We again notifiy the Harrisons a P.easant Gap, that the name Harrisou is trnmp with the present administration in making appointments ANSARI DISA The twine trust 18 skinuiog the farmer on twine for the coming harvest. gowe plan be deyised to skin the twine trust ? —————— fue “question oun the Amendment,” will soon be put, before the ; of the whole, says an exchange, and RerorTER wou'd add the bungshoie 1s at stake. committee # 5s tit A —— A firmers club bas been organized in Franklin county for the better protec. tion of the farmers lulerests, If farmers would vote right, us a gea~ eral thing, they would effzot by organizing clubs. IRSA TUSTIN Le The business lailures occuring througlh- country during tue last seven for the United States 20: out the days numer and for Caunda 22, or a total of 239 fuil ures. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 225. ‘I'he gentleman who a ew days ago married the mother of Mrs, Cleveland, is pow the father in-law of au ex-president. Had he attended to this little mater some mouths ago, he might uave been the tather-in-law of a president. How great opportunities are let slip ! The third day’s sessions of the Lancas- ter Classis of the Reformed Charch were jargely consamed by lively discussion on the Constitutioual Amendment question” Classis deciared itself in favor of Prohi~ bition, but urges pastors and people of the Charch to give the question prayer ful consideration. a ———— According to the reportof the Comiuis- gioner of the Burean of Labor Statistics Ohio real estate is mortgaged to about 30 per cent of its cash value, there being now on record 291 640 mortgages repre senting an indebtedness of 8330995, 205.7%, on an aggregate valualioo of $1, 220,262,515. This is not an excessive proportion of debt, and with ordinarily prosperous limes can be carried easily. TP A R—" In reply to charges made by the Mery cer Western Press, that Gov. Beaver n= tended bolting the Probibitory Amen Is ment on election day, the Governqr tele graphed to Hon. Samuel H. Miller us follows: *I have never had any question as to my uaty the Amends ment snd will vote for it,cf course, as I have always intended to do. The oniy ane of in regard to question in my mind has been daty as a representative of the party: Without pretending to represent the Re publican party, I expect 10 take ground publicly in favor of the Amen iment in due time.” TEST I— President Harrison on Friday, appoin- ted David Martin, of Philadelphia, col” lector of internal revenue for the Phila delphia district. Martin is the Republican ward commiitees in that city workiog to defeat prohibition. The Prohibitioniste, through their State chair- man, H. W. Paimer, made vigorous pro tests against Martins appointment, de claring it would be notice the Republi can organization was againet prohibition on the sly. But Colonel Quay, who “will vote for prohibition,” insisted on Mar- tin’s appointment, and he got it, Wrestling with the matter of prece- dence in the distribution of offices to the Harrison family, the New York Times presents these results: “Up to date we have (a) the brother of the president, (b) the father of the wile of the president, (¢) the father of the wife of the son of the president, (d) the brother of the husband of the danghter of the president. There is an element of some obscurity, but of positive advantage, that mast be kept in mind which consiets in the right of domi~ eile in the White House, and which must be accepted as on equivalent for office There are strikes, riots and disturb ances lu Germany among the miners, 90,000 of whom are now out and threat ening the public peace, all on account of the fact that they are not paid livieg wages. Germany is like the United States, u country where they have pro- tection—for the. owners, manufacturers and operators, monopolies and corpora. tions, and this feature seems to work ae badly thers ss it does lLere and even worse, The rich have all, tie poor toil- ers nothing, No wonder there arestiikes discontent and riot, The Presbyterians. ADOPTION OF THE MAJORITY REFERENCE TO THE EV ZATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE The lively discussion on the question which took place in Thursdays session of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, was the cause of bringing a large audience to Dr, Crosby's church in New York Friday morning in anticipation of Al- hearing a continuance of the debate. southera assembly, now in ses nouncing that that body had adopted 4 the majority report in favor of co operas I, ans ion in the howe and foreign fields, in the evaugelization of the colored people and co~uperstion io matters of publica tion, ete.,, by a vote 27. The statement was received with applanse Rev, John Fox, a Kentuckian, cont Liki of 90 to ued bis talk on the opposition to co-opera- tion. people of the country dariog the past century, he said, have not observed that Christian equality be tween the two that they sh Jul have observed. They sheuld now try to hreak down this lingering prejudice, and Ihe white races jority report because it advocated sen ate church for white and colored. The debate on the third section of the majority