THE FRED KURTZ, ~~ EDITOR —— The wife of ex-president Hayes died on Tuesday. Simon Cameron died at 8 o'clock on Wednesday night ST NAT, A collision of freight trains on Penn’a road, on Wednesday, near Latrobe, Pa, killed 15 or 20 persons, TT WS. In Berks county the wheat midge has made its appearance in some gections, and is doing considerable damage In Long- swamp township an insect is eating ofl the wheat heads. The grain is changing color rapidly and the harvesting will commence this week, EAT A Williamsport paper claims that the financial loss there is $10,0% 0 000 greater than at Johnstown. Those are big fig- ures gentlemen, Can't you modify just a trifle, asks the ( Of course they can Joe, and to please you we know the'll put it only £9,900,984, linton Democrat. ——————— The keystone of the immense viaduct a short distance west ofthe South Fork bridge 1 ive miles beyond the place where the viaduct formerly It is the of the finder to send the keystore to ti Temple, Philad pi a relic of the memorable food. ;as been found f stood. intention 1@ Masonic served as slphia, to be pre TT All the local physicians met accidently at the Bedford Street Hospital Friday night. They represented all parts of the stricken city, and after discussing the calamity, all joined in the conclusion that not a than 10,000 people were lost in the flood. On account of the general knowledge of the people posessed by the physicians the estimate is looked upon as reliable. goul less AT OT AI The London Court Journal says: There is some probability of our having india jubbber roadways in the metropolis. Two German engineers have come over to consult with the authorities on the subject, and should the County Council be agreeable, there ig no reason why London horses should not soot enjoy the luxury of a soft snd firm foothold, es pecially ifthey are shod with, the shoe that is intersticed with india rubber. We are opposed to having rubber roads in the U, 8. for then congressmen and other officials would stretch them to get more mileage, The Clearfield Republican makes the following excellent point: “Those far cers who voted for “protection” last fall are just beginning to realize the benefits (7) of their action. On the day that Harris son was elected President, granulated SUZAr Was retailing at 7 cents per pound, and in some places even cheaper than that. Now, less than three months after his inanguration, it is selling for ten cents per pound, with a good prospect that it will reach twelve cents by fruit canning Some of the larger cities of Denmark have adopted a law which is constructed | on the principle of retributive justice, and | which should American community in which liquor | A dispatch | i find its way into every | gelling is authorized by law, from Copenhagen says: “The Danish pow | lice are under instructions to drive in a | carriage to his home every drunken man | found on the streets or in the parks. A man too drunk to tell his name is taken | to a station house and kept there till he becomes sufficiently sober to give his ad- | dress. Then he is accompanied to his| residence by an officer in a The | carriage bill in both cases is sent to the | saloon keeper sold the man the last giass of liquor before his ars Suitable the enforcemsnt cab. who drunken | rest, ordinance provides for] of the It wonld be | difficult for any fair minded and humane man to find any objection to such a law. | The Danish municipality of the payment bill by the saloon keeper.’ recognizes ita | obligations to the man who is made drunk in one of the saloons which exist by its permission and sell liquor under its sanction. Instead of arresting and | foul ana alive fining him and confining him J na pen, redolent y odors with all manner of creeping Danish authorities take the home, if he hasone, and the ign er pays the bill, It is pleasing Uo hich the work of steads and shops 18 5.000 laborers and mechanics were en- gaged in this work last week, and, t} ough the pumber has been reduced since then, it ig yet as large as is necessary. A good many stores I d are in running order and oing business, and the erection of one qoare hundred others on the public & \A8 ’ been begun. A bundred portable hou each of them capable of accommodating 508, a family, have been ordered from Chis cago, and all of them will be furnished from the fands beld by the Relief Coms mittee. The large manufacturing estab. Irshments also are preparing to resume operations, and two of them, the Ca ron Company and 11 Lompany i wages The ¥ Railroad mansgers also have performed some extraordinary feats of engineering in the way of replacing bridges and re- storing roadbeds near Johnstown, In ghort, it has béccme evident within the past few days that the survivors of great flood are not to be le and that the fands contributed for the r relief have been servicable in many ways Yet it isa melancholy now, there are 