -the party in
state and part of the county ticket.
To injure a part of the county nomi-
nees, the boldest falsehoods have been
put in circulation, and where these will
not accomplish the end sought, a resort
has been made to mislead some into
church prejudices; let no such despica-
ble plan swerve you from your duty, and
most of all shun the attempt to set
church against church, There are men
of reason in sll denominations who will
discountenance any effort of this kind.
Let the things sacred remain disconnect.
ed from politics, The motives of those
who would have you pursue such a war-
fare will be found impure and welfish,
We appeal to the thinking men of the
party in this matter. Let no such prej-
udices be engendered, and allow politics
to drift in a channel which will prove a
curse. Democrats think, and discard
any thing of such a nature, no matter
where you belong. The botlom of it is
surely impure,
WS A AANA
A traitor in camp is always more dan-
gerous than the open foe. Thus it is
with the Democratic party—a few trai-
tors are more to be feared than our pol:
itical enemies, whom you know where to
find, and how to meet. Democrats, be
true to your nominees, Just now the
noble Black is being slandered by the
opposition, so is Behaeffer, our nominee
for Prothonotary, by the enemy, who
an offer to Republicass in Haines
township for a trade against Schaeffer.
To pull down bills and trade off part of
the ticket is pretty work to be caught up
in. If anything should make Demo-
crats determined to stand by so noble a
man as L. A. Schaeffer, it is the unprin-
cipled work his enemies are resorting to
to injure him,
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What's the use in any fellow fighting
the editor of this paper just now? We
are not a candidate for any office,
friends (7). Hold up your ammunition
for a little while yet, maybe we'll run
for President, then you can fire away
all night and all day.
Will the voters please to remember
that price of coal has gone up because
the coal pool combination has issued or-
ders to restrict the output? Well, this
couldn't be done, if the State constitu-
tion was enforced, and that is just what
Mr. Black, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, w ants to have done.
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We think the Gazette wiil find a wan-
ing of its influence by publishing such
ed in its columns recently, The day for
low abuse has gone by. We say it with
pride, the Democratic press of this coun-
ty has treated the nominees on the op-
position county ‘ticket with decency,
while the Gazette has pursued a course
against the Democratic nominees which
was uncalled for and which it must feel
Wo
Done slandering Lew Schaeffer the
A A + HIM A A
We are told that in Haines township,
the Democratic meeting bills, so as to
make the meetings a failure, This was
get their slanders from a fow traifors.
their schemes aio under pur.
BUSINESS INSPIRING UNDER DEM-
OCRATIC ADMINISTRATION,
Special telegrams to Bradsireet’s point
to a volume of general trade quite equal
to that reported in last weeks, with a
satisfactory inquiry and demand, The
movement of staple goods is increasing
in the Southwest and West, while in
Kansas the demand is reported to be
better than in a corresponding period in
any preceding year. The bank clearings
at thirty cities point to an unmistakably
full volume of commercial transactions,
speculative and otherwise, exceeding in
the aggregate late exhibits. The week's
total is $004,650,369 as compared with
$008,003,869 last week and with 8842,600 -
225 in the closing week of September,
1885, a gain of 3 8-10 per cent. on the
week, and of 3 1-10 per cent. as
the like week last vear.
The domestic iron trade continues ac-
tive and prices very firm. An advance
for next year is very probable. Finish-
ed iron is about 1-10¢ higher per pound,
against
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Lew Schaeffer's cowardly slanderers
are beginning to crawl into their holes
and drawing the hole
day they'll
8 along in. Some
wish they hadn't di
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VINDICATION.
The right of newspape
personal record of a can:
office, so far as it has any
his fitness, has been vine
est county.
the Republican candidate Associate
Judge, sued Editor J. M, Kepler, of the
Tionesta Democrat,
cation of an account of Proper’s self o
me it,
ra to discuss the
lidate for public
significance in
icated in For-
ohn A. Proper,
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107
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A year ago J
for libel in the publi-
if
viction of an attempt at jury fixing, for
which attempt the latter was reprimand-
ed from the bench while on the witness
stand.
of the jury panel is an important
As due respect for the sacredness
quali-
fication for one who is to sit on the bench
himself, it is not
other result than acquittal could
be reached, and Mr. Ke
gratulated that this verdict was secured.
