THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED, KURTZ, Epiror and Pror'n . seat Centre Harr, Pa. Tuurs, Dec. 22, 1887, THE STATE GRANGE. WORK OF THE TATBONS: OF HUSBANDRY AT HARRISBURG. Harrisbr.g, Dec. 14.~At this morn- ing’s session of the State Grange, Pat- rons of Husbandry, the reports of Overseer J. G. McSparren, of Lancaster; State Lecturer Girard C. Brown, of York, and Secretary R. H. Thomas, of Mechan- iesburg, were read and referred to a pro- priate committees. In his report re- tary Thomas seys that twenty nine new granges reorganized. There was an in~ crease of 3,000 members, and an increase in finances of $1,000. The treasury will have left $5,000 after paying all expen: Overseer MecSparren in his report} re- viewed the success of the Grange in the past year, acd advised the overcoming of the prejudice and political bias that in- terfered with the interests of farmers, He protested against farmers being iu- fluenced by the press and politicians in the matter of tariff taxes and discrimina- tion. He opposed the repeal of the in- ternal revenue, snd favored tariff reform, elleging that to protect the wool indus try amountiog to $45,000,000 the people pay as consnmers an excess of $146,000,- 000. Mr. M'Sparren also asserts that from 1850 to 1860, under low tariff, the valuation of farms increased 100 per cent.,, while from 1870 to 1880, under high tariff, it increased but nine per cent. The afternoon's session was devoted to hearing the reports of officers, tf Mp WIDE AWAKE 1888, The readers of this wonderful mags. zine for young pecple are so accustomed to good reading and pictures that they will wonder how it 1s going to be belter than ever this coming year. Bat it is. The new year has already begun with the holiday number just out—a truly great number, larger and richer, more varied, and therefore it must be better than ever before. And the publishers Lave a primer to send to those who want to know what Wide Awake is going to have in it in 1888, The wonder is that such a library and picture gallery can be got iogether for $2.40 a year—a thousand pages and every- thing fresh and pew—itories, history, travels, biography, sketches, anecdote, adventure—and all instructive as well as entertaining, Two worlds are drawn from to make such provision for the ada- cation and pleasure of our children. So high is the best of young people's literature nowadays that we are all of ns glad to be yonng Nine feoths of read ing people prefer it to what is written for them; for it has the rare merit of be- ing exsy as weil as good. We know of no Christmas gift 80 sure of bringing a happy response ins read- ing family. Send $2.40 to Lothrop Com. pany, Boston, i A THE YOUTHS COMPANION is saperior to any Illustrated Family Weekly poblished. That it is highly appreciated is shown by the fact that nn Las won its way into 400000 families The publishers issue a sew Announce. ment and Calendar, showing increased attractions for the new year, which with sample copies will be sent free to all not familiar with the paper. If $1.75is sent now, it will pay for Tue CoMpasioNn to January, 1530, and you will receive the admirable Double Thanksgiving and Christinaa Numbers, and other weekly issues to Jan, 1, 1888, free, w— wl aliens A nmin CATTLE, HOGS, MU LES. BURNED ’ Lancaster, Pa. Dec, 14—~The barn of Joha Becker, in Manor township, was burned last night with all the season's crop and farm implements. Thirty-two head of cattle, twenty-five hogs, five mules and a horse were borned to death. Loss, $12,000; insurance, $8,400. if Ap ~Bir. C, G. Palmer, who represents the well known mosie house of C. G, Conn, Elkhatt, Ind, and Worcester, Mass. at Spring ‘Mills, this week, Be tog with Mr. W. A. Brown for the purpose of establishing a first clase music publishing house somewhere in this section over which Mr. Brown is to have the control. A general branch factory may also be established if a suita- ble location can be secared. Mr. Brown bas been engaged to work for the firm, aud will at once proceed to hunt up a suitable place. Mr. Palmer is Mr. Conn’s business mansger and will be directly interested in the new concern. The firm are desiroas of securing a location in Centre county, if possible, so as to reach their well established trade in the Eastern states, Nothing definite bas as yet been secur- ed as a suitable location, butthe ‘piace will likely be Spring Mills