258 paid out last week. hoo suf RT ': % { LEE fact Leven %) ITN peo] stown who must receive their daily food froma the hands of charity . The Philadelphia Press idently angry at the charges made by the Pro - ig eV ted by the leaders of the party in the submission of tory amendment Republican the prod il bo. a n i 1 - { says there is "a de cided air of alwu the statements r its des of the persons disappointad ove feat,” Itasks them by bad faith.” It might be answ ered that, after coddling the Prohibition “what they mean time. There is no doabt about “protec tion” protecting the sugar refiner. But how about the other fellow—the consumn- ’ er ? TEATS The destitation of the miners of Clay county, Indiana, has become £0 great that Governor Hovey finds it necessary to issue a proclamation calling on the people of that state to help the starving enal diggers and their families. Governor Hovey isa republican, and during the last presidential campaign he did all within kis power to convince the Indiana workingmen that reformation of the tariff meant loss of employment to them and a geceral suspension of the protected industries throughoat the coun- try. Now unde: his band and seal he is forced to admit that high tarifl is a colos sal fraud. Verily the republican chick~ ens are coming howe 10 roost. em ——————— a] The tariff protected sugar trust in 1888 cleared the enormous sum of $14,000,000, and in the five months preceding June of this year $6,230,000. The price of sug- ar has been made so much higher than the profits dariog the rest of the year must of necessity be larger, This com~ bination, so well protecied by the tariff, could not have existence but for the uns jast tarifl laws now in force, and no con: dition of affairs would ever tempt the men controlling it to relinquish a parti. cle of their profits, They have a good thing aad they know it. But what can be said of the heads of many families throughout the United States who have a bad thing and are too blind to find it ont. Light is beginning to dawn, however, on many who were frightened by the bugbear ery of free trade during the last campaign, and be pificent results will follow. party, and inserting in their platform a resolution to submit to the people, fi purpose of catching the prohibition vote, in which purpose they succeeded, and making profuse promises of help, the G. 0. P. leaders not only did extend the promised help, but organized a strong ir the and effective opposition against tha I'ros hibitionists, This bad faith, It was never intended that the prom- ises made should be kept, is what is meant by >.> There are indieations that electricity stored in batteries may soon displace horses as a means of propeliing street cars. The Fourth Avenue line in New York, which is owned by the Vander bilte, has been experimenting with stor age battery cars for some Ume. They have been fcund to work so well tha thirty more of them have been ordered, and the officers expect before long to or der enongh of them to displace the 200 horse cars now in use on that line, This is an ides] system of propulsion. It does away with the dangerous overhead wires and the conduit system, and is clean and noiseless, It is estimated that it will cost on an average two cents per mile to run a ear by thestorage batlery system. This is paid to be cheaper than horsee. If the system has been sufficiently per- fected to work without trouble we may expect to see it put io general use. The saving in Lorseflesh and the advantage to the public health in the way of clean liness are weighty arguments in favor of such a change. About 15,000 horses are employed on the street car lines in New York. an pl The fact that a live cat was unearthed from the Johnstown debris on Saturday after a fast of three weeks, will not sur. prise anybody who has ever tried to kill one of those melodious animals, There are in Woston over 400,000 peopl. | Df these 205, The rest go somewhere clse or stay at | home, 850 go to church on Sunday. i ¥ vel An Italian lady, Doctor Guiseppina | > 1 | the She gE NG. ail & shool in Bol is very beautiful, lectures to 800 students, in the oldest § world, the University of pathology her eloquence.” ftsalf. This is history repeating Several hundred years ago, wom- J $ the University The battles about Kennesaw mountain, The Kenesaw fizhts were one continuous battle. The ¥ as were 8,670 Napoleon a Marengo lost onl is men of 4.000 of h . : records « ” of a8 wore sust the civi = ivy no su gides American per cent. of At Gattys! ho Oy nt WOOH, arg t thern army lost per cent., at Antietam 29 per cent In the bloody battlea of the Wilderness thy lost 81 Army Wf ti per cent. of ita sok 21 s $1 AL0TS AD KLUC generacy, butin itself it is That lies deeper foct of the disc largely responsil 1a ner fin {s a result of if Yor BenNercusl y nou i haustion., mind and rished BH toxicants would cease, 10 4 Personal