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pler is to be co
Mr. Proper is not
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that when he seeks
trust the public
iblic have a right to
many things about him
which
er have been resurred
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nd
Old and sou
there is an occasional scab who thinks
some fellows are too good to have t
ugly things told about in the p
that they should be
with a wink at thei
as this principle is,
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There will be no nominee against W
W. Betts for senator. You
a good man.
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In spite of t
phia Times, that at
last year the wheat exports of the
ent year to date are nearly nice million
dollars greater than for the same period
last year, the price of wheat at Chicago
had fallen on Monday to 60] cents or
within three-cights of a cent of the
lowest point reached in twenty-four
years, The apparent cause of this de-
cline was the falling off of the export de-
mand which is, however, regarded as
temporary, as the foreign wheat deficit
is known to be large.
It is interesting to note past periods of
low prices and their causes. The lowest
point reached in the wheat trade in a
quarter of a century was in 1561, when
the bottom dropped out of everything,
owing to the war panic. Wheat then
sold for a short time at In
January 1862, it sold for 65 and in May
had risen 66. It did not fall below 70
cents again until December 1884, when
the lowest point reached was 069%,
or } lower than the price on Monday.
During 1884 the price fluctuated between
604 and 906}. The fluctuations for 1885
ranged between 72} and 01]. In 1872
and 1877 prices ranged between $1 and
$1.61.
As before stated the low prices of a
quarter of a century were due to the bus-
iness prostration consequent upon the
early stages of the war. The low prices
in 1884 were due to the harvesting of the
greatest wheat crop ever grown in the
United States, the aggregate reaching
512,000,000 bushels. Although the crop
T
he Phila
lower prices
says t
than
pres-
55 cents,
155,000,000, the big surplus carried over
1854, together with the light foreign de-
mand, served to keep prices at a very
moderate figure. The crop of the pres.
ent year is at least a hundred million
bushels greater than last year, being
about 457,000,000 bushels, and although
the foreign demand has been fair, and
will doubtless improve, there is more
wheat in sight than is necessary for both
home and foreign consumption.
————— sl loon WR
We give L. A. Schaeffer's sworn de-
nial of C. D. Runkle’s charge about those
$1200, in another colum. Schaeffer's
word is good enough without affidavit.
We leave this matter here, There is
no stain upon Mr. Schaeffler connected
A CAMPAIGN SLANDER.
At the request of Representative
Woodward, we copy, in condensed form,
from the Centre Democrat, a refutation of
an old slander ;
A prominent Democratic worker from
the Bald Eagle ridges called upon us the
other day to say that the Republicans in
his locality are again circulating the
slander against candidate for Assembly,
Hon. John A, Woodward, that he favors
the enactment of a law to prevent the
poor man’s cow from having the advan-
tage of the waste pasturage which grows
upon the wild mountain lands, of which
our county has so large a proportion.
The fact is that the only bill offered in
the House during the session of 1885,
with this outrageous purpose in view,
was introduced by a Republican, Mr.
Hackett, of Potter county, and that to
Mr. Woodward, always watchful of the
interests of his county, and courageous
in their defense, is due the credit of hav-
ing defeated the iniquitous measure and
that Mr. Rhone, his colleague in the
House then, and his colleague on the
ticket now, stood manfully beside bim
in the fight. In order to show their po-
sitions in this matter, we quote the bill
and their actions upon it from the Legis
lative Re rd
RUNNING AT LARGE OF DOMESTIC
ANIMALS,
I'he next bill in order was House N
225, file folio 875, entitled:
An act to prohibit the ronning
large of any domestic animals in
Commonwealth.
Section 1. That from and after the
first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-five, itshall be un-
lawful for the owner or owners or any
person or persons having charge or con-
trol of any cattle, horses, mules, sheep,
goats or swine to suffer or permit the
same or any one thereof to run at large
in this Commonwealth, and any owner
Or Owners, person or persons, as afore-
said, who shall suffer or permit any one
of the animals above named, to 80 run at
large, shall forfeit and pay a penalty
three dollars for each head of cattle,
horses or mules, two dollars for each
hog, one dollar for each sheep or goat,
to be sued for and recovered as debts of
like amount are by law recoverable
without any benefit of exemption laws
of this Commonwealth by any person in
the pame of the Commonwealth, one-
half the penalty to be paid the informer
and the balance to be paid into the treas-
ury of the school district in which said
animal or animals may be found run-
ning at large,
I'he question being,
Will the House agree to the section ?