or Bellefonte, ~The Cosmopolitan” bas stepped into the front rank of the American Monthlies, as the December No. (just received) proyes. The initial article, “The Shah and kis Court,” is one of un- usval interest, illustrated copiously with the finest engravings. This is followed by other meritorious articles, plain and illustrated. Paper and typosraphical | Shiels §o4.up of first quality. Schl Field N.Y. $2a year; 20c. a No. ~The tailoring establishment con~ nected with the Philad. Branch is over. run with orders for suits, and it now em- play more bands than any other estab- ishment in the county. The suits made by them under the best satisfaction, and the prices are found lower than else where, This accounts for the rush they have there, Don't fail to visit Fanble's cloth- ing store, at Bellefonte, where you will find an immense stock of fine ready made clothing. An endless variety of gent's fornishing onderwear, hats, shirts, ete., all at rock bottom figures. wwe Bushman & Kreamer carry the best lot of sowing machines iu stick to e found 10 this ion of tha state, T "Sutil and sNew Home” are the ones 1 the ent bu the mariet. ~~ NOW is the time 10 leave your ar order with Fleming, the tailor, Bellefonte for a fine suit of clothes. He has an unusualy large Stpek of fall and winter suitings on hand, we Fine lina of family bibles can be seen at Bartholomew's Ston-ol and new versions nd iilastes fons si in. ome over a thongnd atations LOCAL BRIEFS, —=Fauble’s Rochester clothing house Beliefonte, for good bargains and square prices ~—=For Christmas confectioneries, cakes, nots, dolls and tree ornaments Cedar's Bellefonte beats all this side of Philadelphia, ~RXerlin's store at the old Stone Mill will bave a fine display of holiday goods, also a frest lot of confectionery. Read ad. of sale of real property of Wm. M'Cormick, dec’d, by John M, M’Coy, adm'r. ~~{3reen’s Pharmacyhas an unusually large stock of plosh goods and toilet ases, this SeAS0D. WHAT AM 170 DO? The symptoms of billiousrness are too well known. They differ in different in- dividuals to some extent. A Billious wan is seldom a breakfast eater, Too frequently, alas, he has an excellent a petite for liquids but not for solids of & morning. His tongue will hardly bear imepection at any time; if it is not white and furred, it is rough at all events. The digestive system is wholly ont of order and Diarrhea or Constipation mav be # symptom or the two may alternate. There are often Hermorrhi or even loss of blood. There may be giddiness and often headache acidity or flatu- lence and tenderness in the pit of the gtomiache. To correct all this if not ef fect a cure try Green's August Flower, ie costs but a trifle and thousands attest tot efficacy. — Piles of pew overcoals have been opened up at the Philad, Branch, and are going like bot cakes. A large "stock always on hand-—as fast as they go new ones take theirpiace. in the Patent Office on short sotics. oP A ble. No charge for cxamication of iid ic “rs other depariraentis ar toasuiral peogreon patna and tin ot on Sas 4 Try is four 1 57 oem a Snvuntion to patent write - Os. Jatiighale of Beienule Aciosn, : Nabe pases wo mailed from, 1888 THE TIMES-- PHILADELPHIA. CHEAPEST, BRIGHTEST, FRESH. EST AND BEST. THE MOST COMPLETE NEWHPAPER PUB. LISHED IN PHILADELPHIA. THE TIMES is the most widel read HeWSDa published itn Penns Ivamta. 3 read ora Sy the more intell progressive and theif. SEF vie of every fait . is cphatically an INDEPESDENT ne ¥ #3erpihing: neutral in ne ublic men snd pubile Woasares 1a always fearless and In the Jmaren of Jublic integrity, (Te: i» and prosperous fk ustry, and it knows no party > fa he. ‘rondet a0d in heat ing public sense a family and Paper, THE NEWS OF THEW TORLD— Tives has all the facilities of advanced journalisie for geth. ering news frofl all quanens of the Siete, | in ad- dition to that of the Associated Press cov: ering the whole world in its atig RB the perfection of 8 NEWEPAPER, with ev sing carefully edited 30 ocupy the smallest THE COMING YEAR will be one af puvenial public interest in the United States, or ns will perform the! duties as part Py nn shall einod, but the rapidly grow bg Amati] gence and independence of if livin calls But the independent newspaper w han geal pol lems of poo red flicts are to be met. Grave of finance, of commerce, of industry, of science, of art and of every phase of enlightened