depravity, depraved also another prominent cause ¢ f 1 In other words, people are no because they are poor, but are poor Wo 1 Mr. Warner's paper the asi nisl cause they are wicked. formation that the entire The Southern Negro. Since 1863 the north has paid $17,000,- 000 to educate the southern negro. Mos! of it has been collected and forwards by the church societies. the American Missionary alone has forwarded $10,000,000. I the north has paid for negro education less than half as much as the Southern states since 1588 have raised by taxes $37,000,000 for tho same pur pose, As to the results One society asarvriatt agaocialion, rnttnl attained, Gen. Arm- strong, who has had charge of the negro and Indian school at Hampton, Va, ever since it started, is well qualified to speak. The Hampton echo 1 was estab- lished twenty-one years ago. It pow has over 600 students, of whom 14) are Indians, fiftoen pupils at the opening of Hampton Normal and Agri ultural in- The students have opportunity to pay thelr expenses by manual labor. A farm and shops are connected with the school. The colored pupils earn nearly $50,000 annually by manual labor, the rest negroes. There were only stitute, Gen. Armstrong says: Labor is the greatest moral fores in civilization, and the moral valne of our Indastrial system ia ita chief excuse. Stodeants who come {o us with Little or voting can pay thelr school bills In labor, thus making thelr pos a moans of through its ing in sell belp coma skill, char WOOT AD SUOODSE. ry grace, for I kid The graduates go out among their own people all through the with and become teachers. They inculeate a higher moral- ity, and new and better intellectual an i industrial training tinnes: The negro is not what he was twenty five years ago, and the next half century will see great changes. The new industrigl spirit that is waking the whole south is also reaching out and shaking up the black race too Gen Armstrong con- Bavarian Gall There is no love lost beiwoen Prussia and somes of the outlying little kingdom sho has annexed. Many Bavarians hate Prussia as heartily as France does the whole German empire. It will bo a sur- prise to read the following editorial from The Bavarian Fatherland in reference to the recent troubles in Zanzibar: In Zanzibar a drunken Prossian sailor wounded a pattve, Thereupon 6 general massacre was threatened. A detachment of marines was ao cordingly landed from the cruiser Laipsio to pro- tect the besotted Prossian swine and the German consulate to which the Prussians bad fled in thelr terror from the fury of the “mbble” Whoever does not fall down fn the dust before 8 Prussian belongs henceforth to the “rabble.” Ho (5 was in Sammon, so It was hete, so it ls every: First a Prussian gets drunk. Thon be within % soa? We civilized Ruropeans are of course aoous tomed to let ourselves be trodden under foot hy the Prussians. Therein consists a good part of our clvilisaiion. Dut those Orientals are so unoultured that they are not willing to submit to every In 4 from a Prossian. Therefore, they must To " Proesian Cashion, A Royal Magazine Writer. “Carmen Sylva,” who is the queen of Roumania, contributes an {dyllic sketch to The Forum. She writes of the Rou- | manian peasant, Her sketch begins: A sun as big again as In the rest of Burope; the sky deep blue overhead, shading down to white; of golden sod ripening wheat as and in the vast sun s cart drawn by black a8 though of ite own wer observation the driver 3 pre ALLA. ing Charles began to rule the peasant rises stands breeches, and felt bat, and drives his go aud almost perpendicu 1 scorched solitude a wl buflaloes moves slowly socord, though on cl bo seem strotch V ied load such is y wa bridge {or since KE there are bridge t ne < ne on top of his bigh ean Comes sane and white road leather belt town the stoop 16 Lhe water The exquisite we rd painting continues ere a boy, with nothing on but ab- breviated shirt and enormous lambskin jugs to his breast a goose pearly as! The married women all From her ly, not even hex hus- band, ever sces a Roumanian peasant As a matter of form, a ttle, when her bride is expected to cry a ii tucked under rth to existence, hair is rolled up tight and is benocef carthly 1 the fields wear fro- | 1, but the hat lan peasants ore unique ; and modern ideas have reached them, They are, Ls refore, y most picturesque and interesting poo- | pe. Descended from the | ts who settled the country | x Trajan, they of the nobl ple of Eur Roman colonis unGer Emp preserve | gtill sometil of arriage and | n dignity ancient! Roman. catures mixed with other strains of They ¢ much Oriental as European. 