report—co operaticn in the evangelization of the coloted people—wrs continaed. The first two sections—co, operation in home and foreign missions ~were adopted Tharsday., The report is the same as that adopted by the routh- ern assembly, Rev. Joseph L, chairman of the committee that drew up the report, held that the matter of seper- ate churches was desired by the colored people themselves, tev. Dr. Stryker, of Chicago, said he would vote for no report that asked one Christian to stand aside at the commun- ion table in favor of another. He moved to strike oat the part of the report which reads: “While conceeding the existing situation it (the Northern assembly) ag proves the Smith, policy of seperate chare presbyteries and synods, subject to the choice of the colored people themselves.” A vote on Dr. Strykers amendment was taken, ond it was carried by about 400 to 50. With this exception the paper ass whole was adopted, and the paper on co operation was also approved. The next thing was to adopt the majority report a whole as This was de only a few “noes” being beard when the as amended ne, question was put, TI Ia the lodian school for boys and girls at Carlisle many of the 600 young In- dians at this insti'ution were brought it from the wild tribes in which they were born, and yet within a few Br they have been trained in such a way as ye to draw out such traits which they did not seem {0 be ongiva ly possessed. They are taughtuot only ut ordinary brand hen of knowledg» earning which they show rare ic i gence and apiness, advantages « sd hay foyer 1 he Ne: 10Y% it 1 1) y fthe industrial branch the insti'ution, in which they learn work as carpenters, blacksmiths, to shoe makers. printers, and at other trades. At the ani dversery just held by the school, they thowed the resulls of their literary and industrial training; they delive re. essays and oralions; they were seen work- ing at their trades; they made a prectica display of their musical skill; they gave a calisthenic exhibition in the gymnpa- siam; they furnished evidence that they knew how to demean themselves at a public feast, and, when the diplomses were presented to the members of the graduating class, there was pride in the face of every graduate. This institution at Carlisle for Icdian children, which was established ten yea n ayo, hasshow bow far the savoge breast may be sooth. ed through the process of education, - ad Those of us not yet fifty years of a bave probably lived in the most impor- tant aod intellectually progressive period of human history. Wikin this half century the following inventions and discoveries have heen among the num- ber : Ocean steamships, street railways, telegraph lines, ocean cables, telephones, phonograph, photography and a seore of new methods of picture making, aniline colors, kerosene oil, electric lights, steam fire engines, chemical fire extinguishers, anaesthetics and painless surgery, gun cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder, aluminum, megnesiom, and other new meta's, electro plating, spec trum avalysia and spectroscope, andi phone, pneumatic tubes, electric motor, electric railway, electric bells, ty pe-writ- er, cheap postal system, steam heating, steam and hydraulic elevators, vestibnle cars, cantilever bridges, These are only a part. All positive knowledge of the physical constitution of planetary and stellar worlds has been attained within this period. We hold Vidette is right in The Clinton Democrat says: that the Jersey Bhore charging and receiving pay for articles in favor of the Prohibition Amendment that is LO goes into 118 colums. A newspaper e editor and publishers way of mak- ing his living and he has the same rigut to charge for what he is asked to publish that the pay for his sogar r ia his paper grocer hus to ask the He merchant for calico or muslin, S«¢ people seem LO think thut newspapers are printed for the sole accommodation of the public gratis Not by any means, and the people who have hobbies and de uss ths through the pALEers who ought to be 3 thaav i ix MOY are for the information 3 LETTE and belly act pay for boring the lie The © iy temporary apply ju our lock Haven eon- emarks of t as truthfully to can a paper to advo king the editor shoud against at- DEWSI& Der peg ul pay. Mooptaca etter 0 The Democratic victory in § 2 { ; elicited a bitter from Mr. Ric ast week has President Harrison ard F. a wy Negley, an oid Montana and a republican of 33 yearsstandiug. Ia this letter, which was delivered at the White House in person Monday, Mr. Negley says “Permit me to ink the 4th of liably Republican, and would be Republican still if yourson Russell had broken his neck died a respectable 1, 6ir, that on Moniana Was re ri ¥« last March reliably or natural death soon alter It we pent intermeddiing of your son in Mon- your inaugures tion as president, the imperii- tana politics that assured the Democrats control of our conslitutional convention, u It was his barter; if Federal offices in Montana, some of th thers for vent the Republicans sending a member em for private gain, private pique, that will pre of the house of representatives and two senators to Washington next December, - Dublin