are in constant course of solution by the people of the Union, and the ve newspaper is the progres ever in the lead in every simuggle for advance ment THE TIMES is a onecent paper only in price. It sims to have the latgest cirotlation by desery ing if, and clalins that it is uoeurpassed fn all the awentials of a great Metropolitan news ToC IMEN COPIES ota edition will be sent aay SE DITION-1 pag ad -Handeomely filustrated, $200 8 your. W XY, $1. TERMS ‘Daily, $3 per annum; y four months; 20 cents per month, a by carriers for 6 cents per week: Sunday edition, an im. menses quadruple sheet of 128 columns, elegantly Hina $0 ; oy oOpY Daily a w annum; 50 cen month Weekly rr A annum, ro Address all letisry THE TIMES, CHESTNUT AND EIGHTH STREETS, Philadelphia. CO RPHANS COURT BALE Pursuant to an order of the Orphan's oun of Centre ¢ounty Ahabs will he £3 posed So blie ap he promises, st Potters Mills, Potier Iw * SATURDAY, DEC, 24, 1887, at 2o'clock, p wm the EE fern - * nd HOUSE AND LOT = we pa Sa SEES aliader, Forchino 4 Po Ban a 4 carpe Ea pips LARGE VARIETY oF TH TREES, rohase mon THE ANARCHISTS LURIED. Mrs. Parsons Falls in a Faint at the Sight of Mer Mnsband's Pallid Face. Cnioaco, Dec. 10. The four anarchists whe were hanged on Nov. 11. August Bples, A. R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, and George Bugel, and Louis Lingp, who cheatsd the gallows by committing suicide the day before-—were placed in their final resting place in Waldheim cemetery yes- terday. There was no disorder, The only dramatic feature of the occasion was brought about by Mrs. Parsons, the dusky wife of the dead anarchist, Bhe kept in tie background at the cemetery during A few mo- ments before Capt. Black, chief counsel for the anarchists, concluded his address, some one shouted, “Make way for Mrs. Parsons.! The solidly packed crowd gave Way. A passage was made and Mrs. Parsons, sccompanied by Mr. and Mrs. William Holmes, came forward. The nearest coffin to her was that of August Sples. Her bus- band’s was the second from this. Mrs. Parson's eyes seemed to pick out the casket in which she was interested. At the mo- nent her gaze caught it she gave voice to a wall which startled the crowd. Captain Black paused in his speech, the throng was startled, then came a scream from Mrs, Parsons which reached to the outer circles of the erowd. Thrice she strove to speak, but the words refused to come out, and she sank fainting into the arms of her friends. a ——— pe —— Risking Death to Escape the Flagship. Bax Fraxcisco, Dec. 16. —Beveral days ago a sailor who was imprisoned on the English flagship, Triumph, now lying im Ban Francisco Bay, jumped through a port. hole and swam ashore, a distance of several milos. He was pursued, but a strong gale was blowing, and darkness coming on he reached the wharves, where he would have perished from ex haustion but for a walchman, who dragged him to land. His example has been followed by other sailors on the Triumph, { Henry Ryder and John Stanley jumped | from the Triumph and swam against the outgoing tide for four hours and were found unconscious on the surface of the water by fishermen four miles down the bay from the Triumph's anchorage. When able to walk they mude their way to & sailors’ boarding-house, and will be shipped on a merchant vessel, sailors being in great de- mand bere, Brewers Royecotting Prohibition Cu10460, Deo. 17. Considerable been caused here by the fact that the Keeley brewing company had instructed its brokers 10 buy no bariy grown in or shipped from the states of Iowa or Kansas, The instructions 0 the brokers read as fol. lows: “When purchasing barley for our scoount you must have a guarantee from the sclier that the barley was not grown in either of the states of lowa or Kansas, or shipped from any town in either of those stares.” Louis Huck, ihe millionaire malster. sald the deliberations of the brewers’ assoc ry wi were held in secret If there were such a moveme mated, he would join it heart ar a soul farmers of Iowa were hypocrites, he de. cared, claiming to believe in prohibition, snd raising barley for the manufacture of whisky snd bear. States. stir has Ex-Pablie Printer Rounds Dead. Osama, Neb, Dec. 18. 