200,000 gypsies among them. manian language is a Latin t. But) the admixture of wilder, younger and | blooded that of | Rome has given to the people a fers id | poetic temperament. The common peo-| ple speak naturally in metaphor. i castern and western. t ; Thero aro! The Rou- dine than Wariner races “Have you any sons?” the queen asked | of an aged peasant woman of groceful | and {imposing presence. “Y had two firs, but the tempest laid | them low,” was the reply. | One day the queen visited seven schools | in Little Wallachia. ‘Never have Iseen | at once so many strikingly beautiful eyes,” she writes. t “The most incompe tent school master surely never could spoil what the good God made so per- | fect.” The genuine Roumanian is the lardest of mortala. In the morning be drinks a | glass of whisky. Through the day be has two meals, each cons : of some | corn cakes and 8 couple of onions. Two days’ work in the week will keep him abundantly should he work longer? be does not and will Happy phil wophy! Jo supplied with these! Why | In point of fact, | not rk longer. | lly content! What | to him are revolutions and the contests) of labor and capital? He owes his con- tant and security to the fact that Rou-| nania is a thinly peopled country. i Finally, the masculine Roumanian is | not wildly devoted to wife and children. | ut he loves his mother passionately, and] places her before everybody else, w Future of Steam. Professor Thurston, of Cornell uni-i versity, does not believe the steam en-| gine will be superseded in a hurry by any other motor, not even electricity. | He savs, on the contrary, that improve | ments will continue to be made in it) which will adapt it more and more to} the mighty industrial enterprises of the centuries to come, (Gas engines can be used for small industries, not for great ones. The first improvements will be in the direction of overcoming the enormous wasto of fuel whereby speed and power | are obtained. Greatchanges for the bet-| tor in this respect have already been | flo prophesies that the next generation will seo a steam engine driv- ing a ehip across the Atlantic in three or four days, at an expenditure of one pound of fuel per horse power an hour. Flying trains may be expected to cross | the continent in two days, transporting freight at a cost of §3 or $daton. The steam engine will yet be improved bya hundred inventors, sn . 3 aa0. A —————————S— Though Mr. Murat Halstead did not got the Berlin mission, his fellow coun trymen have by no means ceased to talk about him. One day it is announced that he is going to make the next Re- publican race for governor of Ohio; an- other day wo hear on alleged good authority that he will be a candidate for United States senator in Mr. Payne's This spring has witnessed the heaviest | rainfall in April and May thet has been recorded since the weather bureau was | The New York Bun has figured it out | that on the first Sunday in June 110,464 persons went to see twenty four baseball games in the Union. Pradlangh, the English Radical, de | mands that parliament shall cut down He thin} The poor old lady the wages of Queen Victoria only gets $2,105,400 a year at present fo1 her own expenses. It would be down- | right cruelty to diminish her supply of | new caps and No, 6 shoes. Speaking of the protective tariff that hampered our own manufacs ab of iwi y cost of living hig the Our ovina New XY IE imes save that if woo! 3 s made ens free. these conditions wonlid DE Fe Wool would advance in price, though it would still be lower than dul The « mix wiki: © paid wool now Lo HANCA ir OW increas demand, while our "74 xi il with their in skill and AY an equal market Americ ingennity, with the knt home vig rhe pt marke In 1886 Rhodolsland adopted a hibitory amendment to its pro- constitution. Now, after three years’ trial, it has been found to be unsatisfactory, and the qu tion of repealing the amendment is to bx submitted to the people. The vote will | be taken on the 20th of this month. people will the liberation, whether they want prohibd tion s——— The n decide, after mature de- | Fifteen a considered very quick time in which to cross the J tic forty years ago. The The iron screw propeller | d AYys Wi gleainers wert believed in at all, first ns o doubtful experimer a steamer made the ocean j ites. great an achievement then as days, 6 hours and 7 mint the City of Paris in less than six day In 1874 the Bothnia ywn to nine daj vo eromed In 7 ¢ In 1887 the Umbria the ocean in 8 days, 4 hours, 3, AAS Britan: 3 2 In 1888 the Etruria made the voyage in | In May of When will rutos. min The Fury of the Waters By the bursting of the South F O00 tod rk § 15,000 lives ware lost and $25,000,000 floated down the Ohio river past Pitts- burg, seventy-eight miles west of Johns- town. The losses in New York, Penn- ¢ylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia from the great rainfall and flood will not fall short of $40,000,000, The Johnstown calamity was the direst disaster by flood that has ever overtaken an English speaking people. Fifteen years ago the damat Mill and loss of life. In China, for centuries, the banks of the low