tel legrams « work of evicting tenpan n the Olphert esiatr The evi with a de resistance met #1 erate ing the struggle Inspector Duff was wonnded. The tenants had erect- er, Al r hurled attacking stor was also thrown and a nomber of pos scalded, were badly ted 14 persone, An ime mense crowd of sympathizers with the ene of the the the The became so tenants had gathered at the x evict v hen Ritchie, m= he estate, ground, he was vigo rowd fi i threatening that Mr. Ritchie, 3 lence, hastily too attitude of the ¢ fearing per- ginal vi k hisdepariare, U seems that the English bave intros faced both Christianity ints the East It and aleoholism dies, but that the growt} sf drunkencess there has been far more of Christianity. The tH ndoos are now becoming alarmed over rapid than that be spread of the liquor drinking custom, and are anxious that their country sha'l got be ruined by English vices, A memo rial on the subject, which had a long roll of 2lgnalures, was some lime ago sent to the British of India, It tells how the Hicdoos have, in psst ages, been listingniahad for habits of sobriety, and $ Viceroy how their ancient character is being on ly English vices, and it asks for the sdontion of rigorous laws to sup- press the growth of debauchery. It does uot appear that the Viceroy has given sny heed to this memorial from the Hin. doos, con olf Ms ————— " A most remarkable escape from a ter. rible accident occurred on the Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad, between Brocton and Prospect, at what is known as “Goose Hollow” trestle, which is 500 feet long and 92 feet high. The operator at Brocton had received an order to hold freight train No. 654 at Brocton for No. 51, bot as an accident occurred on the Lake Shore at that time the operator was called away and let 54 go forgetting the order. From Brocton to Prospect theve is a heavy up grade and the road is very circuitons, A farm- er's little boy, who was in the pasture nearby, heard both trains coming and ran up the track and flagged 51. which was not able to stop until it roathed the sonth end of the trestle, just as 54 reaches ed the north end aad slopped., i “ They falk of 60000 majority against prohibition in Philadelphia. For a re publican sity this will sound queer, 30. 1889. aad the Baltimore and Ohio eystems, and Affairs at The unfortunate Panama. ihe other to extend the Beech creek rail road to Botler, where it wonld connect with the Wes parts of au undertaking looking of the canal emash are becoming more marked BVery consequences Pittsburg and tern, are day; and the deplorable condition of affairs bas but one outlet, and that by jo pe emigration, The Bent by the Jampican government has already sent away 4,000 people, and tickets for 3,000 and leave by the eariicost steamers, a constraction of another (rauscontinen- commission tial line, The Beech pects in the Creek railroad now con® east with the the extended to connect has issued i y reading rail these will » The peo congregated at the different des withi their tickets in food Lure £2 5 road, which seaboard, If the Beech with the Pitteburg and reacties Creek Is pie unre ¥ ' : western at Buller PULS, hands, without their another route fo the east will not only inrovided for P.tisburg, | Pittsburg and Westerng co distressed | + ithere will be another d but without and almost 3 . but wi in ite energy. Afler all the recs Clicago to the coast, sill be much suffering aud . . trae if the idea of « suffering and want of a character ‘alley and Baltimo #108 sinle ameliorated antil t shall have put money intocirculation and : 5 HORZO Wi 1ugpired conlideance, : only walling the Atlantis point. The ¢ and the - The Amendment people doing are Pacifi Addresses are being comes into OC sig Central and t If they can keep up the fire until J ne | t €y cag gt Centre county with J twejority, bu will not do to fail asleep, in the ms ans | fe, off in this work; {ocean # is due the credit of mak-{meled ing Leadway for the cause, and Lhe: (Toad, shown renarkabie ; aud tenalcity of purposs to push the workon to a wrinmph, It is prey bata to Lp ul The ladies are leading to thew ive against the lay dies, the gallantry of the sterner sex will not allow it. The women of county are makiog a lively fight. —— A national flower is wanted for United States. Eogland has France, the flear de thist e, Ire’'agd, the shamrock, and other nationalities their distinctive flowers |¢ but there is no blossom that is consider-| ed purely American. we have one? This question is liamsport Gazette why not take the the blossom from and it with the women Centre the its roses, | lis, Beotland, th: Why cannot we wil Well was! asked by the and Bulletin. tea plant—that which the is a great Republic 4, was born, favorite toot folks’ The incorporation of the Pitts Eastern railroad plars which have long been under] y DAarg. | Beech Creek and coms | FIPPLY plete contemplation by a syndicate of eastern | the Chronicle~Teles| financiers for another line to Beas! ir. board, The Pittsburg Co | 80 3 $ $s &._% rv 41.1 i capitalists interested in the Lehigh Vale | *d graph states that Drexel, Morgan & ley the lines to connect Pittsburg railroad