OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES XXL FRED KURTZ, -~ EDITOR STRIKING BEAVER BELOW THE BELT. The Republican conference of Govern- or Beaver's home district, the Twenty- eighth, struck the Governor below the belt on Friday last, by a set up between Clearfield, Forest and Elk against Cen~ tre and Clarion, whereby J. H, Hagerty, of Elk, and W. G. Kelly, of Forest, were elected delegates to the Chicazo Conven- tion and Geaera! Hastings knocked out with his Beaver boom, The set up was really mide by Elk and Forest and Clearfield pursvaded into it. And when it was made, the confer. ence was upon (General Hastings, with a day's notice Whether it was done merely to send two comparatively unknown men to Chicago, or whether it was done to def-at Gener al Hastings and kill off the Beaver boom matters little now, asit is a blow at Beaver and it struck below the belt, Had the issue been presented to the par- ty, doubtless none could have gone as delegates from the district in opposition to Beaver, hur while the Governor and his Adjutant General have been relying upon the sentiment of the party to carry them through, the boys of the Forest and Elk wilderness have bagged the honors for themselves. It is likely that General Hastings will go to the convention notwithstanding this under