lying Yellow river have been dammed and diked up, as is heads of the people the levees were built, water rose in its strength, burst the bonds which held it as though they had been paper and destroyed half a million Within a year twoother art ificial rescr- voirs, similar te that at Johnstown, have and lossof life. The first was at Montreux, Switzerland, the second in Bouth Amer- ca. There was Ono feature common to all three of these dam disasters. The embankments were known to be unsafe. Repeated warnings had been given, which were heeded neither by the hap- less souls who dwelt in the path of de- struction, nor by those whose duty it was to soo "that the works were secure. In any caso man's puny strength can never measure itself against the nature forces. Sooner or later, be his achievement what ft will, they rise and overwhelm him. Hereafter men should think twice before damming up great reservoirs upon hills above towns and cities. There remains to be recalled the awfal devastation of the waters in the Straits of Sunda, in the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in the summer of 1888. Fol- Jowing that eruption, tidal waves forty feet high swept tho shores of the straits and islands, Forty thousand persons were drowned by these waves Vast ruin by flood has come upon different s of the earth in the past seven years. tho fearful successive floods in the Ohio valley. In the spring of 1882 oocurred the breaking of the levees and the over- flow of the Mississippi, bringing terrible destruction, sickness and los of life. At Jackson, Misa., the river was &t one time sixty miles wide. It would be in- teresting to know what peculinr atmos pheric or planetary disturbance has been behind it all The strangest feature of all in CODHEO- tion with the floods and ruin in the United States is that the storm which wrecked Johnstown seems to have gone around the world. Within a day or two after our great storm, a hurricane and water spout caused great destruction and death wt Reichenimeh, Germany. The same day there came from the other wide uf the workl news that 10,000 lives had been dost inn hurricane at Hong Rony fara OF lage over mixed go operative perativ iGer, wo ie the cost of living would Thess 8 $s x 3 inet HIV 1 Wey are the plain facts riers ou I i r thelr own inlerest il 12 5 t free trade mm of definite experime twen! yrs and more, has Johnstown Noles. ih YY ¢ ¥ ey e payment of the men by the rd an immediate effe work, It he first str by Lif itis ement toward Sus, from ng it {(¥¥} daily £1 an " \ gaily al an averag of cents, The number was at one time as high as 20.000 With the distributic stores will be re-opened ar gold. While : f chants to handle suj ml 53 . f pant neal rit yn of cash the oC 8 up to the demas ] inroads on the relief work John Kerang, a workman fonte, fell asleap bria City last night. him by kicking and beating was insensible, and then stole his cl the Kerans was ternally and wi On Thursday las i _ } y + from th bhisgh and money badly hu e hospital bodies were taken Johnstown and on Friday 36 cellar the bodiesofa f the cellar was amily of six athe it was | his weekly report eral Hastings. The repon OW? Vik 95 (¥) people are being fed daily by ti state. a reduction in number of 3.500dur ing the week. Colonel B angler recom. the relief over to the citizens and that od ¥ i mon mends thet ey be turned the necep- f + 3 from t sary supplies be purcha e six teen general stores and three bakeries pow running here Fair, of Cambria bor hae completed a list showing that in that Town Clerk P. GAE Turres 30 HDUBCS have been entire Not even a trace of them place alone ly swept away. £ can be for a our The papers of our county in their cons jectures of the orities on prohibition, foliows Cesar Beronres from 1500 to 1800 for the amendment in this conniy pal thelr estimates ss Bellefonte Republican 1500 for the amendment, Centre Democrat ment. The Watchman, put the majority 88 small either way. The official majority amendment, , 2500 for the amends is 1014 for the pian Ass Even the Sultan of Turkey, finaneially hard up ss he undoubtedly is, has gent 200 pounds for the flood sufferers in Pennsylvania. Mr. Blaine returned thanks on behall of the President and Government of the United States EE —— ewe A thief stole some $30 from a pock- ot book of Michael Harper of Aarons barg, a few days ago. Daniel Royer, of Miles boasts of a three legged call. «Jacob Keen has his new barn up in Penn Twp. The damaged turnpikes noar Mills heim have been repaired again. welt & fly-net, cheaper than elses where, at Boozer's saddlery. a I MA 0 Announce ments. PROTHONOTARY, We sed 10 sanounos that M, 1. Gand. ner, Baro, will be & osndidate for Prothonotary , sulject 10 Demo o-, We are authorised to avnounce that L, A. Shat- for will bo & candidate for Prothonotary, subject to Democratic t
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