compose the syndicate, and] “HD this intereat. It isl, and road will be built in its 14 claimed that this line will be as short as! any to the East and that it ill really be| uil Itis argued that, fo a large extent the Eastern capitalisis who took hold of the Pittsburg and Western and helped to)’ ts present position also control the Le. high valley and that the plans are to! " | connect both roads and make 8 truck]. samen line from New York to Chicago . It is -o-e he 1 him when and asked Dakota. Considerable interest is shown in the success of the experiment of growing flax more abundantly as a solution of the difficulties aod burdens which, it is said, are forced upon the farmers of the Northwest by the Twine Trist, Letters say that the price of twine has been reased by the trust until it costs farmer a bushel of cata for a pound of twine, and they are clamoring for relief, {in Michigan the legisiatore appointed a committees to investigate and report upon the expediency of introducing the man. ufactaring of twine iotothe prisons as a ueans of relief, but their inquiries de- veloped the fact, Prof. Willets says, that the corper of the trust extended to the raw material itself, Editorial Notes, The Philadelnlin Dress aod the Times talk of the eity going anywhere from 30 to 60,000 maj. against prohibition. They may go to bed on the night of the 18 bad. vou came here? ly fooled. * “1 hed my things to set up housckeep- The proepect for the Amendment inl in’ with and $50 in money which 1! the past (wo weeks has brightaned, ows ried. Idida't sell my lots in the buryin’ ing to the activity of its friends thro the|groun’.”—Cor. New York Tribune slate, ee A Borauton bank has suspended on ace connt of a swindling bank official. Swin- dling bank officials are not all dead yet. Three horse thieves were arrested io New Mexico who bad stolen 600 horses from different ranches and were driviog them north. (iov. Beaver is likely to veto the bill increasing judges salaries $1000, for want of an appropriation. New Railroads, hi a NECONTINENTAL ROUTE WHICH WILL A TRA THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA, ins the here from Wis “How mu “Jest one & “How much gin?” “Two lots in a buryin’ pat “How much wheat did year?" “Air you buyin’ wheat?” mile.’ You ows w, i “No, but I'd like to kno mind felling.” “*"Tain't no secret 2.600 bushels.” “What'll you sell your farm for? “Air you buyin’ property?” “No, but" we “0. | got my Anybody who pays me $15,000 down kin hey my farm.” “How much money did you have when you don't I raised a crap of pr £3, John Keelys Power, Mme. Blavatsky makes a staring statement in the second volume of her theosophical book, the “Sceret Doctrine,” upon which she is now working. John Keely, she says, is in possession of the wonderful occult force which the adepts have, and his motor is that and notldeg more, The force is in Keely and insep- arable from him. It will die with him. If Keely was allowed to use this awful power, as the adepts uso it, he could blow Philadelphia to pi by lifting his hand; but the guardians of the force watch him closely and see that he does not use it for harm. Wayne Mao Veagh, who is Keely's counsel in his The two projects to build railroads across this state, which came to light last woek, bave excited great interest in the railroad world, While none of the gentlemen who are in a position to know exactly what is going on wiil talk speci- the project to connect the Lehigh Valley suits with the motor stockholders, was sent advance shects of this part of Mma. Blavatsky's book by a St. Louis thooso phist, In concluding his letter of thanks, ho said: “You and I, my dear sir, both know that Hamlet was right, and that thero are stranger in this world ever know," Inte Intoxk si re vets 4 ou kept I near » don't lid not ye don't ; but it's ler now, ame your Thursday Same v and a would bo host looked Mer Showers and Drills. irs, is ind, and a EWE 3 + 1 3 y 5 oy glien Curios val Ans, JULMIIDES forests in the shores of Lake oe , and sv cd ana Michigy 100g 3 aa & Ten ovr) those of Cort tin Gepin, } while the A veilon 40 miles ong SCT Are 1 in places. ; ay the drifting sand travels inl 18 foet a yoar, in § foot, and in southern Indi yas In Etats bave been create y fd fests drift to a great height in the air, and deposited many te + Joeland was visited by a remarkable sand st 1. lasting two weeks, which hid the san and objects a few yards off like a dense fog, and caused the death of thousands of sheep and horses. New York Telegram. a ed “ On the ehores of some PAcos Ww ail ving 8 away. Bak av The Nation's Great Men, “Pa, where was Capt. Anson born?” “1 don’t know, I'm sare.” “Where was John L. Sullivan bom! “I don't know that either.” “Pa, 1 wish you would buy me a his tory of the United States. "Chicago Herald ER SETI wee AR Tamas May 26.—A Paris writer in The Matin indiontes that the next oon clave will be compelled by the drift of events to alect as pope an or American cardinal, * HIN Vi iim. IN 5h Tlawes tb Mong. Brosmusanan, Ala, May Mo Hawes, the murderer of hia wife chiliren, was sontonced in the court to be banged July 13
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