8. FP. Rounds, edi tor aad principal proprictor of the Omaha , died at 850 o'clock Basturday evening at his residence in this city, of poeamonis, Sry an iliness of ten days. Mr. Rounds had been a resident of Omaha » little over a year. He came here from Washington after resigning the position of pubbe printer which he held for four years, For many years before going to Washington he was proprietor of a printer's supply house in Chicago, Mr. Rounds was well known all over this country A Shoe Strike Settled. ManmrEngan, Dec, 18 ~The lockout at B, E. Cole & Co.'s shoe factory we practically sottied Saturday morning. The firm finally agreed to have the matter aly for settle. ment by the state board of arbitration, The agent of the cutters went to Boston snd met J. Brown, ir, of the firm at the office of the state board, where arguments were made out and filed Notioos wore posted ordering ull the old cutters back to work it the old prices pending 8 final de i All the cutters will return op Steel Works ® Sapnds Prrossunan, Dec. 19.--The converting, blooming, and rall departments of the Ed- gor Tham pson steel works st Hraddocks, Poeun. were closed Saturday and the em- ployes notified that for the present there would be no work for them. It is under stood that the rail mill suspension is for an fndefifiitn period, but that the blooming and converting departments will resume after the anual repairs have been made. The shutdows will throw several thousand men out of employment. Uo rk CAIN. Finding a Counterfelter's Den, Wicmira, Kan, Dec. 17. -This town has lately been flonded with counterfeit coins, but all efforta to unearth the counterfeiters falled until yesterday, when a den was dis- on an a in the Arkansas Raver, snd o large quantity of spurious d snd other coins were found, rious dojidre dios and other apparatus for making men were in the den at the time, y eluded the eflcars, ne t Nine Maws Signs ¢ of Insanity. Crioaoo, Dod, 16.—1n a lotter to the Lebor Nina Spies refers to an alleged inner, which was hud the evening after anarchists’ execution, at which, she pays, the advisability of hanging herself sod Mrs. Parsons was discussed by the ‘men whom she styles “the citizens' associ ations tools.” Bhe says that the dinner cost BS. Falture of Stone Contractors, Broberonp, Me, Dec. 17. ~The firm of well | James Andrews & Bon, Btone contractors wad owners of tho large granite quarries about two miles from this city, have gone into insolvency. The firm for a year or more have been engaged in contracts ine wolving hundreds of thousands of dollars. "A Young Incendiary, Dec. 18. ~Lleweilyn Dean, been held for trial on a charges j fire to the barn at the B 3 a loss of $3.00 having baon \ m reprimanded by the foreman, pevenge fired the Sirvetirg. AR 8 0 ¥ Pensions for Confederate oldie: 8. C, Dec. 19. Both branches of the re have passed a bill all disable! soldiers in this Tught In the army and of 1 will cost $50,000 gi, N. Y., Dea, 17.-The g d couple named Bauer took fg ASA ¥ We have too many goods. cut price Bale, and want them to go fast. We One lot of Gray Blankets, were $1 2 pair, now 90c. One lot of Comfortables, now 76q. One lot of Comfortables, now $1 00. i Ouve lot of White Blankets, were §1 75, now $1 00. White Blankets, 3 00, 3 50 to $6 apiece, One lot of Horse Blankets, were §1 now 80e, be Calico reduced to 3¢ per yard. A lot of Best Calicoes, were 7c, now per yard. Best Unbleached Muslins, now Ge. One lot Red Twilled Flannels, were 30, | now 2b¢, Red Twilled Flannel, 25, 30, 35, 40 and | were $1 25, $1 50, 2 00, 2 50, 45 Plain Red Flannel, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40¢ per yard, One lot of Gray per yard, now 15¢, 1000 yards Toweling 4, 6, 7, per yard. Check Linseys, were 12¢,~now Se. Your choice of 100 pieces of ladies’ Double Width Cloths, all colors, 40 to 50c per yard. Men’s Tap Sole Boots... Calf Boots Dress Shoes Working Shoes Little Boy's Boots Big “ “ Flannels, were 18¢ £ ) 8, 9,10, 12 “3 y ii ih To-day we begin our “ ““ i We aL, of i" i“ 7be, # 4 S80. finest Jackets away under Jeaver Liloth, were 00 and 50 to Toca yard, All 60, 756, 1.00 to $2.00 per Silks and Boys, 150 Men's single Coats This is half price and Osildren’s Over Men's “° OO to 600 a line of Cork- { One Lot of Ingrain Carpet it of Hemp Carpe 100 pletes to LADIES SHOES! Ladie's Dress Button Shoes, “ Fine Kid Solid Al 00 a Bait, to J to . ¥ to 4 ), 3 Cy) x ¥) a pair t OO hi JO GO "Tg 7s : ii High “ Fine Slippers S500 Curacoa Kid, our Doz. Corsets Call early and secure an - * *D LADIES SHOES! pair Lined ake PE 3 LYON & CO. PA HE HICKS & BRO. Elard~