Mr. WOODWARD, 1 offer the fol-
lowing amendment:
Strike out the word “cattle” in the
sixth line, and also the word “cattle” in
the eleventh line.
Mr. WOODWARD, The gentlemen
who have preceded me, both the gentle
man from Clinton (Brungard) and the
gentleman from Clearfield (Norris) have
voiced my sentiments upon this subject
precisely: and it was with this in view
that I propose the amendment, While
I do not support the bill in any part, 1
was willing that those who advocate it
should have the other stock that are in-
cluded in it, horses, mules, sheep, goats
and swine, restraining if they see prop~
er. But in the county which I represent
it is simply impracticable to require that
horned cattle shall be kept constantly
within enclosures. There are large
numbers of persons who have only one,
two or three cows, and a very large por:
tion of whose livelihood is derived from
those cows, They have no place to keep
them; they have no land upon which to
pasture them, except wild land, which
would be otherwise absolutely waste ;
and it would be unwise, improper, un-
just and unkind to prevent them from
using this otherwise waste pasture.
However, in order io meet the senti-
ments of those who advocate the allow-
ing of all stock to run at large, I will
withdraw my amendmentjwith the ex
press purpose of voting against the entire
bill, .
Mr. RHONE. Iknow of no reason
why this bill should become a law.
There may be many localities in this
State where such a law would be desira-
ble, but in Pennsylvania there are hun-
dreds and thousands of acres of unim-
proved lands which are now used by
poor men for pasturing their cattle. The
farmers and people generally are already
protected by a general law against an-
noyance from cattle and I see no neces
sity for the passage of a bill of this kind.
The question being,
Will the House agree to the section ?
It was not agreed to,
This gave the obnoxious measure its
quietus, and it was no more heard of.
sais. A. ——-y-
Persons inform us that some fellows
personally urge our patrons to stop the
Reporter, What heavy caliber they
mustbe! and how little too! The Re-
porter for 40 years has been straight and
true without deviation and the constant
advocate of the interests of the valley
and county, If it could not be enlisted
in the interests of bad men it was be-
cause it followed conscience, and it has
never failed in receiving the endorse.
ment of the honest and upright for fear-
lessly doing its duty.
Je
at
this
of
The Republican organs and leaders in
the State are abusing Chauncy F. Black,
whose character is as pure as that ofany
man that ever ran for office, In the
county, the Republicans, along with a
fow assistant Republicans, are slanderin
L. A. Schaeffer, one of the best men in
PATTONTEES.
The Pattontees are boasting they wi
defeat Hall for Congress. Well,
can’t do it. Why should Hall be defeat-
ed ? What has he done to justify
Democrat in voting for his opponent, q
Mr. Patton? Mr. Hall has a good record
at home, as a man and philanthropist.
He is looked upon in E k county as the
greatest benefactor of the mechanics and
laboring classes in that section of the
state, and where they know him the |
people, almost to a man are for Mr, Hall, !
He is a life-long Democrat, and a gen
The
may talk about defeating Hall
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any |
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Yat
tlemen of good ability. mtees
the ides of November are
find they have filed a cavea
Curwinsville statesman who is o
infringement on the interests
people,
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It is a notorious fact,
denied, that the men who are
take votes from I. A.
years been in co-alition with the
that can not
trying
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Schaeffer, have {
other offices and defeat Democrats.
——
Why so desperate and mean meth
should be resorted to in order to
L. A. Schaefler, exceeds our comprehen-
sion, Lieing
kind bas been resorted to to
of the most
.
the
he
character of one of best me
county. Fortunately for Mr, Beha
the men who seek to injure
very low for truth and veraci
who know them.
Mr, Schaeffer all
Democrats, stand
the
count of the dastardly we
mies, proven
him, and he is so far above wrt
in
¥y
il
Nothing can be
Lg
as his persecutors are low infam
against him.
i
Schaeffer with want
1ads
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The Gazetle tw
ing to Englishify his name by spelli
That's
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as above, orance,
spelling is the original German
Englishify about it.
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ARE TRADE COUPONS TAXABLI
The store order dispute in Penne;
nia has been transferred to Washingtor
by an appeal of the
Nail Company of which General Beaver
is President, from an assessment
ten per cent tax on the trade coupons ol
that company that the law imposes upon
all circulating mediom that is represeat-
ed as money. When the question of the
store orders of the Bellefonte Co. was
raised in the campaign, General Deaver
was absent in California and could not
be reached. When the question was
submitted to him on his way home, he
eaid that be did not originally approve
of the adoption of the trade coupons Lo
be used in the payment of labor even
when voluntarily called for, but his part-
ners made their public explanation over
their own signatures, they declared thal
the trade coupons are not store ord
bus-that they represented so much cash
and were a convenient cash circulating
anda
Jellefonte Iron
of the
NO. 40
MORE CASI,
CLEVELAND
GO ON A
‘nless She Gels Better Pay
In
Washington
torial flunence—~She M
and Keep
President.
Cricaco, O
“Hzabeth (
ft the edit
hat law
’
men, a
If a circulating medium in the simil-
tude of money, they are taxable under
the act of Congress at the mste of 10 per
the officers of the company publicly de-
clared that they wer simply cash orders
the Collector of Internal Revenue for
the district investigated the subject and
decided upon the st atements of the par-
ties issuing them th.at they were a circu-
lating medium, ancl assessed the lawiul
tax upon them. \Vhen not'fied of the
tax, which was 10 jer cent. on tome $60,-
000, the officers of the compan y appealed
the case to Commissioner Milir of the,
Internal Revenue Department, on the
ground that the coupons are | rade or
store orders and not a cash cir lating
medium. The commissioner refu 0&8 10
give any information on the subject, but
it is known that the appeal is before bi‘o
and that he must decide either that they
are a cash circulating medium and tax
them, or that they are store orders and
declare that they are not taxable. In
view of the political prominence given
to the store order question in several
Pennsylvania contests, including Gov-
ernor and Congressmen, it excites gen-|
eral interest in political circles bere.
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John H. Reifsnyder is an experienced |
surveyor, having followed the profes
sion for many years. Ie is familiar
with the territory of our county, has
many of the boundery lines, landmarks, |
at his fingers’ ends, He is an obliging]
gentleman and will make a first-class
county surveyor, to which position he
will be elected by a big vote in Novem-
ber.
AS]
inee for Congress, employs a great many
men in his lumber, mining and tanning
interests, They all like him, he has nev.
er had a strike, and he don’t pay them
in store orders, and he is strong among
the working classes in Elk county, he
gives them thousands of dollars in wages
every year, Such men are the working-
man's best friends,
a m——
The Gazette keeps some silly para
graphs at the head of its columns a8 say
ings of James M’Clain about the Do teh.
Mr. M'Clain never made such nutte: an.
oes and he thinks the lie is so silly { hat
no one will believe it and that ths ore
is no need for a denia’. It is from the
molar
In Memory of «
Lou Led
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ma {
ns
and
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be bur
on 1 5
Latha
Confede
granite monument
gin
dividual 1
placed at the g
son, the 1
Yellow Yever
New ORLEAN Od
board of health 1
telligence that yellow §
in Biloxi. Miss, several week
the local autl i
pressed, was still raging Two iy or
thi."ty deaths are alleged to have socurred in
the ast few we lligence was
broug 3 by a » ; from Missinsippd
City, fi, "teen miles from Bil xd, who stated
' from Biloxi had died in his
with « ¥ack vom
ties declare
there,
town
on the British Const,
3 Ten dead bodies were
se Glamorgan coast yes.
reports of the storms
ven terrilide in the extent
on Mf life and damage $0
3 i A Norwegian
wl off Tintagel,
about fifteen,
Storms
LOSDON,
washed as ¢
The late
show them to have t
of their destruct
property in the souls :
bark is known 10 have io W
and her crew, y og
drowned
Opt, 40
num
To Cate the Sea Serpent,
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New Haves, Oct, 16.~In response
offer made by G. B. Bunnell, soveral parties
are preparing to go in search of tho sea were
t seen off Westport on Monday, Mr.
Bunnell offers $10,000 for iis onjture alive
and $5,000 for it dead, provided it is not mutil
ated.
Sure of His Election,
ALRARY, Oct, 18.~The re<clection of Alton
B. Parker, of Kingston, judge of the supreamns
court, renominated by the Democrats, has
been insured, as the Republicans of the Third
district have decided not to nominate
a candidate in opposition to him.
wi "
H125,000 Plekled,
CiscrxxaTy, Oct a
holessle dealers in plekies, have ,
Charles . Wilson, for the benefit of ered
ftors. Linbilitics, $105,000, assets about the
SAR, :
Taliures of 8 Wook.
same low source that the exploded sly n~